In the years of ancient traders

"Brother, what are you going to do? I'll help you!" Seeing Song Shu carrying a pot of beans to the backyard, Liu Niang hurriedly followed.

Since opening the hot pot restaurant, Song Shu seldom cooks by himself, and Liu Niang has not eaten good food made by brother for a long time.

"The popsicles at home are finished, go get the molds and make some more." Song Shu said.There is also a ice mirror in their home, in the small cellar outside the back kitchen, and there are some vegetables and grains in it.

Liu Niang quickly brought the molds, and Qi Lang also took two, and followed behind sister.

Song Shu had made salt water popsicles and milk popsicles before, and today happened to be a lot of beans, so he wanted to try soy milk again.There is a small hand-cranked mill in the kitchen of the house. This mill is small and cute, and Liu Niang likes it very much. She clamors to grind it herself, and Song Shu adds soaked beans for her.

After grinding, Liu Niang asked what happened to Jing Ma that night, "Brother, what happened to you that day? It was the first time I saw you so angry." In the past, when she was naughty and disobedient, Brother just smiled helplessly. But he was so angry with Song Anan, knowing that Brother Anan has always been diligent, Liu Niang really couldn't think of where he had offended brother.

"Brother Anan didn't know if you didn't come home at night, so I got angry." Song Shu said, repeating it again, teaching Liuniang and Qilang to tell their family members before going out to play. Ask someone to bring a message back.Liu Niang and Qi Lang obediently agreed.

Liu Niang thought of something funny again, and told Qilang about it, but Song Shu just stared at the black hole that added beans, and unconsciously lost his mind.

That day, he was worried at first, then scared, and even got angry at Song Anan.

But looking back now, I still don't know where Song Anan went at that time.He came back from the workshop, and he didn't meet him all the way. At that time, his horse was traveling from south to north, and the direction Song Anan came... seemed to be the north?

There is something good in the north that makes him linger.

Although there is no curfew in Hengzhou City, there are only a few Qin Lou Chu restaurants open at night.There are many wealthy households in the direction to the north, and there are indeed a few kilns, but Song Anan didn't have any makeup smell on his body that night, and he didn't look like he came out of Wenrou Township.

Apart from this, there are Xie Mansion and Shen Mansion in the north, these two families are close to each other, it seems that the Jiedushi Mansion is also in that direction.But these few places are not like Song Anan would go to, maybe he complained before going to bed that Shen Erlang doesn't sell gambling houses, so he asked someone to take it, right?

Song Shu shook his head, this idea is really ridiculous.

Speaking of the gambling house, he had to thank Xie Wan, if it wasn't for her, no one would be able to convince Shen Erlang.It's just that Shen Erlang hates him so much, how did Xie Wan persuade him?

After the soy milk was ground, Song Shu asked Liu Niang to bring firewood in to light the fire.Today the woman who cooked for them asked for leave to go home, so I had to do it myself.Song Shu is so old in the countryside, but he doesn't do much to make fires, and he is not as experienced as Liu Niang at the moment.

Cook the soymilk, skim off the floating powder, and filter out the bean dregs.Song Shu put a lot of icing sugar in it, covered it with gauze and hung it in the yard.

It can be cooled before going to bed, and it can be frozen in the cellar when it is poured, and it can be frozen solid the next morning.

"I'm going to Sister Xie Wan's place tomorrow, do you want to come together?" Song Shu asked Liu Niang, Shen Erlang's mindfulness reminded him, he is a single man of the right age, and others don't know whether he likes men or women, Be careful when meeting women.

"Okay." Liu Niang liked Xie Wan very much, and she agreed after hearing what Song Shu said, and then asked, "Brother, can this popsicle be made into any flavor? Can it be made into a hot pot flavor?"

Song Shu: "...I don't know, you can try it." It shouldn't taste good.

Liu Niang stroked her chin thoughtfully, and after a few seconds, she clenched her fist and tapped her palm: "I'll put a few slices of beef in the hot pot soup and try to freeze it. Brother, when shall we have hot pot?"

"..." This little girl is greedy for hot pot.

Speaking of hot pot, Song Shu thought of his place again.After cooking the soy milk, he called Yan Zhuo to his small study, and talked about the casino and shop that he had just bought.

When Yan Zhuo came, he brought a blueprint, and he already had some ideas.

"This land is very large and square, with the entrance of the gambling house in the middle, which can be used as a hot pot restaurant. We can rent out the shops on both sides, or use it as a paper mill and oil mill. It's just that there are wing rooms in the courtyard of the gambling house. I really don't know what to do. What did you use it for?" Yan Zhuo crackled his thoughts, he personally participated in the renovation of the hot pot restaurant in Datu County, and he knew everything about the hot pot restaurant. Complete.

To be honest, although the gambling house building is very good, it seems too big to be used as a hot pot restaurant.Each floor of this building has the size of the main hall and the east and west compartments of their store in Datu County. Even if there are many people in Hengzhou City, it is not necessary to have such a large storefront.

"Don't you think it's too big to use it all for a hot pot restaurant?" Just kidding, even modern hot pot restaurants don't have such a large three-storey one, and the area is enough to set up a large supermarket.

"Then what are you going to do?" Yan Zhuo asked.Except for the hot pot, Song Shu's industry didn't need such a large building. Could it be that he wanted to call Chu Ning over to cook other meals?But there are too many of these Hengzhou cities, and they can't make much money by doing it.

