man of oz

Just after the [-]th day of the first lunar month, another bird flu epidemic spread across the country. The news has reported more than a dozen deaths. For a while, people were in panic. No one dared to buy chickens and ducks. The poultry industry was hit hard.

From last year to the beginning of this year, the young couple Meng Renfeng and Lan Jing have been expanding their breeding scale. They have cooperated with a restaurant in the county and use their ducks to make their signature dishes, lemon duck and beer duck. Ordered a dish.

Seeing that the business is gradually stabilizing, it is unexpected that bird flu will start to emerge again.

Moreover, the impact this time is relatively large. Several provinces in the south are areas with high incidence of the epidemic, and the first to bear the brunt are the farms in various places. Countless poultry farms, large and small, collapsed in a short time, and the losses were very heavy.

Except for the more than 600 ducks left to be slaughtered after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Meng Renfeng and the others just bought a batch of ducklings a few years ago. I don’t know if there is something wrong with these ducklings. They had put the ducks into cages separately and sterilized them, but there were still a few ducklings showing signs of depression, and more than a dozen ducks died within three days.

People in the village talked a lot. Those who had a festival with them before, those who were jealous of the money they made from raising ducks jumped out, saying that their ducks were infected with bird flu, and they quickly buried the ducks. I don’t know who it was I called the epidemic prevention station, and the people from the epidemic prevention station drove here the next day.

The test results showed that they were indeed infected with bird flu, and all the ducks had to be culled.

Lan Jing was anxious and angry, how much money he invested in these ducks, if they were all buried, he would lose all his money, and his younger siblings' tuition fees would also be lost...

But safety comes first, and human life is at stake. Although Meng Renfeng is heartbroken, there is still nothing he can do. More than 3000 ducks, big and small, have been culled, and the duck houses and ponds have been disinfected several times. The loss during this period is not small for them. number.

The weather has not yet warmed up, and the news reports that several cases of infection have been found. Huang Minhu, who is studying in the county, said that everyone in his school has their temperature checked every morning, and anyone who catches a cold and has a fever will be sent to the hospital for isolation and treatment.

Not many people dared to buy eggs and duck eggs. They were temporarily unable to raise ducks for the past few months.

Lan Jing was so worried that he had been smoking all the time. He encountered such a risk when investing for the first time, and the blow was indeed not small.If you don’t raise ducks, you can farm the land, but farming also requires costs. Seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides don’t cost money, and they don’t have experience in making bamboo weaving. Brothers and sisters borrow money for their studies from Lu Yuege. He wants to work outside. But there are still elderly people to take care of at home, and it is impossible to get away.Mo Yun's family didn't agree with them being together. They thought his family was poor. Last time Mo Yun went back, his family almost locked them up and prevented them from seeing each other...

Lu Yuege thought about it carefully, and made a suggestion to them, "I have a classmate in high school, from Jiang County, his family makes steamed stuffed buns, and the store he was looking for at the beginning was not good, and there was a lot of competition. How good, later on, his father rode his bicycle every day to take the steamed stuffed buns to a village farther away to sell them, and they sold really well.”

"You want us to sell buns?" Lan Jing asked.

"However, let's not talk about whether we know how to make steamed buns and whether they are delicious. Our place is so remote, and people don't seem to like steamed stuffed buns very much. Would you be willing to buy them..." Meng Renfeng also asked a question.

Mr. Lan Tang pushed his glasses, "Why don't you come and learn programming from us?"

"I can't memorize all 28 English letters. I can only say 'planet' and 'love tiger oil'. I have never passed mathematics..." Meng Renfeng scratched his head and said.

"The English alphabet is 26." Lan Tangjun said.

"Ah? Isn't it 28?" Meng Renfeng was embarrassed.

"It's 26." Nongzi Jian also nodded.

"I get a headache when I learn these things..." Lan Jing also scratched his head. He studied very hard, but his grades were always at the bottom.

