Wen Shi was startled when he heard what Yuniang said, and couldn't help asking, "Why does Yuniang think it's not Sister Ling?"

Xu Qinyu said: "The time is wrong."

It's not that she speaks for Wen Yunling, or that she thinks Wen Yunling is good, but that the timing of the rumor is not right.

It has been almost a month since Wen Yunling met her grandmother Gui Shi last time. If Wen Yunling really wanted to spread the word, it should be spread at that time. Even if it was not spread then, it should not be now, at least Waiting for Wen Yunling's restaurant to open will be good for Wen Yunling, so her intuition is not that Wen Yunling spread the word.

As for whether it was someone else from the Wen family, she couldn't be sure, but still vaguely felt that it was not, it was just that the timing was wrong.

Recently, her family's business is getting better and better. Even if she has nothing else to eat during the morning meal, she would rather buy two meat buns at the door and take it with her than go to other places to eat. It must be suffered by other restaurants, restaurants and food stalls. of jealousy.

Besides the family, only the Wen family knew about the grandmother Gui's affairs.

The Wen family probably only thought that it was Gui who recovered, and they didn't know that it was Gui who was pretending to be sick.

Everyone in my family knew that Mrs. Gui did not suffer from tuberculosis at all, and Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Ning were definitely not big-mouthed people, so how could they talk nonsense outside.

Even if only Auntie Bai knows the inside story on Brother Cheng's side, Auntie Bai will not talk nonsense, and Brother Cheng and Brother Gong are both half-teens, but after a few months of getting along, Xu Qinyu knows that the two brothers' mouths Strictly speaking, Sister Tao stayed with Sister Ning all day long, and she never passed through the doors of other neighbors in Osmanthus Lane.

Always, definitely not from my family and Brother Cheng.

Xu Qinyu frowned.

If it wasn't someone from my family and Sanfang, who would it be?

But it must be relatively close to family members, at least in daily contact.

She asked: "Mother, have you talked about your grandmother in the restaurant recently, or heard Brother Cheng mention it?"

The only possibility should be spread from the restaurant side.

Wen thought for a while, and felt a thump in her heart, "Sister Ling didn't come to the restaurant to look for you a month ago. After she finished eating, she said she wanted to look for you. I said you were busy in the back kitchen. I asked her to go back, and she said yes. I asked Aunt Gui how she was. Didn’t she have tuberculosis? I was afraid that people would hear her health better, so I lowered my voice and said that your grandmother’s health has recovered. She nodded and left without saying a word. Yes, it was the morning meal at that time, and there were many guests around, did it spread the word at that time? If that's the case, it's all my fault..."

Xu Qinyu still felt that something was wrong. If it was really spread a month ago, why would the customers of the restaurant not want to come to the restaurant after hearing about it.

She said: "It's okay, mother, don't worry, this matter is not urgent. I heard that someone in our family suffered from tuberculosis from too much work recently. This rumor is obviously spread with ulterior motives. It shows that the person spread it on purpose, specifically targeting our family's business." Well, this matter is easy to solve. We will bring our grandmother and sister Ning tomorrow, and Brother Feng and sister Xian will also bring them to the restaurant. I will make some evening food for everyone. After eating, sister Ning will bring walk around with them."

Tuberculosis is indeed scary, but there is no real patient in her family. As long as it is clarified and spread, it will be fine.

When Wen Shi heard this, she felt relieved.

...

And Wen Yunling also heard about this, sneered, and said to Yue Shi after returning, "Aunt Gui didn't have tuberculosis at the beginning, so she lied to us on purpose? Now that the news spreads, it's their own retribution."

Yue Shi nodded, "That's true, no one can blame others, but if this matter was really done by other restaurants and restaurants, it would be really stupid, just a little rumor, wait for them to invite Aunt Gui to stay in the restaurant for two days, the rumor It’s self-defeating, and it’s not without any impact.”

After Yue Shi finished speaking, he asked again, "Sister Ling, how is the decoration of your restaurant going?"

Wen Yun couldn't hide the joy on his face, "It's still being repaired, and I plan to decorate it according to the decoration of the Jixiang Building."

If it wasn't for the fact that the tallest store in Yuanbao Town only has three floors, she would also like to find a six-storey store with eight or nine storeys to make a restaurant, but now she can only make do with it.

