The eating habits in the north and south are different. The workers are rough and don't pay so much attention to details, but the noodles are the same.
Xie Yunshu pursed her lips, stood up and walked out. Li Fenlan hurriedly called her from behind: "You haven't finished your meal yet, what are you doing?"
"Mom, go to the third floor to study with Aunt Zhao!"
Before he could finish his sentence, he had already gone upstairs.
Li Fenlan looked at Xie Mingcheng in confusion: "Study? What is your sister studying?"
Xie Mingcheng also looked bewildered: "I know!"
Northerners love to eat steamed buns, especially male laborers. Eating steamed buns gives them energy to work! Aunt Zhao came from the north. She likes to steam big steamed buns at home. Xie Yunshu ate them several times when she was a child. The soft steamed buns are fragrant and sweet, and they are delicious.
She figured it out. The dishes can be the same, but the staple food must be prepared in two ways! Both rice and steamed buns are needed!
The next day, Xie Yunshu got up before dawn.
She skillfully chopped cabbage and pork, soaked vermicelli, heated up the pan with oil, and added onions, ginger, and garlic. The aroma floated out through the small window of the balcony...
Lin Cuiping on the second floor turned over and was awakened by the smell. She covered her head with the quilt in a bad mood and said, "Xie Yunshu is really a psychopath. He is asking for trouble. Why does he live in a spacious family compound and come here?"
She lived in a bunk bed with her younger brother and sister sleeping downstairs. The smell was so good that both children woke up.
"Sister, I heard Sister Yunshu say yesterday that she wanted to divorce that doctor!" Fourteen-year-old Lin Cuixiang whispered, a little confused: "Are you saying that Sister Yunshu will definitely hold on to that doctor? How could she bear to divorce?"
Hearing this, Lin Cuiping immediately perked up: "She said she wants a divorce?"
"Well, the day before yesterday, she heard her talking to Aunt Xie downstairs, and she even cried!" The upstairs and downstairs were well soundproofed, so any noise from anyone's house could be heard. Lin Cuixiang recalled what she heard that day, nodded and said affirmatively: "She also said that she would buy a big house for Aunt Xie to live in after she returned!"
Lin Cuiping curled her lips: "She's just bragging! With this broken lunch box, she can buy a house in her next life!"
A house costs tens of thousands, how many lunch boxes does she have to sell? I didn't expect Xie Yunshu to be such a whimperer. No wonder Dr. Lu wanted her!
After sniffing hard, Lin Cuiping turned over and closed her eyes again. This dish smelled really good...
Oh, that damn girl Xie Yunshu will definitely sell out the food, and then come back in disgrace. She will definitely have to share the remaining food with them!
The food in the canteen of the packaging factory is not good, but you need a meal ticket to eat. Although it is cheap, the taste is really average. Thinking of this, Lin Cuiping touched her stomach and decided to eat something at noon today. She would wait for Xie Yunshu to cry and deliver food door to door in the evening!
Li Fenlan downstairs also got up. She was cutting tofu and frying it piece by piece in oil, waiting to put it in the pan to braise.
Xie Yunshu cut the meat into large chunks, stir-fried it with soy sauce, and served it on a large plate. He looked at the small stove and worried: "I have to buy another stove tomorrow, and I have to steam rice and steam buns. This is too slow!"
Li Fenlan was a little worried when hearing about steamed buns: "You learned how to steam buns with such little effort yesterday?"
"No." Xie Yunshu shook his head honestly, and when Li Fenlan got worried, he laughed: "I have already made an agreement with Aunt Zhao that she will come to help you in the morning, and I will pay her a salary!"
Aunt Zhao originally came back with Uncle Zhao who had gone to the countryside as an educated youth. She didn't have a formal job. Like Li Fenlan, she usually just looked after the children, helped with the laundry and did some needlework.
"Pay wages?" Li Fenlan was shocked by her daughter's idea. She widened her eyes and said, "Yunshu, we haven't earned a penny yet, why are you paying people wages?"
This, this is selling lunch boxes and hiring people...
Xie Yunshu blinked at her innocently: "Steaming buns is so difficult, you can learn it in a short time."
You have to knead the dough, master the ratio of water to flour, and let the flour ferment. Xie Yunshu was confused yesterday. This is much more troublesome than steaming rice! She originally wanted to let Aunt Zhao steam the steamed buns at home and buy hers herself.
But the price was difficult to determine, and Aunt Zhao didn't have that much flour at home, so Xie Yunshu simply offered to use her own flour, asked Aunt Zhao to come to her house to help, and paid her one dollar a morning.
Aunt Zhao insisted on getting the money. She had nothing to do at home anyway, and she asked for money for helping to steam buns. If she told others about it, the old neighbors would laugh at her to death! Not to mention that Xie Yunshu gave her one dollar at once. A worker only earned one or two dollars a day. She didn't have the nerve to ask for money!
Finally, after much persuasion, Xie Yunshu almost cried in her house, Aunt Zhao finally gave in: "It's only fifty cents, and it's not just steaming buns, just let me do whatever work you want."
She has a typical northern woman's character, she does things in a quick and decisive manner and with complete sincerity. I have absolutely no intention of shirking my responsibility by saying this.
Xie Yunshu responded cheerfully: "Aunt Zhao, your steamed buns must be selling really well!"
Aunt Zhao sighed and shook her head. Even though it was only fifty cents, it was almost as much as her husband's half a month's salary. This silly girl was really running her business like this. Did she really make any money from it?
It is said that there is no dishonesty in business, and that every penny counts when doing business. It is difficult for her to take care of Yun Shu!
Xie Yunshu really didn't calculate so carefully. Those who worked in the factory were all poor people. The money they earned was hard-earned money. Half of the profit was from selling food. She rode a tricycle to the factory to sell food, but only calculated 30% of the profit.
A total of thirty people were prepared, with five pieces of pork, twenty pieces of cabbage, and two pieces of vermicelli stewed together with lard. In case some people didn't like spicy food, an enamel pot of chili oil was specially fried and placed separately. The other pot was braised tofu, with the fried pork stewed in it until the tofu was soft. It didn't look good but was definitely delicious.
About twenty steamed buns were cooked and the rice was placed in a tin basin, all placed on the tricycle, which looked quite spectacular.
The weather was cold, and Xie Yunshu was afraid that the food would get cold early, so he bought two small stoves and placed them under the two large pots of food, warming them with a low fire. The steamed buns were placed in an insulated box, and the rice was covered with a thick cotton blanket, so that the workers could eat hot meals when they came.
"Yunshu, do you want your mother to go with you?" Li Fenlan was still relieved: "Can you go by yourself?"
Xie Yunshu smiled brightly at her: "Don't worry, this is not a technical job! You can do it yourself!"
Li Fenlan put the hat on her and reminded her: "It doesn't matter if you finish selling. Come back home after noon!"
"After we finish selling, we'll come back and eat by ourselves!" It was her first time doing business, and Xie Yunshu didn't think about the outcome. No matter good or bad, she finally took the first step!
Around half past ten in the afternoon, she put on a thick maroon coat and wrapped herself in a red scarf, leaving only her eyes exposed, and rode her tricycle towards her workplace in the south of Haicheng, facing the sun.
It's like running towards the new life that I was supposed to have...
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