Yuelai Restaurant private room
"Young Master, this is a new dish created by that girl, called spicy pickled cabbage."
Chu Lian’s eyes lit up, that woman had come up with a new trick! Interesting.
"How has it been priced?"
"Three hundred wen per jar, sell it and see first, we’ll decide how much to make when she comes next time!"
"How is it selling? When is she coming next? Did you make a contract?"
"No contract? What if she sells to other houses? You’re not new to this!"
Shopkeeper Wang truly hadn’t thought it through, he just trusted that girl and completely forgot the deception common in business.
"When she comes next time, I want to talk to her myself!"
At this moment, Xiaoxiao didn’t know that even in such a backward place, contracts are necessary. She hadn’t paid attention to such matters as she was busy teaching her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law how to make spicy pickled cabbage.
"Eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, this is our family’s money-making skill, you must not tell anyone else. If other families learn this, ours will no longer have a way to make money!"
Although the eldest and second sister-in-law were nice, Xiaoxiao still reminded them, better safe than sorry!
"Third sister-in-law, don’t worry, we got it!" The eldest and second sister-in-law answered in unison. They were very serious about learning the method of making spicy pickled cabbage from Xiaoxiao! This was their guarantee to have enough to eat.
"Eldest sister-in-law, what do we have for dinner tonight?" Xiaoxiao chatted idly, not expecting to stumble upon a surprise—it turns out life is full of surprises!
"Why don’t we swap for some tofu at third uncle’s house?" The eldest sister-in-law suggested while washing the cabbage.
"Does third uncle’s family make tofu?" Xiaoxiao was surprised; the Yang Family also had business-minded people!
"Yes, we don’t have many vegetables in winter, so we plant soybeans in the vegetable garden every year. We can exchange a pound of beans for a pound of tofu in winter to add a dish to our meals at home!"
"..." Third uncle has quite a business mind, even though she herself doesn’t know how to make tofu, she still knows that a pound of soybeans can make at least two and a half pounds of tofu. Exchanging soybeans for tofu is a sure-fire business deal—what a clever move! Third uncle’s family must be living well.
"Then apart from making tofu, how else do you eat these soybeans?" Soybeans are valuable; they can be pressed for oil, sprouted into bean sprouts, and at the very least fried into crispy beans for a snack to go with drinks!
"Apart from making tofu, how else could we eat them? Soybeans aren’t worth much, just five wen per pound, even cheaper than cornmeal, so not many grow it. Third sister-in-law, do you have any clever ideas again?"
Second sister-in-law thought her third sister-in-law was talented and might have another money-making idea.
"..." Why do treasures, as Xiaoxiao sees them, have so little value here? It’s truly a waste of good resources.
But she just knows what soybeans can do, not exactly how to do it! Xiaoxiao sadly realized she wasn’t here to live, but rather to experiment!
In modern times, who would eat sprouts and wonder how they grew? Who would eat a bowl of rice and investigate how the rice was cultivated?
I cannot do it, Xiaoxiao was merely about buying and eating! Now that she has to research it, it’s really asking too much of her, but knowing that there’s food yet no one knows how to prepare it, itches Xiaoxiao’s heart! She must take action herself, to be well-fed and clothed. First make money, having money is what allows her to so boldly experiment!