Otherworldly Days

The two largest restaurants in the town, one is the time-honored Yipinzhai, and the other is the Zuixianlou opened later, both of which are located on East Street.Cao Xiangnan came from Yipinzhai, and he thought that since Yipinzhai could become a time-honored brand, it must have its advantages.

It was not time for lunch at this time, and there were no customers in the restaurant.

"The two guest officers, please..." The shop waiter greeted the customer with a smile as soon as he saw him.

"We have something to ask your shopkeeper, is your shopkeeper there?" Cao Xiangnan came in and took a look, but he didn't see the person in charge, and asked with a three-point smile on his face.

He was very satisfied with the attitude of the children in this restaurant, at least he drove them away without seeing them wearing coarse linen, otherwise this business really couldn't go on.

"The shopkeeper just walked away, what do you want from our shopkeeper?" Xiaoer smiled, seeing that the person who came was not eating, but was looking for their shopkeeper, and asked with doubts in his eyes.

Shopkeeper Liu who just came out from the inside heard someone looking for him, and when he came over, he saw two boys saying they were looking for him.Shopkeeper Liu came over and took a look at the people who came. One of the boys was still leaning on a cane, and his legs and feet were inconvenient. Both of them were unfamiliar, and it was the first time they met him. What's the matter?"

"At Xiacao Xiangnan, I have a few special dishes here that I would like to recommend to you for a taste. I wonder if the shopkeeper is interested?" A tall and thin man walked over, about forty years old, Cao Xiangnan looked at the other party and said with a smile.

He is confident that the other party will be interested. As long as it is a restaurant, few people can refuse. If someone delivers a recipe to their door, unless the other party is a fool, he comes to Yipinzhai to bet on the good character here.

Sure enough, as soon as his words fell, shopkeeper Liu's expression changed, and he asked, "But really?"

"Of course, I have the guts to come to your house to lie to you." Cao Xiangnan came prepared.

"Come inside, let's go inside and talk." Shopkeeper Liu made a gesture. The business of their restaurant has been sluggish recently. He was thinking about how to improve the business of the restaurant. Now someone came to deliver the recipes. Even if you have doubts in your heart, you have to meet before talking.

"Why don't the shopkeeper take me to the kitchen of your restaurant. I'll cook two dishes for you to try. If the shopkeeper is satisfied with the taste, we can talk again. What do you think?" Cao Xiangnan asked with a confident smile on his face.

There is no evidence for empty talk, and if you show your real skills first, you will have a [-]% chance of winning. In the last three results, you will see whether the price negotiated is satisfactory.

"Success." Shopkeeper Liu agreed without hesitation, and led the people to the kitchen, "This way."

The vegetables to be bought in the kitchen at this time have already been bought, and the chef in the kitchen is also here. Seeing the shopkeeper bringing someone in, he felt a little strange, so he got up and greeted.Shopkeeper Liu said, "Old Zhao, I will lend you the kitchen."

Outsiders are generally not allowed to enter the important kitchen, but since shopkeeper Liu personally brought them, Master Zhao will not allow people to enter, "The shopkeeper needs to use the kitchen to go in, so there is no need to borrow it."

Master Zhao is the chef of Yipinlou. He is short and fat with a big belly, and he looks like an Amitabha Buddha with a smile on his face.

Seeing shopkeeper Liu bringing someone to their kitchen, he also followed behind, looking at the person who went in curiously, could it be the new chef hired by shopkeeper Liu?It doesn't look like it, "Who is this little brother?" He asked in a low voice in Shopkeeper Liu's ear.

Shopkeeper Liu didn't say much, Master Zhao understood and stood there watching together.

"Master Zhao, can I borrow someone who is familiar with the arrangement of things in the kitchen?" Cao Xiangnan went in and looked around the kitchen. He was not familiar with other people's kitchens, so he turned to ask the master who was standing with Shopkeeper Liu.

"Little six." Master Zhao called out, and a boy who was in charge of sundries in the kitchen came out to help.

Cao Xiangnan told the visitor one by one what he wanted, and asked him to take out what he wanted.Little Six is ​​also a clever worker, and he found everything that others ordered in a short time.

Sun Ji put the food box in his hand on the table, opened the lid, and left it there for Cao Xiangnan to help.

Cao Xiangnan took out a large bowl of rice noodles. He looked at shopkeeper Shang Liu with an inquiring look, and said, "This is called rice noodles. It's made of rice. I set up a stall at the pier and sold rice noodles. If you don’t believe me, the shopkeeper will send someone over there to have a look.”

"There are many ways to make rice noodles, fried, stewed, stewed, and fished. I will make two fresh ones for you now, one fried rice noodles with fried pork slices and one casserole rice noodles." Cao Xiangnan looked at the big fish in the bucket, Said, "The most indispensable thing here in Fenshui Town is fish, but I believe that there are not many who can make delicious fish. I will cook two more fish dishes for you. Shopkeeper, do you think so?"

He knew that his hor fun was not the most attractive to the restaurant, and what attracted shopkeeper Liu should be the two fish dishes he said.

Shopkeeper Liu waved his hand, signaling him to do it.

The first dish is dry fried pork noodles. Cao Xiangnan cuts the pork into thin slices and marinates them with salt, oil, cornstarch and rice wine.He brought the raw powder from home, and some seasonings that he will need later.

Soak the rice noodles, chop the green onions that need to be used, and prepare two eggs.

"Help me break the eggs."

The materials for making casserole powder were ready later. Chicken soup was stewed in the kitchen, and Cao Xiangnan used it to make the soup base. There was no small casserole here, so he replaced it with a larger pot.

