176, make a fortune

176, make a fortune

What Lu Mingfei hadn't expected was that after only three or five days, his adoptive father came to him with a list of names, silver, and banknotes. When he learned the number of applicants and the amount of silver collected, he was a little shocked, but also somewhat expected.

Many people in Kyoto are willing to spend dozens of taels of silver to buy a secret recipe for a dish.

Therefore, the tuition fees collected in these few days are more than what their family earns from setting up stalls in a whole year!

"Godfather, how about we just sell our son and stop running the shop?" he said half-jokingly.

"I'm afraid that won't work. The recipe can only be sold once and you can make money once, but if you keep the recipe in your own hands, you can pass it on to future generations." Lu Qingfeng knew that his adopted son was joking, so he pretended to have a stern face and answered his adopted son's words seriously.

After making a little joke, the two started to talk about business.

Lu Mingfei said to his adoptive father, "Then let's accept this group of people here. After we teach them, we can see if we should accept a second group of students. It would be inconvenient to manage too many students at once."

"Okay, that's no problem. I'll remove the sign tomorrow." Lu Qingfeng also knew that he shouldn't be too greedy.

After they counted the silver and banknotes in the box, Lu Mingfei took out 10% of the share and gave it to his adoptive father. "This is what we agreed on before. This share is for you, adoptive father."

"Then I'll accept it without hesitation." Lu Qingfeng chuckled and stopped pushing it back and forth with his adopted son. He accepted the hard work fee given to him by his adopted son. If he didn't accept it this time, it would be difficult for his adopted son to ask him for help next time.

It just so happened that their family had been a bit short of money recently, and the money given by their adopted son could fill a gap. After the workshop was established and started to make money, the money of both families would flow back, and they would no longer be so tight on money.

So Lu Qingfeng also knew why his adopted son took out the recipe of Chuanchuan Xiangguo to sell for money. It was probably because the family was short of money, so he came up with this way to make money.

Both of them knew what was going on, but no one pointed it out.

The tuition fees collected this time were not small, and if kept at home there was a risk of being targeted and stolen by thieves. So Lu Mingfei simply asked his adoptive father to accompany him to the money house and deposit the silver he had just received, which was not even warm yet, into two money houses.

Knowing that they were going to start classes on the 10th, Lu Mingfei informed Ye Zhuoran and the other three in advance and decided not to go to the Ye family that day, leaving the day free to arrange things at the skewers stall.

Both of their stalls were open in the morning, but because they had classes to teach that day, they prepared three more portions of ingredients for the hot pot base and side dishes.

After all, they charge so much money to others, so they should be willing to spend some money on teaching materials.

Not long after their skewers stall was set up in the morning, the students who had registered and paid money had already started waiting at the skewers hotpot stall.

Someone couldn't wait to ask, "Boss Lu, when do we start learning?"

"Don't be anxious, we have to wait a while. We will start at 9:00 PM. Come here early in the morning and eat something here first. You can also see how we cook skewers. Then come over to my place and the chef will teach you how to stir-fry the base." Lu Qingfeng said.

Lu Mingfei was also here in the morning. Seeing that some people were in a hurry, he called them over to eat and let the people here try their skewers.

Some people asked all kinds of questions while eating skewers.

He answered all the questions he could answer, and left the questions he couldn't answer for later.

When the time was almost up, Lu Mingfei asked Ruyi to watch the stall here, and he and his adoptive father took the people who were waiting here to the pancake shop.

Seeing this, Liu Sanniang, who was selling things at the braised food stall, asked Xie Liuniang to take her place, and she entered the backyard of the pancake shop through the back door.

"Mother." Lu Mingfei, who brought everyone in from the main gate, called out to his mother when he saw her coming in from the back door.

"Hey. Is everyone here?" asked Liu Sanniang. She was the female chef who would teach everyone how to make the skewers hotpot today, because she had always made the hotpot base for the skewers.

However, this recipe was given to her by her eldest son.

The eldest son said he had read the recipe in a book, and Liu Sanniang never doubted it. After all, her child loved reading all kinds of books, and this was not the first time he had found a recipe in a book.

"Everyone is here." Lu Mingfei responded.

At this time, Lu Qingfeng smiled and introduced everyone: "This is the chef who will teach you how to make skewers and fragrant pot today, Master Liu."

"Isn't this Boss Liu? Can you teach me how to make your braised food?" Someone here recognized this Master Liu. Isn't he the owner of the famous braised food stall on South Street?

Liu Sanniang has been selling braised food at a stall on South Street for nearly ten years. Many people here know her.

Seeing that it was Liu Sanniang who was teaching them how to make skewers, many people felt like they had gotten a bargain by spending fifty taels of silver. The Lu family's braised food was well-known to anyone who had been to South Street.

