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Since Shen Wanshan was invited to dinner the next day, he also wanted to taste the food.

It is just to show that these recipes at home are definitely worthy of such a large share.

Therefore, when Liu's father and his companions returned to the provincial capital, they went to two familiar butcher shops and specifically ordered some more chops and pork tenderloins, which were more delicious meats, and also ordered fish, chicken, duck and goose.

"Weizhong, ask them to look for some tomorrow morning, and you go to the dock to see if there are any fresh ingredients and buy some back. Although it seems that Shen Wanshan has taken advantage of us at the beginning, in the long run, we are still the ones who have taken advantage. We must convince him about the menu."

"Uncle Renyi, I understand. I saw some shrimp and some river fish earlier. Go buy some early."

"Well, okay, my braised prawns are also a specialty. I guarantee you'll want more after you've had them."

"Dad, why didn't you bring some peppers? Didn't we plant a lot this year? Besides keeping seeds, there should be a lot that can be used! The hot pot seasoning packets I have here won't last much longer. Fortunately, I opened a braised meat shop, so I don't need so many peppers. If I opened a spicy hot pot shop, the peppers would not be enough."

"You think there's a lot left at home? The three shops in the county town need a lot. There are no more hot pot base packets in the county town. We use the peppers we collected this year and the Sichuan peppercorns we bought from other villages to make our own hot pot base."

"What should we do? We can't open a shop in the back without chili peppers?"

"I know. Don't worry. I haven't finished yet. All the fields in the village are planted with autumn peppers. It is expected to be harvested in October. There will be enough for use by then. Next year, I will bring the seeds to the farm and plant them myself. I will expand the planting scale and let the tenant farmers plant peppers in the spring. Except for the paddy fields, all other fields will be planted with peppers. I will pay them when the time comes."

"It depends on how many stores you have at the beginning. If there are many, I don't think the land on the farm will be enough to plant all the crops. By the way, Dad, how do you like the salted duck eggs with rice porridge tonight?"

"It tastes good. Did you make it yourself?"

"Yes, I made it a while ago. Today is exactly two weeks and fifteen days, so I took it out to try. I can sell it in the store later. Summer is coming, and I saw some shops selling homemade multi-grain porridge. There are quite a lot of people buying it. If it is paired with salted duck eggs, I think there should be a market for it."

"Sure, it's not just salted duck eggs. I'll go look for some lime powder later and make preserved eggs. Roasted pepper preserved eggs are also a famous dish."

"Yes, we must seize the opportunity and get these things out in advance. If other colleagues get them out first, we will lose the advantage."

"Let others make it. Look at the proliferation of videos nowadays, and the taste of the food they make is still not the same. Otherwise, if everyone makes it themselves, who would go to restaurants? Those factories that sell these things would have collapsed long ago."

"I mean to create a brand and launch it, seize the initiative, and promote our company's brand first."

"We really need to do this sooner rather than later. Let's talk about cooperation with Shen Wanshan tomorrow. It would be best if we could get him to join our company. If that's not possible, we can give him some profit in the early stages. After all, we need to use his store and connections."

"Okay, let's talk about it tomorrow. I'm going to sleep now. After coming here, I've developed a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early."

"Who isn't!"

"Okay, let's go to bed early!"

When Shen Wanshan arrived at Wang's house, he saw Liu's father and two maids washing dishes in the yard. Shen Wanshan was shocked. He thought that the cooking Liu's father was talking about was done by the family's cook. He didn't expect that he was cooking by himself. Generally, business people rarely cook by themselves.

"Brother Liu, are you cooking for me? I didn't expect you to have such a skill?"

"Haha, some of our recipes are not passed on to others. In other words, if you want to open a braised meat fast food shop, I will definitely think carefully about it. After all, when a restaurant is opened, many recipes will have to be passed on to the restaurant's chefs. Many recipes cannot be passed on to others."

"I see."

Father Liu and his family put two large tables in the yard, where they usually cleaned pig offal and prepared food. They would only crowd into the kitchen when it rained.

Father Liu lamented that the yard was still a little small.

"Wanshan, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you because of our family's financial situation. Luo Hong... take brother Wanshan to the main hall. You can drink some tea and chat with him for a while."

Luo Hong took Lin Weizhong, Wei Songbai and Li Yao to study in the morning. It's not that they don't want to help, but Liu's father doesn't let them help. It must be useful to cram at the last minute.

Lin Weizhong and Liu Caixia went to open the store, so Liu's father was the main guest for the lunch.

He and his two maids got up early in the morning and were busy. Now everything was basically ready. The food that needed to be steamed had been steamed, and the soup had been stewed. They just needed to stir-fry a few dishes.

There were so many dishes that they couldn't all be cooked at once, so Liu's father used the ingredients he could buy to steam pork with preserved vegetables, steamed pork with rice flour, steamed pork intestines with rice flour, steamed glutinous rice ribs, steamed scallops with vermicelli and garlic sauce, and pork shank, mushroom, pine and white fungus soup.

I will make some braised prawns later, and stir-fry two home-cooked dishes: twice-cooked pork, stir-fried pork with celery, three fresh vegetables, and shredded cabbage with oil residue.

The table was filled with dishes, which dazzled Shen Wanshan. He was also a man who had seen a lot of the world. Many of these dishes were indeed new to him.

"Brother Liu, did you do all this?"

"I made everything. There are two cooks helping me at home. I am responsible for controlling the taste. Come and try it!"

Father Liu filled Shen Wanshan's glass with the Qiulubai wine he bought. Qiulubai was a relatively expensive wine that could be bought in the city. Father Liu had drunk it before. It was a kind of rice wine with a sweet taste and a fragrant smell. He had drunk a lot of wine here, and Qiulubai was his favorite.

Father Liu introduced the dishes to Shen Wanshan one by one, ending with the salted duck eggs.

"Wanshan, this is a salted duck egg. Try it. Have you heard of it?"

"I just ate one. It was duck eggs pickled in salt, right? I've eaten something similar before. It was said that the army used it a lot. Boiled eggs couldn't be kept for too long, so they were pickled in salt to make them last longer. During the war, the soldiers couldn't even get enough food, let alone vegetables. They used this method to preserve eggs and eat them with wild vegetable porridge or grain porridge. If they accidentally fell behind or were injured and no one noticed, they wouldn't starve to death."

"Yes, that taste should be different from mine."

"I haven't eaten it, I've only heard about it from others. It hasn't spread widely, which proves that it must not taste very good! If you eat this salted duck egg with rice or steamed buns, the caravans traveling on the road will probably like it very much."

"Yes, that's what I mean. Think about it, if you are out in the wilderness, if you have salted duck eggs and a bowl of grain porridge or wild vegetable porridge, especially in winter, isn't it more comfortable than eating dry food?"

"Brother Liu, you are right, why don't you sell this in your store?"

"Isn't this just made? We just remembered it, and you're lucky. My daughter Caixia just took it out yesterday. It takes about fifteen to twenty days to make this thing. If it's too early, it won't be flavorful, and if it's too late, it will be too salty."