Great Imperial Merchant

Today's soup is the main dish that Yang Zhongyuan took the longest to prepare. In the morning, Yang Zhongyuan saw that there were still ducks in the cart of the chicken delivery vendor, so he bought an extra one and prepared it for soup at noon.

Ducks are cold in nature and can be eaten in summer and autumn.But if stewed duck soup, it is best to choose the old duck of more than three years, the coldness will be smaller, and it can also clear away heat and fire.

The one Yang Zhongyuan was looking at happened to be the beginning of the new year, and it looked big enough to feed the whole family.

To stew sauced radish and old duck soup, first chop the washed old duck into inch pieces, blanch in boiling water to remove the blood, then boil the water in the pot, add the blanched duck pieces, sliced ​​ginger, green onion and cooking wine .

The last step is to put the cleaned pickled radish into the pot and cook together.

Usually it takes two minutes to get out of the pot, but if you want the soup to be rich, you can cook it for a few minutes longer. The stewed duck is not only soft and rotten, but also has a distinctive taste of pickled radish.

Yang Zhongyuan simmered this soup for half an hour today, so when he walked into the yard with the casserole, Xia Junran could smell the strong smell of duck soup from afar.

Although the dishes are simple, Yang Zhongyuan's cooking is very generous, and his craftsmanship is really good. Even the home-cooked dishes of four dishes and one soup are so delicious.

The two simplest cold dishes are very particular about the plate arrangement. The cold eggplant is carefully plated by Yang Zhongyuan into a hill shape, and there are red pepper shreds hovering on the top of the hill, which is very reasonable.The cold tomato was arranged as a bright red flower on the plate by him, which looked very beautiful.

The two hot dishes were not so meticulously arranged, but the aroma always wafted out, making Xia Junran sniff all the time, and sighed: "Zhongyuan's cooking skills are not even comparable to many chefs. "

Yang Zhongyuan sat next to him, first ordered Cheng Weizhe to serve the meal, and then said: "Brother Xia is absurd, today is in a hurry, and the family has not prepared wine for reception, why don't I go to Shengji to buy a jug and drink it when I come back?"

Hearing the word wine, Xia Junran patted his stomach involuntarily, with a troubled expression on his face: "No, no, I'm still busy in the afternoon, next time when you and Xiao Cheng go to Quzhou, let's not get drunk and return. At Brother Xia's house, there are plenty of good wines."

Yang Zhongyuan thought about it, so he nodded, and went to make another pot of Ronghua, which was regarded as tea instead of wine.

Cheng Weizhe was also very fast, and happened to bring four bowls of Yujing rice to the table. He learned from Yang Zhongyuan that even the rice was served in a small bowl, and then turned upside down in a large bowl, which looked round and dotted with The red and white color looks very cute.

"Oh, your family is quite particular about eating." Xia Junran was not polite, and after drinking a cup of tea with each other, he picked up the chopsticks and started cooking the fried pork.

Yang Zhongyuan also used fermented soybeans in the fried pork belly. The thin slices of pork belly are spicy and fragrant with fermented soybeans, paired with slightly sweet carrots, it goes very well with rice.

It is really enjoyable to eat a bite of meat and stuff it with fragrant rice.

Yang Zhongyuan put a bowl of soup for him and put it on hand, and said with a smile: "Everyone needs three meals a day. We work so hard all day, so of course we want to eat something good."

Cheng Weizhe chimed in from the side: "That's right, our Xiaoyuan is very particular about what to eat. When we're not busy in the future, let's prepare a table of special dishes for Brother Xia to taste. It will be a bliss in the world."

Xia Junran was amused by his description, almost spit out a mouthful of food, and almost laughed out loud.

Yang Zhongyuan twisted Cheng Weizhe's waist, and then pushed the soup bowl in front of Xia Junran: "Brother Xia, don't listen to his nonsense, hurry up and drink some soup."

The pickled radish itself is pickled, and it needs to be rinsed repeatedly before eating, so that it will not be so salty, and soy sauce is added when pickling, so even though there is no other seasoning in the soup except cooking wine, it tastes delicious. Very rich.

Because the stewing time is very long, the color of the soup is also a slightly lighter soy sauce color, and there are dots of oil on the surface of the soup, which are the duck itself.

After taking a sip of the hot soup, the aroma of the duck exploded in his mouth. Xia Junran took another sip, and then said: "This soup is so good, it tastes so fresh."

Yang Zhongyuan changed his chopsticks and picked several pieces of duck meat for him: "Try the meat too, it should be very soft after stewing for a long time."

Xia Junran looked at the three dishes next to him that hadn't touched his chopsticks, and felt that this was the right one.

It took half an hour to enjoy a meal, and when it was all over, Xia Junran patted his stuffed stomach, sighed and said, "I haven't eaten like this for a long time, I can't tell Shang Ze later, Otherwise he will miss me again."

Yang Zhongyuan refilled another pot of tea, served melon seeds and apples, and said with a smile, "Brother Xia, you two have such a good relationship."

Xia Junran also had a smile on his face, he just said: "We have known each other since we were young, so our relationship is naturally very good."

After he finished speaking, he paused and said, "You will be the same as us. But he is obviously younger than me, but he always likes to keep a cold face. Those in charge of our family are afraid of him. If you're going to die, you've never seen me so afraid of me."

