Chapter 6 Wenguo Cuisine

Zhou Yu and Feng Yue had already made the dough soup when they returned home, and they would start the meal when they came back.

"Xiao Yu, how is the business of your tea shed today? Did you make any money? Feng Liang asked with concern.

Zhou Yu found out that his eldest brother only cared about two things, one was his sister, and the other was money.

"I don't earn much, and if I pay Uncle Zhang for them, it's only about 300 yuan." Zhou Yu said lightly.

"Oh, I don't earn much, it's only three hundred...... What, three hundred wen?! Feng Liang's chopsticks fell to the ground in fright.

"Brother, what's the matter with you?" Feng Yue complained to him, and then went to the kitchen to get him a pair of chopsticks again.

"How can you earn so much?" Feng Liang asked excitedly. The tea shed is not a tea shop in the city, and it is very good to earn dozens of dollars a day, but there are very few people who can earn hundreds of dollars, not to mention that there are competitors. And Zhou Yu actually earned 300 wen a day, and he still calculated it by deducting other people's wages, which was a bit beyond Feng Liang's imagination.

"The more guests come, the more you will naturally earn!" Zhou Yu deliberately didn't tell Feng Liang the reason.

"Why do guests only come to your tea shed and not go to other people's tea sheds?" Feng Liang asked, whenever something related to money occurs, he is always very concerned.

"Brother, because our tea shed has ice, who doesn't want to drink a bowl of iced tea on this hot day?" It was Feng Yue who told him the truth.

"Ice? Do you have ice? So how much does ice cost, how much do you have to sell for a bowl of tea? When Feng Liang heard that Zhou Yu had ice, the look of surprise in his eyes was even worse.

"Four texts with less ice, six texts with more ice." Feng Yue replied.

"So cheap?! Where did you get the ice, and you are not afraid of losing money when you sell it so cheaply? Feng Liang almost jumped.

"Ice is not expensive, I'll get a few buckets out later, and when my eldest brother sleeps, put two buckets next to the bed, it will definitely be much cooler." Zhou Yu said with an indifferent look.

"You know how to make ice?!" Feng Liang's mouth opened wide.

"Of course, it's not that difficult." Zhou Yu took a bite of the dough.

"Ahem...... Xiao Yu, tomorrow the eldest brother will go with you to sell tea, the fat and water will not flow into the fields of outsiders, our family's business, what do you always trouble outsiders to do? That's it, just give me the wages of Lao Zhang's family, and I can do this tea selling work, and I guarantee that I can do it better than them! Feng Liang immediately explained his intentions.

"Big brother, this tea shed was built by Uncle Zhang, and I turned around and quit him, this is a little unreasonable, right?" Zhou Yu said helplessly, then thought about it and said: "That's it, if the eldest brother really wants to come to help, it's okay, Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang will share two percent, and the eldest brother will share one percent." ”

Feng Liang thought about it, the achievement of 300 wen is 30 wen, this is still for the old Zhang family, so if you calculate it, you will make a lot of money! So he immediately agreed.

"Hey, what about me? I've been digging ice all afternoon, shouldn't I be paid 10% of my salary? Feng Yue said dissatisfied.

"What else do we have between yours and mine, even you are mine! Oh, it's all for you! Zhou Yu threw a bag containing three hundred dollars to Feng Yue.

"Who is your ......" Feng Yue's face was blushing again by Zhou Yu's words, and she secretly took a sip, then threw the money bag back and said, "Don't forget the dowry you prepared for me!" ”

Yes, it turns out that not only Zhou Yu is in a hurry to marry, but Feng Yue, Nier, is also looking forward to marrying!

"Yes, yes, this is all a family, what are you and me? Eat...... eat," Feng Liang came out and played a round.

The three of them began to eat well......

After the meal, Feng Liang fetched several buckets of water according to Zhou Yu's instructions, and before falling asleep, Zhou Yu made ice and put a few people next to the bed to cool down. Wenguo does not have an air-conditioning fan, which is already the best way to cool down.

After Feng Liang finished his work, Zhou Yu called him and Feng Yue to a meeting again: "Tomorrow, we will leave at the end of the day, go to Luozhou City to buy some things, and eat lunch in the city." ”

After hearing this, Feng Yue frowned and said, "What are you doing with that unjust money?" Can we eat it ourselves at home? She was used to being thrifty, and she didn't quite understand Zhou Yu's thoughts.

"Listen to me, let's eat in the city, and take a look at the menu of the restaurant by the way." Zhou Yu said.

