【System, Gourmet Food, Growth, Slice-of-Life, Slow-Paced, Family Drama, Healing】Since her mother's passing, Zhao Xiaojing had lived subserviently under her third aunt's shadow, forced i...
Chapter 96 Summer Sugar Cart
It is the end of summer, and grapes, watermelons and peaches are all off the market, so the prices are already quite cheap.
The more expensive ones are mango, lychee, mangosteen and durian.
Zhao Xiaojing listened to several quotations and had a rough idea in mind.
The stall I visited yesterday was at the end of the night market. Generally, people who visit that place have already eaten before and will not eat anything too greasy or filling. So it is appropriate for it to sell refreshing and eye-catching sweet soups.
The fruit wholesale market was also nearby, a natural advantage. As for the price, she added a little to the price she had just written down. She'd buy a few times to get familiar with the owner, and once she started to increase her volume, she wouldn't have to worry about not getting the goods.
Time waits for no one. The system's three-day countdown has already begun. Now that I'm here, I have to start setting up my stall today.
Zhao Xiaojing found a quiet place and called the college student she met yesterday.
"Hey, Miss Zhao, have you thought it through so quickly?"
The college student who set up the stall was called Lu Hongwen. Zhao Xiaojing called him yesterday when she left him her phone number. He saved the number and they both remembered each other's surnames.
"Yes, Mr. Lu, can you transfer your stall to me today?"
"Today? You're so fast? What are you selling so fast?"
Lu Hongwen sat up from his bed in the dormitory, his tone of voice changed a little, and he could not keep up with Zhao Xiaojing's rhythm for a while.
"How about selling something similar to yours? I can calculate the stall fees for these few days separately and pay you all at once tonight."
"Okay... do you want my folding table, folding stools, thermos, etc.? Oh, and I have a bunch of ingredients for making ice jelly, which I can sell to you at a discount." Lu Hongwen thought for a moment and started selling immediately.
"The table, stools, and bucket are fine, but the ingredients may not be used."
The recipes in the system are generally very strict, and many of the seasonings are homemade. The ice jelly made by Lu Hongwen is probably a semi-finished product, and Zhao Xiaojing estimates that it is not up to standard.
"I'll bring them over to you tonight. Take what you can use. Otherwise, it would be a waste to keep them with me. At worst, I can give you a bargain price at cost." Lu Hongwen thought for a while and said again.
"Okay."
After the two of them finalized the matter, Zhao Xiaojing moved the stall cart to a deserted place and returned to the fruit shop she had just visited. She found a shop with medium prices but very good quality fruit.
After chatting with the boss for a while, Zhao Xiaojing moved two boxes of green grapes, two boxes of passion fruit, a box of small limes, a box of lemons, and two seedless watermelons.
After putting the things in the car, I continued to navigate to the farmers' market 10 kilometers away to stock up on some meat and vegetables for daily consumption, as well as cassava starch, white sugar, glutinous rice flour, honey, jasmine flowers, a dough press, a ball roller, and other ingredients and tools needed for the sweet soup.
Afterwards, we found an empty corner with a full load of food.
Su Yuchen recognized the stall bike that she had ridden in Yangcheng before. She had to switch its form, otherwise the system would not be able to explain it.
"System, I remember you said that spending 500 experience points can change the form of the stall cart?"
Yes, you can change the form and function at the same time. For example, if you are currently using a fried skewers stall, you can change it to a cold noodle stall, a sweet soup stall, etc. You can also request the specific function of the stall you want.
Unexpectedly, there was a pleasant surprise. Zhao Xiaojing no longer felt bad about spending 500 experience points. Now she could save money on modifying the car. It was worth spending the experience points!
"Then I want to switch to a dessert cart. I want it to look nicer, more unique, and practical. Is that okay?"
Zhao Xiaojing asked tentatively, she didn't know how far the system could go.
[Yes, this form switching will cost 500 experience points. Please choose whether to accept.]
【whether】
"yes."
The system was very efficient. Almost instantly, the fried skewers display cart in front of Zhao Xiaojing changed its appearance.
The front of the electric tricycle is the same, but the body has been replaced with a larger dining car-like structure. A rectangular freezer is embedded in the tabletop, and above the freezer are doors that open up and down. When the doors are closed, the compartment is a complete rectangular parallelepiped. Opening the top door and pushing it up creates a wing-like shelter that can provide shade. Opening the bottom door and pulling it down creates an extension of the display stand for storage.
Not only that, there is standing space behind the freezer, so people can walk into the dining car to operate it. There is even a fried ice machine embedded on the side of the freezer, and there are two small storage compartments under the freezer.
What’s even more amazing is that the appearance of the dessert cart is also very pleasing, with a refreshing blue-green color scheme, a circle of light strips inlaid, and even a sign and a light box!
This wave of operations left Zhao Xiaojing stunned. She had never expected the system to be so advanced. Her heartbeat quickened as she watched it.
After touching it excitedly for a while, Zhao Xiaojing put all the ingredients she had just bought into the refrigerator in the system backpack, and rode her bike back home with a full load.
As soon as I got home, I took out the ingredients and started preparing the sweet soup for the stall in the evening.
She didn't have much time today, so she could only make two kinds of sweet soup: watermelon milk jelly with sago and green grape and jasmine adazi.
Both of these have been practiced many times in virtual space. They are all handmade and all the small ingredients have to be made by myself.
Zhao Xiaojing washed her hands, put on an apron and started to make the sweet soup.
While kneading the tapioca pearls, slowly cook the milk in a small pot.
While waiting for the tapioca pearls to dry, let the milk paste with white jelly cool down and form blocks naturally. Scrape off the bubbles on the surface, use a small spatula to divide the milk jelly into small blocks, and then put them in the refrigerator to refrigerate.
Then peel the seedless grapes, add honey and a little rock sugar, mash them slightly and boil them into a thick grape sauce.
While the sauce is cooking, add a large amount of dried jasmine flowers and a little sugar to the tapioca starch, roll it into many strips of uniform thickness and two fingers wide, and then cut the strips into cubes the size of the thumb. After cooking, immediately remove from the heat and rinse with ice water to make crystal clear jasmine adazi.
At this time, cook the dried sago.
When cooking tapioca pearls, be sure to add plenty of water. After the water boils, add the tapioca pearls and stir quickly to mix them evenly. Then cover the lid and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.
Turn off the heat when small white spots appear in the middle, cover and simmer for another 15 minutes, then remove and rinse with cold water. At this time, the tapioca pearls will become transparent and smooth without a white core.
Take out the watermelon and cut it into cubes of the same size as the jelly. Then put the watermelon cubes, jelly cubes, cooked tapioca pearls, and processed coconut milk into small buckets respectively.
Finally, cut the remaining green grapes in half and put them into a small bucket. Then break the ice cubes into crushed ice and fill a full bucket. Then soak the jasmine adamas in coconut milk and put them into the small bucket.
Then put a few full small buckets directly into the freezer of the sugar water stall cart, and then adjust the freezer to the appropriate temperature.
All the preparations are done.