You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 275: Win-win Cooperation

"Mrs. Cheng is here, so I'll go back first. The children are almost done with their dictation."

Cheng Shuang came with a medicine box, and Master Yuan said goodbye consciously so as not to disturb Lin Zelan while she was taking his pulse.

Cheng Shuang put down the medicine box and said, "For dinner today, I made pickled cabbage and bacon, which is what Mr. likes, and tomato and egg soup. I added some chili to the bacon as you asked."

During this period, the family was responsible for preparing meals for the three people at the school. When the eggplants, bitter melons, tomatoes and other vegetables in the vegetable garden were ripe, Master Yuan could always eat new delicacies.

Ordinary chicken, duck, fish and meat can be cooked in many new ways, and the old servants no longer need to go to the county restaurant to order dishes.

And because he was interested in the ingredients, he went to the vegetable garden and took Xiao Si to draw the ingredients he had never seen before.

"Then I'll have to hurry up," Master Yuan said. "Tomato soup should be drunk while it's hot. It won't taste as good if it gets cold."

Cheng Shuang smiled. The children in the village all said that Master Yuan was very fierce, and some children even refused to go to school because of this. But after spending more time with him, they found that he was quite interesting.

He is especially nice to Xiao Si. The old and the young painting together shows that they have similar interests.

And after knowing that Lin Zelan was an opera singer, he did not look down on her. Instead, he felt very sorry for her. He told Cheng Shuang that it was such a pity that Lin Zelan was so virtuous, handsome and talented.

After Master Yuan left, Lin Zelan seemed to be still not satisfied. She collected the chess pieces one by one and asked Cheng Shuang, "Madam Cheng, do you want to play a game first?"

"I don't know how to do that. I only know Gobang and Chinese chess." Cheng Shuang opened the medicine box, first took out the silver needle bag, and then took out a piece of paper and a storybook.

"I brought you a book that's been very popular in the city recently. Would you like to take a look?"

Lin Zelan looked over and realized that Cheng Shuang came here today not just to see a doctor.

He took the storybook and said, "It's time to take a look. I've been living in the village for more than 20 days, and I don't know what's popular in the city now."

Today's acupuncture is on the arms and palms, and people can sit down. Lin Zelan rolled up his sleeves and placed his hands on the table.

Then he used his other hand to flip through the storybook.

At first I just flipped through it casually, but gradually I began to read the content.

Lin Zelan reads very quickly, able to read ten lines at a glance.

After Cheng Shuang pulled out the needle, he waited for more than a quarter of an hour and then finished his examination.

Cheng Shuang didn't beat around the bush and directly handed him another piece of lyrics paper, telling him that she was the one who wrote the storybook and a song for it. She even sang a part of it in a low voice with courage.

As expected, Lin Zelan liked it very much, and a rare look of surprise appeared on her face.

Cheng Shuang asked, "Could Master Lan sing in this play?"

"If it's for the stage, it will only take a few days of practice. Madam Cheng is planning to sell this play to the Baixiyuan?" Lin Zelan was a little surprised. "I didn't expect that besides medical skills, Madam Cheng also knows about opera composition."

"I'm not selling it, I'm giving it to Master Lan," Cheng Shuang said seriously. "Besides this song, you can also adapt this story as you wish. I believe that with the strength of the Hundred Opera Troupe, it will be easy to stage a play based on this story."

"Sir, you are more knowledgeable than me. Once this play is performed, your fame will surely rise to a higher level."

Lin Zelan seemed to be lost in thought. After saying so much, Cheng Shuang's words attracted him the most.

Indeed, this play will surely make him famous again, but he never cares about fame and doesn't even like singing opera.

But the greater his fame, the more beneficial it will be for what he will do in the future.

Otherwise, why would he have traveled around performing on stage in the past two years and earned his current fame?

"What are your conditions?" Lin Zelan asked. He didn't think that Cheng Shuang's writing of storybooks and composing of music were just hobbies.

"I need you to do me a favor."

Doing business with smart people is easy. Cheng Shuang said bluntly, "My restaurant is about to be completed, and I want to use your reputation to build momentum. My request is that you perform at the restaurant for three days after the opening, singing this play 'Dream Opera'."

