Chapter 18 Husband and Wife Business
The newlyweds should get up early on the second day of their wedding as usual, because yesterday's marriage delayed a day's business, and they must be open today, and the source of customers will be lost if the door is closed for a long time.
The door opened at six o'clock in the morning, and he had to get up at four o'clock to prepare, Xu Shaoting got up first at half past three, and left the room to Shen Qinglan after cleaning up the floor.
There is a difference between men and women, it is definitely inconvenient for two people to live in a room, and they have to hide and fold in the thatched house when they change clothes, and no one uses the urinal in the house, so they all hold back in the morning to solve it.
Shen Qinglan heard that Xu Shaoting was out of the yard, and it was estimated that he poured a urinal for his father and solved it by himself by the way-his father also developed the habit of getting up early because of business, and he couldn't sleep when he got to the point.
She actually held back to the thatched house, but she wanted to take advantage of this effort to wipe herself. Got married yesterday, she wore a borrowed wedding dress, scratched all over, and should have scrubbed it at night, but the private space at home was only her own room, and there was nowhere to solve it, so she could only endure it all night.
I went outside and brought two pots of hot water into the house, plugged in the door, took off my clothes like a thief, and hurriedly wiped my body while paying attention to the movement outside.
As soon as he took a breath, the door rang, and Xu Shaoting came back.
Shen Qinglan immediately pretended to be calm and rolled up her sleeves to wash her face.
"Up?" Xu Shaoting asked in a low voice through the door.
"Up." Shen Qinglan replied with a watery face.
Then the door opened, and Xu Shaoting came in with a pot of freshly boiled water and filled the empty kettle. "You wash your hair, didn't you spray that yesterday or something, mousse? It's sticky and can't be combed. ”
Not only can't she comb it, but the fragrance also hurts people's brains, Shen Qinglan didn't want to spray this thing at all, it was Shen Hongmei who asked the makeup artist to use it for her.
Before getting married yesterday, Shen Hongmei found a makeup artist to come to the house, and piggyback on Shen Qinglan to barb her, she looked good, but she was uncomfortable.
"It's very uncomfortable, but it's too late to wash, let's go to the bathhouse in the afternoon." Shen Qinglan raised her face from the basin, took a towel to dry the water, glanced at Xu Shaoting, and found that the hair on his forehead was also slightly wet.
There are two hot water kettles at home, both of which she used to use, and Xu Shaoting must have washed them with cold water. Originally, she was very moved and distressed, but for some reason, Shen Qinglan's first reaction was to sneer.
Xu Shaoting also laughed, neither of them said anything, but they laughed together inexplicably.
Shen Qinglan was afraid of alarming Shen Jun, so she held back, and then took an enamel basin from the wedding gift she received yesterday and handed it to Xu Shaoting, "Let's not be like thieves, in the future, we will wash our faces and feet in the room, and if we want to change our clothes and wipe our bodies, we will not be reserved in this situation, and we will not get together for two days, it will be so awkward every day." ”
Xu Shaoting looked at the girl's wet eyelashes and the tips of her dripping hair, and nodded with a smile. It wasn't the first time he had observed her, but for the first time, he thought she was good-looking.
It's not good-looking in terms of appearance, after all, she's not ugly, it's the kind of good-looking that touches people.
After making breakfast for Shen Jun, the two rode to the braised boiled shop located at the entrance of the alley, and it was almost five o'clock when they arrived at the store, half an hour later than usual.
Today's breakfast may not be in time, because the fire has stopped, the ingredients have not been prepared, and if you start cooking again, it will be at least ten o'clock to get out of the first pot.
In the more than two years since the opening of the boiled restaurant, there have only been two ceasefires, once because Shen Jun suffered a stroke, and the second time was yesterday. One of the tricks of Shen Jia's boiled fire is to keep the fire, burn it all day during the day, close the stove at night but the fire is not extinguished, and the next day you only need to add ingredients and water, put new ingredients and cook until the fire is hot.
