In the morning, Li Hehua set up his stall. It was still early and people from the street had just started to come to the town for the market.
Taking advantage of the free time, Li Hehua sat at the table and began to plan to do breakfast business. She had been thinking about this a few days ago. Now, in order to facilitate Cao Simei and Daya to sell cakes, the food stall is also set up very early every day. It is still far from the time for customers to eat lunch. There is nothing to do for half a morning. So she thought that it would be useless to sit there, so she might as well do some breakfast business and sell some buns.
Steamed buns, soy milk, etc., anyway, it doesn’t interfere with selling snacks at noon, and I can make extra money.
Just as Li Hehua was thinking about the specific implementation steps in her mind, Cao Simei sat down next to her.
Li Hehua thought that Cao Simei came to take a break, so he smiled and poured her a glass of water, "Sister, drink some water before you get busy."
Fourth sister Cao picked up the cup, took a sip and put it down. Seeing that there was no one around, she felt relieved. She reached out and took Li Hehua's hand and patted it, smiling and said, "Big sister, I want to tell you something today."
Li Hehua saw that Cao Simei was smiling, so he asked with a smile: "Sister, are you going to tell me something good?"
The smile on Cao Simei's face became even wider, "Of course, it's a good thing, let me tell you..." Cao Simei moved closer to Li Hehua and said softly, "Sister, I want to introduce someone to you. The other party is from our village. He is very honest and capable. His original wife..."
Before Cao Simei could finish her words, she was interrupted by Li Hehua, "Wait wait wait, big sister, you've confused me. Why are you introducing me to someone? I don't plan to find another one..."
Li Hehua was indeed confused. She was still telling Sister Xie last night that no one would introduce a date to her, so why did she come immediately today? And she didn't plan to find a date, so she didn't even need to listen.
Fourth sister Cao disagreed, "Sister, how can you not plan to find another one? How can you, a woman, stay alone in this situation? Stop talking nonsense, you are still young, and you have a long life ahead of you, how can you go on alone? So, listen to me, I won't hurt you." Then, she held Li Hehua's hand and continued, "Listen to me and tell me about this person, I guarantee you will be satisfied."
Before Li Hehua could interrupt, Cao Simei continued, "Let me introduce this man. His first wife died of illness three years ago. He spent a lot of money on medical treatment at the time, but he was loyal to his wife and kept her medical treatment and medicine. He never despised her. He was really a person of good character. But the woman was not cured and died in the end. He has not remarried in the past three years."
Seeing how enthusiastic and attentive Cao Simei was, Li Hehua knew that he couldn't interrupt her at this moment, so he could only listen with a blank face. He would refuse after she finished speaking.
"Big sister, let me tell you, this guy is definitely good. His parents are both dead. If you and him can succeed, you won't have parents-in-law to pressure you. He is a capable and honest person, and he loves his wife. In your situation, you have to find a man who loves his wife, and you will live happily after you marry him. And you don't have to worry about being a stepmother, because he only has one daughter, who can get married in a few years. By then, you can give him a son, and everything will be yours. You can't stand being wronged."
Li Hehua: “…”
Seeing that Li Hehua didn't say anything, Cao Simei advised: "Sister, I really feel sorry for you living alone. I want you to find someone who understands you and can accompany you, so that you don't have to do the hard work. I know it's not easy to find a woman to marry again, and I don't dare to find an unreliable one for you. I have been looking for a while, and this one is really good. You can meet him. He is a good person."
Li Hehua knew that Cao Simei was doing this for her own good, and she was very grateful for this kindness, but she really didn't want to find someone to marry, unless she found someone she liked and was willing to marry him or her. If she didn't meet someone she liked, she didn't want to marry just for the sake of marrying. Anyway, she was living a good life alone, and she had Shulin to accompany her.
"Sister, I know you are doing this for my own good, but you see, I'm running a business now, and my life is no worse than anyone else. I think my life is pretty good now, and I really don't want to get married again. So sister, can you please stop trying to persuade me?" Li Hehua said as he shook Cao Simei's sleeves, acting coquettishly on purpose.
