peasant young lady

Chapter 192 Egg Yolk Crisp

A smile suddenly appeared on Lin Xiu's face, "Sister-in-law, what can I do?"

"Aren't you good at making pasta? Tomorrow is the market. Come with me. I'll teach you how to make something. Maybe we can earn some money by doing this."

"Okay, okay," Lin Xiu nodded uncontrollably, "Sister-in-law, if you can save me from the sea of ​​suffering, I am willing to be a cow and a horse for the rest of my life to repay you."

Lin Xiu was about to kneel down as he spoke, but Cheng Xia hurriedly stopped him, "You don't need to do this, really, I don't want you to do anything, as long as you and Xiaolong can get along well."

"Ma'am," Xiaolong suddenly jumped off the stool and threw himself into Cheng Xia's arms, "Xiaolong will be filial to Madam in the future."

"Be good!" Cheng Xia picked him up and kissed his little face contentedly. This child is always so well-behaved that it makes people feel distressed.

After eating, Cheng Xia started to make chili sauce. Although Lin Xiu didn't know what it was, but insisted on helping, Cheng Xia taught her how to make it, and then asked Yang Dalang to play with Xiaolong for a while, and the two of them were in the kitchen Get busy.

Dahua didn't come, Cheng Xia kept muttering in her heart, she always felt that the Cheng family's affairs disturbed her.She was always worried about Da Hua and Mrs. Zhang, fearing that they would suffer losses, but now she has no time to do so, so she can only wait for the market to pass before going to have a look.

Lin Xiu made the simplest chili sauce according to Cheng Xia's instructions, and Cheng Xia made garlic chili sauce because there was no beef at home.

After a brief meal at noon, Cheng Xia and Yang Dalang went to pick two baskets of chili sauce. Looking at the harvest of chili peppers, Cheng Xia once again thanked the senior brother of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences for the chili seeds from his heart.

In the afternoon, I made another [-] altars. Cheng Xia was too tired to lift her hands, so she went to bed early, and asked Du Zhong to drive her and Lin Xiu to the county early the next morning.

Because of Lizheng's grandfather's death, Uncle Tian didn't continue to drive the villagers to the county fair in a bullock cart as usual, so he had to let Du Zhong to do his job.

When they arrived in Chong'an County, Cheng Xia asked Eucommia to sell chili sauce in the market instead of her. Anyway, a porcelain vase cost two hundred Wen, and a total of forty vats were made.Hearing Cheng Xia's words, Du Zhong couldn't stop complaining. He was a big man who went to the market to sell, and he didn't even dare to think about it. If his father knew what he was doing, he would probably lick his face and write letters to all his classmates. Ask if any girls of the right age have marketed themselves.

Cheng Xia saw his expression of lovelessness, and the two brothers patted Du Zhong on the shoulder very kindly, "Work hard, I'll make you some delicious food when they're all sold out, I'm sure you haven't eaten it before."

Du Zhong looked at her very sadly, thinking that you can use this to seduce me.

Cheng Xia took Lin Xiu to the medicated food shop, and coincidentally, Aunt Han and the shopkeeper were not there. When Xiao Wu heard that Cheng Xia wanted to use the stove behind the medicated meal shop, he immediately agreed, saying that there was no problem.

The stove at the back of the Herbal Food Workshop is the one Cheng Xia used to bake rose flower cakes and fresh meat mooncakes last time. Cheng Xia wanted to make egg yolk cakes, so she could only use that stove.

There was still space in the kitchen, Xiao Wu asked what Cheng Xia needed, and brought them all, which embarrassed Cheng Xia, but Xiao Wu smiled and said that the proprietress had ordered that as long as she came, everything in the medicinal food shop could be used freely.

Cheng Xia smiled gratefully, seeing Lin Xiu standing aside stiffly, not daring to raise her head, so she took her hand, "Have you ever made mooncakes before?"

Lin Xiu shook his head, "I haven't done it, but I know how to do it." I just never had a chance to try it.

