The gingerbread man wanted to eat gingerbread men, but he had no gingerbread men to feed him.
Young Master Jiang looked at Yu Jinnian with eager anticipation, for a long time, but only got one sentence: "Sorry, the shop no longer sells villains..." The light in his eyes dimmed, as if he was very disappointed.
Yu Jinnian looked at him pitifully, and said: "However, there are buns to eat today, young master, do you want to have a taste?"
Jiang Bingren said dejectedly: "But I came here for the villain. A while ago, when the servants came out to buy ink, I bought a bag by chance, that's all—" He gestured with two fingers, "I have been suppressed by my father these few days. Learning to run a restaurant is really boring, and I just got some free time today, so I ran over to have a look, and it turned out that it wasn't for sale anymore."
While talking, he suddenly raised his head, stared and said: "Aren't you lying to me!"
"... Where did you say that? Why did we lie to you?" Yu Jinnian looked at him strangely.
Jiang Bingren said straightforwardly: "That villain sells so well, how could he not sell it after only a few days! If our Chunfeng Deyi Building has such delicious dim sum fruits, it should be sold all year round!"
Yu Jinnian almost forgot that Gingerbread Man is still the young owner of Chunfeng Deyi Building.
The gingerbread men they sold a while ago didn't cost too much oil and sugar to make, and the cost was not very expensive, and because it was novel and interesting, there was still a market even if it was a bit more expensive, not to mention he had a wave of magic before. The monk's limelight made some shapes such as golden bell roast, which made Xin'an county to eat golden bell roast for a while.
It is an indisputable fact that a bowl of noodle restaurants have made a lot of money. However, at that time, the cooking utensils were simple, and their noodle shop did not have an oven that could heat evenly, so they had to use a hot pot to bake, so that one pot could produce a plate of small biscuits, so the process of making golden bells and villains It seems too troublesome, extremely labor-intensive and mind-consuming, and it is simply getting twice the result with half the effort.
Therefore, even if he could make money, Yu Jinnian would quit work early, otherwise their noodle shop would not be able to do other things. He and Qing Huan alone would be exhausted just baking pots of small biscuits all day long. Enough.
The young gingerbread man, who was leaning against the Spring Breeze Deyi Building, naturally couldn't understand the difficulties of their small shop.
Yu Jinnian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "To be honest, Young Master Jiang, it's too troublesome for our small shop to make villains. I actually made this dim sum on a whim, and I can't sell it for a long time."
Jiang Bingren lifted the hem of his clothes, chose a clean table to sit down, and said without giving up: "Then you give me the one you mentioned... what is it?"
Yu Jinnian: "Foie gras sandwich?"
"Oh, foie gras buns, come and try one."
Yu Jinnian agreed, and paused before leaving, pointing back at the bowl of Shayuanzi Pork Kidney Soup, and whispered to Ji Hong, "Drink this bowl before I come back, otherwise I won't ask you to go to bed tonight !"
Jiang Bingren often smells this kind of pork loin soup smell. In their house, whenever this smell wafts out, he knows that some aunt must be cooking for his father, and his father must be blue-eyed the next day. Aodi came out of the aunt's room. Jiang Bingren looked at Ji Hong with complicated eyes, sighed and said, "So you are the one who is pushing hard, and you can't blame yourself for being so weak. I didn't expect that brother to be so handsome and cute, but he is also like a wolf."
Ji Hong was holding his breath, frowning and swallowing the soup down his throat. When he heard Jiang Bingren's words, he managed to avoid choking to death: "No..."
"No?" Jiang Bingren seemed to have heard something strange, and exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that you still love each other? You really know how to play, how to play... tsk tsk, but that boy does look a little stronger, and he should be fine." good."
"..." Ji Hong bit a piece of broken pork loin in one bite, and forced himself to swallow it, thinking, what is he doing to answer the words of this young master who is full of meat soup
In the back kitchen, Yu Jinnian cut a piece of foie gras and stewed pork into fine pieces, and smashed a large, not-spicy pepper with the back of a knife, mixed it with the liver, poured a spoonful of salty marinade, and then Take the baked pancake out of the slightly warm pan, split it in half, and put the liver meat sauce in the middle.
I also made a bowl of seaweed soup with goose bone soup to eat with pancakes.
