Chapter 70: A Gamble on a Cup of Tea

Lao Hu's words made the two girls embarrassed not to buy it, and the cooked water shop finally opened, selling two cups of iced sour plum soup for four yuan - this is also the cheapest and most familiar cooked water in the store, and it is also the old business of the grandfather.

Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang sold black plums when he was a teenager, and one year there was a plague, and Zhu Yuanzhang also fell ill, but the black plums had to be sold, otherwise they would lose money and have nothing to eat. He insisted on going to the cellar to get black plums, but when he arrived at the cellar and smelled the smell of black plums, he immediately felt a shock to his spirits, and after eating a few pills, he felt that his condition improved. So he used black plum plus licorice and hawthorn to boil water, and the plague patients drank it, so the black plum soup sold well, and Zhu Yuanzhang also made a small fortune.

This is a folk legend, but the earliest record of Zhu Yuanzhang's sale of black plum is the Ming Dynasty novel "Yinglie Biography", saying that when Zhu Yuanzhang was 18 years old, he followed Guo Guangqing to sell plums to Jinling, "Jinling place, plague everywhere, black plum soup is cured when served, so plums are very expensive, and they have been sent out in a short time, and they have made great profits."

Regardless of the legend, at least it means that Zhu Yuanzhang sold black plums, and the black plum soup cured the plague.

The black plum soup made by Lin Yi now is in accordance with the traditional method, with black plum, licorice, hawthorn, osmanthus, add rock sugar, boil for an hour, then cool, and then boil again for an hour, so that the medicinal effect can be completely boiled out, and the characteristics of rock sugar is that the more you boil, the sweeter it is, which can ensure that the sugar content is not high, but the taste is very good.

As for that kind of chemical flavoring agent, what kind of aspartame, sodium citrate and the like, Lin Yi will never use it - where is the authentic sour plum soup sold outside now? All of them are made of sour plum paste, add some flavoring agents, and blend them directly with water, not to mention the taste and therapeutic effect, eating too much is still harmful to the human body.

As the saying goes, the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, the new store does not open leaflets, does not advertise, and there are no preferential activities, which is really a bit unreasonable in the eyes of a few new clerks, only sold a single business in the morning, the turnover does not exceed ten yuan, a few clerks muttered in their hearts, eighty percent of this work can not be done for a long time, but it is a pity that this treatment, three thousand yuan of basic salary plus bonuses, the boss promises that as long as you work hard, it is not a problem to get four thousand yuan a month!

The salary level of the beverage shop is higher than that of the noodle restaurant, because the beverage shop does not have food......

It opened at eleven o'clock, but it didn't sell another cup until twelve o'clock, and on the first day of opening today, the boss was quite generous, and ordered a few bowls of cut noodles, or the most expensive braised beef, but the four new clerks ate unsteadily-this is not a casual meal, right?

Shift meals, everyone has eaten, it's already one o'clock in the afternoon, the food street is still crowded, business is too good to be good, and even the dining area is not enough tables, but still no one buys cooked water. However, some diners stopped to look at the drink list posted on the top of the bar, but they either muttered that there was no milk tea, or shouted that the price was too high, and no one wanted to try it.

Several new clerks were even more anxious, and when they looked at the boss and the store manager, they were sitting on the bar chair and chatting like no one else.

How big is this boss's heart, at this time, don't you say hurry up and think of a way, get some promotional means or something?

At 1:30 a.m., the meal basically passed, the business of the food street began to light up, and several clerks finished talking about it, and now they had to close down completely, but they didn't expect to finally come to business at this time......

"This is the place, super delicious, super thirst-quenching!" a girl in a shopping guide uniform said to another companion, "Beauty, bring me twelve cups of sour plum soup!"

"Ten, twelve cups?" The new clerk was stunned, what was the situation? This girl looked familiar, she should be one of the only two customers in the store, but even if it felt delicious, she didn't need to buy twelve cups in one go, right?

"Hurry up, the air conditioner in our store is broken, and everyone is dying of thirst!" the girl shouted.

