After Zou picked out four people, she walked back to Song Qiu and said respectfully, "Miss, how about taking a look at these guys?"
Song Qiu had been listening and watching from the sidelines. Zou had asked so many people, but these four people were left alone. And these four people, at first glance, all had their eyes closed.
Moreover, those selected by Zou are also very organized.
One can read and write, one can needle and thread, one can make tea, and the other is diligent and hardworking.
Each has its own specialties, none of them are too heavy.
Only four maids were selected. It was really very satisfying to choose them this way.
She nodded, "Yes, it will be the four of them."
Zou then looked at the four of them and said, "I haven't seen the girl yet."
The four of them, led by Lu Yan, stood in a row and saluted respectfully, "Slave Lu Yan/Lanyi/Zaoer/Taozi have seen the girl."
Song Qiu listened to these four names. The first two were green and blue. He rolled his eyes and couldn't help but look at the last two, "How about I change your names?"
It is normal for a new master to be given a new name. Tao Zi was given the name Tao Zi by her former master. She obeyed and said, "Please give me a name, girl."
When Zao'er saw what she said, she knew what was going on and wisely followed up.
Song Qiu said: "Your name is Huangtao, and your name is Hongzao. How about that?"
When the two heard this, they just changed one word to their original names, which sounded nice, so they quickly said: "Slave Huang Tao/Hong Zao, thank you girl for giving me the name."
Song Qiu looked at the four newly minted maids in red, yellow, blue and green, nodded with satisfaction, asked them to step aside, and then continued to choose others.
The concierge is Liu Daqian, who is in his early fifties but still in good health. His wife's surname is Shi, and she happens to be a sweeper.
Another mother-in-law, Mrs. Yu, worked as a sweeper, and her husband, Wang Laifu, happened to be responsible for waiting on the carriages and horses and cleaning the toilets in the outer courtyard.
Wang Laifu's two daughters, Wang Chunxi, worked in the kitchen, and there was also a woman in her forties, Mrs. Lin, who worked as a cook.
The original plan of ten people was just right, but Wang Laifu and his wife also had a son and a daughter. Song Qiu bought his father, mother and sister, and there was no reason to keep the two younger ones. After seeing the people, he bought them too.
Already.
This makes a total of twelve people.
There are more than two people, but the money is not much more. Wang Chunzhu is thirteen years old, and Wang Chunxiang is only eight years old, so they are still young.
After paying the money and getting a stack of deeds of sale, Song Qiu led the people out of the Zeng Family Dental Shop.
There were too many people to fit in the carriage, but fortunately it was not far away. Aling drove Song Qiu and Zou ahead, while Du Chuanfu led everyone on foot to the dessert shop.
When they returned to the dessert shop, Ms. Yang came out and said, "Girl, the noodles you asked us to make first have already woken up."
Song Qiu listened, nodded, and asked Yang to take his younger brother out to buy some vegetables and meat. There were about ten more people. For lunch, the dishes bought in the shop today were not enough.
Mrs. Yang responded and took her brother out to the back door. They turned to the back alley and walked closer to the market.
Song Qiu asked Zou to settle down with Lu Yan and others later, and then went into the kitchen at the back.
The shop was not busy at the moment, so Ximei'er was empty-handed. When she saw Song Qiu coming in, she quickly followed, ready to help the girl.
Miss Xiancai asked them to meet with them many times. She felt that the girl must be teaching them new tricks, but they had to learn them hard.
Song Qiu is not planning to make a new dessert, but is planning to make longevity peaches.
Tomorrow is her grandma's birthday, and she plans to make birthday cakes as a surprise for her grandma.
She lifted up the gauze cover and looked at it. She pressed her finger on the dough, and a pit immediately formed in the dough. Then she took her finger off, and the pit immediately popped back.
"Well, that's ok."
As she spoke, she started kneading the risen dough evenly until there were no air bubbles in the dough, then divided it into small pieces one by one, and finally kept the remaining dough into one large piece.
Press the dough into a round shape, place it on the tiger's mouth of your left hand to make a nest shape, and wrap the red bean paste inside.
After wrapping, roll it into a round shape and make a sharp point on the upper part. Use the back of the knife to press out the peach pattern on the side.
Xi Meier looked at it and came to help, while Aling also washed his hands and joined in the fun.
The three people worked quickly, and in a short time all the ingredients were shaped into peach shapes.
It was white and tender at the moment, and the two of them hadn't figured out what it was. They were just curious as to why a good steamed bun should have a pointed butt.
How to eat this?
Song Qiu smiled when he heard it and didn't explain much. He would know after the steaming.
Cover the prepared peach greens with wet gauze and let them rest for a quarter of an hour.
While waiting, Song Qiu dug out the hawthorn paste and mixed it with a little warm water until it became thin.
Shoudao must be colorful to look good, but there is no food coloring here, and she doesn't have flowers or anything at the moment, and the red paper water used to make red eggs cannot be eaten, so Song Qiu thought about it and decided to use this hawthorn sauce to make it a little lighter.
color.
After the raw peach had woken up, Song Qiu used a brush to apply hawthorn sauce and water on the tips of the peach one by one.
On the largest birthday peach, in addition to painting, she also slowly wrote the word "longevity".
Then put all the brushed raw peaches into the pot and start steaming.
Bring to a boil over high heat, then steam over low heat for a quarter of an hour.
During this period, Du Chuanfu arrived with Lu Yan and others on foot. Zou placed everyone in their room in the backyard and stayed there.
Yang also bought vegetables and meat and came back.
When Song Qiu saw that Shoudao was almost ready, he asked Aling to call Lin and Wang Chunxi to help them cook.
Lin and Wang Chunxi were assigned errands as soon as they arrived. The two men followed Aling out under the eyes of others.
People still in the room looked at me and you, all a little curious.
They still don't know what the master does. They only know that this is a dessert shop, opened by the master, but with so many of them, they don't all have to stay in the shop to work, right?
After being picked by the girl first, when they went back to pick up their luggage, Mother Zeng reminded them that this was a rare good master, and told them to take it seriously and work hard.
So although they were curious at the moment, everyone was staying well behaved, not talking much, and not walking around.
When a quarter of an hour came, Song Qiu opened the lid of the pot, and the hot white steam rushed out and hit her face, which was very hot.
On the steam fence in the pot, there is a circle of small pink peaches surrounding a big peach with the word "longevity" in the middle, which looks very pleasing to the eye.
Aling stretched his neck and came over to take a look. When he saw the longevity peaches in the pot, his eyes lit up immediately, "Oh, I asked why these steamed buns were made into pointy butts. It turned out to be peach steamed buns!"
"This is called Shoudao!" Song Qiu said with a smile.
Then he took the big food box over and put oiled paper on the bottom. He took the longevity peaches out of the pot and placed them in the food box. There was still a circle of small longevity peaches surrounding the big longevity peaches in the middle.
Then ask A Ling to put it outside and take it away when he leaves later. Do not cover it for now, and let it dry like this to cool down, so that you can cover it and take it back.
Aling took the food box and just took it to the shop outside to find a place to put it.
At this time, a customer who was browsing the shelves saw the longevity peaches in the food box at a glance. The small ones were surrounded by a big one, and there was a word "longevity" on the big one. His eyes suddenly lit up.