Chapter 402

After new year's Eve, it is the first month.

Once the first month has passed, it will be February.

In February, it was spring, but the weather in this part of the capital didn't get much warmer. Everyone was still wearing cotton padded clothes.

These days, Lu Yunkai has been reading at home. He has never gone out and is waiting for the examination on the eighth day of February. But song Xintong, with wennuan and Daya, wanders around every day.

The restaurant shops have been sorted out. Chef Liu took his two apprentices to the capital on the last day of the first month. He also brought nearly ten thousand kilograms of chili peppers, Shanzhen dried by Lu Mu, dried radish and sweet potato, as well as some new clothes and shoes.

As soon as wennuan saw the beautiful clothes and shoes made by her grandmother, she was very fond of them. She was reluctant to take them off when she put on new shoes. She had been wearing them these days, and she was reluctant to take them off.

The two apprentices brought by chef Liu have already been able to cook a lot of dishes, and they can be regarded as masters. In addition, there is no one in the family, so it's OK for a lonely family to settle down anywhere, so they brought them to the capital.

"My master, I found another ten talented apprentices here to help me cut vegetables and do chores. But if the business is too busy, there are only Shuzi and Songzi and I in the kitchen. I'm afraid we can't help each other." Chef Liu said.

"I've also found a runner and a few cooks here. I'm coming here today. Master Liu, please give it a try. If you can, I'll stay here to help you." Song Xintong said.

"Yes."

Chef Liu's wife and two young sons also came together, because the old parents of the family had already gone, and they had already separated from their elder brothers, so they all came to the capital.

Song Xintong decided to give them two rooms in the backyard directly, "Aunt Liu, maybe you can also help in the kitchen. You can also add some people here to wash the dishes."

"Thank you so much." Chef Liu's wife answered with a smile.

As for the two young children, chef Liu should want them to go to school. Before that, he went out to inquire about the better private schools among the common people.

Although Fuyu school can teach people to read and read for free, it only teaches you to read, read and calculate accounts. If you want to take part in the scientific examination, you still need to go to a teacher's private school to study.

The yard behind the shop is very large, with more than ten rooms. Except for chef Liu, who has a family to live with, he also reserved a separate room for the shopkeeper and Xie Yi, who will bring sister-in-law Juan and children to Beijing to do the accounting room. As for the rest, they are all big shops.

Song Xintong looked at the clean, bright and elegant restaurant, "I invited people to see it for a day. February 15 was a good day. I decided to open it on that day. During this period, please train the new cooks and the novices."

"Don't worry, it's all up to me." Chef Liu patted his chest and said.

When he came out of the restaurant, song Xintong took wennuan to Fuxing business in Jiangjia. Now he's in the capital. It's too far from Taohua village in Lingnan. He can't grind seasonings at home as before. So song Xintong thought that he would buy all kinds of seasonings in the capital to make his own.

Because the formula is confidential, song Xintong plans to go to the commercial firm to pick most of the condiments, and then go to the hospital to buy some special spices.

Song Xintong, the steward of Fuxing business in Beijing, has only met once. He came to Beijing last year when he took the key. He is a little fat and looks very lucky.

"Mrs. Lu, please sit in the room." Although Zhang Guanshi was not in Lingnan, he knew that the vermicelli and peppers in circulation in the firm were all in the hands of Mrs. Lu, so he invited people in respectfully.

"Please have tea, Mrs. Lu." Steward Zhang had tea served.

Song Xintong took a look at Daya standing outside holding wennuan. Then he took a sip of tea and said, "steward Zhang, I want to ask when the shipping time of the commercial bank will be back to Lingnan?"

"The ship won't leave until the ice on the Wusu River melts in late February. Now we can only take a carriage to Xinzhou and transfer to Lingnan via Jiangnan." Steward Zhang said, "does Mrs. Lu want to send a letter back to Lingnan? Now we have a caravan going back to Lingnan on the official road. If Mrs. Lu needs to take it back, she can give it to us. "

"When do you leave?" Asked song Xintong.

"Give it to us tomorrow at the latest."

Song Xintong nodded, "thank you for taking charge of Zhang."

"You're welcome, Mrs. Lu."

"One more thing." Song Xintong told Zhang Guanshi that he needed more than a dozen kinds of spices. "I used to buy them from a business in Lingnan. Do you have them here?"

Zhang Guanshi nodded: "all of them. How much does Mrs. Lu want?"

"The more, the better." Song Xintong thought that it would be better to have a hundred catties. After that, he asked them to send them every two months. "How many are there in the commercial bank?"

Zhang Guanshi roughly calculated, "Mrs. Lu wants a wide variety of things. She sent them to Lingnan in the first two years. At present, there are only a lot of Zanthoxylum and fennel, and the rest are only a hundred catties."

"Give me a hundred kilos first." Song Xintong pause, "in March also want to, but at that time also ask Zhang shopkeeper to prepare more."

Shopkeeper Zhang said, "don't worry, Mrs. Lu. We'll check it here and send it to Mrs. Lu's residence."

"Thank you, shopkeeper." Song Xintong believed in Jiang's business, so he paid money in advance, and then went to the drugstore to buy spices such as nutmeg and tsaokuo. Because of the large amount, he went to several drugstores to buy all the spices. At the same time, he went to the iron shop to buy a guillotine, two pestles and bowls, and ordered a big iron pot and a big iron bucket for making bittern.

When I got home, the Jiang family also sent me some spices. A bag of 100 Jin was enough for more than ten bags. All of them were put in a separate room. In the following days, song Xintong and Daya began to mash the spices slowly. After they were evenly packed, they were sent to the restaurant.

Wennuan has nothing to do. She sits on a small bench like song Xintong and Daya. She keeps pounding with a pestle, but her strength is too small. It's useless. She has poured out the spices several times.

Song Xintong wanted to hit people.

However, I really can't bear it.

"Darling, don't make trouble here." Song Xintong tied people to a small bench and didn't let her stretch her hands and feet.

Warm aggrieved: "did not make trouble, help Niang."

"It's all spilled, and it's not disturbing." Song Xintong patted warm buttock, "make again hit your buttock."

"Yes." Warm aggrieved, although not painful, or aggrieved.

"..." Song Xintong shouts back and looks out the window at the sky. Lu Yunkai has been in his study for two more hours. "Go to see your father and send these snacks to him."

"Good." Apart from kainiang, wennuan's favorite is his father. As soon as he hears about giving something to his father, he immediately goes out of the house. After two steps, he thinks that he didn't take any snacks. He turns back and takes a plate of freshly made spring rolls with bean paste, which is put on the small table beside him. Then he moves slowly inch by inch to the study.

When he came to the closed door of Lu Yun's study, wennuan called out: "Dad, wennuan will give you something delicious."