For ordinary people, the 1990s were the best of times and the worst of times.
By 1993, the reform had been going on for more than ten years, and it could be said that it had achieved initial results. It was also at this time that the Chinese people really began to stay away from hunger, and supplies began to gradually become more abundant.
"Sesame blossoms are blooming steadily." This is a very vivid description of the living standards of the people at that time.
However, at this time, there are still many unsatisfactory aspects. Economic reforms are not achieved at once. After the planned economy was abolished and everything was left to the market to regulate itself, the prices on the market soared. In the past two years, everything was ruined. The so-called "price breakthrough" actually did not go smoothly.
When prices fluctuate, people become unsettled and want to exchange their cash for commodities immediately. The panic buying trend in turn pushes prices up further, which causes social instability.
What's more, when many companies are facing difficulties, their employees have begun to face the unfamiliar and scary term "laid-off". Employees who have been laid off from the company can only come to society to look for re-employment opportunities, or simply start learning He went into business and did some small business to support his family.
Against this background, in the city of Pingcheng, a free market began to appear, and it became more and more prosperous day by day. Except for the areas designated by the management department where everyone could operate all day, there were also markets in places with concentrated flows of people, such as intersections like Qianjiakou. An open-air market spontaneously formed, with a morning market in the morning and a night market at night.
After Yao Yuan made up his mind to make money by selling braised pork, he immediately thought of Qianjiakou Night Market.
The place is crowded with people at night, with various stalls selling clothing, audio-visuals, books, and toys one after another. In the middle of the intersection, there is a group of vendors selling snacks, ranging from wontons and dumplings to fried rice and steamed buns. , there are all kinds of simple snacks and staple foods, but none of them are as good as the braised and hot dishes. It includes soup, water, meat and staple food. It can fill you up and drink wine.
I believe that once this kind of snack is put out, it will be popular even if you think about it.
As for why he wants to sell at the night market, Yao Yuan mainly considers that after school starts, he can go to school during the day and sell braised food at night, so that he can do both without delay.
As for whether it would be embarrassing to set up a stall and do small business at the night market, this issue is not considered at all. Making money based on your ability and craftsmanship is very glorious!
During my morning jog, I carefully sorted out all the things I was going to do. I had an idea in my mind, and my mood gradually became beautiful.
The wontons and fried dough sticks at the street stalls are not to my little sister's taste. Little Hua'er's favorite is the big beef buns from Halal Li Ji at the intersection. It's tempting, but you can't buy it without queuing up.
Yao Yuan carried a plastic bag of beef buns in his hand and strolled home downstairs, only to see Xie Zhenhua carrying a gas tank downstairs.
Oops, the sun is rising in the west. This kid has become a habit of eating too much. He is afraid that he will lose his food after the gas is gone, so he actually takes the initiative to change the gas tank for him? !
Seeing Yao Yuan coming back, Xie Zhenhua said hello happily: "Where have you been so early in the morning?"
Yao Yuan stretched out his hand and raised the plastic bag in his hand: "Big bag of beef filling! If you want to eat, go back quickly, and you can still catch it hot!"
Xie Zhenhua responded, hung the gas tank on a special cast-iron hook on the rear frame of his bicycle, and rode away crookedly.
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Xiao Hua'er held a steamed bun that was about the same size as her face and ate it in a few bites. She didn't care much about Yao Yuan's entrepreneurial plan. However, Wang Hongyu, who had sent money early in the morning, expressed her doubts: "Can you do it? Huh? Isn’t it easy to make braised food?”
Yao Yuan spread all the money in his hand on the table and counted it carefully. The thirty-one yuan left at home plus the fifteen yuan donated by Xie Zhenhua yesterday, the total was only forty-six yuan. Taking the one hundred and twenty yuan that Wang Hongyu just sent over, he now has one hundred and sixty-six yuan in cash in his hand. With this little money as capital, he can spend it casually to sell braised pork. The stall is very relaxing.
Hearing Wang Hongyu's concerns, Yao Yuan smiled: "You guys are in luck today. I'll make a pot of it later and you guys can try it first."
As he spoke, Xie Zhenhua struggled to carry the gas tank into the house and smiled flatteringly at Xiao Hua'er: "Sister Xiao Hua, look, your brother Xie replaced this gas tank, and it cost me more than six yuan. Don’t say I’m a freeloader again!”
Yao Yuan took over the conversation: "Okay, you rushed to change the gas early in the morning. Aren't you afraid that without the gas, you will have nowhere to eat?"
Xie Zhenhua was not annoyed, he just washed his hands and rushed over, grabbed a beef bun and stuffed it into his mouth.
"You two, I, Yao, am in trouble. Thanks to you both for lending a helping hand and providing strong support, I have a plan to help you two make a small fortune together this summer. What do you two think?" Yao Yuan asked. Glass of water, sat at the table and opened his mouth.
It's not impossible to set up a stall selling stewed vegetables by one person, but it's a bit boring. Since he has these two bad friends around him, Yao Yuanbian wants to bring the two of them to play together.
Selling a few bowls of braised food at the night market feels like a game to Yao Yuan, and he can earn some pocket money while playing.
