After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

The next day, Zhang Hulan got up early and went to Hekou County with Zhang Hubing, taking the prepared things.

When we arrived at Yiweixuan, Manager Qian came out to greet us with a smile.

Zhang Hulan asked, "Shopkeeper Qian, what were the feedback from the diners after they tried the braised pork yesterday?"

Shopkeeper Qian smiled and said, "Not bad."

Zhang Hulan nodded and said, "I'll cook first. We'll talk about the braised meat later."

Shopkeeper Qian asked, "Mrs. Zhang really wants to cook?"

"Of course I will. My words will count. But if the dishes I make are not tasty, please don't make fun of me, Mr. Qian."

Zhang Hulan walked in and said, "Shopkeeper Qian, I need some mutton, mutton chops, pork, tofu, eggplant, cabbage, coriander; as well as glutinous rice and rice flour. And some orange peel, ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, white peppercorns, cardamom, cumin, hawthorn..."

Manager Qian didn't ask Zhang Hulan what dish she wanted to cook, but immediately asked the waiter to prepare it.

Shopkeeper Qian asked, "Should I ask the people in the kitchen to leave?"

Zhang Hulan waved her hand and said, "No need. I'll just let your chef watch so I don't have to teach you again. I only make simple home-cooked dishes, and you'll learn them quickly."

Shopkeeper Qian said, "We haven't even finalized our deal yet. Aren't you afraid that if my chef learns your cooking method, I'll still not cooperate with you?"

Zhang Hulan laughed and said, "Manager Qian, you're joking. Even if the business doesn't work out, we still have friendship. Let's just consider it as making friends."

The waiter quickly prepared everything, and Zhang Hulan asked the kitchen boy to help prepare the lamb chops and cut the meat and vegetables.

Marinate the mutton and lamb chops with some white wine and white pepper, then put orange peel, pepper, white cardamom, cumin, hawthorn, ginger and mutton into the pot and stew together.

Chop the orange peel and ginger, add them to the lamb chops, add salt and stir. Then add rice noodles, coat the lamb chops with rice noodles, and steam them.

Soak the glutinous rice in hot water, chop the lean pork, add salt and soy sauce, add starch, minced ginger and tangerine peel, knead into balls, wrap with glutinous rice and steam.

Cut the eggplant into strips, marinate with salt and squeeze out the moisture. Pour water into a bowl, add salt, soy sauce and starch.

Add minced meat to the pan and stir-fry. When the aroma comes out, add minced ginger and garlic and continue to stir-fry. Then add eggplant and thicken with starch. This is a minced meat and eggplant dish.

Zhang Hulan made mapo tofu without chili peppers, and finally made a clear soup with cabbage cores and ginger slices. She added only a little salt and ginger slices, nothing else.

One stewed lamb, one steamed lamb chops with rice flour, one pearl meatball, one minced meat and eggplant, one mapo tofu and one soup.

After the five dishes and one soup were ready, Zhang Hulan asked the shopkeeper Qian and the chef to taste them.

Shopkeeper Qian first tried the stewed mutton. The taste was a little different from the one made by the chef, mainly because it had a burnt mutton smell.

The steamed lamb chops were sprinkled with chopped green onions and coriander when they came out of the steamer, and the aroma of orange peel was very pleasant. The lamb chops were steamed until they fell off the bone, and the meat fell off with a light bite, and the taste was very good.

The pearl meatballs have no special seasoning and retain the original meat flavor.

Minced meat eggplant and mapo tofu are dishes that go well with rice. I can’t say they are very delicious, but they are indeed good to eat with rice.

After eating the meat, I drank a sip of clear soup, and my mouth and stomach felt very comfortable.

Shopkeeper Qian gave Zhang Hulan a thumbs-up and said, "Madam Zhang, your cooking is excellent!"

"Please forgive me, Manager Qian. I can only cook some home-cooked dishes. I can't cook any of the delicacies from land and sea."

Shopkeeper Qian said, "We are all ordinary people. Even if we are rich, who can afford to eat delicacies every day? Most of the time, we still rely on home cooking."

Chef Wan, the chef, asked, "Madam Zhang, what is that thing you put in the tofu and eggplant? It looks like starch, but the color is wrong."

Zhang Hulan explained, "It's starch, but not mung bean starch. I use starch filtered from kudzu root. Master Wan, when you stir-fry lean meat in the future, add a little starch and mix it in. The lean meat will be very smooth and tender, not at all dry. We had several meat dishes today, so I didn't make any."

Master Wan nodded, "Okay, I'll take note."

Shopkeeper Qian smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Madam Zhang. Let's talk outside."

Outside, Shopkeeper Qian poured tea for Zhang Hulan and asked, "Madam Zhang, do you know how to cook any other dishes?"

Zhang Hulan replied, "I can cook a few dishes, but they are just simple ones. I can't cook any big dishes."

Shopkeeper Qian nodded. "Madam Zhang, do you think this is feasible? You can help me teach my restaurant chef how to make new dishes, and I'll give Madam Zhang... three taels of silver for each dish. How about that?"

Huh? Is this even possible? Zhang Hulan thought she could make some quick money.

If she only made these few dishes, Zhang Hulan would definitely not accept money from the shopkeeper, but if she was asked to teach the restaurant chef all the dishes she knew how to cook, then she would have to pay. She knew quite a few home-cooked dishes and could easily make twenty or thirty dishes.

The problem was that many dishes required chili peppers. She decided she needed to think carefully about what to use instead.

Zhang Hulan did not immediately agree to Shopkeeper Qian's request, but instead asked, "Shopkeeper Qian, are you planning to make the braised pork?"

Shopkeeper Qian nodded, "Of course I will. But I still say what I said yesterday. My restaurant's business is not good right now, and I'm worried that it will affect Madam Zhang's business."

"What about the braised meat shop?"

Shopkeeper Qian asked, "If I stop running the braised meat shop, will you stop selling your braised meat to me?"

Zhang Hulan nodded. "Yes. If Shopkeeper Qian only sells at your restaurant, I won't be able to sell much that day. I'll have to find another restaurant to cooperate with. Business is all about making money. I hope Shopkeeper Qian understands."

Shopkeeper Qian smiled and nodded, "I understand. If it's not for making money, then why do business?"

Shopkeeper Qian paused, then nodded and said, "Then let's sign the contract. But Madam Zhang, you said that you can only sell to me in Hekou County."

Zhang Hulan also smiled and nodded, "Of course!"

The two parties signed the contract and weighed the braised meat they had brought today. After paying the silver, Shopkeeper Qian asked, "Madam Zhang, how is the matter I discussed earlier?"

"Teach your chef the dishes I can cook?"

Shopkeeper Qian nodded, "Yes."

Zhang Hulan nodded and agreed, "Okay!"

Shopkeeper Qian bowed and said, "Thank you very much!"

Shopkeeper Qian took out another fifteen taels of silver and gave it to Zhang Hulan.

Zhang Hulan waved her hand and said, "Forget about today's. Just consider it my gift to Shopkeeper Qian. Next time you make it, I'll take the money."

Shopkeeper Qian said hurriedly, "How can I do that? I have to pay you."

Zhang Hulan said, "Forget it. No money this time. We have a long way to go."

Shopkeeper Qian said, "No, no, it's the way it should be."

Zhang Hubing watched Zhang Hulan and Shopkeeper Qian pushing the silver back and forth. He wanted to say, "If you don't want it, you can give it to me..."