NOVEL NEXT Chapter 66 Recruiting Helpers
The business in Liuxiang Snack Shop is getting more and more prosperous. When there are more diners, it becomes extremely busy.
Mao Xi and Aniang discussed recruiting two workers to help. A waiter is responsible for serving food to entertain diners, and a helper is responsible for helping cut and cook vegetables.
As soon as the recruitment notice was posted at the door of the store, people soon came to apply for the job. After screening, Mao Xi selected two people.
The waiter recruited was named Xu Xing, who was from Lihua Town. He had worked in the foot industry before. He had a loud voice, was hard-working, and was quick at work.
Another hired helper, named Rao Xiaoqing, is also from Lihua Town. According to her original words, she has been cooking for her family since she was six years old, and she especially likes cooking.
Mao Xi gave each of them one tael of monthly payment.
After Ah Xing came, when there were many customers, Luda was no longer as busy as before, and the reception in the store was more orderly.
Mao Xi mainly asked Xiaoqing to help her grandma make hot and sour noodles and hot dry noodles. This does not require much cooking skills, but diners order frequently.
With two new helpers, a lot of pressure has been relieved. Mao Xi focuses on cooking the home-style stir-fries in the store. Fish-flavored snacks have just been added to the menu. There are many people ordering, and occasionally she is overwhelmed. She will ask Xiaoqing to learn how to make them. Xiaoqing quickly mastered the cooking skills of fish-flavored tofu and fish-flavored eggplant. Everyone tried them a few times and felt that they were good enough to serve as a meal.
Mao Xi planned to add more tableware so that she could sell claypot rice and canned soup in the store in the future, so she took the time to go find the grocery store owner in the town.
"Long time no see, Miss Ah Miao. Is the casserole I sent last time still in good condition?" the store owner asked.
"Not bad. I plan to order eight casseroles first, the same ones as last time. Also, how do you sell these small stew pots?" Ma Xi saw the small stew pots sold in the grocery store and picked them up to see that they were of good quality.
"Miss Ah Miao has good taste. This stew pot is very popular among the princes and aristocrats in the northern capital. I heard that they use it to eat soup and swallow ear fungus on weekdays. A boy of eight and eight years of age is not deceived."
"I will order 20 for you first, and you can give me 150. They are all regular customers!" Shui Xi knew that the store was easy to talk to, so she asked him for a preferential price.
"It's only 150 Wen. By the way, it's popular in Beidu and other counties to have snacks before meals at noon. Have you heard?"
Mao Xi remembered that the custom of the Huai Kingdom was to have two meals a day, so why now they added a pre-dinner snack.
"Shopkeeper Tao, could these pre-dinner snacks be some side dishes?"
"Miss Ah Miao is smart. This pre-dinner snack must be eaten at noon. Rich people usually order some set meals in restaurants, such as 'five pieces of fruits and vegetables, five pieces of small plates' and so on."
Isn't this just like the side dishes given away by small shops or the appetizers of Western food?
Shopkeeper Tao said and brought out some small plates: "Look, how about these plates for pre-dinner snacks? Ruifeng Restaurant and Qingxiang Restaurant have ordered dozens of these plates from me recently!"
Shopkeeper Tao really wanted to sell his small plates, so Ma Xi didn't hesitate and asked, "Shopkeeper Tao, how do you sell these plates?"
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive. The ordinary one only costs 2 cents, and the patterned one costs 5 cents."
Mao Xi bought twenty small plates and paid another 40 yuan. She asked shopkeeper Tao to send someone to deliver Liuxiang snacks later.
"Appetizers, why didn't I think of that before!" Mao Xi had forgotten that she only went to some snack bars that she often visited because the free side dishes were delicious.
But the people in Lihua Town can't compare to the diners in restaurants in Beidu. People here don't have the habit of eating at noon, and they can't get a five-piece suit like other restaurants.
