SFS Chapter 213 Pie in the sky
Chapter 213 Pie in the sky
"No wonder. I feel that the food nowadays is not as delicious as when I was a child. The vegetables and meat don't taste as good as before. I thought it was because my material conditions are better now and I have become picky about food."
Zhao Xiaojing pursed her lips helplessly. "What about farmers who don't grow vegetables in greenhouses or engage in industrial planting?"
“Those farmers do have some, but most of them grow it for their own consumption. It is difficult to earn money to support their families by farming.
After all, the vegetables fertilized with farmyard manure are seasonal vegetables. When they mature and are put on the market, the same varieties of vegetables fertilized with chemical fertilizers from other places will also be put on the market in large quantities. How can the vegetables fertilized with farmyard manure have a small yield and an ugly appearance? They can't make any money at all, and they can't sell at a high price.
Therefore, those who apply farmyard manure usually grow it for their own consumption. If they can’t eat it themselves, they give it to relatives and friends. They rarely sell it because they can’t make much money from it and have to go back and forth. "Su Yuchen lay on the chair and looked at Zhao Xiaojing with sympathy.
"If you want, I'll ask my mom to send me the dried radishes they hang out to dry. I don't know if the taste will be any worse if I send it to you, and whether it can achieve the effect you want."
"I'll look for it first. I left the phone number of the grandmother who sells radishes. It seems that she grows her own land. I'll call her tomorrow to ask. If it doesn't work, I'll trouble Auntie again.
As for sesame oil, can I buy sesame seeds here and ask an oil mill to make it? " Zhao Xiaojing thought for a while and asked.
"That oil is definitely not as fragrant as the one squeezed in the village." Su Yuchen spoke in a low voice, with his eyes drooping and his hands tangled with his hair. He lay on the chair and looked listless.
"What's the matter? Are you so exhausted from making a phone call?" Zhao Xiaojing sat closer and tilted her head to look at Su Yuchen's expression.
Everything was fine before they took a shower. They were happily discussing bonus distribution. How could the phone call cause such great mental damage?
Su Yuchen fiercely pulled out a split end of her hair and sighed. "My mom asked me why I always asked about cooking. I told her that you opened a restaurant and the business was booming. I boasted about it, but my mom said that it was not stable and told me to find a proper job.
Originally, I wanted to test her reaction and let her accept this matter. When she really felt that this was a good idea, I would tell her that the store was opened by you together.
I told her that you can make a net profit of more than 100,000 yuan a month after deducting employee salaries, but she said that there is no such thing as a free lunch and she denied it right away.
She thinks we are young and fooling around, and she wants to advise you not to take shortcuts and to keep your feet on the ground.
My mother's thinking has really not changed over the years."
Su Yuchen spoke in a muffled voice, imitating her mother's tone, and then began to pull her split hair.
"This is a normal thought. She has never been to our store and has never tasted my cooking skills. Naturally, she would not believe that a girl who has just entered the society in her eyes can earn 100,000 yuan a month by opening a store. Moreover, this girl asked her how to cook the dishes again and again.
Of course she would think that we don't have that ability and that we made the money by taking shortcuts.
And this is the first time you've talked to her about this, so it's reasonable for her to have this reaction, just take it slow."
Zhao Xiaojing patted Su Yuchen's shoulder gently and comforted her softly.
“Besides, people are stubborn. It’s hard to change our own ideas, let alone our parents who have lived 20 or 30 years longer than us.
They cannot change us, and we should not try to change them. We should learn to live in peace with them, do what we should do, and follow the path we like.
After all, the emperor is far away, and she can only say a few words, but the actual path is still chosen by ourselves, right? "
"Hey, you have a point. Try your best. I'm going to take a shower."
Su Yuchen nodded, took a deep breath, and stood up from the chair with a slightly relieved expression.
Zhao Xiaojing watched her tidy up for a while, then gradually sank into her own thoughts.
It is actually very simple to make shredded dried radish delicious. After drying, the flavor of dried vegetables such as radish has mostly disappeared. In addition to the crisp feeling of drying, the other flavors are presented by seasoning. Spicy dried radish, sour and crispy dried radish, and braised radish with meat are actually simple.
But what ** Ping wanted to eat was something without any seasoning, just a simple salty and fragrant taste. Often the simplest dishes are the hardest to make. Zhao Xiaojing was afraid that even adding oil would make the taste too strong.
In this case, one can only pursue the aroma of sesame oil and the dry aroma of radish itself, but these two are difficult to achieve in Jiangcheng.
Although making dried radish for ** Ping had nothing to do with the mission, even if it was not perfect, ** Ping would not mind it according to her personality. But since she had already made what Wang Jiandang wanted to eat twice, she naturally had to make it carefully for what ** Ping wanted to eat, otherwise it would always feel like some favoritism, as if friendship was just a mission.
But when it comes to the task, I felt I had no idea at first, but once I actually did it, I found it was not as difficult as I imagined.
By now, she already knew that Wang Jiandang liked pasta, wild vegetables, and vinegar. His taste was quite broad and he was not difficult to please.
Even if you cook a few more kinds of wild vegetables, the task can always be completed.
Although there are not as many wild vegetables in this season as in spring, there are still some. After a little thought, Zhao Xiaojing came up with an idea in her mind.
Early the next morning, Zhao Xiaojing bought ten kilograms of spicy vegetables from the vegetable market.
Spicy vegetable is a very common wild vegetable in autumn and winter. Now is the time to eat it. Many people also use it to pickle sauerkraut, but Zhao Xiaojing prefers to eat it fresh.
It just so happened that it was now on the market in large quantities, so when Zhao Xiaojing returned to the store, she directly added a dish of stir-fried pork with seasonal spicy vegetables to the end of the whiteboard menu.
"How is it? Is grandma here today?" When Su Yuchen saw Zhao Xiaojing coming back, he brought out the rice porridge, steamed dumplings in the steamer, pickled radishes, and salted duck eggs one by one.
The salted duck eggs had been sealed for half a month and were almost ready to be marinated. However, Zhao Xiaojing was unsure as it was her first time making them, so she asked Su Yuchen to boil two first to taste them, and also to know how long to marinate the rest.
The soup dumplings were left over from yesterday's wrapping. Although everyone liked to eat them, it was halfway through the afternoon and they hadn't digested their lunch yet. They only ate five steamers and couldn't eat any more. Everyone was so full that they kept burping. In the end, they gave some to Wang Jiandang and ** Ping, and froze some in the refrigerator for breakfast.
"She wasn't here today, so I called her and asked her. She didn't grow green radishes, but her neighbor did." Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help laughing as she spoke. "This grandma is full of energy. She yelled and asked her neighbor how many green radishes she had. The neighbor yelled back and told her to go pick them herself if she wanted to eat them.
I didn't know where they were. The two of them shouted at the top of their lungs for a long time to make the matter clear. Then I found out that someone next door wanted to buy it. He said he could spare 10 kilograms. He asked when I would need it. He said he would sell it to me for 1.5 yuan per kilogram. If I wanted it, I would take it now. " "I don't have any manuscripts in stock. I'll take a day off tomorrow??ヽ(°▽°)ノ?"