A small breakfast shop in the street market, supporting the family and making money

"Oh, time flies by so fast. Zhan Jiang was so young before, but now he's getting married. Just imagine how fast it goes by."

Zhang Cuiniang accompanied Aunt Liu, picking and choosing in front of various porcelain stalls, feeling deeply moved.

"Who says it's not true? I also feel like time is passing really fast!"

Aunt Liu was also filled with emotion, then she thought of something and said worriedly, "Cui Niang and Huai Ge'er will be fifteen next year, you have to see them early.

Su Jie'er is the same. Although the previous relatives said that they had retired, your family is not short of money now, and of course there is no shortage of good men. You must pay attention to them early."

"Their mother died young, so as their sister-in-law, you have to pay more attention to them."

Zhang Cui Niang knew Aunt Liu's long-term thinking, "Aunt, I know what you said, but we can't rush the marriage of the two children.

As for Huai'er, Yanjie said she would send him to school after a while.

I don't seek to pass an imperial examination or anything like that, but I have to know a little bit of reading and math, and be able to help with the accounting in the shop.

As for Su, there is no need to rush. I want to keep her for a few more years. You see, being a wife is not as easy as being a daughter.

Su has suffered a lot since she was a child, so she needs to relax for two years."

Seeing that she had her own plans in mind, Aunt Liu did not try to persuade her and continued to select porcelain.

Leng Yan on the other side went to Boss Tao's porcelain workshop and handed over the drawings he had drawn without saying much.

"Boss Tao, can you see if you can do it?"

Having dealt with her several times before, Boss Tao had already gotten used to her handing over drawings without saying a word.

He took it and looked through it cheerfully, "A large jar and a soup bowl?"

"Yes, it is a large vat and these small soup cups."

What Leng Yan wanted to customize was the utensils for stewing clay pot soup. She explained her requirements and details in detail.

After hearing this, Boss Tao nodded repeatedly and exclaimed, "The large earthenware jar made according to this method can simmer dozens of soups at a time. It really saves time and effort!"

Leng Yan nodded, and after the matter was settled and a time to pick up the goods was agreed upon, the group got on the ox cart and left Taojing Village.

Time passed quickly, and it was almost the day of Sheng Yuxing's grandmother's birthday party.

Leng Yan has been preparing for the banquet and drawing up the menu these days.

Now the work in the front hall and back kitchen of the shop has been stabilized, and her parents, Aunt Liu and a few other aunts are busy and can handle it.

Leng Yan, who had some free time, took his sister-in-law to the dock where ships were coming and going early in the morning to see if there were any merchant caravans bringing any new and exotic food from the south.

The aunt and nephew walked and stopped, watching the trucks of fresh fruit being unloaded from the dock and loaded onto trucks and taken away by servants from the wealthy families in the town.

Leng Su looked at them and sighed, saying that the fruits from the south looked much fresher than the local ones.

"Let's go to the front and take a look."

Most of the goods on the ships here are not sold outside, but are purchased by the wealthy families in the town.

Seeing this, the two of them walked forward and then Leng Yan smelled a fishy smell.

“It’s seafood!”

Leng Yan cried out in surprise and was about to go forward to take a look, but was stopped by someone.

"Miss Leng, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here."

Sheng Yuxing walked over with his servant, surrounded by a clear breeze and bright moon.

"Are you here to buy fish and shrimp?"

Looking at the seafood on the fishing boat behind him, Sheng Yuxing immediately understood.

Leng Yan nodded and said that he just wanted to think of some new dishes.

Sheng Yuxing warmly invited them to board the ship, "All the seafood on this ship belongs to me. If you don't mind, Miss Leng, you can go and see if there is anything you want."

Leng Yan opened her mouth in shock, but Sheng Yuxing just said it was his grandmother's birthday party, and that Leng Yan had to trouble him to make dishes out of these seafood.

"I had been planning to tell Miss Leng later, but I didn't expect to meet her here."

Leng Yan was worrying about what dishes to prepare for the birthday banquet, but when she saw all those fish and shrimps, she suddenly had an idea and came up with countless cooking methods.

"That's no problem, but we can't use up all the fish and shrimp. Mr. Sheng, can you give me some?"

Leng Yan started to have some thoughts. Seafood is such a rare food. If you miss this opportunity, you know how long you will have to wait.

I thought it would take some time to talk, but Sheng Yuxing just waved his hand and gave me a basket of fish, shrimp and crabs without asking for any money.

Leng Yan was so flattered that she was embarrassed to accept the money and insisted on giving it. However, Sheng Yuxing only asked that as long as she could prepare the food for her grandmother's birthday party and make her grandmother happy, everything else would not be a problem.

"Miss Leng, you don't have to be polite. These fish, shrimps and crabs are not worth much. As long as grandma is happy, it's worth it no matter how many!"

As he spoke, Sheng Yuxing carefully asked the servants in the mansion to help them deliver two baskets of fish, shrimps and crabs to the shop.

Leng Yan couldn't refuse, so after thinking about it, she invited Sheng Yuxing to have dinner in the shop.

"In that case, thank you very much for your kindness, Mr. Sheng.

I will be back soon, so I will try to make some food with these fish, shrimps and crabs. Why don't you come over and taste them, Master Sheng?"

Sheng Yuxing was on a day off today, and apart from coming to the dock to keep an eye on the cargo, he had nothing else to do, so he naturally agreed when he heard this.

After returning to the shop, Leng Yan first brought Sheng Yuxing into the box.

"Mr. Sheng, please wait a moment. I will go and prepare it."

Having said this, Leng Yan served the tea and was about to leave.

Sheng Yuxing suddenly thought of something and asked, "Miss Leng is here to taste the food, can I call one more person over?"

"Of course, please do as you please, sir."

As she spoke, she went to the kitchen and started to get busy.

The shop was also busy with the lunch market, so Leng Yan came up with an idea after looking at the fish, shrimps and crabs in the basket.

Let’s have some stir-fried shrimp with green onions. After cleaning the prawns, fry them in scallion oil until the shells turn red and crispy, then add the scallion segments to season. The whole process must be done quickly.

There are too many kinds of marine fish, so Leng Yan picked the larger yellow croakers and steamed them. The smaller ones were cleaned, marinated and seasoned, coated with batter and fried until golden brown, and sprinkled with chili powder.

After descaling and deboning the remaining miscellaneous fish, they were chopped into fish paste and made into fish balls. Some shrimp paste was also chopped up and paired with pea tips to make soup.

The sea crabs were cut into pieces, mixed with chicken wings, chicken nuggets and various vegetables, and a pot of fragrant crab meat stew was made.

Leng Yan cut the remaining mantis shrimps into small pieces, mixed them with egg liquid, and made scrambled shrimps and eggs.

As the dishes came out of the pot, everyone in Zhixiang's kitchen couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

Leng Yan smiled and divided the large amount of fish balls, crab meat pot, shrimp soup and the like into three portions. He kept one for his own consumption, one for sale in the shop, and the rest along with other dishes were brought to the private room.

Sheng Yuxing, who was in the box, asked the servant to invite his good friend Xiao Pingyue over. When Leng Yan entered, he saw the two of them chatting happily.

Seeing this, she said, "Excuse me."

Then she asked her uncle and elder brother to bring the prepared food to the table one by one.

When the two people in the room saw this, they felt that the fragrance of the food filling the room made them hungry.