Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

After a busy period, all the buckets of braised meat and the basin of offal were sold out. It was not even noon, or twelve o'clock, and Mrs. Zhong was still holding a spoon in her hand, her forehead covered with sweat. She was scooping the last spoonful to give to the last passerby who was just watching the fun, but only remembered to ask for a spoonful when he saw that it was sold out.

"I didn't bring a bowl. Can I eat in the store?"

"Sure, we have bowls here that we can bring back for you, but we'd like to trouble you to bring them back when the time comes," said Zhong Ruyi.

The passerby nodded in agreement and said, "I live in the alley in front. My last name is Liu. I'll return it tomorrow."

When a bowl of braised offal was handed to him, he couldn't help but picked up a piece and ate it. He regretted it as soon as he ate it - it was so delicious, he should have bought a few more spoonfuls. There were many people in his family, and one spoonful was not enough to share. It was all his fault that he wasted time by watching the fun. When he turned around to ask the boss if there was any more, he was already preparing to close the shop.

The passerby named Liu took the bowl of braised offal back home. Lunch had just been prepared at home. He put the bowl of braised offal on the dining table and went to wash his hands.

When he came out, he saw his wife and children sitting at the dinner table waiting for him. As soon as he sat down, his wife asked what the black thing in the bowl was. When he said it was pig offal, both his wife and mother frowned.

He hastened to explain that this was a new delicacy developed by Zhong Ji, the former wonton shop, and that the pig offal used was cooked using his family's secret recipe, without any of the pickled and fishy smell of pig offal. Seeing that his wife and mother were both skeptical, he hastened to put a piece of it into his mouth to show that it was indeed not bad and was very delicious.

Seeing that the two of them were unwilling to touch the bowl of offal with a chopstick, he thought that if they didn't eat it, it would all go into his stomach, and some of them would regret it.

At this time, his daughter also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks. Seeing her eyes shining, he knew that anyone who took a bite of such delicious food would fall in love with it! Humph!

When the Liu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law saw that their daughter (granddaughter) was eating with gusto, although they felt a little disgusted that it was pig offal, they still picked up their chopsticks to taste it, and it turned out to be really delicious!

Aunt Liu said, "This is delicious. You can buy some more tomorrow."

Aunt Liu's daughter-in-law Feng also nodded, and her chopsticks kept moving. Liu Zhang smiled proudly, but by the time he finished being proud, the bowl was almost empty. He immediately stopped talking, reached out to pick up a piece of food with chopsticks and started eating.

The first passerby who came to buy today hurriedly took the bowl back home after buying. He also lived nearby. His family ran a rice shop and his surname was Zhang.

As soon as he opened the door, his wife, Mrs. Wu, was about to go out to look for him to come back for dinner. When she saw him come in, she rolled her eyes and said, "Where have you been? You need someone to treat you to a meal."

Zhang Sheng smiled ingratiatingly, holding a bowl of braising liquid and approaching his wife, "This is a new food I just got, it's delicious!"

Wu took a look and saw a bowl of black, greasy things, pieces of which she couldn't tell what they were. "Is it meat?"

Zhang Sheng said, "It's pig offal." As soon as he finished these words, his wife's face changed. He reached out to cover his ears, but he was holding the bowl in his hands, and dared not move for fear of spilling the bowl. As a result, his wife grabbed his ears and twisted them tightly. He grimaced in pain.

"Wife! Wife! Listen to me first! Ouch!" Mrs. Wu didn't listen to him at all. She pulled his ear and walked into the house. Several children hid aside and laughed.

"You are so capable! You bought something like this that was a waste of money! Couldn't you just tell me you wanted to eat meat? You had to be a fool with a lot of money to buy this filthy stuff."

Zhang Sheng's mother heard the noise and came out to see this scene. She hurried over to stop him and said, "Rouniang, don't be angry. Sheng'er must have his reasons for buying this. If he can't give a reason, I will be the first one to not forgive him."

