AWB Chapter 226 Dragon Cake
Chapter 226 Dragon Cake
"I really can't help you with this." Mrs. Zhuang expressed great regret.
It seems that I will eventually let down some of the young ladies.
After all, the boss still has to keep some of the beauty soap for shipment to the capital.
The third batch of soaps was shipped away, and all the beauty soaps in the warehouse were cleared out.
This made Lin Xiaoman eager to plant roses and try to pick more rose petals. At that time, the petals could not only be ground into powder, but also crushed into petal pieces and put into soap as decoration.
What young lady can resist a beauty soap that smells good and looks good.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiaoman couldn't wait to pick all the roses in the space.
The most urgent task is to process the cut branches and then graft them as soon as possible.
This time, Lin Xiaoman didn't dare to waste a single bud, as the number of roses she would have next year was all in her hands.
The soap workshop business is booming.
Lin Erniu and Wang Xiaogou were extremely excited.
September's wages had already been paid to the villagers in early October, and October's wages will be paid soon.
In a blink of an eye, everyone had been working in the soap workshop for more than two months.
Lin Xiaoman set the fifth day of every month as the day to pay workers.
In the evening of that day, Lin Xiaoman would distribute the previous month's wages to the villagers. Those who worked hard would receive extra rewards, such as red envelopes or pork.
"Little dog, why are you working so hard?"
"Brother Erniu, it's time to get paid today, so you have to work harder. Maybe I can surpass you in October!"
"What did I say?" Lin Erniu showed off his strong arms in front of Wang Xiaogou, causing Lin Chunhua to roll her eyes repeatedly.
In the evening, Lin Xiaoman came in with a bag of money.
"Everyone has worked hard. I will settle your wages for October."
Although everyone was anxious, they did not stop what they were doing. "Boss, our workshop business is really good!"
Mrs. Zhuang from the county town would charge them whatever they made. The price was not low, but she never bargained.
"Everyone has worked hard. In October, everyone takes turns to have one day off. Therefore, for thirty days of work, everyone's wages are nine hundred coins."
"As for rewards, they are also sealed in the same red envelope as the wages."
"Boss, we will work hard!" The young men below shouted energetically, as if they had endless energy.
"Everyone work hard, and I'll give everyone a big bonus during the New Year."
Lin Xiaoman symbolically drew a pie in the sky.
There is no way, you have to make big promises wherever you go.
After receiving their wages, the villagers walked with more confidence.
Holding a purse in his hand, the money jingled as he walked.
Now all the villagers in the village know that Lin Xiaoman’s workshop is making money.
It seems that quite a lot of them were sent.
I'm jealous!
Thirty cents a day, isn't this better than doing odd jobs outside? This makes the villagers who have been looking for work outside feel embarrassed.
"Hey, when will the workshop be able to recruit people?"
Many villagers suffered from red eye disease and went to the head of the village to inquire about the news.
After the drought, the village head is in worse health than before, and now many things are handled by his eldest son Linda.
Later, everyone found that it was useless to find the village head, so they went to find Lin Dajiang, but Lin Dajiang's usual style was to play it safe.
He smiled like a smiling tiger and refused to give any definite answer to whatever the villagers said, which made the villagers, who were almost drooling, very angry.
Because to make soap, the flowers needed for the materials need to be picked and collected manually, such as the osmanthus flowers that are about to wither.
Li Xiaoman handed over the task of collecting osmanthus flowers to Li Erli's egg collecting team.
After waiting for a while, the wintersweets on the mountain bloomed, and Lin Xiaoman continued to collect them.
By next spring, she can pick peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, camellia flowers...
The flowers all over the mountain are the raw materials for making soap.
Li Erli and his friends were seen picking osmanthus flowers by the villagers.
At first, the villagers were confused and thought that a group of people were making trouble instead of doing their job.
Later, I saw Li Erli and his friends picking flowers early in the morning and late in the evening, and I could smell the fragrance.
I'm afraid the Lin family's soap workshop wanted to collect osmanthus flowers, so they asked Li Erli to pick them.
The villagers who had guessed the trend could no longer sit still. They did not care whether the osmanthus flowers would be useful in the end or not, and they all rushed to the mountain with bamboo baskets to pick them.
Anyway, it's just a matter of effort. If the Lin family doesn't accept it in the end, it won't be a loss even if they just give it to them. At least they will remember them.
Now, every household in Shanglin Village went out together. Finally, all the osmanthus flowers in Shanglin Village were picked, and they set their sights on picking the osmanthus trees in Xialin Village.
By the time Lin Cun noticed the noise, all the osmanthus flowers had been picked, and those that were not picked had already wilted.
When some people in Xialin Village heard that osmanthus flowers could be sold, they immediately became so angry that they beat their chests and stamped their feet. Why didn't they pay attention? Now, Shanglin Village took advantage of them.
