Lady Gu 10,000 Years
LG-14
After exiting the White Jade Restaurant, Yu Feng's mood was bad.
White Jade Restaurant did not charge for their food, so they saved three taels of silver. If they could enter the mountain again tomorrow, they would have two taels of silver. They only needed to sell fifteen taels of salt to gather twenty taels.
It was Yu Feng's plan. Even so, he still felt the price of fifteen taels was too high, but he underestimated the bravery of this girl.
“Fifty taels.. You... What do you think!”
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“That's right, fifty taels, what do you think!” At White Jade Restaurant, the shopkeeper also complained to Miss Bai. “Even tribute salt is not that expensive!”
Miss Bai glared at him. “Then you bought it for me!”
The shopkeeper choked.
Salt tribute was something that only the Prince's house and the Imperial Palace could eat. As merchants, let alone buying them, they did not even have the means to see them.
Yu Wan first went to the street market to buy gauze and a few dozen soybean catties before returning to the village with Yu Feng.
When they got home, Yu Wan went straight into the kitchen. Yu Feng finally understood why he let her carry water and cut firewood.
Yu Wan first boiled a large pot of hot water and poured all the salt in the first wooden bucket into it. “Sister, is there a grinder in the old residence? Can you help me grind soybeans into soy milk?”
Yu Feng did not ask why and left without a word.
In ancient times, the taste of salt was very unpleasant especially because there was too much dirt in it. As long as this impurity is eliminated, the taste will rise to a new level. This sounds easy, but it is a skill that consumes time and energy.
After Yu Wan boiled the salt, she used gauze to filter it once. At this moment, he was filtering out the rougher impurities, but there were smoother impurities that required another medium.
Yu Wan poured back the salt that had been filtered into the pot.
“Su soybean is here!” Yu Feng entered with two large buckets of soy milk.
Yu Wan poured raw soy milk into the salt water. After a while, some dregs floated up. Yu Wan picked up the floating dregs and poured the raw soy milk into the pot again. This process was repeated three to five times until he could no longer scoop out the dirty things from the saltwater. Today, the color of the saltwater became very clear, and its weight was also reduced by half.
Yu Feng stared at the salt in the pot with his mouth agape. He never knew that soy milk could be used like this.
Yu Wan was slightly panting. “When the water in the pan dries, the salt will come out.”
It was cold, but a grain of sweat appeared on his forehead. Yu Feng's expression was a little complicated. She wanted to find something to help him wipe off his sweat, but she was not the gentle little girl who would carry a handkerchief with him.
He pinched his sleeve. It is still considered clean. Before he could do anything, Yu Wan put down the lid of the pot and said, “Sister, help me see it. I'll go pick up Bruiser.”
Yu Wan went to Uncle Yu's house to bring back Little Bruiser, who was sweating profusely from playing. He bathed her and also bathed Madam Jiang. After Little Bruiser fell asleep, Yu Wan returned to the stove. There is still a lot of salt that Miss Bai gave her. He could not finish cooking everything at once.
Yu Feng stayed behind to help. The brothers worked until dawn before finally being able to purify all the salt. Both of them had no time to rest. They quickly rented a ox cart in the village and sent salt to the White Jade Restaurant.
Bai Tang had been waiting in the lobby since morning. Fifty taels is not a small amount. Yesterday, he took the initiative because his father was not around. But now, his father was already on his way back. If he knew that he was using fifty taels to buy salt he did not know if he could make it…
Bai Tang did not dare to think any further!
After the salt was purified, large, irregular pieces of bluish-gray salt had turned into small crystalline salt particles. Its quantity also shrank by more than half.
The shopkeeper could not help but frown. “Why did it become so little? Is this salt?”
The White Jade Restaurant's chef also surrounded them. Among them was Chef Lu who had met Yu Wan at the market.
Chef Lu had never seen such salt before. However, he recognized Yu Wan, the little girl who had even made the wrong fish soup. Does such a person know how to make salt? He sneered.
The remaining chefs and workers also laughed.
Only Bai Tang did not smile.
Bai Tang was not a small businessman who had never seen the world. People only knew that her father was a merchant, but they did not know that her mother was originally a lady-in-waiting in the Capital. When he followed his mother back to the Capital, he had actually seen and felt this snowflake-like salt with his own eyes.
When Yu Wan placed the salt in front of him, he was so shocked that he could not say anything. Was it because she was surprised to see snowflake salt again in her lifetime, or because a village girl actually made snowflake salt? No one knows. However, there is no guarantee that it is just similar. It may feel different in the world!
Bai Tang glanced at Yu Wan arrogantly. “I'll be outspoken first. If it doesn't satisfy me, I won't give you a single copper coin!
Yu Wan smiled lightly. “Oke.”
“What's good? He would go back on his words, ” Yu Feng said calmly.
Bai Tang glared at him. “Who will return on their words ?!”
Yu Feng was too lazy to talk to him.
Bai Tang gritted his teeth in anger. If not for the salt, he would have driven away this annoying fellow right now!
White Jade Restaurant Chef uses Yu Wan salt to make home cooking—Pig Boiled Cabbage.
In the past, to suppress the astringent taste in salt, they had to put a lot of sauce and add a little white sugar to make it fresher. Today, they were deliberately making things difficult for Yu Wan, so they only put in salt. However, no one expected the stir-fried cabbage to be sweeter than the other time. This sweet taste invades the striped pork, perfectly removing the greasy taste from the fat. Its lean meat was even more tender, but it was incomparable. It melts in the mouth as soon as it is eaten, and oil flows out of the mouth.
