Chapter 147: Still Wanting

Shopkeeper Li looked up at Xu Qingmeng and said, "Then one bowl with sauce and one without."

"Okay!"

The waiter quickly ran to the kitchen.

During this time, the shopkeeper chatted with the two of them and learned that Gu Yunyi was the student who came to take the college entrance examination, and Xu Qingmeng was accompanying him.

The shopkeeper's attitude became much better.

Speaking of Yan County, we also talked about the famous Wufangzhai in Yan County. The snacks there are all very delicious.

Xu Qingmeng smiled, but was thinking that Jinxiu Xuan still needed to build up its reputation. Apart from Yan County, most people only knew about Wufangzhai.

Soon, the waiter brought in two bowls of noodles.

Xu Qingmeng was instructing from the side, and he simply scooped a spoonful of red chili oil and poured it on the food, then mixed it at will.

Shopkeeper Li did as he was told and ate the food without any seasoning from his own restaurant first, then frowned slightly.

The chili oil is fragrant, but after all, it's a little bland. As the saying goes, "a pinch of salt can overcome a hundred flavors." If the salt was too bland, it would seem a bit greasy when paired with the spicy chili oil.

This is why Xu Qingmeng didn't mind. She put less salt in the chili oil, which was specially made for the noodles in their shop.

Then, he tried the one with the sauce from the shop and the red chili oil. The red chili oil combined with the color of his own sauce made it even more tempting.

The fragrance of the red oil seemed to be stimulated all at once, and the fragrance came towards me.

Shopkeeper Li didn't hesitate at all and directly picked up a large chopstick of noodles. He took a bite and found the noodles to be spicy and mellow, and very chewy and smooth.

This made Manager Li feel very satisfied. He even wondered if he had not eaten enough in the morning. How come just a few bites made him feel hungrier and hungrier?

Then······

Xu Qingmeng and Gu Yunyi looked at each other, and then just sat there, watching Shopkeeper Li finish the huge bowl of noodles in big mouthfuls.

Even though the food was so spicy that he opened his mouth and gasped, he never raised his eyes and buried his head completely in the bowl.

After eating a big bowl of noodles, Shopkeeper Li still felt a little unsatisfied, and then he realized that there were other people in the room.

His face turned slightly red, and he looked at the two people in front of him with embarrassment, and said with a bow: "I'm really sorry to make you laugh, but I haven't eaten something so appetizing in a long time. This unique sauce tastes really good."

The shopkeeper was not the kind of person who knew nothing. He quickly realized the value of the red chili peppers. Looking at the two people in front of him, his eyes became more and more kind.

The shopkeeper was also very perceptive. He knew that the one who was good at cooking here was Xu Qingmeng, so he asked her whether the red chili oil could be used with anything, including noodles.

Xu Qingmeng did not hide anything and explained one by one that there were two levels of spiciness in the red chili peppers. The one he ate was the spicier one, and the other one was not that spicy.

As long as you can accept the spiciness, you can put it in fried rice, fried noodles, noodle soup, or even dumplings.

However, the two dishes she prepared this time were specially prepared by Xu Qingmeng for his family's cold noodles, and she added more oil on purpose.

When Shopkeeper Li saw that Xu Qingmeng spoke so convincingly, the last bit of resentment in his heart was relieved, and he even thought that Xu Qingmeng's ancestors were also great cooks.

Soon, Shopkeeper Li agreed to cooperate with Xu Qingmeng.

However, how to cooperate is also a problem.

Xu Qingmeng would never sell the secret recipe. If he made it and sold it to the shop, Shopkeeper Li would definitely try to lower the price. But he was also afraid that Xu Qingmeng would sell the sauce to other noodle shops nearby in the future, which would be a big blow to them.

So, after the two of them discussed it, they decided that as for the price, Shopkeeper Li gave some concessions and gave Xu Qingmeng a satisfactory price.

However, Xu Qingmeng needed to promise that within two years, if the noodle shop needed it, Xu Qingmeng would help adjust the recipe of the red chili oil and make it in time to match their noodle shop.

Shopkeeper Li originally wanted an exclusive right, so that Xu Qingmeng could not sell the product to other restaurants within three years.

However, Xu Qingmeng directly refused and told him truthfully that Yan County had already produced a large amount of it and sold it to grocery stores.

Therefore, Manager Li had to give up on this idea.

But it was not without gain, as Xu Qingmeng made the red chili oil herself and could make adjustments according to different noodles.

The mass-produced ones only have one flavor, so his company still has the advantage.

At least his family took the initiative.

Everything has been discussed and Manager Li has written the contract, which is written in a very standard manner.

This contract was much more detailed than the one they had casually signed with Shen Jinwen, and it also involved many legal terms.

Xu Qingmeng seemed to understand it as well. She just took a look and handed it to Gu Yunyi, wanting him to check it.

Gu Yunyi took a look and confirmed that there were no problems, and the two parties signed the contract.

After signing the contract, I made an agreement with Shopkeeper Li before leaving. Starting tomorrow, he would first deliver five kilograms of slightly spicy chili peppers and ten kilograms of normal spicy red chili peppers.

In the future, it will be delivered once every three days, but the specific amount will depend on the specific results tomorrow.

Xu Qingmeng felt that she couldn't make more, and she also had to check with the grocery store to see if there were any raw materials.

After leaving the noodle shop, Xu Qingmeng and Gu Yunyi went to the grocery store they had been to before.

When I looked at it before, there weren't many chili powder and dried chilies on display, and I don't know if there are more in this shop.

The two of them arrived at the grocery store, and there was only half a bag left. Xu Qingmeng took all the rest and asked the waiter if there was any more in their warehouse.

The waiter who greeted them was new and didn't know much about them, but thinking that they wanted a lot and it was a big business after all, he quickly went to call the shopkeeper over.

The shopkeeper had seen big things and didn't ask too many questions. He found out that they wanted dried chili peppers, chili powder, and Sichuan peppercorns, which were rarely sold.

We quickly sent someone to check the warehouse, and found that there was more chili powder, with four bags, and about two bags of each of the other ingredients.

The quantity is not much, but it is definitely enough for this month. Even if there is more, it doesn’t matter. These things can be stored separately, or made into red oil chili peppers and stored.

If the noodles shop can’t finish them, they can just take them back to Yan County and eat them slowly. That’s all fine.

But I’m worried that when the time comes, the noodle shop business will be too good and there won’t be enough supplies.

Gu Yunyi said: "There are many grocery stores in the city, and this one is not the largest. He can go somewhere else to buy when the time comes."

(End of this chapter)