Chapter 49: Failure of homemade spicy sesame oil at Manxiangyuan

Seeing how diligent and studious she was, Xiao Ying was quite satisfied, but also felt a little nervous.

Xingyue's spiritual roots are better than hers, but she must not become stronger than her in the future, otherwise it would be a bit embarrassing for her.

Thinking of this, she hurried back to her room and entered the fairy palace space.

She has been in the second level of Qi Refining for five or six days and feels that the cyclone in her Dantian has expanded a little. At this rate, she will be able to enter the third level of Qi Refining in about half a month.

Thanks to the fact that the flow of time in the Immortal Mansion is twice as fast as outside, and with the help of the spiritual spring water, she can practice so quickly.

Otherwise, it is possible that Xingyue will surpass him in the future.

The several acres of spiritual fields in the fairy palace are all green, especially the spiritual rice and potatoes that were planted first. They are growing very well and are estimated to be mature and harvestable in about a month.

The rice is fine, it can be kept and eaten slowly, but there are still about 6,000 kilograms of potatoes, filling up the kitchen, and they must be disposed of before the new ones mature.

It was obviously impossible to sell it in the town, so she decided to sell it all when she went to the county to sell the spicy sesame oil.

After watering the crops with the spiritual spring water, she began her practice tonight.

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The next day, life was still uneventful and the villagers began their day's work.

But at Manxiang Garden in the town, the atmosphere was a little different today.

There were fewer customers today, but Zhou Tianci and Yu Qian didn't care too much. Their attention was focused on the red strips.

Yesterday afternoon, Zhou Tianci's men brought back more than ten pounds of red strips from the mountains. This morning, they gave them to the chefs at Manxiangyuan and asked them to make spicy sesame oil.

The chefs were all in a dilemma. Without a recipe, what should they do?

Moreover, this thing is very irritating. The juice inside will cause burning pain when it sticks to the skin. For this reason, the two were asked to provide them with some leather gloves.

Zhou Tianci naturally responded to every request and specially asked someone to buy a few pairs of deerskin gloves. Only then did the chefs feel at ease and start their research boldly.

At the beginning, the red strips were directly thrown into the oil for marinating, which did bring out some flavor, but it was not even a little bit different from the spicy sesame oil.

Then the chefs cut the red strips into pieces and marinate them in oil. The taste is much more stimulating now, but it is still far from the spicy sesame oil.

First of all, it doesn’t smell good.

One chef had an idea and heated the oil and added chopped red strips. Now the taste was finally a little similar, but only a little.

After three trips back and forth, it was already night, and Zhou Tianci's face was so dark that it looked like water was about to drip out of it.

"Waste, all of you are a bunch of waste!"

Zhou Tianci sat in the side room, burning with anger. Yu Qian and several cooks stood there with their heads down, not daring to say a word.

"A mere village woman can make spicy sesame oil, but you, the self-proclaimed culinary masters, still haven't mastered it. What are you doing with all the high wages you get?"

One of the cooks whispered, "Young Master, please give us a few more days. We will definitely be able to develop spicy sesame oil."

"How many days should I give you? Will the customers give Manxiangyuan a few days? If this continues, Manxiangyuan will have to close down!"

Zhou Tianci was so angry that he shouted and wanted to throw the teacup over.

Several people shrank their heads and dared not speak again.

"Yu Qian, you are the owner of Manxiang Garden. What should we do?"

Seeing that they didn't say anything, Zhou Tianci became even angrier and called out their names.

Yu Qian felt bitter and could only say cautiously, "Although this batch of chili oil we made isn't as good as the spicy sesame oil, it still tastes good. Why don't we try it on our customers tomorrow?"

The taste is definitely better than the previous dishes, and at worst they are a little cheaper.

Zhou Tianci said sullenly, "Then let's try it tomorrow. You useless guys, keep researching and make sure you can make spicy sesame oil for me."

"Yes, Young Master."

Several people quickly agreed, feeling heavy in their hearts.

The next day, Manxiangyuan launched its own chili oil, but they did not call it spicy chili oil. They named it Manyuan chili oil, which means it was produced by Manxiangyuan themselves.

Unexpectedly, the customers were not very impressed, especially those who had tried it at Weixianju. They said that their sesame oil was far worse than others and was not fragrant at all.

Of course, it still attracted a group of people. After all, the price of dishes with chili oil has not increased, and the taste is still better than those without chili oil.

Zhou Tianci and his companions were not happy at all. They were completely losing money just to gain publicity, but in the end they didn't even make any profit.

Fortunately, several chefs came up with a new idea today. Since it is called spicy sesame oil, it must not be spicy alone, it must also be spicy.

So I added some peppercorns, and it tasted even better.

At this point, the chefs reached a bottleneck and could no longer think of any other solutions.

"Young Master, look at this..."

Yu Qian was also helpless. If it was so easy to make, why would Weixianju spend so much money to buy spicy sesame oil?

Zhou Tianci knew that he could not rely on these idiots. After thinking for a long time, a plan came to his mind.

Since the village woman needs red strips to make spicy sesame oil, he would collect all the red strips and leave her without the raw materials. Then he would see how she could make money?

Since they can’t make spicy sesame oil, Weixianju will be out of stock and can only do it as before without adding it.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he immediately gave the order.

Yu Qian sighed, saying that this would hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt one's own eight hundred.

Little did people know that Xiao Ying had already purchased three to four thousand kilograms of peppers. Although the amount was decreasing every day, there were still more than seven hundred kilograms today.

Today, Widow Qin and Widow Wang only picked eight or nine kilograms each, and it will be even less tomorrow, and this is including what the children picked.

She plans to start making chili sauce and spicy sesame oil tomorrow. If she hires two people for fifty cents a day, they will probably agree.

The peppers from the first two days have been completely dried and can be used to make spicy sesame oil. The peppers from the last two days have not been dried and are just right for making chili sauce.

Of course, these two people alone are definitely not enough. Xiao Ying also thought of two people: sister-in-law Liu Lan and He Jin's wife Wu Hong next door. Both of them are good at work.

If the rest of the family helps out a little, I think it will be enough.

After dinner, she went to these companies to inquire.

Except for Liu Lan who was a little hesitant, the other three agreed immediately.

Of course, Liu Lan also agreed after being persuaded by the old couple and Chen Jin.

Seeing that the number of red strips that can be picked every day is getting less and less, and they will probably be completely gone in a few days, what are you hesitating about when you can have a stable job that pays fifty cents a day?

Because chili peppers are quite irritating, Xiao Ying stipulated that they only work for three hours a day, one and a half hours in the morning and one and a half hours in the afternoon. They can do other things in the remaining time. They all think it should be quite easy.

However, only when you actually do it will you know how stimulating it is. Of course, that’s a story for later.

In this way, Xiao Ying's chili shop was initially established.