Chapter 9 Even the pigs won't eat
"Thank you sister, thank you sister." The little girl bowed and saluted many times to express her gratitude to Xia Mingyue.
"You sell things and I buy things. You and I are willing to trade fairly, so there is no need to be so polite." Xia Mingyue smiled, "It's just that you are selling such a big basket of black vegetables at once. Are there a lot of black vegetables at home?”
“There are a lot of them.” The little girl nodded hurriedly, “I don’t have much farmland at home, so when I’m not doing farm work, I go outside to eat vegetables and other things that others don’t want. , basically no one wanted these mustard tassels, so my mother and I picked them all up, squeezed them, dried them and made them into black vegetables for eating. Last year, I made a lot of black vegetables, so I was wondering if I could exchange some money for them. . ”
“Sister asked about this, do you want to buy black vegetables again?” the little girl asked tentatively.
"There should be more in the future, but it will take about ten days." Xia Mingyue said, "After ten days, you bring a basket of black vegetables to the street to look for me. If I'm not on the street, come directly to my house. Okay, my surname is Xia."
"Yes!" The little girl nodded heavily, "My surname is Jiang, and my name is Jiang Zhuguo. If I can't come to the county seat by then, I will ask someone to bring it to Sister Xia."
"Okay."
When the matter was settled, Jiang Zhuguo left with the empty bamboo basket on his back.
Mr. Lu looked at the large pot full of black vegetables and asked in surprise, "Brothers and sisters, can you make delicious things from this black vegetables?"
She has seen Xia Mingyue's cooking skills many times, and there is absolutely no way that ordinary things in her hands can be described as delicious.
But this black vegetable...
She really couldn’t figure out how to make this black vegetable delicious.
In order to save some money for vegetables, she was not willing to throw away the tassels on the mustard knots she bought. She imitated others and squeezed them into black vegetables. But whether it was noodles or stir-fried, the black vegetables were The taste of it is indescribable.
So much so that the mustard tassels were later selected and fed to the chickens raised in the yard.
"You can make buns and meatloaf to eat." Xia Mingyue replied with a smile.
Making buns and making meatloaf?
Lu was stunned again, and even vaguely worried whether the steamed buns and meatloaf made with black vegetables would become unpalatable.
But when she and Xia Mingyue were making meatloaf together the next day, Lu's worries completely disappeared.
The dried vegetable patties are re-soaked, minced, and evenly mixed with meat fillings to make meat patties. The unique taste of dried vegetables and the aroma of meat blend and penetrate into each other. After one bite, the aroma of vegetables is revealed. It is full of flavor and the meat is even more fragrant. The dried vegetables become more fragrant the more you chew them, and the meat becomes more delicious the more you eat them...
After eating a black vegetable meatloaf, Ms. Lu wanted to raise her thumb to the sky, "Brothers and sisters, this black vegetable meatloaf is really delicious. It has a different taste than the previous green onion meatloaf."
"Then today let's take out this black vegetable meat pie and try to sell it to see what the effect is." Xia Mingyue said with a smile.
“Absolutely no problem!”
Lu’s words were very certain.
The subsequent sales of meat pies also confirmed Lu’s conjecture.
The black vegetable meatloaf has a rich flavor, and because of the support of black vegetables, the meat filling of the meatloaf appears to be more full and more popular.
The thirty black vegetable meat patties I just tried to make sold for 77,888 within half an hour.
Two scholars studying at the county school each bought two black vegetable meat pies and ate them while walking.
“This black vegetable meatloaf is really delicious, but I don’t know what kind of black vegetable it is.”
“My mother liked to dry vegetables before. I know this black vegetable. It is made from boiled and dried leaves of mustard greens.”
"Mustard... leaves? Aren't those for chickens?"
"Being able to make chicken-feeding vegetables so delicious can only mean that you have some skill."
< br>"That's what it is said, but since this is a vegetable leaf that no one eats, it must be It’s very cheap and sells for the same price as scallion-flavored meatloaf. Isn’t it true that some people are making too much money?”
“Then let me ask you, is such a delicious meatloaf worth eight cents each? Value?""Value."
"Then will you buy it next time?"
"Yes."
"That's fine. If you eat delicious food and still want to buy it, then the price will be set very high. Appropriately, the secret recipe for making black vegetable meatloaf is worth a thousand dollars.”
“That’s right!”
“…”
Scholars are sensible, but some people's faces almost wrinkled into buns when they heard that the fragrant dried vegetables in the meatloaf, which became more and more delicious the more they ate, turned out to be black vegetables.
Mustard tassels are what chickens, sheep and pigs eat. Now he eats them too. Why does he feel so uncomfortable?
“You can’t say that.” You can also eat cabbage and radish. You can’t say that people can’t eat these things.”
“Furthermore, in the past, people didn’t like to eat this black vegetable. It was probably just the wrong way to cook it, just like we don’t usually eat it. Pigs that love to eat are eaten in the water, and some people even find them as treasures and cook them. The hero doesn't care about the origin, not to mention that the food is delicious. "
There is some truth to that!
After eating this, I suddenly felt at ease.
Without the psychological grudges, everyone was in a good mood, and the black vegetable patties in their hands seemed to taste more delicious.
Some people choose to buy another black vegetable patty to eat, while others, after weighing their wallets, decide to wait until tomorrow to satisfy their craving.
Business resumed just as before, all the black vegetable meat patties were sold, and there were not many green onion meat patties left, and the money bag changed from dry to bulging.
Another fruitful day.
Xia Mingyue and Lu narrowed their eyes with smiles.
“Some people are doing business here. They really don’t even care about their conscience. In order to make more money, they put black vegetables that are not even eaten by pigs. It’s obvious that they are fooling people. Why are you so stupid? If you go to buy it, your head will be broken?”
The voice was high-pitched and mixed with sneers, which sounded very harsh.
Xia Mingyue looked up and saw a middle-aged woman with a thin figure and high cheekbones.
It was the strong man who said he bought nine meat pies the day before yesterday.
Is this person quite idle?
Xia Mingyue frowned slightly and asked in a low voice, "Do you know this person's sister-in-law?"
"This person's surname is Zhang. He lives in Dahuaishu Alley. Her husband is also in the army. , she was both the leader of the squadron like Youcai. She shows off all day long how her man is appreciated by everyone, and soon she will be promoted to the leader of the squadron. I was punished for being greedy, and I didn’t believe that the man in his family was promoted to the leader of the team. Later, when Youcai was promoted to the leader of the team, Zhang always disliked me. Now Qiyan is also the leader of the team. She looked at her younger siblings and guessed it. She’s also a red-eyed rabbit.”
“She was acting weird two days ago when I started setting up a stall with my brothers and sisters. Today, I guess our business is getting better and better, and I’m getting more and more upset, so she came to see us again. Stubble.”
"That's it." Xia Mingyue suddenly realized.
Sure enough, there is no shortage of people in this world who are jealous and hateful.
The tentative military system (refer to the Tang Dynasty): a small team of three people, with a team leader; a squadron of nine people, with a squadron leader; a team of 50 people, with a group leader
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