"I've asked Xiao Yu. It costs sixty a month to treat her. Instead of giving this money to outsiders, you might as well give it to me and I'll stay and take care of your baby."

It turns out that two days ago, Qin Jinlian curiously asked about Sister Zuiyu's salary. When she learned that it was 60 yuan a month, Qin Jinlian felt envious in her heart.

She is only about ten years older than Yu Hong. She knows all the tasks that Yu Hong does every day. Yu Hong can earn [-] a month, why can't she?

Anyway, there is no work in the fields in the winter, so she just goes home to play. It is better to stay in the city and help her daughter take care of the baby. She can earn [-] yuan a month and [-] yuan in two months.

When spring comes, she will go back to farming without delaying her work.

Qin Jinlian thought happily, but she didn't want to think about where Shen Mingzhu would go to find someone to take over her job if she left after two months.

Although Shen Mingzhu was speechless, she was not too angry.

Qin Jinlian is willing to work and earn money by herself, which is better than reaching out and asking her directly for money.

After thinking for a while, she said to Qin Jinlian: "If you want to stay in the city to make money, I can think of a way for you, but it is absolutely impossible for me to resign Sister Yu and invite you."

……

Seeing Qin Jinlian come back, Shen Jianguo put down his legs sitting cross-legged on the sofa, put on his shoes and called Qin Jinlian: "Pack your things and go back."

Although the two elders entered the city empty-handed, during the few days they stayed in the city, the two Shen brothers and Pei Yang bought a lot of food and clothing for the couple.

"You can go back by yourself, I won't go back."

Shen Jianguo became angry when he heard this, "Aren't you going back? Do you still want to depend on your daughter and son-in-law for the rest of your life?"

Qin Jinlian proudly showed off to her wife, "I want to stay in the city to make money. I will go back with Chaobei and the others during the Chinese New Year. You go back first."

Shen Jianguo was confused.

Go into the city and lose your wife?

Under Shen Mingzhu's guidance, Qin Jinlian set up a stall at the entrance of the noodle shop owned by the Shen Chaobei brothers, selling fried stinky tofu and starch sausage.

It's cold in winter, so frying the stinky tofu in a pan until crispy and then drizzling it with a special sauce can attract the gluttons all over the street.

There are also starch sausages, decorated with beautiful knives, deep-fried until they are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and dipped in cumin powder and chili powder, which will make the kids next door salivate.

Since then, Qin Jinlian has been busy setting up a food stall to make money every day, and has no time to bother Shen Mingzhu.

……

The day of Xiaoxue arrived in a blink of an eye.

Shen Mingzhu used half a day to finish the work at hand, and then went to the vegetable market and picked up a lamb hind leg that she had ordered from the butcher in advance.

It was cold in winter, so she planned to treat Zhong Qing and Yan Yi to eat hotpot mutton.

With her current ability and economy, coupled with the current environment, the only ingredients she can buy are chicken, duck, fish and shrimp. For families like Zhong Qing and Yan Yi, these are too ordinary.

As for mutton shabu-shabu, at least it is a relatively new way to eat it in Fengcheng.

After lunch, Shen Mingzhu began to process the leg of lamb.

First, remove the meat from the three parts: the big samcha, the cucumber strips, and the crotch, and put them in the freezer of the refrigerator until they are frozen hard before cutting into thin slices.

As for the mutton bones and other mutton, they are simmered with pork tube bones, chicken, and medicinal herbs until the soup is as white as milk.

In addition to the rich side dishes, eating hotpot mutton is also indispensable without the soul dipping sauce.

Sesame paste, chive flowers, fermented bean curd, fried sesame seeds, sugar, chopped green onion and coriander are all indispensable.

In fact, when Shen Mingzhu ate hot-boiled mutton in the past, she also liked to add a little spicy millet.

