Ruan Meng pointed to the seafood that had been deliberately left in the wooden bucket, "We can take away any of the seafood we've eaten these past two days."
The second and third brothers didn't understand Ruan Meng's plan yet, but the eldest brother had already figured it out.
"Go to bed early tonight, your little sister will be very busy tomorrow morning. Let's all get up and help."
The older brother reminded him.
Perhaps because they had something on their minds and felt a sense of responsibility, the second and third brothers sat up immediately upon hearing Ruan Meng's noise next door for the first time.
My older brother and sister-in-law also got up.
The oyster sauce was ready, and Ruan Meng planned to prepare the broth on the spot and cook some seafood dishes before the carriage from He Family Restaurant arrived.
The second brother took the initiative to fetch water, while the third brother cleaned the seafood.
The older sister-in-law helped chop scallions, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers.
The eldest brother cleaned up the scene, and the whole family worked busily and methodically.
Before long, Ruan Meng had prepared four jars of soup, keeping one for her own family.
The sea eels we caught yesterday weren't cooked yet, so Ruan Meng asked her third brother to cook millet rice for her. After she cleaned and gutted the eels herself, she took out a little honey that she had bought in the city a few days ago, and mixed it with soy sauce, salt, oyster sauce, etc. to make a sauce, which she then spread on both sides of the eels.
Ruan Meng asked her second brother to start a fire, and used wooden tongs to hold the eel at both ends, letting her second brother hold it and slowly roast it over the fire.
I prepared the batter, coated it onto dandelion and sand crab, and pan-fried the wild vegetable pancakes and salt and pepper sand crabs. They were ready to serve quickly.
Take out the konjac paste that was left to sit overnight, slice it into large pieces and shred it, and cook it separately as a spicy stir-fry and a scallion stir-fry, then serve them out separately.
When the second brother saw Ruan Meng, he put the prepared stir-fried konjac noodles with scallions and spicy stir-fried konjac slices into two bamboo tubes and covered them.
The salt and pepper sand crabs were also packed into two bamboo tubes, leaving four empty bamboo tubes...
The second son craned his neck and asked, "Little sister, are all of these going to be sent away?"
Ruan Meng chuckled and showed the remaining food on the plate to her second brother, "We sent some out in bamboo tubes, but kept some for ourselves!"
Mistreated her own people? Ruan Meng would never do that.
The second brother smiled and winked at the third brother.
After washing the pot, Ruan Meng took out the soaked razor clams, made stir-fried razor clams with scallions, and filled two bamboo tubes with some of the clams.
The second son kept swallowing as he looked at the eel in his hand, which was sizzling with oil and emitting a sweet aroma.
Ruan Meng cut the eel into small pieces, scooped out millet rice, put it into a bamboo tube, and covered it with the eel pieces.
After all that happened last night, Ruan Meng called out to her third brother, "Third brother, breakfast is ready!"
This is the most sumptuous breakfast the Nguyen family has had since arriving in the South Island.
Four dishes, and the grilled eel was even better than last time!
The third child exclaimed, "Little sister, it tastes even better than last time!"
When her sister-in-law asked, Ruan Meng explained, "Last time, we didn't have honey or soy sauce at home, so we could only sprinkle salt on it and fry it dry."
"The sauce I made this time contains honey, soy sauce, and other ingredients. It's rich in flavor, sweet, and delicious, making the rice especially fragrant!"
"Uh-huh!"
The third brother, head down, said, "This will definitely be popular if we sell it!"
The second son chimed in, "Stir-fried razor clams with scallions are also good, tender and delicious!"
My sister-in-law said, "Konjac chips are chewy, they're a good chewy texture!"
Ruan Meng added, "Sister-in-law, konjac can be used in medicine. Its components are difficult for flour to digest, so the intake is not high. Women can eat it to lose weight and improve their bowel function."
"For those who feel they are overweight but can't control their eating habits, using it as a staple food is a great choice."
The sister-in-law was pleasantly surprised to hear this, but sighed, "If this were in the capital, it would definitely sell well."
"Only wealthy families care about being slim or plump; on the South Island, everyone just wants to avoid going hungry."
Ruan Meng, however, was optimistic and comforted him, saying, "I heard from Manager Yu of He Family Restaurant that the He family also has business in the inland areas."
"If they like it, maybe we can sell it to them!"
The older brother asked, "The book says that konjac is also found in Guangdong and Guangxi?"
Ruan Meng thought for a moment and replied, "It has been a medicinal herb since ancient times, but because it is poisonous, perhaps like its situation in the South Island, there are not many people who know how to use it as food."
The elder brother smiled and said, "Perhaps, my sister, you could sell the recipe for konjac."
After her older brother reminded her, Ruan Meng suddenly realized, "That's right!"
Sell the recipe to the He Family Restaurant so that their people can make it inland and sell it to people inland. This way, they won't have to transport it from the South Island, which would reduce costs.
It can also be made fresh to order, making it even fresher.
Upon hearing this, the second brother laughed and joked, "Big brother's brain is really sharp, isn't it?"
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