Reborn 1980: Koi wife is a bit spicy

Chapter 10 It’s really a bloody profit
To fry watermelon seeds, you must first sort out the bad and rotten ones. Fortunately, most of the melon seeds Zhao Qingqing bought were good, so this step didn't take much effort.

Aunt Li found a vat, poured all the melon seeds bought by Zhao Qingqing into it, poured water to submerge it, and added some shell ash and stirred it evenly.

After getting it here, Aunt Li said: "Okay, we have to soak it first, and we have to soak it until night at least."

"what?"

I thought I would start selling today.

Zhao Qingqing glanced at the melon seeds soaked in the vat and followed Aunt Li to work.

At around eight o'clock at night, Zhao Qingqing, under the command of Aunt Li, fished out the melon seeds, rinsed them with water, and drained them. While draining the melon seeds, Zhao Qingqing was supported by Aunt Li to borrow a large pot from Aunt Wu's house next door. Add water, anise, and cinnamon and fry for half an hour. Add melon seeds and mix well. After a while, add salt, cover and cook for an hour.

"It's almost there." Aunt Li clapped her hands, "After a while, you can turn down the heat and leave it overnight."

"Yeah, yeah." Zhao Qingqing responded repeatedly, "Auntie, go and have a rest."

Early the next morning, Zhao Qingqing got up before dawn and went to the yard to look at the melon seeds she had worked hard on all night.

Aunt Li was busy making breakfast in the kitchen, when she heard the movement, she stuck her head out and shouted, "Qingqing, go find a cloth rack to dry and dry for a while."

"understood."

Zhao Qingqing followed the instructions, found a cloth stand from the utility room, poured the melon seeds on the cloth, and put them in the sun to dry.

By noon, the melon seeds were finally ready.

Aunt Li twisted a melon seed and put it into her mouth. She smacked it to get out the melon seed flesh. After tasting it, she smiled and said, "These melon seeds are fried well. If you try to sell them today, you will definitely fail."

Zhao Qingqing pursed her lips and smiled: "Auntie, you taught me well."

She pushed half of the melon seeds to Aunt Li and said, "Auntie, I've been troublesome these past two days. I don't have anything else to thank you for. Just these melon seeds..."

Aunt Li hurriedly held her hand and said, "You gave me half of it. Whatever you sell tonight, take it back."

Seeing that Zhao Qingqing still wanted to give it to herself, Aunt Li said again: "If you really want to thank me, you can talk about it later. If you stand up, Auntie will be happier than anyone else."

"Okay." Zhao Qingqing smiled, "When I make money, I can buy clothes for my aunt and all kinds of delicious food!"

Because she wanted to sell melon seeds, Zhao Qingqing bought another stack of paper and folded them to make a box, intending to use the box to hold the melon seeds and sell them.

At six o'clock in the afternoon that day, as the sun set in the west and we were about to go down the mountain, many young people and parents with children started to arrive at the entrance of the cinema.

Zhao Qingqing packed her fried melon seeds in a clean bag, stood on the open space in front of the cinema and started selling them.

Movie theaters these days are not like later generations, with drinks, milk tea, popcorn, etc.; at this time, the front of the movie theater is clean, just an open space.

And Zhao Qingqing's price is not expensive, a small origami box is three cents a box of melon seeds; young couples and families who come and go are willing to buy some to take in to eat.

Therefore, Zhao Qingqing, who sells fried melon seeds here, is very popular. A large bag of melon seeds was sold out within an hour.

After selling the melon seeds and returning to Aunt Li's house, Zhao Qingqing settled the accounts. Good fellow, after deducting the expenses of buying melon seeds and spices, she made a net profit of 14 yuan and [-] cents tonight.

It’s really a bloody profit!

(End of this chapter)