In the years of famine, I led a comfortable life with my husband

"Well, it looks good!" Su Zhizhi couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the dish cooked in the pot. In order to make sure it wasn't her own filter, Su Zhizhi specially called Xie Chengjin to help taste it.

Xie Chengjin was shocked when he saw the table full of dishes. "Did you cook all this?"

Su Zhizhi nodded without hesitation, "Of course, who else could it be if not me?"

Xie Chengjin was full of doubts about this. He remembered that Su Zhizhi couldn't cook before.

With a skeptical attitude, Xie Chengjin silently picked up a piece of egg from the scrambled eggs with tomatoes with a pair of chopsticks to taste.

The result surprised Xie Chengjin. "This scrambled eggs with tomatoes is delicious. It's completely different from the ones I've had before. The eggs are fresher and more tender than what I usually eat. Zhizhi, how did you do it?"

Xie Chengjin looked at Su Zhizhi with admiration.

After listening to Xie Chengjin's evaluation, Su Zhizhi nodded with satisfaction, and then uttered two words mysteriously, "Secret!"

In fact, Su Zhizhi didn't have any cooking skills. She just took a lot of modern seasonings from the universal capsule and added them to the dishes to change the taste. She didn't expect that it would attract such high praise from Xie Chengjin. Of course, there were no such conditions in ancient times. Being able to fill the stomach was already very good.

Seeing Su Zhizhi say this, Xie Chengjin felt embarrassed to ask any more questions. He could only silently suppress his curiosity and continue to taste it.

"This is not bad either!"

"Wow! This is delicious too."

"Not bad."

……

Su Zhizhi was very satisfied seeing this.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Su Zhizhi packed up her things and took her mother Meng, Su Yu and Xie Chengjin to the restaurant in a carriage.

Originally, Su Zhizhi did not plan to bring Meng and Su Yu with her. She wanted them to stay at home and have a good rest. However, Meng was a person who could not sit still. When she learned that Su Yu was going to tidy up the newly taken over restaurant, she clamored to go along and help. Seeing this, Su Zhizhi had no choice but to agree.

After a bumpy ride, the family of four finally arrived at the restaurant.

As soon as Su Zhizhi entered the restaurant, she called the waiter and said, "Call all of you over here. I'm your new boss. Your previous boss sold this restaurant to me."

Su Zhizhi spoke to the waiter.

"Yes, boss." After hearing this, the waiter hurried to notify everyone to come and gather.

After a while, all the people working in the restaurant appeared in front of Su Zhizhi. There were not too many people, not too few, with the chef and the waiter making a total of ten people.

"Who is the head chef of the restaurant? Please stand up and introduce yourself so I can get to know you." Su Zhizhi said as she looked at the people standing in front of her.

A middle-aged man stood up. He was very tall and strong. He said calmly, "My name is Liu San, and I'm the head chef here."

Liu San looked Su Zhizhi up and down, and was immediately worried when he saw how young she was, because in his opinion, Su Zhizhi would not be able to achieve anything, and might even cause him to lose his job.

Perhaps the doubt in Liu San's eyes was too obvious, and Su Zhizhi immediately saw what he was thinking.

"You don't trust me?" Su Zhizhi looked at Liu San and said.

Liu San was also a down-to-earth person. He nodded and admitted without hesitation, "Yes, I think you are too young to do business, and you don't know how to do business."

Su Zhizhi smiled faintly after hearing this and said, "I'm indeed young, but I know what customers like to eat! Isn't it enough for me to sell our food?"

After hearing this, Liu San's disdainful smile widened. In his opinion, Su Zhizhi was just bragging.

"Don't believe me?" Su Zhizhi asked back.

"Why don't we have a cooking competition? We can both cook a few dishes on the spot and let everyone here taste them to see whether your cooking is better or mine is better?" Su Zhizhi took the initiative to suggest.

Seeing this, Liu San subconsciously nodded and agreed, "Of course, no problem, let's compete."

In Liu San's opinion, Su Zhizhi had such thin arms and legs that she might not even be able to lift the big iron pot in the kitchen.

Just like that, Su Zhizhi and Liu San went into the kitchen together and started cooking.

Su Zhizhi glanced around the kitchen and finally fixed her eyes on the beef. She cut the beef into thin strips, added a lot of seasonings to it, and finally stir-fried it with green onions and coriander. After a while, a plate of stir-fried beef was ready. Next, Su Zhizhi fried a few home-cooked dishes.

Liu San was not to be outdone and cooked several hard dishes, such as Kung Pao Chicken, Mapo Tofu, and Chopped Pepper Fish Head.

In this way, the two of them brought the meals they cooked to the table for everyone to taste.

Looking at the dishes made by Su Zhizhi, the waiters in the restaurant all took up their chopsticks to taste them out of curiosity. As a result, their eyes lit up instantly and they couldn't help but exclaimed: "This is delicious!"

"Yes! This beef is so tender! And it's not spicy at all."

"This pickled cabbage is delicious too, crispy and fragrant."

……

Facing the praise from everyone, Su Zhizhi lowered her head shyly. However, Liu San was not convinced. He quickly said, "I can't do it. Let me try it too."

After saying that, he picked up the stir-fried beef made by Su Zhizhi with chopsticks. It would have been fine if he hadn't tasted it, but this one immediately shocked him. The beef was tender and smooth with a delicate texture. Even after stir-frying, it wasn't spicy and didn't affect the taste of the beef itself. Su Zhizhi's cooking skills were indeed better than his.

Thinking of this, Liu San took the initiative to speak to Su Zhizhi, "My skills are not up to par, I voluntarily admit defeat."

"A man who dares to act and take responsibility for his actions is very good." Su Zhizhi couldn't help but praise him. Although Liu San was obviously an overly straightforward person, his attitude of admitting his shortcomings in front of everyone was also very respectable.

After Su Zhizhi finished speaking, she picked up the chopsticks and tasted the dish made by Liu San, and immediately found the problem.

"Your dishes are too salty and spicy. Local people pay more attention to health and like to eat light food. You can pour some wine when cooking meat to remove the fishy smell of the meat and use less chili and other seasonings." Su Zhizhi suggested to Liu San.

"Okay." Liu San nodded.

Su Zhizhi didn't choose to open the restaurant today. This was her first day in charge, so she planned to first familiarize herself with the restaurant's operations, such as its revenue, who had previously been bringing in the cash, and what the main dishes were.

Su Zhizhi called all the workers together to talk, and then checked the restaurant's previous account books. After learning that the restaurant's income was barely acceptable, she personally watched the chefs cook and taste the food. She also commented on the dishes cooked by each chef and made corresponding improvements.