It was late at night and Si Li was staring at the new "French fries" recipe icon that appeared on the system panel, and her head was aching slightly.
There was no light outside, and Meng Taotao and Xiao Que next door had obviously gone to bed. Xiao Que's teeth grinding sounded from time to time, making it difficult for her to get up and go to the kitchen to practice.
After moving out, Meng Taotao had to pay for everything herself. She no longer used oil lamps to read. She always felt sorry for the lamp oil when she was alone. In addition to avoiding the blow of her stepmother stopping her monthly allowance, getting rid of Dr. Chen and the servants of the Si family who were thinking who knows what, and no longer having to pretend to be pitiful, the only thing that made her feel relieved was that she could complete the task as soon as possible.
She understood Meng Taotao and Wang Ting's attitude during the day. It was impossible to hang a cloth sign, no matter how difficult it was. Otherwise, it would be impossible for one to hint at the carpenter and the other to look for a cloth sign for an entire afternoon and still not find one.
Alas, one does not know how valuable fuel and rice are until he is in charge of the household. As a good boss, Si Li decided to forgive them.
It cost three taels of silver to hire a bricklayer to build a house and a softball bed. This was the simplest mud house with thatched roof. It was hard to say whether it would become a dangerous building after a few rains and snows. Food, drink and publicity also cost money. If she was more extravagant, she might become the first foolish shopkeeper who bought a house but starved to death on the street.
No matter what Meng Taotao says tomorrow, even if it is put up and then taken down, the signboard must be put up. Si Li made up her mind and marked the system task as completed in her mind.
In this way, the only task that the system is still executing is "Ali's wish". The expansion and strength of Wanglaiju is closely related to this task. It is estimated that only when the restaurant stands on a high level, it is time to "return home with wealth and wealth" and make her stepmother bow her head. And the restaurant can only be expanded by relying on the system recipes to assist her half-baked cooking skills. Yesterday's attempt at honey-roasted sweet potatoes was not recognized by the system. It is obvious that the way to collect recipes is to go.
The memory of collecting illustrated games came to her mind, giving Si Li a headache. Now she only had 310 achievement points, which was not enough to buy even one-third of the cheapest menu in the mall, let alone attract customers with other special dishes. After counting the menus she had, except for a cold cucumber salad, the others could only be classified as snacks. Even the only employee Meng Taotao was introduced in the system as being more adept at frying snacks. It was okay to run a mobile stall, but if she opened a store, she obviously couldn't go the route of a proper restaurant.
Fortunately, she had not forgotten the existence of those popular kebab and stinky tofu shops in her previous life. It was said that they made a lot of money in a year, and if they were placed in Daning, they would probably set off a trend. She flipped through the system mall and found that the grilled cold noodles recipes that were everywhere in the streets in her previous life were classified as two stars and required 10,000 achievement points. Grilled squid was even better, and there was no such thing in the mall.
Si Li: I suspect you are discriminating, and I have evidence.
The poor Si Li gave up shopping from the mall and obediently clicked on the recipe video tutorial for "French fries".
Judging from the number of videos, French fries are not a pure empty-star dish at all. It is divided into five modules: French fries, ketchup, pepper and salt powder, spicy powder, and sweet plum powder. It successfully squeezed out half a star of mashed potatoes and became the most taught recipe at present.
The woman in the video is still the same one as before. Si Li feels that the teacher's situation seems to have improved greatly. The kitchen utensils have been updated. The knife in her hand is obviously a good thing. The black blade reflects the light, and the sound is crisp and pleasant when it flashes between the potato strips. It is an audio-visual feast in every sense.
There was nothing fancy about the fried potato strips. They were similar to the method of making wolf-tooth potatoes, except that the fries needed to be cut into smaller pieces, blanched and re-fried. While waiting for the re-frying, Si Li knew that the Kongxing recipe would not give her a progress bar when making it, so she could only count the seconds one by one to avoid mistakes later. However, the woman who was teaching in the video just threw the potato strips into the pot and never cared about it again. Instead, she took a knife and quickly carved a piece of potato with the uncut potato cubes beside her...
Cat head?
What kind of bad taste is this?
