Mrs. Xu said angrily: "Why didn't you bring it earlier?"

Mama Yu hurriedly handed over the letter and said, "Mrs. Tai has wronged the slave maid, this was given to us when the second master went out just now." ”

"This gentleman!" Mrs. Xu said, opened the letter and read it, it was ten pages of paper, which were full of trivial things in daily life, Mrs. Xu smiled while looking at it, and said: "This little girl, I am not good at being a lady over there, I wander around the street every day, saying that this time, I ordered a snack on the street, and when I left, I realized that it was made of things in the large intestine of the sheep, and I was disgusted for several days when I went back!" ”

Mrs. Xu looked at it, and before she knew it, it was the last page, although she was reluctant, she still said stiffly: "This eleven mother, every time she writes a letter, she has to write more than a dozen pages, and she can make money by herself, otherwise who can marry such a loser in the future!"

Mama Yu listened to Mrs. Xu's words of praise and praise, but she smiled silently.

Since Eleven Niang went to Fucheng, she will write a letter every ten days for people to bring back, each time it is a dozen pages, what is written on it is what she has done in the past few days, what she has eaten, what she has played, and it is said that she is asking for an letter, but it is not like, but it is more like a casual account. Mrs. Xu likes to read her letters the most when she is troubled now, and she feels in a good mood when she looks at them.

Xu Zhongyan returned to the Xu Mansion in Fucheng and began to work on the matter of the restaurant.

The garment shop is now handed over to Yu Xing to be responsible, the Xu family's old house was officially closed a few months ago, except for 500 acres of land, there is almost no income in the vein of the big house, so the garment shop, under Xu Zhongyan's proposal, with the consent of Mrs. Xu, has become a public property of the Xu family, and the monthly income will be divided into four shares, and the four rooms will be divided equally.

When she heard the news, Eleven Niang was stunned, although the restaurant has not yet opened, the second uncle has already left a piece for the big house, and now the ready-to-wear shop has been divided into three percent. I think so, but Eleven Niang still feels that her decision to leave a way back is right.

The opening time of the restaurant is set for the ninth day of August, the Xu family has a shallow foundation in Fucheng, and is afraid that there will not be many customers on the first day, so Xu Zhongyan decided to open three days before the opening, all dishes are half price, saying that it is half price, in fact, it is cost price sales, so that it is not a loss, but also can attract guests, plus Xu Zhongyan has been a gentleman for more than ten years, and he is the most familiar with this kind of wine and sound art, so it will not be long before the restaurant is full of customers, and the chef is obviously not enough.

In June, there was a small-scale flood in the Huai River, which flooded several villages, although the court released grain in time for disaster relief, but the villagers planted all the grain in the field was not harvested, so many victims dragged their families to Jiangning Mansion City along the official road, Xu Zhongyan met Cheng Quan's family at the gate of the city, it was in this context. Seeing that this family was honest and loyal, he had the heart to buy people, and walked over to chat with him, Cheng Quandao's family not only the house fell, but the fields were also buried by mountains and rocks, and he had no choice but to leave the country, and now he didn't ask for anything else, just wanted the whole family to have a place to settle down, so for Xu Zhongyan's proposal to buy his family as a servant, Cheng Quan did not resist and agreed directly, so Xu Zhongyan called Zhou Yayu to go through the formalities, and Cheng Quan's family lived in Xu's house.

Cheng Quan's family has a total of six people, his wife Cheng Wu, and two sons, two daughters, the eldest son is called Cheng Wen, 17 years old this year, the second son is called Cheng Wu, 16 years old this year, the eldest daughter is called Cheng Ying, 12 years old this year, and the youngest daughter is called Cheng Mei, 10 years old this year.

After arriving at Xu's house, Cheng Quan's family worked very actively, Cheng Quan and his family helped Mama Gu, Cheng Wen and Cheng Wu did chores in the outer courtyard, and Cheng Ying and Cheng Mei helped Brother Jun to do some housekeeping and other work.

"Miss, the family that the second master recently bought back is really good, that Cheng Lu learned from me about the fish of the four seas, only once, and the taste is even better than what I made!" Mama Li opened the curtain and reported to Eleven Niang, who was standing at the desk practicing calligraphy.

The four sea fish is the vinegar fish of the West Lake, and the eleventh mother felt that the name of the vinegar fish was not good, so she changed it.

"Really? Isn't the second uncle having a headache, the restaurant business is too good, and there are not enough chefs? You go and teach this Cheng Lu more to see how good she is. Eleven Niang didn't raise her head, and continued to write in big characters.

Since moving to Fucheng, she hasn't practiced as crazy as before, but writing 200 big characters a day is still necessary.

Cheng Quan and Cheng Lu's skills are really good, under the teaching of Mama Li, they will cook more than 20 dishes in just a few days, and the taste is excellent, they really have a talent for cooking, Xu Zhongyan is very happy, and immediately arranged them to work in the restaurant, Cheng Quan and the original chef of the restaurant, Lao Gu, are the chefs of big dishes together, Cheng Lu's is the chef of the stew category, and Cheng Wen Chengwu is temporarily apprenticed. In order to make the family do their best, Xu Zhongyan not only promised to give them a regular amount of money every month, but also promised that if the restaurant business could become the first in the city, they would let their family redeem themselves after 15 years.

Hearing the main family's arrangement, Cheng Quan's family was grateful to Dade and worked more energetically.

Although the second uncle has his own experience in making a restaurant, but Eleven Niang remembered a small idea, what is food? Food is full of color and flavor, a dish, fragrant, taste, then you have to move your mind on the color.

How to make a dish more beautiful? Eleven Niang can't even cook vegetables, and the carving is even worse, and the same is true for Mama Li, it just so happened that Xu Zhongyan bought more than 20 more victims who fled over, and originally planned to wait for the field to be bought and put it in the grange, but when Eleven Niang saw these people, she had an idea, and asked Mingyue to prepare enough tools, and then let these people practice cutting radishes every day.

At the beginning, seeing these 20 or so people in the yard setting up a posture to cut turnips, not to mention that the female dependents didn't understand, even Xu Zhongyan was curious.

"Eleven Niang, what are you going to do here?" Xu Zhongyan asked curiously.

Today is the second day, and Eleven Niang just told the gang to cut the radish from beginning to end by shredding, and pass the test in the way of continuous silk.

After giving the order, he walked to see the posture of these people holding knives, and when he heard the second uncle ask, Eleven Niang said mysteriously: "Second uncle, you will know in a few days." ”

Okay, Xu Zhongyan shrugged his shoulders and didn't care, anyway, his little niece is very smart, and she shouldn't do useless things.

After cutting the radish for three days, Eleven Niang really picked two seedlings from these people, one is called Cheng Bu, and Cheng Quan is from the same village, only 15 years old this year, the family is gone, and the other people in the village escaped, one is called Chen Dashan, who was introduced by Zhou Yayu, saying that the family was poor, and was sold by his brother and sister-in-law, and he is only 12 years old this year. The reason why Shi Niang chose these two people was because these two people cut radishes on the first day, and the shreds were of different sizes, and they looked like people who had not been into the kitchen much, but on the third day, these two people were able to follow her requirements to try to connect the silk ends of the whole radish and make rapid progress.