Hearing the old man snorted, who cares about the 2 taels of the eldest son, he doesn't have much, and there are still a few thousand taels left, but since the eldest third is not filial and only wants to split up the family, these thousands of taels will naturally not be distributed to him. .

"Bring paper and ink."

Master Wen went to get the rice paper and inkstone pen and ink.

The old man Wen wrote a letter of separation.

It is written in detail in the family separation book that the five-entry house and the two shops in the family were purchased from the dowry of the two daughters-in-law of the big house and the second house. If the room wants to continue living in the house, the three rooms will be separated from the big room and the second room in the future.

The old man was also angry. He originally planned to give the three rooms a hundred or so taels of silver, but now he doesn't plan to divide it at all.

They each pressed their fingerprints on the family separation letter, and Wen Zixiao led his wife and daughter over to kowtow to Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Wen. Wen Zixiao's two sons couldn't kowtow when they weren't there. Mrs. Wen always thought that the two grandsons were naughty and playing outside. It was mainly because the two grandsons didn't return home after they came to the border town. They often stayed home all night. At this time, I got used to it, and I never thought that the two grandsons would help Xu Qinyu at Pei's house.

Wen Zixiao led his wife and daughter to kowtow to his parents, "After the son leaves the family, he also asks his father and mother to take care of their health."

The old man snorted and didn't speak.

Wen Zixiao got up with his wife and daughter, and then led his family back to the third room to pack up. Naturally, Concubine Bai also got up.

Grandpa Wen was stunned, "Why did you take away your Concubine Bai?"

"I took my auntie with me." Wen Zixiao looked back at Mrs. Wen.

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Wen was so angry that she slapped the table directly, "He is your aunt, and that is my concubine. Even if the family is separated, you will leave with your wife and children. How can you leave with my concubine!"

Mrs. Wen was in a hurry, so why did she keep Auntie Bai? The old lady spoiled Yiniang Bai when she was young, and she sparred with Auntie Gui because she was her maid. She raised her maid to be her concubine, but the maid's daughter became the queen and held her back. On weekdays, she attended the banquets of the noble ladies in the capital, and they were always run on this matter. That's why she hated Aunt Gui and Wen Yan, so she wanted Aunt Gui to stay in the mansion as her mission.

Although she didn't like Yiniang Bai either, she didn't even want to see Yiniang Bai.

As soon as saw her, thought of the master's favor for Bai Yiniang when was young.

Mrs. Wen glanced at the eldest daughter-in-law, Yue Shi, and wanted the eldest daughter-in-law to open this mouth and let Concubine Bai follow.

Naturally, Mr. Yue didn't want to offend his father-in-law, so he just pretended not to see his mother-in-law's eyes.

But before Mrs. Wen could speak, Wen Zixiao said, "I also asked my father to see what my aunt looks like. Since my aunt came to the border town, she has become more and more haggard. My father should know what time my aunt lived in the mansion. Do you want your aunt to continue to be a servant in the mansion?"

The old man said angrily: "When did I say that I would use her as a slave?"

Bai Yiniang was old and degenerate, and he naturally had no feelings for Bai Yiniang, but his son was separated, and he took away his aunt.

Mrs. Wen hurriedly said, "It's still the third child who has filial piety, Aunt Bai is indeed getting more and more haggard these days, but don't suffer from tuberculosis again, old lady, you might as well take a look at Aunt Gui, it's been a long time since I sent this, it's two For more than a month, there has been no movement there, obviously Concubine Gui is still alive and well, it is better to let the third child take Concubine Bai out to live for a while, maybe Concubine Bai will also look better."

Concubine Bai slowly knelt down on the ground, holding the corner of the table, "I beg the old lady, I want to go out and live with Zixiao."

Mrs. Wen looked at the emaciated Concubine Bai. He remembered that Concubine Gui was like this before, and then she contracted tuberculosis soon after.

The old man was a little scared and waved his hand, "Since you want to go out with the third child, then go ahead."

It's easy to let people go.

Concubine Bai knew that her situation was different from Concubine Gui. Concubine Gui had to get a concubine letter to completely cut off the relationship with the Wen family, but she didn't have to. There was nothing in their three rooms that the Wen family could see, even if there was something for the Wen family. If you look at it, you have to see if Zi Xiao agrees.

