Seeing Sister Ning's state, Xu Qinyu was startled. She didn't even bother pushing the cart into the yard, but hurried into the house holding up her skirt, "Sister Ning, what happened?"

"Fourth sister-in-law." Pei Jianing wiped away tears, "Someone came to my house to make trouble, saying that the fish she bought from you yesterday was not tasty, and asked me to return the money to her."

It turned out that after Pei Jianing and his fourth brother and his wife left with Mrs. Wen, they took Feng Ge'er and Yuan Jie'er to write and draw on the snow in the yard to teach them how to read and write.

After a while, someone knocked on the door in a hurry, banging it loudly.

Pei Jianing went to open the door and found an old woman with slanted eyes and high cheekbones.

When the old woman saw her, she started yelling, "Yesterday afternoon, your young lady was selling braised herring in the alley. She also said that if the taste was not good, I could ask her to refund the money. Yesterday, after I bought the fish, I found that my mouth was full of fishy smell and it was so unpalatable. I quickly asked your young lady to refund me."

Pei Jianing was stunned when she heard this, but she reacted quickly.

She knew very well how the food cooked by the fourth sister-in-law tasted. Even she, a princess who was used to eating delicacies from jade plates, could not find any fault with it. But this old woman said that the fish cooked by the fourth sister-in-law was not tasty. It was obviously picking faults. She immediately said, "Auntie, don't talk nonsense. I know very well how the food cooked by my fourth sister-in-law tastes. Everyone who bought fish in this alley yesterday also knows it. You are the only one who came here to make trouble. You just want to eat for free!"

"Hey, I'm old, how can I cheat you out of this little money?"

The old woman's eyes rolled around and she saw that the kitchen door was open. Without saying a word, she pushed Pei Jianing aside and walked towards the kitchen.

Pei Jianing was a little dumbfounded. Even though she had a quarrel with the people from the Wen family on the way to exile, they had only had a few heated arguments verbally. She had never seen such a shameless old woman from the market.

She was so angry that she followed him immediately.

When the old woman entered the kitchen, she began to look around, rummaging through the drawers and cabinets, and took out all the spices that the fourth sister-in-law had placed in the cabinet. When she saw these spices, the old woman's eyes lit up and she wanted to reach out to take them.

Pei Jianing immediately shouted, "If you dare to touch our things, I will report to the police immediately! Especially these spices, spices are expensive, and only drugstores can sell them. If we report to the police, we can find out whether it was you who bought the spices or us. Stealing things can be a serious crime!"

When the old woman heard this, she was a little scared. Nowadays, no one is not afraid of being a servant.

But she saw that the spices were all placed in the cupboard, so she knew that the young lady must have added spices when cooking the fish.

Thinking she already knew why Miss Xu’s fish cooking was so delicious, the old woman was in a good mood. She turned around and asked Pei Jianing to pay her back for the eight cents she had spent on buying fish yesterday.

Pei Jianing was so angry that her face turned red, and she began to defend herself by saying that her fourth sister-in-law cooked delicious fish and it was she who was making trouble.

The old woman refused to listen and kept asking her to take out the money.

Fengger and Yanjie were so scared that they burst into tears. Fengger was a mute and made no sound even when he cried. Yanjie had witnessed the drastic changes in her family and watched her mother hang herself with a white silk silk. She had not spoken a word since then. Now seeing the two children crying, Pei Jianing was so distressed that she could only take care of the two children first. However, the old woman pulled her clothes and asked for money.

There was too much noise here. Two families nearby heard the noise and came over to take a look.

When he found out that it was Mrs. Luo from the house at the end of the alley who was causing trouble, he immediately stepped forward to help.

Pei Jianing had never suffered such humiliation before. With red eyes, she told the story again and added: "The sisters-in-law and aunts should know best how the food cooked by my fourth sister-in-law tastes. She is just making a fuss."

