He is from the end of the world

Lu Ciyu actually didn't know that Xue Yu's background was really not small.

The Xue family has been in business for generations, and there are eighteen most important trade routes in Dachen, seven of which belong to the Xue family.

At first, the ancestors had to get involved in the muddy waters of business in order to make a living. Unexpectedly, the business grew bigger and bigger step by step. When Xue's family realized it, they couldn't get out.

There are more and more industries, and the number of people in the clan is also increasing. Naturally, there are many juniors who are talented and beautiful.But the business registration is low and not allowed to take the imperial examination, and the previous emperors were in power, no matter how talented you are, you can only deal with the copper coin ledger for life, and you will end up frustrated in your life's ambitions and finally die in depression.

The Xue family has established rules since that ancestor, and all generations of children in the family must marry the lady of the official family, and the relationship with the court begins with in-laws.

A few years ago, the head of the Xue family felt that the time had come and wanted to leave the official position. Unexpectedly, the whole family was almost wiped out.

It was also at that time that the Xue family understood that no matter how harmless or ordinary they usually behave, they are always feared and guarded in the emperor's heart.

The whole world is loess, and every plant and tree belongs to the emperor.Xue's family is as rich as the enemy's country with piles of gold and silver, but the treasury has been empty for years to make ends meet. The emperor has long been eyeing their family.

Although Chen Mingyan is now in power, and the relationship with the new emperor was not bad before he took power, but the emperor's mind is unpredictable after all.The Chen Dynasty was riddled with holes by the previous emperors, who knows if he will also set his sights on the Xue family?

There are two undisguised eyeliners belonging to Chen Mingyan around Xue Yu, are there more behind his back?

Xue Yu didn't dare to think about it.

The matter of the Xue family has nothing to do with Lu Ciyu, the reason why he chose Xue Yu is actually very simple.One is because he only knows this local tyrant, which is much more convenient than going door-to-door with blueprints and knocking on those merchants' houses, and the other is that he had chatted with Lu Guixi about this person before.

Lu Guixi's temperament is really easy to ponder, and he can easily guess what's on his mind.He said that he was a gangster, and Lu Ciyu was very skeptical about this - such a simple and innocent temperament was torn apart by someone in the Jianghu?Could it be that there is nothing terrible in the world, the so-called involuntary is all fabricated by modern novels, film and television?

Thinking about it makes it impossible.

Lu Guixi, like Lin Chi, is not a liar.Ask him anything, he will answer what he can answer, and what he can't answer or can't say... Either he changes the topic in a stiff and awkward way or keeps silent.

So watching him chatting with Lin Chi is very interesting.

Whoops, far away.

At that time, Lu Guixi pondered for a moment before replying: "Xue Yu's character is very cautious, he won't take action if things don't have a [-]% chance of success, you are afraid that he will touch your blueprints or... other strange things If it’s not murderous intent, then it’s too much to worry about.”

"Don't mention that I'm still here, just talk about him. Although he is a standard merchant son, although he is cunning and suspicious, he still can't do such a thing as arranging his subordinates to take people's lives."

"He's pretty believable in that regard."

Lu Ciyu thought for a while, then nodded, as if he accepted the statement.

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When it comes to business, Xue Yu's whole body is full of energy: "Brother Lu said that the blueprint is yours?"

Of course not, these are the results of modern development and changes, how can they be regarded as his.But he couldn't say this, so he could only silently agree.

Xue Yu sat up straight, leaned his arm on the armrest and tapped his fingertips slightly: "How many drawings like this do Brother Lu have?"

Lu Ciyu really thought about it carefully, and after a while he was not sure: "A lot."

Xue Yu was taken aback by his attitude.What does a lot mean?

Lu Ciyu is also helpless, he is not engaged in furniture and building materials, it is good to remember these.

Xue Yu held the cup and wanted to take a sip of tea, but when the cup reached his mouth, he realized that the bowl was empty. He glanced at Lu Ciyu and put it down calmly - he didn't even give him a cup of tea, really picky.

Lu Ciyu pretended not to see—do you want Lin Chi to fall or you want me to fall?hehe.

Xue Yu ignored him lazily, and opened his mouth and said, "How much can Brother Lu sell? What is the price of each piece?"

Lu Ciyu replied: "I still have more than [-] pieces in my hand. Mr. Lu doesn't understand business, and he doesn't know the market price of this thing. Why don't Brother Xue quote a price, and Mr. Lu can listen to it?"

Xue Yu was silent for a moment, seemed to be thinking carefully, and then said: "It depends on what brother Lu's drawings look like."

"Like this table." Xue Yu raised his hand and knocked.

