Chapter 835 Black and red top-notch scheming stepsister (22)
Tall spice trees are planted next to the north wall of the backyard, which can serve as a barrier without affecting the light in the yard.
She marked out three best locations for planting trees along the courtyard wall, and planned to plant three kinds of spices: pepper, nutmeg, and osmanthus.
Except for Zanthoxylum bungeanum, which is a deciduous tree, cassia and nutmeg are both evergreen trees, making them very suitable as landscape trees.
Sandalwood and star anise, planned to be made into bonsai.
If you want to plant a tree, sandalwood is too tall and takes up a lot of ground. Moreover, it is a companion tree and you have to plant some vines around it. It is not suitable for planting in the courtyard.
When I was digging through the system warehouse, I found a few relatively good-quality small-leaf red sandalwood saplings, which I thought would be good to make into bonsai.
The same goes for octagonal saplings. The grown plants are tall and leafy, but the bonsai of octagonal saplings is more unique.
Thinking of this, she searched online for bonsai pot sellers and found a merchant with a good reputation and reputation. She spent two nights selecting a batch of bonsai pots with different materials and styles.
Because she wanted to carve some poems that fit the occasion or draw some flowers on some of the more distinctive bonsai pots. This was custom-made, and there would definitely be no time to ship it before the year, and it would be mid-March at the earliest.
Fortunately, she was not in a hurry, and the application for her second major and minor had not yet been submitted.
"Dad, I'll make some Laozhi for you. When the weather gets hot next year, there should be a good business in making Laozhi seafood."
When calculating the spices, Xu Yin saw a recipe for gravy and used it to think about the dishes.
Father Xu's hometown is not close to the sea, so when he opened this restaurant, seafood was not included in the menu.
But in recent years, more and more people like to eat seafood, and the status of seafood in the restaurant world is getting higher and higher. Many people like to add one or two seafood dishes when they go to restaurants, so Father Xu followed the trend and added it to the menu.
A few seafood dishes.
But compared with grilled fish, seafood is not his specialty.
Most of the diners who come to the restaurant come for grilled fish, not many seafood. Of course, the main reason is that the cooking techniques are ordinary, either braised in braised sauce, fried in sauce, or steamed with scallion oil.
He had never tasted the "Seafood in Fish Sauce" suggested by his daughter.
"Is it delicious?"
"It's delicious. I'll make it for you to try during the Chinese New Year."
"Why wait for the Chinese New Year? Tomorrow, when dad goes to get food, he will bring back some of your favorite seafood."
Although seafood is expensive, my daughter has been very busy these days, and she also works part-time as a rider to help the store deliver food. It is really hard work, and Father Xu has long wanted to reward her.
The next day, he got up earlier than usual. Before going to the wholesale market to buy food, he first went to the largest seafood market in the city and picked some fresh seafood suitable for making sauce.
Xu Yin also came to the store in advance, soaked the required spices, and made the juice first.
By noon, takeout orders began to increase, and the father and daughter had no time to cook for themselves.
When Dad Xu came back from the food, she started making seafood in sauce.
What she asked Dad Xu to buy was small seafood, including clams, razor clams, shrimps, small abalone, mussels, and small octopus.
Compared with scallops, razor clams, lobsters, giant squid, etc., this kind of seafood is cheaper in price, but it is freshly selected, cooked well, and tastes equally delicious.
It's not yet business hours, Xu's father is taking a nap in the small room separated from the back kitchen wrapped in a big cotton-padded jacket, while Xu Yin is quietly making soup outside.
The phone vibrated several times.
She picked it up and saw that it was from He Shi.
[Your restaurant hasn’t opened yet? I have a few classmates who want to get together. Is it convenient for you to reserve the restaurant at noon?]
Xu Yin raised her eyebrows and said: [I don’t have a private room at home. If you think it’s safe, we must be convenient.]
He Shi: [Then it’s settled. As for the dishes, you can take care of it, there are six of us.]
After a few seconds, another message was sent: [My high school classmates have gone their separate ways in college, so we only have time to get together during the Chinese New Year.]
Xu Yin: [Then your relationship is quite good.]
Like the original person, her classmates who got along well with her in high school gradually fell apart after going to college.
However, Xu Yin was quite glad that she didn't have friends who were good enough to hang out with all day long, otherwise she would have been worried about whether she had exposed her secret.
Father Xu woke up from a nap and heard from his daughter that He Shi was going to bring some classmates to the family store for a dinner, so he went to the kitchen to get busy.
Dine-in is reserved, but takeout is not affected.
Father Xu is responsible for the grilled fish and chicken stew for the dine-in meal, and Xu Yin is in charge of the stir-fried dishes.
As the New Year's Eve came closer and closer, the snow on the road became thicker and thicker. Xu's father originally wanted to stop the takeout, but Xu Yin took the initiative, saying that the dine-in business was relatively light, and with the blessing of takeout, the store seemed lively. Anyway,
There were only two meals at noon and evening. She had been bored all day, so she might as well go out for a run.
After thinking about it, Dad Xu said it would be fine to open it, but the delivery distance is limited to within 500 meters.
Xu Yin: "..."
Five hundred meters? Isn’t this meant to serve the office workers working in the business buildings across the road?
It's just across the street, so there's no need to ride an electric donkey.
But Xu’s father would rather give up the takeout business if he didn’t agree to this request.
The father and daughter considered each other and finally reached an agreement on a five-hundred-meter delivery service.
Some of the customers five hundred meters away wanted to order a small stir-fried yellow beef with white rice, while others missed the duck intestine skewers and lemon chicken feet they had last time. They took out their mobile phones to place an order while grabbing their meal, and suddenly found the order address.
It was beyond the delivery range and I was immediately dumbfounded.
I found the business phone number and dialed:
"Hey! Boss! I'm from Cuiwan Community. I'm less than one kilometer away from your store. Why don't we deliver at this distance?"
"Boss, I'm from Guanghua Optical Shop, which is just two intersections away from your store. Why can't I order takeout? I just ordered it a few days ago..."
"boss--"
Father Xu explained kindly: "I'm sorry, little brother, the Chinese New Year is almost here, and there are no riders to take orders. My daughter delivers them all herself. The journey is too far and I don't worry."
"..."
My boss has said this, what else can I do?
"Will it recover after the New Year?"
"The riders have come back after the New Year and will definitely recover."
"Oh well."
The other party reluctantly hung up the phone, and at the end he did not forget to praise: "Your food is really delicious, especially the snacks you gave me at the beginning. I really want to eat them again, but I changed them to duck intestines and chicken feet."
Not bad."
Father Xu laughed: "My grilled fish is more delicious, but it's a pity that delivery is not convenient. Whenever you come to the store to eat, I will give you a discount."
"Is this what you said? How about today, I call a few friends to go to your restaurant for dinner together."
"Ouch, not today." Father Xu said hurriedly, "The store is booked today."
"..."
Is business so good?
The customer hung up the phone and was still a little confused.
He thought it was just an ordinary home-cooked restaurant, but now it seems that it is more popular than he imagined.
There are many people who are similar. The less they can eat, the more they feel itchy. They list Xu's Restaurant as the first restaurant they want to patronize after the spring flowers bloom.