Bai Yu naturally didn't understand what Xu Qinyu said. He just looked up and continued to look at Xu Qinyu expectantly, hoping that she could eat the prey on the ground. This was the prey he had caught after going through untold hardships and finally learning how to hunt, so he wanted to bring it back for her to eat.

It has been raised by her since it was young. In its eyes, even though this creature looks different from itself, it is regarded as its mother and the one closest to it.

But one day, it was suddenly thrown back into the mountains. It was a little overwhelmed and initially just wanted to go back to find them.

Later, it thought that it was because it was too weak and could not hunt that it was abandoned and thrown back to the mountains. Only cubs who were too weak and could not hunt would be abandoned by their mothers. It began to learn to hunt. At first, it could not catch anything. Sometimes it could only eat some insects on the trees and was often hungry. Later, it slowly caught some mice. Later, the prey it caught became bigger and bigger, and it could catch some pheasants.

In fact, it had sneaked back to town before, and after several failures, it finally found its way home.

But it can't catch big prey, so it won't be easy to come back.

When it could catch pheasants skillfully, it would happily return home with the prey. It would be very happy to see the person it thought of as its 'mother'. It would climb onto the bed and sleep with her, waiting happily for her to wake up so that it could give her the prey it had caught to eat.

But now that my mother is pointing at it, it doesn't quite understand what it means.

But in the past, when my mother was angry, she would point at it and shout, "Xu Baiyu."

Bai Yu shuddered, and a hint of grievance appeared in his pair of dark red eyes.

When Xu Qinyu saw it like this, the anger in her heart suddenly dissipated. Every time it looked like this, it was when it was bullied by Heiyu.

Whenever it was bullied by Black Jade in the past, it would slither up to her side and look at it with this expression. Although it seemed ridiculous to see the expression in an animal's eyes, she did see the grievance in White Jade's eyes.

Xu Qinyu found that although she was afraid of snakes, she did not seem to be afraid of Baiyu.

She probably figured it out at this moment. She thought releasing Baiyu was good for it. Of course, she was also a little afraid that Baiyu would grow bigger and scare the people in the town. But in fact, her behavior was probably the same as abandoning a pet. Or in Baiyu's eyes, this was also a "mother" abandoning her child. The harm to Baiyu was self-evident.

Thinking of this, Xu Qinyu squatted down and touched the smooth snake head.

Bai Yu straightened up and rubbed her palm.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Forget it. Since you want to stay here, I won't send you back to the mountain in the future."

From now on, unless Bai Yu wants to leave and go back to the mountains, she will not force her.

At worst, I can earn more money and move into a big house with five courtyards as soon as possible. It would be best if it has a large backyard garden. I can let Baiyu stay in the house, and there is also the garden for it to move around, so it won't scare others easily.

According to Bai Yu's current growth rate, it will take at least one or two years for her to grow into a three or four meter long python. In one or two years, she should be able to buy a big house!

For Bai Yu, she also has to work hard to make money.

Finally, Xu Qinyu pointed at the miserable pheasant on the ground and told Baiyu that they didn't need it to hunt it and feed it to them.

Baiyu still didn't understand. At this moment, Moyu suddenly ran in from outside. When he saw Baiyu, he let out a happy roar and rushed towards Baiyu. He first put his two front legs on Baiyu's body, and then rode over with his two hind legs. The whole leopard lay on Baiyu, trying to hold him with his mouth, but found that he couldn't hold him.

When Baiyu saw Moyu riding on him, he immediately rolled over and wrapped his body around Moyu.

The two made such a noise for a while, and Baiyu let go of Moyu.

Mo Yu licked Bai Yu, but probably because it didn't taste good or wasn't furry enough, he stopped licking it. Suddenly, he smelled some game nearby, so he ran over and sniffed the pheasant that Bai Yu had spit out, and then showed a look of disgust.

Bai Yu understood Mo Yu's disgust.

Bai Yu suddenly understood what Xu Qinyu meant, and looked at Xu Qin with a bit of dejection.

Xu Qinyu laughed and ignored them. She went over and put the pheasant in a sack. It was not a good idea to just throw it on the road. It would be fine if it was eaten by wild dogs, but she was afraid that it would be picked up and eaten by someone on the road. After all, it was vomited out from a snake's belly, and she was also afraid that passers-by would get into trouble if they ate it.