"Deal." Lin Zelan nodded in agreement without hesitation.

During this period, he ate a lot of vegetables that he had never eaten before, such as potatoes, tomatoes, beans, eggplants, bitter melon, and various vegetables.

He had also been to the vegetable fields at the foot of the mountain while strolling in the village. There were more than 200 acres of vegetables planted there, all of which were not available on the market.

With these ingredients, the restaurant will become the focus of the city for a long time after it opens.

What he wants is a high profile, the higher the better, this is a win-win cooperation.

Cheng Shuang had no idea that Lin Zelan had so many plans in mind. She felt happy and no longer felt ashamed. She sang the lyrics again to demonstrate.

In the next few days, every time Cheng Shuang came over, Lin Zelan was concentrating on practicing.

She was right about the person. As soon as the opera singing started, even she, an amateur, was fascinated by it.

On May 20th, the sky was clear, the road up the mountain had been paved, and the top of the mountain had been repaired.

Some people were left behind to continue transplanting landscape flowers and trees, while Manager Chang brought a group of people to start building roads in the village.

Cheng Shuang also arranged for workers to plant the second crop of potatoes, and then went to check on the crayfish in the pond. She asked Song Gaoshan to fish out a bucket of them, which weighed about twenty-five or twenty-six pounds.

With a suitable breeding environment and sufficient feed, the crayfish have reached an edible size.

After bringing the shrimps back, Cheng Shuang prepared to start teaching Gu Qiu how to make crayfish, teaching him several different flavors.

During this period, Cheng Guqiu has learned more than 40 recipes written by Cheng Shuang. He follows the simple recipes directly, and Cheng Shuang provides guidance for the complicated ones.

In the future, Cheng Guqiu will first learn all the new dishes in the restaurant and then teach them to other chefs.

For Cheng Guqiu, who loves cooking, she is quite looking forward to this and is learning various new dishes very seriously.

The crayfish with their claws and fangs bared were placed in a large wooden basin. The family members were both scared and curious when they saw it. They couldn't believe that this thing could be delicious.

Cheng Shuang took the brush for washing crayfish that someone had prepared in advance and demonstrated it several times. Then the others started to learn how to do it. With four or five people working together, a bucket of crayfish was quickly cleaned.

After preparing all the ingredients and just about to start cooking, an uninvited guest came to the house.

Cheng Pan, who went to open the door, saw that the visitor was dressed in rich clothes and had followers with him, but he was not the scholar who had been to the village before. He turned around and called Cheng Shuang into the yard.

Cheng Shuang heard the sound and came out of the kitchen. When she looked up at the door, she was startled.

The person who came turned out to be He Yun!

If Cheng Shuang hadn't seen enough of the world and been calm, she would have been frightened to death.

She grabbed the door, fighting back against slamming it shut.

He Yun, who was outside the door, was also surprised to see Cheng Shuang. He came today to find the maker of the pair of white porcelain dragon and phoenix vases.

Ever since He Ming brought back the pair of bottles, he has studied them carefully for a long time and imitated them twice, but both times failed. He had no choice but to follow the information He Ming collected for him and find Chengjia Village.

The purpose of this trip is to bake the recipe.

Unexpectedly, this family turned out to be the family of the female doctor who had come to the door after announcing the announcement.

The expression on He Yun's face did not escape Cheng Shuang's eyes. She forced herself to remain calm, twitching the corners of her mouth and saying, "My memory is not very good. Is this young master from the He family in the provincial capital? We met two months ago."

As soon as he finished speaking, He Zhou, who was sitting still in the yard and serving as a model for Cheng Xu to practice drawing portraits, suddenly looked up, then quickly stood up and went back into the house.

Wei Nanxing reacted quickly and immediately made a gesture to Xiao Si to keep quiet, asking him to take the painting back to the house. Then he knocked on the door of the main house, called out Wei Qinglang who was in the room, and whispered to him what had happened.

Wei Qinglang's expression changed slightly, and when he looked up, he saw that Cheng Shuang had already invited someone in.