Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

"Okay." Lin Lan sorted the zongzi and poured them into two large pots, turned the charcoal fire and added two shovelfuls of coal in it. After a while, the fire in the stove ignited.

After cooking on high heat for an hour and a half, and then simmering for another half an hour, the first pot of rice dumplings was cooked.

Lin Lan took out the zongzi and said to everyone: "Mom, brothers and sisters-in-law, let's take a break and try the zongzi made by you."

Tong Xinglan picked up one: "Let me see what it tastes like?"

Lin Lan looked at the hemp rope that tied the dumplings: "One pot of salted egg dumplings, one pot of salted meat and chestnut dumplings."

Tong Xinglan put down the salted egg flavored one, and said with a smile, "I'll try a salted meat and chestnut flavored one first."

Lin Lan brought the Shau Kei with rice dumplings in front of everyone and asked them to choose by themselves.

Lu Xiaofeng also took a bacon and chestnut flavored one, and he was full of praise after eating it: "It's so delicious, much better than red sweet potato dumplings."

Zhou Shisong laughed and said, "Silly buns, salted duck egg yolk buns, do you think it's delicious?"

Lu Xiaofeng sighed: "Oh! People in the city still know how to eat it. We've been planting fields and raising chickens and ducks for a lifetime, why didn't we think of making zongzi with salted duck eggs!"

Zhou Shisong snorted: "That's a good idea, all the food has been handed over to the public ration, and you don't even have to eat white rice. You still want to make rice dumplings with salted egg yolks. It's no wonder your mother-in-law didn't kick you out with a broom!"

Zhao Xiaohui patted Li Xiaofeng: "Biao sister-in-law, it's better now, you can eat whatever flavor you want, and no one will push you away."

Lin Lan nodded: "Yes, this year's Dragon Boat Festival, let's have fun and eat all the zongzi of every flavor."

Tong Xinglan waved: "Okay, let's eat enough."

Wu Shufen smiled and shook her head: "I can't do it, I'm getting older, I can eat at most one, and I can't digest it if I eat too much."

Lin Lan smiled and said, "It's okay, Mom, I'll make some hawthorn water for you to drink."

"There's no need to soak in hawthorn water, and it's not like going to sleep after eating."

Wu Shufen and the others helped Lin Lan wrap up the zongzi for the day, and it was past eleven o'clock, so they left with the zongzi.

Lin Lan put the rice dumplings into the pot and filled it with water, and then filled the stove with briquettes. Tong Xinglan and Qiao Hui took turns watching the fire. The rice dumplings are all cooked.

Early the next morning, Lin Lan moved the coal stoves that had been prepared earlier to the entrance of the pastry shop. Steel pots were placed on the five coal stoves, which were filled with rice dumplings, including ham, red bean rice dumplings, and chestnuts. Salted meat dumplings, eight treasures, candied dates, salted egg yolk...

The smell of zongzi immediately attracted passers-by, and there was an endless stream of people who came to buy zongzi.

Lin Lan and Tong Xinglan were so busy that they sold hundreds of zongzi in one morning.

Yang Zhigang helped buy dozens of catties of sweet potatoes, and asked the seller of sweet potatoes to deliver them to the store.

Qiaohui looked at Lin Lan in surprise: "Cousin, do you really want to sell red sweet potato dumplings?"

Lin Lan nodded with a smile: "Yes! There are two candied dates inside, the sweet taste must be good."

"Okay, I'm good at cutting red sweet potato shreds, so I'll make red sweet potato dumplings." Qiaohui said.

Lin Yuezhen sat on a bench, and the two of them peeled off the skin of the sweet potato together. Tong Xinglan poured the sweet potato into the sink, washed it, and carried it to the chopping board to shred it.

Before lunch, the red sweet potato dumplings came out of the pot. Lin Lan took one apart, revealing a golden yellow rice dumpling mixed with white glutinous rice grains. When she took a bite, she felt that it was looser than glutinous rice dumpling, less sticky, sweet and refreshing.

