After Zhong Hao owned the shares of Natural Residence, he quickly entered the role of a shareholder, and after discussing with the Gao brothers, he temporarily closed the natural residence, let the two brothers learn the craft well, and then reopened after rectification. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chinese cooking has always had the saying of "seven points of knife work and three points of hot frying", "no knife can not be a dish"! To be a qualified chef, knife work is the necessary foundation. If you want to be a good chef, you need to be a good knife player!

Fortunately, he has a rich foundation for more than half a year, although he didn't learn how to cook, he has practiced knife skills, at least Zhong Hao feels better than himself. Although Zhong Hao can cook many dishes, he has not really taken the time to hone his knife skills after all.

The knife work is almost done, and you still have to practice spooning. When stir-frying, spooning is also a skill that must be mastered.

Fortunately, Zhong Hao asked him to use an iron pot to load two catties of pebbles, and insisted on weighing it every day, and after more than half a month, he basically mastered the skill of spooning.

Of course, the iron pot used by Gao Defu is not the thick and large iron pot used for stewing, but according to Zhong Hao's request, he went to the blacksmith shop to build a small thin iron pot suitable for stir-frying. The thick iron pot used for stew, even if it is not filled with stones, is so high that the rich can't hold it with two hands.

Nowadays, all the stoves in the natural kitchen have been replaced with this thin iron pot suitable for stir-frying, and the stoves are also equipped with bellows designed by Zhong Hao.

After practicing the spoon, Zhong Hao began to teach Gao Defu to make all kinds of stir-fried dishes, there is no quick way to do this, the different order of each dish and the length of time to stir-fry will affect the quality of the dishes, so he can only teach Gao Defu the same dishes he can make step by step.

As for making soju, it is relatively simple, there is a original brewing workshop in the backyard of the natural house, and Gao Deli built a big house in the backyard according to Zhong Hao's requirements for the workshop of steaming wine. Zhong Hao specially instructed to use bricks and stones, most of the houses in this era were wooden structures, but this room needed to be lit and steamed all day long, Zhong Hao was really afraid of fire.

After the steaming workshop was built, Zhong Hao instructed Gao Deli to place the steamer, install copper pipes and a pool for cooling.

After everything was ready, Zhong Hao found that the restaurant was not staffed enough, and he and Gao Deli went to the east of the city to pick four teenagers as helpers.

The four teenagers selected by Zhong Hao and Gao Deli all look honest and responsible, and they are all orphans who lost their families and were helpless in the flood.

Gao Deli signed a fifteen-year pawn deed with the four teenagers, and the four teenagers pawned themselves and sold them as slaves in the natural residence. Now the Great Song Dynasty does not support the storage of slaves, even if the pawn of a large family buys slaves, the maximum period is fifteen years, the Great Song Dynasty is not allowed to sign a death deed, and after the pawn contract expires, the slave must be freed.

The wages stated in the deeds of Gao Deli and the four teenagers were very high. In fact, Zhong Hao originally wanted to sign an employment contract, but Gao Deli said that signing a pawn deed was more binding on them, after all, the master-slave relationship was more binding than the employment relationship.

An orphan who fled the famine without support, the restaurant gave them a job to do, a high salary, a trade, and a pawn contract, as long as the restaurant was kind to them, they would not be able to give birth to other ideas, which was also more conducive to protecting the technology of stir-fry and shochu.

Of course, at first, Zhong Hao and Gao Deli would not let them come into contact with stir-frying and distilling liquor, and they mainly helped in the kitchen to do miscellaneous work such as washing vegetables, selecting vegetables, lighting the fire, and throwing grain and producing sake lees when brewing sake in the early stage of the brewery, so as to keep the skills of stir-fry and soju secret to the greatest extent.

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During this time, Xu got up early every day to go out of the stall and returned home after lunch.

As more and more people know about the new food of soy milk fritters, Xu's business is getting better and better.

Xu Shi made the money, except for leaving the preparation materials and living necessities, and basically bought Zhong Hao all kinds of books and reading supplies such as pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and looked forward to Zhong Hao reading hard.

