Chapter 58 Chapter 58 Green Tea Lychee Ice Powder Crystal Clear Sour...
Su Tianli temporarily deposited the pile of books and snacks that Yao Xingang had given her in the guard room.
Then he turned and went to the factory guesthouse.
However, Su Tianli did not go to find Su Youzi.
She was looking for Aunt Cao.
Aunt Cao was very enthusiastic. As soon as she saw Su Tianli, she called her, "Lychees? Come on, come on and eat some lychees!"
Su Tianli: ???
After a closer look, oh, it really is lychee.
Aunt Cao stuffed a handful of lychees into Su Tianli's mouth and said, "Eat, eat, eat. These are wild lychees picked by the kids in the back hills. The cores are quite big and a little sour, but very fragrant!"
When Su Tianli saw the lychee, although it was bright red, it was only the size of a thumb. After peeling off the skin, she could smell the rich aroma of lychee and see the crystal clear flesh...
As soon as I put it in my mouth, it's so sour!
Su Tianli ate one and stopped eating.
It's really too sour.
She sighed and asked Aunt Cao, "Aunt Cao, is my eldest sister here?"
Aunt Cao rolled her eyes when she heard Su Youzi, "Here she comes, takes the clothes and leaves again!"
Su Tianli exclaimed, "I saw my eldest sister talking to He Wanqian in the factory's finance department. Then He Wanqian was taken away by the police, and my sister left too... I thought my sister came here!"
Aunt Cao's eyes swam when she heard this. "What? He Wanqian was taken away by the police?"
Su Tianli nodded.
"Why? Is she corrupt?" Aunt Cao asked with sharp eyes.
Su Tianli laughed, "How would I know?"
Aunt Cao was startled, then relieved. "That's right. You've been gone for such a long time, and you just came back not long ago. You don't even know where the main entrance of our factory is, right?"
Su Tianli nodded cooperatively.
Aunt Cao, "It's okay, Aunt Cao will ask around and we'll know!"
Su Tianli held back her laughter, "Aunt Cao! I'm not here today... for He Wanqian's matter!"
"Ah!" Aunt Cao was shocked. "Is there something else going on? Tell me quickly!"
Su Tianli, "I came here for my sister."
Aunt Cao then remembered that she had just eaten Su Youzi's food, and she looked unhappy, "What happened to your sister?"
Su Tianli, "My dad kicked her out!"
"Isn't this as it should be? Su Youzi is not your father's child!"
Su Tianli, "My eldest sister also lost her job..."
"Su Youzi is the daughter of a high-ranking official. How could she be interested in a job like delivering and receiving newspapers in the guard room?"
Su Tianli: "So my elder sister has no place to live and no food to eat..."
"That's what Su Youzi deserves!"
Then Aunt Cao started to criticize Su Tianli, "Lizhi, I'm not saying anything bad about you! You are just too kind-hearted! Oh, this won't do. When you think about others, why don't you think about how they bullied you in the past?"
Su Tianli nodded obediently, "Aunt Cao, you are so kind."
Aunt Cao asked again, "So what are you doing here?"
Su Tianli stated her purpose, "This time my mother didn't come back with my eldest sister, I thought my eldest sister would definitely call her..."
"Aunt Cao, if my eldest sister really calls my mother, can you help me remember my mother's phone number in my hometown?"
"I'm worried about my mother's situation."
Aunt Cao finally showed some interest again. "What happened to your mother? Is she not doing well over there?"
Su Tianli pretended to be worried and said, "My elder sister said it's not very good."
"What do you mean?" Aunt Cao quickly picked another wild lychee and ate it, then made a face because of the sourness.
Su Tianli said, "I heard that my eldest sister's father has Alzheimer's disease and can't recognize people anymore."
"Look! Look! I told you long ago - your mother is over 40, and the son of a high-ranking official is also over 40. Who would want to find a young and strong stepmother for himself just because his family has too much money and wants to give away half of the property? That person must have some ulterior motive! Oh, your mother is so stupid!"
Su Tianli said hesitantly: "She is my mother after all..."
Aunt Cao lectured Su Tianli again, saying that filial piety is a good thing but it cannot be foolish.
Su Tianli nodded obediently and said goodbye.
Aunt Cao gave Su Tianli the bunch of wild lychees and said, "Take it home and eat it. Although it's sour, it's always better if you mix it with sugar."
Su Tianli thanked Aunt Cao and left with the big bundle of wild lychees.
She came to see Aunt Cao, not because she cared about Tian Xiu as she said on the surface.