The two women immediately pointed at Old Lady Luo and cursed her, "The fish cooked by that young lady tastes so good, even better than the one in the big restaurant in the east city. She sells it to us at a low price because we are neighbors. We are getting a good deal, but you just want to eat for free, Old Lady Luo, we have been neighbors for so many years, everyone knows what kind of person you are."

Mrs. Luo sneered, "It sounds just like the food you tasted in that big restaurant."

The two women were so angry that they pulled Mrs. Luo out. Then they turned around to comfort Pei Jianing, asking her to close the gate, take good care of the two children, and wait until the adults came back.

After everyone left, Pei Jianing closed the gate, held Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er in her arms, and cried softly.

After hearing what happened, Xu Qinyu was so angry that her face turned red. She turned into the kitchen, came out with a big kitchen knife, and walked towards the gate of the yard, intending to settle the score with the old woman at the end of the alley.

There were only about a dozen households in Guihua Lane, and she remembered who the old woman at the end of the lane that Ning Jie'er mentioned was.

The old woman whose eyes were rolling around when she was selling fish yesterday was still pestering her to taste the fish.

It was the first time Pei Jianing saw her fourth sister-in-law so angry, and she even took a kitchen knife to help her vent her anger. She was stunned.

Before Xu Qinyu reached the gate, Pei Weixuan grabbed her and said, "Yu Niang, you don't have to go. Wait for her to come."

Xu Qinyu paused holding the kitchen knife, and thought for a moment. She knew that the old woman had come to her house today for two purposes. One was that she wanted to eat for free and get back the eight cents she spent yesterday. The second reason was that she must have envied the delicious fish she sold and the money she could make. She was thinking about the recipe for cooking fish, so she deliberately came to cause trouble when the adults were not at home, just to look through her kitchen. She guessed that when she cooked fish, the old woman Luo would definitely show up.

It is indeed not a good idea to go to her house now. What if there are strong men at home? I won’t be able to defeat them if I go to her house.

Even if my husband followed them and beat them up, the government would just think that they were causing trouble.

It would be better to wait for Mrs. Luo to come over.

Xu Qinyu turned around to comfort Pei Jianing, "Don't be afraid, Sister Ning, Sister Four will help you vent your anger in a while."

In fact, Pei Jianing no longer felt anything at this moment. For some reason, when she saw that her fourth sister-in-law was protecting her so much, she was not angry anymore and felt a little warm in her heart.

Xu Qinyu could only put aside Mrs. Luo's affairs for the time being and start processing the fish she had bought.

Pei Jianing hesitated for a moment, then took the initiative to help his sister-in-law move the two basins of herring to the well, and began to help scrape the fish scales.

Xu Qinyu couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled. It was great that Ning Jie'er was also growing up slowly.

When I first entered the house, the gate was open. Xu Qinyu didn't allow the gate to be closed, so it was left wide open.

She was very skillful in killing fish. She scraped the scales off seven or eight fish. Ning Jie'er only scraped the scales off one fish, while her cheap husband was also quite good and scraped the scales off three fish.

She was also the one who cut open the fish's stomach, because she was afraid that the two of them would rupture the fish's gallbladder. If the bitter gallbladder in the fish's stomach was ruptured, the bile would seep into the fish's head. Then, no matter how you removed the fishy smell or stewed the fish, it would still taste bitter and not good.

And there was only one kitchen knife, so she had to do it.

In fact, chefs are very particular about their kitchen knives. She has dozens of kitchen knives, all of which are custom-made.

But now the conditions are no longer such, she can still cut flowers with just a kitchen knife.

The fish was quickly prepared, and as usual, it was marinated with salt, ginger slices and a little Huadiao wine to remove the fishy smell.

When the fish was almost marinated, Xu Qinyu started to stew it.

This time she also took the spices out of the cupboard and placed them on the chopping board.

After a while, the fragrance spread from the kitchen, and the whole alley was filled with the aroma of stewed fish.

Old Mrs. Luo at the end of the alley also smelled the fragrance and immediately ran to Pei's house following the scent.

