Chapter 357 Sense of Accomplishment
Hearing Su Xueyi's words, Shen Yueyao's expression changed and she said, "You are treating me like a little girl."
The way Su Xueyi praised her just now was really like she was praising a primary school student.
Su Xueyi was silent for a moment, not knowing whether Shen Yueyao was happy or not. He only explained softly: "I don't know how to coax people, but I want to treat you like a little girl and pamper you."
Su Xueyi is naturally cold and doesn't seem to have much interest in anything.
Only Yao Niang asked him to make an exception, and asked him to be gentler and learn to coax her and care for her.
Even if he didn't know how, he was still learning and thinking about how to make her happy.
Listening to Su Xueyi's words, Shen Yueyao suddenly remembered that Su Xueyi in the past did have a cold and abstinent feeling. The more elegant and cold she was like a moon flower, the more attractive she was.
However, no one knew when it started, but his eyes, which were as cold and lonely as poems and paintings, began to show a gentle and affectionate hue.
Just one look at each other can make people feel warm in their hearts.
Has she pulled her cold and aloof husband down from the altar?
As she thought of this, Shen Yueyao couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.
"You're always praising me, and it's going to make me feel flattered."
He always agreed with her, supported her in everything she did, never said a harsh word, and his good temper surprised her.
Su Xueyi lowered her head and looked deeply at Shen Yueyao, her brows gentle, and she smiled elegantly, saying, "I'm not praising you, but you have really done a lot, Yao Niang, which makes me, a man, feel ashamed."
She was so beautiful that his heart was beating uncontrollably.
Facing her, some words that I thought I would never say came out of my mouth involuntarily, and I didn't feel embarrassed.
It turns out that this is what it means to be unable to help oneself.
Shen Yueyao shook her head and said, "No, you're very good too."
"If it weren't for you supporting me, I wouldn't be able to do so many things."
In this era, many men pay attention to reputation and gossip, and do not like their wives to show up in public or do anything.
Not to mention that she has grown her business so big.
Su Xueyi never cared what outsiders said.
He doesn't care what others think of him.
Even if someone said that all the money used in his family was earned by her, he didn't mind what others said.
Moreover, in this era, in a family, the mother-in-law often has the final say. Many mothers-in-law will use filial piety to suppress their daughters-in-law, but Mrs. Meng will not do that. Mrs. Meng also supports her and lets her have the final say in the family.
She knew that all this was because of Su Xueyi.
Because her man protects and pampers her, others always take his ideas seriously and will respect her more.
Su Xueyi reached out and gently tidied up the hair on Shen Yueyao's face that was messed up by the wind. His fingers were as slender as jade, with distinct joints. He gently tidied her hair. The light touch of his fingers on the skin on her cheek could bring about a tingling sensation like an electric shock.
He was styling her hair so carefully.
Tuck a strand of her hair behind her ear so that it won't be blown around by the wind and block her vision.
After gently tidying her up, Su Xueyi said softly, "Yao Niang, you have done so many meaningful things and helped so many people. Don't worry about what others say."
"And I will always be behind you to support you. Just do what you like to do without any worries."
"I just want you to be happy."
"I believe you, too."
I believe that everything she does is meaningful.
The cold wind was blowing around, but Shen Yueyao felt very warm in her heart.
"good."
Then, Su Xueyi took Shen Yueyao's hand and walked towards East Street. He knew that Shen Yueyao wanted to go to East Street to take a look.
Su Xueyi has a tall figure and long legs, so she naturally walks faster than Shen Yueyao.
But he would hold Shen Yueyao's hand, naturally slow down his pace, and walk according to her pace.
Quietly attentive and gentle.
As soon as she entered East Street, Shen Yueyao felt a stronger sense of fireworks.
There are some small shops and snack stalls here.
Even though it is cold, there are still many people setting up food stalls.
The most important thing is that there are many people coming to shop.
Because in the evening, many stalls light lanterns to illuminate the road.
