different devil life

Chapter 38 Opening a Restaurant (Please recommend a ticket)

"Worship heaven and earth."

"Two thanks to the high hall."

"Happy husband and wife."

Following the high-pitched voice, at Wang Zhong's house, he and Guo Yueluo knelt in front of the three parents and finally got married.

There are still many etiquette and vulgar matters in marriage, which makes Wang Zhong very disgusted, but because of his family's face, he can only follow them one by one with a dull face.

For this wedding, Wang Zhong gave half of the sheep as a dowry gift. In fact, this is because the Guo family wanted less. If it was based on the dowry gifts of Wang Dahu's family, Wang Zhong's silver deposits over the years would probably be depleted.

Fortunately, Guo Zhuang is not the kind of ignorant person.

Although he disliked the poor conditions of Wang Zhong's family, he was quite optimistic about Wang Xiaoyu. In terms of ability, he was definitely better than Wang Ren, which was recognized by the villagers.

Also because of this, after knowing that Guo Yueluo liked Wang Zhong, he accepted his fate and didn't make things difficult for Wang Zhong.

"Brother Xiaoyu, I'm your wife now, and the betrothal gift my father asked you for is so little, you have to treat me better in the future."

After the banquet was finished, Wang Zhong returned to the bridal chamber, and Guo Yueluo said coquettishly while undressing Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong smiled: "You still call me Brother Xiaoyu, it's time to change your name."

Guo Yueluo lowered her head and patted Wang Zhong on the shoulder: "I hate it, Mr. Wang."

"Don't worry, lady, I've saved some silver over the years, and I'm planning to open a tavern in the city."

"What about the livestock at home?" Guo Yueluo worried: "There are many taverns in the county town, and the competition is fierce."

"Don't worry." Wang Zhong patted Guo Yueluo's little hand: "I'm not going to raise these livestock anymore, it's just like this for the rest of my life, I can't bear the heart of our family staying in this poor mountain valley for the rest of my life."

Hearing Wang Zhong's bold words, Guo Yueluo's heart warmed up: "Sir, you still have ambition, but if you want to do it, you'd better ask my father, he traveled a lot when he was young and has experience."

"Well, it's natural, it's getting late, go to bed early."

"oops……"

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After getting married, Wang Zhong didn't prepare hot pot for the first time, but continued to raise a group of livestock.

A year later, Wang Zhong, who felt that he had saved enough savings, brought Guo Yueluo to the county seat, ready to find a suitable place to open a tavern.

Because this county is close to the imperial capital, it is one of the four major cities outside the imperial capital. It is very prosperous, so there are countless taverns here.

Big tavern, small tavern, flower tavern, storytelling tavern, inn tavern, there are too many.

Fortunately, this county is prosperous enough to support so many businesses, but also because there are so many, these taverns can only remain in a half-dead state.

Wang Zhong and Guo Yueluo first went to his father-in-law's place. Guo Zhuang was not happy when he heard that Wang Zhongyang opened a tavern here.

"Xiaoyu, I know you have a good brain, but you are too young after all. Not to mention other places, there are five pubs on my street. I have seen the business of those few, and they are all average. The three companies are still losing money, so it’s definitely not possible.”

"Father, Xiaoyu said he has a solution." Guo Yueluo muttered next to him to defend her husband.

Wang Zhongdao: "The tavern I opened is different from theirs."

"Why is it different?"

"I'm going to make hot pot."

Over the years, Wang Zhong has already observed that the taverns here, no matter what type of tavern they are, are all the same, with only those few dishes and those two kinds of drinks, the monotony makes people anxious.

As for hot pot, there is no such thing here.

He opened a hot pot restaurant, and there are three major advantages that can make him successful.

First, novelty.

The conditions of people living in the county are not bad, and everyone is willing to try new things.

Second, the cost is low.

For stir-fried dishes, these taverns need to hire a chef. If the chef’s skills are poor, it’s useless no matter how good your location is. Moreover, they also need to hire waiters and dishwashers. These people need wages every month.

