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That evening, Shiyu returned to the restaurant. When she arrived, she was invited into the restaurant.
"My Shifu wants to meet you."
"Your Shifu?" Shiyu was surprised, but she is bright and quickly understood, "This is because of the soup?"
"En." Bu Yan nodded his head.
Today, his Shifu had boiled the soup for many hours, but could not recreate the awesome taste.
Shiyu and Bu Yan entered the restaurant and waited in a corner. In a short while, a middle age man came over.
Shiyu examined the man. He is quite clean and average looking, and his eyes seemed to be murky, but not evil. She had a plan.
"My surname is Li, and is the chef of this restaurant. May I know the name of this lady?"
Although Shiyu was dressed like a boy, it is quite obvious that she is a girl.
"Call me Little Shi." Shiyu replied.
"Miss Little Shi" Chef Li immediately jumped straight to the point, "Your fish soup is not bad, could you teach me how to cook it. I promise you that if you teach me how to cook it, in future, all the fish bones in this restaurant will be given to you."
Shiyu immediately asked, "Then are you implying that if I do not teach you, you will not give me any more fish bones?"
Chef Li did not reply, but just looked at her. The meaning was quite clear.
In his eyes, Shiyu is just a naïve and dumb girl. He thought that if he frightened her by withholding the fish bones, she will definitely give in and teach him the recipe.
Alas, he was wrong. Shiyu is neither naïve nor is she dumb.
"Since it is like this, then there is no need to discuss any further." Shiyu smiled and turned around.
Chef Li did not anticipate this and immediately called out, "Lady, what do you mean? Are you not satisfied with this arrangement? All the fish bones you take comes from me."
Shiyu rolled her eyes, and turned around. She immediately retorted, "This is just some fish bones that you are about to discard. Even if you do not give it to me, I can find another restaurant that is willing to give it to me. The city is so big, and there are numerous restaurants here. Sooner or later, someone will purchase the recipe from me. As for you, you wanted to bully me as I am young. Totally shameless!"
Chef Li did not anticipate that this beggar knows the situation so well, and he was embarrassed by her words.
"You want me to purchase the recipe?" He understood what Shiyu is trying to say.
"What do you think?" Shiyu asked, "Did you think I spend this time to meet you just to find out how handsome you are?"
Seeing that Chef Li looked offended, Shiyu quickly tried to redirect his attention, "I believe you have tried the soup, how does it taste?"
Chef Li admitted, "It tastes good!"
"Then have you ever eaten it other places before?"
"No."
"Then isn't this perfect? Once you purchase the recipe from me, it means that you will have a sole monopoly on this recipe!" Shiyu hawked her wares.
Chef Li's heartbeat was much faster after hearing these words. The taste of this soup is much better than the other dishes within the restaurant, and the taste is not inferior to spiritual beast meat. If he has this recipe, the business will grow and become the speciality of this restaurant.
At first, he wanted to get this recipe for free. Now that he had to pay for it, he was a bit unhappy.
But Shiyu will not give him much time to consider. She is hungry. If he does not grab the opportunity now, she will sell it to another restaurant. Considering how tasty the soup is, someone will purchase it from her.
Chef Li asked, "How much?"
Shiyu thought for a while. She is not familiar with the prices of things here, and asked, "If I want to rent a normal home, how much is the rental for one month?"
"Normal house?" Chef Li replied, "1 tael of silver."
"Then I will sell this recipe to you for 5 taels of silver." Shiyu replied.
Chef Li want to haggle on the price, but he does not have any leverage. He finally agreed.
After that, Shiyu taught him how to make the soup.
Looking the way in which Shiyu cooks, Chef Li finally understood why the soup he made tasted so bad. Cooking a soup is not just add water and salt and just boiled the water. There is a need to add other ingredients, watch the fire, and collect all the foams that rise up.
This opened his eyes.
"Where did you learn this recipe from?" Chef Li asked.
"I watched an immortal doing this near the river, and learned from watching." Shiyu replied. As usual, just pull out an immortal, and hey pesto, everything is solved, "All right, you have mastered this recipe, pay up!"
After she had collected 5 taels of silver, Shiyu asked Bu Yan to help to find an accommodation for her within the city. It is much safer in the city than living in the broken down temple.
Chef Li thought that this beggar may have more recipes and wants to build relationships with her. Therefore, when Shiyu asked Bu Yan to help to keep an eye out, he immediately introduced a house to her.
With chef Li as an intermediary, the issue of renting a house was resolved very quickly. The place is located in the commoner's distinct. The place is not big, and is just like most commoner's house. But there is a garden in the courtyard, and there is a tree there. Shiyu paid 3 months rental at a rate of 1 tael of silver a month. To thank Chef Li, she paid him one tael of silver. She had only 1 tael of silver left.
Looking at the last tael of silver in her hand, she was feeling very depressed. This is really spending money like water.
Before it turns dark, she asked all the orphans and the grandpa over.
When the grandpa asked her where she got the money from, she said that a restaurant wants to buy her recipe, and she sold it for some money. This explanation is acceptable to the grandpa.
The new house has almost everything, and cooking is not as difficult as it was in the temple. When she looked at the steamer at the corner, she suddenly thought of a method to earn some money.
She cooked some simple dinner. When it is time to sleep, there are not enough beds for everyone, so everyone just finds a spot in the house to sleep. They were used to sleeping on the hard floor in the temple, and this room is much more comfortable than the temple.
The next day, Shiyu used the last tael to buy some flour and 3 jins of meat, plus some seasonings.
Pork is very cheap in this world. She was very early, and even managed to get some free parts of the pork (the innards) that the boss of the pork stall does not want and was about to discard.
When she comes back, she boiled the pork innards, and then begin to make the steam buns.
After entering this world for so many days, she can finally eat that taste the meat.
To say that steam buns are easy to make is true. To say that they are difficult to make is also true. A bite of a good steamed bun will immediately release the juice of the pork contained within, and it will taste incredible. If it not made well, the meat will be very dry and people will have no appetite to eat it.
Shiyu wants to make the best steam bun.
The other orphans saw this and immediately offered to help. When she saw their dirty hands, she immediately got a headache…..
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