The Daily Life of the Daughter of a Minor Official

Chapter 9 009 Tea Egg

Su Dalang said like a young adult, "Mom, don't you know that Uncle Shu Tong sold the fried dough sticks and soy milk made by my sister? This is the money he earned."

Cheng Yingzhen couldn’t believe it, “You’d need twenty taels of silver here, right?”

The two siblings looked into their mother’s eyes and nodded with a smile, “Mom, that’s right.”

Cheng Yingzhen was happy, but her brows were covered with sadness again, "Your father is a doctor of the Five Classics. If the family does business, I'm afraid..."

Su Ruojin immediately interrupted her: "Mom, I know, so I started this small business as my mother's dowry business."

Cheng Yingzhen was simply sent out by her aunt as a beggar: "How can I have any dowry?"

Su Ruojin raised her head and said, "Anyway, when people ask me, I always say that the recipes for fried dough sticks and soy milk are your mother's."

 Cheng Yingzhen:…

“Mom, at the end of last month, I saved part of my father’s salary to pay the rent for the first half of next year, and I used part of it to buy a breakfast stall. In this way, I will have more than twenty taels of income every month from now on.”

Cheng Yingzhen was shocked by the children's words: "Then...then we don't have to worry about eating, drinking, and diarrhea in the future?"

"Yes, Mom." Su Ruojin sat next to her, "Mom, are you still worried about not having enough money to live?"

"I…"

It is true that Cheng Yingzhen suffered a physical loss after giving birth, but it is also true that Su Ruojin made up for her a lot this month.

It's just that Su Ruojin didn't expect that the rich confinement meal would not nourish her mother's health. However, because she was afraid of disturbing her mother during the confinement period, she almost never told her about the good breakfast business, which made her mother worried and anxious. Seeing the rich meal , I have been thinking that this child has to eat one meal but not the next one?

 A woman who is always anxious and weak will be disappointed no matter how much she eats.

“Is the business of fried dough sticks and soy milk really so good?” Cheng Yingzhen still couldn’t believe it when she was helped to lie down by her brother and sister.

"It's all my fault." Su Ruojin blamed herself: "In order to let my mother have a stable and clean confinement period, I didn't bother her with these things. I didn't expect my mother to misunderstand that our family is going to run out of food."

Cheng Yingzhen felt very distressed because her daughter blamed herself. She wanted to get up and come over to comfort Su Ruojin, but she pushed her down and said, "Now mother can rest in peace and have her confinement period."

Cheng Yingzhen smiled happily and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she suddenly said: "I will eat well from now on, so I won't get the prescription. It's a waste of money."

"That's not possible." Su Ruojin's face was serious, "Mom, I'm only six years old. If you don't take good care of your body, won't you keep making me tired?"

 Cheng Yingzhen:…

 What my daughter said is quite right. But Cheng Yingzhen always felt that something was wrong.

Su Rujin, of course, knew, and smiled secretly, but she coaxed her mother to sleep, and now she could have confinement with peace of mind.

“Mom, there’s still more than a month left for the New Year, so you have to do a good job during the confinement period. In this way, the exchange of favors and visits to relatives and friends during the New Year will all depend on you!”

yes! Cheng Yingzhen was finally persuaded by her daughter to start confinement with real peace of mind.

Cheng Yingzhen lost her worries and cooperated with the recipe. Her face turned rosy. Su Ruojin finally had the idea to open a small stall.

　　When the mule pulls a set of household chores to the stall at the entrance of the alley where the tax is paid, there are already people waiting for it.

"Hey, will the fried dough sticks be fried on the spot today?" "Yes, young official, how many do you want? They'll be ready right away."

 For a month, everyone knows that the fried dough sticks are fried, but they don’t know that they are tumbling in the oil and turning golden, which is really exciting.

 A customer seemed to click his tongue: "Although the fried dough sticks are delicious, but you have to eat them every day..." The implication is that there are too few varieties and you will get tired of them if you eat them every day.

Su Ruojin, who was following, had already thought of it and stood by the side with a smile.

Shu Tong slapped his head, "Oh, if Lang Jun hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten it." After saying that, he put a clay pot with ears on the small stove where the fire was lit, reached out and took off the lid, and the next moment, the aroma of salty tea leaves filled his nostrils. Come.

 “This is...” Someone looked into the clay pot.

Su Ruojin motioned to Su Dalang to help.

Su Dalang was a little embarrassed and blushed but did not move.

Su Ruojin quickly went up, picked up a long-handled spoon and scooped out one, "Sir, tea eggs are worth two cents each. Do you want two?"

 Can eggs boiled with tea leaves be eaten? While he was puzzled, he reached out and took the tea egg that the young lady had wiped dry. The shell had been knocked open and peeled off after a few clicks. When he opened his mouth and took a bite, the egg white was salty and tender, and the yolk was salty and delicious. The taste was very good. .

 “Here are three.” One is not enough.

Someone took the lead, and the guests who came to buy breakfast bought one or two one after another. After a while, one clay pot was sold out. Fortunately, Su Ruojin had prepared it and had another pot, so Shu Tong quickly moved it to the small stove to continue supplying.

On a winter morning, the wind is bone-chilling. In order to allow guests to stay, the Su family's breakfast stall is a detachable mini-hut. The cornice open to customers is equipped with a folding oil awning, and three extensions extend from the cornice. A windproof awning wall was built so that customers would not be afraid of wind and rain when they come to buy food or wait.

  It is simply a mini shop.

With the stall, breakfast food is no longer sold for half an hour, but from the beginning of the morning to the beginning of the morning, that is, from five to nine in the morning. In four hours, the customer group is no longer civil servants in the court, but also nearby merchants, passing hawkers, and all kinds of pedestrians going out to do business.

 Business is busy, which means there is a shortage of manpower. One person is already too busy just relying on books. For several days, Su Ruojin and Su Dalang came over to help.

"Hey, Dr. Su can't support his family, so he lets a serious young lady show her face. How can she behave like this?"

Su Ruojin and Su Dalang worked in the small shop, making soy milk, scooping out tea eggs, and taking care of collecting money, leaving Shu Tong to concentrate on frying fried dough sticks.

Su Ruojin saw Mrs. Xu walking through the crowd and guessed that she would taunt her. Shu Tong glanced at the young master and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Su Ruojin's eyes.

Her eyes drooped, and she did whatever she had to do and ignored her at all.

In this area of ​​Xiqiao Alley, no one dared to do this to Mrs. Xu. She raised her eyes, put her hands on her hips, and said with a sinister look on her face, "Smelly girl named Su, do you know who I am? Believe it or not, I can make you The stall won’t be set up tomorrow.”

As soon as she got angry, customers were too scared to come forward to buy fried dough sticks. Pedestrians stopped out of curiosity. In a blink of an eye, the shop was full of people.

Su Ruojin snorted coldly, reached out and smashed the tea eggs into the jar, causing the tea soup to splash.

Mrs. Xu took a step back after being splashed. When she realized that she was frightened by a little girl, her eyes narrowed and turned into bells. "Damn girl, how dare you show your face to me?"

Su Ruojin walked out of the shop and looked at her coldly.

Half a month ago, Mrs. Xu saw that the Su family's fried dough sticks business was booming, so she asked Mrs. Dong to fry the fried dough sticks. As for the skill of deep-fried dough sticks, he came up with another idea and asked Mama Dong to come back and learn the skill, and then sell it to her shop after she learned it well.

 (End of this chapter)