Rebirth of Private Chef Xiao Ai

Chapter 19

When the first month passed, Song Cheng had a thought. He wanted to save some money and open a small business by himself, which had something to do with food.Originally, he didn't have this idea, but recently it was almost time for Changxin to give birth. Gu Lousheng said that anyway, the restaurant would be left to Douer and Gong Ping in the future, so he slowly started to let them take care of things, and he was doing it himself. As a shopkeeper, he often squats in the kitchen and watches Song Cheng make food.

In this way, Song Cheng thought, if he could, even if he didn't have a complete shop, it would be good to have a snack stall.Moreover, it will not form any competitive relationship with the restaurant, and the effect may be better for both parties.After thinking about it, he weighed his money bag, and took out the money box under the bed board to count again, no matter what he counted, it was not enough.

The money in the purse was won by playing the horse crane during the Chinese New Year, and the money under the bed was his wages, but the sum of these was far from enough for the cost he needed... Song Cheng thought about it and decided to go to Gu Linsheng.Gu Linsheng is now smiling all day long, and everyone from all over the world knows that the eldest son of Gu Linsheng's family is about to be born, and they are waiting for the day when Chang Xin will be born, and the Gu family will serve a full moon wine and come to congratulate him.Song Cheng found Gu Linsheng and briefly told him his thoughts.

Gu Linsheng glanced at him meaningfully, and said, "Is this planning to be self-reliant? That's right, if you and Lou Sheng really become a family at that time, the dowry or dowry will always be needed for a formality. You work hard, I I don’t think the problem should be a big one. Just wait, I’ll go to Chang Xin’s place to give you some money.” After finishing speaking, the eldest brother went to the backyard to get the money, leaving Song Cheng standing alone speechless, carrying Rubbing my face with my hands, I felt that it was obviously not the beginning of spring, so why did I feel a little hot all over.

Gu Linsheng readily gave Song Cheng a bag of silver, about 100 taels.Song Cheng shirked that he didn't need that much, and Gu Linsheng asked him to keep it, saying that if Song Cheng really focused on Gu Lousheng, it would be two of them after making money, no difference.Song Cheng accepted it embarrassingly, and went back to the restaurant to find Dou'er.This little guy is a ghost, Song Cheng planned to hide it from Gu Lousheng first, and ask Douer about the source of the goods.

"Snack stall?" Dou'er rolled his eyes, drank the sweet-scented osmanthus rice wine that Song Cheng brought to him, and explained to Song Cheng clearly: "Isn't there a place next to the entrance hall of our restaurant rented out to others, there are two more The monthly rental period is up, and the old man who sells melon seeds doesn't plan to continue renting. Tell Lou Sheng later that we can rent it to you, and the rent can be reduced by a lot. But you still have to be busy Can you take care of the business of the restaurant?"

"Our restaurant's business is good, but it's not busy every day. I'll teach you and Gong Ping the skills. When you have time, you two can help me watch in the front. I'm still in the back kitchen. I've calculated it. It should be a problem. It's not big." Song Cheng told Douer the details of what he wanted to do as a food stall.

When talking about the source of goods, Dou'er suggested that it can be bought from the book of the restaurant, so that the prices given by the store are also low, and the cost is greatly reduced.As for the balance of accounts, it would be fine if Song Cheng gave Gu Lou some money on a regular basis, treating it as something bought by the family and dividing it among himself.

So for a while, Gu Lousheng could always see Song Cheng, Douer, and Gong Ping muttering together, and when he saw him coming, he would stop and not continue talking.At noon this day, the sun was shining warmly, and it was another day for the restaurant to rest.Gu Lousheng had just spread out the quilt on the rope pulled up in the backyard to dry, when he turned his head and saw Song Cheng and Douer walking in from the door.The two of them grabbed a candied haws each, Song Cheng bent slightly, Dou'er raised his head, the two of them walked in muttering, but they didn't notice Gu Lousheng in the yard.

"Stop." Gu Lousheng stuck his head out from behind the quilt, and looked at the two of them suspiciously: "What have you two been doing lately? You've been acting mysteriously." Song Cheng and Douer saw that Gu Lousheng was in the yard, and hurriedly Stop talking.In this way, Gu Lousheng became even more curious, and they stopped talking when they found out. Is there anything he can't know?What the hell are these people...

What Gu Lousheng didn't expect was that this was exactly Dou'er's idea for Song Cheng.First let Gu Lousheng discover that they were discussing things in a mysterious way, and then let Lousheng think that they deliberately kept him from knowing. The angle of consideration is different.