Yue Shi said: "Don't worry about your fourth sister-in-law's side, you manage your own restaurant well and earn a lot of money in the future."

Wen Yunling nodded, "Mother, I can save it."

She and her mother went to Raozhou City to invite the cook in person, and she also tasted the chef's craftsmanship. It is indeed not bad, and she is given a salary of twenty taels of silver every month, but Wen Yunling is still a little dissatisfied, because she knows in her heart Well, even the chef invited by Raozhou City is not as skilled as the fourth sister-in-law, not even the chef of Jixianglou. The chef she was looking for was at least as good as the chef at Donglaiju Restaurant, but she still preferred the fourth sister-in-law the most in her heart.

Fourth sister-in-law's cooking skills...

Wen Yunling gulped down her saliva, she wanted to go to Xuji Restaurant to eat daily and evening meals.

In fact, no one in the family has tasted the handicraft of the fourth sister-in-law.

But before the grandfather and grandmother knew that the fourth sister-in-law had opened a restaurant, they scolded the second aunt for being unfilial, and the daughter-in-law didn't know how to send them some food because she was a good cook.

...

When it was time for dinner the next day, Sister Ning led Aunt Gui, Brother Feng and Sister Xian to the restaurant.

She already knew the recent rumors at the fair, and she couldn't be more angry.

When Gui knew about it, she blamed herself even more.

On the way, I ran into other neighbors in Osmanthus Alley, and couldn't help but ask, "Sister Ning, where are you going?"

The neighbors in the neighborhood also know Sister Ning and like her very much.

Sister Ning said with a smile: "Take my grandmother to a restaurant for evening food."

The neighbors in the neighborhood have also heard about the rumors in the West Street Market, but they all live in Osmanthus Alley, but they know if Miss Xu has any patients in her family, and the whole family is ruddy. Although the old lady who came back was skinny and full of vicissitudes, she had been raised for so long and her bones were very healthy.

Neighbors in the neighborhood comforted Ning and Gui.

"Sister Ning and the old lady, don't take it to heart, just go out for a walk and let those people see it with their own eyes."

"No, it's really ridiculous to say that Mrs. Xu's family has a patient with tuberculosis. We all bought fish at Mrs. Xu's house for more than half a year, but nothing happened. I think some people are jealous of Xu Jishi. The government’s business is good, so it’s a deliberate move.”

"It should be, who is so bad, when we go to buy fish at night, talk to the people around, don't believe everything, otherwise Xu Ji Restaurant will be open for a month and a half, and everyone will be fine."

"That's right, Sister Ning, old lady, you go there first, and we'll queue up to buy fish when it's o'clock."

Seeing that the neighbors were helping their family, Pei Jianing and Gui felt warm in their hearts.

However, Pei Jianing knew very well that this was a good relationship between the fourth sister-in-law.

Sister Ning and Gui Shi took their two children to Xuji Restaurant.

In the past, there should be people queuing up for fast food, but now there are no people queuing, but there are already customers sitting in the living room of the restaurant.

Seeing her son, daughter, granddaughter, and mother coming over, Wen quickly came over and arranged for them a seat by the window, "Sister Ning, mother, please sit down first, Yuniang said that I have prepared squirrel mandarin fish for you, wait until you finish eating." You just went out for a walk."

Pei Jianing nodded, quietly watching the people coming and going in the market outside.

Gui Shi hadn't been out much before, so she felt a little cramped at the moment.

Brother Feng and sister Xian sat there obediently.

For about a quarter of an hour, Mrs. Chen came over to eat a dish with its head up and its tail up and its color bright. Not only that, it was also delicious, with a sweet and sour smell overflowing in the restaurant.

Gui Shi and Ning Jieer were the first to serve at the table.

The other customers couldn't help but ask, "Shopkeeper, buddy, what kind of dish is this? Why hasn't anyone ordered it? Is it a new restaurant?"