Judging from Baiyu's appearance, he will not swallow back the prey he has spit out. When Chengge comes to catch eels outside the town, he can just throw the pheasant outside the town and bury it.

Just as I was thinking about it, Brother Cheng came with Brother Gong.

The two brothers were not scared when they saw Baiyu in the yard, but were very excited.

"Fourth sister-in-law, there is a white snake!" He said this and wanted to catch it.

Xu Qinyu said: "This is the white snake I raised before the New Year. It's called Baiyu. After the New Year, I thought it would grow bigger and bigger, and I didn't want it to scare others, so I released it back into the forest. I didn't expect that after a month and a half, it would come back and bring me prey." She pointed to the bag next to her.

Wen Shuncheng came over and took a look at the things in the bag, revealing an indescribable expression.

But I couldn't help but say: "This snake is quite spiritual."

When have you ever seen a snake feeding its owner?

Xu Qinyu couldn't help but nodded.

Snakes are cold-blooded animals. They will not get close to humans, let alone their owners.

Baiyu was indeed different from other snakes, so Xu Qinyu knew that if she adopted it and let it grow up, it would never attack people at will in the future.

Xu Qinyu asked Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er to take the things in the bag and dig a hole to bury them when they went out of town.

When the two men left, they took the pheasant away.

After a while, the family members came back one after another. Wen, Ning Jie'er and their two children were also surprised to learn that Bai Yu had returned.

Ning Jieer said, "These wild beasts that Fourth Brother brought back seem to be very smart. They are different from ordinary wild beasts and are easy to keep. Since they understand human nature, they will not attack people at will."

Xu Qinyu nodded.

Only Gui had never seen Baiyu before and was frightened. She was a little afraid of snakes, but knowing that Baiyu was human, she had nothing to be afraid of.

Xu Qinyu put the fat intestines on the table and started to prepare breakfast.

When breakfast was almost ready, Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er came back with a basket of eels. The eels today were quite fat.

Looking at the plump eels, Xu Qinyu thought that she hadn't eaten eels for more than half a month, so she asked Cheng Ge'er to keep the eels and eat them stewed in the evening. Eating them stewed would preserve their original flavor, without the earthy smell of the eels, and the bones would be crispy and the meat would be tender.

Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er also ordered some stuffed eels. They hadn't eaten them for a long time. The eels made by Fourth Sister-in-law were so delicious that they could not forget them.

Cheng Ge'er poured the eels into a wooden basin beside him to keep them. Xu Qinyu went over to take a look and found several snails. She asked in surprise, "Aren't these snails?"

Because no one had ever eaten it, and there was no record of snail dishes in her original memory, she didn't know if there was such a thing here.

Cheng Ge'er asked, "Is Sister-in-law Four talking about snails?"

Can this thing be eaten? After all, anything that Fourth Sister-in-law opens her mouth to eat must be edible.

Xu Qinyu nodded, "Yes, it's snails, they are edible, and there are many ways to cook them. When Cheng Ge'er is free in the future, you can go to the pond or the field to get some, and I'll cook them for you."

Snails can be braised, stir-fried, or cooked spicy. They can also be added to chicken and olive soup. There are also snail meat stir-fried with leeks and snail meat on toothpicks. Snails are also one of the main ingredients of snail noodles.

People who love snail noodles love it to death, while people who don’t like it will stay away from it.

Xu Qinyu is the type of person who likes to eat everything, including snail noodles, durian, stinky tofu, and even coriander and houttuynia cordata.

She is not picky about food and all ingredients look delicious to her.

In short, no matter which ingredient, she has at least dozens of ways to eat it in her mind.

Cheng Ge'er immediately responded with a "yes".

After breakfast, Cheng Ge'er delivered the salted pig intestines to Tian the butcher, while Xu Qinyu took the deed to find Yao Saozi. The two agreed to meet in the shop at the beginning of the day to sign the deed.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Yao was already waiting in the shop. After seeing Xu Qinyu, she took the contract and read it carefully.

She did not think the above paperwork was excessive, but rather unnecessary. Why would Miss Xu worry that she would raise the rent arbitrarily? She was thinking that if the shop could not be rented out, should she reduce the rent by a few taels of silver?

