Chapter 121 Steamed Buns Made from Buffalo Milk
The food poisoning incident at Lao Zheng's kindergarten made the news and caused quite a stir. With the declining birth rate, many families may only have one child, unlike in the past when families would have numerous children throughout their lives.
There are fewer children now, and they are more precious than before. Parents all want to provide the best for their children.
The tuition fees for high-end private kindergartens are not cheap, costing several thousand yuan a year. However, even under such conditions, children still suffer from food poisoning.
There is a saying that goes, when you find a cockroach in your home, there must be countless cockroaches behind it.
This time the children suffered from food poisoning, and it was not the only time. It was more serious and spread more widely.
The children are innocent, but they were implicated by shameless adults and are lying sickly on hospital beds. Their small bodies look as pitiful as they can be.
It’s no wonder that many netizens are outraged.
"People are so evil nowadays that they don't even pay attention to food safety in kindergartens. Is there any hope for us?"
"A relative of mine has a child in this kindergarten. It's said there were some problems before the incident. The child was always sick and had a weak spleen and stomach. When asked, they said it was contagious among children. I didn't expect it was a problem with the diet! Eating unhealthy food every day will ruin the child's health! Who would dare to send their child to kindergarten?"
"Some people shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Private kindergartens are all for profit. It's better to send your children to public kindergartens. Everyone around me goes to public schools and I haven't seen any problems!"
"You think public schools are necessarily better? Have you never read the news?"
Someone refuted the claim by using examples from their own lives, and soon netizens posted evidence.
"So how do we choose a kindergarten? We can't let our children not go to school, right?"
Yes, everyone is silent. What’s the point of them arguing on the Internet? It’s impossible for the children not to go to kindergarten.
Just like adults, aren't there enough food safety issues in society? From the melamine-tainted milk powder scandal to gutter oil and various pre-prepared meals, there's always a major food safety news story.
But has the situation improved?
Workers still eat unhealthy pre-prepared meals. Who knows if the kitchen is connected to the toilet? Who knows if the chef uses gutter oil?
Adults can only passively accept it helplessly. Perhaps this is how society is.
When the same thing happens to children, it is particularly difficult to accept. Where are the flowers of the motherland? What did the children do wrong? At the most ignorant age, they should go to study, but they eat a belly full of unhealthy food, which may affect their whole life.
There is always someone to be blamed, but who is responsible for these children?
This is an unsolvable problem. No matter how much people criticize us, life goes on as usual and nothing may change.
Netizens can only change themselves.
Try to choose a good kindergarten that has a back kitchen restaurant and allows parents to eat there regularly...
People go to great lengths to avoid eating unhealthy foods, even if they shouldn't be eating them in the first place.
How sad.
Social trust has been severely damaged once again. Lao Zheng has been raising cattle for many years, and this is the first time that people suspect that the milk produced by his buffaloes is unhealthy. Parents would rather their children eat less food outside and avoid risks.
Old Zheng had no choice but to sell off a batch of newly grown buffaloes for the future of the cattle farm. He gave the buffaloes to Xia Wu and asked him to think of a way to resolve the crisis.
After returning from Yanggou Village, Lao Zheng issued a "call to action". He called on parents to bring their children to visit the cattle farm, experience the fun of milking, understand the entire process of milk and milk powder production, and broaden their children's horizons.
Soon, Lao Zheng's call was responded to. The milk brand founded by his family had some reputation in the local area. After opening the dairy farm to visitors, Lao Zheng also found a team specializing in video shooting and invited families who were willing to be interviewed to film the visit process.
Soon, Lao Zheng's video spread locally.
It takes no more than 24 hours from the time his buffalo milk is produced to the time it reaches the people's tables. Even after being sterilized, the original nutrients of the buffalo milk are not destroyed, and it remains truly authentic.
Lao Zheng’s milk powder factory has an audience, but not many people know about it. It is only the choice of a small number of local people.
His buffalo milk powder is very expensive and in limited quantity, with a fixed number of people provided each year. They provide milk powder from the time a child is born until he or she is about three years old. Only when a child stops drinking it will the next child get the milk powder quota.
After such publicity, local people all knew that Lao Zheng's buffalo milk was not fake, and gradually more and more people ordered buffalo milk, even more than before.
The more this happens, the more cautious Lao Zheng becomes. At this critical juncture, he would rather have less business but maintain steady development.
Lao Zheng told Xia Wu about this on WeChat. No one cares more about reputation and word of mouth than those of them who do the "import" business.
