In the afternoon, taking advantage of the early time and no one came to eat, Shen Yue took out the pork and beef, and prepared to make some more pork jerky and beef jerky.

Shen Yue chopped the pork into minced pieces first, and his hands were sore when he was halfway through, Muyang took it and then chopped it, and it was chopped in less than two clicks.

Add the minced pork to the soy sauce, honey, cooking wine, sugar and pepper and stir well.

Then wrap the meat in the middle with gauze, take a rolling pin and roll it into a uniform meatloaf with a thickness of two millimeters, remove the gauze on it, pour it into the pot, fry it slowly over low heat, turn it over after the water on the meat slices is dry and colored, sprinkle white sesame seeds out of the pot after frying, cut into long strips, and serve.

Shen Yue made almost fifty catties of pork jerky, placed them on the counter outside, and the aroma immediately wafted out.

After making the pork jerky, Shen Yue began to make beef jerky again, and when making pork jerky, Shen Yue soaked the beef in water, took it out after half an hour, and cut it into finger-thick strips.

Boil water in a pot and add star anise, ginger, cinnamon and bay leaves. When the water is about to boil, turn off the low heat, add cooking wine and beef, the surface of the beef turns white, the water changes color, and the foam can be served.

Then put oil in the pot, medium-low heat, the amount of oil is more than the amount of meat, but not too much, each piece of meat is oily, put peppercorns, ginger shreds and star anise stir-fry small bubbles are almost none, and the meat is slightly drier.

Then turn on the low heat, add a small amount of soy sauce, sugar and a little salt, stir-fry evenly until the juice is reduced, and finally sprinkle a little cumin powder, Shen Yue divided the beef into two parts, one with some chili powder to make it spicy, and the other with some sesame seeds.

Simple beef jerky is ready.

After all the people were outside, the scent hooked everyone walking on the street.

At this time, a sedan chair passed by at the door, and in the sedan chair sat a demure but somewhat tired woman, and beside her sat a very thin little boy, sitting there dying, without any energy.

From time to time, the woman's eyes fell on the little boy, and they were full of worry.

When passing by the Xinyue Pavilion, the fragrance wafting from it made the little boy's nose move, and then he got up weakly, opened the curtain and sniffed it carefully, and the woman quickly pulled him back and closed the curtain carefully: "Come in quickly, it will catch a cold." ”

"Mother, it's so fragrant." The little boy said.

"What do you say? Feathers? The woman looked very excited.

"Mother, it's so fragrant, let's go eat something."

"Good, good." The woman's tears of laughter were about to come out, and she hurriedly told the palanquin man to stop, and she took out the little boy who was called Yu'er in a padded jacket.

Shen Yue sat at the counter to keep accounts and collect money, Muyang was chopping wood in the backyard, and Lingxiu was working hard to clean the house, eager to wipe the table as bright and clean as a mirror.

The windproof curtain at the door was lifted, and a richly dressed woman led a thin boy in a thick cotton jacket in.

"Hello, welcome, what would you like to eat?" Shen Yue greeted him with a smile.

Before the woman could speak, the little boy broke free of her hand and ran to the place where the pork jerky and beef jerky were kept: "Mother, this is fragrant, I want to eat this." ”

"Girl, I want to buy some of this, how do you sell it?" The woman asked gently.

"This is forty wen a pound, how much do you want?" Shen Yue asked.

Over there, the little boy had reached in and taken a slice of pork jerky and ate it.

The woman hurriedly apologized, and Shen Yue waved her hand: "It's okay, let the little boy eat." ”

Seeing the little boy's expression of wanting to eat it again, the woman cried directly.

"What's wrong with you? Madam? Shen Yue was a little confused.

"Girl, do you know, the child hasn't eaten anything for a year, on weekdays, he takes ginseng soup to drink water to hang on to his life, I have seen a lot of doctors, and I have taken a lot of medicine, but there is no improvement, and now I am thin and skinny, my lord and I are very anxious, and now I see that he can eat, I really cry with joy."

After speaking, I found out 80 wen, bought a pound of pork jerky, and bought a pound of beef jerky.

Shen Yue said in her heart, this is anorexia, which may be a manifestation of zinc deficiency, but it is impossible to have calcium gluconate zinc in this world, so Shen Yue minds that she eats more walnuts or pork liver sesame seeds, etc., food supplements are better than medicine supplements.

"Moreover, the food cooked for the children, the more beautiful it is, their appetite will be better, if you are not busy, you can wait for me for a while, I will make a little food for the little boy, he will definitely like it." Shen Yue said.

The woman thought for a moment, nodded, and then took the boy to find an empty table and sit down.

Shen Yue let Lingxiu look at the store, went to the back by himself, first steamed a tender egg custard, and then took out a leaf of pork liver, washed it after passing the water, put the pork liver in it after boiling the water, and then put in tangerine peel, ginger, pepper and other ingredients, change the water to low heat after boiling, skim off the blood foam inside, cook for about two quarters of an hour, and add flavor and color.

