Xu He took the opportunity and said again: “There are still stewed vegetables, two copper coins for one tael.”

    The man put down his chopsticks again after hearing this, and went straight to Xu He’s stall without telling the noodle stall owner so he was not in a hurry to collect the bowl. Xu He hurriedly lifted all the nets covering his stewed for the man to see.

    The cooled pork head and pig heart had turned dark red, and you couldn’t smell the fragrance from a distance, but you could smell the fragrance of the brine when you got closer, and the pork head was also very clean, there was no hair at all.

    “Let me try it.” The man was not polite, and poked a little bit of chopped stewed meat with a stick to try the taste. He couldn’t get enough of the meat, and the taste of the stewed meat lingered in his mouth for a long time, even make people more hungry.

    “Give me two taels of pig’s head meat, and you will give me some stewed vegetables.”

    Xu He said, “Brother, I’m a small business. If you buy a catty of pig’s head meat, I’ll give you some stewed vegetables.”

    “I’ll just eat noodles, I can’t buy that much. Forget it, just bring me some stewed vegetables and scrape together for ten copper coins.”

    “Okay, do you want to mix it with spicy peppers?”

   The man threw the money on the stall and walked back: “No need. “

    Xu He was a little disappointed when he heard that, his chili peppers were finely made, and he didn’t even gave it to Zhang Fangyuan even if he wanted to eat it more. This person was so ignorant, but it was better not to, and it saved him some money. 

Weighing half a catty and a catty depended on the scale, and it was inconvenient to scale for one or two taels of things only. Besides, men were not careful like women and gers, and they didn’t care about the weight when they ordered.

   Although he also brought a scale, Xu He knew how much one or two taels was. Seeing that the man was not a meticulous person, he took the pig’s head and cut it into two taels according to the weight at home. He could guess it, a tael of meat was the size of an egg, and a tael of an egg was just a few slices of meat after being cut.

    Xu He put it in a small plate, and there wasn’t much meat. He deliberately picked up two more pieces of stewed bamboo shoots, and it looked like there was still a plate.

    The man ate the stewed pork with noodles, it could be said that he had a luxurious meal of noodles.

    Xu He sold half a catty of stewed meat in the morning, and everyone who came to inquire about the price bought it. His price of stewed meat was very fair, and the pork head meat was 40 copper coins a catty. You needed to know that a pig head sold for six copper coins a catty in the market, and a pig head weighed about twenty catties. After the bones were removed, it was only seven or eight catties of meat, and the pig head meat was fifteen copper coins a catty.

    People with average income didn’t like to buy pig heads because they were too big, and they were not suitable for regular meals to satisfy their cravings. On the contrary, they were more suitable for serving special dishes to entertain guests. Pork head meat was fat but not greasy, full of elasticity after marinating, and had an excellent taste, so the ancestors used pig’s head as a special must-have when you stewed the meat.

    He played the fan to keep the flies away from his stall, and carefully looked at other stalls. There was a haggis soup seller in the front, which was very interesting. It was also a stand alone without tables and chairs for people to eat. When customers wanted to buy haggis soup, the stall owner put it into a round bamboo tube. It could be used for soup and could be taken away. There were many people who bought it.

    In the distance, cakes were sold in oiled paper for customers to eat while walking. Xu He thought about the people who came to ask the price and bought his food, which meant that the taste and price of his food were still very fair, but there still few people who came to ask must be because there was no place to sit at this place, and they couldn’t take his food back.

    This area was not like a vegetable market and a meat market. There were women and gers with baskets on their arms, and only the stall owners bring their own containers.

    Xu He saw Guanqiao, so he went to the nearest grocery store and bought a stack of kraft paper that was waterproof and glued into a small pocket. The water resistance was very good, and it wouldn’t leak if it was not soaked in water for a long time. But the price was a bit expensive, and you could only buy three for a copper coins.

    But it was much cheaper than pottery bowls and the like.

    He immediately cut two taels of pork head and put it into the mixing bowl, then put in spicy sauce, chopped green onion and coriander in turn, added some garlic water, mixed well, put it in an oiled paper bag, held it up and yelled: “A serving of stewed meat for twelve copper coins!”

    Sure enough, as soon as he yelled, the passers-by saw that it was packed like cakes, and soon some people came to ask.     

Xu He quickly distributed the mixed lo mei to others to taste, and all the tasters nodded: “I want one.”

    ” I want two.”

While selling the stewed meat, he also promoted his two flavors of chili and stewed vegetables. So there were passer-by specially ordered some stewed vegetables, each with spicy and numbing flavors, or a mixture of vegetables and meat.

    He set the price in time, with six copper coins for stewed vegetables and eight copper coins for mixed vegetables and meat. One serving was only two taels, and there was no need to weigh it. After mixing it, put it in a paper bag, and you could poke it with a bamboo stick to eat. The paper bag was waterproof, which was very convenient when you ate the stew with sauce.

    Although the amount of food he sold for the first time was not many and the profit was small, but the small profit was quick to sell, and many people bought it. The pork head meat was originally only half a head, weighing only four catties. Yesterday, he cut more than half a catty and sent it to fourth uncle’s house. A catty of pig heart and four catties of fat intestines.

    He washed the fat intestines seven or eight times, and it was very clean, and it was marinated until soft and fragrant, unlike many stir-fried fat intestines, which couldn’t be chewed. He met a man who wanted to go to a restaurant by the river to have a drink, so he bought the remaining catty of fat intestines to accompany the wine.

    the stewed vegetables was four catties, the price was cheaper than the meat, and the seasonings made people felt gluttonous that even children bought them, and they were easy to sell.

    Just arrived at noon, everything had been sold out.

    Xu He packed up the leftovers, thinking in his heart: But he lost the ten copper coins for the stall fee.