Chapter 287: The Red-Eyed Widow
It was raining outside today, as the saying goes, an autumn rain and a cold, and the weather turned cold, but there was a fire in the house, and there were these two steaming hot dishes on the table, as well as a plate of meat cakes, which were fragrant, and the wheat felt warm all over.
Dachuan's craftsmanship is a must, and the taste of these two snacks can't help but make Hemai applauded.
"This pancake is thin and crispy, the taste is both fragrant and crispy, and the flavor is not only fragrant, but also the crisp green onion, especially the charred skin on it, it is the best," He Mai licked his lips, feeling satisfied.
Dachuan was very interested, watching He Mai Liulang eat four or five baked cakes in a row, and said with a smile: "I'm choking!" Take a sip of soup and try this ingots stewed silver silk again! ”
"It's delicious, it's delicious," He Mai said, drinking the radish soup, "It's much better than what I made!" Master Okawa, the same dish, I see that your cooking is similar to mine, how do you make it taste so bad? ”
"It looks different, but it's actually different." Okawa smiled and honestly said that he was different from the others.
"The potatoes and cabbage made at home, the potatoes are all cut with hobs, right? The cabbage gang stewed with the leaves, and it didn't separate. Look at me, the potatoes are broken, the cracked surface is large, and the flavor is into! The cabbage gang is separated from the leaves, and the gang is cut into thin strips – or how about silver threads? Cut the cabbage into thin strips for a good taste. It's just that the cutting method of the dish is different, and there are also sideways, such as when to put salt and when to add water - adding water is to add cold and hot, how much to add, are all knowledge. ”
Okawa gushed endlessly, and finally came to a summary by himself, "All in all, we are cooks, and how many years have we studied these things!" If the food you make tastes the same as what others make, then what are you doing in the restaurant? ”
He Mai nodded again and again, "Master Okawa, what you said is so right. Catch up with Ming'er, can you teach me to succeed with both hands? It's this radish vermicelli soup, my family Liulang loves to drink, but what I make is far less delicious than yours. ”
"No problem!" Okawa responded heartily, "I'll write down the method in detail when I go back, and I'll give it to you when the time comes!" ”
He promised so well that He Mai had a good impression of him.
After eating, He Mai simply clapped the board and finalized, "Master Dachuan, I can trust your craftsmanship, so you said, let's make this meat cake and radish soup, how about it?" ”
"Okay," Okawa nodded, "If you can agree, I don't have any opinion, anyway, now you're my boss!" ”
He Mai smiled, "Okay, Master Dachuan, what cooking utensils and stoves are needed to make these things, you tell me, and I will go to buy them tomorrow." ”
"No, you don't! I have it all at home, I'll just bring it! Da Chuan waved his hand, "When will the shop be opened, I will move the things inside, and we will open the door and do business!" ”
He Mai said: "Okay, then it's decided." ”
With Dachuan's craftsmanship, Hemai is not worried about whether the business is good or bad, she is still busy buying a few sets of benches, tables and chairs, dishes, chopsticks, spoons and dishes, and finding a place to buy radishes and haggis - cheap and fresh.
There is also the plaque of this new shop, is it to make another plaque, or is it a sign? But this shop and Yongyi porridge bun shop are obviously her shop, why do you want to get two plaques?
He Mai and Liulang thought about it, and He Mai summed up whether they could open the middle of the two shops and smash the wall.
After all, this is Zhang Kuo's shop, and if you want to tear down the wall and decorate, you have to let Zhang Kuo nod before you can start construction.
Early the next morning, He Mai went to ask Zhang Kuo's opinion again. Zhang Kuo naturally had no opinion, and only let He Mai do it.
He Mai was overjoyed, and when he finished the stall, he told Liulang about it.
Dacheng Chang Shen Ma Er and they came with their family Bashi'er when the stall was closed in the morning market the next day, pushed the middle wall to it, used a shovel to make the ground and roof even, and pasted a layer of cement.
Since there were no windows to ventilate the shop, it was roughly estimated that it would take two days to dry, and the next morning the wheat moved the stove out to ventilate the two shops.
Who knew that because of this, it also caused a lot of disputes.
He Mai's stall was propped up to the front of the shop, and the two tables and eight benches that had been placed in front of the door had to be moved east.
To the east is a wonton stall owned by a woman in her thirties surnamed Xu, whom Li Changan says is a widow.
This widow Xu dresses up all day long, and most of the people who go to her to eat wontons every day are workers who come to Qinglu Village, and it is no secret that they eat wontons and laugh with this widow Xu.
But since the porridge buns of Hemai were spread out next to her, the business was booming day by day, and the widow Xu murmured to many people in private, saying that Hemai's porridge buns were spread out in order to rob her business.
This bun and wonton have a dry skin and a water, although they both have fillings, but they are not the same, she said that He Mai robbed her business, purely jealous.
He Mai heard Li Changan say that this woman said bad things about herself, but she didn't take it to heart. She also knows that now her porridge bun shop is very popular, and people are willing to say a few words, and there are more jealous of her in the market, so she can still settle accounts with those people one by one?
But this time, the two tables on her shop were moved eastward, and this move was seen by Widow Xu, as if He Mai had declared war on her.
At first, Widow Xu only muttered a few words, but then there was a guest eating steamed buns in the wheat shop, and she mistakenly took a pair of bamboo chopsticks from her wonton stall, so she stopped doing it, threw off the rag, rushed to the side of the porridge and bun shop, and scolded Huai.
"The three little foxes are not enough to rob the old lady's business openly and secretly, and they come to steal the old lady's chopsticks! What's the matter, it's easy to bully when a mother, isn't it? She scolded, snarking, with a snarky face.
Her call was obviously to the three girls in the shop, but now the shop is in full swing, Xia Hua Chunhua didn't hear her words, Li Changan was also settling accounts for the guests, and he didn't hear her scolding, but he was frying the steamed buns at the door of the shop, and when he saw her hands pinching her waist and looking like she was looking for a fight, she looked at her in surprise and then withdrew her gaze.
Widow Xu was originally full of energy, and she wanted to fight with these little children who didn't seem to have any hair, but who knows, she punched the cotton, and no one paid attention to her at all!
"You're deaf!?" Widow Xu jumped to her feet, frantic with anger.
He Mai didn't know what was going on, but when she looked angry, she muttered in her heart, isn't this widow some madman?