After breakfast, Wu Qing and He Cui made sufficient preparations. They took the soybean paste and kimchi they brought into the palace yesterday and left the palace again. This time, they asked for a car from the palace, but in order to be less conspicuous, they found the most inconspicuous one.

Helian Han looked at Wu Qing's excited back and rubbed his temples. The Grand Tutor was about to enter the palace.

Wu Qing knew nothing about this. After leaving the palace, she went straight to the Sifang Restaurant where she had dinner yesterday.

The waiter had a good memory. Seeing that it was a regular customer, he greeted him warmly: "Sir, you are here again. You came really early today. There is a seat by the window. Would you like to stay there?"

Wu Qing took He Cui to sit by the window and put the jar in her hand on the table.

The waiter looked at it and thought, "What is this?" It didn't look like a wine jar. He looked at it for a while, then decided it wasn't his place to ask. He smiled and said, "What would you like to order today?"

Wu Qing patted the pot and said, "Waiter, I felt that the food in your restaurant was a little bland yesterday. I wanted to ask if the kitchen staff would be willing to add another seasoning?"

The waiter's smile faded after hearing the first half of the sentence, realizing this guest was looking for trouble. After hearing the whole thing, he said, "I can't make the decision on this matter. Sir, please allow me to ask the shopkeeper."

Wu Qing waved and said, "Go quickly."

Soon there was a rumbling sound. Wu Qing turned around and saw a burly man walking towards her following the waiter. It was the burly man's footsteps, and he looked fierce and not someone to be trifled with.

When He Cui saw the person coming at her aggressively, she immediately stood up and stood beside Wu Qing.

Wu Qing also realized that something was wrong, so why would she let He Cui stand in front of her? She smiled and asked, "Is this the shopkeeper?"

The big man said impatiently, "I've seen a lot of people like you. How can the shopkeeper have time to listen to your gossip?"

This means they don't believe what they say at all.

The waiter said, "Sir, you should also ask around. This Sifanglou is not a place where anyone can come and cheat people."

Wu Qing was beginning to doubt her ears. She was just trying to sell seasonings, so how could she be considered a rip-off?!

Looking at the situation, there is nothing more to say. I just hope that He Cui and the other two women won’t suffer any loss here.

She could only say, "Then even if I'm sorry for disturbing you, I'll leave now."

The big man slammed the table, picked up two jars, and said in a gruff voice, "Take this useless thing of yours with you. It's just dirtying my Sifang Building for nothing."

He Cui and Wu Qing hurriedly stepped forward to catch it, but the big man swung his arm and threw it out of the window.

Only two bangs were heard outside. Wu Qing ran to the window and saw that both jars were broken.

He Cui's eyes were red. She stepped forward and tried to reason with the big man, "You..."

Wu Qing saw that things were not going well. No matter how sad she was about the broken things, it was not as important as the people. She grabbed He Cui and shook her head, "It's okay, come with me."

Two jars were thrown out onto the road outside and broke on the ground. A group of people who didn't know what was going on, afraid that something else would fall out, but still wanting to watch the excitement, could only watch from a distance.

Someone with sharp eyes pointed at something flowing out of a jar and asked, "What is that? Why does the color look like shit?"

"Who would use a jar to hold that...that thing? Is that a mistake?"

"How is it wrong? Do you think it looks like that? Have you ever seen anything else that looks like that?"

"That's right, no wonder he was thrown out of the window. This shop owner is really disgusting."

"How can Sifanglou be so disgusting? Those who come here to cause trouble don't even bother to ask. It's the property of the Qian family."

……

Wu Qing grabbed He Cui and ran out of the Sifang Building to look at the things on the ground.

Fortunately, it was thrown out of the first-floor window, and the jar was just cracked but not completely broken into pieces.

After another trip to the farm, another day passed. Looking at what was left in the broken jar, Wu Qing squatted down and rummaged through it. There were indeed large areas where the things inside were not dirty at all.

She really wanted to pick it up, but if she did that, she would not be able to convince others that she brought the seasoning.

He Cui was so angry that her face turned red. She was reluctant to see Wu Qing was also reluctant, so she said, "Sister, let's take back what we can!"

Wu Qing took the large pottery pieces containing soybean paste and kimchi and put them aside, looking speechless. She really wanted to take away the edible things on the jar pieces, but she had nothing to put them in. Was she supposed to hold the broken pottery pieces in her hands?

Even sitting in the car, it's easy to spill it. If I don't take it, it's really hard to come by...

