Scholar's Sweetheart

Around Youshi, it had already cleared up, and even the road was dry.

Song Xintong cooked braised pork, fried pork with mushrooms, cold agaric and seasonal vegetables, and aunt he also had dinner with nine people.

After dinner, song Xintong, aunt Xie and aunt he drive to the construction site with a bullock cart. The twins follow Mrs. Qiu back to Xie's house and wait for her to come back in the evening to pick them up.

At about a quarter after you'clock, song Xintong and his wife arrived at the open space where they set up their stall at noon. Because of the grass shed, the firewood under them was still dry.

"I didn't bring firewood if I knew." Aunt Xie took down the firewood from the ox cart and put it aside.

"How do you know this grass shed is still strong?" He er's aunt brushed over again and said, "are we three busy?"

"It used to be just the three of us?" Aunt Xie said.

Aunt he said, "there are Dabao and Xiaobao."

"What can they do for each other?" Aunt Xie said as she set the fire.

"The two of them have played a big role. When they are here again, they don't have to worry about collecting money. They have a good memory and can remember the demands of many people." Aunt he said, "right, Xintong."

Song Xintong was fiddling with the stewed pig's feet and chicken's feet left at noon. When she heard aunt he's question, she turned back, "they are mascots. The Steward will not care too much about their face."

"Yes, I put the wrong seasoning several times. It's all Dabao's sweet mouth. People don't care about me." Aunt Xie said, "they are not in at night. Is that ok?"

Song Xintong usually takes the twins out, but he doesn't worry that they are at home, and they go to bed early at night. If they go back too late, I'm afraid they can't stand it. "Why can't you, Auntie? You have to be confident. Besides, there are Xie Shu and he Ershu. They can't help you when they are busy."

"Hey, I really forgot their brothers." Auntie he couldn't help laughing, "there's a stick of incense to go. What are we going to do?"

"Do it now. Cook this cask of stew first." Song Xintong arranged, "and then boil the water."

"To burn them?" Aunt Xie looked at the lobster in the big barrel.

"Well, a hot one will cook quickly, so that the guests won't wait long." Song Xintong said, "I'll trouble the two aunts to help greet the guests later, and I'll be responsible for frying."

"Yes, I understand." Aunt Xie and aunt he quickly started to work, "will we come here in the evening? Your sister-in-law, they're not coming? "

"The noodles are all sold out. I'll send more in the evening. I should be able to come tomorrow evening." He said.

The steward surnamed Zhang came over and saw an iron pot full of boiling water burning on it. "Miss Song, I heard that you came to sell wine and vegetables at night, but it's still stewed vegetables and stewed chicken feet. What's the difference between this and daytime?"

"Steward Zhang, don't worry. I'm still working on it? I'll do it for you later. " Song Xintong put a clean dustpan flat on two stones, and then he took a big leak spoon to scoop the fresh lobster.

"What is this? Or alive? " Zhang Guanshi looked at the lobster and asked in surprise.

"It's still alive. That's to eat something fresh and make it first." Song Xintong put the lobster in the boiling water pot once, all of them were scalded half cooked, then they scooped up neatly, all of them fell on the dustpan, and then they flushed with cold water to disperse the heat.

Zhang steward looked at the bright color of the lobster can not help but swallow saliva, "this is about to do?"

"Wait a minute." Song Xintong and aunt Xie put the iron pot aside, and immediately put a half large frying pan on it, "steward Zhang, we have two fried dishes in the evening, one is spicy crayfish, the other is this spicy snail, both of which are very good. Which do you want?"

"Can you eat this, too?" Then came two stewards, who came out of the farmhouse. "Isn't this the way to feed chickens in the river?"

"It's from the river. I have two bowls made at home. Would you like to have a taste of them?" Song Xintong took out the lobsters and snails he had prepared and taught them how to eat them.

"Well." Zhang Guanshi nodded, "how to sell it?"

"This crayfish is ten Wen a Jin. I'll fry it for you as much as you want. If it's a snail, it's six Wen for a bowl." Song Xintong took a bowl out, "so big."

Several stewards looked at each other, "why is it so expensive to touch it in the river?"

"It's mainly the trouble of washing snails, and you see, I put so much oil and so much seasoning, and the cost is expensive." Song Xintong said, "it's cheaper to eat in a restaurant than you. A bowl of peanuts in a restaurant costs four Wen."

A few steward think is also, "then let's do the same?"

"Yes, I'll have a drink then." Zhang said.

"Well, then we're welcome."

Zhang steward thought, "lobster to ten jin, this snail a big bowl."

"Well, I'll do it for you right away." Song Xintong immediately poured the vegetable oil into the hot pot, and aunt Xie quickly weighed ten jin lobster, and then put it on Song Xintong's right-hand board with Shau Kei.

Song Xintong's action is extremely sharp will be onion ginger garlic poured in, and then all the lobster poured in, followed by adding some seasoning in, add water to boil.

And the other side of the empty out of the pot is also put on the oil, the practice is similar to the snail fried up.

Cook together less than a stick of incense, can be out of the pot.

Aunt he quickly took out a large soup basin and installed the lobster and snail.

Song Xintong took a sea bowl to Zhang Guanshi, filled it with snails, and handed it to them together with the lobster. "If you go back and have a taste, snails will come back tomorrow."

"I don't need to go back, just for the fragrance. Now I think I'll come back tomorrow." Housekeeper Zhang handed 120 coppers to song Xintong, and then looked at the dark crowd in the distance, "Miss Song, I'm afraid these lobsters are not enough."

Song Xintong accepted the money with a smile: "I'm not sure now. If it's not enough, I'll prepare more tomorrow."

"Xintong, is that really not enough?" Aunt Xie looked at the lobster with more than 200 Jin, and asked incredulously.

"I don't know yet." Song Xintong washed the pan clean again, "Auntie, I fried all the snails first."

"Well, there are only ten kilos left for the snails. They will be fried in one pot." He Er Auntie agrees of say.

The pots that song Xintong brought are not big. She can make about 10 jin at most. No matter how much, she can't control the taste.

After all the snails were cooked, all the workers went to work.

As soon as I was near, I saw that the stewards had left with a large pot of red and gorgeous things, so the workers gathered around. As soon as they heard that lobster was so expensive, they were reluctant to part with it. Most of them paid six Wen to buy a large plate of snails, lay on the bed and fainted for two sips of wine.

However, many people are willing to spend money to eat lobster, how many five Jin, three jin to buy.

More is to buy together seven or eight Jin, go back to eat together.

Within a quarter of the new year's day, the stewed vegetables, pig's hooves and snails were all gone, leaving only 20 or 30 jin of lobster unsold.

Because of the high price, the steward who came back from other places didn't know what song Xintong was doing, and only dared to buy one or two Jin, so there were still some left.

"There's no one left. What about the rest of the lobsters?" Aunt Xie asked.

Song Xintong thought, "let's fry together while there's still a fire. You haven't eaten yet, uncle Xie and uncle he. I'll make it for you."

"No, no, you keep it for sale." Both hands waved.

"It's all cooked. It tastes bad after a long time. My aunt has been tired all night. Let's have another snack." Song Xintong directly poured oil on the two iron pots and boiled the remaining 30 jin in two pots.