Chapter 481 Want it all

After all, if you think about it carefully, she hasn't been doing needlework properly for some time. Now that she picks up the needle again, she will touch such fine material all of a sudden. If she is not careful, it will be a huge sin!
You have to practice your hands first, and once your hands are steady, it’s not too late to touch them!
Qingju thought about it here and started to act according to the plan.

Xia Mingyue also started a new plan.

The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and rice dumplings are indispensable. Xia Mingyue also doesn't want to miss this festive economy, so she starts to prepare.

With the previous experience in wrapping and making bamboo tube rice dumplings, starting the rice dumpling business this year was easy and went very smoothly.

There are salted egg yolk meat dumplings, red bean paste dumplings, red date glutinous rice dumplings, white dumplings, eight-treasure dumplings... everything is available.

Zongzi, as a must-eat food during the Dragon Boat Festival, is naturally very popular, and everyone believes that anything produced by Xia Ji must be a high-quality product. As long as it is sold by Xia Ji, it must be correct.

Therefore, the rice dumplings are often sold out in the morning and cannot be sold out by noon.

Other popular products include salted duck eggs and preserved eggs.

The former is mellow and oily, moderately salty, and delicious, making it best eaten with porridge during this season. The latter is very popular among farmers who are busy harvesting wheat at this time.

Whether it is served cold as a side dish to go with wine, after a busy night, you can drink a few glasses and eat a few bites to completely relieve fatigue, or you can take it directly to the fields and eat one when you are exhausted, it is all very enjoyable.

In short, the business of Xia Ji's temporary stall selling these foods is very prosperous, with a constant stream of customers every day.

Among them was Fan Jinglan.

She had been in Jinqiu County for two or three days.

In the past two or three days, I get up early and go to Xia Ji's breakfast stall to drink a bowl of spicy soup and eat some oily steamed buns, one bite thin and one bite thick, or I can directly press the oily steamed bun into the spicy soup with chopsticks, then pick it up and put it into my mouth, to fully feel the richness of the thick soup on the oily steamed bun.

Or you can have a basket of pan-fried dumplings, a bowl of soy milk or tofu pudding. The former is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with overflowing juicy meat, while the latter is full of bean flavor and light and delicious.

At noon, you can order a few main dishes at Buyunlou and have a hearty meal to enjoy a variety of delicious dishes, or you can go to Xia Ji's food stall for a bowl of hot wontons or the greasy red oil cold noodles.

If you feel bored in the afternoon, you can eat some duck stew bought from Xia Ji stewed food shop, or some spicy skewers with red oil from Xia Ji Chuan Chuan Xiang...

These days, it's really hard to be too comfortable!

And nowadays, there are many more kinds of rice dumplings.

Fan Jinglan did not tell the maid beside her, but simply ran to the stall herself and selected various rice dumplings and eggs that suited her taste.

Thinking that he would go to the military camp to visit his second brother tomorrow and needed to bring some things with him, he decided to buy more.

So when Fan Jinglan looked at all the things on the stall, she waved her hand and said, "I want all of these. Madam Xia, can you tell me how much they cost?"

Want them all?

Xia Mingyue, Lu and others were all stunned.

Especially Xia Mingyue, who subconsciously opened her mouth to confirm, "Does this lady really intend to buy all these rice dumplings, salted duck eggs and preserved eggs?"

"That's right." Fan Jinglan nodded, "Is there anything wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. Salted duck eggs and preserved eggs are fine and can be kept for a while. But now that the weather is hot, the rice dumplings can't be kept for too long. If you buy so many at once, they will go bad easily if you can't finish them in a short time." Xia Mingyue kindly reminded, "Madam, you can buy according to the number of people. We have been selling rice dumplings here for a while. You can buy them every day. They taste better when they are fresh."

"Thank you for the reminder, Madam Xia." Fan Jinglan said with a smile, "But don't worry, Madam Xia, there are so many people, we can finish it, and it won't go bad."

Not only will it not go bad, but I'm afraid there won't be enough to eat.

The war continued and the army's food supply was extremely tight. It was already difficult to feed the soldiers well and it was impossible to come up with new ways to feed them.

This kind of rice dumpling, which is prepared during festivals and takes a long time to make, probably does not appear in the military.

Given the second brother's personality, if he gets something good, he will definitely share it with the people around him, so these things must not be enough.

"That's good." Xia Mingyue felt relieved and counted all the rice dumplings, salted duck eggs and preserved eggs and calculated the price.

After Fan Jinglan paid the money, he packed all the things in a basket and helped Fan Jinglan put it on the carriage.

The total number of these three items was not small, and Fan Jinglan's carriage could not hold them all, so she had to make two trips to move them all away.

When He Lingyun saw Fan Jinglan ran twice and bought so many rice dumplings, salted duck eggs and preserved eggs, his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

"Mrs. Fan, did you buy so much?"

Even though these things are delicious, buying too much is really a bit too much!

"Yes." Fan Jinglan nodded, "These are all made by Madam Xia. I think they taste great. I plan to take them all with me when I leave tomorrow. It's a gift for my second brother."

"So it's for the Second Young Master." He Lingyun suddenly realized. Looking at so many rice dumplings, which were emitting a faint fragrance, the glutton in He Lingyun's stomach couldn't help but come out.

After swallowing a few times, He Lingyun called the servant over and prepared to send the servant out to buy some to satisfy his craving.

"I'm afraid that's not going to work." Fan Jinglan said, "All the food from Xia Ji's stall today is here. If you want to eat, I'm afraid you can only buy it tomorrow."

"But if you want to eat, just take some." Fan Jinglan was quite generous, "Just take what you like."

"Thank you, Madam Fan." He Lingyun didn't hesitate and only picked out his favorite salty rice dumplings.

There is no need to heat it again, just peel off the outer leaves of the rice dumplings and eat them directly.

The slightly cool taste has a certain appetizing effect in such gradually warming weather. The meat dumplings are fragrant and delicious, the glutinous rice is marinated, and the meat is fat but not greasy, but soft and melt-in-the-mouth...

Delicious on earth!

He Lingyun ate happily and enjoyed himself. He kept praising the delicious taste of the rice dumplings and said, "When it comes to eating rice dumplings, the meat ones are the most enjoyable."

"Don't we have to eat sweet zongzi?" Fan Jinglan raised her eyebrows. "Salty zongzi... I feel like I can't eat it."

"The sweet ones are delicious, but compared to the salty ones, they are a little bland." He Lingyun said with a smile.

Fan Jinglan still insisted on her point of view, "But I still think sweet rice dumplings are delicious. Not only me, but my whole family can't get used to eating salty rice dumplings."