Chapter 47 Opening
Business
Author: cool beauty
Business
Before three o'clock in the morning on August 26, Zhao Laosi and Wu Julan got up quietly.
They kneaded the dough first, rolled out the dumpling wrappers, and then hurried to the butcher stall owner's house to buy meat.
The weather is still hot now, and they are worried that the meat will not be fresh enough. They have made an agreement with the butcher stall proprietress to borrow their refrigerator to keep it fresh.
Now I come back with more than ten kilograms of meat that I specially saved and start chopping stuffing.
Wu Julan took the pig's head out of the big pot that was still warm and picked out the bones from the pig's head.
At this time, the three sisters who were still sleeping upstairs were also woken up by the sound of chopping stuffing.
Xiao Fang immediately got up and put on her clothes, ready to go down and help.
Yanyan turned over and continued to sleep.
Xiao Hong yawned, picked up the small alarm clock on the desk next to her, saw that it was only five o'clock, and continued to sleep.
It's a pity that her sleep is not as good as Yanyan's. She can't fall asleep listening to the sound of chopping stuffing.
She thought to herself: "I miscalculated. I should have chopped it up and put it in the refrigerator at Sister Pan's house, or bought a meat grinder."
Otherwise, the sound of chopping meat would be heard every morning, and I would not be able to sleep in from now on.
She could only get up and go downstairs to wash up. When she saw Xiao Fang rolling out the dough again, she started to go to the briquette stove. She first used tongs to remove the sealing ring from the mouth of the briquette stove, and then opened the lid to look at the braised chicken inside.
The seasonings for braised chicken and braised pork are different.
Now she doesn't know if there is a chicken farm. Home-raised chickens are not tender enough to make fried chicken or something like that.
She just prepared the simplest and most convenient braised chicken.
Chop the seasonings and wrap them in gauze. Stuff the onions and garlic into the belly of the chicken. Continue to add various seasonings, then put them directly into the steel pot and cook slowly.
The briquette stove was sealed and the fire was low. She put it on to stew at ten o'clock last night. After simmering on low heat for the whole night...she tore off a chicken wing and tasted it. It tasted pretty good.
She thought she could cook it later in the evening so that the chicken would be chewier.
This steel pot is the largest one, and now it contains more than half the pot of marinade and four braised chickens. She can't carry it alone, so Zhao Laosi comes over to carry it down.
When you open the lid, the aroma is fragrant.
Zhao Laosi couldn't help but praise: "It smells so good. Can we still use this marinade at night?"
"Yes." Xiao Hong put the braised chicken into a clean basin and looked at the clock on the wall: "It's almost six o'clock, let's hang up the firecrackers first?"
"Yes, yes." Zhao Laosi also became nervous and was so panicked that he couldn't even place the things: "Lan Lan, do you know where I put the firecrackers?"
"I don't know!" Wu Julan was even more nervous than him.
My family borrowed money to buy a house, and now they are going to open a business. If the business does not do well, the money they borrowed will not be repaid.
She felt very uneasy. She squinted for a while last night and didn't get a good rest at all.
Seeing her stepfather running around anxiously, Xiao Hong twitched the corner of her mouth and picked up two large strings of firecrackers from the stool in a dumbfounded way: "Are they right here?"
After the crackling of firecrackers, people from the neighbors came over to have breakfast.
Ever since they started moving, shop owners have come to ask what they do.
When they found out that they were running a restaurant, everyone was very happy and felt that there was one less person coming to grab business.
Furthermore, those who can open a store at this time are those who will not be short of money.
As long as it tastes good, it's not unaffordable if it's more expensive.
Whether it's dumplings, wontons, or braised meat, even if you can make it yourself, it still takes time and energy. Now that they are here to open a store, the store owners are of course very happy.
"Boss Zhao, you have a great business, your business is booming!" Boss Huang and his wife, who were selling hardware nearby, came in and said auspicious words with smiles on their faces.
This was a good start. Zhao Laosi thanked him excitedly, wishing he could give them a free meal: "Thank you for coming, please come in soon."
Boss Huang looked at the menu written on the red paper on the wall and said generously: "Bring us two bowls of dumplings and half a pound of pork head."
"Okay! You guys sit down first." Wu Julan asked Xiao Fang to bring them tea eggs, and she quickly laid down the dumplings.
Xiao Fang gave them four tea eggs: "Uncle, aunt, thank you for your support. Please have a taste."
Everyone will like the free tea eggs.
Aunt Huang also laughed: "Then we won't be polite."
Xiao Hong just cut up half a catty of pig head meat and brought it over. He said with a smile: "Uncle, aunt, you guys eat slowly."
She also admired them very much. She wanted to eat pig head meat early in the morning. Seeing that the couple had both chubby bodies, she wanted to persuade them to eat less fat.
Most people nowadays are thin, and it is rare to see someone so fat. Moreover, few people have any awareness of health care, and they are not aware of the dangers of high blood pressure and high blood lipids.
Most people think they are lucky to be fatter.
After that, more people came one after another. Xiao Fang mainly served dumplings and cleared the table.
Yanyan also washed the dishes diligently and lit the fire.
Xiao Hong mainly collects money and gives tea eggs to customers who come with flyers.
Zhao Laosi mainly sells braised pork and braised chicken.
Wu Julan is the main force in making dumplings and wontons.
From the time it opened at six o'clock, until eight-thirty, there were no customers in the shop.
Wu Julan rushed to see the braised food being sold in front of the house. When she saw that the pots were all empty, she couldn't hide her surprise: "Is it really all sold out?"
You know, when I came to town to sell, I just packed a pig head and added some pig trotters.
But today, thinking about opening a store, they prepared two pig heads, ten pig trotters, and four braised chickens, but now the pots are empty.
They were worried before that the newly opened store would not have many customers and the business would be poor?
"Yes, yes they are all sold out!" Zhao Laosi also smiled and narrowed his eyes: "While there is no one around, let's count our income this morning."
After saying that, he opened the drawer, which was full of money of different sizes and denominations.
A family of five gathered around the money drawer and began to count the money.
"I have twenty yuan here." Yan Yan counted the whole number very cleverly.
Xiao Fang put the neatly folded money on the table: "I have twenty-five yuan here."
Xiao Hong took advantage of the situation and put the three people's money together: "I have thirty yuan here."
Wu Julan had never seen so much money at once. Her hands shaking when sorting out the money gave Xiao Fang the money and said nervously: "I can't remember clearly. Can you count it again? Do you think it's more than twenty yuan?"
Zhao Laosi also handed the money in his hand to Xiao Hong: "I have twenty-six yuan and two cents."
Adding up the one and two cents in the drawer, the total is one hundred, thirty, two dollars, three quarters and four cents.
Xiao Hong took out her accounting book and started to calculate: "The cost of the meat was fourteen yuan and six cents, the pig's head and pig's feet cost forty-three yuan and two cents, the four chickens cost seventeen yuan and eight cents, the total was seventy-five yuan and six cents."
"Excluding the ten dollars in change, that means we made forty-six dollars and four cents this morning."
When Wu Julan heard that she could earn so much, she almost fainted with joy. She pinched her apron nervously with both hands. She was afraid that Xiao Hong had made a mistake and said more: "Is it really that much? Can you count it twice more?"
Chapter completed!