In Lao Zheng's opinion, the reason why Xia Wu's mountain is so well-maintained is because she has worked hard to build up her reputation.
A lot of food safety issues broke out during the 315 incident. Everyone was worried during that period and fewer people ate takeout.
Two or three months have passed, and people are still eating takeout.
But there are also some people who are determined to say goodbye to unhealthy takeout and choose to cook their own food.
Some people saw Xia Wu's videos and bought vegetable packages from her. For about 300 yuan a month, they can buy enough fresh seasonal vegetables to last for a month. The vegetables are organic, not grown in greenhouses, and truly follow the season.
The customer base of the vegetable packages launched by Xia Wu has been very stable, with growth every day, but the growth curve is also relatively stable.
Who would have thought that after a period of time, food safety issues would reappear, and it was a food safety issue for young children.
Seeing their young children lying helplessly on the hospital beds, many parents made up their minds to spend more money and work harder to give their children healthy meals.
As a result, Xia Wu’s vegetable package orders surged again.
For the first three days after buying the buffaloes, Xia Wu spent almost all his time in the cowshed, taking care of each cow personally according to the feeding methods he learned on the Internet. At the beginning, the milk production of the buffaloes was not high, so Xia Wu fed them grass and often added some spiritual spring water to the water they drank.
She only fed them for a few days. Once the buffaloes had adapted to life after moving, she stopped feeding them spiritual spring water. These big guys quickly accepted the new environment.
Not only do they eat grass, but sometimes they also collect some leaves with worm holes picked from the vegetable packages and feed them to the buffaloes, who accept everything.
A week after they were bought, the twenty-eight buffaloes produced nearly three hundred kilograms of milk every day. In addition to the milk that the company employees drank and the milk that they took home for their families to drink, the rest was used by Xia Wu to make buffalo milk buns.
Wang Yuexia had a new task. After making breakfast every day, she would use buffalo milk and several large bowls of noodles. When the noodles were softened in the afternoon, she would start making steamed buns.
At first, Xia Wu asked her to make steamed buns just for the village employees to eat, but later she made too many steamed buns and they couldn't finish them at all.
At this time, Xia Wu thought of his fans.
Whenever there is a new product, she always thinks of her fans in time.
Xia Wu quietly asked, "Anyone wants to eat steamed buns made with buffalo milk? Not a drop of water added, they're made purely from buffalo milk. They're a little pricey, three yuan each. Anyone interested can vote. I'll count the number of people and decide whether to put them on the shelves."
Luo Yiwang's family was in the group. When he saw the vote in the group, the votes were overwhelmingly in favor of buying steamed buns.
As soon as he saw that it was buffalo milk buns, Luo Yiwang thought of the time when he took his wife and son to Yanggou Village for a trip and was invited to drink buffalo milk. It tasted really good.
After returning, he replaced all the milk in his home with buffalo milk, but he always felt that it was not as delicious as the buffalo milk produced in Yanggou Village.
Thinking of this, Luo Yiwang quickly asked, "Are these steamed buns made from the buffalo milk produced by the buffaloes raised in the village?"
Xia Wu had no impression of Luo Yiwang anymore, so she replied honestly, "Yes, I bought dozens of buffaloes not long ago. They produce a lot of milk, but I can't consume it all, so I thought of making steamed buns."
“Then I want to buy it!”
Luo Yiwang quickly voted, "When will it be available? I want to buy more!"
Coincidentally, Luo Yiwang and Lao Zheng are from the same city, so the food safety issue that broke out in the kindergarten naturally affected them as well. He and his wife have only one son, who they raised to be fat and white, and they cannot let him be harmed by unhealthy things from outside.
The good thing about being a fan of Xia Wu is that everything from vegetables to fruits is healthy. My family usually buys their fruits and vegetables from Xia Wu, and now they have steamed buns, and I wonder if they will add rice to their shelves in the future.
Xia Wu did not put the steamed buns on Kuaishou because he was afraid that netizens would be too enthusiastic and the supply would not be timely. It was also a special supply within the group. However, Xia Wu now has nine fan groups, one with a thousand people, and the other groups have five hundred people each, which adds up to a total of five thousand fans.
These fans are very loyal and they will definitely buy any new products whenever they are launched.
After confirming that there were sales, Xia Wu began to make steamed buns intensively. Now that the weather was getting hotter, the finished steamed buns had to be vacuum-packed and sent through a cold chain to prevent them from spoiling. The shipping costs were a considerable expense, so in order not to lose money, Xia Wu priced the steamed buns at three yuan each. The buns were not particularly big, but if Xia Wu wanted to feel full, he had to eat at least three.
