Chapter 21: The Shen Family Talks about the Dowry Gift and Was Threatened
Mu Chenglin glanced at Shen Wenjun, "I can change it if I want!"
As soon as these words came out, Yang Xiaomi nervously held Shen Yunxi's arm and looked at Mu Chenglin angrily, but Shen Yunxi didn't react at all.
Mu Chenglin was stupid enough to send her, a talented cook, away and marry Shen Pingping!
The Shen family members, including Mr. Liu and Shen Pingping, all had satisfied smiles on their faces.
In the past few days, mother and daughter have calculated that since Cui Zixuan can't succeed, Mu Chenglin is still good!
But Mu Chenglin's next words made Mrs. Shen curse anxiously.
"Then return my one hundred and twenty taels of silver, and at the same time return the losses I caused due to being deceived! A total of two hundred taels of silver!"
"I agree to the marriage exchange!"
Where could the Shen family get two hundred taels? Apart from the two hundred taels left for Shen Xiujuan's dowry, there were still more than one hundred taels left in total.
She came to make trouble again and again, just to get some more benefits from Shen Yunxi!
"You want to eat shit! Why don't you grab the two hundred taels of silver?" Mrs. Shen yelled!
"That's right, you married Shen Yunxi again, and now you want to marry Shen Pingping again, and you still need two hundred taels of silver. You have taken advantage of all the good things in the world!" As soon as they heard about the money, the three daughters-in-law of the Shen family Not to be outdone, he started yelling!
When the Shen family arrived, the helpers began to work and eat melon at the same time. They all laughed when they heard this, "Aren't you guys trying to force Shen Pingping over here?"
"Everyone knows what happened that day, why bother pretending here! It's just that the Mu family is getting better now and wants to get some benefits!"
"Is this how the Shen family made their fortune? That's really terrible. Don't look for a girl from the Shen family to marry you in the future!"
Everyone was doing it in full swing, and they didn't stop talking. There were all kinds of harsh words, which made the Shen family a little bit unable to hold their heads up!
At this time, the village chief also came. He had been here in the morning and saw that everything was going well, so he walked away for a while. When the Shen family came, a helper immediately ran out secretly and notified the village chief.
"I'm talking about the Shen family, why are you making so much noise every day! Xiao Mu finally managed to live a good life, and you are making trouble again!"
"The commotion yesterday was not enough, what do you want to do today?"
"The whole village knows what you did that day. Even Yun Xi's name is written on the marriage certificate. It's too late for you to regret it now!"
Mrs. Shen saw that this would not work here, so she added, "Since Mu Chenglin doesn't recognize Shen Pingping, then that's okay!"
"If you want to marry Shen Yunxi, the betrothal gift must be renegotiated!"
Old Mrs. Shen found a stool and sat down. In fact, this was the real purpose of her coming to cause trouble today.
Yesterday, Mrs. Zhu told her that she should pretend to be crazy and act stupid to get Shen Yunxi and Shen Pingping back!
This Mrs. Zhu thinks she is so smart. She, the old woman, has thought of this method a long time ago. It’s not like she didn’t know about the wall Ms. Liu encountered at the Mu family that day!
If she openly stated that she wanted to change the person back, Mu Chenglin would definitely refuse, so she could propose re-employment!
In this way, wouldn’t all the money from the Mu family’s vegetable recipes go into Old Shen’s pocket?
It has been many days since the couple got married, and they are still discussing the betrothal gift again. This is probably the first time in the entire Xia Kingdom!
But as soon as the Shen family heard that the betrothal gift was going to be discussed again, everyone gathered around Old Mrs. Shen. Only Shen Pingping, who was treated as a tool, stood aside and looked at them gloomily.
Shen Yunxi and Mu Chenglin were busy with their own business, and they couldn't delay their cooking just because of a fly.
Old Mrs. Shen was not embarrassed. She continued, "Shen Pingping is not as good-looking as Shen Yunxi and is illiterate, but she can still be hired for one hundred and twenty taels!"
"A person like Shen Yunxi should be given at least five hundred taels!"
When it came to five hundred taels, Shen Wenjun's hands trembled with excitement. Yesterday, Mrs. Shen said that if it could be done this time, these five hundred taels would be reserved for herself to study in the town!
In fact, where it is used for reading, it is basically used for eating, drinking and having fun!
The rest of the Shen family were also very excited. Although these five hundred taels belonged to the Shen family, as the Shen family, they would get a share of the pie!
But everyone else took it as a joke, and Lin Shugen even smiled and shook his head, thinking that Mrs. Shen was joking!
Yang Xiaomi gently touched Shen Yunxi and said, "Is your grandma crazy? The next hire will cost five hundred taels. Is she crazy about money?"
Shen Yunxi was fed up. This was not the first time that Mrs. Shen had proposed five hundred taels. She kept coming because she thought the original owner was selling it cheaply!
It was because she was not strong enough now that Mrs. Shen dared to make trouble again and again.
