Sheng Zhiyao shook his head: "I'm not selling candy. I'm just asking the shopkeeper if you want your restaurant to have more customers than the Juxian restaurant opposite."

When the shopkeeper heard the name of Juxianlou, he stopped what he was doing and looked at Sheng Zhiyao with interest: "You are so shameless, what can you do, a little kid?"

"With just one dish, I can get you twice as many customers as you have now." Sheng Zhiyao confidently gestured to the shopkeeper, then thought for a while and continued: "Maybe twice as much is possible."

"Haha! You little kid is so funny, but we don't need it, so you should go to another store." The shopkeeper refused with a smile, after all, what kind of dishes can such a little kid bring him twice as much business.

He felt that Sheng Zhiyao was cheating, it was just that he couldn't pay for the meal.

"Shopkeeper, don't refuse in a hurry. If I can't do it, I'm willing to pay five times the price of today's meal. What do you think?"

Shopkeeper Liu looked at her with firm eyes, seeming to believe that after all, no businessman would think he was making too much money: "Okay, I'd like to see what skills you, a little kid, can do."

"Thank you, shopkeeper. I will come to you with my ingredients tomorrow morning. This is today's meal money. I will let you try my craftsmanship tomorrow." Sheng Zhiyao winked at Mei'er, and Mei'er

He took out dozens of copper plates and put them on the counter.

The three of them walked out of the door, and Zhu'er couldn't help but said: "Miss, are you planning to open a restaurant?"

"Yes, but I don't have the people and money to support a restaurant for the time being, so I plan to sell my own vegetables to the restaurant to earn my first pot of gold." Sheng Zhiyao really does not have the ability to support it now.

The expenses of a restaurant can only be earned by making some money to prepare for the coming day, and by the way, you can also explore the market with your own dishes.

Early the next morning, Sheng Zhiyao left the house with his two maids.

Cooking pays attention to the freshness of the ingredients, and the vegetables in the morning are all brought out for sale by the farmers as soon as they are picked, so Sheng Zhiyao takes advantage of this time to buy Chinese cabbage.

The market was very lively early in the morning. Sheng Zhiyao looked at the dishes from several stalls and finally found the fresh Chinese cabbage she wanted at a vegetable stall.

Along the way, Meier was holding the Jinhua ham that Sheng Zhiyao had brought out from the villa, while Zhuer was holding some Chinese cabbage she had just bought, and she was gnawing on a bun that was bigger than her face.

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She left home so early in the morning that she didn't even have time to eat breakfast. Sheng Zhiyao was so full after eating two buns that she burped.

"Miss, you are the daughter of the Marquis, so be careful about your image." Zhu'er couldn't help but complain about her young lady. She wears plain clothes every day, let alone jewelry. The beautiful clothes and hairpin jewelry prepared by the wife are not even visible.

Look, I really don’t know how any girl can’t be moved.

"What the hell, no one knows me." Sheng Zhiyao didn't care about this at all. She used to spend all day in the laboratory forgetting to eat and sleep. She often went back and even her grandfather almost didn't recognize her, let alone any man who could fall in love with her.

After a while, the three masters and servants of Sheng Zhiyao came to the door of the restaurant. The shopkeeper happened to be standing at the door and saw her and said in surprise: "I thought you were joking, little kid."

"How come? Let me use the shopkeeper's kitchen."

"The waiter will take them to the kitchen."

"Yes, let's go this way." The waiter took them directly to the kitchen. Sheng Zhiyao looked at the stove in front of her and without saying a word, she ordered Mei'er to start lighting the fire.

Sheng Zhiyao had never touched the stove before. She went to her kitchen to learn from the cook during dinner last night. She might be making a fool of herself now.

Zhu'er also quickly put the washed cabbage on the chopping board, and Sheng Zhiyao came over and skillfully picked up the kitchen knife and cut up the cabbage.

"I've eaten more salt than she's eaten rice. How many cabbages can I beat Juxianlou?" An old chef stood nearby and said with disdain while looking at the dishes brought out by Sheng Zhiyao.

Sheng Zhiyao unconsciously raised her lips when she heard the old cook's words. She just wanted to let these people know that the more seemingly simple ingredients are cooked, the more they test the chef's skills.

