The yamen servant understood his purpose and said with a smile: "We prepare two hundred meals every day and deliver them to the yamen of the Ministry of Justice at noon. Can the shopkeeper accept this order?"
Shen Lie was overjoyed and nodded quickly: "Yes, yes!"
Another big order is coming to our door.
The Yamen servant warned again: "These are meals for adults, so nothing can go wrong."
Upon hearing this, Shen Lie hurriedly beat his chest loudly and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm afraid I don't know something. The meals I have here are sent to Fusi, Beizhen."
Fearing that the big deal might get lost, Shen Lie approached him again and said mysteriously: "Even Eunuch Feng in the palace... huh?"
You know!
The yamen servant's eyes suddenly lit up and he nodded. He seemed relieved, so he took out the banknote from his arms and signed the document with Shen Lie on the spot.
Shen Lie hurriedly shouted loudly: "Yun'er... I will serve you with pen and ink!"
Half an hour later.
Shen Lie personally sent the yamen servant to the entrance of the alley and walked back to Bianyifang. He held the purchase document with the ink still wet in his hand and smiled with his mouth crooked.
After receiving a big order again, his lunch box idea finally became popular as expected after being dormant for a while!
With the idea of ​​disposable lunch boxes and various delicious dishes made from potatoes and tomatoes, he finally conquered the stomachs of the adults in the yamen.
As Shen Lie turned around, he waved the procurement document in his hand.
In the small shop, the old neighbors of Liutiao Street, led by Yun'er, burst into cheers, as if they had seen a bright future.
Amidst the laughter, Shen Lie quickly walked up to Miss Zhang, spread out the documents and placed them in front of her with a smile.
Zhang Jingxiu picked up the document and looked at it. Naturally, Fang was extremely happy. She gave Shen Lie a white look with her bright eyes, but she was also a little worried.
"Can you cook so many meals?"
Everyone became quiet and began to consider this practical issue.
Shen Lie also calmed down a bit, stroking his chin and pondering. As the number of orders for box lunches increased, the kitchen of this Bianyifang was indeed a bit small, and he was no longer able to perform well.
I looked at the narrow space in the back kitchen and the piles of ingredients...
Shen Lie waved his hand and said immediately: "Rent a house, rent a big house!"
He planned to expand the business area again and rent a large yard in the back street to use it as his kitchen and warehouse.
Then we will hire some part-time workers to help out and so on.
"Moreover..."
Shen Lie looked in the direction of the kitchen and said softly: "We should find a place for Miss Xuan'er. We can't let her live outside alone."
Too unsafe!
Only halfway through his words, he saw his sweetheart's pretty face was frosty, his eyebrows were upturned, and a delicate hand was ready to grab Shen Lie's ear.
Shen Lie hurriedly defended: "Don't...she belongs to that man. If something goes wrong, how can we explain to that man?"
The implication of Shen Lie's words is that she is the emperor's person. Even if you give me some courage, you don't dare to think anything wrong about her.
How jealous is this?
Zhang Jingxiu thought about it and seemed to think it made sense, so he rolled his eyes at Shen Lie again, and his slightly frowning eyebrows gradually relaxed.
Shen Lie breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "I'll discuss it with Tian Hong later. If he agrees...then it's settled?"
Zhang Jingxiu nodded and said softly: "Just go ahead and do it. Don't worry about money."
Shen Lie smiled quickly and said, "Yes."
The two of them discussed the business in whispers and decided on renting a house, but Zhang Jingxiu rolled his eyes at him again.
I saw her pouting her little mouth and saying coquettishly: "Virtue... money-obsessed."
Seeing her coquettish and angry expressions, Shen Lie's heart felt hot again. He suppressed the passion in his heart and carefully handed the documents to Yun'er and put them away.
He also asked the waiter to invite Tian Hong.
When everyone gathered, Tian Hong also agreed to rent a big house to expand the business.
So everyone hit it off immediately, and walked towards the back streets of Bianyifang while chatting and laughing. After passing through the narrow streets, a few people stopped in front of a large courtyard in the back streets.
This is a large courtyard with three entrances, next to the cheap shop, which Shen Lie has long wanted to rent.
The house is large, but it looks very dilapidated. No one has lived in it for a long time. The paint on the two vermilion doors has peeled off, the plaque above the door has also been removed, and even the copper-plated door handle is gone. There are two big holes.
Standing in front of this dilapidated house, everyone felt the cold wind whistling.
Zhang Jingxiu is a woman after all. Looking at this dilapidated scene, she was a little scared, so she instinctively moved closer to Shen Lie.
Shen Lie was also suspicious: "Whose house is this? It can't be a haunted house where people have died, right?
Tian Hong said hurriedly: "No one has died in this house, but the original owner was a third-rank official. His house was ransacked a few years ago, and a family of more than thirty people were sent to prison."
He didn't say the second half of the sentence. No matter how big an official he is, if he goes to the Jinyiwei Prison, he has no chance of getting out alive.
Shen Lie suddenly realized that it was no wonder. The house that had been confiscated would naturally fall under the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The Ministry of Household Affairs would then sell the house and all the money earned would be put into the national treasury.
Shen Lie thought it was nothing, but there was something unnatural between Zhang Jingxiu's eyebrows. She must have copied this house from her own brother.
As the commander of the Jinyi Guards, her brother had raided too many homes over the years.
Shen Lie quickly changed the subject: "Let's go, walk around and take a look."
So a few people walked around the house, and Shen Lie became more and more satisfied with it. It was a little broken, but the house was big enough and the location was good.
From the red bricks and green tiles, you can vaguely see the prominence of the owner's family back then.
Stepping on the moss-covered steps, Shen Lie couldn't help but feel his heart beat loudly, and asked softly: "How much does this house cost?"
Tian Hong looked around and saw that no one was around, then whispered: "The price from the Ministry of Household Affairs is six hundred taels."
For such a large Sanjin house and located in a prosperous area on the Chaoyang Gate side, the price of six hundred taels was not expensive, but Shen Lie still felt a twinge of pain.
After hesitating for a moment, Shen Lie gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, and said fiercely: "Go to the account and ask Yun'er for money, and buy it quickly!"
Tian Hong hurriedly said: "I'll do it right away."
Seeing Tian Hong hurried away with a few of his Jin Yiwei, Shen Lie and Zhang Jingxiu wandered around the house.
At this moment, Shen Lie was extremely happy. Since he came to this era, there have been horses and now there are big houses.
He even began to imagine that after buying this big house, he would move into the yard to work as a cook, then move into the yard as a warehouse, and thirdly move into the inner house to live in.
Seeing Zhang Jingxiu's happy expression, he couldn't help but purse his lips and laugh. He covered his mouth with a fan and said softly: "Virtue!"
Shen Lie ignored it and even began to imagine that in the next few years, after the value of this big house increased, he could also be an uncle.
Shen Lie had read about this in a book. In the early years of Wanli, the housing prices in the capital were still very low, but in another ten or eight years, a large amount of overseas silver from Central and South America would enter the Ming Dynasty.
The housing prices in the Chaoyangmen area are astronomical!
It took two days for Tian Hong to get the house deed from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Shen Lie, who received the house deed, was ecstatic and kissed the document that smelled of ink.
"Go, go, go!"
Shen Lie greeted everyone: "Go look at the house!"
The group of people followed him excitedly to the back street and watched as Tian Hong took out the key and opened the shabby vermilion door.