Li Yan returned to the snack shop, and Li Jianmin hurriedly told his cousin about Qin Yue sending someone to deliver something.
"They look like they're made of iron. I didn't look closely, but they're all piled up in the warehouse!"
Li Yan already understood in her heart, but she was not in a hurry to check.
It was dinner time, and Li Yan was going to call her cousin to go watch it together after she finished her work.
The shop was not big to begin with, and with the heat from the stove, not only my cousin who was cooking in front of the stove, but also the customers who were eating in the shop were all sweating profusely. Some people's clothes were even soaked with sweat!
The weather is getting hotter day by day. In addition to adding some iced tea, Li Yan is thinking about whether to change the food in the food store.
Having made up her mind, Li Yan told her cousin about it after she finished preparing the meal.
After seeing off the last wave of guests, Li Jianmin was worried that his cousin was hungry, so he was busy preparing food for his sister. They had all eaten in advance, but his sister was the only one who hadn't eaten yet!
Li Yan waved her hand: "Brother, don't worry, take a seat first, I have something to discuss with you!"
After hearing this, the two of them sat down opposite Li Yan.
"Brother, the weather is getting hot now, so we need to change the menu in our shop. People don't have much appetite in the summer, so I'd like to try some cool noodles. What do you think, brother?"
Li Jianmin nodded in agreement. Although fried noodles with soybean paste are delicious, you will get tired of eating the same kind of noodles all the time.
"Sister, what kind of food do you want to change this time?" Li Jianmin knew that his sister asked this and she must have already had an idea.
"The noodles can be replaced with vegetarian cold noodles or cold noodles with shredded chicken, and some iced drinks can be added, such as iced mint drink, iced sour plum soup, and iced milk tea."
The two of them felt very cool just by hearing the names of these foods. If such food could appear at this time of year, it would definitely sell well.
Li Jianmin nodded excitedly, then suddenly thought of something: "Sister, this food sounds good, but ice is very expensive at this time of year. Where can we find ice? Even if we can find it, such a precious thing is beyond the reach of ordinary people!"
"Don't worry about the ice, I've already arranged it!"
Seeing his sister's confident look, Li Jianmin knew that she had made all the arrangements, so there was nothing to worry about.
Li Yan stood up first and said to her eldest brother, "Come on, brother, let's go check out the noodle making machine that just arrived."
Li Yan took a pasta machine from the utility room and came to the well. She cleaned the machine, then took a small ball of dough and put it into the funnel of the pasta machine. She only needed to shake the handle to drive the spiral to rotate, and the dough would be squeezed out from the screen at the bottom.
The two people standing aside watching Li Yan's actions saw the long noodles being squeezed out. They widened their eyes and looked at the scene in disbelief.
Li Yan stopped what she was doing, then asked her cousin to try it, and she squatted down to prepare to cut the long noodles.
Li Jianmin stupidly followed his cousin's instructions and began to shake the joystick, and noodles were squeezed out from the bottom of the noodle machine continuously.
When the noodles reach a certain length, Li Yan uses a thin bamboo pole to cut the noodles from the bottom, and the thin noodles fall onto the sieve on the ground.
"Brother, how is it? Isn't it very labor-saving?"
Li Jianmin nodded without hesitation. If he had this thing, he could save so much time kneading and cutting noodles!
In just a cup of tea, the noodles pressed by Li Jianmin filled the sieve.
The noodles pressed in this way are more regular in shape and uniform in thickness, and look much better than those rolled out by hand.
Holding the pressed noodles, Li Yan began to teach her cousin how to make cold noodles.
In fact, cold noodles are very simple to make. Cook the noodles in boiling water, then rinse them with cold water. Place the noodles in a tray to continue to dissipate heat. During this time, pour some oil on the noodles and stir them constantly with chopsticks. This is to dissipate heat and prevent the noodles from sticking together.
After the noodles cooled down, Li Yan put them in a bowl and simply added some chopped green onions and soy sauce and mixed them.
"Whether the cold noodles are delicious or not depends on the seasoning. I didn't prepare enough seasoning today, so I just made a simple one!"
"So what's usually included in this mix?"
"In addition to oil, salt, chopped green onions, and soy sauce, you also need some garlic juice, fried peanuts, and some mung bean sprouts, cucumbers, etc!"
This doesn’t sound too difficult, just like making noodles with scallion oil, except that the cold noodles require the hot noodles to be cooled before mixing with the seasoning!
"The mung bean sprouts can wait until we get home today to start growing them, but we have cucumbers readily available in the garden. If they're not enough, you can buy some from the villagers. You can also add some pickled beans or something like that. These side dishes are not fixed, so you can come up with your own ideas based on the customer's preferences!"
Li Jianmin and Xiaocao listened attentively and nodded from time to time to indicate that they had taken note of it!
After talking about food, Li Yan introduced iced drinks to the two.
"There's no ice in the shop right now, so I won't make the iced drinks for now. I'll come over tomorrow and talk about it!"
Both of them had no objection.
After discussing tomorrow's arrangements, Li Yan sat down and ate the cold noodles she had just made.
After filling her stomach, Li Yan saw that it was still early, so she decided to go to the herbal medicine store to buy some herbs for making iced drinks tomorrow.
"Brother, I'm going to buy the ingredients for tomorrow's drinks. If you have nothing to do, you can press out the noodles for tomorrow's use!"
"The weather is so hot, won't the noodles go bad if they are left out overnight?" After all, as a food business, Li Jianmin was worried that the noodles would go bad if left out for a day.
Li Yan was stunned. She had forgotten that this was the first time her elder brother and the others made noodles in this way, and they might not even know that there was such a thing as instant noodles.
"Brother, these noodles can be dried in the sun. Once they are dried, they can be stored for a long time!"
Now it was Li Jianmin's turn to be stunned. He scratched his hair in confusion. That's right, flour can be preserved for a long time if it is dried. The same principle applies to noodles made from flour!
After leaving the snack shop, Li Yan went directly to Xingren Hall in the city.
When Li Yan walked into the pharmacy, Doctor Zhou was explaining the pulse diagnosis to Zhou Xun.
Seeing Li Yan, Doctor Zhou smiled and said, "Girl, are you here to buy those herbs again?"
Ever since Li Yan started cooking, she has purchased all the spices from Dr. Zhou.
During this period, there was a joke. Because I bought too many spicy herbs, Dr. Zhou was worried and even went to my uncle.
Finally, after my uncle's repeated assurances, I felt relieved.
Now that their two families are related, Dr. Zhou's attitude towards Li Yan is naturally a little closer than before.
Li Yan shook her head. "It's getting hot now, and I want to sell some sour plum soup in my snack shop. Could you help me get twenty boxes?"
The medicinal ingredients for sour plum soup are quite common. Doctor Zhou turned around and ordered, "Axun, help the girl prepare the medicine."
Li Yan stood behind the counter and saw Zhou Xun put fifty paper packages on the counter, then opened the medicine cabinet and placed the medicinal ingredients used for sour plum soup on it one by one.
Among them are black plums, hawthorns, licorice slices, tangerine peel, dried mulberries, and a few small pieces of mint.
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