Traveling through ancient times as a hunter

When the sunset is full of clouds and dragonflies are flying around, the day of Yanger Village is over again.One after another, the villagers passed the mountain depression with hoes and baskets on their backs, and found that the courtyard of Cheng Duo's house was full of people, and there was an unusually good smell in the air.

Spicy, mellow, mixed with the gentle evening breeze, it makes hungry people swallow their saliva after working all afternoon.

"What's the smell, so fragrant?"

"The eldest young master is here again. The Orion family must have made delicious treats for guests... But this is too delicious. What did you do?"

"You ask me, I want to know too!"

No one dared to go up and ask, so they could only take a chance of passing by, silently inhale the fragrance in the air, and then speed up their pace to go home.

No more, the more I smell the more hungry I am!

Like the villagers, there was a person who circled around the pot too anxiously: "Are you ready?"

Finding that no one paid attention to him, he endured it for a while, and then urged: "It's almost there, this smells so delicious, can you eat it?"

Xie Yuan stared at the hot pot base that was still being stir-fried in the big iron pot. The sizzling red peppers and various spices were like an alluring beauty, which made people reluctant to look away.

He held his growling stomach with both hands, because it was too hot for lunch, and Cheng Duo really asked the cook to make them a table full of fried bitter gourd and bitter gourd soup... He couldn't eat it, so he just drank some soup and it was fine. I'm really hungry right now.

And the delicious food is the first, and he is reluctant to eat other things to occupy his stomach. The more hungry the more delicious, the more fragrant the more hungry, he wants to grab a piece of dried chili from the boiling oil pan and eat it now!

The cook who was in charge of stir-frying was stared at by his own young master, and a large amount of sweat appeared on his already sweaty forehead, and the stir-frying movements of his hands were all messed up.

"Leave him alone, continue to stir fry in one direction." Cheng Duo pointed out that he was sitting on a small bench with a bold sword, and beside him was the cantaloupe that his wife had just soaked and cut from the mountain stream , his leisurely appearance is much better than that of the ants on the hot pot—Master Xie.

And while he was instructing the cook to put the ingredients, he did not forget to persuade Brother Yong to eat a few more yuan. Brother Yong was so embarrassed that he asked for Young Master Xie: "Brother Cheng, how long do you have to cook?"

My daughter-in-law asked, of course Cheng Duo couldn't pretend not to hear, and asked him with a smile: "Hungry?"

Brother Yong nodded, in fact, he was not only hungry, but the taste was really delicious.He ate two pieces of cantaloupe to moisten his mouth, and he felt his saliva protruding from the spicy smell of pepper.

Brother Yong is already like this, and the other Xie family members who are sitting or standing have already snatched their share of cantaloupe, and now they are also watching eagerly, and only hope that their young master is in a good mood and can share it with them after eating. a little.

After smelling this smell, who wants to eat tasteless food!

Seeing this, Xie Yuan even gave Brother Yong a grateful look. His eyes were teary, and the child was about to cry from hunger!

Brother Yong is still not doing well, Cheng Duo glared at him first: "You deserve it, you don't eat if you are asked to eat at noon, and now there is cantaloupe and I think eating too much will take up my stomach."

Xie Yuan curled his lips: "That thing is full of water, and I'm tired of eating it at home."

He felt that Cheng Duo was greedy for him on purpose. He started frying a base material from the west of the sun, and the sun was going to set at this moment, so the frying wasn't over yet!

He admitted that the hot pot flavor he said is not enough!

"When can I put vegetables in, I'm going to starve to death!"

Cheng Duo ignored him, but turned to Brother Yong and said, "The frying will be ready in a quarter of an hour, and we'll have dinner then."

Brother Yong suppressed a smile and nodded. He had to say that Brother Cheng's differential treatment made him very useful.It was Young Master Xie's resentful eyes that made him a little blind...

