Chapter 655: Chapter 655: Five Spice Edamame
The next day, Qiao Xiaomai went to the blacksmith shop in town and ordered a roasting oven.
Her previous oven had been taken by the Emperor Emeritus, so she had to order a new one if she wanted to use one now.
Then she visited the grocery store where she had ordered bowls and dishes before. Her customized dishes were ready, and they indeed had images of cute chubby blue characters on them. Of course, there were also images of wheat spikes, which were exclusively for Yu Tong.
She had already paid a deposit of twenty taels of silver, and now she handed over another eighty taels. Another banknote was gone.
Qiao Xiaomai loaded the dishes onto the ox cart, and thinking about the banknotes in her dimensional space, she drove the ox cart to the Extreme Flavor Residence.
“Shopkeeper He, it’s been a long time!” Upon seeing Shopkeeper He, she greeted him warmly with a beaming smile.
Shopkeeper He responded with an equally enthusiastic smile. The young lady in front of him was the maid of his superior’s household, “Miss Qiao, what would you like to eat this time?”
“I’m not here to eat, I’m wondering if you guys buy edamame?” Qiao Xiaomai asked.
It will still be half a month before the sweet potatoes are ready for the most suitable harvest. Selling them now would be somewhat hasty.
However, she was low on banknotes in her space, so she could only sell edamame now.
And she couldn’t sell much of the edamame either. She had only planted fifty acres of soybeans, and she planned to use them to make tofu and bean curd. After her rough processing, she was determined to double the price.
“Edamame? Ok,” Shopkeeper He responded with a nod. Follow current novels on novel·fıre·net
Edamame is a vegetable and often used in cooking this season. The Extreme Flavor Residence also grew their own.
But now, with Qiao Xiaomai herself asking if Extreme Flavor Residence was buying, there could only be one answer: Yes!
“How much per pound?”
“The market price is two wen per pound.” Mature soybeans were three wen per pound. Edamame had more water content and given the abundant vegetables now, so the price was slightly lower than dry soybeans.
“My edamame is of superior quality.” Qiao Xiaomai said.
“Uh…How about four wen per pound?” Shopkeeper He proposed, waving his four fingers.
Shopkeeper He was also innocent. Isn’t it just edamame? It’s everywhere, every farming family is planting, does she want to sell at the price of meat?
After thinking about it, he proposed, “How about six wen per pound?”
The price was almost catching up with the price of chicken.
“Never mind.” Seeing this, Qiao Xiaomai waved her hand dismissively.
Selling raw materials really was worthless.
Even if it’s six wen per pound, if she sold a thousand pounds, it would only make six taels of silver.
Considering her spending rate, these six taels of silver would not be enough for her one meal.
“Let’s do this – I will boil the edamame and make it into five-spice edamame and send them over. You can see how much you can sell a plate for, just like selling Tofu and Bean Curd before.” After some thought, she suggested.
“Deal.” Upon hearing her words, Shopkeeper He nodded repeatedly.
Whenever Qiao Xiaomai made something, doubling the price was not an issue.
So, Qiao Xiaomai left the Extreme Flavor Residence and returned to the village. When she reached a deserted spot on the road, she put the dishes into her dimensional space. Then she drove the ox cart to the manor. She asked Miao Dali for a shovel and shoveled up a cart of soybean stalks.
After returning home, she and Zhuang Lühe picked the bean pods and left the stalks out in the doorway to dry. Once dried, they would be used as firewood.
A cartful of soybean stalks yielded one hundred and twenty pounds of bean pods.
They cleaned the bean pods and boiled them in two pots at the same time.
The beans had been irrigated with water from the Spiritual Spring earlier. Now, they were being boiled with the same water and seasoned with Qiao Xiaomai’s recipe, making them especially fragrant, soft, and delicious.