"Besides, we'll only be adding more and more variety to our store in the future. Before I leave, I'll need to hire a reliable and capable female employee to stay and help out. That'll be another expense, but we should save where we can and spend where we can. This money is only one-eighth of our current daily income. Mom, there's no need to worry too much about these small things lately. Otherwise, when we open a branch and hire people, you'll feel the pinch now, and then you'll be upset," Su Yan earnestly advised.
"What?" Li Juan's eyes widened in disbelief. "One store isn't enough, you're opening branches too?"
Su Yan nodded and said seriously, "Of course, I want to open our braised food shops all over the country and let everyone know about them. But we have to take it one step at a time. Once I register the company, I will open shops everywhere. Mom, you only need to take care of the business in Lan City, and I will take care of the rest."
Before the store even opened, Mr. Su was already making empty promises.
The pancake was big and fragrant, and Li Juan silently ate it.
She hadn't expected her daughter to have such lofty ambitions, and felt both gratified and saddened.
Her daughter, Ah Yan, is so worried because she's forced to!
If she had been born into an ordinary, normal family, why would Ayan have needed to worry about these things?
Li Juan raised her hand and brushed her daughter's bangs aside, her voice tinged with melancholy: "I'm all temper and no brains, I'll never amount to anything. But I'll do everything in my power to protect the things you've entrusted to me. I can't help you with other things, I just hope you're happy and joyful, and please don't push yourself too hard."
Su Yan's nose tingled, and she immediately leaned over to rest her head on her mother's shoulder, saying in a cheeky tone, "Mom, you're suddenly being so sentimental, it's making me feel so uncomfortable. Are you still my mother?"
"Get lost!"
Li Juan couldn't help but laugh out loud and slapped her arm in an annoyed manner.
The mother and daughter laughed for a while before going into the kitchen.
Li Juan studied very hard. She felt that she couldn't help her daughter much, but she also couldn't hold her back.
After seven or eight attempts, taking a total of four hours, Li Juan finally mastered the details, and the taste of her dish was almost identical to Su Yan's.
Unless you have a particularly sensitive sense of taste, like Yu Dahai, most normal people can't tell the difference.
Li Juan herself also noticed the difference between the first and last time she made it.
The difference is minor, but the last one was noticeably much more amazing in taste.
"I never imagined there were so many tricks to making food delicious. It's really tiring."
Su Yan: "Yes, it's lucky that your daughter has a talent for cooking, otherwise she wouldn't be able to make a living this way."
"Stop patting yourself on the back." Li Juan laughed and scolded, then suddenly remembered something and looked at her with a puzzled expression, asking, "You say you love cooking so much, why didn't you choose this major when you were choosing your university?"
The clinical medicine major at Southern Medical University is clearly unrelated to my daughter's interests.
Su Yan felt a tightness in her chest, but remained calm on the surface and said, "Mother, I know a little about traditional Chinese medicine and can also make medicinal cuisine, so it's not entirely unrelated to this major."
In her past life, she often came across the phrase "If you advise someone to study medicine, you'll be struck by lightning" in videos.
Hmm... she's not really interested in this major, and she's not going to be a doctor anyway. She'll just keep passing all her courses in college, get her certification, and then say goodbye.
Li Juan was easily fooled.
She didn't think too much about it.
It was already five o'clock when they finished cleaning up the battlefield. Li Yongcheng had cleaned all the containers for the braised food by himself.
Before he left, Su Yan gave him a pig's trotter and a basket of eggs, saying, "Third Uncle, you've worked hard. These are for Third Aunt to help her recover. You can't refuse them."
Upon hearing this, Li Yongcheng did not hesitate any longer, thanked him, and left.
Su Yan is a good boss. He got up early today and did so much work. She noticed his efforts and gave him the pig's trotters and eggs, which is why she gave them to him.
With a boss like this, no matter how tired he is, he is always content.
Su Yan had no idea that her small gesture had touched Li Yongcheng.
After having dinner and taking a shower, she went back to her room to get busy.
Her room was decorated in warm colors, and the four-piece bedding set was champagne-colored with a floral and butterfly pattern. The fabric was a mix of silk and cotton. Guo Chang told her that the department store only had this set, but it cost sixty yuan, which was too expensive and hadn't been sold yet. She thought she would like it, so she bought it.
She really likes it.
If she had money, she would naturally like to live a more refined and comfortable life.
She sat at her desk, took out a piece of white paper, and wrote down the recipes for honey-glazed roast duck and plum sauce, detailing the temperature and color changes during roasting.
The recipe for sour plum juice: 30g dried plums, 15g dried tangerine peel, 10g mulberries, 30g hawthorn, 10g licorice root, 6g mint, 6g rose petals, and rock sugar (to taste). This recipe can make about 2000ml of sour plum juice.
If the ingredients listed are incomplete, she will have to find a way to substitute them with other things.
It took her almost two hours to write out both recipes.
Next up is a new variety of medicinal porridge.
She thought for a long time and picked out two kinds of medicinal porridge from hundreds of options.
The first type: Sanfu porridge.
Efficacy: Tonifies the spleen, eliminates dampness, strengthens the body's resistance and consolidates its foundation
Ingredients: mung beans, astragalus root, Job's tears, white hyacinth beans, lotus seeds, red dates and goji berries (this is a sweet porridge)
The second type: Four-Ingredient Millet Quinoa Porridge
Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen, removes dampness, and clears jaundice
Ingredients: yam, fox nut, lotus seed, poria cocos, millet, quinoa (add a little rock sugar if you like it sweet)
Both types of porridge were made by her after adjustments, and the ingredients are relatively common. She must prepare enough medicinal herbs for more than half a year next time she goes into the mountains, so that she won't have to worry about not having enough medicinal herbs in the shop when she goes to the south.
Su Yan thought for a moment and then wrote down the recipe for Duck Shit Lemon Tea.
She plans to sell this drink on the day the store opens, and first make the two kinds of porridge to try.
When she put down her pen, it was already two o'clock. Her desk was covered with more than a dozen sheets of paper densely covered with writing.
Knowing that the acceptance letter would arrive home around 6 o'clock, she simply got up and went downstairs to help.
Li Juan was already in the yard braising meat and cooking porridge at this time.
The kitchen in the yard wasn't usable yet, and the kitchen inside the house was too small, so she set up a stove in the yard to make do for now.
Seeing her daughter come down, she said in surprise, "Ayan, why did you come down? Your legs are not good, I don't need your help."
Li Yongcheng will arrive here around 3 PM; it takes about an hour to walk from Lijia Ping.
Su Yan sat down before explaining, "Mom, I've been writing recipes until now, and then I figured the acceptance letter would arrive at our door around six o'clock, so I just came down to wait."
As expected.
After she said that, Li Juan immediately stopped urging her to go back to sleep.
Li Juan murmured, "You'll have to wait. Your foot won't be hurt even if you stay up all night."
Su Yan: "..." Mother, do you want to hear what you're saying?
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