Rebirth: Don't Be the Best

When Zhang Shu came over the next day, he found that the six altars on the shelf had gone, and he brought a total of twelve altars for the first time.

He heard that most of them were sold by Wu Hai, so he patted Wu Hai on the shoulder and said, "Ah Hai, you are so quick-spoken, next time there is a business, my husband will take you to bargain."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, especially the second aunt, her youngest son is not as dull as the previous elder brothers and sisters, he is like her enough, see, a strong mouth has great benefits.

Wu Jiang is quite envious of him, but because of his innate conditions, he can't envy him. Anyway, Wu Hai will definitely win him over when he gets better. Besides, it's not that he doesn't have a job to do. Everyone has their own strengths.

Zhang Shu came here this time with an idea. He wanted them to move the hot and sour vermicelli business to noon, and sell some porridge, steamed buns, tea eggs and other things in the morning, and sell them by the way. Crunchy radishes cost a penny and a small dish, which is more profitable than selling them in a jar, after all, a jar can hold more than fifty dishes.

The Wu family summed it up and thought it was okay. Anyway, hot and sour vermicelli are usually sold after noon. Maybe everyone is still thinking about it if they don’t sell them in the morning. It’s good to sell some steamed buns and porridge in the morning, but this tea egg What is it?

As soon as the question came out, Zhang Shu was stunned for a moment. He looked at the bewildered Wu family, and then turned his head to look at the stalls near the river. Don't tell me, there really isn't a single one that sells tea eggs.

This is all due to his natural thinking, thinking that such an ordinary thing should be everywhere, but he didn't expect that it would be everywhere more than ten years later, and now it doesn't exist at all.

He slapped his forehead and said, "A Jiang, go to the neighborhood and buy a couple of tea leaves, and A Hai, go to the market and buy a basket of eggs."

Wu Jiang and Wu Hai took the money and went to work separately, while Zhang Shu went into the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for boiling tea and eggs.Star anise, cinnamon, fragrant leaves, Chinese prickly ash, grasshoppers, and fennel take out a little each, put them together with a piece of gauze, and wait for the tea leaves to come back, then tie them together and throw them in for cooking, so as not to get them everywhere, next time cook Also convenient.

Wu Hai came back early with eggs, so Zhang Shu washed them first, then boiled a pot of water and poured all the eggs down to cook.There were about [-] to [-] in this basket. Zhang Shu reckoned and put some ingredients into it. This time he also grabbed three or four bright red dried chilies, and then grabbed them into small pieces with his hands and put them in together.

Wu Jiang also came back at this time, he said out of breath, "This tea is too expensive, just one or two, it cost dozens of dollars!"

Tea has been expensive since ancient times. Rich people drink tea, but they have no money to drink water. The good tea in the teahouse may cost one or two taels per pot. The old stems and big leaves of the tea are sold to ordinary people. , It’s just a taste, it can’t be called tea tasting.

Wu Jiang's purchase this time is pretty good, there are no stems or anything in it, they are all leaves, although they are a little broken, but the boiled eggs are not hindered, it seems that next time he has to inquire about the channels for tea in inns and restaurants, Buy some low-grade tea and cook tea eggs, otherwise, ordinary people would not be willing to buy this tea egg.

Zhang Shu gently picked up a small amount of tea leaves and put them into the bag. After looking at it, he felt that it was not enough. It would not taste good without the aroma of tea leaves, so he grabbed some more.A tael of tea leaves was reduced by a small half in an instant, estimated to be only three times.

However, this material bag can be cooked three or four times, so it is not bad.

The eggs in the pan started to roll.Zhang Shu and the others used a large strainer to fish out the eggs, and then gently rolled and knocked them with a spatula to crack the eggshells.

He re-boiled a small pot of water, threw the bag of ingredients into it to cook, and slowly, a strange fragrance rushed into everyone's noses and slowly drifted out.

Wu Jiang Wu Hai took two deep breaths, "Wow, it smells so good!" Even the stewed meat at home is not so fragrant, mainly because the stewed meat does not contain as many things as this, and there are tea leaves in it.

You know, anything that is dipped in tea is worth three cents more.

There are several things that are strictly controlled by the imperial court, namely salt and iron tea.Salt, they are not far from the sea, and it is convenient to buy salt. The price of official salt is generally 25 to [-] yuan a catty, which is not expensive but not cheap. , there is no oil flower seed, and there is no salty taste, just like the one that Zhang Shu and the others ate at Zhou Nan's house before.

For iron, there are generally regulations in blacksmith shops. When someone comes to buy iron, they must register. Ironware is very durable, so the blacksmith shop is busy, even if you want to be a blacksmith, you have to know two words, these are taught by the imperial court, if you can't remember it, don't be a blacksmith.

Tea is mostly sold privately, and the imperial court is mainly responsible for collecting taxes. I heard that good tea leaves cost one tael of gold, and the imperial court would take half of the tael.Some people thought that the tax was too high, so the court said, you don't have to do this business, anyway, there are many people who want to do it.

Of course, there are also tax evaders, but once caught, they will end up being ransacked and beheaded. No one wants to use their own heads to test whether the above laws are strict or not.

After the water in the pot boiled, Zhang Shu poured down the egg and boiled it again, then put some soy sauce and salt in it.Soy sauce is for coloring, because there are too few tea leaves and not enough coloring.But soy sauce is also salty, so put less salt.Salt is a thing, if you put too much salty, if you put too little salty, it is not easy to serve at all.

