Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 341 Are you free tomorrow? I want to ask the girl to make cakes

Li saw two people standing in front of the donkey, carrying a book box on their backs, arguing with each other.

I couldn't help but feel angry and amused at the same time: "You two silly boys, why don't you put down the bookcase? You've been carrying it all the way, aren't you tired yet?"

"Hurry up and wash your hands. Come over for dinner."

The two of them agreed, stopped arguing and went back to their room.

During dinner, Yu Cheng said in high spirits: "Mom, I had a very full lunch today. I didn't feel tired at all when I came back from school."

Dun Dun also laughed: "I didn't feel tired when I came back today, and my classmates all said that the food today was really delicious."

"When they heard that the meal was delivered by our restaurant, they all asked us what other delicious food there was."

"They are discussing bringing their families to the restaurant for dinner when the academy is closed."

Yu Cheng's face lit up, and he said proudly, "I heard that we eat this kind of food every day at home, and they envy me and Brother Dun Dun."

"She said the food at home wasn't as good as this, and she wanted me to bring her breakfast."

"But this time, I didn't agree."

Shen Yu burst out laughing when he heard this and teased Yu Cheng, "Why don't you agree? This way our restaurant can make some money."

Yu Cheng smiled sheepishly: "My classmates are such big eaters, they all want me to take care of them."

"If everyone brings one, there will be too many and it will be too heavy for me and Brother Dun Dun to carry. We will have to trouble Brother Zhou to deliver it. Mom will be angry."

As he said this, he secretly glanced at Li.

This made Li laugh and said, “If I wasn’t angry, would you have agreed?”

Yu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking for a while, he asked carefully: "Then, Mom, if I agree to bring breakfast to my classmates, will you be angry?"

Li's face turned serious and she pretended to be angry and said, "Of course."

"Oh, I told you that you would be angry. Fortunately you didn't agree."

Yucheng quickly lowered his head and ate the food in the bowl, muttering softly with relief.

Everyone looked at Yucheng and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

After dinner, the family was happily cleaning up the dishes and chatting, when they heard a knock on the door outside.

At first, everyone was talking and laughing and didn't hear anything. It was only when Shen Yu was closer to the kitchen door that he vaguely heard someone knocking on the door, and then everyone quieted down.

Li and Jiang quickly stood up and left the kitchen together.

Then I heard someone knocking on the door outside and calling, "Madam, Miss Shen."

Listening carefully, it turned out to be Qixi's voice.

Jiang hurried over to open the door, and saw Qi Xi walking in.

After greeting everyone, he said to Li, "Madam, my master asked me to come here."

"He said he came to ask Miss Shen if she could spare some time tomorrow. The abbot of Guang'an Temple in the east of the city would like to ask her to make some cakes."

Shen Yu hadn't spoken yet, but Li's face was filled with surprise when she heard it: "Guang'an Temple, is it the Guang'an Temple in the east of the city not far from us?"

Seeing Qixi nodded in confirmation, Li said hurriedly: "I am free, I am free, what time will you come tomorrow?"

"We know the way to Guang'an Temple in the east of the city. I will accompany Yuzhi there. Which master should we look for when we get there? Can we see the abbot?"

Qi Xi said, "The restaurant is so busy, Miss Shen can go alone."

"Don't worry, Madam. The abbot will send someone to pick up the girl tomorrow. You don't have to accompany her specially."

After hearing this, Li was a little embarrassed: "Of course I feel at ease going to Guang'an Temple. It's not that I'm worried, I just..."

"I want to go with you. We have been to Guang'an Temple several times, but we have never met the abbot."

When she said this, Jiang and Zheng Sanniang beside her also nodded and looked at Shen Yu with envy, as if Shen Yu was not going to make cakes but to meet a monk.

Shen Yu has always known that the Li ladies are devout Buddhists.

Seeing them like this, he couldn't really take a group of ladies to the temple to make cakes, so he could only pretend he didn't see them and said with a smile, "When will you go there tomorrow? I'll make some preparations."

Qi Xi said, "The master said that if the young lady is free, Master Wen Yuan from Guang'an Temple will come to pick her up at the beginning of the morning hour tomorrow."

"You don't need to prepare the ingredients, the abbot said that the temple has all the ingredients, but the cakes and pastries are all the same old, so I would like to ask you to make something new."

Shen Yu nodded in agreement. Qi Xi said that the abbot was still waiting for a reply in the county government office. He bowed and left in a hurry.

After seeing Qixi off, Shen Yu discussed with Li: "I have to go to Guang'an Temple tomorrow, and I don't know when I will be back. Zhou Dalang has to deliver lunch to the college at noon."

"When Zhou Dalang comes tomorrow, we will prepare some dough for the Thousand Layer Meat Pie and the Soy Sauce Pie in advance, and then we can directly fry them in the pan. Otherwise, we won't be able to sell them at noon."

Zheng Sanniang said, "If you guys make the dough, Yutao and I can just use the pancake maker to make the pancakes."

"I just can't make the dough well, but I can now flip the sauce-flavored pancakes very steadily."

Shen Yu felt relieved after hearing this, and then told Yu Tao: "Be careful when turning the pancake. The whole Jiangxiang pancake is quite large. You are small and you don't have enough strength to turn it over. Don't do this.

Yutao nodded: "Don't worry, sister, I'll let sister Zheng make the sauce-flavored cakes, and I'll help her. We've gone through it together several times, and it's all perfect."

Seeing that everything was arranged properly, Li immediately turned her attention to going to Guang'an Temple.

She discussed with Jiang and Zheng Sanniang for a while, then turned to Shen Yu and said, "If we can meet the abbot, we must find out what kind of blessing activities will be held at Guang'an Temple during the Wanshou Festival so that we can prepare early."

Shen Yu agreed with a smile, and everyone continued to clean up the kitchen, washed up and went to rest.

Early the next morning, a small mule cart stopped in front of the store. The driver was a tall, middle-aged monk wearing a gray monk's robe.

He parked the car, put away the sedan chair, and an old man in his fifties or sixties got out of the car. He was Chef Xu, who specialized in vegetarian dishes in the county government.

He got out of the car swiftly, squinted his eyes to look at the sign of Fengnian Restaurant, and then walked up the stairs in three or two steps.

When he walked into the store, he saw Zheng Sanniang coming towards him. He hurriedly introduced himself and explained his purpose. Zheng Sanniang agreed and quickly went to the backyard to call Shen Yu out.

Because Shen Yu was going to Guang'an Temple today, he and Zhou Dalang were making the dough for the Thousand Layer Meat Pie and the Sauce-Flavored Pie in advance.

Hearing that Chef Xu from the county government had arrived, Shen Yu hurriedly washed his hands, dried them quickly, and walked out quickly.

When Chef Xu saw Shen Yu, a gentle smile appeared on his face: "Yesterday, the abbot came over to discuss the matter of praying for the Wanshou Festival with the county magistrate, and mentioned that he wanted Miss Shen to come over to make some cakes."