Chapter 52: Doing the Business of the Poor

"Of course, let's continue to do business." Jiang Jiang said: "We don't have to go outside, just on this street." ”

"Doing business?! What can you do in this place?! Sun Xiaobei smiled bitterly: "Look at this street, it is dirty and smelly, chaotic and narrow, although there are many people, but except for the hard laborers, there are thieves, beggars, idlers, there are everyone, but there are no rich people." ”

"If there is no rich man, we will do the poor man's business!" Jiang Jiang said with a smile: "Anyway, you can't be idle, if you are idle, your will will be depressed, and the whole person will be depressed." ”

"Can you really do business on this street?" As soon as Sun Xiaobei heard this, he sat up and his eyes lit up.

"When did I lie to you?" Jiang Jiang raised his eyebrows and said, "Although this street is poor and broken, it has the same benefits. ”

"What's the benefit?" Sun Xiaobei asked, he had already practiced a tacit understanding with Jiang Jiang before, and now he unconsciously began to talk to her.

"Miscellaneous," Jiang Jiang said: "The population here is mixed, and the livelihood is also miscellaneous, you see that there are ironsmiths, slaughterers, wild langzhong, hunters, and woodcutters on this street, we don't need to go outside, we can solve what we want only in this street." ”

"What do you want to do?" Sun Xiaobei asked her.

"Of course, it's a poor man's business, and a big pot sells food." Jiang Jiang said and sighed again: "Originally, I didn't want to do the catering business, but now I have to do the catering business again." ”

After all, "eating" is always at the top of the list.

"What are we selling?" Sun Xiaobei asked with a lack of interest: "The people who live here are all poor, how can they afford to buy anything delicious?" You see that they eat bran vegetables every day, and the coarse grain cakes are already considered good, so let them spend money to buy food, isn't that a fool's dream? If you don't need money to eat for nothing, you will definitely be able to eat up as much as you want. ”

"You can't think like that, the most basic requirement of the poor is to fill their bellies, you see there are so many coolies here, where is the porridge and vegetarian dishes eaten every day? If they can eat enough, they can sell more strength when they work, and they can also increase their income, as long as the food we sell is not too expensive. Jiang Jiang said with confidence.

"Hearing you say that, why do I feel excited?" Sun Xiaobei grinned and said, "Since you are sure, then let's do it!" ”

"Good! Just do it! ”

Jiang Jiang is a very strong person in action, as long as she wants to do it, then she will not delay for a quarter of an hour.

immediately dragged Sun Xiaobei to the blacksmith shop on the street, and asked the blacksmith to make two cauldrons for them, one of which was separated by iron sheets in the middle of the pot to form a nine-square grid.

These two pots are more than twice the size of ordinary pots, and they are by far the largest job the blacksmith has ever done.

Then Jiang Jiang found another plasterer and built two large stoves in front of Widow Mu's house.

Jiang Jiang also negotiated with several slaughtering masters on the street, and they sold all the offal they slaughtered every day to her.

Of course, the slaughterer is happy, because almost all the people of the Great Qin Kingdom do not eat animal offal, and they occasionally cook and eat it themselves, but because they can't do it, it is difficult to eat.

Therefore, ginger can buy a lot of pigs, cattle and sheep at a very cheap price, as well as the internal organs of chickens, ducks and geese.

Jiang Jiang had already explained the matter of building a stove in front of the door when he rented the house, and asked for her consent.

Widow Mu usually does some needlework to maintain the family, of course, she occasionally goes to work part-time, if her son or mother-in-law is sick, she has to grit her teeth to do coolies, the family has no top labor, life is really difficult.

Jiang Jiang knew about these situations when he was gossiping with her, so he also wanted to help her.

"Sister-in-law Mu, I'm busy with my work here, can I hire you to help?" Jiang Jiang asked Widow Mu.

"Hire me?" Widow Mu was a little incredulous.

"I want to ask for help cleaning and tidying up the internal organs," Jiang Jiang said, "The work is not easy, but as long as you clean up the internal organs and the water without peculiar smell according to the method I taught, I will pay you the price of a coolie." ”

"Huh?! That's a day, you can get seventy or eighty dollars! "Widow Mu was afraid that Jiang Jiang would not understand the market in the capital.

"I know," Jiang Jiang said, "As long as you do a good job, I won't miss you, and it will be settled on the same day, don't be afraid that I will rely on you." ”

"What do you say, how is it possible!" Widow Mu said with a red face and a wave of her hand.

"Then it's decided," Jiang Jiang clapped: "When the pot is ready, we will start work!" Of course, in addition to giving you wages, I also covered three meals for your family of three. ”

"W-Isn't this okay?" Widow Mu only felt that a big pie fell from the sky and hit herself.

"It's settled, as long as you do a good job." Jiang Jiang said.

Instead of hiring someone else, it is better to hire a landlord directly, which also saves a lot of trouble.

After finishing this, Jiang Jiang went to Ye Langzhong on the street and bought a variety of medicinal materials from him.

Because ginger and ginger have been clear since they crossed over, the people of the Great Qin Kingdom use very little spices, for example, ginger is only a traditional Chinese medicine used to ward off the cold, and Sichuan pepper is used to paint the wall. There are also many spices such as tangerine peel, star anise, bay leaves, etc., all of which are sold exclusively in pharmacies.

In addition, Jiang Jiang herself was influenced by her father Jiang Yijun, Jiang Yijun is very good at making medicinal diets, so Jiang Jiang can be regarded as a family history.

Knowing that the same ingredient with different herbs will have different effects.

Not to mention anything else, just dispelling cold and dissolving phlegm, warming the stomach and warming these effects can be easily done.

Jiang Jiang bought some salt and sugar from the vendor, and there was a woodcutter living diagonally opposite Widow Mu's house, and Jiang Jiang told him that he would bring firewood to himself every day.

These were ready, and the two cauldrons on the fifth day were ready.

Jiang Jiang chose a sunny day to light the two large stoves, added water to the pot, and put the seasonings. Put the cleaned offal into the pot, and a large pot is filled with the internal organs of pigs, cattle and sheep, and the intestines, belly, heart, and liver are all complete.

It's all clean and smell-free.

The cauldron of the nine-square grid is inhabited by the internal organs of chickens, ducks and geese, which are classified according to the heart, liver, gizzards, kidneys, and blood.

In the big pot of boiling pigs, cattle and sheep offal, coarse grain cakes are pasted along the edge of the pot, which is roughly similar to boiling and burning, and the cakes are taken out and pasted with new ones every time they are cooked.

The reason why Jiang Jiang chose coarse grain cakes is because the cost of this thing is low and the poor can afford to eat it. Second, lo-mei with coarse grains is indeed an excellent match.

The people on the coolie street had already seen the stove set up in front of Widow Mu's door, and they all wondered what she was going to do.

Seeing them washing their internal organs, they all covered their noses, and even poor people like them would not eat these things, because the taste was so bad that they often couldn't be cooked.

But when the fragrance overflowed from the two cauldrons, the whole street couldn't help but swallow.