"The reason why this table is rare is that it can... be deformed? When you pull the square table top, you can pull out the circular table board below. The square and radius can be changed.

"And this is also the same."

"The chair is... I've never seen a three-legged stool. It's the first time I'm sitting on it today. It's not bad without one leg."

Xue Yu pointed to the things in the room and commented one by one. They were in the so-called main hall, which was specially used for receiving guests.However, Lu Ciyu did not follow the usual path after all, and the "decoration" was similar to that of a modern living room.

This main room is rectangular, with a huge area, and the room is square and tidy.

The area directly facing the gate is not big. After placing vases, wooden chairs, decorative utensils, and three-piece Duobaoge Bogu shelves, there is still a lot of space.Seeing that such a large space was empty, Lu Ciyu simply divided the room into two parts, separated by two translucent carved screens in the middle, and on the other side was the rectangular folding table that Xue Yu just commented on, with eight left and right sides side by side. Chinese style minimalist elm wood back chair.

His layout is extremely inconsistent with the rules of the dynasty, but it's still the same sentence.This is Mr. Lu's home, he can do whatever he likes, no one can control him.

If someone who followed the etiquette really came to this house, wouldn't it be bloody to see the door open on the wall of his main hall.

"...But this idea is still good." Xue Yu concluded.

"What do you call this kind of thing?" Xue Yu asked.

"Fold." Lu Ciyu replied to him.

"Folding, bending and buckling, stacking, repeated accumulation, it is appropriate."

Lu Ciyu turned his head and didn't want to look at him.

Is it time for you to drag your words?

"Like this table, 150 taels a piece, 30 taels for chairs and others."

Lu Ciyu raised his eyebrows, the price was about the same as what he estimated.

To put it bluntly, this kind of furniture is a new idea. After giving the blueprint to Lu Guixi, he studied it in less than an hour.Even in ancient times, there were many capable people, not to mention that the craftsmen of this dynasty were passed down from generation to generation, and they have been dealing with these things all their lives.After seeing the real thing, I am afraid that it will not be able to make it when I go back, and even use it as a basis to improve and change to develop a style that is more in line with this dynasty.

I am afraid that other stores will not be able to launch imitations in minutes, and such a dynasty cannot apply for patents and sue people for infringement.

He nodded, and just about to answer, Xue Yu said again: "But Brother Lu, don't fool me. Since this folding technique can be used on the table, it can also be used on the desk, bed, and cabinet. A lot of things have been transformed. If brother Lu still sells me the same thing in exchange for soup, I won’t accept it.”

Lu Ciyu sighed, he really thought so.

Lin Chi's dishes were not ready yet, and there were not many things in the main hall, so Lu Ciyu took Xue Yu into the bedroom.I also sold sliding doors, bunk beds, retractable furniture, assembled wardrobes, and amway made TV cabinets by the way.

Of course, he changed the name here, and he couldn't explain what a TV was.Compared with the narrowness of modern TV cabinets, the improved ones are much wider.Although people in this dynasty have long been used to sitting on chairs and stools, but I heard that some "cultural people" in some aristocratic families still adhere to the old tradition of "sitting on the ground". Just right.

There is a spare space and drawers at the bottom, so it is good to put some paper, ink, brush and inkstone. If you have money, you can also lay a layer of colored glass on it to act as a glass and raise the height to transform it into a coffee table...

As for the fragility of colored glaze, it was out of his consideration.

There are plenty of ideas, as for how to improve these things and how to give them a literary and artistic name that sounds good, it is Xue Yu's business.

Lu Ciyu took the pen and ink and asked Xue Yu to draw up the contract. Xue Yu was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief, "Brother Lu really trusts me."

Lu Ciyu smiled and said, "It's not necessary to doubt the person, but not to be suspicious of the employing person."

yarn.

It's not because Mr. Lu doesn't know how to write such things.

Xue Yu really deserved to be from a businessman, he was always joking and joking, and he refused to give up a penny when he started a business.I wrote a contract without stopping and wrote more than a dozen pages in one go, carefully covering every word and every sentence.

Lu Ciyu looked at him with a frown, his reading speed couldn't keep up with his writing speed.

Xue Yu was puzzled by his stare: "What's wrong, Brother Lu?"

Lu Ciyu: "It's nothing, I feel sorry for the paper."

Xue Yu: "...".

Lu Ciyu sighed: "The last time I bought three knives paper and ink in Brother Xue's shop, it cost me more than seven taels. Brother Xue is the owner of the bookstore and doesn't care. I am a mountain villager, but my heart is very distressed."

Xue Yu: "...".

