Ancient Foodie Survival Guide

Chapter 76

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After determining his future goal, the first thing Jiang Shuyao did was to tell Xie Xun what he thought.

Xie Xun had long expected that she would think like this, and there was no accident, but asked her: "Have you thought about what to do?"

Jiang Shuyao shook his head: "I don't know, think about it slowly, the most important thing now is to make the snack street well."

Xie Xun agreed: "Exactly."

"Then I guess I'll be out of the house often in the future, don't you mind?"

Xie Xun smiled and said, "Why do you keep asking these questions? You know I won't mind."

Jiang Shuyao felt at ease. With Xie Xun escorting her from behind, she could do what she wanted to do with confidence.

From the hot weather to the summer heat gradually dissipating, Jiang Shuyao improved the food taste of the snack street and added new categories. At the same time, he constantly exchanged ideas with Lin to confirm the next steps.

Since the opening day of the snack street, business has been booming day by day. The food sold inside is delicious, but the price is not expensive. Whether it is the diners who were hesitant to pay at the beginning, or the diners who just tasted something new and did not have much expectations, they are all conquered by the food and atmosphere in the snack street. At night, the flow of people is surging. , even the deliberately widened snack street seems narrow.

Careful diners will enter the store or go up to the second floor, and they will sit on the wooden benches in front of the store.

Since Jiang Shuyao planned to focus on business, he would basically come over to take a look every few days. In the past, Lin's body was getting heavier and heavier. Jiang Shuyao didn't dare to let her come in a hot and noisy place. Lin had to arrange for her two useful stewards to live in an inn on the street of Snack Street for a long time. , let them all obey Jiang Shuyao's arrangement.

The snack street has only opened for more than ten days, and there are no more tables and chairs in the street. Fortunately, Lin has foresight and bought all the street, including the shops at the end of the street, so you can also see the snack street at the end of the street. Wooden stools and wooden chairs laid out.

Jiang Shuyao passed through the crowd. She was born bright and elegant, with a woman's bun, and when she was dressed, she looked like a rich lady, and the diners couldn't help but cast their eyes at her.

But this is the Lin family's territory, and the local gangsters who often hang around in front of other restaurants and stalls dare not come, so for her, it is very safe to walk in the snack street, and there is no need to worry about being harassed.

The housekeeper followed behind her, and the diners only thought she was the wife of the Lin family's house, and did not think about the eldest lady of the Xiangyang Bo family's family.

Some greedy gluttons would come here every day, and they would be familiar with Jiang Shuyao after coming and going.

"The shopkeeper is good." They sat on the benches by the street and waited for the meal, and greeted Jiang Shuyao warmly.

Jiang Shuyao didn't get used to it at first, but now that he's used to it, he nodded to them.

"Is the taste alright?" She asked, looking at a table of raw-faced diners.

These diners are businessmen who came to the capital to sell goods, or did they only know about this snack street through introductions. They are middle-aged and earn enough money to eat in one bite. had a good time.

"The shopkeeper's humility. I've traveled south and north, and I've eaten a lot of food. It's the first time I've had this new idea with such a delicious food."

Jiang Shuyao said with a smile, "That's good."

She continued to walk forward, suddenly feeling that something was wrong.

There seem to be a few strange people mixed in in the snack street where people come and go. They all say that the relationship is born from the heart. These people shrink their heads and shrink their heads.

Jiang Shuyao turned his head and instructed the steward, and he quickly agreed, letting the thugs invited by the Lin family quietly follow.

Jiang Shuyao went around every store, flipped through the ledger of the previous days, estimated the business situation, and suddenly stopped at a store selling cold noodles.

"Do you think the food here is delicious?" a brocade-clothed young man muttered to his companion, "I don't think it's reliable."

"I also think, looking at this storefront, it's too narrow."

They talked in a low voice, and the two of them came down the stairs and waved to them: "You can come up, make an empty table."

They walked over there reluctantly, and said as they walked, "This is the first time I have to wait for a table, and even Bazhenzhai has never asked me to wait for a table."

"I want to see how delicious it is."

"I don't know what the two of them thought. They finally came out of the academy. Instead of going to the restaurant, they came here to eat."

Jiang Shuyao also followed them upstairs, just because the two people who were shouting down the stairs just now were too familiar. Who are Xie Ye and Xie Ye who are not in the big room

For some reason, she always felt that the two of them called friends over to eat and drink because this was the snack street opened by the Lin family. The common people are very satisfied with the food in the snack street. They don't know how the young masters who are used to eating fine delicacies will evaluate them. If they are not satisfied, it will make Xie Ye Xie Ye lose face.

The shopkeeper of the cold noodle shop also went upstairs and asked Jiang Shuyao what instructions he had.

