Chapter 59 Chapter 59 The white sugar cake is warm, soft, fluffy and slightly sweet...
After closing the stall, Su Tianli and her friends returned home happily.
Well, it has been more than half a month since everyone went to Dadadi to set up stalls and do snack business.
In the past half month, it seems that whatever people make will be sold out quickly!
This sense of accomplishment is exactly what our friends lack.
——For Mao Li and Zhang Wei, the fact that they responded to the call to go to the countryside to work in the fields proved that they were the ones who were abandoned among their brothers and sisters at home.
Now they have finally returned to the city, but their families don't accept them.
And all their savings over the years have been used to support their family...
They were truly penniless and desperate.
But now, thanks to Su Tianli's help, they have a place to live and food to eat. They can also make snacks with their own hands and sell them in Dadadi with great effort.
The most important thing is, they actually made money in a way that was almost like “making money out of nothing”!
——For Old Lady Su and Ajuan, they have always been regarded as appendages of the family because of their gender.
But, here with Su Tianli, they are given extreme respect!
Ajuan can decide what snacks to make and sell today, and she can also decide what ingredients she wants to buy;
Besides, the second sister and the eldest sister have always discussed things with her...
As for Old Mrs. Su, because she was ill, no one allowed her to work hard.
But she was a person who could not sit still...If she stopped working for a minute, she would feel deeply guilty. She would feel ashamed that she was not worthy of living in the company housing in the provincial capital. She would not dare to eat and was afraid of being despised by Su Tianli.
Unexpectedly, these young people treated her very well. They followed the "A-Juan rest schedule" set by A-Juan and urged her to rest when the time came...
In fact, Mrs. Su couldn’t sleep at all during her nap in the morning or afternoon.
But she would also obey everyone's kindness and lie down in bed. Sometimes she would really fall asleep and feel refreshed after waking up. Sometimes she couldn't sleep and would lie in bed wondering how she could suddenly become happy when she got old and sick, not only because she had enough food and warm clothes, but also because she could sleep in bed in broad daylight!
The most important thing is that when these young people come back from their stalls at night, they will happily say to her: "Grandma, we made money again today!"
Listen, they use "we"!
This proves that they think... all the credit goes to her, an old woman!
——For Cheng Yu, this was the first time in his 22 years of life that he felt what it meant to “never leave or abandon.”
For a long time, he has been an unpopular person, not loved by his father and mother.
Fortunately, there was a kind-hearted young aunt who was willing to adopt him.
It's a pity that good people don't live long.
After his aunt died, he became a complete orphan.
In the orphan market, boys are less valuable than girls.
So when people mention him, they just sigh.
He dropped out of school at a young age and worked hard to barely support himself.
He hasn't tried living with someone else in years...
What he never expected was that after he became a homeless man, he suddenly... inexplicably started to live a good life.
Yes, Zhang Wei was very nice to him.
But Zhang Wei's kindness to him was also based on the ultimate guarantee of litchi.
Of course, he was grateful to Zhang Wei.
But he was more grateful for lychees.
She didn't just save him.
She also fully considered the benefits he should enjoy and tried her best to fight for them!
For example, she asked Zhang Wei to call the police and have Fu Yan arrested;
For example, she forced Wang Aiqin to pay for his treatment...
Cheng Yu tilted his head and looked at the lychees quietly.
He suddenly had an inappropriate thought...
Cheng Yu took a deep breath quickly.
——For Yao Meiyu, her life has changed dramatically after Lizhi’s return!
First of all! She was heartbroken!
But she has a new goal - to take the college entrance examination!
Secondly! In the eyes of her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, she was a useless person who had accomplished nothing.
But Lizhi really needs her!
Most importantly, she is the one who contributes the least to the Lizhi family, whether in terms of money, time or energy.
But everyone agreed that she also had a share of the money earned from selling snacks!
Of course Yao Meiyu was very happy!
Now, she is just thinking about the end of the month, so that she can take the dividend money, go back and slap her parents in the face, and proudly say: Don't call me a loser anymore! I can also make a lot of money!
So, everyone sat together happily and started the regular meeting before going to bed every night.
Of course, everyone has a midnight snack every night.
Today's midnight snack is a portion of white sugar cake for everyone.
White sugar cake is made by soaking the best rice overnight, grinding it into a paste, and then adding sweet koji to ferment overnight.
The next day, steam it and cut it into pieces with cotton thread.
It is white all over, fluffy, soft and very elastic.
