() "You want to try the food?" Ye Dan asked with interest.

"Yes, there is this plan, although Song Jiu will bring a cook from Huizhou, but authentic Hui cuisine is not only one of us in Jiangling City, Mei Ji is mine after all, so I still have to focus on duck cuisine and make a different reputation." Du Mei had already thought about this, and she also had a few dishes in her mind that she wanted to try.

"What more side dishes do you want, I'll go buy them early tomorrow morning." Ye Dan took out charcoal and paper again.

"Shanzhen seafood will be used temporarily, there must be no fresh, just buy some dry goods, buy a little chicken and fish, buy more sour and spicy seasonings, and you can buy the rest, I will go to the vegetable market early tomorrow morning.

These days, Murong Xi helped me rent the shop of the delicatessen, and you helped me buy a small building, I was busy all day and didn't thank you seriously. Du Mei said with a smile.

"Then I'm in for a treat." Ye Dan put away the pen and paper and smiled.

"You have time in the afternoon, write some posts, Shen County has made Zhizhou, we should always congratulate you, and Sister Wenlan helped me think of such a good idea, Sister Fengxian I haven't seen you for half a year, Sister Huayan also wants to invite." Du Mei wrenched his fingers and slowly reported the names of the guests.

"Wen Lan is here, it's a big deal to spend some silver to wrap an outfield, Fengxian and Huayan, I'm afraid they may not be able to come, the women in the big family can't go anywhere they want." Ye Dan twisted his eyebrows.

"This ...... Isn't it okay to send a post seriously? Du Mei asked, a little puzzled.

"That's it, I'll go to deliver the post in the afternoon, and it seems that we are more formal." Ye Dan couldn't bear Du Mei's disappointment, even if he knew that they couldn't come, he was willing to try it for Du Mei.

"That's very good." Du Mei nodded.

"Ming'er, I'll let Mrs. Xia and Peach Willow Green come to help you, it just so happens that she misses you a lot." Ye Dan was thoughtful.

"Then I can't ask for it!" Du Mei smiled and narrowed his eyes.

"Shen Zhizhou's post, I can send it to the government office, but Murong Xi's, where can I send it?" Ye Dan thought about it and frowned and asked.

"Don't write about him, I'll go back in the evening and tell Aunt Wu, she will tell Murong Xi." Only then did Du Mei realize that it had always been Murong Xi who had come to look for her, but she didn't know where to look for him.

The two agreed, each went back to work, Du Mei returned to the deli shop, Lin Yongzheng took off his coat, only wore a small coat, chopping firewood in the small courtyard of the back kitchen, and You Shi lit the fire in the stove.

"Uncle Yong, Ming'er will send a few more ducks to the restaurant, and I'm going to try the dishes." Du Mei poured a cup of warm tea on the small table and handed it to Lin Yong.

"Okay, I got it." Lin Yong picked up the cotton towel and wiped his sweat, took the tea and poured it in one gulp.

"The ducks next to me are all taken out of the water according to the previous method, I want a fatter one tomorrow, and the one that opens on the back, you must remember." Du Mei said as she bent down to stack the chopped firewood under the eaves of the back kitchen.

"Don't worry, if your Uncle Yong forgets, won't I help you remember." You Shi came out to fetch water and said with a smile.

"Look at what I said, although I am stupid, I still have a memory." Lin Yong was a little shy when his daughter-in-law said it.

"Uncle and aunt have helped me remember, it's the best." Du Mei grinned and helped You Shi shake the wheels of the well.

In the evening, Du Mei went to Wu's noodle restaurant and asked her to tell Murong Xi that Wu agreed to the invitation for dinner tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Du Mei instructed Du Ying and Xiao Qi to do business at the deli, and told them to leave a duck and some snacks later

Let Lin Yong send it to the restaurant together. She also wrote another notice and pasted it next to the counter, telling Xiaoshi to go directly to the Royal Street tomorrow to buy it, and it also saved these servants and servants from running back and forth.

There is a big vegetable market on South Street, before, Peach Red Willow Green took Du Mei to Sanniang to buy hand fat, occasionally passing by, they went to see the flowers and went in, Du Mei remembered at this time, rode on the horse, asked the people on the dock for directions, and went alone.

Gangneung City is bustling and lively at night, the morning light is slightly dewed, the market is still drunk and has not yet woken up, Du Mei rode forward alone, except for the shops that do breakfast business along the street are half-closed, and even the corridor lights are extinguished in other places.

The horse's hooves clattered on the bluestone pavement, the peach blossom horse was pink, Du Mei was wearing a smoky skirt, a man and a horse were like a flowing colored cloud, walking towards South Street in the early morning haze, and gradually began to meet the vendors carrying the carts along the way, they were in a hurry, in order to sell their own goods early, they had no time to take care of the people walking by.

Du Mei tied Huahua under a large locust tree and carried a large cloth bag into the vegetable market, where the vendors were busy spreading the vegetables they had grown or sold on the ground.

Du Mei slowly turned, the newly picked greens, garlic, celery, etc. in the field also have dew drops, looking very fresh, in addition to selling local seasonal fresh goods, there are also selling foreign ingredients, such as peppers and peas in the south, winter bamboo shoots and chestnuts in the north, almost everything can be thought of, everything.

Away from here, on the side is selling beef, sheep and pigs raw meat, selling chickens, ducks, geese, fish and shrimp stalls are next to the door, and there are some vendors in the innermost room who have shops, they regularly sell dried mushrooms, dried scallops, ham, these shelf-stable ones, Du Mei went around, walked around the vegetable market, and soon filled the bags.