Two pancakes and a bowl of soup are served on a wooden plate, which looks crude and smells good.
Jiang Bingren ate a bowl of delicious scallion noodles here last time, and he still remembers it, but unfortunately, he still has lingering fears about the strange spicy soup in this store. The soup served this time was as clear as water, with a few pieces of dark seaweed floating on it, which looked as ordinary as seaweed soaked in white water. He had suffered from Yu Jinnian's horseradish and egg soup, so he scooped up a little bit with a small spoon, smelled it, and then licked it with the tip of his tongue to try his mouth—
Well, not only does it have no strange taste, but it also has freshness in the fragrance, and the salty taste diffuses lightly. At first, I thought the soup was a bit bland, but when he took a bite of the foie gras sandwich on the plate, he immediately exclaimed delicious, Foie gras is mixed with well-cooked minced meat. It is tender and juicy in one bite. The crisp lettuce peppers are embellished with bright green and oily, creating a refreshing feeling between the liver pate and minced meat.
While eating, the stewed sauce dripped down from the finger holding the cake, and he hurriedly licked it again.
After eating a pancake, he suddenly felt a little thirsty. At this time, he took another sip of the goose soup that he thought was too light. Then eat another pancake.
As the saying goes, there is goose meat in the sky and donkey meat on the ground, which is really worthy of the name.
Although the dishes of their Spring Breeze Building are all grand in name and bright in color, they are indeed not so perfect in taste. He may not be as good at business as his father, but he has a much sharper tongue than his father, and he knows it in his heart , Chunfeng Deyi Building can be so prosperous, mostly because of the reputation of the old restaurant accumulated over a hundred years. In fact, there have been no new dishes in the building for many years.
The most famous thing in Chunfeng Deyilou is a tea-flavored chicken. Even neighboring restaurants have touched the recipe of this tea-flavored chicken one after another, but because it involves the pros and cons of tea, chicken, and wine, as well as the heat and secret The difference in seasoning, so far no one can make it better than theirs.
It's just that he thinks that sooner or later people will get tired of these old dishes, so it's better to open some new dishes to add some other flavors.
For example, the foie gras is fried or mixed in most restaurants, and the same is true of their Chunfeng Deyi restaurant, but a bowl of noodle restaurants have a unique way, they marinate the foie gras into sauce and eat it with pancakes, which has a special flavor, and such The small pancakes can be dine-in or wrapped in oiled paper for take-away, which is really wonderful.
Yu Jinnian didn't play tricks this time, but seeing the gingerbread man eating, his face changed color. He was confused, so he simply didn't look at it, but turned to see if the Kidney Deficient Young Master Ji was obedient drink soup.
Ji Hong pursed his lips and waved at him. Yu Jinnian ran over, first saw that the bowl was empty, and was about to touch a red date from his sleeve with a smile and reward Ji Hong to change his taste. He pulled it over and kissed it, and quickly stuck his tongue in and turned it around.
"how is the taste?"
Yu Jinnian poured a large pot of tea, seeing that he was about to come over and kiss him for the second time, he quickly covered his mouth and said, "Shut up, shut up, don't kiss anymore!" He quickly stuffed the red dates in his sleeves, He blocked Ji Hong's mouth.
What a kiss full of big pork loin flavor!
Yu Jinnian wiped his mouth and muttered, "Why don't you learn from me? You just learned how to tease people."
Ji Hong looked at him with a smile in his eyes, and said, "You know you've been teasing people all day long? Who used rice paste to stick paper on Tinker Bell's back, and that cat didn't come home for three days in anger?" .”
Yu Jinnian was choked up, thinking of the cat who had been driven away by him, so he refused to speak to him in a fit of anger.
After eating the pancakes, Young Master Jiang talked to himself for a while, then suddenly slammed the table, making Yu Jinnian jump. The man turned around, pushed away the folding fan, and raised his chin at Yu Jinnian: "Come here, my young master wants to discuss a business with you."
"With me?" Yu Jinnian pointed at himself, maybe he heard it wrong, didn't he want to talk to himself about how to buy Ji Hong to Jiang's mansion to sleep with him on a daily basis? For example, go to Jiang Mansion to accompany the gingerbread man on odd-numbered days, and come back to accompany him on even-numbered days.
