Madam, She Has a Tender Heart

Su Qingnao exchanged greetings with her, then turned around and looked around in the shop.

The varieties of cakes are still the ones she came to see that day, and they taste sweet and fragrant. I didn't refuse the tasting food handed to me by the fat shopkeeper. While I was eating, I stared at the cakes and talked to the fat shopkeeper.

As early as two days ago, Lu Bocheng had told her about this store when he took her to visit the town. It is said that the fat shopkeeper is just the shopkeeper of this Fengting Town shop, not the owner. This shop has a semicolon in Pingchuan County and Guangning Prefecture.

It's good to have a semicolon, but it's easier to talk with a semicolon.

After looking around, Su Qingyu had an idea.

These days’ pastries are affected by some technologies, and the categories are not rich enough. Most of them are steamed, boiled and fried, and less often roasted. Fermentation techniques are not often used in cakes.

The pastries in the store are of the northern style, focusing on the original taste characteristics of the food. Only sugar is added for seasoning and no additional oil is added. For example, the store has pea yellow, kidney bean rolls, mung bean cake, red bean cake, aiwowo, donkey rolling, hawthorn cake and so on.

Modern Chinese pastries are divided into thirteen schools, Beijing, Jiangsu, Guangzhou, Yunnan, Fujian, etc., and they are combined with Western pastries. They are no longer the type of pastry that Su Qingyu sees now.

Su Qingyu turned around and decided to get straight to the point.

"Shopkeeper Miao, you know Lu Bocheng, the eldest son of Lu Ji across from you, and you also know that he will be drafted soon, right?"

"No, damn it. The soldiers who were recruited only the year before last year were recruited again this year? So it's better for us to be servants and not have these worries. You just got married. Once the Lu family boy leaves, what can you do alone? Oh, your mother-in-law is not a relative."

Su Qingyu echoed a few words, and then said: "The shopkeeper also knows that once he leaves, his future life or death will be uncertain. I want to prepare some money for him, and then put it in his wardrobe."

The fat shopkeeper looked at her, somewhat confused about her intentions.

"I need money. And Lu Bocheng probably won't be able to get much money from home. In addition to taking away the money for him, I also want to keep some for myself."

The fat shopkeeper nodded repeatedly and took her hand: "Yes, yes, you little daughter-in-law must understand in your heart that once Bo Cheng leaves, don't you want to see Mrs. Wu's face? Only if you have money in your hand." Don’t panic, take it easy.”

Su Qingyu nodded: "I have two ideas that I want to sell to your boss. I want one hundred taels of silver."

The fat shopkeeper opened his mouth when he heard this.

"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Miao, it's definitely worth the money. I can't say more about these two techniques, but they can at least make your pastry shop's brand more prominent in the industry. I can't say it can double your income, but at least you are the only one."

"This, I can't make the decision on this." Shopkeeper Miao hesitated.

"You can contact your boss. You also know that Lu Bocheng's gathering time is approaching, and he will leave home soon. If you don't want him, I will go to Pingchuan County and ask."

"No, no, let me think about it, think about it." The fat shopkeeper stopped her, her mind spinning rapidly.

Her son and daughter-in-law worked for their employer in Pingchuan County, while she and her family guarded the shop in Fengting. She could still run to Pingchuan County, but she was squatting still. If he has made meritorious service, can he be transferred to Pingchuan County so that his family can be reunited? Soon, her grandson would be born, and she would have to watch over him.

After thinking about it, he asked: "Those two techniques of yours..."

"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Miao, I know the basics and won't say anything uncertain, and I won't sell it to anyone else. I'll teach you two pastry techniques, and I will also teach you the corresponding pastry varieties. If you know everything, I will be your master in the future. By developing more new varieties using these two techniques, your shop will naturally prosper, and you, as the shopkeeper, will naturally take a lot of credit, and you will naturally gain a lot of money."

The fat shopkeeper was so excited by Su Qingnao's words that he immediately agreed and asked Su Qingnao to come over again at noon tomorrow.

Su Qingyu agreed, said goodbye and left.

She turned around and went to the vegetable market again. This time, I stayed for a long time, going back and forth to check the varieties sold in the vegetable market, the flow of people, the experience of buyers and sellers, etc.

It wasn't until sunset that I turned around and went back.

When I returned to the room, I saw Lu Bocheng leaning on the bamboo couch, with his long hands and feet spread out and his eyes closed to meditate.

Seeing Su Qingyu coming back, he quickly stood up and asked, "Where have you been? I haven't seen you all day."

"You haven't seen anyone either."

"I have something serious to do. As you said, you are just a newlywed, and as a bride, you don't want to leave home..."

"What's a newlywed like? Staying at home every day and watching over her husband? Being always available?"

Lu Bo suddenly looked over at her cold gaze and flinched: "No, that's not the case. I'm going to leave. You, why don't you stay with me for a while longer? If in the future, in the future...right, you have to I regret not spending more time with me."

Huh, Su Qingyu glanced at him sideways: "If there is an emergency in the future, what can I do if I watch more and watch less? Would you live one more day? Or should the living people not live their lives?"

"You, you, don't have the consciousness of a newlywed bride at all."

Su Qingyu ignored him and turned around to change clothes. She stayed in the vegetable market for a long time, her clothes and shoes were dirty, and her body had a bad smell.

Lu Bocheng followed her gaze and looked at the hem of her clothes, and asked in a loud voice: "Did you go to the vegetable market?"

"Yeah." Su Qingyu responded while changing her clothes in the inner room.

"Why are you going? Buying ingredients? Wu asked you to cook again? Did you give me money?"

Not hearing Su Qingyu's response, Lu Bocheng straightened his neck and asked: "Is she used for flowers? I didn't find her to go to!"

There was a lot of spending in the past two days, and the gold ingots he wanted to leave for her were almost spent by him.

I wanted to save it for her, but I didn't expect that he would spend it all. Lu Bocheng was a little annoyed. He touched the purse in his arms, thinking about where to get some more money. I don't know if Lu Shengcai will give me money after crying to him. Lu Bocheng held the little money in his purse and said loudly: "If you have no money in the future, you can sell one or two acres of my grandparents' land to deal with it. The house in the countryside doesn't rent for much money a year. You can sell it when the time comes, and you should get some money. I just renovated it last year. My grandparents used big stones to build the house, so it's solid..." Before he could say anything more, Su Qingmei came out after changing her clothes and looked at him quietly: "Have you spent all the gold ingots?" Lu Bocheng scratched his head and chuckled : "I haven't spent it all, there are still a few taels left. But I can't give it to you yet, you may need it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"Keep it, if everything goes well, I will have a sum of money tomorrow, then I will give it to you to keep with you. You don't have to ask others for it."

"Ah, where did you get the money?"

Su Qingmei didn't respond, she looked out at the sky: "Let's go to the main room, it's time for dinner."

"Tell me clearly, where did the money come from? Where did you get the money? Tell me..." Lu Bocheng chased her out and chattered beside her.