"Okay." Lin Lan sorted the zongzi and poured them into two large pots, turned off the charcoal fire and added two shovels of coal in it, and after a while, the fire in the stove ignited.

After boiling on high heat for an hour and a half, and simmering for another half hour, the first pot of zongzi was cooked.

Lin Lan took out the zongzi and said to everyone: "Mom, brother and sister-in-law, let's rest for a while and taste the zongzi you wrapped yourself." ”

Tong Xinglan picked up one: "Let me see what it tastes like?" ”

Lin Lan took a look at the hemp rope tied to the zongzi: "A pot of salted egg dumplings, a pot of salted meat and chestnut dumplings." ”

Tong Xinglan put down the salted egg-flavored one in her hand and said with a smile: "I'll taste a salted meat chestnut flavor first." ”

Lin Lan brought the basket containing the zongzi to everyone and let them choose by themselves.

Li Xiaofeng also took a salted meat chestnut-flavored one, and praised it after eating: "It's so delicious, it's much better than red rice dumplings." ”

Zhou Shisong said with a smile: "Han Bao, salted duck egg yolk bun, do you say it's delicious!" ”

Li Xiaofeng sighed: "Alas! Or the people in the city will eat. Let's plant for a lifetime and raise chickens and ducks for a lifetime, why didn't we think of wrapping zongzi with salted duck eggs! ”

Zhou Shisong sneered: "It's beautiful, the grain has been handed over to the public grain, and you don't even have to eat white rice, you still want to wrap zongzi with salted egg yolk, it's strange that your mother-in-law doesn't take a broom to drive you out!" ”

Zhao Xiaohui patted Li Xiaofeng: "Cousin-in-law, it's okay now, you can eat whatever flavor you want, and no one will pick you up." ”

Lin Lan nodded: "Yes, this year's Duanyang Festival, let's have a happy meal and eat enough zongzi of every flavor." ”

Tong Xinglan waved her hand: "Okay, let's eat enough." ”

Wu Shufen smiled and shook her head: "I can't do it, I'm old, I can eat at most one, and I can't digest it if I eat too much." ”

Lin Lan smiled: "It's okay Mom, I'll go make some hawthorn water for you to drink." ”

"You don't need to soak in hawthorn water, and you don't eat and go to sleep."

Wu Shufen and a few people helped Lin Lan wrap the dumplings for the day, it was already past eleven o'clock, and several people left with the dumplings.

Lin Lan filled the rice dumplings with water after putting them into the pot, and then filled the stove with briquettes, and Tong Xinglan and Qiaohui took turns watching the fire, and the two cauldrons kept boiling until the next morning, and all the zongzi wrapped last night were cooked.

Early the next morning, Lin Lan moved the coal stove that had been prepared long ago to the door of the pastry shop, and put a steel pot on the five coal stoves, which were filled with zongzi, including ham and red bean dumplings, chestnut and salted meat dumplings, eight treasures, dates, and salted egg yolks......

The fragrance of zongzi immediately attracted passers-by, and there was an endless stream of people who came to buy zongzi.

Lin Lan and Tong Xinglan were very busy, and they sold hundreds of zongzi in one morning.

Yang Zhigang helped buy dozens of catties of red lotus and asked the person who sold the red lotus to send it to the store.

Qiaohui looked at Lin Lan in surprise: "Cousin, do you really want to sell red rice dumplings?" ”

Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "Hmm!" There are two dates inside, and the sweet taste is definitely good. ”

"Okay, I'm still good at cutting red rice silk, I'll wrap red rice dumplings." Qiao Hui said.

Lin Yuezhen sat on a bench, the two of them peeled the red lotus skin together, Tong Xinglan poured the red lotus into the pool, cleaned it and put it on the board and began to shred.

Before lunch, the red rice dumplings came out of the pot, Lin Lan opened one, revealing a golden rice dumpling mixed with white glutinous rice grains, and when she took a bite, she felt that it was looser than the glutinous rice dumplings, not so sticky, and sweet and a little refreshing.

