Chapter Seventy-Three: The Buffet Table
Worried, Yao welcomed a new guest after seeing off a guest, and then she noticed that the new guest in front of her was dressed very decently, and was obviously not on the same level as the previous guests. She was secretly surprised that such a customer would come to her small shop to queue up to buy something.
However, they were all guests, and Yao resisted his curiosity and warmly received them without discrimination.
I saw that the shopkeeper Wang, who had been waiting for a long time, didn't look at anything else, and as soon as he came up, he took a small bamboo stick and nailed a small piece of red bean curd to try, and he was not afraid of saltiness, and then tried the white bean curd, bad bean curd, five-spice bean curd, sweet and spicy bean curd, fresh and spicy bean curd, shrimp bean curd, etc.
Shopkeeper Wang has been dealing with all kinds of spices all his life, and he keenly found that these fermented bean curd are not only delicious in the mouth, but more importantly, if used properly, they should be an excellent seasoning, which can add a lot of color to the dishes. So he began to plan in his heart to cooperate with Zhao Siniang again to supply this kind of fermented bean curd for his restaurant.
Jiang Yue'e is different from Yao, who came to the shop to help on the first day, and has seen Shopkeeper Wang once in the shop before. Therefore, after greeting a guest, Jiang Yue'e turned her head sideways and saw the shopkeeper Wang standing outside the window, immediately recognized him, and asked in surprise: "Shopkeeper Wang, why are you queuing up here?" Seeing that the shopkeeper Wang was holding a bamboo stick in his hand, Jiang Yue'e hurriedly said: "Please hurry up and sit in the house, and I will prepare a copy of all these things for you immediately." How can you stand here all the way here? ”
Shopkeeper Wang shook his head with a smile, and asked Jiang Yue'e and the others to continue to be busy and leave him alone. He himself took a bamboo skewer and began to taste the row of side dishes made of soy products again.
Although Shopkeeper Wang said this, Jiang Yue'e did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately notified Old Man Jiang to come and greet him.
Seeing that Mr. Jiang personally greeted the door, Shopkeeper Wang only put down the bamboo skewer in his hand proudly, and followed Mr. Jiang into the lobby.
As soon as Shopkeeper Wang entered the door, he was attracted by the two rows of long tables in the middle of the lobby. I saw that it was full of all kinds of hot and cold dishes. The cold dishes are served in wooden pots, which is not unusual. However, the hot dishes are served in large special clay pots, which are placed on a long table with a hole in the middle. There is a small stove underneath that keeps heating up. Although the stove fire is not vigorous, it is only a slight fire, but it not only plays a role in heat preservation, but also spreads the aroma of hot food. Not only in the entire lobby, but even people standing on the official road outside can smell it from afar.
At this time, the tables in the shop were almost full, and Mr. Jiang finally found a table for Shopkeeper Wang. However, Shopkeeper Wang politely refused Old Man Jiang's kindness, and did not sit down immediately, but walked curiously to the middle of the two rows of tables. Take a closer look.
The dishes on the table are not unusual, most of them are the ones he ate when he came to the shop last time, plus some dishes made from various soy products and a few large meat dishes, which are also very home-cooked dishes. Because the table is long enough, the distance between each dish is large enough, and several plates of prepared dishes are placed between each other for easy access.
If you look closer, you can see that there are three wooden troughs on each table, facing the container where the dishes are kept, and a wooden sign is inserted in the wooden trough, on which the name and price of the dish are clearly written. It should be taken into account that the guests who come here to consume are not highly educated. Each wooden plaque is also painted with several copper plates corresponding to the price, so that every customer can clearly know the price.
On the west side of each of the two rows of tables is a small square table, on which are placed two rows of square plates stacked quite high. The guests took the square plate from the west entrance to select the dishes, and went to the east exit to pay the corresponding food money to Zhao Yongzhong, who was standing there.
This ingenious idea has opened the eyes of the shopkeeper Wang, who has been in the catering business all his life. Although his family is in the high-end restaurant business, he still feels that he has benefited a lot from not being able to copy this model.
Shopkeeper Wang carefully inspected the novel dining table from beginning to end, and selected a few dishes from it to the seat to savor. Every dish made him praise repeatedly, especially when he ate the braised pork, the delicious and mellow taste lingered on the tip of the tongue. It made him squint his eyes even more intoxicated.
It didn't take long for the morning rush hour to end. Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly asked the guy who came with him to bring in the prepared congratulatory gifts, and personally handed them to the old man Jiang who was finally free, and officially congratulated him on the opening of his shop. Then he couldn't wait to invite Zhao Siniang out. Began to negotiate new cooperation matters.
Now Zhao Siniang no longer needs the original funds as urgently as she did at the beginning, and she doesn't plan to do the dry up and fish again. Therefore, even if Shopkeeper Wang promised to pay a high price, she refused to sell the preparation method of soy products such as fermented bean curd, and she was reluctant to sell the relevant recipes. It's just that considering that her house is very likely to be unfinished, she decided to sell two or three recipes to Shopkeeper Wang, and come back to build a house in exchange for some money. So I made an appointment with Shopkeeper Wang. After receiving the shop, I went to his shop to discuss the recipe business.
As soon as the overjoyed shopkeeper Wang was sent away, a mule cart full of ducks came on the official road. Zhao Siniang saw it and hurriedly greeted her, and beckoned the driver to drive the car into the backyard.
At this time, Jiang was squatting in the backyard to help Zhao Sanniang wash the mountains of dishes, and saw that Zhao Siniang had sent dozens of big ducks and hundreds of ducklings and several large baskets of duck eggs to the door after the more than 20 big ducks yesterday.
As soon as he stepped forward to open his mouth and counted Zhao Siniang's two sentences, he was stopped by the young daughter-in-law who was walking with the car driver. I only heard the daughter-in-law thank you and say: "Eldest sister, if it weren't for your family being so benevolent, not only did you buy all the ducks in our family, but also didn't lower the price at all, your family would give as much as we bid, and we wouldn't know how to raise the money!" The whole family doesn't know how to get through this! Your family has really helped our family a lot, and you are a great benefactor of our family! ”
Jiang couldn't stand the soft words of gratitude to her the most, and even said that he didn't need to thank him, and said that the villagers should help each other.
Taking advantage of this, Zhao Siniang hurriedly coaxed her father to pay the money.
Jiang Shi, who sent the couple away and received a large basket of good words, couldn't pull down a face, but he wanted to preach Zhao Siniang with a straight face, and his face was very strange for a while.
"Mother, I'm a little sleepy, I want to go in and squint for a while." Zhao Siniang asked Jiang Shi Dao pitifully.
Jiang Shi listened, and hurriedly urged Zhao Siniang to go in and rest, and the words of teaching people had long been forgotten behind the clouds.
Zhao Siniang said secretly, her mother is a face-saving person, and anyone can pinch it twice. Forget it if you pinch it from your own family, if you let the people of the old Zhao family take it, how can you be good?
Zhao Siniang pretended to be worried, and yawned without pressure to go back to sleep. (To be continued.) )