Fragrant dough
Zhao Sichen and Sun Guanyu walked around the market again before returning to the market gate.
In just one hour, half of the goods they brought from Daqing City had been sold.
Zhao Sichen's heart moved, and he said to Sun Guanyu: "Boss Sun, we originally planned to stay in Beicheng for a month, but looking at the sales of the goods, it is estimated that we will be able to sell out the goods in the three-day marketββ"
Sun Guanyu was a natural businessman, and immediately knew what Zhao Sichen meant: "The next market, we will have no goods to sell." What does Boss Zhao mean? β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "It's better for us to take local materials and try to see what business is good to do in the north." β
Sun Guanyu said: "Since this is the case, what does Boss Zhao think?" β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "Boss Sun knows that my business is mainly for food ......."
Sun Guanyu said with a smile: "Naturally, I know, that's why I need the spices of the Sun family." β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "I want to use ingredients from the North to develop a few new meals. β
Sun Guanyu smiled: "Naturally, it's good." β
Zhao Sichen said: "It's just that I came to Beicheng alone this time, and I didn't bring people and assistants ......."
Sun Guanyu waved his hand: "What's so difficult about this, the people of my Sun family, Boss Zhao just calls!" β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "I already have some ideas in my heart, wait for me to list the ingredients I need, and ask Boss Sun to send someone to help me purchase ......"
After that, Zhao Sichen asked people to bring pen and paper and write down the ingredients needed.
Sun Guanyu saw Zhao Sichen write down milk, sugar, salt, beef and other ingredients, which did not look strange ingredients.
There was a slight doubt in my heart. But he believed in Zhao Sichen, and immediately urged his subordinates to hurry up and buy.
In just an hour, the people had finished buying and sent them to the inn.
Zhao Sichen said goodbye to Sun Guanyu with a smile: "I'll go back to the inn to prepare first." β
Sun Guanyu attached great importance to the business of Beicheng, and the goods received a good response on the first day of the market, so he guarded the market as never before, and did not return to the inn with the shopkeeper and his men until the market closed in the evening.
When Sun Guanyu stepped into the inn, a maid greeted him, handed a hot towel to warm his hands, and handed hot tea to moisten his throat.
Sun Guanyu looked over and saw Wei Qianlang sitting in a wheelchair at the inn table, smiling slightly and watching Zhao Sichen busy.
Seeing Sun Guanyu coming in, Wei Qianlang nodded slightly.
Sun Guanyu stepped forward and said, "General Wei, are you feeling better today?" β
Wei Qianlang said with a smile: "I have been resting for a few days in the Yang County Shoufu, and it is much better. Thank you Boss Sun for your concern. β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "Boss Sun is finally back, if you don't come back, we can eat by ourselves." β
Sun Guanyu said with a smile: "It's not mine, let Boss Zhao and General Wei Xiao wait for a long time." β
Zhao Sichen smiled: "Then let's start." β
As soon as she raised her hand, the two shopkeepers carried an iron frame into the inn and placed it under the window.
Sun Guanyu paced over and saw an iron mesh on top of the iron shelf, and charcoal was placed in it.
The chef at the inn held a large plate of meat and vegetables on top of it with bamboo skewers.
The meat is cut into just the right amount of thick and thin, and the fat is evenly divided.
The pieces of meat are brushed with sauce and are already marinated.
Zhao Sichen beckoned the chef to put the big plate next to the iron shelf, and said to Sun Guanyu with a smile: "We will eat barbecue tonight." β
"Barbecue?" Sun Guanyu raised his eyebrows slightly.
In Daqing City, he has also eaten roast duck and chicken, but he has never tried to slice meat and roast meat, and he has never seen the way to grill it on the barbecue grill.
Zhao Sichen smiled: "You can do it, just wait to eat." β
With that, he took the candle and lit the charcoal fire.
According to the method taught by Zhao Sichen before, the chef arranged the pieces of meat that had been inserted with bamboo skewers on the barbecue grill in a row.
Sun Guanyu said with a smile: "Then there is Boss Lao Zhao." I would be better off obeying my orders and sit and wait for the food. β
Zhao Sichen smiled: "Also, don't worry. β
As he spoke, Zhao Sichen entered the kitchen of the inn, and after a while, brought out a large plate.
There are two bowls on top of the large plate, and the inside of the bowl seems to be milk, and it looks like turbid tea, wafting with aroma.
Next to the two bowls, there are several snacks, including red beans and mung beans, and small white balls that look like glutinous rice balls.
Zhao Sichen smiled and put these two things on the table in front of Sun Guanyu and Wei Qianlang, and said with a smile: "This is a fresh food I made in the afternoon, called milk tea, you can try it?" β
She pointed to a few snacks: "These snacks can also be added to milk tea to add flavor." β
Sun Guanyu has drunk tea and milk, but he never thought that these two foods could be mixed together.
Sun Guanyu hesitated slightly, but Wei Qianlang picked up the bowl without hesitation and took a sip.
Although Wei Qianlang doesn't like sweets, the entrance of milk tea has both tea and milk aroma, but it removes the milky smell, and he can't help but nod and praise: "Not bad." β
Sun Guanyu heard Wei Qianlang say this, and also took a sip of milk tea.
