"Brother Meng Li, isn't that the newly recognized fairy lady of your Lin clan just now?"
Lin Mengli nodded: "Yes, why are you here at this time? Are you asking for overseas goods again?"
"That's right. Come here, I have something to say with you." Shan Xinrong pulled Lin Mengli out of the inn, "Let's go to Fang's teahouse to have a pot of tea and listen to some music."
Lin Mengli raised his eyebrows: "Are you crazy? How much money do you have to burn?"
Shan Xinrong was unhappy: "Are you going or not?"
Lin Mengli chuckled: "It's rare that you, an iron cock, are willing to pluck your feathers. Why don't I go? Go! Go right away! It's just past noon, and there are no diners in the store, so let's catch a fish."
The two quickly arrived at Fang's tea shop, asked for a secluded corner and ordered a pot of the cheapest tea.
After drinking two glasses of wine, Shan Xinrong smacked his lips and then revealed his purpose: "Old Lin, let me get straight to the point. I heard the conversation you had with that fairy lady of yours in the restaurant. You really have something in your hand.
A recipe that can remove the sour taste of fermented pasta and make it fluffier?"
Lin Mengli suddenly realized it, took out the porcelain bottle from the cloth pocket given by Lin Wanwan, handed it to Shan Xinrong, and said: "You have sharp ears, it turns out it's for this thing. Yes, that's what our Lady Wanwan said, but I didn't either
I've tasted it. If you think it's okay, I'll give you the cost price."
Shan Xinrong said: "I don't need your cost price either. I just heard that the fairy lady in your clan said she wanted you to sell this thing for two to three hundred cents, right? You can sell me a bottle for two hundred cents."
How about giving it a try? Brother, you have a little advantage."
Just now, Lin Wanwan whispered to Lin Mengli that the cost, including the porcelain bottle, raw materials, etc., totaled ninety-four cents. Now that Shan Xinrong was willing to buy it for two hundred cents, Lin Mengli didn't say anything, and even felt a little guilty.
I made half of my brother’s money!
If the profit is more than half, it is considered a huge profit, and two hundred coins is not a small amount.
But this thing didn't belong to him after all, it was just something Lin Wanwan asked him to sell. He couldn't tell the truth and tell people the true cost. He immediately picked the most pleasing bottle from the bag and seemed to have the most in it, and handed it to
Get Shan Xinrong.
The first sale was a success.
"How to use this thing, your tribe's fairy lady can tell you?"
"As I said, add alkaline noodle when kneading the dough at the beginning. A small spoonful is enough. Add a little more after the dough has risen. Half a spoonful is enough. The ratio of noodle alkaline to noodles is basically kept at 100:1, so that
It makes pasta that is fluffy and not sour.”
Shan Xinrong took off the cork and looked at the contents inside, and found that it was white powder, similar to flour. He also murmured in his heart and couldn't help but ask: "You have never eaten steamed cakes made from this thing?"
Lin Mengli replied honestly: "No, this is a good thing that Wan Niang has just researched recently."
Seeing the hesitation on Shan Xinrong's face, Lin Mengli thought for a moment and said, "You try it first. If you think it's good, we'll do business for a long time in the future. If it's not good, I'll give you back half of the copper money. How about it? Are you cool with me, brother?"
Shan Xinrong slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, Lao Lin, that's cool! Just think about it, I'm going to win by surprise in this cooking competition!"
Lin Mengli picked up the tea cup and said boldly: "Come on, brother, I will drink tea instead of wine. I wish you success!"
Shan Xinrong is just a small cook in the Yingke Restaurant, which is slightly better than an unpaid apprentice. His monthly salary is only 500 cash. Two hundred cash is his salary for nearly half a month, which is not a big deal for him.
It was cheap, but he decided to buy it and give it a try.
Once you can stand out among the young chefs and become the chef of Yingkelou, your salary for a month will be at least half the same, and from time to time you can bring back some ingredients that you can't use up that day, which will be enough.
Already.
His cooking skills have long been able to stand out on his own, but he has always been suppressed by the head chef and will not promote him when he has the opportunity. He is not convinced and is determined to find a new way.
Lin Wanwan, who returned to her clan, did not mention today's noodle soda sale to Patriarch Lin, and Patriarch Lin also tacitly agreed not to ask.
In fact, Patriarch Lin is really not enthusiastic about doing business. He has a stable mentality and would starve to death without wanting his clan members to go into business and bring shame to the ancestors. In ancient times, doing business also required the courage to risk everything, because once it was decided,
Being a business owner will affect your children and grandchildren.
In the early Tang Dynasty, there were particularly many restrictions on merchants. Li Shimin didn't like merchants very much. If the emperor didn't like them, you can imagine what status merchants would have.
You must know that the ancestors of the Hou Taolin family also had scholars and officials. Although their branch is now in decline, they are from a poor family, not common people.
If Lin Wanwan knitted straw sandals and made delicacies for sale in the religious clan, everyone would be more accepting of it. Because this was what farmers often did to supplement their family income during the slack farming period in the Tang Dynasty, and the government also considered this not to be doing business.
Just like fishermen who catch and sell fish will not be classified as businessmen. After all, not everyone has the ability to fish, and this matter is related to people's livelihood and is an important part of the national economy.
But Lin Wanwan made alkaline alkaline like alchemy. First of all, no one had heard of it. Secondly, soda stone, thenardite and limestone were just things played by Taoists and had nothing to do with farming or fishing.
I'm really worried about whether this group of ignorant old women in their tribe can touch her, in case there is a furnace explosion.
The clan is already short of women, and if the old ladies are blown away, what will be left is a group of widowers and bachelors, which will be a disaster.
Here, Lin Wanwan has given up on selling noodle soup and has begun to concentrate on teaching children. Over there, in the inn in Xiaoxi Town, something is happening that will change the noodle industry in Datang.
In Xiaoxi Town, a new day starts with regular morning drums.
When the morning drum sounded for the third time, the back kitchen of the guest building was already full of people.
Although the daily business starts at noon, the preparation work starts before midnight.
There is something special today, because the shopkeeper announced something. As the business of Yingkelou is getting more and more prosperous, there is a shortage of chefs, and one of the junior chefs will be promoted to the position of chef.
Once you become a master chef, you must be on your own, and signature dishes are indispensable. Today is the time for the little chefs to show off their special skills.
For this evaluation, in addition to the innkeeper, head chef, and chef, three famous "gluttonous" gourmets in the town were also invited to serve as judges.
The back kitchen of Yingke Building currently has a head chef, ten chefs, twenty chefs, apprentices, and several assistants.
In fact, most of the twenty chefs were apprentices of the master chef, with one exception, Shan Xinrong, who entered the Yingke Building based on the skills passed down from his ancestors.