He didn't say anything, but when he did, he actually called himself a troublemaker?

"I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about the guy in town who sells poisonous mushroom buns, is that you?"

Sister-in-law Zhang looked at her calmly.

"I………".

Liu Cuifang opened her mouth, but in the end she swallowed her anger and watched Zhang Dasao walk away.

The next afternoon, the two sisters-in-law arrived early, and Wei Yuyan didn't take a nap at noon.

"Sister-in-law, is this the meat pie you fried for us last time?"

Sister-in-law Xiuhua still remembers how delicious that meat pie was last time.

"Yes, but last time I ate it myself, so I put in a lot of meat. If I were to sell it, I wouldn't make much money with so much meat."

Add more chopped green onions and see if you can make twenty buns from one pound of meat.”

Wei Yuyan took out a pound of flour and asked Sister Xiuhua to knead the dough, Sister Zhang to chop the meat filling, while she chopped scallions.

"Adding a little oil when kneading this dough makes it more fragrant."

Wei Yuyan added a little lard to the dough.

"This is quite expensive, and we'll have to fry it in oil later."

"Sister-in-law Xiuhua sighed."

"Yes, this one will also be sold at a higher price. Let's start preparing the filling now, you guys watch."

Wei Yuyan nodded and began to teach them how to wrap meat pies.

"So, should we call this a meat pie, or what should we call it?"

Sister-in-law Zhang held a meat pie in her hand, thinking to herself, "Is calling it a meat pie a bit too ordinary?"

"How about we call it meat pie?"

Wei Yuyan couldn't come up with a good name either.

"Meat pastry, that's good too, not bad."

Sister-in-law Xiuhua nodded and began to imitate the meat pie making process.

"Do you think I look okay like this?"

Sister-in-law Zhang fiddled with a few things, and when she felt they were almost done, she showed them to Wei Yuyan.

"Okay, it's up to standard. Come on, let's fry them now. I'll fry a few, and you guys fry a few."

While frying the food, Wei Yuyan explained some details.

"I didn't expect we actually made twenty meat pie."

Sister-in-law Xiuhua looked at the golden meat pie with a great sense of accomplishment.

"Yes, the cost has been controlled. Let's try it together and see if it tastes good and if anyone will buy it."

Wei Yuyan nodded, and began to ponder the price issue.

He ate with the two women as they talked.

"Then will they cost two coins each?"

Sister-in-law Zhang took a bite and asked again.

"Hmm, two coins, there's not much meat in it, and if it's more expensive, no one will buy it."

Moreover, Wei Yuyan had a premonition that these kinds of pancakes would do even better business in winter.

"Sure, if it were me, I wouldn't want to buy steamed buns either. I'd rather eat meat pie. It smells good and tastes even better."

Xiuhua's sister-in-law finished eating them one by one.

"Then it's settled. The meat patties will be made with seven catties of meat, with a good mix of lean and fat. Remember to tell the butcher in advance."

Wei Yuyan has now handed over the management of the shops in town to Sister-in-law Xiuhua and Brother Lifu, and she also entrusts any matters to them.

"Okay, we understand. If there's nothing else, we'll head back now."

Sister-in-law Xiuhua nodded, stood up, and prepared to go home.

"Meat pastries, come on, Sister-in-law Zhang has a lot of people at home, take eight back, and Sister-in-law Xiuhua take five."

Wei Yuyan put the meat pie in a small bowl and handed it to them.

“Look, we always take this much, but you eat the least.”

Sister-in-law Zhang wouldn't have it, so she took out two more cakes and put them back.

"That's right, four is enough for us, you guys eat more."

Sister-in-law Xiuhua also took one and put it back before going home.

"The problem is, the three of us can't eat that much..."

Wei Yuyan looked at the pancake on the table, thinking that Xiaopang and Xiaoya were going to have a good meal today.

Another market day!

Wei Yuyan took the children to town early in the morning in Brother Zhang's oxcart; he had stayed at home last night.

"Go play with Xiaoru and Xiaoxuan, but don't go too far," Wei Yuyan told the two children before coming to the kitchen.

"Yu Yan is here. Should we fry these pancakes now?"

Sister-in-law Zhang is heating the oil, preparing to fry meat pie.

"Yes, I'll fry it now. When the shop opens, you can fry it."

Wei Yuyan rolled up her sleeves, intending to fry a few pretty ones and arrange them out so that everyone would have an appetite and want to eat them.

"Then I'll move the steamed buns out to prepare."

Today, Zhang Licai and his wife are minding the shop. Licai is cleaning the main room so that customers can sit down later.

About fifteen minutes later, the steamed bun shop opened, and people came in quickly. Wei Yuyan hurriedly put out the fried meat pie.

In just a short while, Wei Yuyan had fried more than twenty meat pie cakes.

"Dear fellow villagers, today our steamed bun shop has made delicious meat pastries. They're only two coins each. Come on, everyone, have a taste!"

Wei Yuyan took two meat pie cakes, cut them into ten pieces, and shared them with everyone.

"Wow, this tastes really good. It's pan-fried and has meat inside."

"The price isn't expensive either, only two coins each. I'll take five; there are many people in my family, so one for each person."

Many customers said it tasted good, and they bought several at a time; more than twenty were sold out in no time.

"Wait a moment, they're still frying inside."

Wei Yuyan ran back to the kitchen to get the pancakes, but she was thinking that this wouldn't do. If she didn't come to help, it would be too late.

Brother Licai can't leave his steamed bun business, so it would be great if he could also set up his stall at the door to fry meat pastries.

And so, after a flurry of activity, the 140 meat pie and steamed buns they had prepared were sold out in about a short time.

"Give me two meat pie cakes."

Even after we sold out, customers still came to ask about it.

"Sorry, we're sold out for today. Please come back tomorrow. We sell them every day."

Wei Yuyan could only apologize, saying that she might not have prepared enough for today, and that she would prepare twenty more for the next market day.

After finishing her work, Wei Yuyan finally sat down to rest for a while.

"Sister-in-law, have you sold out? Business was pretty good today too. Luckily, we sold out of thirty mushroom and meat sauce buns."

Sister-in-law Xiuhua's face was full of excitement, as long as there were no leftover buns.

"We've sold out everything we prepared, so a small difficulty can't defeat us."

Gradually, everyone forgot about the mushrooms, and business will come back.”

Wei Yuyan felt that mushroom and meat sauce buns were irreplaceable; without them, her shop would have no name.

"Yes, sister-in-law is absolutely right. If there's nothing else, let's go back now."

Seeing that it was getting late, Sister-in-law Xiuhua decided to go home early to cook.

Before, when Wei Yuyan was around, she would eat and sleep in town before going back.

Now, because Zhang's wife and her husband are also worried about their home, they didn't have lunch in town and went straight back.

"Then let's go back. Oh, and next time we go to the market, add twenty more meat pies."

Also, Brother Lifu, see if we can build two stoves here on this wall, and then we can fry and sell our food here.

Otherwise, it's not very convenient to fry one inside and sell the other outside.