"Old Li Tou, let's sit down and eat together, I can't eat so much alone." Seeing that there was no business, Chen Yuan simply pulled Lao Li Tou over, but Lao Li Tou was not polite, took two bottles of cold beer from the ice bucket, and sat aside.

Seeing that Lao Li Tou was a little drunk, Chen Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Old Li Tou, why are there so few people here today?"

Of course, Chen Yuan was surprised, Lao Li Tou's grilled squid has its own unique set of secret recipes, and the squid made is fresh and does not have a fishy smell, which is a grade better than other stalls, and the business is very hot.

In the past, when Chen Yuan and the others came, they often had to queue up to get seats.

He took a bite of the grilled squid that Lao Li Tou had just made, it was tender and juicy, and it seemed to taste better than before, how could it suddenly lose business?

Lao Li Tou sighed and said: "It's not as good as before, business is getting more and more difficult to do, and I can only rely on bulk sales to earn back some capital."

In fact, if Lao Li Tou sells grilled squid here, the price is not high, but it is impossible for ordinary people to order only this one when they sit down, and it will be accompanied by other barbecue food and beer, so that the profit is quite considerable.

If you only sell grilled squid in bulk and no one sits down to eat it, you will really only have to make a profit.

However, Chen Yuan didn't believe Lao Litou's words, the development of Ning City in recent years has been obvious to all, getting better and better year by year, and there are a lot more people who come to the night market to consume on the street, how can there be no business?

It seemed that Lao Li Tou had something unspeakable, so he didn't ask any more, when Lao Li Tou was sullen and drinking, Chen Yuan looked at the surrounding situation while eating barbecue.

Lao Li Tou's stall could see most of the situation on this street, and after a casual glance, Chen Yuan found that another barbecue stall not far from here was very popular, and the people in line were almost lining up on the street.

It's almost exactly the same as last year's old Li Tou stall.

After taking a closer look, there is still a name on this barbecue stall with an extremely hot business - Wang's grilled squid.

Standing under the sign is a busy middle-aged couple, the man is shirtless and flipping the barbecue skewers, and the woman is a little fat, smiling and collecting money.

As soon as he saw this couple, Chen Yuan frowned and said, "Old Litou, isn't this your fellow countryman who used to help you here?"

Lao Li nodded, sighed, and told Chen Yuan what happened in the past year.

is similar to Chen Yuan's guess, this couple seemed to be honest when they first came, and they were fellow villagers, and gradually gained the trust of Lao Li Tou, and later used some tricks, saying that the old man in his family had serious cancer and needed a large amount of medical expenses, so he didn't need Lao Li to borrow money, just pass on the skill of grilling squid to them.

Lao Li Tou thought that his secret recipe was not a very valuable thing, and the two couples were going back to their hometown to make it, so he passed it on to them directly.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, the couple opened a barbecue stall next to his stall and robbed him of a lot of business.

Think about it, where else will there be more people eating barbecue than the night market, and the market is bigger.

Afterwards, Lao Li Tou also knew that the couple's words about the old man in the family having cancer were all false, just to win his sympathy and get the barbecue secret recipe.

Smelling the fragrance coming from there, Chen Yuan was still puzzled: "Old Li Tou, will the taste of that house be better than yours here?"

The barbecue smell over there does smell good, but it's almost the same as Lao Li Tou's here, and the secret recipe I got from Lao Li Tou won't be much improved, how can it make the business here plummet.

Lao Li Tou shook his head and said: "Although their business was better than mine in the past, it was not much better, but recently, for some reason, the guests suddenly ran to their side, and even many old customers who often came also went there, I asked a familiar old customer, but said that their cold beer over there has become particularly cold and delicious, but I think it's strange, their beer is still the same brand and purchase channel as me, how can there be such a big gap?"

Listening to Lao Litou's words, Chen Yuan also felt incomprehensible, and thought for a while: "Do you know the reason why their beer has become better?"

"I haven't drunk it, I don't know, but I've heard that their beer is chilled with a thousand-year-old ice from the Kunlun Mountains, so it tastes better, but it's a pity that the channel of the thousand-year-old ice is only known to them, and I can't buy it even if I want to." Old Li Tou sighed helplessly.

