Chapter 128: Spent All the Money
The butcher was a burly man with a face full of flesh, looking ferocious. However, when he saw Sang Yu coming, he showed a gentle expression and asked softly, "What would you like to buy, young lady?"
His youngest daughter is about the same age as Sang Yu. Whenever he sees a girl of her age, he always subconsciously treats her like his own daughter.
She hadn't expected him to be so gentle. Sang Yu smiled faintly in return. After asking the price, she pointed to the half pork leg hanging on the bar and said, "Please help me cut ten pounds of pork leg meat and a portion of pig intestines."
When the butcher heard her say this, he knew she was going to stuff the sausages.
He didn't rush to act, but sharpened the blade in his hand and suggested, "Young lady, the hind legs are all lean meat, and the sausage made from them won't taste good. How about I cut you two pounds of front legs and eight pounds of hind legs?"
"No, we have some pork belly at home, which will go perfectly with the hind leg meat."
The 15 kilograms of pork were consumed too slowly. If the family only ate it for three meals a day, it would definitely go bad. She could only spend more money to buy some hind leg meat to make sausages.
The butcher felt relieved when he learned that she still had pork belly at home.
He picked up the meat cleaver and, seemingly without much effort, simply scratched the piece of pork twice, and a piece of lean hind leg meat fell onto the chopping board with a "click".
He picked up the piece of hind leg meat and handed it to Sang Yu, and asked, "What do you think of this one? It's exactly ten pounds."
Although I know that some people become proficient in business after a long time and can estimate the approximate weight with their hands, his use of the word "exactly ten kilograms" is a bit too complacent.
Sang Yu raised her eyebrows slightly: "The meat is good, but is it really exactly ten pounds?" She deliberately emphasized the word "just right".
The butcher was not annoyed, but smiled and said, "Hehe, of course."
As he spoke, he wiped his hands on the leather apron in front of him, picked up the scale on the ground beside him, and directly moved the rope on the scale bar to the ten-jin position.
After putting the piece of hind leg meat on it and waiting for a while, it actually stabilized and did not move at all, without any error.
Sang Yu clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Amazing, really amazing."
Feeling a little embarrassed by her straightforward praise, the butcher smiled and said nothing. He picked up the meat from the scale, put it on the chopping board and was about to cut it.
Sang Yu, however, didn't understand what he was doing and asked hurriedly, "Isn't the meat just right? Why do you need to cut it?"
"Young lady, do you want to stuff the sausage? The butcher will cut it for you." The butcher paused and looked at her in confusion. Could it be that she wanted to buy it and cut it herself?
"That would be troublesome."
She didn't expect that buying meat would come with a meat-cutting service. This would save her a lot of trouble than having to cut the meat herself at home. Naturally, Sang Yu would not disagree.
The butcher's knife is almost always sharpened and is much sharper than the kitchen knives used by ordinary people.
With a few cuts, the whole piece of hind leg meat is first cut into strips, and then cut into slices of uniform thickness and equal size.
Normally, it is best not to wash the meat for sausages with water after cutting it. It can be stuffed directly into the casing after simple seasoning.
But Sang Yu felt that it was necessary to soak the meat slices in water for three or four hours after returning home, so as to avoid the fishy smell that would make him unable to swallow it.
After cutting the meat slices, the butcher wrapped them in two dry lotus leaves, tied them tightly with a straw rope, and handed them to Sang Yu, along with a pair of small intestines.
"It's three hundred and fifty coins in total. You bought a lot of meat, so this pig intestine bento is a bonus for you."
Pig intestines usually cost only three or five cents, which is not even a fraction compared to ten pounds of pork. Giving them as a gift may attract more repeat customers.
"Oh, thank you very much." Sang Yu did not refuse and took it and handed over half a tael of silver.
She divided the more than four taels of silver she had received before into half a tael each. She brought it out specifically because she knew that the expenses for buying meat and salt would be high today.
Customers often pay with silver, and the butcher is used to it. He skillfully pulls out a delicate small scale from under the table, with a pair of small scissors on the scale plate.
He cut half a tael of silver in front of Sang Yu and weighed it. Finding that the weight was not enough, he cut off another small piece. After making up three and a half cents, he returned the remaining part to her.
After stuffing a pheasant into Sang Yu's small basket, there was no room for ten pounds of pork. She thought for a moment, took out the pheasant, held it in her hand, and put the pork into the basket.
He then went to Area B and bought five pounds of bitter salt, and the original half tael of silver was completely spent.
If you include the fifty cents she spent on the pheasant, she had spent five hundred and fifty cents in just a short while.
Sang Yu was walking on the road in Area B, carrying things in both hands, thinking about one thing in his mind - money is too easy to spend.
Food and drink cost money, clothes and accessories also cost money, and the final payment for building the house has not yet been paid.
It seems that the money I earned before is not enough. I have to choose a way to make money and increase my income as soon as possible.
She had thought about this and realized that there were many snacks and pastries that she had never seen being sold on the streets or in restaurants.
If she makes some cloud cakes or sachima to sell, her business shouldn't be too bad.
But she always felt that pastries were not like staple foods like buns and steamed buns. They were usually eaten as snacks or to appease children, and were only bought occasionally. The market share was too small.
She knows one thing very clearly: whether doing business or being a food blogger, you have to have something that others don't have in order to stand out.
The reason why she has become an internet celebrity food blogger with millions of followers is not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also because of her truth-seeking and pragmatic approach.
To replicate a dish, one can travel extensively without any hesitation. To find a rare ingredient, one can live alone in the extremely humid forest for half a month.
It’s not that she can’t sell pastries, but she always feels like something is missing and wants to find a better way.
This market town is oriented south to the north, with Area B extending all the way west.
So after buying the salt, Sang Yu walked all the way inside, planning to go out from the west entrance and go directly out of the city and go home.
She used to go to Area B of the market often to sell candy, but she seldom visited Area B. It was rare for her to walk through it completely, and she would look around curiously.
There was salt and oil, needless to say, but what really opened her eyes were the jars of sauces with different aromas.
Bean paste, noodle paste, jam, flower paste, meat paste, shrimp paste, and even eight-treasure sauce which is a mixture of various ingredients are lined up in a dazzling array.
In addition, there are various types of vinegar, such as rice vinegar, wheat vinegar, fruit vinegar, etc.
Sang Yu even saw someone with a bruised face and nose coming to sell honey with a beehive. There were two or three bees buzzing around the hive, which made her subconsciously speed up her pace.
Further down the page, you won't see many common seasonings, and it becomes more like dry goods.
Lingnan is actually not far from the sea, but fresh goods are difficult to transport and the prices are high.
But dried goods are different. They are cheap and taste delicious. Adding a little bit to dishes or soups can enhance the flavor.
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