The Female Supporting Role Shows Out

Chapter 15

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

Meeting an old friend was a happy occasion. Aunt Wang took Lin Dan's hand and chatted with her for a while. Lin Dan came back and acted as though she had come home. She tied a headscarf on her head and rolled up her sleeves before starting to do some chores. When the handsome man came back with two buckets of water, he saw that she was already sitting in the kitchen and was grinding soybeans. Aunt Wang was adding firewood to the stove while talking about what she had been through all these years. "It's true that the master starves when his apprentice has mastered his skill. if I had known that the couple were such unscrupulous people, I would never have imparted my skills to them."

"Not everyone is like this. Isn't there another saying that goes, 'when the master teaches well, the apprentice returns to repay the kindness'. My skills in making tofu were taught by you. Look, I'm here to repay your kindness." Lin Dan said with a chuckle.

Aunt Wang hurriedly waved her hand and said, "That's not true. I've only taught you for three months, and you did so much work for me. It was me who benefited from your kindness, how could you say that you're here to repay mine? You don't have to worry too much about my son and I, we can still manage to get by." Her eyes turned red as she spoke. Her biological son did not care about her while the girl who had only learned a dish from her treated her like family. She felt so embarrassed at the thought of it.

Aunt Wang's young son walked in with teary eyes and said, "Lin Dan, thank you for your kindness. I recently found a permanent job at Landlord Zhou's house where I'm hired to feed the animals every day. I'll be able to support my mother and it's also not a very tough job, you can rest assured."

Lin Dan waved his hand and said, "I believe you have misunderstood what I meant. Aunt Wang, since you taught me one dish in the past, I can now teach you three dishes. I'm sure your business will improve once you learn how to make them. Let's bring back those prosperous days, shall we?" As she was speaking, she repeatedly filtered the ground soymilk with a cloth and poured it into a large pot to boil.

The handsome man did not say a word, but he had already taken over the job of grinding the soybean. As he worked, his eyes did not leave Lin Dan who was having a conversation casually.

Lin Dan diced the coriander, shallots, mustard greens, and other side dishes before stir-frying the sesame seeds and peanuts with oil and putting them in a bowl for use later. She asked, "Since you only sell a single dish throughout the year, I believe customers would get bored of it after a while and will naturally affect your business. Your tofu is very delicious, why don't you come up with more tofu dishes? What I am teaching you now is a dish I learned in Fushun County. It is called bean curd, which is a semi-finished product of tofu, but the taste is as good as tofu. It can be made into two flavors, sweet or savory. Since your shop is set up next to the main road, I'm sure there will be customers from all over the world. If you have customers that come from the north, you can serve the savory bean curd; if the customer came from the south, you can serve them the sweet one instead. The bean curd is best served warm in spring, autumn and winter, and while the chilled bean curd is best served in summer. Since bean curd is tasteless in itself, it all depends on the sauce to achieve the taste. There are also different types of sauces. For savory sauces, it includes hot and spicy sauce, sour and hot sauce, and so on, while sweet sauces include cane sugar, brown sugar, malt syrup, and so on. You can create a wide variety of flavors with just two spoonfuls of sauce and a bowl of bean curd, which can easily satisfy the needs of any customer. Isn't this better than simply selling tofu balls? Besides, the bean curd is simple and easy to make. If it's sold out, you can make another bucket of bean curd in less than forty-five minutes. In this way, you'll be able to serve the customers with the freshest food. Wouldn't they come back for more?"