Chapter 103： Sell ​​bamboo shoots

This Pho is fast on the soup. It is made by hand. It tastes smooth and tender.

However, the method of making pho soup is very simple. The soup base is made from pork bones. Add some salt to make a bowl of pho soup. Because there is a little oil on it, it is not rich in materials. In terms of such a bowl of soup pho, it is already a very luxurious thing.

Qin Lingling tasted it. The taste was average. It can't be said that it is delicious or not delicious. After all, people have been able to open in this county for many years and there are many customers, so it is proved to be okay.

After eating two mouthfuls of the soup noodles, she opened a box she brought over, and took out some sour bamboo shoots from it. The sour bamboo shoots were cut twice, very thin, and placed on top of the soup noodles. Increase the flavor of the whole bowl of soup pho.

Because it was noon, many people in the county didn't have time to go home to eat after they went to the market, so they sat down for a meal of pho. So Qin Lingling's place was vacant, and soon someone came to sit and eat pho. .

Qin Lingling didn't eat well, and occasionally ate her own hot and sour bamboo shoots, occasionally soup and pho.

An older brother sitting across from her saw something in her bowl and smelled that it was not bad. He quickly asked the lady boss, "Madam boss, why didn't you add this to me?" The big brother pointed to Qin Lingling's bowl. Suan Sun asked.

The lady boss just turned to leave, when she heard this, she looked back at the strange white strips that came out of Qin Lingling's bowl, and asked her daughter who was wiping the table at the side table, "Dandan, this is you." Brought it here?"

Qin Lingling quickly explained, "Sister-in-law, I added this sour bamboo shoot. I brought it." Then, she explained to the big brother opposite, "I just brought some sour bamboo shoots. This is not It’s just delicious soup noodles, just add a few more flavors."

The big brother heard the sound and said "Oh", which was a bit embarrassing.

Instead, Qin Lingling said, "Brother, would you like to try it? I made it myself?"

With that said, she opened the lid of the box, took out the chopped spicy and sour bamboo shoots, and placed them in front of the opposite eldest brother.

The other party was stunned for a moment, but did not expect Qin Lingling to be so generous. After thinking about it, she thanked: "That's OK, thank you, let me taste it."

Qin Lingling smiled, "You're welcome."

The other party scooped a little with the spoon inside and put it in a big bowl. Qin Lingling asked her to scoop more, but the other party was not embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the other party only tasted it, but while eating the soup pho, he nodded "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Qin Lingling smiled, "Well, I made hot and sour bamboo shoots. The taste is sour and spicy, but it's not too spicy. People who can eat spicy food should like it."

The big brother nodded, "Well, it tastes good, I haven't tasted it like this before."

Qin Lingling pushed the box to the other person, "If you like it, please scoop it up!"

The man shook his head, "Forget it, you don't have much, eat it yourself!"

"It's okay, I still have it. You can eat more." She prepared two boxes today, one large and one small.

Seeing her enthusiasm, the other party was not polite, took another spoonful, and said gratefully: "Thank you! You little girl is very nice."

Qin Lingling pursed her lips and smiled, "It's not something that matters."

"No matter what, I'm considered to have accepted your love." The big brother said and introduced himself, "It's Huang Yan. Today is here to do business. I plan to deal with a bowl of soup noodles casually. I didn't expect to try it. Good thing to you."

"This is actually ordinary sour bamboo shoots."

"Don't say that, I've been to a lot of places, and I haven't eaten such sour bamboo shoots. Do you just make it for yourself? Or, even if I order, I'll give you the money, how about it?"

Qin Lingling didn't think that she just came in to eat a bowl of noodles. She originally planned to use her sour bamboo shoots to eat in a bowl to attract the owner of the store, and then introduce it. Unexpectedly, the owner was not attracted, but attracted the people in front of him. Big brother.

She looked at the person in front of her again, and she looked upright, and she looked very particular about her clothes.