Does Miss Xu really think that she can make a ton of money by opening a restaurant, to the point of making others jealous?

This Miss Xu is quite confident in her cooking skills.

But she is also an honest person. Even if Miss Xu makes a lot of money from running a restaurant, she will not be jealous of the rent increase. Everyone has their own fortune, and she never thinks of making money through crooked ways.

The conditions in the contract were not excessive, so Yao readily pressed her fingerprints on it.

Xu Qinyu also put her fingerprints on it.

The deed is made in duplicate, and both parties put their fingerprints on it. This way, the deed has legal effect and does not need to be stamped by the government. If either party regrets or violates the deed in the future, they can go to the government to sue with the copy of the deed in their hand, and the lawsuit will be successful.

These days, the laws may not be as comprehensive and reasonable as those in modern society, but the punishments are much heavier, and most people are unwilling to go to the yamen.

They both put the deed away, and Yao smiled and said, "If Miss Xu needs any help in the future, you can come to me."

Xu Qinyu nodded and paid fifty taels of rent to Yao.

Yao wrote a receipt and the two of them put their fingerprints on it. Xu Qinyu accepted the receipt and felt relieved.

Although this is not the first time I’ve opened a store, the nervousness and joy in my heart are self-evident.

Yao handed the key to Xu Qinyu and left.

Xu Qinyu hadn't left yet. She had to see how much more stuff the restaurant needed to buy. She also needed to find a carpenter to make new tables, chairs and benches in the living room. The counter was very old and she was going to redo it as well. She also had to figure out the kitchen utensils in the back of the kitchen.

Xu Qinyu stayed in the restaurant, leaning over the counter and writing down the things she wanted to buy.

There are also patterns for drawing tables, chairs, benches and counters, as carpenters will be needed to make the counters for the restaurant.

Xu Qinyu was writing and drawing with great concentration.

The female shopkeeper of the rouge and powder shop next door had already known that the young lady who came to ask her about the shop two days ago had rented the shop next door. When she came to take a look, she saw the young lady lying on the counter writing and drawing. She did not disturb her, but just shook her head and left.

Xu Qinyu wrote and painted for more than an hour. Seeing that she had to go back to cook the fish, she packed up her things and took them back to Guihua Lane with a sense of unfulfilled desire.

Cheng Ge'er is not able to cook fish by himself yet.

Xu Qinyu plans to try to get Cheng Ge'er to learn how to make braised fish balls and fish head stewed with tofu within this month.

Because decorating the restaurant, preparing food, and making a menu all take a lot of time, it will probably take more than a month before the restaurant can officially open.

As for the name of the restaurant, Xu Qinyu plans to use the name of her modern private restaurant.

Xu's Restaurant.

Even if it is turned into a large restaurant in the future, this Xu's Restaurant can still be used.

After returning home, Xu Qinyu cooked fish and Cheng Ge'er also helped.

After selling the fish and having dinner, Xu Qinyu lit the oil lamp and continued writing and painting.

If she designed tables, chairs and benches, the shop with three storefronts can accommodate nine tables.

There are two large round tables that can accommodate eight or nine people, six long tables for four people, and a square table for two people in the corner.

As for the counter, since it needed to be renovated, she also designed it. The counter is U-shaped and can be turned into a cabinet at the back. Drinks can be placed on the cabinet and the counter will be used for daily accounting. It doesn't need to be too big or too spacious. The counter is much smaller in size, which can make the living room look more spacious.

The name of the restaurant is Xu's Restaurant. Xu Qinyu also asked her family members for their opinions, and they all said it sounded grand and nice.

So the name of the restaurant was decided.

Xu Qinyu was busy until midnight before she went to bed.

For the next two days, she concentrated on writing and drawing.

After everything is drawn, it’s time to find a carpenter to do the work.

When making a cart before, Xia's sister-in-law introduced Xu Qinyu to a carpenter named Gao. Gao was a good carpenter, so Xu Qinyu continued to look for him.

Carpenter Gao told her that it would take about a month to make these tables, chairs, benches and counters.

Xu Qinyu nodded. "One month is enough. I also need to buy other things."

The floor of the restaurant is paved with blue bricks, so there is no need to replace them. The blue bricks are pretty good. It’s just that the windows are a bit worn out, so I will ask Carpenter Gao to help repair them and repaint them.