Si Li was amazed at the woman's knife skills. Not only her knife skills, but also her control of the heat. Meng Taotao said that everyone who learned cooking since childhood started by cutting vegetables and carving radishes, but Si Li skipped this step and made great progress by cheating with the system. But even if the system cheated, she couldn't carve a cat head while knowing the degree of frying potatoes.
Si Li could vaguely sense that this was not something that could be achieved by just reading the progress bar.
The video is turned off after the potato strips are picked up for the second time. The golden potato strips in the metal colander make a crisp sound when they touch each other. Even a good listener can feel the crispness of the potato strips in the picture.
The production process of the four kinds of dipping sauces is even more tempting. The tomato sauce made purely from tomatoes, salt and rock sugar is bright red and sticky. The three kinds of powdered dipping sauces, which seem simple based on their names, have the video teacher repeatedly emphasize the various proportions and quantities. At the end of each video, the French fries dipped in the dipping sauce look very tempting and delicious.
On one hand, there was a huge amount of memory-boosting teaching, and on the other hand, there was the temptation of delicious food. Si Li couldn't help but press her stomach.
In the evening, she drank some leftover porridge from lunch, which was not healthy. As a cook, I cannot let myself get hungry, so I have to cook well tomorrow. Si Li thought about it and added a word to the previous idea.
I have to let Taotao cook well tomorrow.
After watching the French fry tutorial, I don't know how much time has passed outside. Si Li's resentment that her opponent Hei Cai couldn't produce good things gradually subsided. To be honest, the evaluation of the one-star mashed potatoes has changed from insulting to neutral, which must be said to be a great improvement. After all, it is not just a penny like at the beginning. It is already very good to be able to give a recipe. Si Li clicked on the tasting module and prepared to take the bowl back, otherwise it would be difficult to find a chance to get it during the day tomorrow.
The system page just switched, and a silver light flashed by. Si Li was dazzled by the suddenly bright panel. She closed her eyes and opened them again. The table was still the same table, and the bowl was still her bowl, but the modeling of the tasting module had become more detailed than before. The gold thread on the tablecloth was glittering, exuding a luxurious atmosphere. The back of the table was no longer blank, but a dark night sky with a crescent moon hanging in it. Floating clouds flew by, and it was quiet and beautiful as if a special effect was added, as if she was drinking alone under the moon in an unknown space.
If it wasn't translucent, Si Li would have suspected that the roof was broken. Could it be that the previous dishes were so bad that the so-called "seniors" even lowered the standard of reception? Si Li rolled his eyes and caught the note floating down from the sky.
As expected, the note was updated.
【May you be blessed. 】
Logically speaking, this is a positive word, and it is a big improvement over the weird words on the first two notes. But Si Li thought for a while before remembering what she had written before, and what comments the system had given in the afternoon. When she combined it with the content of the note, she realized why it was still full of sarcasm.
It must be an illusion.
Si Li had been dreaming all night about the woman in the video saying "May you be lucky" to her French fries. When the first ray of sunlight shone into the room, she sat up with dark circles under her eyes.
Meng Taotao was still a little dazed when she was woken up. When she saw Si Li's appearance, she was shocked. "Did the shopkeeper not sleep well last night?"
"Signboard." Si Li stretched out her hand weakly to ask for it.
Meng Taotao thought of Si Li's suggestion and came to her senses. "It's not a good idea to hang up this sign. The streets are full of wooden plaques, and only our colorful cloth sign is ugly."
Si Li shook her head. "It's just so obvious at a glance. It shows that our family is special."
"The name of the restaurant is too small. Who would write the names of dishes and prices on a sign?"
Si Li: "We can be the first one."
In the end, Meng Taotao still couldn't win over Si Li, and took out the cloth sign she had hidden from under the mattress. Her expression was extremely gloomy, as if she had already foreseen the miserable business life in the future.
[System: Employee "Meng Taotao" loyalty -1.]
Si Li: ...
For the sake of loyalty, Si Li made a promise, "Let's just hang it up and see the effect. If it's really ugly, we'll take it down."
