Snack Street Tycoon

The place where Fan Yu and Chonghou Fang met this time was in a wing room on the third floor of Dakang Restaurant.This is a large wing room, with a round table for eating in the middle, and a narrow arhat bed near the window, which is extremely high, and three sides are connected to the wall. There is a fire inside, which looks like a bed. Tu Kang.It's just that the things laid on it are too exquisite. The whole bed is covered with a layer of well-proportioned cushions, and the surface of the cushion is made of silk, and a small purple wooden square is embedded in the center of the cushion. There is a swan-necked incense beast on the table, and the "swan" has a groove on its back, and the incense is burned in the groove, and the fragrance is clear and light.

In this kind of wing room, children of rich families or nobles in the city usually gather together to eat and fight cards.The Luohan bed is set here for people to rest and drink tea after meals, and it is perfect for playing cards and chess.

At this moment, it was the short couple sitting cross-legged on the arhat's bed who asked this question.But Fan Yu didn't sit cross-legged. Zonghou Fang asked him to sit here when he first entered the door of this wing room, but he couldn't sit on an equal footing with the owner of the restaurant, so he just turned his back to the window and faced the inside of the room. Sitting down in such a way, he didn't face Chonghou Mian face to face, but kept turning sideways to him, turning his head from time to time to listen to what he said.

This arhat bed is quite high, it is hardly designed for them.Fan Yu sat on the edge of the bed with his legs hanging down, but he couldn't completely touch the ground with his feet, so he could only touch the ground with his toes.

He heard Chonghou Mian say something like "I don't know if Xia Houyi knows that he is like this", but he didn't understand it. He neither understood what he was like, nor did he know what he was like. What happened to my cousin Xia Houyi, so he turned his head to look at this Xunhou Fang, and asked, "What kind?" The meaning was to ask what this person was like in his eyes, and he didn't. He felt that what he had said was wrong, and what he had been saying was reasonable.

After Zonghou Fang had finished asking him, he turned to look at the swaying smoke that was constantly rising from the back of the swan-necked sweet beast on the table. I looked at him again, thinking that maybe he really didn't understand himself, he had a kind of weirdness, he had many things that people like him shouldn't have, but didn't have many things that people like him should have.He knows a lot of things that people like him shouldn't know, and he always looks very shrewd; but he doesn't know what people like him should know, and he always looks ignorant.

Chonghou Fang gave up discussing this topic with him, and just said: "It's nothing, forget it, let's not talk about it." After that, he chatted with him about other things, and then Fan Yu said goodbye to him, saying Going home to do things.

After Fan Yu confirmed that Dakang Restaurant needed them to expand the supply, he and his mother-in-law went to the market to buy people the next day, and hired two tall and strong men, and then brought these people into the restaurant. After entering the house, let them get to know the old craftsmen in the house one by one, and then arrange a place for them all to live in the house.

Two days later, all his new triangles arrived.The grain transporter used two special grain transport vehicles to pull the goods out of the north city gate, and then transported them up the mountain to Fan Yu.Xia Houyi didn't come here in person, and the people who were in charge of delivering the goods this time were also his servants in Bojia City, so they delivered the goods according to the location Fan Yu had left behind.Because each cart has ten bags, and the body is too wide, it cannot be transported over the iron cable slab bridge, and they only have to move one bag over there.

After the move was over, the mother-in-law asked them to eat, but they refused, saying that they had to go back to the house to report to their orders, so the mother-in-law had no choice but to let them go.At that time, Fan Yu was not at home, but collected his hard leaves in the back mountain, because they were going to be sent to the oil paper factory in the market east of the city to be rolled into leaf spoons.

When he had harvested enough of these leaves on the ground, he returned home and saw that twenty large bags of triangle wheat were neatly stacked in the kitchen of his mother-in-law, so he asked her if the food delivery person had come.The mother-in-law said yes, and said to keep those people for dinner, and asked how much they would pay, but they all said no, and said they would go back to the house to report their orders.The mother-in-law asked him which house he was going to return to, and he said that he met a friend on the road who happened to be able to help transport the food.The words were a little vague, but the mother-in-law didn't ask carefully, she just said "Oh", and busily opened the mouth of a bag, took the wheat and began to pound it.

For the next few days, it was business as usual in this family.Even Zu Xin belatedly discovered the round-toed shoes on Fan Yu's feet, and insisted on round-toed shoes.Fan Yu told him to bear it, and next time he went to stock up, he should either take him with him or buy him some round-toed shoes.Zuxin said yes.

