I fell through the tunnel and brought my family to live a good life

Unexpectedly, Shen Xiao saw through her idea of ​​cooperating with Tang Wenhao. Xu Congyi was slightly embarrassed and touched her nose, but she did not deny it. After all, both of them had such high evaluations, and she was full of confidence in her cold-eating rabbit. Since Shen Xiao's words had been spoken, Xu Congyi no longer hid them. She directly said that she wanted to do business with Tang Wenhao. However, she was not in a hurry to achieve success, but just roughly described her ideas.

When Tang Wenhao heard this, he slapped his thigh excitedly and said with shining eyes: "Then let's open a restaurant and call it Xu Tangji Cold-Eated Rabbit!" His voice was full of heroism and expectation, as if he had already seen the restaurant's booming business.

As expected, the rich are still arrogant. Xu Congyi listened to Tang Wenhao's words, but she had her own plan in mind. She knew that opening a restaurant was not easy, and it required a lot of money and time, and the risk was not small. Therefore, she was not in a hurry to open a restaurant immediately, but wanted to expand the sales of cold-eaten rabbit through other means first, and accumulate some funds and experience.

But it was true. Tang Wenhao's pastry shop had a few tables selling cold rabbits, which was too out of place. Xu Congyi wanted to make more money. The family had spent a lot of money buying land and building rabbit houses. Although there were savings and monthly share of popcorn, noodles and fried milk, the income in the village was definitely top-notch, but Xu Congyi was not satisfied. She wanted her family to live better. Living in a better and more comfortable house was not enough. She also hoped to use her modern mind to let the villagers who helped the Xu family live a good life. Farmers may not be good at other things, but they are good at planting and breeding. If the cold rabbit business can be established, pepper planting and rabbit breeding can let everyone participate.

Xu Congyi didn't say anything. Seeing her silence, Tang Wenhao thought she had no intention of opening a restaurant. But in fact, her mind was full of food. She first thought of a hot pot restaurant. Now that she had peppers, wouldn't it be great to make hot pot? Raising sheep can also make money! Then she thought of opening an iron pot stew. Isn't her earthen pot chicken also an iron pot stew? She also thought of a barbecue restaurant, and so on.

"Ms. Xu, don't you want to cooperate with me to open a restaurant?" Seeing that Xu Congyi had not spoken, Tang Wenhao could not help but ask.

"Ah?" Xu Congyi realized that Tang Wenhao was waiting for her response, so she said to Tang Wenhao: "Mr. Tang, your idea is very good, and I am looking forward to opening a restaurant with you. However, I think we should not rush into it now. We can start with some small-scale businesses, such as selling cold rabbit in some busy markets or street stalls. This will not only test the market reaction, but also accumulate some sales experience. When the time is right, we will consider opening a restaurant. And we also need to think about what to sell in the restaurant to be more competitive."

"Competitiveness? What is competitiveness?" Tang Wenhao asked puzzledly, and Shen Xiao also turned his head to look at Xu Congyi.

"If we open a restaurant together, how can we do better business than other restaurants? How can we attract more people to eat at our restaurant?"

"That's easy," Tang Wenhao joked. "As long as we use the name of Tang's, there will be no bad business."

Xu Congyi's mouth twitched, you are really confident.

"Cold rabbit is actually not suitable as the main dish in a restaurant. It is more like a snack or a side dish for drinking. What do you think? If you want to open a restaurant, you still have to think carefully about the other dishes." Xu Congyi expressed his thoughts.

"Sister Xu is right. We are indeed the first in Qicheng to cook with chili peppers. However, the taste of chili peppers makes people feel painful in the mouth. I don't think everyone likes this taste. If we rashly open a restaurant based on this dish alone, it would be inappropriate." Shen Xiao's idea was the same as Xu Congyi's.

In fact, Tang Wenhao knew in his heart that it was not a good time to open a restaurant. Opening a restaurant required a lot of preliminary preparation. After all, he was the only real businessman among the three. But as an out-and-out food lover, he had always wanted to open a restaurant. Now that he had Xu Congyi, the recipe king, he was eager to open a restaurant.

"How about this! I'll make cold rabbits first, three a day, cut them into small pieces, and have Tang Xiaowu bring them back every day along with popcorn. These rabbits are free, and can be divided into small portions to give to customers who come to buy cakes to try. Each customer is limited to one portion, and we'll give them away for about a month. If the response is good, we'll consider opening a store later. In fact, we don't need to open a big restaurant, we can find a small shop, and we can just make takeout. This way we only need to hire two people, which saves effort and worry."

"What a good idea! Sister Xu, you have a very smart brain!" Tang Wenhao thought this method was very good.

Xu Congyi thought to himself, it's not that I'm smart, it's mainly because this is the way of business nowadays, duck shops, smoked meat shops, and braised meat shops are all like this, they don't provide dine-in services, they only provide take-out.

"But I think..." Tang Wenhao continued, "You can't give me the free gift for one month without money. All the expenses for this month are mine, and I won't split the profits with you. I have more money, and I can't let you lose it."

After all, these rabbits only cost a few dollars, and three a day with seasoning is also very cheap. Tang Wenhao wants to do long-term business with Xu Congyi, and he has not given up the idea of ​​opening a restaurant.

"Okay." Xu Congyi did not refuse this. Rabbits have basically no cost. After buying five pairs of rabbits from the space, they have been breeding continuously. The grass they eat is also cut from the mountains or bought by Xu Congyi in the space. It's just that cutting the grass consumes his own manpower.

"Then just charge me the same price as a live rabbit at the market." Xu Congyi didn't know much about the price of live rabbits, so he just ignored it.

"How much is a live rabbit? I don't know either. Shen Xiao, do you know?" Tang Wenhao asked Shen Xiao.

"I know," Shen Xiao said like a know-it-all. "I often go to the market to buy ingredients for my grandfather to make noodles. Rabbit meat is lean and not many people eat it, so it's not expensive. It's not as expensive as pork. A three-pound live rabbit costs about sixty cents. If you remove the fur, it's about forty-five cents per piece."

"Then forty cents will do." It's a little cheaper than the market price and it makes it a round number.

"Okay, it's settled!" Tang Wenhao agreed readily.

The three of them finished their meal contentedly and chatted happily for a while. Xu Congyi then stood up and said goodbye to Tang Wenhao and Shen Xiao. She and Tang Wenhao agreed that starting from the day after tomorrow, Tang Xiaowu would bring back the cold rabbit along with the popcorn. Because tomorrow was too tight to prepare, the rabbit needed to be soaked in blood water first and then marinated in advance. After the production was completed, it needed to be left for a while to allow it to fully absorb the flavor. As for the recipe for hawthorn water, it was so simple that it had no technical content. Xu Congyi generously gave it to Tang Wenhao for free.