By the time they arrived, the Yu Xiaocao sisters and Zhuang Xiaomo, with the help of the free laborer, had already picked up a lot of sea vegetables.

For Xiaocao's instructions, House Town and Yu Hang have always followed without hesitation. The two put the picked up seaweed into the basket, carried it home with hard work, and then ran back to help pick up the seaweed. Yu Xiaocao picked up and even forgot to eat lunch.

What a harvest today! Yu Xiaocao looked at the bamboo baskets full of bamboo baskets in the courtyard, and her heart blossomed. I hope that sea cabbage is not a one-shot deal, if you can pick it up every day, then it will be developed!

While stuffing the crispy and delicious cold seaweed into his mouth, Fangzhen looked at the basket of seaweed and asked, "Girl, although these seaweeds are delicious, they don't need so much!" We just eat every day, eat every meal, so many sea vegetables, we can't eat them all in two months! ”

Xiaocao was already on fire in the kitchen stove, she poked her little head out, smiled mysteriously at the house, and said, "Godfather, you keep some stomach." There will be something delicious in a while! ”

House Town touched his stomach and said with a smile: "Godfather's stomach can stretch and contract, even if he is full, he can eat two more bowls into it." Rest assured, don't delay in tasting the fresh food you make. ”

In fact, it is very simple to make sea jelly, as long as there is a fire under the stove, cook it slowly for more than two hours, and after the sea hairy cabbage is boiled in the juice, stop the fire and filter the dregs with gauze, and let it cool to condense into a crystal clear cold powder. Sea jelly is crispier than sweet potato and mung bean flour, like agar, and then mixed with garlic, chili oil, mustard, sesame oil and other seasonings, it looks particularly appetizing.

Yu Xiaocao not only tried to make sea jelly, but while cooking sea hairy vegetables, she used another pot to make sweet potato flour and mung bean flour.

Mung bean flour is more troublesome, first of all, the mung beans must be soaked, and then ground into thick mung soybean milk with a stone mill, and the starch will be precipitated after filtration. This step is easy to say, but complicated to sit up. It should be filtered and precipitated repeatedly, and finally the water should be drained, leaving the mung bean starch lump, which should be dried and set aside.

When making jelly, take a certain proportion of starch and mix well with warm water until it is viscous. Boil a pot of water, pour the starch water into the boiling water, and stir quickly to prevent the pan from sticking. When the starch is cooked, pour the paste into a grinding tool similar to tofu and let it cool to form a jelly shape.

Making mung bean jelly is complicated, and the complexity lies in filtering the starch first. And sweet potato jelly is much easier. After all, sweet potato flour, whether it is Xiaocao's family or Zhou's workshop for fans, is ready-made. With sweet potato flour, the steps to make jelly are similar to mung bean jelly.

The color of sweet potato jelly is dark red, crystal clear, like the red jade of ice seeds. The mung bean is cold pink and white, soft and jelly. No matter what kind of cold powder, it is tender and refreshing, and cold food in summer has the effect of quenching thirst.

The crystal clear cold powder, coupled with the secret seasoning of the grass, on a hot summer day, eating such a bowl is simply refreshing from the mouth to the stomach, which makes people want to stop. In the evening, in the slightly moist sea breeze, eating smooth and tender cold powder, not to mention how pleasant it is.

Xiaolian filled another bowl for herself, poured the seasoning juice into it, and said with a smile: "Little sister, this jelly is too suitable for summer!" We'll take it to the dock tomorrow to sell, it's definitely welcome! ”

I didn't eat dinner in the house town, so I kept rubbing my stomach and said, "Girl, how do you have this little head?" How come there are so many ideas? Sweet potato flour and seaweed picked up by the beach can make such delicious food! Haha, I must have accumulated blessings in my last life to recognize you as a goddaughter! It's too long for me...... Daughter-in-law, you go to the town tomorrow and bring some to Princess Jing and the second son, so that they can also taste our daughter's craftsmanship! ”

The house town was originally a rough person, and he was exposed to it in Dongshan Village, and he didn't call Mrs. Fang by the title of Wen Crepe, but directly called "daughter-in-law" like Yu Hai and them! Not to mention, it's quite kind when you're used to it.

The cold noodles are indeed delicious, Mrs. Fang restrained herself and restrained, and still ate two large bowls. She put down the spoon and laughed softly, "You! Don't you just want to show off in front of Princess Jing that you have accepted a good daughter? What else can I not know about you? ”

House Town smiled, not hiding his purpose in the slightest. There is a capable girl, why are you choking and hiding? They must know that the girl in his house town is ingenious and has extraordinary cooking skills!

Xiaocao gave his godfather a bright smile, and then continued to discuss with Xiaolian about the sale of cold powder.

Since you plan to sell cold noodles, you must prepare bowls, spoons and other utensils, and of course, you have to get a few tables and stools, so you can't let customers squat on the ground and eat with bowls! In this way, you have to get a shed, there is no shading place on the dock in the summer, and you will be half dead when you eat, who wants to!

