Chapter 109: Too Embarrassing (10th update if the monthly ticket reaches 15)
Ye said, "If you want to eat it, I will go to Zhuang Yonghe's shop early tomorrow morning to buy a piece. I will steam some rice and fry some tofu for lunch tomorrow."
"Okay." Zhuang Jingye nodded, but then curled his lips and said, "Since tofu business is booming, just grind a little more. Why are you being so stingy, as if tofu is some rare thing."
"Don't disbelieve me, it's just very rare." Ye said, "You probably don't know, but every morning someone comes to Ning's tofu shop to take away more than 200 kilograms of tofu. I heard that the people are from the county town, delivering it to the county town's restaurants. Ning has to sell it in town, plus Zhuang Yonghe sells it, it's not good when you add it up, but there are so many tofu shops, and with just those two tofu pots, they really can't grind out much."
"So, even if you put money into someone's pocket, they may not accept it. Isn't it very precious? I also heard that Ning's tofu shop is too busy and has hired two people to grind tofu. At this rate, I guess two people are not enough. We should hire a few more."
Is there such a thing? Zhuang Jingye's eyes widened.
The village was peaceful these days, and he was lazy and didn't go around the village much. He just took a look at the fields every day. He never thought that Zhuang Qingning's tofu shop would grow to this level.
"So I say, get along better with Ning girl in the future. Her tofu shop is doing well, and she can collect a lot of beans from the village. In the future, she will hire more people to work in the village, and the taxes she will pay will be more. In the long run, won't you, the head of the village, benefit from it?"
Ye said earnestly.
Yes, why didn’t he think of this?
Aren’t these all his achievements as the village head from now on?
Moreover, other people who have some skills and can work and do business all go out, either to the town or the county seat. Even if they become rich, they are just fellow villagers at most. But Zhuang Qingning is different. She actually opened a tofu shop in the village. If the tofu shop does well in the future, the whole village will benefit.
For a person like Zhuang Qingning, we need to be nicer to her and help her whenever we can!
Even though she's a girl...
Well, she's in charge of the man's business, so just treat her like a man.
Having made up his mind, Zhuang Jingye couldn't help but glance at Ye.
His wife has finally grown longer and gained more experience.
After all, because she has been with him, the head of the village, for a long time, the women in the inner house have become more open-minded.
So, for a woman, it still depends on who she marries. ——In the evening, the salted duck eggs were unpacked.
Carefully wash off the yellow mud on the outside and steam it in a steamer.
A few were sent to Mrs. Wen and Zhuang Yonghe's family. Two were eaten that night, and the rest were taken to the town the next day.
The Communist Party had more than twenty salted duck eggs left, and they gave a dozen to Zhang Yongchang. The remaining ten or so were placed on the tofu stall.
It is still the same as before, and it is not called a sale. It is just placed there. If someone sees it, they can buy it if they want to. If they don’t want to buy it, they will definitely not be forced.
This is already a very "low-key" way of selling salted duck eggs, and in the end, all the salted duck eggs were sold out within a quarter of an hour.
There were even people who heard the news and came only to find out that the tickets were sold out and had to come back the next day. They had no choice but to return home disappointed, and in their hearts they decided to come earlier the next day.
After all, it was the salted duck egg that almost caused Zhang Yongchang and others to fight in the street. No matter what, he had to taste it to see what it tasted like.
"Grandma, are these salted duck eggs really that delicious?" Zhang Qiuying was stunned and asked Liu secretly when she had time.
She has also eaten salted duck eggs, which are indeed delicious, salty and fragrant, with a crunchy egg yolk. Some are even oily and go well with rice.
But duck eggs are just duck eggs. If compared with meat or something, there is no comparison. They are definitely not as delicious as meat.
But seeing how enthusiastically these people were buying salted duck eggs, and they didn't seem to care much about the butcher shop next door, Zhang Qiuying felt very strange and became very curious about the salted duck eggs.
"This..." Liu didn't know how to answer.
She hasn't tasted it either.
"Anyway, when your sister Ning brought salted duck eggs here to sell the day before, the chef of Fushunlou got into a fight with someone else because he wanted to grab the salted duck eggs..."
If we count based on seniority, Zhuang Qingning calls Liu "Auntie", and Zhang Qiuying, as Liu's granddaughter, should call Zhuang Qingning "Auntie", but the age difference is not that big, so in the end they simply changed the names, let Zhang Qiuying call Zhuang Qingning "Sister" and Zhuang Qingning call Liu "Auntie", and the relationship was straightened out.
"Ah?" Zhang Qiuying widened her eyes again.
If a chef in a restaurant could fight with others over salted duck eggs, it was enough to show that salted duck eggs were really delicious! "I had always said that I would give these salted duck eggs to you, Aunt Liu, to try, but Uncle Zhang made such a scene the day before, so I didn't take care of anything. Last night, I opened the first jar of newly salted duck eggs, and I didn't think about you setting up a stall today. You came after the duck eggs were sold out, so I didn't leave some for you on purpose."
Zhuang Qingning said, "I'll leave a few for you tomorrow. Auntie, you and Qiuying can also taste the salted duck eggs I pickled."
"No, no, no, thanks." Zhang Qiuying waved her hands hurriedly, her face turning redder.
Just now she was really just curious about how delicious the salted duck eggs were, which was why so many people asked about them when there were no salted duck eggs at Zhuang Qingning's stall. Now that Zhuang Qingning suddenly offered to give them salted duck eggs to try, it seemed as if she was deliberately asking Zhuang Qingning for salted duck eggs.
Zhang Qiuying felt that this was really embarrassing.
"It's okay. I really wanted to let you have a taste of it."
Zhuang Qingning felt that Zhang Qiuying was a very good girl, hardworking and honest.
"If it hadn't been pickled for a few days, I would have brought it with me when I went to visit my aunt. Let's not be so polite to each other. It's a bit strange. What do you think, aunt?"
When he first started the stall, business wouldn't have been so smooth if it hadn't been for Liu's care. Zhuang Qingning was very grateful.
"That's what happened." Liu laughed and patted the back of her granddaughter's hand, telling her not to take it too seriously: "We are all honest people, there is no need to go around in circles. Your sister Ning is not the kind of person who would care too much."
Zhang Qiuying finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard her grandmother say this.
This was her first day coming to town with her grandmother to help sell donkey rolls. It would be bad if such a big mistake happened right at the start.
Fortunately, it seemed that there was no serious problem. Zhang Qiuying calmed herself down and continued to sell donkey rolls.
The tofu was sold out quickly. Thinking that only half of Liu's donkey rolls were sold and that they hadn't seen Liu for a while, Zhuang Qingning and Zhuang Qingsui missed her very much, so they stayed here for a while and talked.
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