Chapter 64 Spicy Strips

Xia Meizhen didn't know what was going on here, she went to buy a bunch of paper and ink strips, and went home. Because in order to realize her wishes, under limited conditions, she can only work harder, and these paper and ink strips are the necessities for her to make a fortune.

I went into the house to freshen up, changed into homely clothes, and took a picture in the bronze mirror: in the dim copper mirror, a girl with snow-white skin, apricot eyes under the curved willow eyebrows, a straight nose bridge, and lips of just the right thickness, she smiled in the mirror.

Because I ate a full meal in Dai Mansion for a while, my body has grown a lot taller, and I am already one meter six. This is what Xia Meizhen is more satisfied with, she was not tall in her previous life, but in this life she made up for the regrets in her previous life.

After washing and drying the changed clothes, and then went to the kitchen to cook and eat, Xia Meizhen entered the wing room and wrote the plan, and did not give up until Jiang Yunxian came back in the evening.

After dinner, it was already dark, Jiang Yunxian went to rest after washing, Xia Meizhen saw that the light in the next room was extinguished, so she sat up cross-legged, and went through what she had said during the day, and then carefully planned a money-making plan before falling asleep.

This period of supervising the operation of the wind collection building is really tiring.

In the blink of an eye, in February, after the five-session county test, Xuanzhou Mansion, which was boiling because of the wind collection building, was once again lively. Dai Qi, the eldest son of Dai Jiashu, won the county case, so the succession has become a sure thing.

On the third day after the release of the list, Xia Meizhen, who had just come to her new home, took the time to come to Caifeng Building and met Ling Yang.

She said: "Originally, according to Madame's idea, I wanted to invite relatives and friends to gather together, but the old man said that the county head was so arrogant, and it would cause trouble for the young master if it was passed to the academy, so I came here to eat at the suggestion of the second lady." ”

Xia Meizhen often came to the restaurant for a while, and heard about the influence of the student's virtue on the future after the test: it is said that there was a scholar from a merchant family in the previous dynasty, who passed the examination in middle age and became the only tribute student in the clan, and the family was very happy, so he invited relatives and friends to a high water banquet, and did not want this matter to reach the ears of the imperial history.

Xia Meizhen has relatives.

"Aunt Zhu is afraid of death, she will cry and be blind!" Furong said: "She has been crying in the house every day for a while, I can't figure it out, isn't it good for the young master to have a good future?" ”

Ling Yang didn't make a sound, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, Xia Meizhen saw this, and unceremoniously pointed at Furong and said: "It's nothing for me to say what you say, if the people next to you hear it, be careful that Mrs. will give you melon Luo'er!" ”

Frightened, Fleur shrank her neck and shut up.

Ling Yang changed the subject and said, "I heard that Uncle Cheng's tea garden is going to have a bumper harvest this year, and I don't know how many girls our house will send over to help this year." ”

Mrs. Dai's maiden Cheng family is also a merchant, operating several mountain farms, and the annual income is more than the upper than the bottom, and later since Xue'e married to the Dai family, she also started a tea business, and several mountains are all planted with tea trees, and every year she makes a lot of money just by selling tea. It's just that although the Cheng family has planted a lot of tea trees, they are too lazy to open a shop to make a living, so his family's tea is mainly purchased by Dai Chengrui. It has also become a common practice for the Dai family to send manpower.

Xia Meizhen stayed at Dai's house for a short time, and she didn't know about tea picking, but Jiang Yunxian was also picking tea in the tea garden outside the city, so she couldn't help but ask more.

Xia Meizhen knew that Jiang Yunxian went to the Cheng family's tea garden.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart: It seems that I really have to start my own career earlier, otherwise I won't be able to get out of the circle of the Dai family.

It's just that Jiang Yunxian has already set a date for going to the tea garden to pick tea, and it is not easy to change it, so Xia Meizhen had no choice but to give Ling Yang a large bag of snacks, hoping that she would go back and hand over to the girls who were going to pick tea, and take care of her mother in the tea garden.

Then Xia Meizhen gave them the address of her new home and asked them to sit freely, and then they dispersed.

Liu Ping was busy explaining to the food delivery staff, and when he saw her coming, he couldn't help but ask in a hurry: "Is Miss Xia here to guide again today?" ”

The original chef of Caifeng Lou was lazy, often cut corners, and the dishes he made did not meet Xia Meizhen's requirements at all.

"Well, come and have a look." Xia Meizhen answered and went straight to the back kitchen.

