NOVEL NEXT Chapter 28 Iced Sour Plum Soup
The green plums have been baked in a pot for three days and are 60% dry, yellowish brown in color and wrinkled. Then it is simmered for another three days, and the color turns black and becomes black plum.
This time, 10 kilograms of green plums totaled 4 kilograms of ebony plums, and the raw material cost of 1 kilogram of ebony plums was only 10 Wen. In this way, it was much more cost-effective than the 40 Wen per kilogram of ebony plums in the mall.
When Mrs. Chen saw that Mao Xi had purchased some green plums and was making black plums these days, she thought she was going to sell the black plums directly.
"Ah Shi, how do we sell these black plum preserves in our small shop? Do you want to sell them to the fruit tea house?"
"Auntie, I want to make sour plum soup with black plums, and we can sell it ourselves."
Early in the morning, before dawn, Mao Xi was cooking "sour plum soup" in the shop.
She boiled the ingredients she bought: dried hawthorn, sweet-scented osmanthus, licorice, rock sugar and black plum, then placed them in an altar and placed the altar in a bucket.
Lou Lan'er and Chen were learning from Shu Xi how to make sour plum soup.
Seeing Mao Xi putting the whole jar of cooked sour plum soup in a wooden barrel, the two of them were puzzled.
"Ah Shu, are you going to use well water to cool down?" Lou Lan'er was the first to guess that the wooden barrel was going to be used to cool down.
"It's to cool down, but it's not well water!" After saying that, she went into the kitchen alone and pulled out a bucket of ice from the small warehouse. She secretly took it out of the space early in the morning while everyone was busy.
"It's ice!" Chen and Lou Lan'er said in unison.
"Yes, it's ice. From now on we will also sell iced sour plum soup!"
"Ah Shu, have you bought ice?" Ms. Chen asked. She remembered that the ice on the market was stored in winter, so the cost would go up.
"Aniang, no, I made it myself a few days ago."
"Homemade? Ah Shu, when did you learn how to make ice?" Lou Laner once again looked at Ah Shu with admiration.
"I learned it after reading an ancient book. I will teach you how to make it when I get home in the evening. Today I will sell sour plum soup!"
The ingredients were prepared and as soon as the snack shop opened, more and more customers came to buy scones and eat noodles.
Lou Lan'er shouted at the door of the store: "Iced sour plum soup ~ 3% off today, only Wen a bowl, one bowl, the heat will disappear!"
This shouting was quite effective. Some diners saw that the jars containing sour plum soup were also chilled with ice cubes, and they suddenly felt that half of the heat had dissipated!
At noon, the sour plum soup made in the morning was sold out. You only need 50 to 100 grams of ebony plums to make sour plum soup at one time, and the remaining ebony plums can be cooked several times.
Along with the popularity of sour plum soup, hot dry noodles are also selling very well today.
Due to the hot weather, Maoxi sold the hot and sour noodles into soup noodles and mixed noodles. The hot dry noodles were also sold into soup noodles and sesame sauce noodles. They were paired with iced sour plum soup and the sales were particularly good.
In the afternoon, Mao Xi took some ice from the space and put it in a small warehouse for her mother to use in the afternoon. She returned to Liujiacun alone, planning to make the remaining green plums into black plums.
Since it takes six days to make black plums at one time, one kilogram was made last time and it can still be used for a day or two. Mao Xi opened the universal mall.
＜Successfully purchased 3 pounds of black plums＞, costing 120 Wen in total.
She looked at the appearance and found that it was not as good as the homemade smoked plum. It cost more than a hundred yuan, and Mao Xi felt a little painful.
Then she drove the donkey cart to Baiyuan Village again. This time, he wanted to buy all the remaining green plums from Brother Ying and store them to avoid long nights and dreams.
Ah Miao's iced sour plum soup is cheap and can relieve the heat. A bowl only costs 6 cents. It quickly attracted the attention of two gourmets, Su Xuexue and Nalan Jue.
In recent days, as soon as Liuxiang Snacks opened, the children from Songjian Academy and the maids from Nalan Mansion would wait at the door of the store, asking to buy her [hot dry noodles + iced sour plum soup] set meal.
