Chapter 32

The servant said, "Oh, my Lord, please stop being so picky. Look at the time now. You should eat something to fill your stomach before going to court. You can't let His Majesty wait for you, right?" He sighed helplessly in his heart and continued,

"Around here? The only places selling mutton soup, Hu pancakes and tofu pudding are around here. There is no other food. You'd better bear with it for now and eat some tofu pudding, or mutton soup, no matter how bad it tastes." He said solemnly, not afraid of his master getting angry at all. After all, he was just an old naughty boy with a serious face. He knew very well in his mind that going to court was important and he would not bother with him.

"Hmph." The old man snorted, but didn't say anything else, which was considered as his agreement with his statement.

The servant immediately crossed the road to bring a bowl of tofu pudding to his master. He almost ran all the way there, looking very anxious.

But when he was running towards the tofu pudding stall, he smelled an inexplicable fragrance. Turning around, he saw that a mutton stall had opened outside the shop on the street. The pot was stewing mutton soup, and the fragrance could be smelled from such a distance.

There are two large bowls on the stall, with some chopped coriander and chopped green onions as garnish. There are also chunks of mutton on the side, which is also very delicious after being chopped and blanched in the pot. The most important thing is that the soup tastes very fragrant.

The key to delicious mutton soup lies in the soup.

There was a white cloth on the other table. I didn't know what was covered under the cloth, with only some browned corners showing. It was probably a fried bun?

The servant stopped for some unknown reason and went up to the young lady who was sitting on the doorstep picking vegetables and asked, "What kind of food are you selling, young lady?"

When Su Guoer looked up, she saw a fair-faced servant with a handsome appearance but short stature. She also saw a carriage parked outside Daxiangguo Temple in the distance and guessed that it must have come from there.

But they couldn't let such a diner go, so Su Guoer quickly said, "We sell two kinds of food, one is mutton soup, and the other is mutton pot stickers. Here, you can try them first, and buy them if you like them."

The boy really picked up a piece in his hand and stared at the pot sticker. The shape was quite novel, with some meat exposed, and it looked delicious and fragrant.

It looked quite good, so he took another bite and immediately decided, "This is it. Give me one portion, enough for two people. I'll take it away. Hurry!"

Finally, he continued, "Oh, by the way, if the store has small bamboo bowls, please give me two more bowls of mutton soup. If not, please don't, I'm in a hurry."

Su Guoer said "Okay" and quickly packed two servings of mutton soup and pot stickers, then handed them to the servant.

"How much silver?"

"Mutton soup is 15 wen per serving, pot stickers are also 15 wen per serving, a total of 60 wen."

The boy counted out sixty coins, gave them to Su Guoer, and left, running the whole way.

After a while, Su Guoer saw the carriage under the willow tree move. The driver waved the whip, and the carriage rumbled towards the palace gate.

He looked really anxious, perhaps rushing to attend court? It was probably too late for him at this hour.

She didn't care and just thought it was a small episode. After selling the mutton soup and pot stickers on the stall, Su Guoer came to the kitchen, fried some oil residue with vegetables, and took out some mutton scraps left over from the morning to simmer a cabbage, and then stir-fried some white melon, and paired it with the mutton pot stickers specially reserved for Pang Ya. It was another simple meal.

Oh, by the way, she cooked a little more corn rice on purpose, fearing that Fatty wouldn’t have enough to eat, so she cooked a full pot.

There was more rice than vegetables, and only a tiny bit of meat. To be honest, Su Guoer still felt a little sorry for Pang Ya, after all, she had been busy with him all morning. But she promised that this was only for today.

Because all the vegetables and meats she bought yesterday were used up, her shop only had a few vegetables left besides some spices. As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice; she can't make anything without the ingredients. So, why not let her have a meal first?

Fortunately, Pang Ya didn't complain and ate it with rice very happily. She ate half a pot of rice and vegetables by herself. Su Guoer was a little puzzled as to how her stomach could hold so much?

But when I saw Pang Ya pick up the stove outside with one hand.

She felt that such a small amount of food was not too much to eat.

After all, Pang Ya is equivalent to three strong laborers, so it is normal for her to eat a lot.

Su Guoer felt like she had found a real treasure! If it weren't for the fact that Pangya was a girl and couldn't get a good job in the escort agency, where else could she find someone so suitable?

Su Guoer immediately announced that Pang Ya would be the mascot of her store, and that she could eat all the food in the store for free in the future, with no limit, as long as she could stay by her side to protect her safety.

We still need to hire people to do other work.

Su Guoer immediately took a piece of cloth, wrote a recruitment notice on it, and placed it at the door, preparing to recruit a few more people to help in the store.

Business was good yesterday and this morning. After deducting the cost, she made 23 taels of silver. This was a good start, so she would have to work hard to make money next.

Pay off this month's rental bill as soon as possible, and the remaining amount will be counted as this month's revenue.

The rent for the house was 350 taels of silver per month. This high price made Su Guoer, who was writing a notice, shake her head after calculating it.

Hey, it’s a bit far from the target?

So let’s make more braised meat today?

She also needs more mutton. The mutton soup was only sold for a short time in the morning, and some diners didn't even get to drink it. They came with empty stomachs and left with empty stomachs, with resentful faces, which made her feel quite embarrassed.

She immediately told them to come back the next morning to drink, and she would make more so that they would have enough to drink.

So after posting the notice at the door of the store, Su Guoer asked the owner of the butcher shop to send 600 kilograms of pork and 300 kilograms of mutton. In addition, ten sets of sheep offal were also sent, which no one would mind if used to make soup.

This is not a lie told by Su Guoer. Mutton is expensive in Bianjing and the price is quite high, so there is no pure mutton soup on the market now. Most stall owners will mix some mutton offal into the mutton to sell it, so that they can make more money.

If you want to drink pure mutton soup, that's fine. It costs 20 cents a bowl and you just need to grab a couple of mutton slices. But in fact, it's not very tasty and it's not as filling as eating mutton offal.

So Su Guoer’s mutton soup also contains mutton offal.

It's not a big deal, just a little hard to wash.

However, the population of Bianjing City was large, and within less than a quarter of an hour after she posted the notice, she recruited two young ladies to work as her helpers. The wage was 200 wen a day, which was almost as much as the helpers' wages in the nearby Mingyue Tower.