Blissful Days After Widowhood

After receiving the deposit, Gu Yin entertained the guests for a while in front of her. Afterwards, seeing that there was nothing to do, she went into the back kitchen.

The shopkeeper Zhou was already frying the hot dishes in the lunch market. Seeing her standing aside and snickering, he couldn't help but ask, "Why is the owner so happy, did you find the money?"

Gu Yin had to maintain a calm image when she was in the front. She had nothing to worry about in front of Shopkeeper Zhou, and immediately walked up to him and said, "Almost!"

Then I told the shopkeeper Zhou about the fifty taels of silver deposited.

Shopkeeper Zhou couldn't help laughing when he heard it, not because of the fifty taels of silver, which was not a big deal in the eyes of Shopkeeper Zhou, but because Gu Yin smiled with frowning eyes looks like.

The vigor of her age makes people smile.

"How is the owner going to spend this money?" Shopkeeper Zhou kept on, "Would you like to make a custom set for a guy like me?"

When the shopkeeper Zhou moved to the backyard of Shiweitian, he brought two packages, one large and one small, the small package was his daily change of clothes, and the big one was a set of guys he was used to. What's more, kitchen knives, boning knives, large iron pots, large iron spoons... everything is available.

Gu Yin's eyes lit up when she saw it, but she was not very jealous of iron pots and spoons. After all, she used the steamer and steamer so much, she was jealous of Shopkeeper Zhou's kitchen knife!

It was a jet-black kitchen knife.

Shopkeeper Zhou lent it to Gu Yin for use. Of course, it is much easier to use than ordinary kitchen knives, but because the habit and size of the knife are based on Shopkeeper Zhou, it is not particularly convenient.

In modern times, Gu Yin buys knives from famous brands, but that's how they actually work. I also thought about making it to order, but it is hard to find such old craftsmen in China, but there are foreign ones, but the price is expensive and the construction period is long. The eating habits of foreign countries are different from those of China, and the knives made always feel almost meaningless.

So when Gu Yin heard from the shopkeeper Zhou that she could customize it if she knew someone, she was naturally heartbroken.

The reason for no action is, of course, the lack of money.

Ordinary kitchen knives are only one or two taels more expensive.

She reached out and touched the kitchen knife of shopkeeper Zhou enviously, but she said, "This time I have eaten a loss without working capital, so I should save it again, and buy it when I am rich. . This money should really be spent on the blade, or recruit and buy ingredients first."

The lunch market started soon, and the ten hot dishes from the shopkeeper Zhou were brought to the counter.

The shopkeeper Zhou is quite famous in Hanshan Town. Knowing that these hot dishes come from his hands, there are only a lot more guests in the afternoon market than in the morning market.

There are also guests who have heard that they deposit silver here in the morning to reserve VIP seats to order food. For the reputation and craftsmanship of Shopkeeper Zhou, the guests are also willing to deposit.

However, unlike Bai Zixi who took the lead in the morning, only twenty taels of silver were collected in the afternoon market.

At this time, half a day has passed, and the recruitment notice outside seems to have been posted in vain. Gu Yinte went out to check it and confirmed that the notice was still posted in place, and the notice of the first half of the taels of wages was posted. It was not wrong, and she was relieved.

When she looked up, Gu Yin saw a sneaky figure.

The man was wearing a washed white scholar's robe with only a wooden hairpin on his head, carefully looking in through the large window.

For someone else, Gu Yin should treat people as villains with ulterior motives. When she saw him, she laughed, walked behind him and asked aloud, "Why don't you go in when Mr. Xu is here?"

Xu Qingchuan turned around when he heard the sound, his cheeks flushed, and he made a silent gesture, and stood to the side again.

Make sure no one else in the store found him, he explained to Gu Yin: "My mother came out to work for the first time, so I'll come and see."

Gu Yin also laughed when she heard it. Isn't this similar to the way modern parents send their children to kindergarten and peek at it without worry?

"What do you think after reading it?"

Xu Qingchuan said: "It's good."

It's really good.