She smiled and said, "Big brother, let’s tell you that, in fact, besides making my own sour bamboo shoots, I want to exchange some other things with people for some money. The conditions at home are not very good. So, I want to get something else."

Qin Lingling said it euphemistically. After all, these years, selling things is not that safe. If someone from the speculation office comes to investigate and prove evidence secretly, then she will be in the mouth of the sheep. If you change it, the meaning will be different. .

These days, they can only sell their own things to the supply and marketing cooperatives, and they will sell them. However, many of the things purchased by the supply and marketing cooperatives require tickets, and many tickets are available for a certain amount. It is not possible to buy them with money, so many people will You can exchange things you own with others, such as rice for soybeans, soybeans for sweet potatoes, and sweet potatoes for oil. Anyway, there are all kinds of things. Of course, there are also some that need to be exchanged, but there are relatively few.

Qin Lingling said that she would change, but she didn't want to clearly mark the price. It was just a change. No one could say anything.

Huang Yan in front of him listened to her and smiled.

He said: "Old sister, I don't want to hide it from you. My brother is a business man, and his home is in the provincial capital. This time I came here to buy goods."

Qin Lingling was stunned when she heard this, "Big Brother?"

"But my house does not open a restaurant. I open a pub. They are all old customers from neighbors in the neighborhood. This time I came here to buy wine. The wine shop was sublet when I entered the wine shop before. The wine is not good. I heard that there are family members making wine here. Very good, although it is farther away, but I want to invite people over."

"Big Brother's own tavern?" Qin Lingling asked in surprise.

"Um."

Qin Lingling just remembered that although self-employed merchants were not allowed to set up stalls to disrupt market order these days, the family was originally a family of self-employed merchants, and instead of confiscating property, they implemented public and private operations and transferred a public manager. Private manager, both parties operate together, and then share according to the contract, but the main business is the private manager, and the public manager plays the role of supervision and communication with the above.

Huang Yan pointed to her sour bamboo shoots, "You made them delicious. When you eat noodles and porridge, you can add some to them. You can eat them directly. Drinking in a pub is a good thing, so I want to buy some from you. , Can you sell it to me?"

Qin Lingling probably didn't expect that sometimes her luck is so good, she hasn't sold it out yet, so she sits alone, and just happens to be someone who can buy her sour bamboo shoots.

But this happiness came so quickly that Qin Lingling couldn't believe it at once.

Huang Yan looked at her, "Why, can't you sell it? If the customer eats well, you can ask for more at that time. I also think it's good and I want to get some back."

Why would Qin Lingling refuse, and said quickly: "It's okay to give you something."

"Then you say, how do you plan to sell this sour bamboo shoot?"

Speaking of this, Qin Lingling was embarrassed again, because at the beginning she only had the attitude of giving it a try, and didn't even think about the price.

Bamboo shoots are easy to find. After all, there are too many bamboo shoots in the mountains. It's just waste crafts and condiments. Everything else is good, just rock sugar, white vinegar and salt.

She hesitated, and smiled awkwardly at the big brother in front of her: "Really, because I have never sold this sour bamboo shoot, the price is not high, because the process of making sour bamboo shoots is more troublesome, unlike pickles. Pickled is enough, so the price may be a little bit more expensive."

Huang Yan smiled and said, “It’s okay. It’s too expensive. After all, the taste is much better than the pickles I usually eat. Tell me about the price.”

Qin Lingling carefully stretched out a hand, "A dime per catty, you see, is it acceptable? Because I don’t make money at a high price for the time being, just want to see if I like to eat? In terms of price, I suppressed it. This number should be okay, look at..."

Huang Yan initially thought that Qin Lingling would raise the price very high, such as two or three cents. He heard that it was one cent, and immediately nodded in agreement, "One cent is fine, I think it’s very cheap. How many?"

Qin Lingling cut the sour bamboo shoots finely. Because the salt water was drained, the water in the bamboo shoots was taken away a lot, so the weight of the sour bamboo shoots was different from when they were just dug. She brought them in this big pot. Four catties come out, these alone are actually very heavy.

