Clan Leader Lin arrived very quickly, and at this time, there were already more than a dozen women from the clan surrounding the courtyard. When Lin Wanwan was refining and making noodle soup, Huanong also added noodle base and made it again under the eyes of everyone.
The steamed cakes are almost cooked now.
"Wan Niang, I heard you got something good again?" Patriarch Lin asked straight to the point when he arrived.
Lin Wanwan said: "Yes, this is what my master taught me before. I went to the town to buy some materials and came back to make it, and it was a success. Uncle clan leader, I think our clan can make something like this and sell it.
Some money."
Patriarch Lin was a little moved, but he was worried that his fisherman's family would become a merchant by selling such things. Hou Tao and Lin's ancestors had never been in a merchant's house for generations, so they couldn't let it go bad in his hands.
Seeing that Patriarch Lin did not agree immediately, Lin Wanwan was not in a hurry.
At this time, the steamed cakes were ready, Lin Wanwan said with a smile: "Let's go, let everyone see with your own eyes what the steamed cakes made with flour soda are like."
More than 20 people followed Lin Wanwan and Patriarch Lin into the kitchen in a hurry. The things inside were all too exquisite, not to mention porcelain bowls and basins, and there were a bunch of glassware. Everyone was tied up, for fear of bumping them.
, can’t afford to pay.
Seeing everyone coming in, Huanong opened the lid of the bamboo steamer with Lin Wanwan's eyes. A strong aroma of meat spread out, making everyone who had been hungry all year round instantly become salivating.
"Wow! How come it's so white and so big!"
"When I looked at what Huanong made, it didn't put in more flour than I did, but the steamed cakes it made were two times bigger than what I made!"
Lin Wanwan took the chopsticks and said with a smile: "Come on, let's all have a taste and see if it tastes good. Uncle Patriarch, you eat first."
This cage has three drawers, and dozens of steamed buns are made, enough for each person present.
"I don't want to eat a whole one, just give me a bite to taste." Chief Lin frowned slightly and said: "Wan Niang, there are only a few people in your family, why do you want to make so many steamed cakes at once? The clan members just come to taste,
Just a pinch for each person.
You have to be frugal. You have to use all the new rice to plant seeds. What will you do if you run out of food? Food is more important than copper coins. In those years of the war, people in the town couldn't buy food even if they had money. The direct branch was better than us at the time.
The branch is much richer, but so what? Now you look again, you are the only one left."
"Yeah, yeah, uncle is right, I will definitely not be extravagant next time." Lin Wanwan couldn't help but nodded.
Although Lin Wanwan is a master of time and space and will never be in danger of food shortages, as she has Great China behind her, Patriarch Lin is right, and there is no need for her to object, just listen.
After Patriarch Lin finished speaking, Lin Wanwan continued to smile and motioned to Huanong to share the steamed cakes: "Uncle Patriarch, don't worry, I have remembered everything you said. But today, I will let everyone try the new goodies.
Taste it! See how effective my noodle base is."
A group of people really couldn't wait and didn't even care about how hot it was. Under the gaze of the clan leader, they started to eat one after another, one after another.
"Wow, it's so delicious, fragrant and soft, not sour or hard at all!"
Lin Qin suddenly said: "This steamed cake is like clouds in the sky, white and soft! Isn't it? This is probably something only gods can eat!"
"Who says otherwise, Wan Niang, this thing is like making an elixir. Can we country women really make it?"
Xiao Qingyu and other little ones smelled the fragrance and excitement and came over. Lin Wanwan loaded a plate for them and asked Yun Shang to take them to the main room to eat, while she continued to say to everyone in the kitchen: "This
It’s not difficult at all, you can figure it out after you follow me a few times.”
"I don't think it's going to work. How dare we make elixirs with such rough hands and feet? Don't get blown up."
No one is that confident. In their eyes, Lin Wanwan is almost the same as a deity in the sky. They cannot do what this deity can do.
What worries everyone the most is that there used to be a Taoist temple on the mountain nearby, but one day, when the Taoist priest was refining elixir, the furnace exploded, destroying half of the Taoist temple. Naturally, the Taoist priest died on the spot.
This incident later became a topic of conversation among people from ten miles and eight villages down the mountain after dinner. Everyone was glad that they did not go up the mountain to burn incense that day, but at the same time, everyone also had a psychological shadow on the Taoist priest's alchemy.
Since the old Taoist priest who made alchemy in the Taoist temple was killed in an explosion, the Taoist temple on the mountain has never been repaired. The remaining young Taoist priests have taken refuge in other mountains, and the Taoist temple has been directly abandoned.
So they like Dabai's steamed cakes, but they don't dare to do the work of refining noodles and making elixirs.
"Otherwise, let the men do it." Lin Sun suggested weakly.
Lin Qin immediately objected: "Men have to go out to sea to fish, and rowing is a strenuous job. We can't let them do this when they come back after finishing the work at sea. It would be too tiring, and it would be dangerous to go to sea without strength."
"Yes, yes, men can't."
Seeing that everyone was really not confident, Lin Wanwan couldn't help but think that she might have oversimplified things.
At this time, Patriarch Lin spoke: "Wan Niang, I think this matter is over. I have no idea whether selling noodle base is considered a business. The son of a businessman is not allowed to take exams, serve in the military, or eat with gentlemen.
.Look at the clan’s clan schools now being established, so it’s better not to take risks.
What's more, those of us who are fishermen should fish well, and those who farm should farm well, this is the serious business, and those who do not do such business are not safe."
Under the deep-rooted thinking of the Tang Dynasty’s “scholars, farmers, industry and commerce”, fishermen envied farmers who had many fields to cultivate.
Although businessmen have a lot of money, they are humble.
The sons of businessmen are basically like the sons of criminals. They are no better than slaves. They wear silk and satin in secret. They cannot ride horses and can only ride in bullock carts. If the official wants to punish you, they will punish you. No matter how rich you are,
, and everyone looks down upon it.
It was not until the late Xuanzong period that these businessmen who were squeezed by the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty would fight with money on a large scale to fight for power for themselves.
For the vast majority of people in the early Tang Dynasty, buying and selling was a sign of not doing their job properly, far from being a down-to-earth farmer and a fisherman.
Lin Wanwan pondered for a moment and said: "Uncle Patriarch, the noodle base is just a gadget that I made myself. It is just like the farmers in the town who sell their handicrafts in their spare time. It is not considered a business. It is all the income of hard work, not
Sell."
Patriarch Lin touched his beard and said, "Since you said so, Wan Niang, then you can give it a try."
Lin Wanwan smiled and said: "When the time comes, we will make the noodles and sell them to the major restaurants and inns in Wanghai Town. What do you think?"
"Okay! As long as Uncle Clan Chief and Sister Wan say yes, I will do it!" Lin Qin was the first to express her support.
"Let Meng Li contact me. He works as a waiter in a restaurant in town and knows more."
"Meng Li can't do it. He's always being cheated. The fish we worked so hard to catch from the sea are cheated when we sell them at the dock. We're still cheated when we go to restaurants."