frightfiction Chapter 235 Menu Preparation
Chapter 235 Menu Preparation
"You...what are you going to do?"
"Sister...it's a rare visit for you...why don't you sleep in my main room?"
Huanxi was embarrassed... She forgot that this girl had improper thoughts about her.
"No need, just find me a side room to live in. I'm going to get up early tomorrow because I need to go to the human trafficker to buy someone else."
Suddenly, she slapped her forehead.
"Hey, do you have a pen and paper? I forgot something."
Hongying was stunned by her actions. She nodded woodenly and asked someone to get paper and pen.
Watch her writing and drawing on the paper, and soon she had the names of several courtyards written on the paper.
"What is this? It all sounds good."
Huanxi smiled and explained, "These are the names of the four courtyards of Shuxiangju: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. I came here today specifically to hang the plaques, but I was so busy that I forgot."
"Then I'll take you there tomorrow. I know where the plaques are best."
"I came here to find you. With you as my guide, I can avoid many detours tomorrow."
Seeing Hongying starting to feel shy again... Huanxi quickly changed the subject.
"Miss Zhilu, Miss Shaohong~"
She shouted twice, and two girls came in skipping and jumping.
"Miss Huanxi, do you have anything to tell me?"
"Um... could you please help me clean up the side room? I want to sleep... could you please..."
When the two little girls heard this, they hurriedly winked at their master.
Hongying looked at Huanxi's back, sighed and nodded...
Once she lay down, she fell asleep soon.
He had no idea that Hongying was pacing back and forth outside the house.
After a long time, he left the house and went to his room to rest.
After breakfast in the morning, he called Ke You and gave him a few instructions, secretly slipped him ten taels of silver, and then drove the carriage out of the escort agency with Hongying.
I walked all the way to the largest plaque workshop in town, where I picked out several plaques with different styles that were suitable for my home, and also chose a grand "Shuxiangju" doorplate.
It was agreed that it would be delivered as soon as it was finished, and the total cost was almost one hundred taels.
Zhao Huanxi is already numb...
She had personally experienced how money flows like water.
Finally, it’s time to buy people.
It was the same human trafficker from last time. When he saw her coming, he hurriedly asked her what kind of servant she needed.
This time she wanted more people, including cooks, laundry, and cleaning staff. Almost twenty people in total.
There were four courtyards, each with two people responsible for sweeping and serving. Five more people would go to the kitchen to help Chunliu and Xiahe, and two more women would be responsible for sweeping and cleaning. Finally, a few guards with martial arts skills were needed.
The ones mentioned above are easy to find, but guards are not cheap, but they cannot be without.
There are only women and children at home, so she needs protection to feel at ease.
So he gritted his teeth and bought five guards for twenty-five taels each.
The remaining fifteen people had to bargain with the human trafficker for a long time before he agreed to take them away for three hundred taels of silver, along with their guards.
How to get twenty people home is a problem. Her carriage can't accommodate them all, and the Pang family only has one carriage available.
They went to the carriage shop in town and hired a few ox carts, and then they returned home.
Before leaving, she went to the cloth shop in town and took out more than a dozen pieces of cotton and linen cloth, preparing to go back and make work clothes for her employees.
When the time comes, we will find women in the village who can do needlework to do it. It will probably be done in a few days.
After returning to the village, they placed the people in the staff dormitory behind Shuxiangju. There were three beds in one room, and there were ten rooms in total.
Next to the staff dormitory is the small courtyard where Zhao Huanxi and the children live. This courtyard has no name, and it is the house where Huanxi and his daughters spend the winter.
The servants knelt in a row, lowered their heads and said nothing.
Because they knew that she would not tolerate any injustice, the people brought out by the human traffickers this time were all trained and had death contracts. If they were disobedient, they would be beaten to death and the government would not ask a single question.
Huanxi was very satisfied. She didn't necessarily want these people to die. The main reason was because of the experience of Linghua and Xiaodan. She had to hold the lifeblood of these people so as not to act rashly.
After explaining the family rules to them and recognizing them as family members, the group was taken away to rest.
Chunliu and Xiahe were going to taste the dishes today, so Zhao Huanxi called out the women who could cook, gave them some rice and flour, and asked them to go to Shuxiangju to cook for themselves. She would go over to manage it tomorrow.
A group of people nodded in agreement. When she came back, Chunliu and Xiahe had already put the dishes on the table, waiting for the family to comment.
The seeds that Hongying sent her on her last birthday had already been planted. What surprised her was that in addition to tomatoes and cucumbers, there were also garlic seeds.
God knows how much she missed the taste of garlic, but if she started growing it from seeds, it would probably take until the end of the year before she could eat garlic...
Fortunately, the other two are doing well. The cucumber has already climbed up the vine and is already producing small yellow flowers. The tomato is slower, but you can already see some small pointed petals here and there.
Although the ordinary dishes look appetizing, they don’t feel very high-end after all.
Instead, they replaced the white porcelain bowls and plates, arranged them on the eight-immortal table according to her request, and paired them with some very appetizing dishes. It made people feel that this meal was not cheap at first glance.
Eighteen dishes were prepared today.
After giving them a day, Zhao Huanxi was still very satisfied.
Boiled pork slices, stir-fried liver and kidney, spicy chicken, smoked bamboo shoots and bacon, roast duck with rice wine, husband and wife lung slices, pig ears in red oil, mouth-watering chicken, fish-flavored shredded pork, boiled fish, roast chicken with potatoes, stir-fried chicken, braised pork with preserved vegetables, minced meat and eggplant, crispy meat soup, sour radish and old duck soup.
There are also two desserts, osmanthus yam and brown sugar rice cake.
After several people's experiments, they finally found a level of spiciness that most people found palatable. After the adjustment, even Xiao Yin could eat a lot of it.
Zhao Huanxi invited everyone to eat together. After all, it was a food tasting, so no one cared about the rules. They just tasted the food and expressed their thoughts, pooling their ideas.
Those who can afford to come here to play are not ordinary people. Although the theme of the farm stay is novel, the food still needs to taste good to retain the hearts of guests.
Everyone in the family is used to the taste, and it’s hard to explain why it tastes so good.
Huanxi suddenly thought of asking Yuanzhen to call those twenty people over and have them try it.
When Yuan Zhen went to the back kitchen of Shuxiangju, he found that several women had cooked rice soup that was so thick that you could see yourself in a mirror, and a group of people were drinking it there.
So they took everyone to Zhao's house and gave each of them a bowl and chopsticks. Since the people at home had already eaten, they could eat whatever they wanted.
"Madam, how can this be done... We are all servants..."
Huanxi smiled and said:
"It's okay, just eat. But you have to tell me how it tastes. Tell me what's good and what's bad about it."
Someone in the crowd's stomach growled in response. Huanxi looked over and saw that it was a young man in his twenties, one of the guards she had bought.
"Alright, alright, eat. I've been waiting for your words."
After hearing this, those people thanked him and then carefully picked up the food to eat.
The atmosphere was a bit cautious, and someone suddenly said:
"Oh my god, what kind of dish is this? It's so delicious."
The accent sounded a bit like the Henan dialect from my previous life, and I laughed happily.
Just then, someone said, "Spicy chicken! Oh my god! It smells so good!"
Joyful surprise:!!!!!!!!!