First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 206 The Secret Weapon of Opening a Store 1

What a great opportunity this is, I can reach the top in one step.

Even Lian Qiao, who came to deliver the message at that time, once asked Su Jixiang if she wanted to be the boss. If she really wanted to, this was a great opportunity, and if she really became the boss in the future, Lian Qiao was willing to come and help her.

But Su Jixiang refused without even thinking about it.

Lian Qiao also respected Su Jixiang's choice, but she told her that the Concubine Chen was always strong, and if Su Jixiang dared to go against her wishes, she would not end well, so she might have to pay some price.

She would also seek help from the Queen at the appropriate time, but she needed Su Jixiang to be willing to be ruthless to her.

After all, with a beauty like Su Jixiang in the harem, even if the Concubine Chen did not get rid of her, the Queen would be tempted to do so. Either win her over or destroy her.

That's why Su Jixiang was willing to disfigure herself. Fortunately, Lian Qiao asked someone to find some good medicine for healing and asked Su Jixiang to change the medicine every day, so there was no real scar on her face. Although there were only shallow marks, they have faded a lot over the years. Su Jixiang chopped wood every day in the imperial kitchen, making herself dirty. Gradually, no one paid attention to her, a weirdo in the palace.

I have to say that Lian Qiao is really good to Su Jixiang. Su Jixiang saved her once, so she reciprocated the favor and did her best to take care of Su Jixiang's affairs.

"I just don't know how Aunt Lianqiao is doing now." Huarui sighed.

"I went to Qianquan Palace to look for her on the day when the rebel army entered the palace. Many people died in Qianquan Palace. I have seen the bodies, and Lian Qiao was not there. Maybe she has escaped. After all, she has a good relationship with people in the palace." Su Jixiang said.

But it is also possible that he died somewhere else, but Su Jixiang didn't want to think so. She would rather Lian Qiao was still alive and living a free life.

Reality is cruel enough, let the illusion be better!

"That's true. I hope so!" Qu Wanning nodded. She put down the paper-cut in her hand and was a little absent-minded.

And Huarui's eyes also became a little dim.

It hadn’t been too long since the coup, and almost everyone who had experienced it was unwilling to recall the events of that day, so much so that in the hearts of the three of them, it seemed as if the coup was very far away from them…

"Forget it, don't think about these trivial things." Su Jixiang clapped his hands first. "A few days ago, Weidong went to the mountains and caught a wild pheasant and froze it. I thought of a way to cook it. Have you ever eaten steamed pot chicken?" Su Jixiang asked with a smile.

"What is steam pot chicken?" Qu Wanning's eyes lit up when he heard Su Jixiang talking about the delicious food.

"It's a clay pot chicken. You don't put a drop of water in it, but you can make a pot of delicious chicken soup." Su Jixiang said with a smile. "I went to find a pottery craftsman to make a clay pot. It took several days and several kilns to burn out before I made a dozen good clay pots."

This steam pot chicken was actually a specialty dish that Su Jixiang originally wanted to launch in his own restaurant.

She had already done some research and found that there was currently no way to eat steamed chicken in Daxie.

She also asked a pottery craftsman to make the casserole for the steam pot chicken. Its appearance is no different from an ordinary casserole pot, but the magic lies in the fact that there is a sunken area on the bottom of the steam pot, which is sunken into the pot to form a small ceramic cylinder. The top of the cylinder is hollow, and the whole steam pot is integrated. When making steam pot chicken, just cut the whole chicken into small pieces and place them around the cylinder in the steamer. Then put ginger slices and green onions on it, add appropriate amount of salt, and put the steamer on the steamer to steam. The steam will flow into the center of the steamer along the cylinder at the bottom of the steamer, and then condense into water. In this way, the soup in the steamer will be slowly filled up, and the chicken pieces inside will be steamed. Because not a drop of water is added, the soup is very fresh and rich, and it can be said to be the most restored version of the delicious chicken soup.

The reason for choosing steam pot chicken is mainly because chicken is a common ingredient.

There are too many restaurants in Daxie that serve chicken soup, so if you want to stand out, you must come up with new topics.

This steam pot chicken is something no one has ever seen before, and it is itself a topic of discussion.

Su Jixiang also made an agreement with the pottery maker that she would have a monopoly on the production of these clay pots, and no one else could buy them from him. If he wanted to sell them, he had to wait at least a year. After a year, he could sell as many as he wanted at any price, and it would have nothing to do with her anymore.

With the current level of technology, it is not easy to make such a clay pot. This master potter is already a very famous potter in Mangcheng. He had to break several kilns to produce only a dozen pots, and now all of them have been bought by Su Jixiang at a high price.

She asked the master to continue cooking, and she wanted as much as he could.

But if the master sells this kind of clay pot within a year, she will ask him for compensation.

Su Jixiang was the general's wife, and the master knew that, so he naturally didn't dare to talk nonsense with Su Jixiang. However, the price Su Jixiang offered was really eye-catching. The master couldn't sell this clay pot at such a high price. Even if this kind of clay pot was difficult to make, it only sold for about 40 or 50 coins, and Su Jixiang gave him 1 tael and 50 coins for each.

Even if he had to fire several kilns to produce a dozen finished products, he was still making a lot of money. In the past, the pottery jars, casseroles and other things he fired only cost a dozen or twenty coins each, and the defective rate of those things was also quite high.

So the master readily agreed.

After hearing what Su Jixiang said, Qu Wanning and Hua Rui couldn't wait to see what this specially customized clay pot looked like.

The two men immediately dropped what they were holding and followed Su Jixiang to the kitchen.

In the small warehouse next to the kitchen, they saw the steam boiler that Su Jixiang had customized. It was the first time they had seen such a strange pot, and they all found it novel.

"Is it really possible to boil such a large pot of soup without adding a drop of water?" Qu Wanning looked at the steamer inside and out and asked with a smile. "This is the first time I've heard of this way of eating!"

"Look, even you're hearing about it for the first time, which means no one really does this!" Su Jixiang felt relieved when she heard Qu Wanning say this!

Most people in Mangcheng can afford chicken soup! So her idea of steam pot chicken was successful!

Su Jixiang took out the pheasant that Weidong had hunted a few days ago to thaw it, and then found some dried mushrooms to soak. Today she would make a steamed chicken for everyone to try.

The meat of pheasant is very firm and fresh. If it is cooked in other ways, it will inevitably be hard to chew. However, it is perfect to use it to make steamer chicken. Firstly, it takes a long time to stew the meat, and secondly, pheasant is much fresher than domestic chicken, and the original soup made from it is much fresher than that of domestic chicken!