Chapter 400: Min Jian Er Noodles
In order to meet the demand for hard labor, local governments not only strictly enforced the law, but also imposed the highest standards on sentencing, leaving no room for maneuver.

As for the places where the labor is supervised, one can imagine how harsh the work is in order to speed up the process.

Therefore, there has always been a saying in the world that if you are sentenced to hard labor, it is basically like losing half your life. If you are sentenced to hard labor for three to five years, it is equivalent to losing your life, and your family has already conceded that you will never be able to return.

Manager Fu had also heard about Yueran Restaurant from Xia Mingyue before, and knew that Zou Fuquan was also a petty-minded and evil-minded person.

This person has been looking for trouble time and time again, and this time he is unscrupulous. It is obvious that he has bad intentions and is a real scourge in the world. As long as he says a little in front of Prefect Zhang, Prefect Zhang will know what to do.

This Zou Fuquan will never appear in front of anyone again!
Xia Mingyue nodded slightly when she heard this, "Thank you, Manager Fu."

"It's all my duty." Steward Fu smiled and said with concern, "Madam Xia and Commander Lu must have had a hard time on this journey. It's getting late now. Go back and have a rest. I'll take care of the rest."

Xia Mingyue knew that Manager Fu had a strong background and could handle the matter properly, so she and Lu Qiyan took Wu Jin back with them first.

After returning, Xia Mingyue went into the kitchen to prepare meals herself, with Jiang Zhuguo helping her.

What was prepared for Wu Jin was the river shrimp wontons that had been promised to him.

The skin was thin and the filling was large, filling up half a pot. After cooking, Wu Jin scooped all of them into a clay pot. There were so many wontons that they almost overflowed.

Wu Jin was overjoyed when he saw this, but he did not forget to bark twice at Xia Mingyue to show his affection, and then went to the earthenware pot to eat, wolfing down the food.

After settling Wu Jin down, Xia Mingyue started to prepare meals for her and Lu Qiyan.

Considering that Lu Qiyan likes to eat noodles, Xia Mingyue felt that ordinary noodles were too ordinary, so she simply made something unique this time.

Minced noodles.

Stir-fry shredded pork tenderloin in a hot pan, add diced tomatoes, diced mushrooms, shredded black fungus, soaked day lily, shredded fried tofu, shredded egg pancake, etc., season with soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, salt, and cornstarch, then add boiling water and simmer for a while to make a fragrant and rich noodle sauce.

Then mix the soybean flour with white flour and add boiling water to form a soft dough.

The key to making Min Jian Er Noodles is Min. The common tool for making Min Jian Er Noodles is called Min Chuang, which is a wooden well-shaped rack covered with a Min Jian paddle with multiple holes as thick as chopsticks. The Min Jian paddle is used to push the kneaded soybean flour dough hard, so that the dough forms a noodle-like shape from the holes of the Min Chuang and falls into the pot.

Put the minjianer into the pot and cook it in boiling water. After taking it out with a strainer, rinse it with cold water to make it more chewy and refreshing. Then pour the fragrant noodle sauce on it...

Two bowls of steaming hot minjianer noodles were soon served on the table. Xia Mingyue even asked Jiang Zhuguo to go to the central kitchen to get some braised meat and vegetables, and serve them together with pickled kimchi.

Lu Qiyan's stomach had been empty for a long time, but this Minjianer Noodles was full of toppings. The noodles also had a light yellow hue due to the use of bean flour, which made them look even more tempting. It made the glutton in Lu Qiyan's stomach burst out, making a sound like beating a drum.

But considering that Xia Mingyue also took so long to eat dinner and was even busy satisfying his taste, Lu Qiyan felt distressed and just put the large piece of braised meat into Xia Mingyue's bowl.

"Eat quickly, ma'am."

After Xia Mingyue started using her chopsticks, Lu Qiyan then picked up the chopsticks and put the full bowl of noodles into his mouth.

Minjianer noodles have a unique taste, the bean noodles have a unique fragrance, they are comfortable to eat and very easy to digest, and the stewed meat has a strong and fragrant flavor, and the taste is rich...

Delicious! As expected, the most delicious things in the world must come from my wife's hands!
Lu Qiyan was filled with emotion, and his hands moved a little faster.

Seeing that Lu Qiyan was eating with great interest, Xia Mingyue narrowed her eyes and smiled.

The happiest thing in life is to be a cook and have the food you cook fully recognized by diners, who eat it all up without leaving any leftovers.

The happiest thing among all these is to cook for the one you love, and the one you love will eat it up in no time.

Full sense of accomplishment!
After a whole day of hard work, Xia Mingyue and Lu Qiyan went to bed early after dinner.

The next day, Xia Mingyue got up early as usual.

After getting up, I become busy.

The first thing they did was to deal with the live sheep that had been purchased but had eaten the white deer grass.

Xia Mingyue went to ask Yin Lingyou about this matter.

Yin Lingyou's reply was that no excessive treatment was needed, and the sheep just needed to be allowed to eat more, drink more, and run more every day. Within thirty days at most, the sour and bitter taste in the sheep's body caused by eating white deer grass would be almost excreted and the sheep could be eaten normally.

This made Xia Mingyue and others feel relieved.

It's just a matter of raising the fish for an extra half month and spending more on fodder and labor. The loss is not too big and nothing is wasted.

Manager Fu immediately ordered someone to arrange this matter, and to be on the safe side, all the sheep that had been purchased previously were moved to another place and raised together for more than a month to avoid a situation where the mutton was found to be unusable after slaughter, thus wasting food.

However, as a result, the ingredients originally prepared for Yippin Pot became scarce.

Fortunately, He Shunzi has always liked to stockpile more sources of supply, so in addition to Lijiazhuang and other places where live sheep can be purchased, there are also several other villages where a lot of live sheep can be bought.

After getting Pei Youguang's confession from the government office and confirming that they had not been to the area where white deer grass was sold, they collected a batch of live sheep from those villages, bled them a little to confirm that there were no problems, and then slaughtered them.

In order to ensure that there are no problems with the mutton used in Yipin Guo, each freshly cut mutton must be sampled and tasted to ensure quality control as much as possible.

Manager Fu fully agreed with Xia Mingyue's proposal and immediately arranged for people to do so.

Although this may seem troublesome and the method is a bit clumsy, it is the most effective and the best way to ensure the reputation of Yipin Guo.

If we act faster, it won't delay the normal opening of Yippin Guo.

Secondly, it is about how to deal with the follow-up events after people in Lijiazhuang and other villages were deceived and fed white deer grass to their sheep.

The government will inform everyone of the toxicity and dangers of white deer vine, confiscate all remaining white deer vine, and issue a strict ban on its use. If anyone uses it privately, the consequences will be borne by the individual.

When all the villagers heard this, they were all terrified and did not dare to deceive anyone. They handed over all the remaining white deer and grass in their homes. They also fed the sheep in a proper manner and did not dare to think of any other so-called shortcuts or be clever.

Minjianer noodles are popular in Shanxi and northern Shaanxi. They can be made with bean noodles, corn noodles, or even pea noodles. There is no fixed way to match the noodles and stew. You can cook them according to your personal taste. When I was a child, I ate the bean noodles made by my grandmother and thought they tasted good. I wrote about the bean noodles here~