——Su Tianli was certain that she had mentioned "You can't get my transfer order" to Su Youzi many times.
Therefore, Su Youzi will definitely do everything in his power to get Su Tianli's transfer order.
Only in this way can Su Youzi defeat Su Tianli again.
Only in this way could Su Youzi stay in Guangzhou and get a decent job with a stable salary.
But Su Youzi has no way out!
Therefore, Su Youzi will still look for Tian Xiu, after all, Tian Xiu is the only person who can support her.
Su Tianli wanted to know how Su Youzi would tell Tian Yongxiu about this.
The reason why Su Tianli came to see Aunt Cao was,
Because Su Youzi would definitely not be willing to spend money to go to the post office to make a long-distance call,
So Su Youzi borrowed the phone in the guesthouse to make this long-distance call.
Aunt Cao is the person in charge of the factory guesthouse, and the phone is locked in her office!
If Su Youzi wants to make a phone call, he must get Aunt Cao's permission.
Aunt Cao, after hearing Su Tianli's advice, will definitely pay close attention to what Su Youzi will say when he calls Tian Xiu...
After arranging all this, Su Tianli left with peace of mind.
She went back to the guard room to get her things first.
And wanted to give the wild lychees in my hand as a favor to others.
But Aunt Jiang, the new guard, smiled and refused, "No, no, there's plenty of this stuff in the back mountain, but it's too sour! Only young people like to eat it, we're old and our teeth are not good."
Su Tianli had no choice but to thank Aunt Jiang, and returned to Shaou Street with her bags.
It's already past three in the afternoon.
My friends are preparing to set up their stalls - it takes an hour to get to the Dadadi Night Market from here. If we leave now, we will arrive there at around 4 o'clock, and dinner will basically last from 5 o'clock to 6:30...
I saw Su Tianli carrying large and small bags, especially a large bunch of wild lychees, which were so bright red and beautiful!
Everyone is quite rare.
You pick one, I pick one...
After eating it, everyone's face became wrinkled like a chubby dumpling.
Su Tianli held back her laughter and quickly took out the bag of chicken biscuits, giving each of them one piece, and keeping the rest for Yao Meiyu.
After eating the sweet and greasy chicken biscuits,
Everyone then smiled.
After eating snacks, Zhang Wei, Mao Li and A Juan left on a bicycle.
Now Cheng Yu has made a bracket with wheels.
So Zhang Wei was pedaling in the front.
Mao Li was still sitting in the back seat of the car.
Ajuan looked after the food, sitting on a carriage with wheels.
The three of them usually set out around three in the afternoon.
After they left, Mrs. Su and Su Tianli would continue to cook at home.
When Yao Meiyu gets off work, she will come here on her bicycle.
Then Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu delivered the ingredients again.
So Su Tianli sat at home and rested.
She has been running all day today and is very tired.
Then she asked Old Lady Su in a hoarse voice, "Grandma, what are we doing this afternoon?"
Old Mrs. Su was mumbling something in the room.
Su Tianli didn't hear clearly, and asked again, "I didn't hear clearly,
Cheng Yu answered on behalf of Old Lady Su: "Grandma said to make white sugar cakes. Juan has already fermented the rice cakes in advance. Now the rice cakes have been put into the sieve. After Grandma has rested, they can be moved to the stove and steamed."
After a pause, Cheng Yu explained to Su Tianli, "Ajuan set a fixed rest time for Grandma. When the time is up, Grandma must lie down on the bed and sleep without doing anything - this is the task that Ajuan assigned to me."
A Juan stipulated that Mrs. Su:
You can’t get up earlier than six o’clock every day, and you can’t go to bed later than eleven o’clock. You must sleep for a full hour during lunch break.
Then every morning at 10:30, take a nap until 11:00,
Every day at 3:30 pm, take a nap until 4 pm.
You don’t have to sleep during your nap in the morning or afternoon, but you must lie down in bed.
In the morning, everyone was there.
In the afternoon, Ajuan asked Cheng Yu to look after her grandmother.
Hearing this, Su Tianli turned her head and looked at Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu was sitting obediently at the door of grandma's room.
Su Tianli smiled and asked him, "What about you? Is your injury healed?"
Cheng Yu was extremely depressed. "I thought I was fine... but this morning when I was setting up the stove, I exerted force with my hands for some reason and the wound on the back of my head burst, and a lot of blood flowed out..."
"Ah?" Su Tianli was startled. She quickly stood up and walked behind Cheng Yu to take a look.
