Chapter 42: Eight dishes and one soup

Su You smiled and replied to the shopkeeper: "Go ahead. This dish is suitable for the elderly and children. Then everyone can eat it. It's not difficult to earn more than a hundred cents a day!"

Su You watched the butcher shop owner leave, and when he turned around, he saw the cook, Lao Zhou, with a face filled with resentment.

Su You was surprised and said: "What's wrong?"

Lao Zhou felt very sorry for Su You: "Young master, you just don't use your skills as money! Do you think that the butcher shop owner can earn an extra hundred cents a day from today on, that's three cents a month! That's a small forty a year.

Guan! What does it mean to say thank you lightly?"

Su You curled his lips after hearing this and shook his little hand: "Don't care about it, people earn hard-earned money. I thought that killing would be a killing anyway. I can use as much of the food as possible without causing waste, and it's okay."

Isn’t it considered meritorious?”

Lao Zhou said angrily: "Young Master is a kindhearted person."

Su You disagreed: "That's too far off topic, let's boil the oil and start the pot!"

The butcher's job is very thin, and the lard strips are cut very thin and evenly.

Add some water to the pot and let the cook put the lard slivers in and boil it.

Su You smelled the fragrance of the oil and pointed his finger at his chin, thinking about how to deal with the oil residue.

Oil residue cannot be cooked with watery dishes, otherwise the crispy texture of the oil residue will be lost.

The best way is to stir-fry it with bean sprouts into whistles, make steamed buns, pig cakes, or make noodles with soy sauce. It is all excellent.

But bean sprouts... can only be made at the end of the year, and then you have to wait for another year...

Secondly, stir-fry pickled kohlrabi particles and minced green peppers, and serve as a side dish with porridge or steamed buns, which is also excellent.

The problem is...the mustard heads are still in the soil and they have to wait until late autumn to be harvested, and the green peppers are too much to think about...

I couldn't help but shake my head: "Bianjing may be a little better, but the southwest is really a food desert..."

I calmed down and asked the cook to clean the two jars, wipe them dry, and put a handful of beans and pepper into them. When the lard was cooked, take out the oil residue and put it aside, and put all the oil into the jars.

After thinking about it, he asked the cook to roast some peppercorns and grind them into powder, then mixed a portion of oil residue with salt powder: "Try it, what do you think?"

When the cook tasted it, he immediately beamed: "Thank you, young master, now we have another great dish!"

Su You has a black line on his forehead, what a big deal!

The cook said plausibly: "As long as there is a lot of oil, it is a great dish!"

Well, you are a cook and everything you say makes sense! Su You asked again: "Do you have any icing sugar at home? It's the kind of very small, white, pure sweet particles..."

"Icing, rock sugar, everything is available!"

The cook's quick reply shocked Su You. The money-making plan he had been thinking about for a long time turned out to be already popular?

The cook looked at Su You, who was a little dazed, and explained: "This thing is my specialty in Suizhou, Sichuan! It's made from sugar cane, young master, you don't know that?"

Why didn’t I know? I knew it all too well. I just didn’t know that the sugar industry in the Song Dynasty was so developed now!

Then I heard the cook say proudly: "But not every household can afford it. Isn't Mr. Su Er working as an official there? He will ask someone to bring it back every year. Mrs. Cheng will be more filial to the master, so sugar frost, rock sugar

Both families have it.”

After hearing this, Su You said: "Okay, then go find the icing sugar and mix in some of the oil residue."

At this moment, Si Yue poked her head in: "Young master, you are so easy to find! Why did you go into the kitchen again?! Master Tai and Master Shi are back and want you to talk to the front hall."

Su You hurriedly followed Siyue out to the front hall: "I've met my uncle-in-law, I've met my uncle Shi."

When Cheng Wenying saw Su You, he sighed and said, "I heard that you were hanging out with the beggars in the city today? It's a good thing to be kind, but just give me some money. You're not being polite like this."

Su You bowed and said: "My uncle-in-law taught me that I listened to one of them named Qi'er. There are about fifty abandoned children, but after the charity shed was opened, their eldest brother only allowed seven or eight of them to come in a day."

, help wash vegetables and dishes, and prepare meals.”

"It's said that first of all, it's annoying when there are too many people, and secondly, after developing an appetite for food, it's hard to adapt to the past. Once you give up, you may become a thief. I really want to meet such a person."

Shi Dongxiu then handed over to Cheng Wenying and said, "Mr. Cheng, for our abandoned son from Meishan to be so sensible and law-abiding, this is due to the merits of Chenggong's printing of words and enlightenment."

Cheng Wenying waved his hands and said: "Don't put money on my face. The people in the warehouse know the etiquette and the words and education can't reach the abandoned children."

Shi Dongxiu said to Su You again: "My dear nephew, if you are determined to do good, just let them go to the charity shed to get a bowl of rough rice and a bowl of beef offal soup every day. There is no need to mix with them, then

Help the children run wild, if they collide you will be in trouble."

