After Gu Yin received the deposit, she entertained the guests for a while in front. Afterwards, seeing that there was nothing to do, she went into the back kitchen.
As soon as she entered the back kitchen, she finally couldn't help laughing with her tensed face for a long time.
Shopkeeper Zhou was already frying the hot dishes in the lunch market. Seeing her standing aside and snickering, he couldn't help asking, "Why is the owner so happy, did you find the money?"
Gu Yin had to maintain a calm image when she was in front. She had nothing to worry about in front of Shopkeeper Zhou, and immediately walked up to him and said, "Almost!"
Then he told the shopkeeper Zhou about the fifty taels of silver he received.
Shopkeeper Zhou couldn't help laughing when he heard it, not because of the fifty taels of silver, which was not a big deal in the eyes of Shopkeeper Zhou, but because of Gu Yin's smiling face.
She moves forward and back in moderation, as if everything is expected, showing a calmness that does not match her age, but now she is smiling like a little mouse who has stolen oil, a little more vigor in line with her age, let people see Can not help but smile.
"How is the owner going to spend this money?" Shopkeeper Zhou kept his staff, "Would you like to make a custom set for a guy like me?"
When shopkeeper Zhou moved to Shiweitian’s backyard, he brought two packages, one large and one small. The small package contained his daily laundry, and the large package contained a whole set of things he was used to, such as kitchen knives, boning knives, Big iron pot, big iron spoon... everything is available.
Gu Yin's eyes lit up when she saw it, but she wasn't so jealous of iron pots and spoons. After all, she used the steamer and steamer a lot, and she was jealous of Shopkeeper Zhou's kitchen knife!
It was a jet-black kitchen knife. It looked really unremarkable, but it could be broken by blowing hair.
Shopkeeper Zhou lent it to Gu Yin. Of course, it is much easier to use than ordinary kitchen knives, but because the habit and size of the knife are based on shopkeeper Zhou, it is not particularly convenient.
In modern times, Gu Yin buys knives from famous brands, but that's how they actually work. I also thought about making it to order, but it is hard to find such old craftsmen in China, but there are foreign ones, but the price is expensive and the construction period is long. The eating habits of foreign countries are different from those of China, and the knives made always feel almost meaningless.
Therefore, when Gu Yin heard the shopkeeper Zhou say that people who know her can customize it, she was naturally very moved.
The reason for no action is, of course, the lack of money.
Ordinary kitchen knives are only one or two taels more expensive, and it is ten times more expensive for custom-made kitchen knives.
She reached out and touched Shopkeeper Zhou's kitchen knife with envy, but she said, "I've had a loss with no liquidity this time, so I'd better save it and buy it when I'm rich. This silver money should really be spent on On the edge of the knife, we still need to recruit and buy ingredients first."
Soon after the lunch market started, shopkeeper Zhou's ten hot dishes were brought to the counter.
Shopkeeper Zhou is still quite famous in Hanshan Town. Knowing that these hot dishes come from his hands, there are only a lot more guests in the afternoon market than in the morning market.
There are also guests who have heard that they have deposited silver and reserved VIP seats to order dishes in the morning. For the reputation and craftsmanship of Shopkeeper Zhou, the guests are also willing to save.
However, unlike Bai Zixi who took the lead in the morning, only twenty taels of silver were collected in the afternoon market.
At this time, half a day has passed, and the recruitment notice outside seems to have been posted in vain. Gu Yinte went out to read it and confirmed that the notice was still posted on the spot, and the salary of the first half of the notice was not wrong, so she put it down. Come to the heart.
Looking up, Gu Yin saw a sneaky figure.
The man was wearing a washed and whitish scholar's robe, with only a wooden hairpin stuck on his head, and cautiously peered through the large window.
For someone else, Gu Yin would treat people as villains with ulterior motives. When she saw him, she laughed, walked behind him and asked aloud, "Why don't you go in when Mr. Xu is here?"
Xu Qingchuan turned around when he heard the sound, his cheeks flushed, and he made a silent gesture, and stood to the side again.
To ensure that no one else in the store found him, he explained to Gu Yin: "My mother came out to work for the first time, so I'll come and see."
Gu Yin laughed when she heard it. Isn't this similar to the way modern parents send their children to kindergarten and take a peek at it without worry
"Then what do you think after reading it?"
Xu Qingchuan said, "It's good."
It's really good.
Mrs. Xu was in charge of picking dishes at the counter. Although there were many people in the shop, she had no time to spare when she was busy, but the calm and confident smile on her face was something Xu Qingchuan had never seen on her mother's face.