Sure enough, a new laceration appeared on his old scar that had already healed. His friends should have helped him deal with it and the bleeding had stopped long ago, but at this moment a little yellow fluid was oozing out of the wound.
Su Tianli was afraid that his wound would fester, so she took some iodine and smeared it on his wound again, then asked, "Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt."
Su Tianli observed for a long time before saying, "It's probably because the old wound scabbed over and the skin tightened, which made it easy to crack."
Cheng Yu hummed.
Next, Su Tianli asked him again how his concussion was.
Cheng Yu thought about it and said, "I feel much better..."
"It's impossible to say that it's exactly the same as before."
"That is to say, there are more times when I feel better, but occasionally I still feel nauseous and want to vomit, and sometimes I have a severe headache... I will be fine after a rest." Cheng Yu said seriously.
Su Tianli was very happy, "That's good."
Then she got busy.
Just now, when she was looking for iodine tincture, she saw the jelly seeds that her friends bought from the night market.
Su Tianli has always preferred water-rich foods such as sugary drinks, soups, and beverages.
When she was a child, she often bought some jelly seeds in the hot summer weather and rubbed them into jelly herself... Of course, she was reluctant to add sugar at that time because sugar was expensive, so she would use wild fruits and dried fruits instead.
As for wild fruits, there are snakeberries and mulberries.
As for dried fruits, she picked up wild lychees, wild longans, wild yellow peel fruits, etc. from the mountain behind the factory, peeled them, removed the cores, and dried them in the sun.
When eating, wash it several times with clean water, then steam it in a pot...
Wild lychees and wild longans are very sour when eaten directly.
But after being dried and then steamed, it becomes sweet!
Su Tianli worked in the Northwest for five years.
I haven't eaten jelly for five years.
If she hadn't seen the jelly seeds, she wouldn't have missed it so much.
Once you see...
She couldn't help it.
The process of making ice jelly using jelly seeds is very simple.
The most important thing is to boil two large pots of water first, then immerse them in cold water to cool them down quickly and turn them into boiled water.
When boiling water, put the jelly into clean gauze, tie it tightly, and soak it in cool boiled water for a while.
Finally, pour the boiled water into a clean wooden barrel.
After washing your hands, take the jelly seeds and rub them in the wooden barrel...
Su Tianli was busy for the whole afternoon, and her hands were so weak that she finally rubbed out two large buckets of jelly paste!
The paste made from this natural wild jelly seeds is light yellow and completely odorless.
It doesn’t matter, just pour some brown sugar water and a little bit of rice vinegar on it when eating, and it will be a sweet and sour ice jelly!
but! ! !
While Su Tianli was busy, she suddenly saw the bunch of wild lychees Aunt Cao gave her...
Suddenly a light bulb went off in her head!
It is better to——
Want some innovation?
How about making lychee jelly?
Now that you have thought of it, start doing it!
Su Tianli quickly called out to Cheng Yu, "Cheng Yu! Quick! Come and help!"
Cheng Yu rushed over immediately, "What's wrong?"
Su Tianli instructed him to peel the lychees as quickly as possible and quickly repeated her thoughts.
Cheng Yu has already run away.
Soon, he washed his hands clean and came back.
I have to say,
Cheng Yu's fingers are thin, straight and long, and he is very dexterous.
Su Tianli peeled a lychee.
He has already peeled three...
At the same time, Su Tianli carefully watched the solidification degree of the jelly paste in the wooden barrel, and began to slowly add the lychee meat.
The jelly paste in the wooden barrel is already in a semi-solidified state, so the white and transparent lychee flesh thrown in first will slowly sink to the bottom.
The lychee flesh that was thrown in later sank to the middle and couldn't go down.
In this way, Cheng Yu peeled the lychees while Su Tianli threw them.
In the end, all the wild lychees were thrown into one of the wooden barrels.
Next, Su Tianli began to prepare the sugar water.
Since two buckets of jelly are prepared, one bucket contains traditional jelly with nothing in it, then it should be eaten in the traditional way, with brown sugar syrup dissolved in water, and a bottle of transparent rice vinegar.
The other bucket is Su Tianli’s innovative lychee jelly.
This idea just came to her mind.
Is it delicious? What kind of syrup should be paired with it?
Su Tianli had no idea at all.
She scooped out a bowl of lychee ice and ate it without any toppings.
How should I put it? Because the lychee flesh is not too much.
So it has a sour taste but not much,
But the lychee flesh is really fragrant!
