"Master."
"Come in."
Hearing the voice from inside, Er Shun led people in. Seeing the master who had just woken up from his sleep, he said with a smile on his pursed lips, "Master, you are finally awake. Young Master Cao has come and brought fresh food. He said it was made for you, and it can be eaten as soon as you wake up."
In the past, Fang Ziye would get up early to practice sword, but he had been feeling particularly tired recently and didn't want to move. Looking at the sky outside, he didn't expect that he would wake up until now.
When he woke up, he heard Cao Xiangnan coming. Fang Ziye took the cup handed to him by Ershun. He rinsed his mouth, wiped his face with a towel, and then said "Oh" and asked, "What did you bring?"
"Hehe, they said you'll know when you come over." Ershun didn't know either. He asked, but no one knew.
Cao Xiangnan came to Yipinzhai early in the morning and made several snacks. When he came, he knew that the person hadn't gotten up yet, so he was not in a hurry. He asked someone to take some snacks away to heat them up, and he was talking to the shopkeeper Liu outside. No one had come to eat in the building yet, and there was nothing to do.
He came prepared today. Since the opportunity was presented to him, he had to seize it.
Until he heard someone upstairs come to say that the person had woken up, Cao Xiangnan asked someone to send snacks up, and he followed him up. "Knock knock--" "Master Cao, please go in, the master is waiting for you inside." The little servant who came to open the door said.
"Sit down." Fang Ziye saw the person coming in, looked at the empty seat on the side, and asked, "Er Shun said you brought me fresh food, but what did you bring?"
After eating two bowls of porridge yesterday, the whole person's appetite seemed to have suddenly opened up. When he woke up and heard that there was something delicious, he was looking forward to what this person could make for him.
Cao Xiangnan sat down at the side and saw that this person's complexion was better than yesterday, and there was a smile on his face, not as nervous as yesterday. Upon hearing his words, he kept it a secret and didn't say it directly, saying, "It will be revealed in a while."
Thinking of what he heard from the shopkeeper Liu, Cao Xiangnan asked with concern, "I heard that you were not feeling well, are you feeling better now?"
"Thank you for your concern, I'm much better." Fang Ziye didn't expect the other party to care about his health, and he was also stunned for a moment before speaking.
Cao Xiangnan always felt that he saw something familiar on Fang Ziye, and he couldn't figure out what it was for a while. Before yesterday, it should be the first time he saw this person, and it was impossible for him to know him.
Just at this moment, the snacks he brought over were delivered and placed on the table one by one.
Freshly baked steamed buns with meaty aroma, rice noodles wrapped with lean meat and eggs, steamed spareribs with pumpkin, shrimp dumplings wrapped with fresh shrimp, pork balls made from chopped pork, pork, shrimp and egg shao mian, golden fried purple taro cakes, a portion of cold-mixed cucumber, green vegetables that were rolled in the pot and then served with sauce, and a bowl of fish porridge, exuding an alluring aroma.
Each snack is not large in portion, but the amount served is extremely large, and looks exquisite.
"Did you make this?" Fang Ziye thought it smelled particularly good, and asked as he watched the things being put up one by one. Ershun seemed to have seen through his master's thoughts, and came over to help him put porridge in a small bowl and put it in front of him. Fang Ziye took a bite with a spoon, and the sticky porridge tasted just right. He saw that there was fish in it, but he didn't think it smelled fishy. He had been sick to his stomach recently when he smelled fishy smells, and he hadn't eaten fish for a while.
"Well, yes, I prepared it especially for you this morning." Cao Xiangnan did not hide his thoughts and said, "What you are eating is called fish porridge. Boil the rice until it is rotten and you can't see the rice grains. Put the fish slices and ginger shreds in and boil them. If you like lean meat, then put the lean meat in."
He stood up and motioned Fang Ziye to let the waiter go down. Fang Ziye waved his hand and asked Ershun to wait on the side, with undisguised curiosity in his eyes.
"This is intestines rice noodle, which is similar to rice noodles, but the method is a little different. This intestines rice noodle is wrapped with lean meat and eggs. It can also be wrapped with shrimp, fish fillets, beef, pork liver, etc. Different intestines rice noodles can be made according to different tastes..." Cao Xiangnan personally picked up the chopsticks to pick up food for Fang Ziye
. Every time he picked up something, he would tell the other party what it was and what it was made of. Time was limited, so he only picked a few things to cook, but this was enough for him to get up early and busy all morning. Then he came to Yipinzhai with a lunch box. Fortunately, the man hadn't stood up yet, so he was waiting here.
"You sit down and eat too." Fang Ziye felt a little full after eating a few dishes. He couldn't finish so many things by himself, but these things were indeed very much to his taste.
He has had a poor appetite recently and hasn't eaten as much as he does now for quite some time. After the other party sat down, Fang Ziye looked at him and asked, "So these are the things you came to talk to me about today?"
