Chapter 29: Copper Pot Hot Pot

He Yanxiu obviously also approved of the taste of this cup of tea and nodded slightly.

"Has the Second Master had lunch?" Su Yujin asked.

"It took me nearly two hours to get here from the capital, and I haven't had lunch yet." He Yanxiu replied.

"Then I'll cook a few dishes for you, Master." Su Yujin thought for a moment and said, "It's damp and cold on rainy days, why not make a stew with assorted mushrooms and stewed ham with cabbage hearts?"

He Yanxiu hesitated for a moment and asked, "What did you eat just now?"

It smells pretty good.

And seeing that Su Yujin's mouth was full of oil while eating, it should taste good.

"Copper pot mutton hot pot." Su Yujin replied, "Second Master, do you want to eat this?"

"Just eat this." He Yanxiu paused again, "Add half a bowl of wontons."

The wontons I ate last time seemed to taste good and smelled delicious.

"Please wait a moment, Second Master. I will prepare it right away." Su Yujin bowed and called Ai Cao and Mama Liu to prepare the ingredients for the copper pot hot pot.

She cut the mutton by hand, washed various vegetables, sliced ​​them and arranged them on a plate, and then hurriedly made a few wontons that He Yanxiu had ordered.

In addition, Su Yujin asked Mother Liu to mix some noodles and leave them there, preparing to pull out two noodles for He Yanxiu to taste later.

After all, hotpot is incomplete without pulled noodles!

Everything is ready, the charcoal fire is boiling, and steam is rising from the exquisite copper pot.

The soup boils and the meat is cooked.

The tender slices of mutton, after a brief rinse, taste tender, juicy, and without any fishy taste.

He Yanxiu took a bite and nodded slightly, "It tastes good."

"As long as Second Master likes it." Su Yujin put some vegetables and bean curd into the pot and asked He Yanxiu to eat them together.

The small charcoal stove and the small pot cannot cook too much at one time, so you can only eat slowly.

But this way of eating was quite comfortable and relaxed, and it allowed He Yanxiu, who was extremely busy on weekdays, to enjoy a rare moment of leisure and ease. He did not urge Su Yujin to eat any more, and did not even require Su Yujin to serve him. He just made the hotpot and ate it himself.

The copper pot hot pot meal lasted for a full hour. In the end, after eating half a bowl of wontons and two noodles, He Yanxiu finally put down his chopsticks.

Su Yujin asked Ai Cao and Liu Mama to take away the charcoal stove, copper pot and other things, and replaced them with a cup of freshly brewed tea.

I bought this in a tea shop in the county town some time ago. It is Pu'er tea, which has the effect of helping digestion and regulating qi. It is quite suitable to drink a cup of it after a meal.

This arrangement seemed to make He Yanxiu feel very comfortable, because Su Yujin saw a faint smile on his face.

Of course, it is not ruled out that she was seeing things wrong.

However, after finishing the meal, Su Yujin was in a dilemma.

Eating is a serious matter after all. Although she was busy preparing meat and vegetables, she still had a job to do, but now that she was full and satisfied...

What should she do? Just as Su Yujin was hesitating about what to do, He Yanxiu took a book from Xing'an and sat at the table to read it casually.

Su Yujin didn't know what to do anymore, so she had to make another pot of tea for He Yanxiu and prepare some snacks.

After finishing his work, He Yanxiu raised his hand towards her and said, "Sit down."

"...Yes, Second Master."

Su Yujin, who originally wanted to find an excuse to slip away, had no choice but to sit down as he was told.

Sitting quietly, watching the drizzle outside, watching the rain water gathering and flowing under the corridor, looking at the melon seeds, orchid beans, and peanut crisps on the table, and then looking at a piece of thread sticking out of your own cuff.

If you get tired of it, just start over.

…

After an incense stick of time passed, Su Yujin pinched her thigh and forced herself to suppress the urge to yawn.

I feel sleepy after eating, and I cannot avoid this feeling wherever I go.

What's more, He Yanxiu seemed to be enjoying the book he was reading, while she just sat there, feeling really bored.

At first, Su Yujin forced herself to stay awake and count the melon seeds on the plate on the table, but as she counted, her eyelids began to droop and she could only support her chin with her hands.

But even so, Su Yujin still felt that her mind went blank from time to time...

After noticing that the person next to him had dozed off for the fifth time, He Yanxiu put down the tea he had just taken a sip of and picked up a piece of peanut crisp.

The crispy and fragrant taste spreads in your mouth.

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He Yanxiu frowned slightly, but soon relaxed his brows, put the peanut crisp he had taken a bite of back on the plate, and cleared his throat, "The rain outside seems to have stopped."

Su Yujin was startled when she heard the sound. Most of her sleepiness disappeared immediately. She raised her eyes and looked up. "It has stopped."

"How's your wonton stall business going these days?" He Yanxiu asked.

"Master Lao, remember that the wonton stall has been closed for a long time..."

"Oh?" He Yanxiu put down the book in his hand, "Why don't you open it? I think these wontons taste pretty good."

The people of Qinghe County were so picky about their taste that they didn't even approve of wontons like this, so Su Yujin's wonton stall couldn't continue to operate? "The wontons tasted good, so I simply bought a shop and added noodles, mutton soup, etc., and opened a restaurant named Su Ji."

Su Yujin smiled and said, "Thanks to Second Master, Su's now has seven or eight employees working hard, and the restaurant is always full of customers. Business is pretty good for now."

He Yanxiu, "..."

It’s not that it can’t continue to operate, but it has been transformed from a small stall into a restaurant, which has directly raised its level.

His vision is too narrow! But Su Yujin just said that he bought a shop? A shop in Qinghe County costs at least 400 taels. Last time, he gave Su Yujin 200 taels. Even if Su Yujin's wonton stall can sell for some money, buying this shop, plus the clerk, the capital to open a shop...

I'm afraid Su Yujin is also a little stretched at this moment.

He Yanxiu thought for a moment, called Xing'an over, took out a silver note and handed it to Su Yujin, "Business is always difficult at the beginning, and money is needed everywhere. Take these, don't be too frugal."

Seeing the three hundred taels clearly written on the banknote, Su Yujin was overjoyed and took it quickly, "Thank you, Second Master."

Then, he happily stuffed it into the purse hanging around his waist.

Perhaps she felt it was not safe to keep the banknotes in her purse, so Su Yujin stood up and went into the inner room, took the banknotes out of her purse, put them in the small wooden box in her dressing table, locked it, and then sat back down.

"Thank you, Second Master." Su Yujin thanked him again.

He was so happy to get the money, I guess he must be very short of money.

I had said before that if I had any problems, I could write to the capital. Now it has been nearly half a year, but Su Yujin has not asked for help once.

Maybe she wanted to fulfill her duties as a mistress and didn't want to cause him any trouble?

There is one more update, but it will be a little later~ It 　　’s a big holiday, so I had to work overtime today because it was raining heavily and there was a traffic jam on the main roads during the National Day. In order to hurry, I had to run wildly in the rain, becoming a beautiful (poor, pathetic) landscape...

(End of this chapter)