"Third son's wife, you didn't pickle this fish properly."
Shao Lihua consulted with Old Lady Ruan for a solution, and Old Lady Ruan immediately saw the solution.
It was indeed a problem with the dried fish.
Shao Lihua's heart tightened, and she sensed something was wrong. She said, "Could it be that the marinade I added wasn't enough to remove the fishy smell?"
Grandma Ruan then found the leftover spicy fish sauce, ate the last piece of dried fish, licked her lips, and nodded: "Your dried fish is far inferior to the original."
"Or, should I fry the dried fish and then marinate it in sauce?" Shao Lihua said somewhat dejectedly.
"Ask Qiaowa how much the dried fish was originally bought?" Grandma Ruan suggested, finding it too troublesome.
Thinking back to her earlier boast, Shao Lihua wanted to slap herself. "Qiaowa said those dried fish were given to her by Boss Cai, and she doesn't know where she got them from." Remembering her boastful words, she cried out, "Mother, what should I do? If I can't make the exact same dried fish, Boss Xiao won't let me off the hook!"
Grandma Ruan thought for a moment, then said calmly, "It's just dried fish. People thrive when they move, but trees die when they're moved. The most urgent thing is to go to the market and look for dried fish. As long as we find the right kind, we can make the same chili sauce."
These words reminded Shao Lihua, and she got on Shao Zhifeng's bicycle and rushed to the town's market.
With a worried look on her face, Old Lady Ruan returned to her second son's house, told Liu Yan about the situation, then took a few potatoes from her own house, slung a basket over her shoulder, and slowly walked to her eldest son's house.
It just so happened that Lu Siqiao came home from school for lunch.
This was the first time the old lady had ever delivered something to her eldest son's family.
Unsolicited kindness is either a sign of treachery or theft.
"Qiaowa, Grandma wants to eat dried fish. I heard that Boss Cai gave you some dried fish last time. Can you ask him where he bought it and buy some for Grandma?" The old lady went straight to the point about buying dried fish.
Lu Siqiao sneered inwardly, but didn't expose her trick. She said calmly, "That stuff is very expensive, it seems to cost more than a hundred yuan per catty. How many catties do you want to buy, Milk?"
One hundred yuan per kilogram?
Old Mrs. Ruan was startled and cursed, "Isn't this a scam?"
“That was bought from overseas by Boss Cai through someone. How could it not be expensive? We only make it for our own family to try. How could we dare to make chili sauce and sell it to others? The cost is so high, wouldn’t we lose money?” Lu Siqiao said seriously. “To make spicy fish sauce, you definitely have to buy the fish yourself and dry it into dried fish like Auntie San does, and then mass-produce the sauce.”
That seems to make sense.
But what about the third son's wife?
I heard that if a contract is signed but the goods cannot be delivered on time, the seller will have to pay an additional 1,000 yuan.
Grandma Ruan was worried about the third son's family, so she gave a few perfunctory replies and was about to leave. Before leaving, she made sure to take the potatoes she had brought with her.
Lu Siqiao sneered.
She wanted to see how Shao Lihua would handle the situation.
It's difficult to go from luxury to simplicity. Boss Xiao has tasted the exquisite dried fish chili sauce from the space, so how could he allow Shao Lihua to pass off inferior goods as superior ones?
She took Xiao Huang for a stroll and unknowingly arrived at the backyard of the third house.
Shao Lihua returned, carrying large and small bags, her expression ashen.
"Third daughter-in-law, why did you buy so much dried fish? How much spicy fish sauce are you going to make?" Old Mrs. Ruan was startled and blamed her for not being good at managing the household.
Shao Lihua looked exhausted and said, "Mother, there are seven or eight kinds of dried freshwater fish here. Let me see which one makes the best sauce before we decide."
Besides buying dried fish, she also needed to buy chili peppers, ginger, garlic, and so on. After all that, there was hardly any money left from what Mr. Xiao had given her.
Putting aside whether it will make money or not, the current difficulties are still a possibility.
Seeing that she had changed her usual demeanor and become worried, Old Lady Ruan couldn't bear it and said, "I just asked Qiaowa, and she said that the original dried fish was bought from overseas by Boss Cai through someone, and it cost 100 yuan per catty."
One hundred yuan per pound!
Shao Lihua's face darkened further.
No wonder the fish tasted so good, and even the chili sauce made from it was incredibly delicious, unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
Shao Lihua then realized that her overconfidence had inadvertently led her into a trap.
"Never mind, let's make the spicy fish sauce first." Dejected, she lowered her head, washing the dried fish, then busied herself drying and frying them...
They were busy until evening, and when Lu Siqiao came home from school, they could still smell the spicy dried fish coming from the third house.
I smelled it so much that I felt a little nauseous.
"Jova, you're out of school?"
Lu Mingzhi opened the door and came out to greet him.
He held a bowl of spicy fish sauce in his hands and handed it to Lu Siqiao, saying, "Your third aunt made a lot of spicy fish sauce. Take it home and try it."
This is a sauce in a washbasin, it's dark in color and has a greasy, pungent spicy smell.
Lu Siqiao knew the sauce tasted bad almost without tasting it.
"Thank you, Third Uncle." She glanced into the house and whispered, "Third Uncle, how is Third Aunt?"
“It’s tough. The chili sauce she made at first was okay, but it wasn’t as good as the first one. The more she made it, the worse it got,” Lu Mingzhi sighed. “I told her she was destined to be a troublemaker. She should just stay and work at your sauce factory.”
Based on the information he revealed, he still wants Shao Lihua to go back to work in the factory?
Lu Siqiao sighed, "It's a pity that Third Aunt made a harsh statement that she would never go back to her old ways. When these words reached Boss Cai's ears, he said that he was a bit temperamental and could not tolerate betrayal."
Lu Mingzhi looked embarrassed and chuckled awkwardly, "Your third aunt is blinded by greed and has been fooled by her family. She really thinks she's something special."
Lu Siqiao smiled at her and carried a bowl of chili sauce back home.
Upon learning that it was Shao Lihua's spicy fish sauce, Luo Xiaoxue dipped her chopsticks in it to taste, then spat it out, exclaiming, "This sauce is too salty!"
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