Crossing the Unknown Country

Several of them were businessmen, and they didn't care about this little money. Usually, they would spend thirty or forty taels of silver to entertain guests, and sometimes hundreds of taels of silver for big customers. This is what Su He said to his family at home. If you do business with poor people, you will never make a fortune. They don't have money, so they can only accumulate small amounts slowly. If you want to get rich quickly, you can only do business with these rich people. Their small amounts of money are just the big money for these poor people.

They asked the Su He family to take out all the noodles they had brought, and they divided them equally among themselves. It didn't cost much anyway, so they also divided the dried vegetables they had brought. This time, the Su He family sold more than 100 kilograms of noodles, and after deducting the cost, they made a net profit of more than 30 taels of silver.

Su He's father didn't expect that the business would be so smooth this time, and he made so much money in one day. The family didn't plan to stay here for long, and they were going to go home early tomorrow morning. Su He copied down some of the recipes he knew this time to see if he could sell them for some money, no matter how much, as long as they could make money.

In the afternoon, he asked his father to take them to a restaurant for dinner. They would go to the restaurant with the most people. Let's see how the food here is first. Anyway, they made money today, so they could eat something good and feel the market of this industry.

They found a restaurant called Fumanlou, which was named after her dog. Fumanduo and Fumanlou were very related. So they went in to eat. The lobby was full. Seeing the three floors full of guests, they knew the food was good. The four of them walked straight to here. The waiter at the door saw them coming and greeted them with a smile: "Please come this way, sir. What are you going to eat? Look at the menu on the wall."

Su He's father smiled and said, "There are still seats available in the lobby. We can just have a simple meal."

The waiter did not neglect them because they were eating in the lobby. He led them to an empty table and poured them some water. He told them to take their time to order and call him later. He would wait by the side. If someone at the surrounding tables had an empty cup, he would quickly fill it for them. It was obvious that this waiter was a very discerning person.

Su He's father ordered a vegetarian dish, a braised pork, and four bowls of rice. The waiter smiled and took note, asking them to wait a moment. Su He looked around, wondering how the food looked. What dishes were being ordered? What dishes were on the menu?

Su He looked around curiously like a real child, and no one paid attention to her. She saw and remembered everything she wanted to know. At this time, the dishes they ordered came up, one meat and one vegetable, and four bowls of rice. Su He's parents picked up the dishes for the two children. After each of them took a bite of the dish, they stopped eating and continued eating. Su He tasted the two dishes carefully. The taste was generally salty, but with more oil and just the right amount of heat. But the color of the braised pork was not that good. The braised pork in later generations was fried with sugar to make it look good and delicious.

Seeing that his parents didn't want to eat the food, Su He put some food in their bowls and asked them to eat together. If they were really hungry, they could have some cheap snacks on the way back. The second brother also picked up some food for his parents, and the family ate happily. When they were almost done eating, Su He called the waiter over: "Big brother, is your shopkeeper here? I want him to see some recipes. Can you introduce them to me?" He took the opportunity to put the small cloth bag containing thirty coins that he had prepared into his hand as a tip.

The waiter looked at the little girl with sparkling eyes, sweet and cute, with a chubby face, and she looked well-fed. The little girl was looking at him with a smile, squeezing the silver in her hand, and said to Su He: "Come with your father!" He couldn't bring a child with him, because the shopkeeper would blame him.

Su He's father pulled Su He and followed the waiter. As they walked, the waiter whispered to him, "Just say I'm a distant relative. My last name is Qin. Remember that!"

Su He smiled and said, "It just so happens that my mother's surname is also Qin, so I will say that I am a relative from my mother's family."

The waiter was delighted and said with a smile: "That's fine, just don't let it get away with it."