Concubine Bai thanked Mrs. Wen and followed Wen Zixiao to the third room to pack up.

It happened that Brother Cheng and Brother Gong came back with food, and when they learned that they were going to split up, the two brothers were overjoyed and overjoyed, and they asked Wen Zixiao if he could also move to Osmanthus Lane.

Wen Zixiao said with a smile.

The money he made in Biancheng was not enough to buy a house in Guihua Lane, but if he rented it, 200 cents a month was not much.

Meng Shi also smiled and looked at her daughter and two sons who looked like monkeys.

That's great, she thought, even though she was exiled, her husband knew how to work hard, and now he can split up and go out alone, his children are by his side, and his aunt can leave with them. .

When he married her husband, he promised her that he would never take a concubine in his life.

He is also willing to rebel against his father and first-mother for the sake of his family.

For her, such a man is responsible.

The three-bedroom family has eaten the food brought back by the two brothers, mainly the children.

The food brought back from Yu Niang every day is not much, Meng Shi and Bai Yiniang just taste it, and let all three children eat.

After eating, the two brothers washed the food boxes, plates and jars. Mrs. Meng and Concubine Bai packed up, and the third room had nothing to do, just a few sets of clothes for each person, and the clothes that Wen Zixiao gave to Mrs. Meng. silver.

The money Wen Zixiao earned was handed over to his mother-in-law every month, and the rest was given to the Meng family.

Meng Shi probably saved more than forty taels.

After packing up, the group left Wen's house.

It was still not dark, and the door was still open at Yaxing.

Wen Zixiao led his family to Yaxing to help rent a small yard in Guihua Lane.

Yaxing brought his family to Osmanthus Alley to see the house. The last family took a fancy to the yard at the entrance of the alley. It cost 200 cents a month. Although there was no well, there was a locust tree at the fork in front of it, and there was a locust tree under it. Water wells are usually covered with heavy wooden boards. People in the surrounding alleys can use wooden boards to fetch water if they want to fetch water, which is also very convenient.

The layout of the house is the same as that of Pei's house. The house on the west side is the largest, and the main room is also separated into two small rooms, with the kitchen on the other side.

The house is also clean and tidy, and you can sleep with some quilts.

The family just settled down in Osmanthus Lane.

...

When Xu Qinyu heard it, even Concubine Bai was released, and she was very happy.

She went back to the house and spoke to Mrs Gui.

When Gui Shi heard this, she was really happy, her eyes were a little red, "She also came out, it's good."

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "The two families are not far away. On weekdays, your grandmother can gossip with Aunt Bai. How nice."

Wen's and Ning Jie'er were very happy for them to know that the third room was separated.

After eating the morning meal, Wen Zixiao brought Meng Shi, Yiniang Bai and her daughter Sister Tao to visit Pei's house.

Needless to say, Gui Shi and Bai Yiniang's eyes were red as soon as they met.

Bai Yiniang saw that the old sister looked very good, she gained a lot of weight, her complexion was ruddy, her wrinkles were less, her hair was a little darker, and her clothes were clean. People looked at least ten years younger and full of energy.

Concubine Bai was relieved, and the two old sisters sat in the yard and chatted.

Wen Zixiao also came over and said to Xu Qinyu, "Thank you for Yu Niang's teaching to Brother Cheng these days, and she even started to teach him to cook, but I don't know what Yu Niang's plan is, but I want to make him an apprentice. If Yu Niang wants to make a brother as an apprentice, he will be your person in the future, and he will not have to pay his wages even if Yu Niang sends him to order."

Xu Qinyu actually felt that she was the same generation as Brother Cheng, and it didn't matter whether she was a teacher or not, she would teach Brother Cheng what she could teach.

When Xu Qinyu said this, Wen Zixiao and the people in the third room suddenly realized that they also said why Yuniang taught him how to become a brother herself, but she has been procrastinating and unwilling to accept apprentices, so it is so.

Brother Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief. He was still thinking about why the fourth sister-in-law refused to accept him as an apprentice. Could it be that he didn't have the talent to be a cook? Touching his head, he grinned at Xu Qinyu.

Only then did Xu Qinyu know that the third uncle thought that she didn't want to accept her brother as his apprentice.

