Chapter 25: The Broken Temple
By the time Xia Xueniang came back, Bai Zhi had already cleaned the broken temple, and the two of them directly set up a stove and cooked it in the courtyard of the broken temple.
Granny Chen is a lonely old woman, life is also tight, naturally there are no good things to borrow at home, but just some broken millet, Rao is like this, for Bai Zhi and Xia Xueniang, it can be regarded as a hearty, after all, at home, the most common thing to eat is rice soup, and it is good to have a few grains of rice.
Originally, Xia Xueniang cooked, but Bai Zhi saw that she actually divided most of the borrowed half bowl of millet into two portions, and the whole person was a little bad.
"Mother, I'll do it, you just wait to eat."
There's not much rice in the first place, okay? Divided into two boils like this, where can I make anything, thinking like this, without waiting for Xia Xueniang to agree, she directly took the rice in her hand, and used the water she brought from Granny Chen's side to directly scoop up all the millet.
Seeing this, Xia Xueniang couldn't do the pain.
"Zhi'er, half of it will be fine, and we can keep the rest for tomorrow to cook and eat."
There are only two of them, and half of them can make two bowls of rice porridge, although there are still ten taels of silver, but who knows when they can use it, and they can save a mouthful.
When Bai Zhi heard this, she rubbed her forehead helplessly.
"Mother, we will go buy food tomorrow and come back, I will also make money, you can rest assured, besides, we can't eat enough at home, and now we come out, we can't eat a full meal."
Hearing Bai Zhi say this, although Xia Xueniang's flesh hurts, she also feels pain for Bai Zhi, thinking about the rice soup with only a few grains of rice at home, she opened her mouth, and finally gave up.
Broken millet porridge is the best, and there is a lot of rice, Angelica Angelica is in the rice, and after the water is boiled, after it is almost cooked, it will be directly transferred to low heat and boiled slowly.
The two of them didn't eat much in the morning, they were still working in the field, and they were busy working in the broken temple at this time, they were already hungry, the faint rice fragrance came from the fire, and both of them swallowed their saliva in unison, looking at the millet porridge that was already slightly thick on the fire, Bai Zhi couldn't care about the heat, and directly served the porridge, and took the two borrowed old bowls to fill the porridge.
Xia Xueniang looked at the rice porridge in her hand, steaming with bursts of heat, her stomach rumbling, but her eyes were a little sour.
It's been thirteen years, and it's been thirteen years since she followed Dingzhu to the Bai family, except for the first year, when she ate seriously, she has never eaten such thick porridge again.
When Bai Zhi saw Xia Xueniang like this, she didn't know what she was thinking, and she didn't have the heart to care, her heart fell on the millet porridge, if it wasn't too hot, she couldn't wait to eat the rice porridge in the bowl immediately.
When the mother and daughter had eaten rice porridge, it was not early, Xia Xueniang went out, Bai Zhi was about to remove the door panel of the broken temple, and sleep in bed at night, when there was a sound of rustling footsteps outside.
"Sanya, come and help."
The old man's voice sounded not far from the broken temple, Bai Zhi followed the sound and looked over, and saw Granny Zhou struggling to hold the two thin quilts, hurriedly threw away the things in her hand, and ran out.
"Grandma Zhou, why are you here, what can you do if you fall."
Mother-in-law Zhou is not young, and the life is hard, and her body is naturally not very good, holding the quilt on the bed, walking is trembling and leisurely, and seeing Bai Zhi's liver trembling, she is about to take the quilt over, but Mrs. Zhou only gave her a bed.
"The children are all in the house, and they are falling so much."
As he spoke, he hugged the quilt in his hand and went to the broken temple.
"Your mother and daughter are living in the broken temple, it's spring now, it's not cold during the day, it's still cold at night, send you two quilts, otherwise you can stay up at night."
In the eyes of Mrs. Chen, now that she has come out, it is not necessarily bad, but it is more bitter, so you don't have to suffer such a living sin in the Bai family.
This is the kindness of Bai Zhi who came to this world and received, except for her cheap mother, the kindness of the first person in her heart, and she carefully followed behind Mrs. Chen.
The two put the quilt on the cleaned up table, Mrs. Chen left, Bai Zhi continued to the guy to dismantle the door, when Bai Zhi removed the door panel, Xia Xueniang came back with the dry grass, looking at Bai Zhi carrying the door panel, her heart was almost frightened, and she hurriedly shook the dry grass in her hand, still on the ground, and ran to Bai Zhi's side to catch the door panel.
"Zhi'er, what are you doing here??"
Looking at Bai Zhi's small body carrying the door panel, Xia Xueniang asked with palpitations.
"Tear it down and use it as a bed." Bai Zhi wiped the sweat from her forehead and said indifferently, as she spoke, she ran to the door and brought the withered grass in.
After the two made the simple bed, they rested for a while, the sky was a little hazy and dark, Bai Zhi heated the millet porridge at noon, and the mother and daughter rested on the bed after eating.
