Wei's words are all sincere. As long as Zhizhi can eat well and lose weight, and keep her body healthy, she is willing to give anything.

After Wei finished speaking, she could not help but say, "If Miss Xu is willing, I can give Miss Xu twenty taels of silver every month, and Miss Xu does not have to run errands herself. After preparing breakfast and evening meals every day, I can call the maid or servant at home to take them, and it will not interfere with Miss Xu's other things."

"Madam, you don't have to pay so much every month." Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Madam, you don't know that my restaurant in West City will open in a few days. Then Miss Yang can come directly for breakfast and dinner. I will adjust the food Miss Yang ordered and settle the bill according to the price on the wooden stick."

She used to run her own restaurant and prepared fat-reduced meals for others. Most of them were customized and were very popular.

It is difficult to make a fat-reduced meal taste good. If the fat-reduced meal tastes bad, people will not want to eat it at all. Naturally, they will want to continue drinking milk tea and eating hot pot and barbecue. Therefore, the taste of the fat-reduced meal is also very important.

Even if it is a reduced-fat meal, she can still make it taste amazing.

Wei smiled and said, "Then I wish you a prosperous restaurant business and lots of money. However, Miss Xu's business will only last for half a month, and she is busy in the early stages of opening. Even if the business is opened, the breakfast and evening meals prepared by Miss Xu will definitely be different from those prepared by Zhizhi, which will be even more troublesome. So please don't refuse Miss Xu. I will pay her twenty taels a month, and she will prepare Zhizhi's breakfast and evening meals in the future."

She thought that if she paid more money, the girl would be more attentive.

Otherwise, once the restaurant is open and things get busy, it will be very troublesome to prepare breakfast and dinner for Zhizhi alone. What if the young lady finds it troublesome and doesn't want to continue cooking for Zhizhi?

Xu Qinyu could earn twenty taels of silver just by cooking breakfast and dinner for a month. Of course, she would not be stingy with money. "In that case, I will not refuse. Madam, please rest assured. I promise that Miss Yang will eat different food every day. She may lose weight more slowly, but it will not harm her body and she will be full."

This is all Wei wanted.

Since everyone was willing to pay twenty taels of silver a month, Xu Qinyu would naturally not be stingy and leave breakfast for Wei and Yang Zhizhi at home.

For breakfast, the family had custard buns, milk steamed buns, and some bean porridge. They added a proper amount of polished rice to the bean porridge, which made it taste better. They also had some pickled side dishes that she had made. It was a simple breakfast.

Since Yang Zhizhi and Wei were staying at home for breakfast, and there were still some beans left from yesterday's soaking, Xu Qinyu took a casserole and added some water. She then grabbed a handful of glutinous rice, washed it, and put it in the casserole together with the beans to cook. After the porridge was cooked, she added some salt for seasoning and added the marinated fish fillets. The fish fillets were cut as thin as cicada wings and could be cooked by the temperature of the porridge alone. Finally, sprinkle with chopped green onions.

A simple dish of raw rolled fish congee is suitable for people who want to lose weight, because it contains some grains and no oil, so the taste is lighter and sweeter.

The fish porridge also has the soft, glutinous and fragrant taste of beans, which makes the taste richer.

The fish porridge was not enough, so Xu Qinyuqing stir-fried some spring bamboo shoots and fried two eggs with an egg skin, using only a few drops of oil.

Fried egg skin rolls filled with spring bamboo shoots become the most suitable egg skin roll pancake for fat reduction.

Yang Zhizhi and Wei sat in the main room, and Wen made two cups of tea for them.

While drinking tea, the two of them smelled the rich aroma of porridge and its delicious taste.

Donglai Ju also has meat porridge. I wonder what the fish porridge made by Miss Xu tastes like?

Because of Wei, today's breakfast will be served in the main hall.

The fish porridge was given to Yang Zhizhi and Wei, one bowl each, just to let Wei taste the fat-reduced meal that Yang Zhizhi was eating. Wei could eat the rest of the custard buns, steamed buns and pickled vegetables, but Yang Zhizhi definitely couldn't. However, seeing that her eyes were still on the custard buns, Xu Qinyu gave Yang Zhizhi another one.

