When Cao Xi woke up in the morning, he saw Qin Zhao sleeping beside him. His face was red and his mouth was slightly open. He was sleeping carelessly. She moved slowly and got out of bed gently.
In the kitchen, Cao Xi put last night's rice into the pot to heat it up, and took the pig to the well to clean it. The water in the well was not that cold anymore when the weather got warmer.
Qin Zhao walked out with sleepy eyes, and saw Cao Xi wrapping his mouth and nose with a piece of cloth, squatting by the well and pulling pig intestines, the scene rising and falling was very strange.
He calmed down and walked forward. The basin was full of pig semen and the smell was straight into his nose. He endured the discomfort and reached out to help Cao Xi wash it.
Cao Xi hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't do it. I'll be done soon. You go and wash up first. Then put the table and put the food in the pot. Let's finish breakfast and start making braised pork."
"Okay." Qin Zhao ran to wash up.
After clearing the tables and chairs and setting out the food, Qin Zhao shouted toward the well, "Cao Xi can eat now."
Cao Xi put down what she was doing, got up and cleaned herself up. When she walked into the room, she found that the food was neatly arranged, and there were a few more pieces of meat and a large piece of soy sauce bone in her bowl.
Cao Xi picked up the meat in the bowl and put it into his mouth, squinting his eyes and expressing enjoyment, "Why do I think the meat Qin Zhao gave me is more delicious than usual?"
Qin Zhao was a little embarrassed by what she said. He picked up the bowl in front of him and ate the dry rice without picking up vegetables.
"Pass the bowl over." Cao Xi poured the remaining meat residue on the plate into Qin Zhao's bowl. He used chopsticks to peel off the meat from the bones and gave them to Qin Zhao. He held the big bones in his arms. He chewed it and threw it aside.
Cao Xi: "We'll make braised pork later so you can eat enough."
Qin Zhao squinted his eyes at her, wondering if he should eat enough, just that pile of smelly intestines?
Cao Xi saw Qin Zhao's expression of disbelief in him and didn't explain much, which made him salivate.
Qin Zhao cleaned the dishes and chopsticks and boiled water in the pot. Cao Xi cut the washed pig offal into pieces, added peppercorns, aniseed, ginger and green onions to the pot and blanched the cut off pig offal. Water to remove odor.
The smell of pig offal gradually faded away, and the water was fished out before making the marinade. During this process, Cao Xi was busy at the top, while Qin Zhao was busy at the bottom, filling in the wood and handling the auxiliary ingredients. His little face turned red from exhaustion.
After putting all the pigs into the pot, all that's left is waiting.
Qin Zhao looked at the large pot of pigs in the water. He didn't believe it at first, but gradually became hopeful. The aroma became stronger and stronger as time went by. Qin Zhao swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva. Cao Xi looked amused and sad at the same time.
The fire ceased for an hour and simmered for another hour before taking it out of the pot.
"It smells so good." Qin Zhao swallowed.
"Come and taste it." Cao Xi casually cut a piece of sausage and handed it to Qin Zhao.
It was a bit hot, so he took it and blew it with his mouth, then put the whole piece into his mouth. It tasted smooth and tender. Qin Zhao stretched out his thumb and praised Cao Xi.
Cao Xi also cut a piece for herself and tasted it. It was indeed delicious. Selling to a restaurant shouldn't be a problem.
"Help me clean the small jar in the corner and bring it over." Cao Xi picked out the pig waste from the pot.
"Yeah." Qin Zhao ran over in a hurry, took the small jar and began to clean it by the well.
Qin Zhao brought the cleaned jar to Cao Xi, "Cao Xi has cleaned it and here it is for you."
Cao Xi: "Thank you, go change your clothes and we will go out later."
Cao Xi wiped off the water in the jar, put in the sliced sausages, pork liver, pig heart, pig lungs, etc., then took the lid and covered it. After taking all the heat preservation measures, he and Qin Zhao went straight to the restaurant in the city.
Cao Xi first went to Lao Jixiang Restaurant, mainly because his family had a good business and wanted to sell his recipes at a good price.
"Hello, two gentlemen." The waiter looked behind them. Is there anyone there?
Cao Xi: "Little brother, we came here on our own."
"Are you rich? The food here is very expensive." Judging from their clothes, they look like children from poor families.
But the boy's temperament doesn't look like something a poor family could raise. I didn't dare to chase people away rashly, and I was afraid of affecting other guests, so I could only communicate with them patiently.
Cao Xi: "We're not here to eat, we're here to sell." After saying that, he handed the jar in his arms to the waiter.
The waiter was a little embarrassed. This rough jar was probably filled with pickles.
"But our restaurant doesn't need pickles?" His body began to subconsciously drive them away as he spoke.
Cao Xi saw what he was thinking, "Brother, this is not a pickle. Just wait for me and I'll open it for you to try." After saying that, he opened the jar and the aroma wafted out.
"It smells good?" I wanted to stop them in their tracks.
Cao Xi picked up a piece of sausage with chopsticks and handed it to the waiter, "Brother, try it, it's absolutely delicious."
