Seed dealers in ancient times

Although the incident of someone coming to cause trouble is not a big deal, the business of the restaurant has been affected to some extent. It is undoubtedly worse. During the day, there are only three or five tables of guests, and the days like this are almost over. half a month.

The clerk swatted flies in the backyard in his spare time, and spent half the time dozing off than working.

"Don't let mother know about the restaurant, if you can, keep it from it."

Zheng Jiang stood in front of the bed buttoning his belt. He looked back at Chu Xian who was lying on the bed. Seeing that no one spoke, he walked over and lifted the curtain and bent over to touch his forehead.

Chu Xian came back to her senses: "What are you doing?"

"I didn't see your answer, I thought you had a fever too."

Chu Xian exhaled, opened Zheng Jiangting's hand and held it instead: "Don't worry, I'm fine. My mother's fever is caused by heatstroke, and I drink the medicine prescribed by the doctor every day."

"It's true, mother won't take medicine badly like you."

Chu Xian patted the back of his hand and sat up slowly, feeling a little sore in his back. It wasn't that the couple had done something else, but that they were tired from digging the soil for the past two days.

The business in the restaurant was not good, and there were many idle people, so Chu Xian didn't go there much. The other two were afraid that Zou Yun would worry about the business of the restaurant, so they simply used the pretext of planting, Chu Xian pestered Zou Yun to teach him to grow strawberries, Spending energy on it like this would save Zou Yun from going to the restaurant.

But it's too hot these days, Zou Yun has a fever and a cold, and it's hard to go out.

Zheng Jiang stopped to support the person: "If you are tired, let Huang Jingyi do it. Planting things at home is a matter of self-cultivation, so don't make yourself tired for nothing."

"I enjoy it." Chu Xian said: "You let the seeds soak, I have already soaked them, and I will plant them when I find a slightly cooler day."

As he said that, he seemed to think of something again: "Yesterday, Hu Changzhi from Mr. Hu's family came to our house as a guest, and he actually made a fuss about coming to plant with me today. Can you let him know?"

"It's okay, the strawberry seeds don't look like anything special." Zheng Jiang stopped and said, "It's just the fruit seeds I brought back from outside when I was a salesman."

Chu Xian nodded. Although the young man of the Hu family is blah, but he is also a person who can talk to him. The two of them talked and talked together. At present, the family's business is frustrated, and the Hu family's master has not stayed away from it, showing his character.

Thinking of business matters, he couldn't help but worry again: "Is the restaurant okay these two days?"

Zheng Jiang didn't tell Chu Xian about the trouble, but only knew that the business of the restaurant was not optimistic. He said: "The business is not very good during the day, but there are more people who come to eat supper at night. Add more vegetables."

So I woke up early today, just wanting to go to the vegetable market and meat market to see for myself.

When the restaurant was opened, the main business was on the food banquet, and the supper was just done casually, without spending too much thought. It was Chu Xian who said that the barbecue was delicious, so he joined the restaurant. The barbecue dishes are only mutton, pork, grilled fish, and vinegar pepper. The style of the dishes is very simple. Even so, it is still a joy for the old men who come at night to order two jugs of wine.

Zheng Jiangting plans to enrich the barbecue this time.

He went to the restaurant and asked Zhang Fu to go out with him.

When Zheng Jiang stopped to call Zhang Fu away, the waiters in the restaurant who had been slacking off for a while were excited and ran to find Zhou Haixin.

"Brother Xin, the business of our restaurant is like this, the shopkeeper doesn't want to fire people, does he?"

Zhou Haixin was peeling garlic with the cook in the yard, and said, "Now I know I'm panicking, didn't I panic when I dozed off on weekdays?"

The buddy slammed his mouth: "It's really sleepy. We haven't been lazy when we have business, and we just rested for a while in our spare time."

"Okay, don't speculate casually here, Zhang Fu will know when he comes back. Has the private room on the second floor been cleaned up? Today, Fourth Master Jia has ordered a banquet, and it is a regular customer of our restaurant. You guys Go buy some ice and put it in the private room, and boil some sour plum juice to ice it."

"Brother Zhang Fu has already told me to buy watermelon, saying that he will not cook sour plum juice today."

"Success, then you will do as Zhang Fu said."

