Farmer’s Wife Has Magic Skills

   Chapter 512 512. Selling soybean paste

Chu Qingzhi brought the chestnuts to the kitchen, "Aunts, please wash some chestnuts for me, take half of them and peel off the shells. You can take some back to eat later. I'm going to the old house to see if the beans are steamed. I'm too busy to trouble you."

   "It's okay, it's okay, you go, leave the chestnut to us."

   "Thank you, Auntie."

  Chu Qingzhi hurried to the old house.

  At this time, the old house was steaming beans, and the whole house was enveloped in the aroma of beans.

  Chu Qingzhi walked into the kitchen, opened the steamer, took a bean with chopsticks, and tasted it. The bean needs to be steamed to the point where it will rot when you sip it lightly, and it will be almost done after a while.

  Aunt Zhang asked, "Qingzhi, are you okay?"

  Chu Qingzhi said, "Steam two more fires to stop the fire."

  Aunt Zhang replied crisply, "Okay."

  Chu Qingzhi brought in the peppers and spices prepared earlier in the morning, chopped green and red peppers, cut green onions and **** into strips and slices, and chopped peanuts...

   Prepare the ingredients, and the soybeans are ready to be cooked.

There were two pots in the old house. Chu Qingzhi lifted the steamer from one of the pots and put it on the other. In the empty pot, put oil in it, add spices such as onion, ginger, coriander, bay leaves, etc. Fry, fry until the spices are golden and filter out, then add two kinds of crushed chili peppers, and fry for a spicy aroma...

  The peppers of this era are not particularly spicy, and ordinary people can accept them.

  When she smelled the spicy aroma, Chu Qingzhi took a tenth of the soybeans from the steamer, and stir-fried them until the soybeans looked oily.

  At this time, add soy sauce and other seasonings, and continue to stir-fry until the sauce is fragrant.

  Finally, put sesame seeds and crushed peanuts in, stir-fry until fragrant, and the spicy soybean paste is ready.

  At this time, the soybean paste is brown and buttery in color, exuding a strong aroma of sauce and ester, with a slightly spicy aroma that stimulates the senses. The smell is unique, and the appearance is also unique.

  The aunts kept inhaling, swallowing, and staring at the pot intently. The soybeans, which were ordinary just now, turned into mouth-watering soybean paste in the blink of an eye.

  Aunt Zhang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "Qing Zhi, is this soybean paste?"

   "Yes, you can eat it now." Chu Qingzhi spooned the soybean paste in the pot into the basin, and continued to cook the next pot.

   "Qingzhi, how do you plan to sell it?" Aunt Zhang thought for a while, "I use half of today's wages to buy soybean paste, is that okay?"

  Chu Qingzhi said, "Yes, but I can't sell you too much. This soybean paste has to be tested for sale, but if the trial sale is successful, it will be mass-produced in the future, and you can buy as much as you like."

  Aunt Zhang repeatedly agreed, "Yeah, I heard everything from Qingzhi."

  Several other aunts also expressed their desire to buy it. The soy sauce looked so delicious that it almost blew out. Fortunately, none of the people present were outsiders, otherwise it would be a joke.

  Outside, a few passers-by stood at the gate of the old house and looked around...

   "What is Qingzhi doing delicious, so fragrant?"

   "Half the village can smell the fragrance, and my mouth is watering."

   "Why don't we go in and ask Qingzhi, can we buy some to eat at home? If I don't try this fragrance, I won't be able to sleep tonight."

   "..."

  Everyone talked a lot, and more and more villagers were attracted by the fragrance.

  Amidst the discussion and curiosity, everyone recommended a person to go in to inquire about the news. This person is the big mouth in the village, Fang Cuiyun.

  Fang Cuiyun happily walked into Chu Qingzhi's kitchen. As soon as she walked in, she felt intoxicated by the fragrance. It was so fragrant, "Qingzhi, what delicious food are you doing?"

  Chu Qingzhi turned her head and replied with a smile, "Soya bean paste."

  Fang Cuiyun quickly approached the stove, glanced into the pot, and finally his eyes were attracted by the prepared soybean paste, "This soybean paste looks delicious."

  Aunt Zhang joked, "The beans grown at home are either used to grind soymilk to make tofu. I never thought that I could eat it like this. I have learned a lot."

  Aunt Xu spoke with a smile, "That's right, Qingzhi is the best. If this soybean paste is sold, won't it make people starve to death?!"

  Aunt Wang also chimed in, "We are the ones who are really greedy when we see the stir-fried soybean paste."

  Fang Cuiyun turned around and asked with a smile, "Qingzhi, Auntie wants to buy you some soybean paste, how about it?"

   "Okay, after a while you go home and get a bowl, and weigh it directly into the bowl for you, otherwise the bottle at home will charge you more money."

   "Qingzhi is still a considerate person, I'll go back and get it right away." Fang Cuiyun turned around and took two steps, then turned around again, "Qingzhi, there are still many people outside who want to buy soybean paste, do you want me to tell you?"

  Is soybean paste so popular?

  Chu Qingzhi thought for a while and said, "Auntie, please tell me. By the way, let everyone take smaller bowls. They won't be able to sell so many for the time being."

  Fang Cuiyun readily agreed, "Okay."

  Fang Cuiyun came out of the room and immediately told everyone what Chu Qingzhi had said, and everyone immediately went back to get the bowls.

  Li Qingyu saw everyone gathered around the old house, thought something happened, and hurried over.

   On the road, I met many villagers who went home to take bowls. When I asked, I knew the reason and couldn't help speeding up.

  As soon as she approached the old house, she couldn't help but take a deep breath, it smells so good! No wonder everyone gathered around!

   Walking quickly into the kitchen, the smell became stronger. She swallowed hard, looked at the half-finished soybean paste in the pot, and hesitated, "Qingzhi, what you make is... soybean paste?"

  Chu Qingzhi nodded, "Yes, mother."

  Aunt Zhang joked, "The soy sauce made by Qing Zhi is so fragrant, it has attracted you from the wasteland."

  Li Qingyu laughed, and also said in a joking tone, "Haha, as long as Qing Zhi cooks food, I can be attracted back from the county by the smell."

   "Hahaha..." Laughter spread in the kitchen.

  Chu Qingzhi said, "Mother, the aunts in the village want to buy soybean paste, you can help them weigh it later, I can't leave here."

  Li Qingyu agreed without hesitation, "Okay, mother, go wash your hands right away."

  The second pot of soybean paste is out of the pot. The aroma is tangy, and the rice smells delicious. It can dry three bowls of white rice.

  The third pot continues...

Chu Qingzhi looked at the first pot and the second pot of soybean paste. The beans used to make soybean paste are 300 catties in total. After soaking, one catty of beans will become two catties. After steaming, the weight remains roughly the same. In the process of stir-frying, part of the water in the beans will evaporate, and this part is just made up with the added ingredients, so one hundred catties of beans can make two hundred catties of soybean paste.

   Calculating the cost, a catty of soybean paste is almost ten cents.

  Li Qingyu then asked Chu Qingzhi how much it cost per catty, and Chu Qingzhi asked her to sell it for twenty-five yuan per catty.

  Twenty-five Wen is the retail price, if it is wholesale, it will be much cheaper.

   "Mom, I'm going to give the soy sauce to my brother for a trial sale. Everyone will sell it for a catty for the time being."

  Li Qingyu nodded, "OK."

  (end of this chapter)