Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 520: Earning Money While Walking

Because there was a lot of fish meat, Hualei made several portions of pickled fish for everyone to eat together. Hualei also didn't waste the fish heads left over from making the pickled fish.

I asked Sister Hehua to split the fish head and added homemade chopped pepper sauce to make a spicy and delicious chopped pepper fish head. I removed the fish bones and chopped them into long pieces. I fried them with oil, beat eggs, added some green leafy vegetables, and made an egg drop soup.

The remaining two fish and flower buds were all braised. A handful of fresh greens and some dried mushrooms that I brought with me were stir-fried.

For the extra tofu, I added a few boiled salted duck eggs to the flower buds, chopped them up, mixed them with the tofu, added a handful of wild onions, added seasonings and mixed them together, and ate them as a cold dish. I also took out some fermented bean curd and ate it as a separate dish.

However, before she could eat it, someone came looking for her, smelling the food. A woman in her thirties or forties came over politely and asked Hualei if she could sell her some of the finished dishes.

Although she had never met him, she should be a maid who went to the official's house in Mobei. Hua Lei thought about it and nodded in agreement. She let the maid choose from the dishes that had been prepared.

After taking a look, the old woman carefully picked out one portion of pickled fish, one portion of chopped pepper fish head, and one portion of vegetable egg drop soup and left.

Before leaving, the other party left a five-liang silver ingot.

Zhenzhu held the silver ingot in her hand, secretly tugged at Hualei's sleeve, and whispered, "Sister-in-law, we made a profit. We only spent one or two taels of silver on all the ingredients." Hualei smiled.

Everyone sat down and started to eat. Although there were not many dishes, the portions were large, so everyone was contented while eating with rice.

Especially the pickled fish, Rong Jin and Jiang Yunqi were eating so much that they couldn't put down their chopsticks. Several drivers and guards even mixed the fish soup with rice and ate it.

After eating, Jiang Yunqi had to continue his duty. As long as they were on duty, it would be for twelve consecutive hours. In addition to meal time, they also had to take turns patrolling at night.

There are a lot of people staying at the inn tonight, so Jiang Yunqi's task tonight is not easy.

However, the large number of people has nothing to do with Hualei. Those who arrived later than Hualei and her friends can only find ways to rest outside the inn.

However, as long as the supplies in the post station were available and they were willing to spend money, they could still be supplied with them. When Hua Lei Rong Jin finished her dinner, there were already thirty or forty carriages parked outside the post station.

Fortunately, before the trip, the Ministry of Rites issued a series of rules and regulations. When there were not enough resources on the road, they were all served in the order of first come, first served.

In order to prevent all the supplies at the post station from being taken away by people who arrived earlier, the original semi-free approach was changed to one where all supplies had to be purchased with one's own money, and the price was not cheap.

Just like when there are not enough rooms in the post station, even if the officials who come later have higher positions than Rong Jin and Hua Lei, they cannot force Hua Lei and others to give up their rooms based on the difference in official rank.

If you want to buy food or ingredients at the post station, you have to pay for it all on a first-come, first-served basis. Of course, you can only buy it if you want to.

Looking at the last rays of sunset in the sky, it was still too early to go to bed. Hualei decided to prepare breakfast for her group tomorrow morning.

The post station sells simple meals, which are expensive and taste bad. Moreover, there are so many people resting at the post station today.

I may not be able to buy food tomorrow morning. Inspired by the pickled fish, Hualei plans to prepare more breakfast. The weather is still hot, so Hualei plans to ask Sister Hehua to make cold noodles.

Mix the flour and salt well, gradually add water, stirring as you add water, until a smooth dough is formed. Then let the dough rest for a while so that the gluten can form better.

After it has rested, put the dough in clean water and knead it gently to separate the starch and protein in the dough. This process needs to be repeated several times until the water is clear.

The washed gluten can be retained and used as an ingredient for cold noodles after being steamed.

Let the starch water produced when washing gluten stand and let the starch naturally settle to the bottom. This process takes some time. After the sedimentation is complete, carefully pour out the clear water on top and leave the starch.

Stir the precipitated starch evenly, then scoop an appropriate amount of starch slurry with a spoon, pour it into a pre-prepared flat plate, and shake the plate to spread the starch slurry evenly.

Put the plate in a pot of boiling water, cover the pot and steam for a few minutes until the starch slurry solidifies and becomes transparent. Take out the plate and cool it with cold water, then you can easily peel the cold skin off the plate and it is done.

Use well water to soak the cold skin in a basin so that it won't go bad. When eating, cut the steamed cold skin into strips, add seasoning and mix.

The next day, Hualei got up as usual. While washing up, she unexpectedly heard people from the neighborhood selling vegetables outside the post station.

He immediately brought Sister Lotus out and saw seven or eight women squatting outside the post station with baskets filled with freshly picked cucumbers, green leafy vegetables and so on.

There was also a woman's basket with a dozen eggs, and another basket with fresh, thick mung bean sprouts.

They all looked very fresh and the price was not expensive, so Hualei bought all the eggs and bean sprouts. Although she also brought eggs in her carriage, the number was not much.

I picked out some cucumbers and other green leafy vegetables that I needed and bought them before entering the post station.

Then peel the cucumber and cut it into shreds, chop the green leafy vegetables into small pieces, and put them into water together with the mung bean sprouts. Beat the eggs, spread them into a thin egg skin, cut them into shreds, and put them all into the cut cold skin.

At the same time, add the steamed gluten cut into small pieces. Cut the sausage into dices, stir-fry in the pan, and pour into the cold noodles.

Then mix soy sauce, vinegar, mashed garlic, chili oil, wild onion and other seasonings according to personal taste, pour hot oil, and the seasoning is ready. Pour the seasoning into the cold skin and mix well, and the delicious and tasty cold skin is ready to eat.

Jiang Yunqi, who had just returned from work, did not even have time to go back to his room. He rubbed his face with well water and sat on a long bench, waiting to eat.

The crystal white cold skin, with golden egg skin shreds, emerald green cucumber shreds, and red chili powder, mixed with oily seasoning, looks delicious at first glance.

Pick up a piece of cold skin with chopsticks and put it into your mouth. The texture of the cold skin is delicate, smooth and delicious, and very elastic and tough. With the addition of vinegar and chili, the taste is simply wonderful on this slightly hot summer morning.