Chapter 407 Chicken Rice

It takes ten minutes to make a cup of tea. If you make four, it will take about two and a half minutes to make one.

If the effective busy time is six hours a day, about one hundred and forty to fifty can be completed in a day.

Compared with the normal output of mooncakes, it is slightly less.

But Xia Mingyue wanted to do some hunger marketing and did not plan to make too many mooncakes.

What you can’t eat or buy is always the best.

Xia Mingyue nodded immediately, "Then just follow the patterns drawn by Madam Shen."

"Okay." Shen Shujun was relieved when she saw that what she drew was fully recognized by Xia Mingyue, and she thought that she had completely taken over the job.

She took advantage of the break before lunch to draw and write a few pieces of paper. When someone called for lunch, Shen Shujun stopped and had lunch with everyone else.

Lunch is a separate serving of chicken chop rice.

In the center of the plate is an upside-down bowl of crystal white and tender rice with a moderately soft texture. A whole piece of chicken breast removed from a chicken is slowly fried. The large chicken steak is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It is cut into half-inch wide strips, accompanied by some sour and spicy potato shreds, crispy and delicious stir-fried lotus root cubes, some garlic-fried Chinese cabbage, and finally some of Xia Mingyue's special bibimbap sauce...

The taste, in one word - absolutely amazing!

Some people just mix the rice with sauce when eating, take a mouthful of rice, and then randomly have a bite of chicken steak and other vegetables.

Some people simply use chopsticks to break the tender chicken fillet into small pieces, mix it evenly with all the vegetables and rice, and eat it in one bite. It is rich in flavor, with everything you expect, and extremely satisfying!

Shen Shujun was very reserved when she first picked up the chopsticks and ate slowly. But when she tasted the delicious chicken fillet rice and saw others eating with relish and not caring about their image at all, she stopped caring too much and ate a little faster.

A group of people gathered together to eat, chat about interesting things, and laugh as usual.

However, Yin Lingyou and Mao Sanli, the master and disciple who usually served as everyone's happy pills, were very silent today and did not say much.

Seeing this, Xia Mingyue smiled and said, "There are still several pieces of fried chicken steak, so there's no need to worry about not having enough to eat."

There is no need to stop talking because you are worried about eating less.

"Thank you, Madam Xia." Mao Sanli said vaguely, "But I didn't say much today not because I was worried about not eating enough fried chicken, but because I ate too much shabu-shabu mutton these past two days, which made me a little irritated. I have two ulcers in my mouth, and it hurts a little when I talk."

"You have an ulcer?" Zhuang Cui was surprised, and then joked, "Then how can you eat so fast? Or does the ulcer affect your speech but not your eating?"

Mao Sanli chuckled.

It definitely has an impact, but you can say less and you can't eat less, so just bear with it.

When everyone saw this, they felt extremely embarrassed and couldn't help laughing.

"Doctor Yin doesn't speak. Could it be because he has an ulcer?" Xia Mingyue joked.

"That's not the case." Yin Lingyou said, "I was just looking at this Miss Shen..."

Yin Lingyou paused and looked at Shen Shujun, "Mrs. Shen's last name is Shen, right?"

After these words came out, even Shen Shujun herself smiled and said, "That's right."

"Where is Madam Shen from?" "I..." Shen Shujun paused and lowered her eyes, "I am from Zhuozhou."

"Zhuozhou." Yin Lingyou stroked his beard. "Mrs. Shen looks very familiar. I thought she was from Yunzhou. It seems I remembered it wrongly."

"There are many people in this world who look alike. It's inevitable." Shen Shujun breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yin Ling was lobbying for Yunzhou instead of Xinzhou.

"I think so." Yin Lingyou chuckled and continued eating.

After lunch, everyone was busy.

Xia Mingyue was busy making mooncakes, while Shen Shujun was busy drawing and writing on red paper.

It was not until midnight that Xia Mingyue baked all the mooncakes made today and prepared to let them cool down before letting Jiang Zhuguo and others start packing them. She then went into the house to see how Shen Shujun was doing.

Shen Shujun neatly placed the finished red paper aside to dry the ink, while those whose ink had completely dried were picked up and neatly piled aside.

Xia Mingyue picked up a few at random and looked at them. She found that each one had neat handwriting, beautiful patterns, and was very exquisite.

Moreover, the quality of each piece of red paper is guaranteed, and the quality will not decline due to doing the same thing for a long time.

Seeing this, Xia Mingyue was very satisfied and felt that she had found the right person to do this job, Shen Shujun.

"Not bad." Xia Mingyue nodded repeatedly in appreciation.

"Thank you for your approval, Madam Xia." Shen Shujun replied with a smile, but her hands did not stop moving.

I saw him tracing the pattern with the pen very skillfully, but after finishing, he blew away the ink stain on the pen, then changed the pen, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote.

The movements were smooth and skillful. Xia Mingyue nodded slightly again, but also let out a "hmm".

"Ms. Xia, do you think there's something wrong?" Shen Shujun stopped what she was doing.

"Mrs. Shen is very skilled, so there is no problem. However, when I saw Ms. Shen making this red paper, she had to draw the pattern first and then write on it. During this time, she had to change the pen and ink, which was quite troublesome."

Xia Mingyue said, "Madam Shen, why don't you try to put the papers in a row and finish drawing all the patterns first? This way, you don't have to change pens and inks back and forth. When you finish drawing the last piece, you can still start from the first piece when you start writing. The ink stains will dry completely, and you don't have to wait and worry about the ink stains not drying up."

"Of course, this is just my suggestion. Madam Shen has been writing for many years and should be more experienced than me. Just follow Madam Shen's own habits."

Assembly line work is naturally a way to save time and effort, but for this kind of manual drawing and writing, what is needed most of the time is the feel and habits of the person drawing and writing, so there is no need to force it too much.

Shen Shujun paused, then nodded, "Okay."

After Xia Mingyue left the room, Shen Shujun finished writing the piece of paper in her hand, and when she wrote again, she followed the method Xia Mingyue said.

First, eight pieces of paper were laid out, and patterns of the bright moon and bamboo branches were drawn on them in order.

The same pattern is naturally easier to draw, and more skilled. After the pattern on the eighth piece of paper is completed, I start writing from the first piece...

After working like this for a stick of incense, Shen Shujun counted and found that the amount of paper made this time was one third more than the amount made in the same amount of time before.

Indeed, the efficiency has been greatly improved!

Shen Shujun smiled and told Xia Mingyue about this during dinner, saying, "Mrs. Xia's method is really effective."