Huang Yan heard that there were four or five catties, and immediately asked for all, because the other party did not have a bag, he directly asked for the big jar in Qin Lingling's hand, and then handed her a piece of one yuan.

"You don't need to look for it anymore, I don't weigh it anymore. This sour bamboo shoot is treated as the preferential price for our first meeting. I will also take this jar with me. The remaining money will be treated as a deposit for the jar. "

The other party didn’t ask for Qin Lingling’s small box, but took away the jar. When she left, she left Qin Lingling with his home address and the phone number of their community, saying if there was anything, You can call him, but he will come back later, because the brewer has not been invited over this time, so he has to do it again.

Huang Yan left soon after he was full, probably rushing back by car.

When people left, Qin Lingling looked at the dollar she was holding in her hand, and just like that, her sour bamboo shoots were sold?

She sold sour bamboo shoots, but the lady proprietress who made soup noodles for the guests on the stove saw it clearly.

Immediately she walked out and asked, "Sister, what did you give to the guest just now?"

In fact, Wang Hua also saw the sour bamboo shoots that they were talking to. The girl's box was filled with marinated bamboo shoots.

Qin Lingling replied, "It's the sour bamboo shoots I made myself. The big brother said he likes it, so let me even give it to him."

Qin Lingling looked at the little box there was still there, and asked the lady boss, "Madam boss, would you like to try?"

At the beginning of this small box, she was preparing to sell it, as a tasting, but when she was eating noodles, she ate it by the way, and she did not expect that it would welcome her first customer.

Although the finished product that needs to be sold is gone, she still has a big tank marinated in her house. If the proprietress likes it, she will have it in ten and a half days. This second tank is also an official tank of sour bamboo shoots. It's coming out soon.

The lady boss looked at the yellow and white sour bamboo shoots and said suspiciously: "Did you make this yourself?"

Qin Lingling nodded, "Well, the boss, you can taste it. I think this is good if it is added to your soup noodles or as a side dish in the morning."

"Are you planning to sell it to me?"

"I planned it this way, because this is an appetizer. It can be eaten directly. It can be eaten with porridge and noodles. It can be eaten with wine. You can also see that. Just now, the big brother will give me all those things. Going, he said it tasted good."

Although the proprietress was suspicious, she chose to grab a piece of chopsticks and tasted it.

The sour and sour bamboo shoots are sour and delicious, and the bite is very crunchy. After eating, the lady boss whistled and said, "It's a bit spicy!"

"Well, I made this with spicy flavor. I made some non-spicy ones at home, but it's not good. You can taste it first. If you need it, you can tell me."

The proprietress did not answer, and ate a few slender sour bamboo shoots.

After a long while, the lady boss said, "Although it's a bit spicy, it tastes good."

Qin Lingling looked hopeful, and said hurriedly: "Does the boss need it?"

The lady boss heard the sound, but hesitated, "But we are all small businesses, what price is your stuff? And, not everyone likes to eat, I think it is delicious, others may not think it is delicious."

"The proprietress can try it. I give you all the boxes. You can try it. Although there are not many, you can chop it up and put it on the noodles to give the guests a taste. First look at their feedback. If it's good, Can increase a lot of repeat customers."

As Qin Lingling said, she looked around, and then said again: "Madam boss, your shop is not small, and although there are a lot of customers, there are also many noodle soup noodle shops around. Your shop is a bit empty. I don’t need to charge you for the sour bamboo shoots in this box. You can try it first. If it works, when I come here next time, do you decide whether you want it?"

The lady boss seemed undecided, and looked at her husband in the kitchen again, and said, "Then wait a minute, this matter is not my sole responsibility. I will ask my man."

She took the box in Qin Lingling's hand directly into the kitchen and showed it to her husband.

Wang Hua's husband's surname is Li, and his name is Li Zhongming. He has made this flour food for several generations.

