The Concubine of Crossing

Xiaolai Restaurant opened on the sixth day of the first lunar month, just because Li Xiao casually mentioned that Liuliu Dashun, so Luo Laibao made a decision to open on the sixth day.

In fact, this time is a bit rushed, and the brewed fruit wine has only a little wine taste.

But just such a little taste makes everyone very happy, which proves that the wine can indeed be made, but there is not enough time now.

As for Xiangniang's prescriptions, since they are directly soaked in wine, the time required is much shorter.

Luo Laibao directly brought a few altars to the Zhou family as presents.

After Zhou Xuanyi drank two cups, he was immediately shocked by the effect of dispelling the cold. After learning that Luo Laibao and the others were going to open a store to sell wine, he pondered for a while, and when he met his colleagues, he offered him a small cup.

As a result, Xiaolai Restaurant has already gained a little reputation among bureaucrats before it opened.

You must know that going to court every day is also a hard job. If it is okay in summer, you have to wait at the door before dawn in winter. Only they know the feeling of cold wind pouring from their necks into their bodies.

Now, after drinking a small glass of wine, I immediately feel hot all over. The effect of dispelling the cold is more effective than wearing many cotton clothes. How can we not make people miss it?They all asked Zhou Xuanyi where they bought it, and Zhou Xuanyi naturally pushed his nephew's shop out.

Therefore, on the first day of Laixiao Restaurant's opening, the business was surprisingly good, but many people did not come to eat, but to buy wine, and more than [-] jars of warm spring wine to drive away the cold were sold directly. Several people were startled.

Li Xiao checked the inventory. If this method is used to sell, the speed of new wine coming out will definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of sales. This method of selling is obviously not acceptable.

Li Xiao thought of hunger marketing in the future. Limiting the quantity sold every day can not only increase the price of the item, but also make people miss it because it can't be bought, which can increase the popularity of the item.

They opened this shop for the sake of popularity, and only by spreading their reputation can they attract people from other places and get more news.

After the two discussed, the special medicinal wine produced by Xiangniang was sold in limited quantities every day.

The fact that Xiao Lai Restaurant began to limit the purchase of wine on the second day after its opening did spread quickly in the capital.

No way, everyone is curious. Even people who don’t like drinking very much are a little surprised to hear that there is a limit on the purchase of some wine, and they come to see it.

They have already entered the door, so I can't come here in vain, so I order a few small dishes and a pot of wine by the way, and drink it slowly.

At first, some people thought that the medicinal wine smelled bad, but after holding back the smell, after drinking a glass of wine, there will be a warm feeling on the body, which makes people feel more comfortable than lighting more stoves.

In this kind of cold weather, having such a cup will warm you up throughout the winter.

As a result, the warm spring wine of Xiaolai Restaurant quickly became popular and became the favorite of the cold-suffering people throughout Kyoto.

It's just a bit bad. The purchase of warm spring wine is limited. If you want to buy it to take away, you can have up to three small jars per person. A small jar the size of a palm is not enough to pour it into a bowl.

And at most one hundred small jars are sold every day, and the price is affordable. In the words of the boss, it is a small business, and the wine produced is limited, so naturally not many are sold.

If you want to drink it directly, you can have it at any time, even if each person can only have one pot at most, the pot is not big, and there are only a few small cups when poured out. If it is not expensive, many people will scold the boss for being black.

Because of this, the reputation of Xiaolai Restaurant has grown a little bit.

At this time, the fruit wine brewed by Li Xiao also opened. The fruit wine with a low alcohol content really quickly became the new favorite of many ladies and ladies, and more and more female customers came to the restaurant. stand up.

It's just that these female customers usually go to the private room and don't meet other male customers.

Compared with fruit wine, Xiangniang's wine is still the best seller.Not only the warm spring wine sold well, but also the health-preserving Baizhen wine and the beauty-enhancing rejuvenating wine sold extremely well.

Especially the beauty wine, the ladies who drank it did not take long to find that their skin became fairer and more radiant, and they immediately sent someone to buy it.

However, Xiaolai Restaurant's special wine is limited, and if you want to buy it every day, you have to hurry up.

Ladies and ladies in the boudoir naturally hope that they are the only beauty. At the beginning, everyone hides it and keeps it from others.It's just that in this capital, the bigger the family, the less secrets to talk about.

The news that the maids and servants of the lady and wife went to Xiaolai Restaurant to queue up to buy wine every day spread quickly.As a result, the fame of Rejuvenating Spring Wine spread, and it sold out even faster than Nuanchun Wine every day.

But Baizhen wine, because of the precious ingredients added in it, is much more expensive than the other two wines, and the effect is not visible in a short while, but it has become the most difficult to sell wine.

But because the effects of the first two limited edition wines were so good, everyone had a little expectation for this kind of wine with a significantly higher price, and those who were not short of money at home bought a bottle or two to take home to drink.

