Chapter 581 - Chapter 581: Chapter 568: Joyous Color (2/2)

For lunch, Xiangqiao made dumplings with sour cabbage and pork filling. She did everything, from making the dough to preparing the filling to wrapping the dumplings.

Zhuang Qingning tasted them. While not breathtaking, they were quite decent.

After the meal, Xiangqiao cleaned the dishes and cookware thoroughly. Seeing some excess ash in the stove, she took some out.

By the afternoon, she had cleaned the house inside out, and had taken Zhuang Qingning’s clothes for washing.

For dinner, she cooked rice and date porridge with sweet potatoes from Miao Village. She also made spicy cabbage and stir-fried meat slices.

The spicy cabbage tasted good, although the meat slices were a bit undercooked. Given Xiangqiao’s past living conditions, this must be the limit of her culinary skills.

On the whole, after two days of understanding, Zhuang Qingning felt that Xiangqiao was not bad.

The noodle factory, after some grinding since the grand opening, is now running very smoothly. The dried noodles are being constantly supplied and sold to the public. One of the shops selling these noodles is Zhuang’s Tofu Shop, and the other is Cheng’s in the county town.

Not many shops in town sell these noodles given that they are pricey and could be easily made at home. However, Cheng’s in the county town does pretty good business with them.

The first to order noodles from Cheng’s was Manager Lu, because of the cavalry he kept. They were delivering goods day in day out, on the road for twenty-nine days a month. If they were lucky enough to find a town or county, that would be good. However, if they didn’t, they would have to rough it out in the wild.

Pioneering is hard, especially when you are making do in the wild and can only eat dry cakes and sip hot water. With these dried noodles, they could easily boil up a hot bowl of soup and noodles with added salt in case they couldn’t find a town or county. Its experience, to say the least, is very different from dry caked and water.

Hence, these transportable, long-lasting noodles were quickly snapped up by Manager Lu, who liked them so much he made sure every deliveryman carried a supply.

The second to book from Cheng’s was none other than the owner of Hanfeng Tower.

Now when a customer wanted a bowl of noodles, it was readily available and no need to make a rush to make noodles. By doing so, they’re saving money on a chef who would otherwise only roll out noodles. Hang noodles all have a consistent thickness, unlike those made by ordinary chefs, which could be too hard, too soft, too thick, or too thin, and which customers are most likely to nitpick.

Moreover, these hanged noodles are smooth and distinct. Ordinary chefs could not make noodles of this caliber.

Once Hanfeng Tower started ordering from here, word quickly spread about these noodles. People were curious to try the noodles even Hanfeng Tower was buying to see how good they tasted.

In no time, these noodles became the best-selling item in Cheng’s, rivaling even century eggs in popularity.

Cheng Ruize wore a constant smile.

Both Zhuang Yutian and Mrs. Meng had happy faces these days.

Since Cao Mengde’s consecutive defeats and his realization that Zhuang Yutian and Zhong Yingcai shared an employer and seemed to have powerful backers, he dared not provoke them any further.

Sans the nuisance of Cao Mengde, the preparations for the weaving workshop progressed smoothly. The looms were quickly assembled, and after finding a reliable and honest worker, they started weaving.