Chapter 125: There are so many fish on the sea trip, it would be a pity not to make fish balls
"Mom, I'm back. Look what I bought for you!" When Zhang Ze got home, he took out the radio first.
"Wow, it's a radio!" Zhang Qing, who was shelling oysters, immediately put down his knife and came over. "Brother, you bought a radio. Can I go to your place to listen to it in the future?"
"I bought two. This one is for mom. If you want to listen to it in the future, just go to mom's room." Zhang Ze put the radio in his sister's arms.
"Really?" Zhang Qing's eyes turned, and she immediately moved to Zhang's mother with the radio in her arms and acted like a spoiled child, "Mom, can I sleep with you tonight?"
Zhang Huihong laughed dumbly: "If you want to listen, put the radio in your room. Mom goes to bed early at night and doesn't listen."
But Zhang Qing didn't show any happiness after hearing that. Instead, she shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, I said that the one I gave you can only be kept in your room. I'll go to your room when I want to listen to it next time."
Not only did Zhang's mother feel heartwarming when she heard these words, but Zhang Ze was also happy for his sister's understanding.
As a child, taking things from parents seems natural, but he thinks it is very good that Zhang Qing has this awareness.
At this moment, the cart driver who had been following behind finally arrived. He looked around the small shop with almost no empty seats and asked, "Boss, where should I put this sewing machine?"
"Sewing machine?" The women who had gathered together to study the radio all raised their heads and looked at the brand new sewing machine on the cart at the door.
Seeing the puzzlement in his mother and daughter-in-law's eyes, Zhang Ze smiled and said, "Shuyao is already pregnant, and I thought that you will definitely have to make a lot of children's clothes in the future, and when the weather gets hot, you will also have to make some short-sleeved skirts and so on, so I just bought a machine to make clothes for you."
After saying that, he turned around and worked with the cart master to move the sewing machine to the first floor hall of his house.
Several women came over and looked around the sewing machine, looking extremely curious.
In this era, the first thing men look forward to is a bicycle. Having a bicycle makes travel convenient. If you go to a town or a village, riding a bicycle will definitely attract the attention of many girls.
Even those who own bicycles in the city are envied. Although bicycles are very common in cities now, the proportion of households with bicycles is still not high.
And what women wanted most was a sewing machine.
It is women who do the sewing and mending at home. Having a sewing machine not only makes life much easier, but also saves a lot of time for other things.
"It's Butterfly brand, Aze. How much did you spend on it?" Zhang's mother asked, touching the sewing machine lovingly.
"It's only about a hundred yuan. It's normal for my family to spend some money." Zhang Ze did not say the specific price. In fact, the price including the ticket was more than two hundred yuan.
Normally, sewing machines of other brands are not that expensive and can be bought for just one hundred and twenty or three hundred yuan.
If he told her the specific price, Zhang's mother would definitely be distressed and complain.
Even though she can earn a lot of money every day now, her previous frugal habits are not so easy to change.
"Mom, can you use a sewing machine? Teach me quickly. The weather is getting hot, and I want to make a beautiful skirt for myself." Zhang Qing said while still holding the radio.
Zhang Huihong's expression froze. How could she use it? Her parents' family didn't have one. Her family became even poorer after she got married. The conditions of her neighbors were also not so good. Who could afford a sewing machine?
But she thought that this sewing machine should be very easy to use, just like when she first learned to sew clothes, she would be able to use it right away.
So she said, "They are all sewing clothes. Mom will know how to use them after a few times. I will teach you then."
"What? So you don't know how to use it." Zhang Qing curled her lips and looked at Tong Shuyao, "Sister-in-law, do you know how to use it?"
When Tong Shuyao heard her sister-in-law asking her, she looked a little embarrassed: "I haven't learned it either."
"My sister-in-law doesn't know how to do it either!" Zhang Qing was a little disappointed and finally looked at her own sister.
Zhang Qian was stunned and was about to wave her hand, but her sister immediately shifted her gaze.
“.”
She couldn't describe what she was feeling at that moment, she just suddenly wanted to beat her sister until she cried.
"It doesn't matter if you don't know how. You can try it first. If it doesn't work, I'll take you to a tailor shop to learn." Zhang Ze had naturally considered this question.
Sewing machines are easy to operate, but they can be very unruly if you don't know how to use them.
At this time, a customer came to buy spiced blue crabs, which reminded him of the other two spiced crab shops and several stalls he had found when he came back just now.
Yesterday we went to the pier and went out to sea in another direction, so he didn’t see it. I didn’t expect that there would be so many more spiced crabs when I came back this time.
After Zhang's mother finished her portion and the customer left, he went over to ask, "Mom, has the business at home been much slower these past two days?"
"Brother, how did you know?" Before Zhang's mother could speak, Zhang Qing's eyes widened in surprise.
Business has been bad in the past two days and she noticed that her mother's mood has also become much worse. Sometimes she looks worried and under a lot of pressure, so she has been thinking of ways to make her mother happy in the past two days.
Zhang Qian was also a little uneasy, so she worked harder to help.
Tong Shuyao was planning to talk about this when he came back in the evening, but she didn't expect him to ask first.
Zhang Huihong looked unhappy. She used to earn more than 30 yuan a day, but after just one week, business suddenly dropped a lot.