Zhong Hao really didn't want to read those difficult and obscure classical Chinese, and he was afraid that Xu would be sad when he knew that he didn't want to study, so he went to the natural residence every day to give guidance and went home early. After lunch, when Xu and Xu Wan went home, Zhong Hao was already learning calligraphy in the courtyard.

Zhong Hao wanted to tell Xu about his plans, but he was afraid of living up to her ardent expectations, so he dragged it out with the mentality of getting by.

During this time, Guan Fang Chang had come to Zhong Hao's house several times, and after reading Zhong Hao's writing, he was full of praise. After a few small talks, I was quite surprised by Zhong Hao's knowledge.

Guan Fang Chang is also a scholar, and when he was young, he also passed the state examination once, but when he went to Tokyo to participate in the provincial examination presided over by the Ministry of Rites, he returned with a feather, and he never passed the examination again. However, in Yuqingfang, which is mainly an ordinary people's area, he is the most literate person.

Guan Fang Chang is very concerned about Zhong Hao's attachment.

Zhong Hao once inadvertently said: He and Xu's mother and daughter don't want to go back to Hebei Road, and want to settle down in Qingzhou City. In the opinion of Guan Fang, Zhong Hao will inevitably make a big difference in the future, and being able to settle in Yu Qingfang is a good thing for Yu Qingfang, because he is very concerned about Zhong Hao's attachment.

The Great Song Dynasty was an open dynasty and one with the least restrictions on the movement of people, and people were eligible to be attached to the local area after living in one place for one year. However, Zhong Hao and Xu's mother and daughter have only arrived in Qingzhou for a month, and obviously they have not met the conditions for living in Qingzhou for one year. Another thing is that Zhong Hao doesn't have anything to prove his identity, and he doesn't have any of them.

However, Guan Fang patted his chest and promised: This is not a problem, there are people in our county office. He only took the family of Xu's mother and daughter, and went to go through the registration procedures for Zhong Hao and the others.

Zhong Hao is still a black household in the Great Song Dynasty, so he naturally wants to obtain a legal identity so that he can feel more at ease. So Zhong Hao solemnly asked Guan Fang Changbai to handle this matter for him, of course, he couldn't let Guan Fang Changbai help, Zhong Hao gave Guan Fang Chang five yuan as a thank you.

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The early summer of April is over in a blink of an eye, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

The day of the restaurant's reopening is set for May 16, which is a good day for Gao Deli to find a fortune teller to check the yellow calendar.

It's been a few days since the opening, and recently Zhong Hao and the Gao Deli brothers have been busy preparing for the reopening of the restaurant.

Zhong Hao's cooking has basically been taught to Gao Defu, but recently, there have been many seasonal vegetables on the market, and Zhong Hao and Gao Defu have newly studied a lot of seasonal dishes.

As for the relatively simple aspect of soju, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than distillation, but no one thought of this method before the Great Song Dynasty.

"Jade liquid roast" and "Erguotou" have a high degree and a strong taste, which is more suitable for rough men.

The literati of the Great Song Dynasty paid attention to peace and dilution, and they also paid attention to a graceful demeanor when drinking, and this high level of soju was obviously not suitable for them to drink. Just imagine, a handsome scribe, a few glasses of soju, with a red face and a thick neck, how can there be any demeanor at all.

With this in mind, Zhong Hao deliberately made a low-alcohol soju for the literati and scholars, which was the "Jade Liquid Qing" that he had mentioned to Gao Deli that time.

This "jade liquid clear" is about 20 degrees, which is not much higher than the degree of fermented sake of the Great Song Dynasty, and about the same degree as the degree of Japanese sake in later generations.

Of course, the name "Jade Liquid", Zhong Hao mainly wants to explain that it is as clear as Qiong Jelly Jade Liquid, and has nothing to do with Japanese sake. Japanese sake is mainly fermented liquor, while "Tamaryeki" is a distilled liquor, which is obtained by mixing high-grade shochu with a certain amount of distilled water and then distilling it in a steamer.