Chapter 880
When paying the bill, Chu Jingqi actually took out five hundred taels of silver and directly said that she wanted to sell their meat sauce recipe, "My wife likes to eat your meat sauce. I just bought it back so that the cook can learn it so that she can make it more often in the future." My wife eats it.”
Chu Jingqi's group of people were all dressed in extraordinary ways, and they looked like they were well-connected people. Otherwise, the blind ruffian wouldn't have been so scared that Chu Jingqi would stare at them and run away.
Wang Hantou didn't dare to offend, but...
He looked embarrassed and said, "This is the ancestral secret recipe of my wife's family. It is not passed on to outsiders except the direct descendants of the Wang family. In order to protect this secret recipe, my wife's family offended a bully, and everything in the family's life was lost." He was killed, and now... I want Xiao to sell you the secret recipe. Xiao... Xiao is really in a dilemma. "
The whole Wang family was killed to protect this secret recipe. Now, as a son-in-law, if he sells this secret recipe, who will he become?
"I'm not buying your secret recipe to do business. Don't worry, I won't use it to do business, let alone make money with it." Chu Jingqi rarely had the patience to convince Wang Hantou.
Wang Hantou couldn't make up his mind, so he looked at Madam Wang.
Madam Wang was also in a dilemma. She didn't dare to offend Chu Jingqi's group, but she couldn't sell the secret recipe that her parents had saved with their lives.
Xia Zihan squeezed Chu Jingqi's palm and said, "Don't make things difficult for me. Forget it. If I like it, just send someone over next time to buy more."
next time?
Can there be a next time?
If these two people died in the drought, wouldn't it mean that his wife wouldn't be able to eat if she wanted to?
Chu Jingqi thought of Xia Zihan's smile when she ate meat sauce with relish just now, and made a decision. She asked the Wang family and his wife, "Since it is a secret recipe passed down from generation to generation and cannot be sold, then I will ask you to come back to Beijing with me to work as a cook. For one month, I will give it to you." How about ten taels of silver a month for husband and wife?”
Ten taels of silver?
The husband and wife can only earn one tael of silver a month by running a noodle stall. Sometimes they even pay too much in protection fees and cannot save even one tael of silver, so they can just keep the family fed and clothed.
Now, there are actually noble people who spend ten taels of silver a month to hire them to do work. This is... indeed very good, but...
Wang Hantou's face turned pale, he shook his head and said, "I... we husband and wife will not be registered as slaves, nor will we sign a contract to sell ourselves as slaves."
Once they enter slavery, it is like a person entering hell. It will not be easy to jump back out in the future.
Moreover, if he becomes a slave, then his descendants and grandchildren will be engraved with the word slave, which he doesn't want.
Lady Wang doesn’t want to either.
The couple was trembling and trying to refuse, when they heard Chu Jingqi say, "You don't need to sign the deed of sale, just treat it as working. I will give you monthly money, and your children and grandchildren can work in my house in the future. You don't need to sign." ”
"Working with me is better than setting up a stall outside. You don't have to be afraid of those ruffians."
Perhaps it was Chu Jingqi's last words that moved Wang Hantou and his wife. After discussion, the couple decided to follow Chu Jingqi.
Immediately, Wang Hantou and Wang Niangzi closed the noodle stall, went home to pack their things, paid the rent, took their two children, a son and a daughter, and followed Xia Zihan on the road.
Chu Jingqi ordered Chuan Qiong to go to the market and buy a carriage for Wang Hantou and his family to ride in, and also sent a long attendant to drive the carriage for them. As for the large pot of fragrant big bone soup, Xia Zihan took it away, as well as more than fifty kilograms of noodles rolled out by Wang Hantou, and two large vats of fermented bean paste.
The meat sauce is made from bean paste, and Mrs. Wang is not willing to throw them away.
In the evening, the motorcade stopped in a forest, and everyone set up a large pot. Madam Wang and Wang Hantou were responsible for everyone's meals. They used the large pot of bone soup at noon to cook noodles for everyone to eat.
Mrs. Wang is good at cooking, especially noodles. Seeing that there was not much bone soup and not enough to feed so many people, she asked her children to pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables in the forest and cook a large pot of clear noodle soup.
Adding some meat sauce to the clear soup noodles is also very delicious.
Xia Zihan was so full that she touched her belly and muttered to Chu Jingqi, "This lady Wang's cooking skills are really good. No matter how she cooks the noodles, she can cook them with unique deliciousness. Her food-making skills , even better than our cook.”
Chu Jingqi smiled and hugged her, stroking her belly up and down with one hand, and said, "Of course, ten years ago, Wang's Restaurant was very famous in the Nanling area, but I don't know that ten years later, The Wang family actually ended up in this situation.”
"Hey, Aqi, do you know the Queen?" Xia Zihan raised her head unexpectedly and looked at him.
Chu Jingqi said, "I met her once. When I was seven or eight years old, my parents took me to visit Nanling. They often took my mother and I to eat at Wang's Restaurant. The meat sauce at Wang's Restaurant is famous for its excellent quality. My mother I like to eat it very much, and like you, I bought a few cans of meat sauce to take with me on the road. At that time, we hunted game and smeared a layer of meat sauce on it when we grilled it. It was very delicious.”
Because it tastes so good, he will remember it deeply.
"It's a pity that when I sent someone to buy it later, I heard that Wang's Restaurant was closed."
At that time, a total of three Wang's restaurants were opened in Lingnan, but all of them closed overnight.
The people he sent didn't investigate carefully and went back.
Unexpectedly, he would meet Boss Wang's daughter, Mrs. Wang, today, and eat the Wang family meat sauce that he had eaten before.
The reason why he invited them to work as cooks in Anjun Prince's Mansion was because both Ayu and his mother liked to eat Wang's meat sauce, and the secret recipe of Wang's meat sauce was not sold out. There was no other way to keep Wang Hantou and his wife here. One... that would be a shame.
In short, Prince Anjun's palace has money. It is not enough to hire a family to do the work, and it can also make his Ayu happy. This business is worth it.
After resting in the forest all night, the next morning, the four members of the Wang family got up early to cook for everyone.
I cooked a large pot of rice porridge, steamed a large pot of steamed buns, dipped them in fragrant bean paste and dried meat, and had a meal.
At noon, they settled in a small town. After eating, they bought a lot of meat, vegetables, rice and noodles.
In the evening, the convoy stopped in a field. The four members of the Wang family quickly set up the big pot without being asked. The Wang family's two sons and daughters also worked diligently to collect firewood from the nearby mountains and forests.
Xia Zihan saw that their two children were just like Wang Hantou. He looked at Hanhan who was honest, didn't talk much and worked hard, so he said to Chu Jingqi, "These two children are quite good. Let Chu Lin take good care of her when she goes back." They are two good seedlings.”
(End of chapter)