The second uncle and the second aunt learned how to make bamboo tube cakes, and they went home to prepare that day. The next day, Liu Guiyuan carried half a basket of snails, went to the town's Sun snail foot shop, I haven't been there for several days to see, now the weather is hot, I don't know if the snail noodles in his store are good to sell.

When he arrived at the foot shop, Sun Jingxuan took a basket of snails and handed them over to Zhou's for processing.

Sun Jingyi, who was wiping the table on the side, saw her coming, so he smiled vigorously and came over to greet her: "Miss Guiyuan, are you here?" It's been a long time since I saw you and your eldest sister. ”

Liu Guiyuan knew Sun Jingyi's thoughts, wiped the sweat on his head, and explained seriously: "My eldest sister and second sister can't come, they are busy making ice powder at home, and they can't be idle for a while, by the way, the snail noodles in your store are still selling, right?" ”

Sun Jingyi was a little regretful when he heard it, in the corner where Liu Guiyuan couldn't see, he kept making eyes at Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingxuan didn't see it, and talked to Liu Guiyuan as usual: "A few days ago, it was really hard to sell on a hot day, and a regular customer in the store suggested that I make snail noodles into cold tao, and tried it a few times at home, and the guests were quite satisfied with it." ”

Cold tao originally referred to the cold tao of locust leaves, when making the noodles with the juice of the locust leaves, and then put oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to season after cooking, which is similar to the modern cold noodles.

Liu Guiyuan had to admire Sun Jingxuan when he heard it, this is the material for doing business, he knows how to adapt to the temperature and the season to improve his products, make hot noodle soup in hot weather, and change cold to cold tao, absolutely absolutely.

However, pasta can be made into cold tao, rice noodles should not be done, because rice noodles are ground into the sediment of rice milk, the moisture in the middle has been squeezed out, and then pressed and cooked and then cut into fine powder, this process can not add snail soup, thinking of this, Liu Guiyuan suggested Sun Jingxuan, said: "The guests who love to eat snail noodles, it is better to change to cold noodles, and the snail soup is thicker, and it is used as a snail sauce to accompany the flavor." ”

Sun Jingxuan listened and nodded, he is having this idea these days, some of the diners in the store love noodles, some love noodles, and those who love noodles are very satisfied with the snail cold tao, but the fan loves to eat two cold tao, and still wants to eat the smooth and elastic snail noodles, but unfortunately the rice noodles can't do cold tao.

Liu Guiyuan was worried that his foot shop would not be able to hold up on a hot day, after all, there was no air conditioning at this time, so he gave him another idea to attract diners: "Cold rice noodles are delicious, but it would be nice if you could add some cool cold dishes, I don't know if Brother Sun has heard of pork skin jelly and fish scale jelly?" ”

"You're talking about vegetables?" Sun Jingxuan touched his chin, thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out, and asked: Not to mention how the pig skin can be frozen, let's just say that fish scales, no one has eaten them since ancient times, how can it be made into a dish? ”

Liu Guiyuan looked at him with a puzzled face, and his heart immediately had a bottom, and Sun Jingyi on the side was also interested at this time, beckoned Liu Guiyuan to sit down, and asked her to talk about how to make these two dishes.

Liu Guiyuan first glanced at Sun Jingxuan and saw that he had no objection, so the three of them sat at a table and talked about the practice of pork skin jelly and fish scale jelly.

If she remembers correctly, pork skin jelly was invented by the Manchus in the Qing Dynasty, and now it is the Great Yu Dynasty that arose after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

With these two refreshing cold dishes that are as crystal clear as jelly, Sun Jingxuan's foot shop is definitely unique in the entire Qinghe Town.

Liu Guiyuan talked about these two ways of eating, took the basket handed over by Mrs. Zhou, thanked him, and then turned to the brothers who were still sitting at the table and said, "Brother Sun, if you are interested, you have time to try it at home a few times, you will have dinner soon, I won't bother you here." ”

After Liu Guiyuan left, Sun Jingyi smashed Sun Jingxuan with his elbow and praised excitedly: "If it can really be done, you can have two more signature dishes in this store, using pork skin and fish scales to make jelly, this idea is really wonderful!" ”

Sun Jingxuan was also very happy in his heart, and he couldn't wait to try it now, but when he heard Brother Lobby speak, he was not afraid, so he frowned and persuaded him: "It's okay for you to say this in front of me, but if you go home, you can't say it again, she is your mother after all, and she can't be a name." ”

Brother Lobby's stepmother, Yang, is named Miaomei, Brother Lobby, as a stepson, can't commit the name of the elders, especially in front of the elders, this is the rule of a noble family like their Yang Mansion, and they ordinary people don't care about this.

"She is my mother, but she is just the continuation of my father's marriage, and I have only one mother, who is buried in my ancestral grave."

Sun Jingyi was bored when she thought of Yang's heart, since giving birth to two sons, she has been working at home all day long, not to mention, but also changed the people in the restaurant, the most annoying thing is that she drove her cousin's family out of the restaurant in disguise, causing her cousin and second aunt to work so hard now.

"Xu Xian is also your mother, she has a lot of eyes, you should be cautious in front of her, don't fall victim to her way."

If it weren't for the chance to meet Liu Guiyuan who came to sell snails, he would probably still be doing the hard work of moving wine barrels in the restaurant, not that he was afraid of being tired or disliked for less money, but that he wanted to do a career of his own.

