038, Planting Bean Sprouts [Sixth Update]
038, Planting Bean Sprouts [Sixth Update]
Lu Mingfei didn't object to this. After all, the procedure for preparing 20 kilograms and 50 kilograms of braised meat at a time was the same. The only difference was the quantity. "We don't have many spices at home, so we have to prepare more." Without spices, their braised food would lose its soul.
"Yes, yes, this is what we need." Liu Sanniang almost forgot to prepare some more spices to make braised meat. If these spices were missing, the meat they made would not be so fragrant. If the taste was bad, others might not come to buy food from them.
Although this was her first time in the food business, Liu Sanniang knew that the most important thing in the food business was good taste. If the food tasted bad, people would not come back again after just one visit. Only if there were always customers would their business continue to be so prosperous and they could earn enough money to support their children's education.
Lu Mingfei guessed that their stall had such good business this morning because many caravans had recently left Kyoto Prefecture for other places, while some had also come to Kyoto Prefecture. Therefore, there had been more caravans and more people coming and going in Kyoto Prefecture recently. They should be able to take advantage of this time to do more business and make more money. Otherwise, if they missed this opportunity, business would probably drop significantly in winter, so they had to make more money in the next month or two.
Seeing that all the items were sold out, the mother and son started to pack up their stall.
When Xu Yueniang got up in the morning and went out to help in the shop, she saw Liu Sanniang and her child packing up the stall. She came over to greet Liu Sanniang and then said to her in a slightly surprised tone, "I heard from my husband, Old Lu, that your business is pretty good this morning. Even our sesame cakes are selling much better than usual."
"Maybe it's because today is our first day setting up the stall, so many customers come to try something new." Liu San said with a smile.
"You are too modest. I can't say anything else, but the braised meat you make is so delicious that even the chefs in big restaurants in Kyoto may not be able to make it taste as good as yours." Xu Yue Niang's words were not an exaggeration, but she really felt that the braised meat made by Liu San Niang tasted particularly good.
Liu Sanniang was so flattered that she didn't know how to respond. "We are just a small stall, we dare not compare with those big restaurants."
Seeing the mother and son packing up their things, Xu Yue Niang stepped forward to help, "Are you guys going to close the stall? Let me help you with that."
"No, no, we can clean up the stall ourselves. You can go back to the shop and get busy." Liu Sanniang knew that others were busy too, so she didn't feel comfortable asking Xu Yueniang to help them clean up the stall. They weren't just selling for one day; they would be here every day. Did they have to ask others for help every time?
Seeing that Liu Sanniang was really unwilling to let her help, Xu Yueniang had to give up and went to open the backyard door. In order to make it easier for Liu Sanniang to go in and out of their backyard, she thought about it and took out a key to the back door and gave it to Liu Sanniang.
"No, no, we..."
"Take it, don't push it. I'm busy up front, and I'm not always available to open the door for you. If you usually go in and out through the back door, remember to lock it."
Seeing Liu Sanniang pushing and shoving, Xu Yueniang grabbed Liu Sanniang's hand and refused to let her return the key. She believed in the character of Liu Sanniang and his wife. When Liu Sanniang and her family of three were staying at their house, they never entered other rooms except their own. They even taught their four or five-year-old child so well, which showed that the couple had good character.
In the end, Liu Sanniang had no choice but to thank him, accepted the key, and repeatedly promised not to lose the key.
"It doesn't matter if you lose it accidentally, but remember to tell me and I'll replace the lock." Not wanting to hear any more words of thanks from Liu Sanniang, Xu Yueniang hurried back to the store to work.
Looking at Xu Yueniang's back as she hurried back to the store, Liu Sanniang smiled and continued to take the children to move the remaining things to the backyard. Then she washed the dirty dishes that the guests had eaten in the morning and had not yet washed. After washing, she put them in a basket to drain so that they could be taken out and used again tomorrow morning.
Then she carried two empty baskets on a shoulder pole and took her children out to the street to buy things.
They first went to the stall where they bought clay pots last time and bought a lot more clay pots this time.
Seeing that they had bought quite a few earthenware jars this time, even his mother's two baskets couldn't hold them all. The stall owner happened to have a cart, so Lu Mingfei asked the vendor, "Uncle, can you deliver them to the sesame cake shop in front?"
"There's no one to help me look after my stall. Is this okay? I'll take it to you when I close the stall later?" asked the vendor.
"Sure, thank you for your help." Seeing that there was only one person at the stall, Liu Sanniang didn't mind if someone else delivered it later. After paying the deposit, she took the child to buy something else.
In addition to the clay pots she needed, she also bought a few food boxes based on her children's advice.
