The next day.
When Cheng Yunyu got up early to go to work, Ji Huai went to the vegetable market alone, bought the basic ingredients and lean chicken, and went home to start processing.
After preparing the ingredients and making the soup, he had to go out again. This time, he had to buy not lean pork or chicken, but beef, and not the frozen beef sold in the supermarket.
There is a store in the northern suburbs that specializes in selling beef. The beef is freshly slaughtered every day. It costs 40 yuan per pound, which is several times more expensive than chicken and pork.
He only bought a pound and carried it back.
As you become more proficient at handling ingredients, you will become more efficient. Today he not only made sauce chicken and minced meat, but also sauce beef flavor.
Fresh beef is cut into small pieces, marinated first to add flavor, and then stir-fried with seasonings. The fried beef is rich in flavor and has distinct grains.
There wasn't enough soup yesterday, so he bought another soup bucket today and made two buckets of soup.
After getting ready, when Cheng Yunyu came back, the two of them drove to school in a small three-wheeler. Along the way, she followed him and talked about things in the store. He told her about the prices of ingredients in the wet market, and they chatted without any violation. .
At 4:30, the school gate has gradually become busy, and many parents are waiting at the gate to wait for their children to finish school.
Ji Huai stopped the car and propped up the trunk of the car, while Cheng Yunyu was placing tables and stools, seasonings, and various tableware.
Both of them were quick with their hands and feet and quickly set up the table. Cheng Yunyu carried two stools and placed one at Ji Huai's end and the other behind him.
"get out of class ends in five minutes." Cheng Yunyu looked at the time and said.
Ji Huai walked outside and stretched out his hand to hang up the other two wooden menus, which read: Sauce Beef Rice Noodles 7 yuan, Sauce Beef Vermicelli 7 yuan.
After hanging it up, he saw a red tricycle driving by. He walked into the stall and saw Cheng Yunyu's eyes staring at the tricycle.
There is a tightly closed iron bucket on the tricycle with three big characters written on it: Tofu Nao
The tricycle stopped, and the woman selling Bobo Chicken came too. The transparent plastic bucket was full of skewers.
Ji Huai put the small pot on the stove, opened the small bucket of money, took out 20 yuan from it, and handed it to her: "Go quickly, get out of class ends in two minutes."
Cheng Yunyu glanced at him, still struggling in his eyes.
"There's still one minute, and it'll be gone in a moment." He took the strong medicine and urged to speak.
"I'll be back soon." Cheng Yunyu quickly took the twenty yuan in his hand and walked to the other end with small steps, walking faster and faster. He stretched his neck to look into the school gate, fearing that the group of little brats rushing to grab food would rush in. come out.
"I want a big bowl of tofu puffs." She said while standing in front of the tricycle.
"okay."
"Ling ring ring~~"
Before the tofu puffs were bought, the get out of class bell rang. In Ji Huai's sight, before the old lady had finished beating the tofu puffs, she quickly slipped to the side and started picking out the skewers with a small paper bucket.
Ji Huai laughed softly, crossed his hands on his chest, and looked at her.
"I also want two bunches of lotus roots, a bunch of potato slices, and fungus. What are these?" Cheng Yunyu was picking and putting them into the small paper bucket.
"Little girl, the tofu brain is ready."
"OK."
"Give you money."
…
The students were already walking out of the school gate one after another. She turned around with tofu in hand and a paper bucket in her hands, quickened her pace and trotted towards him. Her ginkgo-like eyes were black and white, showing happiness, and the smile at the corner of her mouth could not be hidden, with a huge smile. Satisfied.
Ji Huai said with a smile on his face: "Slow down, no one is rushing you."
She ran back to the stall, tied the bag containing the tofu puffs tightly, and leaned close to him and whispered: "I bought a big bowl. It costs three yuan for a huge bowl. There is a lot of sweet sauce."
He lit the fire and was serving soup to cook rice noodles. He turned his head and asked, "How many skewers of Bobo Chicken did you buy?"
"Twelve skewers! Seven yuan," she put away the tofu and Bobo chicken, took out the packaging box from the side and placed it in front of him, then pulled out the packaging bag and kneaded it aside.
Ji Huai: "Why don't you buy more? Didn't I give you twenty yuan?"
She was greedy for so long yesterday and even said several times before going to bed that she should buy more to satisfy her craving.
