A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Chapter 107 Plan

"Well, this pork belly tastes really good when eaten in hotpot. Moreover, it is very tender and doesn't taste overcooked at all." Zhang Cheng said in surprise after taking a bite.

"I cooked this crispy meat in the hot pot before eating it. I didn't expect it to be so delicious." said Zhu.

Grandpa Zhang also said: "The hot pot we ate this time tastes different from the previous hot pot, but it's still delicious."

Zhang Yunyue thought that there were still hundreds of cans of pickled chili peppers in the workshop. Pickled chili peppers had been used to stir-fry pork once before, and today this pickled chili pepper hotpot successfully captured the Zhang family's appetite again.

Then I can start preparing for opening a hot pot restaurant as I had planned before. I also have a lot of dishes that most people don’t know how to cook, so I can add these dishes to the hot pot restaurant, which will definitely attract customers.

This way the audience can be wider and people who come to eat can have more choices.

After meal.

Zhang Yunyue thought that she had not eaten pickled meat since coming here, and she suddenly missed it. Besides, she could also try to see if it tastes good. If it is, she could maybe put it in the restaurant she wants to open in the future as a signature dish.

So Zhang Yunyue went to the kitchen and scooped out some glutinous rice, and then scooped out some rice. There was a little more glutinous rice, mainly because Zhang Yunyue liked to eat pickled meat with a more glutinous texture.

Pour the scooped out glutinous rice and rice into the pot on the stove, and then put some peppercorns, two or three bay leaves and a piece of cinnamon into it. Adding these three spices can make the pickled meat taste more fragrant.

"Xiaoxue, Xiaoxue, come to the kitchen for a moment." Zhang Yunyue turned around and shouted towards the yard.

Zhang Yunxue heard Zhang Yunyue's shout and ran into the kitchen: "I'm here, sister, what's the matter?" Then she looked at Zhang Yunyue in a daze.

"Xiaoxue, help me light the fire, just a small fire will do."

"Okay, sister, I'll light the fire right away." After saying that, Zhang Yunxue sat on a small stool in front of the stove and started to light the fire.

"Sister, the fire is ready, it's a small fire!"

"it is good."

Zhang Yunyue took the spatula and stir-fried the glutinous rice and rice in the pot until they turned slightly browned.

"Xiaoxue, the fire can be extinguished now."

"Okay." Zhang Yunxue used tongs to take out the unburned firewood in the stove, put it at the bottom of the stove, and covered it with stove ash.

Zhang Yunyue stir-fried the food for a while while the heat from the pot was still there, then scooped out the stir-fried glutinous rice and rice and put them in a bowl.

Then he carried the basin to the stone mill in the yard.

Zhang Yunyue said to his second uncle Zhang Cheng, who was sitting in the yard chatting with Grandpa Zhang, "Second uncle, I want to grind the fried glutinous rice and rice in the basin. I need you to help me push the stone mill."

"Okay." Zhang Cheng responded, then stood up and walked to the millstone and started pushing it.

Zhang Yunyue was adding rice into the hole of the millstone.

The glutinous rice and rice ground by stone mill have a slightly fine granular texture, but it is just right for making pickled meat. If it is too fine, it will taste soft and rough.

Zhang Yunyue put the ground pickled meat powder in the kitchen, and waited until tomorrow to get some pork belly and ribs from the workshop so that she could steam them directly.

After doing all this, Zhang Yunyue washed up and went back to her room.

Thinking of something, Zhang Yunyue got up again, lit the oil lamp and placed it on the table in front of the window. Now he had several thousand taels of silver in his hand, and he had to make money from the money, otherwise it would run out one day if he just left it there.

The first pickled peppers made in the workshop have been fermenting for a month.

There are also chili oil and crispy whistles in the workshop. Suddenly I remembered that crispy whistles can also be eaten in hot pot.

After all, I have lived in modern times for 20 to 30 years. I may not have eaten all kinds of hotpot, but I have eaten quite a few.

Zhang Yunyue took out the pen and paper on the table and prepared to write a plan: to open a hot pot shop in the county town. After all, the consumption level of people in the county town is much higher than that in the town, and there are more rich people.

First, go to the county town and buy a shop as soon as possible. After all, I have money now. As long as it is not in the provincial capital or the capital, the shop will not be outrageously expensive.

Then there is the decoration. If you want to highlight the novelty, you can refer to some modern hot pot restaurants with Chinese style themes for decoration. It will be more novel than other restaurants but not appear abrupt.

The renovation will be completed almost by Mid-Autumn Festival, so we can open the store a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. This way, we can promote hot pot during the family reunion period. Moreover, the weather will start to get colder after the Mid-Autumn Festival, which will be the best time to eat hot pot.

The next step is to recruit a chef and a shopkeeper. Zhang Yunyue knows that she will not stay in the store forever, so recruiting a shopkeeper is necessary.

No matter where the chef is found from, he may leak the secret recipe of the hot pot restaurant, so the chef must be an insider. It is best to go to a pawnshop and buy one that has a contract to sell it, so there is no need to worry about leaks.

Zhang Yunyue wrote down everything she needed to think about when opening a hot pot restaurant on paper to avoid missing anything.

After writing the plan for the hot pot restaurant, Zhang Yunyue thought about talking to his grandfather and others about opening a Four Seasons Food Store in the county town.

After all, the food store in the town has been doing very good business for more than a month, so if it were to open in the county, the business would definitely be even better.

"There is no need to find a chef specifically. Zhang Yu and Liu Xiaofeng, who work in the kitchen with Zhang's mother in town, can cook now. Sometimes when Zhang's mother is busy, the two of them will help cook.

Or if that doesn't work, just like the chef in the hot pot shop I just thought of, go to the dental clinic to see if there are any people who can cook and have signed a contract to sell themselves."

By that time, if the two shops in the county are next to each other, it will be convenient to take care of them.

Zhang Yunyue looked at the plan in her hand again and found nothing was missing, so she put down the pen and paper, lay back on the bed and closed her eyes.

The next day.

It was already 9:00 p.m. when he woke up again. Zhang Yunyue thought that he must have wasted time thinking about the plan yesterday, so he slept a little late, resulting in him waking up at 9:00 p.m. today.

After going to the room, Zhang Yunyue went to the kitchen to get some hot water and washed her face.

Then he went to the workshop and prepared to take back some pork belly and ribs.

“Bang, bang, bang”

Grandpa Zhang opened the door and saw Zhang Yunyue standing at the door, "Yueyue, why are you here? Why don't you stay at home and rest?" He made way for Zhang Yunyue to enter the workshop.

"Grandpa, I want to get some meat and take it home to make some fresh pickled meat." Zhang Yunyue said to Grandpa Zhang as they walked.

"Okay, go get it."

Zhang Yunyue walked into the big kitchen, cut a piece of pork belly and some ribs, and then carried them out of the workshop.

After returning home, Zhang Yunyue took the meat to the kitchen, cut the pork belly into slices, and chopped all the ribs into small pieces.

Add onion, ginger and a little wine and marinate for a quarter of an hour.

After the pork belly and ribs are marinated, pick out the onions and ginger and discard them, then pour appropriate amount of salt and soy sauce and spread evenly to season.

After the salt has absorbed the flavor, pour the pickled meat powder ground yesterday on the soft ribs and spread it evenly, making sure that every piece of soft ribs is covered with the pickled meat powder. Finally, add some pickled chili peppers and mix well. It will taste a bit sour and spicy.