He has no use for this rocking chair; he's busy all day and doesn't have time to lie around on it.
Although the task of boiling the base ingredients is now in the hands of his brother-in-law and his wife, he still has to organize hiring people to pick the red peppers.
These peppers are not like other things; they don't all turn red at once. They redden batch by batch, and each time they redden, they need to be picked. Of course, with ten acres of land, it's too much for just the family to handle, so they've hired some people from the village; Jiang Mangzi's family of three, Ding Wulang and his wife Mrs. Zhang, and a few sons and daughters-in-law from the Qi Lizheng family.
After picking the peppers, they need to be washed, laid out to dry, and after drying, sent to the earthen oven his daughter made to be baked dry. His daughter said that naturally dried ones tend to have white spots, and after baking, not only do they not have white spots, but they are also easier to preserve.