Chen Yuan couldn't believe his ears, especially when certain words came out, he could be sure that it was white ice cubes, but when would white ice cubes be able to cold beer and make it taste better.

Since he never had complete information about the white ice cube in his mind, Chen Yuan felt that the white ice cube should have a lot of effects that he didn't know about.

Chen Yuan didn't care about the grilled squid that he hadn't finished eating, he couldn't wait to get up and walked directly to Wang's barbecue stall, wanting to finally confirm whether the white ice cubes had this effect.

Lao Li Tou also followed, pointing to a hidden location at Wang's barbecue stall as he walked: "That's the location of their ice bucket, and now they don't let people get close."

Chen Yuan was about to get closer to see it clearly, when suddenly the princess who was counting the money over there glanced over her eyes, and suddenly saw Chen Yuan and the old Li Tou behind her, and the corners of her mouth suddenly showed a sneer, and shouted: "Old Li Tou, you shameless one, you actually sent your nephew over to steal our family's thousand-year-old ice."

The royal woman's voice was already loud, and she deliberately shouted, and suddenly the eyes of the people around her shot over.

Lao Li Tou was a little overwhelmed all of a sudden, he had been operating on this street for many years, and there were many people who knew him, and everyone knew that his current business had been robbed of the thousand-year-old ice of the Wang family, saying that he came to steal the ice, it was really possible.

"Thousand-year-old ice, we also have it, can we steal yours?" Chen Yuan spoke, looking at the woman with disdain.

"You have?" The princess suddenly laughed, "Then why did you come here to steal, Lao Litou, you are a lot old, why do you still do such a lack of morality, if you want, tell me directly, read in the past, how could I not give it, I can't be such a lowly thief." ”

The princess sneered at a thief, her mouth was sour and mean, but it was like Lao Li Tou had deceived her family's barbecue secret recipe, which made Lao Li Tou angry.

"And you're a young man, it's not good to learn anything at a young age, and you want to steal things from Lao Litou......"

"Is it all over? Don't regret it later. Chen Yuan sneered and interrupted her.

The princess giggled and said, "What do I regret, people like you just don't know how to repent......"

Chen Yuan knew that this kind of woman was endless, so he didn't say much, he directly pulled Lao Li's head and left, and now he can be sure that the "thousand-year-old ice" in the royal woman's mouth is a white ice cube.

Because just now a hint of the castle suddenly appeared in his mind, suggesting the new effect of white ice cubes, which can indeed ice and delicious.

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Yuan also understood that this improved the taste of chilled food was regarded as adjusting the climate in the ice, so that each food or drink could reach its best taste.

"Old Li Tou, don't be angry, I just happened to have two pieces of this thousand-year-old ice in my pocket, you can use them first." Chen Yuan took out two white ice cubes from his pocket, one was naturally to carry with him to keep refreshed, and the other was for spare.

When the depressed old Li Tou saw these two ice cubes, his face was shocked, and it took a long time to ask, "Where did this ice cube come from?"

"I'll tell you the truth, I sold this ice cube." Chen Yuandao.

Lao Li was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "This is very valuable, right?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "It's only two hundred a piece, it's just to sell it to make money, and I have a lot of it there."

"Two hundred? That's not expensive. "Lao Li Tou has also been in the barbecue business for several years, so he naturally knows that this price is excellent value for money for white ice cubes with this effect.

Seeing Lao Li Tou hurriedly walking towards the ice bucket with the ice cube, preparing to put it in, Chen Yuan immediately stopped and said, "This thousand-year-old ice is not used like this."

Just now, in addition to the chilling effect of white ice cubes, the hint in my mind is also its use, but it is not directly put ice cubes into the water.

Chen Yuan asked Lao Li Tou to boil a pot of water, boiled it, and then poured it on white ice cubes to melt the ice cubes into water, so that the ice effect could be optimal.

"Is that okay?" Lao Li Tou put the beer into the melted ice water according to Chen Yuan's instructions, but he was still a little puzzled, how could ordinary ice still have an effect if it was melted like this.

"Old Li Tou, don't worry, bring me a bottle first." Chen Yuan smiled slightly, and it was also the taste of saliva this cold beer.

As for the effect, he had no doubts about the hints in his head.