Fan Yu is much taller than Zu Xin now, and his feet are longer than Zu Xin's, so the shoes he wears cannot be worn by Zu Xin.Fan Yu's current height should be close to 170 centimeters, because his mother-in-law is about 170 centimeters tall, and he looks not much shorter than her mother-in-law now, so it should be almost 170 centimeters.

Even Zu Xin and her mother-in-law noticed that he had grown taller now.The mother-in-law also laughed at him and said that those chicken legs and meat buns were not in vain.Generally, children like them grow up to be as tall as 170 centimeters when they become adults. He is only about fifteen years old now, and he has such a height. Maybe he can really grow longer.He kept thinking in his heart that it would be great if he could grow taller than the women here.If he remembers correctly, he should be 15 years old in about ten days, but it’s meaningless for people like them to remember days like birthdays, so he just remembers them in his heart, and like It's a birthday thing that naturally doesn't happen every year.

The mother-in-law laughed at him for not eating those good things in vain. After all, he has grown up. Zu Xin said that it would be great if he grew more flesh. It looks a lot better.He asked Zu Xin if he said that he would look better if he had more flesh. Zu Xin was taken aback for a moment and said, "The main reason is that you are so skinny now, sometimes it's strange to hold you to sleep at night."

Then, two days later, someone from Xiahou's mansion came to look for Fan Yu and said, "My master said that the two pairs of shoes you ordered earlier in Bojia City have arrived, and I want you to pick them up in person."

Fan Yu went to the Xiahou Mansion in the south of the city to pick up the shoes that afternoon. He also brought the money he owed this person last time and the money for the two pairs of shoes.He was led to Xia Houyi's study by a servant from the mansion, and after he entered, the servant withdrew.He came closer to see Xia Houyi's appearance, he was a little surprised, and asked: "Brother Xiahou, I haven't seen you for a few days, why do you even have eye circles, didn't you sleep well?"

After Xia Houyi came back from Bojia City, he was disturbed by some business matters, and he was busy dealing with it until yesterday, so he looked haggard.

Seeing Fan Yu coming in, he said, "I've been bothered by business matters for the past few days, I can't sleep well at night, and I don't have much energy during the day." Fan Yu asked, "Has the matter been resolved?" He replied, "It's settled." It's gone." Fan Yu didn't ask him what the matter was anymore, he had already dealt with it properly anyway.

Fan Yu only said: "Come on, find a place to lie down, and I will give you a massage to make you comfortable." Xia Houyi asked: "What kind of massage?" Fan Yu said: "You will know when you lie down. "

So they tidied up some scattered stationery utensils on a long table in the study, and put a large cloak with thick cotton on it.Xia Houyi lay on his stomach, and Fan Yu pressed him up.At first he was still talking to Xiahouyi, but later he found that Xiahouyi was getting more and more lazy in answering, so he thought maybe this person was too tired, so he stopped talking to him, thinking about letting this person relax completely one time.

Unexpectedly, after a while, he lowered his head and glanced at the man's face, only to find that the man had fallen asleep.Fan Yu originally thought that this person helped him, so it is right for him to do something to relieve him, but he may have gone too far to relieve his labor, maybe his method is really excellent, this person is like this fell asleep.However, his hands stopped, and he was stunned there, thinking: Who can tell me where are the two pairs of shoes he asked me to pick up?

He looked around, and found that the two pairs of shoes he made were not placed anywhere in the study that could be seen by ordinary people, and it was inconvenient for him to rummage in this person's study, so as not to be caught by the door of the study. The subordinates at the top saw it, and it would be a bad thing to treat him like a thief.

He bent down, looked closely at the sleeping face of the man for a while, and listened carefully for a while to the even and slightly heavy breathing of the man while sleeping, guessing in his heart that the man might have fallen into a deep sleep.So he went to the door of the study room, "caught" a passerby servant, let this person come in and work with him to turn Xia Houyi over, so that he was sleeping on his back.He then asked the man to fetch a quilt and cover it for the owner of the house, so as not to make him sleep cold.As soon as the man raised his foot and was about to cross the threshold of the study, he was stopped by Fan Yu again, telling him to bring another pillow along the way. After the man complied, he went to get the things.

After the servants took those things and came, they put pillows on Xia Houyi and covered him up.Afterwards, Fan Yu thought that he would not be able to get those two pairs of shoes today anyway, so he might as well go back first, and when this person woke up, he would call someone to call him over again.

So Fan Yu went back.This time, he didn't take the shoes.Just before leaving, he put the money he brought to pay back this person by his pillow, but after thinking about it, he was not at ease, afraid that if someone in the house had dirty hands and feet, he would take it away and wait for him to arrive. At that time, I couldn't explain it clearly, so I had to put the money into my lapel again.