When Old Lady Luo arrived at Pei's house and saw the gate was open, she was delighted and went straight into the yard.

Pei Jianing was playing in the snow with her two children in the yard. When she saw Old Lady Luo, her face turned cold, "How dare you, an old woman, come here?"

Old Mrs. Luo ignored the little girl and went straight to the kitchen.

When she entered the kitchen, she saw the fishmonger from yesterday busy at work. There was a pot of herring stewed in the pot, covered in sauce, and the house was filled with an enticing aroma.

There were five or six kinds of spices on the chopping board next to it, all of which she had seen in the cabinet in the morning.

Old Mrs. Luo was delighted, thinking that she had mastered the secret recipe of how the young lady cooked delicious fish. She also thought, no wonder the family cooked delicious food, it turned out that they added spices, and only then did they know that spices can be used for cooking. She came to ask for the eight cents today, but it was just an excuse, just to see if she could find the recipe of how the family cooked delicious fish.

If she knew how to cook fish, she would set up a stall, or sell the cooked fish to big restaurants. She definitely wouldn't sell it so cheaply. With such good taste, she would make a lot of money if she sold it at a higher price.

Now she thought she had gotten the young lady's secret recipe for cooking delicious fish, and she didn't want to let the young lady get away with the eight cents, so she planned to ask for it back soon.

But she never thought about how it would be possible to sell fish for only five or eight cents if these spices were used to cook it.

And these spices were indeed displayed to deceive old lady Luo.

The secret to Xu Qinyu's delicious braised herring is not the spices.

These spices are only used for saliva stew. The reason why she cooks delicious fish is mainly because she kills the fish and marinates it to remove the fishy smell, and also fries the fish well. Of course, the prepared sauce is also very important, but it only contains soy sauce, vinegar and a little star anise powder. Even if she uses star anise, it is very little. The fish she cooks has no fishy smell and retains the freshest taste of the fish.

Even if spices are used, they cannot be given casually. Otherwise, your mouth will be filled with the taste of spices, which will only make the food taste worse.

When Mrs. Luo saw the spices, she memorized them immediately and then yelled, "My dear, you said yesterday that if the fish you bought back was not tasty, you had to return the money. Your fish was not tasty. Everyone in my family said it was not tasty. You should return the money to me now."

Xu Qinyu held the kitchen knife and asked angrily, "Since Auntie said that the fish I cooked tasted bad, then it must be unpalatable. Auntie, give me the uneaten fish, and I will give you the eight cents."

Old Mrs. Luo was speechless. How could she have any fish?

Yesterday, we brought the pot of fish home and added some side dishes. My son and my husband kept saying it was delicious. Even she only took a few bites. Almost the whole fish went into the mouths of the old man and his son, while my daughter-in-law and two granddaughters didn't even taste a single bite.

Mrs. Luo immediately said, "The fish tasted bad, I threw it away to feed the stray dogs on the roadside."

Xu Qinyu was so angry that she laughed. This old woman was so shameless and talked nonsense!

She has been in the catering business for many years and has encountered many strange customers. She is quite adept at handling them. She doesn't care about such customers who are making trouble. "Okay, I can refund you the money."

"Then you should retreat quickly."

While they were talking here, the neighbors around could also hear Mrs. Luo's yelling.

When they smelled the fragrance, they knew that the girl next door had returned and was still making braised herring. She would definitely sell it to them in the evening. Naturally, they didn't want the girl to be bullied by old lady Luo, so when they heard old lady Luo's voice, they hurried over and greeted Pei Jianing in the yard before entering the kitchen.

As soon as we entered the kitchen, the aroma became stronger and the two neighbors didn't dare to look at the stove.

Chefs hate it most when others steal their skills. Such people can be reported to the authorities and arrested!

The two neighbors were a woman in her twenties and an old woman who looked similar to Mrs. Luo.

