The two said goodbye one last time, and then hurried away.
"You scared me! It turns out they were just thanking us. I thought they were unhappy about something," Liu Yuanyuan said, still shaken.
Pei Yuezhi also said, "That's right, let's go home quickly."
"Hey, Yuanyuan, what should your family say when you get back?"
Liu Yuanyuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's say we sold for one hundred taels. We still need to rent a large shop, so it wouldn't be normal to say less."
It was already time for work to begin, so Pei Yuezhi and her companion went straight to the shop. Sure enough, Granny Liu was already there with Fan Mu and her two sisters-in-law.
Pei Yuezhi also joined in the work, and it was another busy afternoon.
As the evening approached and the number of customers decreased, Pei Yuezhi began preparing meals for the staff.
Making employee meals is quite simple. You just need to see what dishes are available today and cook whatever ingredients you have left.
However, aside from noodles, the stir-fries are usually two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes. The work is quite hard, and these things aren't expensive for me, so I try my best to make everyone's treatment better.
There's a chicken left over, so I chopped it into pieces. Instead of making stir-fries today, I'll make a chicken stew.
After cutting and washing the chicken, be sure to drain it thoroughly, otherwise the oil will splatter badly.
Prepare thirteen-spice powder, bay leaves, angelica root, and Sichuan peppercorns, and put them all into the chicken. Then add hoisin sauce, seafood sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, and chicken essence. Mix thoroughly, then add some cooking oil and mix well. Marinate for twenty minutes.
While waiting, slice some green and red bell peppers, some onion strips, some garlic, and some ginger.
Prepare some side dishes: slice the shiitake mushrooms and cut the potatoes into chunks.
She tore off some more dough pieces. Pei Yuezhi especially liked to add noodles and dough pieces to it, making it very flavorful and delicious.
When the time is almost up, start heating the oil. Once the oil is hot, add the ginger slices and fry until fragrant and the edges are browned. Then add the chicken and stir-fry.
Stir-frying it for a little longer will make the chicken firmer and more tender.
Add a little water and simmer for three minutes.
Once the time is up, turn up the heat, add the last ingredients and stir-fry, then add a little water, put in the torn noodles, and simmer until cooked.
The chicken stew made this way tastes exceptionally good, the chicken is incredibly tender, the potatoes are soft, and the noodles are very flavorful.
Just then, most of the guests had left, and dinner was ready.
"Come and eat!" Pei Yuezhi was especially happy today, and even cooked much faster than usual.
"Oh my, it smells so good! What are you making?" My cousin-in-law quickly came over to help serve the dishes.
Pei Yuezhi handed her the dish: "Chicken stew is a way of cooking chicken, it's very fragrant."
After a busy day, everyone sat around the table, which was filled with a pot of chicken stew, emitting a delicious aroma.
Zhang Hongying said with some emotion, "Our business is getting better and better. We've been eating later these past two days. I'm so hungry. The smell of the food from our customers is so enticing. It's finally time to eat."
Her cousin-in-law teased her, saying, "Then you'd better be careful not to secretly eat the guests' food."
"Look at what you're saying, how can I not be tempted!" Zhang Hongying laughed and punched her lightly.
My cousin's wife was lightly hit, and she laughed and said, "Oh my, you're really strong. I don't think you're hungry."
"I'm not going to argue with you anymore, let's eat."
Pei Yuezhi smiled as she looked at Liu Yuanyuan, who was now so tired that she was lying on the table watching her two sisters-in-law bickering.
"Yuanyuan, why are you so tired?"
Liu Yuanyuan turned back to look at Pei Yuezhi: "Although I didn't do any physical labor, mental work was also very tiring. My brain was running at high speed every day, and I didn't even know how to use an abacus. I was exhausted!"
Pei Yuezhi patted her head comfortingly: "Yuanyuan, you've worked hard. Let's eat quickly. I made a new dish, a super fragrant chicken stew."
"Let's leave some for the children," my cousin-in-law said.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I left some for them when I served the food."
After Grandma Liu arrived, the three children no longer had to stay in the shop every day. They could study and rest at home, instead of being crammed into the small courtyard where there was no shelter from the wind and rain, and there were many mosquitoes at night in the summer.
And I don't have to worry about them anymore, which makes things much more convenient.
Today was no different. Grandma Liu brought Fan Muxian to the shop first, and after she and Liu Yuanyuan returned, she told them to go home first.
I wish I had brought Grandma Liu over sooner, so she could have an easier time, the children could be looked after, and I could have peace of mind.
After enjoying a delicious meal, the group prepared to head back.
Pei Yuezhi went back to Liu Yuanyuan's house with her first, so that Liu's mother-in-law could take care of the children. So all three children stayed at Liu Yuanyuan's house.
"I don't know if they've eaten or not, I left them some chicken stew." Pei Yuezhi said, holding a basket.
Liu Yuanyuan pushed open the door: "We're back. We brought you some food. Have you eaten?"
Grandma Liu came out and took the basket: "You must have eaten by now that it's so late, but none of us have much of an appetite. We didn't eat much tonight. Mu'er just said she was a little hungry."
"That's perfect. Yuezhi made some new dishes today. Mother, go and try them."
"Then I'm in for a treat! There are new dishes!" Grandma Liu said with a smile. "Children, come and eat!"
Grandma Liu called out into the house, and the three children quickly came out.
As soon as Fan Mu came out, he threw himself into Pei Yuezhi's arms: "Mother, Mu'er missed you so much."
"Mom missed you too. That's why I brought you some food. Aren't you hungry? Go and eat, but don't eat too much tonight," Pei Yuezhi said, hugging Fan Mu.
"Okay, thank you, Mother."
Grandma Liu sat down to eat with the children, and Pei Yuezhi and Liu Yuanyuan sat down next to them.
The group started chatting.
"Yuezhi, how did it go about selling recipes?" Granny Liu asked curiously.
Pei Yuezhi said mysteriously, "It's already sold. That's the number."
As he spoke, he held up one finger.
"Just ten taels? Back then, we were even saying whether fifty taels would be okay."
Grandma Liu was a little disappointed: "Is this recipe not as valuable as we thought?"
Pei Yuezhi felt much relieved when she saw that Granny Liu couldn't guess the price either; she was still a little worried that Granny Liu might know the going rate.
“Auntie, it’s not ten taels, it’s one hundred taels!” Pei Yuezhi explained.
Grandma Liu was shocked: "What! So much? It's more than double what we expected! My goodness, is this recipe really that valuable?"
Liu Yuanyuan said with a proud look, "This is only because Qingquanlou's business has not been good in recent years, and the raw materials for the ingredients are relatively expensive. Otherwise, we could sell more!"
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