Chapter 40: I Want a Fish Soup Recipe
Knowing that the fish soup and flatbread were sold, Xu Jianlin took his sister's hand and shook it a few times: "I know that my little sister is the best!" ”
"Xiao Linzi, open the door, enter the courtyard to help your father unload the car, there is something to do in the afternoon!" Deng Ah Lian urged her grandson.
Xu Hui wanted to help her grandmother cook, but Deng Alian asked her to rest, and in the morning she was tired enough to sell fish soup and flatbread, and she didn't even have time to sit down and take a breath when she was most busy. It's easy to say how to cook at home, although your cooking skills are not as good as your granddaughter's, you will eat it, and your family will pick what to do!
When cooking, Zhou Xiaomei added firewood under the stove, and Deng Alian chatted with her about Xu Zhigao.
"Otherwise, next time we go to Zhuyuan County to catch the market, although we are far away, at least we won't meet people who deliberately find fault!" Deng Alian is really reluctant to deal with the big people.
"Mother, we are not familiar with the place in Zhuyuan County, and it is not easy to go there to set up a stall!" Zhou Xiaomei was also annoyed by Xu Zhigao, if he was a chicken, he would have chopped it in the pot with a knife and stewed it.
Xu Hui walked to the door of the kitchen and happened to hear the conversation between the two: "We didn't do anything wrong, and we don't owe him, why avoid him, next time he dares to come over and make trouble, and coax people away."
If he doesn't leave, we'll find an official errand, isn't the uncle in the yamen, and when he sees his brother, he will definitely warn him, so we don't have to be afraid of him! ”
Some people are more difficult than shouting and shouting to kill, he will often appear in front of you, thick-skinned and not self-aware, like hob meat, the most headache when encountering this kind of person.
Xu Zhigao, who gave the Xu family a headache, returned to his deserted shop in a huff, there was a chef with good skills in the store, and Fu Qiaoyue, as the proprietress, thought that the salary was too high and wanted to lower the price.
When the chef disagreed, she made trouble and ran away, and when it was her turn to take charge of the cooking, she realized that cooking is not an easy job, and that if you want to make a dish with both color and flavor, you must learn and train.
Now Zhao Yuzhi is in charge of the shop, her craftsmanship is a little better than that of her daughter-in-law Fu Qiaoyue, but she slammed the door and served one-third less food to the guests than before.
With fewer and fewer customers and rent to pay next month, how can we change the status quo?
"What about the food you bought? How did you get the clothes, they were all mud, and it was almost noon, you didn't buy vegetables, what am I frying! Zhao Yuzhi has been very annoyed recently, and after lying at home for a few days, the little daughter-in-law began to point fingers at Sang and scold Huai, and she either said cool words or made some noise in the yard all day long, not allowing herself to rest well.
The business of the small restaurant is not good, and the injury on the girl's mouth is healed, but her teeth can't be repaired, and she doesn't dare to go out now!
"Mother, our family...... I mean, does the Xu family have any secret recipes for cooking, such as delicious fish soup or something! ”
Speaking of the Xu family, Zhao Yuzhi's expression and tone were full of disdain: "When I married your father, the Xu family was poor, and the family was crammed into two broken grass houses.
If it weren't for the many dowries given by your grandmother's family, you would be where you are today! It must be the same as the second house, and he is still planting those few acres of thin land in Shiling Village! Zhao Yuzhi took the credit for Dafang getting rid of the life of facing the loess and facing the sky, and every time he mentioned this topic, he would despise Deng Alian fiercely in his heart.
"I'll ask my dad to go!" I know that asking my mother is also asking in vain, she didn't live in Shiling Village for a few days, and she separated from the old man when she got married, and it is said that she never greeted her grandmother, let alone called her father, and if she had a secret recipe, she would not give such a daughter-in-law.
Xu Zhigao turned around and was about to go out, and almost collided with Xu Hai who entered the door.
"Dad, you came just in time, I have something to ask you!" Xu Zhigao usually has a lukewarm attitude towards Xu Hai's father, and he is particularly enthusiastic today.
"It's almost noon, why don't there be any guests in the restaurant! How can Zhigao continue like this, why don't you invite a chef over! "If Zhao Yuzhi and her daughter-in-law cook for a while, the restaurant will probably be closed.
Although his family lives in the county seat, Xu Hai knows best what life is like, the eldest son only has an income of two taels of silver a month in the county government, if he is not good at franchising, and has a good relationship with the master and the catcher, he would have been kicked out long ago.
The youngest son is an idle man, and he knows the master of daydreaming all day long, isn't it that the old woman has been subsidizing him, and I'm afraid that his life is not as good as Zhiyong's family?
Thinking of another son, Xu Hai began to think about another home, he wanted to go back to Shiling Village, and wanted to find Deng Alian.
He was embarrassed to say this, and he didn't dare to say it, for fear of triggering a new round of entanglements, and he was afraid of noisy days all day long.
"Dad, think about it, our family counts whether our ancestors have ever fished, or who grew up by the sea or river!" Xu Zhigao kept inspiring Xu Hai.
"Your grandmother spent time in a fishing village when she was a child, and they couldn't stay in the fishing village anymore, so they came to Fengshan County ......," Xu Hai recalled.
Xu Zhigao patted the table, as long as someone has a relationship with the fish, he will decide on the recipe for making fish soup.
After coaxing Xu Hailian away, Xu Zhigao simply closed the store, and there were no guests coming to the door anyway, so why don't you discuss the secret recipe with your daughter-in-law and mother?
"You said Deng Alian, they have a secret recipe for making fish soup?" Zhao Yuzhi couldn't believe it, if the old lady of the Xu family had a secret recipe in her hand, would their family be so poor? Even if you don't open your own store and sell your children, it's still an income!
"Even if there is a secret recipe, it can't be the Xu family!" Zhao Yuzhi can be sure that the old lady of the Xu family can't hide things, if there are good things, they would have taken them out and displayed them a long time ago.
The ancestors of the old man of the Xu family guarded a few acres of thin land, and he hadn't even been to the county seat a few times, so how could there be a secret recipe.
"As long as someone in the Xu family is good with fish, that recipe should have our share, mother, didn't you drink that fish soup, it tastes so fresh, it's so fragrant!"
If we get that recipe, our restaurant will be saved! What Xu Zhigao didn't say was that with Fangzi, he didn't have to sell it himself, and it was a lot of money, so a fool would give up such an opportunity!
Judging from Zhao Yuzhi's experience in dealing with Deng Alian for so many years, Deng Alian is also a picker, and her things would rather be given to her neighbors than cheap houses.
Fu Qiaoyue walked around the restaurant twice with her chin and walked back to Zhao Yuzhi: "Mother-in-law, this matter is actually easy to do, you first ease the relationship with Deng Alian, and then ......"
"Ease down, let me tell you, the day when Deng Alian and I have not reconciled in our lives, she took away my husband and made me the laughing stock of Shiling Village and Fengshan County, I hate her for the rest of my life!"
Fu Qiaoyue pouted quietly, you are not a big person, who has the kung fu to talk about your little all day long, not to mention in the countryside, even in Fengshan County, there are not a few men who pick two families on one shoulder, and I haven't seen anyone make such a fuss, she can't remember these things without mentioning others.