I really can't blame him for his filthy thoughts, it's because Young Master Jiang is still an unscrupulous little hooligan in Yu Jinnian's mind. Apart from the business of "beauties", he really can't think of anything serious that the Gingerbread Man can talk to him about.
He wobbled over, and was about to open his mouth to mock Young Master Jiang.
Who wants to-
It's his birthday, and Jiang Bingren wants to have a serious talk with him for the first time!
Yu Jinnian stared in surprise, listening to Jiang Bingren dipping a chopstick into the tea, writing and drawing on the table: "Let me tell you... since you are unable to produce and sell villain for a long time, why don't you sell the recipe of villain for a long time?" Give us the Chunfeng Deyi Building, and I will pay sixty taels to buy it. Moreover, if you have any new recipes, you can bring them to me in the Chunfeng Deyi Building, or find a little steward named Xia Dong under my command. Then pay according to the price of the dishes... Have you heard?"
"Ah?" Yu Jinnian suddenly came back to his senses, and asked in surprise, "Master Jiang?"
Jiang Bingren flattened his mouth: "Why are you staring at me like this?"
Yu Jinnian: "See if you have been possessed by someone—ah, what did you just say? What is sixty taels?"
"..." Jiang Bingren was speechless for a while, and the water stains on the table dried up quickly, so he had to slowly sink his breath and write and draw again, "I said, we are proud of the building..."
Behind the gingerbread man is the Chunfeng Deyi Building, and the Chunfeng Deyi Building is in the honor of the county magistrate. After all, this young master Jiang is a golden thigh in the county, and how many people want to hug him but can't hug him. Although Yu Jinnian has no idea about hugging thighs, he has many recipes in his mind that cannot be used due to the poor conditions. According to the price offered by the gingerbread man, they can indeed sell for a lot of money.
These recipes were not originally created by him, and they are regarded as delicious here because these dishes were unheard of in the Xia Dynasty. It has been improved and passed on by countless ancestors over the past hundred years, and the taste is naturally richer. What is the saying - the predecessors plant trees, and the descendants enjoy the shade.
It’s just that selling recipes alone is too monotonous. At first glance, selling recipes may bring in a lot of money, but in the long run, it feels like a fishing boat. After all, if the recipes are sold out, wouldn’t they have nothing to sell for a bowl of noodle restaurants? Yu Jinnian then came up with an "exclusive agent" sharing method. He taught the cooks of Chunfeng Deyi Building how to do it, and no longer spread the word to others, and took part of the net profit of these dishes every week. If the dishes could not be sold, He doesn't take a cent.
Yu Jinnian explained to him that before their noodle restaurant developed into a scale as large as Chunfeng Deyilou, they probably didn't have the ability to cook those high-end dishes. When they have such financial resources in the future, they need some high-end dishes to support the scene , and will never make these dishes to steal the limelight of Chunfeng Deyilou.
At the same time, he said in his heart, anyway, he still has a lot of recipes in his stomach. As for who cooks better and attracts more diners, it depends on its own ability!
In short, this early stage is definitely not a loss for Young Master Jiang, not to mention that at the moment, their noodle shop is getting more or less stable income, and they are not in a hurry for the money from selling recipes.
In the end, Yu Jinnian also said: "I hope you can let the guys in our store go to study and serve you dishes, wipe the table and so on." In fact, he wanted to see how the Jiang family runs Chunfengdeyilou. The way of being a guest is to see people's hearts over time, and both the front hall and the back kitchen have some tricks. He is a newbie like him who needs to gain experience.
Jiang Bingren thought about it carefully, and it seemed that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what it was, so he pondered for a while.
Ji Hong looked at the two of them from behind the closet, trying to figure out the absurdity of Jiang Bingren's fondness for teasing people in the past. Just by looking at them like this, the two of them were actually about the same age, and they both seemed childish, and because Yu Jin lived in poverty when he was young Some, especially a little thinner. Two tender-faced teenagers fight together, one fights for fifty taels on one side, and twenty pearls on the other, that Young Master Jiang has a round face and round eyes, and when he gets angry he bulges like a steamed stuffed bun. It seems to be talking about business, but it seems to be having a drink at home.
Because it was interesting, Ji Hong looked at Yu Jinnian a few more times.
He thought to himself that although he was not good at keeping accounts, he had a very good business mind, and he could give him a try for the properties in his hands in the future.
