Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 558 The Shop is Too Small

The next day, Hua Lei asked the chef to cook the food before the pioneers went to work, and then packed it into three large wooden barrels and sent it to the entrance of Diwozi Village.

Then Gao Tiedan, Xiao Yuanzi and the other two were asked to distribute a bamboo tube of loach soup to each of their team members, trying to ensure that everyone's bamboo tube had a piece of loach or two pieces of tofu.

The team members, who were originally skeptical, returned from the fields exhausted. They were dazzled when they saw their captain distributing loach soup to the team members.

But when they really drank the hot and delicious loach soup with the half cold steamed bun left in their arms, they couldn't help but smack their lips. It tasted so good.

The loach soup was indeed salted and oiled, and also had tofu and chopped green onions. It tasted really good! These people were very satisfied.

I have already made up my mind that I will dig more hoes tomorrow and try to catch more loaches. By the way, on the way back, everyone should also bring back a handful of firewood or foxtail grass, there are plenty of them on the wasteland nearby.

When the other team members saw it, they were filled with envy and gathered around to watch eagerly. The loach soup was milky white, dotted with a little bit of green chopped green onion and a little bit of oil, and it smelled delicious.

I really want to go up and get a free loach soup and eat it with my cold steamed buns! Many people swallowed their saliva involuntarily.

Hualei asked Gao Tiedan, Xiao Yuanzi and other team leaders to talk about it. As long as they were willing to collect loaches and eels without affecting the tillage, Hualei was willing to help them process them in this way. The teams were the units.

The other team members were happy. If this was true, they would be able to drink it the day after tomorrow at the latest. So, they all went to find wooden barrels and bamboo baskets to prepare to put loaches in tomorrow.

Several members of the team took advantage of some time to cut the remaining foxtail grass beside the dugout and delivered it directly to Hualei, saying that it was an advance payment for tomorrow's firewood.

At the end of work the next day, each team leader sent the loaches and eels collected by their team to Hualei's restaurant.

Hua Lei asked the newcomer Pei Xiaoyun to be in charge of this matter. He estimated the weight of each team, placed them separately, and then processed them for them.

Of course, those who give firewood will receive 20% of the loach, and those who don't will receive 25%. If any team feels that it is not cost-effective, they can terminate the cooperation at any time.

Thus, Hualei's replacement and processing business started again in Mobei. Hualei used 20% of the loaches she received as one of the ingredients, braised, spicy, or made into loach tofu soup, and served it to other customers in the restaurant.

However, Rong Jin loved this so much that he always asked Sister Hehua to go to the restaurant to get a portion back so that he could eat a different flavor every day.

Today it's spicy, tomorrow it's loach soup, it's really every day. Then at night I can toss the flower buds.

A few days later, Hua Lei ordered Sister He Hua to do it only once every three days, otherwise she would not sleep at night. However, she still sent a portion to Pei Jingyang's house every now and then to help their married life.

After all, loaches and eels are high in protein and nutrition, and eating them in moderation is indeed good for the body.

Of course, the Pearl couple next door, Hualei, didn't forget either. If Rongyu wanted to eat, she could also take it herself, just tell Pei Xiaoyun and record it in the account book.

Hua Lei was also generous to her immediate superior, Minister Zhang, and her close colleagues, and would occasionally give them a portion of prepared spicy loach for them to take home and use as a side dish.

I don’t know whether the workers who were reclaiming the land wanted to dig out more loaches, or whether they had more energy after eating loach soup, but not only did it not affect their soil turning, it even went much faster.

Moreover, each team has unconsciously developed a sense of competition. They hope that there will be more loaches in their team than in others, so they will unconsciously swing the hoe a few more times.

Especially when they saw eel holes or loach holes, they would saw trees and dig up the roots, vowing to throw the eels that hide their heads and show their tails into the wooden barrel before they would stop.

Many people would spend a cup of tea cutting some foxtail grass on the uncultivated land on their way home from work.

With more people, there is no need to spend time burning the foxtail grass on the wasteland, and the soil can be turned over directly.

When Lord Zhang saw it, he was very satisfied. He himself came from a poor family and had a natural sympathy for the common people. At the beginning, he was a little worried that it would affect the speed of turning the soil.

But now, not only is there no impact, but the process has been accelerated a lot. In addition, he can provide people with a bowl of hot soup, so he also supports Hua Lei's approach.

He didn't know much about Hua Lei at first. However, since she was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue as a doctor by Emperor Shengwu, he carefully learned about Hua Lei's past.

Therefore, he also knew about Hua Lei's business of exchanging steamed buns for the common people on the barren mountain. As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he was certainly very familiar with the prices of various grains of rice.

Therefore, we also know that Hualei’s original intention of doing this business is not to make money, but just to provide convenience to the people.

Now, Hua Lei has used the same method to bring benefits to the people and speed up the Ministry of Revenue's land reclamation. Minister Zhang originally liked Hua Lei, and now he likes her even more.

The flower bud replacement and processing business is going on every day. However, it is not a solution to always process it in the restaurant. Fifty or sixty servings of loach soup have to be made every day, and each serving is a large portion.

By the time the soup is ready at the restaurant and sent over, the soup will have gone cold. Once the loach soup gets cold, it will have a fishy smell and the taste will be bad.

Hualei thought about it for a few days and decided to use the shop on North Street as a place to help the pioneers make loach soup.

It is more convenient to send it over. If the previously made ones are cold, they can be reheated. Moreover, these land reclamation workers have recently sent firewood.

Even though one person may only pluck a handful of foxtail grass, when they gather at the restaurant where the buds are, the quantity is quite large, and it would not look good if they were piled up at the door of the restaurant.

So, Hua Lei asked Uncle Zhongsheng to tidy up the shop on North Street, build a few more firewood stoves, buy some cooking utensils, and move the processing point there.

Now, the loach soup would not get cold. However, Hua Lei realized that the shop was too small. After building a few more stoves, it became very crowded.

There were six stoves on one side of the shop, and large wooden barrels for loach soup on the other side, leaving only an aisle in the middle.