"What do you do with the menu? Are you going to be a cook? Feng Liang asked.

"That's half right, I'm going to open a restaurant." Zhou Yu replied.

"Open a restaurant? It takes a lot of money, even if you take the twenty taels of silver you won back last time, it's still far from enough. Feng Liang is right, to open a restaurant, just renting a store will cost dozens of taels of silver a year, and a better location will cost hundreds or even hundreds of taels, and now Zhou Yu's money in his hand is quite a lot.

"So far, it's true, but it's okay to take a look first, and when you make enough money, you can go straight into the industry. When the time comes, recruit a few more people from our village, so that they can also earn some money. Everyone is poor, and we still have to help each other. Zhou Yu said.

Listening to Zhou Yu's words, Feng Yuemei's eyes lit up. She has been enthusiastic since she was a child, and she wants to help anyone in difficulty, but Zhou Yu's idea coincides with her.

However, a hint of surprise flashed in her heart, since Xiao Yu woke up, it seemed to be very different from before. Not only is his brain bright, but he also understands some strange things, and now he is still thinking about helping the people in the village, which is similar to Zhou Yu, who was timid and cowardly before. But after all, it is changing in a good direction, so Zhou Yu can be regarded as a qualified man!

"Then let's say okay, let's leave tomorrow and go to the city to have a good meal!" Zhou Yu saw that the two had no objections, so he made a decision.

After the family meeting, the three of them washed up, and Zhou Yu began to make ice. Seeing that the well water that was still warm when he hit it turned into ice cubes in front of him, Feng Liang was also amazed. Zhou Yu asked him not to talk about it to outsiders, and when he thought that this was the way to get money, Feng Liang immediately patted his chest and made a guarantee.

Zhou Yu made four buckets of ice, three buckets were placed in Feng Yue's room, and one bucket was placed in Feng Liang's house, which caused Feng Liang's strong dissatisfaction. When Feng Liang sternly protested that there was too little bucket of ice, Zhou Yu gave a reason that he couldn't refute - Feng Yue's room had two people sleeping. That's right, Zhou Yu begged Feng Yue to agree to sleep with him in vain.

As a qualified pet sister madman, after Zhou Yu put this reason out, Feng Liang didn't complain anymore, and immediately returned to the house with an ice bucket, and closed the door smoothly......

"Let's go, go back to the house and sleep." Zhou Yu carried three buckets of ice and said with some difficulty.

"Okay, you are not allowed to touch me tonight, and you are not allowed to touch me ......" Feng Yue looked like he was "about the three chapters" of Zhou Yu.

"Okay, it's all up to you! The ice is quite heavy, so let's hurry inside! Zhou Yu urged, but he didn't know if he was so eager because the ice bucket was too heavy, or if he had been coveting the beauty for a long time......

Hearing Zhou Yu's promise, Feng Yue let him into the house.

There was an ice bucket, and sure enough, it felt a lot cooler, and the two of them undressed and fell asleep.

Lying on the bed, Feng Yue thought that Zhou Yu promised her before going to bed, so she shouldn't mess around......

It turns out that Feng Yue, this little girl, is still too young and naΓ―ve!

A man's mouth, a deceitful ghost! If the man's promise can be trusted, the old sow can go up the tree!

It didn't take long for Zhou Yu to start moving.

ate Feng Yue's tofu again, and it wasn't until he was kicked away that Zhou Yu was honest and fell asleep slowly......

The next morning, when Zhou Yu got up to wash, he obviously felt that Feng Yue, who came in with water, looked at him a little unkindly...... Even when he was eating breakfast, Feng Yue ignored him, and it seemed that he was still angry with him.

After breakfast, Zhou Yu began to pull Feng Yue to apologize, so that he could not forgive him until he swore to the sky that he would never do anything to her again before getting married.

When they arrived, the three of them went to Luozhou City as planned. When I arrived at the city market, I bought ten catties of white noodles, purchased two futons, and went to Buzhuang to tailor a wedding dress for Feng Yue, and Zhou Yu also made a red long horse coat as a wedding dress. After the shopping session was completely over, the few people left for the restaurant.

Sitting in the restaurant, looking at the dishes on the menu on the wall, which often cost more than a dozen or even dozens of yuan, Feng Yue couldn't make up her mind to order. In the end, Feng Liang took the lead and ordered a tofu green vegetable......

Zhou Yu saw that neither of them dared to order expensive dishes, so he decided to come by himself. He first ordered a bamboo shoot chicken slice, then a cucumber egg, and finally a mutton hu cake as a staple dish.

