Chapter 39: Summer is the time to eat hot pot and crayfish
Modern, cloud city.
"Uncle Dong, I ordered a truckload of hot pot base. It will arrive tonight. Please help me get up tonight to pick it up."
Cheng Shuyi returns to modern times to buy groceries.
She has ordered takeout.
While waiting for the takeaway to be delivered, she quickly went to see the landlord of the warehouse she rented - Uncle Dong.
Uncle Dong treats Cheng Shuyi as his own family.
I am very grateful that she rented his warehouse, otherwise it would have been empty anyway.
Not only that, he was also paid 8,000 yuan a month to help receive the goods.
It is said to be receiving the goods, but in fact it is just a matter of opening and closing the door.
Not tired at all.
"Shuyi, don't be polite to Uncle Dong. This is what I should do." Uncle Dong was still farming in his spare time, and he looked like he had just returned home from the fields.
"In addition to receiving the goods, I also want to ask Uncle Dong for help with something this time."
Cheng Shuyi said, "You know there's a batch of jars in the warehouse? I'd like to ask Uncle Dong to help me find a few people to unpack all the hot pot base that's arriving soon and put it into the jars."
"Please help me find someone to do it. I'll pay you on a daily basis. Three hundred per person per day."
As she spoke, she took out ten thousand yuan in cash and handed it to Uncle Dong.
"This is my wages. I'll come back next time and I'll pay you back if you're more or less."
It would take about one or two days for seven or eight people to process that truckload of hot pot base.
Ten thousand yuan is enough.
Uncle Dong took the money and agreed readily.
"Okay! This job isn't hard, the villagers are eager to do it."
When the takeaway call came, Cheng Shuyi gave them another instruction, asking them to wash and dry the jars before putting the seasonings in them.
After saying that, he left the village and headed towards the nearby vegetable market.
She bought shrimps, crabs and squids from the seafood stall and asked the owner to help her prepare them.
The takeaway address is also a seafood stall.
After buying the food, Cheng Shuyi hurried back to ancient times.
She ordered Haidilao hotpot tonight, along with 15 kilograms of crayfish.
While I was unpacking and putting ingredients onto plates in the kitchen, the bell for the end of school at Baima Academy rang.
Cheng Shuyi put down the work in his hands, dried his hands, and picked up the two invitations on the chopping board.
Run out the door.
At the gate of the academy, he stopped Lin Yanzhi and Shen Huaichang.
"Yan'er, Chang'er, I'm inviting you and your mother to dinner tonight. Here's the invitation, remember to come."
Cheng Shuyi would like to formally thank Shen Zhou and Lin Yu.
Shen Zhou helped her take care of the children, and Lin Yu helped her arrange for people to deliver goods, and did a lot of work.
One box of pineapple cakes is not enough.
So Cheng Shuyi formally invited the two ladies to dinner tonight.
As for their husbands, they were not invited.
Cheng Shuyi is a woman and has no personal relationship with Chen Ting and the others, so she shouldn't be invited for both public and private reasons.
Lin Yanzhi held the invitation in his arms like a treasure, almost jumping up.
"I understand, Aunt Cheng. Mother and I will definitely come!"
yeah!
I can go to Ruqiru's house to eat delicious food again.
The same is true for Shen Huaichang.
The two children were so happy that they ran home.
One ran towards Changsheng Street and the other ran towards the moat.
The brother and sister carried school bags on one shoulder, a bamboo kettle on the other, and an abacus in their hands.
They look just like two little scholars from ancient times, so cute and soft.
"Let's go home and help me wash the vegetables." Cheng Shuyi loved her two kids so much, "Let's have hot pot tonight."
The two kids changed out of their school clothes and sat in the yard washing vegetables.
Cheng Shuyi replaced the ice in the freezer at home before going to Modern to buy groceries.
The pipes were laid in the main hall two days ago, and now the room is starting to get cooler, which is suitable for eating hot pot.
She prepared a table with a sunken center specifically for hot pot.
The pot delivered by the takeaway was too modern and too small to be used.
Cheng Shuyi specially bought an old-fashioned iron pot with two handles, and the charcoal pot under the pot was burning red.
Pour the base ingredients and water into the pot and simmer slowly.
Beef slices, lamb rolls, Basa fish, shrimp slips, tripe, prawns, crabs, squid slices, various meatballs, and vegetables.
There were also dipping sauces, which Cheng Shuyi had put into small bowls and plates.
Since coming to ancient times, she has never eaten hot pot.
The two cubs were greedy, and she was even greedier.
So Cheng Shuyi bought enough ingredients to have a good meal tonight.
It's almost time.
Shen Huaichang, who lived nearby, came early and was washing mushrooms with the two children.
Seeing this, Cheng Shuyi quickly put the crayfish back into the pot to heat it up.
When the garlic-flavored crayfish was taken out of the pot, Shen Zhou met Lin Yu and Lin Yanzhi, who were also invited, at the door.
The two ladies greeted each other.
Lin Yanzhi ran straight into the yard and reunited with his friends.
"Sister Zhou, Sister Yu, please come in and sit down. Don't be polite."
Cheng Shuyi brought out two large plates of freshly heated crayfish and walked towards the main hall while greeting the guests.
Shen Zhou was one step ahead of her and went to the door to help lift the curtain.
I saw the bubbling red pot on the table, and a bunch of plates and ingredients surrounding it.
Shen Zhou exclaimed, "We're having a hot pot dinner today, but what are these dishes?"
In the morning of Dasheng Dynasty, people eat around a pot, but it is not called hot pot, but boiling pot.
I heard that this way of eating originated from the poor people.
Poor families don’t have money to buy a table for dining, so the whole family can only eat around the stove.
Later, as the word spread, some wealthy families would occasionally eat it this way.
But it is only limited to cold winter days.
You can eat by the stove and keep warm.
No one would eat like this in the hot summer.
Even poor families would put the dishes into their bowls and eat them outside, wishing to stay away from the fire.
"Just some seafood and fish."
Cheng Shuyi put the crayfish down and was about to go out again. "Sister Zhou, come with me to the kitchen and bring in the sour plum soup and orange juice. They're already chilled."
She also had some spicy crayfish to cook and was too busy to spare any time.
"Okay." Shen Zhou responded with a smile.
Although the Shen family has a maid to cook, Shen Zhou also cooks occasionally.
Make soup and cakes for my husband and son.
The two went to the kitchen together.
Mrs. Lin Yu helped take care of the children, asking them to wash their hands and prepare for meals.
Three women and four children filled the table.
As the host, Cheng Shuyi was the first to pick up her chopsticks and put the beef slices and squid slices into the pot.
"This is a tomato sauce base, not spicy. If you two sisters want spicy food, you can make a spicy dipping sauce."
"Chang'er, Yan'er, Aunt Cheng doesn't know what you like to eat, so I won't take care of you."
"Just order whatever you like, like Aunt Cheng."
Within two or three sentences, the beef and squid slices that Cheng Shuyi had just put in were already cooked.
She picked up some food and put them into the bowls of the two cubs respectively as a demonstration.
"Brother Huaichang, Brother Yanzhi, this squid is so delicious."
The younger sister likes to eat squid, but she picked up the squid from her bowl and gave it to her two younger brothers.
"Thank you, Sister Xuxu."
The two children took the bowls and thanked them.
"She's so good." Shen Zhou looked at the little girl and smiled tenderly: "I wish I had such a good daughter."
She really likes this little girl.
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