Chapter 24 Preparation
In her past life, Ye Ran had heard Hou Zhiqiang's wife, Ji Yin, say something like that.
On July 31, 1977, Hou Zhiqiang's elderly mother fell in front of her house. Because of Hou Zhiqiang's business, their house was built in a particularly remote location, but it also happened to be located directly opposite the entrance to the black market.
Because the house was extremely remote, with no neighbors or passersby nearby, and the son and daughter-in-law were out doing errands, no one noticed that Old Lady Hou had fallen at the door.
When Hou Zhiqiang and the others returned, the old man was already unconscious. Even after being taken to the hospital, it was too late, and he soon passed away.
This was a huge blow to the couple, and Hou Zhiqiang carried a deep sense of guilt towards his mother for many years.
Why does Ye Ran remember it so clearly? Because in order to remember his mother, Hou Zhiqiang gave his children the nicknames Sanqi and Sanyi, just to remember July 31, 1977.
Although it sounds a bit funny, it contains Hou Zhiqiang's deep guilt and longing for his mother.
Perfect timing! Tomorrow is July 31st, which is the perfect opportunity for her to go to the county town and save Aunt Hou's life. That would be the best thing ever, and she could also get in touch with Hou Zhiqiang and help her out of her current predicament.
However, now that she has a target informant, what kind of business does she run?
The first thing Ye Ran remembered was the thing she did most in her previous life: cooking. In her previous life, she relied on her pastry-making skills to gain a foothold in Haicheng.
Later, it developed into a chain store, and the pastry gift boxes from the store are often used as congratulatory gifts.
People from Haicheng value food culture the most, so her skills have won over so many people in Haicheng, and naturally they would be just as good in a small county like Baxian.
So she decided to pick up her old trade and make pastries to sell, which are easy to preserve and have a good market. Good things are scarce in Ba County nowadays.
The only decent things they had were peach shortbread from the supply and marketing cooperative. Even though ordinary people couldn't afford them, there were plenty of wealthy people in Ba County.
These people don't usually eat much good snacks, so they probably wouldn't hesitate to buy some to try. This is the sales group Ye Ran is targeting.
Ye Ran stood up, closed the notebook and locked it in the drawer. She went to the kitchen, calculating the family's food reserves. There wasn't much rice left; they had more cornmeal, mixed flour, sweet potatoes, and taro, which were the most common foods people ate these days.
But these are definitely not suitable for making desserts. She searched again and remembered that her mother should have stored some glutinous rice there.
Sure enough, Ye Ran found a tightly packed bag of glutinous rice in the corner of the kitchen cabinet, along with some red beans and mung beans. To her delight, she even found some glutinous rice that had already been ground into powder, which made things even easier, as she no longer needed to grind the rice herself.
Looking at the mountain of sweet potatoes and taro in front of her, Ye Ran decided to try making some taro cakes and sweet potato cakes first.
First, peel the taro and sweet potato and steam them in a steamer until cooked. Then, mash them separately into a paste.
Then add a small amount of mixed flour and glutinous rice flour to the taro paste. Here's the key point: you must add a little oil, sugar, milk powder, and a pinch of salt. Because Ye Ran hasn't been feeling well lately, Bai Yue asked someone to bring her a jar of it.
That's why Ye Ran wasn't short of money. She didn't hesitate to put in two large spoonfuls of milk powder, then mixed all the ingredients evenly, and finally threw in the yeast and added an appropriate amount of water to knead it together. You have to be careful with the pressure when kneading.
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