This room is very elegant, with beautiful beaded curtains, famous landscape paintings on the four walls, and green silk curtains on both sides.
The outward-facing window faces the charming Qinhuai River; the inward-facing window faces the stage in the courtyard.
If the guest doesn't want to watch the show, he can close the inward-facing window sash and it will become a closed box.
The second and fourth sons were sighing at such ingenuity when Mrs. Lu knocked on the door and came in. Yingying bowed down and said, "There are too many guests today. I am not welcoming you from afar. I hope you will forgive me."
"Hey Liu Niang, you look a lot prettier." Seeing her peach-like face and cheerful appearance, the fourth child couldn't help but praise her.
"Although we know that the fourth master is joking, the slave family is still very happy." Shen Liu Niang concealed a smile. She is a charming and beautiful woman, otherwise she would not be attracted by Li You.
The reason why the two brothers were collectively face-blind at first was that there were too many beauties in the palace and they had become accustomed to it. The second reason was that she had been in prison for half a year, was severely malnourished, and did not take a bath and never saw the light of day. .
Now that she has nursed back to health for several months, her complexion has recovered, and she has dressed up carefully. She is naturally different from before.
It's a pity that if life is just like the first time we met, in the hearts of my brothers, she will still look like the ghost before...
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While he was talking, a beautiful maid came in, looked at several dishes, and then served wine to the guests.
Seeing that the dishes on the dishes were exquisite and the layout was very beautiful, Zhu Xi could not help but move his index fingers and raised his chopsticks to pick them up. However, the third child stopped him and said: "This is for viewing the dishes, you can only look at them and not eat them."
"What?" The second child asked in confusion: "Why?"
"No reason, rich people are so willful." The third child actually couldn't explain why. He just drank too much and had experience.
Sure enough, after the maid poured wine for the guests, she stopped looking at the dishes and replaced them with small dishes and hot dishes.
"Looking at dishes is used to arouse the appetite of guests." Shen Liuniang explained: "Families with status have been like this since the Song Dynasty."
"Listen, how do ordinary people know this? I let Liu Niang be the boss, probably because her family has been rich for three generations, and she has seen it all." The third child couldn't help but said proudly: "She will take care of this Jinlianyuan. Let customers feel that the price has dropped.”
"It's a pure waste." Zhu Di naturally sneered.
"You're right, it's waste. But doesn't ostentation come from waste? How can there be ostentation without waste?" Zhu was not annoyed, and smiled and taught the fourth child a lesson:
"You have to understand why the dignitaries come to the Qinhuai River. It's not just for the stuttering and trembling. It's to enjoy the wealth and honor in the world and feel the joy that the poor can't imagine!"
Zhu Zhen couldn't help but secretly praise his third brother. If he were born a few hundred years later, he would at least be the chairman of the board of directors in heaven and on earth.
"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are people freezing to death on the road." Zhu Di snorted.
"Don't move your chopsticks if you have the guts." The third child sneered, picked up the wine glass and said to the brothers: "Come, let's have a drink, and wish Jinlianyuan a happy opening and a large number of guests."
"Let's do it." The brothers clinked their glasses with him and drank them all in one gulp.
What Zhu Zhen drank was a cup of immortal wine. It’s really boring. I want to get drunk too...
"You guys have tried the craftsmanship of the shop, can you still eat it?" Shen Liu Niang personally gave the brother some dishes.
"Look, I'm very appetizing just by looking at it." The second brother picked up the crab meat and cabbage with chopsticks, put it into his mouth and tasted it, and he was full of praise.
"Wow, good, delicious!"
Then he tried several other dishes, and they were all much better than the imperial meal.
Well, the imperial cuisine at Boss Zhu’s house is just that…a middle-class landlord level.
"It's delicious, it's delicious!" The second child praised it profusely while eating. "Even the fried vegetables are so delicious that they are tasteless on your tongue."
The fourth child couldn't help but pick up a chopstick of the beauty's liver.
"Didn't you say that Zhumen's wine and meat stinks?" The third child naturally did not miss this opportunity to tease him.
"Let me taste how stinky it is." Lao Si said righteously. After saying this, he put the beauty's liver into his mouth. He felt it was extremely delicious and very refreshing. He couldn't help but praise: "It's so delicious!"
Lao Wu also nodded vigorously in agreement while eating.
Lao Liu didn't even raise his head, just eating and eating.
"You, the cook of Jinlian Restaurant, are really amazing!" Lao Si could not help but admire: "The dishes you cook are much fresher than those of Sun Chu Restaurant!"
"Of course the chef was hired with a lot of money." Shen Liu Niang looked at Lao Liu with admiration and said, "But the main credit is due to Master Liu."
"Lao Liu, when did you learn how to cook?" The second and fourth children looked at Lao Liu strangely. At that time in his hometown, he could even make crispy rice from rice.
"Hey, corporate secrets." Lao Liu smiled slyly.
"Fuck you." The second and fourth children gave him a look, but they didn't care too much. This just gave him another reason to come here often.
"Master Liu has so many talents. In addition to making our dishes more delicious, there are also grand opening promotions, stored-value points draws and so on. These are all his ideas." Shen Liu Niang looked at the old man with admiration.
Six, what a treasure boy.
"The most important thing is not to close during the New Year." The third child also agreed:
"He said that other stores would not be open during the Chinese New Year, but we were opening. Customers had no choice but to come to our home, and business suddenly picked up."
His Royal Highness Prince Jin felt more and more that it was a wise decision for him to bring Lao Liu along with him.
"Don't close during the Chinese New Year?" Lao Si asked casually while enjoying his meal: "Can the people below do anything?"
"No problem, who are the people in Lehu? Where can we go to have a family reunion? Others are celebrating the New Year and they are passing the customs. It is better to go to work normally and not think so much when we are busy." Shen Liuniang became a Lehu and naturally knew it.
The psychology of Lehu.
"Everyone gets a big New Year red envelope, and they rush to get it."
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Halfway through the banquet and with a full stomach, the third child stood up and said, "You guys eat slowly, there will be a performance by our Hong family class later."
Then he winked at Lao Liu and said: "Lao Liu, let's go look elsewhere."
"Okay." Zhu Zhen swallowed the crispy and delicious meatballs in his mouth, wiped his mouth and got up to follow the third child out.
The brothers all knew about Lao San's errands, and could roughly guess the purpose of this restaurant, but they were too knowledgeable to ask...
Zhu Zhen and his third brother followed Shen Liu Niang to the backyard of the restaurant.
The originally deserted and dilapidated backyard has been repaired and renovated, and has been turned into separate courtyards, which are the residences of the female historians.
The so-called female history refers to high-end prostitutes.
Different from the kind of brothels that deal in flesh and blood, the female historians in the song are more like social butterflies, mainly providing spiritual enjoyment, emotional value, and bragging capital for the guests in the future.
Therefore, it is never the guests who choose them, but the other way around. Only guests who can catch their eye, and of course can afford the money, will have the opportunity to stay overnight and receive the blessing of a bride.
No wonder some people say that the patrons spend a lot of money here and beg for the favor of the female historians, not for the sake of the lower body, but to prove their success...
