Before dawn, Chen Xiuyun walked to the back of the county meat factory carrying thirty pieces of soap.
The weather was not as cold as it was a year ago, but Chen Xiuyun still carefully covered her head, leaving only her eyes exposed.
There is a road behind the meat factory, and behind it is a forest. When Chen Xiuyun arrived at the back of the meat factory, it was just dark.
The people who come here to do business are all in the forest, with someone standing or squatting about ten meters apart.
Chen Xiuyun looked around and saw that this place was really easy to run, and felt relieved.
"Sister, give me two pieces of red date cake."
Although Chen Xiuyun had a covered face, the pork seller could recognize her at a glance. During that time, they saw her almost every day. He almost bought two pieces of jujube cake to eat every other day. His whole family loved to eat it. Why can't you recognize it?
Chen Xiuyun came to him and said: "We won't sell pastries today."
"Then what did you bring?" The pork seller stood up and looked at the basket Chen Xiuyun was carrying.
Opening a corner, there were pieces of soap that were half gray but not red. There were three leaves printed on the soap. The soap was in good shape. It looked like it had no packaging, but the color was a little different. It was the same as what was sold in the supply and marketing cooperative. They are almost the same, but they don't look as big as the soaps in the supply and marketing cooperative, almost half the size.
"Does this work for you? How did you sell it?"
Chen Xiuyun gestured with her finger, "No tickets, only two cents, and you can wash your clothes and wash your hands clean, and it's also moisturizing."
The people around who came to sell and buy things were listening to the two talking. When they heard about 20 cents, they felt that it was really a good deal. Not only did the soap in the supply and marketing cooperative cost tickets, but it also sold for 37 cents a piece. You can buy more than one dollar.
There are many people who are excited.
A lot of people gathered around me in an instant. When I got closer, I saw that the soap was almost half the size of the one in the supply and marketing cooperative, but compared to 37 cents, it was still a bit attractive.
"Isn't this fake? Will it be useless if I buy it back?"
Chen Xiuyun said: "I'm not just selling it this time. If you buy it back today, you'll know it as soon as you wash it. I'll come back again in the future."
The price was really attractive, and there was no ticket required. In the blink of an eye, Chen Xiuyun sold it for eight yuan.
With one dollar and six in hand, Chen Xiuyun finally settled down.
This soap is really clean, and she is not afraid that others will come after her if they don't use it after buying it.
There were indeed not as many people in the new black market place as before. Chen Xiuyun didn't sell all thirty bars of soap until after eleven o'clock.
Seeing a mung bean seller who didn't ask for a ticket, the price was 27 cents per pound, which was four cents more expensive than the one at the supply and marketing cooperative that asked for tickets. Chen Xiuyun bought four pounds and went home.
She had money in hand and was not in a panic. She sold six yuan today. Chen Xiuyun thought of the wild vegetables that her two daughters had eaten recently, so she spent 50 cents to cut half a catty of pork at the pork seller.
The remaining meat was too thin. The pork seller was embarrassed and gave Chen Xiuyun a small piece of lean meat. "When will we make jujube cake again? My grandson would like to eat it."
There were no more red dates at home, and Chen Xiuyun didn't want to make jujube cakes. She was persuaded by Jiang Xinyu that she wanted to make mung bean cakes, which was indeed much more cost-effective than making jujube cakes.
"That's no coincidence. There are no red dates. Instead, I will make mung bean cake, which is also delicious. Your grandson will definitely like it too."
Although neither of them knew the other's name, they had developed some friendship after buying and selling things together for so long.
Chen Xiuyun said hello to him and left.
When they got home, Jiang Xinyu and Jiang Yuzhu were eating corn tortillas with pickles, and the porridge was also made from corn mush.
Hanging on the rope in the yard were the clothes and sheets that the sisters had washed for half a morning.
Seeing that there were two pig pancreas in the basket and not a piece of soap, Jiang Xinyu said excitedly: "They are all sold out. Mom must be so awesome."