"Talk about me again?" A somewhat cold voice came from the shop, Yang Zhongyuan and Xia Junran looked up, and saw Cheng Weizhe coming in facing Shang Ze.

"No, I'm complimenting you, really." Xia Junran waved at him and told him to sit beside her.

Shang Ze's usual indifferent face softened the moment he saw him. He sat next to Xia Junran and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

Xia Junran nodded, and said with a smile: "Zhongyuan's craftsmanship is excellent, so I naturally eat very well. You didn't drink too much, did you?"

Shang Ze shook his head: "Their wines are not as strong as ours. It's okay, so I just drank a glass."

After he finished speaking, he stood up again and gave a simple salute to Yang Zhongyuan's family of three, saying, "Thank you for the reception at noon, Shang Ze thank you here."

Yang Zhongyuan quickly waved his hands: "We haven't prepared anything, but Brother Xia doesn't mind."

Cheng Weizhe helped Zhou Quanxu bring new tea and refreshments, and said: "Brother Shang, you are welcome, tea and refreshments are the signatures of my shop, you two can try them."

At this moment, the breeze is warm, and the few of them are full of wine and food, sitting in the courtyard together, chatting and drinking tea, which is very elegant.

Zhou Quanxu only sat for a while and then went back to the room for an afternoon nap. After he left, the remaining four young people became more relaxed and spoke more and more freely.

Friends always get deeper when they get along with each other. Although the four of them just met each other and have different temperaments, they were able to chat together by accident.

Making friends is also about fate.

Although Shang Ze seldom talked, he was able to get to the point every time. After everyone chatted, he asked seriously: "Do you want to leave here?"

Cheng Weizhe and Yang Zhongyuan looked at each other, nodded in unison and said: "Yes."

Shang Ze said lightly: "Where do you want to go? What are you doing?"

Cheng Weizhe thought for a while, and then said: "Xiao Yuan and I mostly cook food, he is really good at handling spoons, and I also want to continue making tea, so no matter where we go, it's probably nothing more than opening Restaurant, the kind where you can eat and drink tea.”

This is what they have thought about for a long time.

Since two people will become a family in the future, it might as well open a shop.

Once they leave here, what they want to open is definitely not this kind of small shop on the street.Daliang has been prosperous for a hundred years, and the commercial streets all over the place are quite lively and prosperous. It is indeed difficult to get a piece of the pie, but since you want to make a lot of money, you must first have to be bitter before sweet.

They wanted to open the restaurant first, and Yang Zhongyuan opened up the market with top-notch craftsmanship. At the same time, Cheng Weizhe searched for a good tea garden and tried to make his own tea brand.

Just like the little Ronghua of the Han family reunited with the dragon and phoenix back then, only when you have your own signature can you become an existence that surpasses others.The Xia family is the best example.

For so many years, the Xia family has launched countless wine products, but Zui Qingcheng is still a big word of mouth for their family.Although the Zui Qingcheng sold outside is not the imperial offering, the mellow taste still makes drinkers flock to it. As long as you pass by Xia's wine shop, you must buy a jar to taste it.

In the face of absolute good things, no matter how high the price is, it is worth it.

This is the signature and strength.

Yang Zhongyuan and Cheng Weizhe want to start from scratch and reach the sky in one step. What they have to do is to start from scratch, slowly accumulate the foundation with their own efforts and sweat, and build a solid reputation before they can launch their own signs.

It is easy to make small money, but difficult to make big money.

Probably because the eyes of Cheng Weizhe and Yang Zhongyuan were too firm and fiery, Xia Junran even felt his heart warm up, and he couldn't help saying: "Go to Quzhou, that's the most prosperous place in Daliang."

The most noble place in Daliang is the Imperial Capital, but the most prosperous and rich place is Quzhou.

As the intersection of four counties including Huaian, Lingxi, Liangchuan, and Weishui, Quzhou has been the only way for merchants to go from south to north to east to west since ancient times. Much more.

Quzhou Prefecture is slightly to the north, very close to Liangchuan. The annual New Summer Festival lasts throughout August. During this month, new products such as rice, cloth, porcelain, spices, tea, etc. are gathered from all over the country. After coming, the merchants returned home one after another after purchasing goods from each other.Year after year, Quzhou has become the well-deserved hometown of the richest man in the entire Southland.

Want to start a business and become a big businessman?Then Quzhou is the best choice.

There are the most opportunities and the harshest environment here, it depends on whether you dare to break through.

Cheng Weizhe and Yang Zhongyuan originally wanted to go to Quzhou very much, but now that they heard Xia Junran say this, they couldn't help asking: "Brother Xia is open-minded, aren't you afraid that we will take your business route in the past?"

Xia Junran laughed out loud after hearing this, and said after a long time, "What am I afraid of? First, you don't make wine, and second, you don't make a fortune at all. You have nothing to do with my Xia family."

He paused, then raised his head suddenly, and said calmly: "Even if you really make wine, you have to see if you have the ability. If you want to say that the best wine merchant in the world, there is no one other than my Xia family."

As the largest wine merchant in Daliang, the head of the Xia family certainly has such confidence and courage.

Even Shang Ze added: "Xia's wine is the best in Daliang."