"Girl Qin, everything is ready. Hurry up and show me your skills." Old Man Song urged.
The fat lady has already freed up two stoves in the kitchen.
Qin Xiaomi quickly thanked: "Thank you, Grandma Song, you are so kind."
"This stove is not for nothing, you have to work to pay it back." The fat woman pointed to Jiang Dalang and the others: "Go to work, do heavy work, don't pick easy jobs."
"Hey." Jiang Dalang, Xu Erjun, and Qin Dayan hurried to work.
The fat lady called Old Man Song again: "Come out with me and wait. This is a secret recipe. Don't look at it."
Qin Xiaomi smiled and said: "You two elders don't have to avoid it. This kudzu powder is not a secret recipe. The process of turning Ge Chai into Ge Fen is here. Let’s stay and watch.”
Old man Song was happy: “Hey, then we’ll stay... ...Hurry up, do you want us to help?"
Qin Xiaomi said without courtesy: "Then help me peel the winter melon and red nai, and then grind the peeled skin."
< br>Dahongnai is a red apple, just like winter melon, both of which have been produced since ancient times in the Wei Dynasty. Since the northeastern state is cold, it can be stored in an earthen kiln for half a year.
These two items were bought at street stalls outside the town. Dahongnei costs nine cents per catty, and winter melon costs one cent per catty. They are cheap and suitable for use with arrowroot powder.
“It’s done.” Old Man Song rolled up his sleeves and got to work.
Qin Xiaomi washed the dried osmanthus and dried red dates, soaked them in warm water, and then helped Grandpa Qin cut into diced winter melons and red dates.
"Girl Qin, I have pounded the melon rinds and peels for you, what are you going to do with them?" Old Man Song was very curious.
The fat woman is also very curious... The Qin family is not willing to invest money because they are too poor, so they have to add melon rinds and peels to arrowroot cakes for guests to eat, right?
If this is the case, then the Qin family's character is not good enough, and the Song family cannot have a close relationship with them!
“Here we go, let’s do it.” Qin Xiaomi responded and called Jiang Dalang: “Dalang, come in and light the fire.”
“Hey.” Jiang Dalang liked to help her light the fire the most, so he hurriedly Ran in.
Qin Xiaomi added water to the basin containing the melon rind residue, stirred the pigment out, and then filtered the dregs with a white cloth. After obtaining the green and red juice, he used them to prepare a drink. A thicker arrowroot juice, and two spoons of caramel water were added to it.
After the water boils, put a handful of diced winter melon into the prepared winter melon and arrowroot powder juice, stir evenly, pour it into a large bowl, cover it with a plate, and start steaming.
More than half a quarter of an hour later, he opened the pot and took out the sea bowl. After uncovering it, Old Man Song was surprised: "The color is like jade, it's really beautiful."
And asked: "Can it be eaten?"
He was anxious to taste it.
Qin Xiaomi shook his head: "After cooling, the arrowroot cake will become more solid. If you eat it at that time, the taste will be the best. Now it is too soft and the taste is not good."
Song The old man loves food and is willing to wait for food.
Qin Xiaomi made another arrowroot powder apple cake, arrowroot powder osmanthus cake, arrowroot powder red date cake... Half an hour later, everyone looked at the colorful four kinds of arrowroot powder cakes and felt relieved.
“This is so good that the old man is reluctant to eat it.” Before Old Man Song finished speaking, he took two kinds of arrowroot powder cakes, namely winter melon and apple, and started eating them.
After eating, he smiled and said: "The refreshingness of winter melon and the sweetness of red dates are very good."
The fat woman likes red dates: "The red ones are crystal. There is half a red date wrapped in the cake. , it looks festive and suitable for giving as a gift.”
But after tasting the arrowroot croquettes, she changed her mind: “Girl Qin, these croquettes must be sold, they are fragrant, and the smell alone makes people happy. Greedy.”
Qin Xiaomi smiled and nodded: "Everything I made today will be sold."
The cost is low and it is suitable for selling in the town.
However, the fat woman said again: "Girl Qin, don't blame me for pouring cold water on you. Although your arrowroot powder is delicious, it is not a long-term livelihood... As long as you have arrowroot powder, it will not take half a month. ,Don't People can learn from it, and restaurant chefs and pastry shop chefs can do it better than you."
Old man Song stared at her: "How do you talk, old woman?"
What a shock.
Then he said to Qin Xiaomi: "Girl Qin, don't take it to heart. This kudzu meal business can still be done for a long time. At least it can supplement the family income."
