Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

When they got home, Shi San and Feng Laoshi had already finished grinding the chili powder.

The family was so busy that Gu Yue couldn't just tell them to go home, so he tried to persuade them to stay, saying that he would cook for them. Lu Junmei and her husband couldn't refuse, so they stayed with red faces and said they would help Gu Yue cook.

Gu Yue declined and went into the kitchen.

Today, there were ten chickens, and a basin of chicken blood that had been solidified with salt was saved, as well as some chicken viscera. Shi San had already separated the chicken hearts, livers, intestines, and gizzards according to Gu Yue's request.

It is said that chicken kidneys can also be eaten, but Gu Yue does not know how to cook them, so he did not ask. But Shi San obviously has some knowledge of this, and the chicken kidneys are also separated and placed in a small bowl. Gu Yue thought about it and decided to stir-fry them together.

The gizzards were cut into small pieces and separated from the relatively easy-to-cook chicken hearts, intestines and livers. Since there weren't many, the gizzards from ten chickens were only enough for the five of them to try.

He took green peppers, leeks, eggs and shredded radish, and seasoned them with ginger, cooking wine and green onions. Gu Yue fried chicken blood and chicken offal, and cooked the chicken gizzards before frying them in. There was also a basket of steamed buns and a pot of millet porridge.

The noodles are ready and become fluffy and hot after being steamed for a while; the firewood-fired big pot rice takes a little time to prepare, but it is almost ready after stir-frying a few dishes.

After Gu Xu helped to prepare the ingredients, he sat on a small stool beside him and watched him cook. Then he helped to serve the food and put all the bowls and plates on the large square table in the main hall of the main house.

The coarse porcelain plates were filled with spicy fried chicken offal, fragrant steamed buns and pancakes, and five bowls of millet porridge. The millet shelling process was not very mature at that time, so the color was mixed.

Looking at the meal on the table, Gu Yue's eyes filled with tears.

A sense of accomplishment and satisfaction!

As the host, Gu Yue was the first to pick up his chopsticks. Everyone started picking up steamed buns and pancakes to eat food, and no one had time to talk for a while.

Gu Xu ate with big mouthfuls. It was different again—it felt different from the food he had tasted in Gujia Village.

Has this person's mood changed?

Gu Xu looked at Gu Yue over the edge of the bowl.

When this person talked about eating, he was concentrating on eating. He did not show his usual relaxed and warm demeanor at all, and he did not say any polite words.

Shi San was a man without a mouth, and Gu Xu didn't like to talk. Lu Junmei and her husband were even more alone, and without Gu Yue to liven up the atmosphere, there was no conversation at the table for a while, but it didn't become awkward.

Just like...

Gu Xu didn’t know how to describe this feeling. Was it the feeling of home?

It feels like home.

"Is it delicious?" Gu Yue asked, and Gu Xu realized that he was asking himself.

"...delicious." Gu Xu nodded.

"It's delicious, right? There will be better ones in the future." Gu Yue said as if to assure him.

When Gu Xu becomes the regent in the future, there will be more and more exotic ingredients. He will then study them carefully and strive to dominate the Northern Qin food world.

It may not be realistic to make popular food at that time, but we can hype it up.

Some recipe handed down from the immortal world, some rare nourishing meal, some special VVVVVIP customized meal, etc., give Gu Dashi a title of a special chef taught by the Kitchen God in a dream, and invite him to cook a meal for a special person for a thousand taels of gold and make an appointment...

Anyway, rich people don’t lack money, they just lack style.

Gu Xu was confused. Why was he grinning foolishly?

He stepped on Gu Yue's foot under the table and Gu Yue came to his senses.

Ahem! Just focus on selling your fried chicken first.

It was not a company cocktail party, but a homely meal. The five people ate the entire table clean, and Lu Junmei and her husband thanked them for the hospitality and left.

Gu Yue and Gu Xu got together to settle the accounts.

"Today, ten chickens cost eight hundred coins, and other seasonings cost about one hundred coins." Gu Yue stacked the copper coins in rows, "But the firewood and labor costs have to be taken into account, so we probably made one or two taels of silver."

Gu Xu nodded: "So, Dad, you have to think about how to maximize profits and reduce costs."

"Yes."

Gu Xu touched the rice paper and began to think.

"From a whole chicken, we only used the wings, legs, and the meaty parts. We ate the rest, the offal, and some of the neck and feet. Dad, can you think of something new to do with these things?" said Gu Xu.

Gu Yue's eyes lit up.

"Besides, it takes a long time for us to kill and process the chickens ourselves, and neither you nor I are very skilled, so we just waste a lot of time." Gu Xu raised his eyelids and looked at him. Gu Yue was not only unskilled, he didn't even dare to kill the chickens, nor did he know how to remove the feathers or gut the chickens. It was Feng Laoshi who taught him.

"Also, the cost of pepper..." Gu Xu pointed at the rice paper, "Pepper seems to be an expensive spice that only families above the official level in Luoyang can afford, right? Dad, are you too extravagant?"

"Yes..." Gu Yue hung his head dejectedly.

Not only is pepper expensive, but even though it tastes good when added to meat, it doesn't bring about a significant boost in sales, and everyone seems to think they're all the same.

Pepper fried chicken is cancelled. Gu Yue drew a line through the category name on the paper.

"You just mentioned the remaining things, chicken necks, chicken feet and the like. I have some ideas." Braised chicken feet and braised chicken necks are very common snacks, and they are also available in this era.

But Gu Yue wanted to do something different.

How about the black duck flavor?

But Gu Yue doesn’t know how to make braised food, so it seems like he needs a marinade or something?

There is a ready-made method for making chicken blood. When Gu Yue customized the stall, he added a space for a small barbecue grill - it was made based on modern snack carts. The barbecue grill was the simplest one, and Gu Yue asked a blacksmith to make one for him.

Roast duck blood, roast duck gizzards, with chili powder and cumin. You can also make some sweet noodle sauce... You'll have to figure this out slowly, Gu Yue really doesn't know how to do it.

Gu Yue really has no way to deal with the raw material and labor costs.

"The chickens still have to be killed fresh." Gu Yue said. He also wanted to wholesale frozen chicken legs and whole chicken wings, but how could he afford that in this era? It was early spring, so it was better. In the summer, if the fried chicken was not sold out, it would go bad the next day. There was no such thing as a refrigerator.

Ice cubes? Of course, there are many people selling ice cubes in summer, but they sell them to the rich and powerful for cooling off. He uses it to freeze chicken? It's really a waste of money. Maybe ice cubes will be more expensive than chicken.

Hiring someone to kill the chickens is also a good idea, but if the wage issue is not handled properly, it will still increase costs.

We’ll discuss this later.

Gu Yue and Gu Xu made plans for the next ten days. They studied the issue of how to stew chicken parts and paid attention to the right person to kill the chicken.

……

Yuzhou City, in the prince’s private residence.

Yu Hu woke up.

He slowly opened his eyes. The past month seemed like a lifetime ago and was not very clear. Only the faint pain in his body reminded him that it was not a dream.

Yu Hu suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"Lu Tianyun!" he shouted hoarsely.