The guests outside were in the same mood as Wu Jiang and Wu Hai inside. What is this fragrance?Now the delicious hot and sour vermicelli can't fill their stomachs.

Zhang Shu asked Wu Jiang to set up a small stove, and then asked Wu Hai to get a clay pot. He took the boiled eggs out of the pot and put them into the clay pot, and scooped up some soup with a spoon. On a small stove, simmer slowly with a small fire.

The stove was set up next to the hot and sour vermicelli stand. Some customers asked about it. Zhang Shu smiled and said that it cost two and a half cents a piece, but you can buy two for four cents.

I bought two eggs for one and a half cents, and these 36 eggs cost 27 cents.The ingredients are added together and counted as two Wen, one or two of tea leaves is 45 Wen, and about one-third is put, which is fifteen Wen.

Added together, it is about the cost of 44 Wen, but one bag can be cooked three times, which means that the next time it will be mainly for the eggs.If you calculate it, you can earn more than 100 yuan by cooking it three times.

If there are more customers, maybe you can sell more.There is money to be made, but not a lot.But no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. What's more, what is a mosquito to Zhang Shu may be a chicken leg to others.

When customers heard it, buying two would save a penny. Almost all early adopters would ask for two, and very few would ask for one.Feeling that it was too expensive and didn’t buy it, I secretly cursed Zhang Shu for making it too fragrant, and then quickly picked up my hot and sour vermicelli, thinking about finishing it quickly and leaving.

Zhang Shu laughed, because they bought five cents a bowl of hot and sour vermicelli today, so they were reluctant to buy it.When breakfast comes out tomorrow, a bowl of porridge costs a penny, and two eggs, and a plate of crispy radish is only a penny more than hot and sour vermicelli. They should be willing to do so.

A gust of wind blows gently, and the strong fragrance of tea eggs floats along the wind to the other side of the river. The fragrance of other stalls fades instantly, and everyone is smelling where it comes from.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Shu asked Wu Hai to buy some more eggs. Anyway, there was still soup in the pot. The more it was cooked, the more fragrant it was, the more delicious it was, and the more it was cooked, the better it was. There.Of course, the overnight ones are still not needed. Zhang Shu and Wu Hai said that if the door is going to be closed at night and there are a lot left, they can sell them at a cheaper price.

After confessing the good things, Zhang Shu left again.Before he left, he packed a food bag and went home. He didn't think of this before, but now that he thought of it, he naturally wanted to let his family taste it.

Sure enough, after I got home, I cooked a pot. Everyone said that it was fragrant and delicious, much more flavorful than eating hard-boiled eggs.Zhang Shu, who had delicious food, naturally would not forget Dabao. He called towards the wall next door, and Dabao came over with a whoosh, so he sat down by the wall again in a panic.

As soon as Dabao came over, Zhang Qianjin's eyes lit up, and as soon as she straightened her body, she was about to go towards him, and Grandma Zhang almost couldn't hold him.He is much more lively now, and he especially likes to play with children. As long as Dabao comes to play, he will stick to him immediately. Zhang Shu thinks that the people in the family are too tall, and Qianjin thinks that the short Dabao and him belong to the same country.

Dabao also likes Qianjin very much. This little brother who loves to laugh is very lovable. No matter what he says, he will giggle.Of course, Qianjin's father, the snacks given by his uncle Hibiscus are also an important condition for him to love playing with Zhang Qianjin.

After eating tea and eggs, Dabao was placed on a big bed outside Li Mujin's room to play with Zhang Qianjin.He has a lot of toys, and there are two or three cloth tigers, which can be said to be very rich.

Zhang Qianjin leaned on the quilt with a pillow on each side so that he would not fall down. As the saying goes, he has not yet been able to sit well by himself.

Dabao held a cloth tiger to cover his face, then yelled "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Zhang Qianjin waved her arms, as if trying to prevent the terrifying big tiger from approaching, but the big tiger still "bited" his watermelon belly. He was stunned for a moment, and then giggled.The pink gums were exposed, and the crystal saliva also flowed down.Dabao wiped him with a cotton towel without distaste, and then teased him with various toys.

Zhang Shu and Li Mujin leaned against the door and watched the two children play games, and they couldn't stop laughing. Since becoming an older brother, this big treasure has become much more sensible.

He Yue has it too, but it's only been two months. He has a good bosom, but he can't eat, and basically relies on Zhang's radish strips for porridge every day. The worried grandma of Zhou's family doesn't know what to do.

He Yue thought about it himself, the nausea only lasted for a month or two, at that time it was too late to mend it, not to mention too much mending is not good, it's hard to live.

They had a young daughter-in-law who was from a wealthy family. Before she gave birth, she ate too much and made her belly big. When she gave birth, the child was too big and got stuck. The child is almost one year old, and he is still lying sickly.

"Come to the county with me tomorrow? See how the radish sticks and other things are selling."

"That daughter..."

"It's okay, grandma is at home. If it doesn't work, I can take it to my dad. Brother Nan is bored at home, so take it to relieve his boredom."

Li Mujin smiled and punched Zhang Shu, "You are also like a father, using your own child as a toy."

"Don't I think you haven't gone out for a long time since you were pregnant? It's okay for us to go out once in a while. When Qianjin is older, we will go as a family together."

Li Mujin nodded, feeling very upset in his heart, Zhang Shu is not like the others, he thinks that his wife and elder brother have to take care of the children at home, which is great.