Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Opening Ceremony

When the fish soup was ready, Xu Hui lifted the lid of the pot and asked Zhou Xiaomei to serve a bowl to Xu Zhiyong first.

"Dad, sit there and drink slowly, remember to keep stirring the fish soup to let the fragrance waft out." Xu Hui thought of a way to sell fish soup, no matter how beautiful the advertising words were, it was not as intuitive as the customers felt it personally.

Xu Zhiyong wanted the old lady and his daughter to eat first, but Xu Hui pressed him to the stool: "Eat quickly!" Let's change shifts to eat, milk, I'll give you a bowl too! ”

Deng Alian didn't refuse, drank the fish soup in a big gulp, and ate the mixed noodles and cakes brought from home.

When it was Xu Hui and Zhou Xiaomei's turn to eat, Zhou Xiaomei looked at those who were just watching but had no actual action, and was a little worried, couldn't the fish soup be bought and sold today?

"Mother, let's eat!" Xu Hui knew what she was worried about, the more the fish soup was boiled, the more fragrant it became, and it was cheap and good, someone would definitely buy it and drink it.

After the four of them finished breakfast, Zhou Xiaomei took the bowl to the back to brush, Xu Hui lifted the lid of the pot, and the fragrance of the fish soup spread rapidly.

"I smelled the fragrance in the middle of the market, what kind of food are you selling! It smells so good! "A well-dressed, not an ordinary middle-aged man came over and asked, he is here to buy fresh vegetables and pork today, the little master of the main family will celebrate his tenth birthday tomorrow, and he wants to feast guests.

"Uncle, our family sells fish soup, the fragrant soup only costs a penny, and the flatbread is also home-cooked, although there is not much white flour, the taste is good, why don't you buy a copy and try it!" Xu Hui saw that her family did not react, so she had to come forward to entertain the guests.

"Yes, our fish soup and flatbread are very delicious, and I don't have to say anything about them together, do you want to try them?" Deng Alian asked.

The man stood by the pot and sniffed hard, and after a while, just when Deng Alian thought that there was no hope for this business, the man asked for a bowl of fish soup and two flatbreads.

As soon as the fish soup was put into his mouth, someone next to him asked: "Steward Wen, how does the fish soup taste?" ”

"Fresh, fragrant, endless aftertaste!" The clerk drank most of the bowl of fish soup before answering the man's question.

"Is it really that good?" Bring me a bowl too, a flatbread! ”

"I haven't eaten in the morning, so I'll have a bowl and two cakes!"

After a while, the four tables were full of people, and the fish soup went down quickly, and half of the flatbread was left.

Deng Alian wanted to boil another pot of fish soup, Xu Hui shook her head at her, after selling this pot of fish soup, the flatbread will be gone, is it possible that the next pot will only let the guests drink soup, as long as the situation is opened, come back next time to catch the market.

Doing business is like this, which stall has more people in front, it is easier to attract customers, if the front of the stall is deserted, most people will not stop passing by.

After sending off two waves of guests, the fish soup has bottomed out, and there is only one layer of flatbread left, at this time the market is only on the people, seeing the more and more dense crowds, Deng Alian regrets that the flatbread was less baked yesterday, and it should be changed to a bigger pot to boil the fish soup.

"Milk, the silver can't be earned, we can prepare some more things for the next market, don't worry!"

The clerk ran back again: "Your fish soup is really good, can I ask where these fish come from, do you still have fish in your hands?" After drinking the fish soup, he was so happy that he forgot about the purchase, walked out of the market, remembered that there was still something to do, and hurried back.

"Uncle, have you seen the wooden barrel over there, the fish in it and these few in the pot are fished together, and the taste should be the same!"

The clerk leaned over to the barrel and looked at it, which contained crucian carp, grass carp, and carp.

"I want carp, I want twenty carp weighing about two pounds, for you to count...... Bawen a pound, can you send me to Wenfu in the afternoon? ”

"I'll tell you the truth, we have carp caught back at home, I'm afraid I won't be able to sell so much at one time, so I didn't bring it, but is it too little for a pound." Xu Hui remembered that her father said that fish above two catties in Dongjing can be sold for at least 12 wen a catty, 1 to 2 catties of 10 wen a catty, and a small one can be 6 to 8 wen a catty! This steward is too good at lowering the price.

The clerk didn't expect that the Xu family was talking to him about a child: "I want a lot, why don't you have to discount it!" ”

"More than two catties of fish eleven pennies a catty, can not be less, this depends on the amount you want, otherwise how can it cost twelve dollars a catty." Xu Hui is not stage frightened at all!

"Why are you talking to the clerk like that? People are willing to buy your fish, it is to save face for the Xu family, and Bawen buys forty catties of fish for one catty, this deal is already good! ”

Hearing the sound of talking, Xu Hui and her family looked towards the source of the sound, and saw Xu Zhigao strolling to the front of the stall.

"If you think this deal is done, you go and catch fish for the clerk, we will give you this business!" Xu Hui beckoned the two guests who came over to sit down, skillfully serve the soup and take the flatbread, and sell a few more bowls to call it a day!

The clerk looked at Xu Zhigao twice, looked away, this person didn't look reliable, he asked Xu Hui if the fish sent in the afternoon could be guaranteed to be as delicious and fresh as this morning's fish?

"We can guarantee the freshness, but we can't guarantee the taste, it depends on the chef's cooking techniques!"

"It seems that you are very good at cooking, so you shouldn't have made these fish soups!" The clerk asked curiously.

"She's still a child, how can she do this, the clerk is right, it's not easy for us to fish, the eight dollars are really too little, if you want ten yuan, we can deliver it to the door, no matter how little, it's really not good!" Deng Alian was afraid that her granddaughter's cooking would be exposed, so she hurriedly diverted the topic.

The steward agreed, but he demanded that the fish be alive and not hurt on its body! "If the Xu family really didn't dare to agree to this yesterday, knowing that Xu Hui had the ability to attract fish, they agreed to the request made by the cultural manager.

Sending off the clerk, Deng Alian beckoned her son and daughter-in-law to prepare to close the stall, Xu Zhigao smelled the fragrance of the fish soup and was reluctant to leave.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him in the second room, he simply took a bowl of fish soup by himself, picked up the only flatbread, and ate one bite of soup and one cake.

I don't know how they made this fish soup fresh and fragrant, there is no fishy smell at all, it is better than what Shunde Lou makes.

Could it be that the Xu family has a secret recipe for making food, and passed it to the second room to leave the big room behind! Xu Zhigao felt that there was such a possibility, otherwise, how could the second aunt's cooking skills be so much better all of a sudden, and they would be comparable to the chefs.

Someone saw the Xu family packing up their things and asked them if they would come to the next market, and if they did, they would take a clay pot from home and buy some fish soup to go home for their wives and children to taste.

"As long as it doesn't rain, we'll come, thank you Uncle and Aunt for cheering!" Xu Hui hugged her fists and thanked her decently!