However, regardless of his true intentions, since Fang Yan already knows that he harbors malicious intentions, she will not allow him to get what he wants.
In about half a month, it will be the Ghost Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar).
In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family reunion and is a major holiday.
Even though everyone is not wealthy right now, they will still try their best to make sure that the whole family eats a good meal during this holiday.
In the Gouzi Village area, every household makes a kind of pastry called "gao" for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It involves soaking the glutinous rice filling for about two days.
Remember to change the soaking water morning and night to prevent it from turning sour in hot weather.
Then the glutinous rice is stir-fried until cooked, and then taken to the machinery and electrical factory to be ground into powder using a special machine.
Then, mix the syrup made with pure white sugar in advance with cooked glutinous rice flour in a certain proportion, and stir continuously in one direction.
Continue until the syrup and cooked glutinous rice flour are fully combined, neither clumping together nor being too runny or too dry.
At this point, you can put the cooked glutinous rice flour that has fully absorbed the syrup into the mold, and then use a clean piece of cardboard to press it down firmly.
This step is also very important; the cooked glutinous rice flour must be pressed firmly and compacted so that it can take shape when unmolding.
The patterns on the cake molds are also varied, including peaches, deer, and the character for longevity, all of which are lifelike and particularly beautiful.
The pastries made with these molds have particularly beautiful patterns.
Then put it in the sun for five or six hours. If you store it in a dry environment, it can last for a year without growing mold.
However, this kind of cake is easy to make too hard when dried if you're not careful.
It's so hard it'll break your teeth.
And it's very sweet.
Fang Yan had tasted this kind of cake in a small village in the south when she was recording a program before. It was both sweet and hard.
Although it is a local traditional pastry, Fang Yan was not very interested in it and did not plan to make it.
She also has to busy herself making mooncakes and egg yolk pastries for Grandpa Wei and the other old men.
Moreover, many customers have recently suggested that Fang Yan braise some pork belly, ribs, pig's feet, chicken and duck and sell them on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Everyone knows that she doesn't have meat coupons, so customers who want to buy braised pork belly, ribs, or pig's feet would specifically bring their meat coupons to exchange with her when they bought the braised food.
In this way, Fang Yan gradually received quite a few sex tickets.
With these meat coupons, Fang Yan planned to hold a special Mid-Autumn Festival sale to buy pork belly, ribs, and pig's feet to braise.
As for chickens and ducks, just go to the roadside and find some farmers who don't require meat coupons to buy them.
"Eighty catties of pork belly, ten catties of spare ribs, and fifty catties of pig's feet."
With the Mid-Autumn Festival just four days away, I need to buy the meat gradually over the next few days.
Fang Yan took some time to take out the meat that everyone had ordered and calculated it.
Fang Yan had previously witnessed honest merchants being ripped off by customers bribed by competitors who offered reservations without requiring a deposit.
Although Fang Yan felt that there shouldn't be such bad people in this era;
Even if she did, her kitchen has a preservation function, so she doesn't need to worry.
However, just to be on the safe side;
At the same time, it is also for better data management.
Fang Yan decided to register and pre-order all customers who wanted to buy pork belly and other items for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and have each person pay a deposit of five yuan.
They also set a condition: if the pre-order quantity is less than five jin (2.5 kg), and the customer is unable to pick up the meat on the Mid-Autumn Festival due to an emergency, the five yuan deposit can be refunded.
Items weighing more than five pounds cannot be returned.
"I'm running a small business here. To be honest, five pounds of meat definitely costs more than five yuan. If you can't come, I'll lose that money myself."
If one or two people fail to come and collect the money, I can grit my teeth and bear the loss.
But if three or five people can't come to pick it up, I'll really lose money. Please forgive my small business, as my capital is limited. If you can't pick it up on the same day, you can pick it up the next day. If you really can't come, I'll refund the money for those who ordered a small amount. For those who ordered a large amount, please understand.
After all, I bought all the meat I ordered; that costs money.
What she said was sincere and reasonable.
Her fans all agreed with her...
"Sure, sure. Everyone who pre-ordered braised meat, please try to come and pick it up when the time comes. Don't let Xiao Fang put in the effort and lose money."
"Yes, yes, Xiao Fang is right. The meat has already been bought and braised. Why not come and pick it up yourself and still expect a refund? In my opinion, no matter how much or how little you ordered, you don't need to get a refund."
"That's right. They can't come and get the meat themselves anyway, and it's not Xiao Fang's fault, so why should Xiao Fang suffer?"
...
Everyone's attitude was quite consistent; they all felt that once the deposit was paid, it was worthwhile.
As long as the responsibility does not lie with Fang Yan.
Fang Yan is not required to return the deposit.
But Fang Yan still insisted on her previous attitude.
She believes that everyone is kind, and if someone is unable to pick up their pre-ordered braised meat due to unforeseen circumstances, then...
She was still willing to return the money to the person.
Five yuan is a considerable sum for an average family.
Previously, Fang Yan had always thought that the total weight of the items would be at most seventy or eighty pounds.
I didn't expect that when I calculated it today, the total weight of these three items alone would exceed 140 jin (70 kg).
Moreover, there may be additional orders placed by others in the next two days.
This calculation forced Fang Yan to immediately change her plans, moving her original plan to buy pork belly, ribs, and pig's feet the day after tomorrow to tomorrow.
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