Chapter 19,
So the most urgent thing was to hurry to the west of the city to pay and get back her customized signboard, and also to buy some fresh meat, braise some meat and wait to sell it at the night market in the evening.
There was no time to prepare other food in less than a day, and she was the only one working in the store now and she couldn't handle it all. The meat only needed to be washed, put into the pot with seasonings and braised for half a day before it could be sold.
It’s relatively simple, so Su Guoer’s first choice is braised pork, which is their family’s signature dish.
Don't underestimate braised meat! Unlike the dry and tough braised meats sold elsewhere, Su Guoer's braised meat recipe is a family tradition, made with over a dozen ingredients. The aroma is truly unique! Her father used to braise meat for her at farmers' homes, otherwise, if the aroma got out in the wild, it would surely attract countless wolves.
Eat up all their braised meat.
Apart from anything else, Su Guo'er had never tasted such delicious braised meat in Bianjing City. She had been searching for it for a long time and couldn't find it, so she wanted to replicate the taste of her father's. She also thought that this braised meat was so fragrant that it would definitely be a big hit if it was sold outside!
After simply tidying up the stove, Su Guoer changed into coarse clothes, carried a package, and went along the Bian River to the Qingyu Market Butcher Shop in the east to buy meat.
As she passed by Daxiangguo Temple, she could still hear the faint chimes of the bells echoing inside, and her steps were particularly brisk.
Looking at the cruise ships on the Bian River and the women washing clothes on the roadside chatting happily, her expression couldn't help but become happy.
The world outside is different. Even though it's working hours, there are still many pedestrians strolling around, and peddlers hawking their wares along the streets. They sell everything from sachets, bamboo baskets, silk flowers, handkerchiefs, combs, and so on. There are also many street stalls, all set up with just a piece of cloth. They sell household items like bamboo chopsticks, ceramic pots, porcelain bowls, bamboo backpacks, wool blankets, etc. It's a bustling scene.
Su Guoer stopped in front of a small stall selling porcelain bowls along the street and ordered about a hundred bowls, plates, wine cups, etc. from the stall owner, asking him to deliver them to her shop before dark, and paid a deposit.
Then she walked all the way to the herd shop and ordered about 100 kilograms of live fish to be raised in the pond in the yard. After all, there was a pond with running water, and the fish would not die. She also asked for 200 farm eggs and a dozen free-range chickens and quails, which could also be raised in the yard, so that she could just kill one when cooking for freshness.
There was no rush for the delivery date because these were not necessities, so the delivery date was chosen to be three days later. She paid a small deposit first, and the other party gave her some valuable items as a deed.
This will prevent both parties from regretting their commitments.
In addition, Su Guoer came to the butcher shop, selected a butcher shop, and ordered 50 kilograms of mutton, 100 kilograms of pork, two pig heads, 30 pig elbows, five pig ears, and 10 pig tails.
It was agreed that the waiter inside would deliver it to her at the restaurant right away.
There is a rule in Bianjing City that if you buy a lot of goods at one time and the distance is close, the store will arrange staff to deliver them to show their intention to retain customers. If the distance is far... then the buyer needs to hire someone to transport the goods over. It doesn't cost much money. You can just shout a few times outside and a bunch of carters will come to transport the goods.
This was Su Guoer's first time buying meat from this butcher shop, and she bought so much at once. Seeing her unfamiliar, the butcher immediately arranged for someone to bring the meat over. After all, they couldn't afford to miss out on such a big client.
Su Guoer paid the deposit first.
Three taels of silver.
Mutton costs forty coins per pound, pork is cheaper at thirty-five coins per pound, and other meat from the pig, such as pig heads and tails, costs twenty-eight coins per pound.
As for getting into the water...
Su Guoer glanced at the several large wooden barrels placed in the corner of the butcher shop. The barrels were filled with fresh pork and mutton offal. There was a wooden sign next to it, which read, "Pork offal: five cents per catty, mutton offal: eight cents per catty." Because they were so fresh, the smell was particularly disgusting, but the butcher shop was full of this smell, and it made no difference whether you were far away or close.
Anyway, from the moment she came in, Su Guoer covered her nose with a handkerchief.
The smell was so pungent that the butcher's shop owner had to wear a handkerchief he had sewn himself.
Seeing that Su Guoer was interested in these offal, he walked over and asked, "Young lady, are you interested in these offal?"
"If you're interested, you can pick one out. Consider it a gift from me, a favor. In the future, young lady, please come and patronize my business more often."
Su Guoer raised her head and covered her handkerchief with her handkerchief, smiling: "Thank you very much, shopkeeper. Just help me get a set of sheep offal."
She didn't say anything polite. In business, you have to be willing to give. If you are willing to give, you will gain. The goal is to build a long-term friendship, and no one is exempt from it.
The store manager was not vague and immediately picked out a pair of top-quality lamb offal and put them on the ox cart that was delivering the goods to Su Guoer. He also tore off a small piece of fat from the pork stall nearby and added it in, saying that he would use it to make oil for Su Guoer.
Su Guoer thanked him again.
The owner of the butcher shop outside was arranging his men to load pork and mutton from the backyard onto the ox cart, while Su Guoer came to the vegetable stall nearby. She saw some fresh fruits and vegetables on the stall and couldn't help but buy some for herself.
Turning around, she saw an old man pushing a cart with a load of lotus roots. She immediately became interested and asked, "Uncle, how much are these lotus roots for?" without caring whether the old man had parked the cart properly.
The old man stopped his car after hearing this, apologized to the stall owner next to him, and began to answer Su Guoer: "For sale, I want to sell them. One penny per pound. They are all fresh lotus roots brought from Hanshan Temple outside the city. Do you want any?"
Not expensive, but definitely fresh.
Su Guoer: "Okay, give me a hundred pounds."
This frightened the old man. A hundred pounds? He had never seen a customer buy lotus roots like this before. However, he still packed the lotus roots and tied them up with straw ropes. He put them on the ox cart that was loaded with meat and asked the shop owner to pull it over together. It was only about two or three blocks away.
Su Guoer paid the silver. One hundred kilograms of lotus roots cost one hundred coins. It didn't seem like much, but with so much meat, it filled up an entire ox cart. Well, now the ox cart could no longer hold anything else.
She asked the shop assistant to drive the ox cart to the designated location, and then she slowly started walking back.
Passing by a firewood seller, she ordered two carts of firewood for two hundred coins. Passing by a rice store, she turned around and went in to buy fifty catties of yellow rice, fifty catties of ordinary white rice, and two hundred catties of each of white flour and corn flour, which cost her five taels of silver.
This is not even the biggest expense. Su Guoer knows.
The most important thing for this braised meat to taste good is spices.
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