Chapter 152: Good News: The noodle soup shop wants to order another thirty jars of chicken mushroom sauce! ...
Lin Shu suddenly thought of something and hurriedly reminded: "Mother, Auntie, don't throw away the duck feathers. I want to pick out some beautiful feathers to make a headdress, and the big feathers on the wings can be used to make a feather fan, which will look very beautiful. Oh yes, I also want to make a shuttlecock." Make a beautiful duck feather shuttlecock for Xiao Pu and let her be the most beautiful girl in the whole Tianshui Village!
Lin Zhaodi couldn't help but laugh at her. "Duck feathers are precious things. Who would be willing to throw them away? Boil them in boiling water several times, expose them to the sun, and stuff them into your quilt after they're dry. It'll keep you warm in the winter!"
As she said this, Lin Zhaodi had already picked out a few beautiful duck feathers.
"These are beautiful, I'll leave them for Ah Shu. As for these large duck feathers, if we gather them together from three wild ducks, we can make not only the duck feather fan Ah Shu mentioned, but also two more shuttlecocks."
Li Chunmiao and He Guixiang also pulled out the duck feathers and put them aside. As long as Ah Shu wanted something, no matter what it was, they would satisfy Ah Shu.
In a short while, Lin Zhaodi and the other two had plucked all the feathers from the three wild ducks. The naked wild ducks looked very cute.
After that, they cut open the belly and deal with the internal organs.
Li Chunmiao placed the naked wild duck in the basin, stood up and said to the two of them, "Sister He, Zhaodi, I have something to do at home, so I'll be leaving first."
Lin Zhaodi quickly grabbed her and said, "Why are you leaving? We've already helped pluck the duck feathers. Why don't you help us deal with the internal organs as well?"
Li Chunmiao tried to grab her hand, "Something really happened at home."
Lin Zhaodi held her hand tightly, "Then tell me what's going on. If you can't tell me, I won't let you go. Just pretend I don't know what you're thinking and I won't give you anything, okay? You want it, but I won't give it to you."
Li Chunmiao laughed and scolded a few words, then continued to work.
Wash the duck hearts, duck livers, and duck gizzards and put them in a bowl. Use scissors to cut open the duck intestines, clean out the feces inside, sprinkle with wood ash, and rub them repeatedly.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that duck intestines look dirty; they taste very delicious.
Before she finished, Lin Zhaodi suddenly remembered something and sighed, "Look at my memory." She immediately said to Lin Shu, "Ah Shu, I made a pot of mung bean soup and just sent some to your Uncle Zhao and the others. We also have a lot left here, which is stored in the kitchen with mountain spring water. You and Ah Ye should have a bowl each."
When Lin Shu heard this, her eyes lit up slightly and she said, "Aunt Lin, I'm really not polite then!"
"Why be so polite to your Aunt Lin? My hands are dirty, you go pour it yourself." Lin Zhaodi said straightforwardly.
Lin Shu immediately poured out two bowls.
She had been thinking about making ice jelly on the way back, but after walking all the way back under the scorching sun, she didn't want to move at all. Xiao Pu had also forgotten about it, so she simply gave up.
It’s great to have this mung bean soup. Although it’s not chilled, the mung bean soup chilled with mountain spring water is also icy and cool, which is very good for relieving summer heat.
"Mom, have you ever had a drink?" Lin Shu asked He Guixiang.
He Guixiang smiled and replied, "I have drunk it, of course I haven't. The ones in the kitchen were specially left by your Aunt Lin for you three."
Lin Shu then gulped down the bowl in her hand. After satisfying her craving, she took another bowl and went to look for the silent man in the corner.
"Aye, why don't you say a word? You are silent as a stone pillar. If I didn't miss you, who would bring you this mung bean soup?" Lin Shu handed the mung bean soup to Zhou Ye and did not forget to make a joke whenever she got the chance.
Zhou Ye glanced at her and was about to take the mung bean soup, but Lin Shu dodged him again.
"Don't you see your hands? They're dirty from work. Are you going to catch the bowl with these dirty hands?"
Zhou Ye paused and looked down at his hands.
Although doing bamboo work does not dirty his hands as much as doing farm work, his palms are indeed not clean.
