The layout of the Shikumen houses is similar, and Yaxianju is no exception, the door enters through a patio is the guest hall, and after the guest hall, there are back wings, stairs, and kitchens. If it is an ordinary home, the three should be connected by a walkway that leads to the back door. However, due to the opening of the hostel, Yaxian Ju had to consider serving a large number of meals, and could not let the fumes pass through the corridor to affect the guests upstairs, so it needed a passage from the kitchen to the living room, so the back wing room was separated into a walkway connecting the kitchen. The original walkway ended after passing the staircase, and came out of the back door along the kitchen wall until the back door was just across the ledger.

The proprietress came to the stairs and walked up with her skirt first. The stairs were narrow and steep, and Gao Yi followed behind, only to see a big ass twisting in front of his nose, which made him rarely react.

The girls' school is really not a place to mix, the smell of youth hormones, the thick cotton clothes in the winter can't cover it, and the salty smell of Oriental fish can't cover it, which unconsciously affects his judgment, otherwise he shouldn't have such a feeling even if the boss lady twists it hard.

Shanghainese call the kitchen "stove room". The word "phi" has the meaning of "next to its side" according to the annotation of the word "Phi", and there has been a saying of Phi house and Phi house for a long time, which is used to refer to a bungalow built on the side of the main house. The reason why Shanghainese people add the word "phi" to the word "stove" is probably related to the influx of refugees into the concession during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At that time, there were few people in the concession room, and the kitchen could often only be built outside the house, and over time, the word "stove and cup" replaced the "kitchen" and the official title of the kitchen in Wu language - "stove room" - the kitchen naturally could not occupy the main house, and the partition room was generally used, that is, the lower room, so it was called "lower room", and the word "stove" was added to indicate that it was the lower room for cooking.

Although the kitchen of the Shikumen house is also called the "stove and cloth", as a serious three-story building, it is certainly impossible to design the kitchen as a temporary "cloth". In fact, the kitchen area of Shikumen houses is often not small, and in addition to the stove and chopping board, there is also room for a table for eating. It's just that compared to the living room, its height is relatively low, generally only two-thirds of the living room.

The pavilion room is just above the stove room, so you only need to climb two-thirds of the height. The staircase turns around at the entrance of the pavilion, and a third of the way up is the front and back stairs directly above the guest hall. The front building is close to the window, and the so-called back building is the part left after the division of the front building, if it is an ordinary home, this is generally the owner's bedroom and daily living place. Yaxian Ju is a hotel, naturally to make full use of the space, the front and back buildings are divided into four rooms, three large and one small, a total of seven beds.

The terrace is on the roof of the pavilion, and you can climb up half a floor along the stairs from the front and back floors.

The proprietress was dressed quite heavily, and it was inevitable that she was a little out of breath after walking down the stairs, Gao Yi followed behind her, but fortunately, after the door to the sundeck opened, a gust of cold wind blew to reduce the heat a lot.

Gao Yi did not immediately follow the proprietress to the terrace, but bent down and stood on the staircase to rest for a while to calm himself down. At his feet, the staircase turned again and went up, the last half of the staircase leading to the three-story pavilion. The attic of Yaxian Ju is also divided into two parts, the front and back, and the front and rear attic are divided into two rooms each, with a total of four rooms and eight beds. The reason why there is an extra bed than the second floor is that there is no longer a stairwell in the attic, and only a square doorway is opened in the floor for entry and exit, so the effective area that can be used is larger than that of the downstairs.

"Mr. Gao?"

Gao Yi waited until the proprietress called him on the sundeck, and then walked out of the door unhurriedly.

I saw that the proprietress was already standing in front of the upper and lower rows of bamboo baskets resting on the wooden frame, and when she saw him come out, she pointed out one by one and said: "This is only Jin Dangui's, this is only Yuxiaofang's, this is only Zhang Chun'e's, this is just Xiaofuxing's ......."

The proprietress spoke quickly, Balabala finished speaking the upper row, and then bent down to prepare to point out the lower row, Gao Yi saw her big ass pouting, and hurriedly said: "The proprietress is slow, she talks too fast, where do I remember clearly, or wait for me to check them one by one, and tell me who it is." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the first bamboo basket, and there was a large lump of irregularly shaped pear paste candy in the bamboo basket. Because these pear paste candies have to be re-melted and made in the next step, there is no need to make them into a regular pattern.

Gao Yi broke a small piece from the ball of pear paste candy and put it in his mouth and tasted it. His so-called inspection is actually to check the sweetness, the original white sugar used to boil pear paste candy was provided by him, but he didn't expect that some mothers-in-law even had to rub oil for 4 copper yuan per catty of white sugar, and the taste of the pear paste candy was as bland as if no sugar was put in. So he simply didn't even get rid of sugar, and completely advanced the production by his mother-in-law, he just converted the cost of sugar into the purchase price, which seemed to increase the purchase price, but in fact there was no difference from the original, but he found that the enthusiasm of the mother-in-law and aunts was significantly higher than before.