Then she poured a little brown sugar water on the litchi jelly, took a few bites, and passed it to Cheng Yu and Grandma to try.
Cheng Yu thought about it and said, "It's delicious, but the sour taste... is a bit weird."
Grandma: "You young people should eat this. I, an old lady, cannot eat this."
Su Tianli also felt that the taste was a bit strange.
——The advantage of lychee jelly is its aroma! The advantage of brown sugar is also its aroma! And these two aromas are a bit conflicting and don’t blend that well.
Cheng Yu thought for a moment, "What about brewing it with tea leaves and sugar?"
"Use white sugar as a topping. It has no smell and will not compete with the lychee with its aroma like brown sugar does."
"Tea water... Mainly because I think tea leaves have a light color, and it might look better with lychee flesh."
"And the tea is bitter and can relieve soreness," said Cheng Yu.
Su Tianli's eyes lit up!
tea?
Yes, yes, yes!
Mao Li bought a big bag of green tea at the night market and said it was Maojian, which was produced from somewhere unknown. She said this kind of tea was very fragrant.
So Su Tianli hurriedly went to find it, grabbed a handful of tea leaves and put them into a small oil-free pot to boil, boiled the tea juice and poured in white sugar, then immersed the small pot directly in cold water to cool it down, and then poured the green tea water with white sugar on the lychee jelly.
Su Tianli took just one bite and her eyes widened.
"Is it delicious?" Cheng Yu asked curiously.
Su Tianli nodded frantically.
It’s delicious!
Green tea and lychee go so well together...
As soon as she thought of this, Su Tianli looked at Cheng Yu.
green tea……
With lychee???
Cheng Yu couldn't help it anymore. He took the small spoon that Su Tianli had used, scooped a spoonful of ice jelly from her bowl of ice jelly, and put it into his mouth. He took a sip.
He immediately lowered his head and looked at her in amazement.
Wow!
It turns out that green tea lychee ice jelly is so delicious!
The first thing you smell is the rich aroma of lychee, followed by the lingering aroma of green tea.
Finally, there is the slightly bitter, slightly sour, and slightly sweet ice jelly...
It stays trembling in the mouth for three to five seconds, then automatically turns into water, which people swallow involuntarily.
So delicious!
Cheng Yu savored it carefully, squinting his eyes and enjoying it.
Open your eyes again——
He found that Su Tianli was looking at him thoughtfully?
And she kept looking and looking...
Cheng Yu blushed for some reason.
What's wrong with her?
He wondered, didn't she know she was so beautiful?
It is wrong to stare at a young boy like this.
This will make him misunderstand.
Let him think...she has a crush on him.
But soon, Cheng Yu realized it again - was she looking at the spoon in his hand?
Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that this spoon had been eaten by her just now!
Then he didn't ask her, he just took the spoon and ate the ice jelly!!!
Wouldn't that be equivalent to indirectly...that?
This time, even the tips of Cheng Yu's ears turned pink.
He was a little embarrassed, "You dislike me, don't you?"
"Lychees are not dirty..."
"I take a shower, wash my hair, wash my face and brush my teeth very seriously every day."
Su Tianli: ...
Cheng Yu lowered his eyes, "Well, it doesn't matter if you dislike me."
"Anyway, I did treat it like a homeless person."
"Before, when no one cared about me... I was wandering on the streets all day long, and there were actually people throwing money and food to me..."
"Lychee, let me tell you, there was a woman who felt sorry for me and threw me two saltwater horns, telling me not to get wet in the rain!"
Su Tianli: ...
This guy is quite good-looking, but why is he so talkative?
She quickly walked away and said, "It's settled then! Let's make some green tea syrup to go with this lychee jelly!"
Cheng Yu looked at the spoon in his hand.
Then he scooped a few spoonfuls of ice jelly and ate it.
Lychees are so fragrant!
Just like that, when Yao Meiyu arrived, she was stunned by the green tea lychee jelly created by Su Tianli and Cheng He!
"Oh my god! This is so delicious! Oh my god... lychees, give me another bowl!"
"You can only have one more bowl! Otherwise, you'll eat up all my food before my business even opens!" Su Tianli said, adding another bowl of green tea lychee jelly to Yao Meiyu.
Yao Meiyu ate the delicious green tea lychee ice jelly while humming in dissatisfaction, "I'll be at the night market soon, I'll be your host! I'll eat in front of others!"
"By the way, how do you price this ice jelly?"
