Chapter 487: I Won’t Hold Back with Ninth Brother

Chapter 487: I Won’t Hold Back with Ninth Brother

For Tang Mingrui, the dish of sweet potato with caramelized sugar was absolutely a new experience.

In the Great Shun Dynasty, most dishes were generally savory, so this was his first time tasting such a sweet and delicious dish.

As someone in the restaurant business, he knew his customers' preferences well. Many ladies and children preferred sweet flavors.

The chefs at his restaurant had even specially developed two sweet dishes, but compared to this sweet potato with caramelized sugar, the difference in taste and texture was immense, almost incomparable.

"Ninth Brother, can you sell me the recipe for this dish?"

"The recipe is yours," Mo Jiuya replied without any hesitation.

This was something his wife had instructed him to do the night before.

In her past life, He Zhiran had read plenty of time-travel novels. Many heroines made their first fortune by selling recipes.

Even though some recipes could fetch up to a thousand taels, she didn’t intend to do that, especially since the person who needed the recipe was Tang Mingrui.

They had always done business cooperatively, and Tang Mingrui had been very honest with the Mo Family, never playing tricks on the profit distribution despite the Mo Family not being directly involved in the business.

A partner like this was rare and valuable, and they really didn’t care about the small profit from selling recipes.

To command a higher price for sweet potatoes, they needed great recipes to complement them.

Having dealt with Mo Jiuya many times, Tang Mingrui also knew his personality well. No matter what the couple decided, even if he disagreed, it wouldn’t change anything.

"Since that's the case, I won’t hold back with Ninth Brother. I'll work hard to create more profit with sweet potatoes and share the dividends with Ninth Brother and Ninth Sister."

Mo Jiuya appreciated dealing with such straightforward people.

"Yes, the profits from the sweet potatoes will benefit both our families, so Brother Tang doesn’t need to worry about the recipe."

While they were talking, Lan'er and Yu'er brought each of them another bowl of sweet potato porridge.

Tang Mingrui tasted it and praised it non-stop.

Not only that, but there were also sweet potato pancakes and fried sweet potato balls on the table.

No matter what it was, to Tang Mingrui, it was absolute top-tier cuisine.

After the meal, Mo Jiuya and Tang Mingrui went to a separate room to discuss the sweet potato business in detail.

Since their cooperation was based on a profit-sharing model, neither of them needed to worry about the cost of the sweet potatoes. Mo Jiuya didn’t hide the price at which he had sold the sweet potatoes to the government to be used as seeds.

Especially since Tang Mingrui only had exclusive rights to the sweet potatoes for one year.

Starting next year, the people of City Yun will begin planting sweet potatoes on a large scale, and once they matured, sweet potatoes would no longer be a rare food in City Yun.

By then, it would be nearly impossible for Tang Mingrui to make significant profits from sweet potatoes.

Tang Mingrui understood this logic. He wasn’t greedy. With 50,000 jin of sweet potatoes, he could still make a substantial profit.

Moreover, Ninth Brother and Ninth Sister had mentioned that the fruit trees on the Mo Family's mountain would yield a large harvest next year.

He had tasted many kinds of fruits from the Mo Family, and each one was like a divine delicacy.

Additionally, Ninth Brother and Ninth Sister had mentioned the jewelry business. They could even produce something called milk powder, which was said to be very convenient for storage and only needed hot water to prepare.

After all, there were countless business opportunities with the Mo Family, so Tang Mingrui wasn’t discouraged by the fact that the sweet potato boom would only last one year.

Tang Mingrui kept a positive mindset and stuck to his usual business approach, wasting no time.

The next day, Tang Mingrui brought the restaurant’s head chef to Xiling Village, where Yu'er taught him how to prepare several sweet potato dishes.

The sweet potato dishes weren’t very difficult to make, but their novelty was their main appeal.

While the chef was learning, Tang Mingrui had his people transport several carts of sweet potatoes back.

Over the next four or five days, they cleared out all the sweet potatoes from the Mo Family’s fields.

As for their own family’s supply, they didn’t have to worry—He Zhiran’s storage space had plenty.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was early August.

The Mo Family was once again abuzz with activity.

This day marked the full-month celebration for Mo Jiuya and He Zhiran’s twin children.

Given the major events that had occurred some time ago, according to the Mo Family’s wishes, the twins' full-month banquet would be simple.

A simpler celebration didn’t mean they wouldn’t hold one; they just planned a small family gathering.

However, the villagers were so enthusiastic that they started sending gifts and congratulations well in advance.

In this situation, it would be impossible not to host a few tables to entertain everyone.

Therefore, on the day of the twins' full month, the Mo Family held a banquet to treat relatives and friends.

This day was not only the twins' full month but also the time when the Mo Family’s corn had matured.

If not for this, Mo Jiuya would have organized people to harvest the corn a day or two earlier.

However, today’s banquet at the Mo Family was quite unique.

The staple food wasn’t the usual rice and white flour steamed buns, but instead corn cakes, corn porridge, and boiled corn.

In addition to these staples, there were two dishes that used corn as an ingredient.

One was pine nut corn, a very common dish in modern times.

The other was a cast-iron pot stew where corn was one of the ingredients.

The reason the Mo Family chose to prepare so many corn dishes was simple: they wanted today’s banquet guests to get a good understanding of this high-yield and delicious food.

The effect was extraordinary.

The villagers of Xiling Village, upon hearing that this was the crop they had advised the Mo Family against planting, were filled with regret.

When they heard Mo Jiuya say that this delicious corn could yield over 1,000 jin per mu, they wished they could slap themselves.

Especially Village Headman Zhao, who felt a pang of guilt.

He had been the one who opposed the Mo Family planting these crops the most, and today he was the one who felt the sting of being proven wrong the most.

Not to mention, the corn cakes were far tastier than the coarse flour cakes they usually ate.

The boiled corn and corn porridge were also more fragrant the more they ate. Such a delicious and high-yielding crop.

If he had trusted Mo Jiuya earlier and encouraged the villagers to follow suit and plant some, even if we don’t consider how much the corn might be worth, at least they wouldn’t have had to worry about starving during the winter.

The more Village Headman Zhao thought about it, the more frustrated he got, to the point where he barely said a word throughout the feast.

Fang Chuanzhou and Xie Tianhai, on the other hand, were in a much better position.

Because they trusted Mo Jiuya and He Zhiran, they jumped right in and planted corn and sweet potatoes when spring arrived.

When the Mo Family organized the harvest a few days ago, they brought their entire families to help dig up the sweet potatoes.