"This one is Jin Dangui's." The proprietress stood next to her and whispered that Jin Dangui was not the name of her aunt, but the name of the hall where her aunt was located.

"This is from Yuxiaofang, I see that Yi is boiling for a long time, and I will throw all the pear hearts down, ah what's in the way?" The proprietress made a small report while introducing.

"The whole pear heart was dropped?" Gao Yi picked up the second ball of pear paste candy and shone it at the sun, and there was no obvious clumpy part in it.

"It's not, it's used to make a small grind of soy milk and then throw it down."

"It doesn't matter, pear pits are only better for coughing than pear flesh and pear skin."

"Oh really? Why did I hear that Chenguang, who stewed rock sugar and pear to cure cough, had to take the pear core to remove it? The proprietress obviously didn't trust Gao Yi's words.

"That's why I'm a secret recipe, if it's like everyone else, it's not called a secret recipe."

"Humph! I can't talk about it. ”

The proprietress hummed and looked sideways, but when she saw a pair of apricot eyes coming from the horizontal waves, her heart suddenly shook again, but fortunately, this pair of apricot eyes was followed by a big face on a silver plate, which instantly extinguished the fire he had just risen.

Next, Gao Yi tasted a few more pear paste candies, and the proprietress saw that he didn't listen to persuasion, so she didn't say more, but just reported which one made it on the side.

When Gao Yi squatted down to inspect the bottom row, the proprietress finally couldn't hold back and said: "This is from Changqing Building, I don't think Yi used pears that are well delivered, they are all frozen and damaged." ”

"Whole pears?"

"Of course, it's a whole pear, who doesn't have a body and peels the frozen pear, it's all things to throw away."

"This is a good thing, the pear skin is replaced by pear meat, isn't it a good deal?"

"So why do you have to talk about it again, pear peel is better than pear flesh to cure cough, so you need to use pear peel?"

"I've already told you, it doesn't matter what I use for this secret recipe, you can use pear skin, pear flesh, and pear heart, as long as it tastes good."

"Then you know that you have to tell me the secret recipe to perfunctory. Well, I'm not here to ask. Oh, this family doesn't even have to get sugar, so why don't you check it over? As she spoke, the proprietress squatted down against Gao Yi and pointed to a lump of pear paste candy with her finger.

Gao Yi only felt a smell of fragrant powder coming to his face, and hurriedly stabilized his mind, buckled up a piece of pear paste candy and put it in his mouth. The taste is not bad, the sweetness has not decreased, and there is an indescribable taste, which makes the sweetness not so sharp, but a little better than before.

"Hehehe," the proprietress stifled a laugh, "how does rotten sugar cane taste?" This Qingyunfang didn't even use sugar, so he pressed the juice with the rotten sugarcane that was frozen and no one wanted, and boiled it with the pear skin. ”

Gao Yi had to admire the ingenuity of the working people. In fact, according to his current method, the main cost of boiling pear paste candy is white sugar. Pear peels are meant to be thrown away by fruit vendors, so they are free; The production tools are in the shop, and the firewood used to boil the sugar can actually be used in the oil shop. If you exchange white sugar for rotten sugar cane that doesn't cost money, it really amounts to pure profit.

Gao Yi couldn't help but think about whether this method was generalizable. For example, this time, according to his recipe, the amount of white sugar used accounted for a quarter of the total weight of pear paste sugar, 50 catties of sugar for 200 catties of pear paste sugar, and 4 copper yuan for 1 catty of sugar, a total of 200 copper yuan, according to one silver dollar to 14 copper dollars, the cost is less than two yuan. Will the gains outweigh the losses in changing the production process for the sake of these two silver dollars? Moreover, it is still unknown how large the supply of frozen sugar cane will be.

"Hehehe, I don't know what pear paste candy is good or bad, I only know how to taste sweetness, it's good if it's sweet, it's not good if it's not sweet."

The proprietress laughed like a silver bell, so Gao Yi had to look at her big face a few more times to reduce the fire. It's a pity that although her face is big, there is no fold, her skin is smooth like a freshly peeled boiled egg, and now she has a smile on the corner of her mouth and apricot eyes, and after looking at her a few more times, it seems that the help of lowering the fire is not as great as before.

"Boss, I suddenly felt hungry, so let's hurry downstairs and help me get the ravioli!"

"I didn't have time to come up to see the pear paste candy just now, why are I in a hurry to eat wontons now? There are not a few pieces of pear paste candy left, so let's check them all before going down and eating them! ”

"No, I'm so hungry that my stomach is cramping, so hurry up and help me go down to make wontons." I'll check the remaining pieces first, and I'll ask you if I have any questions. I don't think it's going to be a problem. ”

"Okay, then I'll go down and make ravioli."

The proprietress glanced at Gao Yi suspiciously, and finally stood up and went downstairs with her ass twisted. After the proprietress left, Gao Yi squatted on the ground for a while before checking the remaining pear paste candy.