Seeing this, the two of them said angrily, "Old lady Luo, do you still have any shame?"

Mrs. Luo rolled her eyes at the two of them and said, "She herself said she was willing to return the money to me."

Both of them couldn't help but look at Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu twisted the kitchen knife and said, "Did you push my sister this morning? Apologize to my sister and I will return the money to you." She then called Ning Jie'er into the house.

Pei Jianing entered the room and glared at Old Lady Luo.

Old lady Luo curled her lips and said, "Sister, I was wrong this morning. I apologize to you now."

After saying that, he looked at Xu Qinyu with a grin. However, she didn't lose anything by just talking a few words. Instead, the recipe for cooking fish was seen by her. This young lady must not know what she lost.

Without saying a word, Xu Qinyu took out eight copper coins from her purse and threw them to the old woman. A few copper coins fell on the ground. Old woman Luo squatted down to pick them up, blew away the non-existent dust on them, and left happily.

When she left, the two neighboring women felt a little embarrassed.

The older woman looked apologetic and said, "I'm sorry, young lady. I should have told you when I saw Mrs. Luo buying fish from you yesterday. She is a generous person. But I didn't expect that you sold us such cheap and delicious fish, and she would dare to make trouble and eat for free." They really didn't expect that the young lady sold the fish to them at a low price because she was doing a good deed, but Mrs. Luo really had the audacity to ask for a refund on the pretext that the fish was not delicious.

Old Lady Luo was very famous in the alley. She had only one son and one daughter. She sold the daughter to the kiln a few years ago to help her son find a wife. However, the daughter had only been in the kiln for a few years before she couldn't bear it and hit her head against the wall and died.

This old woman used the money her daughter earned from selling her life to buy a wife for her son. The daughter-in-law was also a pitiful person, as she was sold by her parents' family.

After marrying into the Luo family, she gave birth to two daughters.

Old Mrs. Luo was very critical of her daughter-in-law, beating and scolding her all day long. She did the same to her two granddaughters.

The one who has a stutter in the family is only taking care of her son and her husband. When she bought the fish yesterday, her daughter-in-law and two granddaughters definitely didn't get to eat a single bite.

After hearing this, Xu Qinyu frowned and felt uncomfortable. Finally, she said, "Don't blame my aunt. No one thought she could do such a thing. But in the future, we will not sell any food to her."

The woman said, "Of course I can't sell it to her anymore."

Even so, the aunt did not dare to look at the stove, and said, "Young lady, remember to lock the courtyard door when you cook, and don't let others learn the recipe."

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Okay, thank you for the reminder, Auntie."

She had deliberately let Mrs. Luo see it. If Mrs. Luo wanted to sincerely apologize and not use the refund to steal the recipe, this matter could be forgotten. But if she had any bad intentions and wanted to make money with the recipe she saw, she would be the one who would be in trouble.

Xu Qinyu sent the two people out and continued to stew the fish.

Pei Jianing felt completely relieved after receiving Mrs. Luo's apology, and came over to thank Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu said gently, "I'm glad that Sister Ning is okay. In the future, Sister Ning, don't open the door to anyone at home."

After saying that, she still felt unsafe, so she said to Pei Weixuan, who was sitting by the stove and helping to watch the fire, "Fourth brother, I want to get a dog to guard the house. What do you think?"

Otherwise, all the adults in the family go out to work, leaving only three children at home. Ning Jie'er is only eleven or twelve years old, and is also a half-grown child. If there are really bad guys coming to the house, Ning Jie'er can do nothing but be bullied, and she can't protect the two younger children.

Pei Weixuan nodded, "Okay."

Xu Qinyu immediately added, "Fourth brother, remember to find the kind that can be raised to be fierce and big and know how to protect the master."

Big and fierce, able to protect its master.

"Okay, I'll go look for it." Pei Weixuan lowered his eyes and kept Yu Niang's request in mind.

