When she woke up early the next day, she could hear the rustling sound of snowflakes hitting the windows outside, accompanied by the whistling of the wind. Xu Qinyu lay on the bed and rolled over with satisfaction.

Since coming here, she has rarely had a good night's sleep. Needless to say, she was worried every day during her previous exile. Now that she has come to the border town, she knows that her cooking skills can be put to good use in a place like this. She has a foundation to settle down and her heart is at ease.

Pei Jianing and Sister Yan were both awake and not in bed.

Xu Qinyu stretched her body, slowly sat up, and pulled the underpants on the rack and put them on.

She got out of bed, put on her cloth shoes, walked to the window, quietly opened a window and looked out. The outside was covered in silver, and the roofs and treetops were all white.

The snow was not heavy, just a thin layer.

Xu Qinyu went to bed early last night. She didn't make dinner, so Chef Zhou made it instead, and she ate some with the Pei family.

There was a patient in the room, and the window could not be opened for long. Xu Qinyu looked at the snow scene for a few seconds and then closed it.

Everyone else in the room woke up. Xu Qinyu said hello to them and went to the kitchen.

The big bone soup was prepared last night and was kept warm on the stove. Xu Qinyu began to chop the meat and prepare the stuffing for making wontons.

In fact, if you want to make delicious wontons, the ratio of fat to lean meat filling, as well as the method of chopping the meat filling are also important. Good wonton filling tastes rich in juice and is full of meaty aroma.

These are not difficult for Xu Qinyu.

Once the meat filling is prepared, start kneading the dough.

The wonton wrapper is also crucial. The dough should be thin and a little chewy so that it is chewy when eaten.

Mix the dough, knead it, let it rest, and finally form it into small balls and start rolling out wonton wrappers.

She rolled out the dough quickly and skillfully, first pressing a few small balls of dough into small pancake shapes, and then rolling out ten small pancakes together.

Chef Zhou was stunned watching from the side. How could the wonton wrapper be rolled out like this? He rolled out a handful of dough together, but the wonton wrapper was as thin as a cicada's wing.

The technique of wrapping the wontons was as fast as an afterimage, and Chef Zhou never closed his mouth from beginning to end.

He was simply full of admiration for the young lady, and thought that Miss Xu was too amazing. She was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but her knife skills and craftsmanship were so superb, and her cooking skills were even more amazing. Perhaps only the chefs in the palace could have such skills.

The wonton skin was so thin that the texture of the meat filling inside could be seen clearly. Chef Zhou was worried that the skin would be boiled during blanching.

It was already past noon, and most of the guests in the inn had already gotten up and started washing up.

Xu Qinyu started to cook the wontons. To cook the wontons, you need to use another large pot. Just add water and boil it and then you can start to blanch the wontons.

The heat for boiling wontons is also crucial. The bottom of the bowl needs to be prepared with some seaweed, shrimp skin and a little salt. A spoonful of hot bone soup from another pot is poured into the bowl. The aroma spreads, attracting diners to come out and start looking for food.

Nori and shrimp skin are not cheap either. Other wonton stalls don’t have nori and shrimp skin, they just add chopped green onions and pork fat.

Wontons swirled up in the clear water pot. Xu Qinyu moved her wrist slightly, and a large slotted spoon scooped up a dozen wontons in a row, poured them into the bowl of seasoned bone soup, and finally sprinkled them with chopped green onions for garnish.

A bowl of delicious wontons is ready.

Xu Qinyu naturally focused on eating with the Pei family first.

She cooked six bowls of wontons, all with big bone soup base, without adding oil, chili and vinegar. They hadn't had a proper meal on the whole journey, and their stomachs definitely couldn't handle the heavy food, so they would need to recuperate for a while.

She made her own chili oil stir-fry by stir-frying dogwood and Sichuan peppercorns in an iron pan until fragrant and dry, then crushed them, sprinkled them with hot oil and sesame seeds, and the simple version of chili oil stir-fry was ready.

Xu Qinyu also tasted it and found it very good, spicy and a little numbing, very appetizing.

Carrying the wontons back to the room, Xu Qinyu called the Pei family to have breakfast.

Pei Jianing came over to help her carry the food tray to the square table, and brought Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er over, "Fourth sister-in-law, you eat first, I'll feed them." She knew that Fourth sister-in-law would have to go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the diners in a while.

Mrs. Wen also came over to take Sister Yan and helped Pei Jianing feed the child.

Xu Qinyu was not polite either. She nodded and handed a bowl of wontons to Pei Weixuan. "Fourth brother, you eat too."

