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Chapter 15
The old man was overjoyed when he met, and Aunt Wang took Lin Dan's hand and said something for a while. Lin Dan came back here as if he had returned home. He tied his headscarf and rolled up his sleeves, and he started to work naturally. When the Junwei man came back with two buckets of water, he saw that she was already sitting in the back kitchen and was grinding soy milk. Aunt Wang was filling the stove with firewood, talking about the experience of these years, "It's really the church apprentice starved to death. Master, if I had known that their couple were such unscrupulous people, I would never pass on handcraft to them."
"Not everyone is like this. Isn't there another sentence that says that? "The master teaches well, and the apprentices come to provide for the elderly." My tofu craftsmanship was taught by the aunt. No, I will come back to you now. We are old-aged." Lin Dan said with a light smile.
Aunt Wang hurriedly waved her hand: "Don't say that. I only taught you for three months. You still do so much work for me every day. Even though I'm taking advantage of it, how can you help me take care of it? Yaoer and I can get along, so don't become a burden to you!" My eyes were red after talking. The aunt's son doesn't care about her, but the little girl who only learned a dish from her treats her as a relative. This makes her feel so embarrassing!
Yaoer walked in with red eyes and said in a dumb voice: "Sister Lin, thank you for your kindness. I recently found a long-term job at Zhou Yuan's house to do it. I help feed the animals every day and feed my mother without hard work. Don't worry."
Lin Dan waved his hand and said, "The kind of support I'm talking about is not the kind of support. You might have misunderstood it. Auntie, you taught me one dish in the past, but now I teach you three dishes. Let's go back to the prosperous days before, how about you?" She said as she repeatedly filtered the ground soy milk with gauze and poured it into a large pot to boil.
The Junwei man didn't say a word, but he had already taken over the job of grinding soymilk, and looked at Lin Dan who was talking without leaving his eyes.
Lin Dan cut the coriander, shallots, mustard greens and other side dishes into cubes, then stir-fried the sesame seeds and peanuts with oil until fragrant, put them in a bowl, and put them aside for later use. He slowly said, "You only sell one vegetable throughout the year. After eating for a long time, it will not be fresh, and the business will naturally be deserted. Your tofu is very good, why not make more tofu dishes? The dish I am teaching you now is the dish I learned from Fushun County. It is called tofu nao. The famous bean curd is a semi-finished product of tofu, but the taste is not worse than tofu. It has two flavors of salty and sweet. Your shop is next to the official road, and there are customers from all over the world. If you come to Beijing, you can ask them to eat salty. , Nanke is here. You invite them to eat sweet ones, hot in spring, autumn and winter, and chilled in well water in summer. Tofu is originally tasteless, and the seasoning depends on sauces. The types of sauces are also very different. Rich, salty sauces have spicy, spicy, sour and hot flavors, and sweet sauces have cane sugar, brown sugar, maltose, etc.. A bowl of bean curd with two spoons of sauce, just this one dish, you can Thousands of flavors can be made to easily meet the needs of any customer. Isn’t it much better than simply selling tofu balls? Besides, tofu is simple and easy to make. You can make a big bucket in less than three quarters when sold out and eat it now. It’s fresh, and customers can eat the freshest ingredients whenever they want. Wouldn’t they like it?"
Speaking of cooking, Lin Dan talks endlessly. Unknowingly, he has made two bowls of bean curd, a bowl of spicy flavor and a bowl of wolfberry brown sugar flavor. The colors are all red and gorgeous, and they look very delicious.
The handsome man quietly picked up the salted bean curd and took a bite. The tenderness to the extreme taste immediately conquered his taste buds. The thick bean fragrance rolled in his mouth with the spicy soup and slipped into his throat. It's amazing. His eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately took a bite of the sweet bean curd. The sweet and tender bean curd slowly melted on the tip of his tongue. After biting through the wolfberry, he tasted a little bit astringency. It was amazing. The taste is so tender and the taste is so varied that he can't stop it with a spoonful.
Wang Auntie and Wang Xiaodi took a bite dubiously, and they were shocked.
Lin Dan made the tofu and fried a dish of Zhenxiang tofu. It was also served with two flavors of sauce, both sweet and salty. If the customer is not satisfied, you can make it yourself. Finally, she modified Wang Auntie’s specialty dish soup tofu balls to make dry fried tofu balls, which are solid when they enter the pan, but become hollow when they are out. The crisp shell of the outer shell is gently broken by hand, but the inner wall is still hanging. With a layer of sweet and thick soy milk, it tastes crispy and tender, and the dry is juicy. The taste is very wonderful. Then it is mixed with simmered pepper, garlic, and minced wild onions to make a dipping sauce and stuffed in the cavity of the tofu round Eat it together inside, crisp on the outside, tender on the inside, fresh and spicy, don’t taste too good! If it is not spicy, replace the dipping sauce with bean paste or sesame peanuts. The taste is also superb.
These three dishes are extremely flexible and changeable. As long as the guests like it, they can be made into any flavor. Once you learn it, you won’t have to worry about it in your life. Wang Auntie and Wang Xiaodi are not stupid people. After tasting the dishes and listening to them, they were both happy and ashamed, and they didn't know whether they should accept the gift.
