Chapter 93 串串

Jiang Yanyi was very sick from the cold. He drank bitter medicine for several days, but he still felt dizzy and had no appetite.

Feng Shuo was in good health, so he just sneezed a few times the day before. After taking a dose of medicine, all his problems were gone.

When he learned that Jiang Yanyi was sick, he sent a doctor from his mansion to take Jiang Yanyi's pulse and prescribe medicine, but unfortunately there was still no improvement.

In later generations, the cycle of a cold is usually seven days. Jiang Yanyi only hoped that he would get better in two days.

Chu Shubao has come to her store to sell rouge and powder, but the business is not as good as expected. First, there are not many female customers in the store. Second, girls from well-off families are accompanied by maids and old women when they go out. They are very cautious and will not easily try things of unknown origin.

Chu Shubao is a little depressed. Seeing that the business is not going well, she spends most of her time in Jiang Yanyi's room with her.

Jiang Yanyi is weak in skin care and makeup. She can't give any useful advice on technology, but after seeing many beauty bloggers in the future, she can also provide Chu Shubao with some ideas.

Feng Shuo heard that Jiang Yanyi had not recovered after catching a cold, so he asked Aunt Guo to invite a female doctor to scrape her.

Jiang Yanyi's grandmother used to be a barefoot doctor. When she was sick as a child, her grandmother scraped her neck, but she scraped her neck. The sha turned purple and red. The more severe the cold, the darker the color. When

the female doctor scraped Jiang Yanyi, Jiang Yanyi thought that she would have to do business after the cold was cured, and she was afraid that she would not be able to see people with sha scars all over her neck, so she asked the female doctor to scrape her back.

Aunt Guo was afraid that she would be cold, so she added a few more charcoal basins to the room.

Jiang Yanyi lay on the mattress, wearing only an apricot-colored vest. The doors and windows in the room were closed tightly, and the light was a little dim, but her entire back was still white and glowing, and her skin was tender, white and delicate, like milk.

It is often said that beauty lies in bones, not skin. This bone is not only the bones on the face, but also the bones on the body. People with good skeletons look better in clothes than others.

Jiang Yanyi is slender, but her skeleton is not big. She is just right in every way.

The female doctor is old. She traveled all over the country in her early years and saw many beauties. She has rarely seen such a good skeleton and skin as Jiang Yanyi. Not to mention the men in the world, even she, a woman, couldn't help but feel a little pity.

The wine was warming in the small stove next to her. When it was hot, she put some on her hands and rubbed Jiang Yanyi's back. "It will be painful for a while, so bear with it."

Jiang Yanyi rested her chin on her folded hands. Because she was sick, her spirit was not good, and she looked a little weak. "Thank you, doctor."

The female doctor dipped the scraping board in wine and scraped Jiang Yanyi's snow-white back. It seemed that there was no method, but each stroke was along the meridians and acupoints.

Jiang Yanyi could bear it at first, but then she tensed her back in pain.

Aunt Guo was watching from the side, knowing that she was in pain, and comforted her, "The place where you just scraped has already had sha. Once you're done scraping, the cold will be gone, so just bear with it."

She turned around and said to the female doctor, "Please be gentle, Doctor Fang."

The female doctor's last name was Fang?

For a moment, Jiang Yanyi seemed to be about to remember something, but the pain in her back disrupted her thoughts again.

Jiang Yanyi had to say something else to Aunt Guo to divert his attention: "You went back to the kitchen to help these few days. Did you find that someone was bullying okra?"

Aunt Guo said: "The new ones are all willing to work hard, and they don't seem to have any conflicts with okra. I also asked them indirectly, and they get along well with okra."

The feeling of the scraping board repeatedly scraping an area was a bit uncomfortable, as if it was going to scrape off the skin. Jiang Yanyi grimaced in pain: "Where is the new waiter?"

Aunt Guo said: "She is smart. She calls everyone "Sister Okra" and it doesn't seem like she will target okra."

Jiang Yanyi couldn't figure out the result no matter how hard he tried.

The effect of scraping was still very significant. That afternoon, Jiang Yanyi felt that she was no longer dizzy and her body was no longer heavy.

After cheering up and checking the income of the noodle shop, she found that the profit of the noodle shop had caught up with that of the antique soup shop. In the past two days, it had also received several large orders from caravans. Jiang Yanyi was really surprised.

During the days when she was sick, the kitchen was entirely managed by Chef Yao. The chickens that were killed by Duke Chen were made into specialties by Chef Yao and sold by him to avoid waste. In the shop outside, Yang Xiu can also take charge.

