Chapter 26
The braised meat is ready. Su Guoer takes it out and puts it in a wooden barrel to keep it warm. She puts a layer of cotton blanket on top to keep it warm. She cuts all the lotus roots that have just been washed into pieces and puts them into the original marinade.
You can use the flavor of this marinade to braise some vegetables and sell them at a low price. This way, others can taste the flavor of your own braised dishes and you can make more money.
You know... she is now running this huge shop, and she does nothing all day, but she spends eleven taels of silver. She is so worried that she can only keep busy and cook meals. This is her chance to turn things around.
After finishing all these, Su Guoer looked at the mutton that was still left and wondered what to do with it.
The mutton was not braised, so out of the fifty kilograms of mutton, only less than half a kilogram of mutton was removed for making pot stickers. There is still a lot left, plus a plate of mutton offal given by the butcher shop owner and ten lotus roots left over from the braised dishes.
Su Guoer had a good idea.
Why not make some pot stickers and sell them? Paired with mutton and lotus root soup, they'd be delicious too.
But I'm afraid I can't sell it today. Mutton offal is troublesome to handle. Besides, the night market is about to start. There is no time to make the dough and the pot stickers cannot be made. If the mutton offal and mutton are not stewed well, it will have a strong smell and I'm afraid no one will drink it.
So Su Guoer plans to save the pot stickers and mutton soup to sell as breakfast tomorrow.
Qingyan Street was an important traffic artery in Bianjing City. It was connected to the two important city gates of Bianjing City in the east and west, one was Xuanwu Gate and the other was Changfeng Gate. Outside Xuanwu Gate was the Xihang Wharf, where cargo was loaded and unloaded. Therefore, many porters and trackers would walk along Qingyan Street from Changpingfang in the west when they went to work in the morning.
It is customary to eat breakfast before going to work, so when Su Guoer came in the morning, she saw people drinking the terrible tasting mutton soup.
There are still quite a few people drinking. If you do business here, you probably won't have any trouble selling!
After thinking it over, Su Guoer took the sheep offal and scrubbed it vigorously at the edge of the pool, adding several handfuls of coarse salt in the middle to remove the peculiar smell of the offal.
Lamb liver and lamb tripe are Su Guoer's favorite foods, especially lamb liver, which is very good for replenishing blood and is best for girls.
However, it is extremely difficult to clean. The sheep lungs need to be cleaned with flour, and the large and small intestines need to be rubbed repeatedly with coarse salt four or five times to be clean. So it took her a lot of time just to clean up the sheep offal.
After scrubbing herself thoroughly, she looked up. It was getting dark in the sky and the night market was about to begin.
She wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeve, quickly got up, washed a pot, and put the goat's offal and liver into the pot to stew. She also added a piece of mutton to make the soup look better. After all, mutton was expensive in Bianjing City, and goat's offal was not a rare thing.
Outside, the clamor of pedestrians could be heard. Their chatter was indistinct, and occasionally someone would bang on a copper plate and yell, "Selling buns! Hot buns straight from the pan!"
"Ding——" With the sound of the bronze plate vibrating, the night market began.
The pedestrians on the street seemed to come out from nowhere, and in just a few minutes they occupied the streets and alleys of the night market. From east to west, from south to north, Qingyan Street was filled with tourists who came to play.
If you look closely, you can see that the boat bridge in front, which is covered by the trees, is also full of people, each holding a lantern and moving back and forth in the shade...
Su Guoer was still calm and unhurried. She moved a table out of the house, then a stack of folded lotus leaf paper packages, and finally the two buckets of braised meat. The braised meat was a bit heavy, and she had some difficulty moving it over, and was exhausted and panting.
I was thinking that tomorrow I would either have to hire a helper or buy a wheelbarrow to make it easier to move goods, otherwise my back would be sore from working for just a few days.
After everything was ready, she stood guard in front of her stall.
The stall was right in front of her shop, a palm-sized space, about the size of a double door. But yesterday, the landlord told her that she had a stall right there, but she didn't know how big it was. Su Guoer only saw two stalls near hers in front of the restaurant. On the left, a middle-aged man was sitting on the steps making lanterns, and next to him, a wooden tray that could be carried around was filled with all sorts of colorful paper lanterns.
On the right is a young lady with her hair tied up. She looks like a woman and is pushing a cart selling silk flowers, wooden hairpins, scented handkerchiefs, sachets and other household items for girls. Next to her, a one or two-year-old child is sitting obediently on the steps eating cakes.
Then there is her braised pork stall.
Without having time to write a sign, she cut the fresh braised meat and placed it outside, fanning it with lotus leaf paper, hoping to attract customers with the aroma of the braised meat.
The taste is indeed fragrant.
As soon as she opened the lid of her braised meat, the two-year-old child next to her immediately raised his head and looked towards her stall.
Seeing that the little kid was so cute, Su Guoer couldn't help but cut a small piece of meat and walked over to give it to the little kid to eat.
"Come, try my sister's braised meat. Is it delicious?"
The child was too nervous to answer it.
Upon hearing this voice, Yunniang immediately turned around and said in panic, "Why, why are you like this, young lady? You shouldn't accept rewards without merit, and this precious thing..."
Su Guoer: "It's just some worthless pork. Let him try it. It's free. If it tastes good, just shout it out to me or tell people you know about it."
Yunniang looked hesitant: "But, I don't see any sign on your stall, young lady?"
Su Guoer looked back and found that her stall was indeed a little inconspicuous in the street where there were so many braised meat stalls. There was no sign to indicate which stall her braised meat belonged to.
Su Guo'er didn't panic either. She pointed to the plaque behind her. A golden lantern illuminated the words on the plaque. "Look, this is the braised pork from Su Ji Fresh Restaurant. I'm the owner of this restaurant. My last name is Su."
Yunniang: "Okay, okay, my husband's surname is Lian, so you can call me Lian Niang, or you can call me Yunniang by my nickname."
Su Guoer: "Okay, Madam Lian, you should try this braised meat too, it's delicious." She tried her best to promote her own braised meat, not missing any opportunity. After that, she pinched another piece from the lotus leaf bag and handed it to Na Yunniang.
The tasting was free, Su Guoer was very generous and picked the biggest piece of meat.
Yunniang thanked her profusely again, but after taking a bite, she turned around and stuffed the piece of meat into her son's hands, saying to him, "Yuan'er, thank your sister for the braised meat."
Lian Yuan: "Thank you, beautiful sister, for the braised pork. It's delicious!"
What a sweet-mouthed little guy.
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