"Oh, okay!" The new clerk finally reacted, and hurriedly took out twelve cups of sour plum soup from the freezer one by one, and then found a problem - there were no plastic bags in the store, so there were two people here, how to bring the sour plum soup back? Although the sour plum soup is sealed, don't worry about spilling, but the freezing is cold, if you have six cups per person, you have to hold it in your arms, and you will freeze milk a little farther away......

Anyway, there was no business in the store, so after the clerk asked Liu Yanqiu, he simply sent two people to follow the two female shopping guides, and one person held three cups and sent them over......

A few minutes later, the two clerks came back, but they were followed by more than a dozen customers - it turned out that the air conditioner on the entire floor where the two female shopping guides were located was broken, not to mention drinking the water in the water dispenser at high temperatures, just drinking some of the various black tea, green tea, and carbonated drinks that they drink every day, all of which didn't work, and the more you drank, the more thirsty you became! And the scene of the four of them passing by with sour plum soup is simply a live advertisement, especially the shopping guide is definitely an elite, walking all the way to promote all the way, saying that this sour plum soup is particularly thirst-quenching, so sending a trip to attract more than a dozen new customers, and it is not just the kind of buying one cup, the fifty cups of iced sour plum soup prepared in advance were sold out in the blink of an eye, and there are several people who have not bought it.

"Beauty, the sour plum soup is gone, you can consider chilled mung bean soup, which is also very thirst-quenching. The new clerk recommended very hard - Wang Chunmei, as the training supervisor of the noodle restaurant, has been responsible for training the waiters of several franchise stores, and the new employees of the cooked water shop have also been handed over to her to be responsible for training, but it seems to be similar, at least she has cultivated a good sense of service and sales.

"Mung bean soup, I don't like to eat mung beans...... the female customer said a little embarrassed.

"Then you can try water chestnut herbal tea, which is made of water chestnuts, lotus roots, pears, and honey, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood, and rejuvenating the blood. The clerk said.

"Water chestnut herbal tea...... Wow, what about eight yuan a cup? I will recommend the expensive one, it doesn't matter, give me a cup. But I still have to bring two glasses for my colleague, and they all said it's four dollars a cup......," the customer added.

"Well, then you can bring mung bean soup, now only mung bean soup is four yuan a cup. The clerk said.

"Okay, let's bring them mung bean soup. The customer said.

While collecting the money, the clerk reported the order for people to pick up. Soon two cups of mung bean soup and a water chestnut herbal tea were taken out, but the customer was anxious again: "Why is this hot?

"I'm sorry, beauty, water chestnut herbal tea should taste hot and taste good, and the effect is the best......," the clerk explained. Water chestnut herbal tea is said to be hot, but in fact, it has been kept warm in a hot water bucket, and the actual temperature is about 40 degrees, and it tastes just warm.

"I told you, where did we buy a cold drink when the air conditioner was broken, and everyone was hot and thirsty, so why did you recommend a hot one to me?

The clerk was a little out of shape, and the remaining customers were staring at each other.

Lin Yi on the side hurriedly asked Liu Yanqiu to go up to explain, but that one was also spicy, and he didn't listen, Lin Yi smacked his lips, and could only go into battle in person, and said: "This beauty, do you know why you have to quarrel with the waiter because of this little matter?"

The girl was stunned for a moment, but before she could answer, Lin Yi continued: "You are hot, more precisely, it is a precursor to heat stroke, you are restless, irritable, and easily angry." If it continues to develop, you will feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness and retching. ”

"How do you speak? Are you so slush-cursed? It's your fault, and it's up to me?" the woman splattered.

"Don't quarrel with the beauty, that's good, I'll refund you the money for this cup of tea first, and besides, as long as you bring this cup of tea to me before you get off work in the afternoon, I'll give you an extra thousand yuan, how about it?" Lin Yi said.

"What?" the woman was stunned, wondering if she had misheard?

"Everyone can testify, my words are here, before getting off work in the afternoon, as long as you don't drink my family's cooked water, you will get heat stroke!" Lin Yi said with a smile, "If you have heat stroke, drinking this tea can be relieved quickly, and then you can decide whether to take this tea over for a thousand yuan, or immediately relieve the discomfort after drinking......

As soon as these words came out, all the people present exploded - this boss is interesting, he gambled for a cup of tea?