It's great to be young again. Young people have no scheming, are clean and simple. They said they had no money, so the two of them donated money enthusiastically. They ran out of gas at home, so they didn't need to say hello, but people came running to them early in the morning, carrying money on their backs. I went to replace the gas tank and paid for it myself.
It seems that this kind of simple friendship in the past has been forgotten a long time ago. Now that I experience it again, the feeling is very different.
It is said that the friendships left over from high school are the purest and most precious because they are not mixed with so much philistine and utilitarianism.
At this time, Yao Yuan felt that this statement was very reasonable.
In the last life, after the three high school musketeers graduated, they each took their own separate paths. At first, they had some contact with each other just after graduation, but later in the busy life of each other, they gradually drifted apart, and then forgot about each other in the world.
Since I had made up my mind to make some money this time, I couldn't leave these two pieces behind, and let them make a little fortune with me if I had no choice but to do so.
However, Wang Hongyu seemed a little disgusted: "Damn, if my dad and mom knew that I was setting up a stall to sell sex at the night market, they would beat me to death!"
Wang Hongyu's parents are the kind of artists who have nothing to do with anything, so it's not unusual for him to say something like this.
There has always been a chain of contempt in society. For a good young man to set up a stall and do small business, not to mention other artists would look down on him. Even the so-called high-level intellectuals in the neighborhood would find this strange.
These days, the only people who can sacrifice their dignity and set up stalls to sell goods are all the educated youths, laid-off workers, etc. who have returned to their hometowns. Who is willing to go to the streets to do business if they are not forced by life and have no place to find a job?
As dignified high school students and big boys, Yao Yuan and the others dared to go out and sell stewed vegetables, which would not only expose themselves to the public, but also cost the dignity of their parents.
Xie Zhenhua has no worries about this at all. In his opinion, it is fun and exciting to set up a stall and sell things at the night market. He is a little dissatisfied with Wang Hongyu's attitude: "What are you pretending to be? Yuan'er has prepared it ready-made." We can still make money by helping us with the braised food, so why are you bothering the parents?"
Xiao Hua'er's eyebrows stood up a little on the side: "Who are you talking about? Brother Hongyu promised to teach me how to play the guitar every day, and I don't have time to mess with those stinky bastards with you!"
Yao Yuan made a "hiss" sound in his mouth and suddenly felt a toothache...
After holding it in for a long time, I didn’t know how to respond, so I simply put the money on the table into my pocket: "Stop talking so much nonsense, why don’t I make a pot for you to try today! Let’s go, let’s go to the market Go shopping and stock up!”
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When they said they were going to make food, everyone immediately lost their opinions, and the three of them started joking with each other and went out.
According to the different ingredients used, braised and fire-roasted dishes are divided into braised small intestines and braised large intestines.
The stewed large intestine is more plump because it has more intestinal oil and the meat is thicker. Nowadays, people generally lack oil and water in their stomachs, so what Yao Yuan prepared this time were all pig intestines.
The other ingredients in a bowl of braised pork belly are all the same. Pork lungs are essential, followed by fried tofu and semi-risen flour pancakes. As for the traditional indispensable slices of pork belly, this time Yao Yuan also Be prepared to give up.
It was originally intended to be sold at the night market, as long as it tasted good. The cost of pork belly was a bit expensive, so I couldn't afford a bowl of braised pork belly at any price. It was not appropriate to have more or less pork belly.
Just save it!
As for the pig heart, pig lungs and other offal products that are used in some recipes, Yao Yuan thinks that is all nonsense, causing trouble for himself and not helping the product at all.
Therefore, it is very easy to make such a bowl of stewed stew. There are only four main raw materials: pig intestines, pig lungs, tofu, and fire.
Xie Zhenhua has a good mother who works in a Qianjiakou non-staple food store. Although the salary is not high, it is undoubtedly close to the water to buy some grain, oil, non-staple food and meat, not to mention it is only a dozen kilograms of tofu and pig offal.
The fire used in it is a bit troublesome, so I can only bake it out one by one, and I can't be lazy anymore.
In fact, the earliest braised food was cooked without fire. When diners bought braised food from a vendor, they would let the stall owner heat up the dry food they brought in the pot and cut it into the bowl together.
Later, the vendor who bought the stewed food simply provided it with fire-roasted food and cooked it in the soup together.
Therefore, there are no certain rules as to what the roasting in the stewed huoshao should look like, whether it is a dead noodle pancake or a fermented noodle pancake.
However, Yao Yuan felt that it would be more appropriate to use semi-boiled noodles, which can absorb the soup while retaining a certain taste.
Therefore, after the raw materials were purchased, the first thing Yao Yuan did was to mix and serve the white flour.
I chose the braised and roasted product because it is easy to make.
But when I actually started working on it, I found that working in the kitchen was not easy. The large intestine needed to be turned over and rubbed, and the lungs needed to be flushed with water. When the three people started busy in the kitchen, the unpleasant smell came out. It started to spread throughout the home.
There is no way, it is just a low-grade pig in the water, and it must be dealt with cleanly, that is the first priority.
