Only then did Xu Qinyu follow the fourth brother back to the house. There was sister Ning between her and the fourth brother's room. She didn't notice the abnormality of the fourth brother, so she went back to the house directly. She didn't notice that the fourth brother was walking towards the door. Glanced back at her.

After falling asleep at night, Xu Qinyu fell asleep quickly as usual.

Pei Weixuan stayed up all night.

The next day, he got up early, and there was no abnormality on his face, and he drove the donkey cart to send Yuniang to the restaurant.

Yu Niang asked him to go to the restaurant for a while.

Xu Qinyu soaked the dried snails while cooking, and planned to use the snail meat to make snacks for the fourth brother to bring.

She is not so tired of cooking the morning food now, and has a big girl Cheng Geer to help her.

The big girl is very talented in pasta. Xu Qinyu not only taught her how to make pasta, but also some sweets and desserts. She learned quickly.

Most of the pasta in the morning is made with the help of the big girl.

When summer comes, Xu Qinyu will assign the big girl a separate stove and table, let the big girl make desserts, and add some new desserts to the restaurant.

While steaming the rice, Xu Qinyu fried the soaked snail meat and added the seasoning she prepared, and the fragrant and spicy dried snail meat was ready. She fried the dried snail meat rather dry and eaten It is more chewy and can be eaten for a longer time.

When eating morning food, Pei Weixuan planned to leave.

His luggage when he went out contained only two changes of clothes, nothing else.

After eating court food in the backyard, Yu Niang stuffed him with a large package of oiled paper, which was bulging and full of things. Before opening the oiled paper, he could smell the tantalizing fragrance inside, but Pei Weixuan didn't feel anything. , he just glanced at Yu Niang again.

Yuniang also smiled and told, "Fourth brother, have a safe journey."

"En." Pei Weixuan responded, turned and left.

Seeing the tall figure of the fourth brother leave the backyard, Xu Qinyu felt a little lost for some reason.

...

As soon as Pei Weixuan left, the house became deserted.

In fact, the fourth brother didn't talk much when he was at home.

Xu Qinyu felt that she was a little bit reluctant to part with her fourth brother, and she comforted herself to treat her as a family member. The fourth brother had to go out to make a living. Although the family was not short of money, the fourth brother was a big man, so he couldn't help her all the time. For the work of burning fire and chopping wood, a man has aspirations everywhere, so he should go out and make a living.

Reluctantness is the normal state of mind of the family, look at Wen's sister Ning, they are all the same, they are all reluctant to bear the fourth brother.

Pei Weixuan went to the bamboo forest outside the city, where Huo Ye Datou and Chen He were already waiting.

The three of them were eating, and they still packed the morning food from Xu Ji.

Pei Weixuan didn't plan to share these snacks with the three of them, but only gave them to Chen He, telling him, "Give it to the children on the island to taste."

They worked hard and could return to the island in one day. The dried snail meat was fine for a few days.

There are many children on the island, all of whom are family members of Chen Yi's Nabo water bandits.

The island is quite big, even if the group of water bandits lived with hundreds of black-armored guards, it is very spacious, at least tens of thousands of acres of land, but these lands have not been reclaimed, and they need to be reclaimed to grow crops. For more than a year, the residents on the island have been cultivating wasteland one after another. Now there are a large number of crops that need them to plant, and they are busy day and night. Hundreds of black-armored guards also stay on the island to cultivate wasteland.

This trip, Pei Weixuan didn't intend to let too many people follow him, he just chose a dozen or so black-armored guards with high martial arts skills to follow.

After selling these colored glazes this time, he will set up a workshop on the island, specializing in firing colored glazes.

The fired colored glaze will continue to be sold in wealthy states in the future, so Pei Weixuan plans to set up a caravan.

Neither he nor Huo Ye could come forward to be the owner of the caravan, and the owner of the caravan was obviously Chen Yi.

After returning this trip, Chen Yi already knew his identity, but the others did not. Needless to say, the black-armored guards were all loyal enough and knew his identity.

In addition, Chen He should have seen something. He himself is the military adviser of these water bandits, with a clever mind, and he is responsible for taking care of the daily accounts of the caravan.

A group of people worked hard, and finally returned to the island after a day and a night.

There were quite a few children on the island, and Pei Weixuan also asked the black-armored guards who could read and write to teach these children how to read and write, and also taught them to practice martial arts.