Actually, in previous years, osmanthus was considered useless by the villagers. If you wanted to make osmanthus honey, that was something only rich people would eat. It required adding both sugar and honey, which ordinary people could not afford.
When Lin Xiaoman heard Li Erli say that the villagers were scrambling to pick osmanthus flowers, his brows furrowed.
"Brother Erli, this won't work. The osmanthus flowers need to be washed and dried. I think the villagers will definitely not process them after picking them."
It was only after Lin Xiaoman told him that Li Erli knew that osmanthus flowers had to be washed clean and then dried.
"Well, how about I go and talk to them?"
"This is the only way. Brother Erli, you can also tell them that if they want to pick flowers and sell them to me in the future, they must let me know in advance. I need to explain to everyone how much I will charge and how I will handle them, otherwise the workshop will not accept them."
Li Erli nodded, "Then I'll go and tell them right away. If I go too late, they might have already started drying the sun."
Lin Xiaoman hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you for troubling Brother Erli."
Li Erli waved his hand and said, "It's not a big deal, just running errands."
"Don't handle it carelessly. If the osmanthus flowers are not handled properly, the workshop will not accept them."
"Uncle Lin, the osmanthus flowers need to be rinsed with water before being dried in the sun."
"Brother, next time you have to go to the workshop to register, the workshop will accept it, if you don't register, the workshop will not accept it, remember that!"
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Li Erli ran all over Shanglin Village, notifying every household.
When the villagers heard that Lin Xiaoman was really collecting osmanthus flowers, they immediately became excited.
Rinse the osmanthus flowers in water, wash them clean and then take them out to dry in the sun.
"Why is that girl Xiaoman so particular? She even needs to wash the osmanthus flowers. Will they still smell good after washing them?"
"That's right, it's just nonsense."
The villagers complained a lot, but they didn't dare to be careless at all. After all, if they didn't handle it well, the workshop would not accept them.
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"Sister, Rabbit is pregnant." One day in early November, Lin Guyu excitedly ran into the house from outside and told Lin Xiaoman the good news.
"How can you get pregnant at this time?" Lin Xiaoman asked Lin Jingzhe who was reading a book nearby, "Will it be freezing cold when the rabbit gives birth? It will be hard for the rabbit to survive when it is born!"
Lin Jingzhe put down the book in his hand and said, "Yes, we can only prepare more hay so that when the female rabbits give birth, we can pad their nests thicker."
Lin Xiaoman thought that the quilt that his parents slept on was still the same old cotton wool, so he sat down next to Lin Jingzhe and thought, "How about - let's take apart the quilt that my parents have, and I'll prepare a new one for them. The old one can be used as a nest for rabbits."
Lin Jingzhe had a strange look on his face.
Xiaoman is about to be beaten by her parents!
But she did this all for the rabbits he raised. He felt a little touched. What should he do?
Lin Jingzhe's originally weird expression immediately turned serious, "Xiaoman, you buy the cotton, and I'll take apart my parents' quilt."
How could he let his little sister get beaten?
Let him bear the beating!
"Brother, no need. It's not troublesome to take off the quilt. I can do it myself."
"No, I'm the eldest brother, I'll take the beatings!"
Lin Xiaoman was stunned for a moment, then laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. He said while laughing: "Brother, I will definitely get my mother's consent before demolishing it. I don't think my mother would want the rabbit babies that the rabbits gave birth to with great effort to freeze to death. A rabbit can be sold for more than a hundred coins, and ten rabbits are one or two taels of silver!"
He thought Xiaoman was going to do something big without telling her parents, but it turned out he was just being too sentimental.
Lin Jingzhe grinned awkwardly, "Is that so?"
Lin Xiaoman blinked, "Yeah, what else can I do?"
"Hmph!" Lin Jingzhe picked up the book that he had placed on the chair, covered his face with it, and turned his back to Lin Xiaoman.
"Brother, are you angry?" Lin Xiaoman came over and said with a smile, "If I make beggar's chicken tomorrow, will you still be angry?"
"Humph!"
"Ah~ Are you still angry?" Lin Xiaoman deliberately counted on his fingers beside Lin Jingzhe, "How about adding some glutinous rice ribs, crispy meatballs, and longkan glutinous rice cakes..."
Lin Jingzhe's throat moved, and he said in a muffled voice: "It's not New Year or any other festival yet, why are you making so much food?"
"This is the workshop making money! I am happy with it."
Lin Jingzhe took the book and looked at Lin Xiaoman, "Remember to do what you say, but what is Longkanci?"
"Well...it's delicious anyway. You'll know when you eat it."
Lin Dajiang suddenly came in from outside and asked, "What delicious food are you talking about again?"
"Xiao Man said she wanted to make Longkanci. Dad, have you heard of Longkanci?"
Lin Dajiang shook his head. "Longkan Ci? I haven't heard of it, but I have heard of Ciba."