There were more than ten yuan the day before yesterday, but yesterday there were only more than nine yuan, even less than ten yuan.
The sudden decrease in her income made her feel very disappointed, and she was even more worried about whether she would lose money in the future, but she didn't want to make her son worry.
“Business is much worse, but the business of grilled oysters and grilled scallops is still very good.”
At present, the method of making garlic sauce has not been researched by ordinary people, resulting in their garlic sauce having a very ordinary taste. Therefore, although the business is a little worse, it is not as greatly affected as the five-spice crab.
"Mom, I actually considered this situation before I opened the store. When I came here today, I saw a lot of stalls and shops selling spiced blue crabs. This will definitely affect your business, so we have to introduce new snacks."
"Damn it! Those people are so bad. They imitate us and steal our business." When Zhang Qing heard that many small shops and stalls selling spiced blue crabs had opened nearby, she immediately puffed up her face with anger.
"Brother, what should we do then?" Zhang Qian asked anxiously.
"Aze, you said you had considered this situation before, so do you have any solution?" After all, they are still husband and wife. When Tong Shuyao saw her man's confident look, she knew he must have made an arrangement.
Zhang Ze nodded: "Of course, we just need to launch new snacks. And it's normal for business to decline, but we are the first one after all. As long as other people's prices are not lower than ours and the taste is not better than ours, many old customers will still prefer to buy from us."
"As for the booming business at the beginning, it was because no one else had tasted this flavor before. It was a special situation."
"Brother, what new snacks are there?" Zhang Qing's eyes lit up when she heard there were new snacks.
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She looks forward to every new thing Zhang Ze comes up with because it always gives her a big surprise.
Zhang Ze was about to answer, but suddenly he thought of something, so he asked, "Mom, can I buy cooking oil without a ticket these days?"
Zhang's mother didn't know what the new snack had to do with this, but she answered the question anyway: "Yes, I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things recently, and I could buy a lot of things without a ticket, but the price would be higher."
"In that case, we can make an extra snack tonight." Upon hearing that cooking oil could be purchased without a ticket, Zhang Ze immediately felt that he could use another big move.
He took out some money and handed it to Zhang Qian: "Ah Qian, take Ah Qing to the market and buy some cauliflower, greens, dried tofu, rice cakes and various meats. Don't use too much."
Although Zhang Qian didn't quite understand why they had to buy so many things, she still nodded obediently and went out with her chattering sister.
"Mom, you and Shuyao stay at home. I'll buy some things too." After giving the order, Zhang Ze rode his bike out.
After riding around, he came back with a large bucket of cooking oil, a small beam scale, two small coal stoves and two pots.
On the way, he also took out a seven-pound emperor fish and put it into the bamboo basket on the back seat.
The shop now has two coal stoves, one for frying spiced crabs and the other for heating hot water.
After the spiced crab is cooked, just blanch it with hot water and brush it a few times to make it almost clean. It is very convenient.
When Zhang's mother saw him buy two more coal stoves and pots, she sighed, "If we had known that we would have to buy so many things to make a new snack, we wouldn't have made it. A few dollars a day is not a small amount, and now I've lost all the money I just earned."
Zhang Ze laughed: "Mom, it doesn't cost you money. I bought it for you, and these things are not as expensive as you said."
Zhang's mother glared at him and said, "Isn't your money money? It's not easy to make money at sea. Now Shuyao has a child. You are so extravagant. You should give the money to Shuyao and let her save it for you."
"I know, I know." Zhang Ze nodded perfunctorily, with a somewhat helpless look on his face.
Tong Shuyao watched with a smile and did not mention the fact that the man gave her a thousand yuan to save. In fact, she also felt that her man was spending money lavishly and really needed to change that.
Zhang Ze didn't want to argue with his family because of different ideas. His idea was that as long as I make money fast enough, I won't be able to keep up with him when I spend money.
At this time, some customers came to the shop one after another. Zhang's mother no longer had time to continue nagging her son and started to get busy.
Zhang Ze took out the seven-pound emperor fish from the bamboo basket and started to process it. He removed the meat from both sides of the fish and even used a spoon to scoop out the meat from the big bones.
Let Tong Shuyao light a fire with the new coal stove and pour some water into the pot.
Then he put the fish head and bones into the soup and added three slices of ginger.
Then he picked up the kitchen knife and started scraping the fish meat, turning it into a paste bit by bit.
If you don't have a wall breaker, you can use this method. Of course, if you find it troublesome, just use a stick!
It may be time-consuming and tiring, but the meatballs made from the scraped fish meat will be more fragrant.
That’s right, before he asked whether the cooking oil required a ticket, the snack he was talking about was fish balls.
As a fisherman, he has everything he needs, including sea fish. Instead of selling some fish cheaply at the fishery station, he would rather make fish balls and sell them himself.
Although many families here know how to make fish balls, no one is selling them at the moment.
Moreover, fish balls are difficult to make. Rich people are definitely too lazy to make them themselves and would rather buy ready-made ones.
Among the customers who are willing to come to the store to consume, some are from poor families, and the 50-cent serving of blue crabs is enough to discourage many of them.
Before going to Nanfang, Zhang Ze had no plans to turn the small shop into a clothing store, so he still had to run it well.
(End of this chapter)
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