Chapter 17: A Book of Profits
Ximen Qing was dragged by the little guy, and just walked to the hall of Huanxianglou when he smelled a pungent fishy stench, and then he saw that there was a wooden cart in front of the gate of Huanxianglou, and a stream of yellow-green things were constantly flowing out of the car, and the yellow-green things were emitting heat and were running in the direction of the hall where they were.
Pig manure!
If he saw pig manure or something on weekdays, Ximenqing would only cover his mouth and nose in disgust at most, but at the moment he was in a restaurant, and he had just eaten so many fragrant wine and food, and when he landed, the fishy stench suddenly penetrated into his mouth and nose, and Ximenqing vomited with convulsions.
With the influx of pig manure, the hall suddenly became a mess, the owner of Huanxianglou also felt unbelievable when he saw this scene, and he didn't have time to get angry, he only took a group of juniors with brooms and desperately wanted to sweep the disgusting pig manure out of the restaurant, but the pig manure rolled in, and it was so thin, the more they swept, the pig manure splashed everywhere, and the boss who was in a hurry was about to cry.
Needless to say, the guests who ate in the hall had been swept away by the stench of pig manure since the influx of meat and vegetables from the stench, and after they vomited out their stomachs and ate food, they all shook their sleeves angrily, and would rather have the pig dung on the ground on the soles of their feet than flee from this disgusting place quickly.
Even the guests in the upstairs box smelled the stench and walked down, after seeing the hall full of filth, they naturally couldn't help but vomit, they didn't dare to go down after vomiting, in their eyes, the hall at this time was like a hell on earth, they would rather hide in the box, of course, at this time no one can eat anything.
"Great officials, great officials! Don't complain! A few stinky beggars suddenly appeared just now, and while I didn't notice that they actually overturned the dung truck you asked me to pull, this is what it is now..."The thug who pulled the cart was also splashed with pig dung when the car overturned just now, and at this moment he had just finished cleaning up the pig manure on his body, and when he saw that Ximenqing was behind the hall, he was also busy explaining that he was rude and anxious to explain, completely ignoring the pig manure that filled the hall, and walked in front of Ximenqing step by step.
Ximenqing just vomited the wine and food in his stomach, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, Nazhi just looked up and saw the thug coming over roughly, but when the thug approached, the pig manure that flowed over was trampled by the thug and splashed himself, Ximenqing couldn't help but vomit again, but this time he vomited sour water.
"Oh! It turned out to be a dung truck pulled by you! After the boss of Huanxianglou heard the thug's words, he threw down the broom in his hand in anger and grabbed Ximenqing and the others, "You must give me an explanation today, otherwise don't want to leave!" ”
Ximenqing glared at the thug and scolded him secretly, he was caught without confessing to himself, and Ximenqing, who was even involved, couldn't get out now.
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! Boss Zhang, I have always been good friends with you, and I don't want to see such a thing happen today, it's a pure misunderstanding! "The owner of Huanxianglou is surnamed Zhang, and he can open the best restaurant in Yanggu County, he naturally has some power, Ximenqing didn't dare to bully, so he had to persuade him with good words.
The boss of this Huanxiang Building naturally recognized Ximenqing a long time ago, and he also felt very puzzled, he and Ximenqing had no grudges in the past, and there was no enmity recently, and the other party had no reason to fix himself like this, "Hmph, it turned out to be a big official of Ximen, whether it was a misunderstanding or not, your subordinates did this kind of thing in my restaurant, that is, it smashed the reputation of my restaurant, not only the loss of the restaurant today, but also the loss of making amends to the guests and closing the business to clean the restaurant, you can look at it!" ”
Boss Zhang is a businessman in the end, what he values is interests, things have happened, although he is extremely angry, but he makes every effort to reduce losses is the first thing a businessman should consider.
"Of course, of course! I will compensate for Boss Zhang's loss! Ximenqing was also very helpless, he naturally didn't want to compensate if he could slip away, but now that he was caught, he couldn't deny it, so he had to grit his teeth and agree.
Pig manure handed over to the small ones to continue to clean up, the two went upstairs after some discussion, and finally Ximenqing had to open a hundred taels of silver compensation, a restaurant was filled with pig manure, this negative impact will be gradually eliminated in at least a few months, plus other losses, one hundred taels is already very cheap Ximenqing, Ximenqing can't say anything.
When he set up the note and left, Ximenqing's face was covered with dark clouds, if he had done before, it would not be difficult for him to take it out, but now that he had just filled the big hole of five hundred taels, the pharmacy had finally entered the regular state, and he would never be able to take out so much money at this time!
"Let's go!" Glancing at the two unsuccessful subordinates around him, Ximenqing said in a deep voice, the boss of Huanxianglou is not a vegetarian, if Ximenqing denies it and does not pay it back, then he will take out the evidence and sue the magistrate, and Ximenqing will not be able to deal with it.
