Ning Xi pulled Meng Shuangshuang, who was still flustered, and asked her to take the children to the deck, she ran up to find those gangsters first, and the big men were really pale one by one, holding their stomachs and lying on the deck weakly, and some of them even had traces of vomit and excrement on their bodies, and when they saw Ning Xi coming out, they scolded viciously: "Dead girl, you dare to harm your grandfather." It's a pity that the scolding voice is not much louder than that of mosquitoes.

Ning Xi endured the disgust and tied several people with the rope that had just been untied to tie them tightly, waited on the boat with a group of children, and when the patrolling soldiers passed by, they shouted loudly together: "Help!" Naturally, the soldiers were brought in.

When the group was transported to the official office, Ning Xi remembered that he and Meng Shuangshuang were fugitives, and it was terrible that the identity was discovered by the government, so he hurriedly discussed it with Meng Shuangshuang, and after obtaining Zhang Zhize's consent, he decided to borrow the identities of his two sisters.

When they arrived at the official office, the two of them said it according to Ozawa's statement, and after the people of the government investigated, they believed their statement because their household registration, age, and name were not different.

The other abducted women and children were sent back to their hometowns, but Ozawa's hometown had long been destroyed by the floods, and there were no elders and relatives in the family, so they were homeless wherever they went.

But Ning Xi is reluctant, she still plans to show her strength in business! Meng Shuangshuang didn't want to, she heard that life in Shantang was not good, especially for newcomers, they would definitely be oppressed, so it was better to go to work in a big family's house, at least the monthly silver they got was their own.

So the two asked whether the three of them could set up their own portal, and the official was very sympathetic to them, and he also had a good impression of Meng Shuangshuang, who looked sweet and spoke well, so he agreed to apply to the above to try, and in the end, not only did the three of them get the household sticker to stand on their own, but also got ten taels of silver for settling in, which was really exciting.

Ning Xi finally remembered and asked the official: "Master, what kind of place is this?" ”

"What place? Official! Go out and turn left, more than 200 steps away, there is an inn, the fee is not expensive, you can settle down first, and then go to find a house to settle down. ”

"Sir, I mean, we have been in the bilge of that ship, and we don't know where we are, but what city is this?"

"You don't even know where you are, so you are ashamed to stand on your own. Sue you, this is the capital, Chang'an! Have you figured out what you're going to do for a living? ”

"It turned out to be the capital, that's great, there are many kind-hearted people like you in the capital, so we don't have to worry about it!" Ning Xi cheered.

The official was a little exaggerated, and kindly introduced them to a fair tooth shop, and asked them to look for a house there, if they wanted to find a job.

After coming out of the official office, Ning Xi and Meng Shuangshuang took out all the silver on their bodies and counted them, plus the ten taels given by the government, a total of twelve taels, spent eight taels of silver to rent a quiet small courtyard, and then bought some pots and pans, clothes and bedding and other necessities, and spent more than two taels of silver.

Meng Shuangshuang looked at the remaining less than two taels of silver, and said distressedly: "The price of goods in the capital is so expensive, we won't have long to live with this little money, or I should go to a family to work, and you will take good care of Xiao Ze at home." ”

Ning Xi said: "I have an idea, I don't know if you are willing to do it with me, it's better than going to other people's homes to work and being bullied." ”

"Do what?"

"I have seen it when I was looking for a house just now, the location of this house we are looking for is very good, on the left is a big vegetable market, called Xishankou vegetable market, it is said that the price of vegetables is the cheapest in the whole Xicheng, and not far from the right is a very lively Ximen market, I heard that there is a night market, the night market is more lively. I thought that we should buy something from the vegetable market during the day and make it, and sell it in the night market at night, so that we should be able to make some money. ”

"That's a good idea, Ningxi, your craftsmanship is so good, everything is delicious, and the business of selling food couldn't be better."

"I think so too." Ning Xi said proudly that in her previous life, she didn't have to do it herself at all, just by borrowing her name to open a restaurant, she could be like a cloud!

"You and Ozawa clean up the house first, and I'll go shopping in the vegetable market to see what business we do." Ning Xi said to Meng Shuangshuang.

Although Meng Shuangshuang was older than Ning Xi, Ning Xi's calm and sophisticated skills along the way were very convincing, so the two of them obeyed her words, but they were a little surprised: "So fast? ”

"Naturally, now we are sitting and eating, and if we don't hurry up and think about making money, we will have to drink the northwest wind."

"Then you can go quickly, just have me and Ozawa at home." Meng Shuangshuang quickly rolled up his sleeves and began to work.

