Chapter 336: Like a person drinking water
"I would like to remind you that the shopkeeper, would you like to talk to the kitchen and ask them to stop using this ice cube or to stop selling this kind of food?"

"No." Shopkeeper Ge refused without hesitation, "These foods are quite popular recently, we have to make them, and in order to ensure that these foods taste authentic, we have to use ice cubes."

"But..." the accountant continued, "But these foods have been losing money, and the price of ice has been rising recently. If we continue to do this, we will only lose more money."

"Although these foods are indeed popular with diners, if the same food keeps losing money, the more popular it is, the more it loses. It seems that losing money to gain publicity is not worth it."

"You don't understand this."

Shopkeeper Ge chuckled, "Anyone who wants to sit in our Buyun Tower will have to spend at least a few hundred dollars, and some will have to spend several taels of silver. No matter how we calculate it, we will make a profit of 30% to 40%."

"Many people here come here for our cold drinks and snacks. It may seem like we lose a few cents for a cold drink or snack, but we earn more money for a table. If we don't have these, and if we don't have some expectations, maybe fewer customers will come, and the money we lose will be much more."

"Tell me, did we lose or gain?"

When the accountant heard this, he suddenly realized, "I understand, I made money, and it's a lot of money."

He usually does the accounting all day long, but all he does are small accounts. When it comes to the big accounts, he still has to rely on the shopkeeper.

No wonder he boasted that he had read some books and was a student, but he could only be an accountant and not a manager.

Does this vision and thinking have anything to do with reading? Yes, but it doesn’t seem to be absolutely necessary…

It is said that among three people there must be one who can be my teacher, and it is true!

The accountant figured it out and went back to work with a smile on his face.

Xia Mingyue heard the conversation between the two from not far away, smiled, and then went into the kitchen.

Everything was fine, including for Chef Wei who had been in the kitchen for a few days.

Chef Wei had experience working in the kitchen, so he was familiar with the tasks arranged by Lou Shanzi and was not unfamiliar with them, so he did them with ease.

Chef Wei came here to learn cooking with great determination, and he never complained about the hard work. Not only could he complete all the tasks assigned to him smoothly, he even took the initiative to ask to do more things.

Chef Wei, who is prudent in his work, has a positive attitude and is very friendly to people around him, is naturally respected by everyone.

Even in the kitchen of Buyunlou, everyone would respectfully call Chef Wei "Chef Wei" when they saw him as a sign of respect.

Chef Wei knew everyone's attitude towards him, so he worked even harder.

However, Chef Wei was extremely busy running back and forth between the two places, learning the craft in Buyun Tower and managing the meals in the small canteen in the county school.

In order to make time for his work, Chef Wei often jogged between the two places every day. He had no time to rest during the day, and he slept very late at night and got up very early in the morning...

After a few days like this, Chef Wei had lost weight visibly.

But people in the county school also discovered that the meals prepared by Chef Wei were always slightly different from day to day.

They couldn't tell what the specific differences were, but what they could say was that the taste was getting better and better, and it didn't seem as bad as before. Even the amount of food each person ate per day was increased. Seeing the increase in the amount of food needed in the canteen, Chef Wei felt a sense of accomplishment and became more motivated to learn cooking.

The fact that Chef Wei went to Buyun Tower to learn cooking was soon known to Zhou Zhiqing and others.

A teacher was quite worried about this. "Chef Wei is already quite old. He is so busy that it will affect his health. Shouldn't we persuade Chef Wei not to work so hard? We don't mind the food he cooks."

"I'm afraid that the more you say this, the more pressure Chef Wei will feel, and the more upset he will be." Zhou Zhiqing disagreed. "Chef Wei must have made his own decision to go find Madam Xia to learn cooking skills. It's better for us not to interfere too much."

Chef Wei is an adult with his own choices and pursuits.

"It's just..." Some people are still worried.

"Put yourself in their shoes. If a learned scholar is willing to discuss academic matters with us, how could we be willing to give up such an opportunity?"

Zhou Zhiqing said, "It's the same for Chef Wei. Although he's working hard right now, he's very happy. Why not let him continue to be happy like this?"

In his eyes, all the hard work is worth it.

Moreover, maybe in his eyes and heart, these are not hardships, but rather enjoyable?
Life is like drinking water, only you know whether it is hot or cold. The most taboo thing is to measure and lecture others with your own views and standards.

After hearing what Zhou Zhiqing said, the others gave up the idea of ​​persuading Chef Wei to take more rest and not to go to Buyun Tower to learn cooking, and just let Chef Wei do what he wanted.

Chef Wei was unaware of these things and just went about his daily business as usual.

In the following days, Xia Mingyue went to Zhaojiazhuang again.

The first batch of starch in Zhaojiazhuang has been prepared and it is time to start making vermicelli.

Mix sweet potato starch with a certain proportion of edible salt, put it in a pot and cook it into a transparent and sticky paste to make mature starch.

Knead the cooked starch and dry starch into a chewy starch dough with a certain degree of stretchability. Put the dough into the tool for pressing noodles, apply even force and press it directly into the pot of boiling water.

Boil for a while, take out and rinse with cold water to let the vermicelli fix its shape in the cold water. After it has cooled completely, take it out and hang it on a clean and exposed bamboo pole. Wait for the moisture in the vermicelli to dry up completely. Once it is completely dry, you can collect them all, bundle them and sell them.

This is the whole process of making sweet potato vermicelli.

Xia Mingyue taught the people of Zhaojiazhuang everything she knew about the technique of making vermicelli carefully and earnestly, and they also learned very seriously. During the process, they kept confirming some key points and practiced repeatedly in order to be able to make qualified vermicelli.

The process of making vermicelli is not difficult. The people working in the workshop learn carefully and seriously, and soon they can make vermicelli smoothly according to Xia Mingyue's process.

After some inspection and even tasting, Xia Mingyue smiled and nodded, "Just continue making it according to this process."

After receiving Xia Mingyue's approval, the group immediately gained confidence and continued to make vermicelli, cooking it and drying it in the sun, hoping to be able to sell it as soon as possible.

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