Fourth Sister Cao frowned and sighed helplessly, "Why are you so stubborn? Never mind. You can't force me to do this. Think about it. You may want to meet again in a couple of days. Then tell me and I'll arrange for you to meet."
Li Hehua smiled perfunctorily, "Okay, okay, if I change my mind I'll come to you, okay?"
Cao Simei nodded at her and said, "You."
Da He was wiping the table nearby and overheard a little. He knew that his mother was going to introduce a man to Aunt He Hua, and that he had to be from their village. He couldn't help but come over and ask curiously, "Mom, who are you going to introduce to Aunt He Hua? Why haven't I heard you mention it before?"
Cao Simei frowned and waved her hand, "Go away, what do you know, kid? Go do your job!"
Daha was disappointed. He touched his nose and went to work.
Li Hehua also touched his nose, feeling that he had survived a dangerous situation and hoped that he would not encounter this again in the future.
However, Li Hehua was carefree and soon put the matter behind him, continuing to think about selling breakfast.
She and Sister Xie prepare steamed buns and steamed buns every night, so it is actually very easy to sell breakfast. Just make more steamed buns and steamed buns than usual, and add some tea eggs, soy milk, pancakes and the like. Even if they can't sell them in the morning, they can continue to sell them at noon. Anyway, every day there are many men working at the dock who are reluctant to eat snacks and only buy steamed buns and steamed buns.
In addition, in addition to the people working, there are many people coming down from the dock to eat every day. After eating, these people often buy some dry food to take away. Some people even said to Li Hehua regretfully that it would be great if they could pack up fried rice, fried noodles, etc. and take them away, so that they would have something to eat while on the boat.
However, these snacks are not convenient to carry and are easy to spoil, so they are indeed not as convenient as dry food.
Li Hehua suddenly became interested and inquired about it in detail. It turned out that some ships would continue to move forward and sometimes would not dock for ten days or half a month. Everyone could only eat dry food and wait until they got ashore to have something delicious. However, the dry food was not very tasty. It was okay to eat it for one or two days, but it was simply torture to eat it for a long time. But there was no other way. If they did not eat dry food, they would have to starve.
Li Hehua saw a business opportunity in this.
There were only a few types of dry food in this era. In order to make it easier to carry and preserve, the dry food was made very dry and indeed tasted very bad.
If some new dry food could appear, and it was delicious and filling, then she would definitely have no trouble selling it. If she sold it, then the customers who came to her stall to eat could buy some dry food when they left. Those who did hard labor could also buy it. It was much cheaper than fried rice, fried noodles, dumplings, etc.
Moreover, these dry foods can be prepared in advance and will not delay her at all.
The more Li Hehua thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible. The so-called dry food is actually dry food without soup, which can be taken away directly or even eaten in the hand. It is convenient, simple and easy to carry. There are actually many such things, and it is not difficult to make.
So, while Li Hehua was busy making snacks, he was thinking about what kind of dry food he could make that would be both delicious and filling.
By the time he closed his stall in the afternoon, Li Hehua had made his decision.
She planned to make a roujiamo, which is a steamed bun with some vegetables and meat between two large slices of steamed bread. She could put it in an oil paper bag and take it away. When she wanted to eat, she could just take it out and eat it. It was very convenient and delicious. It was much better than those dry naan and was also nutritious.
Secondly, she also plans to make a sauce-flavored pancake, which can be eaten right away and is very delicious. It can be used for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and the taste is absolutely first-class.
These two things are very simple to make, basically only need flour, simple raw materials mean low cost, which means cheap price, such delicious and cheap things, I am sure many people are willing to buy. Although it is not as long as those dry naan that are seriously lacking in water, it tastes good, just right to eat it in the first two days of the journey.
That night, Li Hehua started making roujiamo and jiangxiang bing. He made a large basket of each. Although the quantity was large, it did not take much time.
After it was made, the first to taste it were Sister Xie and Shulin. After eating it, Sister Xie kept giving thumbs up, "Delicious, delicious, sister, your cooking is so delicious, I have never seen it before, what is this?"
