It was already dusk when the three of them arrived home. From a distance, Su Yu saw someone standing at the door of his courtyard. Who else could it be if it wasn't Lian?
Su Yu ran over happily.
"Mom, why are you standing at the door?"
"I'm not waiting for you. I'm going to town for a day. I thought something happened. If you don't come back, I'll go to town looking for you."
"We are going to town to sell ducks. If anything happens, let's go in. I have something to tell my mother."
The family entered the courtyard, and Su Sheng finally locked the door. Logically speaking, no one would sneak in quietly, but he was not afraid of ten thousand, just in case. He wanted others to know that his family had two hundred taels of silver. That's not to attract thieves' attention.
"What's going on? It's so mysterious."
"Mom, guess how much money the roast duck recipe sold for?"
"How much can a roast duck recipe cost?"
"Can you take a guess?"
Su Yu held one of Lian's arms and acted coquettishly, completely forgetting that she was almost thirty years old.
Mrs. Lian thought that she could sell it for five taels of silver at most, and no one else could buy it no matter how much.
Hesitantly said: "Four Liang?"
"Brother, tell me how much you sold for?"
Su Sheng didn't mince words like Su Yu.
"Mom, the prescription sold for two hundred taels."
"What! Two hundred taels!"
"Mom, please keep your voice down, don't let others know that our family has two hundred taels."
Mrs. Lian quickly covered her mouth, not believing it, and asked in a low voice: "Really sold for two hundred taels?"
"Real, more real than real gold."
"Daughter, take out the money and show it to your mother."
Su Yu smiled and took out twenty ingots of silver from his small satchel, one ingot worth ten taels. Lian held the silver in her hand, but it still felt unreal.
"It's really two hundred taels. The person who bought the son must be a fool."
"Mom, if I open such a big restaurant, I don't care about two hundred taels of silver at all. Why do you worry about me? The most important thing now is that our family is rich, and there are those ducks in our backyard. I understand them all. We sold them all, ten cents a pound, no matter what, we can make more than ten taels."
"Oh, by the way, our family has accumulated so many duck eggs now, I have to hatch a batch."
Mrs. Lian has always been in charge of these matters.
Lian Shi "There are ninety-eight now."
"Then I'll start hatching in another two days. The most important thing now is to think about how to spend the two hundred taels of silver. I think we can settle down in Yujia Village. Dad, go talk to the village chief tomorrow. Let's see. Judging from what he said, if the village chief disagrees, we will move to the town. Now that we have money, it is not difficult to buy a house and do some small business in the town."
"Look at this girl, she has such a loud voice. A small courtyard in the town only costs a hundred and ten taels of silver. Is it a good deal? Besides, is the business so easy to do?"
Su Yu didn't talk back to Mrs. Lian either.
"If the village chief agrees, we will build a big yard next to it and buy a few acres of land. These things will take a few days. When I go to town tomorrow, I will bring back some cloth and make new clothes for myself. This outfit was made two years ago and is already old."
Women like to make children's clothes bigger. Su Yu remembered that the outfit she was wearing was made two years ago. At that time, the cuffs and trouser legs were closed, and some were put on after a few months. Now she wears this outfit. It's just right, but the clothes are very old, so this is still the best outfit. Thinking of this, Su Yu scolded the people in the old house again in his heart. They were really nothing.
"Okay, I'll pull the cloth back tomorrow and Mom will do it for you first. That's all right now."
Now that the family is rich and the clothes on their bodies are really shabby, Mrs. Lian has no objection.
"Mom, keep the money."
Mrs. Lian felt that it was time to hide it, and was thinking about where to hide it.
"Daughter, take ten taels and keep them for yourself. When you go to town tomorrow, buy whatever you want."
Su Laoer felt that his daughter was working too hard, and if it wasn't for the tight situation at home, he wouldn't have wanted the two hundred taels.
Then he said to Mrs. Lian: "Give another one or two to my daughter, and she will use it when she goes to town to pull cloth tomorrow."
Su Yu didn't say no, and narrowed his eyes with a smile.
"Thank you dad, dad is the best."
