All-round way to money

After the summer, there are more and more dishes in the vegetable market, and the business of restaurants is getting better and better.Yunlai Restaurant already has the shadow of the No. [-] Restaurant in Caotan County. Although it is small, there are dignitaries in the county who know this restaurant with good taste.The three private rooms on the second floor have to be booked in advance to get a number.There have also been more peddlers and pawns coming and going in the mountains, and word has been passed on, and the Yunlai Restaurant in Caotan County has become a famous restaurant, not too big or too small.

The more customers you have, the more money you will earn.

The two apprentices have been teaching for half a year, and it is hard work to learn it. There are only a few dishes in the recipe, and Chu Ran teaches them hand in hand. If there is anything they can’t learn, Aunt Zhang and Aunt Zhao can make steamed rice and steamed buns. Yes, unless important guests come, Chu Ran doesn't have to cook for herself anymore.Then, when new dishes were served, she demonstrated them several times. At other times, she spent more time in the backyard.The ingredient package, brewed flower wine and fruit wine are all special.

It's a little more time to stay at home.

The neighbors on the left and right and the yard in the back against which the back is leaning have all been bought.In the same place, they are all small businesses in Dongcheng, and the sizes of the yards are similar, and the prices are of course similar. Even the neighbor’s yard on the left, I bought four yards without spending 100 taels of silver.The yard is being renovated recently.Change the four connected ones into one large courtyard, and make the small courtyard on the right a cross-courtyard.The size of the big courtyard is almost the same as the small courtyard by Yushui.Chu Ran said, just change it according to that.There is also commemorative significance.

Of course Xiao Yu had no objection.Recently, I lived in the right courtyard first, and I am changing the courtyard on the left.It is also easy to change, remove all the original houses, and build two and a half main rooms, and build two wing rooms on the left side as guest rooms.Two warehouses and two open kitchens are built in the backyard.There is a narrow yard in the front yard, a small garden, a jujube tree, a well, a stone mill, and a small gazebo.Because in the city, fence walls cannot be used, and high walls are all around, so two gatehouses are built on the left and right sides of the gate, and the hall is in the middle.The two concierges happened to be for the Zhang family and the Zhao family, so there was no need to rent another house.

The planning is very simple, and the house has no complicated design.It can be built in a month.He also made a kang with ground dragons in the inner room of the main house. After it was built, it was burned for half a month to dry the house.Once you move the furniture, you will be living in a new home.I moved here, and then built a cross-yard, and there is nothing to repair here, that is, the kitchen in the main house was demolished, and all the beds in the house were removed and turned into a study.The firewood house in the yard was also demolished, and a Baosha was built.No yard, just houses.The building in the front is added with a corridor, which can be used as a workshop or a school.

In the past few months, Xiao Yu didn't stay at home for nothing.I don’t know how he does it. Anyway, the children on this street who are under ten years old and can’t be used as adults will come to read books with him for two hours every day. They don’t have a pen and paper. They just sit in the yard with Twigs learn to write and recognize characters.Gouzi, the youngest grandson of the Zhao family, and Shuanzhuo, the youngest son of the Zhang family, followed suit.The children were taken care of, and Mrs. Zhao took advantage of this time to finish all the housework.

Xiao Yu didn't say he wanted Shuxiu either, he just said that staying at home was boring, and he thought it was the children who accompanied him to pass the time.But every morning, the children's neat endorsement of the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic" sounds, the parents are all businessmen, and their brains are not so rigid, so they can't really give nothing.The owner sent some vegetables, and the west gave two catties of rice, all from their own shop, and it was not worth anything.On the contrary, the relationship between the neighbors has improved. Even if there is no one at home, only Xiao Yu and Baozhu are at home, if there is something to say, people from half a street can come to help, so there is nothing to worry about.

Even the business of Churan Restaurant is much easier due to the care of the neighbors.

"Boss, here are three catties of sauced beef. I want to take twenty steamed buns away."

WTF?Order beef?are you crazy?Cows need to plow the land, and horses need to drive carts, but they don't eat meat.Come to my shop to order beef sauce?I am a small restaurant in a county, are you going to kill me?

