Chapter 57: The Burning Cake (Part II)
Liu Yiyi wore a moon-white boy's shirt on the second morning, and took the lotus osmanthus dressed as a scholar to Du Shaonan's restaurant to open.
The signboard of the restaurant is covered with a red cloth, so Liu Yiyi still doesn't know what the name of this restaurant is, just looking at the carved beams and paintings of the real ancient buildings, she can't help but recall the big hotel where she worked in her last life, the garden area, the antique style, the integration of catering and accommodation, and the health paradise in the downtown (advertising word).
The place where she works is not cheap, not affordable for ordinary people, and the cost of a high-end room for a day is her monthly salary, but in retrospect, she does not hate the rich and does not scold the boss for being black-hearted, because it is the first place to pay her to affirm her value.
Du Quanzhong of the Du family knew Miss Liu, so he was sent by his young master to wait at the door, and he recognized the young lady in men's clothes and the twin scholars behind him at a distance of fifty meters, so he would not admit that he was wrong about the twins, so Du Quanzhong hurriedly went in to inform the young master.
Du Shaonan walked to the door just in time to see Liu Yiyi looking at the restaurant, with nostalgia, sadness, like, kindness, and self-confidence in his eyes...... It's complicated, but she is a lot more mature.
She was looking at her last life? Could it be that her family occupation in her previous life was also related to catering? Could it be such a coincidence?
"Brother Liu Xian......" Du Shaonan greeted him with a smile.
Liu Yiyi was stunned for a moment before she realized that Du Shaonan was calling herself: "Young Master Du, hello ......" She made a gesture of blessing, but fortunately, the lotus hand behind her quickly grabbed her, and reminded in a whisper: "Miss, you are wearing men's clothes now......"
Liu Yiyi's face turned red again, and then she changed her fist to salute: "Young Master Du, how are you......"
"Brother Liu Xian is a good ......" Du Shaonan is happy to watch her make jokes, but he doesn't hate her, women dressing up as men are a must for many women, and she actually can't, it seems that she is not a bold.
"Brother Liu Xian helped his brother to see if there were any deficiencies in this restaurant, and if he did, he generously pointed it out, so that his brother would open tomorrow and make people laugh......"
Du Shaonan led people into the door in front of his head, and introduced the tables, chairs and benches all the way to the time-honored "Zhang Ji" wood shop in Mengzhou City, which was kept smooth and would not hurt the guests with wooden spikes and iron nails, and the lacquer used in this house was also specially blended, and there was no peculiar smell.
The bookkeeper in the store has also been training for a long time, Du Shaonan invited a runner about twenty years old, the shopkeeper was dressed in a clean light blue coat and hat, with a snow-white cloth towel on his shoulder, he smiled and bowed when he saw someone, and then opened his mouth to report the name of the dish, and he didn't stutter once in five minutes.
Du Shaonan took them to the counter again, and said a string of numbers by the way, adding and subtracting, and the shopkeeper's abacus was like a cloud, and the total number was drawn out as soon as he finished speaking.
Liu Yiyi looked a little awe-inspiring at Du Shaonan, she originally thought that Du Shaonan opened a restaurant because Master Kuo had money and no place to spend, and he invested and played, and it was very easy for the money to be wasted in a situation like this, and it was nothing more than finding a professional manager to be responsible.
And now seeing that Du Shaonan knows the restaurant so well, and it is clear that everything is done by himself, Liu Yiyi asked herself again, she also planned to use the Liu family's financial resources to open a restaurant, so that she could cook and cook, but she didn't know much about the overall operation, and she had to find someone to be responsible.
She worked in the hotel kitchen in her last life, and she didn't dare to say that she was proficient in the entire operation and management of opening a store.
"What else do you think needs to be added?" Du Shaonan turned around and asked.
"It's already good at the front desk......" He even considered the safety of tables, chairs and benches, "Young Master Du has opened a restaurant before?" ”
"No, this is the first one." Du Shaonan didn't lie, the two lives plus him This is indeed his first time opening a hotel.
Then he must have done enough preparation before opening the store, a serious man is appreciated, Liu Yiyi didn't praise it, and his impression of this gentleman changed a little in his heart.
"It's already good at the front desk......" Du Shaonan repeated her words, "You mean you have to take another look, Miss Liu also knows how to open a restaurant, right?" Ah, by the way, I've seen that the Liu family has also prepared a new restaurant, don't you know it's open? ”
What he said was that she finally invited Lin Yuxiao that night to make peach blossoms for her in the snowy night, and Du Shaonan happened to catch up with her to eat a meal that night and sent her back, and instructed her not to say her name casually, should she thank him? Or is it angry that he witnessed her fruitless pursuit?
"That restaurant was sold to someone else by my father." Liu Yiyi replied in a low voice.
"Really? Why? "Mengzhou City is not a small city, and that restaurant is not a necessary place for Du Shaonan to walk, he really only heard about it today, so ...... "meaningful" place, why didn't she ask Master Liu to stay as a souvenir?
"It was only sold two days ago, and the buyer, Boss Guan, is a good friend of my father, and besides, my father doesn't want to open a new business at present......" Liu Yiyi lowered her head and explained in a low voice, she caused trouble and caused Master Liu's business to be difficult to do, someone is willing to buy the idle real estate of the Liu family at this time so that the Liu family has working capital turnover, can she still go up and stop it?
