"You little fool, I asked you to study with your Uncle Zhu and you didn't do it. Look, you must have been deceived now."
Li Qiao shook his head, and when he saw Tao Zhu coming out of the kitchen, he said, "Brother Zhu, settle the score for Dashan."
"Ah?" Li Dashan was confused, scratched his head, and looked at Tao Zhu in confusion.
Tao Zhu smiled softly and began to settle accounts for him.
Two thousand taels of silver seemed like a lot.
But if this account is broken down into each youth league, the money will not be much.
"As long as we sell the Youth League honestly for three or four years, we can earn so much money. If he wants to buy this prescription directly for two thousand taels of silver, he is treating us as a fool."
He said with a slight snort.
Shopkeeper Zhao is a fool. Even he can't be fooled, let alone Li Qiao.
Let alone two thousand taels, he wouldn't sell even twenty thousand taels.
He wants to make it a family heirloom recipe and sell it from generation to generation.
Li Dashan: "..."
He looked at Li Qiao with a guilty conscience.
Li Qiao pointed at him: "You are my eldest nephew. The maltose business will definitely be passed on to you in the future. From today on, you must learn to settle accounts for me, so as not to be cheated without even knowing it."
"Yes." Li Dashan agreed obediently.
He did look like a fool just now...
However, thinking of the accounts his Uncle Zhu had just settled for him, he couldn't help but chuckle again: "It's amazing that the Youth League can earn so much money!"
"Who told us we don't have it here? Although it tastes really good, part of the reason is that everyone has never eaten it before and it feels fresh." Li Qiao said.
In his previous life, Qingtuan could only be regarded as a regional snack and did not become as popular as snail noodles across the country.
The main reason why Qingtuan sells so well in Pingcheng is that there are no similar Nuojiji snacks here.
"Anyway, I think Qingtuan tastes good. My mother and I like it very much, and so do Aunt Li Ping and Brother Qian."
Li Dashan felt that his brother-in-law's words were not quite right.
Of course Qingtuan sells so well because it’s delicious!
"Speaking of Brother Qian, why haven't you seen him here in the past few days?"
Tao Zhu was a little strange.
The incident of divine punishment that happened to Zhao Erniu was so mysterious that Zheng Qianqian didn't even come to him to gossip about it.
"Brother Qian has indeed not been here for several days." Li Qiao was also a little surprised: "We just have braised noodles for lunch. I will go to his house to buy a few kilograms of pork."
"I'll go and take a look."
Tao Zhu said.
He is the younger brother, and he and Zheng Qianqian have more to talk to.
So Tao Zhu carried a wicker basket, wrapped four green dumplings in linen and put them in the basket, and then went to Butcher Zheng's house.
He was supposed to be back in a quarter of an hour, but he was gone for less than half an hour. When he came back, Li Qiao immediately came out of the shed: "Why have you been gone for so long? Sit down and drink some water."
Tao Zhu was indeed a little thirsty. He waved his hand and motioned for him to fall down.
He poured a bowl of cold boiled water from the clay pot to quench his thirst, and then said: "I helped Brother Qian stew a big bone, so I came back late."
"He hasn't had breakfast yet?" Li Qiao was surprised.
The sun has risen so high.
"Have eaten." Tao Zhu said and sighed softly: "He hasn't gone out these days. He has been playing around with how to eat pork."
"Huh?" Li Qiao was puzzled.
Li Dashan, who was grinding glutinous rice flour with a stone mill, also looked over. Brother Qian, who loves to put on makeup and powder, is actually willing to stay in the kitchen on a hot day?
"Isn't Uncle Zheng selling pork in the town? He is the only one selling pork in the whole town, so the business has always been very good."
"But half a month ago, another butcher shop appeared in the town. This butcher shop is cheaper than the Zheng family's pork. It also sells vegetables, eggs and the like. On the day it opened, it took away half of the Zheng family's business."
"Now half a month has passed, and the Zheng family's business is getting worse day by day. Let's close it. I'm not willing to accept it. Keep opening the door. In two days, more than half of a pig will be left. In such a hot day, if the meat cannot be sold out, it will easily stink. "
Tao Zhu couldn't help but sigh again when he thought of Brother Qian's sad face.
"Then why don't you lower the price?"
Li Dashan couldn't help but ask: "If others surrender, they should surrender too."
He thought very simply, it would be great if he could make money, it was better than not making any money at all.
"But, brother Qian, why are you tossing the pork?"
"Uncle Zheng didn't want to directly lower the price, but the meat couldn't be sold, so he wanted to make part of the meat into cooked food and sell the cooked food at the price of raw meat. This can also be regarded as a disguised price reduction."