Ning Jie'er always felt a little uneasy when listening to the conversation between her fourth brother and his wife. She remembered that when she was in the palace, everyone thought that her fourth brother was a loner and loved to raise some strange and ferocious pets, but those pets were very obedient and protective of their masters.

No way, it shouldn't be. This is not a palace, where can we find those ferocious things?

Ning Jie'er also felt more relieved, thinking that Fourth Brother would at most find Fourth Sister-in-law the offspring of a wolf and a dog, that is, a wolfdog. It is said that they can grow very large and are very protective of their owners.

Xu Qinyu quickly put aside the matter concerning Mrs. Luo and focused on stewing the fish.

She is most focused when she is cooking and never distracted by other things.

Pei Weixuan's eyes fell on Yu Niang's face. When she was cooking, her whole body seemed to be radiating brilliance and shining, making people unable to help but move their eyes to her.

…

The three pots of fish were quickly cooked. They were placed on a cart, and Xu Qinyu pushed the cart and started selling it in the alley.

When the dozen or so households in Guihua Lane heard the young lady's voice, they spontaneously came out with their pots and money. When they saw Xu Qinyu, they called her "young lady" with smiles on their faces. Some women even brought their children out. The children also held on to their parents' clothes, hiding behind the adults and showing half of their faces to Xu Qinyu, just like a cat hiding in the dark and secretly watching people.

There were also some children around eight or nine years old, who smiled shyly at Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu also smiled at the children.

The three pots of fish sold very quickly, and all of them were bought by people in Guihua Lane.

The door of the old woman Naluo was closed and she didn't come out to buy fish.

The two families next door to Xu Qinyu took the opportunity to tell everyone what Mrs. Luo had done in the afternoon while their neighbors were buying fish.

The people in the alley were very angry and scolded Old Lady Luo. Finally, they said to Xu Qinyu, "If you are busy during the day, the children can come to our house. We have two children at home, and it's nice to play together. If the children don't want to come, if there is something at home, let the children shout a few times. We can hear it and will definitely go to help immediately."

Xu Qinyu naturally agreed and thanked him.

After selling the fish, Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan returned home.

This time, Wen still waited until dusk before returning home, and he also earned thirty coins that day.

Xu Qinyu also told Wen what happened today.

When Mrs. Wen heard that her daughter was almost bullied, she felt so distressed that she decided not to go to her employer to wash clothes tomorrow and stay at home to look after the children.

Pei Jianing was no longer afraid, but she knew that her fourth sister-in-law loved her mother and didn't want her mother to go out and wash clothes for others, so she didn't say anything, which allowed her mother to stay at home.

…

Old Mrs. Luo took the eight cents and went home. She was very happy. But when she saw her daughter-in-law and her two granddaughters working, her face immediately fell and she cursed, "You damned bastard, what are you doing again? I see you are upset. Go to the back."

Even though Lin was scolded by her mother-in-law, she just lowered her head and said nothing. She got up and went into the kitchen to light the fire and cook.

She gave birth to two daughters, one eight years old and the other six years old. She injured herself when giving birth to the youngest daughter and has not been pregnant in the past few years. Her mother-in-law disliked her more and more and would beat and scold her at any time.

Old Mrs. Luo was cursing and swearing. When she saw her daughter-in-law enter the kitchen, her two little granddaughters were trembling with fear. She rolled her eyes at them and called them over to massage her shoulders and legs.

Her two granddaughters are only eight and four years old. She plans to raise them so that they can be married off and earn money when they grow up. If she can't get a dowry, she might as well sell them to a kiln.

When I get the money in the future, I can let my son divorce this unprotected wife and find him a wife to have a son.

The daughter-in-law is busy cooking in the kitchen.

Soon, her husband and son also came back from outside.

Mrs. Luo's son is a peddler. The old man drives a donkey cart around the city all day long to see if anyone needs a cart.

The weather has been cold recently, and their business has plummeted. They only earn twenty dollars a day. Fortunately, their business was good before, and the family has some savings, which is enough for their living.