Lu Yuege smiled and continued, "Everyone is used to drinking porridge in the morning, but if there are steamed buns of various flavors to choose from, would you rather drink porridge or eat steamed buns? Besides, steamed buns are not expensive, and every household buys one a week. Twice, the business can still be done.”

"That's right, at least most of the people in our school liked to eat steamed buns!" Mo Yun said. Steamed buns cost one to two yuan each. They are cheap and can fill their stomachs. Most students would choose steamed buns for breakfast. .

"How do you guys compare the buns I made with those outside?" Lu Yuege asked them.

"It's much more delicious than the ones sold outside!" Mo Yun looked at Lu Yuege eagerly, she already knew what Lu Yuege wanted to do.

Meng Renfeng and Lan Jing also nodded, the buns they made were not the two that ate the most.

"I'll teach you how to make steamed buns. The cost of making steamed buns is not high. You can try it first. If it sells well these days, I'll pay for things like steamer flour." Lu Yuege said, and reminded them at the same time, "But do Baozi is very hard, you have to get up at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night to start work, and you have to ride your bike early to go shopping before dawn."

Mo Yun stood up and said firmly, "I want to try!"

Lan Jing and Meng Renfeng also nodded in agreement. Anyway, there is not much work to be done in the field now, and the ducks can't be raised anymore. Why don't they just sit? Why don't they try to do something else.

If you sell well, you can count the money every day, unlike raising ducks to farm the land, you have to raise them and sell them to see the money, and the risk is relatively much smaller.

Just do what you say, Nongzijian went to the county to buy things like steamer, rolling pin and flour, and Lu Yuege taught them at home to make dough, make stuffing, and knead pleats...

Southwest eats a lot of rice, and rarely buys flour on weekdays, so the technique of steaming buns is really not easy for the three of them to learn.

Lu Yuege's purpose of making steamed stuffed buns was very simple and clear, it was to enrich Nongzijian's food. After all, here is too different from the big cities, so he can only pay more attention to food.

Making fillings and making pleats is very simple for him, but the fermentation of the dough is very important. He has failed many times before, and the steamed buns are not as soft as the ones sold outside. After finding out the way, the steamed buns are very fluffy and soft with a good taste.

Both Meng Renfeng and Lan Jing were relatively clumsy, and the pleats were not perfect after two days of pinching. Fortunately, Mo Yun was quick at hand, and the pleats were pinched beautifully and quickly.

After learning almost everything, Meng Renfeng was in charge of washing vegetables and rolling dough, Lu Yuege was in charge of stuffing, Lan Jing and Mo Yun were in charge of bagging, and Nongzijian took pictures and explained with his mobile phone.

For a good omen, they made a total of 360 steamed buns and steamed buns, the most common big white steamed buns, red bean paste buns, meat buns, flower rolls, spicy vermicelli buns, shiitake mushrooms and green vegetables, sauerkraut buns, and a small amount of quicksand buns and siu mai .

Before dawn the next day, Meng Renfeng and Lan Jing began to tie the steamer to the tricycle. This tricycle belonged to Uncle Lu Yuege's house, and Meng Renfeng temporarily borrowed it from them for a few days.

This tricycle is very practical, and it is rechargeable. There is always a surplus of wind and solar power generation in Montenegro, which is much more environmentally friendly and cost-effective than burning diesel.

Lan Jing rides an electric scooter, and he himself refitted the trunk into a large one like a takeaway, a thick foam board box that can keep warm for more than three hours after the lid is closed.

They planned to go to a few villages next door to sell, and there were more or less distant relatives or classmates they knew in these places, otherwise they would easily be bullied, even beaten and robbed if they went to unfamiliar villages rashly.

Meng Renfeng and Lan Jingbing went to different villages in two ways. Lan Jing's small e-Donkey had insufficient battery power to go to the nearby village, and Meng Renfeng's tricycle had more battery power to go to the farther village.