Unfortunately, it’s not available here, and she’s still breastfeeding, so she can’t eat spicy food.Shabu-shabu mutton must be cooked and eaten at the same time. For this reason, Shen Mingzhu specially bought a round table with a hollowed out middle and an iron frame welded to the bottom to place the charcoal copper pot.

Pei Yang also finished work early and went home to help decorate and prepare side dishes.

Around 7 o'clock, Zhong Qing and Yan Yi arrived as scheduled, and Ning Yuan came with them.

Ning Yuan was still cynical. He joked with Shen Mingzhu in a familiar manner as soon as he walked in. "Mingzhu, you are not kind. You didn't ask me to invite you to dinner. Fortunately, I am thick-skinned and came here by myself."

Shen Mingzhu smiled, "Well, it's my fault. Mainly because I didn't have any good food to entertain. I was afraid that Mr. Ning would not be happy."

"You must be humble when you say this. It's hard for others to say, but you, Shen Mingzhu, will definitely be different when you take action."

Ning Yuan grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and had long been tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, but the things Shen Mingzhu made were always strangely to his liking.

While talking, Ning Yuan had already smelled the smell and walked to the dining room. Looking at the steaming snow-white soup base in the copper pot, he rubbed his hands excitedly.

"Hey, do you want to eat hot-boiled mutton?"

While showing Zhong Qing and Yan Yi their seats, Shen Mingzhu explained with a smile: "It's cold and we can't buy any good ingredients in the market. I might as well treat you to a meal of boiled mutton. At least it will keep you warm."

Zhong Qing replied to her with a smile, "I haven't eaten hot-boiled mutton in two years, so I just want to try it."

After everyone was seated, Shen Mingzhu served various snacks packed in small bowls.

These ingredients are richer than the authentic mutton-boiled meat Ningyuan ate in the capital.

Under Shen Mingzhu's introduction, each prepared their own favorite flavors.

Put the paper-thin mutton into the snow-white soup pot, pick it up after a few seconds, dip it in the dipping sauce and eat it in your mouth. The interior is tender and juicy, mellow and has no smell. It is simply satisfying.

In addition to the mutton shabu-shabu, Shen Mingzhu also prepared honey-glazed roast pork chops and braised squab.

Because Pei Ziheng doesn't like mutton.

After dinner, Pei Yang put away the dishes, chopsticks, cups and plates. Shen Mingzhu led Yan Yi and Ning Yuan to visit their new home, while Zhong Qing played with Xiao Guoguo on the sofa in the living room.

As early as when Shen Mingzhu was in confinement, she had been here several times and was no longer familiar with Shen Mingzhu's new home.

After the visit, a few people sat in the living room drinking tea and chatting.

Although Wang Hongcheng has surrendered and the food factory has resumed production, the loss of cooperation with the two state-owned shopping malls is also a big loss for Shen Mingzhu.

When Yan Yi asked if he needed help resuming cooperation with the two state-owned shopping malls, Shen Mingzhu declined.

With the reform and opening up and the transformation of the economic model, state-owned shopping malls will soon decline and will eventually either be restructured or go bankrupt.

Her original plan was to first use the reputation and popularity of state-owned shopping malls to open up the market, and then open a self-operated store when the time was right. This would be a more stable approach.

But now that the cooperation with two state-owned shopping malls has failed, she simply opened a store directly.

In the next few days, apart from her daily work, Shen Mingzhu spent the rest of her time on market research, as well as store and site selection.

After a period of investigation, Shen Mingzhu fell in love with three places.

After considering various considerations and the opinions of people around her, Shen Mingzhu rented a store in the downtown business district.

The overall area of ​​the store is about [-] square meters, and Shen Mingzhu plans to divide it into a sales area and a baking area.

It is cooked and sold every day, and the partition wall is directly made of transparent glass, allowing customers to see the food production and production with their own eyes.

Just when Shen Mingzhu was so busy with the decoration design of the store, something happened to the noodle shop of the two brothers Shen Chaobei.


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