Out of the gate of Huanxiang Building, seeing Wu Zhi's scene of the hot business of the proud building, Ximen Qing was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, "The green mountains left are here, don't be afraid of no firewood, Wu Dalang!" I don't believe you can leave the magistrate with you every day! Bah! With a hard spit, Ximenqing left unwillingly.
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The business of the proud building here is not just as simple as the fire, after the guests leave after the guests are full of food and drink in the proud building, they will naturally run around to tell each other, saying how delicious the stir-fried food is, how mellow the proud wine, the whole county is boiling, the people are not bad for money, and naturally want to come and taste whether it is really as delicious as the legend, and now it has passed the noon meal, but the gate of the proud building is still full of people coming and going.
As a last resort, the restaurant temporarily purchased a large number of ingredients, because there were too many people, the restaurant could not sit down, in line with the principle that the customer is God, Wu Zhi ordered people to deliberately open a window to sell wine, so that those guests had some gains. And there are still a lot of reserves of wine, so I am not afraid of selling out.
In the afternoon, the squire who was satisfied with eating and drinking was sent away, and the squire lord who was blushing with the drunk face had a long talk of admiration and appreciation, and almost didn't bow to his brothers, Wu Zhi asked Li Da and others to send Zhixian back together, after a while, not only did Zhixian and others fight together, but also Wu Zhi's image completely changed in the hearts of everyone, and no one would despise Wu Dalang from now on!
After returning to the restaurant, looking at the still lively scene, Wu Zhi was very relieved, he had already guessed that the proud building would be popular after it opened, but Wu Zhi didn't expect it to be so popular, because Wu Zhi set the price of wine and food much higher than ordinary restaurants before, so Wu Zhi guessed that even if it was popular after the opening, it would not be there, but Wu Zhi obviously underestimated the consumption level of the Northern Song Dynasty people, although a plate of hot and sour cabbage sold for ten cents after half price, but people didn't care, because this dish was delicious, not to mention, it was fried in oil, Since it is fried in oil, it is naturally easy for people to accept the higher price.
Seeing the wine and food quickly turn into rolling money, Wu Zhi was naturally overjoyed, and at the same time, after having an idea of the money of this era, he couldn't help but regret the waste of his squandering when he first came here.
The wine and food of this proud building are priced according to high prices, but even so, a pot of wine is only sold for two hundred and eighty yuan, and the most expensive sweet and sour carp is only three hundred yuan.
That is to say, Wu Zhi has to sell three sweet and sour carp or small four pots of wine to barely receive one or two silver, not counting the capital, according to Wu Zhi's estimates, one penny in this era is equivalent to one dollar in later generations, and the sugar gourd on the street is two pennies a penny, and it is almost sold for two yuan in later generations (in order to facilitate everyone to read the set ancient and modern exchange rates, there is a certain error, so you don't have to be serious).
Therefore, Wu Zhi thinks about it now, when he first crossed over, he would give one or two pieces of silver for two bowls of mutton soup, which is equivalent to 1,000 yuan, which is simply money!
As for visiting the Qinglou and giving a tip of 1,800, Wu Zhi had seen such a world before he crossed over, but he felt a pain in his flesh when he changed it, and what he regretted even more was that he hadn't met the coquettish kiln sister yet......
Meat pain is meat pain, their own wine and food are priced high, although soybean oil is used, but the profit margin is still very rich, the catering industry is like this, a dish full of only four and a half pounds of weight, the cost may only be a few dollars, but if this dish is exquisite and delicious, it can be sold for dozens of hundreds of yuan, this is the advantage of Wuzhi's new style of stir-frying, after the emergence of stir-frying, people pay more attention to the value of the ingredients, but the chef's craftsmanship!
Although the chef skills of Wuzhi Restaurant are unknown in the eyes of Wu Zhi, they are top-level in the eyes of the Song people who taste stir-fry for the first time, so people are willing to pay out of their pockets.
Compared to these dishes, what excites Takeshi the most is the wine!
In this era, the price level of wine is not much different from that of later generations, and the price of expensive and good wine is sometimes dozens of taels of silver per jar, and the cheap one is only a few pennies, so Wu Zhi's proud wine can only be regarded as a medium level, not to mention, even the price of the good wine in the Huanxiang Building opposite is higher than that of Wu Zhi.
However, Wuzhi's wine is distilled and blended by Xue'er, and it belongs to the top wine of this era! The original liquor used is a low-end wine of more than ten yuan per jar, and the loss after blending it with water is not much, every time a pot of wine is sold, Wu Zhi can make at least two hundred and seventy-five yuan of net money!
Moreover, wine is easy to process, there are many reserves, and there are many more people who buy wine than people who eat vegetables, so wine is the real cash cow of Wuzhi!
Wu Zhi went to the counter and roughly looked at the account book, it was only open for an afternoon, and the wine alone had already been more than two hundred copper coins, excluding the insignificant cost, Wu Zhi had already earned back two hundred taels of silver from the wine that Xue'er blended!