Chapter 25: Too Hasty, Working for Someone Else
The waiter immediately said wittily, “There are not many ingredients left in the kitchen. There is a piece of pork belly, a live fish in the tank, a few vegetables, and a block of tofu. What dishes would you like to make, Miss? I can go and buy them.”
This young master in white had just bought the restaurant, and as soon as he bought it, he wrote a red paper and posted it on the door, offering a high price to hire a chef. He also mentioned an imperial chef who had come from the palace and asked his men to quickly invite some Mr. to renovate the restaurant.
At a glance, he was not short of money and had an extraordinary status. This restaurant should be able to operate well. He lacked a job and wanted to perform well to try to stay.
Xingnong: “No need, that’s enough. Young Master, would you like to try my cooking?”
She had to rush back to the village and couldn’t delay too long.
In her previous life, she had a very picky ancient martial arts master who took her to taste authentic delicacies and snacks from all over the country for half a year and also cultivated her excellent cooking skills.
Shen Hanyu subconsciously frowned when he heard about pork.
This was because when he was a child, someone had stuffed a piece of pork with worms into his mouth, leaving a psychological shadow. Since then, he felt nauseous at the sight of pork.
But he didn’t intend to remind her.
Xingnong noticed Shen Hanyu’s subconscious reaction and couldn’t help but ask, “Excuse me, but does Young Master Shen not eat pork?”
Shen Nan, who had been motionless, moved his eyeballs.
Xingnong observed both of their reactions and realized that her guess was right.
Was it related to faith?
She sincerely apologized, “Young Master Shen, is your aversion to pork related to your faith? I’m very sorry.”
Shen Hanyu felt that this dark-skinned girl was really perceptive. He always liked to deal with perceptive people, as it saved trouble. He smiled and said, “That’s not the case. I just simply don’t like to eat it. You don’t have to apologize, Miss.”
Xingnong nodded, “Then I’ll make some vegetarian dishes.”
Shen Hanyu shook his head, “I don’t eat vegetarian food. I just have a bad experience with pork. If you can make me take a bite of pork, I’ll buy your recipe at a high price.”
He felt nauseous at the sight of pork.
Xingnong: “How high?”
Shen Hanyu picked up his teacup and took a sip of tea. Hearing this, he put down the teacup and extended five fingers.
“Five hundred taels?”
“Pfft!” Shen Hanyu directly sprayed the tea out of his mouth!
How confident was this girl to ask for five hundred taels right off the bat!
A recipe, and it was about pork, fifty taels was already pushing it, wasn’t it?
The waiter’s jaw dropped in shock!
Whose recipe was worth five hundred taels? An imperial chef’s or the God of Cooking’s?
Even Shen Nan, the wooden man, couldn’t help but take another look at Xingnong.
Xingnong didn’t care about everyone’s reaction. The price still had to be negotiated first. “Actually, I’m used to cooperating with people in the form of dividends.” Five hundred taels, although it sounded like a lot, it was even enough for the villagers of Plum Blossom Village to spend their entire lives, but her recipe could earn him many times five hundred taels.
Used to cooperating with people in the form of dividends? Who else did she have a partnership with? Shen Hanyu wiped the corner of his mouth, intrigued, “How do you divide the dividends?”
“For every dish made from the recipe I provide and sold in all the restaurants under your name, I will receive ten percent of the profit.”
The waiter: “…”
Wasn’t this girl afraid that her dishes wouldn’t sell a single portion?
He seemed to have also heard that this young master wanted to invite an imperial chef from the palace to be the head chef, with the aim of surpassing the Welcome Inn across the street.
Did she think that the dishes she made were even better than those of an imperial chef?
Taking fifty taels would be great! She could go back and buy a few acres of land, build a house with blue bricks and tiles, and buy an ox. She wouldn’t have to worry for the rest of her life.
Shen Hanyu took a deep look at her. She was very confident in her dishes!
He never underestimated anyone, but he wouldn’t easily trust anyone either.
“If you can make me take a bite of pork, Miss, then I will agree to the conditions you proposed. And it will be fifty percent, not ten percent.”
He would feel nauseous at the sight of pork, and the smell of pork would even make him vomit.
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All the imperial chefs had tried their best, but to no avail.
Even the dishes made by the God of Cooking were not successful.
Was there anyone in this world whose cooking skills were better than the God of Cooking’s?
Most importantly, whether he ate it or not was up to him!
“Please wait a moment.”
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Xingnong came to the kitchen and looked around. Although there were few ingredients, it was a restaurant kitchen after all, and all the tools were complete. There was even a set of knives for carving ingredients, and they were sharpened very well.
She glanced at the ingredients, thought for a moment, and then started working.
She would make “Year After Year Fish” and “Golden Ingot Jade Tree”!
“Miss, is there anything I can help you with?” The waiter took the initiative to assist Xingnong.
“Please help me wash and grind the green vegetables. I need some green vegetable juice.”
“Okay.”
Xingnong began to process the live fish in the water tank.
She deftly scraped off the fish scales, then gutted and cleaned it. Next, she peeled off the fish skin intact and then sliced the fish meat into thin pieces, each as thin as a cicada’s wing and the same size.
An hour later, Xingnong walked out of the restaurant with her back basket, unhurriedly.
The waiter personally saw Xingnong out. Looking at her slender and thin back, he couldn’t imagine that she, dressed in rags, could make such amazing dishes.
Her knife skills were simply superb!
Shen Hanyu sat there, holding a piece of paper, lost in thought.
In front of him were two empty plates.
Shen Nan’s eyes darted back and forth between the empty plates and Shen Hanyu.
His stomach growled, and his eyes were somewhat resentful.
The waiter came back.
Shen Hanyu beckoned to him, “That ‘Year After Year Fish’ just now, was that fish really made of pork?”
Why couldn’t he taste it at all?
Moreover, it looked and tasted like a whole fish!
“Replying to Young Master, yes, I saw with my own eyes Miss Shen slice the fish meat piece by piece, and then piece by piece she put the fish meat and pork back together! Miss Shen’s knife skills are amazing! Every piece of fish meat and pork was as thin as a cicada’s wing, and they were all the same size, as if they had been measured with a ruler. Then she arranged the fish and meat slices…
And that ‘Golden Ingot Jade Tree’, those gold ingots and golden flowers were all made of pork, especially those golden flowers. She carved them directly in the boiling oil. Each flower was fried for no more than an instant. Miss Shen said that to make the golden flowers take shape, they must be carved in the oil, and it must be fast, the petals must be thin! Every cut also needs to be dipped in…”
The waiter gestured excitedly, rattling off the process of Xingnong’s cooking. His admiration was like the water of the Yellow River surging from the sky, endless.
Shen Hanyu looked at the fifty percent dividend on the document and turned to Shen Nan, “Did I give away too much profit?”
Fifty percent! Why did he have a feeling that he would be working for someone else in the future?
Shen Nan: “Yes.”
Shen Hanyu: “…”
Too hasty!
He didn’t know there was pork in the fish!
“Why didn’t you stop me?” Shen Hanyu glared at Shen Nan.
He was clearly watching in the kitchen!
Shen Nan’s eyes were resentful, “This subordinate couldn’t compete.”
Initially, they were supposed to taste those dishes together. Who was it that, after taking two bites, drove him away from the table?
He only ate half a fish!
Shen Hanyu: “…”
This idiot, he had only taken two bites, and he had already eaten half a fish. How could he not drive him away from the table?
See you tomorrow~
