Chapter 78 Iron Stick Yam Doesn't Play by the Rules
After Lin Yunqing's reminder, Shen Jiang realized that he had everything the other party lacked.
She had all the recipes for herbal remedies in her head, and she had so many exquisite herbs from otherworldly sources. How could she have narrowed her path? She also had suitable agricultural products. She'd explore the otherworld and ask around. If she could find any, they would be the most natural, pollution-free, and organic food. If not, she could always find a way to hire someone to grow them.
When Lin Yunqing's restaurant opens, she and her grandmother won't have to worry about cooking anymore, and they will have the most reliable canteen.
The more Shen Jiang thought about it, the more beautiful it became.
He expressed on the spot his willingness to join Lin Yunqing's store by investing in technology and medicinal materials.
"You know my level. Don't worry about my medicinal materials. As for vegetables and meat, I can help you find a way to solve them."
Lin Yunqing opened his mouth silently, as if he couldn't believe what he heard.
Although she suddenly had the illusion that she not only did not control the lifeline of the restaurant, but was also working for someone else, after listening to Shen Jiang's entire plan, Lin Yunqing's eyes completely lit up.
"You mean you don't participate in the daily work of the restaurant, and are only responsible for providing recipe suggestions and ingredients and herbs?"
Is there such a good thing in this world?
Shen Jiang nodded. "You said you have experience running a restaurant, and I believe you. Besides, I'm very busy here and don't have time to come and help with the management. You just need to give me a commission."
She wanted to make a lot of money to let her grandmother live a peaceful and prosperous life in her later years, buy a lot of crystal stones to improve her magic level. She also had to grow medicinal herbs and hire people to prepare them, all of which required upfront investment.
"Doctor Shen, to be honest, if you want to open a herbal medicine restaurant, it has nothing to do with me. You are just playing with me. If you don't take the lion's share, you should at least take half."
Shen Jiang shook his head. "With so many high-tech pre-prepared meals on the market, it's easy to make money shady, but those who want to make money honestly are few and far between. Don't think you're taking advantage of this. We're mutually beneficial, and I'm proposing this partnership because I trust you. But if you can't make it work, you'll be the one who loses money and bears the risk."
Lin Yunqing was stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. Yes, he rented a shop and hired a chef, and he also had to find a way to attract customers. To be honest, he had paid a lot.
In the end, the two agreed that Lin Yunqing would take 70% of the restaurant's profits and Shen Jiang would take 30%.
Lin Yunqing: "Doctor Shen, don't worry, I will do my best to make this small restaurant prosperous."
After Chen Houkang and Chen Ru heard about Shen Jiang's plan, especially that Shen Jiang did not need to invest any money and only needed to provide vegetables grown by the villagers themselves and medicinal herbs from her store, they expressed their support.
"Many people in our countryside grow vegetables, but they can't even eat them all themselves. They take them to the market and sell them for a dozen yuan at most. If you want them, I can just bring them to Mingxin Hall every day."
Chen Houkang was worried that after introducing the vegetable farmer to the restaurant owner, she would turn against him, so he decided to take the trouble to help Shen Jiang deliver the vegetables.
Shen Jiang didn't know the twists and turns here yet. She was thinking about what menu to provide to Lin Yunqing's restaurant.
Since we want to run a restaurant specializing in medicinal food, we must make special medicinal food that other restaurants cannot make.
The summer solstice is coming soon. Summer belongs to the element of fire in the five elements, and when summer arrives, the heart fire surges, leading to irritability and restlessness. The most common problem when you can't calm down is insomnia.
Thinking of this, Shen Jiang immediately came up with the first menu: sour jujube kernel, lotus seed and old duck soup.
It can nourish yin, moisten dryness, and calm the mind.
"Doctor Shen, how much do these herbs cost? Let me calculate the cost."
Lin Yunqing's expression changed as soon as Shen Jiang quoted the price.