Mrs. Chen said loudly, "It's indeed a new food, but it's not new in restaurants, and our little lady Xu specially made it for her grandmother, sister-in-law, uncle, niece, and it's called Squirrel Mandarin Fish. It tastes sweet and sour. It is more suitable for the elderly and children. Our little lady Xu's whole family is here, so don't let people who don't have good eyes say that there is a patient with tuberculosis in Miss Xu's family. Look at everyone's complexion, does it seem to be suffering from tuberculosis? It’s really nonsense, I’m afraid someone is jealous of the good business of our restaurant, I guess it’s a rumor, Mrs. Xu also said that she invited her family to the restaurant and showed it to the big guy, if there are people talking nonsense , Our little lady said to report to the official."

As soon as the word "reporter" was uttered, there was a bang behind it, like the sound of a plate of porcelain hitting the ground.

Mrs. Chen looked back and saw that it was Mrs. Sun, another woman in the restaurant.

Mr. Sun was carrying a few small empty dishes to the kitchen to wash them, but he didn't expect that his feet slipped or something happened, and the dishes fell.

This small china plate is for pickles.

The guests of the evening meal will be served two kinds of pickles at each table, and some of them have already eaten two dishes of pickles before they are served.

So Mr. Sun was carrying several tables of empty pickles back to the backyard.

Chen Shi couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, are you all right?"

Among the three running halls, Sun was the oldest.

Mrs Sun hurriedly said, "It's alright, my hand slipped a bit, I'll sweep the tiles, you all don't come here, lest you get hurt."

Her face was a little pale, don't know if it was because she was frightened when she dropped the disc, or it was another reason.

Mr. Sun quickly swept away the broken dishes on the ground and dragged the ground.

The Chen family is not familiar with the Sun family, and she is more familiar with the Yuan family.

Mrs. Chen lives in Laixi Lane, and Mrs. Yuan lives in Guihua Lane. The two are relatively acquainted, and they are both the ones chosen by the Xia family's sister-in-law Wu Wan to help Xu Qinyu.

The Sun who threw the plate was Xu Qinyu who couldn't find anyone, so she randomly selected one from the list of women who were applying for the job. Sun's work is indeed very diligent, never cheating or slipping, this is the first time she has dropped a plate.

When she arrived at the back kitchen, Xu Qinyu didn't say much when she knew that she had dropped the plate, but just asked Mrs. Wen to write down the account. When the time came, the price of the plate would be compensated, and it would be deducted from the salary at the end of the month.

Although this small dish is not expensive, it is only two cents a piece, but this is also a rule, and the broken utensils will be compensated according to the price.

Sun hurriedly nodded and said yes.

And Chen didn't take Sun's throwing the dish seriously, and told the diners in the front living room that the owner was unlucky and was rumored.

"When our grandmother came back a few days ago, it was true that her body was not very good, but after raising it for a few months, look at this good complexion and strong body, if it is really tuberculosis, can it look like this?"

The diners nodded, "That's right, there is a fair competition, and it's really shameful to use rude tricks."

I also know that it was caused by the competition for business ideas. Many of these diners are in business, so naturally they understand this.

Some diners laughed and said, "But it's also good. Some people really believe this rumor, but come here to eat, you don't have to wait in line, let's relax."

"Hahahaha, but it's not very good for the owner. The owner can't make money without business."

The diners were chatting and laughing, and they planned to help the restaurant to clarify in the future, otherwise the Xuji restaurant would be closed down. Where would they go to eat such delicious food in the future?

There was Mrs. Chen who helped to speak loudly, and she helped to speak when the diners came.

There are also neighbors who came to line up and chatted at the door, saying that they had bought fish balls at Xu Xiaoniangzi’s house for more than half a year, and they would be healthier after eating them. don’t know where heard these messy rumors. The restaurant has been open for more than a month, and the diners have been eating for so long. If there is a tuberculosis, it should be spread long ago.

It has been listened to by many people.

Sure enough, within a few days, the business of Xu Ji Restaurant was picking up again.

In fact, when the rumors were spread before, the business was okay. Xu Qinyu had to be busy for more than an hour regardless of whether it was a morning meal or an evening meal. Now the business is better, and he has to line up again.

Another main reason is that these diners who heard the rumors went to other restaurants to eat and found that they still missed the food at Xu Ji Restaurant, and the taste was too bad, so they all ran back to Xu Ji Restaurant to eat.

...

The business of Xu Ji Restaurant is still as usual, Xu Qinyu still has two days off every month, and then it is scheduled to rest at the beginning and middle of each month, and all the employees of the restaurant are off.

