Traveling through ancient times, storing supplies and not fleeing famine

I have to say that the waiter in the restaurant was not too exaggerated.

As the dishes came up one after another, each one was unique in color, aroma and taste.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that he could be ranked among the famous ones in Ning'an Prefecture.

The first dish served was Eight Treasure Duck, which is a Hakka dish. First, the cleaned, plump duck's back is opened and stuffed with eight unique ingredients.

Including taro, lean meat, dried shrimp, coix seed, red dates, grass head mushroom, ginkgo and lotus seeds.

Each ingredient is fully integrated with each other and mixed with the aroma of the duck meat itself, making the taste particularly delicious.

The children were amazed at the food they ate. In their opinion, if duck is to be cooked, it can be made into soup or stewed.

This is the first time I see a duck made into the shape of a flower.

It feels colorful and very beautiful.

Next came the lotus root stuffed with honey, squirrel fish, mapo tofu and Dongpo pork.

"Mom, what did you call this? Honey what? It's delicious! Is it made of honey?"

Liu Shanshan picked up a piece of honeyed lotus root slices and took a light bite. The sweet taste spread in her mouth, and she felt so surprised that her eyes brightened.

"This is called lotus root stuffed with honey! It should be made with honey and brown sugar. I don't know how it's made. If it tastes good, eat more. If it's not enough, order another portion."

Xia Shengsheng is very confident in her cooking skills. When she is in the army, she would occasionally cook for herself in her spare time to improve the food.

But most of the dishes are home-cooked.

I am not very good at doing things like this which are more complicated and technically demanding!

But if the girls in the family like to eat it, she can learn to make it.

It’s just that it’s hard to buy lotus roots here. For a restaurant like theirs, they should have them transported from the south by a special fleet of cars.

However, Xia Shengsheng has space, and the supermarket in the shopping mall does sell it, so it would be convenient if he wanted to make it.

The favorite foods of the two girls, Liu Yiyi and Liu Shanshan, are lotus root stuffed with honey and the sweet-tasting squirrel fish.

Liu Ercheng, on the other hand, was struggling with the heavy-flavored Mapo Tofu.

As for Liu Sicheng, he has almost no special hobbies. He likes to eat every dish and thinks every dish is delicious.

Even the spicy mapo tofu is worth a few bites.

It was so spicy that I kept drinking water but I couldn't bear to give it up.

Xia Shengsheng watched the children eating happily, and she happily joined the fight.

There were five dishes in total, and in the end, thanks to the efforts of several people, not even any soup was left.

Bowl after bowl of rice was added.

After eating, a few people ended up sitting there holding their stomachs, unable to move.

A guest at another table looked at Xia Shengsheng and laughed secretly.

Xia Shengsheng didn't care, just laugh if you want to! She couldn't control other people's mouths.

Only what you eat is economical. Those who pretend to be ladies outside and then say they are full after eating a few bites are really stupid.

"Are you full? Do you want to order something else?"

After resting for a while, Xia Shengsheng prepared to eat and then took the children to pay the bill and leave.

I'll just ask symbolically before leaving.

Although I know it's useless to ask, everyone is already exhausted, how can we order anything else?

"I'm full! No need to order anymore, mom!"

"Yeah! Mom, I'm so full!"

"I can't eat anymore either."

After making sure that the children had finished eating, Xia Shengsheng took the children downstairs to pay the bill.

When going downstairs, Liu Sicheng was the last one to walk and even burped a few times!

It seems I need to get some stomach-strengthening and digestion-promoting tablets for the kids later.

She really needs it too.

"Sir, your total spending is 10 taels, 3 qian and 18 wen. Please make it an even number and give me 10 taels and 3 qian."

The shopkeeper was nervously reporting the bill, and the waiter who had just served the dishes to Xia Shengsheng and the others had already been scolded.

How much money can a lady from an ordinary family spend on a meal with a few children?

What he ordered were all the restaurant’s signature dishes. If he doesn’t have the money to pay the bill, won’t he be at a huge loss?

While I was thinking about this, Xia Shengsheng had already taken out a 100-tael silver note from his purse and handed it to me.

The shopkeeper looked at her in surprise. He had never expected that such an ordinary woman could so casually take out a 100-tael silver note.

For a moment, I even forgot about finding the silver.

"Boss, can you give me the change? What's the matter? You don't accept banknotes?"

Xia Shengsheng thought that if she didn't accept it, she would have to exchange it for silver.

When I came out, luckily I brought with me a silver note worth 100 taels.

The rest of the loose silver added up to just over five taels.

Who would have thought that a meal would cost more than ten taels, it's really expensive.

But you have to pretend to be calm on the surface, so that people won’t look down on you!

"Yes, yes. I'm sorry, sir, but I just want to give you the change. Look, I'll give you all the silver. Or should I give you the silver notes of fifty taels and twenty taels, and the rest in silver?"

Xia Shengsheng thought that if she took all the silver, her purse would not be able to hold it all, and she would have to wrap it up with a separate piece of cloth. It would be more convenient to hold the silver bills.

So he asked for two small silver notes and more than ten taels of loose change.

By the time we took the children out of the restaurant, they were almost unable to move.

Xia Shengsheng never told them how much money his family had when they got here?

It was the first time they knew that their mother actually had a silver note worth 100 taels.

At first I thought I had spent all the money from selling the wild ginseng.

Didn't expect there were so many?

This wild ginseng is so valuable.

Mom, did I find a treasure?

Although the children had a lot of things on their mind, they were tactful enough not to ask. They just had to follow their mother and listen to her.

Why bother with so many things?

Xia Shengsheng thought the children would ask her where the money came from?

I've already thought of an excuse in my mind.

In the end, they walked for a long time and no one asked.

This made Xia Shengsheng feel a lot more relaxed.

"There's a grocery store up ahead. Let's go in and see if there's anything you want to buy. We've almost finished shopping. We still have to take the bus back after we finish shopping."

After all, Xia Shengsheng had been here once and didn't want to buy anything in particular, but the children were different. Since it was their first time here, they always had to buy something they liked so that their trip wouldn't be in vain.

Before entering the grocery store, Xia Shengsheng bought a large backpack and four small backpacks on the roadside.

Buy one for each of your children, so that you can take them to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, and in the fall you can pick mushrooms and wild fruits.

I didn’t see the little girl who sold the backpack last time, so I bought it from an older man. The backpack was woven very tightly and the price was very affordable!

The grocery stores in the capital are much bigger than those in the town.

Adding up the whole place inside and outside, I estimate it to be around 300 to 400 square meters.

There are many kinds of things sold there, such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, daily necessities, clothes, fabrics, and simple gadgets.

Xia Shengsheng let the children walk around freely.

She also casually asked about the prices of various things.

Walk over to where you have laid out the fabrics.

Although the product categories here are not as complete as those in the fabric shop, they are all common styles without any special patterns.

But the price is cheaper than that of a cloth shop.

Xia Shengsheng was thinking of buying a few feet of cloth to make two sets of quilt covers for the quilts at home to use for replacement.

The mattress we are using now is made from the quilt we used to cover ourselves with. Not only is it extremely hard, but the cotton is also very old and has a smell.

The bedding in the mall is a bit too modern.

It would be better to buy some cotton and cloth here and make a few more quilts.

So Xia Shengsheng asked the waiter to pack ten kilograms of cotton, and selected a piece of gray, a piece of mauve, and a piece of white cotton cloth for the quilt cover and mattress cover! !