As soon as Mr. Luo entered the house, he said to his son, "The alley is full of the smell of fish. Let's put some bean sprouts and tofu in it. We've had enough radish and cabbage."

Then he called out to Old Lady Luo, "Old Lady, I told you this morning to remember to buy fish this afternoon. Did you buy it? I can smell the fragrance all over the alley, and smoke is rising from every household. The fish cooked by that young lady is really delicious. Thanks to the fact that we are neighbors in the alley, we can get a bargain."

Old Mrs. Luo came out and said happily to Old Man Luo and his son, "Old man, son, you don't know, I learned the recipe of cooking fish from that young lady, so I didn't buy any fish today, and I even got back the money I used to buy fish yesterday. Don't worry, I will go out to buy fish without spices tomorrow, and come back to cook it for you. If it tastes good, we can also open a stall and sell it in the east and west of the city. We can sell a fish for dozens or even hundreds of coins, wouldn't we make a fortune?"

"What did you say?" Luo thought he had misheard. "How did you learn the recipe? Are they willing to teach you?"

Old Mrs. Luo naturally did not say that she had gone to someone else's house to act like a scoundrel. She only said, "I saw this when I went to the young lady's house this afternoon. Don't worry, old man. Let's just make do with it tonight and have some boiled tofu."

She thought that Miss Xu not only used those spices to stew fish, but also used them to boil pork offal to make meat-filled steamed buns, which sold for eight cents each. When she learned how to make them, she would start selling them too.

She was going to buy some spices and take the fish and pigs out to try them out.

Old Man Luo and his son frowned but didn't say much. It would be great if they really had the recipe. They could cook it at home and also sell it for a lot of money.

When I make a lot of money from selling it, I will move into a bigger house and never live in this shabby house again.

Lin, who was in the kitchen, heard it with a mocking look in her eyes. She knew exactly how her mother-in-law went to other people's homes to make trouble at noon and in the afternoon. She knew that the old woman must have deliberately gone to other people's homes to peek under the pretext of returning the money.

The next day, Xu Qinyu continued to set up a stall at the pier.

This time she ordered a lot of fatty intestines, almost enough for one hundred and ten meat buns.

In the morning, Mr. Xia bought seven of them, Shao Ge'er had one, and we ate six ourselves, so there were more than ninety left, which should be enough to sell.

When they arrived at the dock, the roujiamo were selling very quickly. Even the guys on another merchant ship with a big "Shen" on it couldn't resist the smell and wanted to buy some to try. However, there was a long line in front of the stall and each person bought three or four. By the time it was their turn, they were sold out. So these Shen guys went to negotiate with the guys on the other merchant ship and shamelessly wanted to buy one to try.

Who would have thought that when these people heard that they wanted to buy the steamed buns they had in their hands, they immediately ran onto the boat, holding their meat buns.

Seeing that they were unwilling to sell one, the Shen family employee thought that it would be okay to just have a taste, so he shamelessly went to negotiate with the buyers whether he could let them have a taste.

As a result, these people still reacted the same way and ran away while covering their meat buns.

What a joke! The young lady only sold twice as much as yesterday, which was barely enough for the people on the merchant ship. If she gave the Shen family's merchant ship a chance to let them know how delicious the meat buns were, wouldn't she be competing with them? The young lady also said that the more than 90 meat buns today were the limit, and she couldn't make more, let alone let others taste them.

However, the more they didn't give the people on the Shen family merchant ship to eat, the more curious they became, and the more they could not resist the fragrance. They all planned to get up early tomorrow and run to line up early!

I still don’t believe that I can’t outnumber the people on these Korean merchant ships!

Today we closed the stall early again.

Xu Qinyu closed the stall, bought some vegetables and went back. She didn't know that the old woman from the Luo family also went to buy some fish and offal today, and then went to the medicine shop to buy some spices.

Although those are spices, they are also medicinal herbs and are generally sold in drugstores.