She was also a little dumbfounded, and finally thought about it, choosing a day is worse than bumping into the sun, and it is better to accept Brother Cheng as an apprentice today.

"Then ask Brother Cheng to serve me some tea today, and treat it as an apprenticeship."

She also doesn't like things that are too cumbersome, just serve a cup of tea.

Wen Zixiao shook his head, "How can it be done? Serving tea is the right thing to do. Kowtow is also a must. There is also a teacher's ceremony."

Mrs. Meng also smiled softly and said, "The apprentice ceremony was prepared a few days ago. If Yu Niang is willing to accept you as an apprentice, I will go back here and get the apprentice ceremony."

The apprentice ceremony is to prepare six kinds of ingredients.

Celery, red beans, red dates, longan, lotus seeds and dried lean meat strips all have their own meanings.

Red beans, red dates, longan, and lotus seeds are dry goods, and the Meng family prepared them a few days ago. Now that Yu Niang is willing to accept her brother as an apprentice, she immediately went to buy celery.

Celery is almost ripe at this time, and some are already sold in the market.

But now the celery is still relatively tender.

After buying it back, Mrs. Meng returned to Pei's house with six ingredients.

Wen Shuncheng personally handed over the six rites of apprenticeship to Xu Qinyu, served tea, and finally knelt down solemnly in front of Xu Qinyu and kowtowed to her three times.

Appreciation is considered a master.

In fact, the Meng family also prepared silver, but Xu Qinyu refused to accept it, so he gave up.

"Get up." Xu Qinyu said with a smile.

Wen Shuncheng got up, his mouth almost went behind his ears.

After paying homage to the teacher, Wen Zixiao and Mrs. Meng went back to buy things. There were still many things in the house that were missing, so they had to be done properly.

Aunt Bai naturally stayed here to talk to Gui Shi, while Sister Tao wanted to stay and play with Sister Ning.

...

I don't know if he has worshiped the teacher, Cheng Ge'er felt at ease.

In the afternoon, Xu Qinyu asked him to make a stewed herring in brown sauce, and stewed a stewed tofu with fish head.

The whole pot of fish to be sold is still made by Xu Qinyu. Even if he is in charge of the spoon, he starts with a portion of the dishes. Big pot dishes are not easy, and it is even more difficult to make big pot dishes with good taste.

In the past, Xu Qinyu occasionally asked Brother Cheng to make a portion of fish alone, and the taste was so-so. After all, Brother Cheng has a bit of cooking talent and knows the proportion of seasonings. Eat, but it is extremely difficult to achieve Xu Qinyu's level, even almost impossible, every point of her cooking is the most appropriate, how to stimulate the best taste of food, she is born just know.

This time, Brother Cheng's braised herring and stewed tofu with fish head have improved a bit compared to the previous two days. The herring skin is crispy, the meat is tender, and the other seasonings are also well prepared.

Xu Qinyu boasted, and Brother Cheng scratched his head and smiled, "Master is willing to accept me, and I've settled down. I feel like cooking is different."

It was indeed a bit of an influence. He always thought too much before, and he was still worried that the fourth sister-in-law didn't want to take him as an apprentice. Even if he was a bit talented, he would make mistakes in this nervous feeling.

Xu Qinyu also realized this, and apologized to Brother Cheng, "I didn't think so much before, it's all my fault."

Brother Cheng hurriedly said: "Master, don't blame yourself. Now that Master has accepted me as an apprentice, I will definitely learn more when I calm down."

And indeed, as Brother Cheng said, his progress is day by day.

In the blink of an eye, five or six days passed.

Xu Qinyu went to the restaurant, and Mrs. Wen said that the day after April 20th would be an auspicious day and should be opened.

Xu Qinyu is also planning to open the day after tomorrow. Today, specially went to the restaurant to see that the wood paint has been dried, and the restaurant has been cleaned and refreshed. The cooking table in the kitchen is also made of wood and has been painted. Other things are also placed properly.

The repair and decoration of the whole restaurant and the purchase of things cost a total of one hundred taels, because she ordered some other kitchen utensils from the carpenter, blacksmith and porcelain kiln.

She still has about one hundred taels of silver left on her body, and she still has to buy rice, flour, grain, oil, seasoning and spices.

