Chapter 42

The grandmother was still smiling. Speaking of this, her face was full of distress, and it seemed that this matter caused great trouble to her.

When Jiang Shuxin heard the words "for several days in a row", she leaned into Li Chu's ear and reminded her, "This is a drama, ask her what flavor her old man wants to eat."

Li Chu reacted immediately, smiled and asked the grandmother: "Is that so, it's really a blessing to you, what does the uncle want to eat?"

"Let me tell you." The grandma heard her question, her expression was a little excited, and she seemed to have been aggrieved for a long time: "He either thinks that my cooking is too spicy or too salty, and he always says something sour is delicious. If you're not a cook, how can you serve his sloppy mouth."

Hearing this, Li Chu had an idea in her heart, she stretched out her hand to take the crucian carp from her grandmother's hand, and smiled gently: "That's just a coincidence, I learned from the cook a few years ago, and the sour taste you mentioned is a bit sour. Crucian carp, I happen to know how to make it, why don't I make it and you take it home for the old man to taste?"

The grandma looked at her in disbelief, and Jiang Shuxin said, "Don't worry, grandma, she has a good skill. If you can't believe it, I will give you two crucian carp for free."

With Jiang Shuxin's guarantee, then grandma was relieved, and she simply gave it up: "Okay, girl, I also believe in you, my old man is difficult to serve, if it really suits his taste, grandma, I will go to you every day. Come and buy fish."

Jiang Shuxin wondered if it was okay, but Li Chu scratched her head embarrassedly. Although it was okay to buy fish every day, what she wanted to do now was more than just selling fish.

Li Chu took the grandmother into the kitchen in the backyard, leaving Jiang Shuxin to watch the stall in front. Taking advantage of no one coming, Jiang Shuxin slipped to the stall selling sugar cakes across the street, preparing to buy some sugar cakes for the Four Treasures back home.

The stall owner selling sugar cakes was a middle-aged man, dressed in coarse clothes that had been washed white. He was not too old, but his hair was half white.

Standing in front of the stall, Jiang Shuxin asked while picking out a candy cake, "You have been setting up a stall here for many years, haven't you?"

The stall owner looked honest. Hearing Jiang Shuxin's question, he smiled honestly and a little embarrassed: "Yeah, it's been almost ten years, and I can barely make ends meet. Let's make a living and support the family."

"That can be regarded as a classic." Jiang Shuxin nodded in approval when he heard the words, and then asked: "Are these sugar cakes made by you yourself?"

Hearing this question suddenly, the middle-aged stall owner had a sad and painful look on his face, but he quickly covered it up again, and he smiled lightly: "I can't do it, it's my daughter-in-law who made these sugar cakes. She did it all."

Jiang Shuxin understood it, and suddenly came up with an idea. She asked a few questions from side to side. The stall owner was not only honest, but also extremely enthusiastic. Hearing Jiang Shuxin's question, she gave her own answer without hesitation.

So after a while of conversation, Jiang Shuxin can roughly understand some of the situation in the stall owner's house. The stall owner's surname is Wu. He used to be a farmer in a village next door. It's a pity that his daughter-in-law is not in good health. She has to take medicine all the year round, and almost all the money earned from selling sugar cakes is spent on his daughter-in-law, and she simply cannot make ends meet. In addition, he is getting older and his health is starting to deteriorate, not to mention that there is a blind old lady and a son who has not yet married a daughter-in-law.

The conditions of the family have been getting worse and worse in recent years, but there are more and more places where money is needed. This family relies entirely on the sugar cakes made by his wife.

Jiang Shuxin didn't say much. After buying a big bag of sugar cakes, she returned to her side. After all, she could just listen to other people's family affairs.

Li Chu in the house had already cooked crucian carp in sour soup as requested by the grandmother, and even made a whole food box specially for her: "Grandma, take this dish back and try it first, if not, come back to me for two fresh ones. The crucian carp go back."

The grandmother quickly waved her hand and walked outside with the food box in her hand. As she walked, she said, "Big sister, I believe in you. I feel delicious when I smell it."

Li Chu smiled without saying a word, if it really suits his appetite, it would be not bad.

When that grandma left, Jiang Shuxin was already cleaning up the fish stall in front of Li Chu's house, and she had to prepare to go back.

"Do you think this trick will work?" Li Chu helped over to clean up, and asked Jiang Shuxin uncertainly.

Jiang Shuxin didn't lift his head: "I don't know."

She didn't mean to attack Li Chu, after all, this is not a trivial matter, it is difficult to talk to everyone, and there is no shortage of restaurants in the town, they will definitely not get what they want on the eve of the eve, the only thing they can do is to do it step by step, down-to-earth, to accumulate.

"Okay, I'll go back first." Jiang Shuxin didn't want to say too much frustration, and looked at Li Chu's sad expression and said with relief: "We can make the shop look first, and we don't lack ingredients."

Hearing this, Li Chu's eyes lit up, and he quickly caught the conversation: "Yes, yes, let's make the facade first!"

So the two hit it off and they thought carefully about the empty main room of Li Chu's house. When opening a restaurant, there must be a place to eat and a place to cook.

Tables, chairs and benches are easy to solve. After all, Jiang Shuxin has ready-made craftsmanship. Although she only makes small fishing gear most of the time, she has learned it from others.

The immediate priority is to solve the problem of raw materials.

Back at home, Jiang Shuxin took a knife and went to the bamboo forest in the back mountain after lunch. By the way, he rented an ox cart in the village and tied it to the outside of the forest. Jiang Shuxin took the four treasures into the forest.

The back mountain is still full of lush vegetation, the Four Treasures

Entering the forest, the sunlight was blocked by the bamboo leaves, and only a few sparsely penetrated through the slits. The temperature of the entire bamboo forest was lower than the outside, and the Sibao's body was a little better than the previous days. It was cold here again, so found a fairly open place and let the Four Treasures sit there.

