In the early morning, when the first rays of morning light cross the verdant hills and fall on this barren but peaceful mountain village, the early birds begin to chirp. In a few moments, wisps of cooking smoke rose from the chimneys of each house, and a new day began.

Li Yadong got up early in the morning, and drank three bowls of rice porridge in one breath with the shredded chili peppers and radishes pickled by his mother.

The ten yuan he took from the third sister-in-law, plus his own private money, totaled twelve yuan and two cents and eight cents, and he had handed it all over to Zhang Chunxi last night to collect eggs in the village, and it is estimated that it will be almost completed by this time.

It stands to reason that Li Yadong should pack up and set off, after all, today's workload is not small, but he can't leave now, he has to find an excuse for not coming back for lunch, otherwise his mother may think that he is missing.

"Tell me anything, kid. Hu Xiuying was busy from the front of the house to the back of the house, and found that her son had been falling behind her buttocks, so she knew what the hell this kid was doing.

And the reason why Li Yadong hesitated for a long time was because he really didn't want to lie to his mother, but this matter obviously couldn't be said directly, and now when asked about it, he could only scratch his head and reply.

"That...... Mother, I have a classmate who lives in the town, and his family is in good condition...... There were a lot of books, so I thought it would be okay anyway, and I went over and read it every day. It just so happened that he was about to repeat his studies, and he could help him with his homework by the way, and his parents agreed, so he didn't eat lunch at home during this time. ”

"That's a good thing, why hide it? I know, I won't leave you food at noon. Hu Xiuying didn't hear anything wrong, the main youngest son had never lied to her in the past.

How did she know that this son was no longer the little rabbit cub she was back then.

After getting his mother's permission, Li Yadong couldn't help but let out a sigh. After being reborn, he actually found some changes in his mentality, and his deceased mother was now standing in front of him, which made it difficult for him to say deceitful words, believing that anyone who is a son of man is the same, and he can only comfort himself that this is a white lie.

In addition, he is not willing to lie, and he knows this temperament, which is considered one of his advantages and disadvantages, but he has never thought of changing it.

When Li Yadong arrived at the entrance of the village, Zhang Chunxi had been waiting for a long time, but unlike what he imagined, he was empty-handed.

"Where's the egg?"

"Don't worry. As he spoke, Zhang Chunxi picked up the grass on the side of the road and took out two large bamboo baskets from it, "I collected it secretly, my father and mother don't know it, I plan to make a small profit today, and I will exchange some meat tickets with my aunt later, and cut some fat meat for them at night." ”

In these years, you have to use meat stamps to buy meat, and you have to use food stamps to buy grain, which are all planned materials, and the demand supply country has unified adjustment. Rural people do not have all kinds of bills, and if they want to eat meat, they will either slaughter their own pigs, or they can only go to the urban residents to exchange them.

"I think you're just trying to get scared. Li Yadong pierced through the little Jiujiu in his heart at a glance.

"Hey......

The two of them carried such two big bamboo baskets to hurry, it really took a lot of effort, the main eggs collected today are too much, it is estimated that the whole village has swept the spot for them, maybe tomorrow will go to the next village to collect, have to let the old hens in their village slow down for a few days.

Under the guise of serving the people, Zhang Chunxi brought the eggs of several of his relatives, a total of forty-five. And Li Yadong is not to mention, the twelve yuan and two cents were spent by Zhang Chunxi so that only three cents were left, and he received one hundred and eleven.

"Xiaodong, I'm just a little worried, you said that if these eggs are all cooked, what if they can't be sold out today? ”

"Don't worry, it's okay to have a few times more, you are underestimating the consumption level in the town. ”

Since Li Yadong dared to do it so boldly, he must have a little confidence in his heart, in fact, in the gap between the boiled eggs yesterday, he had already observed at the door, and the average flow of people passing through Cai Xiaohui's door every ten minutes was about thirty people, and the next thirty or so tea eggs were sold out within ten minutes, which is also a good proof of this.

I don't want to think about it, there is only one street in the whole town, and there is no second commodity distribution center within a radius of ten kilometers, can there not be many people?

There are hundreds of people on the street every day, what is the difficulty of digesting hundreds of tea eggs?

Besides, what can be delicious these days, otherwise people can sell a melon seed for a long time and sell it for a million net worth? His tea eggs are not as delicious as his paws? Who can guarantee that every customer will buy one?

So don't look at a small town, the market is very big!

When the two of them came to Feng's house, they saw Cai Xiaohui playing in the yard with Liangliang, Feng Guoqing didn't see anyone, I was afraid that he went to work today.

And Cai Xiaohui was also shocked to see that they brought so many eggs today, and then a problem came, her house does not have such a big pot, even the pot on the stove cannot cook so many eggs at once. It is definitely not possible to cook it twice, and when the second pot is cooked, I am afraid that it will be dark.