"Oh, you'll know after you eat it tomorrow. However, Longkanci is quite difficult to make, so I'll need your help tomorrow."
Lin Dajiang smiled and shook his head, "What's the big deal? If you're not my brother, I'm still here. I want to see what Longkanci is."
Lin Xiaoman smiled but said nothing.
Longkanci is actually rice noodle rolls.
The most troublesome part of making rice noodle rolls is the rice milk.
Nowadays, there are wall-breaking machines. Rice that has been soaked overnight can be turned into rice milk in the machine in half an hour.
There is a blender in her space, but it is difficult to explain the source of the rice milk.
So, Lin Xiaoman took some old rice and soaked it overnight so that he could make rice milk the next day.
The next day, Lin Xiaoman started grinding rice milk.
With the help of Lin Jingzhe and Lin Dajiang, Lin Xiaoman saved a lot of effort.
After filling his stomach with the dumplings made by his mother, Lin Xiaoman began to prepare the sauce, minced the meat into small pieces, beat the eggs, and chopped the green onions.
By the time she finished doing all this, the rice milk was also ground.
The water was boiling in the pot. Lin Xiaoman took the steamer, took out two flat plates, scooped a spoonful of rice milk, added a little minced meat and egg paste, and a handful of chopped green onions.
The water boiled, and the steamer was placed on the boiling water. Lin Xiaoman counted silently on the side, and when he reached seventy, he immediately said, "Take out the steamer, it's ready."
"So fast?" Lin Jingzhe was stunned for a moment. He clearly saw Xiaoman put the meat in, so how could it be cooked in such a short time?
However, Lin Jingzhe has almost no talent in cooking, so he has no say.
This time he just asked the question out of doubt, and did not delay the action of picking up the steamer with both hands.
As soon as the steamer was opened, a wave of hot air hit my face and the aroma of rice filled the entire kitchen.
Lin Xiaoman picked up the spatula and gently shoveled it on the flat plate. The crystal clear rice rolls were as crystal clear as white jade, and the colors of the different ingredients inside were also particularly tempting.
Lin Xiaoman poured the prepared sauce on top.
Not to mention Lin Jingzhe, even Lin Dajiang couldn't help swallowing.
I just had dumplings in the morning, and now I feel hungry again.
Lin Xiaoman had just made some jelly and gave a bowl to Lin Dajiang and Lin Jingzhe. "This is Longkanci. Dad and brother, try it and see how salty it is."
Lin Jingzhe picked up a piece and took a bite.
I just felt that Longkanci was smooth and tender, and the aroma of rice, meat and sauce made me linger. After one bite, I couldn't help wanting to eat a few more.
Lin Jingzhe ate five or six mouthfuls before stopping. "It tastes good, with just the right amount of saltiness."
Lin Dajiang also took a bite and asked, "Are you sure this is made of rice?"
Lin Xiaoman steamed another steamer and replied with a smile: "Dad, isn't the rice milk freshly ground by you and your brother? Could it be that I am so capable that I can change the ingredients right under your noses?"
Lin Dajiang was amazed, "I didn't expect that grinding rice paste was so troublesome, but making Longkan Ci can be done in a short time."
As we were talking, the second pot of rice rolls was ready.
Lin Xiaoman used a spatula to scoop the food, poured the sauce on it, and brought it to A Niang, Gu Yu and the others to taste.
As soon as Lin Xiaoman left, Lin Dajiang was still not satisfied and started to operate it himself.
They both saw what Xiaoman did just now. The operation was not difficult, and Lin Jingzhe couldn't wait to try it himself.
A spoonful of rice paste, a little pork, a little egg liquid, and then my hand accidentally slipped and sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions, "Oh, there are too many chopped green onions."
"It's okay, it tastes better with more chopped green onions!"
"Okay, Dad, I'll put more chopped green onions on your portion.
When Lin Xiaoman came back, he saw that his brother had already started steaming the rice rolls. He smiled and teased, "Brother, you learn very quickly. When you stop studying, you can make rice milk and sell longkan ci in town."
Lin Jingzhe looked at Lin Xiaoman and said excitedly, "Hey! Why wait until then? We can sell it now! Longkanci is soft and sticky, and tastes good. The key is that it comes out of the pot quickly! Although it is a bit troublesome to grind the rice slurry, it comes out of the pot quickly afterwards, unlike the juicy steamed buns which need to be steamed for a quarter of an hour before they are ready."
When there are a lot of people, many customers have to wait for a long time before they can buy the juicy dumplings.
Waiting in line is annoying enough, and after finally getting a turn, you still have to wait a little longer to eat the juicy dumplings.
Some people who were in a hurry gave up when they heard that they had to wait.
If there is Longkanci, it can be served quickly and the customers who want to eat it hardly have to wait, thus reducing customer loss.
Lin Jingzhe suddenly felt that his idea was simply brilliant!