Shopkeeper Qi and Manager Qi looked at each other with light in their eyes.
They have already experienced the seasonings here at Song Xiaodong's house. They are good things that are not available elsewhere.
If Song Xiaodong's family took the initiative to propose this, it wouldn't be much different if you think about it.
Being able to obtain another seasoning that is not available elsewhere is only good for them.
"What seasoning?" Shopkeeper Qi asked with great interest.
Song Qiu went into the kitchen, took out a bag of starch, and placed it on the table.
"Here, this is it. The name of this seasoning is starch."
"Starch? What kind of food is this made for?" Shopkeeper Qi looked at the small pieces of dark white stuff, which looked a bit like lime, but didn't have the pungent taste of lime.
Song Qiu looked at Guanshi Qi and said with a smile: "Guanshi Qi ate the boiled fish here last time. If you eat it today, do you feel that the fish fillets are more tender and smooth?"
When Manager Qi heard this, he couldn't help but asked: "Could it be related to the starch?"
The boiled fish he ate just now did feel tender and smooth. He thought it was a problem with his mouth since he hadn't eaten the boiled fish at Songshan Inn for a long time.
This fish fillet is so smooth and tender that it is indeed unmatched by what their Xian Fulai chefs can cook.
"That's right, it's because of the use of starch. This starch is used to thicken the meat and make the dishes smoother. Just now, Qi Guanshi, you ordered a lotus root meat slice. Did you find that the meat slices were equally tender and smooth?"
Manager Qi and shopkeeper Qi were both surprised. Yes, they thought it was because Song Xiaodong's cooking skills were so good that he could make the meat slices smoother than anywhere else.
So it turns out it’s all because of this starch?
Previously, the chefs in their restaurant used egg white to knead the fish fillets when making boiled fish. It was more tender and smooth than using no starch, but it was not as good as this starch!
Take this piece of meat, for example, when the chef stir-fries it, it's all cooked with firewood, and it's definitely not this tender.
The same goes for restaurants elsewhere.
Almost immediately, shopkeeper Qi saw the benefits of this starch, and immediately said: "I wonder how Song Xiaodong plans to sell this starch? How much can it be distributed?"
Song Qiu first demonstrated to people how to wet the lumps of starch with water, wrap them in the meat slices and grasp them evenly. A handful of starch can wet half a bowl of gravy, and you can wrap as many pieces of meat as you want.
Then he smiled and said: "This starch is quite uniform, thirty-five cents per pound. I think Shopkeeper Qi has an idea of how many vegetables can be used for this pound. You can just estimate how much Shopkeeper Qi wants."
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Shopkeeper Qi said it costs 35 pounds per can, which is the same price as sesame oil. It’s cheaper than peppercorns. It’s still a good thing and not expensive.
He could make the decision without asking his boss for instructions. He immediately said: "I want a hundred catties first!"
"Okay, no problem!" Song Qiu agreed, happily asking Wang to weigh out the starch and pack it.
As soon as the starch came out of the workshop, it was used first in her inn. It was used one after another to make a lot of vermicelli, and the hundred kilograms could still be weighed.
She set a price of thirty-five pounds per pound, which was not a loss.
Although one stone of sweet potatoes can only produce about 24 kilograms of starch, twenty-four kilograms can be sold for more than 800 yuan at this price. The cost of one stone of sweet potatoes is only 50 yuan. Even with labor, labor and time, it is overwhelming.
Counting 200 Wen, there is still 600 Wen left to earn.
Not a loss.
Soon, Du Chuanfu took Tao Dong and others back to the village and brought over a hundred jars of bean paste and a hundred pounds of dried chili peppers.
This is not the first time that Du Chuanfu has done this. A jar of five kilograms of bean paste is filled with not too much or too little, which is just right.
At that moment, Song Qiu asked Tao Zheng to set the abacus and settle the accounts.
Of course, she is faster at mental arithmetic, but she doesn't need to show it to outsiders.
Tao Zheng got the price, and the abacus clicked. "One hundred jars of bean paste, four hundred coins per jar, and forty taels of silver. One hundred catties of dried chili, fifty coins per catty, and five taels of silver. One pound."