Su You smiled and said: "Shibo, this is actually a hidden danger in Meishan City. There are more than fifty people who can't be fed by Tzu Chi alone."

Shi Dongxiu wanted to speak, but Cheng Wenying raised his hand to stop him: "My dear nephew, tell me what you think."

Su You bowed and said: "Uncle Shi, uncle-in-law, let's first talk about why we need to take care of this matter."

"They are now seeking a living in Meishan. Our Song Dynasty government is not strict. After one year, they can automatically obtain Meishan household registration."

"The abandoned children are mixed with men and women. It's fine now. But when they grow up, if something happens to the relationship between men and women, it will seriously damage our Meishan culture."

"Secondly, if we don't care, in a few years, those little girls will grow up and fall into the eyes of human traffickers and prostitutes, and it will be miserable."

"If something like this really happens and spreads out, I am afraid that all the prefectures and counties will be ordered by the court, and it will fall on the gentry. It will also lose face and damage the reputation of Meishan, the hometown of culture and education."

After a pause, Su You saw Shi and Cheng nodding secretly, and Su You continued: "How to solve it? First of all, it is best to let them support themselves and not become a burden to Meishan County."

"Secondly, it is best for someone to manage them, guide them to promote good and suppress evil, and become self-reliant."

"How can we make a living by ourselves? My nephew once discovered something in Kelongli. The sand layer of the Glass River contains a kind of iron ore, and the steel produced has good performance."

"However, this work is very trivial. The output of iron panning in the sand is bound to be small, so it is not suitable for large-scale mining and is not worth the dedicated labor."

"But as long as they have simple tools and hand over this work to the children, each of them can earn three to five taels of iron sand every day and sell it to the Shijia Iron Shop, and the livelihood of these children will be solved."

"As for the girls, let them wash dishes and pick vegetables in the charity shed, which can be regarded as learning cooking skills and treating others. In the future, even if they become maids or maids, or grow up and get married, they can always have the skills to run a household."

"These children are abandoned by their parents, and it is inevitable that they will be heartbroken. Su You has been alone since he was a child, and he has to do harm to others, but he understands what they are thinking. And they do not reject me."

"Therefore, I may be able to be a link of communication between them and the people of Meishan and the government, a smooth moderator, to avoid suspicion and guard against suspicion, and to nourish the people's customs."

"Suyou doesn't ask the elders of Meishan for help. All he needs is a promise from the county officials not to accept children's iron sand as official property and allow them to sell it themselves as money for their health."

When Cheng Wenying heard this, he patted the armrest of his chair and said: "Think carefully and whip into it. What a wonderful ambition! What a magnificent statement!"

Shi Dongxiu laughed loudly: "I didn't expect that there is such a talented person in Meishan. Although I save my own family, I will definitely help my nephew succeed. We will go to the county magistrate and tell him."

Cheng Wenying nodded in agreement: "This matter is really not difficult. If the county dares to snatch the iron sand from the orphans in the river, then the people in charge will never be able to gain a foothold in Shilin. But my dear nephew, Glass River is serious

Is there iron sand?”

Su You took out a contract from his arms and said, "It's true. Old Man Shi and I verified this matter, and because of this, I just received ten pieces of offering money from Shi Tong."

Cheng Wenying stroked his beard: "That nephew can easily walk away in Meishan City. Since you came to Meishan City, the relationship between the four surnames of Jiang Qing and I has obviously become closer. Regardless of the Su family, the other three families have benefited from you.

.It seems that your word for oil is not in vain, it is everywhere... What is your word for? Lubricant!"

Su You smiled and bowed and said: "My nephew is scared. In fact, I didn't do anything. I also have the trust of Eight Niangs and Twenty-seven Niangs, as well as my uncle-in-law and uncle Shi. I just happened to help the kitchen with a new outfit today. How about I

How about making a few side dishes and asking my uncle-in-law and uncle Shi to taste them?"

Shi Dongxiu said: "Good nephew, gentleman is far away..."

Before he finished speaking, Cheng Wenying grabbed him, waved to Su You and said, "Hurry up, Lao Shi, let me tell you, the deliciousness of my nephew's cooking is something you really can't miss."

The seasonings are not complete, and the most impressive thing is probably the sweet and sour flavor.

Back in the kitchen, let the cook do it. Su You directed, took a carp, changed the knife, tasted it, rolled it in flour, poured oil to set it, then adjusted the sweet and sour sauce, stir-fried onion and ginger, and first made a sweet and sour crispy crust.

fish.

Then there was a stir-fry of slippery mushroom meat slices, magnolia meat slices, chicken with ginger, white oil loofah, garlic-choked water spinach, and finally a winter melon meatball soup.

With the addition of two pieces of lard residue, a big table was filled.

Cheng Wenying and Shi Dongxiu were dumbfounded. Shi Dongxiu said: "Mr. Cheng, now you only need three dishes to treat the governor to a meal. My nephew, this is... one, two, three... a total of eight dishes."
Chapter completed!