Yunmeng Ballad: I opened a restaurant in the Warring States Period

Chapter 4 Salty Crispy Meat

"Then I have to thank the girl." Song Catcher smiled perfunctorily, and threw out all the doubts in his heart, regardless of whether the other party would be unhappy or angry.

"How does Song remember that this house seems to be owned by a merchant from all over the place, so why does it belong to a girl?"

Chu Yunmeng scolded this straight man surnamed Song for his occupational diseases in his heart, but at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, he is outspoken and doesn't worry about playing tricks.

Seeing that he is warm-hearted and has a good nature, he will be someone to win over in the future.

Thinking of this, she continued to explain with a smile: "The owner entrusted me to take care of this house. As for the paperwork needed to open the shop, I will fill it up on behalf of the owner in the next two days."

Although he felt that the woman in front of him was full of contradictions, such as the fur coat and skirt on her body, such as the decoration of the hall, Song Yun had to admit that what she did did not exceed the rules or violated the law, so he also It is inconvenient to continue to study further.

So he sat down for a while and left.

Before leaving, he clasped his fists: "It will open in two days, Song will definitely come to join us."

Chu Yunmeng finally heaved a sigh of relief after seeing Butou Song off, and started to get busy with his own affairs.

There are still two days before leaving the industry, and there are still many things to prepare.

She put the ingredients she had just purchased back into the storage room, picked up the machete, went to the wild bamboo forest on the outskirts of the city, cut some withered and colorless bamboos, and picked up a few thick branches.

These branches looked very thick, and they should have been broken by lightning and wind on the road, but they were not eaten by insects and ants, nor did they start to rot. They were good materials for making furniture and utensils.

On the way back, Chu Yunmeng ran into Butou Song again.

Looking at the suspicious eyes of the other party, she did not explain, nodded with a smile, and pushed a cart of bamboo and a few pieces of wood away.

The purpose of finding these materials is to make some handy cooking utensils.

Originally, Chu Yunmeng wanted to find a reliable blacksmith to make some spoons, colanders, spatulas and fences according to the drawings he drew.

However, she had spent almost all her money and silk buying ingredients, so she had no choice but to do it herself, making a few temporary roofs with wood and bamboo.

She first cut down an arm's length of the wood she picked up, and then split the arm's length of wood in half, and peeled off the bark from half of it.Leave a palm-sized area and cut it into a shovel shape.For the remaining length, cut off the wood on both sides, leaving only a thin stick.In the transition zone between the thin stick and the shovel, it is polished into an arc.

After grinding for most of the morning, a wooden shovel was finally made into shape.

Then there is the fence.

Chu Yunmeng split the bamboo that he had pulled to an arm's length.

Split an arm-long bamboo into bamboo strips, and then tie these bamboo strips tightly together, breaking up and bending only the bamboo strips that are more than a palm wide at the end.

Straining looks simple, but it's not easy to do.

Just how to make the bamboo at the end claw-shaped without being torn apart, Chu Yunmeng couldn't master the slightest skill.Can only make do with it.

For convenience, she cut another section of bamboo at the bamboo joint.With the bamboo joints as the base, the bamboo body as the tube, and a piece of finger-thick bamboo on the top of the tube as the handle, a simple small bamboo tube is made.

Although the bamboo tube looks simple, it is very convenient to hold liquid.For example, the fat she is about to cook.

It took another afternoon, and Chu Yunmeng made two large wooden barrels and wooden basins with lids, which were used to hold vegetables or rice in the future.

Although the workmanship is very rough, it is enough.

Looking at her hands that were slashed by bamboo and wood thorns, Chu Yunmeng suddenly felt aggrieved.

Can't help but blame the mysterious person, only borrowing such a big house, there is almost nothing in the kitchen except a floor stove, pots and pans.

Although I have no memory of this era, but looking at my body, hands and the condition of the skin all over my body, I can guess that I have always been pampered.

And in that long dream, he had never done such rough work.

After finishing the carpentry work, it was almost dusk.

In this era, lunch is not eaten, and only two meals in the morning and evening are eaten.After a busy day, Chu Yunmeng finally felt hungry.

But she remembered that there was only one silver cloth coin left on her body, and these would be used tomorrow to buy bowls, spoons, knives and forks, wood, and pallets, which are the basic configurations of the restaurant for diners in Yunmengju.

After all, I only made so few things in a whole day today, and it still can't catch people's eyes.

If you don’t use money to buy common tableware, but make it yourself, it’s a waste of your ingenuity and dislocation of resources.

Finally, she stopped walking towards the restaurant outside, and turned to the kitchen.

She first took a small bowl of rice, washed it, put in a few red dates, peach kernels, chestnuts and wolfberries, and boiled it on a small stove.

While waiting, she also lit up the big stove and set up the big cauldron.

When the big cauldron was red-hot, Chu Yunmeng put part of the fat that Butcher Hu had cut for himself into the cauldron, and turned it over and over again with a wooden spatula.

After the fatty meat in the cauldron boiled out the animal fat, Chu Yunmeng put more fat meat into the cauldron and turned it again, and so on.

After a while, a pot of liquid fat had accumulated in the cauldron.

Chu Yunmeng began to remove the fire, and using the strainer that was just made in the afternoon, scooped up the shriveled and golden-yellow fat meat, put it in the wooden basin that was just made in the afternoon, sprinkled it with salt, and turned it a few times to remove the salt. Stir well.

At the same time that the fat is boiled, a pot of salty and crispy meat is also ready.

Chu Yunmeng believes that for ordinary people who eat less meat in this era, this will be a rare delicacy.

And for rich households or officials who are used to eating both fat and lean meat boiled in a large cauldron, the fried taste is definitely fresh.

At this time, less than one-third of the fatty meat that Chu Yunmeng bought had boiled.But she only boiled a pot of fat and didn't continue.

Mainly due to two considerations: On the one hand, there are not enough pots and pans; It won't last long, and this dish won't be sold for a few days after opening, so it's not that cost-effective.

After a pot of oil was boiled and a pot of crispy meat came out of the pot, Chu Yunmeng cooked his own dinner.

This will also become the first main dish after the opening of Yunmengju.

After dinner, Chu Yunmeng used rice milk to glue the pebbles he picked up in the shape of the three characters "Yunmengju" on the stone wall outside the courtyard, and went to rest.

Early the next morning, she got up early as usual, collected ice everywhere and put it in the cellar.

The ice here is no longer a small piece, but gradually freezes together and becomes a large piece of ice.

As if inspecting his own masterpiece, Chu Yunmeng inspected the ice cubes that were gradually getting larger in size, then turned and left, and went to the market to purchase pots and pans, wood, wooden trays, and wine for the opening. Commonly used utensils such as water.

In order to save money, Chu Yunmeng could only pick the cheap ones.

Fortunately, the overall style is not different from the furnishings of Yunmengju.

It was also because of this that Chu Yunmeng could finally work freely in the kitchen without having to worry about lack of pots or bowls.

After buying these, Chu Yunmeng only had five grimace money left in his hand.

　Ask for collection, ask for recommendation ticket

　　


(End of this chapter)