The fat woman stared back at him: "You How good are these words? "Ha, Qin Xiaomi said with amusement. : "Don't worry, old man. My family is making this arrowroot powder to eat. I just want to take advantage of the momentum of new arrowroot powder crops to grab quick money and save capital for the next long-term livelihood. I will not rely on it to support the family."
There are other businesses involved in raising a family.
The fat lady was relieved: "Just have a plan for your family."
Old Man Song said: "Since you want to grab quick money, don't choose any auspicious day. Let's open in these two days. I heard that the county government has already collected kudzu firewood and will make kudzu powder in a while. Who is in the government office? Yes, as soon as you start doing it, the recipe will soon leak out, and by then, your family won’t be able to grab this quick money! ”
< br>Grandpa Qin said: "We came to the town today to choose a place to open our business."
"What? You haven't found a place to set up your stall yet? Why are you so ignorant!" Old Man Song was anxious to death. He pulled Grandpa Qin and left: "Follow me."
Qin Xiaomi and the others hurriedly followed.
Old man Song took them to an open space next to the food shop: "This open space was left over when my family built the food shop. Now I will rent it to you first."
He was afraid that Grandpa Qin would refuse, so he added: "The rent is not expensive, so don't think that you are not getting paid for your merits. Just think of it as a gift from us ordinary people to thank you for the new grain of arrowroot... I have suffered from hunger before. There is a new kind of food, which is a saving grace. Those of us who eat this new food must be grateful. ”
< br>Grandpa Qin’s eyes filled with tears when he heard this. He looked at Old Man Song and said, “Thank you, Mr. Song, for renting this place.”
“Then clean it up quickly. I’ll call two people to help you. Build a stove and let it dry for a day and a night before it can be used." Old man Song was really more anxious than them, and ran away with the wind at his feet.
Grandpa Qin couldn't stop him, so he could only pay the fat woman: "This is two taels of silver, which is for the rent of your house and the money to build the stove."
Fat The mother-in-law didn't ask for it: "The rent is not that expensive for a piece of open space without a shed. I pay half a tael of silver a month and pay the rent today next month. As for the stove, the landlord should be responsible for it."
Then he pointed at Jiang Dalang and the others and said: "If your family is unhappy, let these young people chop wood and wash dishes for my family."
Qin Xiaomi said: "Grandpa, please agree first. Wait for our family After making money, I can repay Granny Song’s family.”
Grandpa Qin agreed, put away the money, thanked the fat lady, and took Jiang Dalang and others to work.
Not long after, Old Man Song came back with two craftsmen, and a group of people were busy in the open space.
Pedestrians passing by asked: "Song Dong's family, are you planning to expand the shop?"
Old Man Song said: "No, it's the Qin family who rented my land and set up a stall here to sell kudzu powder for food, which is food made from the new grain of kudzu powder. His family is the home of the disaster victims who made the new grain of kudzu powder."
Old man Song took Grandpa Qin to show to passers-by: "Look, this is He is the head of the Qin family, he has such an upright and handsome face, and he looks like a good person at first sight... When the business opens the day after tomorrow, everyone will come to support it."
Old man Song said, plus the county government is collecting Ge Chai to make it. Regarding the new grain, the next day, people from all over the country knew that they were going to sell arrowroot powder for food.
On the opening day, the street where Lao Song's Food Shop was located was full of people queuing up early in the morning waiting to buy arrowroot powder to eat. Qin Xiaomi and the others were blocked and couldn't get in, so they had to take a side road. After a detour, we arrived at the stall.
Qin Liupo looked at the crowd and was so happy that her gums came out: "There are so many people, how much money will we make today?"
Just thinking about it makes her crazy with joy.
Qin Xiaomi: "Sixth mother-in-law, don't be happy, hurry up and work, otherwise when the arrowroot powder cakes made in advance are sold out, we will have no goods to sell."
Let the arrowroot powder cakes cool. Finally, the taste became more solid, so Aunt Qin and the others got up in the middle of the night and made a batch of arrowroot powder cakes.
"Hey, eh, Sixth Po, let's do it now." Qin Liupo stopped being lazy and hurriedly lit the fire to help make kudzu powder for food.
The three stoves were turned on at the same time. After the first batch of arrowroot powder came out, Grandpa Qin set up a sign to sell it.
"Arrow powder and egg garlic cakes, fried arrowroot balls, and arrowroot red fire cake, all cost five cents a portion!" Qin Dashi and his wife Qin Dayan shouted together.
"New food only costs five cents a portion. It's quite cheap. Give me ten portions of each!"
"The arrowroot pink fire cake is beautiful and festive. My family is going to treat you today, so give me The guests have eaten just fine, so give me ten portions as well.”
(End of this chapter)