Chapter 11
Selling tea eggs could increase her income, and Chen Kangle seriously considered Yang Zhentian's suggestion, but her electric car was already overloaded.
Today she brought fifty-five lunch boxes, and the space in front of the electric bike was already full, with no extra space for the tea eggs.
In the afternoon, she managed to put in five more lunch boxes, as sixty was already the limit for this small electric car.
The reputation of the lunch boxes had spread throughout the construction site, and sixty lunch boxes were sold out in less than twenty minutes in the afternoon.
As soon as they got off work in the afternoon, Liu Jiayi and Yuan Yuyue, who had not bought lunch boxes at noon, rushed to the construction site. As soon as they arrived at the construction site, they saw many people gathered in front of the lunch box stall.
"Jiayi, get out of the car quickly." Yuan Yuyue moved quickly, fearing that the lunch boxes would be snatched away if she was slow.
The two squeezed to the front, "Boss, we want two box lunches."
After getting the lunch box, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily we bought it."
Liu Jiayi glanced at the incubator, which only had a few boxed lunches left. "Luckily we were quick. If we were slower, we might not be able to buy them. The boss's boxed lunches are selling better and better. I think we should come earlier tomorrow."
Yuan Yuyue: "The boss's lunch boxes are so delicious, it's normal for the business to be booming, and it may become even more popular. I'm starting to worry that we won't be able to get lunch boxes in the future."
"Now that you mention it, I'm scared too. The construction site is close to the water and the workers are the first to get the lunch. You can buy lunch boxes when you walk out the door after work. Our community is quite far away from the construction site. By the time we get there, the lunch boxes may have been snatched up by the workers." Liu Jiayi started to panic when she thought that she might not be able to get lunch boxes in the future.
She quickly walked over to Chen Kangle and said, "Boss, you see that business is so good now, bring more lunch boxes next time. Your lunch boxes are so delicious, no matter how many you bring, they will all be sold out."
Liu Jiayi thought that if the boss brought more lunch boxes, they wouldn't have to worry about not being able to get them.
Chen Kangle has been thinking about this problem today. The sales of boxed lunches are very good now. If there are more boxed lunches, they can definitely be sold out. However, his electric car simply cannot carry so many boxed lunches.
After returning home, the first thing Chen Kangle did was to count the accounts. Today was the fourth day of selling lunch boxes. He sold 29 on the first day, 70 on the second day, and only 38 on the third day because of the rain. He sold 115 on the fourth day, and a total of 252 in four days, with a total turnover of 3,528 yuan. After deducting the cost, he made more than 1,000 yuan, nearly 2,000 yuan.
There are still 16 days left before the repayment date. If I sell 60 copies at noon and 60 copies in the afternoon every day, I can definitely make 10,000 yuan.
But setting up a stall depends mainly on the weather. If it rains, you can't set up a stall. The weather in Hai City is unpredictable. Sometimes it rains for a week, and sometimes it rains for half a month. If you are unlucky enough to encounter such weather, it will affect the progress of making money.
Just in case, Chen Kangle wanted to earn ten thousand yuan as soon as possible.
If you want to make more money, you have to sell more boxed lunches. Based on the current popularity of boxed lunches, Chen Kangle feels that he can sell out 70 boxes at a time. In a few days, he may be able to sell out 100 boxes at a time.
The problem now is that her electric bike simply can’t carry so many lunch boxes, and she doesn’t have extra money to buy an electric tricycle.
After thinking about it, Chen Kangle thought of Yang Chunxia's van. Yang Chunxia opened a small convenience store at home, and the van was used to purchase goods, and it was usually idle.
Chen Kangle went to discuss with Yang Chunxia that she wanted to rent Yang Chunxia's van for about 40 minutes at noon and about 40 minutes in the afternoon.
The van was just parked there anyway, and it only took a few minutes to drive from Chen Kangle's home to the construction site, so it wouldn't consume much fuel. Yang Chunxia didn't want to take Chen Kangle's money and planned to lend it to Chen Kangle directly.
But Chen Kangle disagreed and insisted on giving money. Yang Chunxia knew Chen Kangle's character, so she had to accept some money from Chen Kangle.