Feng Yue heard that he ordered so many dishes at once, and they were all meaty, so she asked him to return some on the spot, saying that it was too expensive. Zhou Yu didn't care, and whispered to her: "I have to see how their dishes are doing, otherwise how can our restaurant make good dishes at that time?" ”

couldn't resist Zhou Yu, Feng Yue had no choice but to accept the dishes on this table......

After the meal, Feng Liang gave a long burp and said that he was very satisfied with the experience of the meal. Zhou Yu is different, due to the limitations of the times, Wenguo's restaurants lack a lot of seasonings, and the taste made is far from Zhou Yu's previous life. Take the simplest spicy taste as an example, there is no chili pepper in Wenguo, only the spicy taste is made in the food with dogwood, of course, pepper is also available, but its price is very expensive, and most restaurants will not use it.

Cucumber eggs are not scrambled, not to mention, especially the mutton beard cake, which is a mess made of fishy and smells of mutton, which is called a difficult to swallow!

Another very important reason is that the iron-smelting technology of Wenguo is very backward, ordinary people can't use iron pots, and there are no iron pots for stir-frying, and ordinary families and restaurants use copper pots or clay pots to cook. There is no such thing as stir-frying, and the common cooking methods are stew, stew, stew, etc.

This is the defect of Wenguo cuisine, but it is also the business opportunity that Zhou Yu thinks. If he could improve the iron-making technique a little and make a wok...... I'm afraid that the head of the imperial dining room of the Wenguo Palace will have to worship him as a teacher.

At this time, Zhou Yu had not yet realized how much impact this simple idea he had because the food he ate was not in line with his taste would have on Wenguo......

Of course, these are later words, the current Zhou Yu is just bent on making money and marrying Feng Yue into the family as soon as possible, where is there any other hope?

Although Zhou Yu was extremely dissatisfied with the taste of the food in the restaurant, he did not show it in front of Feng Yue and Feng Liang, because for him, this meal could be said to be extremely bad, but for Feng Yue's brothers and sisters, it was a rare delicacy to eat......

After being full of wine and food, the three of them rushed to the west gate of Luozhou City to meet Lao Zhang and his wife.

When Zhou Yu and his party arrived, Lao Zhang and his wife began to set up tables, chairs and benches, and Zhou Yu began to make ice with saltpeter......

In one afternoon, Zhou Yu and the others earned more than 600 yuan. What they didn't know was that there was a special guest who visited their tea shed this afternoon.

South of Luozhou City, Yuwang Mansion.

"Your Royal Highness, when the little one entered the city from the West Gate today, I happened to see a tea shed on the side of the road selling iced tea, and the little one bought some back." A middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper stood in the main hall of the palace, holding a small bucket in his hand, which contained the iced tea sold in Zhou Yu's tea shed, but the ice had melted some of it.

"Oh? On this hot day, it is excellent to have a bowl of iced tea, but this cellar ice is very expensive, I don't know how much this tea sells for a bowl? The young man sitting in the hall asked.

"Back to Your Highness, the iced tea in the tea shed is priced according to the amount of ice, a bowl of tea for those with less ice is four Wen, and a bowl of tea for those with more ice is six Wen, and I bought thirty Wen for Xia." The butler man responded.

"So cheap?! Wouldn't it be a loss to do business like this? A hint of surprise appeared on the boy's face.

"Your Highness, it is a small blunt, the owner of the tea shed can sell the tea with ice so cheaply, it is impossible to use the ice of the cellar!" The butler responded.

"Steward Li, you mean, the boss has the method of making ice?" This time, the boy stood up directly.

"According to small speculation, it can only be so." Steward Li replied.

"If that person really has the ability to make ice cubes at such a low cost in the middle of summer, then the king is willing to buy this method with a thousand gold and pass it on to the people of our country, so as to benefit the people of Li!" The young man's eyes welled up with excitement, and then he said to the housekeeper: "Steward Li, if you go to the tea shed tomorrow, even if you spend some silver taels, you will definitely invite the boss to the palace!" ”

"Your Highness cares about the common people, and the little ones admire it! Please rest assured, Your Highness, the little one will definitely invite the tea shed owner to the house! Steward Li said resolutely.

After Steward Li retreated, the young man stared at the bucket of iced tea that had not much ice left, and muttered in his mouth: "God bless, I hope that if there is such a wonderful method, the people of my country can also die less on the day of the scorching heat......"