Bai Yu naturally didn't understand what Xu Qinyu said. He just looked up and continued to look at Xu Qinyu expectantly, hoping that she could eat the prey on the ground. This was the prey he had caught after going through so much hardship and finally learning how to hunt, so he wanted to bring it back to her to eat.
It has been raised by her since it was young. In its eyes, this species, although different in appearance from itself, is regarded as its mother and the one closest to it.
But one day, it was suddenly thrown back into the mountains. It was a little overwhelmed and initially just wanted to go back to find them.
Later, it thought it was because it couldn't hunt and was too weak that it was abandoned and thrown back into the mountains. Only cubs too weak and unable to hunt would be abandoned by their mothers. It began to learn to hunt. At first, it caught nothing, sometimes only eating insects from the trees, often going hungry. Later, it gradually caught mice, and then its prey gradually became larger, even catching pheasants.
In fact, it had sneaked back to town before, but after several wrong attempts, it finally found its way home.
But it can't catch big prey, so it's hard to come back.
When it could catch pheasants skillfully, it would happily return home with the prey. It would be very happy to see the person it thought of as its "mother". It would climb onto the bed and sleep with its mother, happily waiting for its mother to wake up so that it could give its caught prey to her to eat.
But now that my mother is pointing at it, it doesn't quite understand what it means.
But in the past, when my mother was angry, she would point at it and yell, "Xu Baiyu."
Bai Yu shrank back, and a hint of grievance appeared in her pair of dark red eyes.
When Xu Qinyu saw it like this, the anger in her heart suddenly dissipated. Every time it looked like this, it was when it was bullied by Heiyu.
When it was bullied by Heiyu in the past, it would sneak up to her and look at her with this expression. Although it would seem ridiculous to see the expression in an animal's eyes, she did see the grievance in Baiyu's eyes.
Xu Qinyu discovered that although she was afraid of snakes, she did not seem to be afraid of Baiyu.
She probably figured it out at this moment. She thought releasing Baiyu was good for it. Of course, she was also a little afraid that Baiyu would grow bigger and scare the people in the town. But in fact, her behavior was probably the same as abandoning a pet. Or in Baiyu's eyes, this was also like a "mother" abandoning her child. The harm to Baiyu was self-evident.
Thinking of this, Xu Qinyu squatted down and touched the smooth snake head.
Bai Yu straightened up and rubbed her palm.
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Forget it. Since you want to stay here, I won't send you back to the mountain in the future."
From now on, unless Bai Yu wants to leave and return to the mountains, she will not force her.
At worst, I can earn more money and try to live in a big house with five courtyards as soon as possible, preferably one with a large backyard garden. I can let Baiyu stay in the house, and there is also the garden for it to move around, so it won't scare others easily.
Based on Bai Yu's current growth rate, it will take at least one or two years for her to grow into a giant python of three or four meters. In one or two years, she should be able to buy a big house!
She also has to work hard to make money for Bai Yu.
Finally, Xu Qinyu pointed at the miserable-looking pheasant on the ground and told Baiyu that they didn't need it to hunt it and feed it to them.
Bai Yu still didn't quite understand. At this moment, Mo Yu suddenly ran in from outside. When he saw Bai Yu, he let out a happy howl and rushed towards Bai Yu. He first put his two front legs on Bai Yu's body, and then rode over with his two hind legs. The whole leopard lay on Bai Yu, trying to stretch out his mouth to bite it, but found that he couldn't hold it anymore.
When Baiyu saw Moyu riding on him, he immediately rolled over and wrapped his body around Moyu.
The two played like this for a while, and then Baiyu let go of Moyu.
Mo Yu licked Bai Yu, but probably because it didn't taste good or wasn't fluffy enough, he stopped licking it. Suddenly, he smelled some wild game nearby, so he ran over and sniffed the pheasant that Bai Yu had spit out, and then showed an expression of disgust.
Bai Yu understood Mo Yu's disgust.
Bai Yu suddenly understood what Xu Qinyu meant, and looked at Xu Qin with a somewhat listless look.
Xu Qinyu laughed and ignored them. She went over and put the pheasants in a sack. It was not a good idea to just throw them on the road. It would be fine if wild dogs took them away and ate them, but she was afraid that they would be picked up and eaten on the road. After all, they were vomited out from the belly of a snake, and she was also worried that passers-by would get into trouble if they ate them.