Chu Ran is teaching the two apprentices in the back kitchen how to make sauces with meat and pickles. Chunshang's new sauce can be eaten, and some stewed dishes can also be made.Hearing that someone ordered sauced beef, I picked up the curtain and came to the hall to see who ordered it. Hey, I saw that he was dressed in a short skirt with a big knife on his back. He looked like a quack, "This guest officer , Our small shop does not sell beef. How about you? I just received venison yesterday, as well as rabbit meat. The sauced bones and pig’s trotters in our shop are all special. You can also try it. "

The visitor took a look at Chu Ran, "Are you the boss?"

"Yes."

With a slap, he slapped the knife on his back on the table beside him. It was just after the peak meal time, and there were still two tables of guests in the store. Seeing his formation, they all stopped their chopsticks Watch the fun.

"The sauced beef I ordered is the sauced beef. What kind of pork do you use to fool you? Du has never been so perfunctory in his travels. Go out and inquire. I am Du Dali from the Weifeng Escort. No beef? Who are you bluffing?" What? Why would you open a restaurant without beef?"

Oh, hey, this donkey's lip is not right with the horse's mouth. It would be strange if Chu Ran couldn't tell that it was finding fault.

Sure enough, when the business is going well, some people can't see it.

She has really heard of Weifeng Escort, the name is quite domineering, and the scale is really small.I only run business in Yongzhou Mansion, and I dare not pick up those who are far away.The small and medium bodyguard agency that Qishan Mountains didn't dare to enter.She has been in the county for half a year, and it is not uncommon to see tourists who come and go to the mountains, hunters, and performers in the rivers and lakes. Her restaurant is small, and sometimes there are storytellers in the big restaurant. She also joins in the fun and listens to the stories. Talk about something new in Fucheng.I just talked about the Prestige Escort Bureau, in order to curry favor with the magistrate’s housekeeper, the old bodyguard master sent his own daughter to the housekeeper’s son as a concubine, and was chased and beaten by the housekeeper’s daughter-in-law with a rolling pin for two streets.

Just leave here.

Did you come here to show off your prestige?

"Then you are the Chief Escort of the Prestige Escort Bureau? Come here, the small shop is really flourishing. But Chief Escort Du, we are a small business, and we never do anything illegal and disciplined. The government does not allow the killing of cattle, If we don’t have beef, we don’t have it. No matter how important you are, I can’t make you something you don’t have.”

"No? Why do you open a store without you? Find a way to get it for me. If you can't get it, I will smash your store."

With a knife in his hand, he slapped it on the table, pulling away his posture of smashing the store.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the guests at the two tables put down their half-eaten meals and ran out, pointing outside the shop with passers-by who were watching.

"Let's not talk about my small restaurant, even the Huixiang Pavilion in Fucheng has unreliable dishes. Can you still smash Huixiang Pavilion?" Huixiang Pavilion was opened by the prefect's brother-in-law, Chu Ran To say that is to satirize him, your family is a contestant who sent his daughter to the housekeeper's son as an outside room, why come here to pretend to be garlic.

Not to mention, Chu Ran raised his hand and patted the table, and the table shattered to pieces.Don't play tricks with me, I'm not afraid of you.

Sure enough, he saw the man surnamed Du with a purplish red face.He didn't expect his old background to be known to others, and it was still a stubborn problem. He asked himself that he couldn't slap the table like that.I guess I can't beat it.

At this moment Mrs. Zhang came out from the back kitchen, took a coarse cloth bag with twenty steamed buns in it, and laughed when she came out, "Oh, what's the matter? Ma'am, you have a temper too, why did you smash the table again?" What about it? The master said that if you don’t control your temper, you will replace the tables with stones. This guest officer, please forgive me. My lady boss is good at kung fu, but her temper is not very good. This is what you want Mantou, we really don’t have any beef.”

Du Biaotou stood up and gasped for breath, finally took out a piece of broken silver from his waist, and there was no table for him to pat, threw it on the counter, did not dare to pat again, took the steamed bun and left.

As soon as this side stepped out the door, there was a burst of laughter outside.

Chu Ran asked Uncle Zhang to find a carpenter to make a new table with no change of expression.Aunt Zhang and Aunt Zhao are already cleaning up the trash with a broom.At this moment, the neighbors who watched the excitement crowded in, "Master Chu, you are amazing." "Madam, you are hiding your secrets." They all praised Chu Ran for being amazing.