For hot pot, at least there is no need for a chef. Serving hot pot dishes is much more leisurely than cooking, and the workload of the waiter is greatly reduced, so only half of the waiter is needed, and the cost is reduced all at once.

Third, the price of hot pot is close to the people.

As we all know, the price of hot pot is affordable. For example, the base of hot pot is chicken soup. You can add some vegetables as you like. The price is cheap. When you have dinner with relatives and friends, drink some wine, and put some vegetables and radishes in the soup. , not only delicious, but also cheap, the most important thing is the atmosphere.

Especially in winter, absolutely.

With these three advantages, Wang Zhong believed that the business would be successful.

"It turns out that this is called hot pot. It sounds good, but it is cooked and eaten at the same time. Will it be inconvenient?" Guo Zhuang worried.

Wang Zhong had already made up his mind, and said, "I told Yue Luo that I will prepare hot pot ingredients these days, and I will bring them when the time comes, so our family can eat."

"Okay, if it's delicious, I will support you with all my strength."

After the matter was finished, Wang Zhong and Guo Yueluo sat for a while, then set off to leave.

After returning home, Wang Zhong began to focus on making the pots for cooking hot pot.

There are two options for the pot, one is an iron pot and the other is a casserole.

In the end, Wang Zhong chose the casserole pot, because the casserole pot is relatively durable and has good heat resistance, not to mention the iron pot is easy to damage, and the edges are very hot, which is prone to danger.

Then I contacted a pottery craftsman in the village next door and ordered a casserole the size of a washbasin.

The material for cooking the hot pot is relatively simple. Wang Zhong chose charcoal. After cutting the wood into small pieces the size of a finger, they put them in an iron basin and smoldered them until they turned into pieces of black charcoal.

Charcoal will not burn with an open flame, and will turn into charcoal after reaching the ignition point. A pile of charcoal can maintain a high temperature for one to two hours.

Even in modern society, many barbecues use these charcoals to put them in the grill for barbecue.

The basic materials for the barbecue are all prepared, and the next step is pots and pans.

He is not like other taverns, where pots and pans are big on one table and small on the other, they are not uniform and look very informal.

What he asked for was exactly the same, and four words were engraved on each bowl: Xiaoyu Hot Pot.

In business, if you want to grow big, you have to create a brand, otherwise, after a year or a half, people will follow him to make hot pot one after another, so it's a fart.

And the brand makes him recognizable, at least no matter how long time passes, when someone mentions hot pot, he immediately thinks: Xiaoyu hot pot.

Chapter 39 Small Fish Hot Pot

Time flies.

In a blink of an eye, two years have passed.

This year, Wang Zhong.

Although he and Guo Yueluo have been married for three years, Guo Yueluo's stomach has never grown bigger.

The people in the village finally couldn't help pointing at Wang Zhong, but Wang Zhong ignored them.

These people know nothing, he is still young, and he doesn't want to have a child so early, so when he and Guo Yueluo are together, they are outside the body at critical moments, and sometimes let Yueluo eat warm.

Of course Guo Yueluo understands Wang Zhong's thoughts, but she has the nerve to tell outsiders about this. Every time her parents ask her, she always lowers her head in embarrassment, saying that they don't want children for the time being, career is the most important thing, and they are young anyway. .

In the past two years, Wang Zhong has been preparing for the hot pot.

It's not that he doesn't want to speed up, it's because ancient times are frighteningly inefficient.

For example, to make those casserole pots, it took three months of verification before and after to get a casserole pot that he was satisfied with, which made the craftsman almost give up.

After that, prepare the hot pot seasoning. This seasoning is the soul of the hot pot. A hot pot without seasoning is incomplete.

But Wang Zhong had only eaten hot pot before, but never made it, so he needed to adjust it one by one.

Today I prepare sour and spicy ones, tomorrow I prepare sweet and salty ones together, and sometimes I prepare green onions and garlic together. After adjusting a lot of flavors, I finally tested seven flavors.

Among them, the tastes can be intermodulated, and the flexibility is very large.

After the basic materials are prepared, the rest is the ingredients.

