Chapter 6: There is a head
In addition to selling vegetables, Xu An also has another purpose in rushing to the morning market today, which is to see if he can find other livelihoods.
The daily yield of the vegetable garden is limited, and today the yield is considered high. When the yield is low, there may only be a few tomatoes, which is only enough for one meal.
Even if there is today's output every day, it is only less than 60 income, and it is worth 1,008 at most when it is full in a month, so it is better to go to the construction site to work for a short time. Eighty a day, a month can have two thousand four, six hundred more than selling vegetables.
After looking at each stall, one thought after another appeared in his mind, and he was quickly rejected by Xu An.
The main reason is that he only has less than 100 start-up funds, such as grilled sausages, egg scones, and egg waffles, which are popular with students, and these electrical equipment can only be vetoed.
The only things left to consider are sandwiches and lo mei, which can be prepared at home and sold directly at the market.
But in the town, sandwiches are not a petty bourgeois food, and two slices of bread with a la carte and meat are digested without moving twice for those who have to work in the fields or go to work, and they are not full at all.
Lo-mei can be considered, the fragrance is strong, the taste is also good, cut and cut and put on the plate is a dish on the table.
But after looking at the price of frozen products, Xu An took his leave.
Frozen chicken feet are 151 catties, frozen chicken wings are 181 catties, and frozen chicken thighs are cheaper than 8 yuan a catty. The price of these miscellaneous items is more expensive than that of pork, and beef is even more unthinkable.
Except for spices, the remaining money can only buy three or four catties at most, and this little thing will be gone if you taste it.
It seems that it is more reliable to go to the construction site to do odd jobs, and after being reborn, my strength has also increased, and it is easy to move a hundred pounds of things, and the construction site is my ultimate destination.
In two days, find a time to go around the construction site in the city to see what kind of treatment the temporary workers on the construction site are, and the salary should not be lower than that of apprentices.
After walking around the market, when he returned to the stall position, most of the vegetables on Xu Guoqiang's stall had already been sold.
Seeing that there were not many vegetables left, Xu An went back to help sell. After telling people a few different ways to make the vegetables on the stall, they quickly sold out.
Several people also asked Xu An to put some other vegetables next time and talk about a few more recipes.
In these days, everyone cooks, but most people cook meals just for the sake of satisfying their stomachs, and they are not delicious. If you can eat enough and eat meat in one meal, no matter what it tastes like, this is a good day.
But with the development of the economy, people have more spare money in their pockets, and they have more pursuit of the taste of food.
In these years, the Internet has not been as developed as in later generations, and if you want to cook what you want to cook, you can search the Internet for different practices all over the country. Even in later generations when the Internet was quite developed, most of the people who could play with their mobile phones were young people.
These recipes dictated by Xu An seemed to be ordinary in later generations, but now they have given everyone a sense of freshness, which sounds delicious.
With Xu An's help today, Xu Guoqiang arrived home an hour earlier than usual.
The second aunt was overjoyed to see Xu Guoqiang sell out the vegetables so quickly, and said happily while handing him a change of clothes: "Cabbage and green beans are so popular today, you can pick more tomorrow, and sell more while it is good." ”
Xu Guoqiang's children are already in college, and there are only two of them left in the family, Xu Guoqiang directly changed into clean clothes in the yard, and put the clothes stained with a lot of mud and ideas next to the well.
"It's not that today's food is popular, it's Anzi's mouth."
"What's wrong with Anzi?" The second aunt sat down next to the well, pressed some well water and began to wash the clothes.
"He also went to the market today to set up a stall to sell vegetables, right next door to me. The one who could speak well, as soon as he opened his mouth, coaxed a bunch of people to buy all the vegetables on his stall. I rubbed his light and sold out early and went home. ”
"It's so powerful, it was the seventh grandmother who went to set up a stall before, but I didn't expect him to have this ability."
"It's a good kid, I'm going to get up early tomorrow morning and pick up more to sell at the market."
"Didn't you say that today is rubbing Yasuko's light?"
"Ming'er, we're still next to each other." Xu Guoqiang said triumphantly.
When Xu An returned home, he heard the deafening cries of the two little ones in the house, and covered the voice of Grandma Xu's voice tightly.
"Why are there two crying worms at home, crying so loudly that my brother's ears are about to cry and become deaf."
"Brother!"
"Wow, ahhhh
When the two heard Xu An's voice, they immediately stopped, broke free of Grandma Xu's hand, and ran towards the courtyard gate.
As soon as Xu An opened the courtyard door, the two hugged Xu An's calves left and right, and tears and snot blurred his legs.
Fortunately, I wore shorts, otherwise I would have had to change into shuffle pants.
"Sit down, take off."
Hearing this, the two sat on Xu An's mud-stained feet and firmly hugged Xu An's calves. Come on, I'm going to wash my pants now.
After shaking and feeling that the two of them were seated, Xu An strode forward, and Xu Kang and Xu Le let out a scream of joy.
After making trouble for a while, he sent the two to play in the sand under the tree.
Looking at the sky, the sky was clear and cloudless, and it was relatively cool at this time in the morning.
Xu An took Grandma Xu out, lay down on the rocking chair under the longan tree, and then went to prepare the meal to be eaten at noon.
Lifting the stone covering the well, he pulled up a rope from the side of the well, and at the end of the rope was tied a plastic bag containing more than half a pound of pork left over from yesterday.