Cheng Yunyu put the remaining ten yuan back into the money bucket and said to him in a low voice: "I saw someone selling soybean-flavored pancakes. I'm going to buy them later. The pancakes can't be sold out, right?"
"Ha." Ji Huai chuckled again, nodded, picked up the kelp with chopsticks and put it into the small pot. He didn't make fun of her, he just said, "I'll buy it later."
"That's right." Cheng Yunyu took a step back, tilted his head back slightly, and looked at the old man selling soybean-flavored pancakes.
The other party was surrounded by students coming out from school, and many parents also went to buy it. It's so hot, it must be delicious, right
The person next to her seemed to know what she was thinking, and she said, "The bread he sells is not bad."
"Have you eaten it?" she asked.
Ji Huai: "I heard."
"Oh~"
She became even more greedy.
…
The two of them stopped chatting. The two tables set out were already occupied. Cheng Yunyu took the condiments and continued to pack them.
She originally thought that the students on Thursday might not have much money and the business might be affected, but she felt that there was no difference from yesterday and there were still many people.
Thinking of yesterday's income, she worked even more efficiently.
The sauce-flavored chicken and sauce-flavored minced pork are very popular, but the newly launched sauce-flavored beef is not so good. Seven yuan a bowl is a bit expensive for students.
Ji Huai is not charging an arbitrary price. Meat is already expensive, and the meat he uses is not minced meat and cannot be adulterated. It is all beef cubes. The grains are clear and visible, so it is worth the price.
I was busy for the first half hour, and then I was cooking intermittently. Business seemed to be going well.
After six o'clock, the students who came out also went straight to Ji Huai's small stall. At this time in the past, the small tables next to the oden couple's stall were full of people. Now, there are only two empty tables out of the three. Instead, it is their small table. He has never been absent. As soon as the students left, other students immediately sat down.
The two of them worked hard until half past six before taking a break. At nearly seven o'clock, Ji Huai cooked another bowl and the stall was completely deserted.
Ji Huai turned off the fire, walked aside with his long legs, cleared the small table and sat down, waiting for an older child to come back from foraging for food.
Two minutes later, Cheng Yunyu came back with a roasted sweet potato and a sauce pancake.
"Bought a roasted sweet potato?" Ji Huai said, picking up the roasted sweet potato from the table. She also brought her own tofu buns and skewers, sat across from him, and said to him, "You have to leave half of it for me. "
"I won't leave it for you." He always liked to contradict her. Seeing her baby face wrinkle up, he stretched out his hand to pinch her face, "I bought a bunch of snacks. Are you not eating the staple food?"
She said confidently: "Sweet potatoes are the staple food."
Ji Huai took the roasted hot sweet potato and was peeling it. The glutinous and glutinous smell overflowed and spread in the air. Seeing that he had no intention of breaking it off in half, Cheng Yunyu raised his voice and said, "Leave half of it for me. You can only break it off." half!"
There are eight taels of sweet potatoes. One person can eat four taels, which is almost half a catty, which is enough to eat.
Ji Huai continued peeling the skin as if he didn't hear her words. Cheng Yunyu thought he was going to swallow it all for himself and reached out to take it. He smiled and stepped back, avoiding her hand.
"Go and buy it yourself." She said angrily, and put the sauce pancake to be fed to him in her mouth, pouting and muttering, "Why are you like this? It's not enough to give you half, I have to take the whole thing away. ,Bastard!"
"Why are you here to set up a stall? Are you here to eat?" Ji Huai looked at the tofu buns and skewers on the table, and then at the sauce-flavored pancakes in her hand, and spoke without mercy. .
Cheng Yunyu was not annoyed. She looked at him with clear eyes and smiled: "When I was in school, what I wanted to do was to eat all these stalls, but I had no money, so I could only buy one kind. Now I can satisfy myself." What happened to my student aspirations? Do you have any opinion?"
"No objection." He handed her the half-peeled sweet potato, "Eat it."
When Cheng Yunyu saw that he didn't want to take it all for himself, he even peeled the skin for her. Her eyebrows instantly arched again, and after taking it, she trailed off and said, "Thank you~~"
Ji Huai raised his hand, put his big palm on the top of her head, and rubbed it gently: "Look at how happy you are. Are you going to buy another one for you?"
"I can't finish it." She took a bite of the sweet potato, which was soft and sweet. Contented joy appeared on her face again, and she stretched the sweet potato towards him. "Would you like to take a bite?"