"Or ...... You cook in a big pot on the stove, and I will cook on the coal stove at noon?" Cai Xiaohui suggested.

"That's not going to work. Li Yadong refused without thinking about it, he couldn't just try to make it convenient for himself and disrupt the rhythm of other people's lives. Besides, in this way, the business will not be big, and his five-cent business will be won by quantity.

What should I do if I don't have a cauldron, so I have to buy it, how can I not invest in doing business? Li Yadong knew that there was a kind of large aluminum barrel used to boil soup in the canteen of the supply and marketing cooperative, and that thing was the best, and it was okay to cook hundreds of eggs at a time. But if you want to sell it, you will encounter another problem, he and Zhang Chunxi have no money.

Cai Xiaohui obviously saw the embarrassment of the two, and deliberately lent them money first, so that they could change to a bigger pot, but after learning Li Yadong's thoughts, he looked a little embarrassed, "That...... Yadong, such a big aluminum barrel is not cheap, you can't take it for one or two hundred yuan, and there is no certificate issued by the unit, and people may not sell it to you. ”

This is something Li Yadong didn't expect, a certain part of his thinking is actually still stuck in his previous life, and he couldn't turn the corner all at once, this is the era of planned economy, and sometimes money is not very good. Just when he was worried in his mind, his eyes inadvertently glanced at a large vat in the courtyard.

"Auntie, what is this for?"

"Oh, you said this tank, in the past, his father and mother used to pickle pickles, but we ate less pickles, so it was useless. ”

As soon as he heard Cai Xiaohui say that it was useless, Li Yadong was overjoyed, "Auntie, can this be lent to us?"

"Do you want to use it to boil eggs?" Cai Xiaohui instantly understood what he meant, feeling a little incredible, "If it's really useful, you can use it, anyway, it's still there." ”

"Thank you, auntie. ”

"Isn't it Xiaodong, just kidding, this thing can boil eggs?" Zhang Chunxi asked with a glare.

"Why can't you cook it?" Li Yadong glanced at him, walked to the large vat that was half a person tall and about an arm's in diameter, and touched the wall of the vat with his hand, "I am very optimistic, the red pottery embryo is fired, the capacity is also large, and the boiled tea eggs are specified to be more fragrant than the iron pot." ”

"But how are you going to cook it? You can't put it on the coal stove?" Zhang Chunxi still felt unreliable.

"Who said I was going to cook it on the stove?" Li Yadong smiled mysteriously, and didn't dwell too much on this topic, "That's it, let's use the iron pot from yesterday to cook today, and we can cook as much as we can, and keep the remaining eggs for tomorrow." ”

Zhang Chunxi naturally had no opinion, less is less, this is also something that can't be helped, so the two of them began to get busy.

After the eggs were on the stove, Zhang Chunxi thought that he could finally rest for a while, but he was dragged by Li Yadong and walked two miles to the bottom of a small hill on the outskirts of the town, with a pair of baskets on his shoulders and a shovel in his hand.

"No, could it be that you are going to build a stove on the street?" If Zhang Chunxi doesn't know what he wants to do now, it will be his brain.

"Isn't it good?" Li Yadong smiled, "You think, when the fragrance spreads, there is no need to wait for the tea eggs to be cooked, and the people who buy them will have to queue up." ”

His description couldn't help but remind Zhang Chunxi of the fritter shop in the town, and the business was booming in the morning. People also set up a stove outside, a large pot full of oil, and put it on the street to fry, and the fragrance can drift far away.

"You can toss. He had already acquiesced in his heart that it was a good idea, but he didn't want to be left behind.

Li Yadong didn't bother to ink with him, and after the two of them got the loess outside Cai Xiaohui's house, they ran to the river to pick up two baskets full of stones, and took advantage of the effort of boiling eggs to start building a stove with mud.

In this regard, Zhang Chunxi is obviously more hands-on than Li Yadong, and in the end, Li Yadong simply left the stall, and he couldn't accept it. After the stove was set up, the two of them brought the vat and put it on it, and it was so tight that it couldn't be more suitable.

"What's the matter, you have to call me master for this, right?"

Zhang Chunxi held a homemade wooden scraper in his hand and looked at his masterpiece triumphantly. And Li Yadong stared at the stove in front of him, and the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong.

After a long time, he finally found out the reason, the combination of this clay stove and a large vat is not like the guy who boils tea eggs, but like the urn used in making roast duck and roast goose in the polar soil method!

Roast duck?

They are located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, which can be described as the land of fish and rice, there may not be many geese, but there are definitely a lot of ducks. And the way people eat duck is nothing more than stew, and few people know how to roast duck, and in my memory, there has never been a roast duck in their county in this century.

Inadvertently, Li Yadong actually found a new business opportunity, and it was quite convenient, after all, the urn was ready-made, and as long as there was a duck, it could be baked.

Naturally, the profit does not need to be considered, it must be much higher than that of tea eggs.