Mrs. Luo did not dare to buy too many spices at once. She bought a little bit of each. However, she still spent almost one or two silver coins, which made her feel bad. But when she thought about making a lot of money in the future, she felt very proud.

In order to show off, she waited until her son and the old man came back in the evening before starting to prepare dinner.

She can cook, but her skills are very average and the food is tasteless.

In order to make it taste better this time, I added more lard, added a pot of water, threw all the ingredients into the pot, added spices, ginger, soy sauce and salt, and started cooking.

She bought five fishes at once and stewed them in one pot, because she saw Miss Xu stewing them in the same way.

Stewing fish in a home-made iron pot or stewing pork offal on a small stove is similar to stewing fish.

After she bought the fat intestines, she suppressed her disgust and washed them twice with clean water, then threw them into the casserole and started cooking.

At this time, other families in Guihua Lane had already eaten the fish stewed by Miss Xu.

I don't know why, but the alley is always filled with a very unpleasant, fishy and strange medicinal smell.

Someone couldn't help but ask, "What's that smell? It's too bad. Is it medicine?"

But even if you boil medicine, it only smells like medicine, unlike this smell which has a fishy stench and makes your stomach churn.

As for the Luo family, both Old Man Luo and Luo Dagen looked unhappy. Old Man Luo couldn't help but scolded, "Old woman, did you read the recipe correctly? Did the young lady really cook the fish and pork offal like this? Why is it so smelly? When she cooked it, the whole alley was filled with the aroma of meat."

Mrs. Luo looked embarrassed. "Maybe it smells bad when it's being cooked, but tastes good after it's done. Let's try it when it's done."

Old Man Luo had a gloomy face and said nothing.

When the pot starts to gurgle and the sauce starts to collect, the smell becomes even worse.

Old Man Luo’s face turned even darker.

Finally, the juice in the pot was almost dried up. Old Mrs. Luo couldn't wait to lift the lid of the pot, but the smell became even stronger. She was the first to be hit. She couldn't help but vomit because of the smoky fish in the pot. At this moment, Old Mrs. Luo finally realized that the fish she cooked was not right. When she picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and tasted it, her face turned green.

This fish tastes bitter and fishy, ​​and has a hint of medicinal flavor. It feels extremely uncomfortable when you put it in your mouth.

It was much worse than what she usually cooked.

When Old Man Luo saw that the old woman's face was not right, he also walked over, took a bite of the food with chopsticks, chewed it twice, and spat it on the ground. He punched the old woman in the face, "Is this what you said about learning the recipe and making it yourself? You can sell it to the wine shop and make a lot of money? You taste what this tastes like, if you take it out to feed the stray dogs, I'm afraid even the stray dogs won't eat it! You're wasting my one or two taels of silver in vain. Do you know how long it would take Da Gen and I to run for one or two taels of silver?"

Old Mrs. Luo was punched in the eye. She screamed and trembled, saying, "No, isn't there a pot of pork in the water? Tell me, maybe..."

Without waiting for her to finish, Old Man Luo walked to the stove and opened the lid. He felt that the smell was even stronger than the fish in the pot. He suppressed his disgust and took out a piece of large intestine, cut a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. This time he couldn't hold it back and was vomited by the smell.

Old Mrs. Luo was completely dumbfounded.

Old Man Luo couldn't stand it anymore and beat up Old Lady Luo.

Old Mrs. Luo cried and shouted, "Old man, please stop beating me. I will go talk to that young lady and ask her to pay me back the money."

"You idiot!" Old Man Luo scolded, "You want to go to jail, don't you? How did you get this recipe? You just peeked at other people's recipes!"

Old Mrs. Luo was completely speechless. Yes, on what basis could she ask for the silver? What if the other party reported her to the authorities? How could she tell the officers that she had secretly looked at the other party's recipe and ended up learning it poorly? Stealing someone's skills would result in jail.

