Chapter 90 Roast Duck
"Mom, I don't dare anymore, don't drive me away." Ms. Chen cried and begged for mercy.

She was a little frightened by Zhang's words. This was the first time that Zhang had said such serious words to her. She had never been able to conceive a child before, and Zhang had never said such words to her.

"Okay, what do you look like crying during the Chinese New Year?" Ms. Zhang waved her hand impatiently and said, "Go back to your room and stay there. Don't see your mother's family until the baby is born."

Mrs. Zhang is really afraid of the Chen family, they are so tormented.

Mrs. Chen wiped her tears and returned to her room obediently.

Ye Dalang was angry and didn't want to pay attention to Mrs. Chen, so he helped Ye Ximing and the others build the stove.

The stove is not big, so they were almost finished building it, but with Ye Dalang's help, it was even faster.

After the stove was built, Mrs. Zhang saw that Ye Dalang had no plan to return to the house, so she said to him: "Okay, don't be angry. Mrs. Chen has nothing to say except that she is a little confused on this matter. You come in." Just talk to her behind the house and let her remember it for a long time. I will go to the Chen family tomorrow and talk to them too."

Although Ye Dalang was still angry, he listened to Zhang's words and returned to the house.

It was almost dinner time when Ye Erlang and Li returned from Li's parents' house with their children.
As soon as Ye Erlang entered the yard, he saw the oven in the yard. He walked around the oven twice and asked Ye Xiaomei, who was picking spinach in the yard, "What is this?"

"The oven, third sister-in-law said it's for roast duck."

As soon as Ye Xiaomei finished speaking, Mrs. Li's eyes lit up and she said, "Roast duck, is it delicious?"

Ye Xiaomei shook her head, "I don't know either."

The ducks here in Nanxing County are usually fried or stewed, and rarely roasted. There are only roast chickens sold in the county, but no roast ducks.

Moreover, the roast chicken in the county does not seem to be roasted in this kind of stove.

When Li heard this, she was not disappointed. Instead, she licked the corner of her mouth and said to herself: "The food made by the third brother and sister must be delicious."

When dinner was served, Mrs. Li glanced around expectantly. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when she didn't see the roast duck that she had been longing for. "Third brother and sister, didn't you make that roast duck today?"

Zhou Ran smiled and said: "You have to wait until the oven is dry before you can cook it."

"How many days will it take?"

"If the weather is good, maybe two or three days will be enough."

So, Ms. Li began to pray that there would be bright sunshine every day in the next few days. God would still give her face and it would be sunny in the next two days.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Ran checked and found that the oven was ready for use.

Li couldn't wait to instruct Ye Erlang to go to the village to sell ducks and kill ducks.

Mrs. Li originally thought that she would be able to eat roast duck today, but she didn't expect that making roast duck would be so troublesome. Slaughtering and cleaning are all simple. In addition, it also requires making the dough, drying the skin, etc.

By the time I actually had the roast duck in my mouth, it was already the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

However, the taste of the roast duck did not disappoint the Ye family. The skin of the duck was crispy, the meat was tender, fat but not greasy, and the taste was delicious. Zhou Ran also specially prepared thin spring pancakes and prepared sweet noodle sauce. The sliced ​​duck meat was dipped in sweet noodle sauce, topped with shredded green onions, and rolled into thin pancakes. The taste was simply amazing.

The Ye family was full of praise for their food. Zhou Ran roasted five ducks in total. Except for the duck that Zhou Ran left for Mr. Fei, the other four ducks were eaten clean by the family.

After finishing the roast duck, Ye Erlang held his belly and looked at the empty plate on the table and said, "I have an idea."

Ye Ximing handed Zhou Ran the tea he had just poured, looked up at Ye Erlang and said, "You want to sell roast duck?"

Ye Erlang nodded and said with a smile: "The third brother is really smart. He guessed it right. What do you think?" Zhou Ran pondered for a moment and said: "Yes, yes, but the roast duck is more delicious if it is freshly roasted. If you To buy roast duck, you need a shop."

Ye Erlang looked at Mrs. Zhang. Although he and Mrs. Li had some money in their hands and could barely rent a small shop, this roast duck was made by Zhou Ran after all. They couldn't do this business by themselves.

Zhang said: "This is no problem. The money you have given us in the past six months, plus the money your father earned from hunting, should be enough to rent a shop in the county town."

Ye Erlang heard this and said with great interest: "Then after the fifteenth day, I will go to the street to find a shop."

Ye Ximing glanced at everyone present and said, "Second brother, I still have something to say."

"What's wrong, third brother, tell me."

"If this roast duck restaurant opens, how do you plan to distribute the proceeds?"

Ye Erlang was stunned for a moment and looked at Ye Ximing in confusion, "Our family is not divided into families. Of course, everything is left to our parents, who will allocate the money."

Ye Ximing shook his head: "This is unfair to you, second brother, and I don't want all of us to be unhappy because of these things in the future."

He and Zhou Ran are not short of money and don't care about the income of this store, but the eldest brother is the eldest son. If the family is divided in the future, whether it is according to the laws of the Shun Dynasty or the rules of their village, the eldest brother will take the big brother. Partly, even if the second brother has no objections, will the second sister-in-law have no objections?
It's better to explain these things clearly now and save the brothers from fighting each other in the future.

After listening to Ye Ximing's words, before Ye Dalang and Ye Erlang could speak, Zhang agreed: "Your third brother is right, this matter should be made clear first."

"This..." Ye Erlang and Ye Dalang both looked at Ye's father.

Father Ye said: "Listen to your mother."

"What do you think is appropriate?" Ye Erlang asked Zhang.

Mrs. Zhang thought for a while and said, "See how much money you can get out of your hands."

After Zhang finished speaking, Ye Dalang looked at Chen, and Ye Erlang looked at Li.

Mrs. Li spoke first: "We can come up with forty-six taels and five cents."

"Even if it's forty-six taels." After Mrs. Zhang finished speaking, she asked Mrs. Chen, "What about you?"

"We have eighteen taels in hand."

Mrs. Zhang nodded and looked at Ye Xiaomei again, "Little sister, what about you?"

Ye Xiaomei shook her head and said, "Mom, I won't get involved."

"That's fine." After Mrs. Zhang finished speaking, she said to Ye Erlang: "Now there are a total of sixty-four taels of silver. When the fifteenth is over, you can go to the street and take a look to see how much it will take to rent a shop and open it. Sales, the missing money will be made up by Sanlang and the others. When the store opens, the income will be divided according to the amount of money you pay. However, Aran came up with the roast duck recipe, and the store is managed by Erlang. When the time comes, you two Can I get an extra copy? Do you have any objections?"

"No objection." The three brothers of the Ye family said in unison.

Mrs. Zhang looked at Zhou Ran, Li and Chen again. She mainly asked about her three daughters-in-law.

Zhou Ran smiled and said: "Mom, I have no objection."

In fact, it doesn't matter if she doesn't take more, but she won't refuse if Mr. Zhang proposes it.

"We have no objection," said Chen and Li.

(End of this chapter)

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