Chapter 608 Selling Mushrooms

Qiao Ran thought for a while and said:

"Okay, then please ask shopkeeper Chen for help first. I will send a batch over tomorrow and you can give me an answer. If you can't collect so much, it doesn't matter. We can sell it in the market or to other restaurants. .”

Shopkeeper Chen fully agreed:

"Okay, okay, I'll go and ask our boss later. I'll accept everything you give me tomorrow. I guess my boss will definitely agree to accept it all."

"Thank you so much, Shopkeeper Chen! I'll give you this basket of mushrooms to try first!"

"How can that be done? This is worth at least several taels!"

Shopkeeper Chen was going to the counter to get silver to pay for the mushrooms. Qiao Ran waved her hand:

"It's okay. You can try the mushrooms we picked first. If they taste good, we won't have to worry about selling them in the future."

After saying that, she directly picked up the basket of mushrooms from the carriage and placed it in front of Shopkeeper Chen, waved her hand and drove away in the carriage.

Shopkeeper Chen shook his head helplessly and ordered the mushrooms to be sent to the kitchen. He first gave a free mushroom dish to some regular customers in the restaurant to let everyone know that Juxian Restaurant had added a few more seasonal dishes.

Then he immediately asked someone to prepare a carriage and hurried to Dingbei Palace to talk to his employer about the matter.

When Mo Beihan heard that the little girl was involved in the business of picking and selling mushrooms, he smiled helplessly:

"Collect them all! No matter how many they have, collect them all. Fresh mushrooms can only be eaten for a few months. Most of the guests who come to the restaurant like to eat fresh seasonal dishes. There are not many mushrooms in the market and other restaurants. We The restaurant has added a few more mushroom dishes to the menu in the past few months. If diners want to eat mushrooms, they will first think of Juxian Restaurant. If they take the mushrooms to the market or other restaurants to sell them, then Juxian Restaurant will The advantage is gone, so if you want to collect it, just collect it all. It’s also good to dry the unused ones and save them for cooking and soup in the winter.”

"Okay, boss, I will tell Miss Qiao tomorrow and ask her to gather the mushrooms picked by the villagers together, and the guys will go over and collect them together."

Shopkeeper Chen was very happy that his boss's idea was the same as his own. He also wanted to collect all the mushrooms. He was worried that Miss Qiao and the others would sell the mushrooms outside, and those rich people would not be able to eat the mushrooms in other restaurants or at home. I will come to their restaurant to eat.

It's just that he is just a shopkeeper, and he is worried that collecting too many mushrooms will cause waste and will not look good on the restaurant's ledger, which will make the owner unhappy.

Now it's good. The boss has given permission, so he can collect them all, and as the boss said, if he can't use it up that day, he can dry it in the sun and use it in the winter, without wasting anything.

He happily wanted to say goodbye and go back to the restaurant, but he heard his boss calling him:

"I have something to see Miss Qiao. I'll wait for her at the restaurant tomorrow. If she arrives at the restaurant, take her to the private room on the second floor."

Shopkeeper Chen paused for a moment, then responded quickly.

Of the half-carriage of medicinal materials that Qiao Ran went to Shanrentang Pharmacy to get back today, only a small part was used to treat Marquis Rongcheng's illness.

Most of them are used to make pills for grandpa.

General Zheng will return to Qingzhou Mansion in a few days. It will take at least half a year for the emperor to send other personnel to Qingzhou to take over.

Although Qiao Ran has been conditioning her grandfather's body to be no different from that of a strong man in his thirties or forties during this period of time, after all, they have to be separated for such a long time. In the remote and poor place of Qingzhou, even if there are military doctors, I am also afraid that the medicinal materials will not be in place.

Therefore, Qiao Ran made some pills and powders of all the medicines she could think of that were suitable for her grandpa and asked him to bring them, so that her grandma and mother would feel more at ease.

When she got home, she started tinkering with these medicinal materials.

The ghost doctor was hired by her to be a medicine boy, and this cheap apprentice was not used in vain.

The ghost doctor pounded the medicinal materials vigorously with a medicine pestle while muttering dissatisfiedly.

It was said that the master did not regard him as his disciple. When he needed to make medicine, he would catch him as a medicine boy. When he wanted to treat people's illnesses and injuries, he would not let him study by his side. If he had known he would not come here, and so on. .

Qiao Ran was sorting out the medicinal materials she needed, while silently listening to the cheap apprentice's complaints.

In her opinion, the ghost doctor has been living happily ever since he came to Qingshui Village!

There is a whole mountain that few people have set foot on before, allowing him to search for precious medicinal materials, and there are all kinds of delicious meals every day.

This little old man eats very well every day, which shows how satisfied he is with the food cooked by his mother, third aunt, and Mrs. Qin.

If he were really asked to leave Qingshui Village now, would he be willing to do so?

However, since I recognized this apprentice, I really couldn't let him watch and learn when he needed to operate on someone. After all, it was still unfair to this cheap apprentice.

Qiao Ran had no choice but to agree to take him with her when she went to the Marquis Rongcheng Mansion for medical treatment tomorrow, and try to let him study by her side when treating patients in the future. Only then was the little old man satisfied.

The next day, at almost noon, Qiao Ran drove a carriage with the ghost doctor, and sent the bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots she had picked, as well as the mushrooms picked by the villagers, to the Juxian Building.

When shopkeeper Chen saw Qiao Ran coming, he quickly asked his waiters to unload several bamboo baskets from the carriage.

Qiao Ran remembered one more thing she wanted to tell Shopkeeper Chen:

"Shopkeeper Chen, look, bamboo ginseng has been delivered for a long time. The diners in your restaurant must be tired of eating it, right? There are so many kinds of mushrooms now. I want to reduce the supply of bamboo ginseng and bamboo shoots. Is it okay to supply it once every two days? I will be very busy during this period. There are too many people coming to see me for medical treatment. I can’t guarantee that I can go into the mountains to pick bamboo ginseng and bamboo shoots every morning. I can only ask my uncle and the others to go to Devil’s Valley. I’ll pick some for you.”

Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Chen thought about it seriously and nodded in agreement:

"No problem. When bamboo ginseng was first introduced as a signature dish, the supply was indeed in short supply. But these diners are like this. After eating too much of one dish, the freshness is gone, and they want to change to other flavors. Fortunately, you brought it again With so many mushrooms, our restaurant can launch several fresh seasonal dishes. You can go about your business. Our restaurant staff will go to your village to buy mushrooms every day, so there is no need to trouble you to deliver them every day. Our boss has said , no matter how many mushrooms you pick back, our restaurant wants them all."

Qiao Ran felt relieved after hearing what he said.

During this time, she was really busy dealing with the people who came to see her for medical treatment, and sometimes she had to make house calls.

But another reason was that she was a little tired after digging bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots for so many days.

Speaking of which, she felt fresh and energetic at the beginning. Seeing such a large field of bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots all belonging to herself, she felt such a huge sense of satisfaction that she happily climbed over the mountain to dig it every day.

But the novelty will eventually wear off, and she has other things to do, and she can no longer spend half a day hiking over the mountains to collect bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots.