The carriage stopped in front of the restaurant. After eating Cheng Yu's fried rice with eggs, Mina was highly motivated. She took the initiative to carry the bags of rice and flour, one by one, into the restaurant kitchen.
In the warm sunshine, Cheng Yu sat at the table, squinting his eyes and enjoying the sun.
He couldn't help but sigh. There is no such thing as peaceful times; it's just that someone is shouldering the burden for you.
Sweat soaked her clothes. After Mina finished moving the rice and flour, she sat at the table to rest.
Cheng Yu, with his legs crossed and leaning back in the wooden chair, his fingers interlaced, adopted a domineering president's sitting posture. "Work hard, and the boss won't treat you unfairly."
Drawing a pie, one of the basic skills of a heartless boss, could increase the work enthusiasm of employees.
"Okay, I will definitely work hard."
Mina had a simple thought. By working for Cheng Yu, she could have an endless supply of fried rice with eggs.
Long live fried rice with eggs!
"By the way, Mina, do you like buns?"
Cheng Yu planned to try making buns to expand his business scope.
"Buns? What are those?"
There were no buns on the Cersei Continent, and a look of confusion appeared on Mina's delicate face.
"It's a kind of food made by mixing meat and flour." Cheng Yu explained.
"Mixing flour and meat? What a strange way of eating."
Mina had never heard of such a way of eating.
"I'll make some for you to taste."
"Great."
Mina was also eager to taste this food called buns.
"Follow me."
Cheng Yu walked into the kitchen, and Mina followed behind him.
He opened a bag of flour, scooped half a basin of flour into a basin with a spoon, then added an appropriate amount of yeast and water, and kneaded the flour into a dough.
Cheng Yu said to Mina beside him, "Go wash your hands. You'll knead the dough, and I'll go buy some meat."
After washing her hands, Mina walked to the counter and started kneading the dough in the basin with both hands.
"Knead it for a while longer. The buns will taste better that way." Cheng Yu said.
"Okay, I know."
In order to taste the delicious buns, Mina treated the dough in the basin like the evil slave merchant and kneaded it vigorously.
Leaving the restaurant, Cheng Yu went to the Bailu Town market.
He bought a few catties of beef from the butcher's stall he often visited.
Back at the restaurant, Cheng Yu first boiled the beef for a while to remove the blood; then he chopped it into small pieces of beef cubes, added seasonings such as dark soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate, and sweet bean sauce; finally, he stir - fried the beef cubes in sesame oil in the pot to fully bring out the aroma of the beef.
Smelling the aroma of the stir - fried filling, Mina swallowed hard. It was so fragrant! She couldn't imagine how delicious this food called buns would be.
After kneading, the dough was left to ferment for half an hour.
After the fermentation, the dough became puffy and loose.
"Wrap the meat filling into the dough."
Cheng Yu taught Mina how to make buns, step by step.
Mina was not a meticulous person and was not good at this kind of delicate work. After learning for a long time, the buns she made looked terrible.
After a lot of work, the two made more than twenty buns, each about the size of an adult's fist.
Cheng Yu took out a bamboo steamer from the system warehouse, which he had exchanged from the system mall before.
He added water to the pot, placed the steamer on the pot, arranged the more than twenty buns in the steamer, and started steaming the buns.
Mina squatted in front of the stove, adding firewood to the stove.
The water in the pot soon began to boil.
Another half - hour passed, and a cage of steaming buns was ready.
"These are braised beef buns. Try one first." Cheng Yu said to Mina with a smile.
Not caring about the heat, Mina grabbed a braised beef bun and stuffed it into her mouth.
The dough was chewy, and the rich aroma of beef, mixed with the fragrance of sesame oil and the light sweetness of sweet bean sauce, combined in just the right proportion, complementing each other and being extremely delightful.
"How is it?"
"Delicious, it's so delicious."
In this culinary desert that was the Cersei Continent, the buns made with max - level cooking skills were comparable to delicacies from mountains and seas.
Mina squinted her eyes, looking completely satisfied. Like a dog, she couldn't help wagging her tail at Cheng Yu.
The best way to build a good relationship with wild animals is not to give them gold and jewels but to feed them. Feed them enough, and they'll get tamed.
The same principle applies to orcs.
Cheng Yu was full after eating two buns and pushed the steamer in front of Mina. "The rest are all yours."
"Th... thank you."
