"Husband, you have been busy all morning, it's time for you to take a rest." Mingruo said with a smile.
"Then, husband, just lie down and rest." Si Haochen deliberately teased the little princess.
"Okay, you can rest." Mingruo jumped up, "I'll go by myself."
"Hmm~" Si Haochen deliberately prolonged his tone and tapped the tip of Mingruo's nose, "Isn't this too impatient?"
"After I prove my patience, the criminals will probably destroy all the evidence." Mingruo opened the closet, changed into some inconspicuous clothes, and took off the jewelry on her head, leaving only a hosta holding down her hair.
Si Haochen also changed his clothes, and took his wife over the wall and left the general's mansion. Mingruo followed the directions from memory, and within a quarter of an hour, the two of them arrived outside the braised meat shop.
Shopkeeper Zhu hasn't come back yet. Since it's dinner time, the business in the shop is pretty good.
A young waiter cut the meat and packaged it according to the customer's instructions. Behind the counter stood a beautiful woman in her twenties, settling accounts and collecting money. Judging from the way the young waiter treated her with respect, she must be shopkeeper Zhu's wife.
Ming Ruo raised her eyebrows slightly. This woman was petite and had a pretty face. She was wearing a pink dress and a gold hairpin on her head. When she collected the change, a pair of jingling bracelets on her wrists made a crisp sound.
In terms of appearance alone, Shopkeeper Zhu is definitely a high-ranking shop. But the braised pork shop occupies three stores, which looks quite big. Looking at her outfit, Shopkeeper Zhu and his family must be very good to her.
"Madam, what do you want to call me?" The boy finished busy with the few guests in front of him and then received Mingruo.
"Does your family not have any braised vegetarian dishes?" There was braised pork ribs with added ingredients in front of her. Mingruo had a mental shadow about the food in the store, so she deliberately chose the ones that didn't have any.
I secretly checked and found that none of the braised pork on sale had any added ingredients. It seemed that all the braised pork with added ingredients had been sold to the General's Mansion.
"We usually have braised eggs and dried tofu, but today's vegetarian dishes are spoiled. If Madam wants to eat, we can come back tomorrow and have them." The boy recommended to Mingruo, "The pickled pickles in our store are also very good.
It's delicious. Madam, would you like to buy some to try?
"I just want to buy some braised dried beans." Mingruo shook her head and pulled Si Haochen away.
"Is there any problem with the braised pork in the shop?" Si Haochen raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Yeah." Mingruo nodded.
There happened to be a restaurant opposite the braised pork shop. Mingruo and Si Haochen entered the restaurant and chose a private room where they could easily observe the braised pork shop and sat down.
The front of the braised meat shop is the shop, and the backyard is the kitchen. There is an older middle-aged man, busy in the backyard...
After a while, shopkeeper Zhu came back with two young boys. As soon as the two young boys came back, they went to work.
When the little woman saw shopkeeper Zhu coming back, she smiled sweetly at him: "The boss is back, why have you been gone for so long?"
Shopkeeper Zhu really didn't want to believe that his gentle and beautiful wife was a villain who would kill their whole family. He was stunned for a moment and said the excuse he had thought of for a long time: "The hoof and poultry are all just out of the pot, carrying the soup with them all the way."
I lost a lot of weight in the past. The chef at the General's Mansion weighed more than two pounds, so I paid a lot of money so I didn't pursue the matter."
"Master, please drink some water and rest." The little woman poured a bowl of tea and handed it to shopkeeper Zhu, "It's too stingy for a family like the General's Mansion to care about these three melons and two dates...
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She wanted to say something more, but she stopped when she saw a guest coming: "Madam, what do you call me?"
"Weigh two kilograms of braised dried beans and cut into half a kilogram of pig ears." An old lady took out her money bag from her arms and waited to pay the bill.
"Auntie, our braised tofu is sold out, can I cut off the pig's ears for you?" the little woman said.
"Then take half a pound of pig ears and ten braised eggs." The old lady said.
"What a coincidence, our braised eggs are also sold out..." The little woman looked embarrassed.
"It was only noon and they were all sold out..." The old lady only bought pig ears and left.
Shopkeeper Zhu frowned. Dried tofu and eggs don't need to be boiled for a long time. They are always taken out of the pot before being put into the pot. After a while, turn off the heat and soak in the marinade to get the flavor. Since dried tofu and eggs are
Eggs are cheaper than meat and have a meaty flavor. They are the best-selling ones in the store. They braise a large pot of them every day and sell them until evening.
"All the braised eggs and dried tofu are sold out today?" Shopkeeper Zhu looked at his wife suspiciously.
"Hey..." the little woman sighed, "just after putting the dried beans in the pot, a mouse came out of nowhere, so we chased it away, but the mouse fell into the pot...
The head of the house either said that we are in the food business, or that we can sell it cleanly and safely, so I asked Uncle Zhang to pour out the pot of marinade and dried tofu..."
"..." No matter whether Shopkeeper Zhu wants to believe her, this is all too strange. The mouse is not stupid, how can it jump into the hot pot?
The young lady looked at the master's face and guessed that he felt sorry for the old pot of soup. In fact, she didn't want to be like this. However, the medicine that was added to the hooves before was very overbearing. After taking it once, she would become addicted, and she was afraid that it would cause trouble.
She had no choice but to take this step.
"I'll go take a look at the back." At this time, shopkeeper Zhu didn't know how to face his wife.
"Master, don't get too angry. The pot of braised pork stewed in the afternoon will be fine. When you turn it into two pots of soup at night, it won't delay tomorrow's business." The little woman comforted her softly.
"Yeah." Shopkeeper Zhu walked to the backyard with his head down.
In the evening, Butler Su from the General's Mansion came to the Braised Pork Shop: "Shopkeeper Zhu, we have a noble man here. Your braised pork is very good. I want to ask if you can sell the braised pork recipe?"
"This..." Shopkeeper Zhu hesitated a little.
The little woman didn't wait for Shopkeeper Zhu to say anything else, then she said, "That recipe is passed down from our family. My father-in-law has long said that we must not sell braised pork recipe."
"That noble man is just cooking and eating in his own house, and he will definitely not hinder your family's business." Butler Su said again.
"This recipe really can't be sold." Shopkeeper Zhu shook his head, "The general wants braised pork, and it makes sense for me to deliver it to your house every day."
"The noble man is from the Imperial Capital and will not stay here for a long time." Butler Su rolled his eyes, "Shall Shopkeeper Zhu send someone who knows how to stew meat to follow the noble man to the Imperial Capital? Or you can go by yourself, that's the Imperial Capital.
The city is, I don’t know, much more prosperous than the border town, and others will never be able to go there in a few lifetimes."
"This..." Shopkeeper Zhu looked at his wife.
The young woman said, "Whether we can go here, we have to go back and discuss it with my father-in-law and mother-in-law. I'll get back to you tomorrow, okay?"
"That's okay. Regardless of whether you can send someone there or not, go to the General's Mansion tomorrow and tell me." Butler Su slapped his forehead, "By the way, when you go, just like today, you will bring ten more hooves with you.
