The whole family traveled through ancient times to start a new business

Chapter 106 Making Sweet Potato Chips

Mrs. Su tried to persuade her, but Mrs. Chen still refused to take any money. Finally, Mrs. Su said, "If you don't want to take the money, I won't be able to use you."

Old Mrs. Chen said very stubbornly: "Even if you don't need me, I can't charge you any money. Anyway, I won't charge you any money."

Old Mrs. Chen was a very honest old lady. She knew that they were able to escape the famine thanks to the Su family. If it weren't for the Su family, they probably wouldn't have been able to get here in one piece, without missing a single person. She felt that the Su family had done a favor to her family, so how could she accept money from them?

Moreover, there are people working in the Su family's vermicelli workshop now, and the wages paid by the vermicelli workshop are very high. Now it seems that my family will have to rely on the Su family for a living in the future. It is good to lean on a big tree for shade! She still understands this principle. For such a small thing as companionship, she will never charge money.

Old Mrs. Chen was very honest and only thought about not accepting money. She never thought that if Old Mrs. Su didn't use her, she would indirectly reject Old Mrs. Su's question. If she couldn't help with this favor, she would miss the opportunity to get close to the Su family.

Old Madam Su saw that this was a stubborn and honest old lady, so she gave up and stopped worrying about whether to pay or not. She felt relieved to have such a person accompany Nianchun and her sister. The issue of wages could be compensated in other ways.

When the sisters Nianchun knew that Old Lady Su had found someone to keep them company, they were grateful. They didn't want any gossip to spread in the village. They were just ordinary people and no one liked to hear such things.

Old Mrs. Su was satisfied with the Nianchun sisters, and her kindness was not in vain.

During the journey and during this period of time, the sisters Nianchun had always been very dutiful. Moreover, they were very diligent when they saw work and would take the initiative to do any work without being told.

Old Mrs. Su thought that when the two sisters wanted to leave the Su family and redeem themselves in the future, she would not accept any redemption money from them.

After booking the room, Old Lady Su also held a simple house-warming banquet. In addition to her own family, she also invited the Zhou, Zhao, and Li families, all of whom were her in-laws. Everyone gathered together and had a simple house-warming meal.

After everyone had moved in, Zhou Huilan suddenly thought of another food: dried sweet potatoes.

After Zhou Huilan told Mrs. Su and Su An Dong about her idea, they both agreed. The method of making dried sweet potatoes is simple, and maybe they can be sold to the preserved fruit shop after they are made.

If Zhou Huilan hadn't mentioned it, the people who came through time would have forgotten about eating dried sweet potatoes and only thought about roasting them.

After deciding to make dried sweet potatoes, Zhou Huilan took the women in her family to make dried sweet potatoes the next day.

Wash the sweet potatoes and steam them. When steaming, put them in batches of different sizes into the steamer. After steaming, cool them down in time.

When steaming, the fire should be strong. The steaming time should be appropriate, and the sweet potatoes are just through the core. Such sweet potatoes are easy to process.

If the sweet potatoes are not cooked well enough, the processed dried sweet potatoes will be black in color and have a strange smell. If the cooking time is too long, the sweet potatoes will lose their stickiness and become mushy, which is not conducive to subsequent cutting.

Peel the cooked and cooled sweet potatoes.

After peeling, use a knife to cut the sweet potatoes into long strips. It is best to cut them into thin strips with a thickness of between one and two centimeters.

Put the cut sweet potato strips on the Su family’s newly-laid mat-covered kang to dry.

The adobe house where Nianchun and her sister lived had two large kangs, one in the north and one in the south. Zhou Huilan covered one of the kangs with a new mat to dry sweet potatoes.

The room where Su Anyuan and the other boys lived also had two large kangs, one in the north and one in the south. Zhou Huilan planned to put a new mat on one of the kangs in that room to dry the sweet potatoes.

The process of drying sweet potatoes should also be careful not to overdry them, 80% dry is enough. Otherwise, if they are overdried, they will be hard to chew when eaten, affecting the quality of the dried sweet potatoes. But if they are not dried enough, they will have too much moisture, easily moldy and rotten, and difficult to preserve.

After the dried sweet potatoes are dried, they are placed in a porcelain jar and sealed for about half a month. A layer of white frost will grow on the surface of the dried sweet potatoes, which is the sugar overflowing from the dried sweet potatoes. This layer of white frost is called "potato frost".

In this way, the dried sweet potatoes are ready. They taste sweet, chewy and delicious.

In this way, the Su family made a lot of dried sweet potatoes.

Finally, the ten-day holiday came, and Su Anton took Zhou Huilan and Su Yuanyuan to the county. The purpose of this trip was to buy a shop.

They did not bring dried sweet potatoes this time because they did not have enough time and the white frost had not yet completely come out. Zhou Huilan thought that when the time came, she would come to the county again and sell dried sweet potatoes.

Su Anton and Zhou Huilan are thinking of opening a shop selling clay pot meat pancakes.

The winter here is not only cold, but also long. Clay pot is one of the most suitable foods for cold weather. Clay pot can best keep the temperature of food, and can also have soup and vegetables. Eating such a meal in winter can warm up the body, which is the most suitable.

Once a store like this opens, you can sell all your own vermicelli and sauerkraut.

Fengze County is a county that must be passed through before going north. All merchants going north have to pass through here. So Su An Dong thought that it would be best to choose a store closer to the city gate. This way, there will be more merchants coming and going, and a wide source of customers.

Although you want to buy a shop, it is not easy to buy a suitable one.

Su Anton was thinking of buying a bigger shop so that he could free up some space to sell hot and sour noodles and vermicelli.

As soon as they arrived in the county, they went directly to the brokerage office and found a broker who dealt in buying and renting houses, and told the broker their requirements.

The broker introduced three houses that were most suitable to Su Anton and took everyone to see them.

After seeing them, Su An Dong was not satisfied. Some were big enough, but the location was not good, and they were also very old; some were good in location, but the area was too small.

When they came, Su Anton and his friends had already prepared themselves for the possibility that they might not be able to make the purchase, so they were not too disappointed.

Regarding the matter of buying a shop, the people who have traveled through time have reached a consensus, which is to try not to compromise.

Su An Dong negotiated with the agent and asked him to keep an eye out for suitable houses. They also agreed that they would come back to look at the houses in three days.

Su Anton did not tell the broker his home address. In fact, if there was a suitable house, the fastest way would be to ask the broker to send a letter to his family. But the Su family did not want the villagers to know that they were going to buy a shop.

Su Anton planned to tell outsiders that the shop was rented after he bought it and opened a store.