Zhuo Zheng had eaten canned food several times.
The workshop would have a meal of meat every three days, and some of the time it was canned meat, with each person getting a big spoonful.
Although he was picky, he had to admit that canned meat was really delicious.
In addition to canned mutton, he also tried canned braised pork once and liked the taste even more.
It’s a pity that I only ate it once.
He asked, "Do you have canned braised pork?"
The shopkeeper smiled and shook his head. "We don't have that. We only have a few kinds of canned mutton and canned fruit."
"For other canned meats, the sales are limited to 30 portions per day, and each person can only buy one portion. For those of us who sell food in inns and restaurants, if we want to buy or eat, we have to queue up."
He himself also likes several kinds of canned meat, but unfortunately they are too hard to get.
In the past, people here didn’t like to eat pork because the pork they cooked had a strong smell and was not tasty.
But after eating various canned pork, he found that pork is actually quite delicious.
And chicken, it turns out there are so many ways to cook it besides boiling or stewing.
Zhuo Zheng was also a little disappointed. "Okay, then give me a can of braised lamb."
He asked, "How much is a can?"
The shopkeeper replied, "Fifty-five coins a can."
They paid forty-five cents for it from the workshop, which was five cents more expensive than the limited quantity sold in the workshop every day, but they could make ten cents after reselling a can, which was pretty good.
The daily special offer canned food at the canning workshop is sold out at 60 cents a can.
They sell it five cents a can cheaper than the canning factory, so many people buy it.
The key is that these food shops can sell food separately.
A can of mutton contains one pound of mutton. Some people cannot bear to buy a whole can, so they can order a bowl of noodles with a few pieces of canned mutton at a food store, which only costs ten cents. Many people are still willing to eat it.
Or add a few pieces of lamb to the stew, it becomes more delicious and you can taste the flavor of canned lamb.
So now all the major food shops are doing good business. Everyone knows that this is the care given to them by the county magistrate and his wife, and they are very grateful to them.
In particular, recently, many caravans have come from the Western Regions, the Arab world and other places, all of which have come to their county to buy canned food, soap, woolen products and so on.
In the past, caravans like these would not be willing to live in the county town.
But since the inns and food shops were renovated and a lot of homestays were added, these caravans were retained.
Some caravans originally only wanted to stay for a day or two before leaving.
But because there are more and more snacks in the county town, homestays are cheap, and inns are very comfortable to live in, people always stay a few more days.
He has a wealthy caravan on his side that has already stayed in the inn for seven days. It is said that they want to stay for a few more days and queue up to taste all the canned foods before leaving.
In the past, it was normal for their inn to have no guests for several days, but now it is basically full every day.
In addition to the caravans, there were also people who came from other places specifically to buy canned food and taste the delicacies.
The county magistrate and his wife had only been in the county town for more than two months, but the county town had already undergone considerable changes. Now everyone could not help but be full of hope for life.
Zhuo Zheng was naturally willing to eat it, "Okay, go and help me cook noodles, I'm hungry."
The shopkeeper smiled and asked his wife to cook the noodles, then heated the cans and brought them to Zhuo Zheng.
Zhuo Zheng ate mutton noodles and felt that this was life.
He also discovered that there were more people coming and going in the inn.
Hearing the shopkeeper's praises for Shi Qingluo and his wife, he thought to himself that Shi Qingluo was truly a golden child. If he could bring her back home, he wouldn't have to worry about money to restore his country.
After finishing the noodles and a can of mutton, Zhuo Zheng burped.
I bought another can of canned grapes and carried it back to the room.
A moment later, two men in black walked into the room.
After the two entered the room, they half-knelt in front of Zhuo Zheng and said, "Greetings, Young Master!"
He asked, "How's your investigation going?"
One of the men in black replied, "Young Master, the workshops are too alert and we haven't made any progress yet."
In the past, Zhuo Zheng would definitely not be able to resist calling them trash, but this time he held back.
After all, he went there but failed to steal the recipe. If he were to be scolded, wouldn't he be scolded as well?
He ordered, "Then continue to explore, and find a way to get the prescription."
The man in black said respectfully: "Yes!"
Zhuo Zheng really didn't want to live without money.
He thought for a moment and said, "In a few days, you bring a group of people and pretend to be hired by my mother from the North City to find me and protect me, and bring me some silver."
In this way, if anything happens, he can still order the guards.
He can also let his subordinates do the work openly, otherwise it would be too painful for him to rely on himself.
The man in black nodded, "Yes!"
Zhuo Zheng then waved his hand, "Okay, go down."
After everyone left, Zhuo Zheng saw a lot of storybooks on a bookshelf by the wall, so he took out one and read it while eating canned fruit.
I have to say, living in this inn now really makes me feel at home.
The room he lived in was only Room C. He just heard from the shopkeeper that Rooms A and B had separate toilets and bathrooms.
He planned to wait for two days until his people pretended to arrive, and then he would pay for the room change himself.
Zhuo Zheng was reading the storybook leisurely here, while Xiao Hanzheng and Shi Qingluo also received the news.
Xiao Hanzheng had people keeping an eye on Zhuo Zheng all the time.
However, I only know that some men in black met Zhuo Zheng. It was not convenient to eavesdrop in the inn, so I don’t know what they said.
But Zhuo Zheng will definitely take some action. Xiao Hanzheng guessed that Zhuo Zheng might let his own people appear openly.
This would be more conducive to his deployment.
After a while, a letter came from North City, specifically addressed to Shi Qingluo.
Shi Qingluo was still a little confused. Who would write to her? Prince Jin had already sent Liang Mingyu to discuss the road construction, so it shouldn't be Prince Jin.
Could it be the best product of the Xiao family?
Shi Qingluo opened the letter and read it with some curiosity.
After reading it, I couldn't help but frown.
Seeing this, Xiao Hanzheng, who was handling official business, put down his pen and asked, "Madam, what's wrong?"
Shi Qingluo replied: "This is the letter that the old lady asked Xiao Dalang to write."
"She said that not long ago, Prince Jin's daughter, Princess Zhen, visited the general's residence and met Ge Chunru."
"And he praised his father to Ge Chunru for his good looks, elegance and grace."
"Ge Chunru told Princess Zhen that you, Xiao Yuanshi's son, are more handsome and more charming."
"Princess Zhen immediately became very interested in you and asked a lot about you."
"Ge Chunru kept praising you, saying that you were the man that all the girls from the noble families in the capital wanted to marry."
"The old lady is now helping Tao Liu as the housekeeper, so she bribed a maidservant beside Ge Chunru and found out about this."
"She said that Ge Chunru might have bad intentions and might want to encourage that princess to snatch you away, so she asked me to be on guard."
This was also a gesture of goodwill from Old Lady Xiao to her. Once there was any movement in the General's Mansion, she would ask Xiao Dalang to write a letter to inform her.
(End of this chapter)
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