After a dreamless night, the next day, Grandpa Li came early in the morning to take over his granddaughter's work. The job was not complicated. If you brought a jar, he would only charge 70 cents per jar. If you bought a whole jar, it would be 12 cents more. Grandpa Li was very clear about this matter and did not need Li Yan to explain it again.
As for the work of making soy sauce, it was handed over to her aunt. Li Yan had prepared the spice powder in advance, and the remaining ingredients were to chop the fermented black beans and mushrooms, stir-fry them, and then add water to boil them. Li Xiaomei had watched her niece do these tasks many times, so they were not difficult.
After arranging the affairs at home, the group rushed to the shop in the city.
When she arrived at the market, Li Yan was surprised by the changes there.
Although it was early in the morning, the market was already bustling with activity. At the entrance of the market, many food vendors arrived early to occupy advantageous locations. In recent days, more and more people came here because of Li Ji Soy Sauce. Some of these people bought some food from the small stalls after traveling all the way. Naturally, the business was good.
As for the big merchants who stayed here temporarily, they were not in a hurry to make a move after traveling for so many days. They were generous with their money and stayed at Qin Yue's inn to facilitate their investigation of Li Ji's soy sauce.
When Li Yan and the others arrived at the shop, they first pulled the mule cart to the backyard. After not having been there for a few days, the backyard had been completely expanded. Now, except for some household appliances and utensils that still needed to be purchased, everything else was available. Even the well was dug by Qin Yue, so it was much more convenient to use water now.
The unloaded goods were moved directly into the shop through the back door, and the shop was opened for business only after the goods were placed in place.
There is no need to prepare anything for the soy sauce shop, just open for business.
Now many people know that the Li family also has this soy sauce, so there are fewer people queuing in front of the shop, which makes the two people guarding the shop feel a lot more relaxed.
Li Yan also went directly to the snack shop with her cousins. There were two more kinds of food today, which required some effort to make.
He first gave Zhao Da some money and asked him to help buy some pork belly with fat and lean meat to prepare the fried sauce.
As soon as Li Jianmin arrived, he started to knead the dough, and Xiaocao also helped him. There was no other way. Every day when they arrived, the first thing they had to do was to knead the dough and roll it out. The hand-rolled noodles were cut into thin pieces and kept for later use. If they waited until someone came to the table to roll the noodles, even the daylily would have been cold!
Li Yan watched them busying themselves, and she was not idle either. She first lit a fire in the small clay stove, and then brought the snacks that had been braised overnight to the small clay stove.
After lighting a fire, he pulled out the six iron grills embedded in the hollow part of the stove and put the chicken marinated yesterday into them.
After placing the chicken on the iron rack, Li Yan prepared some dipping sauce. This dipping sauce was made from malt sugar. When the chicken was roasted to a certain degree, she took it out and dipped it in the sauce to prevent the skin from being burnt and affecting the appearance.
The snack shop over here was making preparations in an orderly manner, and the soy sauce shop over there had already sold most of its soy sauce. It was not for any other reason, but because these people still had to rush for a whole morning to get to the nearby town. If they set out late, they would probably be late when they come back.
"Sister Qing'er, you take care of this shop first. I'll go next door to help out!"
Daya heard from her eldest brother yesterday that the shop would be selling new food today and was worried that they would be too busy to handle it. Seeing that there were not many goods here, she planned to go to the shop next door to help.
Lin Qing nodded: "You go first, I'll come over after I finish selling the goods!"
With Daya coming to roll the noodles, Li Jianmin stopped rolling the noodles and started frying the chicken. The stove was already hot, so he poured oil into it. Soon the aroma of fried chicken came from the shop.
Li Jianmin was cooking fried chicken, while Li Yan was busy chopping the minced meat. She only stopped when she had a whole pot of pork belly with both fat and lean meat.
It was already late and the sun was high in the sky. The market was busier than in the morning, so Li Yan began to teach her elder brother how to make fried sauce.
Pour the minced meat into the hot oil, you will hear a sizzling sound, and soon the air will be filled with a rich aroma. Add green onion and ginger to remove the fishy smell, and sugar and salt to enhance the flavor. After the oil in the meat is stir-fried, start pouring in the sauce prepared yesterday.
This soy sauce is a mixture of a small amount of soybean paste and a simple version of sweet bean sauce made with soy sauce.
The minced meat is wrapped in a thick sauce, and under high temperature, the aroma wafts far away in the market.
Well, this must be what Li Ji Snacks is making!
The shop owners in the vicinity were grumbling in their hearts that they were actually happy to see Li Ji's soy sauce shop become so popular, mainly because it would bring popularity to the market.
Although the business is so good that it makes people jealous, who among the merchants who opened shops here is so naive that they can investigate the power behind the shop clearly? Naturally, no one dares to take over Li's shop.
Of course, Qin Yue also had a hint behind this, as he didn't want anyone to bump into him.
When Li Yan finished making the first batch of fried sauce, Li Jianmin had also finished cooking the noodles.
"Brother, you guys eat something first. I'm afraid we'll be busy later and won't have time to eat." Li Yan quickly picked up three bowls of noodles and gave the instructions.
Just as the three of them started eating, Ying Si, who had smelled the fragrance, appeared in front of the shop with a bright smile.
Ying Si blinked his eyes, looked at the noodles in the hands of the others, and asked expectantly, "What kind of food is that, young lady? Give me three servings too! How much?"
Ying Si was thinking to himself, today is the perfect time to see that the snack shop has new food!
"That's eight cents for a bowl of noodles with soybean paste. Do you want to eat it here or take it to the next door? We also have roast chicken in our shop today. You should try it, young man."
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