The tricycle features areas for displaying merchandise, storing packaging and plastic, a takeout counter, a condiment area, and a heating and cooling area. Each panel is polished to a smooth, flawless finish. The wooden panels used for the side panels are also engraved with adorable animal forms of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, creating a playful and childlike effect.
Jiang Yingxue smiled happily and said, "Thank you, Grandpa. I'm very satisfied!"
The tricycle is her tool for setting up stalls. This tricycle is very much to her liking and she really likes it.
She had previously visited the town to scout locations and ultimately decided to set up her stall near Taoxi Middle School. She didn't consider Taoxi Elementary School or the kindergarten. Firstly, the spending power of children in these schools is low; most kindergarteners won't buy anything on their own initiative. Secondly, children of this age are often picked up by their parents, who often refuse to buy from vendors, believing the food is unclean.
But middle school students are different. Although their spending power is limited, they do have some pocket money and have autonomy. The school also has a large flow of customers, so she chose to set up a stall in front of Taoxi Middle School.
If there was a high school or university in the town, she would choose to set up a stall in front of the high school or university, as these people are the target audience for the snacks. Unfortunately, there are only kindergartens, elementary schools and junior high schools in the town.
Now that we have a tricycle for setting up stalls, we can prepare the ingredients and set up the stall in the next few days.
Jiang Yingxue is planning to sell rice balls, and for now she is only planning to sell three kinds of rice balls, namely egg and ham seaweed rice balls, pork chop seaweed rice balls, and shrimp and seaweed rice balls.
The name of the stall has also been decided: "Xuehe Rice Ball", which is a combination of one character from the village name and her name.
Jiang Yingxue dipped the brush in ink and wrote the four words "Xuehe Rice Ball" on the wooden board. Then she took out some pink gems from the world of immortal cultivation from the space, broke them into pieces, and inlaid them around the signboard. A shining signboard for the stall was ready.
The cucumbers and carrots needed for rice balls are available at home; Jiang Yingxue raised shrimps and fish in the space, so the shrimp meat problem is solved; she plans to make her own ham sausage, and the casings, starch, etc. needed for homemade ham sausage have been bought; the seaweed has been purchased; there are no chickens or pigs at home, so pork chops and local eggs need to be purchased.
There are families in the village who specialize in raising and selling free-range chickens, as well as free-range eggs. The free-range eggs they usually eat are all bought in the village.
Jiang Yingxue carried the carrots she had just dug from the fields and stopped by a large chicken farm in the village.
"Oh, isn't this Yingxue? Why are you here? You and your grandma just bought a plate of eggs yesterday. How come you finished it so quickly?" Jiang Xiangsen smiled kindly after seeing that the person coming was Jiang Yingxue.
"Senbo, I'm here to buy eggs. We haven't finished eating the ones at home yet. I'm planning to set up a small stall in town and I need eggs, so I came to take a look." She used to buy eggs after she had eaten all the eggs at home, but now she was buying eggs for commercial use, so the ones at home were definitely not enough. She didn't intend to hide the fact that she was setting up a stall, so she just told him directly.
"Oh, come in and take a look. I only have two kinds of free-range eggs here: Chu eggs and others. Since we're setting up a stall, I'd better use ordinary free-range eggs."
Jiang Xiangsen wondered what Yingxue was selling at her stall. She was actually using free-range eggs. You know, other people were using eggs from ordinary feed chickens. After all, ordinary feed chicken eggs were cheap and saved costs.
"These chickens are all authentic free-range chickens. We're all from the village, and you can see that my chickens are raised on grain, and their eggs are delicious. Yingxue, how many do you want?"
Jiang Yingxue said, "We don't have much demand for now. If the rice balls sell well, we'll consider increasing the quantity."
"Well, we're neighbors, so I won't charge you more. 15 yuan per catty." So he was selling rice balls. Worried that Jiang Yingxue would think he was too expensive, Jiang Xiangsen scratched his head and continued, "I usually sell these eggs for 20 yuan per catty outside."
Jiang Yingxue smiled and said, "Thank you, Uncle Sen. I'll give you one when I make the finished product." The free-range chickens in Jiang Xiangsen's family eat pure grains from the day they hatch. Their food is usually corn, rice, grass, insects... This egg is worth the price.
Jiang Yingxue finally bought 5 kilograms of free-range eggs for 75 yuan. Free-range eggs are smaller than those from chickens fed with ordinary feed. Although the nutritional content is the same on paper, free-range eggs taste better.
She bought 5 kilograms of local eggs, a total of 50 eggs, which was the amount she needed for the first three days. She made less when she just set up the stall. It would be a waste if she made too many and couldn't sell them. She would buy more when the local eggs were used up.
The eggs are taken care of, next is the pork chops.
There happened to be a family in the village that specialized in raising pigs and selling pork, so Jiang Yingxue easily bought three days' worth of pork.
After arriving home, Jiang Yingxue tied on an apron, plunged into the yard and woodshed, rolled up her sleeves and prepared to work hard.
"Sister, I have picked the fresh beard grass and washed it clean."
Xiao Zhao flew to Jiang Yingxue's shoulder and stopped, with an expression asking for praise on his little face.
Jiang Yingxue was also generous in praising Xiao Zhao.
"Xiao Zhao is awesome!"
She took out the alchemy furnace, lit the fire, boiled the fresh grass into juice and set it aside.
Next, she processed the meat. The pork she bought today has two parts: the plum meat and the front cut. The plum meat is suitable for pan-frying pork chops, and the front cut is suitable for making ham sausage.
The first thing she made was sausage. She fetched a full basin of well water to clean the pork she bought today, then took another basin to separate the pork belly, leaving only the front part of the meat.
Jiang Yingxue picked up the front fillet and placed it on the chopping board. She used a knife to separate the fat and lean meat of the front fillet, cut the lean meat into strips, cut the fat into cubes, and then chopped it up with a knife.
Putting the minced meat into a clean large porcelain bowl, she added starch, fresh grass juice, and free-range eggs, and stirred. After stirring evenly, she then added appropriate amounts of pepper powder, shiitake mushrooms, salt, and soy sauce, stirring again. After stirring evenly again, she could put the meat into the sausage casing.
In the woodshed, water was put in a big pot, and the stuffed ham sausages were put into the pot with cold water. More firewood was put under the stove, and after boiling, they were simmered on low heat for half an hour. After half an hour, the ham sausages were put into the prepared well water to cool down.
After cooling down, take it out and cut the ham into small pieces. Each piece is 10 cm long, which is slightly shorter, but thicker than the ham on the market.
Because she uses her own well water and adds spiritual plants for seasoning, her homemade ham is more delicate and refreshing than the ham sausages sold outside, and its taste is also more fragrant.
The ham sausage is ready. Take out the amount you will use to make rice balls later, and put the rest in the refrigerator.
Jiang Yingxue tore open the casing of a sausage, cut the sausage into pieces and placed them on a plate for Xiao Zhao to taste.
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