"I'll leave it all for you to eat." He took the sauce pancake on the side, poked a small piece with a fork, and put it in his mouth to taste.
"Are you sure you don't want to eat it? It's very sweet and glutinous." She tempted him.
"Don't eat." Ji Huai shook his head.
"If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it." Cheng Yunyu couldn't resist the temptation and could only enjoy it to herself. She chewed the tofu puffs with a spoon, scooped them up and took a sip, "It's so sweet and delicious."
Ji Huai held his chin with his hand and looked at her slightly childish behavior. He kept looking at her with a smile on his lips.
Feeling his attention, Cheng Yunyu also looked at him and wiped his cheek with his hand: "What's wrong? Is there something on your face? Why are you looking at me like this?"
"It's beautiful." He said without hesitation.
"Are you trying to trick me?" She wasn't fooled, and even kicked him with her feet under the table.
"I'm not coaxing you." Ji Huai said as he stood up and walked to the stall.
"A bowl of soy sauce chicken vermicelli." The man wearing glasses stopped in front of the stall and said to Ji Huai.
"OK."
Ji Huai started cooking vermicelli, but Cheng Yunyu didn't talk to him and was eating his own snack in silence.
Starting around eight o'clock, parents came to pick up their children. Ji Huai's stall became busier than before. The two small tables were full of people, a couple sitting on one, and a middle-aged woman sitting on the other. He said to Cheng Yunyu: "Cook me a bowl of rice noodles first, and leave my son's portion uncooked. I don't know what he wants to eat."
"Yeah." Cheng Yunyu replied to her.
At 8:45, all three stoves were on fire. Ji Huai finished two rounds of cooking, and just as school was over, he continued to cook.
One pot after another, one after another, packed away.
At around nine o'clock, Ji Huai finished the last spoonful of soup in the first soup bucket and said to Cheng Yunyu: "Put it aside and put it aside. There is no soup in it."
"Okay." Cheng Yunyu quickly put the soup bucket aside, and went to lift another bucket with Ji Huai. When she opened the lid, she whispered, "The soup didn't come out faster today, is there less in this bucket?" "
"No, it's the same." Ji Huai took two more spoons and put it on the stove to continue cooking.
After hearing what he said, Cheng Yunyu looked at the four or five students surrounding the booth, feeling a little uncontrollable and still quite excited.
Doesn't that mean... more sales will be sold today than yesterday
Ji Huai cooked the noodle soup intermittently until ten o'clock. The next wave of students came out. Another group of students gathered in front of his stall, talking about their needs:
"No green vegetables, just kelp."
"I don't want kelp."
"Put half of the minced meat and chicken in sauce, and add an egg."
…
It was not the first time for many students to eat it, and they carried it as if it were cooked.
Ji Huai took spoonfuls of soup from the soup bucket. Soon, less than half of the soup was gone. It was not until almost eleven o'clock that the number of students slowly decreased.
Cheng Yunyu looked at several small iron pots in front of him: "Are there only a few portions of minced meat and chicken left? Not many people eat the beef, so why don't we make it next time? I remember only selling two portions?"
The cost cannot be recovered.
"It's not sold to students." Ji Huai didn't care.
Cheng Yunyu: "If you don't sell it to students, who will you sell it to?"
Before he could reply, two women came over, wearing high heels and makeup. They came to the stall and took a look: "What do you have to eat here?"
"Chicken with soy sauce, minced meat with soy sauce, and soy sauce beef cubes..." Ji Huai pointed to the menu hanging above and introduced quickly.
"Beef?" The woman in a short skirt looked forward.
"That's it, fresh beef cubes." Ji Huai tilted the small iron pot in front of him so that she could see it more clearly.
The woman asked: "How much does a bowl cost?"
Ji Huai: "Seven yuan, free of charge."
"Here are two bowls of beef rice noodles. Can the table be seated?" The woman looked at her companion and finally spoke.
"You can sit on both of those."
…
When the two of them sat down, Ji Huai said to Cheng Yunyu while cooking noodles: "It's expensive for students, but not expensive for other people. We must have business when students are on vacation, right? How can we only sell to students? Then But no."
The items they sell at their stalls are inherently small, and if they don’t have many flavors and aren’t very competitive, they still have to attract nearby residents to consume.