So, Mao Xi decided to make a separate platter of sliced cold dishes for sale, including braised beef, braised eggs, braised tofu and braised large intestines. She also made some side dishes such as shredded kelp, sliced cucumbers and pickled radishes, put them on small plates and gave them to diners for free. eat.
Back in the shop, Lou Laner was roasting two beggar's chickens. One was ordered by the diners, and the other was Xiaodouzi and Ajiao. They were greedy and wanted to eat it, so Mrs. Chen asked her to bake an extra portion.
Lou Laner brought a plate of beggar's chicken in front of a female diner. She was wearing national costume and did not look like a person from Lihua Town.
This woman was not reserved. She just grabbed a chicken drumstick and gnawed it. Within a few minutes, she had finished eating the entire beggar's chicken, not forgetting to wipe the corners of her mouth with her hands.
Lou Laner's sharp eyes saw the black orchid tattoo on the woman's wrist. She jumped to the woman's side, and without any explanation, the two started fighting.
Seeing this, Lu Da stepped forward to help, but the woman was very good at qinggong and jumped to the stove again, grabbed Ma Xi's neck and said, "I'm here to eat, why did you hit me?"
"I recognize you. The black orchid tattoo on your hand is the same as the female assassin who assassinated Brother Mu that day!" Lou Laner said.
"Since the antidote has been given to you, I will not assassinate him again." After saying that, he restrained Miao Xi to the kitchen and asked, "Miss Ah Miao, where did you get the secret recipe for making beggar's chicken?"
Mao Xi took out the wooden box: "I dug this on the mountain. If you want this recipe, I will give it to you. Why bother to do it?"
The woman opened the wooden box and saw the letter first, which was her brother's note.
"Miss Millet, please take me to the place where I dug out this box." The woman kidnapped Millet Xi to the Savage Valley in the back mountain without saying a word.
Mao Xi took her to the bamboo forest on the other side of the cave.
"Do you recognize the person who wrote the letter? I went to the ghost market to find a wooden box seller. He said it was a letter from home. The secret recipe for beggar's chicken you want is also in the secret compartment at the bottom of the box." Shui Xi was puzzled. How could a recipe for beggar's chicken interest a female assassin? Maybe she was also a gourmet.
The woman was a little excited. After reading the letter, she grabbed Mao Xi's hand and said, "Thank you for digging out this box. My name is Mo Xia. This letter was written by my brother Mo Feng. I will be a beggar in your shop today." The chicken tastes like home, so I asked you for a recipe. I really can’t bear to use force against the girl just now."
Mao Xi opened the secret compartment at the bottom of the box and took out the recipe for beggar's chicken: "Then I have returned it to its original owner. How did you taste the taste of your hometown?"
"Girl Ah Miao, did you put in that spice lemongrass?"
"Yes, according to your brother's recipe, it was picked by the waterfall in Savage Valley. It must have been planted here by your elder brother. Miss Mo Xia, what is the black orchid tattoo on your hand? Why did you want to assassinate Brother Mu in the first place? ?”
"This is an assassin organization in Beidu, called the Black Orchid Society. I falsely joined it in order to find clues about my elder brother. I have withdrawn from the Black Orchid Society, but there are still people in Beidu who want to buy your brother Mu's life. The antidote is for my clansman. A secret recipe that can detoxify hundreds of poisons."
"Brother Mu has enemies in the north? I've never heard him say that." Shui Xi was confused. Mu Zhiyuan had returned to Lihua Town and no longer cared about the court affairs. Could it be that he had offended someone before?
Mo Xia stood up and prepared to leave: "Anyway, let him be careful. Miss Mao Xi will say goodbye. I want to bring the letter to Aniang... Also, the fish bream you made is really delicious. I will go to the store again in the future." I’ll see you later!”
Mo Xia turned over and disappeared, and Ma Xi returned to Liuxiang Snacks alone.
Lou Lan'er was relieved to see that she was fine. She was building a new stove with Ah Xing and Xiao Qing.