Rebirth of a Village Girl

After dinner, Zhou Dani and Lao Zhao took Ni Cuihua and Ni Yan to the tram station.

Ni Yan holds little Ni Yun.

Ni Cuihua held Zhou Dani's hand tightly, "Dannizi, you must bring your brother-in-law and children to my house to play when you have time. You can just take the No. 9 tram to the foot of Jinghua Village. You can call in advance when you come. Call me and I’ll pick you up at the entrance of the village.”

Zhou Dani nodded, "I'm a bit busy these days, I'll definitely go when I have some free time!"

"Then I'll wait for you at home!"

Ni Cuihua reluctantly got on the tram.

Watching the tram gradually disappear into the night, Zhou Dani turned to look at Lao Zhao, "How is business today?"

Old Zhao sighed, "Not so good..." People in Beijing like to eat pasta, so Old Zhao has been buying steamed buns these years.

When I first started selling, the business was good, but recently, the business has gotten worse and worse, and I can't even sell steamed buns for one yuan a day.

They also have to pay 10 yuan in rent every month.

Zhou Dani also frowned, "What should we do? The rent has to be paid soon, and the children have to go to school. Everything costs money."

Lao Zhao said: "Don't worry, maybe business will pick up tomorrow."

Zhou Dani said: "Is it because the market there is not good? Why don't you change the location tomorrow?"

Lao Zhao nodded.

The couple returned home with sad faces.

As soon as they got home, Xiao Shuang ran over and took the couple's hands and said, "Mom and Dad, come over and take a look. Aunt Daya and Sister Ni Yan brought a lot of good things over today!"

It was dark at that time, so Zhou Dani didn't take a closer look at how many things Ni Cuihua and Ni Yan had brought over. Only now did she realize that Ni Cuihua and Ni Yan had indeed brought a lot of good things over.

There is malted milk and beef cubes.

Candies and cookies have been opened by the children.

In addition, Zhou Dani also found two bottles of liquor.

Even if their family were to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, they wouldn’t be able to buy so many things!

Zhou Dani said: "Da Ya spent a lot of money today! Da Ya is so polite!"

Lao Zhao stared at the two bottles of wine for a long time, and then he said with difficulty: "My dear, why don't you take those two bottles of wine to the store tomorrow and exchange them. See if you can exchange some money back. I'll see. These two bottles of wine usually cost thirty-five yuan, and we don’t want to change them for too much. Let’s pay thirty yuan for the children’s tuition and rent first.”

Although this is a bit bad, it can only be like this now.

If the wine was not exchanged for money, their family of six would live on the streets, and their children would have no money to go to school.

Zhou Dani was silent for a moment, then nodded, "Okay. Then when we have money, we will definitely thank Daya's family."

Lao Zhao nodded, "That's for sure."

The next day, Zhou Dani went to the store and exchanged the two bottles of liquor for thirty yuan.

The usual takeout price for these two bottles of liquor is 35 yuan for two bottles.

The store owner was very happy to exchange two bottles for thirty yuan.

The children's tuition fees and rent were finally settled, which made Zhou Dani relieved.

After listening to Zhou Dani's words, Lao Zhao changed the place and continued to set up his stall today.

Today is the day when the restaurant is completed. At 11:30 in the morning, Ni Yan came to the city, bought cigarettes, wine and cooked vegetables, and prepared to treat everyone to a meal.

What she bought were all meat dishes, such as braised beef, pig head meat, tiger skin chicken feet and so on.

At this time, there is little oil and water in people's stomachs, and they won't feel tired even if they eat too much meat. Moreover, everyone is doing physical work, so they need to replenish oil and water.

After the vegetables were bought, only the staple food was left. At this moment, Ni Yan saw a man selling steamed buns next to him.

It happened that people in the capital liked to eat pasta, so Ni Yan pushed the cart over to buy steamed buns, "Boss, please bring me 50 steamed buns."

There are now 18 workers in the restaurant.

A grown man will eat two or three steamed buns no matter what, so 50 steamed buns is not too much.

50 steamed buns!

Lao Zhao, who was eating the steamed bun with his head down, instantly became energetic after hearing this. He quickly put down the steamed bun in his hand and took the bag, "Okay, please wait a moment."

Ni Yan saw Old Zhao clearly at this time and said in surprise: "Uncle Zhao!"

Lao Zhao was also a little surprised, "Yanyan!"

Ni Yan smiled and said: "Uncle Zhao, it turns out you sell steamed buns here."

Lao Zhao nodded, "Yes, by the way, Yanyan, can you finish all the steamed buns you bought? If you don't finish them today, they will spoil."

Ni Yan said: "Don't worry, I can finish it. There are more than a dozen people eating."