"That's good," Cheng Xia cheered up. The steps of making egg yolk cakes are actually very similar to moon cakes. You use flour, lard, sugar, and water to make oily skins, and you use lard and flour to make another oily pastry, and wake them up separately. , Put the pastry in the middle of the oil skin to close the mouth, make a pastry, continue to roll it into an oval shape, let it rest and then roll it, and finally roll it into a thin round shape.

After Lin Xiu listened to Cheng Xia's detailed explanation, he was sure that it was similar to what he knew. After going through it for a while, he calmed down and started to make it.

Taking advantage of Lin Xiu's skill in making pastry, Cheng Xia peeled off the yolks of the cooked salted eggs bought by Xiao Wu, smeared some high-grade white wine on the surface of each salted egg yolk, and then handed the yolks to Xiao Wu. Wu, let him take it to the oven behind the Herbal Food Workshop and bake it until the surface of the egg yolk turns yellow, and then bring it back.

Cheng Xia saw that Lin Xiu had made the oil skin and was about to make the oil pastry, so she asked her to wait a while.Cheng Xia specifically asked Xiao Wu to buy tea cakes and red bean powder, crush the tea cakes into powder, then add green tea powder and red bean powder to the flour to make red and green pastries.In this way, adding the original color of the flour, you can make egg yolk crisps of three colors.

When the little general brought back the baked salted egg yolks, Lin Xiu had already quickly made the pastry in three colors. Cheng Xia asked her to follow her example, wrapping the egg yolk with red bean paste, and then wrapping it in the pastry , such a complete egg yolk cake becomes.

Lin Xiu looked at the green egg yolk puff pastry and thought it was very pretty, so he learned to make a red bean puff pastry, which was also very beautiful, and made twenty of them in one go, and used up all the puff pastry, before continuing to look at Cheng Xia, "Sister-in-law, is this all right?"

"It's a little bit worse." Cheng Xia took the beaten egg yolk liquid, spread a layer on each egg yolk cake, and then sprinkled some black sesame seeds before nodding in satisfaction, "That's good."

Cheng Xia just wanted to take it to the yard to bake with Lin Xiu, when she saw Aunt Han enter the kitchen with a smile on her face, Cheng Xia turned her head and smiled, "Aunt Han is back?"

While Wang Hanxiao nodded, he couldn't wait to smell the smell of the kitchen, "It smells so good."

"I knew that Han Yi wanted to eat egg yolk cakes. I originally wanted to make them for Aunt Han during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but suddenly something happened, so I borrowed the kitchen of the herbal medicine workshop to make egg yolk cakes and sell them."

"Xiao Xia, are you going to sell?" Wang Hanxiao looked up at her suspiciously, "Did something happen to you?"

Surprised by Aunt Han's vigilance, Cheng Xia didn't hide anything, nodded, "But I can handle it, Aunt Han doesn't have to worry."

Wang Hanxiao nodded after thinking for a moment, then pointed to twenty egg yolk cakes, with a smile on his eyes and brows, "You can eat it in a while?"

Cheng Xia nodded, "Just take it to the backyard and bake it until the surface is golden."

Wang Hanxiao asked Cheng Xia to explain to Xiao Wu the matters that needed attention, and saw that Lin Xiu was continuing to knead dough, so he led Cheng Xia into the private room on the second floor of the medicinal food workshop. As soon as the door was closed, Wang Hanxiao Ask directly, "What happened? Are you in a hurry for money?"

Cheng Xia suddenly laughed, "Aunt Han, how can you guess so thoroughly, yes, I do have something urgent."

"How much does it cost?" Wang Hanxiao didn't beat around the bush.

"No, no need," Cheng Xia hurriedly waved her hand, knowing that Aunt Han had good intentions, so she smiled gratefully, "Aunt Han, actually, I want to ask, is the medicinal food shop profitable?"

"That's natural," Wang Hanxiao opened the door of the private room directly, and gave instructions to the clerk outside. After a while, the clerk brought several thick account books into the private room.

