Sheng Zhiyao shook his head: "I'm not selling candy, I'm just asking the shopkeeper if you want your restaurant to have more customers than the Juxian Building opposite." ”

The shopkeeper stopped his movements when he heard the name of Juxianlou, and looked at Sheng Zhiyao with interest: "Don't be ashamed, what can you do with a little baby?" ”

"With just one dish, I can make you have twice as many customers as I do now." Sheng Zhiyao confidently made a comparison with the shopkeeper, then thought about it and continued: "Maybe twice is possible." ”

"Haha! You're a funny little baby, but we don't need it, you might as well go to another store. The shopkeeper refused with a smile, after all, what kind of food could such a small baby use to bring him twice the business.

He felt that Sheng Zhiyao was cheating, but he couldn't pay for the meal.

"Shopkeeper, don't be in a hurry to refuse, if I can't do it, I'm willing to pay five times the amount of silver for today's meal, what do you think?"

Shopkeeper Liu looked at her with a firm look, and seemed to believe that after all, no businessman would think that he made more money: "Okay, I want to see what kind of craftsmanship your little baby can have." ”

"Thank you shopkeeper, I will come to you early tomorrow morning with my materials, this is today's meal money, tomorrow you will try my craftsmanship." Sheng Zhiyao glanced at Mei'er, and Mei'er took out dozens of copper plates and put them on the counter.

The three of them walked out of the door, and Zhu'er couldn't help but open her mouth: "Is Miss preparing to open a restaurant?" ”

"Yes, but I don't have so many people and money to support a restaurant for the time being, so I'm going to sell my own vegetables to the restaurant to earn my first pot of gold." Sheng Zhiyao really doesn't have the ability to support the expenses of a restaurant now, so she can only earn some money to prepare for the coming day, and by the way, she can also explore the market with her own vegetables.

Early the next morning, Sheng Zhiyao took her two maidservants out of the house.

Cooking pays attention to the freshness of the ingredients, and the vegetables in the morning are all dragged out and sold by the farmer's uncle as soon as they are picked, so Sheng Zhiyao wants to take advantage of this time to buy Chinese cabbage.

The early morning market was very lively, Sheng Zhiyao looked at the dishes of several houses and finally found the fresh Chinese cabbage he wanted in a vegetable stall.

Along the way, Mei'er held the Jinhua ham that Sheng Zhiyao took out from the villa, Zhu'er held a few Chinese cabbages she had just bought, and she held a bun bigger than her face in her hand and nibbled on it.

She didn't have time to eat breakfast when she went out early in the morning, and Sheng Zhiyao was already full of burps under the two buns.

"Miss, you are the daughter of the Hou Mansion, pay attention to your image." It is inevitable that Zhu'er will not complain about her own young lady, she wears plain clothes every day, let alone wearing jewelry, and she can't look at the beautiful clothes and hairpin ring jewelry prepared by her wife, I really don't know how there can be girls who are not impressed.

"No one knows me." Sheng Zhiyao didn't care about these at all, she used to forget to sleep and eat in the laboratory every day, and she often went back and even her grandfather didn't know her, let alone any man who could take a fancy to her.

After a while, Sheng Zhiyao's master and servant came to the door of the restaurant, and the shopkeeper happened to be standing at the door and saw her surprised: "I thought you little baby was joking." ”

"Why, the shopkeeper's kitchen lends me a use."

"Xiao Er took them to the kitchen."

"Yes, this way." Xiao Er took them directly to the back kitchen, Sheng Zhiyao looked at the stove in front of him and ordered Mei'er to start a fire without saying a word.

Sheng Zhiyao had never touched the stove before, but she went to her kitchen to learn from the cook during dinner last night, maybe she was going to be ugly now.

Zhu'er also hurriedly put the washed cabbage on the board, and Sheng Zhiyao walked over and skillfully picked up the kitchen knife and cut the cabbage.

"I've eaten more salt than she's ever eaten, and a few cabbages want to win over Juxianlou?" An old cook stood next to him and looked at the dishes Sheng Zhiyao took out and said disdainfully.

Sheng Zhiyao heard the words of the old cook, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose, she just wanted to let these people know that the seemingly simple ingredients are more tests the chef's skills.