Sibao held the sugar cake that Jiang Shuxin bought for her, and sat obediently on the ground covered with thick bamboo leaves, waiting for Jiang Shuxin.

Afraid of the Four Treasures running around, Jiang Shuxin didn't get too far away from her, so he picked a few good-looking adult bamboos on the side, and started to chop with a knife.

The sound of chopping bamboo was a bit loud, Sibao's eyes followed Jiang Shuxin's body, a little scared, his head shook up and down with Jiang Shuxin's waving machete, and he forgot to eat the sugar cake in his hand.

After cutting down one, Jiang Shuxin shook his arm slightly, and when he looked back and saw the Four Treasures staring at him blankly, he laughed and teased her: "What's the matter? Do you want to cut it too?"

"I don't want it." Sibao shook her head and refused without thinking, then she frowned again, and her small nose also wrinkled, and whispered to Jiang Shuxin, "Noisy."

"Quarrel?"

Jiang Shuxin looked at the fallen bamboo on the ground, and then looked at the Four Treasures sitting on the ground, and suddenly became playful, stepped forward and pulled her up, led someone to a bamboo, and handed over the machete in her hand. give her.

"Take it."

Four Treasures had no choice but to put all the unfinished sugar cakes in their hands into their mouths, struggling to hold the heavy knife in both hands, and reluctantly asked, "Why?"

"Just take it." Jiang Shuxin didn't answer, he held the hands of the Four Treasures, led her to raise his arms, and slashed at the root of the bamboo: "Teach you."

Her movements were too sudden, and the Four Treasures were completely taken away by her. The heavy blade slashed at Zhu's body, making a dull cracking sound, and the Four Treasures, who came back to their senses in the next instant, suddenly burst into tears.

"Woooooo, it hurts!"

Jiang Shuxin was startled by her, and quickly let go of the person, took the machete from her hand, and squeezed her palm: "Does it hurt?"

Four Treasures was very aggrieved. Her palm was going to hurt to death. The knife just now was so heavy and Jiang Shuxin was still working so hard. I'm afraid she didn't want to hurt her to death.

"My hand hurts to death."

"It hurts, let me see." Jiang Shuxin was really frightened by her appearance, and hurriedly took her palm and checked it carefully.

The palms, which were still white and tender, were now a lot of red, and the position of the tiger's mouth was even more red, and the tender flesh was almost swollen.

Only now did Jiang Shuxin realize that he was too hasty, but he ignored the fact that the Four Treasures are someone who has never worked, with thin skin and tender meat; the knife is heavy, and he exerted such great strength, the hands of the Four Treasures are not just mixed The meat filling is made in the middle, and it is strange that it does not hurt.

Jiang Shuxin squeezed the palm of the Four Treasures a little distressed, put it on his mouth and blew it, and even put it on his lips and kissed, comforting: "It's my fault, it won't hurt if I blow it to you."

The Four Treasures' teardrops were still hanging on the curled eyelashes. If they wanted to fall, they snorted at Jiang Shuxin, but didn't bother with her anymore.

Only when Jiang Shuxin gave her water, he opened his hand and digged it out of Jiang Shuxin's sleeve. Seeing her movements, Jiang Shuxin pretended not to see it, and held up the kettle to drink the water himself.

Jiang Shuxin's sleeves have always been small things like snacks, like the candy cakes that the Four Treasures just took out of her sleeves; this is a small habit that Jiang Shuxin cultivated because of the Four Treasures. You have to take some food with you when you go out. It is troublesome to pack it by yourself. Jiang Shuxin simply puts it all in his sleeve, and Sibao himself knows where to get it. .

Seeing her happily eating the sugar cake, Jiang Shuxin suddenly remembered something, and she asked the Four Treasures, "Si Bao, will I learn to make sugar cakes for you to eat?"

"Um?"

Sibao's eating sugar cakes slowed down, looked at Jiang Shuxin puzzled, and understood little by little what Jiang Shuxin just said.

"You learn, make sugar cakes, and give them to me?"

Jiang Shuxin nodded noncommittally. Seeing that Sibao liked eating so much, she suddenly thought of the stall owner of the sugar cake stand. She should be able to learn something, right?

"When I learn it, I will cook as much as the Four Treasures want to eat."

This seems to be a great temptation for Sibao, Jiang Shuxin doesn't think Sibao will refuse the sugar cake.

Sibao put on a serious little expression and thought about it for a long time, until Jiang Shuxin thought she was asleep, so she slowly said, "Sibao wants to learn."

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Shuxin thought she had misheard, and hurriedly asked, "What do the Four Treasures want to learn?"

"Make candy!"

Four Treasures shouted at Jiang Shuxin with his neck down. After shouting, he stuck out his tongue in embarrassment, lowered his head and burrowed into Jiang Shuxin's arms.

Jiang Shuxin took advantage of the situation and hugged her, thinking about what the Four Treasures had just said.

"Then I'll take you to see it tomorrow, okay?"

Sibao naturally nodded in agreement.

In the rest of the time, Jiang Shuxin didn't have time to tease the Four Treasures, and while it was still early, he chopped down several bamboos in a row, and then moved them to the ox cart outside the forest.

However, there was only one bullock cart, so Jiang Shuxin had to hire another one and two other coachmen, and instructed them to deliver the bamboo to Li Chu's house in the town.

After working all afternoon, only managed to find a little time to go out to sea. The wind and waves on the sea were a little strong. Jiang Shuxin did not dare to go too far from the shore, for fear that the weather would change tomorrow, it would rain and the tide would be high. , Jiang Shuxin doesn't need to take risks for such external things.

The sky soon darkened.