Fang Hui came to the Fan family on the day when Fan Jin came to place an order for one hundred jars of bean paste and twenty jars of red oil.
It was also the first time that Song Qiu entertained him not in an inn but in the hall of his home.
After all, this is the first time they have met this year.
"We haven't seen each other for more than half a year, and Fang is really impressed by the changes in Song Xiaodong's family." Fang Jie said with a bright smile.
Song Qiu understood what he meant and smiled back, "The Fang Dong family is overly praised."
Fang Jie said: "I would also like to congratulate Dong Dong's family on their happy engagement. Don't forget to send an invitation to Dong Dong's family when the wedding happens, so that I can come and have a cup of wedding wine."
Song Qiu pursed his lips and smiled, "Okay, I will definitely invite you to Fang Dong's house when the time comes."
After some simple greetings, we got down to business.
Fang Hui came here just to discuss the Doubanjiang business. After handling the business in Jingli, he came all the way in a hurry. He passed by the Songshan Inn and came in. He hadn't gone home yet.
But before talking about business, he had one more thing to say: "By the way, before I went to Yunshan County, I received a letter from the manager of my family. A new shop opened in Fucheng. Not only did they sell red oil, but they also sold bean paste. It was Song Dynasty.
The owner has already supplied the goods to others?"
When Song Qiu heard this, he frowned and asked, "When did this happen?" She had never been to Jingzhou's capital city, and it was far away, so the information was naturally not well-informed.
When Fang Ji saw Song Qiu like this, he knew there was something fishy. He said, although he didn't sign the contract in advance, there was a tacit understanding. When Doubanjiang came out, it must be supplied to him first.
, before he came to the door, how could the Song Dong family provide it to others first?
"The store that just opened two days ago only sells bean paste and red oil, and the price is lower than Song Dong's price. The doubanjiang only costs 200 Wen per jar, and the red oil only costs 500 Wen per jar. I heard that the business is not bad.
, apart from Xian Fulai who ordered the goods from you in Fucheng, many other wealthy families and restaurant owners who didn’t know Song Dong’s family also bought these two things from his house.”
After Song Qiu heard this, there was only one sentence in his mind: The counterfeit goods are coming.
In the previous life, the issue of copyright was so clear, so there were not endless cases of one walnut or six walnuts, not to mention the ancient times where there was no special law to protect this aspect?
Song Qiu had already prepared for being imitated.
Even if you file a lawsuit, the Yamen will not care about this matter. What? Only your family is allowed to sell it, and no one else is allowed to sell it?
Therefore, Song Qiu has long thought that if others want to imitate, just imitate it. As long as you can imitate it, she can't control it.
As long as she ensures her own taste and strives to create a brand, when others choose between two shops, eight out of ten people will buy her taste, which is good.
She just didn't expect that the counterfeit goods would come so quickly, so she started ordering large quantities of the front ones, and the back ones were also sold. The preparations were so sufficient that she had to suspect that the Chen family had been secretly eyeing this product last year.
Both, just waiting for the red pepper this year.
However, she was quite curious whether it looked like it or not.
And the price is so low, don’t you want to make money? Are you deliberately going against her?
She raised her eyes and looked at Fang Hui, "Integrity is what matters in business. Last year, we agreed to do this business with Fang Dong's family. How could I choose someone else before Fang Dong's family returned?"
"What's more, I'm not familiar with this Chen family, and I've never heard of it."
Fang Ji breathed a complete sigh of relief. He was relieved that the Chen family's goods were not supplied by the Song Dong family. He was just curious, "The Chen family is also a big merchant in Fucheng. The family started out as a condiment shop. The entire Jingzhou Prefecture
, almost all the counties and towns below have their own spice shops, including Panshi Town."
When Song Qiu heard this, the Chenji Condiment Shop in Ankangfang not far from the dessert shop came to mind.
She had been to this store before to buy star anise leaves and the like.
It turns out that Chen Ji is a big merchant.
But think about it, there is no intersection. Why did this person imitate her Doubanjiang and Hongyou?
Last year, she only sold this bean paste to a few vendors, all of whom she knew, but the red oil was sold to many vendors because of the hot and sour rice noodles, but the quantity was not large.
She was also a little confused.
Seeing her like this, Fang Jie knew what she was thinking. He waved to the attendant behind him, and the attendant brought up a wooden box he was holding in his hand, placed it on the table and opened it.
"I got the steward's letter and felt curious, so I ordered my people to rush back to Fucheng and buy these two things at Chen Ji's newly opened shop for delivery."
"Let's take a look at Dong Song's house."
When Song Qiu saw that the goods were available, he could immediately see clearly. He was also very happy, and immediately opened the lids of two jars.
At the same time, he asked Lu Yan to get bowls, chopsticks and spoons.
After taking the bowl, he first picked out a large amount of bean paste with chopsticks and put it in the bowl, then studied it carefully.
Fang Hui also looked into the bowl. You know, when he first got the Doubanjiang last year, he also asked his people to study the Doubanjiang. He didn't study the reason at first and continued to work hard later. Unfortunately,
After much thinking, I finally came to the conclusion that the bean paste must be related to the red pepper, as it also contains bean paste and oil.
But I still can't figure out how to do it.
Unexpectedly, the Chen family has figured this out.
He thought that the Chen family also had business dealings with Xian Fulai, and that the second master of the Chen family and Xian Fulai's boss were the same son and daughter. He estimated that the Chen family had already gotten some doubanjiang from Xian Fulai last year to ponder.
I just don’t know how to figure it out.
Now he looked at Song Qiu quietly, waiting for her to tell her what she thought.
There was a large pile of bean paste in the bowl. Song Qiu turned it over with chopsticks, picked a little and tasted it in his mouth, and he had an idea.
The main ingredient of this bean paste is yes, red pepper. There are also bean paste, but the bean paste is not moldy. It should be soaked, peeled and added to the bean paste, so it obviously lacks the flavor of the sauce. In addition, oil is used
It should be soybean oil, which is cheaper, but not as fragrant as rapeseed oil, and the ratio of oil to chopped chili is also wrong, which makes it less fragrant.
And there is no white wine, let alone ginger and garlic to enhance the flavor.
In short, this Doubanjiang looks like that, but if we really talk about the taste, it is far inferior to her Doubanjiang.
Then he took another empty bowl and poured a large spoonful of red oil into the bowl.
You don’t need to taste it, just look at it like this. It looks like the same thing, with a lot of sesame seeds, oil, and chili powder. There is also some Sichuan peppercorns, but not much.
After tasting it carefully, she immediately smiled.
She didn't even need to ask, she could guess how the Chen family made the red oil. It was nothing more than crushing the dried chili peppers, then pouring the soybean oil in, adding sesame seeds and a little peppercorns, and stirring evenly.
, and they all live together.
Things with oil must be fragrant, but to what extent they are fragrant, as long as you know how to eat them, you have to weigh them in your mind.