Chapter 14: Lao Gan Ma Flavor Bean Drum
Rufen Town is built along the official road, and its geographical location is somewhat special.
Because it is an official road, there are many merchants who come from the south to the north, but because the town itself has no special products or other resources, the only role of this town is to provide rest for the merchants on the road.
There are many, many of these towns on Zheng Wan Road.
Not to mention the distance, it is near, in the middle of Rufen Town and Xiangcheng County, there is a Jiangdian Town, and Rufen Town is not far from Xiangcheng County, and Ye County in the south is not far away.
Under normal circumstances, unless the merchants who are particularly anxious to travel, they will choose to spend the night in Rufen Town, after all, Rufen is just a small town, and the accommodation facilities in it are definitely inferior to the county seat.
As for the name Ru Tomb, although there is a tomb in the name, it does not mean a tomb.
The tomb also has another meaning, that is, the embankment, that is, the highland by the water, and also has the meaning of the river dam, Rufen Town, the origin of the name, is a highland by the Rushui River.
The location of Rufen Town is the downstream area of the Junshui River, which flows into the Rushui River, and in ancient times, the Junshui River also belonged to Rushui, so the name of Rufen Town originated.
Although there are many merchants here, the mobility is also large, and for publicity, it takes a long time of unremitting efforts, which is not as fast as a stable flow circle.
As a result, in the first half of the afternoon, Li Chu's business was not very good.
There was no one, and it was not until the second half of the afternoon that someone came, and this merchant, who was a regular customer of yesterday, had to stay in the town for an extra day because of a breakdown in the wheel.
In terms of food, the Chinese people have always had a tradition.
There are many people there, go wherever you go!
This is especially obvious in later generations, especially in Chengdu, Sichuan, which is simply crazy.
There are diners eating here, which can play a role in attracting, and the merchants who travel from south to north often know each other, so this back and forth, until noon, Li Chu's restaurant business has not stopped.
Not only that, but in the water inn next door, a guest ordered two dishes and asked them to be delivered.
Although he was busy at noon today, Li Chu noticed that there were gradually many smiles on Ah Xiu's face.
It's that happy smile from the heart.
"I said Brother Li, you are called a chili pepper, I like it very much, I often go to the south to do business, the lake is wide and humid and miasma, every time I go back there, the whole body is very uncomfortable, and I lose my appetite.
I tasted your chili pepper today, and I was spicy by this chili, and the dampness and cold all over my body subsided, and my appetite was greatly boosted, and my appetite was great.
I don't know how long this pepper has been stored, whether it can be sold to some, if there is this pepper to help, this trip to Huguang is afraid to be much easier. ”
Selling chili peppers?
The merchant surnamed Zhang in front of him is a sincere person, and Li Chu also knows the role of this chili, but he forgot it for a while, but he didn't expect that this person could eat the effect of chili peppers as soon as he ate it, and he didn't hide the reason for buying chili peppers.
No business, no treachery!
This sentence, in later generations, was used to the extreme, but for the people of the Northern Song Dynasty at this time, in terms of morality, each had their own standards, and the one in front of him was a good businessman with a sincere conscience.
If you were a businessman like Zhang Laocai, you would only ask where you got this thing, and you won't say anything about the strange reason for this.
It's just chili peppers, for this kind of conscientious businessman, Li Chu will naturally not be stingy.
Anyway, he customizes a lot of this chili, so it doesn't hurt to give a little to this Boss Zhang.
But when Li Chu took out a large bag of dried red peppers from the cabinet under the cart and gave one or two catties to Zhang Luo, Li Chu stopped.
"In this way, Boss Zhang, you go to find an empty stall or an empty jar, which can be easily carried and covered."
Zhang Luo, dressed as a Confucian in his forties with a mustache on his lips, groaned for a moment before getting up to find what Li Chu needed.
Li Chu asked him to find the jar for a certain reason.
