The next morning.
Sunlight streamed through the clouds, illuminating the entire Yun Mansion.
Yun Zhizhi woke up from her sleep. She slowly stretched, rubbed her eyes, and rolled around in bed for a while before finally getting up.
After she finished washing up, the first thing she did was go to the back garden to feed the talking myna bird.
"strangeness."
Yun Zhizhi looked at the myna bird in front of her and frowned slightly.
Yesterday, Lazy Yang clearly told her that this myna bird especially likes to eat green vegetables, but today it seems to have little appetite.
Could it be that this myna bird hasn't fully adapted to its new environment since arriving at Yunfu?
After finishing breakfast, Yun Zhizhi found He Ping'an and instructed him, "Brother Ping'an, could you please go to the market and buy me twenty catties of tender green beans?"
After He Ping'an left, Xiao Tao, who was standing to the side, curiously came up and asked, "Miss, why did you ask Brother Ping'an to buy so many green beans at once?"
Yun Zhizhi's lips curled slightly: "I'm planning to make pickled green beans. Haven't you ever had them before?"
Xiao Tao shook her head. "No. We usually stir-fry or braise the green beans, or dry them into dried green beans."
Yun Zhizhi patiently explained, "Actually, pickled green beans can not only be used to accompany porridge, but also stir-fried with chicken giblets, which is very appetizing. Moreover, they can also be used as a condiment, so they have many uses."
For the mala tang (spicy hot pot) I'm selling at this stall, pickled cowpeas are an essential ingredient.
Besides pickled green beans, you'll also need to prepare some sesame paste, chili oil, minced garlic, crushed peanuts, etc. in advance.
There are quite a few ingredients needed.
In the middle of the morning, Yun Zhizhi, along with Xiao Tao and Aunt He, cut the two hundred catties of sweet potatoes they had brought back into slices in the open space outside the kitchen.
When He Yang excitedly came to find Yun Zhizhi, he was startled by the several large plates of sweet potato chips in front of him. "Boss, what are you doing?"
Yun Zhizhi glanced at him briefly, "You've come at the right time. Take these plates of sweet potato chips over there and grind them into a fine paste using a stone mill."
He Yang moved closer to her, scratched his head, and asked with a puzzled look, "Boss, what are you planning to do?"
"And also, did you steal something last night?"
Yun Zhizhi blinked, paused in her sweet potato-cutting motion, and looked up to ask, "Why would you say that?"
He Yang pointed to her eyes, "Your dark circles are showing."
Yun Zhizhi sighed, "Sigh! I guess it's because I just moved in and it's not quite right for me yet, which is why I'm not sleeping well."
Besides that, another very important point is that she kept thinking about setting up a stall last night, and she couldn't sleep because of it.
"I plan to make some sweet potato noodles; I'll need this ingredient for my next stall."
Upon hearing this, He Yang's eyes widened in shock, and he stammered, "Boss... you mean these sweet potatoes can be made into vermicelli?"
This completely shattered his understanding of the world.
In his mind, sweet potatoes are either steamed or boiled, or roasted.
Yun Zhizhi's lips curled up slightly. "Yes."
Then he asked, "Boss, have you already decided what you're going to sell next time you set up your stall?"
It's probably related to food, which suits him perfectly.
"Yes, next time we set up a stall, we should sell mala tang (spicy hot pot)."
He Yang frowned slightly.
Alright.
It was something he had never heard of or eaten before.
However, anything produced by the boss is bound to be of high quality, so it seems he's in for a treat.
He Yang looked at her with a grin, his eyes narrowed into slits. "Boss, could you tell me in advance where we're going to set up our stall this time? That way I can be mentally prepared."
Yun Zhizhi couldn't help but laugh out loud. It seemed that she wasn't the only one traumatized by setting up a stall; these few times setting up a stall had also given Lazy Yangyang quite a fright.
“Okay, let’s set up a stall at Lishan Academy this time.”
Upon hearing this, He Yang's smile vanished instantly, and he said with a mournful face, "Can we find another place to set up our stall? Boss, have you forgotten? I used to study at Lishan Academy, and there were people there that I absolutely hated."
Yun Zhizhi slapped her forehead. How could she have forgotten about this!
When He Yang was studying at Lishan Academy, he was bullied by several students because of his weak personality and obesity.
Yun Zhizhi quickly reassured her, "Don't worry, during the four days we're setting up our stall, the students of Lishan Academy will still be inside studying, so they won't be able to come out."
He Yang frowned and asked in surprise, "Then here's the question, boss, why are you so foolish? Knowing that the students from the academy can't leave, why do you still want to set up a stall there?"
"Besides, that place only has one Lishan Academy, and it's all empty around, not much different from where we set up a stall last time."
Yun Zhizhi gave an awkward laugh: "Hehe! Just think of me as someone who's got a screw loose and loves taking on difficult challenges!"
She is a normal person.
If it weren't for the lousy system choosing such a terrible place, she wouldn't have set up her stall there.
"Lazy Sheep, how's the food at the Lishan Academy's cafeteria?"
"Describe it in two words."
Which two words?
"Disgusting!"
Yun Zhizhi smiled and gently scratched her chin with her index finger, a sly glint in her eyes. She said softly, "Lazy Yangyang, do you want to make those students who bully you cry with envy?"
Upon hearing this, He Yang's eyes lit up, and he nodded eagerly, saying excitedly, "Yes, I do! Zhang Lei and the others are also studying at Lishan Academy. I'm going to make them all envious!"
"But...but they can't come out, they can't see our stall, how are we going to make them drool with envy?"
Yun Zhizhi smiled slyly: "The spicy hot pot we're selling this time has an aroma that can travel for miles. Even though they can't see it, they can smell it."
He Yang immediately pictured Zhang Lei and the others smelling the aroma of spicy hot pot but unable to eat it, their mouths watering with longing.
He began to look forward to that day.
Yun Zhizhi and the others worked together and spent two whole hours grinding all the sweet potatoes into a fine paste.
Next, they spent another half hour filtering out the sweet potato residue with gauze, leaving only pure sweet potato starch slurry.
These sweet potato starch pastes simply need to be left aside to settle overnight. They can be dried into sweet potato starch the next morning.
He Ping'an had already bought the green beans.
Yun Zhizhi instructed Xiao Tao, "Now wash the green beans in the basket clean and then put them outside in the yard to dry."
"Yes, Miss," Xiao Tao replied, then picked up the basket and went into the kitchen to get busy.
At this moment, Aunt He came over with a large plate of milky white liquid. She smiled and said to Yun Zhizhi, "Miss, I've saved this rice water for you."
"Okay. In a moment, pour the rice water into a clean, oil-free pot, then add salt and peppercorns, boil it until it's boiling hot, and let it cool down."
Yun Zhizhi plans to use rice water to pickle the green beans.
The results of pickling using this method are better than using plain water.
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