Zhang Fu also thought that Zheng Jiang stopped calling him out early in the morning because he had something important to say, and he was wandering in his mind. If Master Zheng asked which guys in the restaurant were not doing things in a down-to-earth manner, which one should he say? Although the guy who came here was a bit sneaky, he had done all the things he was supposed to do, and he was not very old, even younger than him, so it was not easy to come out to make a living.

Just when he was in trouble, he heard Zheng Jiang stop saying: "What are you doing so absent-mindedly in the morning? What's the matter? The family talk about marriage is dirty?"

"Ah? Nothing!" Zhang Fu was stunned, and saw that the two of them had come to the vegetable market: "Master Zheng, what did you call me here for? Isn't I doing all the shopping, but is there anything wrong?" Ready?"

Zheng Jiang stopped and walked ahead. There were only two lively places in Jincheng in the early morning. One was the breakfast shop and the other was the vegetable and meat market. Hawkers shouting loudly, this is the best time to buy and sell vegetables, the freshest vegetables and meat, and the most abundant variety.

He has not been here for several months. When the small restaurant was just opened, he came to run the market, comparing and negotiating prices with each other. After he stabilized, he stopped coming here because he was busy. It is not easy today.

"Master Zheng, why did you come in person today!"

The busy stall owner caught sight of Zheng Jiangting who was following Zhang Fu, and greeted the two of them one after another. Zheng Jiangting exchanged greetings with the stall owner: "Come and order some food."

"Okay, just watch."

Zhang Fu stepped forward: "At this time, we are still adding vegetables. I just came to ask the stall owner to reduce the supply of some vegetables."

Zheng Jiang stopped and took an eggplant and turned it upside down: "I'm here to choose a la carte and make supper at night."

Zhang Fu breathed a sigh of relief, and said in the original tone: "Then you choose, and I will write it down."

"Luosu Ji." At this time, eggplant was still such a nice name, Zheng Jiang stopped chuckling.

He picked some leeks, pea pods and other dishes suitable for barbecue one after another, and then ordered soft tofu from the tofu shop, which can be used for grilling or put in grilled fish.

After passing the vegetable market, he went to the meat market. He first went to the place where chickens and ducks were sold. In the morning market, not only live chickens and ducks can be bought in the chicken and duck shop, but also whole chickens and ducks that have been processed can be bought. The most important part is to provide decomposition.

When Zheng Jiangting passed by, there were several plainly dressed people in front of him. The staff of the chicken and duck shop saw Zheng Jiangting in the crowd with sharp eyes, and quickly scolded: "Go over to catch the blood of chickens and ducks, don't get in the way." Our guest."

It is said that the common people really moved.

The waiter said: "What do you want, the guest officer? Our chickens and ducks are slaughtered on the spot today. You see, there are still many people coming to take the blood of the chickens and ducks back to eat."

Zheng Jiangting raised his neck and took a look. The person who came to collect the blood prepared a bowl for himself, and left after receiving the blood. He asked the waiter, "Your blood from chickens and ducks is free?"

"I'll give it away when I'm in a hurry to kill chickens and ducks, because some regular customers don't charge money."

Chicken and duck blood is not easy to preserve, and it may not be easy to sell if you keep it yourself, but the taste of blood is actually good, whether you throw a handful of pea tips to make soup, or make Maoxuewang or cook hot pot, it is very delicious.

He said cheekily: "Can you connect me?"

The buddy said cheerfully: "Yes!"

"Hey, go carefully, guest officer. We're dealing with chicken and duck offal. It's a bit dirty. Don't get your clothes dirty."

The chicken and duck store is quite big, there are those who are responsible for killing chickens and ducks, some are responsible for removing hair, and some are responsible for disposing of the internal organs of broken chickens and ducks.

Zheng Jiang stopped to stare at the offal for several times, and the man said, "Do you want to get some offal? We sell it cheap here."

In the past, rich people thought that these meat offals were shabby items. Later, there were wars and natural disasters, food shortages, and more people ate these things. Nowadays, it is no longer the same as before, people who come and go to buy offals Already common.

After Zheng Jiang stopped for a while to visit the chicken and duck store, he said, "I plan to buy the goods for a long time."

As soon as the guy heard that it was a big buyer, he became even more enthusiastic: "What do you want to take, our chicken and duck store will keep it fresh, and we can deliver it to your doorstep."

"I want chicken tips, chicken wings, chicken and duck feet, duck heads, and chicken and duck viscera, especially chicken and duck gizzards. Is it possible?"

