Reborn to Strive

Shi Zhen just bought a piece of pork belly that day and didn't buy any other vegetables.

He is not well-off now, it is better to be frugal.

Because the stewed pork, stewed eggs, and dried tofu that I ate every day were braised in soy sauce, this piece of pork belly Shizhen didn't want to be stewed like this again, so he simply boiled it in plain water.

Half of it was not cooked for too long, so he fished it out and took it to worship the ancestors. When he came back, he sliced ​​it, added garlic leaves and fried twice-cooked pork. Drizzle with soy sauce and make a Shizhen version of garlic and white meat.

Add a few vegetables, and the dinner is very rich. Guan Baiyu even squinted his eyes when he ate.

It was the first time for this child who had never seen the world to eat twice-cooked pork. After tasting a piece of twice-cooked pork that Shi Zhen gave him, he was reluctant to eat it, and only savored it slowly at the end.

As for Shi Xinghuo... If there is anything delicious, he eats it first as a respect, and then eats rice with vegetables after eating the meat.

After dinner, people came to deliver folded silver ingots one after another. Shi Zhen paid the wages and took time to settle today's accounts.

One day today, he earned more than 200 yuan from the stall selling ingots, and the cooked food stall over there also earned more than 30 yuan. He earned nearly 250 yuan a day.

This is a big number for him.

But the fake flower ribbons he bought are almost sold out, and he probably won't be able to earn so much tomorrow, at most he can earn a little over a hundred.

But even so, he can still earn more than 300 in two days, plus the [-] that Guan Baiyu gave him, and his previous savings, he can already buy a tricycle and other things.

With the tricycle, he can also do some other business.

After entering April, the weather will get hotter and hotter, and it is no longer suitable for selling cold-cut pork heads.

The next day was Qingming, and Shi Zhen went out to sell silver ingots at a stall as usual, and he really made more than 100 yuan.

With the money, he didn't delay at all. On April 4th, he took the bus and went to Changxi City again.

Shi Zhen first found a store that sold tricycles, bought a tricycle that was quite large and could hold it, and then rode the tricycle to buy a rice cooker of the largest size. He also went around the farmers market in Changxi City and entered A snakeskin bag of peanuts.

Local people generally do not grow peanuts, so buying peanuts in Changxi City is cheaper than buying peanuts in Anshan Town.

After returning home with these items, Shi Zhen began to prepare for his new business.

Shi Zhen plans to continue selling braised eggs and dried beans. He wants to change the cold-cut pork head into cold pork head. In addition, Shi Zhen also plans to sell rice balls every morning, and fry some ham sausage, sausage, rice cakes and tofu at night. What are you selling.

He wants to try his best to earn more money in these two months.

The living expenses of the family, Guan Baiyu's tuition... There are many places that need money.

It takes time to develop new products. Shi Zhen has been experimenting with cold pork head for a long time, trying little by little until he finished mixing a pig head before he found the most suitable taste for local people.

In his previous life, he ate cold pork head, mostly with spicy oil and coriander, but at this time, the people in J City can't eat spicy food, so they can only put less or no chili, and no one even sells coriander here, even after 20 years. Many people don't like to eat it, so they can be eliminated directly.

In the end, Shi Zhen made seasonings with soy sauce, sugar, minced garlic, vinegar and other seasonings. He also prepared some chili oil. If someone likes spicy food, he can add chili oil to them.

Shi Zhen also plans to sell pig head meat by parts. For example, the price of pig ears and pig nose can be sold more expensive than other parts of pig heads.

As for the selling method, Shizhen will cook the pork head meat in advance and mix the seasoning in advance. When the customer comes to buy it, he will cut a piece of meat for the customer and weigh the weight, calculate the price, and then cut it on the spot and mix it with the customer. Shredded cucumber, tofu skin and fried peanuts are also added.

The summer in J City is very long, and when it is hot, such a cold dish should be popular.

The cooked food stall is still managed with money, and Shi Zhen handles other businesses by himself.

He found a shop in the town that sold fried dough sticks, and asked them to put the fried dough sticks in a pan and continue frying until the moisture in the fried dough sticks was squeezed out, making the fried dough sticks very crispy.

Then he

I cooked two pots of glutinous rice in a rice cooker, put them into a large cylindrical pot, wrapped them in quilts to keep warm, and took them to the town.