Jiang Yanyi decided to go to the kitchen to cook a delicious meal for everyone, just as a comfort for their hard work during this period.

The kitchen was fully stocked with chicken, duck, fish and meat. What surprised her was that there was a large piece of beef, which looked to be more than ten pounds. After asking Chef Yao, she learned that a farmer's ox slipped on the ice and broke its leg. It could no longer plow the land, so it was sent to the government to be slaughtered. He asked for favors to buy these ten pounds of beef.

The ancients mostly stewed beef and mutton to eat the original flavor.

Jiang Yanyi cut a pound of beef, sliced ​​it into thin slices, wrapped it with coriander, and stuck it with bamboo sticks to make coriander beef.

She was always generous to the people in the store when it came to food, and she would always see the meat when she cooked in person. But if Jiang Yanyi is not around, when Chef Yao is in charge of cooking for the people in the store, maybe Chef Li has told him to do so, he would be very careful with the oil and meat, as if he was afraid that a group of people would eat all of Jiang Yanyi's food.

Therefore, every time Jiang Yanyi said that she would cook herself, the new employees in the store were as happy as if it was Chinese New Year.

Jiang Yanyi happened to have a cold, and Aunt Guo would not let her touch anything cold. She was responsible for washing and cutting the vegetables.

Jiang Yanyi took Qiu Kui and others to skewer the processed ingredients with bamboo sticks.

When the antique shop just opened, Jiang Yanyi cut a lot of spare bamboo sticks in order to attract customers to grill skewers on the street, and now they are all in use.

The old people in the store thought Jiang Yanyi was going to grill meat, so they were all very happy and worked efficiently.

Only the three newcomers had not tasted Jiang Yanyi's grilling skills, but based on Jiang Yanyi's skills in making other dishes and the enthusiasm of the old people in the store, they guessed that there would be another delicious meal tonight.

Yang Xiu said very consciously: "Boss, I'll go clean the grill rack and light the charcoal first?"

Jiang Yanyi knew that they probably misunderstood, and said with a smile: "We're not eating grilled meat tonight, let's eat skewers."

"What are skewers?" Qiu Kui asked while skewering lotus root slices.

Jiang Yanyi explained to them: "It means putting food on bamboo sticks into the pot and cooking it. When eating, you can just pick up the bamboo sticks and eat them, or dip them in a dish."

Chuan Chuan Xiang is another form of hot pot. Jiang Yanyi plans to use the old hot pot recipe to make the pot base.

Ancient people rarely ate spicy food. The spicy hot pot currently offered in her shop uses dogwood as the base, which is not even as spicy as pepper, but many diners have already shaken their heads and said it was spicy.

At first, Chef Yao discussed with Jiang Yanyi and said to put less dogwood, otherwise the pot would not sell well. However, those diners who shook their heads because of the spiciness a few days ago seemed to have tasted the taste, and soon came to the shop again, asking for another dogwood spicy pot that they had eaten last time.

Gradually, spicy pot has become a major feature of Jiang Yanyi's antique soup shop. After all, other places have never seen such a weird pot for sale.

Some people know how to make clear soup pot, but the base of the hot pot alone uses more than 30 spices. The chef of Lai Fu Antique Soup Shop tried it himself, but he couldn't taste all the ingredients with his tongue. He was completely clueless about which seasoning to put in first and which to put in later. He could only give up the idea of ​​learning how to sell hot pot from her.

When skewering coriander beef, Jiang Yan thought that there seemed to be sour cowpeas in the kimchi pot, so she asked Qiuku to get some.

She cut the sour cowpeas into thumb-length pieces, wrapped the chopped beef with two pieces of cowpeas, and skewered them with bamboo sticks.

The sour cowpea beef was sour and spicy when cooked, and had a unique flavor.

When she used the knife to cut the boneless chicken feet, she felt that the knife was particularly sharp. She praised: "The knife made by the blacksmith is really easy to use. After so long, it is still as sharp as when it was just sharpened."

The new helper was a diligent old woman named An. She had a big mole on her mouth that was very recognizable. Hearing this, she smiled and looked at Qiu Kui: "The blacksmith comes to the store every now and then to help sharpen the knife! How can it not be fast?"

Qiu Kui was busy doing her own thing and ignored Mrs. An.

Jiang Yanyi was thinking that this might be related to Qiu Kui's abnormality, but before she could ask, the new waiter came in from outside and said to Qiu Kui: "Sister Qiu Kui, that woman is looking for you again."

Qiu Kui heard this and was careless when skewering, and almost hurt her hand.