Plants and crops are purchased in the customization system, and there are two prices, one, for food, this type, the price of custom purchase is very low, but it cannot be planted.
Yes, although there are seeds in it, they are all restricted, and they cannot grow even if they are planted.
The other is normal, can be planted and can be planted, the price of this is particularly high, affected by the survival of the Northern Song Dynasty, social factors, such as tomatoes, potatoes, hybrid rice such as the Northern Song Dynasty did not have, belongs to the alien species, the initial purchase price is very high.
But if you just use it for food, if you don't need to make seeds, it will be very cheap.
Li Chu's customized purchases all belong to the first type, which can only be eaten and not seeded.
Fresh chili peppers have a relatively short shelf life, so what Li Chu took out was dried red peppers, which are the same size as millet spicy, which can be stored for a long time.
Just now, Li Chu wanted to give this Zhang Luo directly, but he found a problem.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was basically boiled, and things like chili peppers could only be fried to give full play to their inherent spiciness, and they could be expected to be fried when Zhang Luo went to Huguang?
Moreover, Li Chu also had to thank this Boss Zhang for opening a new business path for him.
Sell, chili, sauce!
That's right, it's selling, chili, sauce!
The merchant mobility of Rufen Town, and the traffic arteries connecting the west and south, plus the merchants here, simply provide the most natural market for chili sauce.
As for selling that kind of chili sauce, does this still need to be considered?
Of course, it's popular all over the world, old, dry, mom!
In the customization system, the formula of Lao Gan Ma flavored bean drum is only priced at 1 custom coin, and this recipe contains all the products in the Lao Gan Ma brand series.
Cheap, conscience.
After asking the system about the reason, this secret recipe, in the eyes of the system, is just a recipe, selling 1 custom coin, or because this is the minimum purchase value.
Very good.
If it weren't for the items customized by the system, it wouldn't be able to be sold directly, Li Chu wanted to directly use the system as a production factory, but Li Chu also had his own considerations.
There's one thing involved, glass.
During the period of the Northern Song Dynasty, glass was a luxury, not to mention this kind of transparent glass, and it was also used for a kind of spicy food packaging, once it was not well controlled, with Li Chu's current strength and power, it would collapse.
A peaceful life will definitely be broken, despite the fact that he has tanks and is not afraid of any enemy.
But what about Ah Xiu, Yang Cheng, and Yang Kang?
In this way, the changes brought to the family are definitely not something that Ah Xiu and them can afford for a while.
Therefore, for the sake of Ah Xiu, despite having a tank, Li Chu still chose a calm and low-key way in the early stage, first stabilizing his own development, and then slowly trying to figure it out.
Glass cannot appear in large quantities, at least before having a stable strength, it cannot appear in large quantities, let alone use it in food, which is a luxury in the eyes of the Northern Song Dynasty people.
Remember, in the south of the town, there is a folk kiln.
After a while, Zhang Luo found a wine jar with a diameter of about 15 centimeters, which is not very large, but it can be tied with hemp rope on both sides, which is easy to carry.
The jar has also been washed, and the seal is made of oiled paper tied with hemp rope to the recess of the mouth of the altar.
Li Chu nodded, indicating that this thing could be.
The dried chili peppers that he took out earlier had already been chopped up by Li Chu.
In the seasoning, Li Chu still stored some bean drums, originally the bean drums in Lao Gan Ma were made of soybeans, but it took a certain amount of time, and now I was afraid that I couldn't wait so long, so Li Chu simply took out all the seasoning bean drums.
Finely chop the ginger and garlic.
Mash the peppercorns.
After the ingredients are ready, start to fry them step by step according to the details in the recipe of Lao Gan Ma.
It doesn't matter if it's fried or not, when this stir-fry is fragrant, people on the street all day long suddenly turn their heads to look this way.
Hey.
Li Chu smiled with everyone and added some water to it.
It didn't take long for a pot of old godmothers to be made.
