Li Jicai's osmanthus red bean Lantern Festival sells very well.

She originally had the idea of developing it further, but because the osmanthus was not enough, this osmanthus red bean Lantern Festival could not be sold, after all, the quality she had done before was there.

If she lowers the quality of what she makes, she is likely to lose customers who trust her.

This is absolutely impossible.

Besides, as I said earlier, osmanthus is a seasonal product, not all year round.

So this can only be sold for a while.

No matter how reluctant she is, no matter how nostalgic she is for counting money every day, she still has to give up if the raw materials are not enough.

But soon she remembered the business she wanted to do again.

That's right, stew.

This is the only food I learned in modern times, and it is not bad.

And she can be sure that there is no such thing in the capital of Chu State.

Whether it is steaming and stir-frying, or vinegar and frying, there is no stewed pot, at most there is something similar to a crockpot, but there is definitely no stewed pot made by her.

The reason for giving up halfway in the previous period was that there was no meat and no meat dishes.

If you want this stewed pot to be delicious, you need to match meat and vegetables, the color is good-looking, and the taste is fragrant and spicy. It's mouth-watering.

The fragrance wafted from afar to hook people over.

This is the effect that Li Jicai wants.

After she explained the situation to Mrs. Fan.

Mrs. Fan went straight into the room without saying a word, and when she turned around, she took out the purse she had saved a lot of money and handed it over to Li Jicai.

Mrs. Fan thought so, and she helped Li Jicai save all the money.

She knew that this little girl had some ideas, so she saved the money for her in case she had to do something, so that she could fully support her, so as not to waste it and not to have extra expenses.

After all, only Li Jicai can make the food of her hometown. Out of strong intuition, it is also a trust in Li Jicai.

Li Jicai thanked Mrs. Fan for her kindness. Then she took the money she gave her to the vegetable market to sell ingredients.

The food bought at this market is certainly not as good as the food bought in modern times. More or less lacking, not that the dishes are not delicious, but the fine processing has also evolved after a long history, and the process must be a little exquisite.

To make a stewed pot, you must first have oil, and the use of lard has already been decided.

Naturally, it's because there is no good oil to be refined at all.

As for rapeseed oil, Mrs. Fan's house is aged rapeseed oil, because Mrs. Fan lives alone, so she eats less oil.

Li Jicai decided that in addition to using the lard from Mrs. Fan's house, he would take a look at the market and get some lard back.

Then the base can be prepared with chili, star anise, pepper, ginger, rice wine, etc.

For vegetables, potatoes and bell peppers are used, and some vegetables can be used.

Then the meat dishes can be made with pork or chicken and duck meat or buy some fish, which she doesn't choose.

In addition, salt, sauce and vinegar or something, buy some more or less, and don't use the rest if you don't need it for the time being. Anyway, if you can simplify, you can simplify, and if you can save, you can save, and there is not so much money in your hands for the time being.

She's testing the water anyway.

If she can make it, she will taste it herself, and if it is delicious, she will sell it on the market.

If it is made in this way, the price will be determined by her, and she can set the price slightly higher, how much money is for a small bowl, it will definitely be more expensive than the osmanthus red bean Lantern Festival.

But it doesn't matter.

For delicious people, there are always a lot of gluttonous worms in their stomachs, and they can't be greedy.

Of course, the premise is that she wants to make it particularly delicious.

So Li Jicai went to the market for two or three days, figured out the market of those pork stalls, chicken, duck and fish soup, knew how to buy the cheapest, knew how to buy the most cost-effective, and knew how to bargain with others.

These are all life skills, but fortunately, in modern times, she is also a relatively independent person.

Otherwise. At the moment, she really can't handle it.

Life is in the world, in order to live and survive, you must have a thicker skin. When the bargain is killed, it is also ruthless.

Li Jicai's appearance does not seem to be shrewd and capable, and usually gives people the feeling of letting down their guard and ignoring them.

It's not good-looking, but it's not, if it weren't for the tanning outside, just in terms of facial features, it looks okay and passable.

But it still doesn't feel so amazing, even if she was in the limelight at the door of the Green Cloud Publishing House, but this limelight was like a small wave, directly slapped ashore, and then there was no follow-up.

Almost all the people in Nancheng District who live here basically know Li Jicai, yes, the entire Nancheng District. In ancient times, the communication industry was not well developed, and there were not a few idle people who came and went, and there were many things that were naturally observed.

And Li Jicai first jumped around as a little tramp, and he also attracted attention with a big wolf dog. Later, he carried the burden to sell vegetables, and the other end was to sell sweet and soft osmanthus red bean Lantern Festival, and it took a little longer to know.