Lanterns are also hung at the doors of some snack shops.
The sounds of people shouting and bargaining for things were heard one after another.
"Tanghulu, Tanghulu..."
“Freshly baked glutinous rice cake…”
"Plum blossom pastry, egg yolk pastry..."
"Hot scones, hot scones..."
There was a bustling crowd of people coming and going, all walking and strolling.
The children were running and making noises, holding toys in their hands.
Feeling the lively atmosphere of fireworks, Shen Yueyao couldn't help but relax physically and mentally, and her pace couldn't help but slow down.
There were quite a lot of people here, and Su Xueyi was worried that Shen Yueyao would be bumped into, so she asked her to walk inside and carefully protected her from being bumped into.
Shen Yueyao looked around and said happily: "It's so lively here, is this the food street?"
Seeing Shen Yueyao's happy expression, Su Xueyi's mood also became better. He explained softly: "This place is not called Food Street, it's called East Street, but in fact everyone knows that this is a place where snacks are sold..."
"This street started to see people setting up stalls in the afternoon, selling affordable food, so most people come here."
"The street we walked through earlier was frequented by ladies from wealthy families, so the prices at the restaurants and bars were relatively high..."
Shen Yueyao understood that the previous area was the high-end area, and this area was the affordable food area.
“In fact, there are more delicious foods in places like this. No matter how expensive the food is, as long as it tastes good, it’s fine.”
"There's actually a snack shop here. I just heard about egg yolk pastry. Is that true?"
I remember that Shen Yueyao went to the county town and didn’t find any egg yolk dim sum in the dim sum shop.
Later, after she collected duck eggs and pickled them into salted duck eggs, she asked the person in charge of sales to sell the salted duck eggs.
But later on, preserved eggs sold more, so salted duck eggs sold less.
At first, she used salted duck eggs to make egg yolk snacks, which everyone in the family liked, even the eldest and second children.
In fact, two months ago, Shen Yueyao taught the villagers how to pickle salted duck eggs, and everyone can also teach it to their relatives.
She thought that farmers who could not go out to work could raise ducks and use the eggs they laid to make salted duck eggs to sell. This would definitely sell better than individual duck eggs.
Perhaps this will also allow farmers to use the money earned from these salted duck eggs to supplement their family expenses during the busy farming season.
Although her workshop has many users, most of them are farmers from the villages near her town.
Farmers in towns and villages in other counties do not have this kind of job to earn money.
But if you have a business that can make money, it can also supplement the family income.
So when she asked Mrs. Meng to teach the villagers how to pickle salted duck eggs, she also asked Mrs. Meng to tell everyone that after they learned this method, they could teach it to their relatives, whether they wanted to eat it themselves or sell the salted duck eggs to make money.
When Su Xueyi heard about egg yolk pastry, she thought of the egg yolk pastry made by Yao Niang from pickled duck eggs.
Everyone thought it was delicious.
However, when he was in the capital before, he had never heard of eating egg yolk pastry. His mother also said that even the imperial chef in the palace didn't have it.
Seeing Shen Yueyao's curious look, Su Xueyi knew what she was thinking. He said softly, "Let's go over and take a look. It's a good opportunity to buy some and try it to see how it tastes."
"good."
In this way, Su Xueyi walked over with Shen Yueyao protected.
It was a small stall, not a store. The stall was run by a young couple who looked to be around eighteen or nineteen years old.
Shen Yueyao knew that people generally got married at an early age in this era.
The man was shouting, and the young woman was smiling as she served snacks to everyone.
There were five or six people crowded around the small stall.
When everyone heard about the egg yolk pastry, they were curious and came over to take a look and buy some.
Some people also come to buy it after having tasted it and found it delicious.
"Hey, my dear, the egg yolk pastry you made is delicious. It's a flavor we've never had before. It was sold out when we came to buy it yesterday. Luckily, we still have some today."