Judging from Bai Yu's appearance, he would not swallow back the prey he had spit out. When Cheng Ge'er comes to catch eels outside the town, he can just throw the pheasant outside the town and bury it.
Just as I was thinking about it, Brother Cheng came with Brother Gong.
The two brothers were not scared when they saw Baiyu in the yard, but were very excited.
"Fourth sister-in-law, there is a white snake!" He said as he wanted to catch it.
Xu Qinyu said, "This is the white snake I raised before the New Year. It's called Baiyu. After the New Year, I thought it would grow bigger and bigger, and I was afraid it would scare others, so I released it back into the forest. I didn't expect that after a month and a half, it would come back and bring me some prey." She pointed to the bag next to her.
Wen Shuncheng came over and took a look at the things in the bag, revealing an expression that was hard to describe.
But I still couldn't help but say: "This snake is quite spiritual."
When have you ever seen a snake repaying its owner?
Xu Qinyu couldn't help but nodded.
Snakes are cold-blooded animals and will not get close to humans, let alone their owners.
Baiyu was indeed different from other snakes, so Xu Qinyu knew that if she adopted and raised it, it would not attack people at will in the future.
Xu Qinyu asked Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er to take the things in the bag and dig a hole to bury them when they went out of the town.
The two took the pheasant away when they left.
After a while, the family members got up one after another. Wen, Ning Jie'er and the two children were also surprised to learn that Bai Yu had returned.
Ning Jie'er said, "These wild beasts that Fourth Brother brought back seem to be very smart. Unlike ordinary wild beasts, they are quite good to keep. Since they understand human nature, they will not attack people at will."
Xu Qinyu nodded.
Only Gui had never seen Baiyu before, so she was frightened and a little afraid of snakes, but knowing that Baiyu was human-like, she had nothing to be afraid of.
Xu Qinyu braised the pig intestines and started to prepare breakfast.
When breakfast was almost ready, Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er came back with a basket of eels. The eels today were quite fat.
Looking at the plump eel, Xu Qinyu thought that she hadn't eaten eel for more than half a month, so she asked Cheng Ge'er to keep the eel and eat it stewed in the evening. Eating it stewed would make it more original, without the earthy fishy smell, and the bones would be crispy and the meat would be tender.
Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er were also a little craving for eels. They hadn't eaten them for a long time. The eels made by Fourth Sister-in-law were so delicious that they couldn't forget them.
Cheng Ge'er poured the eels into a wooden basin beside him. Xu Qinyu went over to take a look and found several snails. She said in surprise, "Aren't these snails?"
Because no one has ever eaten it, and there is no memory of snail dishes in her original body, so she doesn't know if it exists here.
Cheng Ge'er asked, "Are you talking about snails, Sister-in-law?"
Can this thing be eaten? After all, anything that Fourth Sister-in-law opens her mouth to eat must be edible.
Xu Qinyu nodded. "Yes, it's snails. They can be eaten. There are many ways to cook them. When Cheng Ge'er is free in the future, he can go to the pond or the field to find some, and I will cook them for you."
Snails can be braised, stir-fried, or cooked spicy. They can also be added to chicken and olives to make soup. There are also snail meat stir-fried with leeks and toothpick snail meat. Snails are also one of the main ingredients of snail noodles.
People who love snail noodles love it to death, while people who don’t like it will stay away from it.
Xu Qinyu is the type of person who likes to eat everything. She likes snail noodles, durian, stinky tofu, and even coriander and Houttuynia cordata.
She is not picky about food and all ingredients are delicious in her eyes.
In short, for any ingredient, she has at least dozens of ways to eat it in her mind.
Cheng Ge'er immediately responded with a "yes".
After breakfast, Cheng Ge'er delivered the braised pork intestines to Tian the butcher, while Xu Qinyu took the contract to find Yao Saozi. The two agreed to meet in the shop at the beginning of the day to sign the contract.
When they arrived at the restaurant, Yao was already waiting in the shop. After seeing Xu Qinyu, she took the contract and read it carefully.
She didn't think the above paperwork was excessive, but rather unnecessary. Why would Miss Xu worry about her arbitrarily raising the rent? She was thinking, if the shop couldn't be rented out, should she reduce the rent by a few taels of silver?
