Tanjia Sauce Shop is at the foot of Jigong Mountain in Tanjiazhuang, two or three hundred meters away from the nearest house in Zhuangzi.

"Duo, that is." Tan Dejin stretched out his hand and pointed not far away and said to Qiduo.

Qiduo fixed his eyes and froze.

Ah, that's the sauce shop, no wonder grandma dislikes it.

The first thing that caught my eye was a human-tall withered yellow weedy bush, and then I looked over and saw something behind the weeds.

"Dad, why is this place deserted like this? Since the sauce shop was handed down by our Tan family ancestors, why didn't grandpa run it and let it be scrapped? Qiduo asked, and stepped forward.

I wanted to ask this question for a long time, but I was busy with Erxia's affairs in the past two days, and I haven't had time to ask it yet.

"The sauce shop is indeed handed down from the ancestors, I heard your father say that a hundred years ago, our Tan family's soy sauce was very famous, and it was also shipped to other provincial capitals to sell, and the business was particularly prosperous. It's a pity that because your grandfather was suddenly ill and died suddenly on the way to other provinces, your grandfather had just gotten married at the time, and he didn't fully know the secret recipe for making sauce.

It is said that your grandfather hid the secret recipe somewhere, but your grandmother and uncle searched everywhere at the time, but they couldn't find it. At that time, some people also said that the secret recipe was taken by your grandmother, but your grandmother didn't admit it, and there was a lot of commotion.

Later, because there was no secret recipe, the soy sauce brewed by the sauce shop tasted not pure enough, and sometimes it would be sour and peculiar, and slowly the reputation of our Tan family's soy sauce wine would be ruined, and the business would plummet, but your father still persisted, thinking that one day the authentic Tan family soy sauce would be brewed.

Twenty-eight years ago, the annual harvest was not very good, and the price of beans rose a lot. Your grandfather spent a lot of money on beans. Unexpectedly, all the soy sauce was spoiled.

The family no longer has the money to support this sauce shop. Your lord had to endure the pain and close the sauce shop, this is the pain in his heart, and he has never stepped into the sauce shop for half a step since then, and I am afraid that no one will remember our Tan family's soy sauce anymore. Tan Dejin followed Qiduo and said why.

Listening to the past, Qiduo nodded from time to time, but he didn't expect that there would be such a past in the sauce shop.

She had a slight change in her mind about Old Man Tan, it turned out that he had also adhered to his ideals. It's a pity that it didn't work out.

Qiduo was a little regretful, if Grandpa Tai hadn't died young, or if the secret recipe hadn't been lost, maybe the Tan family's sauce shop would still be thriving, and the Tan family's life would not be as embarrassing as it is today.

"Dad, why do you suspect that grandma took the secret recipe, grandpa and uncle are her sons, and the prosperity of the Tan family is also good for her?" Qiduo is puzzled, how can a mother be so confused.

Tan Dejin pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment. said, "That grandmother is a step-room. Your real grandmother died in childbirth when she gave birth to your grandfather. ”

"Oh, I see, no wonder." Qiduo realized, no wonder people would be suspicious of the step-grandmother, it is understandable.

But she was still puzzled, and asked again, "But even if this grandmother is not grandpa's biological mother, she took away the secret recipe, the Tan family's sauce shop can't survive, and it's not good for her, she still has to live in the Tan family." ”

"Ahem, she...... Less than a year after your great-grandfather died, she hurriedly remarried to another country, and no one saw her again. Tan Dejin said with a somewhat embarrassed face.

This is all an ancestral matter, and it stands to reason that he should not have said it to his daughter.

But it was Qiduo who asked these words, and he couldn't help but say it, if Liuju or Erxia asked, he would definitely not say it.

Qiduo's eyes narrowed, he didn't expect it to be so bloody, thinking about it like this, it is very likely that the secret recipe will be taken away by the step-grandmother.

Since Grandpa Tai married her, he naturally treated her as a wife, and there were some secret things that he didn't tell his sons, but it was very likely to tell his wife.

Grandma Wei failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter for her grandfather, and she had no sense of security in the Tan family, so she secretly took the secret recipe to find another way out for herself.

When the father and daughter were talking, they had already approached the sauce shop.

Tan Dejin pulled away the tall weeds, and the sauce shop appeared in front of Qiduo.

It's a pity that in the past 28 years, no one has taken care of it and no one has asked, and the sauce shop has been silently experiencing the wind and rain, and has been overwhelmed and seriously damaged.

Now it can no longer be called a sauce shop, because it is now just a pile of ruins and broken tiles, only half of the wall is still standing, and the other walls are all collapsed and all the tiles are broken.

Between the ruins, some fragments of the sauce jar can still be faintly seen.

According to Tan Dejin, all the sauce jars in the sauce shop were sold, and those left in it were unusable.

Qiduo's visual inspection of the sauce shop was very large, with a long and eight-bay roof foundation, and a wooden stake buried in the soil in the wide yard, which was the place where the sauce was dried back then.

She seemed to see the busy figures of the workers when the business of the sauce shop was booming, as well as the bright smiles of grandpa and grandpa.

Time has passed, the old man is gone, and the glory is no more.

Looking at this mess, Qiduo felt inexplicably a little sad.

"Alas, it's all ruined, and I've said long ago that it's useless for our family to have it, unless it's used to build a house in the future. But this place is far away from Zhuangzi, and it is too lonely to live here. Tan Dekin let out a long sigh and said.

When the sauce shop closed, he was a few years older than Qiduo, and there were no workers in the sauce shop at that time, only Mr. Tan and his sons were brewing soy sauce in it.

At that time, he could only follow behind, and he couldn't help much.

