Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 40 The free duck eggs are delicious
Although she had never opened a noodle shop, Hu Qiongfang keenly felt that if she followed her daughter's method, she could earn much more money from a bowl of noodles than by selling noodles alone.
Moreover, there are so many toppings. If the customers don’t like fish or shrimp noodles, they can just order a bowl of plain noodles and then add other toppings they want.
If you meet a few greedy people and add several toppings to a bowl of noodles, wouldn't you be able to make several dollars from that bowl of noodles?
"Is this what you saw in the cookbook at school? Tiantian, do you still remember the name of that book?" Hu Qiongfang muttered, "Why don't we go to the bookstore and buy this book back."
It was her first time opening a shop and Ms. Hu was a little unconfident. She always felt that what was written in the book must be correct and she really wanted to get this legendary recipe book.
Jiang Tian secretly wiped a cold sweat in his heart.
This book was just something she made up, so how could it have a name?
Jiang Tian could only pretend that she had forgotten.
Hu Qiongfang sighed and couldn't help nagging her daughter.
"Don't think about doing business all the time. Your mother is still alive. You don't need to worry about making money to support the family ."
"From now on, you and your brother will spend two hours reading textbooks at night, and then do your homework!"
A chuckle came from the room.
Jiang Tian gritted her teeth.
This kid, does he really think that he can become a patient just by pretending to be one?
How dare you laugh at her joke? You wait for me!
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Although I have made up my mind to move, it is not easy for rural people to move to other places in this day and age.
The house can be locked with a big lock, but what about the responsibility fields?
At this time, the farmers still had to pay public grain for their contracted land, but some people also rented their land to others for cultivation. Hu Qiongfang planned to ask the people she knew in the village to see if it was cost-effective to rent land now.
If it is cost-effective, even if there is a small loss, as long as it can help their family pay the public grain and give them a few bags of rice as food every year, it is better to rent out the land as soon as possible.
Hu Qiongfang went out to inquire about something. Jiang Tian took a small bucket and dug a bucket of earthworms. She openly asked her brother to put on the eel fishing hooks for the afternoon.
She picked up her basket and ran to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.
Although she couldn't find the recipe she had created, she had made boxed lunches for construction sites for so many years in her previous life, so she still knew how to make some common toppings.
She planned to eat noodles for lunch and dinner today, so she made a few of her signature toppings for her family to try.
All the eels at home have been sold out. But, is this a problem for Jiang Tian, who grew up in the countryside?
She took a small hoe, walked to the edge of the field, first found an eel hole, and then dug down along the hole.
The rice in this rice field has been harvested and the water in the field has long been drained. At this moment, a group of ducks are eating the fallen rice in the rice field.
Rural people of this era value food very much because they have experienced hunger before.
After harvesting a rice field, you must first pick up the fallen rice ears. After picking up the rice ears, the rice grains that fell on the ground should not be wasted, so you drive the ducks and geese in the house over.
The rice grains that fall from a field are enough to feed the ducks and geese in the family for two or three days.
I was digging a few eel holes and harvested three eels, two large and one small. I was just about to finish my work and go to the vegetable garden when Grandma Hong Xia from the opposite door came over with a bamboo basket.
"Tiantian, are you catching eels again? Let me see how many you have caught."
As he said that, he stretched his head to look at the small bucket in Jiang Tian's hand.
I found that there were actually two large eels in it. They were bright orange in color and obviously old eels. I almost drooled.
"Tiantian, look at these two eels. You can't make a dish with them if you take them back. Why don't you give them to me? I'll make some soup when I get back..." As he said that, he was about to reach out to grab the eels in the bucket.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Tian not only did not dodge, but instead smiled and handed it over together with the bucket.
"Look at what you are talking about. Aren't they just two yellow eels? If you want to eat them, just take them and eat them!"
This little girl was so generous that Zhu Hongxia hesitated.
She stared at Jiang Tian warily and said firmly, "I don't have the money to buy your yellow eel. Do you really want to give it to me?"
Jiang Tian chuckled and shyly glanced at the ducks in the rice field at Grandma Hong Xia's house.
She explained shyly, "My mother took all the duck eggs from my home to sell on the street. Grandma Hongxia, I haven't eaten any salted duck eggs from my home this year. Your family has so many ducks. How about I trade the yellow eels for a dozen duck eggs?"
"More than a dozen?!" Grandma Hong Xia almost vomited blood.
Seeing that Jiang Tian was still holding the bucket and trying to force the two eels on her, Grandma Hong Xia walked away with a gloomy face.
He was cursing under his breath, thinking that Jiang Tian must be crazy because of poverty.
Just those two eels, and you actually want to exchange them for more than a dozen big duck eggs from her family?
Only a fool would trade with you!
Seeing her running so fast, Jiang Tian rolled her eyes.
Originally, she wanted to kindly remind Grandma Hongxia that her ducks seemed to be laying eggs outside.
But now~
Jiang Tian watched Grandma Hong Xia running away quickly, pursed her lips and smiled, first cut two handfuls of pig grass and put them in the basket as a cushion, then walked to a small puddle beside the rice field.
Five large green duck eggs were slowly picked out from the water plants.
When harvesting rice, letting ducks into the fields to eat the rice is a bad thing; the ducks may secretly lay eggs outside.
If Grandma Hong Xia hadn't been trying to take advantage of her, Jiang Tian might have returned the five duck eggs to their family.
Now, just consider it as the loss of work for delaying her for so long.
I don’t know if I was particularly lucky today, but when picking duck eggs, Jiang Tian stretched his arm into the water plants and actually caused a splash of water.
Jiang Tian stretched her head and took a look, and she was so happy that she couldn’t stop smiling.
I didn’t expect that this small puddle, which looks small, actually has quite a few grass shrimps in it.
Jiang Tian immediately sent the eels and duck eggs back home, and took a dustpan and a bucket from home and ran back.
This bamboo dustpan is usually used to hold grain at home, but it is also the most common "shrimp catching tool" in rural areas.
Jiang Tian placed the opening of the dustpan under the puddle and slowly pushed it forward. He heard the sound of grass shrimps hitting the dustpan in the water. He pushed it all the way to the end and lifted up the dustpan to take a look. Wow!
Most of the scoop was filled with grass shrimps and snails.
After pushing the dustpan back and forth several times to make sure that all the grass shrimps in the small puddle had been caught, Jiang Tian stood up and poured the last few grass shrimps in the dustpan into the bucket.
At this time, there was already half a bucket of grass shrimps and snails in the bucket.
It’s just right, I can make a river shrimp topping for lunch.
When I got home, Hu Qiongfang had also returned with a basket of fresh water chestnuts in her hand.
Seeing her daughter coming back with a big bucket, Hu Qiongfang quickly put down the water chestnuts and took the bucket from her daughter.
He looked down at the contents of the bucket and immediately laughed, "Where did you catch so many grass shrimps?"
