The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

After signing the cooperation contract, the next step is to open a private restaurant.

It's just that the house is going to be converted into a restaurant, and the layout inside needs to be slightly changed. After Li Wen communicated with Bai Yu about this problem, he will hand it over to Bai Yu to take care of it.In the following period of time, Bai Yu was busy with the decoration of the house, went out early every day, and didn't come back from outside until after dark at night.

"I see that you have been coming back late recently, you... are you very busy these days?" Li Jinwan noticed that Bai Yu came back after dark every day, and finally ran into him on this day, so she asked casually.

"Well, yes, yes, I've been a little busy recently." Bai Yu told Miss Fourth that she was busy with the opening of the restaurant.

"Oh, I've heard from you guys about this before." Li Jinwan was busy developing a new perfume recently, so she was busy with the makeup of Mengge, and didn't care much about the outside world.It was only when she thought about it that she realized that she hadn't seen Bai Yu for a few days. When she saw someone now, she said with concern, "I saw that you came back very late recently. You are not in good health, so you should be more careful." .”

She remembered that Bai Yu's health was not very good, so she was more concerned.

"Well, I see, thank you Miss Fourth for your concern." Bai Yu said with a warm heart.

"Didn't I tell you, just call me Jinwan, don't call me Miss Fourth." She didn't think of herself as a lady, if it wasn't for her brother, she would be just a country girl now, how could she be in the capital? Living in such a big house, people in the house would call her "Miss Four" when they saw her.

It's just that Li Jinwan doesn't really like Bai Yu calling her Miss Fourth, and always feels that this puts a layer of ties between her and this person.

"Yes, Si...Jin Wan, then I will call you Jin Wan from now on." Bai Yu said with a smile on his face.

"Well, I'm going back. There's still food in the kitchen, remember to eat...don't be hungry." After Li Jinwan finished speaking, she ran back to the yard where she lived.

Seeing the person walk away from him, Bai Yu smiled and went to the kitchen to look for something to eat.

Following their lady back to the room, Magpie looked at their lady's blushing face, sat on the bed and didn't know what she was thinking, and laughed while thinking.Magpie asked with a confused face, "Miss, do you like Mr. Bai?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Who likes him?" Li Jinwan jumped up all of a sudden, blushing.

Still say no?Xi Yun rolled her eyes in her heart, her young lady obviously liked it, but she still refused to admit it.Their Miss and Young Master Bai?Young Master Bai is very good-looking and has a good personality, so if their young master and Young Master Bai are together...

Although Young Master Bai is not as good as Mr. Zhao, there are rumors that Mr. Zhao...

So, in fact, Young Master Bai is not bad.

At the beginning of February, Li Wen received a letter from his family trustee, saying that the clan had arranged for twenty people to come to the capital.Years ago he wrote a letter to go back to the clan, asking the clan to arrange for a group of people to come to the capital, within a limit of three years, to send young people from the clan to study outside, after three years it would depend on the situation If you want to develop outside, you can stay outside, if you want to go back to the village, you can send people back to the clan.And three years later, another group of people will be sent over.

Presumably, the elders of the clan selected someone for him after the business arrangement, and sent them to the capital.

At present, Li Wen needs to cultivate a group of available people, and it is best to choose people from his own clan.Firstly, it can cultivate follow-up talents for the clan; secondly, because of the same roots and common interests, after all, because parents and relatives are all in the clan, even if they come out, their hearts are still on the clan. If this group of people can cultivate Those who come out are those who can be used by him and the family.

When the letter arrived in the capital, people from Lijia Village were already on their way.

Not long after, all the changes in the restaurant have been completed, and the tables and chairs inside have been arranged one by one, as well as the cook and the staff.

The eighth day of February is a good day for opening, so private restaurants choose to open on the eighth day of February.

There is a plaque hanging on the top of the house, on which are written two characters [Guest], and a pair of couplets on the left and right read: The flower path has never been swept by guests, and the Pengmen is now opened for you.

On the day of the opening of the restaurant, His Royal Highness must be the first to invite here. Li Wen also sent a post to the Xiao Shizi and several old seniors in the Imperial Academy.He also gave His Royal Highness and Zhao Xiangyi some posts and a dozen VIP cards, asking them to invite their acquaintances over and give them to relatives and friends, so that they can use them in their store in the future.

Considering that private restaurants will take a high-end route in the future, Li Wen has not placed any advertisements about private restaurants in newspapers for the time being.Their private cooking is based on word of mouth. In the future, they will test acquaintances and bring acquaintances, and word of mouth will bring them more customers.

Standing at the door, Yang Shaomu saw the couplets written on the left and right sides of the door, "The flower path has never been swept by guests, and the Pengmen is now opened for the king, and the guests come."

"Please, Your Highness," Li Wen led His Royal Highness into the room and asked, "What do you think of this place?"

Yang Shaomu looked at the remodeled house, but he didn't really have much impression of this house. The reason why he bought this house at the beginning was because it was convenient when going out, or it had other uses.But after buying this house, he actually didn't live here a few times.Just this time, Li Liuyuan said that he wanted to find a house to open a restaurant, so he provided this house for the purpose of opening a restaurant.