Sun Guanyu likes sweets even more, his eyes lit up, he took a few sips in succession, and praised: "How did you come up with the idea of putting tea and milk together and making food?" It was also made into a dessert, so delicious! β
Zhao Sichen smiled: "It's just a little ingenuity." Would you like to add these snacks again? β
Sun Guanyu was not polite, poured half of a few snacks into the bowl, scooped it with a spoon and put it in his mouth to try, and praised again and again: "Only Boss Zhao has such ingenuity." β
Wei Qianlang smiled quietly on the side, his eyes were on Zhao Sichen's body, and he looked at Zhao Sichen with a smile like a flower.
After a while, the chef grilled the first plate of skewers and brought them to the table.
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "It's the sauce I made myself, and it was marinated for an afternoon, so let's try it?" β
Sun Guanyu rolled up his sleeves, picked up a string of meat with chopsticks, took a bite, and praised again and again: "The fresh aroma of the meat, the richness of the sauce, and the excellent taste are simply the most delicious beef ...... I have ever tasted."
Zhao Sichen saw that Wei Qianlang was inconvenient, and smiled and helped him sandwich the meat.
Wei Qianlang took a few bites, and he also felt that the deliciousness was abnormal, and he ate a lot more than usual.
Zhao Sichen asked Sun Guanyu with a smile: "Boss Sun, how do you think these two foods of ours are sold in Beicheng?" β
Sun Guanyu nodded again and again: "This plan is very good." The people of Beicheng like milk and love meat, so they must be able to become popular in Beicheng. β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "I have another thing, I have been wanting to do it for the past few days, but I don't have time to do it, so I just invite you two to taste it today." β
Zhao Sichen said, and asked the maid to serve a plate of golden pasta.
Wei Qianlang and Sun Guanyu saw that this plate of golden noodles turned out to be a fried dough cake.
Sun Guanyu said with a smile: "Fried in oil? Greasy, who's going to eat this. β
Although Young Master Sun said arrogantly, the chopsticks were very honest and stretched out to the plate of bread.
The dough cake was crispy, and Sun Guanyu's chopsticks were so hard that they poked a hole in the dough.
Sun Guanyu took the hole that was punctured, broke a small piece of dough and put it in his mouth, and said with a smile: "It's crispy and fragrant, it's very good." β
Wei Qianlang's face was more serious, and he also stretched out his chopsticks and broke a piece.
There was a crunch.
Wei Qianlang chewed the dough slowly, and after a while, asked, "Is this fried in oil?" β
Zhao Sichen smiled: "Yes." β
"The dry dough cake is fried in oil, why is it not scattered?"
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "First cook the noodles, form a dough cake, and then put it in the oil pot." β
Wei Qianlang nodded and said, "It really should be so." β
Then he asked, "I eat it and I have salt?" β
Zhao Sichen said: "Not only that, but the soup used to cook the noodles is broth. The noodles absorb the flavor of the dashi and are fragrant. β
Speaking of this, Zhao Sichen thought of another way and said: "If there is hot water, if the dough cake is soaked in hot water, it will be a bowl of fragrant and hot noodle soup." β
Wei Qianlang's eyes lit up and asked, "Can you let me try the soup noodles that have been brewed?" β
Zhao Sichen smiled: "Naturally, you can." β
The two of them chatted, and the maid who was waiting on the side hurriedly brought the porcelain bowl and hot water in a hurry.
Zhao Sichen smiled and nodded at the maid.
The maids of the Sun Mansion can follow Sun Guanyu all the way from Daqing City to the Northland, and they are naturally clever girls.
Zhao Sichen picked up the dough and put it in the porcelain bowl.
The maid poured the boiling water into the porcelain bowl and closed the lid.
Zhao Sichen commanded softly, and after a while, all kinds of side dishes were served in an endless stream.
Wei Qianlang said with a smile: "I've been in the Northland for so long, I didn't know that there were such exquisite delicacies in the Northland. β
Zhao Sichen said with a smile: "The chef that Boss Sun brought from Daqing City is very good. β
Sun Guanyu hurriedly said: "If General Wei Xiao thinks it is good, take the cook to the barracks and let him cook for you, which is also a little bit of my heart." β
Wei Qianlang said with a smile: "It's not necessary to cook for me, if you can learn this kung fu of making dough, can you teach it to the guys in the army?" β
"Naturally." Zhao Sichen immediately understood what Wei Qianlang meant.
The north is bitter cold, and materials are in short supply, if they encounter going out to suppress bandits or resisting the Liao guerrillas, the Wei soldiers mostly carry fried rice and dry buns as dry food, and at most bring some salt and seasoning.
The food is monotonous and tastes poor.
It would be great if you could change the food through bread and soup.
It not only helps to improve the food and enhance the physical strength of the soldiers, but also the hot noodle soup is also an excellent spiritual comfort for the soldiers.
The two chatted for a few words, and Zhao Sichen unlocked the lid on the porcelain bowl.
A burst of noodle soup steam with the aroma of chicken soup came to the face, adding a lot of mist to the room, and Zhao Sichen's eyebrows looked much softer in the steam of the noodle soup.
She looked down at the white porcelain bowl, rolled up her sleeves, took slender chopsticks, and added kimchi, shredded tofu, fried eggs and other condiments to the porcelain bowl.
Soon, the smell of steam became rich.
Wei Qianlang lowered his head slightly and looked at Zhao Sichen.
Even he didn't realize it, and the corners of his mouth were chewing and smiling.