Chapter 144 Plum Paste
Before noon, a long line formed in the steel plant canteen, and most of the people there were workers building houses.
These people have been here for more than a week and already know how busy Shen Qingyue is during lunch time.
So if you come half an hour in advance, you can not only get your meals, but you can also get the new sour plum soup, which is sour and can be added with ice cubes.
For people like them who work in the hot summer, this bowl of sour plum soup is more refreshing than anything else.
A bowl costs only thirty cents, which is economical and affordable.
Besides, although soda is good, it is too sweet for rough guys like them. Sour plum soup is just right for when the mouth has no taste, so they always drink two bowls.
Then, foreman Xu found a glass-lined thermos from somewhere. He stood in line and said to Shen Qingyue, "Fill it up for me."
He loves sour plum soup the most, and now he is used to packing it up and drinking it back at the construction site.
It's so comfortable to drink it under the scorching sun.
When Foreman Xu saw her pouring the sour plum soup in with a ladle, he reminded her, "Add more ice cubes." It tastes better when it's cool!
Shen Qingyue added a lot of ice cubes and handed over the thermos.
By the time the workers had prepared their meals, the lunch bell rang in the cafeteria.
Seeing that the sour plum soup was almost poured out, Shen Qingyue asked Sister Ying to add another bucket.
Ever since I bought the sour plum paste from the fat chef Chen Huai, I brought it to the factory for production.
Completely solved the sour plum soup dilemma.
Shen Qingyue’s large freezer can freeze ice cubes, and the sour plum soup tastes better with ice cubes.
Many people who come to the steel plant from outside used to come here to eat, but now they come here to drink sour plum soup.
Everyone came with a thermos.
Xu Gongtou’s thermos was inspired by them, so he went to buy one now.
Shen Qingyue saw that there were too many people coming to get sour plum soup, and it was affecting the people who were getting lunch.
Ask Sister Ying to take a few helpers to the cafeteria to find a vacant window to make sour plum soup.
She is still eating normally.
As soon as Sister Ying arrived, Shen Qingyue felt a lot less pressure and quickly prepared food for everyone.
Some familiar old diners even asked Shen Qingyue: "What's the dish tonight?"
Now everyone knows that Shen Qingyue provides dinner for the contractors, so they also go there to get some.
There are over 3,000 people working at the steel plant, and many of them don't eat out at night. They rely on that one meal at home to improve their lives.
Shen Qingyue estimated that it would be good if there were 500 factory workers coming to the evening show, but after counting the past few days, there are more than a thousand people every day!
The main reason is that many people don’t want to cook when they get home after a day of work, so they just eat here.
And Shen Qingyue didn't mess around with dinner. She had a variety of dishes. In the past few days, she had made roujiamo, rice dumplings, and noodles.
This made those who originally wanted to go home for dinner feel hesitant.
Shen Qingyue replied to the old customer: "Today I'm making smoked pork pancakes."
The fat chef Chen Huai at home is already smoking meat.
The pancake is made by mixing lard and flour, and it tastes delicious.
Fat chef Chen Huai had made this once before, and Shen Qingyue decided to make this in the evening after she tasted it.
There were thousands of pancakes to bake. If the fat chef Chen Huai was responsible for it all, he would probably not be able to finish baking them even if his hands were crippled. Shen Qingyue asked him to teach the helpers, and she paid a large sum of money for it.
I'm making pancakes at home now.
It is a thick pancake, which is baked and set aside. When the time comes, roll it with chopped green onions, sweet sauce, stir-fried bean sprouts, stir-fried shredded potatoes, and add some bacon. It tastes amazing.
The old customer said, "I'll come over to eat tonight. Please prepare more food. The people at the construction site are really big eaters. Please bring some for us."
People in the steel mill always have a fear of not having enough food.
It also stems from Shen Qingyue's previous performance.
Everyone was so engrossed in the eating that they ran out of food.
After several times, each of them was earnest in their advice, fearing that Shen Qingyue had not done enough.