When someone comes to buy rice balls, he digs a spoonful of rice from the pot, puts them on a plastic sheet, wraps them with fried dough sticks and other fillings, and squeezes them tightly to make rice balls.

There are two types of rice balls, one is sweet, filled with fried dough sticks, fried peanuts, and white sugar mixed with sesame seeds, and the other is salty, filled with fried dough sticks, fried peanuts and fried pickles.

As for the price of the rice balls, it is set at [-] cents each. Of course, if someone wants a one-yuan rice ball, he can make it, and then put more rice and more fillings.

If the customer pays more, he can also add a whole ham sausage to the rice ball.

Shi Zhen's cooking skills are not very good, at least the roast chicken and stewed duck sold at other cooked food stalls in the town, even if he can cook them, they are not as delicious as others.

So when he sells things, he always chooses simple ones. For example, this rice ball has no technical content. After a few tries, most people can make it.

And Shi Zhen thought of doing this because at the construction site, the cook he hired would make rice balls for everyone's breakfast in the morning.

The chef's cooking is not as fine as his, and there is no distinction between salty and sweet without fried dough sticks. It's just white rice wrapped with pickled vegetables and fried peanuts, but everyone feels delicious after eating.

At that time, the cook always made "fried noodles" for everyone to eat.In fact, after a large bucket of noodles is cooked, put it in boiling oil and soy sauce and mix it together, and give a large bowl to each person at the end.

Shi Zhen thought about making fried noodles for sale, improving the taste and selling them for [-] cents a bowl, so someone probably wanted them.However, it is best to sell fried noodles in plastic bowls, unlike rice balls that can be packed in plastic bags, which invisibly increases the cost. He weighed the pros and cons and finally chose rice balls.

A small business like rice balls won't earn too much, but it won't be too bad either.

On April 1994, 4, the 10th day of the second lunar month, it is appropriate to open the market.

On this day, Shi Zhen sold rice balls for the first time in the town, and the cold-cut pork head at Qianqi's side was also changed to cold-dressed pork head.

The booths of the two were next to each other, and not long after they opened up, regular customers came over.

"You don't sell cold-cut pork heads anymore?" A customer who often came to buy pork heads was very disappointed, but decided to try the new cold-salted pork heads. "How do you sell this cold-salted pork heads?"

Qian got up and said the price of different parts, and the man asked for a pig's ear after hearing this.

Qian got up and took a pig's ear, cut the pig's ear into fine pieces with a knife in his hand, then put in the fried peanuts with shredded cucumber, tofu skin, and a spoonful of the sauce prepared by Shi Zhen in advance, put in the mashed garlic, and mixed After it is ready, hand it to the customer.

The customer was very satisfied when he saw a pig's ear in a large plate after mixing it. He reached out and took a piece of pig's ear from the cold salad he had just bought, and licked his finger after eating, "This tastes good."

"Then you can buy it next time!" Qian Qi said with a smile, "This cold pig's ear is especially good for drinking!"

It is pig ears and peanuts, which is really suitable for drinking!

It was rare to find a new dish, many people came to buy it, and naturally some people noticed Shi Zhen next to it.

Shi Zhen has been setting up stalls in the town one after another for nearly a month, and he has become acquainted. Now he greets people who come and go, and asks them if they want to buy rice balls. Some people come out early to buy vegetables and have not eaten breakfast yet. Stop and buy.

Some of them wanted to buy breakfast for their families to take home, and even bought several in one go.

The rice balls cost [-] cents each, which is not expensive. There are deep-fried dough sticks and peanuts inside, and they must be delicious to eat.

The rice balls are made on the spot, just like the pig’s head, and the fillings can be changed according to the different tastes of each person. For example, some people don’t eat deep-fried dough sticks, while others don’t eat peanuts.

Of course, most people want them all.

The town's primary, junior, high and high schools are not far from the food market. Shi Zhen and the others set up a roadside stall outside the food market, which attracted many students to stop. Shi Zhen was willing to shout, and even more people came to buy rice balls.

Some children’s families are very rich. Not only do they want luxurious rice balls worth RMB [-], but they also want ham sausage, which is very embarrassing.

The big pot of rice prepared by Shi Zhen gradually bottomed out, and by nine o'clock in the morning, there was not much left.

At the moment, no one bought breakfast, so he scraped off the last rice and made three rice balls.

