People in Datang, start with a golden hoe

Chapter 8 008: Development of Tang Dynasty New Rice Balls

"You mean, you want to sell some food in the field?" Xu Yinlian looked at Cai Xiaolan in surprise, and walked around her.In the morning, she thought she had seen through the person who came, but she didn't expect that the person had business acumen!

"Does Miss Xu have any suggestions?" Cai Xiaolan looked at Xu Yinlian's movements strangely, thinking that her identity as a time traveler had been discovered.

"I don't dare to say a suggestion, but if you want to make a deal with the mud legs, you have to suffer a little bit. First, they may not be willing to buy, and second, even if they are willing to buy, they will not pay too much money." Xu Yinlian said here , paused for a while, thoughtfully, took the abacus on the side and fiddled with it, "In the end, you can earn hard money at most, which is far more than farming!"

"Our family only has four acres of land!" Cai Xiaolan gritted her teeth.The rent adjustment system in the early Tang Dynasty was very beneficial to ordinary people. The average per capita was [-] mu, which could basically meet the living needs of a family.The Cui family, for some reason, lost their most precious land.

"That's right! Wait a minute, I'll get you something. The ones you want are not sold in the villages, so you have to go to the city to buy them!" Xu Yinlian called the maid, and whispered three or five words in her ear.

The servant girl took the order and went.

After about a cup of tea, the maid came back with two bags.

"According to your needs, a bucket of brown rice and a bucket of white flour! Let me lend you first, and after the spring plowing is over, you can buy it in the city and return it!" Xu Yinlian refused the money that Cai Xiaolan handed over.

Youdao is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to send carbon in the snow.For Cai Xiaolan, this small investment is like sending carbon in a timely manner.After all, these things are not easy to buy with money in Liujiazhuang.

She likes Cai Xiaolan's business thinking.In society, officials look down on businessmen and farmers, but they don't think so at all.

"Thank you, sister Xu!" Master Cai narrowed his eyes, and immediately held Xu Yinlian's hand, and the address became intimate.

On the way home, Cai Xiaolan recalled Xu Yinlian's hands, with thick knuckles and calluses, "It seems that sister Xu is also a person with a story!"

If she remembers correctly, an unofficial history of later generations said: Many of the Yexiang Brigade in the city of the Tang Dynasty were ganged up by gangsters, and what's more, they were simply gang businesses.

When Cai Xiaoniang finished her work and got home, the lights in the house were already on.When farmers build a house, the first thing to do is to shelter from the wind and rain, and the lighting should be set back. Once the sun goes down, the whole small courtyard will be dark.

"Mencius said... Mencius said..."

There was a dim oil lamp in the main room. Xiao Dongping clasped his fingers on one side of the oil lamp, while Cui Boyan read with a book on the other side.

"This guy!" Cai Xiaoniang cursed secretly, she didn't work hard during the day, but became serious at night.If you switch to modern society, you are a good at pretending to learn.

Mother Cui sat alone in the yard.

"Auntie, I bought something back!" Cai Xiaolan was very proud. She got something without spending any money. This is a success in life.

"Okay, I'll wait for you, eat first, and then make plans after eating!"

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"Otherwise, it's up to me to figure it out alone!" Cai Xiaolan sighed.

Cui's mother and Cui Boyan made some suggestions, such as making exquisite pastries, frying some oily pancakes, or selling mutton soup for lunch, etc.

If she hadn't communicated with Xu Yinlian, Cai Xiaolan would have come up with this kind of method.

But now, she realizes that these foods may be sold in Fangjie, but they will never be sold on the ridges.

She needs to prepare some cheap and filling food.

The light in the main room was still on, but Cui Boyan was already lying flat.In front of the dim yellow oil lamp, there was only a thin shadow.

"That's it for now!" Cai Xiaolan not only figured out what to sell tomorrow, but also completed the detailed plan for Cui Boyan's "three-year scholar and five-year scholar".

Poor Cui Boyan fell asleep, not knowing that the hellish days were coming.

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If you want to learn well, you must first get up early.

Cai Xiaolan got up when it was still daylight.To make food for sale, a lot of work needs to be prepared in advance.Overnight food, no matter how delicious it is, is also disrespectful to the guests.

Cai Xiaolan took out one-third of the brown rice in her pocket, and took another seven or eight handfuls of glutinous rice, soaking them in a basin together.If you want rice to be delicious, you must soak it in advance, which can increase the aroma and maintain humidity.

She scooped up two more bowls of noodles in the noodle pocket, added water and kneaded them into dough.No need to wake up, cut into thin slices directly, and put it in the oil pan.