The buddy called it a good guy, and it was all things that were not easy to sell before.

"Yes, of course! You see what you want."

Zheng Jiang paused to think for a moment, and took a look at some sales first, and looked at the market before saying: "Just like I said just now, fifty."

The guy almost jumped up: "You wait, I'll ask someone to pick it up for you."

Zheng Jiang didn't forget to take advantage: "The chicken blood I just mentioned, give more."

"No problem, you didn't bring one with you, we'll give you one here."

Zhang Fu whispered next to Zheng Jiangting: "It's really you."

"Don't you know the current conditions of our restaurant?"

"Then why are we still waiting here to pick it up, and let the people in their line deliver it to the restaurant directly, so as not to have to wait."

Zheng Jiang paused and raised his eyebrows: "Yes."

So I gave half of the deposit and asked the chicken and duck company to deliver it, and I also confessed many times that I would send chicken blood and duck blood.

Afterwards, Zheng Jiang stopped to visit the meat market. Originally, he wanted to buy some meat that was not often seen on the dinner table, such as badger meat, etc., but he couldn't ask for the price, so he had to give up.

The people in the restaurant saw that Zhang Fu went back and hugged a big bag of vegetables, and the little guy hurried up to help: "Brother Zhang, you are back, what are you doing here? Seeing that you have taken so many things, why don't you call out for this kind of hard work?" I go."

"Go, go, now you know how to be courteous."

Zhou Haixin said: "Where is Master Zheng, why didn't anyone come back when I went out with you?"

"I came back together, turned around and went to the spice shop again, I don't know what to buy." Zhang Fu said: "Don't be in a daze, Master Zheng ordered some chickens and ducks, and they will be delivered in a while, everyone go outside to pick them up."

The common people have been making lo mei for a long time, but it was probably popular in the Tang Dynasty.

Zheng Jiang also ate braised duck when he stopped in Jincheng. It’s a kind of salted duck. Drinkers always like to get some drinks.

At that time, he thought that the salted duck made with his own ingredients must be better than the one there, but he just said that he didn't like to do things like kicking restaurants. Started lo mei business.

The fortune is bad, I didn't expect that the restaurant business really should be the name of the wine, and the business must be supported by the wine-loving old men ordering food and drinks.

He sighed, it doesn’t matter what he sells if he can make money anyway, he picked and picked in the spice shop, and bought more than [-] kinds of spices in one go, which shocked the shop owner, although the quantity of each kind was different. A lot, but it's a big, trivial deal.

The aniseed ingredient is fennel. Zheng Jiangting has always remembered the taste. When he was a child, he ate a dry pot and bit into it. The sweet taste was like sprinkling a flavor essence in his mouth. Good, but the seasoning is very good, there is nothing to say about removing the fishy smell and improving the taste.

"Zhang Fu, go and grind these seasonings into powder, and then wrap them in burlap that can filter water."

The guys in the restaurant didn't find out from Zhang Fu that the shopkeeper wanted to open his mouth, and all of them fought like chicken blood, "Shopkeeper, let me go."

Zheng Jiangting waved his hand, motioning for them to go by themselves.

"This group of bastards, you are very attentive when you are here."

"Did the chickens and ducks deliver anything?"

"It's already in the back kitchen."

"Okay." Zheng Jiang stopped to order some goods. The chicken and duck business is really good, and the chicken blood and duck blood insisted on filling a big washbasin: "Hai Xin, can chicken and duck blood do it?"

"Soup meeting."

Zheng Jiangting nodded: "Then I'll teach you Maoxuewang, everyone will eat this for lunch today."

For a while, I heard that Zheng Jiang stopped to teach cooking, and it was still lunch. Everyone swept away the haze of few customers and cheered up.

As if it had been discussed, a table of guests from Fourth Master Jia came this morning, but there was no other table of guests, and a waiter served Master Jia’s table of guests. Zheng Jiangting simply taught him how to be Maoxuewang , and taught the buddy how to serve duck blood to the guests who order hot pot, and the other is to make brine.

The ingredients of the first pot of brine were all checked by Zheng Jiangting. He boiled half a pot of water in the inner pot that was not commonly used, threw the ground ingredients into the pot, and put rock sugar and sun-dried millet properly. Spicy, brine is more flavorful when it is brine. It is said that good old brine is kept warm.