The two little errand boys enjoyed each other, and every time Mao Xi would put some crushed ice on the bottom of the food box where they put the sour plum soup, to ensure that it would still be cold!
Today, a special customer came to the store. He ordered a cup of iced sour plum soup as soon as he entered the store. He kept looking at the wooden barrel where the sour plum soup was placed.
"Brother, would you like some hot dry noodles? Our new product, paired with sour plum soup, only costs 16 yuan~"
"Then give me one." The elder brother's attention was still on the barrel.
Lou Lan'er walked over and guarded his view, wondering if this man was a competitor who wanted to steal his skills?
"Brother, what are you looking at?"
Seeing Lou Lan'er's hostile face, the uncle smiled heartily, stood up, bowed his hands to everyone, and showed his badge.
"Ma'am, don't blame me. I am rude. I am Jia Yuanbing, the commissioner of the Ice Department of Kaitang County. I heard that ice water in Lihua Town has recently been used to cool down and quench thirst, especially the iced sour plum soup of Liuxiang Snacks. I came here to try it."
"Secretary of Ice! I don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. Our sour plum soup is reasonably priced and I'm a good boy. Are you here to cause trouble?" Lou Lan'er, who has been hanging around in the world, doesn't believe it. He just comes here to drink ice water.
Mao Xi was calm. The other party had already announced his family status, so he must not be looking for trouble: "Jia Zhengsi, may I give you some advice?"
Jia Yuanbing pointed to the ice in the bucket: "Any shop that makes ice cream and ice water, come to our company to buy ice cubes, but there is no record of Liuxiang snacks on the purchase order this year. How do you make your own ice? Are you like me? General Secretary, do you collect ice in winter and store it in your own ice cellar?"
"The Chief Secretary doesn't know that there has been a method of making ice since ancient times. I was dreaming about the fairy mountain, and an old Taoist entrusted me with the method of making ice, and I made it according to the method. The ice made is only enough for the restaurant's own use, and there is no ice for sale to outsiders. , disrupted the market."
Mao Xi picked up the sour plum soup on the table and continued: "Look, the price of this iced sour plum soup is slightly higher than other stores' licorice soup and cold syrup. It will definitely not cause monopoly chaos and will not affect other stores to go to Bingzhengsi. Shopping, in fact, everyone is just drinking something fresh!"
Listening to Mao Xi's eloquent talk, Jia Yuanbing nodded noncommittally: "This method of making ice..."
"I haven't disclosed it to the outside world, but I still hope to make money from it!" Shu Xi replied hastily.
As soon as Ma Xi finished speaking, Mu Zhiyuan came to Liuxiang Snacks, followed by Butler Wang.
"Jia Zhengsi, if you don't sell your ice cubes in Kaitang County, why do you come to a small place like Lihua Town? Ah Shu, bring me a bowl of sour plum soup." Mu Zhiyuan's eyes revealed a cold light, which made people feel guilty.
Jia Yuanbing originally wanted Liuxiang Snacks to sell ice-making recipes, but when he saw that the visitor was unkind, he swallowed his words: "I'm on vacation today. I heard that the iced sour plum soup here is delicious, so I came here. Who is your Excellency?" "
"You don't need to worry about who I am. Come and drink sour plum soup. You will be welcomed with fragrant snacks. If you want to know how to make ice, ask me, Mu Zhiyuan, first. If Zhou Rusheng asks, you will reply to him like this. "
Seeing the tense exchange of words between the two, Mao Xi hurriedly stepped forward to calm down and said, "Brother Mu, Jia Zhengsi is indeed just here to eat."
Jia Yuanbing chuckled softly: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Miss Ah Shu, let's say goodbye today!" After saying that, he left quickly. Although the person in front of him cannot be 100% sure, from his clothes and conversation, it is not difficult to judge that he is the legendary recluse. King Jia is here.
He originally wanted to purchase the method of making ice and ask for credit from the county magistrate, but now he can't even think about it. Unless magistrate Zhou takes the initiative to ask, no one would want to offend this prince.
Seeing that Jia Zhengsi was gone, Mao Xi breathed a long sigh of relief. She had the illusion that she had just been rescued by Mu Zhiyuan from the ancient "urban management".
But when she thought about it, she also had someone to support her in Lihua Town.