Looking at it this way, it is more elegantly furnished than the general restaurants outside, and the location is also good. Yang Shaomu nodded and said, "It's not bad."

"Your Highness, this way please."

Li Wen led His Highness the Crown Prince into a private room, and the lake outside could be seen from the window of the private room.

It is still February, and the ice on the lake has not yet melted. We have to wait for the spring to warm up in March. When we open the windows here, we can see the exuberant spring outside. Eating here will definitely make people feel happy.

Another important point is that the dishes here are not available outside the capital.

Li Wen ordered a few special dishes in the restaurant, "These are the special dishes in the store. Your Highness will try them later to see how they taste. From now on, the restaurant will have a new dish every month, and your Highness will try it later. If you like it, you can come here often in the future.”

"I'd like to see how delicious the special dishes you mentioned are." Yang Shaomu smiled.

"I promise it won't be worse than the imperial chef in the palace." Li Wen is still very confident about this.

"Oh, I'm really going to try it." Yang Shaomu made a gesture and asked the standing people to sit down, "Today is outside, just feel free."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Several people sat down one after another.

The first dish was a few appetizers, the second dish was soup, the third dish was Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, the fifth dish, and the sixth dish...

"What kind of dish is this?"

"Hmm... this taste is fresh and fragrant. I have never tasted such a delicious soup."

After tasting the dishes, Yang Shaomu believed Li Liuyuan's words a little bit. Based on these few dishes, all the old gourmets in the capital would definitely come here.The few people who came with His Royal Highness were also full of praise

In order to prevent His Royal Highness from meeting other people, Li Wen specially arranged for His Royal Highness to arrive first. After His Royal Highness and his party left, Xiao Shizi brought a large group of young masters from the capital.

Xiao Shizi was very supportive and specially brought a large group of people here.

The people who came, Li Wen, were each given a VIP card, which can be used to enter the store for consumption in the future. The cards are divided into gold cards, silver cards and diamond cards. The highest level is the diamond card. Is there any discount for each card? the same.

These young masters in the capital have never tasted anything good, but today's meal still made many people full of praise. After they left, everyone was given a card, saying that they would come to the store in the future something that can be used.But now these young masters don't know that this card in their hands will be hard to find in the future, and it is a status symbol in this capital.

During the period when the restaurant just opened, Li Wen would come here to take a look every day, afraid that Bai Yu didn't understand something.

One of the chefs invited from the restaurant used to be an imperial cook in the palace, and the other is a cook with good skills among the people. The wages they pay here are not low, but they can’t reveal their recipes. , and the recipe was provided by Li Wen here.Everyone who came in here signed a confidential contract, and if someone violated the contract, they would be punished severely.

After a period of time, seeing that Bai Yu could do things with ease by himself, Li Wen was completely relieved to hand over the restaurant to Bai Yu to manage.

When he returned to work in the household department after the year, Li Wen checked the accounts at the household department every day, looked at the account books, and such a check really allowed him to find out a lot of problems.But at this time, he didn't say anything. He just recorded the problematic places and dug deeper in this place later.

He just said, no matter how beautiful this account book is, as long as there is a problem, if you check it carefully, you can still see the problem

The water in this household is even more turbid than he imagined...

From Lijia Village to the capital, it takes nearly a month to travel by horse-drawn carriage all the way.

At the beginning of riding in the carriage, a group of young people were still very excited. After sitting for three to five days, all of them began to wilt. After sitting for half a month, the carriage had not yet arrived in the capital, and they vomited and fainted along the way. dizzy, sitting on horses one by one

Everyone in the car looked disheveled, and the excitement and joy at the beginning were no longer there.Only a few people sat in the carriage for such a long time with normal expressions.

"Village Chief, how long will it take us to reach the capital?"

"Yes, village chief, how far is it to the capital..."

This time, Shen Zijing and Su Yuan also followed the people from Lijia Village on the way to the capital.They were riding in the carriage of the family, and the two of them sat in a carriage on the way. It was the first time they rode such a distance in a carriage. Su Yuan couldn't help but vomited twice. Shen Zijing was better, and took care of Su Yuan all the way. .

"Is it better? Why don't I ask someone to find a doctor for you in the next town?" Seeing the pale face of the person in his arms, Shen Zijing couldn't help feeling a little worried.Su Yuan shook his head, his voice was a little weak, "I'm fine, just let me sleep for a while, I don't need to find a doctor."

His body is not that delicate, it's just that it's his first time riding in a carriage for such a long time, which makes him a little overwhelmed.

"When you arrive in the capital, rest for two days and you'll be fine." Su Yuan knew his body well, and knew that he was not a big problem. He couldn't eat well or sleep well along the way, so it was inevitable that he would be mentally weak. That's all.

"You, you always bear any discomfort by yourself and don't tell me. You don't even know that I will worry about you." Shen Zijing nodded Su Yuan's nose. His face was so ugly, and he said he was fine.

