The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 94: Lotus Root Powder from Sanjia Village (Additional Update)

Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling a thousand miles, and traveling a thousand miles is not as good as meeting countless people.

Jiang Cheng felt that he was too rigid before, but people are always growing.

Before, I just wanted to get more money, and I felt that it was useless to exchange some coupons when I was away from home. Because except for national food coupons and some special coupons, they cannot be used outside the designated range.

As a driver, Jiang Chengguang stopped at many places to process the fish, thinking that it would take too much time to get some tickets to go to the supply and marketing cooperative or somewhere else to buy things.

So before, I wanted to exchange it directly for food, and if I couldn’t exchange it, I would sell it at a higher price than the market price.

Now Jiang Cheng plans to take everything, and at most use it all at once when he has accumulated enough. It doesn't matter if he wastes a little time in Hangzhou today. It's less than 200 kilometers away from Shanghai, so there's no need to rush.

Of course, it would take some time to get to Shanghai, as Jiang Cheng had to bring toothpaste and toothbrush for his colleagues at work.

The fish were quickly processed. Jiang Cheng did not weigh them, but processed them by size. For example, if there was a five-jin big fish, someone would say, "I think it's only four jin at most."

Then Jiang Cheng didn't argue with them, just gave them money and some coupons, and said it was more than four pounds. In this era, many people would spend every penny, and they would go crazy if they could get a little bargain. It was just like the supermarkets in the future, giving away some eggs or something, which could attract countless uncles and aunts.

Jiang Cheng’s products are considered to be on sale, and the prices are also market prices, but they require food coupons or something to exchange for them.

After processing the fish, Jiang Cheng ate two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge at the breakfast shop, then took the twenty prepared scallion buns back to the car.

Jiang Cheng didn't plan to eat the scallion wrapped cypress. It wasn't that he didn't want to eat it, but he didn't want to eat it this way. He planned to go to the market to buy tomatoes, cucumbers and the like, and then add some tomatoes to the wraps and eat them together. It could also be used as ketchup.

And next time when you are resting and cooking in a remote place, cook some shrimp, peel the shrimp and add the shrimp meat to your rice. Just thinking about it makes you feel delicious.

Jiang Cheng also planned to ask Zhou Lingying to make him a bunch of dough cakes with flour after the transportation was completed. It would be much more convenient to eat when he went out to transport goods in the future. He could take a dough cake, wrap some cucumber and potato shreds or something, and roast a big crab and put all the meat and roe in it. It should taste good.

After asking someone about the location of the vegetable market, Jiang Cheng bought a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. Then he found that there were a lot of lotus roots here, which were cheaper than those he bought in Changcheng, and the quality was much better.

When Jiang Cheng was planning to buy more lotus roots, the vegetable vendor, knowing that he was a driver from another place, recommended him to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy local lotus root powder, as there were many ponds in Hangzhou and lotus roots were abundant.

When there are too many lotus roots, they cannot be eaten and cannot be wasted, so they are processed into lotus root powder. There is also a place in Hangzhou that is famous for its lotus root powder, which is also the main production place of lotus root powder in Hangzhou.

Sanjiacun lotus root starch is very famous in Hangzhou. They use the best lotus roots to make it, which can be said to be the best lotus root starch.

Lotus root starch can be purchased without a ticket, and it is a special product in Hangzhou. Due to transportation problems, it is not available in other places.

Jiang Cheng did not hesitate and immediately went back to the car, pretending to put all the things in the car, but actually put them in the space. Then he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask if there was any lotus root powder for sale.

This question is true. The lotus root powder from Sanjia Village costs 92 cents per pound, while other lotus root powders only cost 60 cents per pound. There is a brand effect in every era, but Jiang Cheng smelled it and found that the lotus root powder from Sanjia Village is much more fragrant than ordinary ones. The salesperson knew that Jiang Cheng was from another place, and asked him to taste it appropriately. This lotus root powder is usually used to soak in water and drink. Just like black sesame paste, you can taste the flavor even if you eat a small amount without soaking in water.

Jiang Cheng wanted to buy some of both at the price point, but after tasting them, he bought 30 kilograms. If he wasn't afraid that people would say he was too abnormal, Jiang Cheng would have bought more. Money was not hard to earn for him.

Moreover, this lotus root powder is really good. It is definitely something that can be shown off in this era whether you eat it yourself or give it to others.

I bought 30 kilograms of lotus root powder, and the salesperson packed it separately for me using oil paper.

In fact, Jiang Cheng didn't know that the lotus root starch from Sanjia Village used to be beautifully packaged in paper boxes. And half a pound was a box, and the retail price of a box was 57 cents. But for some reason, the packaging was cancelled and it was changed to loose weight, and the price was 92 cents per pound.

Jiang Cheng was in a good mood after leaving with lotus root starch. He could buy more next time and bring some to the people in the company. They would definitely remember his favor.

Driving on, Jiang Cheng found that the road to Shanghai was much easier when he arrived at Hangzhou. It should be said that Hangzhou is close to the coastal areas, while the area between Changcheng and Hangzhou is an inner city with many mountainous areas.

The mountainous area is suitable for hunting, and Jiang Cheng didn't have time to go hunting on the road. He actually passed by many places on the road and saw some movement in the woods, but he didn't see clearly what it was. But he could see many kinds of birds along the way.

After Hangzhou, the road was much wider and smoother, and it took more than two hours to reach Jiaxing. Jiang Cheng found that the supply and marketing cooperative here also sold lotus root starch without tickets, so he bought another 30 kilograms.

I have never bought 60 kilograms of food in Hangzhou before, mainly because if you buy too much, people will suspect that you are planning to resell it. If Jiang Cheng is not a driver, and says he wants to bring some for a friend, people may ask why you buy so much if you buy 30 kilograms in Hangzhou.

In Jiaxing, the weather was hot, so Jiang Cheng wanted to take a break. He went to the vegetable market again and bought cucumbers and tomatoes as fruits. In addition to what he was eating now, he also stored some for when the weather got colder.

In the vegetable market here, Jiang Cheng saw some good things again. There were water chestnuts for sale in the vegetable market here. This kind of thing is only available in some southern cities between mid-July and September. In some places, it is also called water chestnut, which means chestnut in water.

The water chestnuts in the market now are tender and crispy, tender and sweet when eaten raw. If they are old, they will not taste good when eaten raw. However, old water chestnuts have more starch, so they taste better when cooked than tender ones.

The price of water chestnuts is not cheap, 5 cents per pound. But when you have them, you can use them as peanuts to entertain people. The main reason is that they are not durable in storage, otherwise the price will be high.

Jiang Cheng didn't hesitate and bought 40 kilograms for two yuan and packed them directly into a sack.

After buying the things, I had lunch at the restaurant here at noon. I still processed some fish and exchanged some seasonings at the restaurant.

The sun was not so strong at noon, so Jiang Cheng continued on his journey.

This time our destination is Baoshan in Shanghai, which is right by the sea.

　(I am adding more chapters for the tip from book friend 2346 of Yunqi Dangyang. Actually, I have never asked for tips when writing period novels. Friends who read this kind of novels are all rational and of different ages. They are not like other types of readers who will spend money impulsively, but they will do what they can. When I gave tips yesterday, I said that I would add more chapters for my brothers, but it was not part of the chapter just now. Today's updates are all some of the manuscripts I have saved, and this chapter is the one I added for my brothers.)
　　Many authors say before putting their articles on the shelves that they will update more chapters in exchange for a certain amount of reward. I’m actually not a fast writer, so there’s no point in using my saved manuscripts to fool people.

　　
　
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