There is no way. The price of buffalo milk is here. It is too cheap and there is no profit.
The price was there, and Xia Wu didn't want to post the link on Kuaishou to avoid causing controversy. As usual, she sent a video of the buffaloes' life in the cowshed to the group, as well as the health certificates of the employees who made steamed buns, and the complete equipment they had for making steamed buns.
This way, fans can feel more at ease.
The employees did not make the steamed buns outdoors. Xia Wu used the room on the first floor of the courtyard with the well as an enclosed space to prevent dirt from getting in.
On the first day, a dozen employees worked for four or five hours and made more than 3,000 steamed buns, an average of more than 600 steamed buns per hour. As soon as the link was posted on the WeChat store, the steamed buns were snatched away.
I made a little over 10,000 yuan from more than 3,000 steamed buns. After deducting the hidden costs such as flour, yeast powder, buffalo milk, packaging, delivery and labor costs, it was a small profit.
The three-yuan steamed buns were not without criticism, but when fans saw that they were indeed made with buffalo milk, and that only milk was added when kneading the dough without water, and that the people making the steamed buns were fully equipped and very particular, and that they were all handmade, considering all these, they couldn't bear the three-yuan price anymore.
It’s okay to buy them occasionally to try, but if you really treat buffalo milk buns as your daily staple food, the cost will be too high.
Luo Yiwang is not the kind of person who cares about money. When he took his wife and children to Yanggou Village for a trip, he drove a Land Rover worth more than one million yuan. A steamed bun that cost three yuan was nothing to him at all.
So he just bought a hundred steamed buns.
Three hundred yuan is not his limit, and Xia Wu has set a purchase limit. Any more will exceed the express delivery fee.
Chengfeng Express is very fast. No more than 48 hours after placing the order, Luo Yiwang received the news that the courier had arrived at his door. He signed for the package in front of the courier and opened the large foam box. There were ice packs inside. Three steamed buns were packed in a vacuum bag. One hundred steamed buns were barely packed in the foam box after being vacuum squeezed and packed.
Luo Yiwang quickly opened two packages to confirm that the steamed buns were not spoiled.
As soon as he opened the vacuum bag, the squeezed buns seemed to breathe and slowly expanded. When he smelled it closely, he could smell a milky aroma. Luo Yiwang was greedy. His son had a Taekwondo class today, and his wife hadn't come back yet. Why not try it first?
He opened a bag and put three steamed buns in the steamer. There were only three steamed buns in the big steamer, which seemed a little insufficient. Luo Yiwang thought about it and opened another bag, which contained six steamed buns. This time it looked much better.
While heating the steamed buns, Luo Yiwang opened the food delivery app, planning to order some side dishes to go with the buns.
A few minutes later, just as he ordered the takeout, he smelled waves of rich milky aroma coming from the steamer, and the whole kitchen was filled with this smell.
Luo Yiwang began to drool. It seemed that the steamed buns would be ready before the takeaway was delivered. He took out the jam he bought from Xia Wu from the refrigerator. Buffalo milk buns would be fine with jam!
The lid of the pot was crackling with the steam. Luo Yiwang, who had been standing by, quickly turned off the fire, opened the lid, and poked the steamed bun with chopsticks. It was easily penetrated. He quickly put the steamed bun on the plate and took a bite without waiting for it to be taken out and sat down.
"Hiss! It's so hot! So hot!" Luo Yiwang was scalded, but he was reluctant to spit out the steamed bun he had bitten off. He kept it in his mouth until he could bite it, chewing it in big mouthfuls.
The buffalo milk steamed buns are slightly sweet, not the kind of sweetness that comes from adding sugar, but the natural light sweetness of the grains. The aroma of wheat is drowned out by the buffalo milk, and the mixture of milk and flour makes the buns taste a bit like bread, but chewier than bread. They are not overly sweet and make people feel sick. When you eat them, you will only feel the satisfaction of being filled.
He took out one bite after another and put the jam aside. Luo Yiwang didn't even think of unscrewing the lid.
He was completely immersed in the buffalo milk buns and couldn't help himself. Before he knew it, he had finished all six buns.
Luo Yiwang: "..."
He felt his stomach and seemed a little full, smacking his lips as if he could still eat more.
Just as he was hesitating whether to heat up a few more steamed buns, the door rang. As soon as Luo Baosen entered the room, he shouted, "Dad! What are you eating? It smells so good! I want some too!"
Luo Yiwang immediately stood up: "Okay!"
You have to heat up a few more, otherwise there will definitely not be enough to eat!
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