Zhang Luo's eyes were stunned when he looked behind, he saw Li Chu's action, as a businessman, he quickly understood Li Chu's intention, and his eyes when he looked at Li Chu were full of gratitude.
The old godmother who had just made it was still hot, and it was not suitable to install the altar directly, so Li Chu took him aside and let it cool.
I picked up a small saucer here, took a little bit out of it, and put it in front of Zhang Luo.
"Taste how."
Li Chu didn't wait for Zhang to put down his chopsticks, he first used the chopsticks to put a little in his mouth.
Well, it's still the same flavor back then.
I miss it.
Zhang Luo also put a little bit in his mouth......
Hmm, Zhang Luo's eyes widened, and the taste in his mouth exploded instantly.
Fragrant, sweet, spicy, numb, Zhang Luo didn't know how to describe it, when he saw Li Chu stir-frying, it was obviously spicy, but the first sip of drunkenness was not spicy, but a kind of incense that had never been smelled or eaten, spicy and fragrant.
After the fragrance, before it was spicy, he felt a trace of sweetness, but before he could seriously feel it, the spicy smell gushed out, accompanied by a trace of numbness.
After a second of lower stomach, a wave of heat rises in the body, this heat is different from dry heat, and the cells of the whole body are transmitted by this heat, which is very refreshing, refreshing, and pleasant.
In the middle of winter, after a few mouthfuls of old godmother's chili sauce, Zhang Luo's face was already covered with sweat.
Refreshing!
The spicy nature of this sauce is more enjoyable than the chili fried meat I ate before, and it makes people's body heat more comfortable.
What makes Zhang Luo even more enjoyable is that when he thinks of this thing, it was specially prepared by this little brother Li for himself to go to Huguang, and he was excited, moved and happy, happy that he could eat this often in the future, and excited that Little Brother Li specially prepared it for him.
What touched me was that this little brother was really a real person, he just bought a little chili, but Little Brother Li thought more about it and directly helped him make such a hot sauce.
In winter, it's cold outside, and this dish is also cool.
Li Chu felt the temperature on the pot with his hand, and after there was no hot air, he carefully poured the pot into the empty jar little by little, no more, no less, just enough to fill a jar.
Zhang Luo covered the mouth of the altar with oiled paper and tied it to the notch of the mouth of the altar with a circle of hemp rope.
"Brother Li, what's the name of this chili pepper?"
"Old godmother."
Old godmother?
This name, it's really strange, Zhang Luo scratched his head, why did such a delicious food come up with such a name?
Li Chu saw his doubts and explained: "This dish is a unique skill of one of my godmothers, she is not in this world now, I miss my godmother's craftsmanship, so I miss it with this." ”
"I see, little brother is filial, the old lady will definitely be moved in heaven."
Li Chu smiled, he just felt that if this old godmother changed her name, it would always feel weird.
"Little Brother Li, these ten taels of silver, I don't know if it will be enough for this meal and this old godmother?"
Zhang Luo took out the ingot silver from his sleeve and put it in Li Chu's hand, but was pushed back by Li Chu.
"If Brother Zhang doesn't dislike it, Li Chu is willing to call you big brother, today's meal money, big brother is here to cheer, how can you say this vulgar thing?
This old godmother is the diet therapy prepared by my brother for my eldest brother to go south, and my brother has a heart. ”
Zhang Luo's face turned red, and he was even more moved, and pushed the silver in his hand forward, but he couldn't push it, so he couldn't shirk it anymore.
"In that case, then a certain Zhang Luo will recognize you as a little brother."
……
Zhang Luo left with his old godmother.
Li Chu was playing with a silver ingot of ten taels in his hand.
This Brother Zhang Luozhang is a person who values love and righteousness, and when he left, he unconsciously put the ingot of silver quietly on the side of the small cart and sent Zhang away after that, Li Chu found the ingot silver here.
There are good and bad business.
There is treachery, but there is also sincerity.
Zhang Luo is this kind of good businessman worth befriending, honest businessman!