Su Tianli said without hesitation: "Regular ice jelly is two cents a bowl, and green tea lychee ice jelly is five cents a bowl!"
Yao Meiyu exclaimed, "You woman! You are so cruel! Green tea lychee ice jelly for five cents a bowl... Come on, give me three bowls!"
Su Tianli smiled, "We can only make some money by being the first to try it! Believe it or not, after today, someone will make the same thing and sell it tomorrow!"
This is true.
The scallion pancakes that Mao Li and Zhang Wei made before were so crispy, crunchy and delicious!
In the first few days, we could sell at least six to five hundred cakes every day!
The other vendors were probably jealous, so they followed suit.
There are many people selling scallion pancakes in the night market now.
Mao Li and Zhang Wei have stopped making it - with sales of only sixty to seventy cakes a day, there is really no need to do so.
To be honest, it’s hard to even find the ingredients for this green tea lychee jelly. The main focus is on creativity and new combinations.
There should be no problem selling tonight.
Of course, I can sell it tomorrow.
But in a few days, I guess someone will follow suit and do the same.
By then, we will have to lower prices and evaluate the cost of ingredients and labor...
There is no point in doing business that doesn't make money.
After Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu had dinner at home, they rode their bicycles to the night market with the white sugar cakes steamed by Old Lady Su and the two large buckets of ice jelly.
Because there were too many things and they were heavy, Su Tianli had a hard time pedaling the bicycle.
She couldn't even pedal up some of the uphill sections.
Yao Meiyu had to get out of the car to help push it.
But at least we got to the Dadadi Night Market smoothly.
I was delayed on the road for a long time today.
The lotus leaf rice made by Mao Li and Ajuan has been sold out long ago!
The three of them left the stall empty.
They ran off to help other vendors drum up business.
Until Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu arrived——
When everyone saw the white sugar cake, they were not that surprised.
But when everyone saw the ice jelly, they were stunned.
Yao Meiyu quickly took out a bowl, scooped out a bowl of lychee jelly, and poured a spoonful of green tea syrup, "Try it."
Everyone took turns trying it.
Everyone showed an expression of surprise!
Mao Li, "You two are so eager to carry such a heavy thing so far... You only have this little bit of ice jelly to sell, and we can digest it all among the people!"
Zhang Wei, "This is so delicious! Why sell it... Just sell it to me, I'll buy it!"
A Juan, "Well, you guys set up the stall here. I'm going to go buy some more jelly seeds! We'll only make and sell this tomorrow!"
The wonton man at the side also shamelessly ordered half a bowl and ate it, and then asked, "This is delicious! It is completely different from the jelly we have eaten before! How much is this bowl?"
"Five cents a bowl!" Su Tianli said generously.
Wonton Brother, "It's expensive, but it's worth it! You educated youth are really amazing! You are educated, have been to distant places, and have seen the world. You are much better than us who can only make wontons."
Su Tianli said to Wonton Brother: "Have you heard of Tianjin Goubuli steamed buns? They have been passed down from the Qing Dynasty, and they only make meat buns! It's OK as long as they are delicious."
The wonton man had just been helped by Mao Li and the others to sell his wontons, and he had sold all his wontons early. Now he came over to help and also shouted loudly, "Five cents a bowl of ice jelly! Have you ever seen it, folks? If not, come and see it! Guess... why this ordinary bowl of ice jelly costs five cents! You will understand after you try it once! Delicious ice jelly! The most expensive ice jelly in Guangzhou! More expensive than the Friendship Store!"
Yao Meiyu laughed so hard that she fell over and bit Su Tianli's ear and said, "Where is the ice jelly for sale in the Friendship Store?"
Anyway, after being called out by the wonton brother——
First, many villagers came to watch the fun, and they all wanted to know why a bowl of ice jelly, which was made entirely of water, was sold at such a high price of only five cents?
final--
But there was still the first person who was willing to try.
If there is one, there will be two.
Plus, the diners who have eaten it say it's delicious and worth it! This thing is not expensive at only five cents a bowl...
So, in just half an hour, this bucket of green tea lychee jelly was sold out!
Many diners who heard the news and wanted to try the five-cent bowl of ice jelly were unable to catch up and could not stop sighing.
The best I could do was to buy a bowl of traditional ice jelly for two cents to satisfy my craving.
I also asked Su Tianli if there would be five cents worth of ice jelly available for lunch tomorrow.
They asked Su Tianli to promise again and again, and bought some white sugar cake before leaving, and then they left.
that's all--
Today is also a very good day for business!
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