Chapter 121: The Opening of the Pastry Shop
When Lu Shiyan came back, the meal was already ready.
In addition to spicy shrimp and spicy dried fish, Jiang Tangtang also made several meat dishes such as braised pork and crispy chicken legs.
Besides fish and meat, there were also plenty of vegetables. Jiang Tangtang made vinegar-fried cabbage with the freshly picked cabbage from the fields, and white radish, which rural people consider bland, was made into cold shredded radish.
There were too many people to sit at one table, so Manager Xia asked his son to bring over the large square table from home. Two square tables were put together to form a large rectangular table. All kinds of delicacies filled the table.
The food was served, and everyone went to the table to eat.
Since we are celebrating the opening of the shop, wine is naturally indispensable.
The wine was fruit wine brought by the Xia family.
It was home-brewed with wild fruits from the mountains. The alcohol content was not high. Except for a few children, all the adults drank their fill.
The food on the table was so tempting that everyone just raised their glasses and said some simple auspicious words before starting to eat.
After they had eaten half their fill in one go and satisfied their cravings, everyone started talking more.
"This dish is really delicious. Does Jiang Meizi's shop in the city also sell these dishes?"
Zhao Jia only knew that Jiang Tangtang was going to open a shop in the city, but he didn't know what the shop was for, so he couldn't help but ask.
"It's not a restaurant, it's a place selling pastries!" Jiang Tangtang said with a smile.
"I think these dishes you make will sell well in the city. I've eaten a lot of fish and shrimp, but this is the first time I've eaten such delicious small fish. Why don't you open a shop selling something like this in the future, Sister Jiang?"
This way, when she has money, she can go to the store and buy food whenever she wants. But the Lu family is really lucky, they have everything they want to eat.
Thinking of this, Zhao Jia couldn't help but glance at Lu Shiyan.
Although he is good-looking, his cold face shows that he is not a man who would sympathize with women. I don't know how he is lucky enough to marry a girl as good as Jiang Meizi.
Jiang Tangtang's mind moved slightly after hearing this.
There are so many preparations to make to open a rouge shop. Although she has finished reading those books, there is still a lot of knowledge that she has not fully understood. Moreover, if she wants to make decent cosmetics in this era, it is not easy to find materials and it takes a lot of time.
Not only does a jewelry store require a large amount of capital, but it also needs trustworthy jewelry craftsmen and various channels to purchase gems.
The only simple thing is to open a food shop.
Moreover, the food in this dynasty was still in a barbaric stage waiting to be developed.
The skills she learned in modern times to run a farm stay are extremely useful in this dynasty.
So, before the cake shop officially opened, Jiang Tangtang had already secretly thought about opening her second shop.
After dinner, Lu Shiyan was about to leave. Su Shi was very reluctant to see her son leave again shortly after returning home, but there was nothing she could do. In the end, she pushed Jiang Tangtang out and said, "Go and see Shiyan off. You and your wife can talk. Don't worry about the family matters."
Jiang Tangtang didn't hesitate.
I put the extra dried fish I made at noon into a jar and handed it to Lu Shiyan, saying, "Will it be inconvenient to carry it with you?"
Lu Shiyan thought about the delicious food he had at noon, his eyes full of smiles, "No."
"Then you can take it with you. If you like it, I'll make it next time." Jiang Tangtang thought about it and asked again, "So when are you guys going to fight the pirates this time?"
Lu Shiyan said: "Three days later."
Jiang Tangtang actually had many questions, but thinking that going out to fight pirates might involve military secrets, she didn't ask too many questions.
The two stood and talked for a while, and Lu Shiyan said, "You can go back!" After thinking for a moment, he said with concern, "Don't worry about your cousin's affairs for now. I've called someone to keep an eye on it. Take care of yourself."
After parting with Lu Shiyan, Jiang Tangtang packed up and took her family to the county town.
Su was good at arithmetic, so she would definitely go and help with the shop's opening. It wouldn't be good for the children to be separated for a long time, and since Su and the children had gone to the city, she couldn't just leave Madam Lu alone in the countryside...
Thinking of this, except for the families of He Qiuniang and Hu Dangui, who had to take care of the wasteland in the countryside, everyone else followed him to the county town.
The Lu family already had quite a few people, and with Jiang Tangtang hiring five servants, the room behind the shop wasn't big enough for them to live in.
Jiang Tangtang thought about buying another shop. She would need to open another shop in the future anyway, and she had money in hand.
However, the shop will open tomorrow, but Jiang Tangtang has no time to buy the shop for the time being.
Before the opening, there was still a lot of work to do, one of which was packing the gift boxes.
All the bamboo gift boxes custom-made for Zhao Chuan have been delivered. Jiang Tangtang has already prepared the pork jerky, meat floss pancakes, wife cakes, and shaqima that are to be put in the gift boxes.
But it still needs to be packed and put in a gift box.
There were no transparent glass jars, so they had to use oil paper to wrap them. After wrapping, they would stick a festive red paper on the outside of the paper with the names of the items written on it.
"Shili, you write it!" Su looked at the brush strokes written by her daughter-in-law that looked like dog crawling, and said to Lu Shili.
Jiang Tangtang also knew that his calligraphy was not good, and felt a little embarrassed. He quickly handed the brush to Lu Shili and said, "Then let my second brother write it!"
Su saw her daughter-in-law's bad intentions and quickly said, "Tangtang, I'm not saying your handwriting is bad. That guy is idle anyway, so just let him do the rough work. You go take a rest and leave these to us."
Jiang Tangtang didn't care. She wasn't good at calligraphy to begin with! It didn't matter if she wasn't good at it. Who could do everything?
Besides, Su had good intentions, so she would not get angry over such a small matter.
After seeing that the Su family had done a good job of packaging, Jiang Tangtang returned to her room with peace of mind. After returning to her room, she entered the space again, took out the ingredients and started making cakes.
The next day, Jiang Tangtang got up before dawn and took out the meat floss pancakes and other pastries that she had made in the space yesterday.
Zhang Lu and Du Mudan were also up early, as they were thinking about the shop opening today. When they entered the kitchen, they were stunned by the variety of cakes and pastries on the counter.
"Boss, you didn't sleep last night? How did you make so much?" Zhang Lu looked at the various pastries on the table and was full of admiration for Jiang Tangtang.
The boss is really amazing and does a much better job than her.
Jiang Tangtang said calmly, "No, I just got up a little early this morning. Take these out and put them on the shelves!"
Wife cakes, meat floss cakes, rose cakes, and pork jerky are all served in rectangular porcelain plates, which look clean and beautiful.
In addition to these foods made by Jiang Tangtang herself, small biscuits, shaqima, glutinous rice noodles, cat ears and other foods are also served in rectangular white porcelain plates and neatly placed on the large wooden shelves.
The cake shop's biscuits were already famous when Jiuxia Silver Shop opened. Coupled with its unique decoration, the shop attracted a lot of people as soon as it opened.
"Boss, what are you selling? We have never seen it before." People were curious about the cake shop because of the small biscuits, and when they heard that the cake shop was opening, they all came to take a look.
When they saw the many foods they had never seen before on the porcelain plates and smelled the rich sweet fragrance in the air, they all asked questions.
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