Chapter 47 Restaurant

For Xia Meizhen's literacy, Cheng Bu was naturally not surprised, so he immediately asked people to bring pen and ink over and let her use it.

Because Cheng Bu was old and had anorexia, Xia Meizhen picked some dishes that were easy to digest and nutritious, and wrote a total of six dishes and two snacks before she stopped.

However, she didn't hand it over to Cheng Bu immediately, but knelt down towards Cheng Bu and said sincerely: "Xia Meizhen has a reluctant request, and she also asks the boss to fulfill it." ”

Cheng Bu was stunned for a moment and said, "Tell me, I want to see what else you want." ”

I saw Xia Meizhen kowtow respectfully before saying: "Meizhen has loved cooking since she was a child, and being favored by the boss is a blessing that I have cultivated in my three lives......"

Cheng Jinke, who was on the side, always paid attention to his grandfather's attitude, and saw that he was frowning at this time, and he didn't like to listen to such words, so he waved his hand and said, "Get up and talk." When he saw Xia Meizhen at this time, he was unconsciously discouraged.

Xia Meizhen glanced at Cheng Bu, stood up and said: "I shouldn't have said this, but Meizhen felt that the old lady treated me like this, if I only took a little recipe, it would be too unkind, so I thought, otherwise, the old lady, you can use my recipes to open a restaurant, and give me a dividend of 10%, it will be enough," she saw that the ancestors and grandchildren in front of her were stunned, for fear that they would not agree, and hurriedly added: "You pay for it, I contribute it, and I will train the chef and everything......

Cheng Jinke's face changed, and seeing that Cheng Bu was also thinking over there, he said, "Our family is not short of this money." ”

That means that you are such a girl, just let it go, and we won't be so careful. Xia Meizhen has been in the Dai family for so long, and naturally knows that some big families will not sell them for the sake of face, even if many children in the house have nothing to do, and they will release themselves, which is really nothing.

Moreover, the Cheng family has a big business, and a restaurant is really nothing to him, you know, the first-class banquet made by the restaurant in this era is just like that, and there is no shortage of restaurants in Xuanzhou Mansion, like their high-end restaurant, the monthly income is only four or five hundred taels of silver, so they don't pay attention to the restaurant that Xia Meizhen said.

However, this is not what Xia Meizhen thinks. She has seen the dark side of this era in Daifu, since she has come out now, she will not continue to be a grandson, doesn't this Cheng Bu like to eat, then she will borrow his power to open a restaurant of her own, and how much money can be made in this restaurant, she can still estimate it, if the Cheng family agrees to this request, it will only make money and not lose.

Xia Meizhen thought about it, bit her lip again, opened her mouth, and looked at Cheng Bu again, but she still looked unspeakable, Cheng Bu saw it and said, "If you have anything, you can say it." ”

When Xia Meizhen heard this, she looked at Cheng Jinke again, and finally gritted her teeth and asked tentatively, "Excuse me, how much can your restaurant earn in a month?" ”

Asking people about income is not a good character, and even in modern times, it is a thing to avoid, so Xia Meizhen is so entangled.

But Cheng Bu didn't care about this, he looked at Cheng Jinke, and motioned for him to say, Cheng Jinke was helpless, of course, he was also curious, so he said: "A high-end restaurant costs six hundred taels of silver when it is good for a month." ”

According to the consumption level of Xuanzhou Mansion, the low-grade ones can't even earn a hundred taels a month, and some small stalls only earn six or seven hundred yuan a month when they are better, and the Cheng family's restaurant still has such an income because of the care of many bureaucrats.

Xia Meizhen agreed, thought about it, calculated in her heart, and then said: "I can make the restaurant a net profit of 1,000 taels a month, I don't know what the old man thinks?" ”

The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Such a benefit is already very attractive.

Not to mention Cheng Bu, even Cheng Jinke was a little moved when he heard it, but he was still very sober and asked: "What if I lose money, or don't make so much?" ”

"Can't afford to lose!" Xia Meizhen smiled, and also understood that this was Cheng Jinke's intention, so she explained: "My father is the second chef of Xiangtai Restaurant, I think you have all heard of it, and I used to ...... It's also a little famous," she touched her nose embarrassedly and said, "I just made dim sum at Dai's house for a few months, and I can make people wait for me in the back alley every day, so I still have confidence in myself." ”

This is not a big thing for her, the dim sum of the Dai family chef in Xuanzhou Mansion was praised by others, and it was really not promoted by herself.

Regarding Xia Meizhen's attainments in dim sum, Cheng Bu had eaten it, and he had nothing to say, so he didn't wait for Cheng Jinke to say anything more embarrassing, and said: "Then this restaurant doesn't say that cooperation is cooperation, what do you plan?" ”

Xia Meizhen said: "As I said before, you pay, I contribute, I will design and plan the restaurant, I will train the chef or something, and I will be responsible for things like purchasing, as long as the boss gives me a 10% dividend." ”

Hearing this, Cheng Jinke immediately calculated a small account in his heart, if it was really as she said, a thousand taels of silver a month, and a dividend of 10% to her would not be small, but what he got was that he had no high profits in previous years, and he didn't have to make any effort, this transaction was also a good deal.

Over there, Cheng Bu had already agreed, "That's okay, I'll let Brother Jin arrange a restaurant for you to try later." I'm hungry, old man, go to the kitchen and make me something to eat. ”

"Okay," of course she understood that Cheng Bu was going to test her skills, and in order to convince them, Xia Meizhen would naturally come up with her most uncomfortable dishes.

There have been subordinates guarding outside the living room, and when Xia Meizhen came out, the old housekeeper Cheng Ping stood up and said to Xia Meizhen: "Please come with me, girl." ”

Cheng Ping had been to Lingyang Village to investigate Xia Meizhen, so he knew this girl well, and because this girl had rejected Young Master Jin's invitation before, she was realistic and did not tend to be inflammatory, he still appreciated it very much, so when he looked at Xia Meizhen's eyes when he spoke, he contained appreciation.

"Thank you." Xia Meizhen thanked her, and then followed Cheng Ping to the kitchen.

About an hour later, she brought three dishes and one soup and a little heart, the kind that could smell the aroma from a distance, and Cheng Bu, who was noisy, couldn't help but run outside the living room to wait.

Green vegetable and tofu soup, green and white, the soup is elegant and pleasing to the eye; Golden shrimp balls, golden in color, round and good-looking, smell more fragrant; Steamed sea bass, a complete fish, green onion shreds, no fishy smell at all, you must know that many families in this era are rarely eaten because of the fishy smell of fish, the last dish of tomato cauliflower, the vegetable fragrance has a faint sour smell, smell it and feel that the taste buds are wide open, and the last snack is a matcha cake, because it is just baked, whether it is color or smell, it can be called a must.

And the most important thing is that these three dishes and one soup have a little heart, green vegetable tofu soup and steamed sea bass, and the others are all things that the ancestors of the Cheng family have never seen, and they can't help but be curious about the ingredients a little more.