He and Qian were busy for several hours and were already hungry, so they ate one for each of them first, and gave the rest to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu's taste is very interesting. He also puts pickles and sugar, and of course fried dough sticks and peanuts. The taste of the final mix and match...is actually very good.

Guan Baiyu didn't go to school these days. He helped him with his work every morning and evening. During the day, when he set up a stall, he went to Xinhua Bookstore to read books. He lived a very fulfilling life.

After going there for two days, every time Guan Baiyu went to Xinhua Bookstore, he would bring a notebook and a pen, and do the questions there directly. He was really diligent.

Shi Zhen used to hear people complain about how his children didn't like to study and refused to study. Now that he met Guan Baiyu, who was actively learning, he felt that everything was good.

My own children are outstanding!

Shi Zhen sent the rice balls to Xinhua Bookstore, then went home, and started to prepare for the evening business.

He planned to spend two or three hours at night selling fried sausages and the like.

At this time, there are not many recreational activities for everyone, and some people will stroll around the town at night to watch a movie or something, and Shi Zhen has already stepped on the place to look forward to it.

That night, Shi Zhen set up a stall at the entrance of the cinema, selling all kinds of fried food.

Among them are sausages, ham sausages, rice cakes, dried tofu, chicken hearts, shrimp crackers and so on.

These things are easy to buy, and they are available in the town. Although the profit is not particularly high, the cost is not high, and you can make money if you sell them.

Shi Zhen also prepared some fried peanuts, mixed them with fine salt and put them on the side for sale. If someone wanted them, he would use a spoon to scoop a spoonful into a disposable cup, which was about half a cup, and he sold it for [-] cents.

There are quite a lot of people who buy it.

On the first day when he opened the stall, Shi Zhen was afraid that he would not be able to sell out if he prepared too many things. Except for ham and sausages that could be stored for a longer time, he prepared very little of the others. By nine o'clock in the evening, they were almost sold out.

It's just that there are two different stalls every day, which is very tiring.

But after being tired, he made a lot of money. He could earn twenty or thirty in the morning selling rice balls, and twenty or thirty in the evening selling fried things.

There are also other people in the town who set up stalls, and they generally only sell one thing. They sell breakfast or go to the entrance of the movie theater at night to sell some radish pancakes and stinky tofu. You can earn around 90 yuan, which is considered a high income.

It was almost ten o'clock when Shi Zhen went home that night. He washed himself casually and went to sleep. He got up again at four o'clock in the morning, went quietly to Guan Baiyu's house, and cooked rice in the rice cooker.

Just as Shi Zheng was cooking the rice, Guan Baiyu came out of the bedroom.

"Xiao Yu, why did you get up so early?" Shi Zhen frowned.

Guan Baiyu waited until he came home yesterday before going to bed, and got up so early today, too little sleep!

"Brother, don't you wake up so early?" Guan Baiyu looked at Shi Zhen disapprovingly.

Shi Zhen was speechless for a moment.

Guan Baiyu said: "Brother, let me help you."

Shi Zhen thought for a while, but he didn't refuse, he just said: "I'll leave later, you can go back to sleep."

Guan Baiyu nodded.

The stewed eggs and dried tofu had been stewed on the coal stove last night, and they were already tasty. The pig's head was taken from Zhu Butcher's house last night, and it was already boiled in the pot.

Guan Baiyu helped to pick up these things from the pot, and took a knife to cut the shredded cucumber and tofu skin beside him, while Shi Zhen started to prepare the seasoning and fry the peanuts.

There is also the sesame white sugar used to make the rice balls. If you don’t make it on the same day, it will get damp after a long time.

Of course, the pickles should be cut into small pieces before frying.

By the time they finished all the preparations, the rice had already been cooked in two pots.

At six o'clock, Shi Xinghuo and Qian came together.

A few people ate something, Shi Zhen told Guan Baiyu to go to sleep, and went to the town with others to set up a stall.

At [-] o'clock in the morning, Shi Zhen closed the stall and sent a lunch box to Guan Baiyu, who was studying in Xinhua Bookstore, which contained rice balls and lean pork with cucumber and tofu skin salad, for Guan Baiyu's lunch.

After delivering the meal, Shi Zhen went home and slept first, rested until one o'clock in the afternoon, and then got up to make preparations for the evening stall

Work.

Around five o'clock, Shi Xinghuo and Guan Baiyu got up and came back together. After everyone had eaten, Shi Zhen went to the town to set up a stall, while Guan Baiyu and Shi Xinghuo prepared the stewed egg stewed tofu and the pig's head for tomorrow. .