With the van, Chen Kangle plans to bring 70 lunch boxes to the construction site tomorrow at noon, and also bring some tea eggs.
There were still some spices and tea leaves left for making tea eggs the day before yesterday, so Chen Kangle called Lu Dandan directly and ordered 100 eggs.
She plans to bring 40 tea eggs tomorrow at noon, and if sales are good, she will increase the quantity in the afternoon.
The next morning, Chen Kangle got up at six o'clock to make tea eggs. The choice of tea leaves is the most critical. Green tea is too tender and its fragrance is easy to dissipate, so it is not suitable for making tea eggs. Pu'er tea has a strong fragrance, and the tea eggs cooked are too strong, which will cover the taste of the eggs themselves.
Chen Kangle uses black tea, which is rich and mellow, dark in color, and can be boiled easily. It has a long-lasting aroma and no bitterness. The tea eggs boiled in it are fragrant and bright in color.
There is no need to add too many spices when cooking tea eggs, to avoid the aroma of the stew completely covering up the aroma of tea and eggs. The spices used by Chen Kangle are fennel, dried chili peppers, bay leaves, star anise, cinnamon, and peppercorns.
Most people cook tea eggs by boiling the eggs first, then cracking them, and then putting the cracked eggs into the marinade and cooking them for more than ten minutes. After turning off the heat, they should be soaked for more than 8 hours to allow the eggs to fully absorb the aroma of the marinade.
Chen Kangle's method of cooking tea eggs is a little different. She first cooks the brine, then puts the raw eggs into the brine and simmers them on low heat. When the eggs are five-tenths cooked, she cracks the eggs while cooking. The force of the cracking should not be too strong. First, crack gently, and then increase the force of the cracking when the eggs are eight-tenths cooked. This will make the eggs more flavorful.
Turn off the heat when the eggs are fully cooked and they can be eaten after soaking for only 4 hours.
The brine seeps into the eggs through the cracks, and you can see the mysterious patterns when you peel them.
While soaking the tea eggs, Chen Kangle went to the market to buy ingredients. As the number of lunch boxes increased, he bought more and more ingredients.
"Boss, I want six pounds of pig's trotters and seven pounds of lean meat." Chen Kangle always buys pork from the same boss. This boss sells black pork, which has better quality than other pork.
"Girl, it seems your business is good!" The pork shop owner remembered that Chen Kangle only bought two kilograms of pig's trotters and two kilograms of lean meat the day before yesterday, but today he bought so many kilograms at once, which shows that business has improved a lot.
"Not bad." Chen Kangle said with a smile.
As he was talking, Chen Kangle suddenly thought of a question and asked the pork boss directly: "Boss, can you deliver the goods to my door?"
Now the lunch box business is getting better and better, and more and more lunch boxes need to be made every day. In the future, Chen Kangle may not have time to go to the vegetable market every day to purchase ingredients. If it can be delivered to the door, it can save a lot of time and energy.
The pork shop owner thought about it and said, "Sure, add me on WeChat and tell me in advance how much pork you need and I'll send someone to deliver it to you."
The pork shop owner knew that Chen Kangle was in Yaocheng Village. If someone bought more than ten kilograms of meat and asked him to deliver it to such a far place, he would definitely not be willing to do so.
But Chen Kangle increased his meat output from two or three pounds to more than ten pounds in just two or three days. The pork boss felt that Chen Kangle had great potential, so he wanted to hold on to this customer, who might become his biggest customer in the future.
The pork seller was no fool. He had already thought about it. He would try to deliver pork to Chen Kangle's home for a week. If her purchases increased, he would continue to deliver pork to her. If not, he would stop delivering pork to her home.
After buying the pig's trotters and lean meat, he went to buy vegetables. Chen Kangle also discussed the door-to-door delivery with the vegetable stall owner, and the vegetable stall owner agreed.
From now on, she won’t have to go to the vegetable market every day. After getting the food, Chen Kangle can ride home with ease.
Chicken stewed with potatoes, cola duck, scrambled eggs with leeks, steamed egg custard, stir-fried pork with pickled bamboo shoots, braised pork trotters, cold-mixed black fungus, braised eggplant, and water spinach with garlic.
