Chapter 39: Noodles
Huo Dagui said stupidly: "Make tofu, you can't make a lot of money, don't you see that the big guy only gives me soybeans!"
Kou Xi tilted his head and thought for a while: "I heard my mother say that day, you seem to know how to make noodles." It's the kind of noodles that hang up, dry noodles. ”
Huo Dagui suddenly said: "That's all in the past, I usually cook something to eat during the New Year." In the past, there was not much white flour, and there was little to do. You mean, let me do that?"
Kou Xi nodded: "You do something, I'll try to sell it in the unit for you." If it sells well, you can do more, and there must be a lot of people who buy it when it's cold. ”
Huo Dagui nodded: "Okay, it's good that you can help me sell it." I can't sell it, so my family eats it by myself. ”
Kou Xi nodded and said: "Now a pound of standard powder is one and a half cents, and Fuqiang powder is two cents and a half." Let's sell a pound of noodles for five cents, with small profits and quick turnover!"
"Three cents a catty?" Huo Dagui felt that the price was a bit low: "How much is a pound of noodles?"
"The flower rolls in the big restaurant cost four cents and one tael, and our three cents a pound is not cheap. "A pound of noodles earns a dime, which is already a high percentage.
Huo Dagui gritted his teeth: "Okay, then I'll come out with ten catties!"
Kou Xi knew that doing business alone would not change anything. Only when the people around us are in this environment, will everyone develop together will make progress. Otherwise, they are all like Huo Jiaojiao, who is elbowed everywhere in everything she does, so don't think about it.
And seeing that Zhang Yao is not here for three or two months, he won't find something for them to do. In case one day he is short of money, his father-in-law asks him to borrow money. Under the same roof, to borrow or not to borrow, and if there is no money to repay, what should I do?
And to find something to do for Li Cuilian and Gao Liman's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it is better to consume excess energy than to talk about his wife's tongue at home every day.
Huo Jiaojiao ate a meal and was driven back by her own father. Li Cuilian also pretended to stay, and kept asking about the reason why Huo Jiaojiao came back crying.
was scolded twice by Huo Dagui, and closed his mouth stupidly. Thinking that Kou Xi got off work early for no reason, he had the heart to inquire but was rushed to the grain depot by Huo Dagui to buy flour.
"There are still things at home, why are you in a hurry?" Although Li Cuilian complained, her body was very honest. After changing his clothes, he took out the food book, and muttered: "I don't know how to ride a bicycle, you said to buy fifteen catties, and I will carry it back?"
Huo Dagui smoked a dry cigarette and glanced up and down at Li Cuilian, and sneered: "You eat fat and fat every day, can that bit of noodles crush you?"
Li Cuilian glanced at her daughter who was sitting on the kang to raise a baby, and said angrily: "You old lamp, why are you so idle." You're still fat, you're fat, why are you so weird!"
After speaking, he raised his neck and said to Zhang Yao: "Girl, you go out with me for a walk." It's not good to sit on the kang every day, and it's easy to wander around a lot. ”
Zhang Yao thought about it, lifted the quilt on her body and went to the ground. I finally went back to my parents' house once in so many days.
Huo Dagui was preparing noodles and other things at home, and went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a new big pot back. By the time Li Cuilian came back with the bag of noodles, Huo Dagui had already prepared everything in the tofu room.
After taking the noodle bag in Li Cuilian's hand, Huo Dagui entered his tofu room. Li Cuilian followed curiously, chattering: "What are you doing with the house? Just throw it in the warehouse, tie the noodle pockets, and there can be no rats." ”
As he was talking, he saw Huo Dagui open his noodle pocket and enter a small basin of flour. was frightened, and shouted: "What are you doing, die!"
Huo Dagui disliked Li Cuilian for being too noisy, and scolded: "Beep, beep, shut your stinky mouth." Why do I need you to do it?"
Li Cuilian turned around angrily: "You tell me, what are you going to do." You said you poured so many noodles, we can't eat them!"
"I'll make some noodles and get the materials to let Kou Xi sell them for money!" As soon as Huo Dagui's words came out, Li Cuilian pouted and sneered: "Don't talk about calves, who will buy that thing? You still make noodles, who can't roll noodles to eat, you have to buy what you made." It's really good for you, this guy can be regarded as a relative who sells goods, I don't know why he jumped high. ”
She stepped forward to stop Huo Dagui: "Who told you to make money selling noodles?"
Huo Dagui squinted his eyes, full of warning: "Why do I want you to agree?
Li Cuilian was so frightened that she took two steps back, angry, annoyed and aggrieved: "You person, why don't you listen to persuasion." I'm saying good things to you, what if you say you can't sell it when you're done? Do you know how expensive noodles are now?"
Huo Dagui frowned and asked coldly: "Tell me, how expensive is the noodles? The standard powder sold for materials is one pound and one dime, and the grain depot is at most one dime and five pounds." I asked you to buy fifteen catties, but it's less than two dollars and five, what are you doing?"
Li Cuilian gritted her teeth angrily: "Am I worried about money? You don't know how much money our family has now? You said you, how much money did it cost to build a house." After cleaning up those useless things, I said let Zhang Yao go to Kouxi's house to live, and leave after giving birth. You have to do it, spend dozens of dollars to build a broken earth house, and burn it down!"
Huo Dagui suppressed his anger and stared at Li Cuilian: "You still have the face to mention this, why do you live in someone else's house? Why don't you let her live with Gao Liman? You still think I have built a house, so you tell me, how much money will the two of them pay for food in the past few months?"
Li Cuilian choked on these words for a long time, and the tears she held back came out: "Do you still need food expenses?
"Why did you lick your face and ask Kou Xi for it in the first place?" Huo Dagui snorted coldly: "When I went back to my parents' house, I didn't even bring a single leaf, and I came back empty-handed." Li Cuilian, that's how you taught your daughter? That's it, you still lick your face and eat and drink? Why did Huo Jiaojiao come back and you didn't cook that table of dishes with a big bag and a small package!"
Li Cuilian said trickly: "You will turn over the small intestines and say these things as soon as you fight." Okay, okay, you do it, no one cares about you!"
When it comes to Zhang Yao, Li Cuilian is like being stepped on by her tail. With his hands on his sleeves, he hurled his neck and hurriedly walked into the house.
Huo Dagui's first step in making noodles is to put salt and good noodles to wake up. The second step is to roll the dough into a thick rope and coil it in a basin and then let the dough rise.
The 'thick rope' that has been woken up is wrapped around two wooden sticks and then awakened.
After returning to the house for a meal, he beckoned Song Jiangang to help him stretch the awakened noodles. Let Horu erect a pole on the eaves outside. Hang the elongated noodles and press them with two stones on a wooden stick underneath the noodles. After drying in the yard for two days, the noodles were dried and hard.