Dressed as the best old lady in the famine years, I suddenly became rich

Chapter 36 Don’t ask for much, just four hundred taels
  Ke Muqing waved his hand, "Where have I, a farmer, ever eaten this before? The ingredients used to make this dish are so expensive, my family won't be willing to eat it."

After saying that, Ke Muqing immediately added, "But I can cook it. If Mrs. Lin can trust me, prepare the ingredients I need tomorrow and I will come to your place and cook it for you myself!"

"But I have to say first that no one is allowed to cheat on me when I'm cooking." Ke Muqing added, "If Mrs. Lin likes it, she can also use the money to buy my recipe."

"There is no need for tomorrow. I will buy your land at the price agreed upon with my brother-in-law yesterday. I will go to the county office to handle it now."

"What ingredients do you want? I have pen and ink in my carriage. You write it down. When you get to the county seat, I will send someone back to the restaurant. After the local affairs are done, you can try it at my Lin family's restaurant."

Ke Muqing was waiting for this sentence and immediately agreed.

Mrs. Lin was impatient. This time she didn't mind that Ke Muqing was an old farmer. She directly asked Ke Muqing to get on the carriage and sent Ke Muqing home to get the land deed first.

"Mom, do you really want to sell all our land?" Yang Jiye watched his mother go out again with the land deed and hurried to catch up.

"I'm going to the county to do some business. If I don't come back tonight, I'll stay with your second aunt for the night. Don't worry about me." Ke Muqing waved her hand without answering Yang Jiye and got directly into the Lin family's carriage.

On the way back to the county seat, Mrs. Lin asked Ke Muqing if there were any rare and exquisite dishes.

This is something Ke Muqing is good at.

Her 21st-century tablet holds a bunch of food-making videos.

She lives alone, and her favorite thing to do after work is to study food. Because she loves to record, she is also a well-known food blogger on the Internet.

After talking all the way, Mrs. Lin was so tempted that she drank several glasses of water.

The carriage stopped at the county government office, and Mrs. Lin, who was familiar with the roads, took Ke Muqing into the back office.

After signing a deed, paying taxes, transferring ownership, and giving money, the forty-five acres of land in Ke Muqing's hands, together with the grain on the ground, became Mrs. Lin's.

Ke Muqing didn't want the banknote, and Mrs. Lin said she disliked the local thing, but she still ordered her servants to go to the bank and exchange 585 taels of silver.

With so much money, Ke Muqing happily put the money into the baggage he had prepared early in the morning like a country bumpkin.

But it was all a fake move, holding the silver in his hand and entering the baggage. In the end, the silver was stored in the space by Ke Muqing.

After leaving the county government office, Ke Muqing followed Mrs. Lin to Lin's Restaurant.

It was such a coincidence that the Lin family's restaurant in the county town was on the same street as the Lou family restaurant, only a few hundred meters apart.

Mrs. Lin sent someone to deliver a letter to her family early in the morning, so Lin Muqing was led directly to the kitchen after entering.

Lin Muqing glanced at the wooden shelf. All the materials she had written down on the way were already on the shelf.

It's because Lin's Restaurant has the ability to get a lively fish at this time.

It took Ke Muqing two hours to prepare ten hard dishes without help.

Several members of the Lin family were already waiting in the private room, and when the servants served the dishes one by one, everyone in the Lin family finally believed that this peasant woman really had some skills.

"Is this the Thousand Miles of Lychee Smile you just mentioned?" Mrs. Lin was shocked. "Although I have never seen lychees from Lingnan, I have seen paintings. They are exactly the same as those in the paintings!"

"Yes, the recipe says that it would be best if shrimp and fish could be used to make the filling in the lychees. But these two are hard to find now, so I used chicken instead."

"This dish is called Jin Yu Man Tang, and this dish is called Zi Qidong Lai..."

Ke Muqing introduced all ten dishes. Seeing how everyone in the Lin family was holding up their chopsticks and reluctant to move them, Ke Muqing felt that her extra money was stable!
  My ancestors will not deceive me. I have the technology and the money! "Good! Good! Good! This is a good name!" The head of the Lin family kept praising him. He could make the dish so beautiful, so naturally the dish would be unpalatable.

The head of the Lin family took a bite of each dish, and then nodded to everyone.

"Yes, although there are many dishes, there are few repetitive flavors, and they are all tastefully presented." The head of the Lin family put down his chopsticks and asked directly, "I heard that you have a recipe in your hand, why don't I, the Lin family, buy it for fifty taels? How do you like the recipe in your hand?"

Ke Muqing almost popped his eyes out.

What a sinister person, thinking that she is an ignorant old woman and fooling around here.

"Unfortunately, my son was ignorant of that recipe when he was young, so he used it to set fire to the recipe. But I have a good memory and kept it all in my mind."

Ke Muqing said, "I can write down the recipes of these ten dishes verbatim, but you want to buy my ten-dish recipe for fifty taels?"

Ke Muqing smiled faintly, "My father is a scholar, and my grandfather is also a scholar. He studied with his elders at home since he was a child..."

The meaning of the unfinished words is there.

She is not an illiterate, blind old lady who can be deceived like this.

The head of the Lin family took another serious look at the old woman in front of him.

"Excuse Lin's poor eyesight for not recognizing that she is a girl from Ke Xiucai's family."

The county is not big, and there have only been a few talented people in the past century.

Not far away, the eldest grandson of the proprietor of the Lou family restaurant was selected as a scholar at a young age. The Lou family even held a banquet when the results were released. The two families are so close to each other. The Lin family also has children who are classmates with Xiao Xiu from the Lou family. It’s difficult for the Ke family to know .

In the Ke family, even a two-year-old child can already recite poems before he can speak clearly.

Since a girl from a scholar's family is not as easy to fool as an ordinary peasant woman.

The head of the Lin family suddenly felt regretful and made a more respectful gesture, "Please give me a price, sister."

“If it weren’t for the purpose of collecting money for the younger generation in my family to travel south to study, I wouldn’t pass on the recipes that can be used as family heirlooms.”

The momentum was building up, and Ke Muqing also took the opportunity to put on a show of strength.

"These ten delicacies are exquisite and have beautiful meanings. I wouldn't tell anyone if I paid a hundred taels of silver for each dish. But today I had a great chat with Mrs. Lin. Mrs. Lin trusted me and invited me to try it out. See For Mrs. Lin’s sake, I don’t want anything more than a hundred taels.”

Sales talk is good in the 21st century. After hearing what Ke Muqing said, Mrs. Lin looked happy and even felt a little grateful.

If this thing comes to pass, she will really make a contribution to the family.

"I heard that Mrs. Lin said that the Lin family only paid forty taels for one dish's recipe. In that case, I don't want more from you for these ten dishes. Give me four hundred taels, and I can just make Mrs. Lin a friend."

Ke Muqing looked happy, "I will give you one more dish that your children love in a moment. It must be a rare dish that you have never heard of or seen."

Seeing this, the head of the Lin family knew that there was no possibility of bargaining. He was very happy, and he nodded happily and agreed. While calling his servants to prepare pens, inks, paper and inkstones, he also called for four hundred taels of silver to be sent to the private room.

Buy ten and get one free. Ke Muqing's words are really unbearable to look at. In the end, it became Ke Muqing's dictation and Lin Jialangjun's writing.

Opening his mouth saves the effort of writing. Why wouldn't Ke Muqing do it?
  (End of this chapter)