Qiao Hui asked Lin Lan with a smile: "Cousin, what do you think of the taste?" ”

Lin Lan remembered the crystal zongzi she had eaten before, and said with a smile: "I don't think I should chop the bag, I should cook the red lotus, mash it into a puree and wrap it again, the wrapped zongzi is more attractive than the one wrapped like this." ”

"I'm going to buy some red lettuce and come back and try it when it's cooked?" Qiaohui asked.

Lin Lan shook her head with a smile: "Try again when you're ready next year, these zongzi are five cents cheaper than candied date zongzi." ”

"Hmm!" Qiaohui brought the red rice dumplings out of the backyard.

At noon, a well-dressed middle-aged woman came to the store and told Lin Lan that she was a purchaser from the county hospital and wanted to order a batch of welfare zongzi, but she had to look at the hygiene of the store first.

Lin Lan was still very confident in the hygiene of her shop, and after taking the woman to the backyard to see it, she ordered 600 zongzi, which were ham and red bean dumplings and salted meat and chestnut dumplings.

After receiving an order for hundreds of zongzi at once, the lack of manpower is a problem, Lin Lan thought for a while, and returned to Lexing with a salary of five yuan a day to invite five aunts to come to the store to help make zongzi.

In the first few years, a strong laborer went out to do physical work and only earned a few yuan a day, and he was not tired of making zongzi, and he still had food for five yuan a day. A few aunts happily went to the pastry shop to help make zongzi.

Lin Lan saw that several people were working neatly, and felt that it was good to ask someone to pack it, so that everyone would not be burdened.

In the afternoon, Yao Xiuyun and Xu Dong helped her pull their unit's welfare dumplings to her store, originally wanting to order salted egg yolk dumplings, but Lin Lan's salted eggs were not enough, so they had to replace them with ham and eight treasures.

After receiving the welfare zongzi from three units at once, Lin Lan led people to work overtime to make zongzi.

Perhaps because the zongzi business is too prosperous, the door opened early on the fourth day of the fifth month, Tong Xinglan and Zhigang carried the stove out of the door of the store, and found that the steamed bun shop and small restaurant opposite also launched zongzi.

The two families sell salted meat dumplings, as well as dates and eight-treasure dumplings, which are also boiled on the stove in a steel pot.

"Cousin, you see that the other side is also selling zongzi." Tong Xinglan yelled at the store.

The small boss of the steamed bun shop opposite smiled at her embarrassedly.

The small boss often comes to the store to take care of the business, and likes to buy peanuts and cow ties to eat.

Tong Xinglan glared at him, and said to Lin Lan angrily: "Cousin, they just look at us, and they see that our business is good, and they also make zongzi to sell." ”

Lin Lan glanced at the little boss and said with a smile: "What's so angry, each business is done." ”

She felt that there were only two more selling zongzi, and there were only two or three varieties, which would not have an impact on her zongzi business at all.

But the little boss looked at Tong Xinglan's eyes, which meant something else.

Qiao Hui looked at Lin Lan worriedly: "Cousin, the Limin Road side can be sold before seven o'clock, why don't we put two stoves on Limin Road and sell them?" ”

Lin Lan thought for a while: "Sell it for a morning first, if it doesn't work, wait for Zhigang to come back, let him pull the two stoves over there." ”

She thinks that Qiaohui's ability to handle things is better than Tong Xinglan's, and if there is a problem, she will find a way to solve it, and Tong Xinglan will only babble.

planned to wait for Li Xiangyang to come back, so he would make use of the vacant store on Limin Street and let Qiaohui go there to see a shop.

Qiao Hui nodded: "Okay, Zhigang is back, and there are also people guarding the stall." ”

After the zongzi stall was set up, several aunts also came, Lin Lan arranged the work, rode some zongzi home, and sent some to the old lady and Yao Xiuyun.