Another cook has already cut up the side dishes, just pulled out from the ground, juicy lettuce, white radish, water onion, neatly sliced ​​pork, beef and chicken, and fried Dried tofu, fresh tofu, meatballs, fish balls, small yellow croaker...

Cheng Duo asked the cook to divide the fried bottom ingredients into two pots, add the boiled chicken soup, and use the big iron pot with the earthen stove that was built just now, and the summer hot pot feast began.

Those servants didn't expect that they could also get a share of the pot. They hurriedly set up tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, and then geared up to grab food. They even ignored the heat wave overflowing from the earthen stove.

Because sesame paste is easy to spoil this day, Cheng Duo only asked the cook to prepare a dipping bowl with minced garlic and sesame oil.

"When the weather cools down, you can get some pure sesame sauce dipping sauce. If you like garlic, put garlic, and if you like sesame sauce, put sesame sauce..."

Xie Yuan didn't know if he heard it, he nodded indiscriminately, and began to put meat and vegetables into the pot desperately without a teacher.

Brother Yong reluctantly reminded: "Master Xie, you should put less, if you put too much, it will cook more slowly, aren't you hungry?"

Xie Yuan felt wronged: "But I want to eat all of them."

But he also knew that Brother Yong was right, and put down the small yellow croaker plate in his hand embarrassingly.

Young Master Xie went down the mountain all hungry, and when Cheng Duo said it was ok, he quickly picked up a piece of beef, dipped it in the garlic sesame oil, and put it in his mouth impatiently——

"It's so hot! It's so hot! It's so hot..." Xie Yuan opened his mouth indistinctly, exhaling desperately, but he refused to spit out the pieces of meat in his mouth.

After finally waiting for the meat to cool down, the first time I chewed, my eyes widened: "It's delicious!"

Cheng Duo also felt that the taste was passable, if only there was beer, the cold beer is a perfect match for hot pot in summer.

But this wish can only be imagined, Xie Yuan obviously thought of it, and while stuffing something into his mouth, he took the time to say: "Eat this hot pot, you can have another glass of iced Shihua Niang that we thanked, even if you don't have Shihua Niang , have a cup of iced herbal tea, too!"

Large restaurants like theirs usually have their own ice cellars. Although in midsummer the ice cubes can't be kept much and the price is still expensive, those who are willing to spend money don't care about the ice cubes.

Speaking of this, Xie Yuan remembered the resentment he had said countless times before: "Tell me about you, why do you have to live in this village with nothing? What's so good here!"

He can't even eat iced pickled flower brew with hot pot!

Cheng Duo and Yong Ge'er looked at each other, tacit understanding, and there were smiles in their eyes: If Young Master Xie knew that there were more treasures in the Diling behind their village than their Xie family's several generations of management, he would definitely not Said such a thing.

Xie Yuan was fed another mouthful of rations unintentionally, choked on the spot, don't talk, don't talk, it's better for him to continue eating his hot pot!

Compared with the three people at their table, the two cooks and five servants at the other table are fighting much harder.Fortunately, they remembered that their eldest and youngest were next door, and their actions were not out of the ordinary.

Cheng Duo also reminded them to cook them before eating, so as not to have diarrhea at night.

With those two cooks around, he should be at ease?

Xie Yuan finally slowed down after eating, and after he had tasted all kinds of side dishes, he began to pick his favorite small yellow croaker to eat when he was hungry.

"This hot pot is not only troublesome to cook, but also easy to make. This dish, other mountain delicacies, fish, etc. should also be used as side dishes, right?"

"Of course. In our place, there is nothing that can't be cooked in hot pot..." Cheng Duo talked about how to eat hot pot with Mr. Xie. The hot pot has been developed for so many years, and there are differences in different places. Therefore, Cheng Duo only talks about what is generally accepted by the public.

After talking about how to eat, the next step is to talk about how to cooperate.

Through this "tasting" tonight, Xie Yuan has been completely conquered by the hot pot. With his eyesight, he can certainly see how popular the hot pot will be once it is launched.