Just as she was about to leave, a group of fierce people suddenly rushed in from the entrance, and they were still bargaining, and the lively vegetable market suddenly became quiet, and only frightened chickens and geese could be heard in their ears, and the people in the vegetable market, whether they were buying vegetables or selling vegetables, all shrank aside, and seemed to be very afraid. Du Mei was standing in a corner with a bag on her back, wondering in her heart, who is this?

"It's fifteen today, hurry up and pay your taxes!" A young man at the head shouted unscrupulously with a meaty face.

"Uncle Bolt, didn't you just pay the land tax before?" A middle-aged man who was close to him asked in a trembling whisper.

"What? Too much? I don't pay taxes when I go home and sleep with my wife, in my place, what taxes to pay and how much taxes to pay, I have the final say! The man shook his hand and smashed the bright knife in front of the middle-aged man's feet, and the attendants behind him coaxed and laughed obscenely.

The middle-aged man, who was nothing more than a helpless businessman, was startled, instinctively retreated, and almost fell to the ground.

"Each family with a shop has one tael of silver, and the lowest fifty wen on the stall!" The man triumphantly drew his knife and swung it in the air.

"This ...... If this continues, we will have no way to live! The middle-aged man wailed.

"You can't live, do my, as long as you do it here for a day, you have to pay taxes, otherwise how can I pay to the Seventh Prince?" The man bent down and slapped the middle-aged man's cheek and said contemptuously.

Du Mei heard the middle-aged man call the young man Uncle Shu, she was startled for a while, her eyes widened and she looked over, the man was tall and strong, but the eyebrows and eyes could still be vaguely recognized, it was clearly Du Shu, but his face was filled with more ferocious and cruel looks than in Dujiagou.

And the sentence she heard then about the Seven Princes made Du Mei even more frightened, how could the King of Shu, who looked enthusiastic and hearty, be the instigator behind Du Xuan's bullying and domination?

He had helped her like that, rescued Shen Zhanghua and Lin Dai, and besides, Murong Xi was such a shrewd person, was he also kept in the dark, or was he also his accomplice?

Du Mei's mind was in a mess, just when she was thinking about this, Du Xuan had already led his men to collect and scrape around, the vendors dared not speak out, and the people who bought vegetables did not buy it, most of them fled in a panic, Du Mei covered her face slightly, and quickly left the vegetable market in the crowd.

Du Mei took the purchased items and rode to the restaurant, Ye Dan had already bought vegetables, and led Xia Pozi and Peach Red Willow Green to wait there.

Peach Red Willow Green was originally an innocent girl, and Du Mei reunited after a long absence, so she was naturally very close, and pulled her to talk non-stop for a while, Du Mei had to temporarily put aside the doubts in her heart and laugh and talk to them.

"I'll go back to Mei Xuan first, there are only Lin An and his wife in the shop at this time, I'm afraid I won't be busy." When Ye Dan saw Du Mei coming, he got up and went back.

"Why are you two chattering more than my old wife, hurry up and do things!" Xia Pozi said angrily, she started to pour out the vegetables and sort.

As soon as she said it, she stopped talking, stuck out her tongue mischievously, and hurriedly worked separately, one lit a fire to make a stove, and the other fetched water to wash the ducks.

Du Mei was also busy in the kitchen, and after a while, Lin Yong sent the raw duck and water that Du Mei wanted, as well as salted duck and snacks wrapped in oiled paper.

Du Mei took the duck with the back open, washed it, marinated it in a large basin with soy sauce, shochu and salt, soaked the scallops and lotus seeds, and then called peach to steam half a drawer of glutinous rice in a steaming drawer.

After that, Du Mei carefully peels the winter bamboo shoots and blanches them into dices, the ham into dices, the chicken breast meat into dices, and the mushrooms into dices.

Peach light the fire, heat the pan with cold oil, stir-fry the chives and ginger, and the Du Mei slides in the bamboo shoots, ham, chicken, mushrooms, and scallops, quickly stir-fry to remove the fishy fat, and then spray the soju and drizzle the soy sauce, turn off the heat, and stir the steamed glutinous rice, lotus seeds and chestnut meat with these ingredients.

At this time, the duck embryo has been marinated for more than an hour, Du Mei will stir the ingredients, part from the back opening in the duck belly, she is afraid of the duck shape loose, so with lotus leaves to tie the duck body tightly, and finally put the duck's back up in a large bowl, into the steaming drawer steam.

Du Mei picked up another thin female duck, put the whole one in the sand bowl, and simply added the green onion and ginger star anise stew, which was the most time-consuming, and the peach burned a small tandoor and simmered slowly.

Time flies, put these two dishes into the pot, it is already lunch time, Du Mei simply cooked a few dishes, cut half a salted duck, the four of them ate it, and continued to do things.

Du Mei took half of the duck breast of a large duck and marinated it, chopped the rest into large pieces, and made braised duck meat on the stove.

For a time, the fire tongue between the stove is swallowed, the heat is steaming, although the three flavors are made of duck, but the aroma of each is very different, the intensity of the braised soup, the timelessness of the stew, and the steaming drawer, because of the mixture of other ingredients, the aroma progresses layer by layer, until it is perfectly blended, and the duck flavor is not distinguished.

The umami in the kitchen came out, and several people were busy cleaning up the ducks into the water, Lin Yong was afraid that Du Mei would not be enough, so he sent a lot.

Will clean up the duck intestines, duck tongue blanching, duck gizzard to cut flower knife, duck liver white marinade, duck heart pickled, duck paw slightly boiled and deboned, these are all fine work, do the most delayed time, several people hands and feet keep busy, seeing the sun on the west.

Ye Dan is half of the owner, he came early, and he followed the taste to the kitchen.

"It's a duck feast today." He exclaimed as he looked at the ingredients prepared on the board.