The home is simple, the chopsticks and coarse porcelain bowls are also shabby, and Luo Shi barely served Uncle Liang to eat fried noodles at night, so he hurriedly sent him back.

In the middle of the night, people saw it, and maybe some gossip came out to her.

In addition to coming to have a meal, Uncle Liang brought her a message at night - he was going back to Beijing, Layue was the birthday of his father General Liang, although he was reluctant, he had to rush back to celebrate his birthday, and he was afraid that he would have to pass the Spring Festival, and he would not be able to return to Tongzhou until the beginning of spring next year.

What about the contract made for cooking? Rosh asked him.

He is not a loser, saying that he will leave after three days, and asks Luo Shi to prepare some pickles, road vegetables, and snacks that are not sour.

Next month's salary will also go to Peach Blossom to receive it, the contract will continue to be enforced, and when he comes back, he will have to put out a table of good dishes, which can be regarded as paying off the interest debt.

Luo Shi was a little puzzled, General Liang made him a duke, and he had a biological son, but he threw him in the Tongzhou Courtyard all the year round.

Although Taohuadu has a lot of servants and cooks, he doesn't see a single relative to look at him, and looking at his appearance, he doesn't like to go back to the capital Liang Mansion very much. There's always something out of the way here.

He and her were only in an employment relationship, and she didn't want to ask more about the secrets, but she just promised to take care of his appetite all the way and prepare more vegetables.

"Road dishes" is the literal meaning, the dishes eaten on the road, the travelers are in a hurry, often to the wilderness without a small shop to eat, at this time as long as you burn some dry porridge and rotten rice, take out the road dishes to eat, you can make do with a meal.

Uncle Liang's status is precious, and he is not short of gold and silver, so he naturally does not worry about eating and drinking on the road, but now he can't live without the spicy dishes that are astringent, so she has to find a way to make pickled and spicy dishes that are not bad for a long time and are easy to carry.

The original spicy strips, braised spicy lotus root pieces, and spicy little fish boys, she could make more sealed altars and ask him to take them to the carriage as snacks to eat, in addition, she also had to make a few pickles to eat with him.

She looked at the existing ingredients, thinking that the method of heavy oil and pickled salty can be stored for a longer time, so that it is easy to eat cold, and there are not many dishes that can be made, so she plans to make a spicy oil chicken diced fish and eggplant spicy vegetable fish.

First take the eggplant and fry it in oil, simmer it with chili pepper and mustard greens, collect it with sesame oil, mix it with oil, and finally seal it with a jar, and you can eat it in two days.

Overnight, the road vegetables were packed and sealed, and Sang Bai came to pick them up three days later.

Since Uncle Liang wants to return to Beijing at night, she does not have to go to Liang's house every day to report for the time being, so she can get busy with the affairs of the house as soon as possible, build it as soon as possible before the month of La, and pick up the house, so that she can have a new house to live in on Chinese New Year's Eve, which is also a beautiful thing.

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Early in the morning of the second day, just after the rooster crowed, the grandmother came to the door to look for Rasa:

"Radix! The day is set, tomorrow is the auspicious day of the zodiac that should break ground, mud bricks, bricklayers, carpenter masters I have told you to come to work, early in the morning to work, the price you rest assured, very fair! ”

When she entered the door, she shouted open, and when she saw Luo Shi looking sleepy, she cared kindly: "What are you doing and don't sleep, you can't get up when the rooster crows, ouch, look at your kang is still hot, last year was busy until midnight?" ”

Luo Shi nodded, washed his face with water, scooped water into the pot and cooked brown rice and purple potato porridge for breakfast, and said with a smile:

"The family wants to build a house, what if you don't work hard to earn money, grandma has eaten? Let's eat together."

"I've eaten the cakes, but you cook them well, just ask the old woman to let me rub some more food" The grandmother looked at the stove, and couldn't help sighing: "This stove is placed in the hall, and the one in the bedroom is a dead fire kang, the weather is cold and will freeze you to death, it is a brick house, and the pocket will always be big in the future, how can I always sleep with you?" ”

Grandma was right, so she had some silver in her hand, and the first thing she thought about was to start a house.

