Beloved Concubine

Chapter 17
How could Fang Yu's misleading logic really make Chen Xiao fall into the ditch.

She was just thinking: Do I want to stay here for a long time?If not, where?
Think about it, in just one year, there are people from Xia Guo and Xiling here, and it is much more convenient to learn about the situation of Xia Guo and Xiling through them than to go to the two countries separately.What's more, you really need to make money now.The gold and silver in the space should not move as much as possible.

Chen Xiao stood by the stove and said, "It's fine to rent a shop. However, you don't necessarily have to rent a shop from Mrs. Shen's family. You need to go to the market to find out."

"Market?" Fang Yu was delighted when he heard her agree.

"The rental market."

"Oh..." Fang Yu understood, he just went to the dental clinic to ask.

……

Until lunch, Chunhong was unwilling to come out of the room.The little girl loves beauty, her face is swollen like this, she is ashamed to see others.

Fortunately, on the second day, most of the redness and swelling on her face disappeared.

On the third day, the swelling subsided completely, and her clothes were ready, so Fang Yu sent her to the "market" to learn about the renting situation.

Hearing that a shop was going to open, Chunhong was very excited and tried every means to find out.

Chunhong's character is a bit petty, sometimes caressing and unwilling to suffer.But when it comes to comparing prices and negotiating prices, her personality is just right.

She searched for many places, and finally found a shop near Nanmen Street.

"The shop should be opened on Nanmen Street", this is the consensus of everyone in the county.But the shop rent here is also high, almost twice that of other places.

At the beginning, Chunhong paid more attention to the rent. Chen Xiao told her that the location is the most important to open a shop.We are in the business of catering, so we must open in a crowded place, otherwise it will be useless no matter how cheap the rent is.As long as the location is good, money can be earned back.

So Chunhong went to Nanmen Street, which she didn't dare to think about before, to look for a store, and finally found this one.

In this shop, there are two storefronts in the front and a courtyard in the back. There are four main rooms and two side rooms.The yard is spacious enough to park a carriage.

After Fang Yu went to see it, he said that the whole yard was rented out.The landlord asked for 400 taels.After some haggling, Chunhong added more, and finally settled on 380 taels.

According to the shops that Chunhong had found, Chen Xiao found that the rent of the 180 taels shop in Mrs. Shen's house was too high.Just near her home, a store similar to hers only costs 160 taels, and it's not a bargain yet.

Although Chen Xiao is from modern times, but she is engaged in IT, not running a shop to do business, she is really not as good as Chunhong in terms of "preoccupied".

Sometimes people who are too generous are not suitable for small business.After finding a shop, Chen Xiao found that neither she nor Fang Yu was suitable for doing business.

Chen Xiao doesn't like to take advantage and let others suffer, while Fang Yu doesn't care about money.If they open a restaurant with their character, they will probably lose money before they know it.

Chen Xiao and Fang Yu didn't have identity documents, so they rented a house in the name of Chunhong, registered with the government, and opened a store.

Chunhong then cleaned the house.

Ask the painter to paint the inside and outside of the store, and the store will suddenly look brand new.

Then they bought things they needed to open a store, and things they needed to live in.

After getting through, when they moved into this yard, they only had 20 taels of silver left.

……

The shop was closed, and Chen Xiao was teaching Chunhong how to cook.

Nanyue mainly produces rice, and rice can be harvested two to three times a year.But the rice here is not good.At least for Chen Xiao, it was too unpalatable!
There is not much wheat here.Most of the wheat on the market is shipped from Xiling Country, and the price is relatively high.

So Chen Xiao decided to make rice noodles as their staple food.

Unpalatable rice is ground and made into rice noodles, which taste better.If good rice is used to make rice noodles, it will be too sticky and difficult to form.

The rice noodles made by Chen Xiao are not only rice, but also other flours.Since the shop is opened, not to mention that the items are unique, at least they are difficult for others to imitate.

Chen Xiao taught Chunhong to knead the dough, and then put it into the manual dough press.With the lowering of the gland, one by one rice noodles spit out from the hole of the mold.

The rice noodles fall into the boiling water below, take them out for about 1 minute, and put them in cold water for a while, so that the rice noodles are more elastic when eaten.

Then make the noodles.

The noodles are even simpler. After the dough is reconciled, it is directly pressed out with a noodle press.

Fang Yu saw that they used such a small noodle press to make noodles, and they could only make one bowl at a time.He picked up the dough with his left hand and the kitchen knife with his right, and with a few strokes, he cut out a bowl of noodles.

"Your kind is too slow, so fast."

Looking at his movements, Chen Xiao saw that he was "cutting noodles with a knife".

"Then you will be in charge of cutting the noodles from now on."

Fang Yu is good at swordsmanship, so cutting noodles is naturally not a problem.Chen Xiao used to make sliced ​​noodles with different sizes and thicknesses. She thought she didn't have the skills.

Fang Yu put down the kitchen knife: "Ahem, I think yours is also good."

The noodle press was taken out by Chen Xiao from the space.A stainless steel cylinder presses out the rice noodle noodles by screw extrusion.

This one is for home use and only suitable for one or two people.

No way, they only have 20 taels of silver, so they can't open a big restaurant.This amount of money is not even enough to buy food.

So Chen Xiao thought of making snacks.

She took out the noodle press, and Chunhong wondered where it came from.Chen Xiao said that you don't need to worry about it, as long as you know how to use it.

Fang Yu was silent.As the saying goes: See through but never reveal.

However, he still felt that this thing was too small to open a shop.Take it in your hand and study it carefully to see if you can make a bigger one.

With the main ingredients, the next step is the ingredients.

Chen Xiao made several toppings.Braised pork, braised chicken, stewed meat, spicy chicken.

The rice noodle noodles that come out of the kitchen only have the main ingredients, toppings, and soup.As for other condiments, they are placed on the ingredients table, and guests can mix and match as they wish.

Among them are leeks, chopped green onions, minced ginger, minced garlic, soy sauce, and sour vinegar that are common in modern times, as well as large coriander, water coriander, fragrant willow, etc. that are unique to Nanyue.

In short, there are more than a dozen kinds of condiments on the ingredients table, which can be matched as you like.

At first, Chunhong felt that the guests would desperately add things to the bowl.Because the condiments don't cost money.

Chen Xiaodao: If he wants to add it, let him add it. It won't be too unpalatable if all these things are added together.What's more, the bowl is so big that it can't hold much.

Chunhong felt sorry for the seasoning, which was bought with money.Chen Xiaodao: "Equally distributed to each bowl, at most two cents."

……

On February 28, the No. 16 day when the three came to the county, "Chunji Snack Restaurant" opened.

There are two shops in a row, and there is a large stove at the door of one side, and the stewed meat is simmered slowly.

The aroma of five-spice marinade drifts with the wind, and passers-by on the road will be attracted inadvertently.

There are six rectangular tables in the cafeteria, each with four chairs.These are made by Chen Xiao according to the tables and chairs of the modern snack bar.The tables in this restaurant are all square tables, which take up too much space.In that case, there would be no more than four tables in the store.

Get up early in the morning, there is no custom of setting off firecrackers to open the business here.They prepared a few pieces of red paper, on which Fang Yu wrote the words "Good luck for the business" and pasted it on the forehead.

(End of this chapter)