Chapter 68 Corn Omelette
"Xiao Que, come back." Si Li called her and saw Xiao Que's angry expression. She couldn't help laughing, "Okay, haven't you heard enough of this kind of talk?"
"How could he say that!" Xiao Que stood with her hands on her waist and a broom in one hand, and then she turned back angrily after watching the scholar run away.
"Tell me what's wrong? We've been disliked since we started selling potatoes, but now everyone is running to the store." Si Li glanced at the wall that was painted a few days ago. Because it was painted with a layer of varnish, it was not removed from the cover to prevent scratches. She smiled and joked, "However, since you have the reputation of being pretentious, you might as well do something pretentious. Taotao, come on and add another sentence on the wall."
"What?"
"Have you had tea, have you eaten, have you been visiting?" Si Li said, "If you want to compare us, then you should raise your own status."
"You are really, so stingy." Meng Taotao shook his head amusedly. He was not in a hurry to act. He held the account book and wrote down the expenses of Wang Ting's going out to pick vegetables today.
Si Licun glanced at the account book and said, "The ordinary farmers are the ones who really know where the trend is. When something is in high demand, the price will go up. They don't care about good reputation or bad reputation at all."
"That's right." Wang Ting said, "I heard that several families planted half an acre of potatoes before the frost fell, hoping to sell them for a good price next year."
The value of overseas crops such as potatoes should not be limited to pig farming. As a high-yield crop, no matter what farmers mainly grow at home, they will set aside some space to grow potatoes to avoid disasters. In the past, they planted less because they could not sell it and had to keep it for private consumption. Now that there are people to harvest, they will naturally increase the planting.
Si Li made a final check on the newly-delivered corn. Most of the corn in this batch was dried corn. She had no use for the new corn pancake recipe and would have to wait until next year when it was in season. She immediately pulled Meng Taotao to add a few words to the cloth sign, "Golden Corn Pancake, 20 cents a portion."
I have walked with Wanglaiju all the way from the small stall at the Buddhist Dharma Assembly to the current cloth sign. It is already a bit dirty, with ink marks on the two sides of the different words bleeding into each other. Fortunately, the words written at first were not big, and there was still space for the addition of food later.
Corn pancakes are a one-star dish, and Siri is very easy to make now. They are fried in the morning and sprinkled with sugar. When they are served, you can hear the rustling sound of sugar grains. Milk is added to the recipe, which adds a hint of milk to the sweetness of corn. Although the corn pancakes are cut into six pieces, the edges are close together, and at first glance they look like a round golden sun.
It was also a coincidence that the shopkeeper Tang made the pudding milk tea that Si Li had mentioned. The light yellow pudding was round and looming in the milk tea. There was another moon next to it. It looked like one was a father and the other was a child. It was quite interesting. The number of customers in the morning was not much different from the previous days. Most of them were attracted by the big and the small.
Just seeing the name of corn pancakes, the diners hesitated. The potatoes and sweet potatoes made by Wanglaiju tasted good, but how could corn, a rough food that scratches the throat, be made delicious? For a moment, trust in Wanglaiju and suspicion of the ingredients were fighting in their hearts. The diners who got to the queue ordered a sauce pancake, and when Ah Xiang asked them "what else do you need", they didn't say anything for a long time.
The indecision of the diners made the business of Wanglaiju seem less lively than before. The high or low mocking noises from the people dressed as scholars in cloth scarves and long gowns who walked by from time to time outside the queue also greatly destroyed the shopping enthusiasm. They came and went without saying anything else but what kind of food and famous teas were prepared for the Wuweilou tea party and which celebrities and scholars were coming. They also snorted with disdain about milk tea and said things like the ice jelly was just other people's fame and that Wanglaiju had hit the jackpot. In a real sense, it was not very harmful but extremely insulting.
It was true that others had not done anything, and Si Li did not want to ask the waiters to chase them away, but the flies buzzing around were annoying. Noticing the customers' curiosity and hesitation, Si Li spoke to the shopkeeper Tang and took the opportunity to launch a set menu.
One pudding milk tea plus one corn pancake can be exchanged for a flower collection card, and one-tenth of the total amount can be deducted. Although the price is not much lower, you have to know that the flower collection card now requires more than one or two silver coins to be obtained at a time, and the pudding milk tea is sold in limited quantities, so it is a profit if you round it up!
The scholars' sour words were ignored, and several waiters started to shout together, and their voices were silenced in a few words. The diners who were still hesitating immediately generously donated money, took the collection card that had been updated to the zodiac flower card, and left happily with milk tea in one hand and corn cake paper tube in the other.
Si Li noticed that the wooden zodiac seal in Xiao Que's hand was not the same as the ones she had seen before. She asked quietly and found out that Ah Fu had come the day before yesterday and after hearing that the seal was a little blurry, he specially made a new set and sent it to her.
Xiao Que imitated the scene he saw yesterday in all seriousness. He held the wooden seal and pinched his throat to speak. A hesitant smell came over him. "I didn't do it well before. I made mistakes for Sister Meng. I..."
She was about to say more, but Meng Taotao, who heard the voice and came over, covered her mouth and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about behind my back?"
"Oh——" Si Li dragged out her tone and glanced at Meng Taotao meaningfully, "There are four great joys in life. Can our Taotao do two of them at once next year?"