Lao Zhao felt relieved and neatly packed fifty steamed buns and handed them to Ni Yan.

At this time, steamed buns cost 1 cent each. Ni Yan occasionally bought them, so she knew the price. After taking the steamed buns, she handed the money to Lao Zhao, which cost 1 cent and 30 cents.

But Lao Zhao was unwilling to accept it.

Mother and daughter Ni Cuihua and Ni Yan are so polite. If it weren't for the gifts they brought, it would be a problem for the children to go to school next month.

If he still charges money for a few steamed buns, that would be so heartless!

"Uncle Zhao, you are out to do business, how can you not charge money? If you don't charge money, I can't have this steamed bun." With that, Ni Yan put down the steamed bun, knowing how old Zhao's family was. It's not easy to get, so Ni Yan won't refuse to give it.

Lao Zhao said: "Yanyan, you and your mother are so polite, and you brought so many things to our house yesterday! I only have a few steamed buns here, all made by myself, they are not valuable at all! Unless you dislike Uncle Zhao This bun is worthless!”

Ni Yan said: "Uncle Zhao, one code is one code. If you don't charge me, I will buy it from the store in front!"

After all the hard work, Lao Zhao was willing to accept the money.

Ni Yan saw the half-eaten steamed bun on the basket and a kettle beside it, "Uncle Zhao, are you going to eat this steamed bun for lunch?"

Old Zhao smiled and said: "Yes, my home is quite far from here. If I don't want to go back at noon, I will eat some steamed buns to deal with it. The steamed buns are good, the steamed buns are sweet and soft, and they are getting better in recent years. In the era of great famine, who can eat them? Serve such delicious white flour buns!”

In fact, what Lao Zhao ate were the leftover steamed buns that had not been sold out a few days ago. They were dry and hard and had no texture at all.

"Uncle Zhao, you can eat this with steamed buns." Ni Yan handed Lao Zhao an oil paper bag.

"I'm fine eating steamed buns, so I don't need this." Lao Zhao quickly refused.

"Just take it. Anyway, I bought a lot. It would be a waste if I couldn't finish it all in a while." After saying that, Ni Yan said again: "By the way, Uncle Zhao, do you have many steamed buns left every day?"

Lao Zhao sighed, "Business has been sluggish recently, and there are leftover steamed buns every day."

"Is it difficult to sell the steamed buns the next day?" Ni Yan asked.

"Yes." Lao Zhao nodded, "The steamed buns didn't taste good the next day, so we all kept them to ourselves."

Ni Yan picked up the half-eaten steamed bun by Lao Zhao. The overnight steamed bun was not as soft and dry as the freshly made steamed bun. To put it more exaggeratedly, it was like a brick.

Ni Yan continued: "Uncle Zhao, you can actually cut this overnight steamed bun into slices, fry it in hot oil until both sides are golden, then sprinkle some pepper and apply some tomato sauce on it. If you like it salty and spicy, add pepper If you like the sweet and sour taste, put ketchup on it and sell it in front of the school when school is out. It should be very popular.”

As long as overnight steamed buns are stored well, it does not affect health. It is just that the taste is much worse than fresh steamed buns. But if you fry it into crispy steamed buns, it will not have any impact, and it tastes crispy and has a great texture!

Very popular with young people.

Lao Zhao felt a little mysterious, "Is this possible?"

Ni Yan smiled and said, "I think you can try it."

Lao Zhao asked again: "What is ketchup?"

Ni Yan explained: "Ketchup is tomato sauce."

Lao Zhao asked curiously: "Can tomatoes also be made into sauce?"

In fact, ketchup was originally invented by the Chinese, but at first the raw material of ketchup was not tomatoes but pure fish sauce made from miscellaneous fish. Pure fish sauce is slightly salty and has a unique flavor. Later, our ancestors felt that the taste of pure fish sauce was a bit monotonous. , and added beans to the pure fish sauce, which was a low-grade version of Doubanjiang, and was very popular on the market at that time.

Later, in the Ming Dynasty, the pure fish sauce in the south became popular again, and the pure fish sauce also had its own name: salmon sauce, which was pronounced in the dialect of the time: kê-tsiap.

Later, salmon sauce was introduced overseas. This Chinese salmon sauce taste was very popular and spread all over the world. It was changed from foreigners to American ketchup.

Therefore, the American ketchup that is popular around the world is not American ketchup, but Chinese kê-tsiap salmon sauce!

KFC and McDonald's had not yet entered China in the 1980s, so at this time, Chinese people still didn't like ketchup very much, and some people even didn't know ketchup at all.

Ni Yan nodded and continued: "Of course tomatoes can be made into sauce. I will write you the method with a pen. You can try it when you go back." As he said that, Ni Yan took out a pen and a small notebook from his pocket.