Chapter 574: Chapter 575: Giving You 5 Days’ Time
Upon discussion of Yang Aoshuang, he gloated, "I’ve bought all the liquor here too. Not only that, I’ve bought all the liquor around here as well. I wonder how you’ll make your drunken crabs now."
"Calling you stupid wasn’t an insult at all!" Yang Chuxia shook her head upon hearing this, "You don’t even know what I need or don’t need to make drunken crabs, yet you try to monopolize my supplies?"
"Hehe, don’t try to be clever with me. I don’t believe that you don’t need Sichuan peppercorn, I’ll wait in the mansion for you to beg me."
Yang Chuxia shrugged indifferently, "Then you can wait. Oh, by the way, for your information, I not only need Sichuan peppercorn but also these white wines- top scholar wine, Girl Wine, common jasmin orange, all of that. I also need simple red chillies too. Why don’t you go buy all of them? Remember to buy everything, it would be best if you buy enough to last us till next year! Understand?"
After saying this, she disdainfully glanced at Yang Aoshuang and ordered her servants, "Stop looking around. Put down the liquors. We are not buying anymore. We’ll let Ms. Li handle it all. We can kneel and beg her later."
"Yes, Miss!"
With that, the group left the tavern.
"Miss, we’re really not going to buy the liquor anymore?"
Yang Chuxia brushed this off and said, "We’re not. It’s useless to buy now. We initially planned to buy it to distract her. But now that she’s here, we don’t have to. Why waste money on it?"
"So are we going home now?"
"No, we’re going to the pottery kiln to place an order for the terracotta pots we’ll be needing."
Immediately after, Yang Chuxia went over to the pottery kiln to sign a long-term supply contract with the owner. Most of the terracotta pots Yang Chuxia’s family needed were bought from there. The owner recognized them and was pleased to sign the long-term contract.
Once they had settled everything, they returned to Yangshu Village.
A few days later, Fugui brought back all the things Yang Chuxia had asked for. As for Qingyou, he was constantly on the lookout, but did not find any suspicious activity.
Meanwhile, Yang Aoshuang was arrogantly waiting for Yang Chuxia to come and beg her.
However, her researchers were struggling to replicate the drunken crab dish. Despite having dissected the recipe, they could not match the taste, making Yang Aoshuang furious.
"Get out, you’re all useless! You can’t even manage this small task... You figured out the ingredients but the taste is still off!"
As Yang Aoshuang was losing her temper, her maid stepped in and said, "Lady, please calm down. Perhaps we got a step wrong in the recipe. We need to study it further."
"What research? It’s too late now! Shall we wait till next year? The sea will be closed in just over a month, how can we wait? Get out of my sight. I’ll give you five days. If you can’t figure it out, you can all get lost!"
"Yes, we’ll do our best."
The researchers, under Yang Aoshuang’s raging temper, fled the scene tripping over themselves.
What they didn’t know was that even if they were to get the drunken crab recipe right, the crabs needed to be aged for a certain period of time. Different crabs require different methods and the one from Yang Chuxia’s household required this aging process.
As Yang Aoshuang was fuming about not being able to prepare the drunken crabs, Yang Chuxia had already decided to replace Sichuan peppercorn with star anise.
"Xiaxia, will this work?"
"Let’s give it a try. The ingredients are different, at most the taste will be."
A while later, the salt water mixed with star anise was ready. Yang Chuxia tried it first with a spoon, "Yuck..."
"What’s wrong? Did it fail?" Ms.Wang asked in worry.