There is no shortage of ingredients for the time being. Wang Zhong's family has chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and pigs.

Everything is ready, just find the right location.

Finally, with the help of his father-in-law, Guo Zhuang, Wang Zhong found a restaurant on the edge of the river in the city. There is a lot of traffic here, but there are also disadvantages, that is, there are many restaurants open, and he wants to start a business here. Those who drive need to have a lot of confidence.

The previous owner of the restaurant, because there were no good chefs, ended up with less and less business and closed down.

When Wang Zhong saw this restaurant, he immediately decided to choose it.

This restaurant has two floors, each floor has more than a dozen seats.

There is also a backyard at the back, which is the back kitchen, firewood room, and three huts for people to live in.

In order to rent this restaurant, he still lacked a lot of savings over the years. For this reason, he gritted his teeth and sold all the cattle in the family. Only then did he get together the money and rent the restaurant for two years.

evening.

Autumn is here, and the weather has turned cooler.

After the restaurant was rented out, Wang Zhong and Guo Yueluo temporarily stayed at the father-in-law's house.

To celebrate the opening of the hotpot restaurant today, Wang Zhong brought Yalan and his mother over.

The whole family ate Wang Zhong's hot pot at Guo Zhuang's house. This food was indeed delicious. Guo Zhuang drank several more cups, and it was a bit over the top.

He picked up a few thin slices of hot-boiled mutton and put them into the pot, then said to Wang: "My son-in-law, this hot pot is really delicious, especially in winter, it will make people feel warmer after eating, but have you ever thought about summer? Summer It's hot, this hot pot is not suitable for eating."

"I've thought about this a long time ago. At the same time as the hot pot is launched, I plan to make grilled fish again."

"Grilled fish?"

The whole family was very surprised, even Guo Yueluo looked at Wang Zhong in surprise, because she had never heard of this.

Wang Zhong said calmly: "I'll talk about this later."

"Okay, virtuous son-in-law, if you need help from my old bones, just say it." Guo Zhuang looked at his mother-in-law Sun Yan with great pride: "Our family is not busy recently, let those helpers go to our virtuous son-in-law restaurant Help for a few days."

"Hey, I'll talk to them later." Sun Yan nodded.

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"Thunderbola..."

Three days later, Xiaoyu Hot Pot Restaurant officially opened.

In order to build momentum, Guo Zhuang invited many local relatives and friends.

Wang Zhong asked Yalan to bring a pen and ink, and personally wrote one after another leaflets.

Xiaoyu Hot Pot is officially open!

It only costs 49 Wen per person, not only can you taste all the vegetable products in the store, but also give two catties of chicken as a base soup.

After that, the meat will be calculated separately. If you bring a child in, the head fee will not be included for the child.

The flyer was written all morning, and by the end, Yalan had learned it all by herself, so Wang Zhong asked her to write it.

Wang Zhong invited a total of 8 people in the restaurant if the guys brought by Guo Zhuang were not counted.

Three people are responsible for cooking meat, two people are responsible for washing and picking vegetables, and three people are responsible for serving tea and water.

As for Yalan and Guo Yueluo, they are in charge of some purchases when they go out.

My mother, Zhang Xiaohong, was also helping at the counter, paying the bill and so on.

Now the family's livestock have been sold by Wang Zhong, and most of them have been sent to Guo Zhuang's pigsty to be raised.

His place is big enough, but mostly pigs are raised.

The land at home is basically handed over to Aunt Sun and Uncle Ma Wu to take care of it.

As soon as this new type of hot pot restaurant opened, it immediately attracted the attention of many people in the city. There is no way, every time someone passes by here, they will smell the hot pot aroma from inside. The key price is close to the people. As long as you don’t order meat, you Only 49 texts are required.

This price is much cheaper than other restaurants outside, so many people come to taste it.

And because it is winter now, if you go to eat other food and drink, the hot dishes will be cold in a while, but hot pot is different.

However, most people are not optimistic about the long-term development of this restaurant.

After all, everyone is not stupid. Although this food is delicious, when summer comes, the temperature will be so hot that you can eat hot pot, unless it is true love.