The young man explained with a smile, "We made a little extra today. We've only been making this snack for a few days, so we wanted to try to sell it. Unexpectedly, everyone liked it, so we add a little more every day. We don't dare to make too much because it's made with egg yolks, and the cost is there."
The young woman packed ten egg yolk pastries and handed them to the man, and the man handed the copper coins he had prepared long ago to the young woman.
He said while holding the egg yolk pastry, "No wonder the price of duck eggs has risen to the same level as chicken eggs recently. It turns out that they can be made into something so delicious."
The guy at the stall said, "Well, in the past, it was because everyone's accumulated duck eggs were hard to sell, so the price had to be pushed down again and again. Now everyone can raise more ducks, and the eggs they lay are easier to sell. Many people are not starving to death because of this little money."
An old woman who was waiting in line to buy egg yolk pastry smiled and said, "That's right. We should be grateful to the person who invented this way of eating duck eggs. It allows us to sell duck eggs. I am an old sister of mine who lives in the village with my son and daughter-in-law. We cultivate one or two acres of land and rely on the weather for our livelihood. We don't have a proper job on weekdays. Now they pickle duck eggs and sell them outside. We can save a few copper coins a month, and our life is much better..."
The old woman was full of emotion as she spoke.
"I'm here to buy egg yolk pastries for our young master. He's very picky about food and usually never eats from street vendors. But he came to eat hot pot that time and became obsessed with it. He passed by your stall and bought some egg yolk pastries. He kept saying they were delicious, so he asked me to buy some more so that the old lady and the others can try them..."
The old woman smiled as she talked about this.
The young couple were also happy to hear the old woman say this.
I hurried to help pack some.
Fortunately, they do a lot.
At first they didn't dare to do much.
We will know how much to make on the second day based on the sales on the first day.
Business has been good these days, so the two of them got up before dawn to snack more and made a lot of egg yolk pastries.
I came here to set up the stall in the afternoon, and half of my products were sold in just a short while.
Seeing that business was booming, both of them had smiles on their faces.
It’s so exciting to go home and count my coins every day.
They used to set up a stall here to sell snacks, but the snack business was just like that, and most of the time they just made a profit.
But business is really good now.
They were thinking about the money they had saved in the past few days, and were thinking about going back to their hometown to have a good New Year's celebration.
Yes, they had no place to live in the city, so they rented a small courtyard.
During the Chinese New Year, they will return to their hometown in the county.
I am busy in the capital city on weekdays.
But now the business has given them a sense of purpose.
They even dared to think that they might be able to buy a small house in the provincial capital.
They dare not even think about a small house in a prosperous place.
But those small houses in remote areas are cheaper and are still worth considering.
Maybe if they work harder and earn more, they can even take over a small store to do business.
This way you won’t be freezing outside when it’s cold.
But in fact, they are not afraid of the cold. As long as business is good, they feel energetic and warm all over.
In this way, the couple sold egg yolk pastries while talking to people.
When they arrived at Shen Yueyao and Su Xueyi's place, the couple felt a little restrained when they saw the two people dressed in noble attire.
"Excuse me, sir and madam, what would you like to buy?"
Shen Yueyao pointed at the egg yolk pastry and asked, "Did you make this yourself?"
The young man said, "Well, we made it, but it wasn't our first idea. My relative had heard that egg yolks could be used to make snacks and told us about it, so we figured it out and made it."
"Where's the yolk?"
The young man was also very honest and told the truth: "My cousin's family told us how to pickle it."
He seemed a little embarrassed and scratched the back of his head with his hand, "Well, maybe not many people here know about it."
Shen Yueyao said: "You are very honest and willing to tell anything."
The young man laughed and said, "Originally, this wasn't what we wanted. My cousin said that there was a kind-hearted woman named Shen Xiao Niang, who was thinking of everyone. She taught us this profitable pickling method and asked everyone to spread it so that more people could have enough food. We received this benefit, so how could we keep our secret recipe to ourselves?"
"But the method of making snacks was indeed figured out by my wife and I."
