From the beginning of its opening until the beginning of March, business at the Kyosato confectionery shop continued to be booming. Anyone above the middle family who has never eaten Linglongxuan's sweets is simply outdated to the extreme, and loving sweets is the nature of human genes. The food color is also good, and the food is still in front of the color, which shows the charm of food. Although the things are sold a little more expensive, they are really delicious, the appearance is noble and exquisite, and the environment is also elegant.

In the face of the booming business, although Yin Susu has no plans to open a branch for the time being, he has opened a take-out window and a delivery business, which has made the store's turnover not fall. And soon ushered in the peak consumption season in March, the upcoming Shangsi Festival is a festival for the whole city to enjoy the spring carnival, and the peach blossom banquet hosted by the royal princess is also to make the upper-class ladies and sons ready to move.

The current situation is that the third prince's concubine has passed away and needs to be remarried, and there are vacancies in the positions of the side concubines of several older princes, and the sixth prince, the seventh prince, and the eighth prince have all reached marriageable age and have not yet married. There are also many sons of other big families of appropriate age, and there are good things that people have calculated, and there are almost a dozen heirs to the princes and nobles who need to marry in the past two years. For some young ladies with low status, maybe they will perform well at the peach blossom banquet, and they may fly on the branches to be phoenixes. What woman isn't impressed?

At this time, Lin Yu's restaurant is finally about to officially open. Although the current atmosphere is quite open, it is not modern after all, and there are not a few women doing business, but there are not many who show up and are busy with themselves. Lin Yu knows the price of provoking secular rules, and he is not a long-sleeved dancer, so he has no opinion and is handled by Manager Chen.

A wine tasting was held on the first day of the restaurant's opening. If you spend more than 10 taels of silver, you can have one person participate in a prize wine tasting activity, and you can also participate in a round if you spend more than 10 taels. There are three rounds, the first round is to give each participant a guess of the type of wine, and the second round is to guess the origin. The third round is a tasting event, where the oldest wines are selected. The winner of the first round will receive a voucher of two taels of silver, and a small pot of wine will be given on the spot. In the second round, it was ten taels of silver and a jar of old wine. The winners of the third round were a reward of 100 taels of silver and a jar of Bailu jade liquor, a precious liquor made from imitation of the imperial wine of the previous dynasty.

In ancient times, there were not many men who did not like the contents of the cup, especially those who had the financial ability to go to the restaurant to consume. At the very least, there are many more people who are interested in cherry blossom viewing, writing poems and lyrics, so this wine tasting is very popular. Many people just came in just because they watched this publicity, and the host that Manager Chen was looking for was definitely a gold medal host. A wine tasting party made him host sometimes interesting and suspenseful, attracting everyone's attention. It wasn't just the men who participated. There was even a young girl and an aunt's wife who participated and advanced to the third round very strongly.

Lin Yu was also very interested, to be honest, if he wasn't really good at drinking, he really wanted to try it. However, the wine tasting competition is still quite difficult. Forty or fifty people participated, and 10 made it to the second round. In fact, they are all wine connoisseurs with real skills. But even in this way, there were only four people who entered the third round, one aunt and one girl, a middle-aged man who looked like a businessman and an old man who was richly dressed.

"Who will win the grand prize, the answer will be revealed." The gold medal host incited everyone's emotions and said, "In the next round, the four wine masters need to guess three of the four wines correctly at the same time to take home the grand prize." ”

A row of four beautiful girls came to the four candidates with a tray with four small glasses of wine, and then saluted and placed the wine on the table in front of the candidates.

Lin Yu, like everyone, stared at the four of them tightly, and he didn't know which one of them could take the most reward. Among the four glasses of wine is one fruit wine and one medicinal wine. A glass of rice wine, a glass of white wine, those who want to win the jackpot need to guess the origin and type at the same time.

The four of them are all cultural people, and after slowly tasting the wine, they picked up the paper and pen on the table and began to write the answers, and then they saw the difference between them. The young girl finished drinking four glasses of wine, brushing and writing a few times. The middle-aged businessman was in a difficult position. It seems that the answer is not so certain. The old man closed his eyes and tasted slowly, and then wrote slowly, the aunt seemed to be the most professional one, observed the color, asked about the taste, slowly drank a glass of wine and hesitated to write an item, and then drank the white water to taste it again.

Even Lin Yu, an outsider, seems to have a bigger chance of winning, in fact, there is no dark horse, and the fat aunt did win. The host asked the aunt to give her acceptance speech very ingeniously, and the aunt was not hypocritical and smiled.

"My mother's family is a winemaker, and at the age of sixteen I married into my husband's family, who sells wine. Whoever has been soaking in wine for forty years can guess accurately. ”

"Madame is a master taster." The host is not just a compliment, but really admires this lady.