The business of Xiaolai Restaurant has indeed improved as expected, but Chef Du is a little unhappy, because the people who come to eat are obviously not for the food, but for the wine. It was a very embarrassing thing for him, so he tried his best to get all the cooking skills he knew. The recipes of various dishes were written on wooden sticks and hung on the wall of the restaurant.

Not to mention, everyone was surprised when they learned that all the dishes hung on the wall were dishes that the chef could cook, and then tried to order. Chef Du was able to cook according to the menu.

However, after less than three days of doing such a show-off, Chef Du had to change his strategy.

There is no way, the guests want to try all kinds of flavors because of the novelty. He is the only chef in his restaurant now. The ordinary dishes are okay, but some dishes are very time-consuming. After finishing this one, I will cook another one. It will inevitably delay the waiting time of the guests.

Chef Du had been working for three days, so he had to change his strategy. According to the ingredients he bought, he first selected the food that needed to be cooked for a long time as the main food, hung the sign on the top, and then picked a bunch of bought ingredients, and listed them below Hang up the sign and let the guests choose.

In this way, the guests chose a lot fewer dishes, but Chef Du felt much more relaxed.

Moreover, he doesn't fix the dishes every day, but changes them according to the ingredients he bought every day. In this way, the food sold in the store is different every day, which adds a few freshness to the store that are not available in other restaurants. feel.

The limited amount of precious wine, the dishes that change every day, gradually spread the reputation of Xiao Lai Restaurant, and soon gained a firm foothold in Kyoto.

Luo Laibao feels that Xiangniang's contribution is indispensable for Xiaolai Restaurant's success today.He asked Xiangniang if he wanted to open a powder shop for her?

Xiang Niang thought for a while, then nodded.

So Luo Laibao bought the next door and opened a powder shop next to the restaurant.

The incense powder made by Xiangniang is really the only one, and I don't know if she has learned from Li Xiao's hunger marketing, her incense powder is more limited.

In addition to the general fragrance powder, she will also produce a special fragrance powder every month. At the beginning of the month, the efficacy will be hung on the wall of the inner door, and then the customers will bid for themselves. At the end of the month, she will sell the fragrance powder to the highest bidder. guests.

The best seller was the first batch of scar removal plaster. With Xiangniang's guarantee that most of the scars could be removed, that small box of plaster sold for 100 taels of gold.

Hearing this amount, Chef Du, who couldn't earn that much gold after a busy month, felt a little sour.Luo Laibao said coolly, "Don't be envious, anyway, you don't have a monthly fee for how much you sell."

Chef Du: "..." He was immediately shocked.

Of course, Luo Laibao was just talking. At the end of the month, Li Xiao personally took the monthly money for him, which was twice as much as the cooks outside. Doubled the recipe.

The business of Xiaolai Restaurant and Baixiang Pavilion is getting better day by day, and they have collected a lot of news as they wished.

Facing a bunch of lists listed, both of them felt worried.

The current emperor has quite a few children, and there are several adult princes. Among them, there are three princes with the most prominent family background and the most likely to inherit the throne.

The second prince was born of Concubine Li Gui. He felt that his age and identity were superior to those of the younger brothers. He thought that the throne was already in his pocket. He was arrogant and acted very arrogantly on weekdays.

The status of the fourth prince's family is also good, and he should be a powerful heir to the throne, but this fourth prince is easy to talk about, except that he has a problem that cannot be changed, that is, he is lustful.He even dared to sleep with his own father's favorite concubine, and was caught straight by the emperor, and was almost expelled. As long as the prince's heirs were not dead, with his dark history, he probably has no fate for that position.

On the other hand, the Fifth Prince, who is humble and courteous, treats others respectfully and courteously, and has quite a good reputation among civil servants.If this was placed among the people, it would probably be a good old man whom the neighbors all scramble to praise, but it is obvious that Gu Guo, who is already showing signs of troubled times, cannot support this stall.

Facing such two uncompetitive opponents, it's no wonder that the second prince had such thoughts.

So, the problem came out again.Since the second prince holds such a good card in his hand, why does he need to borrow Di Guo's power?

Did something happen to the emperor, or was the second prince caught by someone and had to succumb?

Thinking about the emperor's delay in establishing a prince, the water in the capital is really deep, making it impossible to see the form clearly.

Li Xiao stretched out his hand, kneaded it, kneaded the paper he just wrote, and set it on the fire.Then he picked up his eldest baby and walked to the bed, "The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, don't think about it so much, let's go to bed first."

They are just two ordinary people, just two inconspicuous drops of water in this whirlpool, they can only do what they can, they don't have the ability to decide the direction of the world.

The cycle of history has a definite number, and they are just struggling to survive in this huge wheel. All they can do is keep themselves and the people around them, and help as many people as possible.