Lin Dan never speaks empty words. After giving directions to the dishes, he taught some business lessons: "You can provide free hot tea for guests in spring, autumn and winter. In summer, make some jelly and chill it at any time, then hang a flag and write "Free tea." ', naturally there will be tired customers to stop drinking, you can ask them if they want to eat, the business will start naturally. After all, there are only a few literate people. You can sit on the side of the road and wait. She shouted twice in her throat to solicit popularity. Aunt Wang’s craftsmanship is here, not afraid that the guests are not satisfied. If the guests are satisfied, the reputation will be established and the days will become more prosperous, don’t you think?
"Yes, yes!" Aunt Wang and Brother Wang couldn't help nodding, their eyes soaked. They saw that Lin Dan really wanted to help them, otherwise he wouldn't say so much. Unexpectedly, there was only a small kindness in the past, and there are such blessings today. There are still many good people in this world.
This was so busy until the evening, Lin Dan walked freely on the official road with the starlight on his head, feeling broad in his heart. What she deserves, she wants to take it back, and what she owes to others, she will also return it, and to live magnanimously.
The Junwei man silently followed behind her, looking at her with complex eyes.
Three dishes could not be learned overnight, Lin Dan had no choice but to stay in the small town for a few more days and went to Aunt Wang's shop to help every day. Brother Lin made hot tea and sat on the side of the road to shout, and it really attracted many caravans and passersby. They originally planned to slap their buttocks and leave after drinking free tea, but they were caught by the strong fragrance from the kitchen, so they ordered a few bowls of bean curd to try it out. This taste was so terrible that they could not stop. Whatever it is, there are those who have a big appetite and still want to drink four or five bowls.
It took only three days for Wang Auntie Wang to come from this small shop from Men Keluo Que to customers. Three days later, Lin Dan left. Aunt Wang studied some new flavors and sold them. The response was also very good. Over time, the dilapidated straw shed became a sturdy earthen house, which was converted into a row of wooden houses in a few years, and finally developed into a restaurant specializing in bean curd, which is famous far and wide. But the daughter-in-law of Wang Auntie was run out of business, she came back with a squinting face and kowtow to admit her mistake, but was kicked out and turned into a joke of ten miles and eight villages.
Lin Dan didn't even know these funerals. She took her mother back to the capital and placed it in a small courtyard that she had bought. Before she could stop, she went to Xicheng District to check the shop. She has been planning to return to Beijing to open a store for two years, but it can be said that "everything is ready and only owes east wind".
The capital city is known as "rich in the east and expensive in the west, poor in the north and low in the south". The Xicheng District is mostly rich and powerful; the Dongcheng District is mostly rich and the rich; the North District is inhabited by the poor; the South District is all migrants who rely on coolies for their livelihoods, so they are lowly.
Lin Baotian is good at cooking Shandong cuisine. Lin Dan has studied Shandong cuisine a lot over the years. He naturally wants to continue cooking Shandong cuisine when he comes back to open a shop. In the cook world, there is a saying-Lu cuisine is official cuisine, Cantonese cuisine is commercial cuisine, Sichuan cuisine is folk cuisine, and Huaiyang cuisine is literati cuisine. If you want to make official dishes, you naturally have to open a store in Xicheng District, so that there are customers.
Lin Dan had sent a few servants back to Beijing to look for the shop, and waited for three to two months. As expected, there was a grocery store in Qingyun Alley, Xicheng District, that could not be opened and was ready to transfer. The opposite of this grocery store was Yan's. restaurant.
It stands to reason that once Lin Dan has arrived in the capital safely, the handsome man should have left. However, he refused to leave and did not give a reason. He only followed Lin Dan silently, like a guardian. Perceiving that he was not malicious, Lin Dan ignored him and directly negotiated the price with the owner of the grocery store.
The Junwei man stood at the door waiting, his eyes turned to the Yan's restaurant opposite, his expression somewhat subtle.
"You want to open a restaurant, and you also cook Lu cuisine?" The grocery store owner rolled his eyes and changed his words, "Treasurer Lin, I didn't mean to embarrass you. It's because something happened in my family and needs a lot of silver. Although the price you gave is appropriate, it is not too high, and several groups of people have come to your door these days, and the price given is more cost-effective than you. The higher the price is, this is the rule of business, you will not Don't understand?"
Lin Dan curled his eyebrows and said, "Treasurer, it is better to report to me what price you want. I will see if it is suitable, and I will take it if it is suitable, and forget it."
The owner of the grocery store quoted a price, which was completely beyond the ability of Lin Dan. She summed up in her mind and said decisively: "Treasurer, wait for me one day, and tomorrow I will bring the silver. You are ready to transfer the account."
After the negotiation, she asked the servants to go back to get the goods, while she wandered around Qingyun Alley a few times to see the situation.
"Three hundred and sixty taels of silver, the price is enough to buy two such shops, you have lost." The Junwei man followed her with a deep voice.
"You don't understand, I want that room." Lin Dan waved his hand firmly.
The Junwei man turned his head, looked at the Yan's restaurant where the business was booming, and the grocery store opposite. He could not help but sigh inwardly: Lin Dan is planning to fight the Yan's restaurant, right?