Rao is two of them are already tired during the day, Rao is both tired during the day, but sleeping in a broken temple that doesn't even have a door, the two of them still can't sleep, and finally, Bai Zhi simply sat up from the door panel.
"Mother, you sleep, I'll keep watch, nothing will happen."
When Xia Xueniang heard this, where was she willing to sleep again, she struggled to get up, but was held down by Bai Zhi.
"Mother sleeps in the first half of the night, I sleep in the second half of the night, hurry up and sleep, I will call you in the second half of the night." In this situation, the two of them can't sleep, but if Xia Xueniang is allowed to stay in the middle of the night, when the time comes, she will definitely not call herself, so she can only keep it by herself for the middle of the night.
Bai Zhi's temperament has become very assertive since she woke up, Xia Xueniang naturally knows her daughter's temperament at this time, seeing her nodding like this, she lay down and fell asleep.
In the second half of the night, without waiting for Bai Zhi to call, Xia Xueniang got up, changed Bai Zhi to sleep, and the next morning, Bai Zhi got up early, and the mother and daughter went to the town with dark circles under their eyes.
Originally, the two went to the town to buy food, but after arriving in the town, Bai did not rush to buy food, but went to the Shengcai Restaurant.
In the Shengcai Restaurant, the shopkeeper was settling accounts at the counter, looking forward to when Bai Zhi would be able to send the snake, and when the time came, the dragon and phoenix soup would be pushed out, and when the son arrived, he would be able to redeem his guilt.
Just thinking about it, he saw Bai Zhi walking in from outside, and he was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly greeted him.
"Little girl, are you sending snakes??"
Saying that, the shopkeeper found that something was wrong, this snake was sent over, but he didn't see the snake, and he didn't see anything she was holding, so he couldn't help but look behind Bai Zhi, but still didn't see anything.
Seeing him like this, Bai Zhi didn't know what he was looking at, so she hurriedly smiled and shook her head.
"Shopkeeper, don't look at it, something happened at home, I didn't catch the snake, I came to have business and want to talk to you."
The shopkeeper heard Bai Zhi say that he didn't catch the snake, and he was a little disappointed, after all, few people dared to catch this snake, and he was now waiting for Bai Zhi to catch the snake and send it, he was good at cooking, but then he heard Bai Zhi say that he was here to talk about business, and suddenly came to the spirit again.
Bai Zhi also said that she was here to talk about business, so she sold two vegetable recipes to him, and today she said that she came to talk about business, I don't know what it was about, anyway, he felt that it must be something to make money.
Suddenly, that little disappointment left him behind, and Bai Zhi walked to the table in the hall and sat down, and asked Xiao Er to run and bring tea over.
"Little girl, what business are you going to talk to me about??"
As soon as Xiao Er served good tea, the shopkeeper couldn't help but ask, Bai Zhi heard this, looked up at the shopkeeper and spoke slowly.
"Shopkeeper, can you call the shots in this restaurant??"
This Shengcai restaurant, the business is not good, but the decoration is very good in all aspects, if the private shopkeeper is the boss at this time, I am afraid that he will go crazy, but although the shopkeeper is worried about the clouds, but there is really no anxiety about going bankrupt, which can be seen from the demeanor, except that this restaurant is not his, Bai Zhi can't think of other ideas.
That's why she asked.
The shopkeeper who originally thought that Bai Zhi would say something, after hearing Bai Zhi's words, couldn't help but be stunned, and then slowly spoke: "Little girl, since I am the shopkeeper of this restaurant, I can naturally be the owner of this restaurant." ”
He's talking about the shopkeeper, not the boss.
After Bai Zhi heard what he said, she immediately understood, she was not the owner of the restaurant, so what she wanted to say really couldn't be the master, but she didn't ask again, thinking about herself, the shopkeeper just couldn't be the master, but she also needed him to tell the owner of the restaurant, so she didn't hide it from him, and slowly said her thoughts.
Originally, I thought that Bai Zhi was going to sell something to the shopkeeper of the restaurant, but after listening to Bai Zhi's words, the whole person was a little confused, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, so he looked at Bai Zhi tremblingly for a long time, swallowed his saliva, took a breath, and said slowly.
"Little girl, you're not kidding, are you??"
If it weren't for the day before yesterday, after seeing Bai Zhi's cooking skills, the shopkeeper would definitely think that she was a crazy person after hearing her words, she was talking crazy, she would cook all kinds of dishes, and she couldn't buy more than she could, and she could change her tricks every day to make seven or eight dishes, that is, the most famous chef in the whole country, and he didn't dare to say such a thing, the inheritance and research and development of cooking skills take time, and some people can only study one specialty dish in their lifetime, but Bai Zhi opened her mouth to countless dishes, and the shopkeeper felt, My heart and liver are trembling uncontrollably.
I had some doubts about the authenticity of Bai Zhi's words, but at the same time, I was a little excited.
If what Bai Zhi said is true, then ......
This kind of idea is just a turn in the shopkeeper's mind, and the shopkeeper's heart is getting more and more excited, if it is true, then their restaurant is unparalleled in the whole country.