The reason why she was able to get back the eight cents she spent on the fish was because the young lady promised it herself. It was not the young lady's promise that she secretly learned the recipe.

Old Mrs. Luo was extremely depressed.

"Oh." Luo Dagen sighed, "Does that mean we will never be able to eat such delicious fish again?"

Mrs. Luo covered her swollen eyes and said, "Don't panic, son. At worst, I can ask your wife to buy fish from Miss Xu tomorrow. I know I was wrong. I will go and apologize to Miss Xu when my eyes get better."

She was thinking that Miss Xu looked soft, so she went to apologize and smooth things over. After the two families had a good relationship, she would ask her how the braised herring and salted large intestine were made.

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The Pei family had already finished their evening meal, and Xu Qinyu was just preparing salted intestines. The sooner she finished, the sooner she could rest.

As soon as I put the large intestine into the brine pot, I smelled this unpleasant odor.

Xu Qinyu had a strange look on her face. She probably guessed what was going on. The old woman from the Luo family must have seen the spices she placed on the stove, secretly memorized them, and then went to buy the spices and ingredients. She didn't know how to cook them, so she thought it was just like cooking an ordinary dish, so she threw everything into the pot and cooked it. She didn't clean the fish and fatty intestines thoroughly, and added the wrong spice formula proportions, so the taste turned out to be like this.

If she were to say, this old woman deserved it. How could there be such a weird person!

Fortunately, the other neighbors are very nice and easy to get along with. Today, a few families were afraid that Old Lady Luo would come to their house to cause trouble, so they went out to check a few times. However, Wen was at home today, and she was also worried that her daughter, son, and granddaughter were being bullied at home.

Pei Weixuan sat by the stove, watching the fire. He smelled the unpleasant odor with a calm expression.

Fortunately, after a while, Yu Niang started to simmer pork intestines, and the whole kitchen was filled with the aroma of meat again.

Smelling the familiar aroma of meat, every household in Guihua Lane finally calmed down and fell asleep with the fragrance of halogenated pork intestines.

Early the next morning, Xu Qinyu went to the dock to set up her stall.

Before she even got to the stall, she saw the long queues that formed where the stalls were set up these days.

It turned out that another merchant ship had not been able to buy roujiamo for two days in a row, so it came down early today to queue up.

Most of the guys on these merchant ships are strong and hardy in their twenties and thirties. They can eat a lot and are full of energy. They seem to be a bit competitive while queuing, pushing and shoving each other.

But when they saw Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan, they immediately stopped and started shouting, "Young lady, you are finally here."

The people in the queue behind also started to shout, "Young lady, can we have some meat buns today?"

Xu Qinyu looked at the long line and had no choice but to say, "There are still only about a hundred roujiamo (Chinese steamed buns) available today, but each person can only buy two today." This way everyone could basically buy one.

There was a wail from the front of the team, and those at the back applauded.

Today, all the roujiamo were sold out in less than half an hour.

The officers and soldiers on the official ships also figured out something. They thought the people on the merchant ships had never eaten good food before, and they regarded pig offal as good food. But after eating for a few days, why didn't they have enough? They looked like they were enjoying it while eating.

But is this thing really delicious? It is indeed very fragrant.

But before, they said that even dogs wouldn't eat pig offal, and they couldn't have the audacity to queue up with the people on these merchant ships.

In the afternoon, Xu Qinyu was also selling braised fish in Guihua Lane at about the same time.

Every household was familiar with Zhang Cheng, and as soon as the young lady called, they would come out with a basin.

Xu Qinyu only makes a dozen braised fish every day. She has no plans to increase the amount of braised fish for the time being because the pot is not big enough and she has to cook it in three pots each time. If she increases the amount, she will be too tired.

As soon as Xu Qinyu shouted twice, people from every household opened their courtyard doors and came out holding basins.

When Xu Qinyu was almost done and most of the fish had been sold, a thin woman with a sallow complexion stammered, "Young lady, I also want a braised herring for eight cents."