In addition, you have to buy kitchen utensils, among which various iron pots account for the bulk.

She went to the iron shop and ordered several iron pots of different specifications, as well as iron plates and flat pans.

After paying the rent, she still had 197 taels of silver left.

The tables, chairs, benches, counters, and window repairs would cost about thirty taels of silver.

Although the tables, chairs and benches she wanted were not made of more expensive wood, they were more expensive because they needed to be painted.

A painted tabletop is less likely to be penetrated by grease from food, otherwise the tabletop will remain greasy no matter how much you wipe it.

The paints in this era were not like the mixed paints of today. They were all pure natural and pollution-free. They also required primer, sanding, and various tedious processes, so the painting process was quite expensive.

Carpentry: thirty taels.

The iron pots also cost about twenty taels.

In this way, he spent a year's shop rent, and had more than 140 taels left.

Even the various bowls and plates were custom-made by her at new porcelain kilns, and the patterns were also drawn by her.

Of course, it was impossible to expect colored porcelain, which was ridiculously expensive. Even ordinary white porcelain would cost about ten taels of silver.

All that’s left is to buy ingredients when the business is about to open.

Anyway, the money I have is enough.

Of course, if you open a restaurant, you have to hire waiters. Two are almost enough. The waiters not only serve customers, but also have to wash dishes.

As a shopkeeper, she is responsible for doing the accounting. On weekdays, Xu Qinyu must be in the kitchen cooking and has no time to take care of the front desk.

However, it would be a bit of a waste to hire a special shopkeeper. There are Wen and Ning Jie'er in the family. They don't make buns every day and have a lot of free time. So Xu Qinyu plans to ask Wen and Ning Jie'er about the shopkeeper who collects money and does the accounting. She will only hire someone if they don't want to be the shopkeeper.

When she returned in the afternoon, Xu Qinyu asked Wen and Ning Jie'er.

Mrs. Wen said that she could go to the restaurant to help with the accounting every day, and Ning Jie'er could just stay at home and make dumplings.

After all, the designs of these bags were usually thought out by Sister Ning, and she is more skillful.

Therefore, it would be better for Ning Jie'er to continue making dumplings in the future. She goes to her daughter-in-law's restaurant to help out because she is worried that someone will bully her daughter-in-law outside and she can lend a hand.

Xu Qinyu naturally felt relieved when she saw that Wen was willing to help out in the restaurant.

All that was left was to find some waiters, and she planned to recruit women between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

Since the chef and the cashier are both women, all the waiters should be women as well, preferably those with hot tempers. Young girls are naturally not acceptable, for fear that they might get physical and violent.

It would definitely not be possible for her to be the only cook, so she would have to hire a junior chef. She could also teach the junior chef how to cook dishes that he didn’t know how to cook.

After all, if Cheng Ge'er wants to learn to cook, it will take another two years.

Gong Ge'er doesn't like cooking. He is clumsy when helping Cheng Ge'er kill fish and has no talent for cooking.

Gongger is almost ten years old, but in Xu Qinyu's eyes, he is still a child.

So the waiter had no plan to let Gong Ge'er come. Of course, Gong Ge'er had nothing to do on weekdays, so he would definitely stay in the restaurant and hang out with his brother.

Xu Qinyu wrote a recruitment notice and posted it at the gate of the yard so that diners who came to buy fish on weekdays could see it.

Most of the diners are residents from the nearby alleys, and many of their families are still poor.

Xu Qinyu paid him eight hundred coins a month.

The salary was already high, but they needed to wash dishes, so Xu Qinyu planned to hire three people temporarily. The requirements were clearly written on the website: women between the ages of 25 and 40, strong and sturdy, with a strong personality and the ability to endure hardships and work.

She hired waiters for eight hundred coins, and also gave them red envelopes during festivals, with all these things written on them.

Just earning eight hundred coins a month is attractive enough. Even the man at home may not be able to earn eight hundred coins a month outside.

So when the women in the nearby alleys found out, they all rushed to get this job.

Xu Qinyu was not in a hurry. In the end, she would only recruit three people and there was still a month left. She specifically wrote down the names, ages, and addresses of the women who registered.

She plans to check out the character of the person or ask around with people nearby. Even if she is looking to hire an ordinary waiter, she hopes that the person she hires will not be top-notch, but will be down-to-earth and capable.