Don't dare to be willful when you know that you have done something wrong? Then this person can still be saved, Du Shaonan no longer asked, and said softly: "When the guest comes, my master can't even be stingy with a glass of water, right?" Private room, please, just help me see if there are any deficiencies in the private room? ”
"Then it's disrespectful." Liu Yiyi entered the role quite quickly, and at this moment, she was already holding her fists like a scholar.
You can't cross the women's clothes and men's clothes, and you can't learn from them, right? Du Shaonan muttered in his heart, and smiled politely on his face: "Please come here." ”
Du Shaonan took Liu Yiyi into the second best private room on the second floor, as for the most homely room is his private, with a few friends for gatherings, anyone who is not interesting enough to sweep him Yaxing, it is impossible to even know that room.
Among the people that Du Shaonan divided that should not be known, including Mu Qingyin, as well as Mrs. Li, Du Guogong and Mrs. Hu, so Liu Yiyi did not need to be aggrieved in this comparison.
Of course, Liu Yiyi, who has never seen the first best private room, can't recognize the place where she is currently ranked second, she only sees that this place is clean and exquisitely decorated, and it is no worse than the private room of another building that Master Liu took her to, so she nodded and said, "This place is good." ”
"Of course it's good," Du Shaonan proudly pointed to a painting on the wall, "This is the authentic handwriting of my famous writers, and I can't buy it for a hundred taels of silver." ”
"Is it ......" Liu Yiyi looked at this cursive script and seemed to be written in Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine", why did it become a surname again? Speaking of this time and space, what she doesn't understand the most is culture, obviously there is no Xia Ding Shang Yi, there is no Tang poetry and Song lyrics, so who is the author of these well-known words?
Liu Yiyi has been here for half a year, in order to prevent Li Bai Dufu's name from being said one day, she specially bought a collection of poems and essays at the bookstall to study, who knew that the collection of poems and essays here did not print the author's name!? It's not scientific! It's so hard for a traverser!
Now that she was really asked, Liu Yiyi didn't know whether the surname was a simple calligrapher or an author, so she could only say two sentences: "Yes, Young Master Du is very attentive to the restaurant...... and then asked Lotus Osmanthus to take out the dim sum she made herself, "My father said that he will come to congratulate him in person when he opens tomorrow."
Today is not the official opening day, if it is not appropriate to come with a generous gift, Mr. Liu asked his daughter to cook and make dim sum, he thinks that this can show that the two families are closer.
Making dim sum is a breeze for Liu Yiyi, because the two families just talked about it verbally, and she didn't have the complicated emotions and pressure of this fiancée cooking for her fiancé, and when I saw Du Shaonan again today, in addition to the embarrassment that she wore men's clothes but still performed women's etiquette when she first met, she has been listening to Du Shaonan introduce all kinds of restaurants, and naturally get along naturally.
Liu Yiyi naturally opened the food box and introduced: "This is a dim sum made by me, called fire cake, and the small dim sum is not valuable, but my father said that there is no sale in Mengzhou City yet." ”
Grilled cakes? Wouldn't that be implying that giving him permission would be the same as setting it on fire? But when he looked up at her smiling stupidly, Du Shaonan thought that she didn't have this IQ.
Besides, as a foodie, you should always eat and then comment, Du Shaonan picked up the chopsticks unceremoniously: "Then it's disrespectful, and thank Ling Zun for me." ”
The plate of dim sum in the food box was lumpy, the color was burnt yellow, with a faint aroma unique to baked dim sum, Du Shaonan took a bite carefully, it was crispy and sweet, and it melted in the mouth after a while.
After eating a piece, Du Shaonan took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then said: "This fire cake feels similar to ice flake cake, and the ingredients should be the same, but this heat is a little bigger and a little dry." ”
"Young Master Du is really an expert!" Liu Yiyi praised from the bottom of her heart, she made the ice cream for Mr. Liu, and Mr. Liu liked it very much, and often took it in the sedan chair as a snack, but now it was still cold, and the food inevitably entered a little cold, so she simply dried the ice cream with a stove fire, so there was a fire cake.
Because the ingredients of the two are the same, the old man Liu also likes to eat the hot cake, Liu Yiyi didn't think much about it, and this gift was also brought to Du Shaonan.
Listening to Du Shaonan's origin of breaking the fire and burning cakes, Liu Yiyizan's sincere smile is also sincere, and people who like to cook are most willing to meet those who can eat.
Du Shaonan also smiled: "Speaking of which, this is the fifth time I have tasted Miss Liu's cooking, and it really makes people happy every time they are different." ”
It's been five times!? Liu Yiyi was a little surprised at first glance, and hurriedly lowered her head and bent her fingers to calculate, her first return was Cai'er's house in the suburbs, and she was cooking Jiangmi roasted wheat, this was the first time the two had met, and it was not pleasant, especially her cooking skills were not as good as those in the palace, and she lost face here in Lin Yuxiao.
The second time was naturally Du Shaonan uninvited and ate the peach blossoms she had carefully prepared on a snowy night, and she was unforgettable about this extra-large light bulb.
The third time was that Master Liu had a treat yesterday, and the six cooks cooked Du Shaonan and said that the hawthorn cake she made was the most delicious, so that Du Shaonan left the Liu family and said "This is fate", and it was difficult for Liu Yiyi not to remember.
And then it's today, Du Shaonan just ate the hot cake, but how can there be five times?