Even Xu Qinyu didn't have to make fat-reducing meals for Yang Zhizhi these two days.

Soon it will be mid-June, when Xu Ji Restaurant will be closed.

When Xu Qinyu was resting, she was really resting, she didn't dare to do anything, she was in a daze when she couldn't sleep in bed, or thinking about the recipe.

Wen also wished to let Yu Niang sleep for twelve hours a day when she was resting. If it hadn't been for Yu Niang's refusal, she would even bring her morning and evening meals to the bed for Yu Niang to eat.

Every time Xu Qinyu rests, many diners will sigh. These diners are already loyal customers of Xu Ji Restaurant, and they basically have a meal at Xu Ji Restaurant every day, either morning or evening.

When Xu Ji rests, they can only go to other places to eat or eat at home.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Ji Restaurant was closed this day, the Ping An Restaurant on the West Street would also start selling custard buns, glutinous rice sausages and sashimi porridge during morning meals.

However, the custard buns and glutinous glutinous rice sausages in Ping An Restaurant are not like Xu Ji Restaurant. They are all in a big steamer. The bottom layer is glutinous rice sausage and the top layer is milk yellow buns , Fish porridge is also a whole pot cooked in a big pot.

And it's cheap.

Custard buns cost two cents each, glutinous rice sausages cost three cents, and a large bowl of sashimi porridge costs only four cents.

Therefore, many diners went to eat.

When the diners entered, the female shopkeeper of Ping An Restaurant also said bluntly: "It is indeed imitating the food of Xu Ji Restaurant, the taste should not be the same as Xu Ji Restaurant, but it is cheap. No matter whether you eat comfortably or not, I will also eat it. It’s all blunt, if you don’t think the morning food at Xu Ji Restaurant is as delicious, you can go to Xu Ji to eat at another day.”

She said this clearly, and the diners naturally knew it.

After going in and tasting it, the taste is really not as good as Xu Ji Restaurant, not even half as good, but it is cheaper. Xuji Restaurant’s custard buns cost five cents a piece, here are two cents, and they are bigger than Xuji Restaurant’s custard buns. Both glutinous glutinous rice sausage and fish porridge have a fishy smell, and the taste is relatively strong. Drinking water, really feel uncomfortable eating, plan not to eat tomorrow.

However, because Xu Ji Restaurant is closed today, Ping An Restaurant has introduced a few dishes that are the same as Xu Ji Restaurant.

But without exception, as long as the guests who have eaten Xu Ji’s Chaoshi can’t help but say before leaving, “Shopkeeper, even if your Ping’an Restaurant imitates Xu Ji’s Chaoshi, the taste should at least be a bit similar, your milk yellow The package is sweet and sweet, and the taste of milk is not right. There is also the glutinous glutinous rice intestines, which taste a bit fishy. The fish porridge, the fish fillets are cut too thickly, and the fish fillets have a fishy smell, not at all. Tender, hey." After finishing speaking, she was willing to leave.

The female shopkeeper smiled and said that it would improve, but she hated Xu Ji Restaurant in her heart.

...

The back house of the county government.

The maid Chunhong happily returned to the West Wing with a few food boxes.

The West Wing is where Yang Zhizhi lives. She didn't go out to eat today when Xu Ji Restaurant is resting, so she asked Chunhong to go out and buy something for her.

Xu Ji rests at the restaurant, and Qinyu is so tired every day. Yang Zhizhi is also a good friend with Qinyu now. Jade can rest well. Fortunately, there are only two days a month, and Qinyu also said that she can eat whatever she wants during these two days, and just don't eat after the end of the evening.

But how could Yang Zhizhi eat food from other restaurants.

When Xuji Restaurant was on break for the first time, she asked Chunhong to go to Donglaiju to pack the food she usually ate, and found that she couldn’t eat it at all. When eating, you can basically taste the original taste of the ingredients.

Therefore, the few times that Xu Ji Restaurant took a rest, she didn't want to eat much.

She has lost weight for two months. Except for the first month when she weighed herself every three to five days, she didn't think it was troublesome to weigh herself.

The main reason is that weighing is really troublesome, so she measured her waist and legs, and the circumference of her waist and legs are getting smaller.