"I took a leave of absence, so I'm going back now." Xu Qingchuan bowed his farewell, and then pursed his lips again, before he stopped.
Gu Yin said fluently, "Young Master Xu, don't worry, I won't tell my aunt."
Xu Qingchuan's face turned even redder, he bowed again and left.
After watching Xu Qingchuan leave, Gu Yin was about to enter the store, but suddenly someone asked from behind, "Are you hiring a waiter here?"
Gu Yin turned her head and saw a young man in his early twenties, dressed in a sackcloth, but still neat and tidy, she nodded and said, "Yes, it's written on the notice."
The man didn't even look at her, he went into the store and said, "Then invite your shopkeeper out."
Gu Yin wore the same pale yellow dress as Wang and the others, and it was not once or twice that she was regarded as an ordinary employee. She was not surprised, and introduced him to Shopkeeper Zhou.
Seeing the shopkeeper Zhou, the man bowed slightly and introduced himself with a smile: "I used to work in a restaurant in Fucheng, and it was useful. I was the second-in-command under the shopkeeper. Now my mother is seriously ill. So I went back to Hanshan Town to take care of my mother and get an errand."
Shopkeeper Zhou asked him a few basic questions, and he answered them fluently.
The errand of running the hall is not particularly difficult. Gu Yin listened to the side and felt that the other party was doing well, so she was ready to let him start work.
But before she could speak, the man's eyes wandered around the store for a week, and he lowered his voice and said to the shopkeeper the same week: "The shopkeeper, allow me to say, what's the matter with recruiting so many women in your shop? It's not a joke."
Hearing this, the smile on Gu Yin's face faded, and she asked aloud, "Why are people laughing at it?"
The man glanced at her and said as a matter of course: "Women don't stay at home, what's the point of coming out to show their faces? Isn't this a joke? And since ancient times, running the hall has been a man's job, and the store has recruited so many women, It is neither convenient nor easy to manage.”
"Why is it not easy to manage?"
The man looked at her with a frown and said, "The sage says that only villains and women are difficult to support. As it is now, when I talk to the shopkeeper, the little lady interjects several times and is aggressive, so it is very difficult to get along."
"Okay," Gu Yin didn't bother to talk to him, "then I'll send you a sentence, 'The way is different, it's not for each other'. You can go."
After she finished speaking, she went directly to the counter and helped Wang and the others to prepare a dish.
"This little lady is really..." The man muttered, and then said to the shopkeeper Zhou: "The shopkeeper listen to me, really don't invite these women in the shop."
Shopkeeper Zhou said: "You don't need to tell me this, since the owner has spoken, you can leave."
The man obviously did not expect that the owner of Shiweitian was actually Gu Yin, he provoked the owner, and he knew that he would not be able to stay any longer, so he turned around and left, still saying: "I said that the owner is a woman, I still Why don't you come to work!"
Gu Yin was seldom angry, and hearing this also aroused three-point anger. She frowned and asked the shopkeeper Zhou, "The notice has been posted for a long time, but only such a person came to see the job. Is it because..."
Although the reason was a bit hurtful, the shopkeeper Zhou did not hide it from her, nodded and said: "The owner is busy in the back kitchen in the morning, when I went out to post the notice, someone asked, and the other party saw that the front hall was full of women. ... and then it was over."
Mrs Wang listened to the side and put the spoon in her hand on the counter angrily, "I said why someone came to ask for jobs in the morning, I heard that I was in charge of the front hall, and that person walked away, co-authored: Don't look down on our women's family! Where did the bastard just come from here and mess around? What happened to our women's family?"
Seeing that Mrs Wang was about to go out to fight with others, Gu Yin hurriedly held him back and said, "Forget it, mother, if you don't look down on us, we won't be able to use it. Anyway, the notice is posted, and someone will come to see you sooner or later. work."
In the afternoon, there was still no one recruited in the store, but the good news was that Chef Xu came with two apprentices!
Gu Yin was first surprised when she saw him, and then said wrong, "I remember you said the contract was until June, but it's only half a month later? Don't break the contract."
The contract is the contract of this era, and it has legal effect. If Chef Xu breaks the contract, Master Wen Er can go to the government to sue him.
Chef Xu said with a smile: "Master, don't worry, I didn't come out on my own, but Wen Tieji let me out."
Gu Yin wanted to laugh at first, but then she held back, "What kind of iron chicken, talk to me."
"Oh, it was Master Wen Er who said to let me out!"