"Let's make this whole floor a hot pot restaurant, and then we will do the rest..." Song Shu already had some ideas, and since Yan Zhuo asked, he said them one by one.

Yan Zhuo is not interested in business, he only likes to draw blueprints and do calculations, but his eyes widen as he listens.

Can this be done?

He listened in disbelief, and his mouth, which was always able to ask many questions, stopped. He had never heard of Song Silang's idea, and he really didn't even know where to ask questions.

"...That's about it." Song Shu drew the last circle on the drawing, and the original content on it had been changed beyond recognition.

"This is really... unprecedented!" Yan Zhuo said.

Song Shu patiently dried the ink. Of course, this is not unprecedented. It is just that he has more than 1000 years of wisdom to learn from, which makes him stand out.

"Speaking of which, how did you get that stingy Yin Heng to buy 26 barrels of beer in one go?" Yan Zhuo said.

"Ah?" Song Shu didn't react for a while, and Yan Zhuo's topic jumped too fast.

"I heard from some familiar friends that Yin Heng, the eldest son of Jiedushi, went to your workshop and bought 26 barrels of beer in one go. Before I came back, several families in the city had received beer from Yin's family. , it is rare for Mr. Yin to be so generous." Yan Zhuo said.

"Why, he's stingy?" Song Shu asked. It didn't look like it. Those subordinates who followed him today obviously believed in him. How could the boss be stingy.

"It's not by nature, it's just that the seven states of Yicheng collect less taxes, but spend a lot of items. The Jiedushi's mansion is very frugal." Yan Zhuo said, "So suddenly every family in Yinheng A bucket of beer was given away, and several dandies with high-sighted eyes were flattered and treated him a lot more politely."

It is surprising that a person who is very stingy suddenly gives gifts, but it will not be able to move anyone. It seems that what the young master of the Yin family did has won the hearts of these young masters, so they suddenly received it. Be moved when you give a gift.

"... Aye once said that Yin Rong is just a reckless man who knows how to fight. The only advantage is that he has a big heart. His sons are the favored ones of heaven." Yan Zhuo said.Although he has been away from home for many days, after all, he grew up in this circle, and he still knows a lot of information that Song Shu can't get in touch with.

"A few of his sons are excellent?" How about Yin Heng and Song Shu, he has seen a few things, but he hasn't heard much about the other two, "I seem to have heard that his youngest son is very good at fighting."

"It's more than powerful!" Yan Zhuo seemed to have thought of something, and trembled, "Although I haven't seen it, I heard people say that he led the soldiers on the day Cangzhou broke the city. Thousands of arrows were fired from the city gate. However, his movement was as fast as a ghost, he went up against the arrow, and chopped down the Cangzhou Zhou Mu who was guarding the city with a single blow."

"It's great, but it also hurts the people of Cangzhou." The city gate was broken, and the people in the city would inevitably suffer a catastrophe.

"Who said that?" Yan Zhuo looked at Song Shu with surprised eyes, "After the city was broken, the people celebrated for seven days and seven nights, and almost put the statue of the little general in the temple to worship. It turns out that Cangzhou's shepherds have nothing to do with it." Fuck, every day there are wine pools and meat forests, fish and meat people, we aristocratic families have suffered a lot from him, let alone ordinary people, he is a master who doesn't want half a cent of face, just wants to live and die.

"After the little general entered the city, he only cleared out a few corrupt officials, which did not affect the daily life of the people at all. And because of his quick victory, the soldiers guarding the city had few casualties, and everyone was eager to surrender quickly. Myself When people beat their own people, what is there to do?"

Yan Zhuo curled his lips. Since the Tianxi Rebellion broke out, there have been many chaotic wars in the country. Except for a few foreigners who fished in troubled waters, most of them were people from the country interacting with each other. They neither defended the family nor defended the country. This war was very meaningless.

"So that's how it is." Song Shu couldn't recover for a while, he heard Yang Jian say something about the Yin family, in his mouth, it was the Yin family's sooner or later pills, but he didn't expect Yan Zhuo to think highly of them.

However, it is also understandable that Yan's family is located in Cangzhou, in Yicheng territory, while Yang's family is in Guanzhong, and Yang Jian's uncle is still the prime minister of the court. The situation is different, and naturally the views are different.

"And you know, Yin Bin became famous in the battle of Cangzhou, and he was not yet 11 years old at the time." Yan Zhuo said, "The youngest son of the Yin family is definitely a monster! A monster!"

"Sleep." The door popped open suddenly, and Song Anan stood outside the door, staring at Yan Zhuo, almost writing on his face that I hate you very much.

The small study where Song Shu and Yan Zhuo talked was connected to the bedroom, and the sound insulation was not good. Song Anan had washed up and lay down a long time ago, and the conversation in the small study could be heard clearly.At first, when Yan Zhuo talked about the Cangzhou battle, he was quite happy, but later... Song Anan hated this man from the Yan family in Cangzhou even more!

"It's getting late, the soy milk is probably cold, I'm going to get popsicles." Song Shu knew that Song Anan didn't like Yan Zhuo, and whenever they chatted late, Song Anan's face would be ugly.

Seeing him pull his face down now, he subconsciously wants to slip away.

However, Yan Zhuo slipped away the blueprint first, but Song Shu was held back by Anan.

"It's done." Song Anan said, before returning to the room, he poured Song Shu's soybean milk into a mold and froze it, "Sleep."

Song Shu: "..."

Just sleep when you sleep, why are you so serious, you will have nightmares.

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