Seeing what Shi's mother said, the landlady couldn't help but feel regretful, but she wasn't too angry.
After all, Shi Mu didn’t completely refuse.
So, she looked at the handkerchiefs carefully and counted them. There were twenty-four handkerchiefs in total, and every four handkerchiefs were in a group. In this group, each handkerchief was embroidered with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums.
Four gentlemen.
In another group, each veil is embroidered with scenery representing spring, summer, autumn and winter, which makes people reluctant to part with each veil.
Seeing this, the landlady started to think twice.
"The fabric of Madam's handkerchief is really good, but our county is too small, and there are probably very few families who can afford these handkerchiefs. However, Madam's embroidery skills and patterns are really impressive. So,
, each of these veils
I'll give you 30 yuan. Speaking of which, I'm running a shop. There must be a difference between the money I receive from the veils and the money I sell. If I don't make a penny, then there's no need for me to open this shop.
Go down, the lady said, am I right?"
Shi Mu naturally knew that a veil like hers could be sold for fifty or sixty cents a piece. If it were sold in the capital, it would probably be higher.
But just like the landlady said, she is in business, so she can't sell it for fifty or sixty cents, and the price given to her is this.
Although the price of thirty cents a piece is indeed low, in a small county here, this price is not very low.
She thought for a while, with a smile on her face, and nodded in agreement.
"Thank you boss for telling the truth. Please calculate how much it costs in total!"
When the wife of the shop owner heard what Shi Mu said, she immediately swung her abacus up and down, made calculations, took out 720 copper coins and put them in Shi Mu's basket.
"Madam, look at it, the amount of money is right. If you embroider any good embroidery next time, you can come to me directly. My husband's surname is Fan. You can call me Madam Fan."
"Thank you, Boss Fan. If I have the chance, I will definitely come to you!"
Shi's mother counted the money, and after confirming that it was correct, her smile became more sincere, and she said goodbye with a smile.
As soon as I went out, I saw Shi's father waiting outside the door of the clothing store, and the basket behind him was already filled with flour and some fruits and vegetables.
When Shi's mother saw Shi's father, she sighed.
"Before we were in the capital, the maid's monthly salary was more than this amount of money. Now I'm almost blind, and I can't even earn a tael."
"Don't worry, when the cake stall is built, our life will get better and better."
Shi's father comforted him.
After returning home, the family of three fried the side dishes and set them aside, and then started making spring pancakes.
I burned more than a hundred sheets before I stopped.
Looking at these things, Shi Jiang always felt that something was missing.
After thinking about it, he said to Shi's father: "Dad, isn't there a bamboo forest on the edge of the village? Go and chop a dozen bamboos back, then saw them at the joints and turn them into bamboo tubes. Soak them in water overnight.
, to get rid of the smell inside.”
"Ah, bamboo? What are you doing making a bamboo tube?"
Shi's father didn't understand. Aren't all the things for making pancakes ready tomorrow?
"Dad, look, this pancake does taste good if you eat one pancake. But if you eat too much, you have to drink something. Otherwise, if you just eat pancakes, your mouth will be very dry. Why don't we make another pot of drinks?
, If you have a reason to buy it then, you can drink it from a bamboo tube."
Shi's father was a little frowning and looked around at the things in the house. Where could he find anything that could make a good drink?
"Mom, go to the village chief's house and ask if there is milk for sale. If there is no milk, goat milk is also acceptable. Buy a bucket and I will make a drink. You can drink it and see if it doesn't taste good.
, just don’t take it tomorrow!”
Shi Jiang thought about it, and there were a lot of black tea bags in his bag!
Just enough to make a pot of milk tea, and then use tapioca flour to make some pearls. This is something that no one will refuse.
"Okay, I'll chop the bamboo and let your mother buy goat milk."
After hearing what his daughter said, Shi's father thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Anyway, these pancakes have already been made and sold based on my daughter’s ideas, so adding one more item wouldn’t be much different.
In the bamboo forest next to the village, no one digs bamboo shoots to eat because they don't know how to cook them. Some people just boiled them and ate them, and they just felt the bitterness was similar to the taste of firewood.
Therefore, this bamboo forest grew more and more, forming a huge area.
When my father went to cut these bamboos, people in the village saw him and thought he was preparing to cut bamboo strips to make some baskets at home, so they didn't take it seriously.
Shi's mother also spent ten cents to buy a large bucket of milk from the village chief's house.
This place is close to the border, and the most indispensable thing on the grassland is cattle.
Therefore, in all the villages here, the wealthier families more or less keep a cow at home.
However, the smell of this milk is too strong. Except for people who don't have milk and feed their newborn babies, others don't like to drink this milk at all.
The village chief's family also went out to buy a cow to feed their precious grandson after his daughter-in-law ran out of milk after giving birth.
Now that my grandson is over three years old, he has long been reluctant to drink this milk.
Shi Jiang, who originally had no hope and thought it might only be goat milk, suddenly laughed when he saw the fresh milk brought back by Shi's mother.
She asked her mother to heat up both stoves, and boil the milk in the pot inside to sterilize it.
Then in the outer pot, first put the brown sugar to burn, then pour in the tapioca flour, stir it into a ball, take it out and set it aside.
Then I added white sugar and boiled it to create caramel color. Then I poured the slightly boiled milk in the pot inside into the sugar color. After stirring it evenly, I added a few black tea bags and boiled it for four or five minutes.
Just scoop it all out.
Then rub the ball of tapioca flour into small pieces, boil it in water until it is cooked thoroughly, take it out and put it in a bowl, and pour the milk tea into it.
Shi Jiang placed the two bowls of pearl milk tea in front of his parents and asked expectantly.
"Dad, Mom, try it, how does it taste?"
In order to make the milk taste full, she didn't add any water.
Shi's father and Shi's mother swallowed secretly when the smell of milk just hit their nostrils.
It was not like they had never drank milk when they were in the capital, but the taste was weird and the smell was so strong that they couldn't get used to it.
Unexpectedly, after passing through my daughter's hands, the smell turned into sweet and the smell was gone.
The couple picked up the pearl milk tea that their daughter put in front of them, blew it, and then took a sip, and their eyes suddenly lit up.
"It tastes good, and there's no smell at all. Jiang'er, how did you do that?"
"Yes, obviously when I came out from the village chief's house with this bucket of milk, it smelled very bad."