NOVEL NEXT Chapter 32 Lychee Ice
"Are you Mr. Yuan Yang?" Shui Xi was surprised. This was not the person he was looking for in Kaitang County today.
Yuan Yang looked at Shu Xi and said, "Do you know me?"
"Hello Mr. Yuan, I went to Kaitang Town today and wanted to find you, but you were not at home. I just came back."
"What do you want from me?" Yuan Yang looked at the girl in front of him with bright eyes and heard Su Ziguan say that she was a good cook.
Mao Xi saluted the two of them, sat down at the table and asked, "Mr. Yuan, I want to buy some lychees and coconuts. Where can I buy them cheaply and with good quality?"
"Hahaha, little girl, you have found the right person. Mr. Yuan used to be the deputy lieutenant of Zhiguo, who was responsible for purchasing fruits for the fruit bureau." Su Xuexuan said with a smile.
Yuan Yang took another sip of sour plum soup and said: "If you want to buy lychees with good quality and low price, you only need to go to Damao Village. Every family in the village grows lychees, and the fragrance spreads all over the mountains and fields."
"Where's the coconut? Do we have to go to the South Island?"
"If you want to buy in bulk, you can go to the South Island. However, the distance is long and shipping will increase the cost. You can go directly to the dock market to buy."
"Thank you, Mr. Yuan!" Mao Xi thanked Yuan Yang, then turned back to the stove and started working again.
Later, she brought a plate of boiled peanuts to their table.
Yuan Yang picked up the peanuts, took a bite, and asked quickly: "Girl, did you grow this at home?"
"Well, we all have seeds in Liujia Village!"
Su Ziguan peeled the peanuts and said, "Yuan Yang, these peanuts are pretty good, right? This little girl always has all kinds of surprises for us!"
"These peanuts don't look like crops from our Huai Kingdom!" Yuan Yang, who was once professionally sensitive, couldn't help but pay attention.
"Mr. Yuan, I accidentally discovered these peanuts while digging bamboo shoots in the back mountains. Maybe birds ate the peanuts elsewhere and flew to the mountains of Dahuai to sow seeds."
"Hahaha! Your conjecture is interesting, and it's not impossible." Su Xueguo stroked his beard and laughed.
Early the next morning, Mao Xi drove the donkey cart to Damao Village alone.
Sure enough, as Yuan Yang said, every household in the village grew lychees. Fortunately, she saw an acquaintance in the village, who turned out to be Brother Ying's third uncle.
She had seen him when she went to Baiyuan Village to buy green plums that day. Mao Xi thought that Ying Geer's family only grew pears and green plums in Baiyuan Village, but she never thought that his family also planted lychees in Damao Village.
"Uncle Jiang, why did you come to Damao Village to plant lychees?"
"Ah Xiao, the old family that grew lychees before has died and there is no one to take care of the house, so I contracted this small lychee forest to plant it at a low price. The lychees have just ripened, and I was just about to find you."
After going round and round, I finally found Brother Ying’s third uncle!
"Thanks to you buying grandpa's green plums in Baiyuan Village before, the fruit didn't rot on the trees. How much do you want for these lychees? Third Uncle, I promise to give you the cheapest price!"
Mao Xi was not polite. She tried it and found it tasted fresh and sweet and tasted good. She immediately bought 100 kilograms and drove her donkey cart back to Lihua Town.
After passing the mountain road and seeing no one around, Mao Xi quickly moved the lychees to the refrigerator in the space to store the insurance, leaving a small bag in the car, which reduced most of the weight.
Back at Liuxiang Snacks, Chen and Ma Xi were at the door of the store, peeling lychees and preparing drinks for the evening.
The scent of lychees attracted Xiaodouzi and Ajiao, who had just left school. They also helped their sister peel them, and occasionally ate one secretly.
Ran Chen, the owner of the Xiang Shop in the town, passed by Liu Xiang Snacks and stopped.
"Excuse me, what do you want to eat with these peeled lychees?"
Mao Xi looked up and saw that the heroine in front of her was well-dressed, with a graceful figure and a delicate fragrance exuding from her body.
"We are preparing "lychee ice" and will start selling it later. Would you like a cup of iced sour plum soup? "
"Then bring me a bowl." Ranchen sat down at the door.
Lou Laner made sour plum soup and served it to her.
"I am the owner of Ranji Incense Shop in town. Can you leave these lychee peels for me?"
"No problem, I'll give these to you, but what do you want these lychee peels for?" Mao Xi agreed cheerfully.
"I am currently developing a lychee fragrance, which requires lychee bark as a raw material."
While the two of them were talking, they finished peeling the lychees. Mao Xi packed the lychee peels into bags and gave them all to Ranchen.
"Thank you then. My name is Ranchen, your name is...?"
"My name is Liu Mianxi, you can just call me Mianxi."
Ranchen took out a sachet from his waist and handed it to Mian Xi: "Miss Mian Xi, these are frankincense pills, given to you!"
"No, no! I usually cook a lot and my whole body smells of oil. I'm afraid it would be a waste to give me the sachet!" Mao Xi wiped her hands on her apron and waved.
"Don't waste it, I'll give it to you!" After saying that, Ranchen stuffed the sachet into Mao Xi's hand and left with a large bag of lychee peels.
Mao Xi returned to the kitchen, went to the back room to get a bucket of ice, and bought the fruits to go with the lychee ice at the mall: bayberry and lemon.
Aunt Chen helped Miao Xi wash the lychee meat with the peels and seeds put on the stove. Watching Miao Xi start boiling water, she couldn't help but curiously said: "Ah Miao, to make lychee ice, you don't just pour the lychees into pieces." Is it in the ice? I think other ice water stores do this."
"We are different!" After saying that, he cut the lemon slices, washed the bayberries with salt water, put them into the pot with rock sugar, boiled them for 10 minutes, added the lychees and cooked for another minute, then let them cool and set aside.
Everyone tasted it and found it sweet and sour.
"It will taste better if you add the smoothie after it cools down!" Shui Xi looked at Lou Lan'er and asked, "Lou Lan'er, can you crush the ice into fine sand with a knife?"
"This is not simple." After saying this, Lou Laner took out a knife and cut the ice cubes in the bowl into smoothies.
Mao Xi poured the lychee drink into a bowl, poured it into the smoothie, and finally poured a little honey on it and moved it in front of everyone: "How about it? We will start selling this "lychee ice" tonight. "
Ajiao couldn't help but took the spoon and started eating: "Sister, it's delicious, it's delicious~"
Xiaodouzi stretched out his hand and put the bayberry into his mouth.
"Xiaodouzi, you didn't wash your hands!" Mao Xi slapped his younger brother on the butt. Xiaodouzi was in the period of teething. One of his front teeth was missing, so he smiled even more naughtily.
Mao Xi cleared the table, poured the lychee water into a basin and let it cool down for later use.
Before Lou Laner started to drink lychee ice, Nalan Jue was already standing outside the store.
He was holding a paper fan as always, looking graceful and elegant.
Everyone who comes is a customer. This new product has not yet been sold, and the humanoid advertisement immediately appeared in the store. Shui Xi stepped forward to greet him: "Mr. Nalan, long time no see. Have you researched the pickled cabbage cake from last time?"
When Nalan Jue mentioned pickled cabbage cakes, she thought of being asked by Mao Xi to do farm work in the fields, and shuddered.
"What are you eating? I smell the fragrance of lychee, lemon, and bayberry."
Lou Lan'er was cutting ice on the side, and Shu Xi brought the lychee ice to Nalan Jue.
"Mr. Nalan, today's new product, lychee ice, is definitely a good way to relieve the heat!"