Chapter 8 Qujiang Sells Food

It was summer, and the weather was getting hotter, and Shen Shaoguang began to tinker with various drinks.

In the current dynasty, the "drinking child" mainly exerted its medicinal and health value in treating diseases. It was not until the Song Dynasty that it developed into a daily drink to quench thirst and thirst. Popular beverages at the time were buttermilk, cane pulp and, of course, the increasingly accepted tea.

Buttermilk is a little too thick and fishy, ​​sugarcane pulp is too sweet, and tea with salt, ginger and various things is even more difficult to describe. Shen Shaoguang decided to boil and brew some drinks to quench his thirst and quench his thirst. The first choice is of course Sour plum soup, followed by jasmine tea and mung bean soup, mint honey drink is also good.

Among them, Shen Shaoguang loves sour plum soup.

Boil ebony plum, hawthorn, dried tangerine peel, licorice, etc. bought from Yaoyinzi Store, and then add candied sweet-scented osmanthus. In a previous life, Shen Shaoguang once read a book written by a certain master that said that you should use white sugar to stain sweet-scented osmanthus, not honey. Try it, and sure enough, the taste is more refreshing, everyone is everyone after all. ①

At this time, there were also private Tibetan ice sold on the market, but the price was too high. Shen Shaoguang was really reluctant to bear it. Fortunately, there was a well in the nunnery, and it was very popular to use well water to town a town.

In such a hot weather, drinking the thick, sweet and sour plum soup with cool air, Master Yuanjue, the host, was full of praise, "In the past, there was a Zen master who made five-color drinks. Among them, Fufang leaves are green drinks, and succulent roots are green drinks. Red drink, buttermilk is white drink, black plum syrup is Xuanyin, and Jianggui is yellow drink. Buttermilk is the most well-known, and there are imitations of others.

Shen Shaoguang smiled, of course, my recipe has been improved for thousands of years.

Shen Shaoguang made jasmine tea, mung bean soup, mint honey drink, etc., and asked the host teacher to taste it and express his thoughts-on the Dragon Boat Festival, go to the Qujiang River to sell.

Although Master Yuan Jue is a monk, she has a scholar's attitude of "no words to speak of benefits". She once did not understand Shen Shaoguang, a high-class lady who was devoted to setting up a small stall to make money, but now she has become accustomed to it and helped her come up with ideas. , "Mung bean drink is too common, not fresh enough, and there are too many samples, but it doesn't show that this ebony soup is good. In my opinion, just drink ebony, and add - jasmine tea."

However, Shen Shaoguang felt that the jasmine tea she smoked was not very good, which was naturally compared with the jasmine fragrant tablets she drank in her previous life. If it is said that the black plum drink can still make six or seven points of the shadow of the sour plum soup of later generations, this jasmine fragrant piece has the meaning of one and a half points at most. It is light and sweet with a little bitterness, which is in line with the feelings of literati and elegant scholars.

Shen Shaoguang felt that Master Yuanjue was a senior eater, and the suggestion should be advisable, so he decided to cook several large jars of sour plum soup, buy some ice and put it on, as an ice drink; set up a tea stove and boil water to make jasmine flowers Tea is a hot drink.

Yuanjue gave a high five, and felt that she was very thoughtful, she was very particular about people, and she loved hot tea in summer, and when the jasmine tea was just fried, there were jasmine flowers floating on the tea powder. Teacher too, I will be doing customer analysis and product positioning now.

What to sell and drink is second, the key is to eat. Of course, the first choice for Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi, red dates, candied dates, red bean, mung bean, these conventional sweet rice dumplings are naturally not to mention; chicken rice dumplings, mountain mushroom lean meat rice dumplings, salted egg yolk rice dumplings are standard, and it seems that Datang should also be The people opened their eyes and feasted.

When Shen Shaoguang first arrived in Ye Ting, it was Dragon Boat Festival soon. She divided two rice dumplings, which were not steamed and sticky, but had two red dates in them. She thought it was the treatment of female slaves. bike? Later, the situation improved, and still helped the royal kitchen for a while. Only then did know that the emperor ate, only three or two kinds of stuffing, only the heat was more sufficient. The point is, they like to pour sugarcane syrup on top of them...the throat gets tired just thinking about it.