As Qin Lingling said, the business of Li's soup noodle restaurant is much worse than in the previous years. This is not because people are getting poorer and poorer. There are still a lot of rich people in this county, but there are shops everywhere. , Competitiveness is great, their family characteristics are gradually disappearing, and there are gradually fewer repeat customers.

In this area, the Li family has always relied on repeat customers. The repeat customers ran away and the business plummeted. Only at noon such as the market day can you see such a full house of customers, but they are usually pitiful.

Wang Hua watched her husband taste it, and said, "How do you feel?"

Li Zhongming shouted and said, "It's a bit spicy, but it's quite crisp. Who gave you this side dish?"

Wang Hua looked outside in the direction of Qin Lingling, "Just the little girl, she said that she was rectified, and her family was poor. She wanted to rely on this sour bamboo shoot for some money or something? She said that with this, our store's business may be certain. It can be saved. Moreover, I also feel that the taste is not bad. Putting it in the noodles is not very spicy. The guests should accept it. She said that there are some non-spicy ones, but I haven't brought them yet."

Li Zhongming ate two more, only to find it crispy and delicious in his mouth.

He nodded and said, "This is really good, it tastes good, and many people will like it, but what about the price?"

I told her before, she said that we don’t need any money here. Let us try some water. If there are customers who like to eat, we will buy it from her when the time comes. It is not expensive. A dime and a catty of bamboo shoots are not expensive. Let’s have a guest bowl. Just put a little bit in it.

Seeing it was just a try first, Li Zhongming nodded, "Yes, just tell her, let's try first, if we can get some customers back, let's ask her more."

For Li Zhongming, the business is not doing well now, and the benefits of other people's homes are delicious, and his home is gradually becoming bad. If you can use these bamboo shoots to change the status quo, it might be a way.

With her husband’s permission, Wang Hua walked out and said to Qin Lingling: "My man agrees. We will try this for your bamboo shoots, but although we are trying, we can’t take you for nothing. Today’s bowl Noodles, we won’t charge you anymore."

The other party said so, and Qin Lingling no longer declined, and hurriedly said: "Then you have to look at the situation first. It will take ten days for the next tank of sour bamboo shoots in my house. I will come back later."

"Well, yes."

After finishing the sour bamboo shoots thing, Qin Lingling still made a dollar in her hands. She took this dollar home and bought a few more small soaking jars so that she could make other ingredients more conveniently.

When I got home, it was already dark.

Gu Yao is taking care of her in good order, and Qin Lingling has nothing to worry about.

On Monday the next day, she was busy teaching in the morning, and the students were in labor classes in the afternoon.

The current school is like this, half of the study time, the other half is politics and labor life classes.

Qin Lingling handed over the student supervision of the labor class to another teacher at the school, and went home early.

After returning home, she went straight up the mountain again.

She wants to take advantage of the current rainy season, bamboo shoots are winning, and get more bamboo shoots.

She didn't have time to peel and slice the bamboo shoots, so she waited until evening when she was free.

It's not just bamboo shoots that have to be busy, but Qin Lingling also has to be busy with this pepper.

Although I had planted several pepper trees before, it was not enough to measure the sour bamboo shoots so much. She took a few sun-dried red peppers, took out the seeds from them, and planted them directly in the ground.

A pepper has 20 or 30 seeds. This kind of pepper can plant dozens of seeds. She intends to plant peppers in the front and back of the house, where all kinds of people look down on the weeds. Tree, with these peppers, she will be able to pick more peppers in the future, even if she is not in the village, Gu Yao can make money through these methods.

As Gu Yao said, she can't follow her brother and sister-in-law all her life, and Qin Lingling herself has her own business to be busy. When the college entrance examination is completed at the end of this year, if she is admitted, she will go to university, like making sour bamboo shoots. She must be overwhelmed with things, and there must be someone in the family who inherits her mantle.

