Chapter 121 Deliberately Provoking (2)_1
By the time they returned home, it was already past midday.
Si Ya couldn’t manage the dough for the griddle cakes and made a simple noodle soup instead, which she warmed up and each had a bowl.
Pei Qin then soaked rice to make rice noodles, a process even more complicated than making regular noodles. The rice had to be soaked, ground into a pulp, steamed and then pressed into sheets before it could be cut into noodles and cooked.
After fiddling at home for two days, Pei Qin finally managed to make presentable rice noodles and cooked a bowl of hot and sour rice noodles for Lady Fang.
The hot and sour rice noodles tasted great, but such toil and trouble was truly exhausting.
Pei Qin sighed, "If I price them too low, I’ll be at a loss; if they’re too expensive, nobody will buy them! This isn’t a solution at all!"
"Then why did you buy so much rice!" Si Ya complained.
"We can steam rice or cook porridge at home! It’s so cold out that the rice won’t get bugs in it!" Pei Qin shot her a look. If only she could buy rice noodles already made and just cook them!
The rice noodle plan was abandoned, and they decided to focus on making just griddle cakes. They offered plain boiled noodles, bone broth noodles, spicy meat slices, vegetarian options, and beef, splitting the menu into three variations.
Zou Xing’s family had already finished the stove that Pei Qin requested and insisted on not taking any money for it.
"Even brothers should settle accounts clearly. If you really refuse to take the money, too much is as bad as not enough. Our relationship would suffer!" Pei Qin said, smiling as she handed over the silver.