Jiang Shuyao asked him to separate a small table.

After she sat down, the boys and buddies over there had already gathered a lot.

"Why are all cold noodles, no meat?"

Xiao Er explained: "Guest officer, if you want to eat meat, there are barbecue skewers, fried skewers, braised vegetables, fried chicken, etc. nearby. I will bring the menu here. You order here, and we will send people to the nearby market. Bought it and sent it."

This statement is quite novel. Everyone looked at each other and wanted to be careful and critical, but now it would be mean to be critical, so they had to nod their heads.

When they got it, everyone was dumbfounded.

There are too many menus. There are a lot of thick and wide varieties. The key is that I have never eaten everything.

Xiao Er said: "The meat and fish are all here. The next few pages are cold drinks, such as ice powder, fruit tea, ice rice, etc. You can choose slowly."

This time, there is really nothing to be picky about. The most picky young master in Jinyi cleared his throat and said, "Well, it seems that I still spent a lot of time thinking about eating food, but there are many categories. I don’t know if I can balance the taste.”

Xie Xi became impatient: "Okay, if you don't want to eat it, don't pick and choose."

The other party looked like he didn't care about him: "I'm just talking about it, why are you so angry."

The atmosphere was a bit stiff, Xie Ye came out and said to ease: "Order first. I recommend fried skewers, who would you like? Well, you can also order this kebab too. Forget it, just take the skewers on this menu. Give it to us all over again."

Xiao Er took a note and stepped back, leaving a table of people waiting awkwardly, no one uttered a word.

Xie Ye couldn't hold back his anger, and whispered to Xie Ye: "Obviously, they brought them to a good place, but a group of people reluctantly, really."

Xie Ye's face was as usual, and he was not annoyed: "Why bother, wait until the food is served, and the debate just now will be resolved."

The cold noodles are served first. The cold noodles are steamed and then let cool. The bean sprouts are placed on the bottom, and then topped with soy sauce, red oil pepper, vinegar, garlic water, etc., sprinkled with salt, pepper, chives, and finally shredded cucumbers.

The porcelain bowl is filled with a large bowl of pale yellow cold noodles, tender white garlic paste, brown-red sweet soy sauce, glossy oil and spicy peppers, green and green shredded cucumbers and chopped green onions. The colors are simple but not monotonous. Cold noodles smell complex, sour, sweet, numb, spicy and fragrant, which can arouse people's appetite even in summer when there is no appetite.

After mixing with chopsticks, the flexible cold noodles are evenly coated with the sauce, the roots are brown and red, and the light shines with red oil, which looks much more delicious than the often eaten hot soup and bland pasta.

Everyone moved their chopsticks silently, because it was cold noodles, so there was no need to take small bites to avoid being scalded. Pick up a big chopstick and put it in your mouth, the first thing you experience is a completely new feeling of coolness, then the sweetness of sweet soy sauce, the spicy aroma of oil and hot pepper, the numbness of Chinese peppercorns, the raw and spicy taste of garlic paste, and the sour aroma of vinegar. Sweeping the tip of the tongue, instantly awakening the taste buds, a burst of energy shot straight to the forehead, making the appetite of the group of people with poor appetite open.

The cold noodles are chewy and chewy, and the roots are distinct. Because they are alkaline noodles, they have a mellow taste of alkali. Red oil chili is spicy but not dry. Compared with spicy, it is more fragrant. The spicy meaning is just a foil to the fragrance. With the sweet soy sauce brewed with brown sugar, star anise, cinnamon, licorice and other spices, it tastes spicy and fragrant. , There is a slight sweetness in the fragrance.

The cold noodles are very simple. In addition to the noodles, the extra side dishes are only shredded cucumbers and bean sprouts, but it is this simple taste that is refreshing enough. The flexible noodles are mixed with crisp bean sprouts.

The bean sprouts are slightly bitter and slightly sweet, the cucumber silk is delicate and fragrant, and the traces of oil and gas in the red oil of the cold noodles are instantly scraped away, leaving only the hot and sour fragrance, no need to wait, no need to be careful, roll up a large chopstick and enter, Chewing in big mouthfuls, the appetite that had been tortured by the bitter summer for a long time was finally saved at this time.

At this moment, the iced rice came up. Porcelain white bowls are piled with colorful ingredients, glutinous rice is white and full, white fungus is transparent and soft, red dates, raisins, taro balls, watermelon, crushed peanuts, candied fruit are stacked together, colorful, and crystal clear ice cubes floating in the water , the sweet aroma mixed with the cold air blowing.

"How come this rice is soaked in cold water, and it is even put in candied fruit." The picky one said again, but after eating cold noodles, this time he just sighed and didn't dare to say more.