"Where is there, I am the only one in the family. My father was afraid that I would be bullied when I grew up, so he taught me some kung fu. He is a butcher and a hunter, so he has two skills." Chu Ran said modestly.

Hee hee ha ha, talked for a long time.Zhao Butou of the county government brought people over and asked if there was any trouble.

After everything is over, it appears.Really...

As early as when Chu Ran came from the back kitchen to the hall, Niu Song went out through the back door to report the case to the county government.There are head arresters in the county government, and there are fast arresters patrolling the streets. Dongcheng is not far from the county government, so why did it take so long to come?

hehe.

This is waiting for the family to be unable to clean up, and pay protection fees, right?

If they came sooner, Chu Ran still wasn't sure who was behind the incident.Once they didn't come, they gave more accurate directions.The county magistrate just took office last year, the second in the list of previous convictions, stayed in the Imperial Academy for three years, and was sent to Caonan County to be the magistrate. His home is in the southeast, and it is far away from the northwest.But the county magistrate is a native of Caotan County. He has been working for more than ten years.The largest restaurant in Dongcheng, Yuelai Restaurant, was opened by his son.His son-in-law is also one of the magistrate's muliao, and the catcher of the government office and Zhao catcher are brothers.It would be strange if there was no handwriting of Yuelai Restaurant in this matter.

If you want to talk about the benefits of opening a restaurant, it is a place where news gathers, and everyone can know clearly about major and minor matters.Especially after the stewed vegetables and pickled vegetables became famous, more and more people came here, and after more and more high-level people in the county, the news became more well-informed.You don't need to deliberately inquire, as long as the buddy hears something, just talk about it, and Chu Ran can know a lot about the affairs of the county.

"Let's forget it?" After returning home at night, Xiao Yu already knew what happened in the restaurant, and he had too many reports.

"How is it possible?" It was unthinkable.

Whoever betrayed her must find her back.

"I didn't say that. The emperor of the Xiao family is not doing very well. What is he in charge of? The county magistrate has been emptied. If the county is bigger, let the county magistrate and the head catcher work together to be the masters of the house. Cut. "It's very contemptuous.

"Then it's useless for you to complain to me about this matter. I can't take care of this matter. Moreover, being able to be dismissed also shows that there is a problem with the ability of the magistrate. Even a magistrate is not good. , what's the use."

That is true.

Sometimes Chu Ran can't figure it out, what are the imperial examinations?Some people pass the exam for half their lives, and feel that they have reached the sky in one step, but how many of the famous officials and officials who have left their names in history are the number one picks?For example, Wang Linchuan, the magistrate of Caotan County, is a nerd, with good handwriting and good articles, but he doesn't know how to be a chief official. If he is asked to compile a book or something, he is probably competent.

"Officials can't make decisions for the people, waste."

Chu Ran commented on Wangzhi County.

"how do you want to do it?"

Don't think about it, "Help the useless magistrate Wang. Change to another Fucheng, if he can't stand up again, he deserves it."

How to change Fu Cheng?That of course is to send all the evidence of his corruption and breaking the law to the magistrate's desk.Send another copy to the inspector.They certainly couldn't pee in the same jug.Whether the prefect wants to deal with it or not, he has to deal with it.Then put one-third of the gold and silver he hid on the bedside of the head catcher, and the other two-thirds were distributed to the beggars on the street.Let him know that if you can put things on the bedside, killing him will be easy, without anyone noticing.Don't mess with people you can't afford.

"Heroes use martial arts to break the ban. It's good or bad. But it's still very useful." After a few nights of tossing and finishing things, Chu Ran and Xiao Yu felt emotional.

"Then tell me, if you make such a fuss, will the magistrate send a headhunter with strong martial arts skills to investigate? Will Dali Temple even send guards out to make an unannounced visit?" It would be a strange thing if any random person from the rivers and lakes could arrange for the court to order officials to do things. Woolen cloth.The imperial court has the imperial court system, and the rivers and lakes have the rules of the rivers and lakes. Non-interference is the best way to get along.They have always learned literary and martial arts well, and sold them to the emperor's family. Those with the best martial arts are working hard for the court, and those who have no skills will go to the rivers and lakes.