Although Mina hated humans, after eating Cheng Yu's fried rice with eggs and buns in the past two days, she couldn't hate him at all.
She threw one bun after another into her mouth and chewed, her cheeks puffed out like a hamster.
How could there be such delicious food in the world!
[The host has received 10 favorability points from Mina]
The favorability between Cheng Yu and Mina increased to 20 points.
"Tomorrow morning, we'll get up early to sell buns. We'll sell only 100 of them."
"Why sell such delicious food?"
Mina thought that delicious food should be kept for herself to eat.
"To make money."
"What a pity, it's such a pity."
Mina covered her chest, feeling as if her heart was bleeding.
...
Just before dawn, Cheng Yu and Mina came to the restaurant.
Like yesterday, Mina was in charge of kneading the dough, and Cheng Yu was in charge of stir - frying the filling.
They wrapped the stir - fried filling into buns.
The max - level cooking skills were reflected in all aspects. Cheng Yu not only cooked delicious food and had excellent knife skills but also was fast and skilled at making buns.
In contrast, Mina's movements were much clumsier.
Out of a hundred buns, Cheng Yu made seventy, which were perfectly shaped, while Mina made thirty, which were misshapen.
They used a five - layer steamer, with twenty buns on each layer.
With steam billowing, after the buns were steamed, Mina carried the five - layer steamer to the door of the store and started selling them.
There weren't many people on the street in Bailu Town in the early morning.
About a hundred cavalrymen passed by on the street.
The cavalrymen were all covered in silver armor, wearing helmets that covered their faces, and holding long conical lances in their hands, presenting a typical medieval European cavalry image.
Cheng Yu had heard from the grocery store owner yesterday that the Black Sun Empire was preparing to go to war with the demons.
These cavalrymen should be on their way to the battlefield.
A cavalryman came to the breakfast stand. Seeing the white buns the size of a fist in the steamer, he asked curiously, "Friend, what are these? How much do they cost?"
"They're braised beef buns, 20 copper coins each."
Cheng Yu hadn't had time to make a sign for selling buns yet.
The cavalryman was surprised. "20 copper coins each? That's so expensive?"
Twenty copper coins could almost buy half a catty of beef.
"The price of an item is determined by its value. How do you know if it's worth 20 copper coins if you don't try one?" Cheng Yu smiled.
Thinking it made sense, the cavalryman took out 20 copper coins and gave them to Cheng Yu. "Give me one to try."
Cheng Yu exchanged a hundred small paper bags from the system mall and put a braised beef bun in a paper bag for the cavalryman.
The cavalryman took a bite and his eyes widened immediately. "This is so delicious."
He usually ate roasted potatoes, stewed potatoes, and fried potatoes every day. This was the first time he had tasted such delicious food.
[Positive Emotional Value +5]
The system's voice sounded.
Cheng Yu: "How about it? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
"This delicious food is indeed not expensive. Give me five more."
The cavalryman took out a silver coin and gave it to Cheng Yu. One silver coin was equal to a hundred copper coins.
Cheng Yu wrapped five buns for the cavalryman.
The cavalryman, eating the buns, returned to the team.
"Charles, what are you doing? Leaving the team during the march violates military discipline."
The cavalry captain rode over and sternly questioned the cavalryman just now.
"I was a bit hungry just now, so I went to that store and bought some buns. They're really delicious." Charles replied.
"Buns? What are those?" The cavalry captain looked confused.
Worried about being punished, Charles didn't explain much. He took out a bun and gave it to the cavalry captain. "Captain, try it. I'm sure you'll be satisfied."
Taking the bun, the cavalry captain looked at it in his hand. This food called buns was round, white, and soft. Why did it seem a bit strange?
He took a bite, and the aroma filled his mouth. He exclaimed in surprise, "This... is really delicious!"
The dishes in the noble's house, when compared to this, were simply garbage.
"Charles, where did you buy this bun?" the cavalry captain asked.
"From that store."
Charles pointed to Cheng Yu's small store behind.
Not caring about the marching discipline, the cavalry captain turned back and came to the door of Cheng Yu's store. "Boss, I want ten buns."
"20 copper coins each, a total of 200 copper coins."
Cheng Yu wrapped ten buns for the cavalry captain.
The cavalry captain took out two silver coins and gave them to Cheng Yu. Then, sitting on his warhorse, he started eating the buns voraciously.