When he eats it, he will know why. The fragrance of the fruit and the sweetness of the candied fruit melt into the ice water, turning it into a refreshing and refreshing sweetness. At this time, glutinous rice is not a staple food, but a dessert. It is soft, glutinous and sweet. It is soaked in ice water until it is full. The heat is gone.

This time he couldn't say anything, and quietly shut up.

When the skewers came up, everyone was even more amazed by the rich and spicy taste of the charcoal grilled. Just now I thought that I should eat some cold food and drink some ice in the summer, but now I think it is better to eat meat in a big mouth, spicy, salty, sizzling and oily, and my whole body is full of energy.

When a group of people were eating heartily, they heard someone next door talking loudly about the snack street.

They were very particular about eating and not speaking, so everyone listened to it with their ears pricked up.

Then the big guy couldn't hold back his words.

"Did they just say that this place was opened by the Lin family?"

"The Lin family? But the Lin family in Xiangyang's uncle's mansion, isn't this place..."

Everyone turned to look at Xie Ye and Xie Ye: "Isn't this Miss Jiang's Lin family?" Xie Xun didn't know how sturdy Jiang Shuyao was back then. Since the drowning incident that year, this group of people will walk around as long as they hear that there are women at the banquet.

It is human nature to gossip, and they cannot be exempted from it. As soon as Jiang Shuyao is mentioned, they begin to feel resentful again, lamenting that Xie Xun's bad luck, and the amazing talent Tanhualang ends up marrying a straw man.

Xie Ye Xie Ye felt uncomfortable listening to it, and was about to fight, but the most critical and picky boy just now spoke first: "We are in the happiest place in the world now, don't force me to beat you!" The bad words of my daughter, do you still want to come to dinner in the future

Everyone was most afraid of this powerful classmate, and they were reluctant to shut up and did not link these delicacies to Jiang Shuyao.

Seeing this, Xie Ye said helplessly: "These foods, no, to be precise, the foods in this street were all figured out by my third aunt."

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and burst into laughter at random.

"Humorous, really humorous."

"There is so much to eat in this street, one can only figure it out in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. Don't fool us."

They were talking, but suddenly stopped.

Jiang Shuyao came out from behind the screen and glanced at them.

Remembering how tough she was back then, all the people who were drinking the soup shook and shrank into the corner one after another.

Xie Ye and Xie Ye didn't expect Jiang Shuyao to be here, and when she heard her classmates talk about her, she said embarrassingly, "Third aunt."

"How does it taste, does it suit your taste?" Jiang Shuyao asked.

Everyone nodded: "Okay, very good."

She was relieved: "That's good, it seems that there is no major problem with the taste." The common people and the stubborn son-in-law like it to be considered qualified.

After she finished speaking, she turned around and went downstairs. Just as she reached the entrance of the stairs, Xie Xun suddenly came up from under the stairs.

The academy students saw that Jiang Shuyao would have to react for a while, but as long as they saw Xie Xun's back, they could immediately recognize that he was Xie Saburo, whom they had admired for many years.

Seeing Xie Xun's cold face, they sighed a little in their hearts: Hey, a pair of grudges—eh

The cold-faced Xie Xun walked quickly in front of Jiang Shuyao, lowered his head, and a smile like a cloud and rain suddenly bloomed on his face: "I heard that you were here, so I'm here. How did you look today? Are you tired? Tired? Is there any room for improvement in taste?"

Jiang Shuyao shook his head: "It should be gone."

Xie Xun was helpless: "I said, your cooking skills are superb, so why worry about not meeting the tastes of diners?"

"Why, everyone said it was better after improving the taste a few times."

Although Xie Xun was afraid that she would be overworked, but when she saw her look of excellence and improvement in cooking, she felt that her whole body was glowing. His eyes became softer, and his tone was unbelievably gentle: "I know you like to think about eating and cooking, but don't tire yourself out."

Jiang Shuyao nodded and stepped down the stairs.

Xie Xun hurriedly followed behind and stretched out his arms to help, for fear that she would slip and fall.

The wind of the summer night suddenly came so noisy.

Everyone in the academy was messed up in the wind, staring dumbfounded at the scene in front of them.

Are they blind? How could Third Young Master Xie treat Jiang Da like this, reluctantly? What about the good grudge? This is clearly a loving couple.

What's more terrifying is that Xie Ye Xie Ye may lie, but Xie Saburo will never lie.

So, is the food they eat really thought out by Jiang Da

Xie Hao looked at their dumbfounded expressions and blushing faces, shook his head and sighed, "Is your face so hot and painful? Hey, I felt the same way back then."