Gu Guoqiang was noisy, and Gu Chunhua was young. She couldn't give them the responsibility. At most, she could help out together. Of course, she still didn't worry about Li Dani's secret recipe like sour bamboo shoots. Although she is not that annoying anymore, But after all, he has done a lot of wicked things, which requires Gu Yao to preside at home.

Gu Yao will grow up sooner or later, and she will not be able to accompany Gu Yao for the rest of her life. If she leaves, it happens to give Gu Yao a chance to practice.

After she was busy with bamboo shoots, she had to prepare all kinds of materials. She went straight to the mountain to chop the cinnamon tree, peeled the skin inside and dried it.

This cinnamon is still very particular. If it is too old, it won’t work. If it’s too tender, it won’t work. The brown skin is just getting better. It is not too old or tender. When dried and ground into powder, it has a pleasant aroma.

Qin Lingling was busy making bamboo shoots for a week. Gu Yao watched all this and asked her sister-in-law, why did she suddenly soak so many sour bamboo shoots?

"We can't finish eating, right?"

"I can't finish it, so I sell it." Qin Lingling said.

She didn't hide her from Gu Yao, she told Gu Yao what she thought, that she wanted to use the existing resources in the village to make use of it and make more tanks of bamboo shoots.

The village is a large village of bamboo, especially those in the distant mountains, where there are slices of nan bamboo, and occasionally one or two bamboo rats can be seen.

Maybe because there are so many bamboos, anyone in the team going up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots will not stare at it. This also gives Qin Lingling an opportunity. Otherwise, like those things with high value to the village, you have to arbitrarily collect as many as you want. The defendant went to the brigade commune.

She took out the money and said, "This money is made by selling the bamboo shoots I made before. Bamboo shoots are sold for a dime per catty. Although it is cheaper, this is a start. The main reason is that we do not spend money on the main materials. We can make a lot of money at this price."

Gu Yao was surprised, "A dime per catty, so expensive?"

Generally, vegetables are only two or three cents per catty. Flour rice is more expensive, which is more than a catty. But for them, rice and flour are the staple food, which is different. Sour bamboo shoots can be sold for a dime per catty. That's definitely a sky-high price!

Qin Lingling smiled helplessly: "This price can only be said to be average. Anyway, we will do it first and sell it. We can't get too much now, just start first."

If their sour bamboo shoots start to operate from now on and supply some to the shelves, they will be able to operate on a large scale when the reform and opening up slowly come. When that happens, they will not worry about no customers and no money.

Gu Yao heard her say this, and she also said she would help, "Then I will go to the mountains to dig bamboo shoots when I finish work every day. There are many bamboo shoots now, and they are everywhere."

"Well, yes."

Qin Lingling also knew that it was not enough to rely on her own alone, and she had to let them all join. Then the next tank of sour bamboo shoots could be soaked in, and it could be soaked several times in one tank.

After Gu Guoqiang and Gu Chunhua heard about this, although they didn't know why their sister-in-law made so many bamboo shoots, they still helped.

Qin Lingling was worried that people would be suspicious, and she specially warned a few of them not to dig too much or let people see them. If others see too much, they will definitely doubt their house, so they try their best to go to noon at noon. To dig the bamboo forest, wait until dark before going back to the bamboo forest to back the dug shoots. At night, at home, peel off the coats of the bamboo shoots, wash them and cut them, boil them in boiling water, and put them in a basket to soak them in water. Taste, drain the water again, and then put it in the jar to soak.

Ten days later, the second tank of soaked sour bamboo shoots was opened, because this time the soaked bamboo shoots were directly soaked in the pickled pepper water, so when I started the tank, the taste was more refreshing than the first time I couldn’t tell. Crunchy and sweet.

However, Qin Lingling doesn't have time to go to the county seat, so she can only wait for the market day when she is free, and then go to the county seat to see what's going on.

However, before she went, someone came.

The author has something to say: The second shift is at twelve o'clock, and now it is two shifts a day, fixed at 9 and 12 in the morning.