Xu is in charge of picking dishes at the counter. Although there are many people in the store, she has no time to spare, but the calm and confident smile on her face is that Xu Qingchuan has never been on the face of her mother seen.

Gu Yin said with kindness, "Young Master Xu, don't worry, I won't tell my aunt."

Xu Qingchuan's face turned even redder, he bowed again and left.

After watching Xu Qingchuan leave, Gu Yin was about to enter the store, but suddenly someone asked from behind, "Are you hiring a waiter here?"

Gu Yin turned around and saw a young man in his early twenties, dressed in a sackcloth, but still neat and tidy, she nodded and said, "Yes, it's all written on the notice."

The man didn't look at her, he went into the store and said, "Then invite your shopkeeper out."

Gu Yin was wearing the same pale yellow dress as Wang and the others. It was not once or twice that she was regarded as an ordinary employee. She was not surprised and introduced him to the shopkeeper Zhou.

Meeting the shopkeeper Zhou, the man bowed slightly and introduced himself with a smile: "I used to work in a restaurant in Fucheng, and it was useful. I was the second person under the shopkeeper. Handle. Now my mother is seriously ill, so I came back to Hanshan Town to take care of my mother and get a job."

The shopkeeper Zhou asked him a few basic questions, and he answered them fluently.

The errand of running the hall is not particularly difficult. Gu Yin listened to the side and felt that the other party was doing well, so she was ready to let him start work.

No joke."

Hearing this, the smile on Gu Yin's face faded, and she asked aloud, "Why are people laughing?"

The man glanced at her and said as a matter of course: "Women don't stay at home, what's the point of showing up? Isn't this a joke? And since ancient times, running the hall has been a man's job. Recruiting so many women here is neither convenient nor easy to manage."

"Why is it difficult to manage?"

The man looked at her and frowned and said: "Saint said, only villains and women are difficult to support. As it is now, when I talk to the shopkeeper, the little lady interrupts several times, aggressive, and then It's very difficult to get along with."

"Okay," Gu Yin didn't bother to talk to him, "then I'll send you a sentence, 'The way is different and not for each other'. You can go."

After she finished speaking, she went directly to the counter and helped Wang and the others to prepare a dish.

"This little lady is really..." The man muttered, and then said to the shopkeeper Zhou: "The shopkeeper listen to me, really don't invite these women in the store."

Shopkeeper Zhou said: "You don't need to tell me this, since the owner has spoken, you can leave."

The man obviously did not expect that the owner of Shiweitian was actually Gu Yin, he had provoked the owner, and he knew that he would not be able to stay any longer, so he turned around and left, still saying: "Morning Saying that the owner is a woman, I haven't come to see work yet!"

Gu Yin is rarely angry, and hearing this also aroused a three-point anger, she frowned and asked the shopkeeper Zhou: "The notice has been posted for a long time, but only such a person has come to see the work, is it? Not because of…”

Although the reason is a bit hurtful, but the shopkeeper Zhou did not hide it from her, nodded and said: "The owner is busy in the back kitchen in the morning, when I went out to post the notice, someone asked, the other party I saw women in the front hall...and it was all over."

Wang listened for a while, and put the spoon in his hand on the counter in anger, "I said why someone came to ask for jobs in the morning, I heard that I was in charge of the front hall, then People just walked away, and the co-author doesn't look down on our women's family! Where did the **** just come from here and mess around? What happened to our women's family?"

Seeing that Mrs. Wang was going to go out to fight with others, Gu Yin hurriedly held him back and said, "Forget it, if you don't look down on us, we can't use it. Anyway, the notice Stick it, someone will come to see work sooner or later."

In the afternoon, no one was recruited in the store, but the good news was that Chef Xu came with two apprentices!

Gu Yin was pleasantly surprised when she saw him, and then said something wrong, "I remember you said the contract was until June, but it's only half a month later? Don't break the contract."

The contract is the contract of this era, and it has legal effect. If Chef Xu breaks the contract, Master Wen Er can go to the government to sue him.

