The small dining table is filled with food.
Originally, the twice-cooked pork was supposed to be the star of the night, but the aroma of the twice-cooked pork was not strong enough, and the braised meat took away the spotlight.
"Wait a minute."
Cheng Wanwan stood up, took a little out of each bowl, and handed it to Zhao Sidan.
No need to explain, Zhao Sidan knew what this meant. He quickly rushed out of the yard with the bowl in his arms. After a while, he ran back sweating profusely.
After he sat down, the meal officially began.
The first thing everyone did was to pick up the braised meat. There was a big plate, including pig head meat, pig ears, pig intestines and small intestines, pig hearts and livers... There were so many varieties that you couldn't stop after taking one bite.
"Auntie, this is so delicious!" Shen Zheng started to speak after he was half full after eating, "Did you add dogwood to bring out a little spiciness? While retaining the original taste of the ingredients, it also added... The spiciness and aroma are so addictive.”
Cheng Wanwan laughed: "This is called braised food."
Cheng Zhao put down his chopsticks and said, "The canteen of Nanfu Academy also has braised pork, but it's not as delicious as this one."
Zhao Sidan wanted to swallow it with his tongue: "Mom, this is more delicious than braised pork, but it's a little spicy. After a few mouthfuls, I want to drink water."
Zhao Dashan took a sip of water and said, "It's okay to be spicy, as long as it's delicious. This is the first time I've eaten something so delicious!"
He had cleaned up the pig intestines and pork belly. It was very uncomfortable to wash them. It took a lot of plant ash to clean them. Unexpectedly, they turned out to be so delicious when they were eaten. He wished he had a bigger mouth so he could eat more.
Cheng Wanwan felt relieved.
It seems her braised food business has hope.
Just as she was about to speak, Zhao Ergou put down his chopsticks and said seriously: "Mom, I want to discuss something with you."
Cheng Wanwan nodded.
He continued: "Didn't my mother pay me my wages? I want to use my wages to buy the remaining braised food in the kitchen. I can buy as much as I can."
Zhao Sidan asked curiously: "Second brother, you can eat it if you want. I won't steal it from you. Why did you buy it?"
"You just know how to eat, eat, eat!" Zhao Ergou patted the back of his head and continued, "Didn't my cousin say that Nanfu Academy has braised pork, so the restaurants in the town should also have braised pork. I’m sure the braised meat made by mother and sister-in-law should taste better than the one they made, otherwise Master Shen and Ah Fu wouldn’t have two big bowls of rice in a row.”
Shen Zheng coughed and tried to keep up his appearance: "Don't talk nonsense, I only ate a bowl and a half."
Cheng Wanwan understood what her second son meant, and she said, "So, you want to buy goods from me and sell them in the town?"
Zhao Ergou grinned: "Do you think this business can work?"
Cheng Wanwan laughed.
This was the business she came up with. Before she could tell the children, this kid said it first.
With her own son charging forward, she was naturally happy and relaxed.
She smiled and said: "Of course it can be done. The price of pork in the town has been reduced a bit. It costs twenty-five cents per pound. These pig offal are cheaper. They cost fifteen cents. I made a lot of waste doing them." I’ll give you thirty-five cents per pound for seasonings. Can you accept this price?”
Zhao Ergou immediately took out the abacus from his waist, made some calculations, and grinned: "Then all the money in my hand can buy sixteen kilograms. Do I still have that much in the kitchen?"
Wu Huiniang shook her head: "There are only seven or eight kilograms in total. After eating four or five kilograms, there are still more than three kilograms left."
Zhao Ergou thought for a while and said: "I want more than three kilograms. I will take it to the town tomorrow to try it."
Last time when my mother sold ice powder, she initially offered free samples. Can he use the same method and give it to others for free? People who like it will naturally be willing to pay for it.
Let's use these three kilograms of braised meat to clear the way.
Shen Zheng touched his chin and said: "The price of pig offal is cheap, but it is a bit difficult to buy so much at once. Otherwise, let me supply it to you, auntie. You just said that the pork offal on the market is ten It costs five cents per catty, so I’ll give you a price of fourteen cents, and you can save some cost.”
Cheng Wanwan looked at him curiously: "You are a young man, but you still know how to do business?"
"That said, this young master can do anything. It just depends on whether he wants to do it or not." Shen Zheng snorted, "Cheng Zhao, do you remember that there was a man named Zhu Yang in Nanfu Academy? His father was a pig butcher. Ah Fu, you go to Hekou Town tomorrow and settle this matter with Zhu Yang, saying that this young master will buy all the pig offal from his house every day for ten cents per catty."
In this era, pig offal is not a popular thing. Although the price is cheaper than pork, it is very troublesome to clean up and has a strange smell no matter how you prepare it. Except for the poorest people, the people in the town are determined not to eat it. Those who know how to buy these things, and those poor people cannot afford to buy them all at once, so many pork shops just smash the offal on their hands and keep it for themselves.
Most of the pigs in the town are rushed to the butcher for processing, and then sent to the pork shop for sale.
The butcher is the first person to come into contact with the pig offal. If he offers to buy all the offal, the butchers in the pork shops will basically not refuse.
The biggest problem of supply has been solved, and the braised pork business is almost settled.
Cheng Wanwan looked at Zhao Ergou: "How much do you plan to sell it per catty?"
Zhao Ergou fiddled with the abacus and said: "Master Shen can earn four cents per catty, and mother can earn twenty-one cents per catty. I don't think I can earn less than mother, so I will sell a piece for sixty cents." catty."
"Ergou, you are just asking for a price." Zhao Dashan disagreed very much, "Few people in our village can afford to buy meat for more than 20 cents per pound. If you sell it for 60 cents, those people are crazy. Will buy it."
"Brother, you don't understand." Zhao Ergou said seriously, "The braised pork is not sold to the villagers, whether they can afford it or not. For example, the ice powder from more than a month ago cost two cents a bowl. People in the village can't afford it. Our Dahe Village is not a place where we can make money. If we want to make money, we have to go to places where rich people like to go. For example, restaurants and bars. Can't the merchants in the past still not be able to make this money? "
Shen Zheng strongly agreed: "There is another good place, Yihong Building. All the people who go here are rich people."
Zhao Ergou turned his head curiously: "What is Yihong Tower?"
Cheng Zhao couldn't help but ask: "The word Yihong is very charming. Where is this?"
Shen Zheng's face was full of ridicule: "Hahahaha, no, Cheng Zhao, you don't even know about Yihong Building. It's normal for Zhao Ergou to be a country bumpkin. Haven't you always lived in the town, so you didn't even go to Yihong Building to take a look? …”
Cheng Wanwan's eyelids couldn't help but twitch.
The name Yihonglou, coupled with Shen Zheng's unrestrained smile, made her vaguely understand something.
She stood up suddenly, coughed and said, "Master Shen, come here with me."
Shen Zheng thought they were talking about business, so he stood up and walked out.