"Is there a master who knows how to make a stove? I plan to make a new house along the mountain kang, which is more spacious and warmer"

"This is simple, after getting up the house, I will go with you to find it, I used to cook for the official grandmother in the city, the long stove road leads into the house, the back to the fire is warm, it will not be hot at the head of the kang and the end of the kang is cold, and the ability is good."

Luo Xi thanked him with a smile, and made a bowl of brown rice purple potato porridge to the grandmother: "It's always right to entrust you, I'm one hundred and one hundred and one hundred and one assured"

Grandma Niu took the purple potato porridge, didn't use a spoon, stood and drank it with her neck up, and ate the rice grains on the wall of the bowl into her mouth without falling, refusing to waste it at all, and after eating and thinking about it, she said slowly:

"Actually, it's weird, I want to ask you something, old woman, and I don't know if you want to."

"Grandma, you say"

"Didn't you ask me to choose a strong man to help you before? Thirty dollars a day per person, and one lunch is also in charge. My parents Geng, you know, have real strength, and are willing to work hard, this is not fast to the Layue Wharf is deserted, and he has a long vacation to go home, so I want to ask the girl for an errand."

The gold buyer caught up with the gold seller, and the thing was so inch, which was in line with Luo Shi's mind, and he hurriedly said:

"I'll tell you the truth, I can't keep an eye on these powerful men, I'm looking for a supervisor, and I've always been interested in Brother Chang Geng, but I'm afraid that he will delay work, so I didn't talk to you."

"Ouch, that's great! Don't delay, don't delay, I'll call him to report tomorrow, and you can call him on any errand."

As soon as the grandmother slapped her thigh, she landed and smashed the pit, and then she had to go back and inform people in a hurry!

Luo Shi sent her out with a smile, and planned to go to the market again today, not only to sell spicy dishes as usual, but also to buy a lot of ingredients to come back.

I will start to get up tomorrow, and I said that I will take care of these men's lunch, and she will be in charge of entertaining that meal, and it will inevitably be another thought and expense here.

Pushing the newly made Taiping car, she moved about sixty catties of spicy dishes, today is not a market day, and there are not many people rushing to the market on the street, but fortunately, she is not going to individual customers.

This reputation has already been played, and most of the second meat shops and small rice shops on Nantou Street know the spicy dishes she sells, and this time she only pushes the cart and goes to the door of these shops to talk about business.

The store that had tasted the taste and liked to eat it asked her how many catties to buy, and planned to make cold dishes to sell to customers; I haven't tasted it, buy a few pounds, try the taste preferences of the guests first, so sell all the way, and when she reaches the end of the street, she sells it all.

She wrote down the store's signs one by one, and the price of the vegetables they bought, and she planned to come to the market again next time, from the model of casting a wide net to slowly develop into a supply of high-quality restaurants suitable for the supply and marketing of her products.

After selling out of spicy dishes, she went to the pork shop to buy meat, and she couldn't afford pork loin, so she chose some pork belly to cook, neck meat to make cake filling, and dried milk meat to stew soup with dregs and oil.

Then go to the grain store and buy a bag of brown rice and half a bag of Erluo noodles. On weekdays, the flour used to cook noodles and dumplings is enough, and the flour of Yiluo is so rough that it can only be baked coarsely, and there is also the flying white noodles of Sanluo, which is used for high-end dim sum or for the rich and noble.

She didn't go to the vegetable shop, she was a farmer in the countryside, how could she go to the city to buy vegetables and fruits? There are still some cabbage and eggplant in the vegetable field at home, and it is enough to make do with two dishes.

There are staple foods, meat, and vegetables, and Luo Shi thinks that it is almost enough.