Chef Xu smiled and said, "Master, don't worry, I didn't come out on my own, but Wen Tieji let me out."

Gu Yin wanted to laugh at first, but then held back, "What kind of iron chicken, talk to me."

"Alas, Master Wen Er himself said to let me out!"

Chef Xu wanted to leave at the beginning of April, but the old man agreed, but Master Wen Er had to block him.

He can embarrass Chef Xu, and Chef Xu can also embarrass him.

What's the cook's way of embarrassing people? That is to do the meal to the poor.

Master Wen Er scolded him for an unknown number of times. Chef Xu was scolded obediently, and he was also punished. Anyway, a bad meal is a day's wages less.

In this way, Mr. Wen Er ate half a month of dark food, and was reluctant to go out to eat out. In the end, he compromised and released the person.

Of course, Wen Tieji's name is not for nothing, and he will not be paid in April, and he also asked Chef Xu for a severance pay.

Yes, severance pay. Whether this fee is in this era or in modern times, I have only heard that the boss pays the buddy, and I have never heard that the buddy pays it back to the boss.

But Chef Xu really didn't want to waste time at Wen's house, so he happily posted two months' wages and came to join his master with two young apprentices.

Even though she has a very good relationship with the old man, Gu Yin couldn't help but think of the name of the Wen Er, Master Wen Er, it is true and correct!

When Chef Xu saw Shopkeeper Zhou, his excitement was beyond words, and he almost cried on the spot.

Gu Yin asked only to find out that Chef Xu had been to Wangyuelou to see work before going to Wen's house.

However, his layman's craftsmanship was naturally not applied. Later, he went to work at Wen's house. It was also the shopkeeper Zhou who gave him instructions, saying that although he was not proficient, he was fast and could be used by three or five people. , might as well go to the rich area to try.

The chef recruited by the wealthy family has to cook for the whole family to eat and drink. Although Chef Xu’s craftsmanship is less than that of a serious chef, it is always enough to cook some home-cooked dishes.

Unexpectedly, the world will change, and the two meet again.

"Thanks to your guidance, I went to Wen's house to get a job. After several years of earning, I also met Master!"

Chef Xu said that he was going to give a big gift to Shopkeeper Zhou, but Shopkeeper Zhou turned sideways to avoid it, "Master Xu is too polite, I just mentioned it back then, and the rest is your own creation. ."

It's too old to tell, Chef Xu pulled Gu Yin aside again and whispered, "Master, can you find a place for me to live?"

"It's simple, several rooms in the backyard are empty, but the place is not big, you don't want to dislike it."

"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it." Chef Xu happily took his little apprentice to drop off the package.

Although he worked in Wen's house for several years, and also eats at Wen's house, he saved half of the wages for his two younger apprentices, for them to start a family later. His own share of the money, because he was getting fat day by day, and his appetite was getting bigger and bigger day by day, he entered his temple of five internal organs.

After posting 10 taels of silver from Wen's house, he couldn't even afford to rent a house.

I have to live in the backyard.

But no matter what, the people who eat for the sky finally solve it.

Chef Xu served as the second chef for Manager Zhou and Gu Yin, and his two young apprentices and other helpers in the back kitchen could also serve as waiters in the front hall when there were many people.

At the end of the day's business, Gu Yin and the shopkeeper Zhou checked the accounts and calculated the gross profit for the day, which was better than Gu Yin thought. The gross profit for the day was about four taels of silver.

When the two settled accounts, the employees sat at a table with Wu An, who had left school, and Gu Ye, who had come back from playing outside, and had dinner together.

Chef Xu can really eat it, there is no food left in the restaurant in the evening market, and the evening meal is that Chef Xu fryes three dishes with the remaining ingredients in the back kitchen, and the leftovers in the store Of the twenty or so steamed buns he ordered, he ate ten by himself.

When everyone finished eating, he was still eating the steamed bun with the vegetable soup.

Wang's and the others were stunned. His two young apprentices started to pull on his sleeves, and he remembered that he was not at Wen's house and could not open his stomach to eat, so he quickly put down the steamed buns.

