Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 75: Authentic Sour Plum Soup
The next morning, after Li Rui left Fangda Metropolitan Community, he did not go to the vegetable market first.

Instead, I found a Wen Ren Tang Chinese medicine store nearby.

It was 8:30 in the morning and the pharmacy had just opened.

The young female clerk is very outgoing.
She greeted the customer warmly: "Hello, are you here to see a doctor or get medicine?"

"Get some medicine." Li Rui replied.

Then he stated his needs:
"100 grams of dried tangerine peel, 250 grams of hawthorn, 300 grams of black plum, 100 grams of black dates, 50 grams of mulberries, and 20 grams of mint leaves." (The amount for 70 kilograms of sour plum soup)

The clerk immediately guessed the purpose of this raw material ratio, and she said with a smile:

"You are making sour plum soup, right?"

Li Rui nodded.

The clerk was still a little curious, "If you're drinking it at home, you don't need to buy such a large amount. Medicine is poisonous to some extent, and drinking too much sour plum soup at one time is not good for your health."

The clerk kindly reminded him, and Li Rui started talking more.

He explained:

"I run a small business and want to buy some real food so that customers can eat with peace of mind."

As the clerk was dispensing the medicine, he was thinking, it's really rare for someone who runs a business selling sour plum soup to come to a drugstore to buy the real stuff.

She remembered when she was eating hot pot,
The hotpot restaurant sells a pot of sour plum soup noodles for 5 yuan after washing it with tap water at 15 cents.

It’s hard to find such a honest boss these days.

I think the business won't be too bad if it's run this way.

So she continued to ask:

"Where do you do business, boss? I'll go see if the sour plum soup you make tastes good."

Li Rui replied: "They sell snacks over at the Workers' New Village, such as fried cakes and roasted sweet potatoes. You can come and try them when you have time."

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look when I have time."

While weighing the medicine, the clerk asked Li Rui for the detailed location and time.

I also wrote it down on paper.

That confident look.

It was as if Li Rui saw the number of new customers +1.

After buying the ingredients for sour plum soup, Li Rui went to the vegetable market and bought 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes at one time, and brought them back to the shop in Fangda Plaza.

Yesterday he bought a large oven with fermentation function, so he no longer needs to adjust the temperature and humidity in the kitchen.

Sweet potatoes can be stored for a long time at normal room temperature.

After putting the red beans into the pressure cooker, Li Rui began to make today's sour plum soup.

The ingredients in the pharmacy are all purchased in bulk, so before cooking the sour plum soup, you need to wash them with clean water.

There are many wrinkles on dried black plums, so they need to be cleaned carefully.

After washing, Li Rui fished out the materials and put them into a small mesh bag.

Cooking sour plum soup is not complicated.

Just put the seasoning packet in the pot and cook it for 40 minutes.

After cooking, add rock sugar to the sour plum soup.

This allows the flavor of the raw materials to be more pronounced.

Do not use metal utensils when cooking sour plum soup.

Li Rui used a 10L glass pot. He planned to cook a pot of it and sell it today.

In autumn, the temperature is a little higher at noon, but it is still quite cool in the morning and evening.

Considering that most of the target audience are elderly people, Li Rui only prepared a room temperature version and did not put it in the refrigerator.

If a customer needs it, just add two ice cubes made of pure water.

Just like yesterday, Li Rui prepared 3 liters of sugar-free version of sour plum soup.

He also sold a lot of xylitol fried cakes yesterday.

The proportion of people who need to control blood sugar is not low.

Sour plum soup was a new drink that Li Rui unlocked when he checked the system in the morning.

Yesterday, a new hidden achievement was also triggered -

【Lost Memory】

The reward is a little pill called "Brain Gold".

Brain Gold: Don’t accept gifts during Chinese New Year or other festivals, only accept Brain Gold. Taking it can improve memory.

With the experience of strengthening his physical strength twice before, Li Rui did not hesitate.

He swallowed the pills with the water. When he first swallowed them, he felt a little dizzy, but the medicine slowly dissolved in his body.

He soon found that his mind was much clearer.

What happened yesterday also came to mind.

He suddenly remembered,

An auntie showed me the payment code, but I didn't pay.

He was busy frying fried cakes at the time and just took a look without noticing what the aunt was doing.

It seems that sometimes, some things may not need to be remembered too clearly.

Two twenty in the afternoon.

Li Rui's dining truck arrived at the Workers' New Village on time.

Two-thirty was the time he agreed upon with some elderly people yesterday.

He arrived a little early and prepared everything in advance.

But as soon as the dining car stopped, an aunt came over.

Li Rui remembers it very clearly.

The person who came over was the aunt who had "got away with it" by using the payment code.

Before Li Rui could speak, Aunt Shi apologized to him:

"I'm sorry, young man, my phone doesn't work well. My son told me yesterday that I didn't pay the money. I didn't know it at the time. I thought I just needed to scan it."

"It's okay, Auntie."

It's four fried cakes.

Although Li Rui was not stingy, he remembered it very clearly.

Aunt Shi took out her cell phone again. Although her son was impatient, he still taught her twice yesterday.

She muttered, "My, no, I found out."

Finally the payment was made.

When the notification sound of money arriving from Jianghai Bank rang, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Rui was pleasantly surprised to find that the number of new customers was counted directly to today, 3/100.

"Wait a moment, Auntie. I'll treat you to a cup of sour plum soup."

At the same time, Jianghai Civil Affairs Bureau.

Fatty Sun and Xu Mengmeng have just completed their marriage registration.

The two had originally decided to get their marriage certificate on September 9st.

However, on September 9, the number of people registering for marriage at the Civil Affairs Bureau was actually more than the number of divorces.

After discussing it, they decided to come back the next day.

Are you kidding? We are not eating barbecue at Taoyuan Night Market, why are we queuing?
After getting the marriage certificate, the two people become a property community in the legal sense.

Fatty Sun is still a little uncomfortable.

"Mengmeng, I think you should leave me at least 200 a month." He emphasized his position.

"How about if you lose 10 pounds, I'll give you an extra 200?"

After listening to this, Fatty Sun did a simple calculation.

It seems that there is still a lot of room for my pocket money to grow.

So he agreed to the deal.

He recalled that they had known each other for so many years, and he never expected that a little girl who grew up naked in the yard could become the woman who controls his own economic lifeline.

"Hey, let's go take a look around our hometown."

Xu Mengmeng nodded. When they were young, they both lived in houses allocated by their elders’ units.

A lot of memories were left there.

Fatty Sun got in the car, and Xu Mengmeng started looking through some old photos.

“You were very thin then.”

she commented.

Soon, the two drove to the Workers' New Village community.

When passing a park, Fatty Sun stopped the car.

"What's wrong?" Xu Mengmeng asked.

"Look, that dining car. Oh, look at that boss. Does he look familiar?"

(End of this chapter)