Qiduo looked at the ruins in contemplation, his brows furrowed, and his mind kept turning.

She remembers very clearly that in her hometown in her previous life, there was a century-old sauce shop, and the products produced were well-known at home and abroad.

The founder of this time-honored brand started out as a local street seller, selling sauces on his shoulders, and then opened a sauce garden, producing not only soy sauce, but also various hot sauces, and finally pastries, and the business has been enduring.

Now that my conditions are better than those of the founder, why can't I do what he does?

Qiduo now wants to revive the Tan family sauce shop and let it continue to spread its reputation in the Daimyo Dynasty.

"Dad, do you know how to make soy sauce?" Qiduo asked.

"I haven't done it in a long time, and I've almost forgotten it." Tan Dejin scratched his head and said with some embarrassment.

Qiduo pursed his lips and bowed his head gently, you can ask Old Man Tan about this, although he has failed. But that doesn't mean you will fail forever.

You have abilities and spiritual water. may help.

"Daddy. Where is Luhuapo? Qiduo didn't say anything about his plans for the time being.

The appearance of the sauce shop made Qiduo understand that there was nothing to look forward to in that pond, but she still wanted to go over and take a look, so she was willing.

"That's still ten miles away, it's getting dark, I can't go today." Tedkin said.

Ten miles away, well, it's a little far. Qiduo had no choice but to give up.

The father and daughter went home along the way they came, and Qiduo was full of thoughts about how to open a sauce shop.

However, before opening the sauce shop, the house had to be rebuilt, which took a lot of effort, and it seemed that this matter had to be done slowly, and it was impossible to eat a fat man in one bite.

Xu was cooking with Erxia and Liuju, and when they saw Qiduo coming back, Liuju waved her hand and called her, "Duo, come here." ”

"What's wrong. Second sister, that's right. Hasn't the fourth uncle come back yet? Qiduo walked over and asked.

"I haven't come back yet." Liuju shook his head, then pointed to a pile of bamboo shoots and asked, "Duo, how do you eat this thing?" ”

"Yo, who dug this?" Qiduo asked in surprise, all the bamboo shoots they dug up last day were sold.

"My mother and eldest sister went to dig it, and they also picked mushrooms." Liuju replied.

Qiduo looked at Xu and Erxia, and the two of them pursed their lips and smiled.

"Mother, you are different from us, don't do these jobs in the future, what if you hurt your body." Seven flowers snorted.

Xu's little feet are tired and panicked when they walk on the flat road, not to mention that they are still on the mountain, and there are many beasts on the mountain, if something happens, they can't run if they want to.

"Look at what you girl said, my mother is not a paper paste, why do you look down on my mother now, I think my mother can't do things, hehe." Xu laughed and was disgusted.

"Mother, I didn't mean that." Qiduo shook Xu's arm coquettishly.

"Hehe, my mother knows that you are distressed by my mother, and my mother knows what you can do and what you can't do, rest assured." Xu Shi hugged Qiduo, gently stroked her hair, and said softly.

Erxia and Liuju watched and laughed from the sidelines, their smiles warm and happy.

There is warmth flowing in Qiduo's heart, and it feels good to be close to each other as a family.

Looking at the pile of bamboo shoots, Qiduo immediately thought of Zheng Wanru, and she should send some over.

She asked the six oranges to peel off the outer skin of the bamboo shoots first, but not to discard them, and then they could be cooked and dried, and they became delicious bamboo shoots.

"Mother, I'll send some bamboo shoots to Aunt Shen." Qiduo picked up half a basket of bamboo shoots and said to Xu.

"No need, when we come back next morning, we will send a basket to Aunt Shen's house. I also told Aunt Shen about the separation, and Aunt Shen also said that it was good to split up.

Aunt Shen also gave us a lot of things, you can return them at night, by the way, how to make these bamboo shoots. Xu said with a smile.

"Okay." Qiduo smiled and responded.

Two dishes, bamboo shoots and mushrooms, cooked by Qiduo himself, made bacon and fresh bamboo shoots and mushroom and vegetable soup, and fried small snails.

Before going to the county seat, Luo Shangqiduo told Erxia to let her go home and go to the tail in advance.

After preparing the dishes and waiting for a while, Tan Debao's figure appeared at the Moon Gate.

Qiduo and Tan Dejin hurriedly greeted them, both anxious about Mrs. Liu's affairs.

"Big brother, why did you come back so late today, is there nothing to do?" Tan Debao asked with concern first.

"It's okay, let's go, let's go in the house." Tan Dejin patted Tan Debao's arm.

"Fourth uncle, is Mrs. Liu back?" Qiduo asked Tan Debao in a low voice.

Today, I am outside, but I have been thinking about this in my heart, and if the damn Mrs. Liu can't find it one day, the truth of the matter will not be exposed.

Tan Debao shook his head, "I went to her house a few times today, her door is still locked, I asked other people in her village again, some people said that some relatives in her family have died, she went to the funeral, and it may take a few days to come back." ”

"Funeral? Coincidentally, Dad, Fourth Uncle, do you still remember the two people who came to find the second uncle last night, and their family also had a funeral, is it possible that they happen to be relatives of Mrs. Liu? Qiduo rolled his eyes and said, it is not impossible to have such a possibility.

Tan Debao nodded, "Well, it's hard to say. ”

"It wasn't that way, was it?" Tedkin shook his head.

"Whether it's or not, so be it, big brother, let's hurry up and eat, and after dinner, let's go to that person's house and take a sneak peek." Adhane Debao suggested.

"That's fine." Tan Dekin nodded.

The two brothers quickly lowered their heads to pick up the rice and stopped talking.

Qiduo's lips pursed, hoping very much that this trip would be fruitful. (To be continued......)