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Chapter 73 – Recipes (1)
“Please weigh this for me, 10 catties of fat intestines, 10 catties of pork thigh, 7 catties of pork head meat, and 10 catties of stewed pork shoulder.”\n
-Fat intestines dishes\n– Pork thigh dishes\n
-Pork head meat\n-Stewed Pork Shoulder
Lou Dazhuang had confirmed that he got misled by Su Xiaoxiao’s approach last time and calmed down. He weighed the stewed meat one by one, and it was slightly higher than Su Xiaoxiao’s calculation.
Su Ergou patted his chest and said, “We will never cheat on you!”
“How much are you going to sell these?” Luo Dazhuang asked.
“Pork thigh is 30 wen a catty, as for the rest are 40 wen for a catty.”
Luo Dazhuang was surprised: “Are you serious? You are going to sell pork offal at such a high price?”\n-Pork offal
Su Xiaoxiao said: “Things are precious because of their scarcity. My recipe and taste are worth the price!”
“Alright, then don’t blame me if they are not sold.”
Such expensive pork offal, it would be strange if people bought it.
Jinji.
Shopkeeper Sun also came early today. And at this moment, he was tasting the newly baked snacks with several cooks in the compartment.
“How is it?” Shopkeeper Sun asked.
Several cooks looked at each other and shook their heads.
It didn’t taste right.
“It’s too sweet,” A cook surnamed Li said.
He was a senior cook in Jinji. He had been working in Jinji for more than ten years, so it could be said that his cooking skills were pretty good.
“Why does it taste so sweet this time?” Shopkeeper Sun frowned, “The last batch was tasteless and this batch is too sweet, so
 there must be something wrong, right?”
Cook Li said, “I can taste the ingredients she used, but I just can’t make it exactly like wife’s cake.”
-Wife’s cakes / Lao Po Ping (è€ć©†é„Œ)
The cook Wang on the side said, “The heat and the ratio of ingredients are also very important. Even small things can create a huge difference. Haven’t our Jinji snacks been imitated by others all the time? Aren’t they unable to make the same taste as ours?”
The rest of the people nodded their heads.
Shopkeeper Sun said angrily, “Our current problem now is that someone has made it! And it tasted better than Jinji! Didn’t you hear what the customers said?”
“She didn’t even imitate our pastries

”
A new cook said weakly.
“How could it not be an imitation!” Shopkeeper Sun glared at him.
The new cook didn’t dare to say anything.
“She must have improved our recipe.” Another cook surnamed Liu said.
Shopkeeper Sun said in a cold voice: “If she can improve it, why can’t you do it as well? A few men can’t even beat a little village girl. If words spread out, where can we put our face?”
Jinji was a long-established store. It wasn’t right to say that the influence of wife’s cake was too great to affect them. After all, that little fat village girl could only sell that much in a day.
But if you want to say that it didn’t matter at all, he had heard the customers say repeatedly that their pastries were not as good as her wife’s cake.
This was a disgrace!
“How about.
.. we drive her away?” Cook Liu suggested.
“Do you think I don’t want to drive her out?” Shopkeeper Sun rolled his eyes and said.
“She had saved our Jinji’s guest, and now you want to drive her away. What will the guests think? Furthermore, she’s not even at the main entrance of Jinji, and she’s not blocking in the way or affecting the guests. So what kind of reason do we have to drive her out?”
Shopkeeper Sun was a bit treacherous. After all, he was a business minded person. He knew the importance of the shop’s image, so he would not do anything that would ruin Jinji reputation.
“You guys keep working on the recipe, I will think about it again.”
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There was a long queue at the entrance of Jinji as usual, but soon, an incredible scene happened.
As soon as Su Xiaoxiao’s wife’s cake was put out, many guests who were queuing at Jinji moved to her.
So there was also a small, but long queue formed in her place.
Naturally, it couldn’t be compared with Jinji, but for a small peddler who dared to sell snacks at the entrance of Jinji, it was a rare and unprecedented spectacle.
“Miss! Do you still have chestnut cakes today? I didn’t eat any of them yesterday!”
-Chinese chestnuts.\n-Chestnut cakes.
A young man in the queue poked his head out and asked.
“Yes,” Su Xiaoxiao’s said with a smile.
Mrs. Wu went back to her mother’s house and gave her mother the copper coins she earned from Su Xiaoxiao. Her mother knew that she was having a hard time at her in-law’s house, so her mother refused to take it no matter what Mrs. Wu said. But Mrs. Wu persisted, so her mother gave in, and asked Mrs. Wu to bring back some chestnuts home. That was how Su Xiaoxiao got the chestnuts from Mrs. Wu.