Shi Zhen can't do it alone, and now he teaches Guan Baiyu to do a lot of work.

In fact, if Shi Xinghuo was smarter, Shi Zhen would not let Shi Xinghuo do a small job, let him help at home, but Shi Xinghuo... Shi Zhen's marinated eggs use a total of three kinds of spices, and there is no special amount. The exact amount is like this, but Shi Xinghuo still dare not do it, saying he can't.

Shi Zhen had nothing to do with him.

At six o'clock in the evening, Shi Zhen set up his own stall at the entrance of the cinema, and the townspeople also came out for shopping after dinner.

Everyone likes fried things. There are many people who come to Shi Zhen to buy things. They can also sell the extra fried peanuts in the morning.

If there is no accident, at 09:30 in the evening, he can close the stall, go home at about ten o'clock, clean up, and he should be able to go to bed at 10:30.

Shi Zhen feels that this schedule and intensity can be adapted to himself, and he doesn't plan to change it for the time being. As for the future... When his family members come here, these businesses can be done by them, and he can free up his hands to do other things.

"Boss, I want two skewers of fried sausages, two skewers of fried chicken wings, and two skewers of dried tofu." Young men who bring their girlfriends to shop are always very generous.

"Give me a bunch of fried ham sausages." Another child got hungry when they saw Shi Zhen's stall, so they came to buy a bunch to coax their children's parents.

Shi Zhen was busy when suddenly there was another person beside him.

Guan Baiyu is here.

There are street lights outside the cinema, but the lights are not bright. The bright yellow light makes Guan Baiyu look gentler.

Shi Zhen asked, "You're here?"

Guan Baiyu could not restrain the excitement on his face. He squinted his eyes and said happily to Shi Zhen: "Brother, I won the third prize in the city in the previous league!"

This matter was told to Guan Baiyu by Guan Jinjin after dinner tonight.

The results of the city league came out, and he once again took the first place in the school.

Forget it, his grades this time were very good, and he actually won an award in the city.

For this exam in the third year of junior high school, Changxi City will judge awards. Although the number of first prizes is not many, the number of second prizes and third prizes combined is quite a lot, hundreds of them.

It's just that Xiaqiu Junior High School couldn't get a single award in previous years.

But this year is different, Guan Baiyu won the third prize.

This award is not very precious in other junior high schools. For example, in the junior high school in the town, the first prize is won by someone, not to mention the second prize and the third prize.

But in Xiaqiu Junior High School, this is a record-breaking!

There are quite a lot of students in Xiaqiu Junior High School. This year, there are two recommended places for the city's key high schools. With this result, Guan Baiyu can securely get one. Of course, Guan Baiyu needs to go to the school to confirm this matter.

Knowing this, Guan Baiyu was overjoyed, and immediately came to the town to look for Shi Zhen.

"It's amazing!" Shi Zhen laughed and put a ham sausage into the pot.

He sells a lot of things, but his family has never eaten much.

They are still too poor.

But now, he wants to fry some for Guan Baiyu to eat.

"It's nothing...it's all because you bought me the exercises." Guan Baiyu said modestly, but the corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

Shi Zhen picked up the guests' request from the oil pan with chopsticks, rolled up a bamboo stick with a paper towel, brushed it with a local sweet sauce, and asked if he wanted something spicy...

After giving out the fried skewers ordered by the customer, Shi Zhen scooped up the freshly cooked ham sausage, brushed it with sauce, sprinkled a little chili powder, and handed it to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu was able to eat spicy food in his previous life, but he has not practiced it in this life, so he can only eat a little spicy food for the time being.

"Brother, is this for me?" Guan Baiyu was a little surprised, and said again, "I don't need it, I'm not hungry at all now!"

"It's not a filling, it's a snack, and it's also a reward for you." Shi Zhen handed him the fried sausage, "Come on, get a good grade in the senior high school entrance examination, and get a good grade in the college entrance examination in the future! When the time comes, I will Give you another reward!"

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Holding the fried ham sausage, Bai Yu rolled his eyes and nodded seriously: "Yes!"

After nodding, he handed the ham sausage to Shi Zhen's mouth again: "Brother, you eat too."

Shi Zhen wanted to refuse, but seeing Guan Baiyu's appearance of refusing to eat it, he finally took a bite.