Mrs. Song felt a little baffled, but she also felt that it was probably because Li Shuisheng was a little older and was a bit thin-skinned when it came to the matter of marriage, so she just shook her head and smiled, and continued to wash the clothes in the basin.
The clothes were almost washed. Mrs. Song quickly washed them. After two more passes of water, she took them out of the basin, wrung them dry and hung them to dry in the yard, tied between the tung tree and the edge of the window. On top of the hemp rope.
After cleaning up for a while, I went back to the house to rest.
When Li Shuisheng heard that there was no movement in the room over there, he sighed and turned over.
My eyes were so wide open that I couldn’t close them for a long time.
The next few days were still busy.
But Xia Mingyue has preliminary candidates for joining the food stall here on West Street.
They are Aunt Feng’s two nieces-in-law.
One surnamed Cao and the other surnamed Chen. They are both honest, clean, and quick-working women. Their children are also in their teens and can do some tasks, including clearing dishes, cleaning tables, making wontons and The job of making steamed dumplings.
The two families are doing it together, and they have enough manpower.
Xia Mingyue already recognized Feng's personality very much, and felt that the conduct of her niece-in-law she taught should be quite upright, so she had a detailed chat.
After chatting, I became more and more satisfied with Cao and Chen.
The two of them have always taken care of their families and respected Aunt Feng. They are very familiar with cooking and are very quick at making food. Although they have never done business before, they can master everything with just one click.
The most important thing is that the two sisters-in-law are motivated to make money, and they attach great importance to the franchise.
It can be said that the two parties hit it off immediately. On the same day, the two handed over the silver and signed a document with Xia Mingyue.
The next day, Xia Mingyue began to teach the two people how to make various foods at the food stall.
Cao and Chen’s sisters-in-law learned very seriously and got started quickly.
Taking advantage of this moment, Xia Mingyue made planning adjustments to the products of Xia Ji Food Stall.
The Liangpi cold noodles have been removed from the shelves and replaced by the previously popular small wontons and noodles. Since the making of sesame seed cakes has taken a long enough time, Xia Mingyue decided to suspend production during this period and instead Let’s start with the willow leaf steamed dumplings we tried earlier.
In the noodles, Xia Mingyue added a stewed mushroom and chicken stew.
The whole chicken is chopped into small pieces and stewed together with various diced mushrooms to make a bright soup with a rich and rich braised flavor. It is paired with the chewy and elastic hand-rolled noodles. Garnish with some coriander and it tastes really satisfying.
All the noodle stews are made fresh in the morning and simmered in a charcoal basin. This can keep the stew hot but not completely boiling. The meat will not be too loose because of this. Because the chicken pieces and mushrooms are more and more flavorful when heated continuously, they taste better.
It was already early September when the products of the Xia Kee Food Stall were adjusted and Cao and Chen completely took over the Xia Kee Food Stall on West Street.
The coolness in the weather became more and more obvious in the morning and evening, even turning into cold.
The important work has come to an end. The central kitchen has also re-divided labor due to the increase in manpower. Everyone is performing their duties in an orderly manner.
Xia Mingyue was not that busy, so she began to think about making something new to eat.
And on such a chilly day, the best thing to eat is Cross-Bridge Rice Noodles.
Crossing the bridge rice noodles is a local snack in Yunnan. It originated from Mengzi. It was invented by the scholar's wife who accidentally discovered the method of scalding fresh meat slices and rice noodles with chicken soup when she was delivering rice to the pavilion in the lake across a bridge. name.
The side dishes are rich in raw materials, with layers of large and small, colorful and all kinds of ingredients. They are poured into the steaming chicken soup together with the rice noodles. The taste is rich but not lost. Delicious rules in themselves.
Just thinking about it, Xia Mingyue already felt like she was full of greed, and she couldn't wait to start preparing the ingredients. To make a delicious bowl of cross-bridge rice noodles, Xia Mingyue first needs to make rice noodles.
Mix rice flour, corn starch, and corn starch together, mix with boiling water and a little vegetable oil, and knead into a smooth dough.
Use the rice noodle pressing rack to press the dough into thick lines and drop it into a pot of boiling water. After it is cooked, quickly remove it and soak it in cold water to ensure the elasticity of the rice noodles. Taste.
When the rice noodles are completely cool, place them in a bowl and set aside.
After making the rice noodles, Xia Mingyue began to stew the soul of the bridge rice noodles - chicken soup.
Choose an old hen with thick meat, add water, green onions, ginger, pepper, etc., bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat for an hour until the chicken is tender and the soup is clear with a layer of light yellow chicken oil floating on the surface. Stew well.
While the chicken soup was simmering, Xia Mingyue began to prepare other side dishes.
Fresh mung bean sprouts, thin and tough bean skins cut into half-inch wide strips, tenderloins cut into thin slices, leeks cut into one-inch long sections, cooked chicken gizzards cut into thin slices The film...
To ensure the authenticity of Cross Bridge Rice Noodles, Xia Mingyue found a few quail eggs on the street and even bought a pot of chrysanthemums.
Seeing Xia Mingyue coming back with chrysanthemums, everyone was a little confused.
Qi Lu whispered to Jiang Zhuguo in a low voice, "Isn't your sister Xia busy making rice noodles? Why did you bring back a pot of chrysanthemums?"
"At this time, the chrysanthemums are indeed in bloom. Jiang Zhuguo guessed, "Perhaps Sister Xia felt that the house was boring, so she wanted to buy a pot of chrysanthemums to decorate it." of.
The only vegetables grown in the yard at home are all kinds of vegetables.
"That's about it?" Before Lu could finish her words, she saw Xia Mingyue took the scissors and picked off two chrysanthemums.
Mr. Lu, "..."
Let's just say that I have never seen my siblings like any flowers and plants. I bought these chrysanthemums for cooking.
Wait, cooking?
Using flowers...
Cooking?
Lu's eyes widened even more.
Everyone present looked at each other, only looking at Xia Mingyue happily busy there.
After another half hour passed, Xia Mingyue put everything on the table and invited everyone to come and eat rice noodles.
Everyone had never eaten rice noodles, let alone seen them. Seeing Xia Mingyue greeting them, they all gathered around the table and sat down. However, they realized that there was no steaming rice noodles in front of them, but instead a bowl of rice noodles. When there were small bowls of cold rice noodles, and plate after plate of raw meat, raw quail eggs, chrysanthemum petals, raw leeks and other items, the two-foot-tall monk became more and more confused.
How to eat this?
Eat it raw?
Yes, I heard others mention it before, saying that in some places, raw food is eaten. For example, the freshly caught fish can be sliced into pieces and put into the mouth.
I also gave it a very elegant name, called Yusheng.
And this way of eating is very popular with dignitaries, who say it tastes delicious. (End of this chapter)