"Yes, that's right." Cao Xiangnan hadn't eaten breakfast either, and he was hungry now. He sat down and started eating without hesitation. "This is what I came here to talk to you about today. I suggest that you open morning tea in the restaurant. This morning tea is not just about drinking tea, but also accompanied by a variety of snacks. These snacks are only a part of what I made today, not all. They are divided into vegetarian food, snacks, small steamed baskets, large steamed baskets, and porridge and noodles."
Then he explained the vegetarian food, snacks, small steamed baskets, large steamed baskets, and porridge and noodles to Fang Ziye one by one, and there were as many as dozens of kinds.
"The quantity of each snack doesn't need to be too large. A small basket is only enough for one or two people. The important thing is to have a lot of variety and good taste. A few friends or a family can come to the restaurant in the morning and sit down to eat porridge, drink tea and chat." Don't underestimate such a small snack. If three or five people sit down in the morning, they will eat at least ten baskets, and I'm afraid it will be more.
Cao Xiangnan knows that there are many old Yipinzhai restaurants in Fengchao. People who go to Yipinzhai to eat at least have some money in their pockets, so many people will come when these fresh things are put out. If all Yipinzhai restaurants promote morning tea, the revenue will be a huge sum.
Yipinzhai now only sells lunch, and there is free time in the morning and evening. If he makes good use of the time in the morning and evening, the money will surely be multiplied several times. The reason why
he didn't tell this to the storekeeper Liu before was that, firstly, he would introduce a new dish here every once in a while recently, and first he would do it the same way. Secondly, such a big change cannot be decided by the storekeeper Liu alone. Another point is that the storekeeper Liu can only give him a limited amount after all.
But if this person is replaced by the big boss of Yipinzhai, it will be different.
This was also the decision he made after thinking for a long time after returning from Yipinzhai yesterday. Since he met him, Cao Xiangnan decided to negotiate a big business with this big boss. He was not afraid of being cheated by the other party. There were at least dozens of snacks, unless he didn't want some of the last ones.
Fang Ziye's eyes lit up when he heard this idea, and he said several good things, saying, "Good, good, your idea is really great."
"Then we can hire someone to make a batch of small stoves, so we can make tea while eating snacks. We can replace these small steamers with bigger ones." Cao Xiangnan compared the size and continued, "Let the chef prepare all the snacks in the morning and put them in the hall. People can come and order what they like. There are different plates for different categories of meat and vegetables, and the checkout will collect money according to the different plates."
This will be much more convenient, and there will be no worries of confusion.
Fang Ziye kept nodding. He knew it was a good idea as soon as he heard it, and the most important thing was that the idea was fresh. These foods were not available in the whole Feng Dynasty. If he could open a restaurant in his Yipinzhai, the monthly income would be incalculable. His heart was moved.
Facing the other party's clear and shining eyes, the other party's eyes sparkled when he spoke to him, and there was a big smile on his face. Unlike other people who were respectful to him and dared not talk much to him, but these Cao Xiangnan's were different, which made him feel like chatting with a good friend.
For such a good idea, Fang Ziye evaluated in his heart how much reward he should give to the other party so that it would not be too low. After listening to his words, Fang Ziye said, "You gave me these ideas, and I also said yesterday that I would not treat you unfairly, and I also want to thank you for believing in me. How about this, in the future, 10% of the income from the morning tea at Yipinzhai will be counted as you. If you have any fresh snacks in the future, I will not charge you separately, and it will also be counted into this 10%. If you want to take it all at once, I will give you 500 taels at once."
"Then I'd like to thank you, Boss. I'll choose the first method. If I come up with any new snacks, I'll give the recipes to Manager Liu, who will then have someone send them to you." Cao Xiangnan was also smart. He took the money slowly and took it all at once. This way, as long as he launched new snacks in Yipinzhai, he would get money from it.
He was now a shareholder in Yipinzhai, which was a rare opportunity. Yipinzhai had so many branches, and 500 taels of silver might sound like a lot. As long as Yipinzhai didn't go bankrupt and the other party was honest, he wouldn't be afraid of not getting paid.
The two of them discussed the morning tea in the private room in the morning, and then Fang Ziye invited Fang and Liu to come over, and signed a document with him, and pressed their fingerprints, one for each of them.
Fang Ziye also told Liu and Fang a few words, all related to this.
Cao Xiangnan put such a thing in his arms, which was equivalent to a mountain of gold and silver for him in the future. He was excited just thinking about it, as if he had won the first prize of the Mark Six lottery and became a millionaire overnight.
It happened to be almost noon at this time, and many people came to eat in the building, so Cao Xiangnan made an appointment with Fang Ziye to come in the afternoon to teach the snacks to the chef in the building, and then write down the recipes and give them to Liu later.
"Good boy." Shopkeeper Liu also knew that this boy had come up with such a great idea for their boss, but they would also open a morning tea shop in the future, which would mean an extra income for the shop.
In addition, all new snacks would be launched here, and he felt that he was one step ahead of the boss.