Chapter 2 Career Start
At 12 noon, Liu Xiahui walked out of the county station with a greeting. He looked around and found that the surrounding buildings were unfamiliar with some familiarity.
To be unfamiliar, it is many high-rise buildings before rebirth in the previous life, such as the Baozhongbao Group diagonally opposite the station, etc., which are still unknown.
If Liu Xiahui remembers correctly, the tallest building in the entire county town is still the power building during this period of time.
To be familiar, it is the station and some small buildings around it, and there is not much change from twenty years later.
"Brother Housheng (the common term for young men), where to go and do you take the bus?"
Just as Liu Xiahui was secretly feeling, an aunt parked in front of him and asked in a tricycle.
Looking at the three-wheeled motorcycle in front of him that had been extinct in later generations (a truck bucket is installed on the right side of the motorcycle, similar to the military motorcycle of a certain army in the anti-Japanese war film), Liu Xiahui couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic and asked, "How much does it cost to go to Gou'er Lane?"
The aunt said enthusiastically: "Two dollars, get in the car!"
Liu Xiahui nodded, then got into the car with a greeting.
In 2000, the price of taking a tricycle was basically this, and it could travel around half of the county town for two yuan.
In the era when there was no traffic jam, the aunt successfully pulled Liu Xiahui to her destination in just a few minutes.
After Liu Xiahui paid to get off the bus, she looked around while walking.
Gou'er Lane is an old street in Baizhou County. Later, due to the shift in the development of the county town, it seemed a bit depressed, but now, the popularity here is still good.
Liu Xiahui came here mainly to find out if there are any suitable houses for rent here, because the neighbor of Gou'er Lane is Dongcheng Market, which is the place where he has decided to start a business.
There are many shops for rent here in Gou'er Lane, but there are very few houses for rent. Liu Xiahui stopped and stopped and almost reached the end of the street, and found an inconspicuous house that he was very satisfied with.
The house is a brick and tile house with a wall. Entering through the door of the wall, on the left is a vegetable field of dozens of square meters, planting common vegetables such as winter melon, water spinach, and green onions.
The place near the wall is a homemade big chicken that can raise at least dozens of chickens. Liu Xiahui should have more than ten chickens in it.
In front are two bungalows, and to the right is a very large living room and kitchen, and the bathroom and kitchen are connected.
The owner of the house was an old man in his sixties. He had no idea to rent the house, but Liu Xiahui was very satisfied with the house, so he tried his best to persuade him and tried his best to reluctantly ask the old man to agree to rent the house to him.
The conditions for renting are as follows:
1. Rent a house for 300 yuan per month, and rent it for three months in advance, and it will cost at least one year to rent it.
2. Liu Xiahui has to pay for chickens and vegetables. The chickens are sold at the market price, and half of the vegetables are sold and half-delivered.
All of Liu Xiahui agreed that although the rent of 300 yuan per month was a bit expensive, considering the location of the house and the help of the vegetable field and chicken cage to him, it didn't matter if it was a little expensive.
In the end, the old man took 1,388 yuan and his clothes and bedding and patted his butt back to his son's house. Everything here temporarily belonged to Liu Xiahui.
After renting the house, Liu Xiahui spent money to buy some daily necessities, then simply cleaned up and moved in.
The next day, Liu Xiahui began to buy cart stalls with wheels, rice cookers, honeycomb coal, electronic scales, calculators, chopping boards, knives, large pots, large basins, trays, seasoning oil, various spices, various condiments, plastic bags, sand ginger, garlic, peanuts... and so on.
These things cost nearly 1,000 yuan in total.
So far, Liu Xiahui's 2,400 start-up capital has been spent so much, with only less than 50 yuan left.
Prepare these and boil a pot of oil with spices, and the day passed again.
On the third day, Liu Xiahui's white-cut chicken business officially opened.
Early in the morning, Liu Xiahui, who had breakfast, began to get busy, boiling water and killing chicken, washing onions and peeling garlic, making dipping sauce, etc.
Baijiu Chicken, also known as Baijiu Chicken, is one of the eight major dishes in my country. It started in folk hotels in the Qing Dynasty.
This is a famous dish in Guangdong and Guangxi.