With Sun Ji helping him, Cao Xiangnan worked in an orderly manner, and the servants beside him could also help him.

In the previous life, Cao Xiangnan knew how to cook at a very young age, and his cooking skills have always been good.Later, when he was part-time job, he still worked in the kitchen. The master in the kitchen saw him hardworking and studious, and personally taught him how to cook.Even though I didn't make a teacher in the end, it's okay to cook two dishes.

These things have accumulated over time, slowly accumulating in my mind, and when I think about it again, many of them can be used.

A big fish caught in the bucket is picked up, and the head is cut out for a while to make a fish head with chopped peppers.

The meat at the back wanted to be cut into slices to make sauerkraut fish, Cao Xiangnan only temporarily remembered that there was no sauerkraut here, but he had a headache.Shopkeeper Liu stood there and didn't leave. Noticing Cao Xiangnan's pause, he asked, "But what's missing?"

"Well, I really need a dish. I want to make a fish with pickled cabbage. I can't make it without pickled cabbage. I need to go back and pickle the dish myself. It will take about a month." Cao Xiangnan nodded and changed his way temporarily, " I'll make sweet and sour fish instead, it tastes good." Although he prefers pickled fish.

"Success." Shopkeeper Liu replied.

"Zi——" After the oil was poured into the pot, Cao Xiangnan poured the meat slices neatly from his hands, and fried them until they were half-cooked.Then the eggs are fried, and finally the rice noodles are fried. Be careful not to fry the rice noodles, add seasonings, and finally pour the rice noodles.

He fried rice noodles here, and the casserole rice noodles over there.

"Shopkeeper, why don't you move outside first? Take out this fried rice noodles for you to try? It won't taste good if it cools down for a while. I'll fry the next dish for you." Cao Xiangnan turned his head to look He glanced at the shopkeeper and asked.

"Yeah." Shopkeeper Liu didn't say much. After seeing him ordering two dishes neatly, he looked at this kid differently, turned around and went out.The little second brother who served the dishes in the back went out with the dishes and followed their shopkeeper.

Master Zhao stood there reluctant to leave. It was the first time he saw this way of cooking, and he nodded from time to time.

The following two dishes, one with chopped pepper fish head and one with sweet and sour fish, are full of color, fragrance and bright color, and the smell makes mouth water.After finishing the two dishes, Cao Xiangnan also left the kitchen with Sun Ji.

"Mr. Cao, our shopkeeper is waiting for you upstairs." Xiaoer who was waiting at the door led them upstairs to find the shopkeeper.Pushing the door and entering, shopkeeper Liu who was standing there pointed to the chair in front of him and said, "Sit down."

On the table were several of his dishes, all of which had obviously been tried.

"We are from Caojia Village. I am Cao Xiangnan. This one is with me. His name is Sun Ji. The shopkeeper, I don't know what your name is?" Cao Xiangnan did not sit down immediately, but stood at the shopkeeper Liu asked in front of him.

"My surname is Liu. Everyone in the store calls me Shopkeeper Liu." Shopkeeper Liu said.

After the other party sat down, Cao Xiangnan sat down and asked Sun Ji who followed him to sit down too.Cao Xiangnan looked at shopkeeper Liu, and asked with a smile, "I don't know about this dish, what does shopkeeper Liu think it tastes like?"

"I am very satisfied with your dishes." Shopkeeper Liu has worked in Fenshui Town for seven or eight years. The business of the restaurant was good at first, but after the opening of Zuixianlou, some customers were taken away. The business is not good. Bad, but not as good as before.

Shopkeeper Liu has tried all these dishes one by one, and the taste is naturally good. The dishes are also fresh, full of color, fragrance and taste. If their restaurant releases these dishes, the business will definitely beat Zuixianlou.

"I want the whole Fenshui Town to have these dishes in our Yipinzhai. Can you do it?" Shopkeeper Liu also asked straightforwardly, without beating around the bush at all.He took out an ingot of silver from his pocket, put it on the table, and said, "If you have a good recipe in the future, as long as you come to our Yipinzhai, I will give you a satisfactory price. What do you think?"

"The rice noodles you make are also delivered to Yipinzhai every day. First, twenty catties will be sent every day. If they sell well, then we can discuss. If you make the sauerkraut fish you mentioned In the future, I will only sell it to us for Yipinzhai. As for the price of this dish, I will talk to you later." Shopkeeper Liu has tried these two fish dishes, especially this fish head with chopped peppers, which tastes spicy, and that one The taste is delicious.

He remembered that the boy said that there was another pickled fish dish just now, shopkeeper Liu was looking forward to what kind of surprise that pickled fish dish would give him, so he ordered it first, lest the boy turn around and go to Zuixianlou, which would be a bad thing up.

Cao Xiangnan looked at the money on the table, met shopkeeper Liu's eyes that were determined to win, he smiled with his lips raised, and said, "Since shopkeeper Liu is so straightforward, I will be more straightforward, it's done, the deal is done. I guarantee this recipe It won’t flow out from me, but if it flows out from your side, it will be your problem at that time, and it has nothing to do with me, you say yes.”

"Naturally." Shopkeeper Liu nodded.

"There is no evidence for what you say, let's make a written proof, shopkeeper Liu, do you think so?" Cao Xiangnan asked.

"Success." Shopkeeper Liu shouted, and someone from outside pushed the door in, and he ordered, "Serve with pen and ink."

The boy went down, and after a while, he came up with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Cao Xiangnan wrote down the recipe step by step and handed it to shopkeeper Liu, who solemnly put it in the box.Afterwards, the two parties made papers, signed a painting and pledged them, and they were sent out by the waiter.