"What I mean is to set up a special hot pot restaurant, and we will share the cost of the storefront and layout equally. In addition, I will provide the recipe, and you will be responsible for the ingredients and manpower, and the profits will be split [-]-[-]." Cheng Duo said, in fact, this is the case He has already taken advantage of the cooperation plan. After all, apart from manpower, these ancient spices are not cheap.

"How can I do that, your recipe is worth a thousand gold." Xie Yuan waved his hands again and again, Cheng Duo was straightforward, and his cook did the whole cooking, and he didn't hide anything at all.Then he can't take advantage of his conscience, that's not how to do business!

More importantly, Xie Yuan felt that Cheng Duo was worthy of his investment, the more he was like this, the more he could not damage the relationship between the two.

In the end, the two reached an agreement, and the business plan was reasonable according to what Cheng Duo said, but Xie Yuan gave [-]% more profit, which was regarded as making up for Cheng Duo's prescription money.

Because although this business is a partnership between two people, Fang Zi is considered to be shared.Their Xie family has mastered this way of making money, and if they can no longer abide by the agreement in ten or twenty years, they can be regarded as compensation to Cheng Duo in advance.

Xie Yuan knew that Cheng Duo had earned several thousand taels of silver from selling Shaoguang wine successively, so he was not afraid that he would not be able to afford the money.It's just that he must discuss the location and decoration of this hot pot restaurant with Cheng Duo, so he hopes that Cheng Duo will live with him in Ershilipo for a while, and leave after the hot pot restaurant is opened.

Of course Cheng Duo couldn't agree, he just wanted to be a hands-off shopkeeper, not to mention that the more people involved in the business, the more chaotic the management would be.Therefore, he instilled in Xie Yuan the layout and management methods of modern hot pot restaurants, and enlightened him, which means that he has full power to make decisions.

It's not that Cheng Duo is lazy, it's that Xie's family has been in business for so long, and they already have their own set of business philosophy, and the ancient times are different from the modern ones.Xie Yuan said what he should say, he will copy what he can copy, and do what he wants to say if he can't.

Xie Yuan's family can rest assured that he is in charge of the family business, they must have confidence in him, Cheng Duo is a layman in business, there is no need to dictate in it.

Of course, when the store opens, he will definitely check the accounts from time to time.Trust belongs to trust, and there must be a lot of accounts that should be checked, otherwise it will be easy to deceive yourself.

In fact, Cheng Duo is so generous, besides trusting Xie Yuan, he also has confidence in himself.Although he doesn't care about the profit of the hot pot now, he dares to pat his chest and promise that he can get it back no matter what he takes out, so he is really not afraid of being fooled.

Of course, Xie Yuan and his party stayed at Cheng Duo's house that night. Fortunately, when Cheng Duo got married, he considered that it would be inconvenient for some people to stay overnight, so he bought a bamboo bed from the villagers, and there were two bamboo mats. It is not too crowded for seven people to sleep in the main room. .

Except for Xie Yuan, everyone else has taken it for granted. After all, many of them came from mud-legged backgrounds. They have slept in haystacks and field ridges, and the bamboo mats are already pretty good.

But Xie Yuan complained again and again: "What's the matter with your house? It's too inconvenient to not even have a guest room."

"Hurry up, young master, please bear with me." Seeing that Xie Yuan was still dissatisfied, Cheng Duo said, "By the way, we can cook noodles in a hot pot tomorrow morning. If you continue to complain, I won't take your share." gone."

"!!" Xie Yuan hurriedly lay down and pretended to be dead, wouldn't it be okay for him to stop talking!

Cheng Duo knew that it is difficult for people who eat hot pot for the first time to forget the taste.Moreover, the ancient food has little oil and water, even if Xie Yuan is the young master, he can't eat anything high.Therefore, for them, a meal of hot pot is never tiresome.

Didn't see him say these words, apart from Xie Yuan and his servants, did Yong Geer's eyes light up behind him...