Yu Hai, who was quietly listening to the daughters' conversation, spoke at this time: "Tomorrow I will bring the materials over and build a grass shed first." As for bowls, chopsticks, spoons and stuff, they are sold at the dock market. It's just tables, chairs and benches, which are not easy to get for a while! ”

Xiaolian suddenly remembered something, slapped her face, and said, "That's right! Grandpa Liu said that his son made some money in business and wanted to take him to retire! If his noodle stall wants to be transferred, why don't we take it over, won't the problem of tables and stools be solved? ”

Xiaocao thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay!" In addition to selling cold noodles, we can also sell cold noodles, and I know several ways to make cold noodles, which should taste good. Tomorrow, Dad will build the pergola first, Grandpa Liu's grass shed is impermeable, and the wind is still blocked in winter, and it will be a little stuffy in summer. ”

"Okay! The sun is still quite high, so I'm going to cut some bamboo. Yu Hai said just do it, and immediately stood up.

Yu Hang also got up behind him and said, "I'll go cut some thatch!" ”

There is a way to make money again, Yu Xiaolian seems to be very energetic, she said with great interest: "Tomorrow we will bring all the things we need to bring, and strive to open before noon!" Right! Go to the dock early tomorrow, I'll buy dishes, chopsticks, spoons or something, and you'll make jelly there! This business is a partnership between the two of us, and the money earned is split in half, do you think it's okay? ”

Xiaocao, of course, will not disagree. However, she and Xiaolian may not be able to be busy making cold noodles at the same time, so they wondered if they should take their aunt to do it together. Since the closure of the melon shop, my aunt has not been able to find a suitable job, and only occasionally makes some food to sell on the dock.

However, now her family has much more on hand. She helped to look at the melon shop for more than a month, and then saw that she couldn't be busy, so she brought her eldest daughter to help. After it was over, Xiaocao insisted on giving her fifty taels of silver for her hard-earned money.

In the town, a male laborer in the prime of life may not be able to earn a tael of silver a month. Han felt that he didn't have any heavy work in the melon shop, just moving watermelons to the shelves and collecting cashiers or something. Xiaocao gave fifty taels of silver as soon as she made a move, which scared her a lot, where would she want it?

Besides, Xiaocao's uncle also made a lot of money selling watermelons in Fucheng. This is all Xiaocao's benevolence and righteousness, and he does not forget to help his uncles when his family is developed. Liu Pei and the brothers, once a month, go back and forth to Fucheng no less than ten times.

The first time I went to Fucheng, I was almost bullied by a bully. Fortunately, the town of the house arrived in time, and the group of bullies were sent to the official mansion, and took the Liu Pei brothers to show their faces in front of the prefect.

There are more rich people in Fucheng than in Tanggu Town! At this time, watermelons are rare items everywhere, so naturally they don't worry about selling, but the Liu brothers are worried that watermelons are not enough to sell! The cart of watermelons brought over, almost as soon as they arrived in Fucheng, they were snatched up by the subordinates of the powerful and wealthy merchants waiting at the city gate, even if the price of watermelons was two points higher than that of Tanggu Town, it would not affect its sales.

Over the course of a month, each of the Liu brothers shared seven or eight hundred taels of silver. In the past, it was seven or eight taels of silver, and it was difficult for the Liu family to make it up, let alone seven or eight hundred taels. The two brothers were at a loss with a "huge" amount of savings.

Later, with Xiaocao's allocation, the two brothers decided to invest all their money in the shops of the new port. Now the small dilapidated wharf is increasing its passenger flow every day, not to mention the construction of a new port. In the future, the port will definitely be at a premium!

There is a godfather with grass, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to buy a shop in a good location. Xiaocao originally planned to let Wednesday help buy the shop, but the money was withdrawn and handed over to her godfather. Xiaocao thought generously: With her current economic strength, it is absolutely no problem to buy a dozen shops!

Straight to the point! Let's say that Xiaocao's family spent most of the night, and the next morning, Yu Hai took his two daughters and drove two cars towards the dock! House Town rode on horseback and followed gracefully. On the carriage that Yu Hai was driving, the materials used to build the shed were piled high, and he could only sit on the handlebars of the carriage. On the donkey cart of the Xiaocao sisters, there are a lot of pots and pans, as well as a basket of sea hairy vegetables.

Yes, they decided to make sea jelly first. After all, the raw materials do not cost money, and when the sea hair vegetables run out, then consider sweet potato jelly. As for mung bean jelly, it was too troublesome, and the cost was also high, so it was abandoned by the sisters!

Before leaving today, Xiaocao made a special trip to Zhou's house and asked Zhou Sankou to help inform the children in the village. Let's just say that she has been harvesting sea cabbage for a long time, a penny and a catty, how much she wants! Yesterday where they picked up sea hairy vegetables, they would pick up a few large baskets in a while, and there must be other places.

At this time, the children in the village are idle, and if they pick up seriously, the half-grown children can pick up at least a dozen catties a day. Now Dongshan Village is no longer the Dongshan Village that was so poor in the past that it was eager to break a penny in half. Many families can't see the dozen dollars that the children are fighting around, and they are left for the children to spend. In this way, the children's enthusiasm for picking seaweed is even higher!