"I'm really fine, don't worry, just let me sleep for a while." Su Yuan buried half of his body in Shen Zijing's arms. In this person's arms, he could still sleep for a while. .Shen Zijing hugged the person in his arms, the carriage swayed, and he fell asleep after a while.

After Su Yuan woke up, seeing the person holding him, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After receiving the news that people from the clan were coming, and counting the days when they were about to arrive in the capital, Li Wen sent people to watch at the gate of the city every day, waiting for when people would arrive so that they could be picked up.

After going like this for another seven or eight days, the carriage of the people from Lijia Village arrived outside the gate of the capital.

It was the first time I came to the capital, and seeing the towering walls of the capital, this group of young people were shocked, their mouths couldn’t close together in surprise, and someone exclaimed, “Wow, so this is the capital, the capital The walls of the city are so high..."

"Yes, a lot of people."

They've been in line for so long and they haven't arrived yet.

The people who lined up next door in Beijing heard these people's words and looked at them with contempt, as if they were saying: a bunch of bumpkins who have never seen the world.

"Go in, next."

After being interrogated at the gate of the city and showing the guide, the group of people were able to enter the city.

"master!"

Li Tong was sent by their young master to wait for someone at the gate of the city. He waited for several days, but he didn't find anyone. He yawned several times until he was sleepy.Seeing a group of people entering the city, take a closer look, isn't this their master?There were many people at the gate of the city, and Li Tong squeezed through the crowd, shouting, "Master, master..."

Haha, it's the master, it's really the master!

"Young Master Shen, Young Master Su..." Young Master Shen and Young Master Su also came together!

Who is calling him?Shen Zijing looked back, but saw no one.

This time, it was Li Wen's father, Li Shanshan, who brought the people from Li Family Village to the capital, who is also the current village head of Li Family Village.

Li Tong squeezed over and ran to the master, with a big smile on his face, he said, "Master, it's mine, Li Tong, the young master asked me to pick you up."

"The young master must be very happy to know that the master is here."

"It's Li Tong. He has grown so much taller that he almost can't recognize him." Li Shanshan patted the child's head. This child has been with his son since he was a child. This child has grown so much taller. I don't know if the three treasures of their family have grown taller.

"Yes, it's me. Hello, Young Master Shen, and Young Master Su." Li Tong greeted one by one.

Shen Zijing and Su Yuan also recognized that this was the little book boy serving Li Wen.

"Master, Young Master Shen, Young Master Su, let's go, I'll take you back first. The young master is still in the household office at the moment, and he won't come back until he is released from the government at night. The young master went to the academy to study, and he can't come back until after school at night. " Li Tong told the master about the family affairs one by one, "Oh, there is also Miss Si, Miss Si may be in the order, I will go and inform Miss Si to come back later."

That's why the young master asked him to pick up the master, instead of coming in person.

"Okay, let's go back first." Li Shanshan asked Li Tong to sit on the shaft of the car and show them the way.

On the way, Li Shanshan asked about his two sons in Beijing. He hadn't seen them for more than half a year. As a father, Li Shanshan still missed his children very much.

Li Tong was familiar with the roads here in the capital, so he sat in front to guide the way, and led everyone to Liuyuan Mansion.

A group of people arrived at Liuyuan Mansion in a mighty manner. Yingchun knew that the master was coming, so he hurriedly brought everyone out of the mansion to greet him, and sent someone to invite Fourth Miss back.When Yingchun saw the elder who was walking in front, she knew that this person must be their master's father, she saluted respectfully, "Your servant Yingchun has seen the master."

"Master, Mr. Shen, Mr. Su, please come in."

This is the house that the emperor bestowed on his son?It's really big.

Li Shanshan went all the way in, looking at his son's big courtyard with his eyes. Sure enough, this mansion in the capital city is magnificent.

Shen Zijing and Su Yuan also came to the capital for the first time, they knew that the emperor gave Li Wen a kind of house.Now that I saw it with my own eyes, I knew how far they were from Li Wen, a classmate.

There were also people from Li Family Village who followed. It was the first time they saw such a beautiful house, and everyone was amazed.

"Master, please drink tea, Mr. Shen, please drink tea, Mr. Su, please drink tea." Yingchun knew that the master and the others had just arrived in the capital. Set people up.Also, I told the people in the kitchen to prepare meals quickly. I think everyone must be hungry when they come all the way.

"Go back quickly."

As soon as Li Jinwan heard that her uncle was coming, she threw away the things in her hand and got into the carriage, and asked people to drive the carriage back home. After getting out of the carriage, she ran into the mansion with her skirt in her hand. Arrived, "Uncle, Uncle..."

Li Shanshan, who was sitting in the room drinking tea, put down his teacup, and saw a beautifully dressed girl running towards him, and said in surprise, "Oh, isn't this our fourth girl? This has changed a lot, She has become a beautiful big girl, I can hardly recognize her."

"Uncle, don't make fun of me." Li Jinwan blushed, feeling a little embarrassed.

Li Jinwan was very happy to see her uncle and the others coming to the capital, she was busy with letting Yingchun prepare the residence and the kitchen for food.

Yingchun said with a smile, "Miss Hui, the kitchen is already preparing."