Both boys and girls are taught.

Pei Weixuan asked Chen He to distribute the dried snail meat to the children on the island.

The children really liked the jerky snail meat very much. Their heads were sweating after eating, and they couldn't bear to put it down until they were so hot. They chased Chen He and asked Datou, "Brother Chen He, brother Datou, what is this delicious, okay?" It's delicious, but it's spicy to the mouth, but it's very fragrant."

Chen He smiled and said, "It's delicious. It was made by your eldest brother Pei's daughter-in-law. Do you want to eat it in the future?"

The children said in unison, "I want to eat."

"Then you should study hard, and when you get out of the island, I'll take you to eat. Your brother-in-law's wife can not only make this, but also make a lot of delicious food, such as custard buns, crystal shrimp dumplings, meat sandwiches, All kinds of Chaoshi stir-fried dishes, each of which tastes more fragrant than the dried snail meat you are eating now."

These children were used to being wild before, but now they can't sit still when they are confined to study.

The children swallowed hard.

They couldn't help but take a look at Pei Weixuan, thinking that Big Brother Pei was as cold as an ice sculpture, and his wife was also like a piece of wood?

...

Xu Qinyu didn't know that her impression in the minds of a group of children also turned into ice and wood.

After Pei Weixuan left for half a month, the grapes in the mountains gradually matured, Madam Lu and Zhen Wu went to Yuanbao Town again, and the winery was about to start operation.

Now there are not many ripe grapes on the mountain, so the winery did not invite many people to pick wild grapes on the mountain.

It only takes a few people to pick.

Xu Feng handed over the job to Tao Qi and the others.

The three of them are also agile in their hands and feet. They can pick hundreds of catties of wild grapes from the mountain every day, and almost pick all the ripe grapes on the mountain.

They were busy picking grapes, and cleaning and drying would definitely require someone else.

The people who wash and dry the grapes belong to Mrs. Lu.

It's the female family members of the caravan who came here to work in the winery. They were paid 500 Wen per month, including food and lodging. This number of female relatives is not enough, Mrs. Lu plans to find some women who can work quickly from nearby villages to help.

But right now, only Tao Qi and the female relatives of these caravans are enough.

After all, it will take a month for the wild grapes on the mountain to ripen in large numbers.

After the grapes are washed and dried, Xu Qinyu will go to Dagu Village during the noon break, check the dried grapes, and then divide the ratio of grapes and rock sugar, and let people spread the grapes and rock sugar in the wine tank. It's done.

The female relatives in Mrs. Lu's caravan did their work very carefully, and there was not a single bad grape.

Because even one bad grape can affect the taste of the wine.

Mrs. Lu has already prepared everything, including a lot of rock candy.

There is no need for Xu Qinyu to worry about installing the altar, she only cares about the ratio of grapes to rock sugar.

Then wait for it to ferment.

Xu Qinyu would come to the winery every day, and then she could smell the wine to know the fermentation status of the wine in the wine tank. After the first fermentation was completed, she could put it into the wine bottle and continue the second fermentation.

Mrs. Lu was afraid of delaying Xu Ji's affairs, so she allocated a carriage to Xu Qinyu, and asked Brother Cheng or Brother Feng to drive the carriage back and forth to pick up Xu Qinyu every day. After all, the carriage ran faster than the donkey cart. More than double.

Xu Qinyu was busy with the restaurant and wine shop.

Sister Ning is also busy looking for a shop.

A few days ago, when the brewery hadn't started brewing, Xu Qinyu talked to Sister Ning and said, "Sister Ning, your bags are getting better and better now, have you ever thought about setting up a small workshop? Please invite some women who are famous and embroidered to do it. You specialize in drawing styles, each bag is limited to about ten pieces, and the cost can be increased. After the completion, it will not only be sold in Yuanbao Town, but also for Mrs. Lu. Caravans sent to other states for sale.”

Unexpectedly, Sister Ning said excitedly: "Sister-in-law, to tell you the truth, I was thinking of discussing with you a few days ago, planning to set up a shop to make bags. I asked Mrs. Lu before, and Mrs. Lu also thought it was okay. He also said that if I can set up a small workshop, the bags I make can be sent to other states for sale in the future.”

