Yoshida Mii

Chapter 171 New Business

"Boss Wang, you can set the price." Dong Bao smiled. Anyway, the two chefs have seen the whole process. Even if she didn't give the seasoning for tamales, the two chefs are not for dry rice. Sooner or later, they will study the seasoning thoroughly. up.But Wang Cong should also understand that if the price offered this time is not suitable, Dongbao will not sell him any more vegetable recipes next time.

Wang Cong thought for a while, and asked Dong Bao to wait a while, and took two waiters to the front with the dishes, and went to discuss with his father.

Xiao Xu, who had been obediently following Lin Shi, blinked at Zhao Dongbao, who was smiling, and praised: "Sister Dongbao, you are really amazing!"

After a while, Wang Cong came back, and the servant behind him hugged a wooden box and said, "These two dishes cost 300 taels of silver, are you satisfied?"

Dong Bao thought about it, nodded with a smile, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang." These two dishes are not as amazing as boiled fish, and the selling price is a little lower than boiled fish, so Dong Bao doesn't have much opinion. .

Mr. Wang Wu looked a little gloomy at this meeting. He just wanted to ask Dongbao to be their cook, but he couldn't say it now. Although his family is rich, it is impossible to pay 300 taels a month to support a cook.Besides, this girl doesn't look like someone willing to sell herself as a maid.

Near noon, Wang Cong reserved a table for Dong Bao on the sixth floor of the Octagon Building as usual, and he took Dong Bao and others to dinner. In addition to the signature dishes of the Octagon Building, the dishes that came up were also imitated by the chef. For tamales and braised pork, please Dong Bao to taste the deficiencies.

During the dinner, Wang Cong asked: "Miss Song, what did you think about opening a shop in Anzhou to sell tofu that I told you last time?"

Dong Bao shook his head with a smile, and said, "We are not familiar with Anzhou, so let's wait."

"It's not as good as this." Wang Cong said with a smile, "We have a ready-made shop and staff. Every morning, we buy tofu and bean sprouts from your house and sell them in our shop in Anzhou. You only need to provide one hundred catties of tofu every day, one hundred catties Bean sprouts, I heard that you also sell tofu wholesale to others, and give it to us at a price of one and a half cents per catty, and only sell it to our family in Anzhou, how about it?"

A catty of tofu was sold to Wang Cong for one and a half pennies, which was no different from selling it to other people, and it didn't require her to make any extra efforts. Of course Dongbao was willing.It's just that one hundred catties of tofu and one hundred catties of bean sprouts add up, and there is only a profit of one hundred cash, and only three taels of silver in a month.

The business of just one octagonal building is making a lot of money every day. It seems that it is not worth the effort of the young owner of the octagonal building to do this business.

Wang Cong just smiled and said, "Miss Song, in your hands, a catty of tofu can only be sold for two renminbi, but in my hands, I can sell it for as much as I want, ten or one hundred renminbi." , at least until someone else sells this kind of tofu, I can keep making money."

Anyway, his family has a shop and a clerk, but it's just a little extra work for the people below. He can make money and reputation a month. This tofu is a new thing. He only knows that it is in the capital, and the secret recipe is not spread. Even if it was the secret tofu that was not rumored, he thought it was not as delicious as Song Dongning's tofu.

Of course, he also thought about buying the secret recipe of tofu in Song Dongning's hands at a high price, but he tried to ask, and according to Song Dongning's answer, he didn't intend to sell it, and regarded it as a craft to support his family.Although Wang Cong is not a direct descendant of the Wang family, it is really too easy to hold a pair of rural orphans and widowed mothers, and some methods require secret recipes.

It’s just that he values ​​Dongbao’s cooking skills more and wants to cooperate for a long time. After all, the business of Octagonal House is the foundation of his family. Compared with Octagonal House, tofu is produced in a small workshop. watermelon.

The most important thing is that he likes the little girl Song Dongning very much. She is steady, quick-witted, not greedy, and very rational. The few people she is with are not ordinary peasant children, so it is worth him to put it down and interact with her body.

Dong Bao thought for a while, since Wang Cong said the price of one and a half pennies per catty, he must have done some homework and knew that the wholesale price they gave to others was this price.

"Two cents a catty." Dong Bao finally said, and explained to Wang Cong: "Making tofu in the morning is different from making tofu at night. You come to ask for tofu in the morning, and those who come to help make tofu have to get up earlier to make a good one." One hundred catties of tofu is very tiring, and I can't give them the original wages, right?"

Wang Cong nodded happily, "That's the reason, then it's settled."

"I still have one condition." Dong Bao smiled.

Wang Cong made a gesture of invitation.

"When you sell this tofu, you must put the signboard of our Baoji tofu. If someone asks, your buddy must say that you are selling Baoji tofu." Dong Bao laughed.

Wang Cong didn't agree immediately this time, but after thinking about it, he nodded and said with a smile, "This is fine, Miss Song is more careful. If one hundred catties of tofu is not enough in the future, you should make more to supply us."

Dong Bao smiled, "That's for sure." It's just that by then, she might have saved enough money to open a shop in Anzhou. Of course, she still wants to cooperate with the Wang family. After all, there is a signboard of the Wang family in everything. Can gain a firm foothold in Anzhou.