There are still two days before the opening. Xu Qinyu has been busy buying seasonings and various spices in the past two days. She still hasn't bought pepper. Forty taels and one tael, a pound is forty taels. She is currently The small eatery is unaffordable.

In addition to various seasonings and spices, she also ordered a lot of vegetable oil and sesame oil from the oil workshop. If it is lard, she can cook suet by herself. There are also all kinds of fine stalked rice, millet, glutinous rice noodles and white noodles, and all kinds of coarse grains and beans. These are also ordered with the rice shop and will be delivered today.

The fresh river food was given by Uncle He, including all kinds of fish, river shrimp, snails and river crabs.

The people here also don't eat river crabs very much, but Xu Qinyu's place is also very delicious.

At present, Uncle He's children and grandchildren basically don't need to work outside, and they go to rivers or lakes to catch fresh fish. Uncle He's son even plans to buy a boat after earning money, so that he can go to the canal to catch fresh fish in the future.

The eggs, duck eggs, and eggs were all collected cheaply by Uncle He in the village.

Pork must be ordered with Tian Butcher, and for mutton, Tian Butcher also knows someone.

Chickens and ducks are all purchased live birds, placed in the woodshed, and eaten and slaughtered.

Beef is something you can't come across.

She hasn't bought pork and mutton yet, so she will definitely have to wait until the opening day.

Today is to buy these things, and tomorrow will do the final preparations in the restaurant.

It took another 80 taels to buy these seasonings, spices, rice, noodles, grains and oils, etc. The main reason is that she bought a lot. Rice, noodles, grains and oils, seasonings and spices are bought on a monthly basis. After all, spices and sugar and brown sugar are really expensive. , There is not only a small firewood room in the backyard of the small restaurant, but also a utility room, which is specially used to store these seasonings and ingredients for her.

If you were someone else, you basically wouldn’t dare to buy so many seasonings, spices, rice, noodles, grains, and oils in one go. You have to worry about the traffic flow, and also worry about the follow-up business.

Xu Qinyu was not worried at all.

I didn't buy the pork and mutton left, and the rest were vegetables and vegetables, which were relatively cheap, and the big money to spend was basically gone.

She still has about twenty taels of silver in her hand.

The main reason is that she has a lot of money. The 150 taels of silver supported by her mother and uncle are enough for her to use. Otherwise, even if she saves for another two months, I am afraid that even the restaurant will be redecorated and painted to make the cooking table. These are all reluctant, and I will not buy so many other things, because there is simply not enough money.

Originally, there were only two women in the hall. Later, Xu Qinyu randomly selected one from the rest list that Xia's sister-in-law helped her select.

The preparations are almost ready.

As for Xu Ji Restaurant, both morning and evening meals are served.

People here eat twice a day, the morning food is around 9:00 in the morning, and the evening food is around 4 or 5 in the afternoon.

Even modern restaurants basically do lunch and evening meals, and most of the breakfast restaurants specialize in breakfast.

Even if it is morning and evening food, she can handle it alone, but she is a little tired and panic. If you want to make money, it is not easy at the beginning.

For morning meals, Xu Qinyu plans to make it in the form of Cantonese morning tea, all of which are served in a small steamer. As for the tea, will not make it for the time being. can replace it with some hot drinks, hot soybean milk and hot milk tea.

As for the breakfast snacks, she plans to prepare custard buns, milk steamed buns, sauced meat buns, glutinous rice sausages, shrimp dumplings, siu mai, raw fish porridge.

These are relatively light. thought that if some people like to eat something heavy, they also add a splash of oily noodles. This is easy to make. After the noodles are cooked, add a spoonful of seasoning and mix well. After eating, she will add a small spoonful of peanut butter to the oily noodles, which is also more fragrant. The peanut butter is also made by her earlier. Because of the addition of peanut sauce, the taste of this oily noodles is not only spicy and refreshing, but also has a particularly rich taste.

Others are all steamed snacks, so you don’t have to worry about preparing them in advance and steaming them in the pan. That is, when the guests come to eat Chaoshi, she only needs to prepare sashimi porridge and oily noodles, but she is still busy .

When find a helper in the future, can have more types of morning meals.

Evening food is an ordinary dish.

Of course the taste is not ordinary.

...

