Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 265 Small Order

After the marriage was arranged, Hua Lei continued to visit the three farms from time to time. Now she has nearly a thousand acres of land and a few shops, so Hua Lei is even busier.

The cotton planting went smoothly and is now in bloom. However, corn still has problems from time to time. There is nothing we can do because we have no experience and cannot prevent many problems before they occur. All we can do is to make up for the loss. Fortunately, the corn is about to grow.

The weather was slowly getting warmer, and the farm had another batch of pigs ready to be slaughtered. After sending away the salted pork and bacon that had been ordered to Mobei and Xijiang, there were still some pigs left.

Therefore, Hualei launched a new meat product, meat floss.

In fact, Hualei had wanted to make meat floss for a long time. Years ago, when Lord Pei needed a large amount of fermented bean curd and pickled vegetables, Hualei made several batches of meat floss and sent them to Lord Pei, but they were not launched in Shangjing City.

Because before the New Year, restaurants needed a lot more pork than usual, and because of the New Year in Mobei and Xijiang, the military camps also needed more salt pork and sausages than usual, so there was no surplus of pigs, so Hualei temporarily suppressed the method of making meat floss. At the same time, the number of pigs raised in Yuanying Village was increased.

Now, this batch of pigs can be slaughtered, and the plan of making flower bud meat floss can be put on the agenda.

Choose the relatively lean pork tenderloin and pork hind leg meat, cut them into suitable long strips, add old ginger and rice wine and bring to a boil, skim off the foam, continue to cook until cooked through, remove from the pot and let cool, tear into thin strips with your hands, pour back into the pot, add salt, a small amount of rice wine, and a small amount of sugar, stir-fry the meat strips until half dry, then knock the meat strips with a clean wooden stick to loosen them, put them back into the pot and fry until fluffy, and that's it.

Generally speaking, the shelf life of stir-fried and dried meat floss is still good and can be stored for at least two months.

Hua Lei used to love eating meat floss very much. Now, when she tastes this meat floss without any industrial seasoning again, she really can’t let it go.

After the meat floss was fried, in addition to sending another batch to Lord Pei in Mobei, two jars were also packed and sent to Lord Bo by Uncle Fu. Lord Bo, who was anxious, rushed to Yuanying Manor that afternoon and placed an order for a batch of meat floss. In addition, a batch of fermented bean curd, preserved meat, and dried vegetables was also ordered.

Half a month later, after the meat floss customized by Lord Bai was delivered, Hualei launched the meat floss products in Shangjing City. Of course, the Imperial College and restaurants also put meat floss as a dish on the menu.

Hualei doted on Xiaoyuan, and even specially fried a batch of light meat floss with sesame seeds, and brought it to the Imperial College building for Xiaoyuan as a snack. Of course, Hualei also gave Rongjue, Yunhai and Zhou Ziren a big bag each.

Because the taste was so good, Rong Jue wanted to show off. Xiao Yuan was not a stingy kid either, so the two of them took their meat floss to share with their classmates in the next building. As a result, this sharing brought Hua Lei a steady stream of small orders.

Those who could study at the Imperial Academy, not to mention the family background of those who were admitted by the government, were all second-generation officials and had plenty of money. Even those who were admitted by the public had families with a small fortune.

Therefore, even if Hualei's price of a half-pound package of meat floss in oil paper was 300 coins, she could still sell 100 to 200 packages every ten days. Later, she expanded to other classes in the T-class and senior classes. The first class to receive the order was Rong Jin's Class A.

So, at the end of every ten days, Hualei would receive small orders for meat floss from Qingyue and Qingcheng. As the order accumulated, every ten days, they would make 200 to 300 kilograms of meat floss for Qingyue and Qingcheng to take away. Later, they had to make about 400 kilograms of meat floss every ten days to meet the orders of these little guys.

Fortunately, the students of the Imperial College basically have servants to help them with their daily lives, so the orders for Hualei do not affect their studies, and the buying and selling are all matters between the servants.

Of course, Hualei also saw Qingyue and Qingcheng's hard work, and started to give them some money every month, more or less, depending on the number of orders.

At first, Qingyue and Qingcheng were a little scared and didn't dare to accept it. But later, after listening to Qingying and Qinglian, they happily accepted Hualei's copper coins and silver coins. However, for the orders of meat floss, they ran errands more actively, and sometimes they would take time to deliver some orders in the middle of the month.

Hualei saw that the meat floss business was good and the daily demand was not small, so she bought a group of indentured slaves and set up a separate meat floss production team. She also moved the meat floss team, sausage team, and preserved food team from Yuanying Manor to several workshops east of Huaying Manor.

Because cured meat needs to be smoked to produce smoke, Hualei arranged it in the last row of workshops in the east, East Room 5. The sausage group was arranged in East Room 4, and the meat floss group was arranged in East Room 3. Every day, Yuanying Manor sent all the slaughtered chickens, ducks and geese to Huaying Manor, and the slaughtered and cut pork was also sent here.

In this way, the lard needed by the soap group can also be sent here, and if there are too many pig bristles, they can be sent to the toothbrush group at any time, which is very convenient. At the same time, several people who can read and count were transferred from Yuanying Village to Huaying Village to manage the cured food group, meat floss group and sausage group.

Around the Qingming Festival, Hualei launched pork floss and egg yolk green rice balls based on the raw materials on hand. Of course, fresh mugwort was replaced. The soft and sticky glutinous rice flour skin and the filling of pork floss and salted egg yolk are really unique in taste.

In addition to supplying Mingxiang Pavilion, Hualei also began to accept orders from wealthy families. For a while, business was so good that Aunt Zhao was in a mess. Aunt Zhao, who had just finished her flower cake business, had no time to rest and started taking orders for meat floss and egg yolk qingtuan.

Around the Dragon Boat Festival, Hualei launched the long-awaited egg yolk rice dumpling. This was the egg yolk rice dumpling that Hualei had wanted to make for the past two years, but had never been able to do so due to the lack of salted egg yolks. Finally, it made its debut as Hualei had been anticipating.

Because of the salty meat dumplings of the previous two years, the sale of egg yolk meat dumplings this year once again made Hualei start counting money every night. Many merchants in Shangjing City also imitated Hualei's large meat dumplings and sold them this year. Although they knew that their own taste would definitely not be as good as Hualei's, they should be able to sell them at a lower price, so they were also full of confidence.

But Hualei launched a new variety of meat dumplings with egg yolk this year. Compared with the novel and delicious meat dumplings with egg yolk, their large meat dumplings were once again unpopular. Even though they promoted them hard and lowered the price again and again, there were still a lot left. Well, it was over again. This year's meat dumpling business was once again severely crushed by the sudden appearance of Hualei's meat dumplings with egg yolk.

Alas, the owners who made and sold meat dumplings could not help but sigh, because the flower buds were made before they could make their own, and when they made their own, the flower buds were new. How could they catch up?