Because Su Qingluan had been busy with the jam business, she hadn't been to the town to help her parents with the stall for a long time.
So that day, Su Qingluan finally showed up at the stall. Not to mention people like Yunniang, Shouhouer, and Aunt Yang who were already very familiar with her, even some regular customers who she couldn't name came up to her and asked about her life.
Su Qingluan naturally couldn't tell them the truth, so she just made up a vague excuse to get away with it.
Even though she's been away lately, business at the stall is still booming. And since the weather's gradually cooled, the offal soup, which is both hot and spicy, is even more popular than it was during the midday heat.
And because they rented a shop in the town, many very heavy tasks - such as the coal stove and the large iron pot for stewing offal soup - could be placed directly in the shop on the first floor.
In fact, regarding that shop, both Yang and Su Guangfu had asked Su Qingluan what to do.
Su Qingluan naturally couldn't tell them. She thought that if she could use this batch of her "Four Seasons" series of jams to make a name for herself among the noble circles in the capital, she could then use the shop she rented from Xie Zian as a temporary jam shop.
Anyway, the rent is free this year. If she can really make the jam business successful, she will have enough funds to continue renting the shop.
However, Su Qingluan felt that it was better to have less dealings with an emotionally unstable middle school boy like Xie Zian, so she was also considering that if she had sufficient funds, she would not have to rely on this shop.
As for what would happen if she failed... that was a joke. Whether it was the profit from the stall or the share of the recipes from "Hongfulou", Su Qingluan felt that her family could maintain their current standard of living.
Since the weather has turned cooler, the time when the sewage stalls are "cleared out" has been much earlier.
Su Qingluan watched coldly from the side and felt that it was because the weather was getting colder.
On the one hand, compared to summer, people tend to choose warmer and spicier foods. On the other hand, the cold weather causes the offal soup to cool down quickly. The offal soup that used to take a while to prepare can now be eaten in no time.
One or two people may not see much difference, but when dozens or hundreds of people save a little time each, the accumulated time becomes a considerable amount.
So Su Qingluan's feeling that her parents had been coming home earlier recently wasn't just an illusion. Even Su Xuanhe had said in the past few days that he used to have to wait for his parents to pick him up at the school gate, but now he hardly had to do that.
Everyone returned home together. Today, Yang got some fresh wild vegetables in the town. It was a rainy season, so she decided to make wild vegetable dumplings with soybean powder and flour.
Su Qingluan nodded: "In that case, mother will go make dry food and I will make porridge."
The porridge she would make today had already been decided - century egg and lean meat porridge.
Upon hearing this, Yang asked curiously, "Isn't this a meat dish?" She placed a piece of pork tenderloin on the chopping board and said, "Here, the lean meat you asked for. It's still fresh from the purchase."
Su Qingluan shook her head: "Didn't I say yesterday that I wanted to make that 'stinky preserved egg' you were talking about taste better?"
Yang's expression changed from surprise to horror when she heard the words "stinky preserved eggs": "Actually... it doesn't have to be delicious..."
Although it was not easy for her as a mother to reject her daughter's kindness, Yang still had reservations about the taste of yesterday's "century eggs", even with the addition of aged vinegar.
So when Yang knew that Su Qingluan wanted to continue adding "stinky preserved eggs" to the food - and to the porridge that everyone had to eat - she actually refused.
However, Yang was not a strong-willed person after all, so she hesitated for a long time without saying anything. She could only watch her eldest daughter humming a little tune she had never heard of while taking out two preserved eggs from the jar, which she thought tasted terrible!
...So what's so delicious about this thing?! For the first time, Yang began to worry about her eldest daughter's taste buds.
Su Qingluan knew how conflicted her mother was, but as the saying goes, "facts speak louder than words." Since they could accept the taste of preserved eggs alone, there was no reason why they couldn't accept preserved egg and lean meat porridge. At worst, no one could eat it, and they could just eat the rest the next morning.
Having made up her mind, Su Qingluan began to prepare the century egg and lean meat porridge step by step.
Before washing the rice, Su Qingluan shredded the tenderloin and marinated it with salt, soy sauce, and pepper. Glancing at the bacon hanging in the corridor, Su Qingluan was actually a little hesitant about whether to use bacon instead of pork. Bacon had enough salt, so she probably wouldn't need any seasoning.
But she thought again, if she used pickled bacon, her next plan would be...
Thinking about the food she wanted to make next time, Su Qingluan suppressed the idea of using pickled bacon instead of shredded pork, and instead coated the shredded pork with a layer of paste using mung bean starch.
Yang was not idle over there either. After picking all the wild vegetables, she started chopping them with a knife.
"Mother, are you going to squeeze out the juice from these wild vegetables later?" Su Qingluan turned around and asked when she heard the sound of her mother chopping stuffing.
Yang nodded. "That's right. If we don't squeeze out the water from the vegetables, the cabbage dumplings will leak easily when we make the soup later."
"Since we're going to add meat stuffing to these wild vegetables anyway, we might as well blend the vegetable juice into the meat stuffing. This way, the fragrance of the wild vegetables can penetrate into the meat."
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