With the Chinese New Year approaching, Song Tantan is very busy doing business. He rented a stall at the market and sells instant noodles all day long—yes, the kind of instant noodles you get from the supermarket.
Instant noodles taste good, but they're not nutritious, and you get tired of eating them if you eat too much. It's perfect for selling. Sigh, it's a small business; I only earn one or two taels of silver a day.
It's because there are many people buying New Year's goods at the end of the year that we can earn so much. We probably wouldn't earn this much on ordinary days. A bowl of noodles costs two coins, and it costs three coins if you add an egg or a piece of meat. We called all four girls to help us.
Seeing that she looked exhausted and wanted to lie down all night, Ye Moxun advised her not to work so hard and to let others do it.
Because Ah Si and Chun Sheng lacked medical skills and had sold out of the herbs they brought from home, they had to go to the mountains outside the city every day to collect herbs. The journey was long and arduous.
It would be better to help sell instant noodles; Song Tantan could just collect the money.
Do you think instant noodles will be exposed if they are taken out of the virtual space?
The question hit the nail on the head. Song Tantan was already prepared, so she first had a few girls learn to make noodles, specifically wavy noodles. She knew that many of them would mess up while learning.
Even if the shape is wrong, these are all good things made of white flour. Even if the shape is bad, you can still eat them. Just cook them every day, whether it's noodle soup or stir-fry. They're all delicious, and no one will complain. If you dare to complain, you'll have to pay to eat out yourself, or you'll go hungry.
However, Song Tantan is a good cook, and the girls had learned cooking from her before, so she makes noodles every day without repeating the same dish. The noodles taste great, and everyone likes them more and more.
Once the dough is made, frying it in oil turns it into instant noodles. Homemade noodles are more nutritious and use a lot of oil, so Song Tantan usually hides the ones she makes in her space and sells the unpacked ones from her space.
The process is simple: a cart is pushed to the market, with two stoves on it, one for boiling water and the other for frying eggs, stir-frying vegetables, and stir-frying meat.
Place the dough in a large bowl, add a large spoonful of hot water, let it soak for three minutes, and it's ready to eat. If you want to add eggs or meat, fry or stir-fry them on the spot.
Customers say it's delicious, so business is good. Some people buy it and eat it dry without soaking it, which is even more fragrant. It doesn't need to be soaked in boiling water. Two pancakes cost three coins, which is a little cheaper than soaking them.
“Well, let’s have Ah Si and Chun Sheng set up a small stall too. They can sell their wares, and we can split the profits equally. If we don’t set up more stalls, our daily income will shrink,” Song Tantan said righteously.
Xiao Tao, Xiao Li, and the other three nodded vigorously in agreement. That's right, they could earn two taels a day, and occasionally three taels, which would amount to seventy taels a month. After deducting Song Tantan's initial investment of twenty taels, the five of them would split the remaining fifty taels equally, with each person receiving ten taels.
In the countryside, many families can't save this much money in a whole year. It's incredible! With this money, they won't have to worry about not finding a husband. Even if they don't get married, they can make a living by selling instant noodles.
Tan Tan said that after the New Year, she would teach them how to make cakes, cookies, and grains and fruits. In short, there are many skills they can learn, so they won't have to worry about not being able to support themselves.
Yes, Tantan has been saying for a long time that she would teach them how to make candy, but she hasn't started yet.
Song Tantan had no idea how to make candy. She just followed the steps in the book and figured it out by herself. There was nowhere to buy the ingredients in Songlin Village before, so she hadn't been able to keep her promise to teach her friends how to make candy. Now she could buy the ingredients, but she didn't have time. She could only wait until she had some free time next year.
She was exhausted. In order for the supermarket's goods to be sold openly, she had to learn to make all kinds of food, such as cakes and cookies.
"Are you stupid? Just make something simple and let them improvise. At most, it'll waste some ingredients—no, it'll definitely waste ingredients because none of you know how to cook. It's destined to be wasteful."
"It's okay, we have money. No matter how bad the food tastes, whoever made it has to eat it. Of course, if you make something bad, you don't have to eat it yourself; you can take it outside and give it to the beggars in the temple." That's what Song Zhuiyan taught her.
“That makes sense, let’s do it that way.” Song Tantan thought her aunt’s idea was worth considering.
On this day, Song Tantan and his group went to the market to sell instant noodles as usual, and then they found two more people selling instant noodles next to them. They were not Chunsheng and Asi, but people they did not know.
Xiao Tao and Xiao Li's faces turned red with anger. These people were shameless. Seeing that other people's business was good, they came to steal their business, selling the exact same things and even setting up their stalls next to theirs. It was disgusting.
"What's there to be angry about? Doing business is about skill. If they can make it taste better, then they're the ones who are better." Song Tantan wasn't worried at all. She was just selling it for fun. Once she sold out of instant noodles at her supermarket, she wouldn't set up a stall anymore. As for Xiao Tao and the others, they could continue selling if they wanted, or they could stop if they didn't.
"But they sell it for one coin a bowl, and two coins if you add an egg or meat, which is one coin cheaper than ours. Everyone will definitely go to their place to eat." Xiao Tao's eyes were red. Look how angry she is.
"Don't panic, I have a secret weapon. It's guaranteed to attract customers, and we'll definitely sell more instant noodles than them. We'll sell out everything we brought today," Song Tantan confidently assured him.
Well, actually, her so-called secret weapon, her so-called secret seasoning packet, is just the original toppings that come with instant noodles. The flavors are all over the place, some spicy, some sour, all sorts of flavors.
However, they all have one thing in common: they smell delicious from afar and have a strong aroma. Anyone who has eaten instant noodles knows that they smell even better than they taste.
In the past, if someone in one dormitory room was making instant noodles, the entire dormitory building could smell it; its ability to spread the smell was extraordinary.
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