Chef Xu wanted to leave at the beginning of April, but the old man agreed, but Master Wen Er had to block him.
He can embarrass Chef Xu, and Chef Xu can also embarrass him.
What's the cook's way of embarrassing people? That is to do the meal to the poor.
The meals of the rest of the Wen family are very normal, but the dishes of Mr. Wen Er are either bland or tasteless, or they are salty, as if they were beaten to death by salt sellers.
Mr. Wen Er scolded him for an unknown number of times. Chef Xu was scolded obediently and was punished. Anyway, a bad meal is one day's wages less.
In this way, Master Wen Er ate half a month of dark food, and was reluctant to go out to eat out. In the end, he compromised and released the person.
Of course, Wen Tieji's name is not for nothing, and he will not be paid in April, and he also asked Chef Xu for a severance pay.
That's right, severance pay. Whether this fee is in this era or in modern times, I have only heard that the boss pays the buddy, and I have never heard that the buddy pays it back to the boss.
But Chef Xu really didn't want to waste time at Wen's house, so he happily posted two months' wages and came to join his master with two young apprentices.
Even though she has a good relationship with the old man, when Gu Yin heard this, she couldn't help but think of the name of Wen Er's iron chicken. It was true and correct!
Later, when Chef Xu saw Shopkeeper Zhou, his excitement was beyond words, and he almost cried on the spot.
Only after Gu Yin asked did she find out that Chef Xu had gone to Mochizuki Building to see work before he went to Wen's house.
However, his layman's craftsmanship naturally did not apply. Later, he went to work at Wen's house. It was also the shopkeeper Zhou who pointed him, saying that although he was not proficient, he was fast and could be used by three or five people. He might as well try it in the rich area. .
The chef hired by the rich family has to cook for the whole family to eat and drink. Although Chef Xu's craftsmanship is a little worse than that of a serious chef, it is always enough to cook some home-cooked dishes.
Unexpectedly, when the world changed, the two met again in food.
"Thanks to your guidance back then, I went to Wen's house to see a job. After earning for several years, I got to know Master!"
Chef Xu said that he was going to give a big gift to Shopkeeper Zhou, but Shopkeeper Zhou avoided it sideways, "Master Xu was too polite, I just mentioned it back then, and the rest is your own creation."
After talking too much, Chef Xu pulled Gu Yin aside again and whispered, "Master, can you find me a place to live?"
"It's simple. Several rooms in the backyard are empty, but the place is not big. Do you want to dislike it."
"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it." Chef Xu happily took his little apprentice to drop off the package.
Although he has worked in the Wen family for several years and also eats at the Wen family, he saves half of the wages for his two young apprentices, who will later start a family. His own share of silver money, because he was getting fat day by day and his appetite was getting bigger and bigger day by day, he entered his temple of five internal organs.
After paying 10 taels of silver to come out of Wen's house, he couldn't even afford to rent a house.
Losing food for the day can live in the backyard.
But no matter what, the people who eat for the sky finally solved it.
Chef Xu served as the second chef for Shopkeeper Zhou and Gu Yin, and his two young apprentices and other helpers in the back kitchen could also serve as waiters in the front hall when there were many people.
At the end of the day's business, Gu Yin and Shopkeeper Zhou checked the accounts and calculated the gross profit for the day, which was better than Gu Yin thought. The gross profit for the day was about 4 taels of silver.
When the two settled the accounts, the employees sat at a table with Wu An, who had left school, and Gu Ye, who had come back from playing outside, for an evening meal.
Chef Xu can really eat it. There are no dishes left in the store’s evening market. For the evening meal, Chef Xu casually took the remaining ingredients in the back kitchen and made three dishes, and left over twenty steamed buns in the store. Yes, he ate ten by himself.
After everyone finished eating, he was still eating the steamed buns dipped in vegetable soup.
Wang and the others were dumbfounded when they were eating. His two little apprentices started to pull on his sleeves, and he remembered that he was not at Wen's house now, so he couldn't open his stomach to eat, so he quickly put down the steamed buns.
"Actually, I don't usually eat so much, and I can eat a little less in the future." Chef Xu blushed and clenched his fist to assure.
Wang Shi burst out with a laugh and waved his hand: "It's okay, you can eat as much as you can, anyway, the leftovers are a waste. It doesn't mean that you are not allowed to eat, but we are getting old and we are afraid that you will not be able to restrain yourself. "
"Mother." Gu Yin was helpless, "He's only twenty-eight, so he's not married."
Not only was Mr. Wang stunned, everyone else in the store, including the shopkeeper Zhou, was stunned.
