The general kneels on the washboard again

After sending Shopkeeper Sun away, Erya was puzzled: "Yue'er, why don't you sell it? It's fifty taels."

"Sister, I want to make a lot of money."

After the hill was bought, Yue Niang carefully put the documents back into the small box.

Looking at the empty little box, Yue Niang comforted herself: "It's okay, it's okay, there will always be money again."

Jiang Yunxiao ran in noisily: "I'm hungry."

Li An chased after him: "Mr. Jiang, wait for me."

Yue Niang came out from the inner room and said to Mother Ji who was busy in the kitchen, "Mother Ji, you don't have to cook for us today."

Then he pushed Jiang Yunxiao out the door: "Come on, Mr. Jiang, it's your treat."

Arya followed, and Li An naturally followed as well.

Jiang Yunxiao looked puzzled: "Where are you going?"

"Go to town."

......

A few people talked and laughed as they entered the reception building opposite Cuixin Building.

Of course, Shopkeeper Sun of Cuixinlou also saw this and said to himself, "Could it be that this girl is not satisfied with the price I offered?"

Yue Niang and her group entered the private room on the second floor of the Yingke Building. The business of this Yingke Building was obviously not as good as that of Cui Xin Building opposite. There were only a few tables with people sitting here and there, but judging from their attire, they all looked like people of status.

The waiter handed over the bamboo menu, and the dishes were nothing special.

Yue Niang handed it to Jiang Yunxiao and said, "Mr. Jiang is treating us today, so please help yourself."

Jiang Yunxiao's stomach was already rumbling. He grabbed the menu and started ordering, "Waiter, bring up these candied fruits and snacks first. Then, a portion of this cured meat, this roast pork shoulder, a portion of lamb... and a portion of seaweed soup. That's all for now. Hurry up."

The waiter hesitated after being urged. He looked at the shabby clothes worn by the people traveling with Jiang Yunxiao and said with disdain, "Sir, you ordered so much. According to the store's rules, you have to pay some money first."

......

Yue Niang was being stared at by the waiter and she smelled herself unconsciously. Hmm, there was a strong smell of poverty.

Jiang Yunxiao casually took out two ingots of silver weighing one hundred taels each and threw them down: "Is that enough?"

The waiter picked up an ingot with some embarrassment and said, "That's enough, that's enough. I'll go talk to Chef Deng. Please wait a moment, sir."

Jiang Yunxiao was getting impatient waiting: "This is the first time someone has looked down on me like this. I really want to smash his shop."

Li An and Erya advised him not to be impulsive, while Yue Niang calmly took a sip of tea and said, "Smash it. I support you."

After these words were spoken, both the person pulling and the one being pulled stopped moving. Yue Niang changed the subject: "But he still has to pay a large sum of money for this shabby little shop. It's a loss just thinking about it."

The decoration of this reception building is old, perhaps it is an old sign.

Jiang Yunxiao kicked the table angrily.

When the dishes were served, the preserved fruits and melons were no longer anything new, and once the dishes arrived, they were even more ordinary.

Yue Niang took the lead and put a piece of meat into her mouth to taste it. After chewing it for a while, she spat it out and said, "Is this for human consumption?"

The waiter hadn't left after serving the dishes. Seeing that the person speaking was a little girl, he became even more brazen: "Have you ever tasted good food, little brat? How dare you find fault with our Chef Deng's dishes?"

Li An was shocked. "Chef Deng? From the famous chef family of Yunzhou?" He also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. The waiter saw that there was someone who knew what was good and nodded hurriedly. "Got it? You country bumpkin who has never seen the world."

Li An also finished tasting it. Although he didn't spit it out like Yue Niang did, you could tell from his expression how hard it was for him to swallow.

No wonder the reception building is deserted.

The waiter shouted, "Boss, there's trouble."

At this time, the shopkeeper and Chef Deng also rushed over after hearing the noise. The shopkeeper walked in front and asked: "Who dares to cause trouble in the guest house?"

His eyes were fixed on Li An and Erya, who were slightly older.

But when I saw the two of them, I was shocked. Recently, everyone in Qingshi Town has been talking about a dish - braised fish.

He praised it so much that he even sent someone to buy some to try, and the person in charge also gave him a bag of the best tea.