By the time all the fish balls were sold out, Xu Qinyuji's staff roster was almost ready. There were already thirty or forty women who had applied for the job in the past two days.

Just after calling Cheng Ge'er to take over the stall at the door, Xu Qinyu saw Lin coming over with her lips pursed.

Lin is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Luo, who ate Xu Qinyu's red braised fish and said it was unpalatable and insisted on returning the money. She lives at the end of Guihua Lane.

The old lady Na Luo not only wanted to eat for free, she also wanted to steal Xu Qinyu's recipe. In the end, she was tricked by Xu Qinyu and not only did she not learn the recipe, she also lost some money.

Afterwards, Old Lady Luo tried to play the good cop and negotiate peace, but was scared away by Xu Qinyu with a kitchen knife. After that, Old Lady Luo never dared to cause trouble in front of Xu Qinyu again.

Of course, after a few months, Xu Qinyu never sold any fish to Mrs. Luo's family again.

Xu Qinyu glanced at Lin.

Lin mustered up the courage to say, "Ms. Xu, I also want to work as a waiter in your restaurant. Please give me a chance."

"Sorry." Xu Qinyu directly rejected Lin.

There was no way she could give Lin hope.

It's not like you should write down Lin's name now and then delete it later.

Because just doing this would make Mrs. Luo feel that there was an opportunity, and she didn't want to get herself into such trouble.

If Lin could divorce, Xu Qinyu would be willing to help her and let her work in the restaurant in the future, but if she couldn't even take the first step, she couldn't help her.

If she could just take the first step, her life would be completely different.

There will never be a more miserable life than staying in the Luo family.

Sure enough, when Lin heard these two words, his face turned pale.

She pinched her palm and murmured, "I, I understand. Please trouble Mr. Xu."

Xu Qinyu sighed.

There was still some time before Xu Ji Restaurant opened, and Xu Qinyu had nothing else to do, so she just focused on her business of selling salami, sausage and fish.

The halogen sausages sold very well at Mrs. Tian's stall. There were queues every day to buy them, and they were gone once they were sold out. But when a restaurant is opened in the future, the halogen sausages can be handed over to Cheng Ge'er, and he can keep an eye on the halogen sausages and fish. Then we can supply more halogen sausages to Mrs. Tian's stall.

Xia's sister-in-law knew that her restaurant was going to be renovated, so she specially lent her Zhuzi and asked Zhuzi to watch over the work in the restaurant every day.

So Xu Qinyu would go to the restaurant every few days to check on the progress.

The pillars were also monitored very attentively.

Xu Qinyu took the time to pickle a lot of vegetables and even a jar of spicy cabbage.

Kimchi has a short shelf life. After fermenting for fifteen days, the restaurant will have just opened, and the kimchi can be used as a free side dish before serving the meal.

…

When Lin returned from Miss Xu's house that day, she saw her mother-in-law looking at her expectantly, "What do you think? Will that little bitch let you work in her restaurant?"

When Lin heard her calling Miss Xu a little bitch, she raised her head and said with a wooden face, "Miss Xu is not a little bitch, she is very powerful." She had never seen such a powerful young lady. She wished she could be as powerful as Miss Xu, not afraid of anyone, and able to scare away such an old bitch with a kitchen knife.

Mrs. Luo thought she had misheard and glared at him, "You, what did you just say?"

"I say, Miss Xu is not a bitch, you are. You old bitch are really making trouble!"

Lin didn't know why, she had never had such courage before, but at this moment her mind was full of the image of Miss Xu holding a kitchen knife and chopping past her mother-in-law's ear.

She was really cornered by Old Lady Luo.

On weekdays, she went out to help with the washing of human pulp and laundry, earning about 200 coins a month, but all of it was taken away by her mother-in-law.

Even so, Mrs. Luo still felt that the three of them, mother and daughter, were eating and drinking for free at the Luo family, and she often humiliated and beat them.

This time, when Mrs. Luo learned that Miss Xu was going to open a restaurant, she cursed Miss Xu's ancestors for eighteen generations at home. In the end, she asked her to go to Miss Xu's house to do some work. She would not go there on normal days, but she went because she needed money so much.

Because last night, she heard the whispering between Old Lady Luo and her husband Luo Dagen.