Chapter 24: Four Pieces of Frugality (1)

People who dare to be chefs are almost the same, although her young lady is not a chef, but because she loves cooking, every morning, the kitchen is also like this. Little Pepper looked at it for a while, stepped forward to greet Lao Li Tou, and asked him for face wash.

Lao Li Tou was busy, pouting towards the stove, motioning for her to fight herself, and said, "I'll have it early, and after you're done, go directly to the front and sit." ”

Little Pepper was short of breath, looked at the semi-finished products on the board, weighed the price again, and asked, "Is it expensive?" ”

"Haven't you already paid for the accommodation?" Lao Li Tou glanced at her in surprise, "Living here with me, it is for three meals, if you want to have a supper, say hello in advance." ”

Thirty wen a day, and three meals are included?! Is there such a good deal?! Little Pepper couldn't believe her ears: "Uncle Li, you are like this, you are not afraid of losing money?" ”

"What's not to lose, anyway, the food can't be sold." Lao Li Tou smiled bitterly, "Instead of letting the ingredients go bad and rot, it's better to give them to you to eat." ”

This...... There's really no business in the store...... Lao Litou's smile was really desolate, and Little Pepper couldn't bear to look at it more, so she hurriedly thanked her and went out with the washing water.

Back in the room, Xiao Pepper waited for Shen Yiyi to wash her face, reported the news of the free three meals to her, and expressed her deep sympathy for Lao Litou.

"Miss, I see Li Bo making breakfast, the materials can be particular, not those leftovers on the stalls in Fuyang County, you will know later." Little Pepper was full of great yearning for breakfast, and gave Shen Yiyi the simplest bun. There was no way, all the jewelry was snatched, and there was not even a silver hairpin left.

When the makeup was done, when I arrived in the front store, I saw the neat four breakfasts on the table, and Shen Yiyi knew that the materials that Xiao Pepper said were exquisite, and they were really particular about the materials, and they didn't discount it at all-

A pancake roll, with golden skin and full of filling, is surprising that the filling has walnut kernels, pine nuts, peach kernels, hazelnut kernels, tender lotus meat, dried persimmons, cooked lotus root, ginkgo biloba, ripe chestnuts, and even minced lamb and honey!

A cake is a thick cake made of mutton, huihui beans and glutinous rice flour, and pine nuts and walnuts are also added to it.

A dish of eight-treasure porridge seems simple, but it is accompanied by four different side dishes with porridge, all of which are bright in color and fragrant, and there is no indiscriminate production because it is a side dish.

A radish soup, the radish is soft and rotten, the soup is rich, and the snow-white chicken is faintly emerging in the soup, and it is very tender at a glance.

This, is this really the morning of a down-and-out foot shop? Shen Yiyi sat at the dilapidated dining table, facing such a few exquisite breakfasts, and suddenly gave birth to a feeling of being in a luxury hotel.

Lao Li asked Li Gui to put dishes and chopsticks on the table for them, and beckoned them to eat them quickly while they were hot.

Shen Yiyi couldn't wait to pick up a piece of pancake, took a bite, and felt crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and her lips and teeth were fragrant, so she couldn't help it anymore: "Uncle Li, I heard Xiao Pepper say that the reason why you lost money and took care of our three meals a day is because the business in the store is not good and the food can't be sold?" But how could such a meal with such a beautiful and flavorful meal not be sold? ”

Lao Li Tou smiled bitterly and looked at the door of the store: "Do you see anyone coming?" ”

The front of the store is deserted, and no one really patronizes it. Why is that? Shen Yiyi was full of confusion.

Li Guida sat horizontally, holding a bowl of eight-treasure porridge in his hand, and said in a low voice: "It is precisely because the food is so good that no one comes to ......"

No one came because the meals were so well cooked? How could there be such a thing? Shen Yiyi wrote surprise on her face.

Li Gui looked at the dilapidated tables and chairs in the store, and then looked at the cracked ground: "The people who often visit the foot shop are all rough men who do hard work, just to fill their stomachs, the cheaper the better, and the meals sold in our store are high in cost and expensive, and they can't afford to eat them." Those old men who can afford to pay have gone to the main restaurant, how can they deign to come to us? They thought the foot shop was low, and they were afraid that they would lose their value and dirty their boots......"

I see. It's like selling shark fin and abalone at a roadside stall, how many people can patronize it? At the same time, Shen Yiyi suddenly realized, and had a deeper understanding of the people's feelings of that era - it turned out that for the middle and lower class people, fish and meat in the serious parts were already high-end ingredients, not something they could afford.

However, since even Li Gui understands this reason, why doesn't Lao Li Tou adjust his business strategy? Shen Yiyi was puzzled: "With Li Bo's craftsmanship, can't you make cheap dishes?" When we were in Fuyang County, those breakfast stalls sold fried white sausages, powdered soup, etc., presumably such an early snack would work in the foot shop. ”

"How could my father surrender his identity and make such vulgar food as fried white sausage and vermicelli soup! He used to be the chef of Fenghe Building! Li Gui suddenly blushed and put down the bowl.

Li Gui actually reacted so much, Shen Yiyi was a little dumbfounded. But Little Pepper exclaimed: "Fenghe Building? Is it the Fenghe Building in the capital? Fenghelou is the head of the store, I heard that the emperor often goes out of the palace in micro-clothes, just to go to Fenghelou to feast on it! ”

The top of the store? Can she understand that Lao Li Tou is the chef of a five-star hotel? It's no wonder that a person who has worked as a chef in a five-star restaurant, with his own reserve and pride, can deign to make all kinds of offal.

However, a person who worked as a chef in Fenghe Building has been reduced to opening a foot shop for a living? What has Lao Li Tou experienced?

Of course, when her livelihood has not yet been solved, Shen Yiyi has no extra mind to worry about others, what she is thinking about at this time is: Lao Li Tou is unwilling to deign to make fried white sausage and powdered soup, but she can! Maybe Lao Li Tou will not be used to it, but who will refuse Brother Kong Fang?

Shen Yiyi thought so, so she said to Lao Li: "Uncle Li, on the way to Hangzhou Mansion, we were robbed by gangsters, and the money was looted. ”

"Cook?" Lao Li Tou shook his head with a wry smile, "In this situation in the store, how can I have a salary for you?" We couldn't eat ourselves, and our rent was three months in arrears. ”

Shen Yiyi thought for a while and said, "You let me try my hand, if I make money, you give me a commission, if I can't make money, I won't take a penny." ”

"Commission?" Lao Li Tou didn't understand the meaning of this word.

"Uh......" Shen Yiyi tilted her head and pondered, "It's a commission, a dividend." ”

"Okay, I'll give you one out of ten." Lao Li nodded and said.

1 out of 10? And you still promise to be so refreshing? Was he sure she couldn't make money? Shen Yiyi suddenly came up with some anger and said, "Then you will let me try it today?" ”