Chu Ran chuckled, "Is it for a small county magistrate? Let's investigate it. If you really can go to war for such a small matter, the second prince has been missing for a year and has not been found. It is even more obvious that he is still alive or dead. Strange."

Especially when the second prince was missing in Caotan County, he came to make an unannounced visit and who was behind the scenes to trap the county magistrate?I'm afraid that in today's Caotan County, the big shots in the capital will only deliberately pretend that this place does not exist.

The news has spread to the county seat.Concubine Ning has been sick since the second prince disappeared, thinking of her son as a disease, the crown prince and princess concubine have been waiting for the illness, extremely filial, when they went to court, their expressions were often in a trance, and they seldom spoke out to participate in government affairs.They have been constantly sending people to inquire about the second prince's news.The General's Mansion has also been sending people to investigate.But there was no information about the second prince.It's a situation where people don't see life, people don't see dead bodies.The prince and the general are busy looking for someone, the imperial concubine is ill again, and the queen always doesn't care about things.It seems that the third prince is very talented, and he can often relieve his father's worries when he is in court. It is said that his martial arts are also quite good.It is not a boast to say that you can be literary and military.

What news can be received in Caotan County, generally speaking, the news received by all parts of the country is about the same.In all the news, it was only said that the second prince led troops to suppress the bandits and disappeared unexpectedly, but they didn't say where he went to suppress the bandits, what bandits he suppressed, and where he disappeared.

After the weather in the restaurant warmed up, there were more talents from other places. There were a lot of strangers, but they were all doing business, or they were servants of the imperial court. Occasionally, there was an inquiring person who asked where I could buy something. Overtly and secretly inquiring about matters related to the Second Prince.This point is very clear.

After she made such an analysis, she raised her eyebrows and smiled at Xiao Yu after she finished speaking. She wants to test me, right?Did you pass?

Xiao Yu touched his head and encouraged: "Not bad. Keep working hard."

In fact, he has already done everything, but it’s really not good. He paid the system to put two fake knees on him first, so that he can move freely. At night, he secretly finished the matter, and then replaced the knees and prepared to pretend to be crippled. of.It's not necessary now.

"By the way, I always forgot to ask you. The emperor of the Xiao family is only the fifth generation, right? Why is he so ugly? Also, what is the situation in the Chu family village? Emperor's seal?"

After marriage, I have been busy nagging and living my life, and I also feel that what is going on in front and back has little to do with my family, so I forgot to ask.

What else can I do. "Aside from people surnamed Chu, aren't there people surnamed Huang and Wang in your village?"

Yes, there are quite a few, aren't they relatives with a foreign surname recruited from the Chu family village?Like Uncle Chu, he has a younger brother and a younger sister. The younger sister is married to another village, and the younger brother is married to the wife of the Wang family in the village. He also settled down in the village. His family name is Liu.

"No. Those surnamed Huang and Wang are both descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty. After escaping, they concealed their real surnames and changed their surnames to Huang and Wang."

"What about the Chu family? What is their identity?"

It's a long story.To put it simply, more than 100 years ago, in the last years of the former dynasty, the world was in great chaos and the people were in dire straits. Natural disasters and man-made disasters continued. After 20 years, they still couldn’t survive. The biggest rebel army was about to hit the capital. The family members, nephews and relatives of the capital escaped from the capital under the protection of the commander of the Imperial Forest Army.Only the unlucky Qihou was left in the capital to guard the capital. Qihou has always been a cowardly person who dare not say that anyone can bully him, and he is also a kind person.He also has a good son, Xiao Yuanchen, who guards the border with [-] soldiers and horses.People who lack clothing and food, like mending rags, also guard the border.The reason why the last emperor left Marquis Qi was because Xiao Yuanchen knew that his father could lead troops to serve the king in the capital.

But who would have thought that as soon as the royal family left, the good old Qihou would distribute all the rice, grain, firewood and so on to the people in the capital.Then the four doors were closed tightly, and he couldn't think of any other way, so he wanted to shrink into the turtle shell and wait for his son to come to rescue him.As a result, just two days after the city gate was closed, the rebels besieged the city.Another three days later, in the midst of winter, the sky began to rain heavily. When it was supposed to be snowing, it rained heavily. It lasted for a whole day, and then the temperature dropped rapidly at night.The people in the city are okay, they have houses to shelter from the rain, and they can burn firewood for warmth at night.But the rebels outside the city were unlucky. The rain soaked their clothes and luggage, and they froze again.Overnight, half of the people were frozen.Of the remaining half, more than half either lost their arms or legs from the cold.