After lighting the fire, Meier went to the side and opened the Jinhua ham they brought.

They were curious about this huge wrapped item just now, and now they were even more curious when they saw it. They had never seen such ingredients before, and everyone gathered around it.

"Master Ding, what kind of meat is this? It's red and oily, and it looks delicious." The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva and looked at the old cook next to him, but Master Ding had never seen such a thing in all his years as a chef.

Sheng Zhiyao cut off a small piece of Jinhua ham with a kitchen knife, cleaned it and put it on a plate for later use. Then she ran to find a small bench and put it in front of the stove. She stepped on the small bench and started pouring oil into the pot.

It didn't take long for the salty aroma of ham to hit your nostrils. Everyone in the kitchen was attracted by the aroma of this dish, and Master Ding unconsciously walked to the stove.

"Little baby, what's the name of this thing?"

Sheng Zhiyao also said it directly without hesitation: "It's called Jinhua ham. It's made from a special kind of pig. It requires one hundred kilograms of fresh legs and eight kilograms of salt. The salt is added in six to seven times. Two

It takes eighteen days to finish, during which it still has to go through several steps such as washing, soaking, hanging in the sun, shaping, exposure to the sun, fermentation, etc., before it is finally mature and edible."

"Eight pounds of salt?" Master Ding marveled that someone would use eight pounds of salt just to make a dish. He curled his lips inadvertently.

Sheng Zhiyao knew what salt meant in this era, and it was almost equivalent to a luxury product in their time. She specifically told everyone present that this dish looked ordinary but had taken a lot of effort.

"You will know how wonderful this taste is after you eat it." Sheng Zhiyao took the dish out of the pot, garnished it with just a little bit of chopped green onion, and brought it to the table.

Master Ding and the shopkeeper walked forward and the aroma swept over them again. They stared at the seemingly ordinary Chinese cabbage soup and swallowed their saliva: "Is it really just Chinese cabbage and this Jinhua ham?

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"Of course, didn't you see what I did?" Sheng Zhiyao found two pairs of bowls and chopsticks from the side and handed them to them.

Master Ding took the bowl and chopsticks and couldn't wait to taste it: "Absolute, this taste is really amazing." The old man couldn't help but smacked his lips.

When the shopkeeper saw his chef saying this, he also took a bite. Fortunately, his jaw dropped when he tasted it, as if he had never eaten cabbage before.

"Xiao Wa, are you planning to sell this dish?" The shopkeeper looked at her excitedly.

Sheng Zhiyao looked at the satisfied expressions of the two people and had already thought of a countermeasure: "I only sell ham. After all, this is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not something ordinary people can do."

"Indeed, what price do you plan to sell the ham for?"

"Not much, just two taels of silver."

"Two taels of silver?" The shopkeeper knew that the Jinhua ham must be worth more than this price, and the eight pounds of salt were more than this price, but there is no reason for a businessman not to want to get cheaper.

"Does the shopkeeper think it's too expensive? Forget it, after all, salt is not cheap." Sheng Zhiyao didn't say much, packed up the things in his hands and was about to leave with his maid, when Master Ding spoke.

"Two taels is two taels, I make the decision, but your ham can only be sold to our family." Master Ding knew that the eight pounds of salt alone for this ham cost more than two taels of silver, and with so many additional steps, the ham was actually worth just two taels of silver.

Not expensive.

"Can you make a decision? The shopkeeper hasn't spoken yet." Sheng Zhiyao looked at Master Ding and raised her eyes at him.

The shopkeeper quickly replied: "Yes, of course, Master Ding is the boss behind this Qingfeng Building."

Sheng Zhiyao looked at Master Ding in surprise and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. It turned out that he was hiding something secretly: "Since the boss is so happy, I will give you the recipe and I won't charge you any extra money, but you can

Confidential."

"Okay, shopkeeper Liu, go and get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone." After Master Ding finished speaking, he walked to Sheng Zhiyao and whispered: "Girl, if you have any good things from now on, please send me the price first."

Sheng Zhiyao was amused by Master Ding's words: "No problem, I will give it to you first in the future."
Chapter completed!