One hundred pounds of starch, thirty-five cents per pound, is three and a half taels of silver. Boss, the total here is forty-eight and a half taels of silver."
Song Qiu nodded and looked at Shopkeeper Qi, "Sincerity is forty-eight and a half. You two have come from afar. This meal is my treat. It is also Song Qiu's honor to do business with Xianfu. Happy cooperation!"
Although Shopkeeper Qi did not use an abacus here, he knew that Tao Zheng's calculation was correct when he saw Tao Zheng's abacus. Hearing Song Qiu's words, he also smiled and said politely, saying "please cooperate with him".
Then he happily took out the money and came out.
There are two silver ingots worth twenty-two pieces each, one ingot worth five liang pieces, plus three large pieces of broken silver and a small piece of broken silver, all of which are of high quality.
Song Qiu put it away, then personally sent Shopkeeper Qi and his entourage to load the car and leave.
He turned around and smiled with crooked eyebrows. He received nearly fifty taels of silver in one fell swoop. Adding on the previous one, he now had another hundred taels of silver in his hand.
The third grade junior high school workshop pays wages, so don’t worry.
In the afternoon, Song Qiu drove Zhang Lihua and Aling to the farm in a mule cart. Du Chuanfu also drove another mule cart to follow.
We entered Huangjia Village all the way, arrived at Lishugou, and knocked on the farm gate.
Lin Desheng came out to open the door. Seeing that his employer was coming, he quickly removed the threshold and opened the door wide so that the mule cart could drive in.
While tying up the mule cart and setting it up, Lin Desheng reported to Song Qiu what happened at the farm in the past two days.
In the past two days, they followed Song Qiu's instructions, starting with the lotus pond. In two days, they emptied half of the lotus roots in the lotus pond, trimmed it, and released water to make it a fish pond.
In addition, Ma also opened a large vegetable field and asked for some vegetable seeds from the villagers. They had everything, just the same, and sowed them all.
While talking, they arrived at the lotus pond. Wang Guizhuang and Tian Ping were pulling lotus roots in the lotus pond with their trouser legs rolled up.
The lotus roots that had been picked up were piled up on the shore, and the lotus roots that had been picked up two days ago were piled in the room above the front door. There were so many lotus roots that it was impossible to eat them all, even if the inn used them every day, they would not be able to use them up.
Song Qiu planned to sell them, but he just took a walk this afternoon to pull lotus roots.
By the way, I went to the top of the mountain to pick a lot of oranges. The oranges were big, red, juicy and sweet.
Now that there are people taking care of the farm, it looks completely different inside and out. Song Qiu looked around and felt relieved. He pulled two mule carts full of lotus roots and oranges and left the farm.
After leaving Huangjia Village and passing by Yanghuai Village, Song Qiu turned in and left some lotus roots and oranges for his uncle's house.
Lao Meng was happy that she came, but he hadn't seen her for a long time. He pulled her and talked for a while, and then told Song Qiu to come with her on the day of the second day of the lunar new year.
Then he gathered a lot of Chinese cabbage, radishes, celery, leeks, garlic sprouts and chives from the vegetable garden for Song Qiu to take away.
He escorted Song Qiu all the way out of the courtyard, and watched for a long time before turning around and returning to the courtyard.
When I entered the hospital, I heard two granddaughters muttering next to each other, "Look at our breasts, look at cousin Aqiu's how hot they are now."
"No, Cousin Aqiu is the God of Wealth in our family now! The second uncle and second aunt also got a salary increase this month. Our family's life is getting better and better. When the marriage is finalized here, eldest sister, your marriage will be arranged.
But let’s talk about it!”
"Oh! You are teasing me so much, why don't I tickle you?"
When Old Meng saw her two granddaughters fighting, she thought that her family's life was getting better now.
All this is really a loss to my sister’s family.
I never expected that a sister who had such a hard time in the first half of her life would have such a capable granddaughter. She would be so blessed in the rest of her life!