Chapter 424: Vitality

Liaodong Restaurant

On this day, the restaurant launched a hot pot, a double hot pot with butter and mushroom soup.

The first and second floors were full of people, and the noise was deafening.

In the private room on the second floor, Xue Xu and Ji Wuyin did not let the servants serve them, and the two of them were enjoying the hot pot.

Ji Wuyin grabbed the last piece of duck blood and ate it happily.

Xue Xu had no choice but to take a chopstick of mutton roll, dip it in sesame sauce and other dipping sauces, and put it into his mouth.

"It turns out that Lord Lu's family ate the hot pot yesterday." Ji Wuyin sighed.

Xue Xu concentrated on eating and was too lazy to talk.

Whenever Madam Qin Liu wanted to eat new dishes, Master Chen would take his utensils and go to the county governor's mansion to try making new dishes. If Madam Qin Liu was satisfied with the food, then Liaodong Restaurant would launch new dishes the next day.

This has become an unspoken secret.

After half an hour, the two were almost full.

In the middle of winter, eating this pot makes you sweat.

The waiter took the people to take away the pot they had finished eating.

After eating the pot, the two of them had another bowl of soup with green bean sprouts to relieve the greasiness.

Ji Wuyin felt warm in his stomach and felt very comfortable, "You Liaodong County is awesome."

In the middle of winter, he was very satisfied to be able to eat these tender green bean sprouts.

Green vegetables in winter are more expensive than meat. He used to live in the south and could eat green vegetables in winter. However, they used the hot spring manor and did not grow many kinds of green vegetables.

As for the common people, they could still grow some cold-resistant green vegetables in early winter, but they had to take care of them carefully and cover them with a layer of straw at night to prevent frost. After the Great Cold, the green vegetables could not survive in the fields.

In Liaodong County, not only the glass greenhouses built by government orders were harvested, but the green vegetables in them entered the harvest period. They have already found a good sales channel. Truckloads of green vegetables are shipped to Youzhou in the west and sold to the rich people in Youbeiping County. It is said that they sell very well.

In addition, in Liaodong County and even the whole Pingzhou, after the common people have set up kangs in their homes, they can actually grow some green vegetables in pots in the house.

This is amazing, and it really benefits the people. Although the common people cannot grow more, it is enough for them to eat a few meals of green leafy vegetables occasionally in winter.

This is the happiest thing.

There was laughter and joy downstairs. The two opened the window and looked down. They could see the chef of Liaodong Restaurant teaching how to steam fish with fermented black beans, and many people were watching with smiles.

On the tenth day of every month, Liaodong Restaurant will also demonstrate the cooking of a home-cooked dish at the door.

Food is the first necessity of the people, and delicious food can enhance the happiness of the people.

Maybe now the common people don’t have much to eat, it’s not easy to get full, and they can’t eat meat often.

But the chef of Liaodong Restaurant will cook with the ingredients in the hands of the common people. Anyone who is willing to learn can come and visit.

The reason why we chose this dish today is that most people have salted fish at home.

Three counties in Liaodong County are close to the sea. In autumn, the government organizes people to go fishing at the seaside.

After a large number of fish are caught, some are transported to various counties and put into the market. During that time, people can often buy cheap fish meat, but most of them are dried into salted fish.

In fact, there are fishermen in several counties near the sea who dry fish, but they are reluctant to use salt. Dried fish are prone to insects and naturally cannot be kept for long.

This time, the government has no such concerns.

Ji Wuyin sighed, "Liaodong County is really the place where I have seen the most smiles on the faces of the people."

He has been to many places, but Liaodong County gave him a vibrant feeling. The people here are full of hope for the future.

Xue Xu smiled and said, "Isn't this normal? Don't you see how much effort Qin Liu Madam and everyone have put in for this land?"

If it weren't for Lord Lu in power, Liaodong County would have been in dire straits long ago. The high grain prices alone were enough to make many people unable to survive.

Ji Wuyin thought about it and realized that it was indeed because of how much grain Lv Songli had brought back from other places that the people in this area could live and work in peace and contentment.

That night, many families cooked the dish of steamed salted fish with fermented black beans.

Xianning Village, the same was true for the Yue family.

The Yue family and several families who were on good terms with the disaster victims who went north together were assigned to Xianning Village by drawing lots.

Xianning Village is located in the southeast of Houcheng, not far from Houcheng, and is a very good place.

Yue Shu's wife Zhou told her son while cooking, "Go to the house and pick two onions."

The chef of Liaodong Restaurant said that the salted fish needed more ginger to have no fishy smell.

This was not the first time their family cooked salted fish, but it was the first time they put so many seasonings.

Before winter, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Grain and Oil Store supplied a batch of salted fish, and each household could buy up to ten kilograms of dried salted fish.

Their family also bought ten kilograms. Everyone was crazy about it, because it was not only meat, but also because it was pickled with a lot of salt and then dried.

"I'll go." Aunt Yue, who was burning the fire, said that it was not easy to raise a few pots of vegetables, so don't let the children pull them badly.

Not long after, Aunt Yue took two washed onions into the kitchen and continued to burn the fire.

After pulling out the green onions, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law inevitably talked about the pots of vegetables raised in the house.

In the past, when winter came, they had no green leafy vegetables to eat, and they ate pickled vegetables and dried vegetables, and they couldn't eat them freely.

Now they can not only grow some bean sprouts, but also get a wooden basin in the house to plant some chives, garlic sprouts and onion seedlings.

People in the government said that this was because they had a kang in the house, which was warm, so these chives and garlic sprouts could survive.

The other party also told them that if the weather was good and the sun came out, they would move the vegetable seedlings in the wooden pots out to bask in the sun.

Although it was a bit of a hassle to move around, they were more than happy to do so.

"Why do you think people in the government know everything?" Aunt Yue sighed.

Zhou smiled and replied, "Mom, I heard my husband say that there are many capable people in the government."

When the meal was served, the entire Yue family gathered around the table.

For dinner, they cooked three dishes, one steamed fish with black bean sauce, one stir-fried bean sprouts, and one seaweed and egg drop soup.

Days like this were unthinkable before.

"We are eating fish tonight, but I wonder what your father will eat?" Aunt Yue and her grandson Yue Jie muttered.

While serving rice to the elders, Mrs. Zhou smiled and said, "Mom, you don't have to worry about him. Didn't the child's father say that last time he came back? It's hard for them to train hard, but the food is very good."

Yue Shu applied for the army when he was recruiting troops in Liaodong County. In fact, not only his Yue family, but almost all the families who came from the south, and those who could spare young men, applied for the army. Some people were selected and some were not.

Yue Shu was chosen by their family. The last time I came back, I heard from him that he was already a centurion.

Old Man Yue took the meal from his eldest daughter-in-law and said, "Second brother, you will apply for the militia next year."

Yue Peng, who was named, nodded. It wasn't that he couldn't apply, but that his family had to have a strong labor force. Next year, the family would have to open up several acres of wasteland. His father, mother, sister-in-law, and daughter-in-law alone couldn't do it.

At this time, nine-year-old Yue Jie answered, "Grandpa, when I grow up, I will join the army like my father."

"Okay, but before you join the army, you have to go to school."

"All right."