Genius Meng Mengliang, Meng Renfeng arrived at Huangcun, which is estimated to be about 600 miles away from their stockade. This village is quite large, with more than [-] households.When it was still far away from the village, some farmers had already driven their cattle to work. Meng Renfeng shook the tin jar filled with stones a few times, and the clanging sound was heard far away. , selling buns, big and fragrant buns, steamed buns, meat buns, vegetable buns, red bean paste buns, vermicelli buns..."

"Uncle, do you want a bun?" Meng Renfeng asked the uncle who was driving the ox cart.

The uncle sat on the bullock cart and smoked a cigarette, shaking his head indifferently.

Meng Renfeng continued to drive on the dirt road, and a village woman with a child on a pole came in front of him. Meng Renfeng stopped the car and asked them, "Auntie, have you had breakfast? Would you like two steamed buns? Huh!"

As soon as he heard the steamed stuffed bun, the child stopped and pulled the village woman's clothes, and looked eagerly at the steamer in the back box of Meng Renfeng's tricycle, "Grandma, grandma, I want to eat buns!"

"Oh, what to eat, I don't have any money with me!" The woman dragged her grandson to leave.

Meng Renfeng put a red bean paste bag and a vermicelli bag in a plastic bag and handed them over, "Auntie, it doesn't matter if you don't bring any money, you can try this red bean paste bag and vermicelli bag first, it's free, and I'll buy it after it tastes good! "

It’s the first time to sell steamed stuffed buns, so let’s offer some discounts, let customers try it first, if they think it’s delicious and not expensive, there will always be repeat customers.

"We've already had breakfast." The woman was a little embarrassed and hesitant, "Young man, I'm so sorry, I really don't have any money..."

Meng Renfeng stuffed the bun into the child's hand, "It's okay, I usually don't bring money with me when I go to work in the fields, we're opening today, this is a discount, you just take it as a taste, and buy it from me after you think it's delicious .”

"Hey, that's fine!" The village woman asked her grandson to take the buns, "Brother, hurry up and say thank you to uncle."

"Thank you, Uncle~~" the child happily shouted to Meng Renfeng who had already left by bicycle.

At the entrance of the village, there were adults and children waiting for the school bus on the side of the road. Meng Renfeng also gave them a discount, buy one and get one free.

Now the remote villages are not as poor as they were a few years ago. Apart from the remoteness and inconvenient transportation, most of the villages have access to electricity and the Internet.

The weather is still cold, and the children are very excited to be able to eat hot buns at this time. If you are in a good relationship, take a bite of mine, and I will take a bite of yours to share.

"I ate bean paste stuffing, it's delicious!"

"I ate meat buns, so much meat!" A little boy bit the buns, and before he could finish speaking, most of the meat inside fell to the ground. His mouth was deflated, and tears immediately filled his eyes. .

Meng Renfeng laughed and took out another one for him, "Take it, if you drop it again, it will be gone."

The little boy wiped away his tears, took out a crumpled fifty cents from his schoolbag, and gave it to Meng Renfeng, "Uncle, I dropped it myself, and I'll give you the money."

Meng Renfeng rubbed his head and accepted it, "It's so good! That uncle accepted it."

There are two children who are particularly fond of quicksand buns, "Wow, uncle, what kind of buns are these? I have never eaten such buns."

"This is called a quicksand bag, isn't it really good?"

“Super super super super... super delicious!”

"Uncle Uncle, will you come tomorrow? I want to eat buns every day!"

The children were happy to eat, and the stingy adult who paid the money complained, "It's not that there is no food at home. If there is anything delicious in this bun, the boy will earn money from these greedy cats..."

"You have to cook delicious food to earn your money." Meng Renfeng smiled brightly.

A fat aunt next to her was very supportive, "This bun is indeed no worse than the one on the street, and it has more fillings. You know how stingy those bun shops on the street are, with thick skin and less ingredients! I just don't know if you will eat it in the future. The material is getting less and less, and the skin is getting thicker.”