"Actually, I don't usually eat so much, and I can eat a little less in the future." Chef Xu blushed and clenched his fist to assure.

Wang snickered and waved his hand: "It's okay, eat as much as you can, anyway, the leftovers are a waste. It doesn't mean that you are not allowed to eat, but we are getting old. , I'm afraid you won't be able to overcome it."

"Mother." Gu Yin was helpless, "He's only twenty-eight, so he's not married."

Not only was Wang stunned, but everyone else in the store, including the shopkeeper Zhou, was astonished.

So everyone's name for Chef Xu changed from Master Xu to Xiao Xu. After all, except for Gu Yin and Tian's daughter, everyone in the store was more than a round older than Chef Xu. It was him. 's elders.

…

The next day, Gu Yin got up earlier again, to be the characteristics that the distinguished guests wanted.

First of all, the five courses that Bai Zixi wanted, and then the other four.

A total of nine exquisite features took Gu Yin an hour of work.

When the sky was bright, the door of the store opened, and the customers who had ordered the characteristics came early.

Especially the old Li who deposited cash with Bai Zixi yesterday, he was the first.

I ate the soup dumplings made by Gu Yin the day before. He liked them very much, but personally I prefer soup dumplings. Later, I heard that you need to save money to become a VIP to order food. The heat also followed.

After he went back, his daughter-in-law pinched his ears, saying that he was really confused.

Ten taels of silver are nothing to his family, but this approach is really stupid!

Lao Li was scolded with blood and blood, although he argued at the time: "The most common things like steamed buns and biscuits are delicious, why can't they make soup dumplings?"

After the debate, in fact, he has no confidence in his heart. He really doesn't like to eat those things. Let his daughter-in-law talk about it for a month.

In the hope of Lao Li, Gu Yin brought a dumpling.

For Gu Yin, soup dumplings are not complicated. The difference between them and ordinary dumplings is that they need to take a bite of the juice.

, pound the meat into puree, add salt, sugar, pepper, soy sauce and sesame oil, add the most crucial mushroom water, then stir the meat filling into a meat puree with small bubbles in the middle, and finally add minced green onion and ginger, wrap it as usual Just like dumplings.

The skin of the dumplings is crystal clear, which vaguely reflects the meat filling inside.

Lao Li took one while it was still hot and put it in his mouth. As soon as he took a bite, the soup overflowed in his mouth. There were only two words in his mind, fresh and fragrant!

By the time the peppers and vinegar were served, he had already finished the plate.

Old Li gave a thumbs up and smacked his mouth again, pity: "I knew your soup dumplings were so good, I should have ordered more. I didn't have such a bowl. Eat enough."

Gu Yin put down the vinegar dish and said, "Otherwise, would you eat something else? Yesterday's soup dumplings that you said were good are also available today."

Lao Li nodded and asked for another bowl of soup buns.

Soup dumplings and soup dumplings are actually similar to most people.

But in the eyes of diners like Lao Li, these are two completely different things. The soup for the soup dumplings is made of pork skin jelly, especially the chef of Hanxiang Lou is People from Guangdong and Guangxi, although they have made improvements, the desserts are a little sweet, and the soup dumplings are not liked by Lao Li at all.

Although a great cook, like eating for heaven, will minimize the greasy taste of pork skin, but for a person like him who can't eat greasy, it is still average.

After getting the soup bag, Lao Li saw the two small dishes that Gu Yin put down.

One is vinegar and the other is fresh red pepper sauce.

I know the peppers, but the people in Hanshan Town don’t eat spicy very much. They usually make peppers into chili noodles, and it is rare to see such bright red peppers.

Out of curiosity, Lao Li mixed the chopped pepper sauce into the vinegar, and then picked up the soup bag for dipping.

The trembling soup bag took a small bite, and the sweet soup filled the whole mouth, but before Lao Li felt tired, the vinegar mixed with chopped pepper sauce gave the taste a taste Punch hard. Lao Li only felt the tip of his tongue numb, and then his mouth was full of sour and spicy, which completely neutralized the greasy taste of the soup, and only tasted the sweetness of the gravy.

