Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 88 Selling Zongzi for Dragon Boat Festival (3)
"Cousin, take the glutinous rice to my house later. I need 2 catties of caramel. I still have something to tell you. We must hurry now."

"Okay, I'll ask Songgui to send it to you, and you can just tell him if you have something to do."

"Uncle Wang, Brother Ronghua, Brother Songgui, have you brought all the things here? Let's put them here. Let's go pick some bamboo leaves before it gets dark. Remember to ask for big bamboo leaves or reed leaves. The leaves need to be soaked overnight tonight, and the rice should also be soaked overnight. This way, we can make them tomorrow, and we will send them to the town for sale the day after tomorrow. Time is running out, so let’s start right now. It would be better if more people picked the leaves, Uncle Wang. Let Aunt Wang and the others go together, Brother Songgui, let your sister-in-law go too." Due to the urgency of time, Xiaohua didn't care about the secretiveness of her words.Fortunately, it was already early summer, and it was getting darker and later.

Early the next morning.

Due to limited conditions, Xiao Hua decided to make red bean paste and mung bean paste.Fortunately, I borrowed the stone mill yesterday, ground the red beans and mung beans soaked last night, put them in the pot and added caramel to make bean paste stuffing.

When it comes to making zongzi, Xiaohua herself is not very good at making zongzi. When she was a child, she saw her mother often make zongzi, and she followed suit, but now she has forgotten it. She can only rely on her childhood impressions, ponder it herself, and ask. Aunt Wang and the others finally made a complete package.

Although Xiaohua is small and doesn't wrap the dumplings very neatly, Aunt Wang and Niang have been working for a long time. After seeing Xiaohua's wrapping method, they understand that the three families have been busy for a whole day before wrapping the dumplings.Because the reeds have teeth and cut people, all the bamboo leaves were picked yesterday. Look at the triangular rice dumplings everywhere in the house. Xiaohua counted them, and there are 225 rice dumplings.

So the three families divided it up and each took it home to steam.Fortunately, the red bean stuffing and mung bean stuffing are marked.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiaohua went to the town in a bullock cart driven by the village chief’s cousin, and looked at the 200 rice dumplings on the bullock cart (25 of which were divided into three families, 5 from Xiaohua’s family, and 10 from the remaining family. ), Xiaohua calculated in her mind that the cost of this rice dumpling is more than one tael to less than two taels, so she would have to pay five times the price, and a rice dumpling would cost 5 Wen.

At the entrance of Yuelai Restaurant in the town, Xiaohua jumped out of the car and ran in by herself.

"Shopkeeper Liu, I'm here." The hot little flower fanned her hands.

"Come in quickly and sit down, Er Shuan has brought me the words, don't worry, when the time comes, let your second uncle come over directly." Shopkeeper Liu smiled when he saw Xiao Hua, because of Xiao Hua, he was praised by the young master You must know that the Young Master has never praised shopkeepers like them, this is the first time.

"Shopkeeper Liu, I brought zongzi here today, and I want you to have a look."

"Oh, zongzi, this store sells them, but not many, and the mansion usually makes them at home." Shopkeeper Liu was really not interested in this zongzi.

"Shopkeeper Liu, take a look first, taste it before you talk." Xiao Hua didn't know what kind of zongzi here, and now she didn't know what to do.

"Girl Xiaohua, it's not that I don't want to read it. You know that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. It's just that these rice dumplings are really hard to sell. Ordinary people think they are expensive, but rich people have them. Even if they are available in stores, they don't buy much. , look..." shopkeeper Liu looked embarrassed.

"Okay then, since shopkeeper Liu said so, then I won't embarrass you. It's okay, business can't be done with righteousness." Xiaohua saw shopkeeper Liu's embarrassment, and left, not wanting to embarrass others, since he didn't That means, there is no need for us to force it, right?
"Cousin, let's go to Fushou Restaurant." Just as Cheng Wenqiang was about to tie up the cow, he saw Xiaohua come out, and he didn't say anything, and went directly to Fushou Restaurant by getting on the ox cart again.

"Is Boss Huang here?" Xiaohua told Cheng Wenqiang to wait a while, and went in first.

Huang Haoran was thinking that the Dragon Boat Festival would be over in two days, and was planning to go back to his hometown in Huangcun to give a gift, when Xiao Hua came here.

"It's Xiaohua here? It's just right, I plan to go back to Huangcun. What's the matter with you, Xiaohua?" Huang Haoran was a little curious. It was going to be a holiday soon, and it was a hot day, so this little girl came to look for her. What does he do?

"Boss Huang, I have some zongzi here that I would like to invite you to see and give me a price." Xiaohua thought that she should not let this go to waste, otherwise how would she explain to those two families when the time comes.

"Zongzi, we have quite a lot of restaurants here, but none of them sell very well." Huang Haoran hesitated.

Xiaohua's heart skipped a beat, no matter what, I must sell these zongzi today.

"I don't know how the zongzi at Boss Huang's side is like? Can I have a look?" Xiao Hua wanted to know more about it first, and blamed her for being too reckless before. She only wanted to make money, but did not do market research.

But when Xiaohua saw the zongzi brought over, her eyes lit up, they were all reed zongzi, long. "Boss Huang has all these seeds here? I don't know how they are sold? I'll buy one and try it."

"What are you talking about whether you can buy it or not? Just eat it. I'll ask someone to bring you a bowl of sugar to dip in." Huang Haoran very straightforwardly called Xiao Er to bring a bowl of sugar over.

Xiaohua first used chopsticks to cut off the middle of the rice dumpling, and when she saw that there was no stuffing, she felt happy.Taste the taste again, it's faint, nothing, nothing compared with my own, and a smile spreads on my face.

"Boss Huang, since I've eaten your zongzi, I'll let you try mine now." He went out and brought in a triangular zongzi filled with red bean paste.

"This is the zongzi you mentioned?" Huang Haoran's eyes were bulging.This zongzi looks small, and it's just right to eat one, unlike the long zongzi, which can't be eaten all the time, is often wasted, and it's expensive.

"Boss Huang, try it." Xiao Hua smiled and peeled off the triangular rice dumpling, took a chopstick and handed it to Huang Haoran.

Just as Huang Haoran smelled a different aroma from his own rice dumplings, he was stopped by Xiaohua when he wanted to dip them in sugar. "Boss Huang, let's eat like this first, without dipping in sugar."

Huang Haoran took a bite suspiciously, and his teeth were filled with fragrance immediately, unlike his own kind that was completely tasteless, he took another bite and found that there was stuffing in it, and the stuffing was smooth and melted in the mouth, sweet and delicious.Immediately came to his senses, "Xiaohua, how did you sell this? And what kind of stuffing do you have here?"

Xiaohua saw that there was something interesting, "The price depends on your sincerity, Boss Huang. The recipe is not takeaway. I sell red bean paste and mung bean paste today. Due to the rush of time, I don't have time to make other things. If Huang If the boss's business is good this year, let's talk about other methods in the coming year, what do you think?" Xiao Hua is not that stupid, and she signed the contract for next year now.If her business is good next year, she will cook it herself by then. The most delicious ones are the ones with minced meat and egg yolks, and the ones with red dates and candied dates are also pretty good. Unfortunately, the conditions do not allow this year.

(End of this chapter)