This time they came to the grocery store and bought a large amount of spices. They also ordered a batch of spices from the grocery store owner because they would need these spices to braise meat in the future, and if they ran out of them, it would affect their business.
I also bought tofu and dried tofu, and finally went to the pork shop to pick up the pork I ordered yesterday.
Yesterday she only ordered 20 kilograms of pork, but because it was not enough to sell today, Liu Sanniang bought 20 kilograms more pork in addition to the 20 kilograms she ordered, making a total of 40 kilograms of meat, as well as large bones for making soup. All in all, it was quite a lot of things.
When paying, Liu Sanniang also ordered the meat for tomorrow's meal, and paid a bit more for the deposit. "Please leave me 40 kilograms of meat and a few large bones tomorrow. I prefer pork belly. Please also leave me a pig's trotter, the front one."
"Okay." The butcher accepted the deposit and agreed.
In addition to meat, they also had to buy vegetables for tomorrow's meal, so Liu Sanniang took the child and left.
They have to get up in the middle of the night to prepare braised meat and meals, so they can't have these things delivered to them in the morning. They can only buy them themselves and put them aside to braise them in the evening. Now that the weather is cooler, the pork slaughtered that day can be kept for about ten to twenty hours without any problem. The only worry is that when the weather gets hotter, the meat will not keep long, and then they may really have to consider changing their stall hours.
On the way to buy vegetables, Lu Mingfei said to his mother: "Mom, we need to find someone to order a batch of vegetables to pickle and make sauerkraut, otherwise we will have nothing to eat when winter comes." Otherwise, when the weather gets cold, the only vegetarian dish they have left may be bean sprouts.
Speaking of bean sprouts, I wonder if the patriarch’s bean sprouts have sprouted yet?
"Oh, yes, I do. It's a good thing you reminded me, otherwise I would have forgotten about it." Liu Sanniang just remembered that they should start preparing pickled vegetables at this time. In previous years, when they were in the countryside, they would start preparing pickled vegetables in August or September, and the pickled vegetables would be eaten throughout the winter.
Now if they were to do food business, they would have to prepare more.
On this street, the figures of a mother and her child walked further and further away. The mother was carrying a load, and beside her was a child about four or five years old. When the mother tilted her head to talk to the child, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and there was a hint of smile on her face.
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Just when Lu Mingfei was thinking of their clan leader, the clan leader of the Lu family in Shihua Village was looking at the bean sprouts they had grown with his old wife.
The method of growing bean sprouts was told to him by Xiao Qilang of the Lu family that day. At that time, the little boy used this recipe in exchange for him to save his father Lu Youtian.
Clan leader Lu remembered that when the child shared this recipe, he said he followed his father into the city to do business and heard a merchant tell him about it. He told him to try it. If it grew, then he could plant it. If not, then he would only lose a few beans. But if it did, then this recipe would be of great help to the Lu clan.
Of course, he didn't save people just to make money... Well, later he helped Lu Youtian's family of three to escape from their family, which was partly because he had taken benefits from others.
Because if he had this method, he could take his descendants and the Lu family members to grow bean sprouts together and sell them to make more money, instead of letting the Lu family members stay in this place for generations, working as tenants for the landlord and relying on the landlord's housekeeper for their livelihood.
If they had money, they could train more descendants of the Lu family to study and take the imperial examinations. Maybe they could really produce some talented people. At least his eldest grandson, who had passed the imperial examination, would have money to continue his studies and take the imperial examinations.
Therefore, it was not really that he, as an elder, was greedy for the younger generation's things, but that their Lu family needed such a recipe for making money.
In the past, Patriarch Lu only thought his eldest grandson was a smart child. However, compared with Lu Youtian's son, Lu Xiaoqilang was almost a genius, not at all like an ordinary four or five-year-old. Thinking that the child had been isolated from other children since childhood, he wondered if he would have a different destiny in the future.
It had been some time since Lu Youtian and his family of three had moved to the city and hadn't returned to the village. It was said that they had rented a house in the city and were now settled there. Lu Youtian had been rushed to the city clinic in time, and his life had been saved. That was a good thing.
He had this bean sprout recipe in his own hands. A couple of days ago, Village Chief Lu soaked some beans at home to grow bean sprouts. The beans sprouted the next day, and within a few days, the seedlings had grown quite long. He also discovered that this method of growing bean sprouts had another major advantage: it didn't take up much land; he could grow them in a few small pots at home.
Otherwise, the villagers in their entire village would only have a small amount of open space in front of the door and in the yard. Growing vegetables alone would not be enough for their own consumption, let alone any extra land to grow vegetables to sell.
Six updates today, and we'll continue tomorrow. I wish you all the best!
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