People who just earned more than 1000 taels from me have the nerve to feel sorry for the seven taels of silver? !

Xue Yu sneered: "It's the shopkeeper Xue who is too ignorant. I'll tell him when I get back. From now on, Brother Lu will give you a [-]% discount when you go to the store."

Lu Ciyu: "...".

[-]% off, you are really embarrassed, just now you called me brother, how can you treat your brother like this, isn't the righteous brother not the brother? !

After Xue Yu finished writing everything, he read it for a long time and changed a few places before handing it to Lu Ciyu.

Lu Ciyu checked it carefully, and made sure there was nothing wrong with it, so Xue Yu asked to go back and copy two copies again, one for each of them took the inkpad and pressed their fingerprints.

Young master Xue is not stupid but has a lot of money, so he directly dug out a stack of bank notes to settle the money.Lu Ciyu didn't talk nonsense, took the box and handed it over.

Xue Yu followed the drawing chapter by chapter, checked it carefully, nodded with satisfaction and put the contract paper inside.

The people who came with Xue Yu outside the courtyard had already eaten their meals, Xue Yu put everything away, and in a blink of an eye, he was lying on the table like an eggplant beaten by frost.

Lin Chi didn't come out after such a long time, Lu Ciyu was a little worried.After explaining Mr. Xue, please feel free to get up and watch.

He had just walked a few steps when he saw Lin Chi coming in with a plate. The kid had been squatting in front of the stove for an unknown how long, his whole face was flushed.It was only then that Lu Ciyu realized that the stove in the backyard was newly built, and Lin Chi didn't know how much effort it would take to use it.

Mr. Lu said that there is no need to cook more, so Lin Chi just made four dishes.

There are not many ingredients in the backyard, and there are these because Lu Zhainan thought that there would be too much walking across the two courtyards in the morning, and Lin Chi managed to get these four together.

Lu Ciyu didn't care, took the plate and put it in front of Xue Yu, took Lin Chi's hand and sat across from him.

Xue Yu didn't have much expectations for the food in this kind of place, mainly because he was too hungry, seeing the food arrived in front of him, he hurriedly picked up his chopsticks and took a bite.

The moment he entered, his eyes widened.

Different from the dishes he had eaten before, although the food in front of him looked ordinary and homely, the taste was completely different from what he had known in the past twenty years.

Lu Ciyu asked Lin Chi to use those bottles of spices, and Lin Chi thought about it and simply made some modern dishes.He himself likes to play with food very much by nature, and if he is so entangled by Lu Ciyu at night that he can't get up the next morning, Lu Ciyu will make him something delicious and admit his mistake by the way.

It's not appropriate to say that it's an admission of mistake, but Lu Ciyu thinks so unilaterally.In fact, Lin Chi didn't take these things seriously. On the contrary, he was very happy to do some intimate things with Mr. Lu.

The first time I didn't react, I just woke up in the morning and my back was sore and I was stupefied, but Lu Ciyu thought that he had pissed him too much at night, so he went into the kitchen and made a big table of vegetables to coax him.Later, it was Lin Chi's little thought after he got the sweetness. Mr. Lu was so good-looking, and his heart would melt if he played pity on him.

But it was also because of this incident that Lin Chi discovered that Mr. Lu's cooking skills were actually better than his.Lu Ciyu has a strong learning ability, and after learning step by step how to control the temperature of the cauldron in the countryside, his cooking skills have gradually returned.

After Lin Chi tasted it, Lu Ciyu wanted to learn it even more.

Xue Yu didn't take it seriously before, and picked up the closest dish in front of him.

The dish is golden brown and somewhat fried.The outside is crispy, and there is a small pool of clear juice at the bottom of the plate. When the chopsticks touch it, there will be a faint crispy creaking sound. The dish is dotted with a lot of shredded carrots and a small amount of coriander.The three colors of gold, orange and green are mixed together, which is very attractive to look at.

Xue Yu took a tentative bite, the taste was sweet and sour, crispy and delicious.The sliced ​​meat is moderately thick, and it won't become dry and hard like other fried foods. It is lubricated with gravy. It is obvious that Lin Chi has a good grasp of the heat.

There was a layer of oats on the outside of the meat, and the arrears were separated from the slices of meat. Lin Chi specially coated some egg wash in fear that he would not be able to pay well.The batter is also well adjusted, neither thick nor thin, and a thin layer of shell is wrapped around the meat slices and deep-fried.

Until the end, save the oil and fry the onion, ginger and garlic in the pan, and thicken the sauce.

There was not much juice left on the bottom of the plate, and the golden-yellow pot-wrapped meat was evenly colored, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with thick meat and thin skin, which caught Xue Yu's heart almost instantly.