"Okay." Pei Weixuan responded, but his eyes fell on the girl's outstretched wrist. The mark on her wrist where he had gripped it deepened instead of disappearing. His hand that took the bowl paused slightly.

After Xu Qinyu passed the bowl over, she did not go to the square table, but sat on the small stool where Wen had just sat and started eating.

As she ate, her cheeks puffed up, her eyes slightly squinted, and she looked very satisfied and enjoying.

Pei Weixuan had no appetite to begin with, but seeing her like this, he couldn't help but scoop a wonton into his mouth.

I was surprised as soon as I took a bite. Although the skin was thin, it was not broken at all and was very chewy. The meat filling burst with juice when I bit into it. Every bite was meaty and fragrant. The soup was fresh and the meat was tender.

He ate one bite after another and finished the bowl of wontons.

He had just finished eating, and Xu Qinyu had also finished eating. She naturally took the bowl from his hand and was about to take it away when she heard her cheap husband suddenly speak, "Yu Niang, can you lend me a coin?"

Xu Qinyu was stunned for a moment, and said "Oh" twice, "Fourth brother, wait for me." Then she ran over, took out a banknote from her wooden box and handed it to Pei Weixuan. She didn't ask him why he wanted the money.

She gave the previous fifty taels to Wen, who paid the settlement fee, and kept the remaining ninety taels. This was almost three guan of money she earned yesterday.

After giving the money, Xu Qinyu returned to the kitchen with the empty bowl.

There were already quite a few diners in the guest room of the inn, all of whom were old customers from yesterday, and Liang Yi was also there.

After Xu Qinyu came back, the chef started to cook wontons. After a while, the whole inn was filled with the aroma of meat in the wontons, attracting more diners.

The front living room was filled with diners' praises.

"These wontons are really delicious. I have never eaten such delicious wontons."

"That's right, the young lady's cooking skills are amazing. How did she cook it? They both use white flour and meat stuffing, so why does the taste differ?"

"It's just a little expensive, and I can't eat here every day."

Liang Yi could not help but nod his head after hearing this. He had a big appetite and one bowl of wontons was not enough to fill him up. He had to eat seven or eight bowls and bring two servings back for his wife and daughter, which cost him two hundred coins. Although his monthly salary was several taels of silver, he could not spend it like this. He also had to save money to buy a big house for his wife and daughter.

Liang Yi decided to come back to eat in a few days, and definitely not come in the next few days.

Chef Zhou felt depressed when he heard the diners chatting. He also wanted Miss Xu and her family to stay in Raozhou City for a few more days, but he knew that Miss Xu seemed to be a family of criminals demoted from the capital, with their household registration in Yuanbao Town. They could stay there for ten days at most. People who did not have household registration in Raozhou City could only stay in the city for half a month, or they could stay longer with written proof of their household registration, otherwise they would violate the law and be punished with a stick.

So in a few days, Miss Xu will have to go back.

Miss Xu was kind-hearted and had been teaching him how to cook. He was a little reluctant to leave her and wanted to recognize her as his master.

Xu Qinyu was not busy for long, only about an hour. After she had used up all the wontons she had made and the bone soup she had made yesterday, she closed the stall.

Making wontons is easy, so she planned to continue making wontons for breakfast tomorrow. However, she didn't wait to go to the market to buy the big bone sticks and ingredients for tomorrow's meal. She just returned to the house and was about to count the copper coins she earned when she saw Pei Weixuan carrying a bag of medicinal materials into the house. He said solemnly, "We will set off for Yuanbao Town today. Once we get there, we will settle down as soon as possible."

Everyone was stunned to hear him say this. Wen came over and said, "But Xuan'er, your fever has just improved. How can your body handle leaving in such a hurry? We can still stay in the city for a few more days. You should rest for a few more days to get better." She had originally planned to ask a famous doctor to help check the poison in her son's body and had no intention of going to Yuanbao Town so soon.

Xu Qinyu couldn't help but ask, "Fourth brother, why not wait a few days?"

She can still stay in Raozhou City for several days. She wants to earn more money. If it weren't for the household registration system, she would have wanted to stay in Raozhou City and rent a house to do business. Business in the city is definitely easier than business in the town. However, the city also has its own troubles, and doing business is definitely more complicated and troublesome than in the town. She can make money now, but it's just by borrowing the inn of Manager Zhou.

Pei Weixuan raised his eyes and looked outside the door. "It's going to snow heavily. If we don't hurry back today, the road will be closed tomorrow."