He hurriedly said, "Ah Shu, put the bowl aside. I'll go wash it and then drink."
Lin Shu pulled his arm again and glanced at him lightly, "Forget it, it's troublesome. I'll hold the bowl and feed you."
Zhou Ye was stunned and subconsciously glanced at He Guixiang and the other two. Seeing that they were concentrating on processing the ducks, he hummed softly.
When Lin Shu handed the bowl to him, Zhou Ye bent down, held the rim of the bowl, and drank it all in big gulps.
I just drank up the mung bean soup, and there was still some mung beans left at the bottom of the bowl.
The mung bean soup had been simmered for a long time, and the mung beans inside were cooked until they were soft and delicious. Of course, Lin Shu wanted Zhou Ye to eat it too.
After Zhou Ye finished drinking the soup, she calmly used her fingertips to push the mung beans at the bottom of the bowl into Zhou Ye's mouth. She accidentally touched his tongue and quickly retracted her finger.
Lin Shu's face flushed uncontrollably, and Zhou Ye's ears also turned red.
"I just washed my hands, they are clean." Lin Shu muttered.
Zhou Ye hummed, "...and it tastes sweet."
Lin Shu glared at him secretly and walked away with the empty bowl.
Zhou Ye looked at her back, which seemed a little embarrassed and annoyed, and didn't know what was wrong with what he said.
The mung beans were fragrant when Ah Shu's fingertips touched them, and they were indeed sweet.
However, the way Ah Shu blushed just now... was really beautiful.
On the other side, Li Chunmiao was about to leave after helping to process the wild duck's internal organs.
She knew that Lin Zhaodi would be preparing dinner soon, so it would not be appropriate for her to stay any longer.
Unexpectedly, just a moment later, Lin Zhaodi brought her a bowl of duck offal when she wasn't paying attention. There were duck intestines, duck gizzards, and duck hearts in it. Lin Zhaodi actually gave her a whole portion of duck offal.
"You said you don't want it, take it back now! With our relationship, why do we need to be so polite?!"
"Who's being polite to you? I gave it to you because of you!"
That was not all. While the two were arguing, He Guixiang actually cut a small piece from the whole piece of duck blood and said, "There's not much duck blood left. Take this small piece back and make duck blood soup."
Li Chunmiao was at a loss for words. "What the hell are you two doing? I won't dare to help you anymore!"
But in the end she couldn't convince the two of them, so she took the bowl and left.
Li Chunmiao was happy all the way.
She won't take other people's benefits for nothing. She will give us something else tomorrow!
After Li Chunmiao left, Lin Zhaodi asked Lin Shu, "Ah Shu, for dinner, I'm planning to make the pancakes I made the day before yesterday and pair them with the wild vegetable dumplings from yesterday. Is that okay?"
Lin Shu smiled and replied, "Sure, why not? I happened to make a lot of chicken mushroom sauce last night, and I promised Liu Erzhuang and the others. I'll serve a small bowl of it for dinner, and I'll have them spread out their pancakes and dip them in the sauce."
He Guixiang, who was standing by, heard this and wanted to say something but stopped herself. However, she let Ah Shu go, and cursed the head of the family to death in her heart.
Lin Zhaodi knew better and didn't agree to this. "No, Ah Shu, this sauce is for you to sell and make money. How can I let you spend money to entertain my guests?"
Although she didn't ask Ah Shu how much the sauce cost, she guessed it was not cheap, after all, it was fried in oil.
"It's okay, Auntie. I've already promised, so I can't go back on my word. I'll serve a little less so everyone can have a taste."
As the two were talking, the sound of cattle being driven suddenly rang out outside the yard, followed by Old Man Liao who came into the yard panting.
He Guixiang was surprised, "Brother Liao, why are you back so early today?"
Seeing that he was sweating profusely, Lin Shu hurried to the kitchen and poured another bowl of mung bean soup over. "Old man Liao, drink the mung bean soup first and then we can talk about it slowly."
If we come back at this time, we will probably have to rush back under the strongest sun at noon.
However, although Old Man Liao ran in a hurry, there was a look of joy on his face, so it shouldn't be a bad thing.