Does Miss Xu really think that she can make a fortune by opening a restaurant, to the point of making others jealous?
This Miss Xu is quite confident in her cooking skills.
But she is also an honest person. Even if Miss Xu makes a lot of money by running a restaurant, she will not be jealous and raise the rent. Everyone has their own fortune, and she will never think of using crooked ways to make money.
The conditions on the contract were not excessive, so Yao readily pressed her fingerprints.
Xu Qinyu also put her fingerprints on it.
The deed is made in duplicate, and both parties press their fingerprints on it. This way, the deed has legal effect and does not need to be stamped by the government office. If either party regrets or violates the deed in the future, they can go to the government office to sue with the copy in their hand, and the lawsuit will be successful.
These days, the laws may not be as comprehensive and reasonable as those in modern society, but the punishments are much more severe, and most people are unwilling to go to the yamen.
They both put the contract away. Yao smiled and said, "If Miss Xu needs any help in the future, you can come to me."
Xu Qinyu nodded and paid fifty taels of rent to Yao.
Yao wrote down the receipt and the two of them pressed their fingerprints on it. Xu Qinyu accepted the receipt and felt relieved.
Although it is not the first time to open a store, the nervousness and joy in my heart are self-evident.
Yao handed the key to Xu Qinyu and left.
Xu Qinyu hadn't left yet. She had to see how much more the restaurant needed to buy. She also needed to find a carpenter to make new tables, chairs, and benches in the living room. The counter was very old, and she also planned to rebuild it. She also needed to figure out the kitchen utensils in the kitchen.
Xu Qinyu stayed in the restaurant, leaning over the counter and writing down what she wanted to buy.
There are also designs for tables, chairs, benches and counters, as a carpenter will be needed to build the counter for the restaurant.
Xu Qinyu was writing and drawing with great concentration.
The female shopkeeper of the rouge and powder shop next door already knew that the young lady who came to ask her two days ago had rented the shop next door. When she came over to take a look, she saw the young lady lying on the counter writing and drawing. She didn't disturb her, but just couldn't help shaking her head and left.
Xu Qinyu wrote and drew for more than an hour. Seeing that she had to go back to cook fish, she packed up her things and returned to Guihua Lane with a sense of reluctance.
Cheng Ge'er is not able to cook fish by himself yet.
Xu Qinyu planned to make Cheng Ge'er learn how to make braised fish with fish balls and stewed fish head with tofu this month.
Because decorating the restaurant, purchasing supplies, and making a food menu all take a lot of time, it will probably take more than a month before the restaurant can officially open.
As for the name of the restaurant, Xu Qinyu plans to use the name of her modern private restaurant.
Xu's Restaurant.
Even if it is turned into a big restaurant in the future, this Xu Ji Restaurant can still be used.
After returning home, Xu Qinyu cooked fish and Cheng Ge'er also helped.
After selling the fish and having dinner, Xu Qinyu lit the oil lamp and continued writing and painting.
The tables, chairs and benches she designed can accommodate nine tables in a shop with three storefronts.
There are two large round tables that can accommodate eight or nine people, six long tables for four people, and a square table for two people in the corner.
As for the counter, since it needed to be reinstalled, she also designed it. The counter is U-shaped, and the back can be turned into a cabinet where some drinks can be placed. The counter can be used for daily accounting, and it doesn't need to be too big or spacious. The counter is much smaller overall, which can make the living room appear more spacious.
The name of the restaurant is Xu Ji Restaurant. Xu Qinyu also asked her family members for their opinions, and they all said it sounded grand and nice.
So the name of the restaurant was decided.
Xu Qinyu was busy until midnight before she went to bed.
For the next two days, she concentrated on writing and drawing.
After everything is drawn, it’s time to find a carpenter to do the work.
When making a cart before, Xia's sister-in-law introduced Xu Qinyu to a carpenter named Gao. Gao was a good carpenter, so Xu Qinyu continued to look for him.
Carpenter Gao told her that it would take about a month to complete these tables, chairs, benches and the counter.
Xu Qinyu nodded. "A month is enough time. I also need to buy other things."
The floor of the restaurant is paved with blue bricks, so there is no need to replace them. The blue bricks are pretty good. It’s just that the windows are a bit worn out, so I will ask Carpenter Gao to help repair them and repaint them.
