The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 609 Health Wine

During the Spring Festival in [-], Aqiao made a comeback. The monthly turnover was [-] times that of usual, and the whole group was beaming from top to bottom.

After Lao Tan returned from his hometown, he announced on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that he would completely retire to the second line and no longer participate in management.Everyone understands and supports this decision. In fact, everyone knows that even if he retreats to the second line, it is impossible to completely withdraw. Some things still have to be decided by him.

For example, the business orientation and development trend in the next two years, and whether to open a store or shrink the line of defense, etc.He is now a big tree for Aqiao, or a spiritual guide.

It stands to reason that his age is the right time to do things, but his body has been built up over the years. The body of a person in his forties in his sixties can't do without proper conditioning.

Also, during the current epidemic period, the catering industry is difficult to do, which can be described as difficult. At this time, it can only be defensive.To be on the defensive, he only needs to follow the established policies and implement them, and he can rest.

In other words, as long as his old Tan is not dead, Aqiao can live.

There is a reason for saying this, and old catering people know it.

Although the catering industry has now entered the era of corporate management, its particularity is different from the general industry we know, and Master still holds a large proportion in the operation and plays a decisive role.It is normal for a restaurant to collapse when Master is not there or does not work, such cases are not uncommon.

The catering industry has always had this characteristic, and it is also an unwritten rule. Every boss knows it, but they just don't talk about it.

The reason we see that some bosses are not afraid of this phenomenon is because the boss is a cook, and he does a very good job, and has many apprentices, so he is not afraid.

After Lao Tan arranged the company and family affairs properly, he went to the old Chinese doctor in Beijing for a re-examination. The old Chinese doctor prescribed three months of conditioning medicine according to his physical condition.

Later, Lao Tan came to Beauty Valley.He came here to see off Sister Zhao, and it can be regarded as fulfilling the previous promise to Sister Zhao.Sister Zhao came with her cousin, Sister Tang, and they planned to live here for a while.

The beautiful valley at this time is the season when the severe winter is not over and the early spring has arrived.Melted snow dripped from the eaves, the withered yellow on the hillside turned green, the willow branches softened, and there were bulging buds in the green.

Farmers began to plow the fields and dig ridges, and the cattle that had been idle all winter lowed the mountains and fields, crushing the ice and the last piece of frozen soil by the river.

There is a breath of spring in the smoke of the farmhouse, and the pleasant smell of firewood and straw wafts out and fills the village.

The adults are busy with the work in the field, and the children are running in the ditches, hanging jujubes on the top of the jujube trees on the edge of the ditch and the cliff, and their cheerful laughter is drifting with the mountain wind.

Fishermen sit by the fish pond in the farmyard, smoking leisurely, enjoying the warmth of the early spring sunshine, staring at the calm water surface and the fish floats swinging in the wind.

Wang Shulan's small courtyard was cleaned up by Yingzi's mother, and so was the house, obviously with care.The peasant woman's gratitude to Wang Shulan is sincere and from the heart, and she will never forget this benefactor.

"I had a burning kang yesterday, and the house is not damp." Yingzi's mother said.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Old Tan said.

"Hey, what's the trouble? Otherwise, I'll come here and cook it every now and then." Yingzi's mother pointed to the stove and said, "There is a chicken stewed in the pot, four steamed buns, fried garlic sprouts, small mushrooms, and fried rice." There is freshly steamed rice in the rice cooker.

After you eat, I have to go to the farmhouse, the kitchen should be busy. "

After Yingzi's mother left, Sister Zhao asked, "Is this the mother of the college student that Sister Wang sponsored?"

"En." Old Tan nodded.

"The people are so nice."

"Well, the people here are very nice and warm-hearted, and you'll know as time goes by."

Lao Tan went to the outhouse to serve food, and Sister Zhao followed with bowls and chopsticks.According to Lao Tan, he was going to eat at the floor table. Sister Zhao said that she hadn't eaten on the kang table for many years, so Lao Tan put the table on the kang table, and the three of them sat cross-legged and meditated to eat.

"This little stupid chicken is still delicious and fragrant!" Sister Zhao said after eating a piece of chicken.

"They are all raised by themselves, they are not fed feed, they are just wandering chickens." Old Tan said.

"Let's raise a few too."

"Are you really planning to live here forever?"

"That's not great, what a place it is."

"You two will live for a while before talking, in case you are not used to it."

"Definitely get used to it."

The three of them were eating. Zhou Xiaomei's parents came over. Old Tan planned to visit them before leaving tomorrow, but unexpectedly, the old couple came first.

Lao Tan introduced Sister Zhao and Sister Tang to the old couple, and then pulled Xiaomei's father to the kang for a drink.The old couple had already prepared when they came, and they brought good dog meat and salted goose eggs that they had marinated themselves, so the five of them gathered around the table and had dinner together.

Lao Tan and the old couple inquired about the situation of their son-in-law Cao Jiadong, and Xiaomei's mother said that it was all right, without any sequelae, just like normal people.By the way, I complained to my daughter a few words, saying that I didn't tell the old couple about this important matter, they only found out when they returned home during the Chinese New Year.

"I'm afraid you will be in a hurry." Old Tan said.

"Don't be in a hurry now? You said it's scary. If you take it to the hospital a little later, you'll be paralyzed." Xiaomei's mother said.

"No, it's not that serious."

"Everything is uncertain—it depends on the timely rescue."

"You, you have to worry about that useless mind every day. If there is nothing wrong, you have to do it. It's very good." Xiaomei's father thought that his wife Erjing could not speak well, so he yelled.

Xiaomei's mother stopped talking and turned her head to chat with Sister Zhao and Sister Tang.

Lao Tan drinks with Xiaomei's father and eats dog meat.

"A few years ago, the mayor of this place asked someone to send a wild sika deer penis to make a jar of deer penis wine. When I opened the box and looked at it, I laughed. It's not a wild sika deer, but a red deer, or a small one. It is of no use at all." Xiaomei's father said.

"Then what did you do?" Old Tan asked.

"What's the matter? Huh! It was returned, and it was not soaked."

Old Tan laughed.

"In a few days, I brought a real root, soaked it for him, and made half a tael of red flowers and a wild ginseng. The person who heard it said that the mayor didn't know it was from a red deer. The good stuff stays."

"It is estimated that the person who gave the gift didn't know that it was a fake, and was deceived when he bought it."

"Almost." Xiaomei's father picked up the cup and touched Lao Tan, took a sip, and said, "Our family's health-preserving wine is selling fast now, which may be related to the epidemic."

"It doesn't matter much, the main thing is that people are willing to drink when they are drunk."

"Do you think it can be bottled and sold? That way the price can be raised and production can be expanded. Wine is a huge profit."

Old Tan lit a cigarette and said, "Brother, you run a wine shop, so you should know what bottling production means. The Administration for Industry and Commerce is difficult to deal with, and you have to register a trademark on the production line, which is impossible.

In addition, health-preserving wine is unattractive once it is bottled. It is better to put it in an altar and look at it and want to drink it.

We don't sell wine, but mainly open restaurants to sell dumplings. The wine is paired, and the wine comes with dumplings.Eating our dumplings and drinking our wine, you can't enjoy it at other people's homes, this is the kingly way.

Others think that our dumplings are nothing, and they can make them themselves. If they can't make them, they will go to our house to pry a dumpling master over there.I guess you know some, but how many have succeeded in these years?

Why not?No wine from our house.

He may make dumplings like ours, or even better than ours, but without our wine, it can only be an ordinary dumpling restaurant, and it will never be like ours. "

(End of this chapter)