Chapter 33,
The work is just a little bit fragmented, and Su Guoer has already told them in advance that if they are willing to come, they can try working for a day first. The first day's wages are 150 coins, and they can decide whether to stay after today.
If you stay, the wages will be 200 wen a day.
200 wen was enough for an ordinary family of three to eat and drink for three days. It was quite a bit in Bianjing. I heard that the daily wages for women workers in the nearby textile factories were only 180 wen, and that didn't even include food.
Su Guoer's restaurant provides three meals a day, and the food is no different from what she eats herself. She can be full and eat well, which is something that ordinary restaurants really cannot do.
Of course, if you are not quick and agile, she won't want it. This is a process that tests both parties.
The two newly recruited helpers are much older than Su Guoer. One is called Chunniang and the other is called Cui Niangzi. Both of them have given birth to several children and are very good at their work.
They didn't mind that the mutton offal was dirty and smelly. After Su Guoer gave them the work, they started working hard and didn't let Su Guoer worry.
Su Guoer can also find time to go out shopping.
You need to use more flour, including white flour, corn flour, and mixed rice flour. Since white flour is more expensive, the dumpling wrappers used for the pot stickers cannot be made of pure white flour. You have to add some mixed rice flour to save costs.
Don't worry about it not being tasty. The dumpling wrappers made with multi-grain rice and flour will be more chewy and elastic.
White rice, glutinous rice, corn, millet, various beans, and a bag of refined white rice, which is for the nobles. If there are such exquisite diners coming, it is not impolite to serve them with this refined white rice. Of course, the price of white rice made from different types of rice is naturally different.
The above flour and rice do not require much, only about 200 kilograms each, and they can be placed in the storage room on the side of the kitchen. You can just move them in when needed.
Su Guoer also planned to order a dozen free-range chickens and ducks to raise in the yard, but the yard was too small for them, and there was a fish pond in the middle, so she had to give up. If she needed them in the future, she could ask someone to buy them for her.
Let’s ignore this for now.
Su Guoer first came to Xifang City and called a few bricklayers who were repairing houses. She gave them 18 taels of silver and asked them to help repair the other two tiled houses. She then went to buy some quilts and cotton, intending to make the bedding for herself and Pang Ya thicker.
It was still a bit chilly in spring, and the bedding she brought from the Duke's Mansion was a bit thin, and she also needed to make a few more sets of clothes.
She didn't have many private clothes in the Duke's Mansion before, and after she came out, she realized that she had too few clothes. In addition, the fabrics given by the old lady were too luxurious and not suitable for wearing outside. After all, she was just a restaurant owner now.
And those fabrics are obviously good stuff.
After paying the deposit for the clothes, Su Guoer bought a cart of vegetables from Xifang Market and put them in the kitchen for future use.
There are also wooden barrels, stoves, etc., on which the braised meat is placed to keep it warm.
After a busy period, Su Guoer had spent a lot of money and felt a little distressed. However, when she returned to the restaurant and saw that all the meat and mutton offal had been cleaned, she suddenly felt less sad.
She was lucky to have two such hardworking helpers. Her snack bar would surely prosper in the future!
Su Guoer stewed the braised meat first, and then set up another stove to prepare lunch.
One meat dish and three vegetable dishes. If the portions were a little larger, it would probably be enough for several people.
So Su Guoer made a dish of greasy minced chicken fried with eggplant, a plate of eggplant fried with raw flour, a plate of bamboo shoots fried with lard, and a plate of fish-flavored cabbage hearts at noon.
The meat and three vegetables were quickly finished. After the meal was ready, Qianxi came over, smelling the aroma. "What delicious food did you make? I can smell it from far away. Is there any for me?"
She came forward and lay down beside Su Guoer, sniffing the aroma of the food in the pot while stretching her neck to look into the pot.
"Wow! It smells so good! Is this for the diners? I don't see any diners outside."
Wen Qianxi asked in confusion.
The main reason is that the dishes are very oily, and the vegetarian dishes are also cooked with animal oil, so every dish here looks particularly tempting!
For those who don't often eat meat, just this one bite of the dish can make them finish half a bowl of rice!
Su Guoer: "There are no diners outside, we are eating this by ourselves."
Wen Qianxi became even more suspicious: "Is it so good to eat by yourself?"
Not to mention that the meat dish contained a pheasant worth 30 cents, there was also some pork added to the fish coriander.
This, this...
Isn’t the food for the helpers too good?
"Isn't it a bit too luxurious?" She whispered to Su Guoer when no one was in the kitchen.
Su Guo'er didn't care much: "It doesn't matter, it's lunch time now. The standard lunch price I give is 60 coins per meal. These dishes don't exceed the standard I set."
"And if the store is really busy, the food won't be so exquisite. Since I still have time today, I might as well make it myself."
Wen Qianxi finally understood and nodded, "So these dishes only cost sixty coins? If they were sold at Qianweilou, they would probably cost me more than two taels of silver!"
"My cooking skills may not be as good as yours. Oh my god, when I think about it this way, all the money I spent on other restaurants must have been wasted." She stood by the pot with a look of regret on her face, drooling at the four dishes she had cooked.
"Sister Guoer, I want to eat at your place today"
Su Guoer: "Sure, I cooked a lot of rice, so a few more people can still have enough to eat."
Fatty was already sitting at the table, eager to get some food.
Chunniang and Cui Niang followed Su Guoer, carrying the plates of food, and finally put them on the table, then sat down. There were few people in the restaurant now, so they didn't care too much.
Wen Qianxi was the first to pick up a piece of fish and coriander with chopsticks. After eating it, he hummed with satisfaction: "Yeah, I mean in the afternoon, a few brothers from my escort agency are coming to your place to get together. You can just cook a few tables of food for them. Oh, by the way, you don't have any drinks here, right? We can bring our own drinks. I just want to ask you, are you free this afternoon?"
Su Guoer: “I have time.”
Wen Qianxi was trying to attract business for her shop, how could she refuse?
"How many people are coming here? Are there any food restrictions so I can prepare dishes," she asked again.
Wen Qianxi: "We're inviting people to dinner. They don't have any dietary restrictions, but they're going to drink. You can cut them a big plate of your braised meat. They love it!"
Su Guoer: “No problem.”
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