Su Liu returned home. Mrs. Chen and the others had put all the things away. Su Xiao was rolling around on the new bedding. When he saw her coming back, he smiled and said, "Sister, are you back?"
Su Liu hummed, took out the cloth bag given by Ning Guang from her arms, and threw it on the kang. Su Xiao grabbed it and asked: "What is this? Ah." She opened it and asked in surprise: "Sister
, Where did you get so much money?”
Mrs. Chen also looked at Su Liu in surprise.
"Guan Ningguang borrowed it." Su Liu felt a little sad, his mind was full of Ning Guang's sad figure, and he was a little irritable.
"Ning Guang?"
Su Liu then told the story about borrowing money, not even leaking Ning Guang's true age. After hearing this, Mrs. Chen frowned.
"It's not uncle." Su Xiao blinked.
"Well." Su Liu didn't want to talk anymore, so he changed the subject and said: "Now that we have money, we can also buy Uncle Zhong's shop. That's what I think. I plan to make some buns. Mom, what do you think?
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Mrs. Chen has never done business and said: "How do I know this? Whatever you say Liu'er will be whatever you say. But, do we have enough capital? That Ning Guang..."
"The capital is all here." Su Liu patted the cloth bag and said, "Although it's not much, at least it can open a business. It has to be calculated carefully. While doing it, the money will be withdrawn."
"Then what should we do?" Su Xiao was gearing up, looking eager to try.
"Don't worry, there are plenty of things for you to do." Su Liu smiled.
Indeed, to open a stall, the land behind the house has been uncultivated for several years and is overgrown with grass. It also takes a lot of effort to plant vegetables and serve them. The girls are really busy.
Su Liu quickly divided the work. Tomorrow she will go to town to find Uncle Zhong to put down the wonton stall first, while Mrs. Chen and Su Xiao will work on the land at home.
If you want to do something well, you need to have a detailed plan. However, Su Liu did not dare to expose her literacy easily. Taking advantage of Chen's absence, she asked Su Xiao whether she could read or not.
"Why did our family ask us to learn to read? In the past, we secretly went to the school to listen to Sun Xiucai's lectures, and we only recognized our own names. Sister, you can write your own name, don't you remember?"
Su Liu said vaguely: "I have been lying in bed for so many days, and I have forgotten many things. You said, it would be great if we could read."
Su Xiao was silent, it was good to be literate. Apart from that, even if you were a maid, if you could read, your rank would be higher, but how could they have such a blessing?
Seeing her silence, Su Liu couldn't say anything more, so he had to find another opportunity, find an excuse or something to learn the calligraphy.
It is already the seventh month of Liuhuo, and it is the harvest season. Dayao Village has worshiped various gods and Buddhas, and then began to harvest rice. The fields are full of busy villagers, and Su Liu and the others are also busy working on their own.
Because the price had been agreed upon, the business of setting up the wonton stall went smoothly. He went to the mayor to go through the paperwork, filed the record, paid the silver commission, and Su Liu officially bought the wonton stall.
The stall was originally for making wontons, and it was fully equipped with all kinds of kitchen utensils, tables and chairs. There was nothing to prepare, just buy all the ingredients.
Su Liu was not in a hurry to open the stall. He first cleaned the stall inside and out, and completed everything that needed to be replaced and added. Then he slowly thought about the ingredients and did experiments.
After a busy day, Su Liu came home with a basket on her back. Chen and Su Xiao were both busy in the ground behind the house. She rested for a while, gave Chen and others tea to relieve the heat, and then got into the kitchen to work.
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If you want your stall to become popular, first of all, the food must be delicious to attract people, so you can't just make it and sell it rashly. It would waste ingredients and make a bad reputation, and the gain outweighs the gain, so tonight she is doing an experiment and making the barbecued pork buns.
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In her previous life, her grandmother was best at making barbecued pork buns and mixing dumpling fillings. Although she didn't learn 100%, she knew 70% to 80%.
To make barbecued pork buns, you must first make barbecued pork. Su Liu processed the good pork belly he bought first, quickly cut the whole piece of meat into slices, marinated it with soy sauce, sugar, salt and other sauces and set it aside.
Kneading dough and fermenting.
Barbecued pork must be marinated for more than three hours to make it more delicious, but she is just experimenting now and can't control that much. She started simmering it in half an hour, observing the color and controlling the heat, and she was very busy.
sweat.
It was already getting late, there was only a little smoke, and bursts of aroma wafted out from the small kitchen, whetting one's appetite.
Su Xiao rushed in from outside: "Sister, what are you doing that smells so good?"
Su Liu was cutting the barbecued pork into strips. Hearing this, he said: "We are making steamed buns. You and your mother should wash your faces and rest first, and you will have something to eat in a while."
Su Xiao came closer and saw the barbecued pork under Su Liu's knife. His eyes lit up and he swallowed his saliva greedily.
"You foodie." Su Liu was amused, picked up a piece of meat and said, "Open your mouth."
Su Xiao immediately opened her mouth wide, bit into the piece of meat that Su Liu handed over, chewed it, and said, "It's delicious. Sister, this meat is so delicious."
The braised pork has a strong flavor, and the barbecued pork is fragrant and sweet. If it is marinated with honey, it will taste better. The current barbecued pork has only been marinated for half an hour, which is considered average.