The waiter never expected that pigs could make such fragrant dishes. Pig sesame is fishy and smelly, and even poor people don't like to eat it, but now this pig sesame is so fragrant that people can't help but want to try it.
The waiter was still a little dissatisfied after taking a bite of the sausage. He took the chopsticks in Cao Xi's hand and picked them up himself.
The customers in the store also smelled the aroma and came to see what it was. What is it that smells so good? Let me try it too. Several people were eager to try it, and the waiter even took several bites.
Cao Xi interrupted quickly, "Little brother, can we meet your shopkeeper?"
The shopkeeper in the restaurant came out when the crowd was noisy. "Dear guests, I'm sorry, the children are not sensible and disturbed everyone's meal. I will take them to the backyard right now."
"Let's go, I'm the shopkeeper." Just seeing the waiter's messy appearance and smelling the aroma, he couldn't help but want to try it.
Cao Xi and Qin Zhao followed the shopkeeper to the living room in the backyard.
The shopkeeper held back his saliva and asked, "What do you want from me?"
"Hello, shopkeeper, my brother and I have made some food and want to give it to you to try." Cao Xi smiled sweetly with a crooked smile on his lips. He didn't look like someone who came to sell things at all, but more like a junior coming to visit his elders.
"Oh, let me see what the food is." Although he took it indifferently on the surface, he was impatient on the inside. He was indifferent to emotions and anger, which is what a businessman should be like.
Cao Xi put some of the intestines, pig heart, pig liver, and pig lungs in the small jar, put them on the lid, pushed the lid to the shopkeeper, and handed over a pair of new chopsticks.
The shopkeeper thought he was a clever kid, so he took the chopsticks and tasted them. Well, it's really delicious. It's delicious. I don't know how to make it.
Qin Zhao quietly tugged at the corner of Cao Xi's clothes. He watched the shopkeeper finish eating the food on the lid and then eating from the jar. The gesture of not stopping his chopsticks made him a little anxious. With the way he eats, if the business cannot be negotiated, Don’t even think about going to the next one.
Cao Xi understood and said, "How does the shopkeeper feel about the taste of this dish?"
At this time, the shopkeeper realized that he had eaten too much, and he felt a little embarrassed, "This dish is indeed delicious, but I don't know how the girl wants to sell it."
"I want to sell the recipe of this dish to a restaurant, but I don't know what the shopkeeper wants." Cao Xi found that the shopkeeper's expression was a little tangled.
"What about your adults?" This kind of thing still needs to be discussed with an adult. After doing business for so many years, he has encountered all kinds of things. He doesn't want to cause trouble for himself.
"My brother and I researched this together. Our parents let us make our own decisions." Cao Xi was also afraid of danger, so she made up a temporary parent for herself.
The shopkeeper stroked his beard, which was so short that he couldn't see it. "That's it, how are you going to sell it?"
"My parents didn't tell us how much we would sell it for," Cao Xi said as if it was difficult to make a decision.
"This is our first time selling recipes. Can the shopkeeper help me give a price after looking at the dishes?" Cao Xi looked at the shopkeeper and asked.
"Then let's take fifty taels of silver." The shopkeeper thought for a while, but he didn't dare to give it too low, fearing that he was really a child from a wealthy family who was learning to do business.
Cao Xi thought about the modern franchise fee and the price in ancient times, and felt that the price was a bit low but acceptable.
"I have other ways to eat pig waste, what you see now is just one." Since it goes so well, I'll sell a few more recipes by the way.
"Oh, if that's okay, can you let me try it too?" The shopkeeper is also very interested in other dishes.
Cao Xi: "I have to borrow the shopkeeper's kitchen to use."
"Of course, the waiter will take this girl to the kitchen." The shopkeeper looked a little excited, and his tone of voice increased unconsciously.
"Brother, wait for me here. I'll be back in a moment." Cao Xi asked
"Okay, you go." Qin Zhao sat upright, spoke coldly, and was a master of a young master. It was just this temperament that confused the shopkeeper.
"I will take care of your brother, don't worry." After saying that, he asked the waiter to serve a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and a cup of tea.
Cao Xi borrowed the kitchen to make fried sausages with hot peppers, grated heart and liver, cold pork heart, couple's lung slices, etc. The shopkeeper tasted each dish, but he didn't expect that pig offal could be made in such a variety of ways. According to the purchase price of pig offal, these You can only make money but not lose money.
The shopkeeper thought for a long time and finalized: "How about making braised vegetables and these four dishes for a total of seventy taels of silver?"
Cao Xi: "Let's just settle it like this." She is already very happy to be able to sell it at this price.
The recipe was recorded by Cao Xi orally by the shopkeeper. In the end, both parties signed a sale agreement. Before leaving, Cao Xi kindly reminded the shopkeeper, "This marinade can not only put pigs in the water, but also meat and big bones. It is very delicious when made." tasty"
The shopkeeper smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. As soon as the coldness in front of the door changed, he greeted me warmly and kept telling him that if he had any recipes in the future, just send them here.
Throughout the whole process, Qin Zhao was a vase of temperament, using his temperament to hold up the scene without even realizing it.