So everyone's title for Chef Xu changed from Master Xu to Xiao Xu. After all, except for Gu Yin and Tian's daughter, everyone in the store was more than a round older than Chef Xu, and they were his elders.
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The next day, Gu Yin got up earlier again, to be the characteristics that the VIPs wanted.
First, the five things that Bai Zixi wanted, and then the other four.
A total of nine exquisite features took Gu Yin an hour of work.
When the sky was bright, the door of the store opened, and the customers who had ordered the characteristics came early.
Especially the old Li who deposited cash with Bai Zixi yesterday, he was the first.
He ate the soup dumplings made by Gu Yin the day before, and he liked them very much, but personally he still prefers soup dumplings. Later, he heard that he had to save money to become a VIP to order food, and Lao Li’s brain became hot.
After he went back, his daughter-in-law pinched his ears, saying that he was really confused, he had not eaten what he liked, but instead saved the money.
Ten taels of silver is nothing to his family, but this approach is really stupid!
If the soup dumplings made by one's family are not delicious, does that mean that they are in vain
Old Li was scolded for a bloody head, although he argued strongly at the time: "The most common things like steamed buns and biscuits are delicious, why can't they make dumplings with soup?"
After arguing, he really didn't have the confidence in his heart. He really didn't like to eat them. He just hoped that the characteristics of food for the sky would be as delicious as Hanxianglou, otherwise he would save ten taels of silver and let his daughter-in-law talk about it for a month. .
In the expectation of Lao Li, Gu Yin brought a dumpling.
For Gu Yin, soup dumplings are not complicated. The difference between them and ordinary dumplings is that they need to take a bite to burst the juice.
She did not use the same method as the soup dumplings, using frozen pork skin to make the sauce, but used a different method—choose the pork foreleg meat that is 30% fat and 70% lean, pound it into puree, and add salt. , sugar, pepper, soy sauce and sesame oil, add the most important mushroom water, then stir the meat stuffing into a mashed meat with small bubbles in the middle, and finally add the minced green onion and ginger, and wrap it into dumplings as usual.
The dumpling skin is crystal clear, and the meat filling inside is vaguely reflected.
Lao Li took one while it was still hot and put it in his mouth. As soon as he took a bite, the soup overflowed in his mouth. There were only two words in his mind, fresh and fragrant!
After sucking the soup and eating the dumplings, the meat filling is between firm and loose, and it melts in the mouth with a slight touch of the tongue.
The mouthful of meat was full of meat, even if it was not dipped in vinegar, there was no smell of meat at all. With the tender dumpling skins, Lao Li was sweating profusely after eating each bite. I have eaten the whole plate.
Old Li gave a thumbs up, smacked his mouth again and said unfortunately: "I knew that your soup dumplings were so good, I should have ordered more. I haven't eaten enough of such a bowl."
Gu Yin put down the vinegar dish and said, "Otherwise, would you like to eat something else? The soup dumpling you said was good yesterday is also available today."
Lao Li nodded and asked for another bowl of soup dumplings.
In the eyes of ordinary people, soup dumplings and soup dumplings are actually similar things.
But in the eyes of diners like Lao Li, these are two completely different things. The soup in the soup dumplings is made of pork skin jelly, especially the chef of Hanxianglou is from Guangdong and Guangxi. Although he has made improvements, But the dim sum was a little sweet, and that soup dumpling was something Lao Li didn't like at all.
Although a great cook, like food is heaven, will minimize the greasy taste of pork skin, but for someone like him who can't eat greasy, it is still average.
After getting the soup bag, Lao Li saw the two small dishes that Gu Yin put down.
One is vinegar, and the other is fresh red chili sauce.
I know Mr. Li, but the people here in Hanshan Town don’t like spicy food very much. They usually make chili noodles with chili peppers. This kind of bright red chili pepper is rarely seen.
Out of curiosity, Lao Li mixed the chopped pepper sauce into the vinegar, and then picked up the soup dumplings for dipping.
After biting into a small bite from the trembling soup bag, the fresh and sweet soup filled the whole mouth, but before Lao Li felt tired, the vinegar mixed with chopped pepper sauce gave the taste a heavy blow. Lao Li only felt the tip of his tongue numb, and then his mouth was full of sour and spicy, which completely neutralized the greasy taste of the soup, and only tasted the sweetness of the gravy.
This kind of feeling is too novel for people who don't eat spicy food very much and are used to eating dim sum in Guangdong and Guangxi. After Lao Li finished eating one, he hissed and picked up the second one...