"Go and wash your face quickly, don't block your sister's work." Mrs. Chen saw her and said with a smile.
"Sister, I'll come back later to help you light the fire." Su Xiao ran out like an arrow.
Su Liu shook his head with a smile and continued his work.
"Hiss, hot." Su Xiaoyan threw the bun he just picked up back into the steamer, blowing on his hands.
"Who made you so anxious? Who is trying to rob you here?" Mrs. Chen said angrily. She handed the chopsticks over and said, "I see that your temper has become wilder since you moved out. You don't have the restraint of your daughter.
You have to be more alert in the future."
Su Xiao stuck out her tongue and said coquettishly: "Mom, I'm hungry. Who told me that the buns made by my sister are so delicious?"
Under the dim candlelight, the mother and daughter gathered around the table. In the middle of the table was a cage of freshly baked barbecued pork buns and a pot of white porridge, which was their dinner tonight.
"Mom, stop lecturing her. You have been tired for the whole day. You are already tired. Eat it while it's hot." Su Liu put a barbecued pork bun into her bowl.
Mrs. Chen smiled, picked up the bun and took a bite, chewing it carefully and carefully.
"Mom, how are you?" Su Liu asked nervously.
"This bun?" Mrs. Chen was surprised and said, "It's very soft when you eat it, the meat is fragrant, and the meat juice still seeps into the bun. Well, it's quite delicious, and the bun is made freshly."
"It's even more delicious than Zhang Ji's buns." While Chen was talking, Su Xiao had already finished one bun and reached for the second one.
Su Liu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and picked up a bun and tasted it carefully. Maybe the meat was not marinated for that long. The taste of the barbecued pork was a little different, but it was still very close. It would be better if the flour was finer.
alright.
"It's a little worse. It seems that if we want to make it, we have to marinate the barbecued pork one day in advance, otherwise the meat will not be tasty enough." Su Liu said while eating.
"How did Liu'er come up with it?"
Su Liu had already thought of her words and said, "Mom, I've thought of it a long time ago, but how could grandma be willing to let me make such buns over there before?"
Mrs. Chen paused and remained silent.
The Su family is also a middle-class family in Da'ao Village, but the Huang family has always been economical. Even if they steam steamed buns, they only steam large steamed buns, or thick-wheat steamed buns. How can they be willing to use white flour to make meat buns?
Seeing that Mrs. Chen's expression was not very good, Su Liu changed the topic to what their stall was selling.
Since the barbecued pork buns are successfully made, they must be made, and the dumplings can also be made. Anyway, it is just a matter of rolling the skins.
Su Liu's mind was in a mess as she had to order goods, set prices, and find vendors to supply them. She had no plan. She felt like everything was piled up and messy.
"Now that it's hot today, mother, don't go there at noon when you're working on the field. We're not in a hurry anyway, and the vegetables won't be grown in a short while, so don't get a heatstroke." After dinner,
The three mothers spread a cloth in the yard to enjoy the cool air, and talked while looking at the starry sky. Su Liu reminded them.
"Mom knows, speaking of it, this is the most free time in all these years." Mrs. Chen sighed while holding a big sunflower fan.
"No, at this time in previous years, my sister and I both had to go to the fields and were exhausted." Su Xiao lay on Mrs. Chen's knees. Thinking of the Su family, she smiled and said, "Mom, sister, what do you think?
, without a few of our laborers, what kind of chaos will it be like over there?"
Chen and Su Liu looked at each other and smiled. Chaos was inevitable. During the busy farming season, three laborers were suddenly gone. Su Chuntao and the others had to go to the fields.
They didn't think they were wrong. The Su family's courtyard was so noisy that it shook the whole world. Su Chuntao touched her face and cried, making Mrs. Zhou feel distressed.
"Mom, Chuntao's face was scratched. My daughter's family can't let her face be ruined. Let her cook at home." Su Changsheng said irritably.
"With such a snot-sized hole, who can be as delicate as her? Do you need a hundred people to cook? How much can your father and your brothers do?" Huang said solemnly: "Tomorrow,
Both Chun Tao Niang and Chun Tao Niang went to the fields, and Jinfeng and I did the cooking."
"Mother." Su Chuntao cried even more sadly after hearing this.
In the past, sisters Su and Liu were doing this kind of work, where would it be her turn? Now that they are gone, all the work falls on her. Within two days, her hands became thick and had big calluses. What should I do?
Be a young grandmother?
The more Su Chuntao thought about it, the sadder she became, and her tears kept falling down.
Mrs. Zhou also hated her in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face. She said, "Mom, my daughter's face is delicate. She will have to get married in the future, don't you think so?"
"In any farmer's family, girls don't have to go to the fields. Su Liu and Su Xiao didn't go to the fields like this in the past, so why can't Chuntao do it?" Mrs. Huang looked at Su Chuntao, with a flash of displeasure in her eyes. This girl has developed a habit.
It's impossible to act like a young lady. If she doesn't do this or that, why should she be an old woman to do it? Wouldn't that mean that the longer she lives, the more she will go back?
Thinking of this, Huang became more determined and said, "Let's make it this way."
"Then why doesn't my little aunt do it?" Su Chuntao couldn't help but yelled.
