Xiao Jinhan swallowed the oyster mushroom in his mouth and gave the girl a thumbs up, "Delicious."

After saying that, he wiped his mouth and looked at the bubbling soup pot, "Can I have another skewer?"

Su Hua looked up and met the man's gaze.

Unlike when we first met, when it seemed shrouded in thick fog.

But it was like the clear sky after the rain.

It's so clean it reaches right to the heart.

"How silly!" the girl laughed and scolded, walked to the stove and picked out a string of cooked oyster mushrooms, plus two strings of pig liver. "Here, take this. The liver in the hot pot tastes different from the stir-fried pig liver with scallions. Try it."

"Thank you." Xiao Jinhan took the skewers.

He stroked the pig liver skewer with his large hand, a hint of warmth flashing in his eyes.

During previous whole pig banquets, his favorite dish was a plate of sliced ​​pig liver on the table.

When the Su family saw that Xiao Jinhan was completely unharmed, they realized that not all mushrooms are poisonous.

Su Bai smacked her lips and abruptly withdrew her gaze from her daughter and Xiao Jinhan.

She knew her daughter's personality well; once she made up her mind to do something, she would never give up.

So, while cleaning the mushrooms, she secretly tasted some of them.

About half an hour has passed, and there are still no signs of poisoning.

What she didn't expect was that the young man from the Xiao family would be willing to eat poisonous mushrooms without knowing the circumstances.

Su Hua first ladled out a bowl of pork bone soup, then scooped out a few skewers of mushrooms, and smiled at the Su family, saying, "Eat quickly, otherwise they'll get mushy and won't taste good. If you don't like these mushrooms, you can save them for me."

After saying that, he sat down in front of the stove and ate a mouthful of soup and a mouthful of mushrooms.

Seeing how much they were enjoying their food, the three Su brothers realized why their younger sister had asked them to shave the bamboo skewers.

Skewering them on bamboo sticks and eating them looks delicious.

Since it wasn't convenient to put chairs near the stove, everyone followed Su Hua's example and found a place to stand or squat, each eating a skewer. As soon as the skewers entered their mouths, everyone's eyes lit up.

"These wood ear mushrooms are so delicious! They're so chewy and springy, even better than pork skin!"

"I love oyster mushroom skewers. They're tender and smooth with a hint of meatiness. I would have eaten them even if I'd known they were poisonous."

"Compared to mushrooms, this pork offal is much more fragrant! Especially the large intestine."

"And when you blanch the cilantro, cabbage, and bok choy in it, the aroma is absolutely intoxicating..."

The large iron pot looked full, but each skewer only had four or five pieces of vegetables on it. Before you could even taste them all, they were already slurped down. Everyone took turns eating skewers, and soon more than half of them were gone.

Finally, they all tacitly buried their heads in eating, even finishing off the small leaves that fell off the skewers.

Even Xiao Jinhan, who was not usually greedy, secretly loosened his belt twice.

Su Erhu rubbed his belly, his eyes gleaming. "Hua'er, your second brother has a feeling that our mala tang will be a huge hit as soon as it's launched, even better than the flavorful snails!"

Su Hua wiped her mouth, smiled and shook her head: "We don't have enough ingredients at home. The mala tang I made tonight is just the most basic version. Tomorrow, I will go to town to buy all the necessary spices and upgrade the recipe. Then our mala tang business can start."

There were still plenty of star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaves left from the gift Dr. Zhou had given her earlier, and she used these three spices to make the hot pot soup base today.

However, these three things alone are not enough.

The soup base flavor is still too simple.

“Basic… version?” Su Erhu was taken aback, but then his eyes lit up even more.

They drank every last drop of the soup from the hot pot today, and he couldn't even imagine how delicious it would be if it were upgraded.

The Su family was also overjoyed. They had been worried that Widow Liu would take away their snail business, but now, in the blink of an eye, things had taken a turn for the better, and they had come up with a new way to make a living.

Moreover, it's even better than the flavored snails.

Their daughter, Hua'er, truly has a unique and noble destiny!

“Yes.” Su Hua’s lips curled slightly. “The mala tang business will require a lot of vegetables, and our vegetable garden in the yard… won’t be able to supply them for the time being. We may have to buy some from the village first.”

Her spatial water droplet effect was so good that today, Su Baishi only poured some wastewater, yet the resulting changes have already attracted attention.

Within a day or two, the vegetable patch that used to be barren suddenly sprouted tall and strong.

I'm afraid even a fool could guess that there's something wrong with this.

“Leave this to Mother,” Su Baishi said with a smile. “Mother knows that there are a few families in the village who grow vegetables well. In the past, when our family didn’t have enough vegetables to eat, they would give us some.”

“Okay.” Su Hua smiled and turned to Su Dahu. “Malatang is different from flavorful snails. The soup base needs to be kept boiling. We need to make a stove that can adjust the heat, otherwise it will affect the taste. Brother, you are very skilled. I’ll trouble you with this stove.”

"Hey, what's the trouble?" Su Dahu grinned. "Leave the stove to me, brother."

Su Sanhu, who had been unable to get a word in edgewise, immediately patted his chest upon hearing this.

"The stove will definitely need a lot of firewood, so I'll leave that to Third Brother!"

"Hahaha... Okay." Su Hua replied with a smile.

Then I remembered that I had all the raw materials, the stove, and the firewood; the only thing I hadn't figured out was the price.

She paused for a moment, then parted her red lips slightly, "What do you all think? One coin for vegetables and two coins for meat in this spicy hot pot?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the kitchen became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Erlang silently swallowed, then pulled Little Radish Head aside and whispered in his ear, "Big Brother, vegetarian skewers are one coin each, and meat skewers are two coins each. I just ate three skewers of offal, two skewers of cilantro, one skewer of cabbage, and five skewers of mushrooms. How many coins have I eaten? ...By the way, are mushrooms vegetarian or meat?"

"Don't call me Dalang, you have to call me Big Brother!" Dalang rolled his eyes at his silly younger brother.

Then, feeling a pang of regret, he started counting on his fingers how many coins he had just eaten.

If he had known this spicy hot pot was so expensive, he definitely would have eaten fewer skewers.

Now it's all good, my belly is full of coins.

I couldn't get it out even if I tried.

Chunhua glanced at the two brothers, then stretched out her hands and stood there, stunned.

Can she say that she has no recollection of how many skewers she ate?