It's not the peak season for tofu yet, and there will be a lot of produce in the vegetable garden. When there are only radishes and cabbage in winter, the advantages of tofu will be fully reflected.

This visit to Anzhou was also different from the last time, Wang Cong was more polite to her, and Wang Cong's father also came here once during the banquet.When she came to Anzhou for the first time, the Wang family and his son only let them eat by themselves, and did not come to accompany the guests in person.

In the afternoon, when the weather was hot, a few people waited in the octagonal building for the sun to go west, and then went out to go shopping.It was the first time for Xiao Xu to go out so far, holding Dong Bao with one hand and Lin Shi with the other, chatting excitedly with Dong Bao, and finally sighed like a little adult: "Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles. Sure enough, you are right! Only by going out and seeing more can you learn more!"

Dong Bao thinks that Xiao Xu is a very smart child, and this smartness is not only reflected in his studies, but also in getting along with others.Just like in the octagonal building just now, Xiao Xu has been sitting obediently, not saying a word, only when he is in front of his own people, he behaves like a six-year-old child.

After seeing it on the busy streets of Anzhou, Dong Bao and a few others went to the silver building. The silver building is not small, with two floors above and below.The guys didn't underestimate Dong Bao because they were children, and enthusiastically introduced that the silver jewelry was sold on the first floor and the gold jewelry was sold on the second floor.

Dong Bao thought about it, but it was better not to be too ostentatious, so he said, "Let's take a look on the first floor."

Although it is silver jewelry, it is also well made. The polished silver jewelry is bright and looks very beautiful.For the first time, Dong Bao knew that even silver jewelry has a lot of knowledge, there are silver-clad, sterling silver, alloy...

Dong Bao first bought three silver hairpins of the same weight, but the flowers engraved on the tops were different, they were all one or two heavy, plus a handwork fee of [-] Wen, and then bought a pair of silver earrings for Li Shi separately. There are lotus patterns on it, and she said with a smile: "If my mother doesn't wear earrings, her ears and eyes will grow."

Mrs. Li has pierced ears, which Dongbao discovered a long time ago. They were blocked with thin leaves before, probably because they were afraid they would grow. But now that they are so busy every day that their feet don’t touch the ground, Mrs. Li has long forgotten about the pierced ears. It's over.

Dong Bao thinks that the Li family should have earrings and other jewelry before, but they have been sold or raided in the Song family these years. After all, the family backgrounds of Li Changfeng and Li Hongqin are not too bad. Naturally, the dowry wouldn't be so shabby. When the family was separated, there were only two shabby clothes. Dong Bao didn't want to pursue the whereabouts of those dowries.

"These three hairpins are for my mother, aunt and aunt Qiuxia." Dong Bao smiled, "Sister, I'll buy for you what you want."

Zhang Xiuyu shook her head and said with a generous smile: "I want to buy a pair of silver bracelets, but I have money on me, so I don't want you to buy them for me." She has wages now, so there is no reason for her cousin to buy jewelry for her. In the future, she will earn enough money Most of the time, I want to give Dongbao one or two valuable things.

Seeing Zhang Xiuyu's determined expression, Dong Bao didn't insist either. Cousin is a good girl with ambition.

"What about you?" Dong Bao turned around and asked Quan Zi. During this time, Quan Zi grew up very quickly, even taller than her. "Is there anything you want?"

Quanzi also shook his head, and said with a smile: "I don't want anything, my mother gave me the money, don't want Sister Dongbao, you can buy it for me. When I grow up, I can sell tofu to make money like my father .”

Dong Bao smiled and patted Quanzi on the head, and said, "When you get older, you will go to school just like Brother Dashi." No matter whether you can be admitted as a scholar or not, even if you farm all your life, you must be able to read and understand.

When it comes to studying, Quanzi is a little listless, and follows behind with a bitter face.

Zhang Xiuyu chose a pair of thin twisted silk silver bracelets, and the wages were less than [-] yuan. Under Dong Bao's instigation, she chose a pair of silver stud earrings.Dong Bao chose a heavy garlic bracelet. Gold and silver are hard currencies these days. They can be used not only as jewelry, but also as money at critical moments. If you have more, you will never lose money.

A few people finished shopping and bought a lot of fresh things that couldn't be bought in Yuanshui, and went back. Dong Bao led Xiao Xu back to the Octagonal Building first, and Lin Shi went into two pharmacies separately, each with a A sack of gypsum weighing one hundred catties came out, and it was covered with a coat and carried back to the octagonal building in a low-key manner.

There are a lot of tofu sold now. If Li Changfeng hadn't managed to drive a large truck to another place last time, and brought back a thousand catties of plaster in one go, the tofu would have been sold out long ago.

The servants of the Wang family also saw the sacks, but they looked at the nose and the nose, as if they didn't see the two big sacks. After a few people got into the car, they ordered the driver to drive away.

Dong Bao was not very worried that the Wang family would track down the gypsum they bought. She believed in Wang Cong intuitively, and would not delay the signature dish of the Octagon Building just because of the few pennies of tofu.

(End of this chapter)