If the general is demoted, there will be no good people.It can be said that there is no fighting power at all.What else to fight?

The most miraculous thing is that the sun came out on the third day, my good guy, it was so hot that I couldn't wear cotton clothes, and it was completely frozen.People outside died, were injured, were injured, and were sick.People in the city don't need the defenders to come out. Any adult man who comes out can be one against ten.

When Xiao Yuanchen returned to the capital with 3000 troops, the battlefield in the capital was cleaned up.He doesn't have to do anything.It's all right.

The capital is fine, but the emperor is gone.Then you have to look for it.If the common people don't do it, they support Qihou, who lived and died with them, and don't recognize the last emperor.Then Qihou didn't dare to be the emperor.He sent someone to find the last emperor who had escaped halfway, and the last emperor returned to Beijing by himself, and gave up the throne to Qihou, and he himself became Qingpinghou.But the other royal families had all been guarded by Commander Chu and retreated into the mountains and forests, for fear that the new emperor would want to drive the former royal family to extinction.

Qihou really didn't.He became the emperor, and he became the emperor without knowing what was going on.He is also very respectful to Qing Pinghou, just like the Supreme Emperor.Not only did he not kill him, but he was also raised with good food and drink. Don't go out to make trouble, just be a mascot in peace.The two got along quite happily.Qing Ping Hou also added two more sons and daughters.

The Xiao's royal family is also not unkind to the Qingpinghou family.From generation to generation, the ladies of the Qingpinghou Mansion will marry into the royal family.Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that the royal family of the former dynasty was surnamed Ning.The Ning family has produced queens and concubines for generations.But they have no children.It has been passed down to Ning Xiao's father's generation, and the Ning family has been passed down from generation to generation, and they are still all dudes. Ning Xiao grew up with the late emperor and went to the station together. He is a material for war.After leaving Ning Xiao, the girls of the Ning family did not enter the palace again to be queens, not even concubines. When the current emperor was still a prince, she was made a side concubine.Those who had a prince at that time are not qualified to inherit the throne today.She became the side concubine of an ordinary prince, but gave birth to Xiao Yu.When the current emperor becomes the emperor, doesn't this show the specialness of Xiao Yu, the second prince.

"Then the royal family of the previous dynasty was so willing to stay in Chujiazhuang? Didn't want to make trouble? Especially after General Ning became the general of Zhenyuan? Also, is General Ning willing?" Chu Ran asked.

"It's been more than 100 years, so why not be reconciled? The former dynasty had to lose the support of the people and had to take the Zen position. There is no foundation for the people. According to the history books, how many successful rebellions in the peaceful and prosperous times? Not worth it , Aren’t the ordinary people the ones who are suffering? Ning Xiao is not that stupid, he would not risk the lives of his whole family to do stupid things. Those in the village must have thought about it, but they must have been stopped, otherwise That small seal will not be hidden. To put it bluntly, the royal family of the previous dynasty would be good if they survived, so why bother? Xiao Yuanchen is different from his good-natured father. What about childbirth? How come the Ning family has been a dude for generations? If you don't have a dude, you won't be able to live."

When Xiao Yu said this, Chu Ran thought about it too. The throne of the Xiao family looked like it was blessed by heaven, with a great fantasy color, and the royal family deliberately publicized it, making the common people feel that they were chosen by heaven. The real dragon emperor.She also stole the history books from the county magistrate's study and read them. The emperor has been passed down for five generations. There are really no outstanding emperors. I don't know.According to the official script, the character is quite good.But the world has always been very peaceful, there are very few rebellions, Guan Jian is, after so many years, the overall weather is still smooth, the people's life is getting better and better, so naturally they will not have thoughts of chaos.Coupled with a royal family chosen by heaven, it is extremely peaceful.

Under such circumstances, it is courting death to make trouble for the miserable descendants of the previous dynasty who have harmed the common people.In addition, there is a Qingping Hou Mansion as a cover, and the royal family treats your former royal family like this, so why bother?Kill no one to be pitiful.You have to scold them and they deserve it.