In fact, there is no white sugar in the white sugar cake.
It is called this name because it has two characteristics:
First, it’s white. How can a rice cake made from pure rice not be white?
First, it is sweet, but its sweetness comes from the fermentation of rice milk.
Take a bite,
First, you can feel the strong fermentation aroma, with a slight sour taste.
Then there is the ultimate elastic softness.
When you chew it, you can still feel the rice cake bumping around in your mouth...
It’s lightly sweet at the end!
This is so delicious!
Is there anything better than sitting together happily with friends and family to eat, drink and chat after a tiring day?
Yao Meiyu said happily: "Wow, I am really tired today! Extremely tired, the two ice powder buckets are too heavy... You know what? Lizhi and I can't even go up the slope, she has to pedal in front and I push from behind..."
"Look at my legs! They are still shaking! I can't control them, they are shaking on their own..."
"But I'm still better than Litchi."
"Lizhi said I had ridden my bike for almost an hour to get home from work, so she didn't let me pedal. She pedaled the whole way there! She was the one who was having a hard time!"
Upon hearing this, Cheng Yu immediately turned to Su Tianli.
He was also secretly hitting her legs.
Sure enough, her legs were still trembling!
Cheng Yu fell into deep thought. It seemed that he had to modify the pedals and chain.
Su Tianli didn't know what Cheng Yu was thinking, she just said to Yao Meiyu: "As long as the business is good, the hard work is worth it!"
Everyone nodded.
Ah Juan sighed, "Brothers and sisters, I don't know if you have the same feeling, but I do...Are we just too lucky? Basically, whatever we make can be sold...everything can be sold out! I, I, I...I am stunned!"
Su Tianli smiled, "You can attribute this to the good luck of all of us."
"But strength is also a kind of luck!"
A Juan was confused. "Strength? What strength..."
Su Tianli said: "First of all, we are all from Guangdong. We are familiar with and know what Guangzhou people like to eat and how they taste..."
“Guangzhou people eat everything!” Yao Meiyu muttered quietly.
Su Tianli poked her forehead and continued to say to everyone:
"…Secondly, we have been away from Guangzhou for many years, and our colleagues in the unit we went to work in the countryside all came from all over the world, so we have eaten a variety of foods… Those foods will surprise people who have never left Guangzhou!"
"Finally, look at our team, it's simply the best - we have educated youth who returned to the city, Cheng Yu who is very good at carpentry, Zhang Wei who works the hardest, Ajuan who is willing to be a babysitter and take care of everyone, Ana who volunteers to do all the logistical work, and Ayu who is an expert on the locals!"
Finally, Su Tianli concluded, "The most important thing is that the snacks we make have always been diverse!"
"Look, first Ajuan made skewers, then someone copied her...Ali started making scallion pancakes, and we sold them for several days! Then someone else followed suit and brought the price down, so we changed to making lotus leaf rice..."
"I'm not saying this, but the snack stalls in the entire night market have actually been rolled up by us!"
“First, other vendors’ ability to follow suit cannot catch up with our ability to innovate.”
"First, diners' love for food has not kept up with our ability to innovate..."
"This is one of the most important reasons why we make money from whatever we do."
Ajuan suddenly realized!
“Yes, yes, yes…”
Then she started to worry again, "What if one day we can no longer come up with innovative snacks?"
Su Tianli laughed, "How could that be? There are four seasons in a year, and each season has different ingredients. We just need to make each ingredient into something special... The diners won't get tired of it."
Ajuan thought about it, felt that it made sense, and nodded repeatedly.
Mao Li said, "Why don't we just focus on selling green tea lychee ice jelly tomorrow!"
Ah Juan was delighted when she heard this. "We can go directly to the site to make the noodles! Bring the coal stove and boil some water now! Brother Wonton knows where to get water, so we can ask him to take us there..."
Yao Meiyu also said: "To make green tea lychee jelly, the most important thing is wild lychees, right? I know where to find them! It's on the hill behind the factory... There's a huge area of them, but apart from a few half-grown kids who like to pick them for fun, no one wants them!"
Zhang Wei immediately said, "How about this, Ah Yu, take Ali and me to the back mountain early tomorrow morning. Just lead us to the place, and then you go to work while Ali and I go pick the fruits."
Mao Li nodded repeatedly.
"Okay!" Yao Meiyu nodded repeatedly.