In addition, you have to buy kitchen utensils, among which various iron pots are the biggest.
She went to the iron shop and ordered several iron pots of different sizes, as well as iron plates and frying pans.
After paying the rent, she still had 197 taels of silver on her.
Repairing the tables, chairs, benches, counters, and windows would cost about thirty taels of silver.
Although the tables, chairs and benches she wanted were not made of more expensive wood, they were more expensive because they needed to be painted.
A painted table top is less likely to absorb grease from food, otherwise the table top will remain greasy no matter how you wipe it.
The paints used in this era were not like the mixed paints of today. They were all pure natural and pollution-free. They also required primer, sanding, and various tedious processes, so the painting process was quite expensive.
Thirty taels for carpentry.
The iron pots also cost about twenty taels.
In this way, he spent all the rent for the shop for a year, and had more than 140 taels left.
Even the various bowls and plates were custom-made by her at a new porcelain kiln, and the patterns were also drawn by her.
Of course, it is impossible to expect to get colored porcelain, which is ridiculously expensive. Even ordinary white porcelain would cost about ten taels of silver.
All that’s left is to buy ingredients when the business opens.
In short, the money I have is enough.
Of course, if you open a restaurant, you still have to hire waiters. Two are almost enough. The waiters not only serve the food, but also have to wash the dishes.
The shopkeeper is here to settle the bills. On weekdays, Xu Qinyu must be cooking in the kitchen and has no time to take care of the front desk.
However, it would be a bit of a waste to hire a dedicated shopkeeper. Wen and Ning Jie'er are at home. They don't make buns every day and have a lot of free time. Therefore, Xu Qinyu plans to ask Wen and Ning Jie'er, who are the shopkeepers who collect money and do the accounting, if they don't want to be the shopkeepers, then she will hire someone.
When she returned in the afternoon, Xu Qinyu asked Wen and Ning Jie'er.
Mrs. Wen said that she could go to the restaurant to help with the accounting every day, and Ning Jieer could just stay at home and make dumplings.
After all, the designs of these bags were usually thought up by Sister Ning, and she is more skillful with her hands.
So it would be better for Ning Jie'er to continue making dumplings in the future. She went to her daughter-in-law's restaurant to help out because she was worried that someone would bully her daughter-in-law outside and she could help.
Xu Qinyu naturally felt much more relieved when she saw that Wen was willing to help out in the restaurant.
All that was left was to find some waiters, and she planned to recruit women between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
Since the chef and the cashier are both women, we can hire women as waiters as well, preferably those with strong personalities. Young girls are naturally not suitable, as we are afraid of encountering hooligans who might make advances on them.
It would definitely not be enough if she was the only cook, so she had to hire another assistant chef. She could also teach the assistant chef how to cook dishes he didn't know how to cook.
After all, it will take another two years for Cheng Ge'er to learn how to cook.
Gong Ge'er doesn't like cooking. He is clumsy when helping Cheng Ge'er kill fish and has no talent for being a chef.
Gongger is almost ten years old, but in Xu Qinyu's eyes, he is still a child.
So the waiter had no plan to let Gong Ge'er come. Of course, Gong Ge'er had nothing to do on weekdays, so he would definitely stay in the restaurant and hang out with his brother.
Xu Qinyu wrote a recruitment notice and posted it at the gate of the yard so that diners who came to buy fish could see it.
Most of the diners are from the nearby alleys, and many of their families are still pregnant.
Xu Qinyu paid him eight hundred coins a month.
The salary is already high, but dishes need to be washed, so Xu Qinyu plans to temporarily recruit three people. The requirements are also clearly written above: women between the ages of 25 and 40 must be strong and healthy, have a bold personality, and be able to endure hardships.
She hired waiters for eight hundred coins, and also gave them red envelopes during festivals and holidays, with all these things written on them.
Just earning eight hundred coins a month is attractive enough. Even the men in the family may not be able to earn eight hundred coins a month outside.
So when the women in the nearby alleys found out, they all rushed to get this job.
Xu Qinyu was not in a hurry. In the end, only three people were recruited and there was still a month left. She specifically wrote down the names, ages, and addresses of the women who registered.
She plans to check out his character or ask people nearby. Even if she is looking for an ordinary waiter, she hopes that the person she recruits will not be top-notch, but will be down-to-earth and capable.
