"Sister, are you home?" My cousin's voice came from outside the yard.
Li Yan was surprised to find that her cousins had all returned. She quickly agreed and walked out.
Although Li Yan did not go to the shop, Li Jianmin would come here to look for his sister every night when he came back, and give the daily revenue of the shop to his sister, and by the way, report on the business status of the shop and possible problems.
Li Jianmin handed the money in the basket to his sister. "There's a total of 6,820 coins here. The soy sauce shop got 4,800 coins, and the rest is the profit from the snack shop!"
"Thank you for your hard work, brother. Are there any problems in the shop today?"
"Everything is going on normally in the shop. Even the small vendors are trying to imitate our scallion oil noodles!"
Li Yan smiled. This scallion oil noodles is the simplest food. You just need to stand at their stall and watch, learn how to make scallion oil, pour Li Ji's sauce on it, and mix it. It is a food that anyone can make with their hands!
This was already within his expectations: "Don't worry, big brother. I'll go to the shop with you tomorrow. I made some new noodles today. Let's try something new tomorrow!"
"What about fried chicken? Piaoxianglou ordered eight fried chickens for tomorrow, which isn't a lot."
Li Yan slapped her head and realized that she had forgotten about this matter. But there was no rush. She still had to marinate it overnight, so it was not too late to do it now!
"Let's go down the mountain!" The brother and sister then went down the mountain.
All the chickens that Wu had collected from the villagers were placed at the foot of the mountain for foster care. For a while, Li Yan had a constant supply of chickens. Those families who had started raising chickens in the first batch had now earned a few taels of silver. The enthusiasm of the happy villagers was extremely high.
When the two arrived at the foot of the mountain, the Zhao family had already killed ten chickens and rounded up another thirty or forty chickens. They would wait for Li Yan to come back and make the final decision on how many chickens to slaughter.
"Uncle Zhao, please help me kill another twenty-eight chickens!"
As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, several families at the foot of the mountain started to move. Even the little kids could help to pluck the chicken feathers.
Li Yan and her cousin brought back the ten chickens that had been killed earlier and began to marinate them.
Unlike fried chicken, after mixing onions, ginger, garlic, spice powder, soy sauce and other sauces, Li Yan also added half a piece of fermented bean curd to these sauces. The purpose of this is probably to enhance the color and aroma.
Then spread the mixed sauce on the chicken, poke it and marinate it!
Seeing the marinade method was different from that used for fried chicken, Li Jianmin asked, "Is this what we're going to use for roast chicken tomorrow?"
Li Yan nodded. "We'll make them for the first time tomorrow and give them a try! If these two snacks are well-received by everyone, we'll alternate making them every day to change up the flavors!"
Li Jianmin naturally had no objection to this matter. In his eyes, his cousin was the person who knew the most about food he had ever met. Even Qian, the shopkeeper of Piaoxianglou, might not know as much as his cousin.
After finishing the work here, it’s time to have dinner.
"Brother, tell me tomorrow to come and help me sell soy sauce tomorrow morning!"
Tomorrow he would go to the shop, and someone would surely come to his house to buy soy sauce, so he had to make arrangements for that as well. After the two of them finished their discussion, Li Jianmin went back.
During dinner, Li Erlang asked his daughter about her fermented tofu: "When are you going to sell it? Many of my colleagues have asked about it today."
This fermented bean curd is the perfect food to go with porridge. Those colleagues who got the fermented bean curd gave it to their elderly parents as a filial gift.
They had bad teeth to begin with, and now they could eat such fine and glutinous fermented bean curd, which was so delicious that they immediately asked where they bought it.
They naturally didn't know the answer, so they came to ask Li Erlang the next day.
Li Yan was delighted to hear this. After a moment's thought, she said, "It'll take some time before I can really sell it. I haven't even finished making this fermented bean curd jar yet!"
In fact, there is another reason that Li Yan did not mention. She has not done any publicity and promotion yet. Of course, making fermented bean curd is also intended to attract traffic to the market.
Li Yan's current business of selling small commodities is only about making money. What she would like to do more is to make this market attract more businesses to come, so as to drive the development of the entire Rongcheng and bring more resources and money-making opportunities to the people nearby!
Li Yan would naturally not tell others about this idea.
"Since it's not ready yet, I'll ask you to wait a little longer tomorrow!"
Li Yan paused and asked again, "From what father said, it seems the county magistrate wants this fermented bean curd?"
"The Dragon Boat Festival is just over a month away. The county magistrate's wife thinks this fermented bean curd is delicious, so she wanted to send some to her parents' home as a gift for them to try!" Li Erlang explained.
Li Yan had heard from Zheng Hui that the family of the county magistrate's wife was quite powerful in the south. His grandfather was the prefect of a certain place, and his two uncles were one county magistrate and the other a businessman. If his father had not had the help of his grandfather, with County Magistrate Zheng's upright character, he might have been banished to that miserable place to be the county magistrate.
When Li Yan heard her father say this, she immediately perked up: "Dad, the county magistrate needs it, so I'm sure we have it. I can give you thirty cans. Do you think that's enough?"
If this fermented bean curd can catch the eyes of those people, it may even help his career development to a higher level.
Li Erlang looked at his clever daughter and couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. It turned out that he, as a father, didn't have as much status as the county magistrate's wife!
Li Yan also knew that her previous performance was a bit too materialistic. She scratched her head uncomfortably and acted embarrassed.
Li Erlang rubbed his daughter's head and said, "Okay, I'll go ask the adults tomorrow and tell you when I come back!"
When it comes to business, he believes he is not as smart as his daughter, so he does not interfere in his daughter's affairs and lets her do it on her own.
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