Chapter Twenty-Three: The Bun Spreads Out

Wang Wei was a very cunning man, and did not continue to stay in the barracks, but hid incognito among the workers on the docks.

He still serves the three princes, using his identity as a porter to receive and transmit messages.

Hua Ruyu didn't dare to startle the snake, now she just observed Wang Wei's every move, and at the same time spread the news to the other brothers, waiting for the brothers to come and deal with Wang Wei together.

Before dawn the next morning, Li Youran had already finished washing, put on an apron, and began to prepare buns.

I didn't expect Li Dazhu to get up earlier and already started rolling dough.

"People who eat breakfast get up early, and those who sell breakfast get up even earlier." While rolling the skin, Li Dazhu said to Li Youran, who was adjusting the filling: "It's hard to sell breakfast and grind tofu, and you have to get up early on the third watch." ”

"The early bird gets the worm, and the harder you work, the more money you make." Li Youran smiled: "Dad and I will tell you about selling steamed buns in the past." ”

Speaking of selling steamed buns in the past, Li Dazhu opened the conversation box and talked endlessly. Talking about his father, his mother, about the first time he sold buns alone.

"Dad, it's been so many years, you and the second uncle ......"

"Don't mention that bastard, this kid doesn't have a good character." Li Dazhu straightened up, beat his waist, and said, "It's all born to a father, why is it different?" ”

"Small business, originally trying to make a small profit but quick turnover, unfresh buns can't be sold to customers, but your second uncle met Tong Sue and secretly gave Huahua buns." Speaking of this, Li Dazhu shook his head again.

He was too anxious to fry each other from the same root, and even his daughter wanted to sell it secretly. Don't let such a brother go.

I wanted to bridge the gap between my father and my second uncle. But things don't seem to be so simple, Li Youran didn't know the specific things in it, and he didn't say more.

As he spoke, the rice porridge in the pot had been boiled to the point of flowering, and the bone broth had been stewed white.

"Girl, pick up a drawer of each kind of stuffed bun and start steaming the buns in the pot." Li Dazhu estimated that it was already the fifth watch, so he began to steam the buns.

"Daddy, little sister." Zhao Lanzhi had planned to get up early to help make steamed buns, but who knew that she slept until the fifth watch.

"Sister-in-law, you can help me cut some cabbage and put it in the bone broth!" While speaking, Li Youran pinched a bun, eighteen pleats no more and no less, very beautiful.

"I put the vermicelli in it too." Zhao Lanzhi saw the soaked vermicelli on the table, and knew that Li Youran planned to make vermicelli and cabbage salty soup.

"This bone broth looks delicious." Zhao Lanzhi said, poured the emerald green cabbage into it, and added a bowl of vermicelli, and the bone broth became a lot thicker in an instant.

Meat buns include cabbage vermicelli, radish vermicelli, and a little pure meat buns. Vegetarian buns include cabbage and egg vermicelli, radish and egg vermicelli.

Li Youran opened the door of the shop, pulled out two tables directly from inside, and placed them at the door outside the shop.

"Selling steamed buns, hot big buns~ There are meat and vegetarian dishes, and meat and egg buns~"

Li Youran's voice was crisp and very good, and he shouted over, attracting a lot of people.

"Girl, how do you sell this bun?"

"Uncle, look at my buns, the skin is thin and the filling is big, and it is full of oil in one bite, vegetarian buns cost two cents, meat buns cost three cents, and meat and egg buns cost five cents."

Li Youran said that he broke open a meat bun, and the bright meat filling was so full that it almost overflowed.

"Uncle, you can taste it, it's free." Li Youran broke the bun in half, half of it was given to the uncle who came to ask for the price, and the other was given to the young man who came up with him.

Hearing that he didn't want money, the uncle didn't hesitate to take the half of the bun and ate it in a big gulp.

The young man glanced at Li Youran shyly, but he still took the bun and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Girl, your bun is really good, thin skin and big filling." The uncle licked his lips unsatisfactorily and said, "Bring me four steamed buns with cabbage and meat." ”

Li Youran was very neat, wrapped four cabbage meat buns in lotus leaves and handed them to the uncle.

"Uncle, I still have millet porridge here, cabbage vermicelli and salty soup made from bone broth." Li Youran took the twelve copper plates and recommended his own soup.

However, because the uncle was in a hurry, he didn't stay to drink the soup, and left directly with the buns.

"Bring me a bowl of bone salty soup, and ask for two cabbage meat buns and three radish meat buns." Li Youran's bun was very large, and the young man stuffed half of the bun in one mouth, almost choking.

Li Youran shouted loudly at the backyard for a bowl of bone salty soup, and then Zhao Lanzhi brought a bowl of steaming bone salty soup.

"Little sister, you go to the front to greet the guests, and leave the rest to me." Zhao Lanzhi lit the stove in the shop and took two small pots to sit on it. One pot is bone salty soup, and the other pot is millet porridge.

"A bowl of bone salty soup costs three or two pennies, buy it on the first day today, count you as a penny." Li Youran smiled and said: "A total of sixteen copper plates, I wish you a smooth and prosperous day." ”

With the first wave of customers, then the business opened, and batch after batch of people came.

"Girl, why don't you have tofu stuffing in this bun?"

"Uncle, this is the first day I am selling, and the preparation is not very complete. Come back tomorrow and be sure to have a bun with tofu filling. Li Youran greeted warmly: "Why don't you try the three fresh vegetarian buns first, there are cabbage egg vermicelli and radish egg vermicelli." ”

Throughout the morning, several people asked about tofu-stuffed buns.

Tofu-stuffed buns are cheap, and the prices on the market are all a penny. It seems that she is still not well prepared and does not take into account the low-spending population.

The buns were sold out quickly, and the bone broth and millet porridge were not sold much, and most of the pot was left.

A cage of thirty steamed buns, today I made a total of ten steamed buns, seven cages of meat and three cages of vegetarian, and bought 810 wen. Plus five bowls of bone salty soup, three bowls of millet porridge sold for 16 wen, a total of 826 wen.

It cost 120 wen to sell meat, 65 wen to buy vegetables, plus flour, and the cost is about 270 wen.

"Ten steamed buns earned nearly six hundred copper plates, and if you prepare more tomorrow, you can earn one or two silver!" Zhao Lanzhi said happily: "I didn't expect that selling steamed buns would be more profitable than selling cooking cakes." ”

"The main reason is that there are many people passing by on this street, and most of them are laborers, so it is not a problem for one person to eat five or six steamed buns." Li Dazhu smoked a dry tobacco pouch and said, "Prepare ten more steamed buns tomorrow, it shouldn't be a problem." ”