Chapter 424 Vibrant
Liaodong Restaurant
On this day, the restaurant launched a hot pot, a double-boiled hot pot of butter and mushroom soup.
The first and second floors were full of people and the atmosphere was bustling.
In the private room on the second floor, Xue Xu and Ji Wuyin refused to let the servants serve them, and they were having a great time eating around the pot.
Ji Wuyin grabbed the last piece of duck blood and ate it happily.
Xue Xu had no choice but to pick up a piece of mutton roll with chopsticks, dip it in sesame paste and other dipping sauces, and put it into his mouth.
"It turns out that Lord Lu and his family had a feast yesterday." Ji Wuyin sighed.
Xue Xu was concentrating on eating and was too lazy to talk.
Whenever Madam Qin Liu wanted to try a new dish, Master Chen would take his utensils and go to the prefectural governor's office to try out the new dish. If Madam Qin Liu was satisfied, Liaodong Restaurant would then introduce the new dish the next day.
This has become an unspoken secret.
After half an hour, the two were almost full.
In the middle of winter, eating this pot will make you sweat.
The waiter brought his men to take away the pot where they had finished eating.
After finishing the hot pot, the two of them had a bowl of green bean sprout soup to relieve the greasiness.
Ji Wuyin felt a warm feeling in his stomach, very comfortable, "You Liaodong County is amazing."
He was very satisfied that he could eat these tender green bean sprouts in the middle of winter.
Green vegetables are more expensive than meat in winter. He used to live in the Southland, where he could eat green vegetables in winter. However, they used the hot spring farm, so the variety of green vegetables they grew was not very wide.
Ordinary people can still plant some cold-resistant vegetables in early winter, but they have to be careful and cover them with straw at night to prevent frost. After the Great Cold, the vegetables will not survive in the fields.
Meanwhile, in Liaodong Commandery, not only were the vegetables in the glass greenhouses built under government orders now entering harvest season, but they had already found a market, shipping cartloads of vegetables to Youzhou to the west, selling them to the wealthy in Youbeiping Commandery. It was said that they were selling very well.
In addition, in Liaodong County and even the entire Pingzhou, after the common people installed kangs in their homes, they could actually grow some vegetables in pots in the house.
This is incredible, and it truly benefits the people. Although the people cannot grow more, it is enough for them to occasionally eat a few meals of green leafy vegetables in the winter.
This is the happiest thing.
There was laughter and joy downstairs. The two opened the window and looked down. They could see the chef from Liaodong Restaurant teaching how to make steamed fish with fermented black beans. Many people were watching with smiles on their faces.
On the tenth day of every month, Liaodong Restaurant will demonstrate the preparation of a home-cooked dish at the door.
Food is the most important thing for people, and delicious food can enhance people's sense of happiness.
Perhaps nowadays ordinary people don’t have much to eat, it’s not easy to get enough to eat, and they can’t eat meat often.
However, the chefs at Liaodong Restaurant will cook dishes using ingredients available to ordinary people. Anyone who wants to learn can come and visit.
The reason why we chose this dish today is because most people have salted fish at home.
There are three counties in Liaodong County that are close to the sea. In autumn, the government organizes people to go fishing at the seaside.
After a large number of fish were caught, some were transported to various counties and put on the market. During that period, people could often buy cheap fish meat, but most of them were dried into salted fish.
In fact, there are fishermen in several coastal counties who dry fish, but they are reluctant to use salt, so the dried fish are prone to infestation with worms and naturally cannot be kept for long.
This time, the government naturally had no such concerns when it took action.
Ji Wuyin sighed, "Liaodong County is truly the place where the people have the most smiles on their faces that I have ever seen."
He had been to many places, but only Liaodong County gave him a vibrant feeling, and the people here were full of hope for the future.
Xue Xu laughed and said, "Isn't this normal? Didn't you see how much effort Madam Qin Liu and everyone else put into this piece of land?"
If it weren't for Lord Lu in power, the people of Liaodong County would have long since been destitute. The high price of grain alone was enough to make life difficult for many ordinary people.
Ji Wuyin thought about it and realized that it was indeed because of the huge amount of money and grain that Lu Songli had brought back from other places that the people in this area were able to live and work in peace and contentment.
That night, many families made the dish of steamed salted fish with fermented black beans.
Xianning Village, the same goes for the Yue family.
The Yue family and several other families who were on good terms with the disaster victims who had gone north together were assigned to Xianning Village through drawing lots.
Xianning Village is located in the southeast of Houcheng, not far from Houcheng. It is a very good place.
While Yue Shu's wife, Zhou, was cooking, she told her son, "Go into the house and pick two green onions."
The chef of Liaodong Restaurant said that the salted fish needs more ginger to avoid the fishy smell.
This is not the first time their family has cooked salted fish, but it is the first time they have added so many seasonings.
Before winter, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Grain and Oil Store supplied a batch of salted fish, and each household could purchase up to ten kilograms of dried salted fish.
They also bought 10 kilograms. Everyone was crazy about it because it was not only meat, but also because it was pickled with a lot of salt and then dried.
"I'll go." Aunt Yue, who was stoking the fire, said, it's not easy to grow a few pots of vegetables, so don't let the children spoil them.
Not long after, Aunt Yue brought two washed onions into the kitchen and continued to light the fire.
After pulling out the green onions, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law inevitably talked about the several pots of vegetables grown in the house.
In the past, when winter came, they had no green leafy vegetables to eat. They only ate pickles and dried vegetables, and even then, they couldn't eat as much as they wanted.
Now they can not only grow some bean sprouts, but also use a wooden basin in the house to plant some leeks, garlic sprouts and onion seedlings.
People in the government said that this was because they had a kang in their house, which was warm, so the leeks and garlic sprouts could survive.
The other party also told them that if the weather was good and sunny, they would move the seedlings in the wooden basins out to bask in the sun.
Although it was a bit troublesome to move around, they were very happy to do it.
"How come people in government offices know everything?" Aunt Yue sighed.
Zhou smiled and replied, "Mother, I heard from my husband that there are many capable people in the government."
When it was time for dinner, the entire Yue family gathered around the table.
They made three dishes for dinner: steamed fish with fermented black beans, stir-fried bean sprouts, and seaweed egg drop soup.
I never dared to imagine such a day before.
"We're having fish tonight, but I wonder what your father will eat?" Aunt Yue and her grandson Yue Jie grumbled.
Zhou served the elders some food while smiling, "Mom, don't worry about him. Didn't his father tell me when he came back last time? Their training is hard, but the food is very good."
When the Liaodong Commandery was calling for soldiers, Yue Shu applied. Actually, it wasn't just his family; almost every family from the south who could spare a man applied. Some were chosen, some weren't.
Their Yue Shu was selected. The last time I came back, he said that he had already become a centurion.
Old Man Yue took the food from his eldest daughter-in-law and said, "Second brother, you should enlist in the militia next year."
Yue Peng nodded when his name was called. It was not that he could not apply, but his family needed a strong laborer. Next year, his family had to reclaim a few acres of wasteland, and it would not be possible to rely solely on his parents, sister-in-law and wife.
At this time, nine-year-old Yue Jie said, "Grandpa and grandma, when I grow up, I will join the army like my dad."
"Okay, but before you join the army, you have to go to school."
"All right."
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