Originally, if Song Cheng had told Lou Sheng from the beginning, with a businessman's mind, Gu Lousheng would have strictly calculated the gains and losses of benefits.To put it bluntly, Song Cheng's business is quite risky, and it's still unknown whether Gu Lousheng is willing to spend money on it.But now, Dou'er and the others all know about it, but Gu Lousheng doesn't.Let Lou Sheng know in the end, he will definitely feel that everyone is a family, you Song Cheng just told me now, it's not that I won't help you.

Once this kind of mentality is promoted, things will be easily accomplished. Whoever calls family members is Gu Lousheng's weakness.

But Dou'er has repeatedly told Song Cheng not to let Gu Lousheng know that this was his idea, otherwise he will have to peel off a layer of skin.But later Gu Lousheng did find out about this, and the lion opened his mouth to deduct a lot of freshly roasted tea leaves from Douer, who was already married, which made Douer dumbfounded.But this is something for later, let's not mention it for the time being.

Douer glanced at Song Cheng out of the corner of his eye, indicating that it was time for him to talk to Gu Lousheng, so he hopped away with candied haws in his mouth.Song Cheng touched his nose, stepped forward, bypassed the quilt, and handed the candied haws to Gu Lousheng.Seeing his pretty eyebrows frowned, Song Cheng coughed and explained: "Last time I saw that you like to eat, so I bought it for you."

After saying a word, Gu Lousheng suddenly felt a little more comfortable in his heart, and the discomfort of being ignored also subsided a little.He nodded, thanked him, took a bite of the candied haws, and said, "What did you guys discuss recently? It's so mysterious, can you talk about it now?" Song Cheng noticed that although Gu Lousheng said this sentence was a question , but the tone was affirmative, so he moved two stools, and the two of them sat in the yard, basking in the sun, and talked about the matter.

"I thought about it a few days ago. In my hometown, there is a kind of cold dish that sells well, and it is weighed by the catty. Not to mention refreshing with wine, it is also good to relieve the heat. Douer said that the old tea seller in the hall is about to I don’t want to rent it anymore, I can let you rent it to me for a small business.” Song Cheng said slowly, telling Gu Lousheng his thoughts one by one: “Besides, there are no appetizers in our restaurant, except Most of the guests don’t want to order special dishes to accompany the fried peanuts served with wine, because they think it’s too expensive.”

"Then do you think that this way of selling in winter actually has no market. For cold dishes, it's good to go with wine to relieve the heat, but in winter, it's cold, so no one will buy them." Gu Lousheng thought about it, and Song Cheng said That's right.The cold beef in the restaurant, sour pickled cucumbers, and shredded beans are all appetizers, but the guests who come to the restaurant to order food don't often order them.For a small portion, the price is not much lower than that of regular dishes, so naturally fewer people eat it.

Gu Lousheng squinted his eyes under the warm sun, and expressed his thoughts: "But this idea is really good, and the restaurant is not very busy. How did you think of setting up your own stall for business?"

Song Cheng wouldn't tell him the real reason, so he took the topic away with a sloppy eye, and brought the talking head back to the stall: "In winter, we can get a stove and make pancakes in a hanging stove. It's hot and delicious. Eating can be regarded as a kind of snack.” The climate is cold in winter, and most people don’t want to touch something with ice, and they are willing to eat something warm.When the sesame seed cakes came out of the kang, they were crispy, fragrant and hot, and the price was not expensive. Gu Lousheng felt that at least from Song Cheng's point of view, it was quite feasible.

Gu Lousheng listened, nodded slowly, and gave Song Cheng some advice from time to time.Song Cheng said that the biscuits he wanted to make were different from the biscuits sold in many Anping restaurants.The sesame seed cakes sold by everyone in Anping vary from thick to thin, but most of them have no filling.He planned to grind some bean paste, make some meat fillings, and sell some stuffed sesame seed cakes on the kang.If someone likes to be vegetarian, you can sell it together with a kind of cake called leek box.

But thinking about it, he will make some finished products in advance for his family to taste first and see the reaction before making a decision.

As soon as Song Cheng finished speaking, Gu Lousheng suggested that it would be better if he was free today, so he might as well try the dishes.So the two went to the street to do some shopping, carried a lot of things back to the restaurant, and went into the kitchen.Song Cheng washed and washed, chopped vegetables and boiled water, while Gu Lousheng was still watching.On the way, Song Cheng also bought a can of rice wine, saying that he would drink it with the cold dishes.

Gu Lousheng doesn't know how to cook, but he still knows each other.At the moment, Song Cheng's washed basket contained a lot of vegetables, including bean curd skin, thousand pieces of silk, kelp, potatoes, dried bean curd, cowpea, cucumber, tomato and about a dozen other vegetables. "Is this going to be stir-fried?" Gu Lousheng took a tomato from the basket and washed it in the water tank. He held it in his hand and brought it to his mouth to take a bite. It was sweet and sour, but it's not easy to eat in winter. Cold, eat too much stomach will be uncomfortable.

