Chapter 318 Cooperation, Hot Pot

Shopkeeper Chen was still hesitating, but Butler Zhou gave him a push:

"Old man Chen, what are you still hesitating about? Hurry up and agree! Girl Qiao's recipes must be very novel and unique. Haven't the previous dishes made you enough money? Since Girl Qiao's request for this dish is so Gao, that will definitely be more popular than the previous dishes. If you don’t agree, do you want Qiao Yatou to sell the recipe to your nemesis?”

Shopkeeper Chen was awakened by this and suddenly came to his senses.

yes! It doesn’t matter whether it is owned or not in the future, if you can seize the opportunity now to earn more, earn more!

If Miss Qiao really sold the recipe to other restaurants, wouldn't he have to watch other restaurants' booming business and compete with the spicy dishes he finally launched?

Shopkeeper Chen was excited and agreed repeatedly: "Okay! Okay! Okay! I promise you, let's do it! Do you have paper and pen here? Let's draft a contract, and Old Zhou will be the witness. In this way, Miss Qiao should be able to not worried."

Qiao Ran nodded: "I have pens and paper in my tent. You go ahead and sit at my house and have a sip of tea! It's almost lunch time for cooking. Why don't you just have lunch at my house and then go back? I'll give you a taste at noon today. This is my new dish.”

Shopkeeper Chen and Butler Zhou originally wanted to say that there were many things waiting for them to be busy in the restaurant/mansion, so they originally planned to just give away the things and leave.

But when they heard that they could taste that delicious new dish at noon today, and they might be the first people in the capital to taste it, they couldn't help but become excited again, and their words of refusal became:

"Okay, then we're going to make some noise here."

The two turned to the guys and servants who had just unloaded the things from the carriage and said, "You go back first! Just leave a carriage waiting for me!"

The men and servants agreed, turned around and got on the carriage, and drove several loaded carriages back to the city, leaving only two carriages with carriages.

Qiao Ran went to tell her mother first, asking her and Aunt Qin not to cook at noon today, but to wash and cut the meat and vegetables for later use.

Then, she asked her grandma to take cover and brought out a charcoal-burning stove from the space.

This is an old item that existed in the family when my grandfather was still alive. I heard that it has been used for decades.

In the past winter, she and her grandfather liked to gather around the coffee table in the living room, watching TV and eating hot pot. Even if there were only two people at home, she was not deserted or lonely at all.

After her grandfather passed away, she would occasionally cook hotpot by herself, but after all, she was alone and most of the time she was too lazy to do it.

Now, this hot pot will start serving the Qiao family here again.

Qiao Ran took out two more packs of hot pot base. In fact, she could make hot pot base herself, but it was too troublesome, time-consuming and laborious, and she didn’t have enough time. She could only use two packs of hot pot base that she occasionally bought in the supermarket. On.

She showed the hot pot stove to Shopkeeper Chen: "This is the stove used to cook that dish. This dish is called Yuanyang Hot Pot. You see, the stove is divided into a Bagua shape. You can cook clear soup on one side and spicy soup on the other." , so that no matter whether they can tolerate spicy food or not, they can all make hot pot and eat it together, making their own choices freely, and no one can hinder anyone."

She pointed to the structure of the stove and said: "Look, the opening in the middle is where charcoal is put in. When the charcoal fire is lit in the big belly, the soup in the pot can be boiled, and then the chopped Just put the meat and vegetables in and cook for a few seconds before eating. You can cook whatever you want and eat it, it’s very convenient.”

Qiao Ran went to Juxian Building several times but never saw hot pot. She even asked the waiter specifically to find out that hot pot had not appeared in the capital yet.

Sure enough, when shopkeeper Chen saw the pot, heard Qiao Ran's description, and thought about the scene, he couldn't help but get excited.

He quickly urged Qiao Ran to write the contract, for fear that she would regret it.

Qiao Ran handed the pot and ingredients to her mother and told her what to do. Then she returned to the tent and put aside the drawings of the farm tools she had just drawn.

As a result, Butler Zhou and Shopkeeper Chen saw the drawings she drew. Shopkeeper Chen asked curiously:

"Miss Qiao, what is this painting? Why does it look like some hoes and sickles? And what are these?"

Qiao Ran didn't hide it from them and said: "These are the farm tools I drew. I improved the existing farm tools so they are more useful."

Shopkeeper Chen nodded: "You just arrived here, you have to start everything over, and you have to open up wasteland yourself, which is really not easy. However, you have to build so many farm tools, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome."

Qiao Ran nodded: "I know that the government has strict control over iron tools. I thought that I would make two or three pieces of each item. These things should be made in different blacksmith shops. This should not cause much trouble."

"With so many people in your village, you only make two or three of each item. How can it be enough?"

Shopkeeper Chen frowned, worried about her.

Qiao Ran smiled bitterly: "There is no way, there are too many to build, and I'm afraid the blacksmiths won't take the order, and if it gets reported to the official, it will be troublesome. We can only build two pieces per house, and everyone can borrow them from each other. !”

"This is too troublesome. There are only a few of these large plows, rakes and other tools, so how can they be used? If the whole village takes turns using them, won't we miss the farming season?"

Although shopkeeper Chen has never farmed, he grew up in a rural village when he was a child, and is still very familiar with the rush to sow and harvest during the busy farming season.

At this time, Butler Zhou finally spoke:

"My master also opened a blacksmith shop, and there are more than a dozen blacksmiths in it. If you can trust me, give me all those drawings, and I will take them to the shop for you and let them help you build them. Then I will send a carriage to you. come over."

Shopkeeper Chen was also stunned, clapped his hands and said: "Yes! Yes! Our boss also has a blacksmith shop, and the pots, knives, etc. in our restaurant are all made by ourselves. With old Zhou Tou helping you, you don't have to go to each other's house. I've found the blacksmith shop."

Qiao Ran didn't expect such a good thing to happen. She was worried about how to find those blacksmith shops and make more farm tools without attracting anyone's attention!

I didn’t expect Mr. Mo to have a blacksmith shop! What’s more, I didn’t expect that Butler Zhou would be so enthusiastic about taking over all the farm tools for him.

She looked at Shopkeeper Chen, who was happy for her, and said hesitantly, "But Shopkeeper Chen has to make hot pot stoves these days. Will the blacksmith shop be overwhelmed?"

Shopkeeper Chen waved his hand with a smile: "No problem! No problem! There are several blacksmith shops in the city! Besides, this stove is made of copper. What I am looking for is a coppersmith, not a blacksmith."

Qiao Ran suddenly realized that in this era, the utensils used by wealthy people were generally made of gold, silver and copper. Except for knives, there were relatively few iron utensils.

Maybe it's because ironware rusts easily, maybe it's because ironware doesn't look good, or maybe it's because ironware is too cheap to show off their identity.

Therefore, in addition to making weapons, iron tools are generally used to make hoes, sickles and other things that are only used by dirt-legged people in the countryside.

"If that's the case, then it's troublesome, Uncle Zhou! Thank you for being willing to help our village. This is really a great kindness!"

While several people were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of a carriage coming from outside the tent, and Chen Huiniang's reminder: "Ran Ran, someone is here again!"