On the way home, he kept thinking about doing something for Xia Houyi. After all, this person had saved his life. If he didn't want to repay such kindness, then he would be too cold.

When he went back, he thought about making some handmade mint sticks for Xia Houyi to use when he was thinking about things during the day.

Fan Yu himself doesn't like sugar, but occasionally, to refresh himself, he would drink some ginseng tea or eat some handmade mints.The main reason is that he didn't drink caffeinated beverages like coffee and tea after four o'clock in the afternoon because he was afraid of affecting his sleep.But sometimes after four o'clock, brainpower is very needed, and it is impossible not to have something refreshing, so I can only choose those things that do not contain caffeine but can refresh, such as ginseng tea or mints.

As for mints, he really hates western-style ones, such as Mentos mints in the shape of white circles, or Nestle’s transparent square mints. These are not tasty. Only the traditional Chinese handmade mint sticks are the best.At least he, who doesn't like sweet things, can easily accept the taste and texture, which means it's quite good.

This is the charm of Chinese caramel. Not only women and children love to eat it, but also men will not dislike the taste, but will think "good, good."

He had never paid attention to this kind of traditional Chinese handmade candy, the main reason is that his mother used to love to eat the traditional crispy ginger candy, saying that after eating it, it warms the stomach and warms the palms of the hands, and they always have that kind of traditional candy at home. candied ginger.Later, because he bought a pack of Mentos mints to refresh himself, he felt that it was not delicious. When he saw his mother eating the traditional hand-drawn ginger candies, he wondered if the mints had the crisp handmade flavor. The sugar was actually found, a pure white round stick with a diameter of a little more than one centimeter and a length of about seven centimeters.Since then, he has been buying this kind of handmade candy sticks, and he has never bought Western-style mints again.

He also paid attention to the traditional method several times later, but he never did it himself.Although I haven't done it myself, it is actually easy to use, because the method is actually simple.As for why some people have always said that the method of handmade sugar is complicated, it is only complicated compared to the current Western-style production process-the practice of pressing and forming with a sealed machine.Traditional handmade candy is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while Western-style candy can be done by pressing a few buttons on the machine. Compared with this, the Chinese-style candy is of course more complicated.The taste of the sugar that comes out is completely different, and the handmade one is much clearer, which is a kind of natural condensation of sugar molecules.And when it comes to how complicated it is, in fact, it is only a few steps, Fan Yu is clear.

Mint is also found in this place, called Fanhe, and there are many wild ones with strong growth power. He has seen it in the bushes behind the mountain in his house, and also found it on the bank of the Cangshui River below the mountain.The leaves are small, thin and tender, and seem to have fine hairs on them.The fuzzy feature is very similar to the apple mint in his previous world, except that the mint leaves here have a strong cool taste, but it does not have the faint green apple flavor mixed with the cool flavor of apple mint. taste.

The mountains are long, and some people who go up the mountain to collect herbs can pick them, but it is not seen that people in the medicine shop use them alone, they must be mixed with other herbs to treat fever.Because it seems to be unable to deal with fever when used alone, the fever is still hot, if it is not handled properly, the person will become weak instead, and the internal heat will be aggravated.And using its dried leaves to make tea, just a cup will make people drink too much mint.It's better to mash it out to make mints, a little fresh mint juice is spread evenly in the syrup, so that it is not easy to overeat.Eating a few of those handmade candy sticks is just refreshing, not for fighting off the fire.

After he had thought about this matter, he picked a small basket of these fresh and green fan lotus leaves, but then he felt worried again.Because in this place, you can find fan lotus leaves, and you can also find coarse-grained granulated sugar, but you can't find malt sugar.The caramel that is pulled out after boiling pure granulated sugar will be too crispy and the pores are too large, so it can only be used as "sugar onion". But it is much denser and can be contained for a longer time.

He had to find a way to get maltose first.

Therefore, on the second day, after Xia Houyi went to Fan Yu to get the shoes the first day, but he was massaged too comfortably and fell asleep, he was quite embarrassed, so he sent someone to Fan Yu to get them. shoe.Fan Yu said that he has been busy these few days, and he will go to the house to pick up the shoes after a few days are settled.

He murmured in his heart: It's really hard work. I always ask people to come to me to pick up the shoes, won't the person who was sent here bring me the shoes?Wouldn't that save trouble?

But he thought that anyway, he was going to give him a mint candy stick when the time came, and he had to pay him back the money, so he stopped accusing him of not thinking things through in his heart.