NOVEL NEXT Chapter 27 Hot Dry Noodles
Kaitang County Magistrate Zhou Rusheng sent the clues about the word "Dengxian" together with the file to the Punishment and Prison Department. The Punishment Department was about to interrogate the criminal, but the arrested gangster died in prison. The cause of death was poisoning. He was killed and the case was reported to Yushitai for trial.
A nationwide investigation revealed that there were no registered shops and workshops named Dengxian, and the trial of the case came to a standstill.
Although the person behind the incident has not been identified, the county and town have strengthened patrols, no more children have been stolen, and Lihua Town has returned to its former liveliness.
After this commotion, Mao Xi's snack shop still did not sell late night snacks and closed early every day after You hour.
The main culprit was not caught for a day, and she and Aniang were not at ease, fearing that Xiaodouzi and Ajiao would be lost in front of their eyes.
After reducing the business hours and cutting off the sales of late-night snacks, Mao Xi decided to add more dishes.
Liuxiang snacks mainly sell hot and sour noodles and pickled fish, supplemented by snacks such as scones, and no noodles are sold yet.
Before opening the business, Mao Xi inspected Lihua Town. There were more than twenty restaurants selling noodles, and there were a wide variety of noodles, including Sichuan-style pork noodles, fire-flavored noodles, Tongpi cooked steamed pork noodles and plain noodles. Either meat or vegetable, hot or cold, there are many varieties, and the market price per bowl is only ten cents.
How to stand out from the crowd of shredded chicken noodles, three fresh noodles, spicy bamboo shoot noodles, etc.? Mao Xi thought about it and finally decided to make "hot dry noodles" that were not currently sold in the market. It was just the sesame sauce that was the soul of the hot dry noodles. She had to make it herself, which was a bit troublesome.
"Ding~ Transaction successful" Mao Xi opened the universal virtual mall. The mall was still being upgraded and there was no modern finished sesame paste yet. She bought ten pounds of sesame seeds and some noodles and planned to grind the sesame paste herself.
First, take a pound of white sesame seeds and wash them thoroughly. Heat the iron pot, then turn down the heat to low, add the sesame seeds and stir-fry continuously, then add the sesame seeds into a stone grinder and mash them into a paste. The fragrance is overflowing, and then store it in a jar.
With this sesame sauce, you can quickly prepare a meal whether it is hot dry noodles or sesame cold noodles. In the future, you may even be able to make small hot pots.
Mao Xi simply made sesame paste from the remaining sesame seeds, sealed it and refrigerated it in the space.
Xiaodouzi helped her sister shake the stone mill in the yard, while Ajiao teased the little rat "Bamboo Tube" and the two local dogs Yuanbao and preserved eggs as always. Bamboo tube is quite naughty and always likes to jump on the heads of Yuanbao and Preserved Egg, letting Ajiao chase them.
Ajiao has recovered from his foot injury, but he likes to chase the bamboo tube all over the yard. Yuan Bao and Preserved Egg help Ajiao chase, but he is always thrown around by the bamboo tube.
Seeing that Lou Lan'er's baking kiln was about to be finished, Shui Xi took a look and saw that the shape was similar to the kiln at the kiln-baked pizza shop she had eaten at in the food court in her previous life.
It seems that I can use Loulaner’s baking kiln in the future to try baking bread and pizza at home!
The noodles in the pot were almost ready, and Mao Xi started to make hot dry noodles for everyone as a late night snack, and also helped to try the dishes.
She took out the noodles, making sure they were not too cooked, mixed them with oil and let them cool, then poured boiling water and hot soup into them.
Finally add sesame paste and seasonings. Use sesame oil to make a thin paste of sesame paste, and mix the seasoning with some sauerkraut, chili oil, soy sauce, and peanuts.
Xiaodouzi couldn't help it, so he picked up a bowl and ate it. Ah Miao asked him how it tasted. Xiaodouzi said directly: "The sesame sauce is so fragrant, the sesame sauce is so fragrant!"