This kind of feeling is too novel for people who don’t eat spicy food very much and are used to eating dim sum in Guangdong and Guangxi. After Lao Li finished eating one, he hissed and picked up the second one…

Not long after, Lao Li's friend also came.

The day before, he brought Lao Li to Shiweitian, and Lao Li was inseparable from him in this newly opened Shiweitian.

"It seems that the soup dumplings here are very suitable for you." The friend said and sat down next to Lao Li. When he saw that he was eating soup dumplings, he was surprised: "Why? Didn't you make soup dumplings, you're eating soup dumplings? Didn't you say yesterday that soup dumplings are not too sweet, but they still taste like pork skin?"

Old Li's face was flushed, hissing hot air, pointing to the chopped pepper sauce and saying, "This is mixed with vinegar, and it won't be boring at all!"

His friend also took a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, picked up the soup bag and dipped it in the ingredients, his mouth was numb after eating, but he had to admit: "Really! It's so spicy, But it's fun to eat!"

At this time, Gu Yin also brought up the characteristics set by the old friend of Li, listening to him praise the chopped pepper sauce she made, she smiled: "If you like it, I will give you another one. Plate here."

Other guests heard what they said was exciting, and they felt novel when they saw the bright red pepper sauce, so Gu Yin also served a plate.

Gu Yin said: "This is not for sale yet."

If she wants to put it in the modern era, if the customer wants to chop the pepper sauce, she will definitely send a plate to the family directly, or put it in the store for the customer to use. It's just that the chili peppers are really expensive at the moment, and the price of a small plate has exceeded the ordinary dim sum, and she really can't afford it to the customers who usually order food.

Afterwards, there were still half a jar left at home, so they only ate it at home. Today, it is because I wanted to thank Lao Li and the others who were the first to deposit silver as VIPs. Gu Yinte found it out.

Lao Li and his friends misunderstood, and immediately laughed: "That is, we are all VIPs who have deposited cash, this is the treatment of our VIPs!"

"No, if you want to eat, save yourself a VIP!"

The two brothers talked like a cross talk, and they gave two guests to join the VIP of Shiweitian.

This is not enough. From this day on, Lao Li and his friends have become loyal guests. They come here every morning to report and bring other people they know together. come over.

Like later generations, depositing silver in advance is a very good way to retain customers. After all, you have recharged money in the store. If you can’t think of what to eat, you will definitely go to the store where you deposit silver. Especially Shiweitian can make any dim sum, and there is no situation where they will get tired of eating. These old gluttons have completely separated from Hanxianglou and took root in Shiweitian.

At the end of the month, Gu Yin made an account, and even if she deducted her own 22 taels of wages, the new store earned 40 taels in the first month! It has doubled more than she expected, and the liquidity is even more incredible, as many as hundreds of taels.

A serious illness, after struggling for half a month, still passed away.

Old man Bai also knew that after he went, the first and second houses could no longer maintain the peace on the face as before. Forcing the Bai brothers to do it together would definitely be a bad thing. He simply left the Hanxiang Building to the big room to operate, while the second room has the right to audit the accounts, and can get half of the profits from the Hanxiang Building every year.

Master Bai made a drastic move. Except for the chef Bai An who did not move, everyone in the second room was cleared out of the Hanxiang Building.

Afterwards, he spent a lot of money to buy a mysterious condiment from overseas.

After lying in bed for ten days, Wang Dafu of the Wang family also struggled to go to the ground, sold all the things that could be used in the family, and collected enough money to go to the underground bank to redeem Wangyue Lou - Although it was stated in the deed that the deed could only be redeemed with the deed, now we all know that this was a game made by Wang Dagui, and the deed was stolen by the bandits of Jiulianzhai. If the people at the bank insisted on saying this, they would be involved in Wang Dagui's case if they were not in good balance.

Wangyuelou is not a problem without shopkeeper Zhou, and Wang Dafu also mysteriously let people buy something back.

The three stores stand on three legs, and they are about to fight.