Chapter 119: Bitterness and Deep Hatred
Meng Caidie tugged at her sleeve: "Miss Wen, when are you free?"
Wen Zhenyi withdrew his thoughts: "What's wrong?"
"I want to invite you to my house to play."
Wen Zhenyi looked at her helplessly: "I'm not very free at the moment. You can see that my store is short-staffed."
"Don't worry, when you are free, come and play with me, and I will introduce my little sisters to you."
Wen Zhenyi felt a bit of a headache. It was quite tiring to get along with these young ladies from wealthy families, but it was hard to refuse. "I'll go when I'm free."
Meng Caidie smiled and nodded, looking forward to her coming home to play.
Wen Zhenyi thought about what Mayor Meng had just said: "Master Cheng, if someone delivers goods to your door and asks you to pay more money, would you be willing?"
"Of course I am willing. This will save us a lot of trouble." After saying this, Master Cheng looked at her and asked, "What do you think?"
"I haven't decided yet. I need to think about it again."
Master Cheng said with a smile: "You are a girl with a lot of tricks."
Wen Zhenyi smiled. It was not easy to find someone to deliver things, but it was not impossible to consider.
"Miss Wen, I have something else to trouble you with today."
"What's up?"
When Master Cheng talked about this, his face was a little sad. "My wife's death anniversary is coming soon. I would like to trouble you to prepare a feast for her. She didn't eat such delicious food when she was alive. I want her to have a taste."
"Okay, when?"
"Five days from now."
"Okay, does she have any favorite foods or food taboos?"
Master Cheng shook his head: "She is not picky about food, she likes to eat everything."
"I'll go to your house in advance to prepare."
"Thank you for your help."
"That's very polite of you."
Wen Zhenyi looked at the time and saw that it was already late, so he started preparing dinner.
I don’t know when pork will be available. Without pork, many dishes will have some limitations.
"Mayor Meng, when can we buy pigs?"
"It should be in the next few days. The county magistrate has already discussed it with the magistrates of several surrounding counties. However, I heard that the price will be a few cents higher than when you bought it before."
Wen Chengwen frowned as he listened: "The price has increased?"
Mayor Meng nodded. "Because of the pig disease, the price of a pig has increased from about one tael and two qian to one tael and five qian, or even two taels. You should be mentally prepared."
“So much increase?”
"There's nothing we can do about it."
Wen Chengwen expressed his understanding. Even if a pig weighed only two taels, they didn't intend to raise the price of pork. "Mayor, could you please ask if we can buy piglets?"
"You want to raise one yourself?"
"Well, if we keep buying pigs from outside, I'm afraid the price will be even higher. Even if there is pork, the price will be unaffordable for ordinary people."
Mayor Meng lowered his head and thought for a moment. "I can ask for you, but the price of slaughtered pigs is so high now, so the price of piglets will not be lower either."
"It's okay, we want to give it a try."
"Okay, I'll go back and write a letter and have Jiayang and the others take it back to the county magistrate."
Wen Zhen got up and went to prepare dinner. The boy who delivered the coconuts today also brought some shrimps, which she bought. They could be used to make rice rolls.
When Mrs. Meng saw that she was going to prepare dinner, she sent Meng Caidie and Lei Yingying to help and asked them to learn more.
The maids also went in to help. They would be maids included in the dowry in the future, so they also needed to learn these things.
Lan Yingying had seen her make a large basin of rice milk before: "Miss Wen, can we call you Yiyi? You can also call us Yingying and Caidie. We really want to be friends with you."
Wen Zhenyi didn't want to have too much contact with these women from wealthy families. After all, talking to them was too tiring, and every sentence had to be said in many roundabout ways.
But seeing the two people's eyes looking forward to arguing, she couldn't say the words of refusal: "Okay."
Seeing that she agreed, Meng Caidie and the other two happily gave her a hug: "That's great."
"Ahem, Miss, the Madam is still outside." The maid saw that her young lady did not look like a lady and quickly reminded her.
The two men immediately let go of Wen Zhenyi and stuck out their tongues at her.
Wen Zhenyi didn't dislike any of them. Anyone who could get along with Shen Hanxing must have good character.
Both times I saw them sitting up straight and proper, and every word and smile seemed to be measured with a ruler, which made me feel that life was quite tiring.
"When I don't have time to go to your house, you can come to the shop to find me. Here you don't have to restrict yourself."
"Really?" Meng Caidie's eyes lit up.
"Really, but you have to learn something, otherwise you won't be able to explain yourself when you go back."
Meng Caidie smiled so much that her eyebrows and eyes curved into crescents: "Okay."
Wen Zhenyi did not waste any more time and asked the maid to help peel the shrimps, leaving only the shrimp meat.
These shrimps were caught by the teenager today, and they are still jumping around.
The two maids looked at the shrimps still struggling in their hands, not knowing how to start, with a look of deep resentment on their faces.
Wen Zhenyi shook his head helplessly: "First remove the shrimp heads, then peel out the shrimp shells, leaving the shrimp meat."
Meng Caidie and Lei Yingying were also like big enemies. You know, although they also wanted to learn some cooking skills at home, this was their first time to handle food.
Wen Zhenyi ignored them. After teaching them, he cleaned the large iron plate that the blacksmith had sent him, wiped off the water on it, and brushed a layer of sesame oil on it.
Lei Yingying's hands were bleeding from being pricked by the shrimps. She screamed a few times at first, but later she simply stopped screaming and started fighting with the shrimps in the basin.
Meng Caidie did the same, lowering her head and peeling shrimps carefully.
The two maids wanted to say that they would peel it themselves, but seeing how serious the two men were, they swallowed the words back and could only peel more themselves and let the lady peel less.
Wen Zhenyi turned his head and looked at the two of them: "Caidie, Yingying, come here."
Meng Caidie and Lan Yingying put down the shrimp in their hands, washed their hands and walked over to her: "The dish I made tonight is called rice noodle rolls. It's easy, but it's also difficult."
"Steamed Vermicelli Roll?"
"Well, it can be vegetarian or meaty, and it can be paired with a lot of ingredients. It's very inclusive. Did you all see clearly when I was mixing the rice milk just now?"
The two nodded: "I see clearly."
"I'll tell you the proportions later, and you can try it at home. Since this is a shop, I use a large iron plate specially customized like this. You should have a small iron plate at home, so you can use that."
Meng Caidie looked at the large iron plate in her hand and asked, "Is it this big?"
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