75 Chapter 75 Taking Orders
“Yes, I know.” Zhou Ying promised, and she started to get busy.
However, Zhou Ying didn’t expect that before noon, Tian Jiawang came with a cart and asked, “Sister, do you still have any more dried tofu and tofu? Especially the dried tofu; I delivered all the ones you gave me to the tavern, and I don’t have any more to sell.”
Zhou Ying replied, “I really don’t have any more; you can only wait until tomorrow.”
“Then can I order one huge plate of tofu and 50 pounds of dried tofu for tomorrow?”
“So many?” Zhou Ying asked in surprise.
Then, she thought of the various things stored in her interspace and asked, “Brother Tian, what is the size of the tavern you are talking about?”
“It’s a small tavern on the dock, specially opened for the hard laborers, so they can’t afford anything expensive. This dried tofu is a delicious side dish with a little mix, so the boss wants to order more.”
“Okay,” Zhou Ying said. “I’ll give you a new dish tomorrow to try selling it at the tavern. See if the others want it. ”
“What dish?”
“It’s a secret for now.”
“Alright, I’ll come over tomorrow morning.” Tian Jiawang turned around and left.
After he left, Zhou Ying soaked another 20 pounds of soybeans and prepared a set of pig heads and pig intestines.
After cleaning them up quickly, she put them into her interspace to stew.
In the evening, she went into her interspace on time and took the pork out of the stew, completing her braised pork intestine dish.
At night, Gu Chengrui’s eyes lit up when he saw the braised pork intestine. “Babe, I thought you never ate intestines. Why did you make these braised pork intestines today? ”
“Because you like to eat it? I’ve made it just in time to satisfy your craving.” Zhou Ying said as she told him about her plan to sell the intestines while serving him some rice.
“It’s good, but you’ll be too tired.”
“It’s nothing. I have nothing to do anyway.”
“You can go out and chat around. It’s not good to be cooped up at home all the time, right? ”
“Let’s talk about it after the new year. Everyone is busy growing bean sprouts; who has the time to chat?”
“That’s true. There are fewer people out and about in the village now.” Gu Chengrui saw that she was insistent and did not try to persuade her anymore, so he decided not to make house visits for his patient again.
He would wait for his patients to come to him and stay at home to help her with her business if there weren’t any.
Unexpectedly, Gu Chengrui again received a large order from Manager Liu the next day. He asked the couple to provide them with as many dried yuba as possible, and they would take them all.
Therefore, after returning home, Gu Chengrui stayed at home. He helped Zhou Ying dry the yuba, filling up the kitchen, living room, and courtyard.
In the afternoon, Tian Jiawang ordered a serving of braised pork intestines.
Seeing this, Zhou Ying felt it was impossible to stew them in her interspace. The two simply used the mud bricks left from the donkey shed to make two small stoves in the kitchen, bought two big pots, and ordered a few tofu moulds.
After that, she hired Da Hua to help keep the kitchen fire going at the price of 100 coppers a month with lunch provided. She even told others that she would be buying more soybeans and firewood.
It wasn’t until five days later that the two of them started to get busy openly.
Elder Qiao had just returned from purchasing the Gu family’s business on this day. When he heard that the restaurant’s business had taken a dive, he immediately looked for the manager of Dongxing Restaurant, Wang Quan. He asked, “Mr. Wang, I heard that the restaurant’s business hasn’t been good recently. What’s going on?”
“Sir, there are two main reasons. Over the past month, Hongyun Restaurant has been releasing new dishes one after another, snatching away many of our high-end customers.
“There’s also a small tavern on the dock that has introduced a lot of new dishes. More than half of the customers in the middle and lower-end have left too, so…” Wang Quan replied in a trembling voice.