After these people returned to the Capital City, they immediately had someone wash the crayfish and slaughter pigs and chickens. Since none of them were the masters of their own households, spending so much silver all at once, they had to have an explanation for the family head.
Indeed, the chefs of their residences' cuisines were not as good as Qiao Xiaomai's, but the ingredients were genuinely top-notch. Even if cooked with ordinary well water, it couldn't mask the taste of the ingredients.
However, when they ate it, they always felt it wasn't worth so much silver.
Crayfish were a novel delicacy, their bright red appearance looked festive, and they tasted good too, but still not worth five hundred and eighty-eight taels a pound!
And this pork—good, very good, superb even—but a single pig almost cost two thousand taels...