In addition, because Ai Wowo was very popular in the nunnery, Shen Shaoguang decided to make stuffing in advance and make some Ai Wowo on the spot.

They had to prepare materials, hire a car, and make them. Thanks to the large stove in the nunnery, Shen Shaoguang borrowed to cook rice dumplings, and the nun and the nun in charge of the cook also helped, and they were busy talking until the night before the Dragon Boat Festival. When he was ready, Shen Shaoguang sat in the rented donkey cart, pulled all kinds of food utensils, and rushed to Qujiang as soon as the workshop opened the next day.

Chongxianfang is in the northwest of the city, and Qujiang is in the southeast of the city. It's not too close, but when Shen Shaoguang arrived, it was still early, so she found a good place to set up a stall. This place is not far from the river, facing the main road, not far from there is a pavilion corridor for people to rest, next to a few big trees with pavilions and pavilions, and even two rocks under the trees, you can sit and rest.

Shen Shaoguang sighed secretly about his good luck, then quickly set up the table and set up the stall. When the pot of hot zongzi was steaming, the pot of boiling water began to squeak, and there were twenty or thirty Aiwowo in his hand, the number of tourists on the Qujiang River increased, and when the sun was shining. Now, the nobles of BMW Xiangche have arrived.

There are also food sellers by the Qujiang River, but they usually carry a basket and sell it along the street. It is rare for Shen Shaoguang to "spread out". Bought more naturally.

Zongzi sells well. I heard that there are meat fillings. There are quite a lot of people in the Tang Dynasty who are quite willing to try them. However, due to the "high music and widowhood", of course, it may also be the inopportune time to sell hot tea in summer, and few people are interested.

Shen Shaoguang was holding Ai Wowo, while worrying about the ice that he spent a lot of money on the ice store this morning. Although it was placed in a small box and wrapped with a small cotton mattress, it still became more and more. , at this rate, the two buckets of sour plum soup in the back will probably run out of ice, and by the way, listen to passers-by chatting.

The two gentlemen were chatting about the dragon boat race on the riverside, and they felt sorry for "no chance to see the beauty of the sky". Shen Shaoguang also felt very sorry - the emperor watched the boat race in the Royal Qujiang Garden. On the pavilion, there is no reason to walk along the street. It would be great if you moved the chance to meet the emperor in the palace, so that you can advertise with the head of the state of Ci'er, and tinker with something like "Kangxi Fish Head" and "Qianlong Lord". "Roasted Chicken", "Lafayette Minced Pork Biscuits", "Saint Sour Plum Soup" and "Queen's Ai Wo Wo" came out.

The advertising slogans are all ready-made routines: "The sage was watching the dragon boat and suddenly felt thirsty. He just saw a stall selling sour plum drinks on the side of the road... Drink it, the heat will be gone, and the whole body will be happy... Hanlin Bachelor Poetry cloud——" Shen Shaoguang choked, although he studied in Ye Ting for two years and also learned to write poetry, after all, it is not this material, and it smells like oil.

Although they didn't "meet" the emperor by chance, but the rich and noble people did have some "wild fun", ten money a bowl of sour plum soup, Shen Shaoguang filled a kettle, and added a small piece of ice, the other party. He even gave two taels of small silver ingots.

The sky-high sour plum soup! The more wealthy customers, the better.

"What kind of drink are you?" an officer with leather boots and bright armor came over and asked.

"It's black plum drink, with hawthorn, licorice, and ice. It's the best way to relieve the heat." Shen Shaoguang suddenly felt blessed, "Langjun, can you try a bowl for free?"

The officer glanced at Shen Shaoguang and nodded, "Alright."

Shen Shaoguang filled a bowl and handed it to him, the officer drank it, and then decided to round up the rest!

The officer asked a few soldiers to move it, and Shen Shaoguang generously used the rest of the ice, and sold the jar to them at a price.

Before noon, the dragon boat race has not yet started, and the same drink has been sold out.After doing the math, these sour plum soup actually made a good five or six thousand dollars, almost catching up with the profit of selling pancakes for two months.

Shen Shaoguang continued to do Ai Wowo in a good mood, but in a blink of an eye he saw a group of noble girls in the pavilion over there, one of them was quite familiar - Mrs. Pang Er.

The author has something to say: ①Mr. Ye Guangqin's "The Story of Bean Juice"

②According to "Daye Miscellaneous", there are changes.