Seeing her mother-in-law speak, Wu put down her hands and straightened her messy clothes. After all this fuss, she was so angry that her face turned a little red. She glared at her husband, took her mother-in-law's hand and went to eat.

Aunt Zhang gave her son a look that said "take care of yourself" and left, leaving Zhang Sheng standing there with a wronged look on his face. He just ate something delicious outside and bought it back for his family to try, but he was scolded instead. He felt so wronged.

Zhang Sheng followed him in. Everyone at the table had already started eating. When his little daughter saw him come in, she quickly pulled out a chair for him to sit down. He was very pleased.

As soon as he sat down, his little daughter told him not to buy random things in the future. He felt even more wronged. Wasn't it just that he bought three boxes of rouge for the women in the family last time, but he didn't know how to choose and bought a bad color. After applying it, he looked like an eggplant? Was it necessary to keep nagging about it?

He put the bowl on the table. His wife glanced at him secretly, coughed softly, and still reached out to pick up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. As soon as it touched her mouth, she almost swallowed her tongue, and continued to eat with chopsticks.

Seeing Wu's behavior, the children dared to reach out for the bowl of marinated offal. However, as Aunt Zhang had bad teeth, she ate one piece and stopped eating. However, she kept praising the dish for being delicious. In the end, she used the remaining marinade in the bowl to soak her rice.

At night, when Zhang Sheng went to bed, he was still sitting on the bed with a wronged look on his face. Wu sat in front of the dressing table and secretly looked at him through the mirror in front of her. Seeing that he was wronged, she knew that she had just wrongly accused him of wasting money, and that she was also traumatized by the rouge she had used before. After thinking about it, she went out to get some hot water to wash his feet. When he saw his wife bringing in a basin of water, he knew that his wife was giving in to him.

Mrs. Wu placed the water in front of her husband and smiled awkwardly: "Well, you've worked hard today."

Zhang Sheng snorted, and Wu quickly reached out and stroked his back to calm him down. "It was my fault. I won't do this again next time."

Zhang's anger had subsided, and he was now waiting for his wife to give in. As soon as she gave in, he immediately smiled. Seeing his smiling face, Wu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she was still as easy to coax as before.

The people who bought the braised offal today all praised it highly and said they would come earlier tomorrow to buy more to take home.

Chen Dongzhi, who had left early this morning to sell deer in the town, was on his way home when he met an oxcart going back to the village. The villagers asked him to ride in the oxcart, but he waved his hand to thank them and refused. After saying goodbye, he left quickly.

It was already mid-afternoon when he got home. The house was quiet. It must be that Chen's mother had taken his sister and brother out. When he unloaded the backpack and put the salt, sugar and some meat he had bought in the kitchen, Chen's mother had already returned with his sister and brother. They were each carrying a backpack. Xiaoxue and Xiaoman were carrying small backpacks filled with wild vegetables or firewood.

Seeing them come back, he asked the two younger ones to wash their hands and said that he had bought something for them in town. When the two of them washed their hands happily and came over, they saw a box of cakes and four silk flowers on the table. The cakes were for Chen's mother and others, and the silk flowers were for the mother and daughter respectively.

Seeing that he bought so many things at once, Chen's mother wanted him to spend less money and save it for getting married in the future. However, when she thought that this was a token of her son's love, she was too embarrassed to speak up.

Chen Dongzhi took out the money from selling the deer today from his arms and put it on the table. With a thud, Chen's mother looked up and saw: Why is there so much silver!

"Mom, this is the money from selling the deer today, thirty-eight taels. Keep it first and buy whatever you want." Chen Dongzhi said as he wiped Chen Xiaoman's face, which was covered with stains from the pastries he had eaten. Chen Xiaoman was still a little afraid of his elder brother, mainly because of his full beard. But when he remembered that the pastries were bought by his elder brother, he felt that the beard was not scary anymore.