Jiang Yanyi asked her, "What's wrong?"

Qiu Kui seemed to be trying hard to cover up something: "Nothing, I'll be out for a while."

Seeing Qiu Kui went out with a heavy heart, Jiang Yanyi asked the waiter, "What's the matter?"

The waiter scratched his head and said, "This... I don't know either. A few days before you went back to the Chu family, a woman came to the store to find Sister Qiu Kui. She claimed to be Sister Qiu Kui's aunt, but when I asked Sister Qiu Kui, Sister Qiu Kui said she was not."

Jiang Yanyi wiped her hands on her apron: "I'll go out and take a look."

Jiang Yanyi didn't see anyone in the store when he got outside. He lifted the bamboo curtain to block the wind and found that Qiu Kui and the woman were pulling each other outside. The woman was wearing coarse cloth clothes, had a strong body, high cheekbones, and a pair of drooping eyes. You can tell at a glance that she is not someone to get along with. One hand was holding Qiu Kui's arm, and the other hand was pinching the tender flesh around Qiu Kui's waist.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Yanyi shouted.

Seeing that she was well-dressed, the woman knew that she was most likely the female manager of the antique soup shop. She then let go of her hand, put away her fierce look, and put on a smiling face: "Are you the manager of this shop? I am this girl's aunt. Her uncle is seriously ill. I wanted to take her back to see her uncle, but this girl refused to go."

Qiu Kui's waist was still aching slightly where the woman had pinched her. She was afraid that Jiang Yanyi would misunderstand, so she almost immediately retorted: "He is not sick!"

The woman glared at Qiu Kui fiercely: "You dead girl, have you let a dog chew your conscience? You were missing all these years, and he got sick because of you! Now... I'm looking forward to seeing you now."

Qiu Kui was afraid of being taken away, and said angrily: "You are lying! You just want to sell me

out again!" The woman pretended to hit Qiu Kui: "You don't want to go back with me to see your uncle, but you can even say such a heartless thing!"

Jiang Yanyi pulled Qiu Kui behind her: "I bought her back, Auntie, you can just say what you want, but if you hit her, I will report her to the government."

The woman quickly smiled at Jiang Yanyi: "I am all mad at this damn girl, why is she such a liar?"

It would be strange if Qiu Kui could lie.

Jiang Yanyi's tone was polite, but his words were rude: "I bought Qiu Kui from the Xizhou camp. How could she go to such a place? Auntie, do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know? Human trafficking should be executed according to the law!"

The woman's mood dropped a lot, and she said embarrassedly: "I am her aunt, how could I do such a thing as selling my own niece."

Jiang Yanyi said: "A good girl sells herself as a slave. The government has a record of where she was sold and who handled it. "

The woman didn't seem to be afraid when she heard Jiang Yanyi say this, and she even shouted: "She got lost on her own and was coaxed back by the brothel madam to sign a contract to sell her body. It has nothing to do with me!"

It seems that she tricked Qiu Kui into signing the contract to sell her body, and took the money to get rid of herself, so she is so fearless.

Jiang Yanyi was not angry, but smiled at her: "You also know that Qiu Kui's contract of sale is in my hands now. It's up to me whether to let her go back or not."

The woman was furious at Jiang Yanyi's words.

Yang Xiu and the waiter saw that Jiang Yanyi had been out for so long and didn't come back, so they followed him outside.

When the woman saw two men coming out of the store, one of them had a fierce look on his face, she knew that she was in trouble, so she immediately gave up the idea of ​​arguing with Jiang Yanyi, and said to Qiu Kui fiercely, "Just wait for me," and left in disgrace.

Jiang Yanyi took Qiu Kui into the store, found a quiet place, and asked her, "Why didn't you tell me that your aunt came to see you before?"

Qiu Kui's eyes were red, like a child who had done something wrong: "Hua Hua is busy, I don't want to cause trouble for Hua Hua."

Jiang Yanyi sighed and said, "If you encounter such a thing in the future, tell me the first time, understand?"

Qiu Kui's aunt was obviously a hot-tempered person with a sharp tongue, and Qiu Kui was not good at speaking, so even if she was right, she couldn't win the argument with her aunt.

Qiu Kui nodded obediently.

Jiang Yanyi asked again: "Why did she ask you to come back?"

Her aunt kept saying that she was going back to see her uncle, but Qiu Kui said that her uncle was not sick. Jiang Yanyi was more inclined to think that Qiu Kui's aunt lied, but Qiu Kui's indenture was in Jiang Yanyi's hands, so what could she do even if she coaxed Qiu Kui back?