In the morning, Meng Taotao cooked cabbage porridge. Wang Ting, who arrived at the courtyard almost at the same time as the bricklayer, felt that the porridge in the bowl was no longer fragrant after listening to Meng Taotao's retelling. He wondered if it would be better to go back to the farm and find a manager to run around with the young lady.
Among the crowd, only Si Li was excited and impatient, urging Wang Ting to finish his meal quickly so that he could hang up the sign.
The mason who was moving materials back and forth heard what they were saying and couldn't help but said, "Why don't you buy a plaque?"
Before Si Li could tell the truth, Meng Taotao spoke first, "Uncle, do you have any veneer for sale?"
"Wow, I thought it was so fresh. Sell it. If you can give us more time to build the house, I will give you a board as a gift."
Meng Taotao turned to Si Li and made one last effort to prove her aesthetics. "Writing flyers requires pens and ink. I can use ink to write a plaque. We can hang up this cloth sign and take a look at it and then take it down. Is that okay?"
Si Li was not a devil. She did not buy the plaque simply because she had no money. Now that someone was giving it to her for free, she naturally nodded.
After each side took a step back, the problem was solved, and Wang Ting and Meng Taotao both breathed a sigh of relief. The bricklayer took his apprentice into the backyard. The East Market Street was empty in the early morning, and even few shops were open, making the whispers in the backyard particularly clear.
"Is this place rented or leased? You didn't buy the shop and then had no money to do the backyard business, did you?"
"Hey, that's not possible. Finish it quickly so they don't default on the bill."
"I've never seen a shop with a sign that was just put together..."
Wang Ting blushed when he heard this. After finishing his porridge, he quickly climbed up the ladder and hung the cloth sign on the empty space left after the sign of Ma's shop was removed. To be honest, the questions raised by Meng Taotao were very prominent, and Si Li herself was also a little irritated.
Fortunately, the system did not make her wait too long. Just as the cloth sign was hung up, the system sounded to prompt that the task was completed.
【System: "Establishment of Wanglai Residence" completed. Based on the host's performance, the reward recipe "Shredded Sweet Potato" x1 will be given. Subsequent tasks have been issued, and the employee module has been updated. Please check it yourself.
The host has embarked on the path to becoming a culinary god, please continue to work hard. 】
Si Li tilted her head back and didn't move for a long time.
On the ladder, Wang Ting was getting impatient. He didn't come down just to take a look at the cloth sign after hanging it up, but it looked like the lady really wanted to keep it hanging.
How can that be possible? !
Wang Ting asked loudly, "Did I pick it?"
A scholar in a blue shirt came out from the corner of the road. He was dressed quite elegantly. He was startled by his voice, looked up for a moment, and his expression changed for a moment. He asked, "Excuse me, what is this residence selling?"
Wang Ting blocked most of the sign by himself. Without waiting for Si Li's response, he was about to take down the sign. He never expected that a customer would come. He didn't know whether to take it down or not, and he was so speechless that he couldn't say anything for a long time.
Si Li noticed the change in the scholar's expression just now and knew that he had actually seen the words on the sign clearly, but he still went to the trouble of asking.
Perhaps the appearance of Wanglaiju looked like a farce to others, but the incident had already happened and the purpose had been achieved, so there was nothing to hide. Si Li said frankly, "My shop has just been taken over, and we mainly sell snacks. There are only potatoes in the kitchen today. Can I make you some fried wolf teeth or mashed potatoes?"
After thinking for a while, Si Li added, "We also have French fries. The flavors of the French fries are sweet and plum, spicy, pepper and salt, and tomato. Which one would you like?"
Because of the unexpected answer, the scribe looked at her more.
She really doesn't look like a lady from a rich family, nor does she look like a frail beauty who has been ill for a long time. She is full of vitality. The rumors are so different from her real self, and the reason is intriguing.
Before the investigation of the Si Mansion even started, Zhong Liuru had already labeled the Prime Minister as incompetent in managing the household.
But before starting his official duties, he wanted to try the cooking skills of the chef personally invited by His Highness.
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The author has something to say:
Sweet potato, tomato fries, yyds
The lucky draw has been set up. I don't know why I couldn't set it up the past two days... Absurd. Thanks to the cuties for collecting, commenting and subscribing. I will continue to work hard!