When Su Qingluan first prepared the soup, he was biased towards the spicy and fresh aroma of heavy flavor - dogwood, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves...... All the spices are added as if they don't cost money.

In fact, this kind of extensive use of spices is definitely "luxury" in this era. However, such a rough diet with a heavy taste but "not on the table" is completely incompatible with the exquisite painting style of the rich and noble's pursuit of "color, flavor, and taste".

Don't say that he is rich and expensive, even the old man Xu Kekuan, who has always called himself a "glutton", once sighed with some pity that this soup was "too heavy and lost the authenticity of the ingredients" and didn't like it very much.

Although Su Qingluan once silently complained that "isn't the 'original taste' of the water the taste of [beep-beep]", she also admitted that the water soup is not for those guests who have too much demand for "taste and appearance".

Although the thing that goes into the water is a "hot-selling item" in Su Qingluan's previous life, it is only a matter of decades. In the early years, the same was not welcomed.

Su Qingluan tried all kinds of ways to make this unpopular corner waste re-mouthed, but it was just a reconciliation and a substitute for the embarrassing situation of low-level consumers who "want to eat meat, but don't have a lot of spare money to buy meat".

Since they are low-level consumers, they must be manual labor, or they are the farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, or they are the masonry craftsmen who are beating under the sun, and so on.

The more such people are, the more they prefer salty food.

And the fresh and spicy spices can also arouse the appetite - even if the capacity of one spoonful of the Su family's stall is not large, everyone can eat three steamed buns even if the dry buns are soaked in the hot and spicy soup base!

Sure enough, Mrs. Xi only cautiously took a sip of the soup, and her eyes lit up: "No wonder your stall is always so lively, this soup really makes people want to drink it!" She turned her head to look at Yang, "The eldest sister is a good craft!" ”

Yang shook his head: "This is my eldest daughter's craft." ”

Su Qingluan looked at the lady at the table and said with a smile: "If you drink well, there is still something here!" ”

A guest in the back queue quipped: "I said this little lady, we are queuing up to buy soup bitterly, and you can give it away casually, isn't it good?" ”

Su Qingluan half-jokingly quipped: "This uncle, if you can also help my family catch pickpockets and save my family from breaking the bank, don't say a bowl or two of soup, even if you drink it in a whole pot, I will be happy!" ”

The guests queuing up around laughed, and Mrs. Xi took another sip of soup and said, "I know why people who come to your house to drink soup go to my house to buy cooking cakes. ”

The diners in line teased: "I said that the cooking cake Shih Tzu, your family's business is getting better, but I want to thank the Su family for the soup!" ”

"You can't say that," Su Qingluan said with a smile, "You won't be hungry if you drink this soup alone, only with dry food can it be considered a meal!" My family is on the opposite side of the lady's house, which can be regarded as mutual benefit and mutual achievement! ”

Xi Niangzi said with a smile: "This little girl of the Su family is listening!" Eh, speaking of which, my cookcake should taste good with this soup! I'm going to have lunch! ”

As he spoke, he strode towards the opposite side, and raised his voice as he walked: "I'll return your bowl after I've eaten later!" ”

When Xi Niangzi walked to the opposite side, Su Qingluan ran to her father and asked: "Daddy, Auntie, I think that Xi Niangzi is very powerful, and that pickpocket is said to be a walk in the rivers and lakes, and he should have some ability, but let Xi Niangzi press there and can't move!" ”

Although Xi Niangzi is slightly fat, and the pickpocket is relatively thin, in fact, the pickpocket is very large, and the physique is not too different from Xi Niangzi.

But Su Qingluan saw it clearly, the pickpocket had clearly used his strength to eat, and the result was not to mention resisting Xi Niangzi, and he couldn't even escape from her.

At this time, Aunt Yang next to her interjected: "Little lady, you have only come to the town to do business in the last three or two months, so I don't know - this cooking cake Shih Tzu was much more majestic a few years ago than now!" ”

It turned out that it was not Su Qingluan's illusion, this cooking cake Xi Shi Xi Lady really had some kung fu on her body.

A few years ago, Xi Niangzi and her family were jugglers in this town, stepping on the knife mountain every day, breaking big stones, and practicing styles.

This kind of performance combined with juggling In this era of lack of entertainment activities, not to mention ordinary people, even rich families are willing to spend money to watch the excitement.

Xi Niangzi and his head of the family are smart and seamless, so there are even many rich families who spend money to practice juggling.

Because of this, a few years ago, Xi Niangzi was also a little more spacious than now—at least she didn't have to worry about a bowl of soup for a few pennies.

But as the so-called "good traveler drowns", although Xi Niangzi and her master have martial arts, juggling is a dangerous job after all, and the two of them study hard and practice all day long, and they have accumulated large and small injuries.

Finally, half a month ago, Xi Niangzi's head fell from a few feet high in a juggling of "stepping on the knife mountain", although he saved his life, but his leg was broken, his waist couldn't move, and he could only collapse on the bed all day.

Without a tacit partner, Xi Niangzi can no longer go to juggling, she can only do a small business to subsidize the family, and earn medical expenses for the head of the family by the way.

But she can be regarded as a halfway monk, although she can also make cooking cakes, but compared with those old men and masters who have been in business for several years, more than ten years or even decades, the cooking cakes made are a little worse in terms of appearance and taste.

That is to say, the price is affordable, two pennies and three cooking cakes, compared with other cooking cakes for two or even three pennies, it is really cheap. For the poor people who are eager to break every penny, even if it is the price of one penny or two, it is a considerable amount of money over the years.

But even so, because the taste of Xi Niangzi's cooking cakes is dry and a little difficult to swallow, the business has been tepid, and I can only barely make ends meet.

But since the Su family opened a stall of "water soup", probably many people who bought the water were too lazy to go to other distant cooking cake stalls, or the dry Xi family cooking cake was just able to absorb the juice of the water soup, anyway, the business of "cooking cake Shih Tzu" gradually improved.

Hearing this, Su Qingluan was a little embarrassed: If it weren't for the fact that her stall happened to be opposite the Cooking Cake Xi Shi's house, her family's business might not have improved much; And if the cooking cake Shih Tzu is not opposite to the house, I am afraid that no one will see the pickpocket stealing today, and the family will have to "break the wealth and avoid disaster".

Fate is really mysterious.