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Chapter 27

Catering is a very hard job.

This industry was called "Qinxing" in ancient times, which means that this industry requires diligence to survive.

This is also a big reason why many people choose to start a business in catering, but they don't last long. In fact, many people only see that the threshold of the catering industry is low and the profits seem to be good, but they underestimate the hard work of this industry.

For example, breakfast restaurants generally require practitioners to get up at three or four in the morning to work.

For example, late night snack bars generally open until one or two in the morning every day, and some even stay open all night.

As for working in this industry, the busier it is on holidays, the busier it is and no rest is allowed, let alone that.

So here comes the question - is it hard to make roast duck and braised vegetables?

The answer is yes.

At around 4 a.m. the next day, Yang Xingyu was awakened by the ringtone of his cell phone while he was sleeping. It was a call from the duck supplier.

The duck has been delivered to the village. The supplier called to inquire about the specific location of his home and also asked him to prepare to receive the duck.

Sleepily, he told the location of his home, put down his cell phone, covered his face with his hands, rubbed his face to wake himself up, and then stood up and dressed.

He may have many shortcomings, but among all his shortcomings, laziness is definitely not included.

A long time ago, he realized that with his family background, he was not qualified to be lazy. If he was lazy, he would never have any hope of getting ahead.

I also understood very early that the biggest advantage of myself, who was born in rural areas, compared with people in cities, is that I can endure hardship. Otherwise, why would he compete with his peers who were born in cities?

The truck delivering the ducks soon arrived at the drying field in front of his house.

A large cage was welded with steel bars in the truck bed. The cage was filled with densely packed ducks, including white ducks and shelducks.

Yang Xingyu ordered 10 white ducks.

The supplier and the driver got out of the car, took off the ten ducks with their feet tied up, and gave him a delivery note. They also asked him to sign another delivery note. Delivery notes should be left with the supplier.

There is no need to settle the payment on the spot. He had previously agreed with the supplier to settle the payment every half month.

He also planned to wait for the two parties to cooperate for a period of time and gain some trust in each other before negotiating with the supplier to settle the payment in one month.

In this way, the funds on hand will be much more flexible.

Yang Xingyu lifted ten ducks into the pool outside the kitchen door. There was no water in the pool for the time being.

The back door of the hall suddenly opened, and my mother walked out rubbing her eyes. She saw the quacking duck and frowned: "Ducks are delivered so early? It's not even bright yet! You won't be delivered so early every day in the future, right?"

Yang Xingyu washed his hands at the faucet above the sink.

"It's getting late. We have to make roast duck and braised vegetables before 10 a.m. every day, otherwise we won't be able to sell the goods before everyone has lunch!"

After most people have had lunch, it is difficult to sell roast duck and braised vegetables. After all, those who buy roast duck and braised vegetables at noon usually do it for lunch. They have already eaten the meal, so why buy it?

"It's too early!"

The mother was a little worried. She was afraid that the business would be so hard and her son wouldn't be able to hold on for long. After all, her son was only 24 years old. She didn't think her son could endure the hardship.

"Mom! If you didn't sleep well, go get some more sleep!"

Yang Xingyu said, walking into the kitchen to get a stainless steel basin and a kitchen knife, ready to kill the duck.

Fang Xiaomei did not leave, but also followed the kitchen, "You kill the ducks, I will help you! How long can you kill so many ducks by yourself?"

At this time, his father Yang Qingshi also came out of the main room, "You have to get up so early every day? Can you get up?"

Yang Xingyu used a stainless steel basin to collect some cold water and added some salt to the water, which would be used to collect the duck's blood later.

Seeing that his parents were up and his mother was unwilling to go back to sleep, he asked his mother to help him boil a pot of water.

He and his father kill ducks together.

He was actually not very skilled at killing ducks because he didn't need to do this when he was learning cooking and working as a chef.

This led to the fact that when he and his father were cooperating to kill the ducks today, his technique was very unfamiliar and the knife was not sharp enough. Yang Qingshi frowned at that time and angrily asked Yang Xingyu to catch the ducks, and he came to kill the ducks with a knife.