Sun Jingyi nodded, clenched his fists and said: "I will definitely be careful in front of her, but I think it's too bad to live like this, if I can be like you, go out and open a foot shop, as before, earn as much as you spend every day,

That's a happy day. ”

There is one of the largest restaurants in Qinghe Town, with one hundred and eighty taels of income every month, but Sun Jingyi is not happy in his heart, he still misses the fact that he ran a small shop with his father and second uncle when he was a child.

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Sun Jingxuan felt that if his cousin really wanted to do this deal, he couldn't teach him, so he told him his thoughts, who knew that after Sun Jingyi heard it, his head shook like a rattle: "Then what's the matter, we are brothers, let me rob your business?" I can't do that. ”

He went to his cousin's shop to help, and he never had the slightest intention of stealing a teacher, even if his cousin never carried him behind his back when he fried snail soup, but he had that self-knowledge, and he made an excuse to go out at a critical moment.

He was bored in that house, thinking about coming out to take a breath and give his cousin a hand by the way.

Sun Jingxuan sighed slightly, the Yang family was tricky, on the surface, he doted on the lobby brother, and often told the eldest uncle that he was reluctant to work outside, but in fact, he wanted to raise him and prevent him and his two younger brothers from stealing the limelight. Fortunately, when the Yang family married in, Brother Lobby was already eight years old, and he didn't buy her fake care, and gradually the Yang family didn't care about him, but it was impossible for him to meddle in the restaurant business.

"How good is the business in my store, you don't know, you opened a store near the pier in the south, and you can't delay my business." Sun Jingxuan sincerely persuaded him.

Sun Jingyi hesitated, and only said that he had time to think about it when he turned around, and it happened that there were customers in the store one after another, and the two rolled up their sleeves and began to get busy.

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Liu Guiyuan returned home under the scorching sun, she went to the town this time mainly to see how the business in Brother Sun's store was, and to give some suggestions for improvement by the way, as for such a trivial matter as sending snails, she just needs to fish it out and wash it in advance, and hand it over to Brother Dog to take to the town the next day.

Seeing that it is starting to get hot, her family has to prepare eight buckets of ice powder every day, so that the wild loquat stored in the cellar is about to bottom out, and she will have to continue to buy new wild loquat immediately, this matter is simple, and she also asked Liu Jindi's younger brother Liu Jinbao to inform that the children in the village are waiting for this moment.

It's a pity that there are fewer children in the village who wholesale ice powder, it turns out that this matter is the leader of Tian Rubai, and most of the brothers of the Tian family follow the trend, but unfortunately their husband is well, these Tian juniors have to obediently go to private schools to study, and the other children are so sporadic and few, and there are fewer people who watch wholesale, so they simply don't do it.

Adults and children are like this, they have a herd mentality, they follow what others do, and they don't do what others don't do.

Liu Guiyuan ate the lunch made by Grandma Luo, rubbed the ice powder at home for a while, about three to four o'clock the sun is not so poisonous, she and her second sister Liu Huahua don't have a straw hat, and go to Nanhu Lake to water the watermelon.

Nanhu is half a piece of land, because it is sandy soil, it is not easy to store water, Liu Chongshan did not dare to plant wheat, but planted watermelon seedlings, not much, a total of 100 trees. I heard the second sister say that these watermelon seedlings were taken on credit from the village chief's family, and his family is a well-known watermelon grower in the village.

Of course, there is borrowing and repayment, according to the agreement, when his family collects watermelons, he must return 200 large watermelons, so that it can be considered clear. Don't think it's an easy exchange, at this time, the watermelon vine can only bear 2-4 watermelons, which means that at least half of the watermelons grown by his family have to be returned.

No wonder before Liu Chongshan left home, he repeatedly told them that they should not forget to water, weed and fertilize in several watermelon fields, and if the watermelons were not planted enough to repay the others, they had to find their own way to pay them back.

There was not much work on half of the land, the second sister Liu Huahua carried the wooden bucket to the ditch to carry water, Liu Guiyuan squatted on the ground to pick grass, and rolled a handful of weeds with a handful of weeds, and carefully covered the watermelon at her feet, so that it could not only shade the sun, but also prevent people from stealing.

"Why are there so many trumpet flowers growing in this field?" The second sister came back with water to water the ground, and saw that she had pulled a lot of weeds, all of which were trumpet flowers.

"I don't know, maybe the flower seeds have just floated in, and I'll bring some back to feed the pigs in a while." Liu Guiyuan also discovered this.

"How's it going, do you have any watermelons that you want to ripen?" The second sister scooped a scoop of water, poured it on the root of the melon seedlings, and then moved the long dense watermelon seedlings to other open spaces.

"No, it has to be in July, it's still too small, but I see that a few melon seedlings have been pulled off by someone, and there should be melons on them."

At this time, the watermelons are generally not as big as those of later generations, nor are they as black and green as those of later generations, and the fruiting period is relatively long, and they can only ripen fully in mid-July, and they have to wait at least a month.

"Which one is evil-minded, picking our melons? Can't you see that it's not ripe? Liu Huahua was unhappy, crossed his waist and scolded twice, but unfortunately it was useless, it had been so long since the incident, and they couldn't send someone here to watch it every day.

"Then you cover more grass and hide the big ones tightly." Liu Peanhua poured a bucket of water and walked to the ground with the bucket.

After Liu Guiyuan and Liu Huahua finished watering and returned home with a bucket of weeds, they were pleasantly surprised to find that their aunt Zhang Xiangqiao came, "Auntie, why did you come to our house?" ”