After eating at the villa, Lin Mai went back to his home to study.
She opened the door and had just taken slippers from the shoe cabinet and put them on when she heard a familiar voice coming from the kitchen: "Maizi, you're back!"
Lin Mai asked in surprise: "Sister Caiyun, are you back?" As he spoke, he ran into the kitchen.
Zhou Caiyun just cooked a large bowl of noodles with two poached eggs for herself.
He turned to Lin Mai and said, "Xiao Man said you were not at home for lunch, so I only cooked noodles for myself."
Lin Mai said: "I've already eaten, you don't need to worry about me."
As he was talking, he smelled the sour and spicy smell of the appetizing pickles, and asked with excitement: "You fried the pickles, where did you put them? Let me have a taste."
"On the dinner table, there are not only pickles, but also chili sauce."
After hearing this, Lin Mai took a pair of chopsticks and went to the dining room.
I saw on the dinner table that there was indeed a bowl of stir-fried sour chili and sour beans, as well as a bowl of chili sauce.
The chili sauce is deep red in color and spicy.
Lin Mai sat down at the dining table, immediately reached for the chili sauce with his chopsticks, picked some chili sauce and put it into his mouth.
Zhou Caiyun came next with a large bowl of noodles and sat down opposite her.
He asked expectantly: "How does my chili sauce taste compared to Grandma Tian's? Isn't it too far behind?"
Lin Mai took a sip of the chili sauce and quickly poured a glass of boiling water to drink it, otherwise the spiciness would be unbearable.
After drinking the boiled water, she commented on Zhou Caiyun's chili sauce: "It's fresh and spicy, goes very well with rice, has moderate saltiness, and is quite delicious. Grandma Hotan makes it equally well."
Zhou Caiyun laughed happily when she heard this.
She was afraid that after studying for such a long time, she would be so sorry for Lin Mai if she came back with a different look.
She picked up a large amount of chili sauce with chopsticks and mixed it with noodles in a bowl. She urged Lin Mai: "How about the taste of my pickled pickled beans and sour chili?"
Lin Mai first picked up a pickled pepper and put it into his mouth to taste.
It's spicy, sour and very delicious.
Then I tried the sour beans, which were sour and crispy, and tasted great.
Lin Mai nodded repeatedly: "Everything is good."
Zhou Caiyun suddenly smiled like a flower, took a big mouthful of noodles, and said excitedly: "Hurry up and recruit people, so that we can make chili sauce and pickles to sell."
Lin Mai shook his head: "Don't be busy yet, let me taste your shrimp paste."
Shrimp paste is the key, it is the soulful seasoning that must be used in the braised vegetables sold by Lin Mai and the fillings in steamed buns and dumplings.
Without shrimp paste, the stewed vegetables and fillings would be easily imitated or even surpassed by others, and would no longer be unique.
Shrimp paste is equivalent to a plug-in for these foods.
Zhou Caiyun immediately put down his chopsticks and took some shrimp paste from the small jar of shrimp paste he brought back from the countryside in the kitchen and placed it in front of Lin Mai.
Lin Mai tasted it carefully and found that it tasted better than Grandma Tian's and not as salty as Grandma Tian's.
She nodded with satisfaction: "It's delicious! You are better than me."
Zhou Caiyun asked with a confused look on his face: "The green is better than the blue and is better than the blue? What does this sentence mean?"
Lin Mai explained the meaning to her.
Zhou Caiyun was very happy: "Grandma Tian also praised my shrimp paste as being more delicious than hers.
I thought she was just bragging, but it turned out that Grandma Tian was telling the truth."
Lin Mai encouraged: "You have to have confidence in yourself."
Zhou Caiyun's biggest shortcoming is that he always thinks he is not good enough.
Zhou Caiyun smiled sheepishly, lowered his head and ate the noodles.
Before she was married, if she wanted to do something, her parents would ask, "What can you do as a daughter?"
Later, when she got married, her parents-in-law and the men disliked her in every possible way, saying that the food she cooked did not taste good and her clothes could not be washed clean. Anyway, they thought she was useless.
How could she still have self-confidence if things go on like this?
Lin Madao: "In addition to the original chili sauce you made, I also want you to try making flavored black bean chili sauce, spicy crispy oil chili sauce, and mushroom chili sauce."
At this point, she stopped.
She came from a previous life and knew that Lao Mama Chili Sauce, the largest brand of chili sauce, has many flavors.
There are some delicious flavors, such as chicken oil chili sauce, beef spicy sauce, stir-fried shredded pork chili sauce... Lin Mai also wants Zhou Caiyun to try them.
But she thought that even if she tried successfully, it would be difficult to get a lot of chicken fat in this era, let alone beef. She wouldn't even be able to buy it.
Although pork is available, there is no means of preservation. The stir-fried shredded pork chili sauce with pork cannot be sold out on one day, and cannot be sold the next day.
