Chapter 170 The Young Master of Yuelai Restaurant
Chapter 170 The Young Master of Yuelai Restaurant
"Okay, my little housekeeper, I've taken it out to dry. I'll wash it and dry it today, and it'll be ready to be put into the jar soon. You'll have to help then." Wang Ronghua said with a smile.
"Yes, I will definitely help." Zhao Shiying nodded.
"How many preserved eggs should we bring tomorrow?" asked Zhao Guocheng.
"I think we need at least ten jars of preserved eggs. Why don't we take three jars of century eggs and try them first? In fact, I think both are delicious. Won't we eat them all in the evening?" Wang Ronghua said with a smile.
"It's delicious for sure. I guess no one else has ever eaten something this delicious," said Zhao Guocheng.
"Mom and Dad, we will only bring preserved eggs tomorrow. We can make more preserved eggs and send them to Shopkeeper Peng in a few days, but you can give him some information in advance, there will be new varieties later." Zhao Shiying said.
"Okay, let's do as Nannan said. We need to collect a lot of eggs recently, so I thought we should hire someone to do it," Zhao Guocheng said.
"I think it's okay. How about we let the villagers take care of collecting the eggs?" Wang Ronghua said.
"It needs to be handed over to the villagers. There are so many people in our workshop. I thought why not give it to Erbazi and Shuanzi. After collecting it, they can go back to the workshop to work, so we don't have to trouble two people." Zhao Guocheng thought about it and felt that this was feasible.
"Okay, let's do it this way. You have to talk to them both about this." Wang Ronghua nodded, indicating her agreement.
"Well, let them both come here for lunch tomorrow at noon, and I will tell them about this then."
After they had talked about everything, Wang Ronghua went to clean up the dishes.
Zhao Guocheng took Zhao Shimin and Zhao Shiying to put the preserved eggs that had been washed and dried today into jars.
However, Zhao Shiying felt so sleepy after she had packed half of the things that she fell asleep while pretending.
"Let me pack up whatever is left." Wang Ronghua came over after packing up. As soon as she finished speaking, she looked at the little girl and was puzzled.
Why isn't the little girl squatting on the ground filling the jar?
When Wang Ronghua got closer, she found that the man was not unpacking the jar, but had simply fallen asleep.
"You didn't even tell me when the child fell asleep." Wang Ronghua glanced at Zhao Guocheng in reproach. How could the girl sleep comfortably like this?
"Oh, I really didn't notice it. We were just talking, but she fell asleep in just a few moments. Take her to bed quickly, don't let her get cold." Zhao Guocheng was also a little confused. The little girl must have been tired today, she fell asleep right away.
Wang Ronghua nodded and wanted to hug Zhao Shiying to sleep, but she saw that she was still holding a preserved egg in her hand. She was immediately at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
She carefully put down the preserved egg before daring to carry the child to sleep on the kang.
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The next day, after having breakfast early, Zhao Guocheng took Wang Ronghua and Zhao Shiying to the market, while Zhao Shimin went to the workshop with the others to work.
Zhao Shimin has a lot of work to do. Since Wang Ronghua is not around, all the work involving secret recipes has to be done by Zhao Shimin.
So the workload is actually quite heavy.
But today, Zhao Shimin began to teach Qin Wu how to stir-fry mushroom meat sauce and make jam.
Some people in the front yard were picking mushrooms. The broken ones were kept to make mushroom sauce, while the intact ones were packed in backpacks and delivered to Yuelai Restaurant and Chen Mansion by Qin Ming or Zhao Guocheng every day.
As soon as Zhao Guocheng arrived at Yuelai Restaurant, he was stunned by the scene before him.
Isn’t Yuelai Restaurant entertaining any guests today?
Why is the door still closed?
"Acheng, what's going on?" Wang Ronghua also felt that something was wrong and looked at Zhao Guocheng worriedly.
"It's okay, you wait here, I'll go ask." Zhao Guocheng got off the ox cart and knocked on the door of Yuelai Restaurant.
It took a while before a waiter came to open the door. When he saw that it was someone he knew, he left the door open.
"What's going on? Isn't the door usually open? Why is it closed at this time today? What happened?" Zhao Guocheng asked repeatedly, shocking the waiter.
"It's okay, don't worry. My young master is here to settle the accounts, so the store was not open in the morning. It will not open until noon." The waiter waved his hands and explained.
"I see. I'm here to deliver the goods, and I've also brought a new delicacy, preserved eggs. Can you please ask Shopkeeper Peng to come down?" Zhao Guocheng asked.
"Okay, wait here for a while, I'll be back soon." The guy nodded and ran inside.
It was a long time before Shopkeeper Peng came down.
"I'm sorry, Brother Zhao, I kept you waiting for a long time." After coming down, Shopkeeper Peng clasped his fists and apologized. It was because he was too busy in the past two days.
"It's okay, it's okay. As long as nothing happened, I'm glad that the goods have been delivered today. I also brought a fresh food that can be used for cooking. It's called preserved eggs. Do you have a look?" Zhao Guocheng looked at Shopkeeper Peng with a smile, then picked up the jar beside him.
"Is it in this jar?" Shopkeeper Peng asked curiously.
"Yes, it's made of duck eggs. How about I ask my wife to make it for you to try?" Zhao Guocheng said.
"Of course, I'll trouble you, sister-in-law." Shopkeeper Peng smiled and nodded.
Soon Wang Ronghua took the preserved eggs to the kitchen to work. Zhao Shiying stood beside Zhao Guocheng, a small person, looking around curiously.
"Why don't we all go in? I'll ask our waiter to help watch over here?" Shopkeeper Peng asked with a smile.
"Then I'll have to trouble Shopkeeper Peng." Zhao Guocheng smiled and nodded, then picked up Zhao Shiying and followed Shopkeeper Peng inside.
"I have to send a portion of this food to the young master later." Shopkeeper Peng nodded.
"Okay, no problem." Zhao Guocheng nodded.
It’s just an extra portion of preserved eggs, there’s definitely no problem.
Wang Ronghua quickly prepared two servings. The kitchen of Yuelai Restaurant had all kinds of ingredients. Wang Ronghua also made two flavors of preserved eggs, one flavor per plate.
When the two plates of food were placed in front of the young master, the young master of Yuelai Restaurant became curious.
Can this ordinary black egg be eaten?
To be honest, he was a little disgusted.
"Young Master, although the color of this preserved egg doesn't look very good, I heard it's delicious. Why don't you try it?" Shopkeeper Peng looked at Peng Zhao and explained.
Peng Zhao raised his eyebrows, and his interest suddenly became aroused, even though he originally didn't want to try it.
"Then I'll try it." Peng Zhao nodded. He still trusted Peng Wencai very much. After all, he was his family's servant and the son of the housekeeper, so Peng Zhao felt more at ease.
Also, although the food doesn’t look very good, there is a faint fragrance wafting over it, and I can’t help but feel a little greedy.
Peng Zhao picked up the chopsticks, looked at the red pepper, avoided it directly, picked up the black and slightly runny preserved egg, closed his eyes, and looked like a warrior who would never come back.
PS: Eggs made from hen’s eggs are called Biandan, and in some places they are also called Pidan. Eggs made from duck’s eggs are called Songhuadan, and some people also call it Pidan. This is a name we use locally, and perhaps there are different names for them in other places. In this article, we tentatively call them Songhuadan, and Pidan = Biandan.
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