People are mainly concerned about meat and vegetables, croppers all year round can not see a little meat, except for the New Year, that is, which family to hold a red and white ceremonies, when the housewarming banquet is moving, you can eat a big piece of meat, it is already happy.

After a busy day and the sun turned westward, Luo Shi finally bought some oil, salt and cooking wine, and set off back to Niujia Village.

Before dawn the next day, she got up to make a stove fire, cooked wine and food to worship the gods, and asked for all the best in the groundbreaking and the safety of the house.

When the time came, Grandma Niu led two young daughters-in-law to the door and diligently introduced Luo Shi:

"This is your sister-in-law Liu, this is Niu Qian's new daughter-in-law, you call Sanniang to become, their men come to build a house for you, thank you for your salary, and volunteered to help you."

This is exactly what Luo Shi wants, she has to cook a meal for more than a dozen big men at noon, which is almost sad for her, and now there are two people who help, which is really good.

People say that each other is born from the heart, Luo Shi saw that the two of them had round faces and plates, and their hands and feet were sharp, not bitter and mean, lazy and taking advantage of people, so she put her mind at ease, smiled and went up to grab their arms, and said: "That's really hard for the two sisters-in-law!" ”

"Wherever you say, it's all the folks who help you, and it's supposed to be" Sanniang is still the new daughter-in-law, her white face is still porcelain, and she speaks in a low voice, looking very gentle.

"The eldest sister is polite, this is not a month before you can get up this brick house, but we are envious to death, I heard that you are willing to take the money-making recipe with us, my mother-in-law praised you as a female bodhisattva" Sister-in-law Liu is also a refugee who settled in Niujia Village, with a cool temperament and a very diligent work.

Luo Shi was polite to the two of them while sending out the work in her hand.

Sanniang was afraid of life, so she arranged for her to wash vegetables and cut meat by the stove, and gave Luo Shi a start, and Liu's sister-in-law was cool, so she sent her to each household to borrow dishes, chopsticks and chairs and stools.

There are words written on the bottom of those bowls, and no matter which family marries them for a big feast, they all have to be borrowed from door to door.

The pocket was busy picking up firewood and making a fire, whether it was to help Luo Shi run a few legs, the men outside were working in full swing, and the stove room was followed by the smoke rising, and the footsteps were chaotic.

At noon today, Luo Xi prepared five dishes and one soup, about two and a half tables, the men squeezed into the table to eat, and the woman who helped in the kitchen ate in the stove room, which was half a table.

There are two bowls of hard dishes, one bowl is jar meat, and the other bowl is steamed bracken with fatty meat, in order to make the meat look more real and more durable, she deliberately marinated the vegetarian chicken with gravy, and put the pork belly and fat meat in the pot together, and made two large pots of dishes.

Another plate is a vegan meat dish, drained with lotus root slices and hung in paste, accompanied by ingredients fried into pork ribs in the oil pan, smelling and looking at the same as sweet and sour pork ribs.

There are also two plates of vegetarian vegetables with vinegared cabbage and eggplant stir-fried mustard greens, and a bowl of fried tofu and cabbage soup.

Pots of fried pots were put on the stove, the fragrance was fragrant, causing people to keep swallowing saliva, Sanniang wiped the water on her hands, and said with a smile: "It's almost time to catch up with Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve rice, it's all hard meat dishes, where have we ever eaten such a good thing?"

Carrying a frying spoon, he took out the last dish, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and replied: "There is not much real meat, it doesn't cost a few dollars, it just smells like it."

She put the rice retort in the pot and boiled a pot full of brown rice, and steamed a few large meat buns made of pork neck, which were not much, and only gave food to the small stove reserved by a few masters.

is busy, but a pair of uninvited guests come.

"Ouch, it's so fragrant, niece Luo, I'll bring apricot blossoms to add people to you!"

Luo Shi turned her head to look and saw Aunt Osmanthus leading a girl to the kitchen with a smile on her face, she couldn't help but wonder: What kind of face is she? Okay, the scar forgot the pain, is it so unrememberable?