Zheng Jiang stopped to think that the condition of continuously cooking is really not allowed, but it is still possible to use the same brine for a long time.

Zhou Haixin and the chef watched Zheng Jiang stop working together.

"Chicken, duck's feet, gizzards and other things must be boiled in water, and the boiled white foam must be washed before they can be put into brine for cooking."

"How long will it last?"

"Soft and rotten taste is moderate."

"By the way, the gizzards have to be broken, otherwise they won't be cooked for a while, and they won't taste good."

At lunch time, Zheng Jiangting cut up a plate of marinated chicken and duck gizzards, and fried a plate of hot and sour chicken offal, as well as Maoxuewang, so that the staff in the restaurant had a delicious meal.

In order to prevent everyone from getting angry after eating, Zheng Jiangting tried his best to control the spiciness, the so-called mild spiciness.

They were all side dishes, and the guys wanted to make a few big bowls of sea bowls, but the shopkeeper was also there, and they all didn't seem to have a lot of food, so as not to be fired for eating too much.

"Yo, how did you guys eat so early today?"

It was Fourth Master Jia who spoke. Zheng Jiang stood up and greeted the guests before his butt was stuck to the bench: "What does this guy do? Why did Fourth Master Jia come down in person?"

Jia Si waved his hand: "I wanted to come down by myself, and I was hooked when I smelled the aroma. I asked the guy what kind of food you were eating, and he couldn't tell clearly."

Zheng Jiang couldn't stop laughing: "It's a simple side dish, if Fourth Master Jia wants to try it, I'll serve you two dishes."

Jia Sidao: "OK!"

Zheng Jiang asked Zhang Fu to send someone upstairs, and made another Maoxuewang himself, and asked Zhou Haixin to send a plate of lo mei up.

The guys stared at the food and drool several times, seeing that the shopkeepers were busy with their work, and had to stop after eating half of the meal.

"The one on the back remembers that you can't take money from Fourth Master Jia. Fourth Master Jia is our regular customer and often brings guests over."

Zhang Fu held the dish: "Don't worry, I know, I'll go and talk to Deng Ming later."

Zheng Jiangting sat back on the table again, and greeted the guys who were still full of food: "Everyone, eat, you have to work in the afternoon, and you will have strength when you are full."

This time, everyone ate their meals happily again.

"Master Zheng, we are used to lunch in the restaurant, and we feel dull when we go home to eat. When the guests get used to the taste of our restaurant, the business will definitely be booming."

"Yeah, yeah, this stewed vegetables are too delicious, it wouldn't be nice if you serve it with wine."

The guys gave a rainbow fart, Zheng Jiang stopped and just smiled.

Everyone saw Zheng Jiangting and got along well. Under the temptation of delicious food, they were fired even if they ate too much. A good meal is considered a meal, and eating is like fighting a war.

At the end of the meal, Zhou Haixin and Zhang Fu exchanged glances. The two of them came and went, seeming to have something to say, but they refused to speak because of anything. In the end, Zhang Fu took a deep breath.

Zhang Fu handed Zheng Jiangting a handkerchief to wipe his mouth: "Master Zheng, we all discussed it. The business of the restaurant has not improved yet, and everyone has been under your care. We all agree that we should tide over the difficulties with you. Our wages should be paid according to the original wages in the restaurant, and it will not be too late to increase after the business is good."

Zhang Fu was a little nervous, and finished speaking in one breath, his face flushed a little.

Zheng Jiang paused for a moment. He said why everyone always seemed to have something to say today. It turned out that this was discussed secretly.

Zheng Jiangting was very pleased that the employees could say this, and Zou Yun treated them like a family.

"I'm very happy for you to say that, but the salary is as much as you say. It was agreed with my aunt. There will be good times in the business and there will be low times. If you change your salary at will, then what do you do? It's not practical. It's still some time before the salary is paid this month, you don't have to worry about it, just do the things in the restaurant well."

"Master Zheng, we..."

"Okay, I accept your wishes. If you really want to share some, then prepare the new dishes that I will serve today. When the guests come in the evening, they will promote and sell them carefully. When the business is good, your wages will go back to normal Hair, isn’t it the best of both worlds.”

A few boys nodded: "Then we have to ask the diners who come to the restaurant to order some lo-mei tonight even if we talk about breaking our throats."

"It's right to have this kind of heart."

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