Su Chen understands that businessmen value profit, and Bai Susu must be very eager for this soap project; but Bai Susu also knows Su Chen's dilemma and difficulties.

This means that both sides understand each other's weaknesses and advantages. If they combine, they will benefit from each other, and if they divide, they will lose each other, and they will return to the same level.

The two of them face each other's eyes, but they never took their eyes away. When they waited for the other party to let go, they would probably be at a disadvantage in negotiations. This is a common truth at the psychology level.

The two people were very close, three feet apart, and they could feel each other's breathing, staring at each other, refusing to show weakness.

However, Bai Susu's appearance is so beautiful, with delicate facial features, like ingenious skills, picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and skin as snow as beautiful as grace and coldness, as well as a kind of holiness like a white lotus.

Similarly, when looking at each other at such close distance, Su Chen's facial features and face were deeply imprinted into Bai Susu's mind, so real and vivid.

Someone once said that when a young and beautiful couple has feelings for each other, if they look at each other for a minute, one of them will not help but kiss.

The hormones between men and women are often so strange!

At this moment, Su Chen looked at the peerless appearance of the beauty in front of him and looked at each other like this. In an instant, it seemed to have become eternal. The colors around the courtyard seemed to be dim and were compared by her brightness.

His heart was a little beating wildly. In addition, Su Chen had the urge to kiss her.

"Why don't you talk?" Peng Qingqing walked out of the kitchen again and found that the two of them were silent. They looked at each other for a long time without saying anything. She was worried that the two would get angry when they quarreled, so she came over and planned to adjust.

"Cough cough!" Su Chen coughed dryly, avoiding his eyes with a little guilty feeling, and squeezed out a smile at Qingqing and said, "It's okay, let's talk about business again."

After Bai Susu was interrupted, a layer of redness seemed to float on her cold and fair cheeks.

What I felt just now... was so strange.

"Oh, it's fine. The dishes are all ready. Su Chen and Ling'er said that hot pot base and dipping sauce are needed to cook in person. Come and do some work!" Peng Qingqing reminded.

"Okay!" Su Chen nodded. If you eat hot pot without the base and dipping sauce, it would be similar to boiled vegetables, and it would be tasteless.

The more fragrant the hot pot tastes, the more critical the seasonings and base ingredients are.

Su Chen said politely to Bai Susu in front of him: "I'll go and cook, cook, and talk about business matters."

"Okay, go and do your business! Can Su Su... go to Mr. Su's study?" Bai Susu requested.

Su Chen thought that in the study, there were only some old medical rubbings, a small number of Confucian classics, and some simple pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and there was nothing shameful about it. He nodded and said, "Yes, the family is poor and there is nothing valuable, so you can just take a look."

Bai Susu smiled and nodded, while Su Chen turned around and walked towards the kitchen.

After seeing him leave, Peng Qingqing whispered to Bai Susu: "Have the business been negotiated?"

"It's only halfway through, but it's not done yet!" Bai Susu looked at her good friend, not cold, but with a hint of chuckling and said softly: "Take me to his study room and take a look."

"Okay, just here and there, let's go!" Peng Qingqing took Bai Susu's hand and walked towards a room in the west wing, which was the study room of Su's house.

Although it is called the study room, it is extremely simple. The valuable belongings in the ancestral home were defrauded by "Su Chen". There are no elegant decorations such as antique jade, calligraphy, paintings, and carvings in the room. Except for an old bookshelves standing against the wall, there is only a wooden table and chair, placed on the side of the room by the window, with four treasures of the study, pen, ink, paper and ink.

This brush is just an ordinary bamboo hard pen, with a lot of hair peeling off and an ugly shape.

The ink is a poor quality pine smoke ink, not the Li Tinggui ink that is currently popular in the Tang Dynasty.

Paper is low-priced white hemp paper, not the Chengxintang paper or ribbed rice paper that scholars in Jiangnan like.

The inkstone is a broken porcelain bowl!

Seeing such a shabby situation, Bai Susu felt a little sad in her heart for some reason.

She walked to the table and saw some paper with words on it. The fonts were strong, beautiful, and clear.

On a stack of paper, there are poems that Su Chen usually writes, and there are also manuscripts of legendary poems in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Bai Susu picked up the paper with words and looked carefully...

Half an hour later, Su Chen prepared the hot pot base and also prepared the dipping sauce. There were no chili in this era, but with pepper, pepper, star anise, cumin, mustard, sesame oil, etc., stir-fry together and can also make a slightly spicy and scented flavor.

In addition, the dipping sauce includes chopped green onion, garlic paste, sesame paste, Runzhou vinegar, soy sauce, pepper oil, cumin, mustard, etc., all of which are quite complete.

Without an induction cooker, you can only use a brazier to hold charcoal blocks and place them on the table. There is an iron rack on the brazier, and a copper pot and hot water soup stock are set up, so it is heated through hot charcoal.

Bai Susu, Peng Qingqing, Ling'er, and Su Chen sat around the table, and only Xiaotong was serving and helping to serve the food.

There is a difference in the age of superiority and inferiority. Xiaotong, a maid, cannot transcend the rules. Even if Su Chen invites her to sit down and eat, she shook her head and refused, insisting that they can only eat by themselves.

Su Chen didn't say much. Every era has its own rules. If you can't change it yourself, you need to adapt to it.

The side dishes include mutton slices, deer meat, rabbit meat, fish slices, pork belly, duck blood, duck intestines, spinach, cabbage, bamboo shoots, lotus root slices, fresh water shrimp, oysters...

There are many categories. Originally, Su Chen asked Ling'er to buy it, but when he learned that Bai Susu and Peng Qingqing were going to stay for dinner and have hot pot together, Su Chen asked Ling'er to buy some dishes.

These meat slices and vegetables were placed in the base pot and boiled, emitting a unique fragrance.

Peng Qingqing and Bai Susu's eyes lit up. I had never seen this fresh food before, which made the two girls look forward to this "hot pot" flavor.

"The dipping sauce should be prepared according to your personal taste!" Su Chen made a sample and made some of them with a small spoon.

After seeing this, Peng Qingqing said to him: "Give it to me, you can change one by yourself!"

"..." Su Chen was speechless and could only hand the freshly prepared dipping sauce to her, and then said to Bai Susu: "Where are you? Do you need me to make some adjustments for you?"

Bai Susu had actually seen Su Chen's adjustment method, which was not complicated. She knew how much each material had been taken, so she could adjust it by herself. However, facing his eyes, she nodded in a silence and said, "Then thank Mr. Su."

Su Chen was stunned for a moment. He was just a polite word. Unexpectedly, this young lady of the Bai family really knew how to get into trouble!

"Don't be polite!" Su Chen had already said something, so he couldn't change his words. He took Bai Susu's empty bowl, then prepared dipping sauce at the table and handed it to her. Then he made another bowl for his own girl Ling'er, so that the three girls would have all their share, and no one would favor it.
Chapter completed!