Tao Zhu explained.
Now in the Zheng family, Butcher Zheng leads his eldest son to sell meat in the town, while the second son and his wife work in the fields.
Therefore, the job of cooking cooked food fell on Zheng Qianqian, Zhao Ting and his eldest daughter-in-law.
The three of them were experimenting with various ways to cook pork at home.
However, Zheng Qianqian doesn't know how to cook, and Zhao Ting and his eldest daughter-in-law's cooking skills are average. To be precise, everyone in his family's cooking skills are average, so even if some of the meat is made into cooked food, the business is still the same. Not great.
But it's finally a little better. After all, making meat into cooked food requires seasoning and firewood. They sell cooked food at the price of raw meat, and more or less people are still willing to buy it.
But who knew that starting yesterday, the newly opened butcher shop would also start selling cooked food.
This made the Zheng family very angry.
But there is no way to destroy other people's shops, so the Zheng family can only practice their cooking skills hard and try to come up with some new tricks.
"I just seasoned the big bones and told them how to do it. I hope it can help."
Tao Zhu said.
"Uncle Zhu, your cooking skills are good, the big bones this time will definitely sell well!"
Li Dashan is full of confidence in Tao Zhu.
"Not necessarily. Brother Qian said that the cooked food sold there is also very good." Tao Zhu was not optimistic.
His cooking skills can only make some home-cooked dishes, and he has no confidence that he can surpass the other party.
"…Then this is really troublesome."
Li Dashan was speechless now.
The other party's moves are one after another. Does this mean they have to crowd out the Zheng family's butcher shop?
"Forget it, I can only help so much. I'll continue making Feng Gao." Tao Zhu finished drinking the water and carried the pork belly he bought into the kitchen.
Li Qiao thought for a while and went back to the shed to make bean paste.
When it comes to selling cooked food, Butcher Zheng has a good trick, but the other party can imitate it.
If he wants to keep his butcher shop open, Butcher Zheng must come up with something that the other party cannot imitate.
Hmm...he does have an idea.
At almost noon, Li Chuntao came.
She worked hard and quickly steamed two large pots of noodles, weighing more than twenty kilograms.
The pork belly is cut into slices, stir-fried until fragrant, and paired with celery and beans. This braised noodles is very appetizing just by looking at it.
Li Qiao has a strong taste and likes spicy food. He taught Tao Zhu how to make chili oil, and Tao Zhu made a chili oil that can be mixed with everything, even the soles of shoes.
At this time, he filled a small bowl full of noodles, added a few spoons of all-purpose chili oil made from Tao Zhu, and swallowed the noodles in one mouthful. The taste was really amazing.
Tao Zhu said that you can eat well at home, which is absolutely true.
Li Dashan, led by Li Qiao, also started to eat chili oil, but he did not dare to put in so much and only added a spoonful.
Mix the chili oil evenly, then he swung it down with chopsticks, and half the bowl of noodles was gone.
After swallowing the noodles in his mouth, he couldn't help but said to Li Chuntao: "Sister-in-law, your cooking skills are enough to set up a stall, it's so delicious!"
"My cooking skills are average, but Brother Zhu's chili oil is the best."
Li Chuntao smiled.
"It was Li Qiao who taught me how to make this chili oil. The really powerful one is Li Qiao." Tao Zhu looked at Li Qiao with bright eyes: "He is the most powerful one."
Li Qiao was most amused by these ones: "I also read it from the book."
"I will also let my child study in the future. As long as he is as good as my uncle's little finger, he will have no worries about food and drink in the future."
Li Dashan admires Li Qiao very much now. His brother-in-law got all his skills from books. Books are so useful.
It is impossible for him to study again, but his children can!
He must let his children follow the same path as his brother-in-law in the future.
Thinking like this, he got up and went to get another bowl of noodles. It was a big bowl of noodles and he finished it in two bites.
"Reading is indeed useful." Li Qiao agreed with this sentence: "It's like the situation at Brother Qian's house. I saw how to make sausages in a book. If you make sausages from unsold pork, then It can be stored for a long time.”
Sausage and bacon are actually also a food in the south, and he searched the original person's memory and found no such two kinds of food.
It doesn’t matter, in addition to sausages and bacon, you can also make grilled sausages.
Compared with sausages and bacon, grilled sausages are more common. They are popular all over the country and can be seen everywhere on the streets.
"Sausage and bacon?"
Tao Zhu was surprised.
Li Dashan and Li Chuntao also looked at him.
What is sausage bacon?
"I'll go to Brother Qian's house later. Brother Zhu, let's go together. I said, you do it."
Li Qiao said.
