"After eating, I'm still hungry." Mao Dazhuang sighed while chewing the cold peel: "We work hard on the dock. No matter how much we eat, we still won't be hungry."
"makes sense."
The diners nodded repeatedly. They were all hard workers and were deeply touched by Mao Dazhuang's words.
“Most of the time when I’m busy, I can’t even take a sip of water.”
"More than that, look at you, you are only in your early twenties, but you look like you are thirty."
"Hahaha, you are talking about me, but you are different too. I remember that when you first came to work at the dock the year before last, you were a fair and fair guy, but now you are as black as coal."
"As long as you can get paid, it's fine."
"That's right, hahaha."
The diners laughed and joked with each other.
Listening to their words, Shen Zhiyao's mind flashed through the tired faces of all kinds of hard workers on the dock, as well as the appearance of most workers on the construction site in her previous life. Her eyelids were slightly drooped, thoughtful.
Liangpi and Bobo Chicken sold out faster today. After closing the stalls, Shen Zhiyao drove the donkey cart to the medicine shop.
"Sister, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
When he saw the donkey cart parked at the medicine shop, Shen Baiqiu immediately stared at her nervously.
Shen Yueya also looked worried: "Is sister sick?"
Facing their concerned faces, Shen Zhiyao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't think too much about it, you two. I'm here to buy things for cooking. Just wait here for me."
"ah?"
Shen Baiqiu and Shen Yueya watched her enter the pharmacy in confusion.
Not long after, when they saw Shen Zhiyao coming out with a few bags of medicinal materials, the two of them still couldn't help but worry.
It wasn't until she got home and saw Shen Zhiyao putting the purchased medicinal materials, some green onions, seasonings, etc. into the pot that she felt relieved.
"This is called brine. Once it's ready, my sister will make braised pork for you to eat tomorrow."
Shen Zhiyao took the initiative to introduce it to the two of them. While boiling the brine, she made some snacks and mushroom meat sauce.
She waited until midnight to put away all the brine, but she still moved the brine into the storage room and put it into the space.
"Wow, you can pick them all!"
After placing the brine, Shen Zhiyao saw that the peppers on the ground in the space were already bearing fruit.
With a thought, she quickly picked some, and then planted potatoes in the small plot of land she had left.
She wants to eat potatoes!
The next day was the day when Shen Baiqiu went to a private school. When he got up in the morning, Shen Zhiyao handed him a food box after breakfast.
"Is it okay to go to private school by yourself?"
"Don't worry, sister, I remember the way to the private school, it'll be fine." Shen Baiqiu took the food box with both hands, feeling a little excited.
Shen Zhiyao chuckled lightly: "Okay, then you go ahead. I won't give it to you if I want to leave the stall. There is your morning food in the food box, as well as some snacks. You can eat it when you are hungry."
Most people in the county follow the custom of two meals a day, and this is the same in private schools. Bai Qiu went to private school, and it was not convenient to eat at noon. She could only prepare some snacks for him that she made last night.
"Thank you, sister. Sister, Yueya, I'm leaving." Shen Baiqiu said goodbye to them with a smile.
Not long after he left, Shen Zhiyao fried a pot of beans, pork belly and carrot shreds, and then made some pocket buns.
Shen Zhiyao first gave one of the prepared pocket buns to Shen Yueya.
"Yueya, this is called pocket steamed buns. Whatever vegetables you want to eat, you can put them in and eat them together."
"Hmm." Shen Yueya took the pocket buns and added some mushroom meat sauce and beans.
"Sister, this steamed bun is delicious."
Shen Yueya grabbed the pocket bun with both hands, her mouth bulging from the food.
Shen Zhiyao carried the vegetable and lean meat porridge, pocket buns, side dishes, etc. that she had cooked in the morning to the donkey cart.
After Shen Yue Ya finished eating, he took her to the dock.
"Ms. Shen, are there no courgettes for salad today?" The diners asked curiously when they saw the pottery pots placed on her stall.
"Selling pocket buns today."
Shen Zhiyao opened the wooden bucket containing pocket buns, her eyebrows curved.
"What are pocket buns?"
"This." Shen Zhiyao picked up a pocket bun, "You can put side dishes in it. There are four side dishes today, mushroom meat sauce, beans, pork belly and shredded carrots."
"It costs five cents a piece with only vegetarian dishes, seven cents a piece with half meat and vegetarian dishes, and ten cents a piece with all meat dishes."
In order to prevent everyone from fearing that mushrooms are poisonous, Shen Zhiyao also explained that some mushrooms are edible.
There are still a few people who dare to eat mushroom meat sauce. The whole meal is sold, and only two or three diners add mushroom meat sauce to the pocket buns.
While Shen Zhiyao was selling morning food, she also told the diners that she would be selling braised pork for evening food.
"Everyone comes and tries it in the evening and you will know. You won't be disappointed."
Hearing the diners wondering what braised pork was, Shen Zhiyao smiled and told the story.
After selling the morning food and going home, Shen Zhiyao started preparing the braised pork after lunch.
In addition to meat, she is also preparing to braise some dried tofu, lotus root slices, fungus, bamboo shoots and peanuts picked in the mountains the day before yesterday.
After braised the meat, Shen Zhiyao cut some first, tasted it for herself, and then gave some to Shen Yueya.
Then, she cut a portion and put it on a plate and put it in a bamboo basket.
"Yueya, go see if Aunt Lin is at home. If she is at home, give these braised vegetables to Aunt Lin."
"Well, sister, I'll go right away." Shen Yueyue steadily lifted the bamboo basket, stepped over the threshold of the kitchen with her short legs and walked out.
Shen Zhiyao warned: "Be careful not to fall."
Shen Yueya left, and Shen Zhiyao continued cooking.
After she was busy for a while, Shen Yueya came back, and with Shen Yueya was Lin Suxin.
"Aunt Lin." Shen Zhiyao greeted her with a smile.
"Zhiyao, can you please come out now?"
Lin Suxin stood outside the kitchen and did not go in.
Shen Zhiyao put down the spatula and walked towards her.
"Aunt Lin, what's the matter?"
Lin Suxin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Zhiyao, don't you want to set up a stall to recruit people?"
Shen Zhiyao asked doubtfully: "Does Aunt Lin have anyone to recommend?"
"Zhiyao, what do you think of me, Aunt Lin?" Lin Suxin pointed at herself.
She thought that Shen Baiqiu had gone to private school, and the crescent moon was too small, so she was afraid that Shen Zhiyao would not be able to handle it alone, so after thinking about it, she came over to ask.
"Aunt Lin, if you help me, what will you do with your own embroidery work?"
Shen Zhiyao remembered that Aunt Lin usually embroidered some embroidery items for sale.
"I just embroider some things to pass the time." Lin Suxin waved her hands and continued without thinking: "Otherwise, I would only be busy every time when I go to collect rent and have nothing to do all day long."
She owns several shops and houses in the county town, all of which are rented out.
"Aunt Lin, thank you for your kindness. I know you want to help me. I'm still busy and don't plan to recruit anyone yet."
Shen Zhiyao works quickly and quickly, and she can handle her stall alone.
"Then if you are short of manpower in the future, you must tell Aunt Lin." Lin Su earnestly hoped to help Shen Zhiyao.