After Mei'er finished lighting the fire, she went to the side and opened the Jinhua ham they brought.

Just now they were curious about this huge wrapped object, and now they are even more curious when they see it, they have never seen such an ingredient, and everyone gathered.

"Master Ding, what kind of meat is this? The red light is oily and it looks delicious. The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva and looked at the old cook next to him, but Master Ding had never seen this thing in so many years as a chef.

Sheng Zhiyao cut a small piece of Jinhua ham with a kitchen knife, cleaned it and put it on the plate for later use, and then ran to find a small bench and put it in front of the stove, she stepped on the small bench and began to pour oil into the pot.

It didn't take long for the salty aroma of ham to come to the nostrils, and everyone in the kitchen was attracted by the aroma of this dish, and Chef Ding unconsciously walked to the stove.

"Little baby, what's this thing called?"

Sheng Zhiyao also said directly without hesitation: "It is called Jinhua ham, made of a special pig, which requires 100 catties of fresh legs with 8 catties of salt, divided into six to seven times of salt, and finished in 28 days, and it has to go through several steps such as washing, soaking, hanging and drying, shaping, exposure, fermentation, etc., before it can finally mature and be edible." ”

"Eight catties of salt?" Master Ding was amazed that someone used eight catties of salt just to make a dish, and he pouted inadvertently.

Sheng Zhiyao knew what salt meant in this era, almost equivalent to the luxury of their time, and she deliberately told everyone present that this dish looked ordinary but put effort into it.

"You'll know how wonderful it tastes when you eat it." Sheng Zhiyao took the dish out of the pot, only garnished a little green onion on the plate and served it to the table.

Master Ding and the shopkeeper stepped forward and the fragrance swept in again, and the two stared directly at this seemingly ordinary Chinese cabbage soup and swallowed their saliva: "Is it really just Chinese cabbage and this Jinhua ham?" ”

"Of course, didn't you see how I did it." Sheng Zhiyao found two pairs of chopsticks from the side and handed them to them.

Master Ding took the dishes and chopsticks and couldn't wait to taste them: "Absolutely, this taste is really amazing." The old man couldn't help but smack his lips.

The shopkeeper saw that his chef said this, so he tasted it, but fortunately, his jaw dropped when he didn't taste it, as if he had never eaten cabbage.

"Little baby, are you going to sell this dish?" The shopkeeper looked at her excitedly.

Sheng Zhiyao looked at the satisfied expressions of the two people and had already thought of a countermeasure: "I only sell ham, after all, this is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can make." ”

"Indeed, what price are you going to sell the ham?"

"Not much, two taels of silver."

"Two taels of silver?" The shopkeeper knew that this Jinhua ham must exceed this value, and the eight catties of salt were more than this price, but how could anyone who did business not want to be cheaper.

"Does the shopkeeper think it's too expensive? Then forget it, after all, salt is not cheap. Sheng Zhiyao didn't say much, packed up the things in his hand and prepared to leave with the maidservant, when Master Ding spoke.

"Two taels is two taels, I call the shots, but your ham can only be sold to one of us." Master Ding knew that this ham alone cost more than two taels of silver, and added so many processes that two taels of silver were actually not expensive.

"Can you make a decision? The shopkeeper hasn't spoken yet. Sheng Zhiyao looked at Master Ding and picked his eyes.

The shopkeeper hurriedly replied: "Yes, of course you can, Master Ding is the boss behind this Qingfeng Building." ”

Sheng Zhiyao looked at Master Ding in surprise and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, it turned out that he was hiding deeply: "Since the boss is so refreshing, the recipe will be sent to you, and I won't charge any additional money, but it has to be kept secret." ”

"Okay, shopkeeper Liu went and brought the pen, ink, paper and inkstone." After Master Ding finished speaking, he walked up to Sheng Zhiyao and whispered, "Girl, if you have any good things in the future, send them to me first, and the price is easy to say." ”

Sheng Zhiyao was amused by Master Ding's words: "No problem, I will definitely give it to you first in the future." ”

Chef Ding watched her finish writing the recipe, picked up the pen and drew up a contract, and the two signed and drew a copy each.