Yang Zhizhi said happily: "Miss Xu, can I still eat this custard bun?"

She started thinking about it after eating at Yunlan's place.

Even if you want to lose weight, Xu Qinyu does not recommend giving up your favorite food, but it is okay to eat less.

For example, the custard buns are made entirely by hand, with no additives in them, just a little bit of sugar, so they are edible.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Eat it. There's not much left. One is still enough."

Yang Zhizhi took a bite happily and could taste the filling in one bite. It was sweet but not greasy, with a rich milky aroma. She couldn't help but squint her eyes while eating it, with a look of enjoyment on her face.

Seeing her daughter like this, Wei remembered that she had heard her daughter talk about custard buns more than a month ago, and had even gone to Qingfeng Bakery and Donglaiju to inquire about them. She couldn't help but pick up a custard bun and take a bite. As soon as she took a bite, she looked at Xu Qinyu in disbelief. The taste was really good, the filling was sweet and creamy, and the crust was fluffy and soft. The combination was sweet but not greasy, and had a strong milky flavor.

This was just the work of a little cook who was only fifteen or sixteen years old.

It’s really amazing.

She felt that if Miss Xu's restaurant was opened, the business would probably be very good in the future.

To be honest, the food is much more delicious than that in Donglaiju.

No wonder the old man smacked his lips when he mentioned the banquet he had at Xu Kongmu's house this morning.

After eating the custard buns, Wei had a bite of the fish fillet porridge. The fish fillet was tender and delicious, without any fishy smell. The porridge was also fragrant and rich. Because beans were added, there was the fragrance of the beans. The beans were very soft and glutinous, unlike the bean porridge cooked by the cook at home sometimes, where the beans were a bit hard. So she didn’t like bean rice or bean porridge very much. Unexpectedly, the fish fillet porridge with beans was very delicious.

Eating such delicious food can also help you lose weight, Wei thinks no one can refuse it.

The egg skin rolls are only for Yang Zhizhi.

The egg skin roll is also delicious, with a light taste. The aroma of egg and the crispness and freshness of bamboo shoots make the whole egg skin roll taste very clean.

After eating, Yang Zhizhi was about 80% full.

Xu Qinyu added: "Miss Yang can eat some fruit after every meal, such as pears, oranges and water chestnuts. At other times, you can drink more warm water, which will have a better weight loss effect."

In ancient times, only pears, oranges and water chestnuts were available at this time of year. Oranges and water chestnuts were relatively expensive and most people could not afford them. However, Yang Zhizhi's family must be quite wealthy, otherwise they would not have spent twenty taels a month on her weight loss program.

Yang Zhizhi nodded vigorously, "I don't need to worry about that."

After breakfast, Wei and Yang Zhizhi returned.

When Wei was leaving, she couldn't help but buy some custard buns and pickled vegetables with Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu makes less custard buns now, as they are all for her family to eat. She doesn’t make them often, only once every two or three days, for her family to eat and she sells some to the Xu and Xia families.

Because this custard bun is only the size of a fist and is more expensive than a meat bun, people in Guihua Lane are reluctant to eat it.

Custard buns are rarely made now, but once a restaurant is opened, custard buns and milk steamed buns will become the restaurant’s main breakfast items, and the price can be raised.

Moreover, Xu Qinyu was not worried about running out of milk, because Uncle He had found a new milk supplier for her.

That family was a large cattle-breeding family, raising cattle mainly for selling calves and mutton.

Although calves are expensive, they are good at plowing the land. Some wealthy businessmen or officials who have a lot of land will buy some cattle.

Even wealthy families who own a few acres of land would want to buy calves and grow farmland if they have money.

Therefore, his family basically has a constant supply of lactating buffaloes, and they always have quite a few of them, enough for the restaurant to make milk steamed buns, custard buns and milk tea.

However, she would have to find time to go there in two days and sign a contract with that family.

Because now it was Uncle He who helped her buy a bucket of milk and brought it over. She also asked Uncle He to ask whether the family was willing to sign a contract if they were to supply a few more buckets of milk every day and cooperate in the long term.

The calves had too much milk to drink and few people wanted to buy it, so naturally that family was willing to give it to them.