Wang Hanxiao spread out the account books in front of Cheng Xia, pointed at them one by one, and said, "May is still in a state of loss, because our ingredients are all the best, plus the rent and other costs, the expenses are too high." It's very big, and it wasn't until half of June that I made up for all the previous expenses and made money, which is already much better than I expected." Wang Hanxiao raised an eyebrow at Cheng Xia and smiled, "This It’s all thanks to you, it’s not yet the end of July, but now all the profits have exceeded 500 taels, which I couldn’t even imagine before.” After all, there is a lesson from the past that the restaurant has unlimited losses, as long as the medicinal food shop can continue to operate, Wang Hanxiao felt that he had succeeded.

Cheng Xia bit her lip, struggled for a while before saying, "Aunt Han, can you give me half of the profits for three months first."

Cheng Xia felt that these words were very twisted, it was really not her style to ask people for money, even though the money should belong to her in the first place.

"Yes!" Wang Hanxiao agreed without the slightest hesitation, asked Cheng Xia to wait for a while, and then went downstairs. After a while, he brought a bank note and handed it directly to Cheng Xia, " Xiao Xia, here are four 100 taels of silver bills, you take the money."

"Aunt Han, I can't take so much," Cheng Xia repeatedly refused. The total profit exceeded 500 taels, which means it was less than 600 taels. If it was half of it, she couldn't even get 300 taels. How could she accept Aunt Han's offer? 400 taels of silver.

"Listen to me," Wang Hanxiao didn't take back his hand, "it's not yet the three-month period, and the profits for the next ten days will be paid to you in advance."

Cheng Xia knew that Aunt Han was trying to give her money, but she didn't want to take advantage of it, "Aunt Han, it doesn't take so much, I can't take your money like this."

"You stubborn girl," Wang Hanxiao raised his hand to poke her forehead in a funny way, stood by the window and watched Xiao Wu supervise the production of egg yolk cakes, then turned around and said to Cheng Xia with a smile, "Xiao Xia, how about it, I like egg yolk shortbread very much, if you want, the extra money will be treated as if I bought your egg yolk shortbread recipe, do you think it’s okay?"

Cheng Xia sighed helplessly, "It doesn't take so much."

"That's it." Wang Hanxiao made a final decision, and stuffed the four bank notes into Cheng Xia's hands, "You can write the prescription and give it to me later. As for the things your siblings made today, how much can you sell them for?" Take it all."

"Aunt Han, I really feel guilty for doing this." Cheng Xia moistened the corners of her eyes. Aunt Han is always so caring, and she felt too guilty.

Wang Hanxiao held Cheng Xia's hand and said meaningfully, "Xiao Xia, if you think this way, if it wasn't for your idea, there would be no Herbal Food Shop at all. It is very likely that there is no Shangji Pharmacy now. It's all because of your pharmacy that it can continue to open, if I have a guilty conscience, it's me."

Cheng Xia and Wang Hanxiao looked at each other, they were the same people, they were always afraid of indebted to those they cared about.

Xiao Wu was still baking egg yolk cakes. Cheng Xia was worried about what was going on with Eucommia, so she asked Aunt Han to take care of Lin Xiu, and she would come back as soon as she went.

When I arrived at the place where Eucommia sold chili sauce, I took a closer look. It was empty and there was no one there. Cheng Xia suddenly panicked, thinking that something must have happened.

Someone behind Leng Buding patted herself, and Cheng Xia was taken aback. Seeing that it was Eucommia, she felt a little relieved, "Where's the chili sauce?"

Du Zhong shook the purse in his hand, begging for praise with a proud expression on his face, "Eight liang of silver is a lot of money."

"You can do it," Cheng Xia rarely praised, "I didn't expect you to be really good, amazing. Let's go."

"Let's go? Where are you going?" Du Zhong was puzzled. Is it not over yet?
"The chili sauce is sold, and the rose sauce is still in your car. Let's go to the Tianyou grocery store." The Tianyou grocery store is her last expectation.

When they arrived at the grocery store, Cheng Xia asked the shopkeeper straight to the point, "Where's Boss Shao?"

The shopkeeper's face suddenly changed, Cheng Xia's heart sank, it seemed that something bad was going to happen.

(End of this chapter)