frightfiction Chapter 231 Outsourcing
Chapter 231 Outsourcing
Lu Youyou waited for half an hour but didn't receive the dishes made by Zhang Weimin. Instead, she received candied hawthorns made by Yang Yan.
[Yang Yan: My grandpa sells candied hawthorns, and I've helped him make the sugar syrup since I was little. I'm a master at it now; it's my specialty. By the way, I hope food factories can't process candied hawthorns...]
Lu Youyou opened the [Food Factory] app, pointed it at the candied hawthorn in her hand, and clicked to scan it.
Congratulations! You have received the recipe for Candied Hawthorn Berries.
After conducting the experiment, Lu Youyou immediately sent a message to Yang Yan.
[Lu Youyou: I can input the data, but I don't have hawthorns or sugar, so I can't produce and sell them in large quantities.]
Yang Yan: I have them, I'll send them all to you. Have the food factory start making the candied hawthorns first, and while you're at it, wait for Uncle Zhang to send you the main dishes. I heard from Yu Ning that Uncle Zhang makes really fancy dishes.
[Lu Youyou: Okay, looking forward to it!]
After closing the chat history with Yang Yan, Lu Youyou selected the candied hawthorn recipe and increased the number of candied hawthorns she could make to the maximum.
It can make 50 skewers in total, with five hawthorns on each skewer.
The food factory cooks very quickly; it only takes a minute to cool the food before it produces 50 skewers of candied hawthorn.
It's less about making it and more about copying it, because it's exactly the same as the candied hawthorns Yang Yan makes.
If she hadn't been holding the candied hawthorn skewer Yang Yan gave her and placing it among these 50 skewers, it would have been impossible to tell which one was the main one.
She put 51 candied hawthorns on the shelves of her personal shop, each skewer costing 5 gold coins.
Then I left my personal shop and wanted to promote it on the public chat.
As soon as she opened it, she saw that someone had already helped promote it.
[Huli: Guess what I found? I discovered candied hawthorns in Lu Youyou's little shop! Candied hawthorn lovers in winter will be ecstatic!]
[Shen Yan: How does it taste? Is it similar to what I bought before?]
[Hu Li: It's so delicious, it tastes just like it did when I was a kid. I wonder if your city has Yang's candied hawthorns? It tastes exactly the same. If Grandpa Yang hadn't passed away, I would have thought I was seeing a ghost.]
Jin Yu: What? It tastes like Yang Family Candied Hawthorns? I have to buy it! It's a childhood memory for me!
【…】
In less than three minutes, all the candied hawthorns in Lu Youyou's shop were sold out.
Those who couldn't buy some either messaged her privately to let her put candied hawthorns on the shelves or expressed their regret in the public chat.
This made Lu Youyou feel like she had missed out on a lot of gold coins.
She earned a total of 250 gold coins, and gave Yang Yan 200 gold coins as payment for the recipe and the ingredients.
hum~
[Your friend Xiao Liu has sent you a gift. Please check it promptly.]
Lu Youyou opened the backpack compartment and saw a plate of braised prawns in oil, and knew what he meant.
She put the braised prawns in and scanned the food using the Food Factory app.
hum~
Congratulations! You have received the recipe for Braised Shrimp in Oil.
After entering the recipe, Lu Youyou returned the plate of braised prawns to Xiao Liu.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Liu returned the plate and even gave her an extra twenty catties of frozen shrimp.
[Xiao Liu: This is my specialty dish; my parents both loved it. By the way, I saw Gu Jingchen also sells braised prawns in oil. A plate of ten prawns costs 8 gold coins. How much do you sell them for, Sister You?]
[Lu Youyou: Did you buy Gu Jingchen's braised prawns?]
[Xiao Liu: Sister You, don't be angry. I just wanted to see the cooking skills of Gu Jingchen's men.]
[Lu Youyou: So, what did you figure out?]