"Don't worry about it, the meat will definitely be enough, children are not deceived!"

In addition to the children, the villagers who went to work in the fields also took advantage of the discount and bought a few to satisfy their hunger.

Because of the discount and freshness, more than 200 steamed buns were sold out in just three hours in this village alone. Meng Renfeng did some calculations and received a total of 130 yuan and 200 cents. If more than [-] steamed buns can be sold every day In other words, excluding the cost, it is indeed almost the same as going to work in a factory, with a lot of freedom.

Lan Jing went back earlier than him, and all the buns were sold out under the discount.

Both of them were very excited, this was a good start, as expected, there is no unparalleled road.Lan Jing was hoarse from yelling all morning, and Nongzijian slapped his head, "I forgot to buy a speaker. After recording the sound and putting it on a battery, it can last for a day. I'll buy it tomorrow."

"We can produce more varieties. Lan Jing said that many people have asked if there are cakes." Mo Yun is also very happy, she has more ideas, "Isn't the leeks in our vegetable garden too much to eat? They can be baked. Some leek cakes, I have several big pumpkins at home, and I can also make some pumpkin steamed buns..."

Lu Yuege nodded, "Well, we can slowly add these in the future, and we will learn new varieties while doing it."

Selling steamed stuffed buns is really hard work. When others are asleep, they have to get up and start working. They have to go out before dawn. They sell a few villages along the way, and then drive home to rest when they are sold out. They live a life that is almost upside down. .

But they receive cash every day, and they are very motivated.

In order to save costs, many of their vegetables are grown by themselves.The family grows large pieces of mustard greens every year. After the winter, they start to pickle with wine lees. The color is yellow and the acidity is also very suitable. It is very popular to make sauerkraut buns.

There are also a lot of Chinese cabbage and small cabbage and cabbage. When the south wind blows, they grow so crazy that they have to be cut off to feed pigs. Lan Jing has a classmate who grows shiitake mushrooms at home, and he can ask for wholesale prices. Although shiitake mushrooms and green cabbage are vegetarian Stuffed, but also sold quite a lot.

Nongzijian loves to eat pumpkin seedlings. Last year, the open space beside the vegetable garden was covered with pumpkin vines. In autumn, he harvested a lot of big pumpkins. Pumpkin steamed buns are loved by the elderly and children.

Last year, I planted a lot of glutinous rice, which can be used to make Nongzijian's favorite siu mai.When the weather is warmer, they will grow a lot of beans, and the bean vermicelli buns are also very good...

The only shortcoming is the lack of fresh pork. The price of pork has been quite high in recent years. The price of meat will drop when the stalls are about to close. People who sell buns usually go to the market to buy pork at this time to reduce costs.

Yalin is located in a remote place, and the farthest pork dealers can only go to Dazhaizi, they will not come to these remote villages in the mountains, after all, the journey is too far, it is not worthwhile at all.

That's why Meng Renfeng and the others can't make meat buns every day. They only make soup stuffed buns filled with pure meat and barbecued pork buns once or twice a week, and they are the fastest sold out each time.

Meng Renfeng and Lan Jing’s steamed stuffed bun sales are slowly on the right track, and they can basically sell three to four hundred steamed buns, steamed buns, hair cakes, and leek cakes a day. After deducting the cost, each person can earn more than 2000 yuan a month. The net income really envied a bunch of people.

When they are free, they will also learn how to make bamboo weaving with Lu Yuege. After all, there are too many skills and it is always good to learn more.

The author has something to say:

I feel that everyone’s abuse points are relatively low_(:з」∠)_So, from this chapter, those who don’t want to watch abuse can skip to the last two chapters~

After all, the hidden thread was buried before, so we still need to fill in the hole from the beginning to the end (*^▽^*)

I reminded you, students who don’t want to be abused can skip to the last two chapters~ Meme~