That's really a move.

Yang Qingshi killed ten ducks three times, divided five by two, and killed them all.When killing ducks, Yang Qingshi was in a bad mood, "You can't kill ducks well, how dare you start a roast duck business? Do you hit the mark?"

Yang Qingshi said a lot of things about his son when he was killing the duck.

Yang Xingyu didn't argue with him.

As soon as the ducks were killed, he went into the kitchen and took out a coal stove, turned it on, set up a large iron pot, poured all the rosin he bought into the pot, and then poured some soybean oil into the pot.

The amber rosin began to melt little by little as the iron pot continued to heat, and began to emit an unpleasant smell.

In fact, he had never used this thing before, but he only knew that there was such a way to remove the feathers of ducks.

When a large pot of boiling water was boiling, Yang Xingyu took a bucket, scooped all the boiling water into the bucket, and then poured it into a large vat that had been prepared outside the door.

This large vat was used by their family to store rice, but now it is used to scald duck feathers.

There are many ways to remove duck feathers.

Some people say that salt should be added to the boiling water for scalding duck feathers. The boiling water with salt can make duck feathers easier to pluck.

Some people also say that when scalding a duck, you cannot directly soak the duck into the boiling water. You have to press the duck into the boiling water again and again, like a dragonfly, and then lift it up again. This needs to be repeated many times.

When Yang Xingyu poured all the bucket of boiling water into the large vat, his mother brought a bag of salt and prepared to add salt to the water.

Yang Xingyu stopped her.

Then while explaining to her, he took some cold water from a basin and poured it into the tank. During this period, he put his hand into the water again and again to feel the temperature of the water.

"You don't need to add anything to the water! As long as the water temperature is right, the duck feathers will be easy to pull out, and the duck skin will not be burned."

"Can you take off the duck feathers without adding salt? Are you bragging!"

Yang Qingshi frowned, not believing his son's statement at all.

Because he had just discovered that his son was very good at killing ducks. He had never killed ducks a few times, so he did not believe that his son could perm duck feathers at all.

But he couldn't defeat his son.

Despite his repeated attempts to stop him, his son had already stuffed all ten ducks into the water tank.

"It's over, it's over! These duck feathers will definitely not be pulled out! If they could be pulled out, the dragons in the sky would scream!"

Yang Qingshi was so anxious that he stamped his feet.

Fang Xiaomei was also worried.

Only Yang Xingyu calmly took a wooden stick as thick as an egg and stirred the ducks in the tank like a stick stirring shit.

After a while, Yang Xingyu took a basin of cold water next to him, dipped his hands in the cold water, reached into the vat, grabbed a scalded duck, pulled off the big hairs on the two wings with a few flicks, and then pulled off the duck again. Yellow skin on the beak and duck paws.

These yellow skins were originally very hard, but now they are softened by the heat and can be pulled off easily.

However, although the boiling water in the tank had been mixed with cold water and the water temperature was no longer the temperature of boiling water, it was still very hot.

He pulled it casually a few times, then reached out and dipped his palm in the cold water basin nearby, otherwise his hand wouldn't be able to bear it.

But even so, Yang Qingshi and Fang Xiaomei were stunned.

Because they saw that their son shed his duck feathers so easily, the big hairs could be easily pulled off, and the fine hairs could be easily pulled off by simply pushing forward with their hands, and large tracts of fine hairs were pushed off.

Yang Xingyu saw their expressions, smiled, and threw the duck in his hand into the pool nearby.

There is still no water in the pool.

"Dad! I'll push the rest of the hair for you! It's very easy to push!"

While he was talking, he had already grabbed another duck in the tank and started to pluck the big feathers and pull the yellow skin off the duck's beak and paws.

It's not that he is lazy and likes to tell his father to do work, but the water temperature in the tank is not low. If the duck is soaked in the tank for too long, the duck's skin will really be scalded.

But if the water temperature is not so high, the big hair and yellow skin on the duck's body will not come off.

And these are all technologies!
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