Mu Chenglin didn't even look at Old Mrs. Shen. If he didn't want to reveal his identity, he would have thrown Old Mrs. Shen into the mountains to feed tigers and wolves!
Seeing that everyone thought she was joking, Mrs. Shen added, "Since you can't afford five hundred taels, then you can use these recipes to pay for it!"
Mu Chenglin and Shen Yunxi looked at each other. They must have cooked some of the dishes they cooked in the past few days, which were similar to those at Qingfeng Tower. Shen Wenjun, who suddenly came back, explained that this secret must have been discovered by them.
In addition to Qingfenglou's new dishes, they have also made many other dishes these days, so Mrs. Shen spent so much time today just for these recipes.
"You must not know this! Qingfeng Restaurant in town has recently launched many new dishes, each of which is valuable."
"And each of these dishes has appeared on the Mu family's dining table. In addition, some of the dishes presented by the Mu family are not even available in Qingfeng Tower!"
Shen Wenjun cleared his throat and said, and sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the helpers, even the village chief and Yang Xiaomi all looked shocked!
"I just said that the Mu family's dishes are both attractive and delicious. You see, Qingfeng Restaurant in town has bought their recipes!"
"Yeah, I didn't expect Xiao Mu to have this skill. He's handsome, he can hunt, and he's also good at cooking! Where can I find such a rich husband?"
"Xiao Mu is stupid. There are so many good recipes, why don't you open a restaurant and sell the recipes directly? This is not a long-term solution!"
"What do you know? The ingredients that Qingfenglou's carriage comes to bring every morning are probably the business they are doing, which means they don't care about these recipes!"
Yang Xiaomi and Aunt Huang were even more happy for Shen Yunxi, "I didn't expect Xiao Mu to have a hard time. Yunxi's life will be easier in the future!"
"Write down all the new dishes you have cooked recently. These recipes will be your dowry gift for marrying Shen Yunxi!" Old Mrs. Shen asked Mu Chenglin directly.
Shen Wenjun wanted to cover Mrs. Shen's mouth, but before he had time, he said apologetically, "I'm sorry, my mother means that Yun Xi is better than Shen Pingping after all, so the betrothal gift must be increased. Since the Mu family If you can’t get the money, you can only use these prescriptions to pay for it!”
Shen Yunxi felt that something was wrong with Mu Chenglin's aura. Sure enough, his face was full of anger at the moment, and his veins were bulging. It must be that the Shen family was making trouble again and again, and he had reached the limit of his endurance!
Mu Chenglin must have tolerated it for her sake before, but now Mrs. Shen's plan has shaken the current foundation of the Mu family.
"These recipes have already been sold by us!" Shen Yunxi quickly refused!
"You sell yours, I want mine!" Mrs. Shen didn't care whether they sold it or not!
"We signed an agreement when we sold it. If the recipe is leaked, we will lose money!"
Mrs. Shen sneered, "What does it have to do with us if you lose money?"
Shen Wenjun held his forehead, why did this old lady say what was in her heart again?
He understood what the old lady meant. After getting the prescription, they would either sell it or open a store of their own. As for Shen Yunxi's agreement with Qingfeng Tower, she would not care.
Anyway, they gave me the prescription, and they will bear the consequences!
But you can’t say this here!
Sure enough, Shen Yunxi's face changed! The others' faces also changed. Mu Chenglin's eyes turned red, as if he wanted to eat them!
"It's you who are trying different ways to get the recipe. No matter whether we have reached any agreement with others or not, we will bear the consequences!"
"Very good! Shen Wenjun, this was your idea, right? It turns out that the scholar examination is used for calculations!"
"Grandma, do you think that every time you look at me, you say you are going to the academy to find your fourth uncle, but you don't go in the end, so you think I'm just scaring you?"
Shen Yunxi untied her bib, "I won't cook today's meal. I want to ask if these are the methods taught in the academy specifically to plot against my niece!"
The village chief also responded, "That's right! I'll go too and be a witness to Yun Xi!"
All of a sudden, Aunt Yang Xiaomi, Huang and all the helpers came to Shen Yunxi and said that they would also do the testimonials.
Now Shen Wenjun was a little dumbfounded. He was admitted as a scholar. Shouldn't the people in the village respect him in particular? Why did everyone in the village speak for Shen Yunxi?
Besides, this recipe belongs to the Mu family. Does it have anything to do with them? Why are they so active?
Old Mrs. Shen was also frightened by the battle. With so many people running towards the town, she couldn't explain it clearly even if she had ten mouths!
"Hmph! You married the best daughter of our Shen family for a hundred and twenty taels, and you actually found so many people to scare us!"
"Mu Chenglin, you really got the advantage and behaved well. I don't remember the faults of villains, so I will let you go today!"
After saying that, Mrs. Shen planned to back out. Although the prescription was good, it couldn't compare with Shen Wenjun's future!
But the three Shen brothers quit!
The Shen family has almost lost their face. There has been another commotion today, and they don't want to stop until they get some benefits.