Once the fire is stopped, the taste of the pot of soup is reduced, especially after a day and a night, and scientifically speaking, the broth base starts to spoil. Fortunately in winter, the old soup left behind can be filtered and placed in the next pot, if it is completely unusable in summer, although it will not hurt your stomach, but the sourness in the soup will affect the taste.
"Is this pot of soup really a hundred years old?" Xu Shaoting has always been curious about this, because it is said that the Shen family's soup is a century-old soup, but he personally thinks it is unlikely.
Shen Qinglan smiled, "Is it possible, my store has been open for more than two years, even if there is really an old soup handed down from the ancestors, it can't be used until now." ”
As she spoke, she took out a small pot of soup base that had been stored the day before yesterday and showed it to Xu Shaoting, "Na, this thing is not practical for a hundred years, and you can boil out such an essence after boiling it a few times, and its function is to make the new soup a little richer, and the key to the taste depends on the ratio of ingredients and the heat of cooking." ”
As soon as Xu Shaoting said this, he understood, before going out, Shen Jun gave them a bag of ingredients, which was about the Shen family's exclusive base recipe, plus the essence of this pot of soup base, a pot of stewed and boiled was basically done.
Shen Qinglan: "Before opening the door, Uncle Wang will send today's pork belly to the water, and you can get it out of the pot after it is cleaned, and I will make some cakes at this time." As he spoke, he took off his coat, changed into his work clothes, and began to meet.
Xu Shaoting lit the stove to make the room warmer, and when the fire was burning, he asked, "Are there many people eating breakfast?" ”
Shen Qinglan: "I don't eat much stew in the morning, most people are tired of it, but some workers and masters who do heavy work love to eat, and there are a group of guests in our house who come to eat." ”
"Didn't Uncle Shen think about making it early?" Xu Shaoting has observed that there are many households in this area, and there is a lot of traffic, but there are only one or two breakfast shops, and the breakfast market is still very large.
Shen Qinglan shook her head, "When my grandfather passed it on to him, it was good to concentrate on doing one thing to the extreme, and if you do too much, you will lose sight of one or the other. ”
Shen Jun is a comfortable character, he can make money, but he can't be tired and tired, plus he loves his daughter-in-law and is reluctant to let her work hard in the store, so he can only cook one boil by himself.
Xu Shaoting smiled and didn't say anything more.
Before the door opened at six o'clock, Uncle Wang, who sold pork, sent pigs into the water, and at this time there were already two guests waiting for a place at the door.
"Yo, I didn't expect it to be really opened, hey, the first day of the wedding was hard enough!"
Shen Qinglan said with a smile: "Yes, people can rest, but the fire can't rest, but the two uncles, I haven't eaten this morning, I haven't cooked it yet, and I can catch up at noon." ”
"Is there any soup then?" One of the uncles asked unrelentingly.
Shen Qinglan: "There is soup, if you really want to take this bite, I will serve you a bowl of soup, no money, you can buy a few fritters and oil cakes or something to eat." ”
"If you have the soup, you can get it!" The uncle was happy, and immediately went into the house to find a seat and sat down, "I'm just like the taste of your boiled soup, I don't feel uncomfortable if I don't eat it for a day, and I don't buy oil cakes and fritters. ”
This request was to be told to Shen Jun, and he said no, because he felt that it was wrong to just have the taste of soup, and it was even more impossible to smash the signboard and cook noodles, and it would spoil the soup.
Shen Qinglan responded, "Yes, you wait for ten minutes." ”
The other also found a seat and sat down when he heard this, it was all good for this soup, and it was okay if he couldn't eat meat and eat vegetarian cakes.
The uncle who wanted to eat noodles chatted with another: "Look, it's still Qinglan's brain, Lao Shen doesn't know how to work around, let him cook a bowl of noodles and live or die, Hongmei's girl is too shrewd, ask her to ask me for two cents just for a bowl of soup, or why did she marry into the compound." ”
"It's good to marry into the compound, huh?" Another uncle said, "Yesterday I heard my daughter say that Hongmei's wedding was so lively, she went to a scene and almost beat her!" ”