23. Chapter 23 Big Deal

Author: Next door Lao Huang 007

Yiren opened the wet cloth covering the baskets and saw that each basket was divided into two parts, containing silver plates, morels, lilac mushrooms, and black fungus.

Every mushroom and fungus, regardless of size, has been cleaned cleanly. There are no weeds, no mud, no bumps or broken parts. They are about the same size and packed in categories. At first glance, they are carefully selected, cleaned, and sorted.

Chef Zhang looked at the freshness and realized that even a well-known mountain product reseller in the county had never bothered so much, and the quality of the goods was far from that good. But he was making noodles and snacks, and the mountain product area was not under his control.

Chef Zhang turned to give orders to Jinbao, who ran to the kitchen and came back after a while dragging a thin old man with a goatee.

"Open your head, what's going on?" The old man stroked his beard and spoke politely.

"Ah! Monkey Zhou, please stop hanging your book bag!" Chef Zhang took a few steps forward, grabbed the old man and took him to Song Yiren's mushrooms.

"Oh! This mountain product is handled very carefully!" Chef Zhou saw the mountain product in the basket on the floor at a glance, and his eyes flashed.

"This must be Chef Zhou! I often hear Brother Jinbao mention you!" Yiren said with a smile.

Chef Zhang: These words sound familiar...Does she say this to everyone she meets?

"Who is this?" Chef Zhou ignored Song Yiren and turned to ask Chef Zhang.

"No, the roasted melon seeds I gave you the day before yesterday were made by this sister-in-law!" Chef Zhang pursed his lips and explained to the lady.

"Oh? That's really good craftsmanship." This time Chef Zhou finally looked at Yi Renli with a straight eye.

He is also an arrogant cook! Yiren thought.

"Today, I want Chef Zhou to see if I, a bastard, can still impress you?" Yi Ren noticed that Chef Zhou had an unusual temper and asked as respectfully as possible.

"I know how to classify fungi, and I picked a big one without any damage, and cleaned the dirt and weeds. It's good." Chef Zhou started stroking his beard again. "In the past, all the vendors delivered were baskets of miscellaneous fungi.

They are entangled with each other, they are muddy and dirty, and they can only make mixed fungi!"

"Although all mushrooms are delicious, their tastes are somewhat different. The mushrooms I sort and select can be convenient for chefs to cook! As the saying goes, one mushroom soup will smell delicious in ten families!" Yiren continued.

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"Yes. But how many pounds can you provide every day?" Chef Zhou became serious.

"How many pounds does Chef Zhou need?" Yiren asked with a calm smile.

"From thirty kilograms, there is no limit to the type, but you don't want the most common pine mushrooms." Chef Zhou put his hands behind his back and added. "Mushrooms on the market usually cost three cents per catty. I will give you five cents per catty. Fungus

It’s not necessary at this time!”

"Okay, it's a deal. From the day after tomorrow, I will deliver thirty kilograms of mushrooms every day!"

"In addition, the time should be early, around mid-afternoon is fine. Of course, earlier is also fine. There are people in the restaurant, but it cannot be late. The restaurant needs to prepare dishes!"

"Don't worry!"

"Hey! Hey! Sister-in-law, if you accepted Chef Zhou's offer of wild food, do you still have time to make roasted seeds and nuts?" Chef Zhang pulled Yi Ren worriedly.

"When your trial sale is successful, you can place an order with me and tell me how much you need in a few days. I promise to complete the task on time and in good quality and quantity!"

Having settled on the big deal of mountain goods, Song Yiren jumped up and down while humming a little tune.

"Yiren, Yiren, we have to pick and process thirty kilograms of wild goods every day. You and your mother are too busy!" Jinbao took advantage of the opportunity to send her out and asked in a low voice.

"I have a way! Brother Jinbao, don't worry!" Yiren smiled mysteriously, took out one hundred and fifty copper plates and stuffed them into Jinbao's hand, then quickly jumped onto Uncle Qing's bullock cart, which had been waiting for her, and headed for the town.