When selling fish in the evening, Xu Qinyu smiled and said to the neighbors in the surrounding neighborhood: "Aunts and sisters-in-law, my 'Xu Ji Restaurant' will open in the future, when the time comes, braised herring, fish balls, and stewed fish heads Tofu will continue to be sold there, and the location is at the innermost part of the West Street Market."

The neighbors in the neighborhood knew that Xu Qinyu was going to open a restaurant, and now they heard that she planned to move the fish to the restaurant, and they were a little worried, so they couldn't help asking, "Miss Xu, what about these things?" The price of the food..."

Originally, these foods were sold to them cheaply, so that ordinary people like them could afford to eat meat every day. Now that they want to open a restaurant, they must not continue to sell it too cheaply, otherwise the rent of the restaurant, as well as the waiter Yes, the shopkeeper who settles the accounts and so on have to give money, what else do they earn, they can't sell them at a loss, right?

Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "Don't worry, the prices of these are not going up, the prices are still the same as now. The restaurant I opened mainly sells morning food and evening food. There are custard yellow buns, milk steamed buns, and sauced pork buns in the morning food. Glutinous rice, fat intestines, shrimp dumplings, etc., if you eat in the evening, there are all kinds of dishes, and you can basically cook anything. Therefore, the three dishes of fish balls and braised fish are still at the original price, but as usual, they are sold at the entrance of the restaurant. Come here with a basin to buy."

After all, she has to do other business, otherwise she would still sit inside to eat such cheap food, losing other customers, and she would really only have to lose money.

Residents in the neighborhood expressed their understanding when they heard that the price would not change, but they could only buy and eat at home.

But they didn't know that Miss Xu could cook anything, and they thought she was good at cooking fish, and the restaurant she opened continued to sell fish.

Xu Qinyu also told everyone that she will teach her apprentices how to cook fish in the future, and in a few days, her apprentices will also cook these fish.

But assure you, it tastes delicious.

Everyone accepts it, as long as it tastes good.

In their eyes, the taste of food in ordinary restaurants is not bad, as long as the fish can have the taste of ordinary restaurants.

If it is cheap and delicious, I am satisfied. After all, Miss Xu’s craftsmanship is astounding. If she sells it to them so cheaply, sometimes they will be a little confused. Now that Miss Xu wants to hand over the methods of making fish to Apprentice, they also think it's nothing. If they have money in the future, they can go to the restaurant opened by Mrs. Xu to eat day and night.

...

The next day, after selling the fish, Xu Qinyu and his family used a donkey cart to send the cauldron and stove in the yard to the restaurant. It's useless here.

The donkey cart was borrowed from Xia's sister-in-law, she only had twenty taels of silver, and she would buy the donkey cart when she made money later.

There are also wooden barrel fermented bean curd, pickled side dishes, spicy cabbage, tempeh, and bean paste that Xu Qinyu made before, all of which have also been moved to the restaurant.

Xu Qinyu asked Tian Butcher to send pork and mutton tomorrow.

Vegetables, I'll go buy them tomorrow morning.

Suet is also refined.

The signboard of 'Xu Ji Restaurant' was also covered with a red cloth, and it will officially open tomorrow when the red cloth is removed.

At night, both Xu Qinyu and Pei's family couldn't sleep, and Xu Qinyu felt even more emotional. When she came to another world, she finally took her first step.

The next day, before dawn, Xu Qinyu woke up.

The rest of the Pei family also followed suit.

Today is the opening day of 'Xu Ji Restaurant', everyone is actually a bit sleepy, Wen's is the shopkeeper of the restaurant, so naturally he has to go with him, Sister Ning thinks that the fourth sister-in-law opened the store on the first day, and she also remembers it, want to help a little in the past, so won’t make bags today.

Wen Shuncheng and Wen Shungong also got up early to look for Xu Qinyu, and the whole family went to the restaurant.

The three waiters recruited also got up and went to the restaurant.

The time Xu Qinyu decided to go to work was at the end of Yinshi, that is, at five o'clock in the morning.

You have to go to the restaurant at 5 o'clock, and the time to start work at night is uncertain, because there is no fixed number of evening meals, but basically you can start work at Xu time, that is, around 8 o'clock in the evening.

Although the working hours are long, there are basically two hours of rest after the morning eclipse and before the evening eclipse.