It's just that after she went in, she went directly to the warehouse and checked the storage, especially the seasonings. Anyone who knows how to cook knows that in addition to good ingredients, a dish also needs excellent seasonings.

As a high-end restaurant, the seasoning it needs is more advanced and the most complete.

Xia Meizhen wants to start a business, so it is naturally the most convenient to come here to find raw materials.

Sure enough, after a while, she found what she needed: octagonal.

In Xuanzhou Mansion, the octagonal thing is a rare thing, due to the restrictions of local cooking techniques, coupled with the inconvenience of transportation, it is difficult to see the spice of the star anise, and it is only used in high-end restaurants or with the Dai family, dealing with the horse gang, or like the Xiao family and the Cheng family.

Since she found something, Xia Meizhen told Li Shihe, Li Shihe originally wanted to give her some, but Xia Meizhen refused, and bought a pound at the purchase price, and then she went to the market to buy yuba, chili noodles, cinnamon, cooking wine, sugar and other things.

After returning home, Xia Meizhen rushed into the kitchen and tinkered with her things. The Cheng family has not yet opened the tea garden, so Jiang Yunxian waited for the tea garden to open at home, and saw Xia Meizhen enter the kitchen with a large bag of dim sum, so he hurriedly followed.

"Just tell me what you want to cook, and I'll make it for you." Xia Meizhen has done several big things in a short period of time, so that Jiang Yunxian unconsciously has her as the backbone, and even feels that Xia Meizhen is doing big things, and she doesn't need to be busy with such small things.

"No need, I'll try it first, and when it's really done, I'll let my mother do it." Xia Meizhen said, opened the oil paper packet, and put oil in the pot...... It's just that she hasn't done this thing, she is not familiar with the business, she failed the first two times, and only succeeded in the third time.

"What is this?" Jiang Yunxian asked curiously. In the four plates in front of me, each plate is a bright red and shiny yuba, with sugar and salt, can it be delicious?

"You eat, eat." Xia Meizhen didn't explain, she used chopsticks to clip one for her to eat, the entrance was fresh and spicy, and then sweet, the aftertaste was spicy and sweet, it was an indescribable taste, although Jiang Yunxian felt that the taste was not very good, but after eating one, he inexplicably wanted to eat another one, and eat another one......

"What do you think?" Xia Meizhen watched her finish eating and asked expectantly.

She almost ran all over the teahouses and restaurants in Xuanzhou Mansion this time, and found that most of them entertained guests with sweet snacks, and even the dim sum shops were mainly sweet, so she did the opposite and knocked one of our most popular modern snacks, Spicy Tiaojun.

"It tastes good, it's just a little spicy." Jiang Yunxian gave a comment.

Originally, she was worried that the ancients would not be able to accept spicy noodles, and she didn't want Jiang Yunxian's performance to surprise her, but Xia Meizhen was a little surprised.

"Then you can try this again." As she spoke, she sandwiched another plate of yuba with a golden color and asked for her. The entrance is salty and fragrant, and I don't feel anything when I eat it, but when I taste it, the spicy taste lasts for a long time, which is completely different from the feeling just now.

"It's delicious."

"Then you can try the rest." Xia Meizhen handed her the chopsticks.

Four plates, the ingredients are almost the same, but the texture and taste are completely different, Jiang Yunxian couldn't help but feel that this is her dead husband blessing Xia Meizhen, so that they don't have to suffer. Otherwise, how did Xia Meizhen's earning power and commendable craftsmanship come about?

When is the husband around, when will the mother and daughter show up for their livelihood?

If it weren't for this change in the family, a girl of Xia Meizhen's age, who wouldn't be out of the door and not take the next step?

Her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and Xia Meizhen, who saw it, was frightened, thinking that the chili pepper had gotten in, and she hurriedly wanted to fetch water, but Jiang Yunxian grabbed her wrist.

"Sister Zhen, I'm fine." Jiang Yunxian said.

Xia Meizhen thought about it and knew that she missed Xia Zhiyuan. Jiang Yunxian is actually very strong, there is basically nothing that can make her like this in the past two years, but today it is just a small touch, which makes her red-eyed, which shows her deep affection for Xia Zhiyuan.

Xia Meizhen pressed the emotions in her heart and said with a smile: "Since my mother said it was delicious, then when you come back, let's start selling this." ”

Jiang Yunxian naturally didn't want to be seen through his thoughts, so he nodded with a smile and agreed.