"Doctor Shen, why are these sour jujube kernels so expensive? One gram costs 20 yuan. Add to that the other herbs and the old duck you mentioned, and the cost of this dish alone must be almost 500 yuan."
What she didn't say was that even if this dish was sold at cost price in the city center, it probably wouldn't fetch a high price.
Shen Jiang scratched her head. She'd only considered the universality and medicinal properties of the dish, and had overlooked the price. Lin Yunqing's restaurant primarily targeted the residents of these residential buildings, most of whom were migrant workers and temporary white-collar workers. Not only could they not afford a dish like this, but even Lin Yunqing himself wouldn't be willing to eat it.
The cost of medicinal materials is a really good question.
Some people find even the cost of life-saving medicine too expensive, let alone this kind of medicinal food that is more expensive than medicine.
Shen Jiang: "Why don't we change this to a hidden menu? You can introduce it to regular customers later."
Lin Yunqing suddenly realized: "That's fine. Sister Yi'an likes this kind of hidden menu that is only available to regular customers. She doesn't care about the price, she only cares about the quality of the food. If she is willing to help us promote it, everyone in her circle is a potential customer for this dish."
Shen Jiang nodded: "Just take care of these."
She didn't deliberately lower the price. Firstly, the origins of the fine herbs she had were unknown. If she deliberately sold them at a low price, it would easily arouse suspicion. Speaking of which, last time, my uncle and his companions had asked my grandmother about the source of the herbs. I wonder if they've bothered her again in the past few days.
If cost is taken into consideration, the basic dishes in Lin Yunqing's restaurant should be based on the ingredients themselves, which coincides with Lin Yunqing's original plan.
That is to focus on the ingredients themselves, pay attention to controlling the quality of the ingredients, and achieve a nourishing effect.
With this idea in mind, the second dish came into being: winter melon and shredded chicken soup.
The ingredients are simple, but they can dispel dampness and relieve summer heat. The key is to preserve the wax gourd peel and seeds. The wax gourd peel can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, while the wax gourd seeds can clear heat and resolve phlegm.
The following medicinal foods are mainly based on the warming and nourishing properties of the ingredients themselves. For example, yam, which is both a medicine and a food, can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and nourish the kidneys. It can be taken for a long time.
Yam and mutton soup is suitable for people with yang deficiency.
After collecting the data, Shen Jiang realized that while they were collaborating, they were still following Lin Yunqing's ideas. The medicinal cuisine she could provide was still targeted at a high-end audience. If small restaurants wanted to survive, they still had to rely on a low-income approach.
After all, she is the owner of a restaurant that has been running for seven or eight years, and her business sense has become an instinct.
Shen Jiang scratched her head. Would 30% be too much for her?
Seeing Lin Yunqing's cheerful face as she prepared to go out to buy food, with no grudges at all, Shen Jiang thought for a moment and decided to go to the market with her.
After all, she is a dual-element magician of light and wood who has awakened her magical talent. Going to the vegetable market to pick vegetables is really like running into her territory.
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"Doctor Shen, what do you think of this yam?"
Shen Jiang shook his head as he looked at the yam with abnormally high levels of dark elements.
Lin Yunqing figured it out and turned to another store, but the high-quality iron stick yams from six or seven stores in a row failed to satisfy Shen Jiang.
Shen Jiang sighed, "The yams here are all bad. The quality is too poor. Eating them is not only useless to the body, but may even cause toxins to accumulate."
Lin Yunqing was shocked: "It's so serious."
She thought the yam was quite expensive, and this was the kind of yam she used to buy in her store.
After hearing what they said, several customers standing in front of the stall put down the yams in their hands and hurriedly left the stall.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man. Seeing that the customers who had already packed their food had left, he suddenly became anxious: "Hey, what's wrong with you? I'm selling the best iron stick yams in the whole market. Do you know what they are? If you think it's too expensive, you don't have to buy it!"
