A family with three widows, after severing ties with relatives, she became wealthy and married into

Chapter 81 The teahouse can open at any time

"My name is Qin Qingyun." Qin Qingyun bowed again.

Tian Tian raised an eyebrow at him, waiting for him to continue.

"May I ask, Miss Tian Er, a few months ago, on the path outside Baishi County, did Miss Tian Da save someone?"

Qin Qingyun's words stirred up long-forgotten memories for Tian Tian.

That night...

"It's you?" Tian Tian looked her up and down...

The person they saved that day was indeed dressed as a chivalrous knight, but it was too dark then, and they couldn't see his face clearly.

Qin Qingyun nodded, "That is indeed me."

He looked at Tian Xiang in the shop, "Miss Tian is my savior."

Tian Tian frowned. "My older sister is your savior?"

She pointed at herself and said, "Are you confused? I was the one who gave you the medicine, and Uncle Zhang applied it to you."

"In the end, my eldest sister became your savior?"

Qin Qingyun felt no guilt whatsoever. "But it was indeed Miss Tian who spoke up that led you to save me."

Tian Tian was speechless; that was indeed true...

If the older sister hadn't insisted on saving the person, she might not have actually done so.

"So what do you want?" Tian Tian asked.

Qin Qingyun looked at Tian Xiang with a self-righteous air, "Miss Tian is my savior, and I should repay her."

"You saved my sister just now, so that cancels it out."

"What I did just now was nothing, it was just a small favor."

Tian Tian was stunned. Was this Lai Ding's older sister?

"Then tell me, how do you plan to repay me?"

Qin Qingyun was stunned; he really hadn't figured out exactly how to repay Tian Xiang.

"I..."

Tian Tian was also pondering, "Are you very good at kung fu?"

If someone can dress up as a chivalrous knight, their kung fu skills must be pretty good, right?

Qin Qingyun patted his chest lightly, "It's not the best, but it's enough."

Just enough.

Tian Tian circled Qin Qingyun once, "Then you'll be a guard at our restaurant, for a full..."

"If you serve for three years, you'll have repaid your debt of gratitude, how about that?"

Qin Qingyun withdrew his gaze from Tian Xiang and nodded, "Okay."

*

Tian Tian simply handed over the task of hiring people to renovate the restaurant to Qin Qingyun, who came to her with the manpower.

She... went to the brokerage again.

"Miss Tian, ​​how many people are you buying this time?"

This time... there are many more people wanting to buy from Tian Tian.

"Ten women." They were later put in charge of making pastries in the teahouse.

"Ten servants." From now on, they would work in pairs, driving refrigerated wagons to deliver goods.

Twenty people.

It cost over a hundred taels.

Luckily, I had just received payment from Manager Chen, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to buy it.

Twenty people took the steamed bun shop back...

Lu Tao and Liu San Niang didn't know how to start the conversation.

They bought twenty people?!

"Sweetie, do we really need that many people?" Lu Tao asked.

Tian Xiang's mind was clear. "Previously, Chu Xing Restaurant had five head chefs, five junior chefs, five waiters, and one manager."

There were sixteen people in total.

"Sweetie buying twenty people... isn't that many."

She continued, "If business is good, these people will probably be far from enough."

“I see that Fulai Restaurant... has six waiters and two managers now.”

There are eight head chefs and ten assistant chefs.

Twenty-six people in total.

Even so, when business was good at Fu Lai Restaurant, it was still too late to keep up.

Tian Tian looked at Tian Xiang and nodded to her, "That's right, if business is good, these people will be far from enough."

"Mother, Auntie, these ten aunties, you should teach them how to make steamed buns first. They must learn in two days."

"In a few days, Manager Chen will need five thousand steamed buns."

Tian Tian then handed over ten servants to Zhang Fusheng, asking him to teach them how to ride horses.

After explaining these things, Tian Tian finally had some free time and began researching various new pastries.

*

In Tian Tian's mind, the most famous pastry shops, besides steamed buns, were... siu mai, shrimp dumplings, custard buns, rice noodle rolls, etc.

She decided to tackle them one by one.

Of course, she also knew that ingredients were scarce in this era, and she did not have a complete recipe, so she could only try to replicate it as much as possible from memory.

First up is shumai.

Soak the glutinous rice a day in advance, then steam it until cooked and loosen it while it's still hot.

Add various seasonings to the minced meat, then add diced mushrooms and carrots, and stir-fry until fragrant.

Then mix the glutinous rice into the stir-fried minced meat.

Then add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, and other seasonings for color and flavor, along with a little black pepper. After mixing well, the filling is ready.

Next comes rolling out the dough for the shumai.

The dough for shumai is much thinner than that for baozi, and rolling it out one sheet at a time simply doesn't meet the requirements.

Finally, following Tian Tian's instructions, Liu San Niang stacked several sheets of dough together and rolled them out, barely managing to produce a dough sheet that met the requirements.

The methods for wrapping shumai are quite different from those for wrapping baozi.

Take a piece of dough and place it in your hand, then put an appropriate amount of filling on it.

Hold the bottom of the dough with your left hand, and slowly tighten the neck of the shumai with the tiger's mouth of your right hand. Then, pull the dough at the opening outwards, like a flower.

When steaming, brush the bottom with oil and spray water on top. It will be ready in ten minutes.

The small shumai are neatly arranged in the steamer, with the top opening revealing the glutinous rice inside, emitting an enticing aroma.

Lu Tao, Liu San Niang, Tian Xiang, Xiao Si, and several children were naturally among the first to try the food.

Oh, and Qin Qingyun too.

"This is called shumai, everyone have a taste."

Tian Tian tried the first one herself.

Thin crust and delicious filling!

The translucent outer skin encases a rich filling, with the soft, chewy glutinous rice perfectly blended with the aroma of meat.

"Sweetie..." Liu San Niang looked at Tian Tian and exclaimed exaggeratedly, "What were you thinking?"

"I can't believe glutinous rice can be wrapped in steamed buns and made so delicious?!"

Glutinous rice is also called sticky rice.

The shumai were wrapped very small; you could finish one in just two bites and still want more.

"Can this be sold in a teahouse?" Tian Tian asked.

Everyone nodded, "Of course."

The success of the shumai gave Tian Tian a lot of confidence.

Then he made shrimp dumplings.

Shrimp dumplings require starch dough, which must be scalded with hot water.

When doing this, you also need to pay attention to moisturizing, otherwise your skin will easily dry out.

The method for making shrimp dumplings is similar to that for making steamed buns, except that after pinching half of the dough, the remaining dough is pressed tightly to form a crescent shape.

After steaming, the dough becomes translucent, revealing the red shrimp meat inside, which is both beautiful and delicious.

Rice noodle rolls are also made from starch.

There are also white sugar cake, brown sugar cake, steamed buns, fried dough sticks...

After finishing the pastries, Tian Tian made soy milk, tofu pudding, spicy soup, and various porridges.

Finally, there were desserts and drinks: pudding, milk tea, brown sugar glutinous rice cakes, and pancakes.

In half a month, five thousand steamed buns were made and ready to be delivered to Manager Chen.

The Chu Xing Restaurant has been renovated and is ready to open for business at any time.

But at this moment, Tian Tian was stumped; she didn't know what name to give the teahouse...