Mrs. Lu felt that it was impossible for Sister Ning's workshop to open too much at the beginning, and the bags made in a month must be limited. On weekdays, caravans would go to other states and cities, and they would help take them to sell for free, and it would not take much time and money. manpower.

In addition, the winery she partnered with Xu Qinyu will definitely grow bigger and bigger in the future, which can be regarded as a favor for Xu Qinyu.

Sister Ning didn't expect the fourth sister-in-law to have the same idea.

The fourth sister-in-law really cared about her very much, and she kept everything about her in her heart on weekdays.

Sister Ning said again, "I definitely can't manage the workshop by myself, but I can also ask Sister Tao to come over and help me be the shopkeeper."

Sister Tao is Wen Yuntao from the third room of the Wen family, the sister of Brother Cheng Gonger, who is two years older than Sister Ning.

In the past, Sister Tao was helping Sister Ning to make bags every day. Meng's personality followed that of the third room. She looked gentle on the surface, but in fact she had a stubbornness in her bones. She was kind to her family and would not let anyone bully her casually. kind of.

Xu Qinyu said: "It's good to have Sister Tao's help. Would you like to have a look at the shop for you?"

Sister Ning shook her head, "No, Fourth Sister-in-Law, you are busy with your work. Please rest assured for other Fourth Sister-in-laws. Sister Tao and I can find it by ourselves. Sister Tao also wants to do it with me."

She only wanted to take care of the shop affairs with Sister Tao, which could be regarded as training the two of them.

Sister Tao has also saved some money over the past year, and plans to invest in it together, but she will take the lion's share, so it is good to give Sister Tao 10% of the share.

Both of them have discussed it.

Sister Tao has helped her a lot on weekdays. She met a picky buyer before. The bag she bought from her took several months to go back. Please, let her return the money.

Her handmade bag is just like those exquisite silk and satin embroidered clothes that usually need washing and care. It needs to be washed gently and cleaned with good soap. After washing, it needs to be stuffed inside and placed on the Dry in a ventilated place, otherwise the sun will easily damage the material.

Sister Tao is usually gentle and gentle, but when the girl came to make trouble, Sister Tao scolded her and asked her if she washed and cared according to the method they said, and said that even if she was wearing silk clothes, she had to be washed gently on weekdays, She spent a few months still wanting to come back, what a big dream, if she doesn't give up, the girl's family can only leave in despair.

And with Sister Tao with her, Sister Tao can come to settle accounts and take care of guests on weekdays, and she only needs to concentrate on drawing her own style in the back.

Xu Qinyu was worried that the more than one hundred taels of silver on the little sister was not enough, so she gave the little sister another five hundred taels of silver, saying that she rented a shop and had to buy good fabrics such as silk, satin and silk gauze, and hired an embroiderer. For the money, let her take the five hundred taels first, it will not be enough to save.

Sister Ning could only accept it, and planned to return it to the fourth sister-in-law after earning money.

So Sister Ning and Sister Tao have been busy looking for a shop these days.

They want to find a shop on the South Street, which is closer to Xu Ji, and they can go home with the fourth sister-in-law on weekdays. Maybe if Xu Ji needs something, she can go over to help quickly.

And Sister Ning is not worried that her bags are not easy to sell, just like Xu Ji of the fourth sister-in-law, the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, and the bags are well made. No matter where they are opened, girls are willing to come to pick them.

After searching for a few days, found a shop with two doors, as well as a backyard utility room, kitchen and woodshed.

It used to be a rice shop. The owner wanted to change to a larger one, so he planned to rent out the shops on South Street for forty taels of silver a year.

The rental price is also reasonable, even though the shop used to sell food, and the corners and corners are a bit shabby, so it is not suitable for workshops to sell bags.

Ning Jie'er did not hesitate, and immediately rented the shop.

After that, was busy repairing the pavement, and would follow Sister Tao all day long.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the hawthorns in the mountains are all ripe.

Tao Qi and the others sometimes saw hawthorns, and they picked a lot of them. Some of them were sent to Xu Ji, and the rest of the hawthorns were wiped by the workers at the winery, and then sliced ​​and dried into dried hawthorns.

This is also what Xu Qinyu wants.

Last year, when Xu Qinyu had no one in his hands, just Brother Feng and the others, they could only be busy getting grapes, not hawthorn.

