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It is easy to try dishes, but difficult to buy recipes.

Like prostitution is easy, marriage is difficult.

In the next two days, both Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing deeply understood the meaning of this sentence. When they went to try dishes in each hot pot restaurant before, they were very efficient. Four, three or four in the evening).

But when it came time to buy the recipe, it didn't go so well.

Although there are a lot of hot pot restaurants that can ask for prices every day, and there are dozens of them in one day, but...

Or, when they came to the door, the owner of the hot pot restaurant was not in the store, and the cashier or the proprietress in the store ignored them.

Or, they met the owner of the hot pot restaurant smoothly, but when the owner faced them wanting to buy a hot pot recipe, his attitude was similar to the first hot pot restaurant they went to.

Or, although the owner of a certain hot pot restaurant has the intention to sell the hot pot recipe of the restaurant, he has a big difference with Xu Tongdao and the others on the price. He always wants to open his mouth and sell it at a high price.

If Xu Tongdao's current net worth was several times richer, or the funds on hand were several times more, he might have agreed.

But the problem is that although his current net worth has exceeded one million, more than 90% of the funds are invested in Internet cafes.

The funds he brought to Wudu this time... a total of 300,000 yuan.

A small half of them were the package money that he had raised temporarily before he came to Wudu, and he needed to pay interest.

In other words, as he has more and more assets, he has opened 8 Internet cafes under his name, and it is much less difficult for him to borrow a little more money than before.

This time, he just talked to Ge Liangcai, Ge Lianghua, Tan Shi and others, saying that he wanted to borrow some money and ask them to help find a way.

Then, within a few days, hundreds of thousands of funds were sent to him one after another.

The ease of it made him believe that if he waited for another ten days or half a month, he should be able to borrow hundreds of thousands more.

The love of saving money is a tradition of Chinese people since ancient times.

Almost every household will try to save some money.

Some people's ordinary days,

He may be living in a tight way, as if he is very poor, maybe there are tens of thousands or even more in the family.

...

With more than 300,000 yuan of funds, Tongdao Xu is habitually saving money.

Unless the formula can't be bought at a low price, he didn't plan to buy a formula for 100,000 or 80,000 yuan from the beginning.

The main reason is that there are too many hot pot restaurants in Wudu.

Let him see too many options.

Since there are so many options, for him, this is a buyer's market, and there is a lot of room for him to choose.

No, after two days of hard work, the owner of a hot pot restaurant named Mala Renjia signed the agreement provided by Xu Tongdao.

He agreed to sell all his hot pot base, chili oil, and dipping recipes to Tongdao Xu.

This agreement stipulates that after Xu Tongdao gets this recipe, he will never be able to open a hot pot restaurant in Wudu and compete with spicy people.

The price of the recipe: 30,000 yuan.

The moment the agreement was signed, both parties were happy.

Tongdao Xu got the first ready-made hot pot recipe, and the boss and wife of Mala Family received 30,000 yuan in income in addition to normal operations.

Before signing the agreement, the boss and the proprietress specially looked at the ID cards of Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing, and determined that neither of them were from Wudu, nor even from Sichuan Province. Therefore, they believed in Xu Tongdao's promise and believed in Xu Tongdao. If you get their formula, you won't open a shop in Wudu to steal their business.

As for Xu Tongdao, will they steal the business of other hot pot restaurants when they get this recipe?

Then they don't care.

People are all selfish, as long as they can get their own way, what about the lives of others?

Therefore, both parties to the agreement are very happy.

All feel earned.

On the afternoon of the day the agreement was signed, Tongdao Xu paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan in advance, and the owner of the hot pot restaurant wrote the full recipe to Tongdao Xu.

That night, after the Mala family closed, the boss personally followed the recipe and demonstrated to Xu Tongdao how to cook hot pot base, chili oil, and eight kinds of dipping sauces.

After each one is made, let Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing taste the taste on the spot. After they are sure that the taste is ok, they will continue to demonstrate the next one, and then Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing will taste it on the spot.

During this process, Xu Tongdao paid special attention to whether the various main ingredients and auxiliary materials used by the other party when they made the hot pot base, chili oil, and dipping seasonings were consistent with the recipes the other party wrote to him.

Well, as well as the details of the cooking temperature and time, Xu Tongdao also paid attention to them one by one.

If he's a complete layman, that's probably missing a lot of details.

But before Xu Tongdao was reborn, he had been a chef for several years after all.

Compared with the orthodox Chinese food practice, the practice of hot pot is much simpler.

This is also a major reason why Chinese chefs generally look down on hot pot chefs in the chef industry.

Chinese chefs with excellent craftsmanship generally do not apply for jobs in hot pot restaurants. Even if the salary of hot pot restaurants is higher, Chinese chefs who have aspirations will not apply for jobs.

Of course, this does not mean that any Chinese chef can make a delicious hot pot.

What everyone learns and researches, after all, are two different directions.

But, what to say?

The recipe of any hot pot restaurant is generally strictly confidential.

Even if an ordinary chef applies for a job in the past, he has no access to the recipe of that hot pot restaurant, and usually can only do some low-tech things.

Therefore, Chinese chefs who want to improve their skills are reluctant to go.

And the production of real hot pot base, chili oil, and dipping sauce is really difficult to imitate without getting the secret recipe.

But Xu Tongdao, who had already obtained the secret recipe, and then watched the other party demonstrate the production process to him on the spot, it became clear at a glance.

After only watching the live demonstration once and tasting the taste, he was sure that the other party did not manipulate him on the recipe.

He understands.

So, he settled the remaining balance on the spot with the cash that had been prepared in the afternoon.

According to his recent taste evaluation, this spicy family's hot pot soup base, as well as the level of chili oil and dipping sauce, are not top-notch among the dozens of hot pot restaurants he has tasted recently.

But also in the top ten.

He was very happy to be able to buy the recipe from this store so smoothly.

I also have a little more confidence in whether I can buy other recipes in the future.

...

the next morning.

Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing came to another hot pot restaurant, Shuxiangge.

When he came to this store, Tongdao Xu looked at the time on his watch - 9:16.

It's not that they don't want to come early, but that hot pot restaurants generally open late in the morning and don't usually go to work before 9 o'clock.

The two walked into the Shuxiang Pavilion with smiles on their faces, but in the next second, their expressions suddenly became very stunned. They were surprised to see a young man in a chef's uniform grabbing the collar of a young man in black trousers and a white shirt. punching in the face...