Aren't these the people sitting in front of him? Look at the little girl who just said the food was bad, it turns out she is the chef. She wanted to get angry at Jiang Yunxiao again, but this was the rich guest just now, and he didn't dare to offend anyone at the table.

He put on a forced smile and vented his anger on the waiter: "Useless piece of trash, why don't you get out of here?"

Then he turned around and asked Chef Deng to go downstairs and get some pastries.

Chef Deng did not move. Although he had heard about the miraculous dish that customers had been talking about these days, as the "heir" of a family of miraculous chefs, he could not admit defeat.

Chef Deng cupped his hands and said, "What's wrong with this dish? Please tell me, little girl."

He emphasized the word "little girl" with extra emphasis.

Yue Niang said coldly, "The meat is overcooked, and the soup, try it yourself."

Chef Deng also picked up his chopsticks to taste it, but it only made Yue Niang and her group more determined to find fault: "Little girl, who is your master?"

Yue Niang knew that everything had to have a teacher, but she couldn't say that she learned it in the future.

Just when Yue Niang was at a loss for words, Jiang Yunxiao stood up and said, "You have a legitimate reason, right? I advise you not to embarrass the Deng family's reputation. The Deng family values their reputation the most. If they knew you were flaunting the Deng family's name, would you still be able to make a living?"

Yes, Jiang Yunxiao had met people from the Deng family in Yunzhou. His father, a foodie, would certainly not miss the opportunity to visit the family of divine chefs.

Chef Deng was a little scared, but he still mustered up the courage to ask, "Why do you say I'm fake?"

Jiang Yunxiao snorted and threw out a cake-shaped sign.

When Chef Deng saw this, his legs went limp with fear and he fell to his knees. "I was wrong, Master Deng. I didn't mean to pretend to be a master chef. Please let me go."

The plaque was made of pure gold. Jiang Yunxiao thought it looked nice, so he asked the head of the Deng family for one. He did not say at this moment that he was not from the Deng family.

With a cold face and a childish temper, he said, "I can let you go, but I won't forgive you. I've never been humiliated like this before. I won't eat this meal."

After saying that, he walked outside. Yue Niang picked up the piece of gold and followed him. She had no intention of doing business in Yingkelou. She just wanted to make the shopkeeper Sun of Cuixinlou feel a sense of crisis.

He caught up with Jiang Yunxiao who had not yet stepped out of the door and handed him the sign.

"Mr. Jiang, do me a favor."

Yue Niang motioned for him to bend down: "Mr. Jiang, can you perform a play with me? I promise there will be food later."

So when Shopkeeper Sun saw a few people cheerfully coming out of the guest reception building, he could no longer sit still. He asked the waiter to stop them at the street corner and said, "My shopkeeper wants to see you."

Cuixinlou is very different from the Yingkelou we just visited, from the service to the size of the kitchen. Even when someone said the food was bad, the chef came out to accept the suggestion, which is very rare.

Shopkeeper Sun asked the waiter to bring a table full of dishes, and Jiang Yunxiao was wolfing them down.

Shopkeeper Sun also noticed a change in Yue Niang's attitude: "Miss Fu, let's talk about tea and secret recipes."

"Shopkeeper Sun, I can give you the tea and the secret recipe, but I have a request."

"You said."

"Let's sign a contract. From next year onwards, you'll buy all your fish and spices from me. As for this year's secret recipe, you'll give me 10% of the profit from selling this dish. How about that?"

"this......"

"Shopkeeper Sun, do you want to think about it?"

Erya also chimed in: "Aren't we with the Guest House?"

When Shopkeeper Sun heard the words "Yingkelou", he immediately agreed: "Okay, I can promise you, but I can only buy half of the spices because I can't afford to offend that family. But I can buy all the tea from you, 50 kilograms a month, is that a problem?"

Yue Niang agreed and signed the deed.

Naturally, Yue Niang knew that he was talking about the Ding family, a major spice maker in Qingshi Town.

The head of the family, who had been living a life of idleness and waiting for death in the early years, suddenly became rich. He sold spices and married the daughter of the prefect. Together, they monopolized most of the spice market in Yunzhou.

The head of the Ding family was also smart. He didn't tell others where the spices came from, but Yue Niang had already guessed that there must be an ancestral mountain and a mentor who discovered the "mine".

"can."

It seems that the spice route is not feasible at the moment.