Rush to the pier.

On the way, she was thinking in her mind: Thirty kilograms per day, five cents per catty, that means the daily fixed income is one hundred and fifty cents!

She had already found out that it would cost at least six taels of silver to renovate an old house, eight taels for a better one, and fifteen taels to build a new house!

Renovation refers to retaining the original frame and repairing the walls based on the foundation, and only replacing the beams, doors and windows. But for this dilapidated house like hers, whether it has a foundation or not is a matter of fact. If there is a strong wind, it will be an open-air box.

, it is estimated that it will need to be built from scratch, then it will cost fifteen taels!

During this period, she got up early every day and did small business in the dark, but she only earned about 300 cash. Adding in today's 373 cash, excluding the 40% given to Jinbao and Aunt Li, she still got 20%.

One hundred and twenty-three articles.

Although it is much better than when we first moved in, it is not enough to build a house!

She looked at her belly. She must build a house before giving birth, buy bedding and clothes for the winter, and save enough money for her confinement!

These days are really difficult! She had to sigh again. In the past, the women who traveled through time in the novels would throw out tens, hundreds, or even thousands of taels of silver without moving. That was really... a waste of money for these rich people! And

She is still worrying about a few copper coins!

With this thought in mind, the bullock cart wandered to the pier!

Although I left early today, I was delayed for a while at the Desheng Restaurant in the county. When I arrived at the dock, it was a little late as the workers had already finished work.

"Sister-in-law, why are you so late today? I thought you weren't coming!" An elder brother who wanted to buy something to eat at the noodle stall nearby saw the lady coming, turned around and stood in front of her.

"I'm delayed because of something. What do you want to eat today?" Yiren was busy greeting her brother, but she didn't even see the angry look in the old man's eyes at the noodle stall next to him.

"Let me take a look!" The elder brother followed the scent and looked at the pancakes he had tasted before, and then smelled the oily and fat braised pork in the bucket. He hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind: "Give me a bowl.

Let’s have braised pork rice!”

"Come on! Brother, you haven't eaten my braised pork rice before, have you? I guarantee you'll want to eat it after you try it!" Yiren greeted with a smile on her face, and without stopping, she quickly filled up the brown rice and covered it with a thick layer of rice.

A thick layer of braised pork.

"I don't know what's so delicious about that greasy fat layer! How about selling it for four cents a bowl?" The old man selling noodles next door looked disdainful and threw the strainer for scooping noodles into the boiling water.

Sound.

"Old Wei, please be gentle, the boiling water splashed all over me!" The steward eating next to him cursed dissatisfiedly. If the cake seller hadn't come late today, he wouldn't have eaten the bowl of noodles.

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"Hey! Hey! I'm so surprised!" The old man nodded and smiled. He turned around and saw the beauty's stall being surrounded. He threw the fence on the panel in frustration and sighed.

"Old Wei, don't be dissatisfied! That girl only sells a thick layer of meat for four cents. That's meat. Pork outside now costs more than ten cents a pound! You plain noodles have no oil or meat.

, just add some egg braised meat, and it still sells for two cents!"

"There are vegetables and eggs in her meat. It's much cheaper than meat!" Old Wei had never eaten Yiren's braised pork, but he saw the dock workers eating it, so he quietly walked over to take a look, and the smell was indeed

It's fragrant, but there's a lot of wild garlic and green onions in it, as well as eggs. The eggs are so black, how can they be delicious? These workers buy her rice, and it's not because of the beauty of the little lady!

"The dish is just a little bit, with half an egg, but the egg is pickled, has a meaty aroma, is bright and fragrant! And isn't the topping on your side also an egg? It's not as delicious as other people's braised eggs.

Yeah!" The steward at the dock shook his head.

"Yes, you are a diner, you are right!" Lao Weitou usually fawned over the steward, but at this time he was still angry, turned away, and sat down on the small bench angrily.

The steward glanced around at the sacks that had just been unloaded on the dock, lowered his head again, and continued eating the bowl of plain noodles in silence.
Chapter completed!