Hearing the praise of the guests, Cai Yan smiled slightly, and just asked, "Everyone, do you want to taste it?" ”

"Is it free?" Someone asked.

"It's not." Cai Yan kept smiling and said, "Because this is not a new product, it is just an extra process, so I'm sorry, this can't be tasted for free." ”

"......" everyone was a little disappointed, so the desire to buy dropped.

Cai Yan didn't care, because Cai Xiaoxiao once said: "Don't worry about whether things can be sold, you have to believe that as long as the things we make are good, then there will always be people to buy them, and after having the first customer, we are not afraid of a second person, a third person ......"

Cai Yan has always been very confident in what Cai Xiaoxiao made, and she and everyone believed in it even more after tasting Cai Xiaoxiao's craftsmanship, so she was not in a hurry at all.

"Give me a drink." Sure enough, it didn't take long for a guest to become interested in the chilled juice and ask for it.

"Okay." Cai Yan smiled in agreement, and then took out a relatively large cup, which was specially used for the guests to drink juice.

Because there were no disposable cups in ancient times, and if you put them in a porcelain vase and sell them together with the bottle, the price would be relatively high, and some of them were not cost-effective, so they could only be sold in the store with cups, and customers could not take the cups out.

Cai Yan poured the juice for the guest, and then handed the cup to the guest: "Guest, please use it slowly." ”

The guest took the cup, and the first time she was touched by the cold and stimulating hand felt by her hand touching the cup, then she took a sip, and then her eyes lit up, and then she drank the remaining juice in one gulp, and then put the empty cup in front of Cai Yan with a "bang", and said, "Another cup!" ”

After the glass of juice just now, he felt that the heat along the way was instantly dispelled by this cold juice, originally he just wanted to drink a glass of juice to quench his thirst, but he didn't expect to get an unexpected surprise.

Sure enough, the House of Small Town is always creating surprises and never disappoints.

After having the first guest, there will naturally be a second thirsty guest and so on, so everyone was pleasantly surprised by the coldness and freshness brought by the chilled juice, and in an instant, the chilled juice was very popular, and soon, one bottle was sold out, but fortunately they chilled two more bottles later.

Seeing that everyone came to buy chilled juice, and seeing Cai Yan and the three of them handing out a cup of juice in their hands, Cai Xiaoxiao seemed to see the silver of Baihuahua being recycled little by little, which made the corners of her mouth smile.

A few days later, Zhang Mu and Li Yuan finally made the table and box that Cai Xiaoxiao needed and moved them to the courtyard of the Zhao family.

Cai Xiaoxiao looked carefully around them, and then nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, it's what I want." ”

Zhang Mu asked her suspiciously: "So sister-in-law, what are you using it for?" ”

"Hehe, you'll know in the evening, so stay for dinner tonight." Cai Xiaoxiao pretended to say mysteriously, then hummed a tune they didn't understand, and walked to the kitchen in a good mood, leaving everyone with a confused face.

In fact, Cai Xiaoxiao is preparing to make hot pot, and the table outside is prepared for hot pot.

That's right, she plans to open a hot pot restaurant! It was a plan she had already thought of.

"By the way, can you eat spicy?" Cai Xiaoxiao suddenly poked her head out of the kitchen and asked.

"Ah, you can ......," a few people replied stunned.

"Then I'll be relieved." Cai Xiaoxiao said with a smile, then went back to the kitchen and began to prepare the hot pot.

To make hot pot, it is naturally indispensable to have a unique hot pot base, which is the essence of the whole hot pot, and in ancient times, it was naturally impossible to buy any hot pot base, so you can only make it yourself.

Cai Xiaoxiao stood in front of the cutting board, her index finger against her chin, and recalled in her mind how to make the hot pot base, after all, although she had made a lot of dishes in her previous life, she had not had much contact with hot pot, especially the hot pot base, after all, if she wanted to eat hot pot, she only needed to go to the supermarket to buy hot pot base.

After thinking about it carefully, and then according to the taste of the hot pot in her memory, she silently deduced the recipe of the base ingredient, and then began to do it.

The first is to prepare all kinds of spices - cloves, star anise, cumin, grass fruit, sand kernels, patting grass, white cardamom, laokou, cinnamon, cumin, fragrant fruit, bay leaves, dried chili, watercress, raw pepper, Sichuan pepper...... Wait, these spices were all prepared in advance for making hot pot before.

When she was preparing the spices, Zhao Kangcheng walked in, saw that she had prepared so many spices, and asked in surprise, "What are you going to do here?" How do you use so many spices? ”

"Secret." Cai Xiaoxiao still remained mysterious and refused to say.

"Well......" Zhao Kangcheng looked at her, and saw that she had a bright smile on her face all the time, and she was in a good mood, so he didn't ask more, just asked, "Is there anything you need my help with?" ”

"I need hot water." Cai Xiaoxiao was also polite and said.

"Okay." Zhao Kangcheng turned around and went to boil hot water.

"Oh, by the way, Xianggong, the other pot is also hot, I'm going to use it." Cai Xiaoxiao said again.

"Got it." Zhao Kangcheng responded.

After the hot water was boiled, Zhao Kangcheng put the hot water into the pot, Cai Xiaoxiao asked him to pour it into the porcelain basin, and then she put all kinds of dried spices into the hot water, and then waited for it to soak for half an hour.

In this half an hour, Cai Xiaoxiao used another pot to cook chicken soup, and then prepared all the vegetables and meat that went to the pot later, as well as chilled fruit wine and chilled juice - she hadn't used up the ice cubes that Zheng Yi brought last time.

Half an hour later, Cai Xiaoxiao stirred the chopped peppers, bean paste, oily chili peppers and dried beans together, and then put them aside for later use, then took out the soaked dried spices, drained the water and set aside.

"Xianggong, heat the pot." Cai Xiaoxiao said to Zhao Kangcheng.

"Hmm." Zhao Kangcheng lit the fire again.

After the pot is hot, Cai Xiaoxiao pours 200 ml of oil into the pot, and then pours the dry ingredients into it after the oil is hot, and then stir-fry for a moment, and then put the previously mixed chili sauce into it and stir-fry together.

After frying, take it out and set it aside for later use.

Then prepare the green onions, ginger and garlic, then heat the oil, boil the green onions, ginger and garlic in a pot, then pour in the fried dry ingredients, and then take out the chicken broth that has been cooked and pour it in.

That's it, the hot pot base is ready! The fragrant base directly seduced the memory of hot pot in Cai Xiaoxiao's mind, and almost didn't make her saliva flood - it was so fragrant!