This time, it was Meng Tianze who stepped forward to talk to her, because Jiang Qinyu was wearing women's clothing today.
They didn't go to the front gate, but instead arrived early at the back gate of Zuixianju.
“I used to sell goods in restaurants in the county. I would always be chased away if I went to the front door. Later, I heard from others that if I went to the back door early in the morning and met the restaurant’s buyers, I might be able to sell my prey.”
Meng Tianze drove the car while talking to Jiang Qinyu.
Jiang Qinyu could understand. The front door was a place for business, and there were often customers there. It was really inappropriate to buy ingredients in front of customers.
As they spoke, they arrived at the back gate of Zuixianju.
However, it was just dawn, and there was no one at the back door yet.
Jiang Qinyu jumped out of the car and looked around the alley.
This alley is only one-third the width of the main street in front, and it can accommodate two carriages side by side, so it can be considered spacious.
Meng Tianze parked the carriage at a corner where it wouldn't block the road.
Jiang Qinyu carried a small amount of wolf meat, wild boar meat, and tiger meat, while Meng Tianze carried a load of two whole sheep.
They waited quietly outside the back door of Zuixianju. After about fifteen minutes, the back door of Zuixianju finally opened.
"Whoa!" The person who opened the door was startled to see Jiang Qinyu and Meng Tianze. "What are you two doing?"
Meng Tianze stepped forward with a smile and said, "Brother, we hunted some wild game on the mountain and were thinking of asking if you would buy it."
The middle-aged man who opened the door was Chen, the purchasing manager of Zuixianju. He yawned and asked, "What kind of wild game?"
Jiang Qinyu handed over the basket in her hand and said with a smile, "Big brother, take a look, there's more than one kind."
"Wow, you guys are really something, you can even hunt tigers and wild boars? What's this, oh, it's a wolf..." Manager Chen was quite knowledgeable, recognizing it just by its smell.
Then he sniffed, "Why do I still smell a muttony odor?"
"Brother, you're amazing! These are sheep in my basket, wild goats, each weighing about 200 jin!" Meng Tianze praised as he lifted the cloth covering the frame.
Steward Chen became interested. “The people of Yukang Prefecture like to eat mutton, but there are not many people raising it around. In recent years, fewer people have gone up the mountain to hunt. You have come at a good time.”
"How many do you have? I'll take them all!"
They can only hunt two or three goats at most at a time, which Zuixianju can still handle.
Upon hearing this, Meng Tianze was about to ask if he could sell all forty-odd sheep to him, but Jiang Qinyu stopped him.
Jiang Qinyu said with a smile, "Manager, we're lucky, we've hunted quite a few. I wonder how much Zuixianju can ask for at most?"
"What? You think I can't eat at Zuixianju?" Manager Chen raised an eyebrow, clearly getting into a competitive spirit.
Jiang Qinyu still smiled, "Drunken Immortal Inn is such a big restaurant, of course we can eat our fill. Please tell me the amount."
"You little lady are really something..." Manager Chen rolled up his sleeves when he saw that Jiang Qinyu hadn't given in. "Our Zuixianju is the top restaurant in the city. Even if you had ten or eight wild goats, we could take them all!"
Jiang Qinyu immediately said, "Then ten heads it is. I wonder what the price is, Manager?"
Manager Chen stared at her in shock, “...You really have ten wild goats?”
Jiang Qinyu smiled but remained silent.
Meng Tianze had already understood Jiang Qinyu's intention, and quickly said with a smile, "Brother, you flatter us. We were lucky and caught a few more."
If he were to say now that they have forty-odd sheep, he might scare people away. It's better that his younger brother and sister-in-law are more thoughtful.
Manager Chen had already made his statement, so of course he couldn't take it back. After several changes in expression, he gritted his teeth and nodded, "I'll take all ten! But I'll only pay by the whole head, not by weight. Eighteen taels for each sheep weighing no less than two hundred catties..."
“Deal!” Jiang Qinyu immediately replied.
Last night they inquired at Kangyue Inn and found that the average price of a sheep in the prefectural city was around eighteen taels of silver, which was three taels higher than in Yongshan County.
Unexpectedly, the manager of Zuixianju did not try to lower the price; he offered the average price right away. Of course, I had to accept this offer immediately.
Meng Tianze was so excited he wanted to jump up and down, but he managed to keep his composure and quickly ran back to the carriage to get the wild goat over.
His and Jiang Qinyu's carriage was carrying a lot of things, a total of fifteen wild goats, so ten of the wild goats, each weighing over two hundred pounds, were moved out in no time.
"Manager, all ten sheep you ordered are here. Would you like someone to count them?" Jiang Qinyu said with a smile.
Manager Chen looked at the mutton spread out on the ground, his mustache twitching uncontrollably. He instinctively called over a waiter to count it.
He looked at Jiang Qinyu and Meng Tianze as if they were monsters, unable to understand how the two of them could get so many wild goats.
"Manager Chen, the count is complete. There are a total of 2,324 catties of mutton." The waiter came over to report, looking completely bewildered after finishing the count.
What's wrong with Manager Chen? He bought so much mutton all at once. Is Zuixianju going to change its name to Yangxianju (Sheep Immortal Residence)?
Jiang Qinyu reached out her hand and said with a smile, "Manager Chen, thank you for your patronage, one hundred and eighty taels."
Manager Chen really wanted to back out, but the meat had already been counted. If he went back on his word, wouldn't people look down on Zuixianju?
Left with no other option, he took a deep breath, pulled out some silver notes and coins from his pocket, and handed them over. "Ten sheep are really too many, otherwise you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Qinyu had already taken the silver notes and silver, and then asked with a smile, "Do you still want wild boar, wolf meat, and tiger meat? These are limited in quantity, first come, first served."
Manager Chen: "..."
He's a seasoned restaurant buyer. He's already bought ten wild goats, so what's wrong with buying some other ingredients to go with the restaurant?
In the end, Jiang Qinyu and Meng Tianze sold ten sheep, one wolf, half a wild boar, and fifty catties of tiger meat at Zuixianju.
A wolf costs twenty-five taels of silver, a wild boar costs twenty taels of silver for half a head, and tiger meat is priced by weight, at two hundred coins per pound.
In other words, Jiang Qinyu and her group took 235 taels of silver from Zuixianju.
Manager Chen regretted it more and more. Just as he was about to call Jiang Qinyu and the other person to stop, he saw Jiang Qinyu take the initiative to bow to him.
"Manager Chen is very generous. To be honest, we come from a small village in Yongshan County. Most people in the area have fled to escape famine, and we had no choice but to try to make a living in the mountains. We are very grateful for your kindness today, and we would like to offer you a recipe. Please do not find it offensive."
Jiang Qinyu handed over the recipes for mutton that she had written the night before. The recipes detailed various ways to cook mutton, including the origins of the seasonings. As long as one is willing to find all the seasonings, there will be no problem selling the mutton.
Manager Chen took it and looked at it. He wasn't a chef and didn't know how good the recipe was, but it was written in such detail that it couldn't be fake.
When he tried to call out to Jiang Qinyu again, he found that they had already disappeared.
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