When leaving, Shen's mother warned Chen Chen: "Brother Chen, you can't go up the mountain casually like before. Don't run outside often. Do you hear me?"
"I know, Mom. You've said it so many times that my ears are almost callused." Chen Chen said helplessly.
Mother Shen didn't care about Shen Zhen's helplessness at all. She knew her brother's temperament very well. This brother was very brave, so she said to He Jinshu: "Jinshu, you should keep an eye on him more often. If he dares to run outside, come back and tell me, and I will take care of him."
"Okay, Mom." He Jinshu said with a faint smile.
Seeing this, Shen Zhen curled his lips in dissatisfaction, and then said to Shen's mother and Shen's father: "Then Dad and Mom, let's go."
Upon hearing this, Mother Shen and Father Shen waved to them and told them to get in the car and go.
After greeting the two elders, He Jinshu got on the carriage with Chen Chen and drove back home.
The New Year is basically about visiting relatives and friends and attending parties, but Chen Zhen didn't participate in many activities. At most, he was taken by John Hsu to play on some hillsides near his home.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month, all the shops in the town started to open one after another, and the workshops in the village and the He family's workshops followed suit.
On the first day of work, Manager Qian came to the village to buy vinegar.
After a New Year's fermentation, the vinegar of their Wujia Village finally became famous. Soon after that, the names of the dishes that Chen Zhen asked Li Mo to announce also became famous, such as sour soup meatballs, sweet and sour fish, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, sweet and sour spare ribs, sweet and sour poached eggs, Laba garlic, vinegar braised pork, etc. In short, Chen Zhen asked Li Mo and others to promote all the vinegar-related delicacies.
Each town will say a few different dish names and let them research them on their own. Whatever they come up with will be the dish, and whoever cooks the best dish will make money first.
Shopkeeper Qian sat in the main hall of the He family, drinking tea while asking Chen Chen, "Brother Chen, this idea of selling vinegar was yours, right?"
"Yes!" Chen Chen nodded and said, "It's because the vinegar sales in our village are not good, so I came up with this idea."
Shopkeeper Qian looked at Chen Chen with some anticipation and asked, "Brother Chen, since you know the names of so many foods, you must be able to cook them, right?"
He Jinshu interrupted after hearing this and said, "It was indeed Ah Zhen who came up with the name, but vinegar didn't exist before, so he had never made any related food. He has been researching these foods recently, just like Shopkeeper Qian."
After hearing this, Shopkeeper Qian eagerly asked, "How is it going? Have you figured it out?"
"I've researched two." He Jinshu said calmly.
"Which two?"
"Sweet and sour pork ribs and sweet and sour poached eggs."
After hearing this, Shopkeeper Qian carefully asked, "I wonder if Mr. He is willing to sell the recipes for these two dishes to our restaurant?"
This Mr. He is not as simple and straightforward as Chen Zhen, so Manager Qian was much more cautious when speaking and would not directly ask him to sell it to him like Chen Zhen did.
He Jinshu did not refuse this time, but said directly: "I can sell it to you, but I want Manager Qian to agree to one condition for me."
"What conditions? Tell me."
"If someone asks you about it, you can announce that these two dishes were developed by your restaurant yourself," said He Jinshu.
Because there is no vinegar in Dongli Country, many of the dish names are things that people have never heard of or seen before. If many restaurants cannot figure out the names of the dishes, then the credibility of the dish names will definitely be greatly reduced. But what if there is a restaurant that figures out the names of the dishes?
The pressure will then be put on other restaurants, and they will believe that these dish names must really exist, but they just don’t have the ability to research them.
This realization will certainly make some restaurants unwilling to accept it, and at the same time, they will feel more pressured. Pressure brings motivation. In order to make their restaurants make money faster than others, they will definitely increase their research efforts and continue to launch foods named after vinegar to attract customers.
In this competitive environment, the one who benefits the most is definitely Wujia Village.
Manager Qian had been the manager for many years. When he heard He Jinshu's request, he roughly guessed his purpose. However, this kind of thing was a win-win situation for both of them. The restaurant could make money by buying the recipe, and He Jinshu and his team could also increase the sales of Wujiacun vinegar.
So after thinking about it for a while, Manager Qian agreed to He Jinshu's request.
After that, the two parties signed a contract and the transaction was completed.
When Manager Qian left, in addition to buying seasonings from the He family, he also took away several hundred kilograms of vinegar from the village. Wujia Village had not yet opened a sales point in the town, so wealthy families almost always bought vinegar in restaurants. In addition, their boss also had restaurants elsewhere, so the amount of vinegar they bought each time was the largest among the restaurants.
After seeing off Shopkeeper Qian, Chen Chen and He Jinshu went to the study to register the accounts as usual.
Chen Zhen looked at the silver and sighed pretentiously, then said, "Earning too much money is also a kind of trouble."
He Jinshu looked at him and smiled faintly, asking, "Your family used to make quite a bit of money, didn't they? Why didn't you think about living in a town or somewhere more prosperous?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhen said frankly, "There's no scholar in our family, so life is the same wherever we go. Besides, the town isn't very wealthy, and their house isn't as good as mine. I can cook the food myself, so it doesn't matter whether I go or not.
Besides, life in the town is worse than in the village. In the village, I can run all over the mountains and fields, but what can I do in the town? The space is small, and there are people everywhere. It's not fun at all.
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