Next, Yao Meiyu took out the chicken biscuits that her father asked Su Tianli to bring, and everyone shared them;
Su Tianli took out the college entrance examination teaching aids that Yao Meiyu's father got and asked everyone to take a look.
So everyone took the book and started reading.
Su Tianli said: "Let me be frank with you—"
"Making money is important, but don't give up studying!"
"Uncle Yao has found some teaching aids. They are the mock exam papers of our local high school over the past two years. Starting tomorrow, everyone will take turns doing the papers. The papers are precious and there is only one set. Everyone should answer the questions in their own notebooks and then check the answers!"
"Let's first see how good our level is..."
"I repeat, we only have one set of books. Everyone should study at different times and take turns... Do you understand?"
Yao Meiyu, Mao Li and Zhang Wei nodded repeatedly.
Su Tianli turned around and asked Ajuan, "Ajuan, did you hear that?"
Ajuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes wide, "Huh???"
"I……"
"Me?"
Ah Juan was extremely shocked. "Second sister, you, you mean... I, I also want to take the college entrance examination?"
Su Tianli asked her back, "You can't?"
Ajuan's face instantly turned red. "I... Second sister, I only went to junior high school! I didn't even finish junior high school!"
Su Tianli said seriously: "The college entrance examination depends on the total score, and it doesn't say that you can only take the undergraduate exam, a junior college exam is also fine."
Yao Meiyu advised quietly, "Ajuan, why don't you give it a try? No one will laugh at you if you fail... but what if you pass?"
Ah Juan said anxiously: "I, I don't know many of them!"
Yao Meiyu chuckled, pointed at Su Tianli and said to A Juan: "Didn't you just listen to what she said? Let's take turns doing the test paper tomorrow! Why do we have to take turns doing the test paper? Don't you understand?"
Ajuan shook her head blankly.
Yao Meiyu sighed, "Your second sister must see our grades before she can know which subject we are weak in, so that she can give us targeted tutoring!"
Ajuan was stunned!
Su Tianli said modestly: "It's not about tutoring or anything like that. It's just that the authorities are obsessed and the bystanders can see things more clearly... I can help everyone see which subjects to start learning and so on..."
Mao Li also laughed, "Ajuan, don't listen to your second sister. She is just being polite. In fact, she has very good academic performance... We should believe her."
Yao Meiyu yelled, "When we were in school, your second sister was never in the top ten in the city-wide joint exam! She was basically always in the top five!"
Zhang Wei smiled and said, "Xiao Ajuan, it doesn't matter if you don't pass the exam. When we first started the night market snack stand business, we were also worried that we wouldn't be able to sell anything! In the end... we still make a lot of money every day! So Xiao Ajuan, let's try the college entrance examination. If we don't pass, then we don't pass. What if everyone else does well?"
Ah Juan bit her lower lip and said with a red face: "When you know my true level...you are not allowed to laugh at me!"
At this time, Old Lady Su spoke up, "Juan, grandma is here to support you..."
Then--
The whole audience was shocked!
Old Lady Su smiled and said to Su Tianli: "Lizhi, I also want to learn from you, is that okay? I want to learn to read!"
Su Tianli said with a smile: "Of course!"
A Juan finally made up her mind, "Okay! Then I'll give it a try! A Jun is in the first year of high school this year... If I don't pass the exam this time, I can secretly take the exam for three years. This way I will have more experience than him. If I really pass the exam, wouldn't that mean I'm... even better than A Jun?"
Everyone applauded enthusiastically for Ajuan.
At this time, Su Tianli looked at Cheng Yu.
She didn't even ask.
He didn't want to say it either.
However, once their eyes met,
You will know what the other person is thinking.
Cheng Yu even thought that he should seize the time to study hard while he was recuperating and could not go out or do heavy work.
after all--
Ajuan was in junior high school and everyone thought she was afraid to take the college entrance examination.
Cheng Yu didn’t even finish elementary school!
No words were spoken that night.
The next morning, everyone got up early and went their separate ways.
Cheng Yu, A Juan and Old Lady Su were preparing snacks at home.
Yao Meiyu rode a bike and took Zhang Wei and Mao Li to the back mountain of the chemical plant and led them to the Wild Litchi Mountain.
Su Tianli went to the Municipal People's Hospital.
She had to come and find out whether Wang Aiqun had been summoned.
result--
It's already past eight in the morning, and Wang Aiqun hasn't come to work yet.
But people in the hospital didn't know why she didn't come.
Su Tianli thought about it and went to the chemical plant again.
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