Chapter 3176 Very Confident
His smile froze and he raised his hand to salute.
Zhou Man waved his hand and said with a smile: "No need to be so polite."
He hissed again and said, "Don't be so loud."
Then he pulled Mingda a little further away to prevent her from being smoked.
She leaned against another wall in the alley and said to Mingda, "Don't worry, my sister-in-law is not someone who will suffer any loss."
Mingda: "...but my sister-in-law has always been gentle, and I'm worried that she will suffer."
Zhou Man waved his hand confidently and said, "Don't worry, my sister-in-law won't suffer any loss!"
She was so sure, Mingda could only wait and see.
Although there were many people, and they were blocking the door and making a lot of noise, little Qian's expression didn't change much. It was Zheng, who was playing with her children in the yard, who heard the noise and came over and was startled by what she saw. Bai Jingxing and Bai Ruoyu, who were being coaxed in the arms of the maids, were also attracted and looked over with wide eyes.
When Xiao Qian saw this, she was afraid that the two children would be frightened, so she waved at them and asked them to take the children away quickly.
Looking back, she saw that they were still shouting and talking at the same time, so she couldn't help but shout, "Stop it!"
Everyone was shocked by her voice and the scene became quiet for a moment.
Little Qian finally smiled a little, but she was still mostly serious. "I heard you want to buy pork from the manor? That's easy. You can go find the manager at the manor, or I'll ask Mr. Cui to come over and you can talk to him."
Everyone was quiet for a while before saying, "Madam Zhou, this pork has a smell. Although it's quite mild, if you use less ingredients, the smell won't go away. But if you use more spices, the price will go up."
"For the same price, everyone will definitely prefer lamb," the man continued. "But we've all tried Madam Zhou's dishes. While some of them use spices, they're not as abundant, and some don't use any at all, making them much cheaper."
The other party smiled at Xiao Qian and stopped talking, hoping that she could understand what he had not said.
Xiao Qian understood it. After all, she had not lived in vain for these decades. But if you want to learn her cooking, you can continue.
Xiao Qian looked at them in silence. Everyone stared at each other and didn't say anything for a long time.
Finally, Xiao Qian couldn't stand the chattering and procrastination of a group of grown men anymore, so she simply asked, "Do you want to learn how to cook my dishes?"
Everyone nodded and explained, "Pork dishes can only be sold at a lower price than mutton. If our restaurant had Madam Zhou's skills, there would definitely be a lot of people buying our pork. By then, we might be able to contract the pig farming capacity of an entire Guantian farm."
"Tsk. How big is your restaurant? My restaurant wouldn't even dare to directly contract out the entire Guantian Farm's output. But I will buy as much as I can. As long as our chef can make dishes like that, we will definitely need a lot of pork in the future."
Xiao Qian finally understood why Bai Shan said that giving away vegetables was a good idea. Not only could they sell the pigs in the farm, but they also didn't squeeze out the butchers in the vegetable market. She might even be able to earn some income.
However, before he left, he also reminded her that all the businessmen in this world are like Silang. They may be sweet-mouthed, but they will take advantage of others. Moreover, they are not her family members. Not only will they take advantage of others, they will also cheat them. So he told her not to listen to what they say, but to think about what she can get in return for her own abilities.
After a moment of contemplation, Xiao Qian said, "I can teach you, but I have conditions."
Everyone laughed and said, "You say, you say."
Xiao Qian said, "You may not know this, but I also own a restaurant at home."
Everyone: ...This is a bit embarrassing, let’s go together!
Xiao Qian said, "But my family's restaurant is not here, but in the capital."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Although my family's restaurant is not here, this is our way of eating after all. We can't just drop the bowl ourselves. So you can let me teach you, but what do you have to learn from me?"
Everyone: ...the magistrate's relatives asking for favors from them was indeed beyond their expectation. Since Bai Shan came to Beihai County, he had never accepted gifts beyond the ordinary etiquette.
When the county magistrate's daughter was one month old, Bai Shan returned all the gifts that were too expensive. However, when other families held banquets during this period, he gave gifts similar to the original amount, which shows his temper.
Some people were just thinking if this was an opportunity when they heard Xiao Qianshi say loudly, "I won't ask for much from you, because everyone has come to me. I've taught this, and it wouldn't be good if I didn't teach that. So each of you can just give me three to five hundred coins as a gift."
She said, "I'll make a dish for you three times and explain it in detail three times. How much you can learn depends on your own abilities. How do you think?"
Someone immediately said, "What's three or five hundred coins? Madam Zhou is too stingy with us. We wouldn't be able to serve such a good dish without thirty or fifty taels."
Even though several people nodded in agreement, the others were suddenly in a state of neither agreeing nor not agreeing.
If they don't accept it, it will be suspected that they are taking benefits from Xiao Qianshi for free, and they are afraid of offending County Magistrate Bai and Lord Zhou; if they accept it, thirty or fifty taels is indeed too much, and they don't want to pay so much.
While he was hesitating, Xiao Qian had already glared at the man and said loudly and seriously: "Don't harm my Manbao and brother-in-law!"
She said, "I know my own strengths. Since you've eaten my dishes, you should also know that they are just ordinary home-cooked dishes. Let alone if I teach so many of you at once, even if I teach just one person, the recipe is not worth thirty or fifty taels."
Xiao Qian looked at them warily, "Don't think you can trick me into accepting the money and then sue my Manbao and Baishan for taking bribes."
Everyone: "...No, no, Madam Zhou, how dare we?"
Xiao Qianshi: "How dare I? That's just what I thought, but I just didn't have the guts to do it."
Everyone: "No, no, we wouldn't even think about it. This is too disgusting."
"Yes, yes, it's very dirty. I think three or five hundred coins is very good."
The people who made the proposal immediately stopped talking and lowered their heads with regret. They had thought that they could take this opportunity to establish a different relationship with Lord Zhou, the magistrate of Bai County.
Xiao Qian then finalized the details with them, going back and forth without losing an inch. Because everyone was much quieter and Xiao Qian's voice was loud, Mingda could hear everything clearly from outside.
Mingda looked at Zhou Man in surprise. This was beyond her expectations. In her impression, Xiao Qian was a gentle and loving sister-in-law who cooked delicious food and was very caring.
But now...
Zhou Man said happily: "Didn't you expect it? My sister-in-law is capable."
She said, "She's the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, and she's very capable. Normally, my sister-in-law is very kind and gentle, but if Li Zhong and his friends do something wrong, she'll chase them from one end of the village to the other. If anyone in the village comes to argue with our family, my mother usually doesn't intervene. It's always my eldest sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law who scold them back."
Mingda: "...scold, curse back?"
"Yeah, I'll curse back," Zhou Man said confidently, "but my sister-in-law has become more and more gentle in the past few years, and I think I'll be like that in the future. Although everyone says I'm fierce now, when I grow up a little more, I will definitely become as gentle and amiable as my mother and sister-in-law."
Mingda curled his lips and said, "You are really confident in yourself."
See you tomorrow, good night
(End of this chapter)
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