After Yang Zhizhi left, Xu Qinyu went to rent a carriage to prepare to go there.

Because that family lived in Shunxi Town, which was quite far from Yuanbao Town, it would take an hour to get there by an ordinary donkey or ox cart. She had to come back in the afternoon to cook fish, so she would not be able to make it in time. However, a horse carriage could get there in half an hour.

The rented carriage would be driven by a man, and Wen Shi was worried about Yu Niang going alone, so she went along as well.

After arriving in Shunxi Town, Xu Qinyu found the family according to the address given by Mr. He.

The family's surname is Wan. The elder in the family is still alive, and the buffalo business is done by two brothers in the family.

Xu Qinyu said that she was planning to open a restaurant and needed fresh milk for cooking every day, so she would buy five to ten buckets of milk from them every day in the next few days. A bucket of milk weighed about ten kilograms. She also said that if the business was good in the future, she might buy more. She was willing to pay twenty cents for a bucket of milk.

This milk cannot be sold on normal days, and no one wants it even for ten cents.

Now some people are willing to buy it for twenty coins a barrel, so ten barrels would cost two hundred coins, or six taels of silver a month.

Six taels of silver is not a small amount. The two brothers of the Wan family can each get three taels. Why not do it?

The premise for Xu Qinyu to give twenty cents was that she must be supplied with five to ten buckets of milk every day during the period when she opened the restaurant. Even if she wanted to increase the amount of milk, the price could not be raised, and it would remain the original price. Moreover, as long as she opened the restaurant, the price of milk would be twenty cents a bucket, and a bucket must be at least ten kilograms.

If the price was raised without reason or if the milk was not sold to her when it was available, she would have to be compensated twenty taels of silver.

The two brothers thought about it and signed the contract.

They thought that no one would buy it at ten cents a bucket, and this young lady was willing to buy it at twenty cents a bucket, so why would they raise the price or not sell it to her?

After signing the contract, Xu Qinyu told the two brothers that they would ask Uncle He or his family to pick up milk every day.

Naturally, she would pay Uncle He a few hundred coins a month for helping her fetch milk and delivering it to the restaurant.

Xu Qinyu put away the deed and returned to Guihua Lane with Wen.

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At dinner time in the evening, Xu Qinyu prepared steamed shredded eel for Yang Zhizhi, drizzled it with the sauce she made, mixed shredded radish with eggs into a paste, added a little salt and five-spice powder for seasoning, fried a shredded radish egg pancake with a little oil, and served it with a bowl of mixed-grain rice.

Wei came in person to get the evening meal, and also brought two small gold ingots for Xu Qinyu, which amounted to exactly twenty taels of silver.

Wei didn't bring any money in the morning, so he only had one piece of money delivered to him now.

After receiving the silver, Xu Qinyu began to prepare breakfast and evening meals for Yang Zhizhi every day. After that, a maid from the Yang family named Chunhong would come in a carriage to get the food boxes.

In the days that followed, Xu Yunlan and Yang Zhizhi would come to play with Xu Qinyu from time to time.

With Cheng Ge'er, Xu Qinyu could rest for two hours every day. In her free time, she could sit in the yard and chat with the two of them. They talked about the gossips and gossips of the parents in the east and west streets. Xu Qinyu listened with great interest, just like she was listening to gossip about celebrities.

If she was busy, Xu Yunlan and Yang Zhizhi would sit in the yard and play with Heiyu.

Less than half a month later, Yang Zhizhi had lost seven pounds.

Yang Zhizhi didn't weigh herself every day. It was a bit troublesome to weigh herself, so she planned to weigh herself once every half a month.

As the opening day of the restaurant was getting closer, Xu Qinyu would go to the restaurant from time to time to check the progress of the repairs and renovations, which were basically almost completed.

The kitchen has also been renovated. Xu Qinyu added a cooking table. Before, there was no cooking table, so she cut and washed vegetables on the long table. Now her cooking table is very convenient for washing and brushing.

There are three large stoves in the kitchen, and we also bought a number of other stoves of different sizes, which are enough for her to use, but she has not yet found a helper in the kitchen.