Lou Lan'er usually likes to eat pasta, so the bowl of hot dry noodles was quickly emptied, and she exclaimed: "Ah Shu, this noodle is really delicious!"
Ajiao ate half of the bowl and shouted: "Sister, I'm thirsty and want some soup."
Mao Xi mixed rice wine and eggs, whipped up eggnog and served it to the table.
Lou Lan'er took a sip: "Ah Shu, we also have rice wine in the store. We sell eggnog for breakfast with hot dry noodles. How about it?"
"This dish contains a small amount of wine. It is considered as self-produced wine for cooked food. It does not count as selling wine directly. There should be no wine tax." After much thought, this eggnog dish was also added to the new menu.
It's summer in June and the weather is hot. There are two cold drink shops in Lihua Town.
One sells ice cream, and the other sells traditional Chinese medicine cold syrup. The ice cubes must be purchased from a small ice warehouse in the town and stored in ice warehouses and ice wells during the winter.
Maoxi's own space has a refrigeration and freezing function, so she can make ice freely, but how can she use ice freely without raising suspicion? Just as she was thinking about countermeasures.
"Ding~" mall prompt:
*** L6 *** ＜Upgrade successful＞
Unlock: ＜100 Beverage Making Courses＞
100 ways to make hot and cold drinks were instilled in her mind, including some complex beverage making techniques such as ice making, tea art, coffee brewing, and cocktail mixing.
The products purchased also increased in various types of fruits and preserves.
After understanding the ancient ice-making process, when she uses ice in the future, if anyone asks, she will say that it is a homemade secret method.
The next day, hot dry noodles and eggnog were added to the menu of the snack shop. The hot dry noodles cost 12 cents each, the eggnog cost 5 cents, and the [hot dry noodles + eggnog] set meal cost 15 cents each.
On the day of sale, the sales of eggnog vary from person to person. Those who like it will order two bowls in a row, and some diners only take a few bites. However, overall sales of hot dry noodles are very good.
At noon, Mao Xi left the shop under the care of A Niang and Lou Lan'er, took a small bag of sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings and went to Guanyun Bridge.
Brother Ying was still hawking at the bridge, so Mao Xi called him up and followed him to Baiyuan Village.
"Brother Ying, how are your fruit sales recently?"
"It's much better than before, and the tile goulan is also lively. When I go to sell in the afternoon, there are always some little husbands who give me rewards."
"Why don't you go home earlier in the afternoon? The gangster who caught the baby still slipped through the net after all."
"My grandpa said it was okay. Now the patrols have been tightened. He asked me to come back before dark."
When they arrived at Baiyuan Village, Mao Xi gave the sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings to Ying Geer's grandfather.
Grandpa Lao Jiang took Shu Xi to his orchard. There are pears and green plums planted in the back mountain. The green plums have been picked now, and can be picked from June to August.
"Grandpa Jiang, are these green plums easy to sell this season?"
"Brother Ying is selling green plum fruits, but they are not selling well. I pick them here and sell them to some ice water shops and teahouses in town that make fruit drinks, but they don't want much. We eat these fruits. More than half of it is rotten on the tree.”
"If you can't finish it, you can make some candied fruit."
"We made some to eat ourselves, but there was still too much left."
"Grandpa Jiang, how many of these green plums do you have? Except for the reserved ones, I want the rest!"
Grandpa Jiang knew that Mao Xi had opened a snack shop, but she wanted to take it over because she had to have a place to store it and a way to sell it.
"Young girl, I heard from Brother Ying that your shop is not big, so how can you get it? I know you have good intentions."
"Grandpa, why don't you sell me 50 pounds first? If I sell out all of them, I'll come back to you to get them!"
Mao Xi paid 200 Wen, borrowed a donkey cart from Grandpa Jiang, and transported it back to Liujia Village alone.
Passing by a deserted mountain road, she moved most of the green plums to some space, leaving a small bag in the car.
Back in her yard, she first washed 10 kilograms of green plums, put them in a pot and roasted them over low heat to prepare dried plums.