Mrs. Lian didn't think there was any problem and gave eleven taels to her daughter.
Su Sheng looked at his father and then his mother, and finally lowered his head. It was not like his parents had double standards and they didn't know what he was angry about.
"Then let's eat first, I've already prepared it."
The family sat at the table to eat. Su Laoer was talking while eating. He told Lian everything what Su Yu said today vividly. Some of the words he forgot to say did not match the preface and the follower. Su Yu almost went crazy laughing. . Mrs. Lian forgot to eat when she heard this. The boss was really talking about her daughter, so why didn't she sound like her? However, Mrs. Lian knew that the head of her family would never lie to her. She could only say that her daughter had really changed.
Su Yu felt that she was just an eleven-year-old country girl now, and no one would doubt her age. Sometimes she felt that she was getting older as she lived, and her actions and demeanor became more and more like a child's.
After eating, Mrs. Lian was responsible for boiling water, while Su Laoer and Su Sheng went to the backyard to catch ten ducks, slaughter them, remove their feathers and clean them. Su Yu prepared the seasoning, and after cleaning it, evenly applied the seasoning on the three ducks, and took the remaining seven to on-site teaching tomorrow.
When night falls, I get up and apply honey. The next morning, the three ducks are just marinated. The taste of roasting these three ducks is definitely much better than the duck yesterday. The ducks raised by the Su family, in addition to eating aquatic plants, also eat small fish and shrimps in the river every day for more than four months. At this time, a duck weighs about four or five pounds.
When the time agreed with Taihe Lou's clerk came, the father and daughter each carried one basket, Su Yu carried two, and the remaining eight were all in Su Laoer's basket.
The boy took the baskets from the father and daughter and put them on the carriage.
A quarter of an hour later, the carriage arrived at Taihe Building, and Yang Si had been waiting at the back door. Although Yang Si is a clerk in Taihe Building, because he performs better than others, shopkeeper Niu is training him and plans to train him to be his successor. He will be transferred to another place next year and he will probably not come back in the future. .
"Uncle Su, Miss Su, you are here."
"Good morning, Brother Yang."
"Give me the basket and I'll help you get it. The two cooks are already waiting."
"Thank you, Brother Yang."
"Hey, it's easy."
Because of yesterday's misunderstanding, Yang Si still can't get over it.
When they arrived at the small kitchen, Yang Si introduced the two cooks to his father and daughter.
"Miss Su, these two are the chefs of our Taihe Building. This is Chef Liu, and the other is Chef Wang. From now on, the two of them will learn how to roast duck from you."
"Miss Su."
"Uncle Liu."
"Uncle Wang."
Yang Si retreated after the introduction. The front was busy and there was no use for him here.
Su Yu spent the whole day cooking at the back of the Taihe Building. The two chefs had a good foundation in cooking. The recipe for making roast duck was not difficult at all, but it was a bit time-consuming. It was almost finished after one day of teaching.
But I have to come back tomorrow to see how the duck roasted by the two people goes.
While Su Yu was teaching, Su Laoer sat waiting and asked him to go out for a walk, but Su Laoer didn't listen and thought his daughter was pretty. What if she was abducted by others?
If Su Yu wanted to know what Su Lao Er was thinking, he would definitely have black lines all over her head. How old is her body now?
After going to Taihe Building for two days, Su Yu continued to stay at home. Every afternoon, a waiter would come to Su's house to pick up ten ducks and weigh them. Su Yu would write down the account in a small notebook, and he could go to Taihe Building to settle the account at any time.
There are more than 300 ducks in the Su family. Seventy or eighty of them need to be left to lay eggs, leaving less than 300 ducks that can be sold. Three hundred sounds like a lot, but it is not much at all for Taihe Building. . Since Taihe Building launched roast duck, no one ordered it in the past few days, so shopkeeper Niu served a small plate to the guests who came to the private room. After that, a roast duck trend emerged in the town. When dining in the private room of Taihe Building, you must order roast duck. , it’s still not lit, it has become a symbol of the upper class in Xinglin Town. After all, a roast duck is not cheap, it can be sold for two taels of silver each.
