The stall was closed at noon. Even the amount of food Su Ji prepared today was much less than usual, so she closed the stall early and prepared to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival in the evening.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, delicious meals were essential.
Su Yujin asked Ai Cao, Mama Liu, and others to go to the Fuyun Building to buy wine, salt and pepper pork chops, pot-roasted duck, crispy fish, etc., and she cooked a cabbage roll herself.
Tender cabbage leaves were blanched in cold water, wrapped in seasoned pork stuffing, steamed in a pot, and then topped with the stewed bone broth.
The cabbage leaves were fresh and tender, the minced meat was fragrant, and the broth was light and full of flavor. Because there were not too many seasonings, the whole dish tasted fragrant, delicate, and delicious.
When the others saw Su Yujin cooking in person, they naturally had no reason to be idle, so they simply cooked a dish by themselves.
Mama Liu made crispy and fragrant fried lotus root, Ai Cao made fragrant and delicious spicy yuba, Shuangye made stir-fried pork slices with chrysanthemum, Bitao made spicy and sour shredded radish, Qinghe made stir-fried pork with mushrooms, Jin Gui made homemade tofu, and Xedong made stir-fried liver slices.
Qing Kui thought for a long time not knowing what to do, because her cooking skills were really not good enough. After much deliberation, she finally blanched the slender tender beans, poured a layer of sesame sauce on them, and brought out a plate of beans with sesame sauce.
The staple food was dumplings, stuffed with scallions, cabbage, and pork. They added some spinach juice to the dough and made green jade dumplings to eat.
The Mid-Autumn Festival dinner could be said to be rich and lively.
After the moon gradually began to have gaps, the sky became colder day by day.
Su Yujin removed the Liangpi stall in Su Ji and replaced it with another kind of food-yángzá tāng.1
A sticky white soup made from simmering lamb thigh bones and vertebrae, plus cooked thinly sliced lamb cheeks, lamb blood, lamb liver, etc., poured into a bowl of hot soup, sprinkle with minced green onion and coriander, and add a little more pepper and chili powder… when you drink it, you can’t stop drinking it!
Because of this, once the yángzá tāng was launched, it immediately became Su Ji’s new signature delicacy!
However, soon after, new troubles arose.
Different from various flavors of noodles and wontons, this yángzá tāng did not have any noodles that could be used as a staple food. Although it was delicious, one bowl was not enough to satisfy you.
As for the eating habits of people in Qinghe County, which was located in the north, just drinking soup was not called eating.
But if you paired the yángzá tāng with any of Su Ji’s food, the taste would become somewhat different, and the price would be much higher.
Therefore, after two days of popularity, the sales volume of this dish had dropped significantly.
After Su Yujin thought for a long time, she set her sights on a shāobǐng2 stall near Su Ji.
The stall owner was a little girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, named Zhang Huaihua. She was not tall, but she was very strong, with slightly dark skin. She had a smile on her round face every day, which made people feel very… kind.
Zhang Huaihua sold shāobǐng in her stall every day, rain or shine.
The shāobǐng sold were authentic hanging-oven shāobǐng. The front side was toasted to a crispy texture, and the few sesame seeds sprinkled on top added to the aroma, making it delicious to eat.
If shāobǐngs were sold normally, they cost a penny each and were of moderate portion. An ordinary woman or child with a normal appetite could eat one shāobǐng with a meal, but for an adult man, it was usually one and a half or two.
This size made it really good if it was given as a complimentary accompaniment to the yángzá tāng.
So Su Yujin went to Zhang Huaihua and ordered fifty shāobǐngs from her every day.
With such a significant business deal coming in, Zhang Huaihua naturally felt overjoyed. However, shortly afterward, she felt a bit uneasy and discussed with Su Yujin, “My shāobǐngs are already sold with thin profits and high turnover. The price really can’t be lowered any further, or else I won’t make much money…”
“I’ll buy them for a penny each, and you’ll give me two extra shāobǐngs every day, how about that?” Su Yujin replied.
Seeing this, Zhang Huaihua breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly, “No problem, I’ll give you three free every day!”
She really couldn’t afford any more free bread.
“Okay.” Su Yujin agreed.
The matter of shāobǐng was quickly settled. Before Su Ji opened every day, Zhang Huaihua would send these fifty shāobǐngs, and the money was paid once a day without default.
When Su Ji’s yángzá tāng was sold, it was sold as a bowl of yángzá tāng with a shāobǐng. If one shāobǐng was not enough and you needed to buy another one, it would cost a penny each.
With shāobǐng as a match, the sales volume of yángzá tāng increased day by day, and it once again became Su Ji’s best-selling signature food.
People at this time valued mutton and thought that offal such as lungs and stomachs were meat that could not be sold on the table. The price of offals was low, and the profit ratio of this yángzá tāng was also the highest among all kinds of food in Su Ji.
Because the yángzá tāng sold well, the number of shāobǐngs ordered from Zhang Huaihua increased from fifty to sixty.
Zhang Huaihua was so happy that she got up a quarter of an hour earlier than before and started making shāobǐng early.
While she was busy, someone entered the yard.
It was a bit cold in the late autumn morning. The person was wrapped in a cloak and wearing a conical hat. Her appearance was unclear, but judging from her body shape, she was not tall and seemed to be a woman.
People dressed like this were not uncommon in the county town. Zhang Huaihua didn’t think too much and just said, “If you want to buy shāobǐng, you have to wait a little longer. They haven’t been baked yet.”
Without saying anything, she just threw a bag in front of Zhang Huaihua.
The bag seemed very heavy and made a crisp “ding” sound when it landed on the counter.
Zhang Huaihua untied it and saw the white pieces of silver in the bag.
One, two, three…
Weigh the weight, there were ten or twenty!
“How many shāobǐngs do you want, sir?” Zhang Huaihua hugged the money bag tightly in her arms, with a smile on her face, “When do you want it?”
…………
On this day, Su Yujin welcomed a guest.
Zhou Shi from the Li family.
“I’m really ashamed to come here rashly, but I came here this time to thank Miss Su for saving my son’s life.” Madam Li said straight to the point, “These are some of my thoughts. I hope Miss Su won’t dislike them.”
“I should have come earlier, but my husband passed away early, and the responsibility for the herbal medicine business fell solely on me. I’ve been busy outside for some time, and I just returned home yesterday.”
“Upon returning home, hearing from Aunt Zheng about the incident where my child Ruo Yi choked while eating at Miss Su’s shop and was saved by Miss Su, I prepared a small gift to express gratitude for Miss Su’s kindness.
As she spoke, Madam Li bowed again to express her gratitude.
Su Yujin hurriedly supported her, “It was a simple task that day. Madam, please don’t be polite. It happened suddenly that day. It happened that I knew some medical skills, so I hurriedly reached out to help.”
“Madam just said that the family is in the medicinal materials business?”
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