C82

Shen Zhu still had to go to the Hundred Fragrance House today. In addition to the contract that she had newly made a few days ago, she had to go to the Hundred Fragrance House for three days every month.

In the past two days, she had already informed Manager Song that she would be taking charge of the kitchen at Hundred Fragrance House.

Furthermore, Aunt Liu specifically asked Ah Qiu to come and look after the child for her since she was making medicinal food today, so she didn't need to rush back.

With Ah Qiu there, the three children wouldn't be much of a problem.

Outside the manor, the sky was filled with falling snow.

Hundred Fragrance House.

Manager Song saw Shen Zhu from afar and welcomed her, bringing her to the kitchen.

"Lady Shen, I have prepared the ingredients you requested. Just take a look and you can see if you still need any instructions."

The Manager Song spoke politely.

"No need, this is enough."

Shen Zhu gave a cursory glance, and saw that she had almost all the ingredients she wanted. As for the other things, she would naturally use the Cloud Pavilion's ingredients.

"Alright, do as you please, Lady Shen. If you need anything, just give me an order."

Manager Song left politely, and according to Shen Zhu's orders, he did not let the cooks stay in the kitchen.

Shen Zhu had already thought of dishes two days ago. Among them, there were two cold dishes and one hot soup, as the front dish, three side dishes and three main dishes.

She prepared cold dishes such as cold mixed lotus root slices, spicy lettuce, and a delicious soup with three dishes of fish and shrimp. She prepared squirrel cinnamon, Phoenix-Tail prawns, and green bean fish.

As for the main dish, it was mainly pork, mutton and the like. Shen Zhu prepared to make the East Slope Meat, Boiled Pork and scallion Sheep Meat, as well as the Sour Fruit and Sour Fruit.

Shen Zhu cleared the menu in his heart, felt that there were no problems, and then started to move.

She first took the seasonings from the Cloud Pavilion, then prepared the cold dishes and soup.

Next, he was ready to make the squirrel fish.

Shen Zhu first removed the processed fish's head, then held onto the fish's body, using a knife to split the fish's flesh and bones, the same went for the flip of the face, except that there was no need to split the fish's tail at the place where the tail was, and then he removed the thorny meat from the fish's abdomen.

He spread out the body of the fish and the skin faced up. First, he cut the skin straight down before cutting it diagonally. Then, he cut the skin into the shape of a prismatic knife. After he mixed the cooking wine with salt, he smeared the skin over the head and body of the fish.

After boiling the oil in the wok and waiting for the oil to heat up, he picked up the fish with his hands and poured the boiling oil from top to bottom onto the fish. Then, he placed the fish tail into the wok and fried it to form a wok.

After that, you can put the fish head into the pot and fry it. When frying, you need to use chopsticks to hold the fish head under the chin and let it form a shape. After the frying is done, you can put the fish head together with the body and put it back into the shape of a fish.

Add tomato juice into soup, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, wine and wet starch to make sauce, leave a little oil in the pot, add in the chopped onion to stir the fragrance and fish out. Then add in garlic, bamboo shoot, mushrooms and other supplementary ingredients to fry.

After Shen Zhu finished preparing the squirrel cinnamon fish, he immediately ordered the waiter to serve them the table. The next thing to do was to prepare the Phoenix-Tail Prawns and green fish, the Returning Pot Meat, Shrimp Meat and Eastslope Meat.

When the customers had finished eating, Shen Zhu could instruct the waiter to bring the dessert up, along with a pot of good tea.

After doing everything, Shen Zhu heaved a sigh of relief.

Today was the first time that he had received guests with this standard, only people who were either rich or noble were able to eat, so Zhou Muqing specifically visited once, and went to the side room to check on the satisfaction of the guests.

It was no surprise that the customers were all intoxicated by the delicacy.

"Lady Shen, the total profit from Hundred Fragrance House today is fifty silver. Fifty percent of it.

When Shen Zhu came out of the kitchen, Manager Song immediately followed his orders and took out the money that Zhou Muqing had given him and gave it to her in a money bag.

"Could you please check if there are any mistakes?"