The stall owner's face was full of disgust as he looked the two of them up and down, almost saying that he had no money and was pretending to be rich.
Several other stall owners stepped forward and said, "That's right, you two women are causing trouble instead of buying any vegetables!"
The middle-aged male stall owner continued, "We only have authentic iron stick yams here, so feel free to buy them. Selling fakes in our market will result in a fine. If you really buy fakes, you will be the one making a profit."
They were numerous and powerful, but Shen Jiang remained calm and composed. These people were just ordinary people. She had even witnessed the pressure of a giant dragon, so why would she be afraid of them?
Shen Jiang: "These are just sandy iron stick yams. They're poisonous yams grown with pesticides sprayed every ten days. They have a short growth cycle and look thick, straight, and long. The real high-quality iron stick yams are the Lushan iron stick yams. They need to grow in the mountains for four or five years without pesticides to grow well."
In the past, it was her boyfriend, a chef, who would go and buy the vegetables. Lin Yunqing had never thought that even choosing vegetables required such a profound skill. She asked, "What does the Lushan yam look like?"
"Because the soil in Luoshan is hard, the yams that grow normally must be curved, not straight." Shen Jiang said calmly, while observing the stall owners whose faces were getting darker and darker.
Although this is a society ruled by law, by saying this, she is endangering other people's livelihoods. She really can't say what these people will do if they are pushed into a corner.
But this market is selling this kind of yam, and they claim it is the best quality yam. Isn't this harmful? Usually, the elderly buy such expensive vegetables specifically for their children. Children are weak, and eating this kind of yam is not only not good for their health, but also damages their underdeveloped organs.
"This kind of yam that grows big and looks good cannot be eaten." Shen Jiang said to Lin Yunqing seriously with a sullen face.
Seeing how stubborn she was, several stall owners became furious and just wanted to kick her out.
"If you don't leave now, I'll beat you up!"
Shen Jiang walked to the other end and heard the stall owners humming smugly behind her. The laughter made her frown.
Lin Yunqing thought that the two of them, women, would easily suffer in such a place, so she decided to forget it. However, she didn't expect Shen Jiang to first walk towards the market exit, then suddenly changed direction halfway and went directly to the market management center on the second floor.
"Hey, Dr. Shen, where are you going?"
"Didn't you say you can get money for reporting? I'll go get it."
Lin Yunqing opened her mouth silently behind her back. She turned her head to look at the stalls behind her, and seeing that no one was paying attention to this side, she hurriedly followed.
The market side had a very good attitude, and they were received by a slightly plump middle-aged female leader.
Self-media is popular these days. Looking at the two young and beautiful girls in front of her, the female leader was worried that they were hiding hidden suspects, so she cooperated very well throughout the process.
"You two are very kind. Rest assured, our market will never again have yams with excessive pesticide residues. However, I hope you can also understand that those vendors are victims too. After all, they didn't grow these vegetables themselves, and they had no idea the farmers used so many pesticides. It's not easy for everyone, and we still have to run our businesses. Please be kind and refrain from exposing this online. Let's leave this matter alone. Is that ok with you?"
Seeing that Shen Jiangzhen reported all the vegetable stalls in the market on his own and received a reward for reporting, Lin Yunqing couldn't help but sigh that knowledge is power. Look, isn't this making money with knowledge?
Finally, after running around several markets, they came across a shop selling authentic Luoshan iron stick yam. Shen Jiang was very generous and bought all of it.
Lin Yunqing was surprised: "We can't finish this much in a short time."
Shen Jiang spoke immediately, "This yam is the only one that meets the quality requirements for both medicine and food. It's so rare, I plan to share some with my friend."
In fact, she planned to take some of the yams to the other world and find suitable soil to plant them. If the other world didn't have this kind of yams, she would consider it as helping to introduce them.
If there is, that would be even better. These can be regarded as supplements for the natives of the other world.
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