After taking a look around the market, Ning Xi quickly determined what business she wanted to do, her capital was small, so she naturally had to start with cheap ingredients, and the cheapest thing sold in the market was meat. Although the imperial court explicitly ordered the people to eat meat, and also spent a lot of money to support the development of animal husbandry, chicken, duck, goose, pig, cattle, sheep and other kinds of meat are now available in the market, but it still cannot change the eating habits accumulated in the past hundred years.

The net meat is fine, you can eat it when you buy it back and cook it, but the internal organs and parts of these animals, such as pig heads, pork belly, pig hands, pig intestines, pig liver, foie gras, goose heads, goose paws, goose wings, chicken feet, ......etc., if they are not handled well, the fishy atmosphere is extremely heavy, and people who are not used to eating meat can't eat it at all, so these things are almost given away for nothing and no one wants them, which is cheap Ning Xi, she almost didn't spend any money and brought a lot back to the house.

Covering their noses, they asked her, "What are you doing with these things?" Disgusting to death! ”

"Don't worry, there's something delicious for you." Ning Xi replied with confidence, she went to the pharmacy just now, the people here are not very good at cooking, but there are a lot of spices, in fact, it may not be that the people here are not good at cooking, but they are not very good at making meat dishes, in the vegetarian cuisine, the development should be quite good, but she has always been poor and has not seen it.

Ning Xi was very patient in cleaning up the large pile of animal entrails, and both refused to help her in disgust, so she threw the spices she bought from the pharmacy to her and asked her to clean them.

After you are ready, you can open the oil pot, first fry star anise and peppercorns, peppercorns are not subject to fire, soak them in water first, and then scoop up and drain the water and then put them in the oil pot, the heat is also crucial, the fire is too big and easy to burn, the fire is too small and can not fry the fragrance, only when the red peppercorns turn purple brown, the fragrance is released, and the fire will be closed immediately.

Then put the fried peppercorns and star anise, together with cinnamon bark, cumin, cloves, cardamom, monk fruit, and licorice, into a high-waisted big tile soup pot, put most of the boiled water, boil, and then add sand ginger, soy sauce, rock sugar, garlic, sorghum wine, first boil over medium heat, and then blanch in boiling water to remove the blood foam of various internal organs into the boil, so that it tastes.

Shuangshuang sniffled: "It's so fragrant!" What is it called? ”

"This is called lo-mei, no matter what kind of meat can be marinated, and the more marinated meat, the more complementary the flavor of various meats, the more delicious it is!"

"Really?" Shuangshuang no longer disliked the internal organs and was disgusted, and looked at it with great interest, "Okay?" Is it ready to eat? ”

Ning Xi smiled and scooped up the boiled meat, put it on the board to cool, then cut it into thick slices with a knife, arranged them neatly on the plate, and then scooped a spoonful □□of marinade and poured it on the meat slices.

Shuangshuang hurriedly picked up a piece with his hands and put it in his mouth: "Wow, it's so delicious, it really doesn't smell fishy at all!" ”

Ning Xi smiled and patted her hands: "Eat with chopsticks!" ”

"No, no, I can't wait to get the chopsticks, it's so delicious!" Shuangshuang ate one piece after another, and saw Ning Xi fishing a plate of chicken feet and duck paws over, "Can you eat this thing too?" ”

"Well, you try!"

"Wow, even the bones can be crushed, it's full of extremely fragrant gravy, Xiaoxixi, you are so amazing, the things you usually use to throw can be made so delicious by you!"

"Then you think it's okay for us to go to the night market and sell these things?"

"Well, for sure!"

"Then let's get ready and start setting up a stall tonight."

"Wait, wait, I haven't eaten enough!"

"From now on, I will sell this every day, and you will have something to eat, and you will eat it until you get bored."

"How can you get tired of eating such a delicious thing." Meng Shuangbi said while beckoning Xiao Ze to come over: "Come and eat, it's good to work at night when you're full." ”

Ningxi bought a simple board car, put the cooked lo-mei in a large basin, and then installed a large board, a kitchen knife, and a scale, just now when I went to buy the scale, I also specially asked people how to use it for a long time, I really miss the days when there were electronic scales and plastic food bags! By the way, food bags, Ning Xi remembered a question: "Shuangshuang, how can someone else bring back our lo-mei?" ”

"This one!" Meng Shuangshuang didn't quite understand, "They won't bring a plate to buy it themselves!" When she was a maid, the sisters wanted to eat snacks when they were free, but they all carried a bowl out to buy it.

Ning Xi felt that this method was not very reliable, but he couldn't think of any better way for a while, so he had to say: "Forget it, let's go to the night market and see how others sell it!" "It's useless to think too much, and then talk about it when you get to the market.

Because they arrived relatively early, there were not many people in the night market, but the good stalls were occupied early, and they only found a corner location after looking for a long time, and generally no one passed by, so they helplessly unloaded the car and set up the stalls.