noffsinger Chapter 203: You Can’t Just Stop Selling After Selling Tens of Thousands of Copies
Chapter 203: You Can’t Just Stop Selling After Selling Tens of Thousands of Copies
She is good at cooking, but not at making medicinal food. In fact, the key to making medicinal food lies with Jiang Xiyu.
"That's because you have good cooking skills. If I had made it myself, I guess it wouldn't be edible." After praising Nanny Yu, Jiang Xiyu didn't forget to praise Gu Yunling, "It's also because the princess matched me with a good cook, otherwise this medicinal meal wouldn't be successful."
Both Yu Ma and Gu Yunling laughed at her praise.
He is indeed well-educated and what he says makes people feel comfortable.
Gu Yunling smiled and said, "Alright, you and Nanny Yu have both made contributions. I will give you both great merits."
Nanny Yu quickly bowed to Gu Yunling.
"Sister Yun, have you tried the Fu Yuan Soup and Hibiscus Porridge?" Jiang Xiyu guessed that she must have come here for these two medicinal dishes.
Gu Yunling nodded immediately, "I've tried them, both are delicious. Madam Yu also said that you've tried them, and they really are effective."
Gu Yunling said excitedly, "I think these two medicinal dishes alone will make our medicinal restaurant famous throughout Kyoto."
"How's the renovation of Sister Yun's herbal medicine shop going? When will it open?"
Gu Yunling smiled and said, "The medicinal food you have developed is enough for us to open the restaurant. The renovation of the restaurant will be completed in about half a month."
Jiang Xiyu's eyes lit up, "Half a month, that's fast."
Gu Yunling nodded, "Yes, so I would like to ask you and Yu Ma to teach my chef those medicinal food recipes when you are free these few days."
"I was just about to talk to Sister Yun about this. If we teach the cook earlier, the shop can open smoothly." Even if Gu Yunling didn't come to her, she would have to go to Gu Yunling.
Gu Yunling smiled and clapped her thigh, "If we say we are sisters, then we should be together, right?"
Jiang Xiyu thought of a question, "I have a question for Sister Yun."
Gu Yunling said, "You say."
"Sister Yun should also know that the medicinal food recipes are the foundation of our medicinal food shop. I can give all the recipes to the chefs, but can these chefs be completely trusted?" Jiang Xiyu has been thinking about this question these days.
The most important thing about running this herbal medicine shop is not to leak the herbal medicine recipes. Otherwise, if the recipes are leaked, many such herbal medicine shops will soon open in Kyoto City. Not only will they have to compete with those people, but they will not be able to make money and will work for those people for nothing.
The question Jiang Xiyu raised was also something Gu Yunling had been considering. "The chefs have all signed life contracts, so they should be completely trustworthy. However, there's no guarantee that someone will target these chefs if our herbal medicine shop becomes popular."
These chefs have all signed death contracts, so they would not betray her on their own initiative.
But if someone pays a large sum of money to lure them, or threatens them by holding their families hostage, there is no guarantee that they will betray her.
So it’s best to find a way to prevent it.
Gu Yunling looked at Jiang Xiyu and said, "Do you have any idea to teach the chef how to make medicinal food while keeping some skills to prevent them from betraying us in the future?"
Jiang Xiyu pondered for a moment and said, "Well, I will grind all the herbs into powder and try to mix them together. It will be difficult for them to distinguish them, and they won't know what kind of herbs we are using. As for dishes like Fuyuan Soup and Hibiscus Porridge, which use a lot of herbs and need to be put in the order in which they are put in, we can only put the powdered herbs in porcelain bottles like seasonings, and only label them with the time and order of addition."
Gu Yunling frowned and said worriedly, "If the herbs are bottled separately, wouldn't it be easy for those who understand pharmacology to distinguish them? Wouldn't it be easy for others to learn how to do it?"
Jiang Xiyu quickly reassured him, "Don't worry. Recovery Soup and Hibiscus Porridge use the most medicinal ingredients. Some of them need to be put in separately, while others can be mixed, so it's not difficult to distinguish them. Furthermore, some of the herbs are very special. Not only can ordinary doctors not recognize them, but they are also not found in Kyoto City or even the entire Yun Dynasty."
Jiang Xiyu's words made Gu Yunling feel relieved, but also worried. "Since this medicinal herb is so hard to find, what should we do if we want to use it ourselves?"
Knowing she would worry about this, Jiang Xiyu smiled and said, "I've already planned this. My mother left me several boxes of those hard-to-find herbs. If we grind them all into powder, we can sell tens of thousands of servings of Recovery Soup and Hibiscus Porridge. Although we use a lot of herbs, only a little of each is enough."
You really only need a little bit. For some herbs, only the amount as small as the gap between your fingernails is enough, so the herbs left by my mother can really be used for a long time.
Gu Yunling frowned, "That's not enough. We can't just sell tens of thousands of copies and then stop."
This is their store’s signature medicinal food, and they will definitely sell a lot of it in the future.
Moreover, she had already anticipated that these two medicinal dishes alone would become popular throughout Kyoto City in the future and would definitely be the best-selling medicinal dishes in their store.
"I've thought about this too." In fact, Jiang Xiyu had thought about all these things carefully. "Those medicinal herbs are hard to find, so I plan to grow them myself. The seedlings I just cultivated are those medicinal herbs. Now that the seedlings have been successfully cultivated, I will transplant them all when they grow a little bigger. I will plant them on a large scale in the future."
Gu Yunling was silent for a moment and then said, "That's a good idea. If you can grow your own herbs, you won't have to worry about running out of herbs in the future. The farm I gave you earlier has a large piece of land where you can grow these herbs. When you really want to grow them on a large scale, I'll find a place for you."
This place is not easy to find. To grow such important medicinal herbs, it must be relatively secretive, with good confidentiality, and the place must be large.
She would have to send someone to look for such a place.
Jiang Xiyu also planned this, "Then I'll go check out the manor tomorrow."
The seedlings have been successfully cultivated and can be transplanted after a while. She will first go to see if the place is suitable for growing medicinal herbs.
Gu Yunling was impatient. "Let's not do it tomorrow, let's do it today. We still have half a day in the afternoon. I'll take you to see the place."
Jiang Xiyu was amused by her impatience, "Okay."
She had nothing to do in the afternoon anyway.
"Let's go." Gu Yunling pulled Jiang Xiyu out.
The two of them took a carriage and went out of Kyoto.
Yunquan Villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto is divided into two parts, north and south.
At this time in Nanzhuang, Wuyi was very anxious as he looked at Gulin who was still unconscious.
"Shu Liu, when do you think the prince will wake up?" Wuyi said worriedly while helping Gulin wipe his hands.
It has been half a month, and Gulin shows no signs of waking up. Even though he forces Gulin to eat rice soup every day, Gulin is still skin and bones. If he doesn't wake up, he will really starve to death.