If you want to make the white-cut chicken delicious, the following three points are indispensable:
1. The meat quality of chickens. If you use broilers that have been raised for less than two months to make white-cut chickens, the taste is not as good as that of farm chickens that have been raised for more than one year!
2. The chef's craftsmanship. Although the white-cut chicken is simple to make, no matter how simple it is, it should pay attention to the production steps and heat. A chef with good craftsmanship can make the white-cut chicken cooked without being rotten. The skin is refreshing and smooth, the meat is original, light and delicious.
3. Dipping sauce, to be honest, at least half of the taste of white-cut chicken is on dipping sauce.
Liu Xiahui is very confident about the first point. Although the 12 chickens raised by the old man are far inferior to those of free-range farm chickens in the countryside, the cage chickens that grow up slowly with leftovers are obviously not comparable to those of broilers who specialize in feeding and growing up quickly.
What's more, Liu Xiahui also used the quality improvement attributes of the golden finger. Although it was only improved by 10%, its flesh quality was already very good.
As for the second point, Liu Xiahui is also confident. Although he is not a professional chef, he dared to open a small restaurant in the city and serve as a chef in his previous life. He must have two tricks.
In fact, part of his cooking skills is learned from his uncle (grandmother's younger brother), part of his mother, and part of his cooking skills is learned from his mother.
Liu Xiahui has three old uncles in total. The eldest uncle is a authentic country chef. He is basically a good family event for weddings and white events in the countryside.
Liu Xiahui, in his previous life, studied with his uncle for a while. Not to mention that some special dishes at local banquets can be compared with his uncle who has been working for decades, but at least he has the success of his elders.
This is mainly due to the fact that my uncle did not hide his personal teachings to Liu Xiahui.
Needless to say, my mother was good at cooking. She also worked as a chef from time to time during her restaurant operation. After so many years, she naturally developed a good cooking skill.
When Liu Xiahui was studying cooking skills in his previous life, he also asked his mother a lot.
The final online self-study is also an important part. With the popularity of 4G networks in later generations, many internet celebrity chefs have gathered on them to shoot videos to teach cooking.
Liu Xiahui, who had already had a strong foundation, has really made him think of many things after years of research.
For one of the most famous local specialties, Yukishita is certainly confident that he can do it no worse than anyone else.
The third point is dipping sauce, there is no need to say much about it. The dipping sauce in Guangdong and Guangxi is famous.
The most classic dipping sauce for white-cut chicken is recognized as the sand ginger dipping sauce, which is a perfect match!
Of course, the taste of sand ginger is like coriander, not everyone can get used to that taste. Naturally, the businessman Liu Xiahui will not ignore this, so in addition to preparing sand ginger dipping sauce, he also prepared another conventional dipping sauce.
After all, it was the first day to start a stall and do business. Liu Xiahui only killed five chickens and planned to explore the market first.
For those who have never killed chickens, it may not be able to get the five chickens well after touching them for a long time, but for Liu Xiahui, who likes to cook and has been studying them for more than ten years, it is really simple.
From starting to the final cleaning of chicken intestines and kidneys, the five chickens were done in less than twenty minutes, and the speed was no less than that of professional chefs.
When everything was ready and found that it was still early, Liu Xiahui was not in a hurry to set up the stall, but went out to buy a few red letters and put them on the transparent glass of the cart stall.
White cut chicken 18 yuan/catties
Liu Xiahui also thought about this pricing.
At Liuxiahui’s hotel, the current price of white-cut chicken is 17 yuan per kilogram, which is the general price of Bainiu Town hotels.
The pricing in the county is naturally different from that in the township.
In addition to buying things in the past two days, Liu Xiahui also inquired about the price of white-cut chickens in the county town and found that the white-cut chickens at the large food stalls were basically 18 yuan per kilogram.
As for the hotel, the price depends on the hotel's grade, and it basically ranges from 20 to 24 yuan per kilogram.
Naturally, Liu Xiahui’s cart stalls cannot be compared with other restaurants, so they can only be comparable to those food stalls, and the price is 18 yuan per kilogram.
After posting the red letters, it was already around 10 a.m. It was time to start a stall and do business.
Chapter completed!