Shen Yueyao smiled and nodded, feeling quite satisfied.
She said, "I'll buy two to try first."
"Okay, ten cents in total."
At five cents each, it's really cheap.
Don't forget that this is all white flour
It seems that they rely on small profits and quick turnover.
In town, ordinary dim sum may cost seven or eight cents each, and some may cost more than ten cents.
After Shen Yueyao bought it, she took a bite and put it into her mouth.
The taste is okay, but I can only say it is about 70% delicious. Most people eat it for the novelty of it.
But if more people do it later, it will no longer be competitive.
Shen Yueyao thought for a moment and said, "You can also add a layer of red bean paste in the middle, and the gluten, lard and water can be made in this ratio..."
Shen Yueyao gave some suggestions.
There are some details to follow.
If you follow the method she said, it will taste better.
"Making dim sum is not one-size-fits-all. You can sprinkle some sesame seeds on it."
Shen Yueyao spoke to them in a low voice so that the people around them couldn't hear.
But this shocked the young couple.
They knew from the appearance and demeanor of the young lady in front of them that she was no ordinary person.
I didn't expect that people like her knew so much about dim sum, and I didn't expect that she would tell them the method.
Both of them were shocked.
But they did not doubt what the person in front of them said, and they thanked him repeatedly.
The two people understood the amount of gluten, lard and water she was talking about. It was similar to theirs, but there were differences. It was obvious that the young lady in front of them must know how to make egg yolk pastry.
At this time, the two people did not know that the woman in front of them was Miss Shen.
Of course, when their business later spread all over the place, they were shocked and astonished to learn that it was Miss Shen who taught them how to make egg yolk pastry. They taught their children to remember this kindness.
Of course, this is all later.
At this moment, they were shocked and decided to give it a try when they got home in the evening.
"Thank you for the advice, young lady."
Shen Yueyao shook her head and said, “Nothing, I just hope that when your business is good in the future, you will not forget your roots.”
"It's natural."
Shen Yueyao looked at them, smiled, and left the stall with Su Xueyi.
When the couple came to their senses and wanted to give the ten cents to the young lady, she had disappeared.
After Shen Yueyao and Su Xueyi walked past several stalls, they stopped and smiled.
"Xue Yi, I'm very happy."
Su Xueyi said softly: "Yes, I know."
Shen Yueyao said: "I feel that while I am making money from business, I can also help some people. I feel a sense of accomplishment in my heart."
"Yeah, I understand. Even I'm happy about it."
I am happy for Yao Niang and proud of having her.
He was deeply touched when he heard what the man who bought the egg yolk pastry said and what the young couple said.
His Yao Niang really helped a lot of people invisibly.
Even some people on the provincial government side benefited.
He couldn't describe this feeling in words.
Shen Yueyao said: "I think I can do a lot more in the future."
Having come to this era, she felt that she should do something.
Liuhe Village's geographical environment and local specialties are limited.
If some place has some unique specialties, she might be able to do more.
For example, sugarcane can be used to make brown sugar, and bamboo can be used to make paper.
Su Xueyi said gently: "Well, okay."
Shen Yueyao seemed to have thought of something and said, "Su Xueyi, if you become an official in the future, do you want to join the Hanlin Academy?"
"I may have wanted to join the Hanlin Academy before, but Yao Niang, I think I might apply for a local position."
If you are in the Hanlin Academy, you will accumulate experience and enter the cabinet.
But in that case, there will be little that can be done for the people.
He actually wanted to work in a local position, so that he could do more for the people.
His idea was also influenced by Yao Niang.
Shen Yueyao looked at Su Xueyi seriously and said, "Don't worry, no matter where you go to be an official, I will accompany you."
"No matter where you go, don't worry. I have high-yield grain seeds here, which will ensure you have good political achievements during your term."
Her space will then be able to truly play a role.
Su Xueyi said with a smile: "Silly boy, how can I rely on you for everything? I will also do my job well as an official."
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