Li Hehua introduced: "This stuffed bun is called Roujiamo, and the other is Jiangxiangbing. I plan to make them and sell them. Many people need to buy dry food to eat on the road, so these two should be suitable for sale."
Mrs. Xie nodded vigorously after hearing this. "Yes, yes, that's a good idea. It is indeed suitable as dry food. Besides, where can I find such delicious dry food? If I were to buy it, I would buy this to eat on the road."
After receiving great praise and support from Mrs. Xie, Li Hehua turned to Shulin and saw the little guy eating the Roujiamo by himself. Li Hehua squatted in front of him and asked him, "Shulin, is what mom cooked delicious?"
The little guy blinked his eyes, suddenly opened his mouth wide, took a big bite, and his eyes narrowed.
This means the little guy is saying it’s delicious.
Li Hehua was surprised. He didn't know when Shulin learned this way of expression. It was a little different from his previous restrained expression. He was obviously more extroverted and simply adorable.
He must have become more and more lively after learning with that little guy Gu Jinzhao. It’s really great.
Li Hehua felt that Gu Jinzhao was a really nice little guy. After Shulin stayed with him for a long time, he might be willing to speak. After all, the little guy talked a lot.
Li Hehua turned around and took out the lunch box she had just bought for the little guy, picked out four roujiamo and a few large pieces of Jiangxiang pancakes and put them in it, and said to Shulin who was watching from the side: "Shulin, mother will pack some roujiamo and Jiangxiang pancakes for you. You can take them to eat with Jinzhao tomorrow. Remember to let your teacher have a taste too. In the future, if there are good things, you should share them with your teacher and good friends, okay?"
Since both Master Gu and Gu Jinzhao had some, Li Hehua felt that Shulin's father couldn't be left out either, so he took out a large oil-paper bag and stuffed a few roujiamo and jiangxiang pancakes into it. "This is for your father. The money for your schooling is all paid by your father. You must remember to be filial to him, otherwise your father will be sad." It's not right for the master and friends to have some, but not his biological father, so Zhang Tieshan had to give something as well.
After the installation is completed, the remaining ones will be sold tomorrow.
Before setting up the stall the next day, Li Hehua put the steamed buns and steamed bread made the previous night into the steamer and steamed them in the big pot at home. Then he brought the steamer to the stall and heated them in the small pot. In this way, he officially started selling breakfast. He also sold roujiamo and jiangxiang bing.
Li Hehua first gave a roujiamo to Dahe, and then gave one to Cao Simei and Daya, which received unanimous praise from the three.
After eating Roujiamo, Dahe started to get busy, shouting to the busy streets, "Selling breakfast, big and fragrant steamed buns, as well as delicious Roujiamo and Jiangxiang cakes~"
Li Hehua felt that Daha was a good businessman and was open-minded and not afraid of embarrassment. He would keep using such a guy in the future.
As Da He shouted hard, people on the street knew that this stall also sold breakfast. Many people came to buy food, including many
Old customers came up to greet Li Hehua and asked, "Boss, will you still sell breakfast in the future?"
Li Hehua smiled and nodded, "Yes, from now on the stall will sell breakfast in the morning. You can come and buy what you want. Not only do we have steamed buns, but we also have my own Roujiamo and Jiangxiang pancakes. You can also buy them as dry food. If you want to prepare dry food in the future, you can try my Roujiamo and Jiangxiang pancakes."
Many people were attracted by the roujiamo and jiangxiang bing that Li Hehua mentioned. They thought they looked delicious and the price was not expensive, so they asked Li Hehua to make one for them to try.
Li Hehua packed food for the guests one by one and introduced the new guests to them. She was so busy that she didn't notice that a man was watching her not far away.
This person is the blind date that Cao Simei said she would introduce to Li Hehua, named Gu Dafeng.
