NOVEL NEXT Chapter 224 Deserted Village
On the third day after Ma Xi left, the cook and the diners were thinking about her.
Xiaoqing: "Yaomei, Brother Dajiang, the shopkeeper is going out of town this time. I'm afraid it will take ten days and a half to come back, right?"
Yaomei shook her head: "I don't think she will be back in a month. When she arrives in the north, she should stay there for three to five days, plus the time to catch the car..."
Yaomei suddenly panicked when she thought that Liuxiang Snacks would be without a leader for nearly a month.
Luda was handling the baked ingredients as usual.
He's not a great cook, but he's pretty good at grilling kebabs.
While skewering kebabs, he said calmly: "Ama is not here, so I can just practice your cooking skills. When she really opens a restaurant in the future, you two will be her two chefs."
Luda's cake was a bit big, but very sweet. The two kitchen girls also ate the same, and they instantly became more motivated to work.
Fortunately, they are both hard-working and hard-working. They can basically make the dishes independently that Mao Xi has taught them in the kitchen.
Only lacks skill in dish development and innovation.
In this regard, Oe, who is quite good at knife skills, has made great progress.
She didn't know where Ma Xi bought a set of vegetable carving tools. She asked the painter Qi Rui to draw a few auspicious animals and plants, and showed Dajiang how to use these tools to carve fruits and vegetables.
Through constant practice, Ojiang was able to carve radishes and watermelons into lifelike phoenixes, lotuses and other decorations.
Dajiang actually didn't quite understand why Mu Xi allowed him to have time to learn the skill of carving fruits and vegetables. After what Luda said just now, he probably understood Mu Xi's intention.
The hard dishes and large dishes in the restaurant must be exquisitely presented. Once these auspicious fruits and vegetables are placed, the quality of the dishes will rise accordingly, and the unit price will naturally not be low.
Although the snack shop cannot use the finished product of carving fruits and vegetables, as long as you practice this skill well, you will not suffer any loss.
"Is the shopkeeper here?" A customer called to the waiter, "I want to eat fried sea fish, is there any shop?"
Faced with the new dishes proposed by the diners, although Mao Xi had never taught them, Xiaoqing followed her own method and made a fried sardine dish for the customers using the method of frying meat.
The diners took a bite. Although the taste was okay, it was not amazing.
"Is the waiter here?" the diner shouted again.
The waiter, Ah Xing, hurriedly came forward to say hello: "Your guest is here~ This tastes pretty good. Do you want some more dishes?"
"Waiter, is this dish made by your shopkeeper Liu?"
Ah Xing was shocked in his heart. This guest officer had such a poisonous mouth that he ate it as soon as he ate it: "Sorry, shopkeeper Liu has been out on business recently. This was made by another chef. Is there something wrong with the taste?"
"Hmm... Just so-so. When will your shopkeeper come back? I want to eat her cooking."
"This is not certain yet, it will take at least ten days." Ah Xing deliberately shortened the time.
"That's all, let's serve another braised fish in soy sauce."
At this moment, Mrs. Chen came to the shop and sat down.
She also received feedback from diners and waiter Ah Xing, which is:
Everyone has been missing Mao Xi very much recently, and they are all asking her when she will come back to take charge.
Chen's cooking skills are not as good as Xiaoqing and Yaomei, but she can really stabilize everyone's military morale at Liuxiang Snacks.
Just like Luda, if you give everyone appropriate encouragement, the kitchen helpers will not get upset and will be more motivated to work.
Mao Xi left behind a small amount of peach gum, bird's nest and other nourishing medicinal materials, which Chen had already sold to Medical Officer Song of the Medical Bureau.
She had saved all this money for Mao Xi.
As soon as Mao Xi and Lou Lan'er left, two rooms in the house became vacant recently. Chen simply took Ajiao to live in, so that he could cook for Xiaodouzi.
Xiaodouzi has always been worried about not being able to follow her sister to the north.
It was the hot summer day in July, and classes at Xuesongjian Academy were suspended again. He was bored by himself, so he could only help Mr. Chen make snacks and sell sugar water in the fruit cake shop.
The rest of the time, I learned to settle accounts from Chen.
This little guy really didn't want to take the scientific examination, so Chen just followed him.
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After crossing the Huai River, we entered the north of the Huai Kingdom.
As we walked towards dusk, the surroundings were desolate and there was no inn to rest.
Lou Laner remembered that there was a small village over the mountain in front, so he led everyone forward in the dark.
Unexpectedly, when we reached the entrance of the village, it had become a deserted village.
Only an old couple lived in a small shabby house near the entrance of the village.
Although the house is dilapidated, it still has a place to rest.
Everyone spent the whole night in the old couple's woodshed.
The next morning, in order to thank the old couple, Mao Xi and Lou Lan'er were responsible for cooking, while Mu Zhiyuan and Mo Xia went to chop wood and find game nearby.
The old woman is mute, and the family's food and drink depend on the old man bringing back some game from the mountains to cook.
After spending a whole morning, under the leadership of the old man, Mu Zhiyuan came back with two bundles of firewood and two pheasants, while Mo Xia caught a few fish and the old man picked some wild fruits.
Lou Lan'er slightly renovated and tidied up the old man's house and built a new stove.
There was no rice, so Mao Xi took out two bags of rice from the space and secretly hid them in the uncle's rice vat.
I simply steamed rice, stewed pheasant, grilled fish, and cooked a meal of mountain game.
"Oh, girl, where did you bring this rice?" The old man has only eaten corn, so where has he seen this white rice?
Mo Xia and Lou Lan'er didn't know that Shu Xi had her own space, so they looked at Shu Xi in confusion.
"I brought some bulk rice in the car, and I forgot to tell you." Mao Xi simply concealed it, then turned to ask the old man, "Grandpa, why is this village deserted? I think there is game in the mountains, why? Are you two alone here?"
Speaking of this, the old man felt sad: "There was a famine in the village two years ago, and everyone couldn't eat enough. In addition, there was a plague last year. Most of the village died, and all the living people fled, leaving only A few older people stayed and died, and now we are the only ones left in the village and an old goddess by the big banyan tree."
With famine and plague, no one dared to stay in the village anymore. Mao Xi admired the pair of old men who guarded the mountain village.
Mu Zhiyuan saw that the old man was in good health and had gone up the mountain effortlessly just now: "Old man, you are in good health. Why don't you take the old woman to live somewhere else? Is your family still there?"
"The old woman is a mute. She has lived here all her life. I took her to another place because I was afraid that she would not be used to living there. After all, she would not be hungry if she had my breath. As for my son, when the plague came, he took his whole family to follow the refugees. He fled, and I don’t know if he is still alive now.”
After everyone had a simple meal, Mu Zhiyuan wanted to see the goddess and asked, "Old man, where does this goddess live? I want to go and visit."
"That old woman is so cute, don't be frightened when you see her." After the old man finished speaking, he pointed in the direction of Mu Zhiyuan with his hand.
Everyone packed their bags and followed the old man to the big banyan tree in the village.