There is so much meat, then there is a Hakka dish stuffed bitter gourd, stir-fried cabbage and a tomato and egg soup, two dishes and one soup, perfect.
Just as Xu An was preparing the dishes, there was a knock on the courtyard door, and when he opened it, he saw that it was Xu Heping who was coming, still carrying two sea bass in his hands.
The hippie smiled and stuffed the two fish into Xu An's hands, and ran to Grandma Xu and squatted down: "Grandma Seven, your legs are better." ”
"It's peace, come to find Anzi why do you still bring fish here, next time you don't allow it, next time you want to bring fish to the door, let Anzi blast you out."
"Seventh grandma, my parents have something to go out, I'm here to eat at your house, these two fish are my rations."
After speaking, Xu Heping ran to Xu Kang and Xu Le's side and played with them in the sand.
Since they were all sent to the door, Xu An was not polite, and began to think about what these two fish could do.
Although the fish head is not big, there are two, so let's have a fish head tofu soup; Slice the fish and stir-fry the sea bass fillet.
"Peace, go to Majia Village to buy a piece of tofu and come back, and drink fish head soup at noon."
"Okay."
Xu Heping didn't take the money in Xu An's hand, and went out with a swish.
Five people eat, two young men and two gluttonous cats can eat two large bowls of this meat, and they have to cook half a catty of rice to eat.
When I opened the rice tank, I saw that the rice was almost bottoming out, and the bulging part at the bottom of the tank was clearly visible.
There is just over a pound of rice left, and I have to buy some rice tomorrow. But thinking that Ming'er's sister-in-law is coming over, if there is too much rice at home, it will not be good to cry poor at that time, so it is better to buy it the day after tomorrow.
Stuffed bitter gourd is a Hakka home cooking, cut the bitter gourd into small pieces three fingers thick, put it in a pot and blanch it for one minute.
Cut the meat into minced meat, add an egg, a little light soy sauce and salt to taste and stir well.
Normally, you need to add starch and stir it well, but there is no starch in the kitchen, so Xu An skipped the step of adding starch. Although it will affect the taste a little, overall it is not a big problem.
Stuff the mixed meat into the hollowed out bitter gourd, heat the oil, and fry the bitter gourd on both sides until golden brown.
Prepare a secret sauce and pour it over the bitter gourd, burn it until the juice is ready, put it on a plate, and you're done.
Xu Heping was so hungry when he smelled it, but Xu Kang and Xu Le were also there, he was embarrassed to eat secretly, so he could only swallow his saliva desperately.
The next thing to make is fish head tofu soup.
After the fish head marinated in ginger slices and salt is fried in hot oil until golden brown on both sides and slightly charred, add an appropriate amount of water and boil until the soup is thick and white, add tofu and cook for another five minutes, finally add an appropriate amount of salt to taste, sprinkle in green onion and coriander and cook well.
Blanch the sea bass fillets in boiling water until they are half-cooked and set, stir-fry the minced garlic and add millet spicy and stir-fry evenly, pour in the fish fillets and stir-fry, season with an appropriate amount of salt, sprinkle with green onion and coriander.
The last stir-fried cabbage is even simpler, stir-fry the minced garlic and pour in the cabbage to fry until soft, and season with salt.
It took an hour and a half to make three dishes, one soup and one meal, and it was already eleven o'clock at noon, which happened to be meal time.
Except for Xu An, several people have long been greedy for this fragrance, and when the food comes out, it can be clearly seen that Grandma Xu has a little expectation in her eyes.
Who wouldn't want to have a good meal when life allows?
The five people swept away the food on the table like a cloud, and half a catty of rice would be enough for five people to eat, Xu Heping looked at the empty pot and muttered that he could eat another big bowl.
"Anzi, when did you learn this cooking skill."
"When setting up stalls, I often hear them talking about how to buy vegetables and how to do them, and they will listen to them a lot."
Xu Heping just sighed, but didn't delve into it, and suddenly smiled with a sly smile on his face: "Do you know Uncle Liang of the Fifth Grandmother's family?" ”
"Xu Dongliang?"
"Yes, that's him." Xu Heping nodded: "He went to work on the construction site with other people in the village, and when he came back after two days, he complained."
Everyone knows that working on the construction site is tiring, but I didn't expect that what is more terrible than working is the food on the construction site.
The dishes are boiled in water, and the green and yellow are unappetizing when they look at it; I finally saw a meat dish, three pieces of meat in a pot, and it was all fatty meat.
I didn't finish the last meal, and I added some other dishes to the next meal and continued to cook, and the whole pot was stewed.
The cooked rice is either too much water like porridge, or it is not cooked, and it still has a gruffled tooth after taking a bite.
According to Uncle Dongliang, the pigs in the village eat better than this. He was so angry that he went to work with two large noodle steamed buns, and when he ate at noon, he ate large noodle steamed buns with mustard and dried fish, which were better than that meal. ”
"There are no restaurants nearby, and the wages for their work on the construction site are not low, so they can still afford to eat for ten or eight yuan."
Xu Heping 'cut'.
"Yes, there is, but those restaurants look down on people and dislike them for working dirty on the construction site, so they don't let them eat in the restaurant. After paying the same amount of money, you can only squat outside the store to eat, who can stand it, it is better to eat free meals at the construction site, and there is a chair to sit on. ”
"Yes."
Xu An's hand brushing the dishes suddenly paused, and he suddenly remembered the personal video he saw when he played with his mobile phone in later life, the main content of the video was to make a boxed lunch at home and sell it on the construction site.
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