Cao Simei had mentioned Li Hehua to Gu Dafeng before. Gu Dafeng had been widowed for three years and thought it was time to marry again. He heard from Cao Simei that the other party was very capable and virtuous, and had opened a snack stand. Even Cao Simei's whole family was working for her, so he wanted to meet her. However, there had been no news in the past few days. He couldn't help but get anxious, so he came here by himself this morning, wanting to see what kind of woman she was.
Not far away, Gu Dafeng saw Li Hehua clearly: she was wearing coarse cloth, looked very clean and neat, had fair skin, and good facial features, but was a little fat, but he didn't mind being fat, it was good to be fat, fat looks blessed. And she looked really capable and neat, it would be a blessing to marry such a woman home, Sister Cao didn't lie to him.
Gu Dafeng was quite satisfied and wanted to meet her immediately, but for some reason there was no movement from Sister Cao. Could it be that she was unwilling?
Thinking of this, Gu Dafeng walked forward involuntarily.
Li Hehua smiled and asked the person in front of him, "What do you need?"
Gu Dafeng paused, looked at the things on the stall, pointed at the Roujiamo and Jiangxiangbing, and said, "Give me a piece of each."
"Okay." Li Hehua neatly wrapped a piece for each of them and handed it to him. "Okay, take your things. It's three cents in total."
Gu Dafeng was attracted by Li Hehua's smile, and hurriedly lowered his head to take out money and handed two cents to Li Hehua. Seeing that many people were eating at the table in the back, he also sat down at the table silently.
Sister Cao turned around inadvertently and saw Gu Dafeng sitting at the table eating. She was startled and hurried over, "Dafeng, why are you here!" Sister Hehua didn't agree to meet him, so what should she do now that he has come!
Gu Dafeng glanced at Li Hehua quickly and said, "Sister, I just came to town for something. I'm hungry, so I came to eat something. The food here is really good."
In her heart, Cao Simei didn't believe what Gu Dafeng said. She thought, "He came to eat. He must have come to see Sister Lotus." This was originally a good thing. But who knew that Sister Lotus disagreed with the meeting? This made things difficult.
Fourth sister Cao was in a dilemma and could only approach Gu Dafeng and said, "Dafeng, I told you about that matter before, but something went wrong. My sister hasn't figured it out yet and doesn't want to see you. I was thinking of waiting for her to think about it again, so your matter... Dafeng, I'm sorry that I didn't handle it well."
Gu Dafeng stopped eating and looked at Li Hehua who was busy. He suddenly felt bitter. Why didn't she want to meet him? Did she look down on him?
Gu Dafeng suddenly felt a little restless, so he stood up and said to Cao Simei, "Sister, thank you for your kindness. It's nothing to be sorry about. I'll go back first. You go on with your work." Then he left the stall.
Cao Simei looked at his back as he walked away, feeling uncomfortable. She had handled the matter in a wrong way. She shouldn't have told Dafeng about it first. She had thought it was a sure thing.
"Mom, you are not going to introduce Uncle Dafeng to Aunt Hehua, are you? Uncle Dafeng is here to see her?" Dahe's voice suddenly sounded in Cao Simei's ears, scaring her.
Cao Simei knocked Dahe and said, "You stupid kid, go do your job and don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask!"
Da He pouted depressedly and rubbed his head. Afraid that his mother would hit him again, he quickly ran to the other side to wipe the table. Seeing his mother go back to sell cakes, he dared to mutter in a low voice: "It must be, otherwise why would Uncle Da Feng come here? But Uncle Da Feng and Aunt He Hua are actually quite compatible. Uncle Da Feng is a good person and will definitely treat Aunt He Hua well. If it works out, it will be a good marriage."
Zhang Tieshan, who was eating at the table, paused and looked at Li Hehua who was busy, thinking of the man who had just sat and talked with Cao Simei.
So it turned out to be the man she was looking for?
Feeling inexplicably uncomfortable, Zhang Tieshan put three cents on the table, picked up the prey on the ground and left quietly.
When Li Hehua was about to take the prepared roujiamo and jiangxiang pancake back to Zhang Tieshan, he couldn't find him and felt surprised.
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