Chapter 19: The Restaurant Shopkeeper
I don't know what I like about this little girl?
While envying the two of them for getting the nobleman's fancy and giving them a prescription, everyone thought about who would go to school in the family?
You can't be lazy and slippery, otherwise you won't learn this tofu well, and you won't be able to make it when you get home.
"Can a woman learn?" A woman in the crowd suddenly spoke.
Lin Shuqing responded: "Naturally, it is possible, women should be more delicate in their work, and children can also do it, but at least people should be taller than the stove!" ”
Hearing the latter sentence, everyone burst into laughter, and choosing to learn to make tofu is naturally higher than the stove.
However, women can also learn it, so can this craft be passed on directly to the girls in the family?
Soon this point was denied again, because the daughter was going to marry sooner or later, and bringing this recipe to her in-law's house would not ruin the family's business.
Lin Shuqing doesn't understand the twists and turns in this, her main task is to collect money and teach people to make tofu. Although making tofu is easy to use, there are many details to pay attention to.
There are many people in the village who come to learn tofu, and they don't have to get up so early to make tofu.
There is no need to get up early, Lin Shuqing couldn't be happier.
Two more straw sheds were erected in the courtyard of the Du family, and new pot racks were erected underneath, and they were fenced far away.
However, instead of an iron pot, there was a clay urn on the stove.
In these years, the iron pot is expensive, and a lot of grain has to be served in one bite. Their upfront income is spent on building these basic things.
The time to make tofu has been postponed, and the time to sell tofu has also been postponed.
Selling tofu is also a craft, and Lin Shuqing still led a team of several women in the village to sell it.
Many of the people who come to learn tofu are the aunts of the village, and the men are not without them, but the young men are very rare, and there are even old people in their fifties and sixties who come to learn tofu.
The eldest Lin Shuqing knew each other, and their family was the only one in the village.
There are two old men and a grandson in their family, the mother-in-law is still blind, and the grandson is only five years old now, and he has to follow his grandfather to work in the fields when he is busy with the farm.
Taking out two buckets of rice to buy a recipe to save the wheat has made their family very poor.
Not everyone in the village, all the people can find a few people to work in the fields.
Although Lin Shuqing is sympathetic, she herself is a broken family, what can she do. Therefore, most of the laborious work of grinding beans is assigned to her aunts who are in the prime of life, so that this grandfather can do some light, fire and stirring beans in the pot.
It's not difficult to make tofu, Lin Shuqing taught all morning, and everyone learned almost enough. It's just that a discerning person can recognize the problem at once, and to make this tofu well, the introduction in the jar is indispensable.
Someone asked directly: "Lin girl, what is the introduction of this falling down to make tofu?" ”
"Can we do it at home?"
Lin Shuqing smiled and said, "Although I taught this craft of making tofu, this introduction is still a secret recipe." If you learn the introduction, outsiders will be able to make their own tofu. ”
"So I can't tell you about this recipe for the time being. After the big guy has done three months of work, if he wants to make his own tofu, he can come to me to buy it, and you can buy a small jar of tofu for one penny, and you can make several pots of tofu. ”
"If you make tofu together here, you don't have to spend money, the tofu is sold uniformly, and you will be paid some wages every month."
Hearing Lin Shuqing's words, everyone was even more surprised, is there any money to make tofu together?
Although this introduction is a bit expensive, some people just want to do it as a family.
Let's not mention this for the time being, after this tofu is finished, it will naturally have to be taken to the city to sell.
Selling tofu is also a craft, and Lin Shuqing still led a team of several women in the village to sell it.
Wang Zhan is a restaurant owner, and his father is a domestic servant who helps large families take care of the restaurant business, so he has saved a lot of money for this. After his father ransomed, he took Wang Zhan back to his hometown and opened a restaurant.
It's a pity that I'm old, I fell on the road, and now there are signs of a stroke, and I lie on the bed every day to rely on some soup to continue my life, and this restaurant is in the hands of Wang Zhan.
When they came to open the restaurant, they didn't have a good time. There is already a Hu Ji restaurant in the county that dominates the entire county, and there are many small wine shops below. Even if he bought a shop in a good location, this customer was still used to eating acquaintances.
The restaurant business that has invested a lot of money can't survive, and if it goes on like this, he can't even afford his father's medical bills.
A few days ago, there was a new gadget sold in the county, and the guy who bought it in the building bought a few pieces, and according to the girl who sold tofu, it was delicious when boiled and fried. Tofu was a novelty to him, and he did as the girl said.
The taste is extraordinary!
The customers who came that day ordered several copies, and saw that the business of the store was about to come back. But Hu Kee Restaurant also started selling tofu the next day, and the two of them did the same, but there were many people in Hu Kee Restaurant on weekdays, so the business was still better than them.
Wang Zhan felt that this method of making tofu still had to start with this girl who sold tofu!
The tofu was made by her, and she tasted it first, in case she could understand more!
So before dawn, he came to the place where he said and waited, and waited for the girl to come and sell tofu again.
But I've been waiting all morning, why haven't you come yet? Don't you sell tofu today?
After watching noon, he finally watched a group of people carrying burdens come to the street, lifted the lid of the cloth, and revealed the tofu inside, wasn't this the tofu girl he was waiting for?
Wang Zhan carried the gift and walked up respectfully.
At this time, I saw that the tofu seller was coming, and the vendor next to me who had not yet closed the stall also came up, ready to take a piece home.
A piece of tofu is not expensive, and it is a big piece, take it home and cut it finely, it is a big bowl of vegetables, each person can eat one or two pieces, and the taste is also good.
"Excuse me, who is the girl who makes this tofu?" Wang Zhan asked respectfully.
As soon as she said this, several aunts who were busy picking up tofu at the stall glanced at him.
This girl who makes tofu, this tofu is made by them, but they still call them girls.
No, some of them have sons older than this one.
But Wang Zhan looked so good, some people had the intention of teasing him.
"The girl who makes tofu? Each of us has a share, I wonder who you are looking for? ”
Wang Zhan glanced around, among them were green girls, and this elderly woman, so many people, it was difficult for him to distinguish them at a glance.
And the woman stared at him with a big grin, which made him a little embarrassed.
"What I'm looking for is a few days ago, the girl who sold tofu here to teach people how to make tofu, I am a restaurant shopkeeper, and I want to discuss a business with this girl!" Wang Zhan said gently.