Qiaohui smiled and asked Lin Lan: "Cousin, what do you think of the taste?"

Lin Lan thought of the crystal zongzi she had eaten before, and said with a smile: "I don't think we should chop up the dumplings, we should boil the sweet potato, mash it into mud and then wrap it. The zongzi wrapped in this way are more attractive than those made in this way." .”

"Go and buy some sweet potatoes, and try cooking them?" Qiaohui asked.

Lin Lan shook her head with a smile: "I'll try again next year when I'm ready. These rice dumplings are five cents cheaper than candied date rice dumplings."

"Yeah!" Qiaohui lifted the red sweet potato dumpling out of the backyard.

At noon, a well-dressed middle-aged woman came to the store and told Lin Lan that she was a purchaser from the county hospital and wanted to order a batch of welfare rice dumplings, but she had to check the hygiene of the store first.

Lin Lan was very confident about the cleanliness of her shop. After taking the woman to the backyard to check, she ordered [-] rice dumplings, including ham and red bean rice dumplings and bacon and chestnut rice dumplings.

Taking orders for hundreds of zongzi at once, the lack of manpower was a problem. Lin Lan thought for a while, and returned to Lexing with five yuan a day's wages to invite five aunts to the store to help make zongzi.

These days, a strong laborer only earns a few yuan a day when he goes out to do physical work, and he is not tired of making zongzi, and he can eat for five yuan a day.A few aunts happily went to the pastry shop to help make zongzi.

Lin Lan saw that several people were quick at work, so she thought it would be better to hire someone else to save everyone from being troubled.

In the afternoon, Yao Xiuyun and Xu Dong helped her bring their unit's welfare zongzi to her shop. Originally, they wanted to order salted egg yolk dumplings, but Lin Lan didn't pickle enough salted eggs, so they had to replace them with ham and eight treasures.

After picking up the welfare zongzi from three units at once, Lin Lan and his staff worked overtime to make zongzi.

Perhaps because the zongzi business is so booming, when the store opened on the morning of the fourth day of May, Tong Xinglan and Zhigang took the stove out of the store, and found that the steamed bun shop and small restaurant opposite had also launched zongzi.

The two sell bacon dumplings, as well as candied dates and eight-treasure dumplings, which are also cooked and sold in steel pots on the stove.

"Cousin, you see that the opposite side is also selling rice dumplings." Tong Xinglan yelled into the store.

The little boss of the steamed bun shop opposite smiled at her in embarrassment.

The little boss often comes to the store to take care of business, and he likes to buy peanuts and beef sticks to eat.

Tong Xinglan glared at him, and said to Lin Lan angrily: "Cousin, they are just jealous of us, seeing that our business is good, they also make zongzi for sale."

Lin Lan glanced at the little boss, and said with a smile: "Why are you so angry, each business is done in its own way."

She felt that there were only two more sellers of zongzi, and there were only two or three varieties, which would have no impact on her zongzi business at all.

On the contrary, the little boss looked at Tong Xinglan with something else in his eyes.

Qiaohui looked at Lin Lan worriedly: "Cousin, Limin Road can be sold before seven o'clock, why don't we sell two stoves on Limin Road?"

Lin Lan thought for a while: "Let's sell it all morning. If it doesn't work, wait for Zhigang to close the stall and let him pull two stoves over there."

She felt that Qiaohui's ability to deal with things was better than Tong Xinglan's. If there was a problem, she would find a way to solve it, while Tong Xinglan would just bluff.

He planned to use the vacant store on Limin Street when Li Xiangyang came back, and ask Qiaohui to visit a shop there.

Qiaohui nodded: "Okay, Zhigang is back, and there are people guarding the stall."

After the zongzi stall was set up, a few aunts also came. Lin Lan arranged the work and sent some zongzi home by bike, and sent some to the old lady and Yao Xiuyun.