Blissful Days After Widowhood Chapter 12: Sell lo-mei

Ning Xi pulled Meng Shuangshuang, who was still stunned, and asked her to bring the children to the deck. She ran up to find those gangsters first, and the big men turned pale as expected. Covering his stomach, he was lying weakly on the deck, and some people even had traces of vomit and excrement on their bodies. When they saw Ning Xi come out, they scolded fiercely, "Damn girl, how dare you harm your grandfather." It's a pity. The sound of scolding is not much louder than that of mosquitoes.

Ning Xi endured the disgust and used the rope that was just unfastened to bind several people firmly, and waited on the boat with a group of children. When the patrolling soldiers passed by, they shouted together: "Help! !" Naturally, the soldiers were drawn over.

When the group was transported to the government office, Ning Xi remembered that he and Meng Shuangshuang were fugitives, and it was incredible to be discovered by the government. He hurriedly discussed with Meng Shuangshuang, and after obtaining Zhang Zhize's consent, he decided to Borrowing the identities of his two sisters, it was normal that they were abducted and sold, and there was no way to guide them.

When they arrived at the government office, the two spoke according to Ozawa's statement. After the official investigation, they believed their statement because the household registration, age, and name they said were correct.

Other abducted women and children were sent back to their places of origin, but Ozawa's hometown had long been destroyed by floods, and there were no elders or relatives at home. No matter where they went, they were homeless. The officials wanted to send the three of them back. Go to a sanctuary specializing in the adoption of orphans.

But Ning Xi is reluctant, she is planning to do business! Meng Shuangshuang didn't want to either. She heard that life in the shantang was not good, especially for newcomers, who would definitely be bullied. She might as well go to work in a big family's house, at least the monthly money was her own.

So the two asked whether the three of them could stand on their own. The official sympathized with them, and also liked Meng Shuangshuang, who looked sweet and spoke well, and agreed to apply for a try. In the end, not only the three got the household It is really exciting that you can start your own business and get 10 taels of money to settle down.

Ningxi finally remembered and asked the official: "Master, what is this place?"

"Where? Official! Go out and turn left. There is an inn more than 200 paces away. The fee is not expensive. You can settle down first and then find a house to settle down."

"My lord, I mean, we were kept in the bottom of the ship all the time. It was dark and dark, and we didn't know where we were. May I ask what city is this in?"

"It turns out that you don't even know where you are, so you set up your own business. Let me tell you, this is the capital, Chang'an! You can think about it, what will you do for a living in the future?"

"It turned out to be the capital, that would be great. There are many good-hearted people like you in the capital, so we don't have to worry about it!" Ning Xi cheered.

The official was praised a little high, and kindly introduced them to a fair tooth shop, and let them go there to find a house or a job.

After coming out of the government office, Ning Xi and Meng Shuangshuang took out all the money on their bodies and counted them together. Adding the 10 taels given by the government, there were 12 taels in total. They spent 8 taels of money to rent a quiet place. In the small yard, I bought some other necessities such as pots and pans, clothes and bedding, and spent more than two taels of silver.

Meng Shuangshuang looked at the less than two taels of silver left, and said distressedly: "The price of goods in the capital is so expensive, we won't be able to live long with this money left, or I should go to a family to work. , you will take good care of Ozawa at home."

Ning Xi said: "I have an idea. I don't know if you would like to work with me, Shuangshuang. It's better than going to work at someone's house and being bullied."

"Do what?"

"I have seen it when I was looking for a house just now. The location of the house we are looking for is very good. On the left is a large vegetable market called Xishankou Vegetable Market. It is said that the price of vegetables is the cheapest in the entire Xicheng. Not far away is another very lively Ximen Market. I heard people say that in the evening, the night market is more lively. I think we can buy something from the vegetable market during the day and make it, and sell it in the night market at night, we should be able to make some money money."

"That's a good idea, Ningxi, your craftsmanship is so good, whatever you do is delicious, and it's better to be in the business of selling food."

"I feel the same way." Ning Xi said proudly, she didn't have to do it herself in her last life, just opening a restaurant in her name would attract customers!

"You and Ozawa clean up the house first, and I'll go shopping in the vegetable market to see what business we can do." Ning Xi said to Meng Shuangshuang.

Although Meng Shuangshuang is older than Ning Xi, Ning Xi's calm and sophistication along the way is very convincing, so the two of them obeyed her words, but were a little surprised: "So fast?"

"Naturally, now we are sitting on the mountain, and if we don't think about making money quickly, we will have to drink the northwest wind."

"Then go, just have Ozawa and I at home." Meng Shuangshuang quickly rolled up his sleeves and started to work.

