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

Chapter 2 Ice and Fire

In the early morning of a few months ago, the door of a modest house in Lihua Lane opened with a "squeak".

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl flashed out the door, braved the heavy snow, and broke the ice under the eaves of her house with her bare hands, put it in a wooden barrel she brought out, and transported it to her house.

She was wrapped in a rough buckskin skirt and fox fur jacket over the thin clothes, and a fox fur hat with sparse stitches on her head, and her hands were also wrapped in cylindrical objects made of fox fur.

After she finished clearing the icicles from the eaves and even the roof of her own house, she even started to break the long icicles from other people's eaves.

Of course, it is not easy to get on the roof of other people's houses.So she walked to a more remote place, smashing the ice in the puddles or pools along the way one by one, and transporting them to her own house like ants.

If someone passed by, they would definitely feel that this woman is not afraid of death. She dared to walk outside alone in such a cold day in such an early morning.Not to mention bandits and villains, even the heavy snow all over the sky and the icy debris all over the place can easily kill half of a person.

Not only did this woman go to a secluded and uninhabited place, but she also specialized in knocking and transporting ice, she was simply crazy.

But the busy girl is not conscious about this at all.

Although his hands were red from the cold and he was almost unconscious, but because of the constant walking, the body gradually steamed up.

And in her eyes, there was an unquenchable fire.

That fire is the fire of her hope for the future.It is not only the hope of exploring missing memories and the truth behind oneself, but also the beautiful hope of living in this simple world.

This woman was undoubtedly Chu Yunmeng.

When the amount of ice was about the same, Chu Yunmeng moved like ants, transporting the ice to the cellar that had been dug long ago.

After several days of moving, the cellar, which occupies nearly one-third of the entire house, is already full of ice.

"Well, if these ices are stored properly, they should last for more than half a year."

Looking at the ice in a cellar, Chu Yunmeng nodded in satisfaction.In my mind, I have already started to imagine the situation where I will become famous in Yingdu half a year later.

This cellar is far away from the ground, and there is no light or living things, so it is very cold, even colder than the ice and snow, the cold wind howling outside.

Maybe it's because the deerskin skirt and fox fur jacket are enough to keep warm, maybe it's because the fire of hope for the future is burning brightly, Chu Yunmeng doesn't feel cold at all.

On the contrary, she felt full of energy, burning like the sun.

So, after dealing with the ice, she faced the wind and snow again, and before dawn, she wrapped a fox fur scarf, tucked her head inside, and pushed a small cart, wandering towards Nanshi go.

Yingdu Nanshi is the largest food market in Yingdu.

Almost all the ingredients that can be found in the whole of Ying are collected here, and it is also a transit point for bulk purchases of ingredients.

But the latter has nothing to do with Chu Yunmeng.

Because after buying the seats in the lobby of Yunmengju, she was full of calculations, and only thirty silver cloth coins[1] that she got from selling half of the venison and wild boar were left.

Who told that mysterious person to only lend his house, but not his money.Now it is empty to have a large entrepreneurial site, but the start-up funds are tight.

She came to Nanshi just to inspect the food culture of this era, learn about the ingredients, and satisfy her eyesight.Then, by the way, I can buy some ingredients to go back, and slowly prepare for the great business of my restaurant.

These days, after carrying the ice, Chu Yunmeng would take advantage of the lack of people to visit Nanshi.

One is to be clean; the other is because of her embarrassing situation, she does not want to be exposed too much to others.

I already have a good understanding of Yingdu's eating habits, ingredients and other conditions; I just need to go to other restaurants and restaurants to do on-the-spot investigations and do competitor investigations.

But her purse didn't allow it, so she had to skip this step and go straight to the next step.

Chu Yunmeng already has a rudimentary business plan in her mind. She has almost considered what dishes to cook this season, what to promote first, and what to promote next.

Her restaurant will open in two days, and today is to make full use of the money she has on hand to buy back enough ingredients for herself.

I believe that in this era, no one knows better than Chu Yunmeng the importance of fat for cooking.So this time, this is the focus of her purchases.

Although there was some fat in the wild boar and venison she had, the amount was too small to compare with the domestic ones.

Fortunately, in this era, although ordinary people eat less meat, they still have enough domestic livestock and poultry.

The scholar-bureaucrats are not tired of eating fine meat and fine meat, so their preference for lean meat is naturally far greater than that of fat meat. Therefore, the situation of fat meat has always been very embarrassing, and it is always given away as a substitute for lean meat.

But Chu Yunmeng only buys fat meat and not lean meat. Those shrewd butchers naturally know that this is more cost-effective than giving away fat meat as a topping.

So, she wobbled and pushed the small cart to a butcher's stall.

The butcher's surname is Hu. After her investigation, he is a flexible, not pedantic, and decent person.

"Uncle Hu, I want to buy only fatty meat, not lean meat. Can you sell it in pieces here?" Chu Yunmeng went straight to the point.

Hu Tuhu looked at the young girl in front of him, and was stunned for a moment, unable to react for a while.

He couldn't figure out the identity of the girl in front of him for a while, because there were too many contradictions in her.

Looking at the expensive leather, it looks a bit like the daughter of a rich family or the steward of a public minister's family; but the rough stitches are too unlike.

Moreover, what do rich people buy fat meat for?Isn't lean meat delicious?

But if it is a person from a poor or ordinary family, how to explain the skin all over his body?

But he soon woke up and quickly said, "Yes, how much do you want?"

"Is there fifty catties?" Chu Yunmeng didn't have to go back and forth to test, and directly reported a desired number.

With the fat from [-] catties of fat boiled, plus a little fat from wild boar and venison, it is not a problem to support a small restaurant with a good business for ten days.

What's more, judging from the current season's limited ingredients, the demand for oil may not be that great.

Hu Tuhu was dumbfounded when he heard such a large number: "Girl, what do you want so much fat for?"

Chu Yunmeng naturally didn't want to tell others such a big secret of cooking with oil, so he had to make up a reason:

"Oh, if you want to worship God at home, you need to prepare a lot of eternal lights."

After finishing speaking, Chu Yunmeng rolled her eyes inwardly.Originally, he wanted to attract a diner to his restaurant, but who made Hu Tuhu too curious.

The two finally agreed on a price, fifty catties of fat meat, and two silver cloth coins.

After the money and goods were settled, Chu Yunmeng pushed the heavy cart forward tremblingly.

After walking two steps, I still couldn't help but turned around and said to Tuhu Hu: "Uncle Hu, my restaurant Yunmengju will open in Lihua Lane in the east of the city in two days, come and try it when you have time!"

Whatever it was, Chu Yunmeng bet that Hu Tuhu didn't have such a sensitive sense of smell when it comes to food, and even if he did, he didn't want to.

　Revised version of Chapter 2.

　　Continue to ask for collections and recommendation tickets.

　　


(End of this chapter)