The fake daughter married into the mountains and had meat to eat every day during the famine

"Hey, here we come."

Song Mazi and Song Cheng hurriedly followed Song Yuntang to the courtyard.

Song Yuntang took out a piece of paper from his arms and spread out the blueprint that he had drawn next to Xu Qingye last night with the help of Xu Qingye's lamp in front of the two of them.

"I plan to build a courtyard like this on the farm near the mountain spring. Please help me calculate the approximate amount of bricks and tiles, the cost, and the construction period. After the calculation is completed, we can start laying the foundation. Once my second brother prepares the bricks and tiles and wood, we can start construction."

Song Cheng is older than Song Mazi, and he is a bricklayer himself. Naturally, he is more skilled than Song Mazi in calculating bricks and tiles for building a house.

"Okay, leave it to us."

Outside the yard, Xu Qingye had already pulled the mule cart to the door. Song Yuntang said something to the two of them, then went out and climbed onto the mule cart that Xu Qingye had just harnessed. He called Fang Tianci, took two small jars of glutinous rice wine that had been brewed in the yard, two large bags of rice and a large bag of flour, and set off for the town together.

Huajianzui will open tomorrow, so I have to put things in order today, and also finalize the menu that I’ve been thinking of these days.

When they arrived, Chen was still selling sour plum soup at the door of the shop, while Tao was cleaning and sweeping inside the shop. After she had tidied it up for the past few days, the shop was very clean and bright.

Song Yuntang took a few bowls and placed them on a table near the door in the front hall of the shop.

"Sister Xier, let's not sell the sour plum soup for now. Pour a bowl for each of the people in the shop. I have something to tell you."

"Hey, okay."

Chen Xier took out the sour plum soup from the ice water bucket and walked towards the shop.

A bowl of sour plum soup was poured for each of the five people present. Except for Xu Qingye who was sitting at the next table, Tao Xia, Fang Tianci, Chen Xier and Song Yuntang each sat on one side.

"We opened our shop in a hurry, so we didn't have much time to prepare a lot of things. We will add them one by one during the later stages of operation. This was a wine shop before, so wine is definitely one of our must-sell items. On top of that, I also added some other things."

Song Yuntang took out a small note from his sleeve pocket.

"Unlike the Jadeite Pavilion next door, our Huajianzui restaurant focuses on snacks. Currently, we mainly serve rice balls with fermented rice, sweet wine and eggs, fried chicken, fried noodles, fried peanuts, spring rolls, braised meat, braised food, and some special pastries. The oven in the backyard has just been repaired, so I still need time to research it and will slowly add to it later."

"Some of these dishes are sold in limited quantities. Once they're sold out, we'll only sell alcohol. We'll close after twilight every day."

Several people were puzzled.

"What if business is good? Do we have to close so early?"

"If it's a festival, we can postpone it to the hour of Xu, but normally there's no need to spend too much time here."

Although no one knew what Song Yuntang's purpose was, since she said so, they just did as she said.

"Now that the weather is getting cooler, we can prepare dishes like braised meat and stewed food. I've already listed the ingredients for the stew yesterday and asked Tu Shi to buy them. I'll tell you how to prepare them later."

"It's easy to make rice balls with fermented glutinous rice and sweet wine with eggs. There's a stone mill in the backyard. We brought glutinous rice with us when we came. We'll use a mule to grind some glutinous rice flour later, and we can use it to make glutinous rice balls tomorrow."

"Fried chicken, fried noodles, spring rolls, I'll show you how to do that later."

Fried chicken uses a half-grown tender chicken weighing more than one pound but less than two pounds. After marinating, it is coated with flavored batter and fried.

The chickens must be slaughtered every morning. The quantity is limited in the early stage, with a limit of thirty chickens a day. If business is good and the ones on the farm are not enough, she can go to the previous farm to purchase more. She had discussed this with them when she bought the chickens before. There are at least a thousand chickens on that farm, which is enough for her to splurge for a while.

Chicken feet and gizzards can be used to make braised dishes.

Braised food, with a little seasoning, can be a great dish to go with wine.

As for fried noodles, they are actually similar to the instant noodles we ate in previous lives. After the noodles are fixed in shape, they are fried into pancakes. When eating, you can just cook and season them.

After controlling the oil in the fried dough, let it cool down and seal it in a jar. It is no problem to store it for ten days or half a month in this kind of weather. It is much more convenient than making it on the spot. The most important thing is that it has a unique flavor and is very suitable as a noodle snack for Huajianzui.

Song Yuntang briefly explained to everyone how to cook each dish, and then he and everyone got busy. Tao and Chen killed chickens, kneaded dough, Fang Tianci pulled a mule cart to grind glutinous rice flour, and Song Yuntang prepared the seasonings according to his own experience. When he estimated that the taste was almost right, he demonstrated to them the ingredients prepared by Tao and Chen one by one.

When we first started making it, we were not familiar with many things and the speed was inevitably slow.

Tao Xia makes good noodles, and the noodles are of uniform thickness. Song Yuntang uses a customized mesh spoon to fix the shape and then fries them in a pan.

At first, the two pancakes didn’t look good when they were fried.

But she was not discouraged and began to try to control the time and oil temperature of the dough in the frying pan. The dough she fried for the third time was golden and crispy, and the shape of the dough was just right.

"Just like this." She handed the ladle to Tao Xia. "Sister Xier and Sister Xia are both experienced cooks, so they learn these things quickly. You all should try it."

The two of them have to learn it as soon as possible. She has to go to the county town with Xu Qingye at the end of the month, and she doesn't know how many days she will have to stay there before she can come back.

Tao Xia took the net spoon and imitated Song Yuntang. After fixing the shape of the dough, she started frying it in the pan.

The first pancake was fried very well.

"Sister Xia, your craftsmanship is much better than mine." Song Yuntang praised.

Tao Xia smiled and said, "I just used more spatulas. The girl is really smart."

"Then from now on, the job of frying the pancakes will be left to Sister Xia."

Seeing that she fried the chicken very well, Song Yuntang began to teach Chen Xier how to process and marinate the fried chicken.

Several people were busy until noon. After Tao Xia fried all the dough he had kneaded before into pancakes, he kneaded a large ball of dough again to take up space. In this morning, he had already filled half of the large jar with dough. After taking out five pancakes for several people in the shop as lunch, he sealed them all with oil paper and thin hemp rope.

Chen Xier followed Song Yuntang to marinate three fried chickens.

If it fails, the other two can be used to make up for it.

Five bowls of noodles were cooked at noon. Not only were some tender green vegetables put in the noodles, but they were also poured with bone broth, sprinkled with chopped green onions and Song Yuntang's special seasoning. Even though Huajianzui was inconspicuous compared to the Feicuixuan next door, its special aroma still attracted some diners to watch.

"Drunk among the flowers."

A few men dressed as scholars, folding fans in their fingers, stood at the door of the shop and muttered, "What a nice name! Compared to ordinary wine shops, it has a more elegant feel."

Some people even stretched their necks to look inside.

"This shop must have just opened, right? There aren't any customers inside."

"I don't know what that delicious aroma was just now, how about we go in and try it?"

"Okay, go in and try it."