Xue Yu is from the south, and the taste of snacks is relatively bland, and this dish is a standard sweet and sour dish. He was quite shocked after eating the meal. few.

Seeing his happy face, Lu Ciyu couldn't help but grabbed the chopsticks and followed suit.

Speaking of which, this is something made by his family, Lin Chi, so why let him watch others eat it.

Xue Yu looked at the gentleman, but he was not slow to eat. He finished a large plate of food in a few mouthfuls, took a handkerchief, wiped the corners of his mouth, and opened his mouth to ask Lu Ciyu how to sell this recipe.

Lu Ciyu raised his eyebrows—didn't he ask Brother Lu if this recipe sold before?How to ask the price directly now?

"Of course I can sell it to you, but even if I sell it to you, I'm afraid you won't be able to make this taste."

Xue Yu was taken aback: "What does Brother Lu mean by that?"

Lu Ciyu raised his eyebrows: "Brother Xue looks like a connoisseur of gourmet food, isn't there something wrong with his lack of taste?"

Xue Yu followed the clan to do business when he was a child, and traveled almost half of the Chen Dynasty. He claimed to have eaten all kinds of delicacies in the world, but he had never seen such a dish. At first he thought it was because of the dishes, but now Lu Ciyu mentioned it. Only then did I realize: "Seasoning?!"

His voice trembled a little.

There are only eight kinds of seasonings in this dynasty, and there are only a few of them over and over again. No matter how many tricks are changed in the things made, they can't escape this taste.It seems that Lu Ciyu means that there is a new condiment?Then... the combination of these seasonings and the existing ones... Xue Yu saw almost unlimited business opportunities.

Xue Yu slapped the table and said, "How much does Brother Lu want?"

Lu Ciyu asked back: "Brother Xue, do you want to promote it to the streets or alleys or high-ranking officials' restaurants?"

Xue Yu was taken aback: "What's the difference?"

"I have more than one kind of recipe in my hand. I have everything from stir-frying, stewing, roasting, steaming, and frying. To be honest, it is actually a... It can be said to be an independent existence of all condiments in this dynasty. Use it to make The cuisine here can be said to be a new kind of cuisine...cough I don’t know if it’s right to say so.”

"The main ingredient can be used as a condiment alone, but if it is supplemented with other things, the taste will be more delicious."

Xue Yu now understood that if he chooses Lu Ciyu, a commoner street, he will sell him the main ingredient recipe, and if he chooses a high-ranking restaurant, he will get a mixture of the main and auxiliary recipes.

Xue Yu naturally refused to give up: "I want both."

Lu Ciyu didn't ask the price, but instead said, "I can write down the former prescription for you right now, and the latter prescription...not available for the time being."

Xue Yu asked back, "What do you mean by that?"

"The first recipe, that is, the recipe for fried vegetables, is bought out by Young Master Xue. We only make this one deal, but the second recipe, Mr. Lu, wants to make a long-term deal."

"I will provide the prepared seasonings and sell them by weight. As for how Mr. Xue uses them, it is out of my control."

Xue Yu narrowed his eyes.

"This contract... this contract is only short-term. It can be understood as buying from me. After a while, I will sell Fangzi directly to Mr. Xue." Lu Ciyu explained.

Xue Yu was puzzled—only for a paragraph?What did Lu Ciyu mean by this move?

"I wonder how long Brother Lu has been here?"

"At most half a year."

Xue Yu lowered his head in thought.

Many of the flavors in this dish were unprecedented in his life. It was really difficult to crack the recipe, but half a year was enough.

Although he didn't understand the meaning of Lu Ciyu's move, it didn't do him any harm, but after all, verbal promises can't be counted, and it's only safe to put black and white with fingerprints.

If nothing else happens, this recipe will bring the Xue family a new peak. If the most fundamental seasoning is in Lu Ciyu's hands, it is equivalent to being choked by the throat. Some accidents could not supply the goods in time, and all the restaurants of Xue's family had to close down.

No matter if this prescription should be held in your own hands.

Xue Yu clenched his fists tightly under his sleeves.

He picked up the writing brush that had just been put down on one side, poured water to grind some new ink, and was about to write when it got wet. Lu Ciyu made a V letter to himself - this business was about to be completed.

Xue Yu wrote down a few lines before he realized the price before asking: "How much money does Brother Lu want?"

"It's easy to talk about the first one, we'll discuss it later, let's talk about the second one first."

"I don't want money, what I want is a share."

"It's limited to the whole Jining Mansion. The Xue family and I... will share a [-]-[-] share."