"I'll keep it. There's no need to count it. I can trust the debts of the Manager Song." Shen Zhu weighed the money pouch in his hand and casually put it away, "Alright, it's done for today, I'll be going back first."

"Take care, Lady Shen." Manager Song smiled as he sent Shen Zhu out. Thinking about today's water, his heart was filled with joy.

With one hand holding the furnace, Zhou Muqing looked outside at the heavy snow, and asked in a good mood: "It's early today, how's the water?"

Manager Song's eyes were almost laughing out loud, "Fifty silver taels... "I only ate five tables."

Zhou Muqing admired: "Shen Zhu's culinary skills, are indeed like that."

When Shen Zhu returned to the villa, he saw Ah Qiu come out with an oil-paper umbrella. "Sister-in-law, it's snowing so heavily today, why don't you bring an umbrella along with you when you're out?"

"When I arrived at the Manor entrance, it started snowing. It didn't seem too snowing then, so it would be troublesome if I came back. Thus, I decided to just go directly."

Shen Zhu followed the Ah Qiu into the house and patted on the snowflakes that had fallen on his body.

"Ruanruan is asleep."

Ah Qiu put away the paper umbrella and said: "Since sister-in-law is back, I'll go back first."

"Alright, it's snowing heavily outside. Take the umbrella."

Shen Zhu laughed and said.

"Sister-in-law, I'll be leaving first."

Ah Qiu walked to the entrance of the manor with an umbrella in his hand and waved at Shen Zhu with a grin.

Seeing that he had left, Shen Zhu went to the charcoal stove in the room and went back to the cold air before walking to the cradle to look at Ruanruan.

Due to the snow falling today, when Su Zongwen came back from work at night, he was also covered in snow.

"The snow is really heavy today." Su Zongwen shook off the snow on his body and exhaled a breath of cold air.

"Hurry up and warm your body with this." Shen Zhu hugged Ruanruan and passed Grandma Tang over.

"The cold is very heavy on my body. Take your child away from me." Su Zongwen took Grandma Tang and sat down by the table, pouring himself a cup of hot water.

"Alright, you go to the cold air first." Shen Zhu nodded and sat on the brick bed with Ruanruan in his arms.

"Today, I went to visit the Hundred Fragrance House head chef, and today, I've earned a total of twenty-five taels of silver …" Thinking about today's harvest, Shen Zhu was overjoyed, and brought up this matter with Su Zongwen.

Twenty-five taels of silver a day was much easier to earn than what she had previously earned.

Su Zongwen was sitting by the side of the table drinking water. After hearing what Shen Zhu had said, she looked very happy, but she was too busy trying to think of how she had to take care of the child and go to the Hundred Fragrance House.

"This is a good thing. However, you must take care of your body as well. Don't be too tired." Su Zongwen put down the cup in his hand, and warned.

"Brother Wen, don't worry. I know what I'm doing, and I won't tire myself out." Shen Zhu hugged the soundly sleeping Ruanruan and sat down next to him. His head gently leaned on the man's shoulder.

After all, silver was never enough to earn money, but he only had one body. If his body collapsed, what would be the use of so much silver?

Shen Zhu understood such a simple logic.

"Yes." Hearing that, Su Zongwen nodded his head slightly, and then relaxed.

The two of them chatted for a while longer, after seeing that Zi Yi and Jingshu had finished playing outside and had returned, Shen Zhu stood up and placed Ruanruan into the cradle. He then turned around and went into the kitchen to heat up the large pile of leftover food for dinner.

In the following few days, Shen Zhu cooked a medicinal meal for Ming Yuchen every single day in a variety of ways. Without exception, she would place the ground medicinal powder into Ming Yuchen's medicine bowl every single day.

After a few days, Ming Yuchen's complexion had clearly improved. Even during the night, he would no longer cough so much that he would no longer be able to sleep.

Now that he was able to sleep soundly, his complexion naturally improved as well.

The manor had a set number of doctors checking Ming Yuchen's pulse every ten days. Normally, the doctors would only tell Ming Yuchen to be careful not to catch cold after checking his pulse, but this time, the doctors would only stay in the west yard for an incense stick of time.