She posted a notice at the door of the restaurant, saying that she was looking for two assistants who were proficient in either white or red cuisine and had one or two specialties. As long as they could help out in the restaurant, the head chef would teach them cooking skills. The assistants she had could be head chefs in other restaurants and small restaurants, so everyone was wondering if the head chef of this small restaurant was a famous chef? Otherwise, why would he be so arrogant?

But why would a famous chef stay in a small restaurant to cook? If he went to any prosperous state capital, he would be sought after by major restaurants.

No one was able to figure it out for a moment.

Some were also curious and asked the female manager of the rouge and powder shop next door about the background of the restaurant's chef.

The female shopkeeper always shook her head with a strange look on her face and said she didn't know either.

There were a few chefs who came to the Pei family's residence in Guihua Lane to apply for the job.

At the beginning, they were all happily asking about the salary. Xu Qinyu gave three taels of silver.

The culinary skills of these helpers are actually just enough to work as chefs in restaurants or taverns, and the wages are mostly around three or four silver dollars.

The three or two ounces of rice that Xu Qinyu gave was enough to satisfy them, but these chefs came to apply for the job because they thought that if a famous chef really worked as the head chef in this restaurant, they would be willing to become the famous chef's apprentice even if they didn't ask for any salary.

So after asking about the salary, the next natural question is who is the famous chef who is the head chef of the restaurant.

While asking, I couldn't help but look around, wanting to see if there were any elderly people.

Those who can become famous chefs are all over 50 years old.

They thought that the young lady who answered the question was a family member of the famous chef or something like that.

Who would have thought that this pretty young lady would tell them with a smile, "I am the chef of the restaurant."

After hearing the answer, all the chefs were stunned without exception, then angrily said something nonsense and left with their sleeves thrown.

Xu Qinyu was left in a state of confusion, and even wanted them to stay and try her cooking skills before making a decision, but they refused to listen.

The main reason was that these chefs came to apply for the job at noon or early afternoon. On weekdays, the Pei family only smelled the delicious food during breakfast and dinner. The rest of the time when they were not eating, there was naturally no aroma of food.

If they had smelled this fragrance during breakfast or dinner, they might have hesitated. But the timing was wrong. When they saw the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl saying that she was the chef, they thought she was teasing them and naturally became very angry.

So until now, the helper has not been found.

Xu Qinyu could only go with the flow.

There is Cheng Ge'er, a vegetable cutter. He is mainly responsible for cutting vegetables in the kitchen and can also train faster.

She wasn't afraid of being the only one cooking, she just felt a little tired.

A few days later, the restaurant was completely finished. We just had to clean the place and wait for the wood paint to dry completely before we could open for business. It would probably take about five or six days.

There is no rush for the ingredients. She is very familiar with the processes as she runs her own private restaurant. She just needs to prepare them the day before opening. Some ingredients and vegetables have to be bought in the morning so that they are fresh.

The next day, the two brothers Wen Shuncheng and Wen Shungong came over, and both of them could not hide their joy on their faces.

Xu Qinyu knew at a glance that a happy event had taken place in his family.

The happy event for the third branch of the Wen family should be the division of the family property.

I'm afraid that even hearing that the Third Master has made a lot of money would not be considered a happy event in the Third House.

Xu Qinyu asked, "Why are Cheng and Gong so happy?"

Wen Shungong rushed to say, "Fourth sister-in-law, our family is splitting up!"

It turned out that last night, when Wen Shuncheng and Wen Shungong had not yet returned home, the third elder of the Wen family, Wen Zixiao, just returned at dusk.

The Wen family was still having their evening meal. He came home exhausted and sat at the dinner table to have his evening meal.

The evening meal didn't taste very good, and Mrs. Yue from the first wife's house couldn't help but say, "Sister-in-law, why is today's meal a bit salty again? There are even small stones in the dishes."

Meng said softly, "Sister-in-law is right. I will be more careful next time."

Wen Zixiao's face darkened when he heard this.

"Since you think the food she cooks is not tasty, why don't you cook it yourself? Ever since we came to this borderland, you have been treating us as servants. My wife, aunt, and daughter are responsible for washing clothes, cooking, and sweeping the house. Even though I am a concubine's child, I am still my father's biological child. My wife and daughter should not be humiliated like this. If you are like this, we will not stay in this family. I ask to be separated."

