After rebirth, she just wants to farm

With Gu Chenan's lesson learned, Meng Qingning didn't know if she was overthinking it. She always felt that the person in front of her had an unusual identity.

She suppressed her doubts and continued to ask, "Where is eldest brother from?"

"My name is Jin Rong, from Lanling. Later, there was a war in my hometown. I fled all the way to Qingyang. When Qingyang fell, I came to Ning'an County."

Meng Qingning became aware that Lanling was the first place affected by the war, not far from Qingyang County.

Seeing his clothes in tatters, I thought maybe I was overthinking it.

"Then does the elder brother have somewhere to go now?"

Jin Rong raised the corner of his mouth slightly and gave a wry smile, "To tell you the truth, I came here to escape from famine and got separated from my family. I just arrived in the town yesterday and haven't found a place to stay yet."

Seeing that Meng Qingning was still hesitating, he hurriedly said, "I don't need any wages, I just want the shopkeeper to give me a place to stay."

Meng Qingning felt a little soft-hearted at the moment. The original owner also escaped from the famine and knew what it was like to be a refugee.

In addition, this man could read and write and had good accounting skills, so he stayed and had the warehouse cleaned up.

With the workers, the progress of the sauce has been accelerated a lot. Doubanjiang has been fully launched, and orders are growing day by day.

By the end of August, the hot pot restaurant was almost fully decorated, and Meng Qingning planned to go to the city.

The hot pot restaurant was located in the most prosperous area of ​​Wuning County, and it also had a second floor. It was spacious and bright, and Meng Qingning liked it very much.

Master Chen's pot has been made, and it's exactly what Meng Qingning thought. It's perfect for rinsing vegetables.

Song Zhao found someone to customize the table according to his wishes.

Even the bowls and chopsticks are custom-made.

When she went to the city this time, she specially brought her whole family with her, and the children were all amazed after watching it.

"Such a big restaurant will be ours from now on?" Lu Qinan looked around, feeling like he was dreaming.

"Yes, this is our first store, and there will be a second and third store in the future." Meng Qingning said firmly.

Song Zhao happened to come in from outside, and after hearing her words, he echoed, "Your sister-in-law is right, our Fengmanlou Hotpot will be open all over the country sooner or later."

Before, he wouldn't have dared to think like this even in his dreams, but after tasting hot pot, he had such an intuition.

"How is the house search going?" Meng Qingning asked.

She plans to buy a house in the county so that it will be easier to come and go in the future.

"There is a place in the east of the city. It has a spacious courtyard and is not far from our restaurant."

Song Zhao had been looking for this house for a long time before settling on it. He felt that Meng Qingning would definitely be satisfied with it.

Then they came to the east of the city to look at a house. The courtyard was a typical large courtyard with three entrances and three exits. It would be no problem for their family to live there.

During the war years, the most scarce thing was food. House prices were not high. A courtyard with a corridor like this cost just over 200 taels.

They made up their minds immediately.

Several children cheered for joy. After today's trip, the total expenditure was more than 300 taels, and Meng Qingning felt her heart bleed.

The annual rent for a hot pot restaurant is 30 taels, the decoration costs about 30 taels, and the yard costs more than 200 taels.

This means that all the dividends from Fengmanlou in the past two months have been invested in the hot pot restaurant.

But seeing them so happy made me feel relieved.

After the house matter was settled, they stayed in the county town that night to prepare for the opening of the hot pot restaurant.

Meng Qingning wrote a menu and gave it to Song Zhao.

There is meat, chicken, duck and fish, and vegetarian dishes include potato slices, cabbage, radish, lettuce, lotus root...

Most of what Meng Qingning could think of was added, but the wide vermicelli was missing. She felt a pity and thought that she must make vermicelli in the future.

She is a big fan of wide fans.Song Zhao stared at the menu worriedly.

"Girl, what else can I tell you? Are these duck blood and duck intestines delicious?"

The key is that if this thing has not been sold, it is usually thrown away as scrap.

"It's absolutely delicious." Meng Qingning promised, "I don't think people eat this stuff very much. Let's pay for it. I believe they will be happy to sell it to us."

It can help them reduce waste and make money to collect it, so why not do it.

"I know these fish balls, but what about these shrimp sliders?" He found that there were many things on the menu that he had never seen before.

"Shrimp slider is a great tool for hotpot. All you need to do is buy the shrimps and leave the rest to me."

"Okay!" With these words, Song Zhao felt relieved and concentrated on preparing the dishes.

Money can make all the difference, and within a day or two, Song Zhao had booked everything Meng Qingning needed.

Meng Qingning saw that it was done and all that was left was the sauce, so she had someone build a large stove.

Bought a batch of sesame seeds and peanuts.

How could this hotpot be without sesame sauce and chopped peanuts?

She asked the oil shop to press the sesame oil in advance. As for the sesame paste, she had to make it herself. She first cleaned the purchased sesame seeds, then fried them in a pan until golden brown, then removed them from the pan and let them cool before crushing them.

Because she made a lot of sesame paste and didn't have a food processor, she found a stone grinder for making tofu and slightly improved it.

Grind the sesame seeds and add sesame oil. Wait until the sesame seeds turn into a thick consistency. The sesame paste is ready.

Meng Qingning said in a cheerful voice to Wang on the side, "Mom, clean up and let's have hot pot tonight!"

It happened that Mr. Duan and his wife came to visit. Seeing the delicious fragrance in their yard, they couldn't help but be curious, "Girl, what new food have you studied?"

Meng Qingning quickly invited the people in and introduced them to the two of them, "This is called sesame paste. It is used as a dipping sauce. We plan to cook hot pot tonight, and you two came at the right time."

She originally planned to send someone to invite him.

"I heard that the restaurant you opened is also called a hot pot restaurant. How is it different from ordinary restaurants?" Mr. Duan was also full of curiosity. This was the first time he heard about hot pot.

Meng Qingning took the trouble to introduce, "This hot pot is about cooking and eating. Different from other hot pot dishes, special base ingredients are added when cooking, and the dipping sauce is also specially made."

Grandma Xing became interested, "It seems that we, the old couple, will have a good meal today."

"In another quarter of an hour, we can eat."

Meng Qingning asked Wang and the others to accompany Mr. Duan and Grandma Xing, while she went to the kitchen to prepare the sesame paste.

After everything was placed neatly, even Mr. Duan, who had seen big scenes, was stunned and speechless.

"Your pot looks really strange."

Meng Qingning said, "This pot is specially used to cook hot pot. There is room for adding charcoal at the bottom, so that you can cook it while eating and keep the temperature constant."

"This thing will definitely be very popular in winter." Grandma Xing lamented the wonder of hot pot.

Because there were old people and children, Meng Qingning used the Yuanyang pot, with one pot of three fresh foods and one pot of spicy food. After asking the two old people about their preferences, they specially prepared mixing bowls.

What they had today was lamb and scorpion hot pot. The soup was boiled in advance. After the pot boiled, Meng Qingning first filled a bowl of lamb soup for each person, with chopped green onion sprinkled on top of the soup.

Grandma Xing smelled it, and a scent came to her nose.

She hadn't felt hungry just yet, but now she felt empty in her stomach due to the taste. She picked up the spoon and took a sip. The rich taste made her couldn't help but take two more sips.

The shrimp paste and mutton rolls were both made by Meng Qingning. She put the meat in, blanched it a few times and took it out. The meat was cut thin and cooked easily.

If cooked for too long, it will become chewy.

"Try it quickly and see if it suits your taste?"