When the waiter heard this, his lungs almost exploded. He thought he was a diner, but he didn't expect that he was here to kick out the restaurant.
"How brave! Where did this idle guy come from to entertain me?" He said with arms raised and fists raised, about to start a fight.
The shopkeeper had been alerted by the noise upstairs and walked up to the second floor. Seeing this scene, he quickly shouted: "Stop!"
No matter how the other party criticizes, if they really beat up the diners who come to the door, then this business will no longer need to be continued and it will be closed as soon as possible.
The shopkeeper looked at Zhao Cheng and felt that he didn't look like he was here to cause trouble. He took a deep breath and said, "This little brother, Zhang Dashun, is the owner of Dashunzhai. The waiter at Shicai store did not treat him well. I will apologize to my little brother for him." As he said this, Zhang Dashun clasped his fists and bowed.
Zhao Cheng is here to do things, not to make enemies. Zhang Dashun looks to be in his fifties or sixties, with a big white beard, so of course he will not accept this courtesy from him.
Zhao Cheng stood up and clasped his fists in return: "Actually, I do want to lure the shopkeeper out, but I have some doubts in my heart, and I hope to get answers."
Zhang Dashun couldn't guess Zhao Cheng's purpose for a while. With nothing to do, he pulled up a chair and sat opposite Zhao Cheng. He said to the shop assistant: "I'm here to greet this little brother. You can go downstairs and do your work." .”
Zhao Cheng got straight to the point and asked directly: "I saw that the restaurant opposite was so prosperous, but Dashun Zhai was deserted, and I had doubts in my mind, so I tried to make a point. Don't be surprised."
Watching the store clerk go down the stairs, Zhang Dashun let out a long sigh.
"To be honest, little brother, my Dashunzhai restaurant used to have a booming business, which I can't say is second to none in Qinghe County, but it is always crowded with customers every day. When the business is at its best, there are no seats upstairs or downstairs from morning to night. "
"Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. About a year ago, a new restaurant opened opposite me, Hong Shengde."
"They are all restaurants. There is nothing wrong with that. If we are all competing for the dishes and taste, Dashun Zhai is a little inferior. I have nothing to say."
"But on the day Hong Shengde opened, all the chefs in Dashunzhai left for another job, and the kitchen was empty. Not to mention cooking, even the waiters were taken away by the other side."
"I was unwilling to give up, so I looked for a few famous chefs, hoping to regroup and have a good fight with my opponent. Unfortunately, the chefs I hired stopped working after only two months."
"I was deeply surprised. After careful inquiry, I found out that the Hong Shengde across the street is from the Hong Baotou Industry in Qinghe County. No wonder the chef either changed jobs or quit."
"But the more this happened, the more it aroused my fighting spirit, so I found a nephew from my hometown and sent him to learn cooking. I hope he can help me after he learns."
After Zhang Dashun said this, he stood up tiredly: "Now do you know the reason? If you want to eat, there are only a few cooks in my kitchen cooking. To be honest, the taste is average."
Zhao Cheng smiled and said, "What if I say that I can help Mr. Zhang?"
Zhang Dashun suddenly turned around and stared at Zhao Cheng deeply: "Brother, what I just said was absolutely not a lie. Hong Shengde across from me is Hong Baotou's property."
Zhao Cheng also stood up, looked out the window at the boat on the river and said, "I will deliver the things in three days. Mr. Zhang will naturally know when the time comes."
With that said, he said goodbye to Zhang Dashun, left Qinghe County, and walked towards Zhoujia Village.
What Zhao Cheng wants to make is MSG.
The current environment in Zhoujia Village is really too difficult. Zhou Rushuang's entire wealth consists of these dozens of copper coins. To make a quick profit, making MSG is one of the few ways.
The component of MSG is sodium glutamate, which is found in many seafood, such as kelp and sea sausage.
If you are at the beach, you can get the most original MSG by collecting a large amount of kelp, sea sausage, etc., boiling or drying it, and finally evaporating and drying it.
Don't underestimate this inconspicuous little crystal.
If table salt is diluted 400 times with water, the salty taste will no longer be felt. If ordinary sucrose is diluted 200 times with water, the sweet taste will no longer be felt. However, MSG can still taste umami if diluted 3,000 times with water.
It is no exaggeration to say that even a bowl of boiled water can taste delicious as long as MSG is added.
But the problem Zhao Cheng faces is that Qinghe County is not close to the sea, and there are very few seafood products sold in Qinghe County. Even if there are, they are extremely rare treasures and are expensive, and ordinary people cannot afford them.
Therefore, it is unrealistic to use seafood to brew MSG, but fortunately, Zhao Cheng knows that MSG can also be made by fermenting grain wheat bran, but the process is a little more troublesome.
After returning from Qinghe County, Zhao Cheng bought two large vats, one for fermentation and one for purification, which cost him fifteen cents. Because it was too heavy to carry back, he hired a donkey, which cost twelve cents. ; I bought a can of yogurt and spent another fifteen cents.
This trip to Qinghe County cost a total of thirty-two cash, and Zhou Rushuang still had twenty-one cash left in his property.
When they returned to the dilapidated temple, it was already dark. Zhao Cheng asked the porter to place the vat at the entrance of the dilapidated temple. Zhou Rushuang heard Zhao Cheng's voice and ran out to greet him.
"Sir! Why did we buy this big tank?"
Zhao Cheng replied "keep it secret" and went out to cut the grass with his sickle.
There are two key points in using cereal bran to make MSG. The first is to use special bacteria growing on yogurt to ferment the cereals. The second step is to react the glutamic acid produced after fermentation to generate sodium glutamate. Finally, it is filtered with carbon, and the remaining crystals are MSG.
There are a lot of cereals and wheat bran. Zhao Cheng has observed carefully that due to the sparse population at this time, there are still large areas of wasteland that are not cultivated. There are some wild cereals in these wastelands, called Lugu.
Because these grains are wild, they are very small and most of them are empty shells, so no one eats them. Only Zhou Rushuang, who has no food, will pick some of the more solid grains.
These rice grains are used for fermentation to make MSG, which is a very good raw material. In addition, it is necessary to collect some plant ash and filter it to obtain alkaline water for the second step of the reaction.
The whole process only requires some physical labor, and the only remaining main ingredient is yogurt, which is difficult to obtain.
However, Zhao Cheng went to Qinghe County and naturally bought this key material. All that was left was to cut the grass and cook the valley.
Although Zhou Rushuang didn't know what Zhao Cheng was going to do, he was very happy when he saw that Zhao Cheng did not go out to gamble as Matchmaker Wang said, but came back with something.
As soon as Zhao Cheng came back, she followed Zhao Cheng, either helping him cut the grass or collecting firewood, and was very busy.