After taking a look around the market, Ningxi quickly decided what business she wanted to do. She had low capital, so she naturally had to start with cheap ingredients, and the cheapest in the market was the - Meat. Although the court clearly ordered the people to eat meat, and spent a lot of money to support the development of animal husbandry, and now there are chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, sheep and other kinds of meat in the market, it still cannot change the accumulation of nearly a hundred years. down eating habits.

The clean meat is okay, you can eat it when you buy it back and cook it, but the internal organs and parts of these animals, such as pig head, pig stomach, pig hands, pig intestines, pig liver, foie gras, goose head, goose feet, goose Wings, chicken feet... If you don't handle them well, you will be very stinky, and people who are not used to eating meat will not be able to eat them at all. Therefore, these things are almost given away and no one wants them. Xi, she brought a lot of money back to the house for almost no money.

They covered their noses and asked her, "What are you doing with these things! It's disgusting!"

"Don't worry, you have delicious food." Ning Xi answered confidently. She had just gone to the pharmacy to see it. The people here are not very good at cooking, but there are also a lot of spices. , In fact, maybe it's not that the people here are not good at cooking, it's just that they don't know how to cook meat dishes. In vegetarian dishes, they should have developed quite well, but she has always been poor and has never seen it before.

Ning Xi patiently cleaned up the pile of animal internal organs, but both refused to help her with disgust, so she threw the spices she bought from the pharmacy to her and asked her to clean it up.

When you are ready, you can open the frying pan. First fry the star anise and Chinese prickly ash. The prickly ash is not exposed to fire. It must be soaked in water first, then drained and put into the oil pan. The heat is also very important. The fire is too high. It is easy to burn, the fire is too small and the fragrance cannot be produced. Only when the red peppercorns turn purple-brown and the fragrance is released, the fire should be closed immediately.

Then put the fried peppercorns and star anise, together with cinnamon bark, cumin, cloves, cardamom, mangosteen, and licorice, into a high-waist large clay pot, add half of the water, bring to a boil, and then Add sand ginger, soy sauce, rock sugar, garlic, and sorghum wine, boil over medium heat first, and then put all kinds of internal organs that have been blanched in boiling water to remove blood foam and cook to make them delicious.

Both sniffed: "It's so fragrant! What's this called?"

"It's called lo-mei. No matter what kind of meat it is, it can be marinated, and the more meat you have, the more the various meats can complement each other's flavors, making them more delicious!"

"Really?" Shuangshuang no longer disliked the disgusting internal organs, and looked at it with interest, "Are you ready? Can you eat?"

Ning Xi picked up the cooked meat with a smile, put it on the chopping board to cool, then cut it into thick slices with a knife, arranged it on the plate, and poured a spoonful of marinade over the meat slices. When you see it, you will drill, and the marinade will be filled with the marinade in an instant, and the house will be fragrant.

Both of them hurriedly picked up a piece and put it in their mouths: "Wow, it's so delicious, there's really no fishy smell at all!"

Ning Xi patted her hand with a smile: "Eat with chopsticks!"

"No, no, I can't wait to get the chopsticks, it's really delicious!" Shuangshuang continued to eat one piece after another, and saw Ningxi fetching a plate of chicken feet and duck feet, "This is Is it edible?"

"Well, try it!"

"Wow, even the bones can be crushed, and the gravy is full of fragrant gravy. Xiaoxixi, you are so amazing, you can make things that are usually used to throw them so delicious! "

"Then you say we go to the night market to sell these things, okay?"

"Well, for sure!"

"Then let's get ready and start the stall tonight."

"Wait wait, I haven't had enough!"

"I will do this every day in the future, and you will have something to eat until you get bored."

"How can you get tired of eating something so delicious." Meng Shuangbi said and beckoned Ozawa to come over: "Come and eat, you can work in the evening when you're full."

Ningxi bought a simple scooter, put the boiled lo-mei in a large pot and put it on it, and then put a large chopping board, a kitchen knife, and a scale. When I went to buy the scale just now I specially asked people how to use it for a long time. I really miss the days when there were electronic scales and plastic food bags! By the way, the food bag, Ningxi remembered a question: "Shuangshuang, how can someone else buy our lo-mei and bring it back?"

"This!" Meng Shuangshuang didn't quite understand, "They won't bring a plate to buy it!" When she was a maid, the sisters wanted to eat snacks when they were free, but they all I bought it myself with a bowl.

Ning Xi felt that this method was not very reliable, but he couldn't think of a better way for a while, so he had to say: "Forget it, then go to the night market to see how others sell it!" Say it in the market.

Because they arrived early, there were not many people in the night market, but good stalls were occupied early. They searched for a long time and only found a corner seat, the kind that no one would pass by. , reluctantly unloaded the car and set up the booth.