For more than two months, the family who saw her every day could not tell whether she was thin or not, but my grandmother came over a few days ago and said that she looked a lot thinner and her clothes were a lot looser.

She planned to wait for Chunhong to buy her some food, and ask Chunhong to help her weigh it.

As soon as Chunhong returned, she said happily, "Girl, guess what kind of food did the servants buy for you?"

Yang Zhizhi was lying on the square table with her round face on it, and she was a little listless, "Do you want to eat at Donglaiju? Qinyu doesn't open a shop today, and I don't really want to eat anything."

Chunhong immediately smiled and said, "Of course not, I bought custard buns, Jiangmi fat sausages and fish fillet porridge."

Yang Zhizhi suddenly lifted his face from the table, "Qinyu opened a shop today?"

"No." Chunhong said, "I bought it at the Ping An restaurant. I went to West Street this morning to see if there was anything to eat. I saw that the Ping An restaurant was also selling custard buns, so I bought some. Come back, girl, have a quick taste."

Yangzhizhi immediately opened the food box. She didn't want to eat it, but wanted to see how the Ping An restaurant dared to imitate Qinyu's food.

She didn't pay much attention to it. She picked up a custard bag and wanted to taste it, but it just didn't feel right, it wasn't soft at all.

When eat it in mouth, the dough is neither milky nor fluffy. tasted the filling but didn’t get the filling. When tasted the filling, face turned a little green, and it was sweet. It should be boiled with sugar and egg yolk. The stuffing has a bit of egg yolk smell, and the stuffing is also dry.

I tried another Jiangmi fat sausage, but it didn't taste right.

The fish porridge is even less so.

Yang Zhizhi took one bite each and refused to eat any more, and said angrily, "What is the Ping'an restaurant doing? Even if you want to imitate the food of Xu Ji restaurant, you can make it delicious, it's all messed up. , even if it sells cheaply, it might be Xu Kee's signboard that will be implicated at that time."

Chunhong also picked up what the girl didn't want to eat, and then frowned.

She also ate the food from Xu Ji Restaurant, and it didn't taste very good.

Yang Zhizhi was a little angry, but there was nothing he could do. It was really impossible to say that the food in Xuji restaurant, other restaurants can't do it or sell it.

She lost her anger even in the mood of weighing, and wanted to tell Qinyu.

But thinking that your friend is resting, don't talk about such a bad mood.

Xu Qinyu only found out on the second day. It was what the diners told Chen and the others when they came over to eat the meal, and Chen and the others went to the back kitchen to tell Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu just smiled and said, "It's okay, don't make a fuss, it's very common to follow the trend of eating food, diners say that their home tastes bad, and they don't want to eat it a second time, so there's nothing to worry about, we continue to do it. our."

Chen shi said: "But this is too much."

Xu Qinyu smiled, but his heart sank two points.

It is normal for some people to imitate the food. The only abnormal thing is that Xu Ji Restaurant really had a thief.

Even if you follow the example of eating, you should know how to eat like this.

Fish fillet porridge and Jiangmi fat sausage are not bad. If you have eaten it, you will probably know how to make it. It’s just that the ingredients are different, but the custard buns are different. You can’t know how to make the stuffing in the custard buns after you have eaten them, at least. also saw how she made the stuffing.

But it does not rule out some powerful cooks, just taste the taste of food, and know what ingredients are in it and what seasonings are added.

She just felt that the chef in Ping An Restaurant should not be so powerful. If he really has such a sense of taste, he should be a famous chef all over the world.

Therefore, it is very likely that they have remembered the thief.

Even a thief can rule out some people. Brother Cheng is already her apprentice. It is impossible to sell the formula of the custard bun to others, and it is impossible for Brother Gong. This child has a big heart and can do anything at a glance It can be seen that, besides being together for so long, the character can also be seen, and it is even more impossible for the Wen family. So the rest are just three women running the hall.

Xu Qinyu couldn't figure out who was coming for a while, and only glanced at Chen's Yuan's Sun's body.

The three were talking and laughing while washing the pots and pans. Mrs. Chen's voice was still so loud. Mrs. Yuan didn't like to talk, but just smiled. Mrs. Sun was not as open-minded as Mrs. Chen. Chen's words.

After thinking about it, she called Brother Cheng over and whispered a few words in his ear.