Chapter 334 Sweet Potato Starch

Xu Chong was obviously aware of this problem, and rubbed his nose a little embarrassedly, "I think I have a cold. I'm sorry."

"Today's oil and starch sausage were completely ruined by my sneeze, so I won't sell the starch sausage today. Please go back."

As he spoke, Xu Chong began to pack up his things, looking hurriedly and eager to close the stall and go home.

Diners waiting to eat starch sausage, "..."

After staring at each other for a long while, they began to mutter to each other.

"Could this person be trying to be lazy today? Is he doing this on purpose?"

"He definitely did it on purpose, but I've bought it several times, and I don't think he's lazy, he's just really greedy. Not only does he eat starch sausages every day while taking them out, but he always saves a few for himself at the end. I guess he wants to keep them all for himself this time!"

"You never know. I always feel like this person would do anything just to get an extra bite..."

Xu Chong, "..."

He is not that greedy.

What's wrong with being hygienic?

What's more, he has been setting up the stall for so many days in a row, so what's wrong with taking a day off today?
And since he sneezed so loudly, he must be really sick.

As Xu Chong thought this, he changed from packing his things neatly and efficiently at first to packing his things resignedly.

Cen Ying, "..."

It's always not nice to beat someone up in public.

As the saying goes, family disgrace should not be made public; some things are better resolved behind closed doors!
In short, everyone had their own thoughts and stood on West Street for a long time before going back.

Here, Xia Mingyue led Chef Wei to Buyun Tower.

Manager Ge, Lou Shanzi and others were all present. Xia Mingyue explained the situation and her personal thoughts to them. She hoped that they would allow Chef Wei to learn cooking in Buyun Tower, and she also hoped that they would take better care of him.

For a restaurant as big as Buyunlou, it is not difficult to arrange someone to work in the kitchen at this time, especially since this person was brought by Madam Xia. Manager Ge naturally has no objection.

However, after learning that Chef Wei was the cook in the small canteen of the county school, Lou Shanzi began to respect Chef Wei.

I admire him for not being blindly conceited just because he is the chef of a small canteen. I admire him even more for being able to learn with an open mind at his age and not forgetting his original intention of being a chef.

Lou Shanzi thought of the difficulties he had faced in learning cooking and finding work in the past, and hoped that he could become someone who did not care about face in the future and could just pursue cooking skills and devote his whole life to studying cooking. He readily agreed to this matter.

At the same time, he assured Xia Mingyue, "Ms. Xia, just leave Chef Wei to me."

Then, he asked about the hours Chef Wei needed to be busy every day in the county school canteen. Taking into account the situation at Buyun Building, he arranged the time for Chef Wei to come here to learn cooking every day.

Seeing that the matter had been settled, Xia Mingyue felt relieved and only discussed other matters with Manager Ge.

A few days later, Zhao Lizheng of Zhaojiazhuang sent someone to deliver a letter.

It was said that the sweet potato vermicelli workshop in Zhaojiazhuang had already taken shape, and they hoped that Xia Mingyue could take some time to go over and take a look and give some advice. It would be best if they could start making vermicelli as soon as possible. Xia Mingyue gave a definite answer and went to Zhaojiazhuang with Zhuang Cui early the next morning.

Zhao Lizheng gave Xia Mingyue a detailed introduction to the specific situation of the sweet potato vermicelli workshop in Zhaojiazhuang.

The old ancestral hall in Zhaojiazhuang has a backyard that has been vacant for many years. It is spacious and has several usable rooms. In the past, a large stove was built and iron pots were cast for ancestor worship and New Year reunion dinners, and they can still be used.

This configuration fully meets Xia Mingyue's requirements for the sweet potato vermicelli workshop.

Therefore, Zhao Lizheng made a decision immediately to temporarily convert the backyard of the ancestral hall into a sweet potato vermicelli workshop, and called on the villagers to clean up and clean up, and even reinforced the houses to a certain extent.

As for the establishment of the sweet potato vermicelli workshop, Li Zheng Zhao has already discussed with all the people in Zhaojiazhuang. Based on the principle of voluntariness, the number of shares each household will hold in the sweet potato vermicelli workshop will be determined according to the amount of sweet potatoes, utensils and even silver money each household contributes.

If the sweet potato vermicelli workshop can make a profit, a certain amount of dividends will be distributed according to this amount.

Zhao Lizheng has served as the head of Zhaojiazhuang for many years. He is an upright and well-behaved person with high prestige in the village. At this time, Zhao Lizheng's proposal was unanimously approved by all the villagers.

All the villagers in Zhaojia Village, those who have money contributed money, those who have sweet potatoes contributed sweet potatoes, those who have tools contributed tools, those who have strength contributed strength...

In short, no matter how many, everyone has expressed their attitude.

Zhao Lizheng and Zhao Sanlin also carefully calculated together, and these were enough to serve as the initial capital of the sweet potato vermicelli workshop to actually put the business into operation.

After hearing the situation, Xia Mingyue couldn't help but nod repeatedly, "Zhao Lizheng is very careful and thoughtful in considering everything. It really makes people worry-free."

"Mrs. Xia, you are too kind." Li Zheng Zhao said, "By the way, we villagers have discussed this and feel that although this workshop belongs to our Zhaojiazhuang, Mrs. Xia has contributed a lot to it. This workshop must have a part of Mrs. Xia."

"So we all unanimously decided that we would give 20% of the profits from the sweet potato vermicelli workshop to Madam Xia. This is also our token of appreciation."

"This matter was decided by the entire village. Madam Xia, you must not refuse, otherwise the whole village will be uneasy."

Seeing Zhao Lizheng say this, Xia Mingyue thought for a moment and then smiled, "In that case, I won't be polite and will accept it first."

When the time comes, I’ll just find a reason to donate it to the Zhao Family Ancestral Hall.

Zhao Lizheng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

After understanding everything, Xia Mingyue began to arrange some follow-up matters.

The first thing is to buy some tools for making vermicelli, such as an instrument with even holes that can squeeze out a large amount of vermicelli of appropriate thickness, a large wooden basin that can hold the vermicelli, a wooden rack for drying the vermicelli, etc.

Then, the people working in the workshop were taught the first step in making vermicelli - making sweet potato starch.

Fresh sweet potatoes need to go through multiple steps such as washing, peeling, crushing, grinding, sedimentation, and drying before sweet potato starch can be made.

It is summer now, and every household stores dried sweet potatoes that had been wiped and dried last fall.

The dried sweet potatoes are dry and crispy. They are directly ground into fine sweet potato powder with a stone mill, then added with water for precipitation to separate the sweet potato residue and sweet potato starch.

The sweet potato starch can be kept for making vermicelli, and the sweet potato residue does not have to be wasted. After filtering it out, it can be dried and then mixed with normal sweet potato flour or corn flour.