Then wait for it to cool down after slicing and arranging the plate, at this time, the steamed eggs are also steamed, the portion is not much, Shen Yue took it out to the little boy, after the little boy saw the tender yellow steamed eggs, he really had a little interest, after eating a bite, the whole person was alive, one bite after another, the original steamed eggs were eaten clean, and then picked up the braised pork liver and ate a bite, the taste was salty and fragrant, the pork liver was not eaten in a plate, but also ate more than half.

The woman looked at the little boy, crying and laughing, and the expression on her face was very rich.

The woman took out the money bag and wanted to pay, but Shen Yue stopped her: "No need, madam, these dishes are less than one portion, if the little boy eats well, I will collect the money when I come back to eat." ”

The woman smiled: "I didn't expect that I would pass by here by chance, and there would be such a creation, girl, you will be my benefactor in the future." ”

"Madame's words are serious."

The woman left with the little boy, and other customers came to the store, so Shen Yue was busy again, and forgot about the woman and the little boy in a blink of an eye.

"Sister, the little girl from before is here again." Lingxiu whispered in Shen Yue's ear.

Shen Yue turned around and looked at it, and found that it was the little beggar from the previous tasting.

The little beggar looked pitifully in Shen Yue's direction, and behind her, there was an even younger boy.

Shen Yue was just about to go out to have a look, when a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy walked up to the little beggar, reprimanded them a few words, and then led the two away.

After being idle, Shen Yue began to think about recruiting apprentices, otherwise the business is getting better and better, she can't rely on her alone, Lingxiu cooking skills really have no talent, she has studied with Shen Yue for so long and has not learned any results, cooking still treats sugar as salt, she herself also said that she gave up, determined to be an excellent runner.

"If you want to recruit someone, I'll help you post a note?" Muyang asked.

"I haven't figured it out yet, I've been thinking about the kids in the cage I saw when I first came to Sifang Town, and I want to buy those people and teach them from scratch." Shen Yue said.

"My family Yue'er is so kind, she will do whatever she likes, and I will do it." Mu Yang patted Shen Yue's head.

"Who is your Yue'er?" Shen Yue blushed and muttered.

"Sooner or later, yes, you saved me, and I promised myself, don't you remember?" Mu Yang said aggrievedly.

Shen Yue looked at the big dog in front of him who exuded resentment, and sighed: "Brother Mu, I still have a lot to do now, and I don't want to talk about feelings, so you better not waste your energy on me." ”

"It's okay, I'll wait for you, you can't go without marrying for the rest of your life." Mu Yang smiled gently.

"What if I really don't marry for the rest of my life?" Shen Yue was ruthless and wanted to make Muyang die.

"Then I won't marry for the rest of my life, what's so difficult about that?" Mu Yang said confidently.

Shen Yue didn't speak, and it was false to say in his heart that he didn't shake.

Taking advantage of the closing, Shen Yue went to the market and found the place where Lingxiu was bought before, where the children had some new faces, and many of the previous ones had been sold, and Shen Yue felt a little uncomfortable.

She counted, there were eight children left, four boys and four girls, the eldest was only about ten years old, and the youngest was only five or six years old, everyone still had a glimmer of hope in their eyes, Shen Yue couldn't bear to see such a scene, so she bought them all, and spent one hundred and sixty yuan, she sighed at the cheapness of human life, and she sold more than these money.

When the trafficker was about to leave, Shen Yue stopped him: "If there are still poor people selling children in the future, bring the children to me." ”

The trafficker felt that this was a big wrongdoer, but he didn't show it on his face and had to respond.

Eight more children, Shen Yue bought a relatively dilapidated courtyard behind the store, because it was not on the street, and it was relatively dilapidated, so it only cost twenty taels of silver, here used to live in the theater troupe, one in and one out of the courtyard, but there are more than a dozen rooms, Shen Yue made a passage in the back, you can directly enter the Xinyue Pavilion, the children worked together to clean the yard, Shen Yue bought bedding and some cotton clothes.

The children are used to living a poor life, and now it is inevitable that they are a little restrained, but it is more about the hope for the future, after getting along for a while, everyone thinks that Shen Yue is very easy to get along with, so they all let go of a little, and they all call Shen Yue sister with Lingxiu.

The boy was already thirteen years old, but he couldn't eat enough at home, and his parents sold him out of a ruthless effort when he had seven or eight siblings in the family.

Shen Yue asked his name, and he said that his name was Ergouzi, and those poor people couldn't even eat enough, and they worried about their livelihood every day, so they didn't have the time and energy to name their children.

Shen Yue gave him a name, Shen Yu, and asked him to take care of the other children in the yard, Shen Yu immediately patted his chest and promised to take care of his younger siblings.

The other three boys also got names, Shen Shu, Shen Lin, and Shen Feng, and the girl's name was Qinqi, calligraphy and painting, and naturally they were all surnamed Shen.

After Lingxiu found out, he also stubbornly changed his name to Shen Lingxiu.