When Cheng Yunyu saw someone buying it, she didn't say much. She was idle and took a small plate with shredded radish for the two of them.
After cooking two bowls, the couple from the next night came again. They were still wearing the same pajamas and riding a small electric machine. They saw that it tasted like beef. When they looked in, they saw that it was all beef cubes. They were very happy: " We want two bowls of beef vermicelli to be taken away."
Ji Huai agreed and continued cooking.
After half past eleven, students began to come out of the school. Although not as many as before, there were quite a few people coming to have dinner, and the two of them started to work again.
The Oden couple haven't left yet, but business is bleak. After Ji Huai left yesterday, they were still able to sell some, but now they have none. All the students went to the stall opposite.
At twelve o'clock, after the school closed its doors and turned off the lights, many nearby residents gathered at the stall, all of whom came out to look for food in the middle of the night.
Soon, the sauced chicken and minced meat were gone again, leaving only the sauced beef.
Ji Huai was trying to wipe the countertop with a rag. When he saw that the Oden couple had packed up their things, the woman came towards him and said with a smile, "What are you selling?"
Before he could speak, Cheng Yunyu, an idiot, honestly introduced the menu and said: "But now there are no more sauce chicken and minced meat, only sauce beef."
Chen Juan's eyes flashed: "You want seven yuan a bowl?"
Ji Huai didn't look at her and continued working, "Yes."
"Your prices are really expensive." After Chen Juan finished speaking, she added, "I just came to take a look out of curiosity. Your business is very good."
Chen Juan said nothing more and turned back. Cheng Yunyu didn't know why.
Liang Dong frowned when he saw Chen Juan coming back empty-handed, "Didn't you say you wanted to buy a bowl to try?"
"There's only beef left. It costs seven yuan a portion. Are you going to rob him?" Chen Juan rolled her eyes at him, "Whoever wants to buy it will buy it! Everyone is just looking for something new, so who will buy it?!"
She wanted to see who would buy a bowl for seven yuan!
Ji Huai asked Cheng Yunyu to ignore it, and the two continued to stand in front of the stall. After a while, a couple came over.
The girl hesitated a little: "Seven yuan a bowl?"
Ji Huai was helpless: "Beef is expensive, but we have enough ingredients."
"Yes, beef is expensive." They also expressed their understanding, but still hesitated, and finally decided to try it, "Then have a bowl and take it away."
It is true that beef products are more expensive than pork products. They buy a bowl first and go back to try it.
"Make it spicy?" Ji Huai asked.
"Add, add more chili pepper." The man added.
Ji Huai: "Okay."
…
Chen Juan gritted her teeth when she saw Ji Huai selling another bowl.
There are people buying a bowl for only 7 yuan, it’s like robbery!
Is it that delicious? Everyone is rushing to buy it? Who would believe that there is nothing else in it
After the beef rice noodles were cooked, another old man came over. He also thought it was expensive and said, "How many pieces of beef can I put in? I'm sure you can't put in many pieces."
But he bought it in the end. When Ji Huai put in a spoonful, he stopped talking. When he paid the bill, he felt much more relaxed. When he left, he said: "The quantity is quite enough, otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it at the school gate!"
"In a small business, all you earn is hard-earned money." Ji Huai replied to him.
The old man walked away with a smile. He lived not far away, in a shop on the other side. He just saw someone selling midnight snacks, so he came to buy one for his grandson.
Chen Juan and Chen Juan didn't go back, and followed Ji Huai to guard the place. They watched bowl after bowl being sold across the street. When it was past twelve o'clock, Liang Dong couldn't stand it anymore and urged her to go back.
The two had another quarrel and were reluctant to go back. When they left, they heard the other person say: "I'm going back. Anyway, there aren't many copies left. If I can't sell them all, I won't be able to sell them all."
"We sold more today than yesterday." The woman was a little happy.
Chen Juan clenched her fists and cursed Liang Dong: "We have a bunch left. If we don't sell them out, they will go bad."
Liang Dong: "Put it in the refrigerator and sell it tomorrow."
They are stingy and don't waste anything. If they don't sell out, they put it in the refrigerator and continue selling it tomorrow.
Chen Juan lowered her face and said, "I put it in the refrigerator yesterday and will put it in today."
Liang Dong replied impatiently: "It's enough to heat it up, but it can't be eaten. Why should students be afraid of being fooled?"