Chapter 9 Soy Milk with Fried Dough Sticks
In this way, the brewery successfully transitioned from a traditional, primitive medieval partnership to a modern, joint-stock company. Of course, due to practical limitations and external circumstances, and without professional accountants and asset valuers, Jiangyou could only make rough estimates and a rough imitation. However, the idea was there, and the amounts were roughly the same. As long as the profits were secured, her partners didn't mind the trivialities.
This era obviously hadn't yet developed modern financial and corporate systems, but that didn't stop Takumi from learning them from the modern era. The advantage of the modern system was that businesspeople, regardless of gender, race, or class, were afforded reasonable protection.
Although it cannot be said to be absolutely fair, relative fairness can still be guaranteed. It is much better for everyone to cooperate fairly based on quantitative standards than to compete with each other without any basis, to see who is stronger, or to speak louder for the right to speak.
Of course, business negotiations are essentially about constantly proving oneself and gaining more say and benefits. Furthermore, people have their own closeness and distance, and unless goodwill has built up to a certain point, it's unlikely that someone will compromise their interests for a stranger, unless they're being coerced.
Takumi thinks it's like playing a game: players can't just single-handedly challenge the boss at the beginning, but must reach a certain level before challenging the corresponding levels. Takumi has no doubt that if she had proposed a shareholding partnership with Andrei, Holly, and the others back in the Witch Forest, they would have been considered crazy. But now that she's offered everyone the satisfactory returns from the first phase, things have become much simpler.
Trust needs to be earned by oneself, and Jiangyou feels that he is doing quite well at the moment.
Seeing the brewery's shareholding reform nearing completion, Jiangyou felt elated, even feeling a bit lighter. Since she had a lot of things to do that evening, she reorganized the unsold food and brought it to the table. After everyone finished their dinner, they went back to their work.
Jiang You was up early in the morning, before daybreak. He was making tofu, and the soybeans had been soaking in the kitchen overnight. He checked the kitchen and saw that the beans were rising perfectly, so he picked up a jar and took it to the backyard.
A large bucket for collecting soy milk is placed beneath the cleaned stone mill. A layer of fine gauze is placed inside the bucket to filter out the dregs. Then, the soybeans and water are poured into the stone mill for grinding. The strenuous work of grinding the soy milk is naturally performed by the powerful little maid, the robot doll Leila. With Leila, Takuyuu saves a lot of effort.
Leila ground the beans, while Jiangyou added the beans and scooped water. Thick, rich soy milk slowly dripped into the bucket, unnoticed, filling up half the entire bucket. It was still too thick, so it needed to be diluted with water. Then, wrapped in gauze, the remaining residue was squeezed out to remove all the liquid. This gave him a bucket of pure, flavorful soy milk.
Jiangyou brought out her portable stove and started making soy milk right there in the yard. The soy milk had to be boiled thoroughly to avoid food poisoning. While the first pot of soy milk was brewing, she returned to the kitchen to get a second jar of beans and asked Leila to grind them again.
Today, she planned to open early and sell breakfast. Her first pot of soy milk would be her breakfast. Her main dishes would be fried dough sticks (youtiao) and egg pancakes. Freshly fried dough sticks paired with sweet soy milk were a simple delicacy no one could resist.
Jericho yawned and got up as well: "Smells good, what are you doing?"
"Soy milk, tofu pudding, and tofu." Jiang You called him over and taught him how to put the beans in and scoop water. He then asked Jericho to grind the soy milk with Leila. "That's perfect. I'm going to fry some dough sticks."
"I want the first one!" Jericho licked the corner of his mouth and asked shamelessly.
"Okay!" Ever since he knew that Jericho was a cat, Takumi has become more tolerant of him. There's no other way, this is the treatment cats and cats can get. Cats are good!
Jiangyou had made fried dough sticks at Rose Villa before, and now he was even more proficient at making them again: the dough kneaded last night had been refrigerated in the refrigerator for a night to relax, and after taking it out, it was stretched and rolled out, cut into sections, two sections were stacked together and pressed in the middle with a chopstick, and finally fried in a pan at high temperature... Wow, like magic, the small white dough quickly expanded into golden sticks, floating on the oil pan as light as a balloon, and needed to be flicked a few times with chopsticks to let it fry thoroughly and crispy before taking it out and letting it cool.
Naxia, who had come to work, smelled the aroma and trotted in: "It smells so good! Manager! What are we eating today?"
"Soy milk, fried dough sticks, and later we'll have tofu pudding!" Jiang You instructed her, "Make some egg pancakes, wash some vegetables and cut some carrots. Wrap the fried dough sticks with the egg pancakes and add some vegetables. It will taste amazing!"
After the initial false boil, the first bucket of soy milk was cooked over medium heat for another seven minutes until it was completely cooked and boiling. Jiangyou turned off the stove, scooped out a few cups, and placed them on the table with a plate of fried dough sticks. "Everyone, have breakfast first. If you like sweet soy milk, please add sugar to your cup according to your taste."
She scooped out half a bucket of soy milk and placed it in a pot to cool to 90 degrees Celsius. Then she took a clean wooden bucket, weighed out the gypsum powder, and dissolved it in water. Then she picked up the pot and quickly poured the 90-degree soy milk into the wooden bucket, quickly covering it with a lid and letting it sit.
"Have breakfast first. There will be a pot of tofu pudding in fifteen minutes." She said and went back to the front hall.
Aunt Wolf and Andre had already come over following the smell. After grinding the second bucket of beans, Jericho hurried into the house. Nasha brought in freshly made omelets, shredded carrots and washed lettuce.
Jiang You first demonstrated how to eat it. She took a cup of soy milk, added sugar, and stirred it evenly. She then took a crispy fried dough stick, soaked it in the soy milk, and then quickly stuffed it into Andre's hand: "Try it!"
Andre took a big bite without any hesitation, then squinted his eyes in satisfaction: "Delicious!"
He took another sip of the soy milk, savored it, and decided he preferred it with the fried dough sticks. Soaked in soy milk, the dough sticks were half crispy, half soft, with a rich aroma and the sweetness of the milk, without a trace of greasiness. The aroma seemed to melt into the milk, softening its sharp edges and making it mellow and mild.
Jiangyou took another omelet, put lettuce and shredded carrots in it, and wrapped it with crispy fried dough sticks in the middle, making it into a roll: "Try this!"
Andrei finished the fried dough stick in his hand in two bites, then took the burrito and took a big bite. "Wow! This is delicious too, the fried dough stick is so crispy!"
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