The next day.

After breakfast, Li You chose a conspicuous place in the store and hung up the painting that Ling Xiaoru gave him yesterday.

With this majestic ink landscape painting, the whole store seems to be more grand.

It’s really a good painting!

Next, Li You got on his motorcycle. He planned to go to the town market.

There is a market in town today, so I went to buy all the ingredients needed for the brine recipe.

Including star anise, cinnamon, bay leaf, tangerine peel, grass fruit, etc.

Come back to make brine and prepare to launch braised vegetables.

Get on the motorcycle and set off.

Ten minutes later, we arrived at the town market.

There is a condiment shop selling various ingredients in the market. The owner is Liu Yiquan, and he is a regular customer of the shop.

Li You decided to go to Liu Yiquan's condiment shop first.

After arriving at Liu Yiquan's condiment shop, Liu Yiquan was very happy to see Li You. He laughed and said: "Boss Li, welcome. But do you want to buy some condiments?"

Li You nodded and smiled: "I want to buy some. Let's come to Boss Liu's place first."

Liu Yiquan said: "Okay, okay. Boss Li, just take a look. The variety of things I have here is quite complete."

Li You nodded.

He just scanned around and saw star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, tangerine peel, grass fruit, cumin and many other ingredients he needed.

There is indeed a wide range of varieties. What matters is the quality.

For ingredients like this, the market is always flooded with many shoddy and defective products, which are difficult for most people to identify.

Li You has a system and can be easily identified.

"Ingredients (spice): star anise.

Quality: inferior."

Star anise, also called anise, is one of the most famous, common, and most commonly used spices.

It is also one of the most important spices in brine.

But there are many fakes on the market.

Some unscrupulous merchants will sell grass, red fennel, maple bark and other things that are very similar to star anise as star anise.

After buying these things, not only are they ineffective, but they are also poisonous.

Therefore, you must pay more attention when buying anise.

Now these anises are indeed real anises.

But it's just low quality. Li You doesn't want to consider it.

"Boss Liu, is there any better star anise?" Li You asked.

Liu Yiquan said regretfully: "I'm sorry, Boss Li. At present, the eight anises are all from the same batch."

Li You nodded, "I'll look at the others."

"Okay!"

Liu Yiquan is sorry that Li You didn't like Bajiao, but he's not surprised.

He knows that Li You has very high requirements for ingredients.

Then, the requirements for spices must be very high.

And his star anise is indeed not the best star anise.

It’s normal that Li You doesn’t like it.

I hope there are other spices that Li You can like.

"Ingredients (spice): cinnamon.

Quality: inferior."

"..."

"Ingredients (spice): fragrant leaves.

Quality:Medium."

After looking at several in a row, I finally found one of medium quality.

Li You's eyes lit up and he said: "Boss Liu, these fragrant leaves are very good. I want ten kilograms."

Of course, you won’t need so much to make brine once.

However, since you come across medium-quality ones, buy more and keep them for later use.

After all, the next time you come back, it may be of inferior quality.

Seeing that Li You finally had someone he liked, Liu Yiquan breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really afraid that if Li You looked around, there wouldn't be anything he could like.

It's not because he didn't make any money from Li You, but because if this happens, Li You will definitely be very disappointed with his store.

This is what he doesn't want to see.

Now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Liu Yiquan smiled and said: "Okay. I'll call you Boss Li now."

Li You said: "Sorry, Boss Liu."

Liu Yiquan said: "Where, where? Boss Li is too polite."

Then, he took a bag and weighed it to Li You personally.

Li You continued to look at other ingredients.

Next, I discovered that two spices, cloves and cumin, were of medium quality.

This makes Li You happy again.

I can buy three kinds in one store, which can be said to be quite good.

Cloves and fennel also cost ten pounds each.

Liu Yiquan agreed repeatedly and was very happy.

This way, he feels more comfortable.

After weighing all three spices, he said: "By the way, Boss Li, you bought these spices, but what new dishes are you going to introduce?"

Li You nodded, "I plan to prepare brine and introduce some braised vegetables."

Liu Yiquan's eyes lit up, stewed vegetables are a good thing!

Braised chicken feet, braised pig scalp, braised chicken, braised duck, etc. are all very delicious.

And Boss Li’s stewed vegetables will definitely be much more delicious.

Very worth looking forward to!

Liu Yiquan laughed and said: "Boss Li's braised vegetables are definitely the best among braised vegetables. It's very exciting! I hope I can eat Boss Li's braised vegetables soon."

Li You smiled and said: "I will launch it as soon as possible. I hope I won't disappoint Boss Liu by then."

Liu Yiquan said: "It is absolutely impossible to be disappointed."

Li You said again: "I hope so."

Then, after the two chatted for a while, Li You paid the money and left with three spices: bay leaves, cloves, and cumin.

Next, continue to buy other ingredients.

I don’t know if I can buy them all today?

I hope I can buy them all.

Not long after Li You left Liu Yiquan's store, the news that he was going to launch braised vegetables spread among many bosses in the entire market.

Deng Luping, Zhao Yu, Xie Hai and other bosses who were familiar with Li You all knew about it one after another.

They were equally surprised and looking forward to it!

Li You happened to pass by Deng Luping's store at this time.

When Deng Luping saw it, he greeted him and said: "Boss Li, I heard that you are going to launch braised vegetables. Is that true?"

Li You was a little surprised.

He knew that the news that he was going to launch braised vegetables would definitely spread among these bosses and even the entire market.

But I didn’t expect it would spread so fast.
To be continued...