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It's easy to try dishes, but difficult to buy recipes.

It's like prostitution is easy, but marriage is difficult.

In the next two days, both Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing deeply understood the meaning of this sentence. When they tried cooking at one of their hot pot restaurants, they were very efficient. When it went well, they could try seven or eight restaurants a day (3 noon Four, three or four at night).

But when it came time to buy the formula, it didn't go so smoothly.

Although there are a lot of hot pot restaurants that can ask prices every day, there are more than a dozen in a day, but...

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

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

Or, although the owner of a certain hot pot restaurant is interested in selling the hot pot recipes of this restaurant, he and Xu Tongdao are very different in price, and they always want to open their mouths and sell them at a high price.

If Xu Tongdao's current wealth is several times richer, or the funds on hand are several times more, he might agree.

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

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

One half of the money was the package that he temporarily raised before coming to Wudu, which required interest.

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

This time he just raised a mouth with Ge Liangcai, Ge Lianghua, Tan Shi and others, saying that he wanted to borrow some money and ask them to help think of a solution.

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

The degree of ease 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.

Love to save money is a tradition of Chinese people since ancient times.

Almost every household will try to save some money.

Some people's daily life may be withheld, and they seem to be very poor. Maybe there are tens of thousands or even more in the family.

...

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

Unless it is really impossible to buy a formula at a low price, he didn't plan to buy a formula for one hundred thousand or eighty thousand from the beginning.

Mainly, there are too many hot pot restaurants in Wudu.

Let him see too many choices.

Since there are so many choices, 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.

Agree to sell all their own hot pot base, spicy oil, and dipping recipes to Xu Tongdao.

The agreement stipulates that after Xu Tongdao gets the formula, he will never open a hot pot restaurant in Wudu, and compete with the spicy family.

The price of the formula: 30,000 yuan.

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

Xu Tongdao got the first ready-made hot pot recipe. The boss and wife of the spicy family received 30,000 yuan in income outside of normal operations.

Before signing the agreement, the boss and the proprietress deliberately looked at the ID cards of Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing and determined that they were neither 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 here in Wudu to steal their business.

As for Xu Tongdao, if they get this recipe, will they steal business from other hot pot restaurants?

Then they don't care.

People are selfish, as long as they can achieve their own benefits, what about the life and death of others?

Therefore, both parties to the agreement are very happy.

I feel that I have made a profit.

On the afternoon of the signing of the agreement, Xu Tongdao paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan in advance, and the owner of the hot pot restaurant wrote a full set of formulas to Xu Tongdao.

In the evening, after the Spicy family closed, the boss personally followed the recipe and demonstrated to Xu Tongdao on the spot the cooking of the hot pot base, the cooking of spicy oil, and the making of eight kinds of dipping methods.

Each time it was made, Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing were allowed to taste the taste on the spot. After they were sure that the taste was okay, they would continue to demonstrate the next one, and then Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing would taste it on the spot.

During this process, Xu Tongdao paid special attention to whether the various main ingredients and auxiliary materials used when the other party made the hot pot base, spicy oil, and dipping sauce were consistent with the recipe written to him by the other party.

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

If he is a complete layman, he might overlook many details.

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

Compared with the orthodox Chinese food method, the hot pot method 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 will generally not apply for hot pot restaurants, even if the salaries of hot pot restaurants are higher, and Chinese chefs who have aspirations will not apply.

Of course, this is not to say that any Chinese chef can make a hot pot with good taste.

After all, what everyone learns and studies are two different directions.

Just how do you say it?

The recipes of any hot pot restaurant are generally strictly confidential.

Even if the average chef applies to work in the past, he still has no access to the recipes 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.

The real hot pot base ingredients, spicy oil, and dipping ingredients are really difficult to imitate without getting the secret recipe.

But Xu Tongdao, who had already obtained the secret recipe, could see the production process of the other party's live demonstration to him at a glance.

He only watched the live demonstration once and tasted the taste, and he was sure that the other party did not give him any tricks on the recipe.

He can understand.

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

According to his recent taste evaluation ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the hot pot soup base of this spicy restaurant, as well as the level of spicy oil and dipping sauce, is not top-notch among the dozens of hot pot restaurants he has recently tasted.

But it can also be ranked in the top ten.

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

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

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The next morning.

Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing came to another hot pot restaurant-Shuxiang Pavilion.

When he came to this store, Xu Tongdao checked 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 usually don't go to work before 9 o'clock.

The two walked into the Shuxiang Pavilion with a smile 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 in the store grabbing a young man in black trousers and a white shirt by the collar. Punching in the face...