Dressed as a widow, raising cubs, farming and building infrastructure in Ming Dynasty

Chapter 22 Ma Ang’s Wedding Banquet

Make sure your guests are well fed and well fed.

Huailai is different from Guan Nei. There are many mountainous areas nearby and there are many herders raising cattle and sheep.It’s just that there are too few people who can afford meat, and beef and mutton can’t be sold at a high price.The mutton in total is estimated to cost nine taels of silver. Adding other dishes and wine, a banquet costs about 13 taels of silver.

Maang was taken aback.Their family has not saved so much money now, and they still need to buy boxes, cages, and furniture...

Qin Liu saw his embarrassment and said with a smile: "Leave the banquet to me. As for the money, I will give it to you slowly when the dumpling shop makes money."

The Ma family has helped her a lot, and now she has completely given up on the dumpling shop, but the Ma family still gives her half of the bonus every month, so she naturally has to do more for the Ma family.

Ma Ang thought for a moment and nodded.

After a month of careful consideration, he rationally accepted the marriage.

He regarded it as a task assigned to him by his superiors, rather than actually marrying a wife, which made it much easier to accept.

After all, this marriage is to be the brother-in-law of Mr. Zhang from a thousand households. It must be grand and grand to reassure Mr. Zhang, lest he follow in the footsteps of those thousands of households and end up dying early.

Qin Liu made money and felt more confident, so he simply gave Old Man Lou and the Tatar boy one or two pieces of silver each as reward.

Old Man Lou accepted it with a smile and kept saying words of thanks.

The Tatar boy sneered.

When Qin Liu came to the east wing next time to serve him the mutton rolls, he said sadly: "You are stingy."

Qin Liu felt guilty for a while.The popularity of this shabu-shabu business is inseparable from the Tatar boy's excellent knife skills.If the meat roll is thick, it will be difficult to chew, and the customer's eating experience will be much worse.

The Tatar boy has been acting harmless recently and gets along well with Dalang Erlang in his spare time. Sister Ma Feng comes over to chat with him when she has time to amuse him.The Tatar boy just worked silently and allowed Sister Ma Feng to arrange him as she pleased.

Qin Liu almost forgot that he still had a cold and scary side. When in front of others, he would call him a little mute like Sister Ma Feng.

Qin Liu thought for a while and said, "How much do you want? It's up to you."

She didn't want to offend this Tatar boy, make him angry, and she would spend all her money in vain.

The Tatar boy looked at her contemptuously and continued to cut the meat rolls.

Qin Liu's heart skipped a beat.

Why does this look make people feel that giving him all the money is an insult?
She hurriedly went back to make up for it: "Of course, the business in the store is booming, which is largely due to you. Otherwise, I will give you half of the shares in the store, and you will bear some of the losses. If you make half, you What do you think?"

There is a difference between dividing shares and dividing money.

Dividing shares will make this little mute have the mentality of being the master of the country and working for himself, and feel that this Yanzi Building is also his property.

With this kind of sentiment inside, if the Tatars attack the city again in the future, they might be able to spare her Yanzi Tower and not burn it to the ground.

The Tatar boy didn't speak, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly and returned to normal.

When Qin Liu saw that he was silent, he took him as his acquiescence, and immediately went to weigh 70 taels of silver and brought it to the Tatar boy.

When she gave out the money, her heart ached so much that she just said silently in her heart: "Spend money to buy peace, spend money to buy peace!"

At this time, she particularly hated her bullying and shyness.

To the hard-working and down-to-earth old man Lou, he only gave one tael of silver. To this Tatar whose origins were unknown and had threatened him, he gave away half of his shares at once.

But then I thought about it, and it turned out that the original deal was to only provide food and accommodation without wages, but now she took the initiative to pay wages, which is much better than before.

After thinking about it, she went to see Old Man Lou: "Uncle, the prosperity of our store is inseparable from your hard work. What I mean is to give you [-]% of the shares in the store. This is this month's dividend." ."