I took out a few tablespoons of small pickles from the pickle jar, chopped them and put them on the side.On the other side, a dozen or so eggs were laid in the clear water pot.

"If you have tea at home, boiled tea eggs will be easier to sell!" Cai Xiaolan was greedy.

After the preparations were done, she started the most important work, steaming the rice.The soaked rice is poured into a silver-plated copper pot.

Rice has the highest sugar content, and if steamed well, the rice will be soft and sweet.Coupled with the sweetness of the silver-plated copper pot, the steamed rice must be sweet and delicious.

The technology of refining sugar from sugar cane was introduced in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, sugar was something only used to show off wealth, and it was a rare thing for ordinary people.Humans are naturally sweet, and the sweeter the better, the better.

In order to increase the aroma of the rice, she also scooped a spoonful of oil into the oil pan and poured it into it.

When she was busy at this time, Cui's mother also got up.

"Ms. Cai, what are you going to do? Is it rice balls?" Cui's mother was well-informed, and she guessed what she was going to do when she saw a pot of rice steamed by her daughter-in-law.

"Yes!" Cai Xiaoniang nodded and continued to cook the pot.The space of the cooktop is small, air leaks everywhere, and the combustion efficiency is not high.

"Then what kind of pancake are you frying?" Cui's mother continued to look inside, and saw a large bowl of golden pancakes piled up on the table, and she sighed in her heart about the waste.How much oil is this wasting?

"Auntie, don't be curious, you will know when the time comes. Please do me a favor now, find a piece of clean cloth and cut it into palm-sized pieces, about thirty pieces!"

Cui's mother didn't say anything, and went to the house to find a cloth head.After the tailoring was finished, it was brought to Cai Xiaolan, but she was assigned the job of steaming the cloth.

"Okay!" Cui's mother nodded.

The two had a clear division of labor, and no gossip was heard. In the small kitchen, only the crackling of matches was heard.

It was already bright outside.

Cui Boyan, who let himself sleep until he woke up naturally, finally got dressed and stood in the kitchen.

"Mom, what's for breakfast?"

"Eat, I know how to eat all day long!" Cui's mother cursed a few more times in annoyance, she still hadn't let go of her anger from yesterday.

"Auntie, the family wants to be harmonious and beautiful. Husband, please go to the main room and wait for a while, and I will send you there right away." Cai Xiaoniang said tenderly.

Seeing Miss Cai's attitude change, Cui Boyan thought she was enlightened and realized that men are the ultimate support.

"The ancients said: A gentleman stays away from the kitchen! It is indeed right. Why does a gentleman have to do it himself? Doesn't the mother-in-law bring the food to her mouth automatically?" Cui Boyan nodded with satisfaction, walked squarely, and left kitchen.

The light screen flashes directly:

Unreasonable, distorted meaning of words.Cui Boyan believes that women should cook for their husbands.A gentleman in the world should stay away from the kitchen.

I don't like it.Why do women have to do housework?Can't women go out and earn money?Find a way to make consistent money in three days.

Reward: Double the amount earned for three days.

"It seems that the system is giving me a chance to earn a lot of money!" With twice the money, wouldn't the more I earn, the more rewards I get?
The smile on Cai Xiaolan's face became even more charming.

"Miss Cai? You are..." Mother Cui became curious now.

"It's just that I suddenly thought of something happy!"

After a while, the brown rice in the pot was cooked.Cai Xiaoniang put a large shovel in the pot, spread it out in the basin, grabbed some small pickles, shallot leaves, and garlic leaves and sprinkled them evenly on the rice, and took a piece of fried pancake, broke it up and sprinkled it on the top layer , wrapped the rice together with a shovel, and sent it to Cui Boyan.

"Oh? Is it rice ball today?" Cui Boyan only ate it once or twice when he was in school.Picked it up and took a big bite.

In an instant, a variety of aromas burst out in the mouth, including oily crunchy aroma, green onion aroma, and sweet and greasy rice aroma.It's not that Cui Boyan has never eaten delicious food, but he can't imagine how a small rice ball can taste such a rich taste.

"It's so delicious!" Cui Boyan sighed several times.

Cai Xiaoniang didn't speak, and walked back to the kitchen with a basin. She still had a lot of rice balls to finish.Packing rice balls, not much technical work.With the help of Cui's mother, more than 30 rice balls the size of two or three fists were quickly prepared, all wrapped in cloth and put together to keep each other warm.

She scooped up the boiled eggs and put them in the bamboo basket together with the rice balls.At this point, everything is ready for the trip to sell breakfast.

(End of this chapter)