[Xiao Liu: He's nowhere near as good as me. His shrimp are freshwater shrimp, smaller than mine, and the ingredients weren't prepared properly; there was even a slight fishy taste after one bite.]
[Xiao Liu: Ordinary people might not be able to taste the difference, but I can. I've disliked the smell of fish since I was a child, but I love eating seafood, so I researched how to remove the fishy smell myself and became a top-notch seafood cook.]
[Lu Youyou: Since you're so confident, I'll set the price at 20 gold coins per serving, which is also ten shrimp per serving.]
[Xiao Liu: Sister You, do you want to go for a high-end approach?]
[Lu Youyou: Your shrimp are big, and your technique is excellent. What, you're not confident you can sell them?]
[Xiao Liu: Impossible! I'm absolutely confident!]
Lu Youyou didn't reply. She opened the [Food Factory] and selected the recipe for braised shrimp.
The 20 jin of frozen shrimp that Xiao Liu sent her could only make 33 plates.
A minute later, she took out 33 plates of braised prawns and put them on the shelves of her personal shop.
Because of the candied hawthorns she sold earlier, many people who didn't get to buy any started paying attention to her shop, so as soon as she put braised prawns on the shelves, she sold three servings.
Meanwhile, several people tagged her most frequently in the public chat.
[Xu Yu: @Lu Youyou, why are you charging 20 gold coins per serving? Gu Jingchen only charges 8 gold coins, which means a single shrimp costs less than 1 gold coin.]
[Huang Jiabao: Exactly! So that's why you said in the public chat that Shen Taiyang was at Gu Jingchen's base. Turns out it was a business war. Luckily I didn't fall for it and didn't boycott Gu Jingchen, otherwise your stuff would have been even more expensive! @Lu Youyou]
【…】
Of course, Lu Youyou also saw that some people spoke up for her.
[Li Jiajia: Not all braised prawns taste the same. I bought both Gu Jingchen's and Lu Youyou's prawns to give an unbiased and honest review.]
[Li Jiajia: In terms of quantity, both families have ten shrimp, but in terms of size, even the smallest shrimp on Lu Youyou's side is bigger than the largest shrimp on Gu Jingchen's side. And then there's the taste...]
She wrote a long and detailed message, at least a thousand words long. Lu Youyou scrolled through the screen to read it, and it took her several scrolls to finish reading it.
Before joining the Survival World, Li Jiajia was probably a food blogger.
There were some words that Lu Youyou couldn't think of right away, but she could come up with them immediately and describe them very accurately.
It was because of Li Jiajia's short essay that Lu Youyou sold all of her remaining twenty-odd servings of braised shrimp.
Everyone who has tried her braised prawns in oil praises them on the public chat, making those who haven't bought any scratch their heads and urge her to put them back on the shelves.
Some savvy people saw a business opportunity and took the initiative to approach Lu Youyou to sell their goods, saying that they had large shrimp and asking if Lu Youyou would buy them.
Lu Youyou wanted to take them, but the shrimp they had weren't big; the two of them weren't even as big as Xiao Liu's single shrimp.
If they continue to sell them for 20 gold coins per plate, they'll probably ruin their reputation.
She can only sell it at a similar price to Gu Jingchen's because it tastes better and can fetch three or four more gold coins.
But those people didn't care, thinking that the shrimp in their hands were just a little small, but not bad.
As long as you weigh the shrimp that cost 20 gold coins a plate, and arrange the shrimp on the plate according to their weight, you can still earn 20 gold coins.
Lu Youyou disagreed with this.
She sells them at a high price not because of the weight, but because of the size of the shrimp.
Even if three pounds of small shrimp and three pounds of large shrimp taste the same, the prices will not be the same.
Lu Youyou rejected one person after another who tried to sell her shrimp, and in the process, she came up with a new idea.
She opened the public chat, pressed and held the microphone icon, and sent the voice message as text.
[Lu Youyou: Help me make braised prawns. You provide the prawns, I'll provide the seasonings. I'll charge 8 gold coins per pound.]