Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 101

In the morning, Zhong Ruyi asked her second brother to buy more spare ribs when he went to fetch the pig offal. She was thinking of replacing the braised chicken with braised spare ribs. After all, the customers would get tired of eating braised chicken every day.

I told my guests a few days ago that the braised chicken would be replaced with braised spareribs in the next few days.

The second brother pulled the cart to the pork shop. The shop door was already open, and the owner and his apprentices were busy slaughtering pigs.

There were also a few waiters from other restaurants and pubs around. They all came early to buy some pork. Some restaurants wanted more, so the pork shop owner arranged for someone to deliver it to their door.

The guys saw the second brother pulling a cart with a few wooden barrels on it, which were now full of pig offal.

They all wrinkled their noses in disgust and covered their faces with their hands. "What are you going to do with all this offal?"

Another guy also covered his face and said, "Take it away quickly, it's really stinking!"

The person who came with him pulled his sleeve and signaled him to stop talking.

Seeing that the second brother ignored him, the clerk became more and more excited, "As expected, a small shop like yours can't do any good business. You can only sell such dirty and vulgar things! I'm afraid no one will buy them!"

The guy who came with him looked at him with sympathy. This guy had just arrived in the past two days and didn't know that their Manxianglou had a cooperation with Zhongji.

But whether you know it or not, it is wrong to speak so harshly. What does it have to do with you if someone pulls a pig into the water? You keep talking endlessly.

He no longer paid any attention to the newcomer and just nodded apologetically to Zhong Laoer.

Zhong Laoer took a look at the clothes the two men were wearing. The one with the cloud pattern on his clothes was from Manxianglou.

He ignored the man and went straight into the yard to find the pork shop owner and asked for ten pounds of ribs.

"Boss Zhong, the price of bones and ribs is the same. Bones with more meat are seven cents a pound, and those with less meat are five cents a pound."

Zhong Laoer took a look at the ones with more meat and those with less meat and asked for ten kilograms of each, for a total of twenty kilograms.

I also asked for a few large bones without any meat on them. My sister said she wanted to use them to make soup!

The boss gave the pork ribs for free, saying that it was a thank you to him for starting to sell braised goods so that people would come to his house every day to buy the pork offal, which he couldn’t sell before.

After taking the meat and paying the money, he left immediately without even looking at those people. He was in a hurry to go back to do business!

When he got to the store, he told his younger sister about this. They had no right to punish the people from Manxianglou. Wasn't there still a shopkeeper, Ding?

When Zhong Ruyi heard this, she was very angry and thought that she would definitely complain to Manager Ding the next time she met him!

But the most important thing now is to wash the pig offal first. Zhong Ruyi and Zhong's mother washed the pig offal, while the second brother went to wash the ribs he bought and then chop them into pieces.

When the door panel was removed, several customers holding signs were already waiting there. When they saw the door open, several people gathered around.

The first customer who came over said, "Boss! I bought your braised chicken a few days ago and it tasted great. I'm here to buy some more today!"

"I won't buy the braised chicken today. I'm tired of eating it every day. When will you come up with new dishes, boss?"

If you eat braised food every day, you will get tired of it if you eat too much. Customers also want to try some new flavors, but I don’t know when Zhong Ji will come up with new dishes.

Zhong Ruyi smiled apologetically at the customer who wanted to buy braised chicken, "I'm really sorry, customer. We don't sell braised chicken recently. We sell spare ribs instead."

The customer was very disappointed. "Why are you suddenly not selling braised chicken? Are you not going to sell it anymore?"

The other guests behind him didn't come for the braised chicken, but when they found out that it was out of stock, they suddenly thought of it and started asking about it too.

"Yes, boss! Isn't your braised chicken selling very well? Why are you not selling it anymore?"

Zhong Ruyi could only explain, "The price of chicken has gone up a bit because it's close to the Chinese New Year, and the farmers we usually buy chickens from have told us in advance that they will not sell them after they sell out in the next few days."

"Besides, we haven't released any new braised food in a long time, so why not try braised spareribs instead of braised chicken this time?"

The customer asked again, "Will you still sell braised chicken in the future?"

"For sale! But we are not selling them for the time being. Farmers are keeping the chickens at home to be slaughtered for Chinese New Year!"

"Okay, we can have more later. You just said that we're switching to braised spareribs today. How much are they?"

Zhong Ruyi said, "The braised spareribs are ten cents a spoonful, the same price as the braised offal. Sir, you can buy a spoonful and take it home to try, it's also delicious!"

The customer came for the braised chicken, but was told that he wouldn't have braised chicken for a while. He felt a little uncomfortable, but thought that ten cents for braised spareribs was not expensive.

"Then give me two spoons of braised offal, one spoon of tofu and dried bean curd, and one spoon of braised pork ribs! I want to see if the braised pork ribs taste good after I buy them back! If they taste good, I'll give them back."

Just then, Zhong's mother and second brother came out with a big pot of steaming braised pork ribs and placed it on the wooden barrel that served as a support.

The customers who had taken the orders lined up one by one to buy. Mother Zhong was in charge of collecting the money. Zhong Ruyi was in charge of braising the spare ribs today, while the second brother was in charge of braising the offal and tofu.

The ribs were selected by the pork shop owner, who tried to give more meat to my second brother, and he also chopped the pieces into appropriate sizes.

When a customer finished buying braised food and was about to leave, he saw two large bones in the braised pork ribs section. He pointed at the two large bones and asked, "Do you want to sell these large bones?"

When Zhong Ruyi saw that the customer was asking about the two large ribs, she wanted to say she didn't want to sell them. But then she remembered that her second brother had bought several large ribs in the morning, and these two were going to be braised and given to her third brother Dongzhi at noon.

Since the customer wants it, give it to him.

She nodded and said, "Sell it! Do you want it? I'll charge you three cents for each one."

After all, there is not much meat on this big bone, but it has been taken apart by my second brother, and the marrow inside the bone tube has been braised until it is shiny and fragrant.

This customer really loves to gnaw on bones, so he bought four spoonfuls of the newly-released braised spareribs, intending to take them home and gnaw on them slowly.

"Then I'll take it! Please put it in this lunch box for me."

He put the food box he brought on the table, watched Zhong Ruyi put the big bone in, gave him the money and left.

Although there was no braised chicken, there were cheaper braised spare ribs, and the customers were willing to try them, so the spare ribs and other braised goods were quickly sold out.

Not all of the twenty pounds of ribs were braised and sold, and two bowls were left out for when Brother Dongzhi and Third Brother came over for lunch at noon. She would also have one less dish to cook, hehe!

After quickly packing up the containers of braised goods, Chen Dongzhi and the third brother also came over, followed by Zhao Zhongsheng and others.

It was Zhong's mother who specifically asked Zhong Laosan to call them over. After all, people were kind enough to introduce them to the jobs at the dock.

She let them eat the bread and buns they brought with cold water outside, while Zhong Laosan and his partner went to the store to eat hot meals. Mother Zhong always felt bad about it.

Simply letting Zhong Laosan call them over, a few people followed behind, smiled embarrassedly, and greeted, Zhong's mother quickly let them into the store.

"The food is ready, eat quickly. After you finish eating, you can take a nap on the table so that you can have energy to work in the afternoon!"