Just as Wu Qing was struggling, a carriage slowly stopped and a corner of the curtain was lifted. "It really is Aunt Wu!"

Wu Qing didn't expect that someone would recognize her, and the voice sounded familiar.

She looked up in surprise and saw a lady through the corner of the carriage curtain, "Mrs. Xu! Just call me Miss Wu."

Mrs. Xu asked in the car, "What's wrong, Miss?"

Wu Qing pointed to the broken pottery shards on the ground and said, "These are the ingredients I used to make food for everyone at the hunting garden. They've fallen to the ground. What a pity."

Madam Xu approached the carriage curtain and took a look. "Is this the one on the ground?"

Wu Qing nodded. "May I ask if Madam has any container that can hold anything? This is not easy to come by, and I want to take as much as I can."

Mrs. Xu was also in a dilemma. Suddenly, she thought of something and said, "I have two sets of tea sets in my car. Maybe they can be used?"

"That's great!" The tea set can indeed hold some

Madam Xu sent a maid to bring the tea set. Wu Qing poured out the remaining residue on the large pottery shard, and finally cleaned up half of it.

Madam Xu sent the maid and He Cui to the carriage sent by the palace, and Wu Qing got on Madam Xu's carriage.

After Wu Qing got into the car and sat down, Mrs. Xu asked, "Miss Wu, what happened?"

Wu Qing sighed. "The food we make at the hunting grounds is just ordinary ingredients, with some special seasonings. Prince Yi asked me to manage a farm. You know the expenses of the prince's mansion are high, so I thought I'd make more at the farm and sell some to increase the income for the prince's mansion."

When Mrs. Xu heard this, she hurriedly said, "That's easy. Just sell it to me!"

Wu Qing smiled bitterly, "How much can one or two residences use? I want to promote it to more people and let everyone taste this new flavor."

Mrs. Xu frowned. "Ordinary people's homes, like firewood, rice, oil and salt? Such a large quantity is required to make a profit?" She shook her head in disapproval.

Wu Qing: "That's not the case. I want to push it into a restaurant. After all, only places like this can be sold at a high price."

Mrs. Xu nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

Wu Qing continued, "We had just left the first restaurant when someone threw it out." Pointing at the things occupying the tea set, she shook her head helplessly.

Madam Xu clapped her hands after hearing this. "What a coincidence! I'm checking out the shops here and there. If you don't mind, would you please come with me to take a look at my restaurant?"

Wu Qing was happy when she heard that. Of course that’s great. I’ll show you some of my skills.

Soon, two carriages stopped in the backyard of Shengyuanju.

Shengyuanju was not the Xu family's property, but Mrs. Xu's dowry.

When the shopkeeper saw the master coming, he hurried forward to greet her, "Miss, you are tired, come and rest? Do you want to have a meal?" This was not the right time, it was not the time for a meal.

Mrs. Xu said, "Let's take a break first and have some good tea. We can talk about other things later."

After entering the private room and sitting down, Madam Xu asked, "Aunt Wu, how would you like it to be cooked? Should we bring the stove here, or go to the kitchen?"

Wu Qing had been sitting for a while, and jumped up when she heard this. What she wanted really came true. Was this a wish come true?

Wu Qing looked at Madam Xu with shining eyes. "I wonder what dishes are in the kitchen? I'd like to cook two small dishes for you to try!"

"This..." Madam Xu was a little embarrassed. As the saying goes, a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, and servants look down on those who cook. But looking at Wu Qing's shining eyes, she doubted whether it was too late to take back her words.

Forget it, Mrs. Xu gritted her teeth and said, "Let's go to the kitchen and take a look." Then she stood up and led Wu Qing out.

Wu Qing pushed Madam Xu into a chair and said, "Madam, you don't have to go. It's so smoky and it will make you smell like food. That would be my fault."

Wu Qing only took He Cui to the kitchen to see that there were not many dishes she recognized, less than half. However, there were not only song vegetables in the kitchen, but also eggplants.

Just do these two!

He Cui once again made a mini version of rice dumplings, and Wu Qing made some eggplant stewed with soybean paste.

Mrs. Xu took only one bite and then hurriedly called the shopkeeper and the chef over.

"Come and try this dish. Is it comparable to the one we have at Shengyuanju?"

Wu Qing's face flushed all the way to her neck when she heard this, and she felt like she was on fire. How could a half-baked person like her compete with a professional?

The chef and the shopkeeper both brought their own chopsticks, tasted each dish, and looked at each other.

What's this smell?

I don’t know, I’ve never eaten it.

The chef asked first: "What's added to this eggplant?"

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