Old man Liao took the mung bean soup that Lin Shu brought and drank it all, smacking his lips in satisfaction. "Ah Shu, you are so thoughtful. It's worth my rushing back in the hot weather to tell you the good news."
"Good news?" Lin Shu was stunned at first, then something occurred to her and she asked hurriedly, "Could it be that the chicken mushroom noodles at Li's Noodle Soup Shop are selling very well?"
"It's more than good, it's great!" Old man Liao said cheerfully, "When I arrived in town today, I first found a place to have breakfast. After eating, I immediately went to the noodle soup shop to deliver the sauce. Guess what happened?" Old man Liao looked at He Guixiang and Lin Zhaodi who had gathered around, and even Zhou Ye came to listen to the fun.
He slapped his thigh and continued, "When the owner of Li Ji Soup Noodles heard that I was here to deliver the sauce, he immediately invited me into the inner room to talk. He told me that many diners in the shop like the new chicken mushroom noodles, and the jars of sauce that Ah Shu sent last time were long used up! These days, old customers often come to ask when they can eat chicken mushroom noodles again. The owner is also very anxious, but he can't contact Ah Shu, so he can only wait. He waited and waited, and finally I came..."
Old man Liao rambled on for a while, and finally got to the point, "The shopkeeper asked Ah Shu to deliver another thirty jars of sauce to the market tomorrow!"
"How much?" He Guixiang knew how much Ah Shu's bamboo jar of sauce cost. When she heard that it cost thirty jars, she was filled with disbelief, then ecstasy.
One jar costs forty coins, and thirty jars would cost more than a thousand coins!
Adding the seven cans last time and the ten cans this time, this...how much does this cost!
He Guixiang had never been to school and only knew simple arithmetic. She calculated slowly and couldn't come up with the exact number for a while.
Lin Zhaodi was a little dazed at the moment. It was only after she heard what Old Man Liao said that she realized that Ah Shu's small bamboo jar of chicken mushroom sauce had sold for forty coins!
Thirty or forty cans of chicken mushroom sauce, how much do they cost?
Strangely, Lin Zhaodi did not feel the slightest bit of envy or jealousy; instead, she became excited.
If Ah Shu can sell a random sauce so well, then the ice jelly they carefully prepared will definitely be even more popular!
She couldn't wait to carry a load and sell ice jelly tomorrow!
Lin Shu herself was also very surprised.
She knew that Li Ji's noodle soup shop was doing good business, and she thought that after the customer base stabilized, the new products would be pretty good too, but she didn't expect them to sell so well.
I think it’s because it’s a new product. Once diners eat more of it in the future, it won’t sell out so quickly.
"Ashu, can you make thirty jars of sauce before the market tomorrow? If you can, I will wait for you to finish it before leaving." asked the old man Liao.
The seats on his ox cart had been fully booked by the villagers long ago. Since Lin Laoer and his family were going to the town, Ashu did not book his ox cart.
But thirty jars of sauce are heavy, so he can make some space to help Ah Shu take them to town.
Lin Shu smiled and replied, "Father Liao, I'm definitely late, so don't wait for me tomorrow. I have Ah Ye here, and when I'm done, I'll ask him to carry it to town for me."
"Okay, Aye is a strong boy, so there will be no problem with him around. By the way, the payment this time is three hundred coins in total. I spent sixty coins to buy you that wide-mouthed pottery jar, so there are two hundred and forty coins left. Can you count them, girl?" Old man Liao handed a small string of copper coins to Lin Shu.
Lin Shu handed it to He Guixiang without even looking at it. "Old Man Liao must have counted it for me. There's no problem."
Old man Liao was of course happy that others trusted him like this.
"I haven't delivered the things I brought to the villagers yet, so I'll go back and deliver them first." He drove the ox cart directly here, and the ox cart was parked outside.
"Okay, remember to come for dinner later, Old Man Liao. We have extra chicken mushroom sauce at home. I'll serve a big bowl of it and you can dip your pancakes in the sauce for dinner!" Originally, she wanted to make other food, but it was too hot today and Lin Shu didn't want to move, so she planned to make it another day.
When Old Man Liao heard that Miss Lin Shu was willing to take out such an expensive sauce for them to eat, he felt happy and relieved. "Okay, I'll be right there after you give me the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc."
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