This year, there are enough people, so they don't need to be a brother and they go to the mountain to pick grapes, so some hawthorns in the mountain, Xu Qinyu let Tao Qi and the others see them on weekdays, and they all pick them back, she is useful.

Not many people pick hawthorn, it is the raw material for making candied haws, and not many people pick it on weekdays.

Hawthorn can be used as hawthorn drink, which can lower blood lipids. In summer, drinking a bowl of sweet and sour hawthorn prints can not only appetize but also lower blood lipids.

Hawthorn drink has the same sweet and sour taste as the sour plum soup, but the taste is completely different.

Some people prefer the taste of ebony, while others prefer the taste of hawthorn.

In addition to drinking hawthorn, there are many things that hawthorn can do.

It can also make hawthorn cake, hawthorn with frost, hawthorn jam, canned hawthorn, fried red fruit, and even stew beef instead of tomato.

Xu Qinyu plans to use hawthorn to boil hawthorn to drink.

Hawthorn is made from fresh hawthorn, rock sugar and tea.

Boil the hawthorn into juice, remove the residue and tea leaves, add rock sugar and boil over low heat, then turn off the heat.

The proportion of tea leaves is less.

The hawthorn drink she made, the soup is red and bright, the sourness and sweetness are just right, sweet and sour, and there are finely chopped hawthorn pulp in it.

In addition to the hawthorn drink, she also plans to add a hawthorn radish tube bone soup and a stir-fried red fruit.

Fried red fruit is also a famous snack.

Although it is called fried red fruit, it is not fried. After cleaning the hawthorn, remove the core, pour in the hawthorn rock sugar and water to boil over high heat. During the cooking process, it needs to be turned properly to avoid sticking to the pot. It should be boiled until the hawthorn fruit is just right. Soft and glutinous, and the state of thick juice is not easy. You have to give just the right amount of water and rock sugar at one time. Otherwise, if you find that it is not cooked through or the sugar is not enough, adding water and sugar later will affect the taste.

The fried red fruit has a strong taste, and the sugar water has penetrated into the red and soft hawthorn pulp.

Hawthorn drink and this fried red fruit have become a must-order drink and dessert for every diners during the evening meal.

However, there are many fewer people ordering sour plum soup, mainly because the customers of the restaurant are used to the taste of sour plum soup, so the daily sour plum soup in the restaurant is less, and more hawthorn drinks.

In addition to the dessert of fried red fruit, the restaurant also added another dessert.

Brown sugar fresh milk mochi.

Needless to say, the taste of mochi is a must-have in all kinds of milk tea desserts. It tastes soft and glutinous, sweet but not greasy, and chewy.

Mochi is also easy to cook. Add glutinous rice flour, milk, rock sugar and some starch, boil and stir over high heat, and stir until it can be drawn.

This kind of mochi is delicious just wrapped in some cooked soybean flour.

As for the brown sugar fresh milk mochi, boiled mochi is poured into brown sugar water, some glutinous rice balls are sprinkled with osmanthus, and a bowl of springy and soft brown sugar milk mochi dessert is made.

This can also be regarded as a new food made of milk. Milk is indispensable. In addition to some dairy products such as steamed buns with milk yolk and milk tea on weekdays, the daily demand for milk in restaurants has increased. The catties reached forty catties.

All of a sudden, the stir-fried red fruit and mochi with brown sugar and fresh milk from Xuji Restaurant became the hottest topic in Yuanbao Town.

Both male and female diners like these two new dishes very much.

One is soft, sour and sweet, and can burst with juice, and the other is sweet, soft, chewy, and full of milk flavor.

Many acquaintances ran into each other at the market on weekdays, and their greetings turned into, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Have you ever eaten at Xuji? Xuji has two new desserts, stir-fried red fruit and mochi with brown sugar and fresh milk. Go and try it. It's really delicious. Even a big man like me who doesn't like sweets can't help it." Order a bowl and eat."

"Xu Ji's new dessert? Oh, I didn't say it earlier. It's been hot for the past two days. Although I'm still thinking about Xu Ji's food, I haven't gone out much. Hearing what you say, I'm going to try it."

"Hurry up and try it, it's really delicious."

So Xu Ji came up with a new food, fried red fruit made with hawthorn and milk and mochi with brown sugar and fresh milk, which quickly spread in Yuanbao Town.

The hawthorn radish tube bone soup made by hawthorn is not bad, and it tastes a little sour. The soup is very rich and tastes good.