Although in this era, food management is not strict, and there is no Food Hygiene Bureau to check the shelf life.
But Lin Mai was born again. Even if there is no department to supervise food safety, she consciously does a good job in food safety.
As the saying goes, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a wise way.
She definitely wants to make money, but she must not harm her customers' health.
Lin Mai said: "Let's do these first.
I will recruit five people for you to make pickles first, and the work location will be in the basement for the time being.
When business gets better in the future, we will officially build the factory."
Zhou Caiyun nodded and said, "I don't know how to make any of the chili sauces you mentioned."
Lin Madao: "It's not difficult, just add some more ingredients to the original chili sauce you are making now.
Don’t be afraid that you can’t do it well, I will help you.”
Although she is not good at making pickles and chili sauce, she knows how to make them.
She had studied it all in her previous life.
And she will guide and taste.
Working together with Zhou Caiyun, we will definitely be able to make the same kinds of chili sauces that are comparable to those of my old mother in her previous life.
After the two talked about work, Lin Mai asked about the autumn harvest at Grandma Tian's house and if it was all over.
Zhou Caiyun sipped the noodles and said, "It's all over, and I don't dare to come back until it's over.
Grandma Tian is old and her health is not good anymore. She can’t do the autumn harvest on her own.”
She said worriedly: "I have returned to the city, and there is no one to take care of her grandparents. It's really worrying."
I learned techniques such as making chili sauce from Grandma Tian at Grandma Tian’s house. Zhou Caiyun picked the water for Grandma Tian’s house.
Zhou Caiyun is back now, and the weather is fine. On a rainy day, Grandma Tian went to the pond to fetch water. Zhou Caiyun was really afraid that she would slip and fall.
Lin Mai thought for a while and said: "When I finish building the commercial housing here, I will sell Grandma Tian a two-bedroom and a one-bedroom house at the cost price.
Then he took their grandparents and grandson over.
With two houses, one for themselves and one for rent, their lives will not be a problem, and we can take care of Grandma Tian and her grandson nearby."
Zhou Caiyun was enjoying his meal. After hearing Lin Mai's words, he raised his head in surprise: "Are you building a commercial house for sale?"
Lin Mai nodded.
Zhou Caiyun's eyes were full of admiration: "You are really amazing. In just a few months, you have built a commercial building!"
Lin Mai made an understatement: "When you get an opportunity and there are talents around you, just give it a try."
Zhou Caiyun frowned and said, "Although you have good intentions and want to sell Grandma Tian's two houses at cost price, Grandma Tian can't afford the money."
Lin Mai said: "It's possible.
I used to buy Grandma Tian's recipe and agreed to pay Grandma Tian 4,000 yuan.
Considering that Grandma Tian is too old and putting such a huge sum of money in her hands, I am afraid of causing disaster to her grandchildren, so I have been keeping it for Grandma Tian.
In addition to the hundreds spent on building new houses for her grandparents and grandchildren, there are still thousands.
With these few thousand yuan, it’s not a big problem to sell her a two-bedroom and a one-bedroom house at the cost price.”
Zhou Caiyun still frowned: "Is the rent of a one-bedroom apartment enough to support Grandma Tian and her grandson?"
"If it's not enough, I'll just subsidize it a little bit."
Although there is no treacherous businessman, this sentence also applies to Lin Mai.
She won't be soft-hearted in the mall, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a kind heart.
When she sees people in need of help, she is still willing to do her little bit.
After Zhou Caiyun finished eating the noodles, she went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Lin Mai was also about to go to his room to study, when the phone in the living room rang.
Lin Mai walked to the sofa and sat down, then picked up the phone and answered it.
The call was from Ren Baozhu, telling her that after the meeting in the morning, she went to Hanzheng Street to find Boss Gao, but in vain.
It was until now that Boss Gao came back and told her that he had cooperated with Ximan.
Ren Baozhu said angrily on the phone: "Boss Gao is so unscrupulous. He knew that Ximan plagiarized our work, but he still cooperated with him!"
Lin Mai said: "There is no business without treachery. As long as people make money, what kind of morality do they need?
Don't be angry. You haven't had lunch yet. Go eat quickly. We'll talk about the rest when we get back to the factory.
Don't get sick from hunger, I have to rely on you to work hard together."
Ren Baozhu hummed: "I'm going to buy food right now. I'll be back at the factory at about two o'clock."
Lin Mai said hello.
After studying for a while, it was almost two o'clock.
Lin Mai hurriedly wrote down the recipes and production methods of flavored black bean chili sauce, spicy crispy oil chili sauce, and mushroom chili sauce.
He left it to Zhou Caiyun and asked her to practice making these kinds of chili sauce at home. She then went to the Unico Clothing Factory to meet Ren Baozhu and prepare to discuss countermeasures with her.