She gave Old Man Lou 14 taels of silver. In addition to the one tael she gave before, Old Man Lou got 15 taels of silver this month.

This income, even in Xuanfu's shop, is what a capable clerk can get in a year.

Old Man Lou smiled brightly and took the money without any courtesy.Qin Liu could see that Old Man Lou's smile was much more sincere than before.

After leaving the door, Qin Liu smashed the wall in frustration.

She was a good shop owner, but now she has become a person with little money.

Why are you so stupid?

Why did you suddenly give the little mute [-]% of the shares?

Wouldn't it be better to give Old Man Lou the shares from the little mute?
Don't be so impatient next time.

The money given out here is real money!

During dinner, Qin Liu was so depressed that he couldn't swallow a few mouthfuls.

Old Man Lou and Little Mute both ate with gusto.

As usual, Dalang and Erlang like to play around with the little mute.

Little Mute got along well with them. Seeing that the others had not finished eating, he was playing a game with Da Lang Erlang by throwing them into the air and catching them.

The two little guys screamed and laughed with joy, and the room was filled with children's laughter.

Qin Liuzhi shook his head.

Why is he the only one afraid of these Tatars?
……

Ma Ang's wedding banquet is coming soon.Qin Liu started busy several days in advance.

The lamb bone sauce is cooked the day before, which is a special dish in modern society - lamb scorpion.

Soak the mushrooms, yuba, and fungus, wash the cabbage, and radish, and wait for them to be sliced ​​and plated the next day.

The mutton was frozen hard outside the house in advance. She got up early in the morning and asked the little mute to cut it into thin slices in her west room. After cutting it, she quickly took it out and put it in the east wing where the temperature was cooler.

The main reason is that there are many people today and the workload of cutting meat is heavy.But she was worried that some of the soldiers would recognize the little mute's Tatar identity, so she had to ask him to move his workplace to the West House where she lived.Once the door is closed, guests attending the wedding banquet cannot force their way in.

In addition to shabu-shabu, she also prepared some cold dishes.

Sauced beef is the signature hard dish, and there are also cold skin salad, tiger skin chicken feet, spicy shredded chicken, sliced ​​ham, spicy and sour pickled radish, tofu with green onions, cold mung bean sprouts, cold shredded cabbage, and try to combine meat and vegetables as much as possible. Colorful.

She bought mung bean sprouts and made them herself.In modern society, during the epidemic, she also sprouted mung bean sprouts herself, but the results were either rotten and moldy or green and bitter. She searched online for strategies and tried them before finally succeeding.

Three key steps for growing mung bean sprouts:
First, the container containing soaked mung beans must be able to drain. This can be solved with a bamboo basket.The second is to cover it with a cloth to completely avoid light.The third is to give water once in the morning and evening.

Qin Liu made it successfully in one try.This gave the bitter cold land outside the Great Wall an extra vegetable in winter, and Qin Liu was a little excited about it.

In this remote town, it took a lot of effort for her to collect all the ingredients.

The ham is made by herself, spicy, salty and full of flavor.

She greatly admired her good cooking skills.

There was no other way. Before time travel, I experienced several consecutive epidemics in modern society. I stayed at home and yearned for delicious food, so I learned to make enough food and clothing by myself.

Her father is a third-rate cook who has worked in various restaurants. He provides remote guidance via phone and video, and also imparts a lot of experience to her.

She has a doctorate in science and engineering. She is rigorous by nature and loves to study. She has carefully studied cooking methods and developed good cooking skills.

I didn’t expect it to be used when I traveled through time.

In the morning, a group of soldiers dressed in neat military uniforms came over, surrounded by horses wearing big red flowers on their chests, and went out. Behind them were four bearers carrying the red wedding sedan. There were also people playing suonas and beating gongs to watch. It was very lively.

(End of this chapter)