Chapter 38 Food
Chapter 38 Food
Su Tang woke up naturally before dinner.
In a daze, she saw a figure swaying not far away.
Qi Lingheng?
"You're awake." The figure gradually approached, and Su Tang gradually saw the man in front of her clearly.
"Well, what time is it?" Su Tang stood up and stretched.
"Shen time."
Qi Lingheng handed over a glass of water, and Su Tang took it, tilted her head back and drank it quickly.
Su Tang held the empty cup, sat on the edge of the bed and put on her shoes, "I'll make dinner tonight, or the meat will be wasted."
"You are a good cook. You can make some money if you sell these recipes to restaurants in the city." Qi Lingheng said as he stood by the table and looked at Su Tang putting on her shoes.
"Yeah." Su Tang had never thought about these things before. After listening to Qi Lingheng's suggestions, many delicious recipes flashed through her mind.
I'll go to the restaurants in the city someday and see how much these recipes sell for.
Su Tang's love for food is just a hobby, and she has no intention of opening a restaurant in this ancient time relying on these modern cooking techniques.
In this era, it is more respected to be a miracle doctor, and the social status you gain cannot be compared to that of an ordinary businessman.
Of course, if the idea of opening her own villa comes true, Su Tang wouldn't mind setting up a resort that provides food, accommodation and entertainment.
Anyway, there are thousands of delicious foods in modern times, and it is impossible for her to make money by using all the recipes.
Putting the cup back into Qi Lingheng's hand, Su Tang picked up her shoes and went straight to the kitchen, "I'm going to make you a different delicacy today."
Qi Lingheng looked at Su Tang's back, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
For dinner, we had twice-cooked pork and sweet and sour pork ribs made by Su Tang, served with rice.
Today the whole family came back early. Looking at the fragrant meat dishes on the table, the three children stood in front of the table and watched, their eyes never leaving the meat dishes.
The Su family still has some rules. The younger generation will not pick up their chopsticks before Old Man Su does.
In order to prevent the children from taking action first, they are not allowed to sit at the table until the adults are present.
After everyone was seated, Father Su tapped the table with his chopsticks and said, "Eat."
Everyone then picked up their chopsticks and started reaching into the meat bowls.
Twice-cooked pork is made of red and white slices of meat, so the first thing everyone does is to reach for the bowl of twice-cooked pork with their chopsticks.
"This is delicious too." Su Tang picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and put it in Erniu's bowl, "This is sweet and sour pork ribs."
"Aunt, does this taste the same as the fish we had a few days ago?" Erniu glanced at the ribs in the bowl, turned his head and asked Su Tang.
"It tastes different, try it."
"Yeah." Erniu nodded, picked up the ribs that Su Tang had put in the bowl and started eating.
"Well, this is delicious and sweet." Children love to eat candy, so they like the sweet and sour pork ribs Erniu very much.
"Hehe, our Erniu praised it, so it must be delicious. I'll have a piece too." Old Man Su stretched out his chopsticks and reached for the bowl of sweet and sour pork ribs.
"Wow, this tastes really good, but it must have a lot of sugar in it." Sun also praised it after eating it.
Sugar is a rare commodity in this era and not every family can afford it.
The sugar that Su Tang used was all taken out from the space. She found a clay jar in the kitchen and put some of it in it, saying that she bought it from the city.
However, in order to prevent the Su family from becoming suspicious, she used the residue from the crushed yellow rock sugar.
Although white sugar was available in this era, only the powerful and wealthy could afford it.
"It won't taste good without sugar." Su Tang muttered vaguely.
Well, it seems that I have to pay attention to the recipes I sell to restaurants in the future. It would be best if I could find the recipes for seasonings or substitutes in this era.
However, these dishes with sugar can still be sold to restaurants. After all, the people who can eat in restaurants are not peasants like them who have no spare money in their pockets.
After dinner, the Su family gathered together and talked about what happened during the day.
The Su family's daily after-dinner chats are probably one of the reasons why the family can live in harmony.
Counting the days, tomorrow is the day when Master Zheng and his team from the city will come.
"Dad, big brother, second brother, some people will come to our house tomorrow."
Su Tang had forgotten to ask Master Zheng how many people would come, so she couldn't tell how many people would come tomorrow.
"Who? What were you doing out there?"
Old Man Su looked up at Su Tang. The first thing he thought of was the fact that Su Tang treated people in the city and what kind of trouble she had caused because of that.
"Master Zheng, who builds houses in the city, is very good at carpentry. I asked him to come and fix up the house and make some furniture for me."
"You kid, you can just wait until the busy farming season is over to repair the house. Your elder brother and his friends can just call a few people from the village to come. Why are you wasting money?"
Su Tang has spent a lot of money these days, so how come there is more money to spend on renovating the house?
His house was newly built after Old Man Su came to Dahe Village. It is much more sturdy than many old houses in the village.
Just fix the thatch on the roof, there's no need to go to the city to hire someone to do it.
"How is that the same? Professional matters should be left to professionals." Su Tang disagreed with Old Man Su's idea.
Most of the houses in rural areas are built by villagers helping each other, using skills passed down from generation to generation by the village elders.
But after all, farmers' main business is farming, and there is not always work to be done to repair houses, so their skills are definitely not as good as those of people in the city who make a living from this.
"Then, how much will it cost?" Sun didn't know which room Su Tang wanted to renovate, but she still asked.
The food they had been eating these days was all bought by Su Tang, and Su Tang didn't take her money, so she actually felt a little embarrassed to eat.
But every time Su Tang cooks, the food is so delicious that her husband and Daniu always eat to their heart's content.
"The details haven't been worked out yet. I just gave a deposit of twenty taels."
"What, what?! Twenty taels!! What are you going to repair? Just get some hay, why would you need so much money? That person must have cheated you." Father Su's hands trembled, and he almost dropped the herbs he was picking.
Su Tang is really brave enough to spend money. There shouldn't be much left of the five thousand taels!
"Hehehe, don't we still need to make some furniture?"
"That's not necessary... No matter how much furniture you want, I've already made several pieces for you in your little house after you got married. Where should I put the more?" Old Man Su glared at Su Tang with a puff of his beard.
"Yeah, my room is a little small, so I'm going to ask them to build another one next to it... Oh, Dad, you're going to make me stupid again."
"You're already stupid enough now." Father Su looked at Su Tang unhappily, "Why are you building another one? We don't have children yet, and you can build one after you have them."
Farmers don't have any particular requirements. When children are young, they mostly live with their parents. Only when the children grow up will they live separately.
When Qi Lingheng heard Su Tang say that she wanted to build another house, he squinted and glanced at Su Tang.
He hasn't consummated his marriage with Su Tang yet, and he knows exactly what Su Tang means by building another room.
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