Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 293 The long-awaited chili pepper has finally arrived

When Li thought of Aunt Qiu's bitter face, she couldn't help but sigh.

What Shen Yu was thinking was, if he worked in a restaurant, he would have to follow other people's instructions and read other people's faces, which would be much more tiring than working in his own restaurant.

In the evening, the Song family sent someone to get the candied haws.

The people who came were Cui'er, who was beside the second wife, and another strange mother.

The forty candied haws have cooled down by now, and the sugar shell has solidified. The colorful fruits wrapped in the shiny transparent sugar shell are very beautiful.

Shen Yu placed the candied haws on a square plate, laid it flat, divided it into two portions, and placed them in the large food box brought from the Song Mansion.

Cui'er thanked Shen Yu, then hurriedly got into a car and left with the mother.

Li kept saying that Shen Yu was tired today as she had been busy all day ordering meals for the Second Madam and the others. After dinner, she urged Shen Yu to go to bed quickly.

Shen Yu had been raising his arms while making candied haws today, and he didn't feel any soreness until the evening. After being urged by Li, he felt even more sleepy, so he washed up and went to bed.

While half asleep and half awake, Shen Yu calculated that when Lu Lang came back from home, the money he earned in these days would be enough to pay back the more than one hundred taels of silver he borrowed from him.

Thinking of this, Shen Yu couldn't help but hope that Lu Lang would come back soon. It would always be good to owe less money.

I had a sound sleep and before I opened my eyes, I heard the sound of dripping water.

Shen Yu rolled out of bed, opened the window and saw that it was raining outside again.

The weather has been gloomy these days, and it became three degrees colder today after it rained.

Shen Yu was depressed. Once it rained, the entrance of the store would become muddy again. Not only would the road be difficult to walk on, but there would also be fewer customers in the store.

The rain started in the middle of the night. Not only was it raining, but it was also windy. The rain was slanting, one gust after another, and it was useless even with an umbrella.

At breakfast time, the customers whose faces had turned blue from the cold drank hot and sour soup and ate hot buns in the store. Only then did they recover and have the energy to complain.

The guest looked at the rain outside and complained, "It was still drizzling this morning, and the sky was brighter. I thought it would stop after a while."

"I didn't expect it to rain harder and harder after I went out. I have to go back quickly after buying things."

From the windless drizzle in the middle of the night to the heavy rain and strong wind at this time, in a short while, Shen Yu watched the road in front of the store quickly turned into mud as the convoy came in and out.

There were no customers in the store at this time. Seeing that Shen Yu had been standing at the door of the store for a long time, Li hurriedly called her, "Girl, be careful not to get wet. Come in quickly. It's not the first time it rains."

Shen Yu then returned to the shop and said helplessly, "It would be great if the government could repair the road in front of the door. It's only been a short while, and a few trucks passed by, and the road is like mud again, and it's impossible to walk on it."

Li knew that Shen Yu was worried that the roads would be difficult to travel due to the rain and that the number of customers would decrease.

He comforted her, saying, "It's useless for you to worry here. We can't afford to build this road ourselves, and it's useless if the government doesn't intervene."

"There won't be many customers at noon. You've been working hard these past two days. Let's just close the store early today so that everyone can take a good rest while it rains."

"When it rains, it shines, and the same is true for business."

"It's impossible for the restaurant to be full of guests every day. If that were the case, everyone would be busy all day and wouldn't even have time to rest."

As the two were talking, a shop assistant closed his umbrella at the door, took off the high wooden clogs he wore over his shoes on rainy days, and walked into the store.

He stepped forward and bowed to Li and Shen Yu with a smile: "Miss Shen, I am a shop assistant at Xiangfeng Spice Shop in the market. Our shopkeeper asked me to come and tell you something."

"Early this morning, Manager Chen from the south drove a truck over here and is now busy delivering the goods."

"The shopkeeper said, please come to the shop before noon. Shopkeeper Chen will give you the two pots of pepper trees he brought."

Shen Yu was originally in a low mood because it was raining today and the road was muddy.

When I heard that the chili peppers I had been longing for had arrived, I felt as if I had taken a panacea and immediately became energetic.

She agreed with a smile on her face, saying that she would be there on time at noon. Lastly, she specially packed two pieces of candied date cakes for the shop assistant to have as a snack.

The guy was just running an errand and unexpectedly got two cakes, so he was very happy.

He thanked Shen Yu, then put on his high wooden clogs, held an oil-paper umbrella, carried a lotus leaf bag, carefully picked a place with a slightly smoother road, and went back in the wind and rain.

Li and the others had never heard Shen Yu mention anything about buying a pepper tree.

After the clerk left, he saw Shen Yu walking around the store happily, so he asked Shen Yu what was wrong and why he was so happy when he heard that Haijiao had arrived.

Shen Yu knew that he could not keep this secret, so he told the whole story that he had paid ten taels of silver as a deposit and paid a high price to ask the shopkeeper Chen to bring back two pots of pepper trees.

If this had happened two months ago, Li would have probably jumped in fright when she heard that she had to spend thirty taels of silver to buy two pots of flowers and trees.

But at this time, Li just said "tsk tsk" twice: "What kind of precious flowers and trees are these, worth so much money."

Then his attention turned to the taste of the chili pepper: "Is this chili pepper you mentioned really that delicious when used in cooking?"

Shen Yu thought of his favorite boiled pork slices, Maoxuewang, Mapo tofu, and spicy chicken. The spicy and satisfying taste made him swallow his saliva involuntarily.

She smiled and nodded vigorously: "Of course it tastes good. Compared with this, the spicy taste of dogwood oil is too childish and not worth mentioning at all."

Li was confused: "What is pediatrics?"

Shen Yu chuckled, knowing that he was too happy, and hurriedly said, "It means that the sea pepper is very spicy and fragrant. Compared with the spiciness and fragrance of dogwood oil, it's like an adult man arm wrestling with a three or four-year-old child. He can defeat the child without any effort."

Zhou Dalang suddenly realized: "Oh, is the hot pepper so spicy? Can people still eat it? I think dogwood oil is very spicy and fragrant."

Shen Yu looked longing: "It must be edible. Cooking with hot peppers can make ordinary dishes taste much better. It tastes spicy and fragrant. The more you eat, the more you want to eat."

"Especially when it's cold in winter, eating dishes made with chili peppers will instantly warm you up and keep the cold away."

The Jiang family members nearby listened and were attracted by the taste described by Shen Yu.

For a moment, everyone was full of anticipation for the hot peppers that they had never seen before and had a strange taste.

It was finally almost noon, and although the rain was still falling steadily, Shen Yu could not wait to open his umbrella, take the silver, and go to the spice shop in the market.