Madame smiled and took the prize, "The master can't be called, but if you want to buy wine, you can go to the Cui family in Jincheng, my husband's family has been selling wine for decades, and it has always been a child." ”

Lin Yu heard a person at the next table sigh, "It turned out to be Mrs. Ai of the Cui family, no wonder she is so powerful." ”

"The Cui family, who started by selling jasper wine? Now many wineries in the north rely on the Cui family for supply. His companion sighed as well.

It turns out that this lady still has a lot of background, Lin Yu pondered, the wine she was currently buying from the Beijing Wine Factory, it was more ordinary, and today's prize was still obtained by Steward Chen from Yin Susu's friend.

"In the future, we will hold wine tastings from time to time." Steward Chen announced while everyone was interested. "I hope you will take care of our restaurant's business."

Although it costs a lot to watch the wine tasting, it is basically the wool that comes out of the sheep, and it takes ten taels of silver to have a chance to participate, and there are very few people who can win. You must know that the price of Lin Yu's food is not as cheap as that provided by Chang Luo, and it is the same price as other high-end restaurants, but the taste is much better. Forty or fifty people participated in the wine tasting today, and the consumption was at least four or five thousand, except for the cost of holding the wine tasting five hundred taels, and the net profit was almost one thousand taels, although it could not be compared with the desserts sold by Linglong Xuan, but it was already very powerful.

However, the food sold by Lin Yu is novel and delicious, and although the theme room costs extra money, it is very attractive, and it is also very face-saving to invite people to dinner.

Therefore, although the business of the restaurant on the first and second days was not particularly hot, from the third day, the business of Lin Yu Restaurant obviously began to boom. After January, the whole city will know that there is such a restaurant with a novel and chic private room and delicious food, but this is all for later. The former shopkeeper of the restaurant opened by Zhang Wan'er on the opposite side was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, and the original business was a failure.

It's not that the current shopkeeper didn't want to ask Zhang Wan'er for help, but it's a pity that Zhang Wan'er is still taking care of herself these days. Although Lu Pingzhi later bowed his head and coaxed her to turn around, he didn't let her take care of the house for the time being, but invited Mrs. Lin from the other courtyard again. The last time it was calculated that Mrs. Lin went to Yin Susu's celebration banquet to make a big fuss, Zhang Wan'er had already offended Mrs. Lin deeply.

Therefore, this time, Mrs. Lin does not plan to get along with Zhang Wan'er as well as last time, and work hard to teach Zhang Wan'er to become a qualified Mrs. Zhenyuan. Mrs. Lin is a person who has been in the house for decades, and she has done everything quietly to put on small shoes for Zhang Wan'er. Zhang Wan'er realized that Mrs. Lin was still merciful to her before. But although she knew in her heart that it was Mrs. Lin's revenge, she couldn't find Mrs. Lin's fault, and she couldn't even sue Lu Pingzhi.

"Wan'er, I think what my mother said is very right, the most important thing for you at the moment is to give birth to a few smart and clever children for me."

Lu Pingzhi didn't seem to be soft-hearted in the face of his wife's crying. But he does need children, he is twenty-five years old this year, but except for Aunt Zihong's early death of a daughter, he has no children. If it weren't for him and Mrs. Lin both believing that Mrs. Yin couldn't have children, they wouldn't have been so neatly separated.

Of course, he didn't know that the child was not his at all. Yin Susu didn't know why she hid this secret in her heart, and Aunt Zihong would not have destroyed the Great Wall at that time.

Everyone has troubles, and Lin Yu is also troubled when he looks at the invitation in his hand. Since last time, Lin Yu has also received invitations from some young ladies and ladies she knows but is not very familiar with, and she has also participated in some social activities appropriately and made a few friends in general. But at the moment, this letter can't be handled so casually, this is the peach blossom banquet hosted by the royal princess, that is, the one called flower appreciation, which is actually the largest blind date banquet once a year in high society.

"I didn't expect to see the invitation to the Peach Blossom Banquet with my own eyes." Qingqing took it in her hand and flipped through it and saw it, "However, you shouldn't have received an invitation to this banquet anyway." Not to mention the section between you and the Marquis of Zhenyuan, even if you are not able to participate in it. ”

Lin Yu also remembered very well that the eldest grandson Ling Rong, who was hostile to him, was the daughter of a third-grade official, and because he had participated in a peach blossom banquet, he was very proud in front of the daughters of other third- and fourth-grade officials. What does this mean? The daughters of ordinary third- and fourth-grade officials are afraid that they will not be able to receive invitations to the peach blossom banquet, and they must also need the support of the big family.

"It can't be the wrong delivery, right?" Lin Yu looked at the invitation in his hand a little uncertainly, "But it seems that such a mistake should not be made, and the name is not wrong." ”

"Why don't you go and ask Mrs. Yin? She is noble, well-informed, and has some connections with the palace. You must know that the invitation to this peach blossom banquet was sent directly from the palace. Qingqing thought for a moment.

"If it really doesn't work, just go and say hello." Lin Yu looked at the invitation, the time was March 15, and Yin Susu didn't think that he would be as busy as he was now. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )