After taking a shower, Pei Yao prepared all the ingredients she could for tomorrow, leaving the rest for when she got up the next morning.
After getting ready, he went back to his room to rest. In this era without lights and cell phones, there are very few things people can do at night, making nightlife quite boring.
So Pei Yao lay in bed for a while, her mind filled with the happy days when she had a cell phone.
How wonderful! It's like living the life of a god.
I'll scroll through some short videos and mindless jokes at night, then look at some muscular men, and finally turn off the lights and go to sleep.
Sometimes I'd meet up with a couple of friends at a roadside stall for some barbecue and beer, and we'd tell each other some jokes that adults usually joke about.
It's like being in heaven.
Those days used to seem ordinary, but now they are the days she longs for.
"Sister, can we still have pork cracklings tomorrow?"
Suddenly, a small, soft voice interrupted Pei Yao's thoughts. Pei Xuan was holding Pei Yao's arm in the darkness, gently pinching the small lump of soft flesh on the inside of Pei Yao's arm.
Pei Yao snapped out of her daze, turned around, and the moonlight shone through the unobstructed window onto Xiao Xuan'er's face. Pei Yao took advantage of the moonlight to pinch her little cheek.
The child's face is soft and feels great to the touch.
Pei Yao: "Of course, I'll have my mother make it for you tomorrow."
"Okay, I hope we can eat sweet pastries again in the future. Xuan'er loves Yunji's peach shortbread the most."
Pei Xuan's little head was filled with Yunji Pastry Shop, the most famous pastry shop in the capital. Their pastries were soft, sweet, and fragrant, and Xuan'er loved them the most.
He always pestered his father to bring him some back.
Pei Yao promised her that once she earned money, she would buy her delicious pastries. Although she couldn't buy Yunji Pastries from Kyoto, she could have as many pastries as she wanted from other shops.
If Xiaoxuan doesn't like the pastries sold outside, she can make them for her herself. Don't forget, she used to be a real food vlogger.
Pei Yao is very confident in her pastry-making skills.
If you ask her to do some handicrafts, like weaving bamboo baskets or making cotton, she's not very good at them; she'll do them without saying a word. But when it comes to cooking, she definitely has a place.
And so, as she painted a picture of a beautiful cake for Xiao Xuan'er, the little girl was soon overjoyed and fell into a dream while listening to her older sister talk about the sweet pastries. Even in her dreams, she was eating sweet pastries.
Listening to the soft snores coming from the little baby next to her, Pei Yao suddenly felt a sense of peace in her heart.
She suddenly realized that perhaps the past was good, but the present wasn't so bad either.
Now she has family, so many people who care about her, and she doesn't sleep alone at night anymore.
She used to feel lonely when the night was quiet.
I play on my phone until midnight because I'm really bored. Once I'm off my phone, there's nothing to do and no one to talk to.
At least when you're using your phone, there's still some activity on it.
It made her feel like she wasn't alone in the room.
Compared to being all alone in her previous life, her childhood as an orphan made her yearn for a life with family.
When she was little, she loved watching other families reunite. She would always fantasize about how wonderful it would be if she could reunite with her parents and family someday.
As a result, when she grew up, she longed to get married, have a child of her own, and then have her whole family reunite to fulfill her childhood dream.
However, she was rather unlucky. She had two relationships during her school years, but both ended after a few months because the men cheated on her.
Later, the two went out to work. Because they were food vloggers in the countryside, they were often alone and had no social circle to meet men, so they never dated.
She thought, maybe...
Throughout life, people pursue what they could not obtain in their youth; others do, and so does she.
Pei Yao sighed for a moment, then quickly fell into a deep sleep due to the day's fatigue.
When I woke up again, it was already the end of the next day's Mao Shi (7:00 AM). I've been going to bed early at night recently, and I'm waking up early in the morning as well.
In Lingnan, it gets light early. By the end of the Mao hour (5-7 AM), it's already bright outside, and the sun has been out for quite a while.
As soon as Pei Yao stepped outside, she saw Yun Niang and Chen Fang busy at work. Even Pei Yichen, who rarely got up early, was helping his mother hammer nails into the screws.
Everyone was operating the equipment cautiously and slowly, trying to keep their voices as low as possible so as not to disturb the others who were still sleeping in the room.
When Pei Yao got up, the snails had been mostly processed, and Yun Niang had replicated the simple side dishes just like Pei Yao had made before.
All we need to do is adjust the proportions when Pei Yao comes out.
Yunniang also cooked brown rice for everyone, and the dishes were just some ordinary seafood and wild vegetable soup and vegetables stir-fried with pork cracklings.
Pei Yao prepared the seasonings one by one, and she even called Chen Fang and Yun Niang over to help her while she was preparing them.
Let the whole family learn this skill. Although the ingredients for making this spicy snail dish are not complicated, it would take a long time to figure it out if someone didn't teach you step by step.
After all, information technology was not as advanced in ancient times as it is now, where you can easily find many tutorials online if you want to do something.
In ancient times, Pei Yao's spicy snail sauce would have been mistaken by others as a family secret recipe passed down through generations.
Even if someone wants to learn, there's no one to teach them, and it's very difficult to replicate it exactly.
Even Pei Yao had to combine the methods of many bloggers to gradually find the best ratio herself.
When Chen Fang and Yun Niang heard that Pei Yao was going to teach them, they listened attentively and took notes diligently, and quickly learned the skills.
The ingredient itself isn't difficult to make; the difficult part is the recipe.
Pei Yao only needs to explain it to her once, and she will understand.
Especially Yunniang, she can learn almost anything in the kitchen in no time, and I reckon she'll be able to cook it herself tomorrow.
Pack the prepared snails directly into a bucket; they'll be flavorful enough by the time they reach the street.
Today, I made three buckets as planned and carried a basket full of kudzu root worms.
Pei Yao even brought some sea urchins with her when she went out.
These sea urchins were all found by Yunniang and Pei Yichen while they were beachcombing yesterday after Pei Yao and the others went out.
Before heading out, everyone ate the breakfast cooked by Yunniang and waited at the door, full and ready to go.
We can set off as soon as Niu Qingshan's oxcart arrives.
There was one more person going to town to do business today: Pei Yichen. This kid insisted on going with me before I left.
He insisted that he wanted to help learn how to do business so that they could make money together in the future and bring his father and second uncle back as soon as possible.
Pei Yao naturally wouldn't refuse; more people meant more help.
When Niu Qingshan arrived, Pei Yao counted out ten coins for him as travel expenses. This time, Niu Qingshan didn't argue with Pei Yao and accepted the money generously.
And so, the group of people set off for the town in a grand and bustling manner.
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