Song Cheng turned around with the knife in hand, put the chopping board on the stove, put the cucumber on it and cut it quickly. After a while, there was a plate of thin shredded cucumbers piled up on the plate, which made Gu Lousheng really excited. I envy Song Cheng's superb knife skills. "Don't fry them, just put them in water and boil them. For example, cucumbers and tomatoes, you can use them raw and cut."

After Song Cheng taught him how to fry meatballs, Gu Lousheng dared to give Song Cheng a little bit of a hand recently, and he didn't smash the plate or pot or anything, because at most he just helped pass things. "Lousheng, help me get three more plates out of the cupboard." Gu Lousheng obediently took the plates, scalded them with boiling water, and handed them to Song Cheng. He did this kind of handing over. Still very smooth!

Except that the cowpea was boiled and then fried again, the rest of the dishes were boiled in the pot, picked up with a bamboo colander, and put into a basket to drain.Song Cheng used a plate to hold each dish, and placed them one by one along the stove, then found a small wooden barrel with a caliber of less than half a foot, and took out a vegetable clip from the gauze cupboard. Let Gu Lousheng choose some dishes by himself.

"Look, use vegetable tongs to pick what you want and put it in the bucket. You don't need too much of each item, just make enough. I will mix it for you after you choose it." Song Cheng handed the food to Gu Lousheng, and Gu Lousheng couldn't wait to choose the dishes.In fact, Song Cheng made these dishes according to Gu Lousheng's taste, so Gu Lousheng made some of them.

When Gu Lousheng was done, Song Cheng poured the vegetables in the bucket into a large porcelain bowl, took out a pair of chopsticks, and added the seasonings one by one.Especially the fried peanuts, he added a lot more, because this not only goes with wine, but most importantly, Gu Lousheng likes to eat it.

After pouring the mixed cold dish from the porcelain bowl onto the white porcelain plate prepared beside him, Song Cheng took another two pairs of chopsticks and sat down at the table.Recently, a table and a few stools have been added to the kitchen. Although it is a bit cramped, it is much more convenient.When not in use at ordinary times, you can also place things without taking up much space.

Gu Lousheng had already poured two glasses of rice wine and was waiting. As soon as Song Cheng put down the cold dish, he picked up a peanut with his chopsticks and ate it. "Well, it's really good, but it's too cold to eat in winter, but it's good in summer." Song Cheng sat down and took a sip of the wine, and agreed with Gu Lousheng's words: "So we can make sesame seed cakes in winter, but I don't have the stove yet. Well, I can’t make it today.” The rice wine was warmed with hot water, and it was warm, and I felt my whole body warm while drinking the wine and eating the vegetables.

"There's no rush, it's almost spring, and we can sell cold dishes first. As for pancakes, let's wait until autumn." Gu Lousheng and Song Cheng chatted leisurely while sipping wine and eating vegetables. Looking at the sky, discussing new business: "Look at this, some people don't like to eat so many dishes, but they like to eat noodles, but making cold noodles at home is too troublesome, why don't we sell some cold noodles by the way? Price Don’t set it too high, it just so happens that many of the cold noodles dishes are similar to what you have in this cold dish, and you can make different ones according to everyone’s different tastes.”

Gu Lousheng doesn't like to eat shredded carrots, but the ones sold in the night market are always mixed, and the vinegar smell is strong.If it is sold now mixed, there are more room for choice, and it is next to the restaurant, whether it is a passer-by on the street or a diner in the restaurant, you can patronize it.

Song Cheng has no experience in doing business at all, so naturally Gu Lousheng can do whatever he wants, as long as he knows how to burn and make things.According to Gu Lousheng's smartness in doing business, he shouldn't lose money no matter what.The two were making a final decision, discussing when the old tea seller would return the rent and clean up the area in the front hall of the restaurant, when there was shouting outside the door.

"Boss Gu, are you there? Boss Gu! Where are you? Boss Gu! Your wife and sister-in-law are about to give birth. Boss Gu, your elder brother is calling you to go home quickly! Boss Gu, are you there!" Gu Lousheng heard It was the voice of his son who was in charge of the house. Hearing this, he threw his chopsticks, opened the door and ran out. Song Cheng was also shocked, and ran out after him.The two of them hurried out of the restaurant and got into the carriage driven by the young man who sent the message, wondering in their hearts: Didn't the doctor say that Chang Xin would give birth in less than half a month, why was it earlier!