He had been planning to go out and buy some herbs to boil down into a bleeding, blood stasis-removing and pain-relieving ointment for Yu Niang. But halfway through his journey, he observed the sky and saw that a heavy snow was going to fall. This heavy snow would last at least ten days or half a month, and if he didn't leave the city, he would be trapped inside.

"Fourth brother, can you observe the celestial phenomena?" Xu Qinyu exclaimed in amazement. She never thought that her cheap husband had such a skill.

Wen and Pei Jianing were both stunned. It was obvious that they didn't know that their son and brother had such abilities.

Since it was going to snow heavily, everyone had to pack up and leave the city. Xu Qinyu took her wooden box and went to say goodbye to Shopkeeper Zhou and Chef Zhou. She also exchanged the copper plates she had earned in the past two days for small change. Shopkeeper Zhou was naturally willing to do so. After exchanging the silver for Xu Qinyu, Shopkeeper Zhou learned that they were going to Yuanbao Town and asked, "Madam Xu, are you going back now?"

Xu Qinyu did not reveal her cheap husband's ability to observe the celestial phenomena to anyone. She only said that her husband had woken up and planned to go to his registered residence early.

Shopkeeper Zhou nodded, "It would be better to go back and settle down as soon as possible. Daqing will catch a carriage, why don't you let him take you back to Yuanbao Town? And thank you for teaching him how to cook these past two days."

Daqing is the son of Manager Zhou, Zhou Daqing.

Nowadays, craftsmen hold recipes tightly in their own hands. Once a teacher, always a teacher. Moreover, cooking skills are passed down from generation to generation and they are not willing to teach outsiders. Chef Zhou's cooking skills were taught by Manager Zhou, but he is just as good.

Xu Qinyu was naturally happy to do so. She actually had other plans in mind. Yuanbao Town was not far from Raozhou City. It was the closest town to Raozhou City. Maybe she could continue to cooperate with Manager Zhou in the future. However, she had to think carefully about how to cooperate after she returned.

When Zhou Daqing heard this, he was very happy. He hitched a carriage and sent the young lady and her family to Yuanbao Town.

Raozhou City is only half a day's journey away from Yuanbao Town. Xu Qinyu has nothing else to pack except this little bit of silver.

The family squeezed into the carriage, and the carriage swayed towards Yuanbao Town.

On the way, Xu Qinyu saw her adopted husband still holding the bag of medicine in his hand, and couldn't help asking, "Fourth brother, what medicine did you get? Do you still know how to diagnose illnesses?" She could smell the medicine. Medicine and food have the same origin. Many ingredients are medicinal materials, but she had never come into contact with most of them. Even if she had a sensitive nose, she couldn't tell what medicinal materials they were.

"I know a little bit." Pei Weixuan glanced at her wrist. "Your wrist needs some ointment. I was planning to use the stove in the back kitchen of the guest inn to make some ointment. Now I can only wait until I return to Yuanbao Town to make it for you."

He usually doesn't talk much, but today he was forced to say a lot. After replying to Xu Qinyu, he lowered his eyes slightly.

Xu Qinyu immediately thanked him happily, "Thank you, Fourth Brother."

In fact, her wrist still hurt a lot, but she could bear it. She was often injured in the orphanage, but she endured it all by herself.

Wen and Pei Jianing were stunned again, obviously they didn't know that he knew how to use medicine.

Pei Weixuan naturally never told them that if he didn't know how to use the medicine, he would have died in that cannibalistic harem long ago.

It’s just that his abilities have never been shown in front of others, nor can they be shown in front of others.

Two hours later, the carriage stopped at the entrance of Yuanbao Town.

The entrance of Yuanbao Town is not much different from other towns. There is a large stone tablet with three big characters on it: Yuanbao Town.

When they arrived at the entrance of the town, Xu Qinyu and the Pei family got off the carriage. Xu Qinyu asked Chef Zhou to hurry back to the city. The curfew in Raozhou City was later, so it was just in time for him to go back. After that, she thanked him and said, "After we settle down, I will send someone to the city to send a letter to Chef Zhou."

When Zhou Daqing heard this, he was very happy that they would continue to have contact in the future. He scratched his head and said, "Then Miss Xu, you two should hurry to the town to find a place to live."

After parting with Chef Zhou, Xu Qinyu and his group went into the town. They found that the town was quite lively. Even though it was snowing lightly, there were still people coming and going, and there were many small vendors on both sides of the street.

The group had to report to the government office first and have the county magistrate stamp the registration document. Only then would the document be officially effective and they would truly be considered residents of Yuanbao Town.