Especially Shen Erfu, Shen Yunxi is his daughter after all, and she has never been filial to him. Now she has so many recipes in her hands, but she still doesn't give a few to her own father.
Thinking about the soft and glutinous pig's trotters he ate yesterday, Shen Erfu licked his tongue!
But how could Mrs. Shen agree that they had affected Shen Wenjun's reputation here? The three brothers were scolded by Mrs. Shen and walked away unwillingly!
Shen Yunxi touched her left wrist. God only gave her four money-making apps. She really couldn't shake the Shen family at the moment!
So if you want to make yourself stronger, you can only keep making money!
She originally wanted to ask Xia Yifan for help, but after thinking about it, she felt it was wrong!
She has a husband, and she goes behind her husband's back to find other men for help. Where does that leave Mu Chenglin?
Xia Yifan and she weren't even close to each other, they were just business partners who had met a few times, so they shouldn't talk about household matters to outsiders.
But at present, apart from Xia Yifan, the only person Shen Yunxi knows is the somewhat mysterious Mu Chenglin. But Mu Chenglin has been enduring it, so Shen Yunxi can only endure it for now!
As soon as the Shen family made such a fuss, rumors spread that the Mu family were great chefs, and everyone understood why the Mu family suddenly had enough money to buy land!
Old Mrs. Shen was a little restrained after being so frightened. Shen Wenjun went to town in despair the next day. The image he had worked so hard to build could not be ruined just because of a few hundred taels of silver!
No one is making trouble in the Shen family these days, and the work of making sauerkraut is getting easier and easier. With the help of Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin, the two of them are not as tired as before!
Mu Chenglin saw that he hadn't been to the mountains for a long time, so he planned to go there again to see if he could catch something!
Aunt Huang cooked the dinner in the evening. Although the taste was not as good as Mu Chenglin's, these dishes were taught by Shen Yunxi herself, so everyone ate deliciously.
After finishing the meal, Shen Yunxi still gave the leftovers to Yang Xiaomi and Aunt Huang, and carried the food box back to the mountainside.
Mu Chenglin found a small buffalo in a trap deep in the mountains in the afternoon.
This buffalo didn't fall into the trap today. It fell into it several days ago. There were no traces of other buffalo around, so I guess they gave up on it.
Mu Chenglin first knocked the buffalo unconscious, carried it to the mountains, and then bled it. After it died, he carried it back home.
When Shen Yunxi came back, Mu Chenglin was already dissecting the buffalo.
Mother Mu took the food box from Shen Yunxi's hand, "I'm telling you, you are so tired every day, and you still go to see the prey!"
"I have to ask Yun Xi again how to do this! I don't know how to let Yun Xi have a good rest!"
Mother Mu and Shen Yunxi placed the plates and invited their two sons to eat.
"Mom, I'm not tired. Besides, beef is good and you can make a lot of delicious food!"
Shen Yunxi had already eaten. While they were eating, she sneaked into the room and checked the "Fall in Love with the Kitchen" app and the "Pumpkin" video app.
There are many ways to eat beef, the most direct one is braised beef. Unfortunately, the soy sauce is not mature yet and the coloring will definitely not work, but you can try it.
But braised beef requires braised ingredients. When she went to town before, she did not buy braised ingredients such as aniseed.
She found a seller on the "Pumpkin" video, paid an extra four coppers, chose direct delivery, and bought two bags of marinade packets.
If you want to preserve beef, you can make it into beef jerky or beef sauce!
Another very good delicacy is beef vermicelli soup. Seeing this, Shen Yunxi slapped her thigh, how could she forget the vermicelli!
Before, she had been looking for a solution that suited the Yang family, and fans were a very good solution.
The two uncles of the Yang family have bad legs but very strong arms. To make sweet potatoes into vermicelli, they first need to grind the sweet potatoes into pulp. This does not require walking, but requires arm strength!
The raw material for vermicelli can be potatoes or sweet potatoes. It is difficult to find it in the village, so Xia Yifan can search it all over the country.
This new ingredient will definitely be more sensational than tofu. As long as it touches Xia Yifan's heart, it will be easy to negotiate the price.
Shen Yunxi silently kept this idea in mind. Before that, she had to find a blacksmith in advance and prepare two tools!
When Mu Chenglin finished eating, Shen Yunxi came out of the room and told Mu Chenglin these thoughts, and Mu Chenglin expressed great agreement.
Mu Chenglin decomposed the beef, Shen Yunxi selected the tendons and began to blanch them, and Mu Chengjin helped watch the firewood.
When no one was around, Shen Yunxi threw the two marinade packets into the pot.
Then Mu Chenglin followed Shen Yunxi's suggestion, chopped the beef bones into sections, blanched them in water, and started to cook the bone soup over low heat in a large pot. He cooked it all night. This big pot was still Mu Chenglin's at night. Borrowed from the village chief's house.
When the village chief heard that the two were making new food, he was very happy and lent them the pot. He also joked that he would take the whole family to have breakfast early tomorrow morning. This chapter has been completed!