Yu Jinnian didn't notice that Ji Hong was looking at him. He knocked on the table and said to Gingerbread Man, "Young Master Jiang also knows that our noodle shop has something that other restaurants don't have—that is, it can make medicinal food. If Chunfeng Deyi Building does what I said If you cooperate, you can also learn some four-season medicinal diet recipes from me, and make a health-preserving brand, which will be very popular among rich lords and ladies, right?"
If this happens, it will be a test of the prospects of the commercialization of herbal diet. If such a big sign as Chunfeng Deyi Building can't support a medicinal diet, then he has to carefully consider the feasibility of this matter.
These words made Jiang Bingren even more tempted, he hesitated and said: "This medicinal diet...won't it eat dead people?"
Yu Jinnian said: "Naturally, I will also teach you some simple ways to identify the physique of diners. Then you can recommend suitable medicinal diets to diners according to their constitutions. Besides, what I teach you are only some ordinary medicinal diet dishes, that is, food If you don’t testify, nothing will happen.”
Jiang Bingren hesitated.
Yu Jinnian took a sip of tea, squinted at him and said, "Could it be... that Young Master Jiang's words are not worth it?"
This remark was on the sore feet of Brother Gingerbread, he couldn't bear the provocation, he slapped the table on the spot and said: "Who said that! My words are not worth it in the Spring Breeze Building, who else can do it?! "
"Oh." Yu Jinnian nodded and tentatively asked, "Then the contract...?"
With just a few sentences, the gingerbread man was coaxed into signing a piece of paper.
When Yu Jinnian was waving a handkerchief to send him out, that Young Master Jiang was holding a foie gras steamed bun that Yu Jinnian had kindly given him, braving the cold wind, and was quite taken aback, as if he hadn't realized what happened. what.
Ji Hong chuckled lightly, and said, "Mo laughs as if a treacherous scheme has succeeded."
Yu Jinnian slumped on the cabinet, humming: "How can I have any tricks? You do the math, but I lost money!"
"Yes, yes, you are at a loss." Ji Hong shook his head.
Yu Jinnian went to the Chunfeng Deyi Building and taught their pastry chefs how to make gingerbread men, and improved the recipe. He also focused on the baking heat. There is a large oven specially used for baking pastries in the Chunfeng Deyi Building. These small biscuits It is going out one after another, and the efficiency is many times higher than that of them using a hot pan!
After testing the taste for two days, he taught the pastry master to add almond slices, walnut slices, raisins and other small things to the gingerbread men, making the biscuits taste sweeter and richer, even more delicious than a bowl of noodle shop sold that day Some.
At first, Jiang Bingren was afraid that Yu Jinnian was playing tricks, so he refused to teach them the real recipe, so he kept watching in the back kitchen all the time, until he personally tasted the improved versions of Xiaorenzhi and Jinlingzhi. My opinion of Yu Jinnian has changed, and I have more trust in him.
Moreover, Chunfeng Deyilou has rich financial resources, not only made small copper molds of various colors, but also made a small round soldering iron stick the size of a little finger at Yu Jinnian's request, with a round bowl engraved on it like a seal The shape represents "a bowl of noodle shop", and a stamp is branded on the back of each villain.
Naturally, the gingerbread man was not to be outdone, and another man also engraved a Chinese character of spring, representing his own family, and printed it next to the bowl of the noodle shop.
In this way, there are two imprints on the back of each biscuit, which can not only prevent counterfeiting, but also serve as an advertisement.
Three days later, the Chunfeng Deyi Building opened, and all the diners saw a menu on the wall that read "All kinds of tea with pancakes". The taste of the noodle shop is exactly the same, and there are more different tastes, shapes and colors, and they can even be strung up with strings and eaten while walking on the street.
The elders of Jiang's family were very dissatisfied at first, thinking that Jiang Bingren made such a decision when he first took over the restaurant business, and the other party was still a little-known noodle restaurant, which was really unreliable. Later, seeing that these pancakes were selling so well, It's hard to say anything more.
The craze for golden bells, which had finally subsided, suddenly became popular again in Xin'an County.
It's just that no one expected that from then on, the "small bowl" seal that Yu Jinnian came up with on a whim would become a special symbol that symbolizes his "produced by Yu Jinnian"...