Chapter 203 Yang Family Caravan
It was dawn, and Meibei got dressed and left the tent. Yawning, Meibei closed her eyes and stretched there.
After stretching, she was still tired.
She didn't sleep very well last night.
The people she had met over the past year and back again appeared repeatedly in her dream last night, and then the flood in the dream suddenly appeared and shattered Mayberry's dream.
She stood in front of the tent, looking at the little sun in the east that looked like salted duck egg yolk, feeling a sense of melancholy in her heart.
Meiberry suddenly wanted to eat porridge for breakfast, so she had salted duck eggs.
"What's wrong?"
Mei You took off her silk hat. She had already taken the horse out for a walk early in the morning.
Many people in each caravan got up, and a few clusters of smoke curled up in the camp, following the scent of breakfast, Meiyou came back.
When she came back, she saw Mayberry staring eastward in a daze.
"It's nothing. I'm homesick, and I miss the food cooked by my mother. When I think about my father having all the money while I'm not at home, I feel like I've lost a lot!"
Just now, she thought Meiberry hadn't gotten over what happened last night, but when it came to food, she showed her teeth and claws again.
Meiyou couldn't help but smile.
"Go over there and take a look. Uncle Zhao got up before dawn to cook. Although his skills are not as good as Second Aunt's, he hasn't treated you badly these days, right?"
Hearing Mei You mention the cook accompanying Jiubaoxuan, Mei Berry also became energetic.
Chef Zhao is a native of Yue Liao and is best at cooking mutton.
In the past few days, Mei Berry has tasted mutton soup, boiled mutton, mutton cakes and mutton buns in Chef Zhao's hands.
Before they even got close, the scent of Chef Zhao's fragrant broth was already particularly alluring in the cool morning dew.
"Uncle Zhao, do you want to eat broth this morning?"
"It's time to pull the noodles with broth. Mrs. Mei San and Mrs. Mei got up really early today~"
"I'm very early every day~ But it's only early for you to get up, Uncle Zhao."
Meiberry smiled and moved closer to the pot of mutton soup that had been boiled white, and then a strong aroma of meat hit her face.
Just smelling it makes Mayberry drool like crazy.
"I'm just going to eat a stick of noodles. Uncle Zhao, please help me get more broth when the time comes~"
Chef Zhao naturally agreed with Mei Bei's support.
After a while, Mei Berry and Mei You became the first people to eat. Mei Berry sat on the side and ate slowly on the small stool specially propped up by Chef Zhao.
Most people in Jiubaoxuan just left with the noodles and ate them standing or squatting, or leaning against the frame pulling the goods.
Only a few of them like to sit on a stool and eat slowly.
Mei Berry ate like this, and from time to time looked into the bowls where other people in the caravan came to eat noodles.
Seeing this, Mei You couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing like this?"
"Let me see if I can finish the meal and then refill it."
"Don't eat too much again, or you'll be vomiting while riding."
Being suddenly exposed by Mei You, Mei Berry laughed twice in embarrassment and buried her head in eating noodles.
On the first day of departure, Meiberry had a full meal in the morning. However, due to her inability to digest in time and the bumps on her horse, she vomited herself that morning and died in public.
Fortunately, the hat saved her a little bit of self-deception.
It was probably because she was used to seeing it just now, but now when she heard the sound of someone coming, Mei Berry still couldn't help but look up.
When Mei Berry looked up, she really saw something.
"Who is that person?"
Mei Bei was startled, watching a guy who looked like a guard or a servant come over with a food box, and packed up the meat and soup directly from Chef Zhao.
It wasn't until the man walked away that Meiberry approached him with an empty bowl and curiously asked him where the unfamiliar guy came from.
"Oh, he's from the caravan next door, he said hello to the shopkeeper."
When she heard that there were people from the caravan next door who were eating for food, the expression on Mei Bei's little face was very wonderful.
In the past few days, Mei Mei has seen that Jiubaoxuan's business is very broad. She can know the details by just looking at how many caravans come to say hello.
However, this is really the first time I’ve seen him.
No, when riding horses in the morning, Meiberry specifically went to the horse shopkeeper and curiously asked about someone from the caravan next door who came to have a meal that morning.
"It seems to be the Yang family in Yanzhou Fucheng. This time their chief manager came and seemed to have brought a junior member of the family out to see the world.
However, this man looked like his body was just like a bone, and he had been a little acclimatized these past few days, and he was not used to eating solid food, so he came over to beg for some mutton soup and went back."
Upon hearing this, Meiberry smiled and said, "There are still people like us who come out to see the world."
Shopkeeper Ma couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard that Mei Bei classified himself as someone who came out to see the world.
That's modest, isn't it?
Mei Bei and Mei You didn't look like they were out to see the world.
At this moment, Mei Berry saw the man who came here to bring food in the morning riding a horse and carrying a food box.
Before it was time to eat, and on the way, the man rode up to Shopkeeper Ma. It seemed that he had something to do with Shopkeeper Ma.
Seeing this, Mei Berry drove her horse forward and accelerated to get out of the way, and rushed directly towards Mei You's position in front.
I just heard the words of the man coming from behind: "Shopkeeper Ma, this is our big shopkeeper's special thanks for the mutton soup in the morning. Here is our little thought..."
In the evening, when they were stationed again to rest, Shopkeeper Ma came to Meiberry's tent.
The box she was holding in her hand was immediately recognized by Mayberry as something sent by the caravan next door in the morning.
"These are snacks that my daughter likes. Most of the people in the motorcade are rough old men. Now, do you want to try them?"
Shopkeeper Ma opened the food box, and two plates of exquisite snacks immediately caught the eyes of Mei Mei and Mei You.
Just by the appearance of this snack, Mei Bei sighed in her heart that this master's white crime skills are not bad.
Mei Bei simply said: "The cooks in their caravan are pretty good, but why are they so picky about food?"
Mei You pinched a small piece of snack and put it in her mouth. It was sweet but not greasy. The pastry was soft, pink and glutinous with a sweet rice aroma.
There is also sweet and sour appetizing jam inside.
This pastry is not just a show-off, so what’s the matter?
Isn’t this enough to satisfy one’s appetite?
Now even Mei You agrees with Mei Berry's statement.
"This person is a little ignorant."
As she spoke, she pinched another piece and put it directly into Meiberry's mouth, letting Meiberry have a taste.
Mei Liang was also full of praise after eating it: "It's not like I never visited pastry shops when I was in Yunzhou Fucheng, and I didn't have this skill. What else can he find picky about a cook like this?"
"Snacks can't be eaten as meals."
Shopkeeper Ma shook his head and laughed.
"Then their caravan will bring a chef who makes snacks instead of a serious cook like us?
You can find dim sum chefs with this skill, so is it difficult to find someone who can cook and eat?"
Meiberry handed the snacks to Shopkeeper Ma to taste together.
"Probably not. The chef's cooking is not unpalatable. It's probably that person's fault.
When the shopkeeper sent someone over to express his gratitude, he heard that there are young ladies in our caravan, so he specially asked the cook to make these."
"I made it especially for the little lady to try. Doesn't this mean we are both here?"
Mei Mei frowned. Apart from Shopkeeper Ma, she and Mei You were the only ones left in the caravan. It was obvious who this snack was for.
Suddenly, Mei Berry felt that the snacks in her hands were no longer fragrant...
Chapter completed!