She still has several hundred yuan left at home, and once she sells it, it will be a huge sum of money. If her family has money, will she not have to work?
Chen Xiuyun glanced at her and felt that this girl's little mouth was really sweet.
Seeing Comrade Chen Xiuyun also take out a piece of meat, Jiang Xinyu was even more happy.
Although Chen Yi would bring her some food every week and take her to eat at a state-owned restaurant at least once a week, she was so happy when she saw this piece of lean meat.
Jiang Yuzhu served Chen Xiuyun rice, while Jiang Xinyu happily talked around Chen Xiuyun like a bee.
Chen Xiuyun took out the mung beans and poured half of them into the basin.
"How do you make that mung bean cake? Steam some tonight and send a pound to Chen Yi's family. I'll take the rest and sell it tomorrow."
Jiang Xinyu found the pickles delicious now, and she enthusiastically told Chen Xiuyun the steps for making mung bean cake.
"Okay, okay, when the mung beans are soaked, you can take me to do it." Chen Xiuyun felt dizzy after hearing this. The little girl was talking about whatever came to her mind. It was really hard to listen.
Although I don’t have to go to work and don’t have to do long-term and physically demanding work, I still have a lot of odd jobs at home.
After washing a bunch of clothes, all the water in the water tank was used up. It took a lot of time to carry water to fill the water tank.
Jiang Xinyu couldn't carry the pole, so she had to carry buckets by the canal, and her hands were all red.
Jiang Yuzhu went to dig another basket of wild vegetables and came back.
Jiang Xinyu wanted to vomit when she saw wild vegetables, but she had to eat them.
The mung beans were finally soaked and swollen, and the sky was getting dark.
After the fire was lit in the stove, the mung beans that had been washed many times were put into the pot and cooked. To save trouble, Jiang Xinyu did not peel the mung beans.
After taking the mung beans out of the pot, place them on a clean white cloth, wrap them in the cloth, and then use a rolling pin to roll them into mung bean puree.
Because there were too many mung beans and the cloth was not big enough, it took a lot of time to roll all the mung beans into puree.
Then pour lard into the pot. Butter was used after decades, which can make the mung bean cake taste better and have no other peculiar smell. Jiang Xinyu was afraid that lard would have a smell, so she added malted milk to the mung bean puree and stirred it.
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Chen Xiuyun felt distressed in her heart when she saw her little girl fussing over the few good things at home.
Mix the oil and mung bean paste together, then add a lot of white sugar, stir-fry until all the sugar is absorbed by the mung bean paste, and there is no excess residue and water in the pot, and a large piece of semi-solidified paste is poured out.
Then, the formed mung bean puree was divided into evenly sized doughs. Jiang Xinyu put the dough into the mold to press out patterns and then rolled it out. A beautiful mung bean cake was freshly baked.
Jiang Yuzhu looked at it and praised her repeatedly, "Little sister, where did you learn this from?"
Jiang Xinyu said: "Last time I went to the scrap station and picked up a few pieces of paper. There were many recipes and methods for making various pastries on them. I have memorized them all."
"I asked Chen Yi to make this mold for me."
The mold is round, and the pattern inside is not complicated, but when printed on the mung bean cake, it looks very much like a mooncake, but not as big as a mooncake. You can eat one in just a few bites, and the printed mung bean cake looks particularly high-end.
Chen Xiuyun imitated what Jiang Xinyu did just now, stuffing the dough balls into the mold and printing one in a moment.
In just ten minutes, nearly two hundred small mung bean cakes were freshly baked.
Two kilograms of mung beans made almost six kilograms of mung bean cake. Chen Xiuyun thought about it, one kilogram is a portion, and a portion sells for 75 cents. The cost of mung beans is 54 cents, plus oil, sugar, and a little malted milk.
It can be sold for four and a half yuan, making nearly three yuan.
Chen Xiuyun thinks this business can be done! She only goes there eight days a month and earns three yuan a day, which is twenty-four yuan a month. Plus the soap, her family will have income in the future, so there is no need to worry anymore!