"Manager Tao, forget about the sow, this braised food is so delicious! Pig offal can be made into something this good, we used to waste it all!" Butcher Wang chewed on the pig's heart and lungs, his face full of excitement. The pig offal he had thrown away could have piled up into a small mountain!
"From now on, I'll supply you with all the pig offal from my shop. That way, whenever I want to eat it, I'll come to your little restaurant!"
Seeing how excited Butcher Wang was, Tao Wanniang didn't mind letting him get excited a little more. "That would be perfect, let's eat first."
"Sister Tao, how much is this table for me?" Cheng Feng asked, suppressing a laugh. "Also, do you have any more braised food? I'd like to take some home for dinner."
"Lord Cheng, this table has a serving of braised snacks, stir-fried pork with ginger, and eggplant with garlic. You can also take another serving of braised food home. It will cost one tael of silver," Tao Wanniang said with a smile, providing professional service.
Cheng Feng took out a tael of silver and said with great interest, "Sister Tao is quite knowledgeable; she even knows about the postpartum care of livestock?"
Seeing Cheng Feng trying to suppress a laugh, Tao Wanniang said calmly, "We country folk either farm or raise livestock. I'm old enough to have seen more of the world."
"Please wait a moment, Lord Cheng. I'll pack you some braised food right away." Tao Wanniang said as she walked away, gave the money to Bai Yumei, and went to the kitchen to pack the braised food for Cheng Feng.
Tao Wan's mother specially gave extra of the braised food, which was wrapped in oil paper, because these were potential big customers!
After seeing Cheng Feng off, Butcher Wang had almost finished eating. Seeing that Cheng Feng had taken away some braised food, he said, "Manager Tao, pack me some too, I'll take it home for my family."
"Alright!" Without saying a word, Tao Wanniang went back to the kitchen and packed a large portion for Butcher Wang.
"Butcher Wang, this is also a tael of silver. I'll find out the postpartum care method for that sow and give it to you later!" Tao Wanniang said deliberately.
"Alright, alright, Manager Tao, you're so kind." Butcher Wang initially thought one tael of silver was quite expensive, considering he only sold pork for one hundred coins per pound. But seeing how much care Tao Wanniang had taken, he couldn't bring himself to complain.
After Butcher Wang left, Bai Yumei helped tidy up the table.
"Big sister, this lunch is four taels of silver in total, which is quite a lot!" Bai Yumei exclaimed, thinking how easy it was to make money!
"That's because we have good guests today. Ordinary people couldn't eat this much," Tao Wanniang said. "I'll draw up a menu later so it'll be easier to settle the bill."
"However, if we don't know anyone here, nobody knows about our restaurant. Sister, do you have any ideas?"
The simplest way is to find a few people to hand out flyers!
Tao Wan suddenly thought of a suitable candidate: the five local thugs. They had lost their livelihood here, so why not just give them a job?
“Take it slow, we’re all getting used to it,” Tao Wanniang said.
The lunch market was over. After tidying everything up with Bai Yumei, Tao Wanniang went next door to Jiang Youfu's shop and bought a set of writing implements.
"Yu Mei, the lunch market is closed. You can go to the side room to rest for a while. As for me, I need to think about that sow postpartum care thing, and how to let people know about our shop."
Bai Yumei was already feeling drowsy in the afternoon, and after hearing what Tao Wanniang said, she went to do so.
"Big sister, do you really know about that sow or something?" However, she still felt that Tao Wanniang was taking it too seriously.
"It's all passed down by word of mouth in the village, there's no other way. Luckily, I remember it all. Don't you think I'm being too concerned about this? Butcher Wang is an honest man. If we get along well, he'll give us the best meat and offal in the future!"
Bai Yumei was taken aback. Although it sounded like she was after something for personal gain, she couldn't deny that Tao Wanniang had really put her heart into it.
"Alright, big sister, I won't bother you any longer."
Tao Wanniang read through all the documents she had bought, and just as she was about to start writing, she suddenly froze and switched to her left hand.
Her signature move is writing running script with her left hand and cursive and small regular script with her right!
Soon, he wrote a long and eloquent chapter, and a book on postpartum care for sows was completed.
How should the flyer be written? Tao Wanniang started to think about it again. After thinking for a while, she finally came up with a limerick: "Slanderous words spread, a small farmhouse restaurant, with perfect color, aroma and taste, I urge you to come and visit more often."
Below the limerick, Tao Wan Niang also wrote down the address of her small restaurant. Looking at her hard-earned work, she was quite satisfied. Next, she just needed to find a bookstore, print out plenty of flyers, and have the five local thugs distribute them along the streets!
Cheng Feng brought back some braised food, and even though it was wrapped in oil paper very well, you could still smell it immediately.
Xiao Yi looked Cheng Feng up and down suspiciously and asked, "What food are you hiding on you? It smells strange; I've never smelled it before."
Cheng Feng gave an awkward laugh. Before he could even put his things in his room, he was called to Xiao Yi's place.
"Hey, I just came back from Sister Tao's little restaurant. I had lunch there and brought back some snacks to go with my drinks, which I'm planning to have for dinner."
"What is this? Let me see it." Xiao Yi smelled the aroma and inexplicably felt his appetite awakened.
Cheng Feng could only take out the braised food packet and whisper, "Young Master, you are seriously injured and just encountered this situation. You must eat more carefully. You cannot eat this."
"Why be so particular? If you can eat it, why can't I?" Xiao Yi said dismissively.
"But Your Highness, this is pig offal!" Cheng Feng said with a bitter face. Even pork is considered smelly by the powerful and wealthy, and pig offal is considered the dirtiest by many.
Sure enough, Xiao Yi's expression stiffened for a moment, clearly showing some disgust towards pig offal.
"Can this be eaten?" Xiao Yi asked, his expression hardening.
“You can’t eat other people’s food, but Sister Tao’s is really delicious.” Cheng Feng chuckled. “Young Master, you know what, Sister Tao’s cooking has attracted a lot of people. I even met General Ling’s bodyguard there.”
“What she made should be edible, right? Let me try it.” Xiao Yi said, “What’s wrong with trying it? Didn’t I eat those coarse foods when I was inspecting the disaster situation in Shanhai Prefecture?”
Cheng Feng thought about it and figured that nothing would go wrong, so he put the braised dishes on the table.
Xiao Yi had someone bring him some cutlery, picked out a piece of something, and started eating it.
"Your Highness, the Princess Consort has arrived!" a guard shouted from outside the door. Instantly, Xiao Yi and Cheng Feng's expressions changed.
"Young Master, quick, hide it!" Cheng Feng hurriedly put away the braised food, but where should he hide it?
Xiao Yi hurriedly swallowed what he was eating and went to the door to greet them.
"Yi'er, what are you busy with?" Princess Rui asked casually, but then seemed to smell something: "Yi'er, what are you eating?"
"What? No!" Xiao Yi immediately denied.
"Hmph, what's that on the corner of your mouth if you haven't eaten anything?" Prince Rui asked, staring at the smear of brown on Xiao Yi's lips.
Xiao Yi's face turned bright red instantly. He was nearly thirty years old and had actually been caught stealing food!
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