"Huh!" Meng Taotao opened her mouth, but when she met Si Li's eyes, it seemed that no matter what she said, it would be wrong, so she simply turned around and left. She lifted the door curtain and saw the brother and sister who had sat down in the courtyard at some point. She turned around and smiled meaningfully, "Shopkeeper, someone is here."
When the horseshoe keeper's son came to deliver milk in the morning, Si Li ordered another barrel from him. After hearing what he said, he thought it was the horseshoe keeper and his men who came. Si Li put down the things in the front hall and went into the backyard.
When she looked up, she saw the closed backyard door. Then she saw Jiang Lang standing in the yard with his hands behind his back, looking back and forth behind Princess Jinhe. His eyes were calm and peaceful, which made Si Li feel guilty and had nowhere to hide.
It seemed like a long time since we last met. Si Li smiled dryly, "My Lord, Princess, good morning."
Jiang Hengyun glanced at her, then his eyes fell back on his sister's chessboard, and he said casually, "What did you make today? Send us something fresh."
Seeing that his attitude had not changed, Si Li breathed a sigh of relief, agreed, turned around and went into the kitchen, quickly closed the door, leaned against the door and knocked her head in frustration.
"What are you thinking about? Can you eat just by being moved? Why don't you go get a part-time job and earn a living!"
After muttering to herself several times that she was a heartless worker, Si Li calmed down and stood in front of the stove. The corn kernels were already peeled, and they only needed to be coated with a layer of starch before being put into the pot. While rubbing the corn, Si Li suddenly felt something was wrong. The room was a little too bright.
She then realized that the kitchen window was not closed. The kitchen design that she had liked the most before now looked a little scary. Si Li glanced into the courtyard quietly. The young man standing behind Princess Jinhe did not even glance at her. His expression was indifferent, and it did not seem that he had seen her previous loss of composure.
Fortunately, fortunately.
Si Li added a spoonful of milk and lowered her head to fry the corn diligently. Naturally, she missed the slight curling of Jiang Lang's lips after her gaze moved away.
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Corn pancakes are much quicker to make than sweet potato shreds. Si Li picked out a whole piece of corn pancake, sprinkled sugar on it, and brought it out together with a bowl of prepared icing powder.
There was a bowl of blue butterfly pea jelly and a bowl of colorless pear paste jelly. After putting them down, Jiang Hengyun pushed the blue bowl to his sister, but Si Li blocked the edge of the bowl.
Si Li's smile was stiff. "Prince, the ingredients in this colored jelly are too cold. It's not suitable for the princess to eat."
Both of them understood the implication. Jiang Hengyun was startled, and swapped the two bowls. When he took them back, he encountered obstacles again.
"A Fei?"
Jiang Rufei lowered her head, her eyes still on the chessboard, but one hand grasped the edge of the bowl, her intention was very clear. Jiang Hengyun paused for a moment, tilted his head and said, "Call the doctor."
Lin Ruying, who had always been like a shadow, flashed into Qiyun Tower.
Si Li was not curious about how many people from the Yue Palace were next door. Seeing Princess Jinhe gradually change her attitude towards the outside world and start to express her own thoughts, she felt soft inside, as if she was watching a child grow up. She couldn't help but hesitate and said, "Actually, it's nothing to eat a bite?"
Jiang Hengyun's face darkened. "When you prepare food, you should put people first. How can you be so reckless?"
"I'm just giving you a suggestion." Si Li said a little aggrievedly, "The princess wants to eat something. She is my guest, so of course I have to consider her health and try my best to meet her requirements."
Just as he made his excuse, a medical officer carrying a medicine box came in through the small gate of the yard. He carefully asked about the materials, took the patient's pulse, and used a silver needle and some butterfly pea flower icing powder, which were instruments he was not familiar with, to examine the patient carefully before nodding.
"My Lord, please be well, Prince. Given the princess's health, it is best to eat less of this butterfly pea jelly, no more than one spoonful a day."
Si Li had never expected such a big scene to happen for a cold ice jelly. Jiang Lang paid more attention to Princess Jinhe's health than she had imagined. If he had to control her diet so strictly, it was normal for her brother to be angry. This made her reflect on whether she was too casual about the diet of this princess.
Lost in thought, Si Li completely ignored the medical officer's greetings which he added long after they met, and missed the opportunity to discover a secret.
"Yes." Jiang Hengyun nodded, waved him away, put the spoon in his sister's hand, and repeated slowly, "You can only eat one spoonful."
Jiang Rufei achieved her goal, but did not rush to eat. Instead, she reached out and hooked Si Li's sleeve and gently pulled it.
"Do you want me to feed you?" Si Li immediately entered the working state, pointed at herself, and took a step forward according to her strength. With the money paid by the Prince of Yue's Mansion, Si Li had fed Jin and the princess when the prince was not around. After all, for a worker, everything would be easy if the money was in place.
Jiang Rufei slowly looked at Si Li, but instead of handing her the spoon, she scooped a spoonful of ice powder and slowly put it into her mouth. Her eyes slightly curved, causing Si Li to be stunned as she looked at her.
She was smiling at the scoop of ice powder.
Before Si Li surrendered at this smile, Jiang Hengyun made a concession, "If you really want to eat it, you can have a small piece in the evening."
"Yeah." The girl's voice was sweet and soft. Jiang Rufei put down the spoon, took the hand that her brother extended, and the smile on her face widened, "Brother, brother."
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