Crossing the Unknown Country

Su He's family was relieved. The recipe could be sold, and they could still make it themselves. As long as they didn't sell the recipe to others, they could still make money from it.

Su He's father looked back at Su He and saw her nod slightly. Su He's father immediately agreed to Wang Xiaohu's request.

Wang Xiaohu didn't expect the Su family to agree so readily. He took out two hundred taels of silver notes from his pocket and handed them directly to Su He's father. Then he asked him, "How many noodles do you have now? Let me take them all!"

In order to avoid attracting attention, Su Xiaohu stored his horse at a villager's home at the entrance of the village and asked them to help feed the horse. If there were not too many this time, he could take them away.

Su He's mother went to get the noodles made by the Su Feng brothers at home, about a hundred pounds, and Wang Xiaohu bought them all at the market price.

Su He's father asked Wang Xiaohu to finish his meal before leaving. Su He and his two brothers had already gone into the house to write down the method of making noodles. The eldest brother Su Feng was writing, while Su He and Su Run were repeating and supplementing. After the three of them finished writing, Su Feng took it out and handed it to Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaohu picked up the paper and saw that the young man had good handwriting, with neat and powerful handwriting, which showed that he had practiced. He read the content carefully and found it was written very clearly. He felt that even a person with poor cooking skills could understand it. However, he was cautious and asked to see the production process, and Su He's father readily agreed.

Su He's father led Wang Xiaohu into the room where noodles were made. Wang Xiaohu saw a very empty room with a few wash basins and a large chopping board, and the rest were some shelves and small wooden sticks inserted in the horizontal grids of the shelves.

Su He's father started by kneading the dough, and let the dough rest until it was kneaded. He picked up the two bowls of dough that had been kneaded this morning and started the next step.

Wang Xiaohu saw that bowl of dough was kneaded by Su He's father, and it became very chewy. He put it back into the bowl to wake up. Su He's father picked up another bowl of dough and did the same thing. When this bowl of dough was kneaded, he picked up the dough again and began to knead it into thinner pieces. He then put the dough back into the bowl with oil. In this way, he kneaded the two bowls of dough alternately.

When the dough reaches a certain fineness, start wrapping the dough around two wooden sticks, and when the two sticks are full, insert them into the wooden rack. Then start to slowly stretch the two wooden sticks again and again until the dough becomes the fineness you need.

Although Wang Xiaohu had read the written process, he was surprised to see the actual production process. It turned out that the noodles could be so long and not just thin. Finally, he came to another room and saw the noodles made yesterday, which were already dry.

Su He and his brothers took the noodles, cut them into the lengths they wanted with a knife, and then marked them with ropes.

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said, "Take all of this away from me too. Brother Su will give you the money."

As he said this, he took out another silver note from his pocket and asked Su He's father to take it. He would pay for the rest with noodles next time.

Su He's father smiled and said, "Okay, I'll calculate it for you later and let you know how much money is left."

Wang Xiaohu watched it all clearly from beginning to end, knowing that this was also a technical job, and if you were not a noodle maker, you would need to practice hard. He casually asked Su He's father how long it took him to learn it.

Su He's father smiled and said, "It took our family many years of experimentation to figure out that the hardness of the noodles is very important. You must knead the noodles according to the recipe, otherwise they will either not be so thin or they will break easily."

Wang Xiaohu nodded in agreement. He felt that it was not that simple. Su Heniang had already prepared the meal. She made noodles in clear soup. She brought back meat from the city. She cooked the noodles in the shredded meat soup. There were two poached eggs in the soup. Then she poured the shredded meat on top. There were also cooked wild vegetables and other vegetables on the table. They were put on the noodles. It was refreshing and hot. Just looking at the big bowl of noodles made people hungry.