As soon as Wen Zixiao finished speaking, Old Lady Wen slammed the table and said angrily, "Old Third, you are really making a fuss! How can you say that about your eldest sister-in-law?"

Wen Zixiao stood up and came to Old Lady Wen, then knelt down in front of him.

Wen Zixiao lowered his head and said calmly, "My father also thinks it is normal for the whole family to treat my wife, my daughter, and my aunt as slaves. I have nothing to say."

"You, you rebellious son!" Old Lady Wen was furious. "When did I ever say I would treat them like slaves?"

Wen Zixiao said, "If that's the case, why are the first and second wives not required to do anything, while the third wife has to take care of all the affairs of the mansion? Could it be that they are servants and like to work? Moreover, I am the one who makes money in the third wife's house. Although I don't give much to my father every month, I am working hard. I never thought that while I was devoted to the mansion, my brother and sister-in-law treated my wife, daughter and aunt as servants. I am really upset and don't want my wife, daughter and aunt to continue to be treated as servants."

Old Master Wen was speechless after being questioned and couldn't say anything for a while.

Old Lady Wen was a little unhappy. "What's wrong with letting your wife do some work? She comes from a small family, unlike your eldest and second sisters-in-law who are both girls from famous families and don't know how to do these tedious housework. If you really think they are bullying you, they can only separate you if they want to divide the family. But you have to know that we are exiled to the border town and have nothing left. We can't even give you extra money, let alone this house. If we give it to you, will your father, mother, eldest brother and second brother's family move out? Since we can't give you anything, you can only move out with your wife and daughter. Don't say that the first and second wives are bullying you then!"

Old Madam Wen had long since given up on supporting the third wife's family.

If she were to say, the third room is not good at work, it would be better to buy a servant back.

Otherwise, the daily food and clothing expenses would still have to be calculated for the three bedrooms.

"Nonsense!" Old Master Wen had never thought about dividing the family. All three were his sons. Although he did favor the two legitimate sons, how could he divide the family and send away the illegitimate sons? Wouldn't that just lead to outsiders gossiping?

Madam Yue of the Wen family also turned cold after hearing what Wen Zixiao said. She had wanted to split up the family for a long time. The third branch was a burden to them. If the shop opened and made money in the future, even if she said that the shop was opened with her dowry, she would definitely support the third branch with food, clothing and other expenses. She was naturally not happy about this.

Seeing that her father-in-law was still trying to stop her, Yue reached out and tugged at her father's sleeve.

Master Wen immediately sighed and patted Wen Zixiao on the shoulder, "Third brother, your eldest and second sisters-in-law don't know how to do housework, so your third sister-in-law has to share more of the work. But how can you say that you treat your third sister-in-law as a slave? Aren't you thinking that even I, your eldest brother, am bullying you, the third branch? If you really think so, then we can split up the family, and we don't have to suffer this."

Wen Zixiao had a blank face.

Old Master Wen glared at his eldest son, but still disagreed to divide the family.

Wen Zixiao said: "If father does not agree to divide the family, I will move out with my wife, children and aunt. When someone asks me about it, I will just say that the third wife is like a slave in the Wen family. Even if I make trouble and get beaten by the government, I will accept it!" No matter what, even if he was divided out, he didn't want his family to continue staying in this house.

Even the second master Wen from the second house came out and said hypocritically, "Third brother, what are you doing? We three brothers have always had a good relationship. How can we hurt our relationship because of such a small matter?"

Wen Zixiao remained silent.

Mrs. Wen pulled Mr. Wen's sleeve vigorously.

Looking at the stubborn bastard, Old Lady Wen knew that if the family was not divided today, he might really take the third wife away from the Wen family to live alone, so she was a little angry and said, "It's okay for the third son to divide the family, but the mansion has no income except the two taels of silver you give every month. Your mother and I don't have any money. This house and the two shops we bought before were also purchased with the dowry of your eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, so naturally they can't be divided with you. So you won't get anything in this division. Are you still willing?"

Wen Zixiao said, "I am willing, but I am useless. I can only earn two taels of silver a month. So from now on, I can only give half of the two taels of silver I earn every month to honor you and mother. I hope you will not despise me."