After preparing all the dishes, Chen Kangle started packing lunch boxes.
When selling lunch boxes yesterday afternoon, a customer told Chen Kangle that his favorite dishes were stewed chicken with potatoes and mixed black fungus, and that it would be great if a lunch box included stewed chicken with potatoes and mixed black fungus.
Currently, Chen Kangle only sells three kinds of lunch box combinations: stewed chicken with potatoes + steamed egg custard + water spinach with garlic, cola duck + scrambled eggs with leeks + braised eggplant, and braised pork trotters + stir-fried meat with sour bamboo shoots + cold-mixed black fungus.
Chen Kangle decided to make the lunch box combinations more diverse. In addition to the original three combinations, he added three more combinations: stewed chicken with potatoes + stir-fried meat with sour bamboo shoots + cold-mixed black fungus, cola duck + steamed egg custard + water spinach with garlic, and braised pork trotters + scrambled eggs with leeks + braised eggplant.
After packing seventy lunch boxes, Chen Kangle moved them to the trunk of the van, and then moved the rice cooker containing tea eggs up there.
It feels great to have a car. Chen Kangle drove the van smoothly to the construction site.
He got out of the car, opened the trunk, then took out the small blackboard he had prepared and placed it next to the van. On the small blackboard were written six different combinations of lunch boxes and tea eggs, with the tea eggs priced at 2 yuan each.
Everything is ready and the workers at the construction site are starting to go off work.
Some old customers came over to Chen Kangle as soon as they left the construction site. Seeing the van behind Chen Kangle, they jokingly said, "Oh, our boss Chen has made a lot of money. His electric car has become a van."
"Boss Chen, did you buy this van? It looks pretty good."
After selling lunch boxes at the construction site for a few days, Chen Kangle became more and more calm in front of these workers. "No, I borrowed the van from others. Please help me promote it. When I really make a lot of money, I will buy one myself."
"Boss, don't worry. The lunch boxes you make are so delicious. It's only a matter of time before you make a lot of money."
During the conversation, some workers noticed the words on the blackboard. "Hey, there is a new combination in the lunch box today. It's great. I like braised pork trotters and braised eggplant in the same lunch box. Boss, I want one of them."
The new lunch box combination was very popular and many workers bought it.
After buying the lunch box, the worker noticed the words "tea eggs" on the blackboard, "Boss, we have tea eggs today. Where are the tea eggs?"
"Yes, we have tea eggs today." As he said that, Chen Kangle quickly opened the lid of the rice cooker, and a rich tea aroma rushed out.
The workers were instantly attracted by the aroma of tea.
"What a nice smell! I think this tea egg will be delicious. Boss, give me a tea egg."
"I believe in Mr. Chen's cooking skills. As long as it's made by Mr. Chen, it must be delicious. I want a tea egg, too."
Many customers who bought lunch boxes also bought tea eggs, and twenty tea eggs were sold in less than a short while.
In addition to these old customers, some passers-by who did not plan to buy lunch boxes were also attracted by the aroma of tea eggs and gathered in front of the lunch box stall to watch.
"Boss, how much is this tea egg? Give me one."
"Boss, based on my many years of experience eating tea eggs, I can tell your tea eggs are delicious just by smelling them. Give me one to try."
The passersby originally planned to buy only tea eggs, but after hearing the old customers constantly praising the lunch boxes, some of them couldn't help but buy lunch boxes as well.
Lou Dongli goes to the construction site gate to buy lunch boxes as soon as he gets off work every day. He seldom eats out because the lunch boxes outside taste so-so. It is better for him to buy them in the construction site canteen, which is cheaper and more convenient.
Lou Dongli walked out of the construction site humming a little tune with a lunch box in his hand. As soon as he walked out of the construction site, he saw that the lunch box stall was crowded with people.
He has seen this lunch box stall every time he goes out in recent days, but he has no interest in it at all. In his opinion, the lunch boxes at the stall outside may taste similar to those in the construction site canteen.
Lou Dongli passed by and took a look. When he was about to move forward, the overbearing scent of tea made him stop.
"What a nice smell! It smells like tea eggs!"
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