But compared to fried red fruit and brown sugar fresh milk mochi, hawthorn radish bone soup is not brilliant enough.

As summer comes, the business of other restaurants and restaurants is generally affected, and the passenger flow decreases.

Only Xu Ji Restaurant's business is as usual, it is still the same as in winter, and there are even people who are willing to queue up to eat at Xu Ji in hot weather.

Even so, many restaurants and restaurants are unwilling to be the first bird to deal with Xu Ji.

Because of the lessons learned from Ping An Restaurant and the popularity of Xu Ji's owner, naturally no one would dare to target Xu Ji with malicious intent. Same as Ping An Restaurant.

...

In the past half month, Xu Qinyu has been busy making new dishes, and also handed over the recipes of the new dishes to the big girl Cheng Geer and the others.

It is indeed tiring to go to Dagu Town to watch the brewing every day.

Xu Qinyu is thinner than before, but even if she is thin, she only lost her waist and small face, and her fair and small chin is sharper, and the same is true for her waist, but her breasts are not very thin, and they seem to be still developing. She usually wears more spacious clothes when she goes to work in Xuji, and she changes into silk clothes after washing at home.

I feel that the chest of the silk pajamas is getting tighter and tighter, and plan to buy some more silk and satin to make a pair.

Early the next morning, she went to the restaurant to get busy again.

Waiting until noon to go to Dagu Town, returning to the restaurant in the afternoon, and being busy until closing at night.

After the restaurant closed, Xu Qinyu was sweating, and wanted to come back to the house in Xixiang to wash and rest, when she saw a woman in her forties standing outside the restaurant, wearing silk and satin, wearing two simple clothes When he saw Xu Qinyu, he asked with a smile on his face, "But Xu Dong's family from Xu Ji Restaurant?"

Xu Qinyu didn't recognize this woman, and nodded upon hearing the words, "Madam?"

The woman said with a smile: "I'm looking for Mr. Xu's family today because I want to talk to Mr. Xu about some business. Can Mr. Xu give us a chance to go in and talk about it?"

Xu Qinyu nodded, "Madam, please come in."

Xu Qinyu led the woman into Xu Ji Restaurant, and the hall in front of Xu Ji had been cleaned.

The two found a window and sat down. There was still some hawthorn drink left in the restaurant, which was reserved for Feng Tiao Yu Shun, and Yuan Shi, Lin Shi, and the others to drink when they got off work. Now there are guests, so naturally First served two bowls.

"This is the hawthorn drink from the restaurant. It quenches your thirst. Madam, try it."

Xu Qinyu put a bowl of hawthorn drink in front of the woman, and the woman took a sip from the bowl and sighed comfortably, "It's delicious."

The woman has already drank this hawthorn drink, even though her status is not suitable for coming to Xu Ji to eat and drink, but she has asked people to pack every food and drink in Xu Ji and taste it.

Even if her husband is a chef and has eaten the food made by the chef for decades, the woman feels that her husband's cooking skills are incomparable to that of Xu Ji, a small boss.

This Miss Xu is really dexterous, but at the age of sixteen or seventeen, her cooking skills have already reached such a level.

To be honest, her family's big restaurant is not as good as Xu Ji's small restaurant, and she doesn't feel wronged. Although she has never been to the capital, I am afraid that even the chefs in the capital can't compare with Xu's little lady. Mouth is not deceitful.

But no injustice is not injustice, no one wants their family's business to be affected.

She has endured it for more than a year, and she doesn't want to continue to endure it, so she wants to talk to Xu Ji's employer.

The woman drank half a bowl of hawthorn drink, put down the bowl, and said to Xu Qinyu: "Master Xu, I am the owner of Donglaiju, whose surname is Dong. On that winter day, I am looking for Mrs. Xu today because I have a business plan with Mrs. Xu." Ma'am talk."

It is precisely because her surname is Dong that the restaurant is named Donglaiju.

It also means that the purple air is coming from the east, which is auspicious.

Xu Qinyu was a little surprised. Even though Xu Ji's business was good, the impact on Donglaiju was not too great. Perhaps it had a greater impact on some small restaurants.

Because Xu Ji has such a large location, no matter how good Xu Ji's business is, the number of guests he can receive is limited. Some of these diners come from East Street and West Street.