Not long after, Lao Li's friend also came.
The day before, he brought Lao Li to Shiweitian, and Lao Li was inseparable from him in this newly opened Shiweitian depositing silver.
In fact, he was also worried that the soup dumplings that were eaten for heaven would not be able to conquer Lao Li's cunning tongue. When he entered the store and saw that he was eating chopstick after chopstick, he finally felt relieved.
"It seems that the soup dumplings in this restaurant are very similar to your taste." The friend said and sat down next to Lao Li, and when he saw that he was eating soup dumplings, he was surprised: "Why don't soup dumplings, eat soup The bun is here? Didn't you say yesterday that the soup bun is not too sweet, but it still tastes like pork skin?"
Old Li's face was flushed, hissing of heat, pointed at the chopped pepper sauce and said, "Mix this with vinegar, and you won't get tired of eating it at all!"
His friend also took a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick tube, picked up the soup bag and dipped it in the ingredients. After eating, his mouth was numb, but he had to admit: "Really! It's spicy, but it's so exciting to eat!"
At this time, Gu Yin also brought up the characteristics set by the friend of old Li. After listening to him praise the chopped pepper sauce she made, she smiled and said, "If you like it, I will bring you another plate."
The other guests heard what they said was exciting, and they felt novel when they saw the red and bright chopped pepper sauce, so Gu Yin also served a plate.
Gu Yin said: "This is not for sale for the time being."
To put it in modern times, if the customer wants to chop the pepper sauce, she will definitely send a plate to the family directly, or put it in the store for the customer to use. It's just that the chili peppers are really expensive at the moment, and the price of a small plate has exceeded the ordinary dim sum, and she really can't afford it to the customers who usually order food.
And it is indeed not for sale. The chopped pepper sauce is not made immediately, but Gu Yin thought that Master Wen likes spicy food before, so he marinated it in advance and gave it to him as a gift.
Later, there was still half a jar left at home, and they were the only ones who ate it at home. Today, Gu Yin specially found it because he wanted to thank Lao Li and the others who were the first to deposit silver as VIPs.
Lao Li and his friends misunderstood, and immediately laughed: "That is, we are all VIPs who have deposited cash, this is the treatment of our VIPs!"
"No, if you want to eat, save yourself a VIP!"
The two brothers talked like a cross talk, and you talked to me, and they gave two guests to join the VIP of Shiweitian.
This is not to mention, from this day onwards, Lao Li and his friends have become loyal guests of Shiweitian. They come here to report every morning, and they also bring other acquaintances with them.
Just like in later generations, depositing silver in advance is a very good way to keep customers. After all, you have charged money in the store. If you can't think of what to eat, you will definitely go to the store where you deposit silver. Especially Shiweitian can make any dim sum, and there is no situation where they will get tired of eating. These old gluttons have completely separated from Hanxianglou and took root in Shiweitian.
At the end of the month, Gu Yin checked her accounts. Even if she deducted her own 22 taels of wages, the new store earned 40 taels in the first month! It has doubled more than she expected, and the liquidity is even more incredible, as many as hundreds of taels.
Some people are happy and some are worried about doing business. Food is prosperous, and the family in Hanxianglou has been deserted a lot, but the Bai family can't care about business at the moment, because the old man Bai suffered another serious illness in the middle of the month and struggled for half a year. A month later, he still passed away.
Mr. Bai also knew that after he went, it was impossible for the first and second rooms to maintain the peace on the surface as before. Forcing the brothers of the Bai family to work together would definitely be a bad thing. He simply left the Hanxiang Building to the big room to operate, while the second room has the right to audit the accounts, and can get half of the profits from the Hanxiang Building every year.
Master Bai made a drastic move. Except for the chef Bai An who did not move, he cleared everyone in the second room from the Hanxiang Building.
After that, he spent a lot of money to buy a mysterious condiment from overseas.
And Wang Dafu of the Wang family, after lying in bed for ten days, also struggled to go to the ground, sold all the things that could be used in the family, collected enough 1,110 taels to go to the underground bank to redeem Wangyuelou - although it was written in the deed earlier He knew that he had to bring the deed to redeem it, but now we all know that this was a game made by Wang Dagui, and the deed was stolen by the bandits in Jiulianzhai. If the people at the bank insisted on saying this, they would be involved in Wang Dagui's case if they were not in good balance.
Wangyuelou was no good without the shopkeeper Zhou, and Wang Dafu also mysteriously let people buy something back.
The three stores stand on three legs, and they are about to fight in the arena.