At this moment, someone remembered that they had heard that Boss Liu's son had passed the imperial examination. Could it be the one next to him?

Seeing someone looking at him, Lu Mingfei responded with a polite smile.

Lu Qingfeng hurriedly told everyone: "Today we will only teach you how to make skewers of hot pot, not braised food."

"Boss Liu, how about you name the price for the braised food recipe? Today, you can teach us how to make braised food together." One of the people here is the owner of a restaurant. He is also the chef of their restaurant, so the one who comes here to learn how to make skewers hotpot today is him, the owner and chef.

It is said that those who are in the food business have all studied the recipe of Lu's braised food. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they try, they just can't make the same taste as Lu's braised food.

Many customers present had tasted Lu's braised food before, and upon hearing this, they all started to make a fuss, wanting Liu Sanniang to teach them how to make the braised food. It was precisely because they knew that Liu Sanniang would not teach them the braised food recipe that they started to make a fuss.

If Liu Sanniang had been willing to share her braised food recipe, there wouldn't have been so many restaurant owners who had returned empty-handed from her in the past. The chefs who came to the restaurant today were the most aware of this matter.

In the past, Liu Sanniang would have been terrified. But she was no longer the same person she used to be. Faced with so many people urging her to take out her family's braised food recipe, she smiled and declined gracefully, "No, this is our family's secret recipe. I can't teach you."

"Today we will only teach you how to make the Chuan Chuan Xiang Guo. I will explain it to you first. If you have any questions later, please ask me and I will explain them to you one by one."

After rejecting the group's request, Liu Sanniang led everyone to the earthen stove built in the backyard. Everything was ready, so she asked everyone to find their seats. She began to stir-fry spices while explaining the recipe for the skewers hotpot. "I'm sure you all know that the most important part of our skewers hotpot is the soup base."

"A good soup base makes the food delicious. Therefore, the step of making the soup is very important."

"Of course, when preparing food, you should also use fresh ingredients. Don't fool people with inferior food. Otherwise, if someone has tasted something bad once, they won't come back for a second time."

Many of the people here today are chefs who own small restaurants or are from restaurants. Hearing this, many people here nodded.

While frying the pot base, Liu Sanniang explained each step in detail to the apprentices who had paid them money to learn how to make skewers of hot pot.

When his mother was teaching everyone how to stir-fry the soup base, Lu Mingfei just watched from the side without saying much. He looked at his mother standing in front of the crowd with ease and without any stage fright, and suddenly felt that time can change a person.

Of course, the prerequisite is to provide this person with conditions that allow him to change himself.

If they had stayed at the Lu family's old house, his mother wouldn't have become the graceful and elegant Boss Liu she is today. Perhaps his mother would still be the woman who was bullied by her mother-in-law and her sisters-in-law in the backyard.

However, even if his father hadn't been in that accident, he would have found a chance to take his parents away from the Lu family's old house. So no matter what, he wouldn't let his mother continue to live that kind of life in the backyard of the Lu family's old house.

…

The teaching work on that day lasted all morning and ended around noon.

Before everyone left, Liu Sanniang felt a little guilty about how much money her family had earned this time, so she said to the temporary apprentices, "After you go back, if you encounter anything you don't understand, you can come back here and ask me."

"well."

Everyone who came today felt that spending a few dozen taels of silver to learn a secret recipe for food was not a bad thing. What's more, Liu Sanniang also taught them how to make the sauce for the skewers, so this recipe could be said to be a bonus gift to them.

So for a business deal on this day, it can be said that the person who makes money is happy, and the person who spends money is also happy.

The only regret that many people present felt was that they failed to persuade Liu Sanniang to take out the braised food recipe and sell it to them.

However, they could understand Liu Sanniang's reluctance to sell the braised food recipe. It was just like many of them kept their own ancestral secret recipes and wouldn't sell them to others. They would only consider selling the secret recipe if they were truly in dire need of money and couldn't come up with it.

After sending this group of people away, Liu Sanniang breathed a sigh of relief.

Thinking that she had been here all morning and didn't know what was going on with the stall outside, she wiped the sweat from her forehead. Without even having time to drink a sip of water and sit down to rest for a while, she said to her son and Lu Qingfeng, "You stay here. I'll go out and take a look."

"Save the soup base in the pot for Ruyi this afternoon. Don't throw it away."

Then, she left in a hurry.

Lu Mingfei watched his mother hurriedly leave, turned around and said a word of gratitude to his adoptive father, "Thank you for your help, adoptive father."

"Why are you being polite to your adoptive father?" Lu Qingfeng raised his hand and patted his adopted son's shoulder.