After the fish balls were sold out, Xu Qinyuji's staff list was almost complete. There were already thirty or forty women who came to apply for the job in the past two days.
Just after calling Cheng Ge'er to close the stall at the door, Xu Qinyu saw Lin coming over with pursed lips.
Lin is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Luo, who had eaten Xu Qinyu's braised fish and said it was unpalatable and insisted on a refund. She lives at the end of Guihua Lane.
The old woman Luo not only wanted to eat for free, she also wanted to steal Xu Qinyu's recipe. In the end, she was tricked by Xu Qinyu. Not only did she not learn anything, she also lost some money.
Afterwards, Old Lady Luo tried to play the good cop and negotiate peace, but was scared away by Xu Qinyu with a kitchen knife. After that, Old Lady Luo never dared to cause trouble in front of Xu Qinyu again.
Of course, after a few months, Xu Qinyu never sold any fish to Old Lady Luo's family again.
Xu Qinyu glanced at Lin.
Lin finally mustered up the courage to say, "Mrs. Xu, I also want to work as a waiter in your restaurant. Please give me a chance."
"Sorry." Xu Qinyu directly rejected Lin.
She couldn't give Lin hope.
It's not like you can just write down Lin's name now and write it down later.
Because just doing this would make Old Lady Luo feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of her, and she didn't want to get herself into such trouble.
If Lin could get a divorce, Xu Qinyu would be willing to help her and let her work in the restaurant in the future, but if she couldn't even take the first step, she couldn't help her.
If she could just take the first step, her future life would be completely different.
There will never be a life more miserable than staying in the Luo family.
Sure enough, when Lin heard these two words, her face turned pale.
She pinched her palms and murmured, "I, I understand. I'm sorry to bother Mr. Xu."
Xu Qinyu sighed.
There is still some time before Xu Ji Restaurant opens, and Xu Qinyu has nothing else to do, so she just concentrates on making a living by making braised pork intestines and fish.
The braised pork intestines sell very well at Mrs. Tian's stall. There are queues every day to buy them, and they are gone once they are sold out. However, when a restaurant is opened in the future, the braised pork intestines can be handed over to Cheng Ge'er, and he can keep an eye on the braised pork intestines and fish. Then we can provide more braised pork intestines to Mrs. Tian's stall.
Xia's sister-in-law knew that her restaurant was going to be renovated, so she specially lent her Zhuzi and asked Zhuzi to watch over the work in the restaurant every day.
So Xu Qinyu only went to the restaurant to check on the progress every few days.
The pillars were also watched very attentively.
Xu Qinyu took the time to pickle a lot of vegetables and a jar of kimchi.
Kimchi has a short shelf life. After fifteen days of fermentation, the restaurant has almost opened. The kimchi can be used as a free side dish before serving the meal.
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When Lin returned from Miss Xu's house that day, she saw her mother-in-law looking at her expectantly, "So? Did that little bitch let you work in her restaurant?"
When Lin heard her calling Miss Xu a little bitch, she raised her head and said with a wooden face, "Miss Xu is not a little bitch, she is very powerful." She had never seen such a powerful young lady. She wished she could be as powerful as Miss Xu, not afraid of anyone, and could scare away such an old rascal with a kitchen knife.
Mrs. Luo thought she had misheard and glared at him, "You, what did you just say?"
"I say, Miss Xu isn't a bitch, you are. You old rascal are really disgusting!"
Lin didn't know why, she had never had such courage before, but her mind was full of the image of Miss Xu holding a kitchen knife and chopping at her mother-in-law's ear.
She was really forced into a corner by Old Lady Luo.
On weekdays she went out to help people wash clothes and earned about 200 coins a month, but all of it was taken away by her mother-in-law.
Even so, Old Lady Luo still felt that the three of them, mother and daughter, were eating and drinking for free at the Luo family, and she often humiliated and beat them.
This time, when Old Lady Luo learned that Miss Xu was going to open a restaurant, she cursed all eighteen generations of Miss Xu's ancestors at home, and finally asked her to go to Miss Xu's house to do a certain job. She would not go there on normal days, but she went because she needed money so much.
Because last night, she heard the whispers between Old Lady Luo and her husband Luo Dagen.
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