Chapter 173 Welcome the New Year
As the New Year approaches,
southerners will start smoking bacon, sausages, cured duck, cured pig trotters, and
bacon two months in advance during the Chinese New Year. People choose fresh pork, preferably pork belly or hind shank, to Wash it and dry it. At the same time, prepare the pickling seasonings, which usually include salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rock sugar, white wine, Sichuan peppercorns and star anise.
Next is marinating. Cut the pork belly into pieces of suitable size, apply the seasoning evenly on the meat, and put it in a container to marinate for 3 to 4 days.
Then the bacon is smoked. The cured pork is hung in a ventilated and dry place to dry. After drying, cypress branches, orange peels, camellia oleifera shells, etc. are used to burn these materials, and the smoke produced is used to smoke the bacon.
Smoking usually takes several months, and the smoking methods vary from place to place.
Every household starts early to kill chickens and sheep, pickle sausages, fish, and ducks, and spend a lot of money to stock up on vegetables.
At this time, Zheng Jingyi's food business was particularly good.
In the morning, I was in the warehouse, providing the restaurant’s order ingredients. In the afternoon, we provide retail ingredients to residents in the community.
Every day at noon, after lunch, Zheng Juan will open the storage room on the first floor and push out the full of fresh ingredients.
The storage room is prepared in advance with a variety of fresh live fish, including soft-shell turtle, salmon, sea bass, grass carp, as well as eels and Shrimp, and green and juicy vegetables.
Every day, regular customers from this community and the community next door come to visit. There is no need to set up stalls at the intersection.
The weather is cold, and the storage room is warm in winter and cool in summer, and can also keep out the wind and cold.
After lunch and a nap, the neighbors came over one after another.
Both sisters Zheng Juan are hardworking and hard-working, and
Zheng Hua's stewed vegetables are particularly popular.
At Zheng Jingyi's suggestion, she launched a pre-ordered stewed vegetable service and placed orders in advance. In her kitchen, three large pots are cooked at the same time without stopping every day.
Neighbors come to make reservations every day, and the reservation has been made until the 29th of the New Year.
Now, Zheng Hua's happiest thing every day is counting money and keeping accounts happily.
I used to earn 200 yuan a day, but now I earn three to four hundred yuan a day, so proud!
Zheng Jingyi's orders from several restaurants almost all end on New Year's Eve. Business started on the eighth day of the lunar month and orders resumed.
Zheng Jingyi can take a good rest for a week. During the Spring Festival, she only needs to supply ingredients to one restaurant, and that is Jiangnan Banquet.
During this Spring Festival, Boss Huo of Jiangnan Banquet has exclusively launched a non-closing New Year's Eve dinner reservation model. He placed advertisements in the hotel and major newspapers in Jiang City ten days in advance, and printed and distributed leaflets.
With fresh business methods, rich menu combinations, and a variety of price options, Jiangnan Banquet’s brand-new model has become an instant hit in Jiang City!
Other restaurant owners find this approach strange and novel. It has indeed never been tried before asking them to give up the Spring Festival and go home for reunion. They were worried that there would be no business, so they all just stayed on the sidelines.
Common people have different opinions. Don’t they spend the traditional Spring Festival at home?
On New Year's Eve, all the children come back, the parents prepare a table of food, the house is full of children and grandchildren, and the whole family is reunited. This is the case in every household.
But there are also some families where the parents are older, and it is hard enough to have such a big table or even two tables of food.
Some children are very happy to eat in a restaurant. They don’t have to prepare a large meal, and they don’t have to wash the dishes after the meal. They can still eat well and choose the variety of dishes by themselves. Why not?
Therefore, a week in advance, dozens of families had already made reservations for Jiangnan Banquet’s New Year’s Eve dinner, some for lunch and some for dinner.
Boss Huo took the order and smiled from ear to ear. The sales during this Spring Festival must be very impressive!
He mobilized the employees and paid overtime wages to those who stayed to work overtime. Those who are willing to go back will never be forced to do so.
When the employees saw how motivated their boss was and thought about how they could make more money during the Spring Festival, most of them expressed their willingness to stay and work.
Boss Huo immediately contacted Zheng Jingyi,
"Jingyi, thank you for giving me a good idea! I have a handful of New Year's Eve dinner orders in my hand. I didn't expect that so many people would be willing to eat at the hotel to celebrate the Spring Festival! I didn't expect it! It's you. Smart mind!"
Zheng Jingyi was also happy for Boss Huo, "That's great! As long as people are willing to use their brains, there are many ways to make money! Let's continue to work together!
" Okay, okay...please cooperate!"
Boss Huo put down the phone, rubbed his hands, and paced back and forth in the room. Everything is ready. All he needs is Dongfeng.
"Manager Zhang, go and inform all the employees to come to my place in half an hour. Let’s hold a mobilization meeting to arrange work for the Spring Festival. Go quickly!”
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Aunt Huang from the neighborhood committee comes here every day to look here and there.
“Aunt Huang, are you here? I left a big grass carp for you, it’s very fresh. "Look at it!"
Zheng Jingyi looked at Aunt Huang's smiling face and knew she had something to say again,
"Xiao Zheng! Why didn't you go to work today?"
"Aunt Huang was on duty last night, it's the Spring Festival. Are your son and daughter who are working out of town coming home?"
"Come back! This year we are moving to a new house, and they are all busy this year. Your son is married, and your daughter is four or five years older than you, and she is still single!
" "Can it accommodate a large number of people?"
"It can be accommodated. There are two bedrooms, one for me and my wife, and one for my son and daughter-in-law. I can spread out the folding sofa in the living room for my little daughter to sleep on. It's just right!" Zheng Jingyi
asked, "By the way, Aunt Huang, why is there no news about the demolition of our house?"
Aunt Huang said, "Who said there is no news? My old man said it, so every household has reported it!" , is it after the New Year? Don't worry, wait a moment."
There was only one building in the Ronghua community where Zheng Jingyi lived, and she happened to buy this large apartment of 120 square meters.
As a reborn person, because she knew it, she bought the largest house in the building last year and waited for it to be demolished.
The demolition area of the building shall be calculated based on the area registered on the property certificate.
In the 1990s, building demolition prices varied depending on region, housing type, structure and other factors.
Zheng Jingyi remembers that after the Spring Festival, the compensation for demolition will be available soon.
The calculation method includes housing compensation, relocation subsidies, temporary resettlement subsidies, etc. The price is approximately 2,000 yuan per square meter.
In other words, she can get about 300,000 yuan in compensation, earn 120,000 yuan, and directly earn back the money for a house. Although I haven’t received the money yet, I am already looking forward to it.
"Aunt Huang, take your fish and go slowly."
"Thank you, Xiao Zheng. Where is your aunt? I ordered the stewed vegetables from her, let's see if they are ready."
Aunt Huang's loud voice made people nearby shout. You can all hear,
"My aunt is coming down soon, please sit down."