But now she doesn't sell osmanthus red beans for the Lantern Festival, and recently, she is just selling vegetables.

From time to time, people in the vegetable market would see Li Jicai and ask her for a bowl, and later when Li Jicai told them that the osmanthus red bean Lantern Festival had been sold out, they stopped asking.

Li Jicai said that he would sell something else, so everyone was curious about what Li Jicai would sell next.

Seeing that she often runs around the vegetable market to purchase ingredients, I know that she must be going to do something else, some of the merchants here have talked to Li Jicai, knowing that she wants to do a small business and make some money, but she didn't have much accumulation in the early stage, so she began to sell vegetables in Nancheng District.

But this is normal, after all, it is really profitable to do catering, whether it is ancient or modern.

These small amounts of money are like flowing water, and you don't look very good, but in fact, the income is still very considerable.

Li Jicai understood this, so the merchants at the entrance of her vegetable market were particularly ruthless in bargaining, some of them couldn't help but put the price on her mill, and some of them didn't talk about it.

The advantage of this is that she takes the price internally and raises the price externally, and she earns the difference in the middle.

Such a spread. How much money is included is immeasurable. But there is no doubt that there will be a lot of money. After Li Jicai first established a good relationship with them, when the time came to buy these things regularly, it would be easy to negotiate.

I walked around the market many times, going back and forth and talking to the merchants who sold vegetables and meat.

When talking to the vendors, I invisibly found that there are many benefits to being mixed in the market, you can learn a lot of things, you can listen to other people's experience, so that when you are doing business, you can also take fewer detours, so that you will not fall too badly, and you can also ask for advice if you have any difficulties in the future

Li Jicai stopped the affairs in hand for a while, and then concentrated on the development of the stewed pot.

Until she made the stewed pot, the first people invited were Mrs. Fan and Li Jiye.

Invite them to taste the stewed pot she made, and if the two of them think it tastes good, then she can take it out and sell it.

In fact, in addition to going to and from the bookstore recently, Li Jiye squatted under the kitchen window every day when he came back, smelling the fragrance of the food made by Li Jicai.

He didn't know what Li Jicai was doing in it, why the smell was so attractive.

It's just that I occasionally heard her say what to say about the stewed pot, what is this stewed pot? No one has ever seen it.

He also wondered if she was going to get some weird food out and sell it.

But what if you take it out and sell it when it's weird, what if you want to eat people's stomachs? Isn't that still going to lose money?

But smelling so fragrant, so exciting, and such a strange smell, he felt very entangled.

So every day from time to time, I peeked outside, in the yard, under the window, every time I was caught by Mrs. Fan, I would inevitably be reprimanded severely, I had nothing to do, I didn't want to read a book, why did I keep peeking at Li Jicai to do things.

In fact, in private, Mrs. Fan also paid attention to Li Jicai's movements.

Because whenever she smells the smell of star anise spices wafting from the kitchen, she can't help but miss her hometown.

In fact, when she was in her hometown, this star anise pepper did not originally come from their hometown, but also came from other places. Later, they found that the taste was very good, and it was also accepted by the tribe, and gradually it was widely cultivated under the improvement.

Later, when she came to Chu State, she found that the people here in Chu State did not like this very much, and even some resisted and did not accept it, thinking that it was a bad thing and that eating it was not good for the body.

That's why she felt a little regretful, in fact, in her hometown, there are many delicacies made with star anise, pepper, and some spices and other kinds of things, which are very delicious.

But here in the state of Chu, it is not accepted.

Therefore, there will be no such food, so Mrs. Fan is slightly worried in her heart.

She was afraid that Li Jicai would make such food, and the people of Chu would not accept it.

Of course, she herself is fully looking forward to being able to taste the taste of her hometown again, but in fact, it is not, but she has completely forgotten how to cook the food of her hometown, maybe she is just afraid to do it.

Li Jicai has never been to her hometown, how can she copy the taste of her hometown?

Perhaps the older you get, the more homesick you become.

That night, Li Jicai brought a big black jar to the table, and the lid on it was tightly covered, so that people couldn't see what was inside?

Mrs. Fan and Li Jiye were a little nervous, and they were a little expectant, yes, they were looking forward to it.

Compared with the two of them, Xiao Erhei's performance was very excited, arching under the table, his tail sweeping around excitedly.

Can't stop for a moment. Li Jicai still pressed her dog's head hard, and then tied it to the door, and it couldn't get out, so it stopped moving excitedly.