There's a saying in steel mills: "Those who spend money worry about those who make money." This refers to the featured window.
Fortunately, Shen Qingyue listened to the advice. She used to want to finish all the food and not leave any leftovers, but now she would rather have more than less.
The factory has been particularly satisfied with Shen Qingyue recently.
With good food, the people in the factory feel happier.
Sister Chun Xing felt a little distressed when she saw Shen Qingyue busy serving food.
She was an old lady working at the specialty counter, and she was familiar with all the work in the kitchen. She said, "Let me do it. You go and have a rest."
Shen Qingyue finally came down and leaned against the corner, her hands trembling slightly, but she was very happy in her heart.
The sour plum soup made her a lot of money, and now she also has income from dinner, so she makes a good profit.
There were three oscillating fans installed in the kitchen, but it was still too hot. Shen Qingyue took a palm-leaf fan and went to an empty corner in the back to fan herself.
I didn’t expect He Zhengchen to be here too.
He Zhengchen said, "The director of the food factory is praising you to bits."
These days, he went to the food factory with the recipe for sour plum paste. Two kilograms of sour plum paste produced could be mixed with twenty kilograms of sour plum juice.
Shen Qingyue originally wanted to use it for herself.
As a result, we accidentally filled a gap in the market.
Many restaurants somehow found ways to come to the factory for wholesale.
Now two kilograms of concentrated paste are not enough to sell, so the food factory decided to upgrade to five kilograms of sour plum paste.
One portion is just enough to make up a large bucket, and the measurement is easy to control without having to convert.
Shen Qingyue is still a big customer of sour plum paste.
After all, they were shareholders, and since they had a bond with Fangzi, the food factory was focused on supplying Shen Qingyue. As for other people's goods, they would have to wait in line.
He Zhengchen took Shen Qingyue's 50,000 and his own 50,000 and exchanged them for 20% of the shares each.
Everyone at the food factory admired Shen Qingyue. She could profit from selling her sour plum paste, earning dividends from the entire factory and selling it at retail.
This sour plum paste was carefully developed by the fat chef. The ratio is precise and it is just like boiling it. It saves both trouble and effort.
It’s no wonder that such a good thing has become popular in the restaurant circle without any publicity.
Shen Qingyue said, "Purchase another 500 boxes of sour plum paste." She was used to stocking up.
He Zhengchen said, "Okay, I'll call the food factory this afternoon." One could imagine how mad the food factory must be, as they had only delivered 300 boxes of goods yesterday.
The sour plum paste is made with real ingredients, but it is made by machines. Basically, the machines run 24 hours a day, but due to the cooking time, not much can be produced in a day.
There are so many restaurant owners waiting in line behind.
Shen Qingyue's demands for goods were too strong, and the food factory was a little overwhelmed. However, she didn't need to worry about these things.
He Zhengchen can get the job done by himself.
He Zhengchen has come into contact with so many people, but this is the first time he has met someone like Shen Qingyue.
She seems to have endless energy. Even with so much work on her shoulders, she never seems to get tired.
Shen Qingyue didn't rest outside for long before going back inside to prevent Sister Chunxing from being too busy.
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In the afternoon, Foreman Xu found a place under the shade of a tree, spread a worn bed sheet on the ground, placed a thermos next to him, and held a cup in his hand.
When I poured the sour plum juice out of the thermos, the ice cubes hadn't melted yet. The weather was hot and the iced sour plum juice was still cold when it was poured out.
But the workers under Zhou Jinbao were greedy. When the weather got hot, even water was tasteless and they wanted to drink something cool, sweet and sour.
Zhou Jinbao said, "Hurry up and get to work. We are all rough men, why are you still being so pretentious?"
"Brother, I'm not being pretentious, I just want to drink sour plum soup."
When one person spoke, the rest of the voices unconsciously merged into one.
Zhou Jinbao was speechless: "Okay, I'll buy a thermos and make some plum juice later. Let's do it."
"Okay."
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