The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 243 Zuixiangju

The new immigrants who planted trees and created forests have a deep love for this vast expanse of green pastures and grasslands.

Foxtail grass (dog rice grass) is not on their list of edible plants.

But on this semi-desert grassland, there is a wild vegetable that grows exceptionally well and is in season.

Early summer is when sand onions are at their freshest and most tender.

With just a gentle bend, fresh juice and oil will flow out from the cut.

Break off a small piece and put it in your mouth; it tastes like scallions, chives, and herbs.

It also has an oily aroma and a hint of sweetness.

Its freshness, aroma, tenderness, and deliciousness are beyond words.

In Northwest China, every household loves to eat sand onions.

The most common method is pickling.

Simply wash the tender stems of sand onions, blanch them in boiling water for a few seconds, then remove them, mix them with salt and aged vinegar, and put them in a jar.

This pickling method allows sand onions to be preserved for more than five months.

Furthermore, pickled sand onions have a sour and salty taste, a refreshing and tangy flavor, and a mellow and spicy taste.

The new immigrants have learned the traditional way of eating from the old Northwest people and are also learning to use sand onions to make various dishes to suit their own tastes.

When talking about the creativity of new immigrants, one cannot help but mention the sand onion sauce from the time-honored Ganweixian Lamb Soup Restaurant.

Its reputation is as renowned as that of its mutton!

No one can make it that salty and savory.

Lamb ribs simmered in pork bones, dipped in a little shallot sauce.

Just one word, absolutely!

Many diners say that this place's shallot sauce is so delicious that it's even good for dipping the soles of your shoes!

Anyway, since its opening, Ganweixian has been doing brisk business as always.

Slaughtering twenty sheep a day isn't enough to make ends meet in just two hours of selling in the morning.

Nanmen Street is especially bustling in the mornings because of Ganweixian.

Today, another joyous event has been added to South Street.

With a series of long, crackling firecrackers, Zuixiangju, a restaurant specializing in crispy hand-shredded roasted rabbit, finally officially opened for business!

Unlike the way small households used to whet the appetites of diners with mutton soup, this time it was different.

The prestigious title of Marquis of Ningyang is the most attractive thing in the Northwest!

First of all, the wine used in their restaurant is locally brewed wine, one of the tribute wines.

Exclusive operation!

The word "fragrant" perfectly describes the taste of crispy roasted rabbit.

Inspired by the open kitchen concept of Ganweixian, a row of long, rectangular ovens was built on the outermost side of the front row of shops in the courtyard of Zuixiangju.

It can roast 300 rabbits at the same time!

They had a five-day trial operation before the official opening.

The entire street of Namdaemun smelled of this oil.

Kids the size of Fatty were crammed together on South Street, unable to move, sucking their fingers and drooling all over the ground.

A rabbit costs one tael of silver, and a pot of wine costs two taels of silver; such a restaurant is truly not something an ordinary family can afford.

The gourmets in the border town had a lot to say about this price, but they had no choice but to bear the pain of being charged for their culinary desires.

He comforted himself by saying that he was contributing to the Quartermaster Department.

The supply department naturally had no shortage of customers.

During the trial operation, almost everyone in the five major guilds who held the rank of head of household or above came to patronize the businesses, and the turnover soared to 1,200 taels of silver!
This performance easily surpassed that of Ganweixian, the top dog on South Street.

They seem poised to continue dominating the charts.

General Zhao sent sixty tasting invitations to Huaiqing Prefecture, the economic center of Northwest China.

Every single person of note in Huaiqing Prefecture rushed to the border town to support Zuixiangju.

Among them, the families of the dozen or so good-for-nothing young masters who had been dealt with by Gan Minglan reacted the fastest!
It is said that half a month ago, the playboys were so frightened that they ran back to Huaiqing Prefecture in a panic.

Some of the more cunning playboys decided to swallow their bitterness and not reveal a word to their parents. They secretly stayed in their mansion, slowly reliving the suffering they had endured.

The good life of having everything done for you is incredibly blissful in comparison.

There are also those who are brainless and unwilling to suffer losses, forgetting the pain once the wound has healed.

He endured humiliation and hardship on the road, but once he returned to his own territory, he started making a fuss and demanding that his family take charge of things for him.

The young man, quite grown up, tearfully described to his mother the inhuman abuse he had suffered.

A hand or foot is broken.

They crawled back from the desert!

To survive, he drank his own urine for several days.

They described their hellish experience of over twenty days in great detail.

What mother doesn't love her own son?

How could there be such a vicious woman in the world!

My own son is still a child who hasn't grown up!

Losing a hand or a foot would be terrible!

They hurriedly invited the best doctor in Huaiqing Prefecture to treat their son.

Strange things are happening right before our eyes.

Even if the doctors went against their conscience, they dared not say that the young masters had any health problems.

His hands and feet are as good as they could possibly be.

Even some of them who were previously overweight are now much healthier.

After a series of examinations, the diagnosis was: the patient had been frightened not long ago, was prone to nightmares and waking up in a state of mental stress, which could lead to insomnia.

That's it?

The spoiled brats refused to listen and cursed the quack doctor for being incompetent!

She recounted the details of her abuse to her family once again.

Unable to resist their sob stories, the heads of the various households had no choice but to send their stewards to the border town to investigate.

The families of these playboys are either rich or noble, so the stewards naturally have their own channels for gathering information.

Someone sent a visiting card to Zhao Da, the steward of the General's Mansion.

The steward of the baby-faced playboy's family got through to a certain military commander and directly offered him a generous gift, hoping to use the commander to cause trouble for the Jade-Faced Rakshasa.

The result, naturally, was no result.

Immediately afterwards, a warning was received from the Marquis of Ningyang!
The bearded bodyguard stared disdainfully at the steward who was trying to gather information:
"Captain Gan is the guardian of our border town. She has killed at least eight or ten thousand Hu people and Tatars! If it weren't for the Marquis's sake, she could have made your young master die silently several times over for forcibly taking away her daughter!"

God!
This is way too brutal!

It's probably some kind of calamity descended from heaven.

The steward who had been trying to gather information was frightened away and immediately reported the situation to his master.

The more powerful and wealthy someone is, the more afraid they are of death.

Putting aside the Jade-Faced Rakshasa's exceptional skills in killing enemies, just look at the confidence she had in daring to take down even the eldest son of a marquis.

They can't stand it either!

The baby-faced playboy got a good beating from his own father again.

Then, I heard that the restaurant that Marquis Ningyang was building in the border town was about to open.

Those who have posted about it should go.

I'm offering a hefty price for any item without a listing.

The heads of each family personally traveled to the border town, bringing generous gifts.

Zuixiangju targets the mid-to-high-end market.

The private rooms in the front courtyard are for male guests, while the second courtyard is exceptionally quiet and elegant, perfect for entertaining ladies from various families.

Normally, wealthy ladies wouldn't gather in restaurants.

Today, Lady Jiang, the wife of the Marquis of Ningyang, also came to show her support, along with her eldest daughter, Zhao Ran.

At this moment, the Peony Pavilion in the second courtyard was filled with laughter and joy.
(End of this chapter)