The restaurant opened quietly, the business of a shop is good or bad, and the flow of people in front of the shop has a lot to do with it, there are not many shops around Huanxi Lane, because there are not many people, so when it opened, it did not attract too much attention.

Xi Yunzhi stood behind the counter to settle the accounts, the shop was filled with a fragrant umami, Zhang Yan's craftsmanship was indeed good, and he could maximize the fragrance of the dishes.

I saw Zhang Yan, who had removed his beard clean, walked out of the back kitchen, he was not tall, and his face hidden behind the beard was very ordinary, with a collapsed nose, small eyes, and thick lips.

"Hey, this chicken is almost ripe, what if no one comes to buy it?"

Xi Yunzhi's abacus crackled, and after she had calculated the account in hand, she looked up and said to Zhang Yan generously:

"If no one comes to buy it, I'll give it to you."

"......" Zhang Yan stared at Xi Yunzhi for a long time, then picked up the apron again, and was about to turn around and go back to the back kitchen, but when he saw Zhao Yi coming back, he gasped, picked up the teapot on the counter and drank it, Xi Yunzhi couldn't help but remind him when he saw him like this:

"Slow down."

After Zhao Yi drank enough, he waved his hand and said: "Now the matter of the imperial chef from Beijing coming to Luoyang Mansion is spreading, but I don't know, your news is not interesting, and I didn't mention our store in half a sentence." ”

Xi Yunzhi smiled slightly: "It's good to let it out, there are countless restaurants and restaurants in Luoyang City, even if you say our store, no one will know where it is." ”

Zhao Yi glanced at Zhang Yan, who had no beard, and looked at that ordinary face, only to feel a strong distrust flowing from top to bottom, Zhang Yan didn't give him a good face, and after glaring at him fiercely, he threw his apron and returned to the back kitchen.

In this way, the chicken that had been roasted for two days was not expected to come, but Han Feng was expected to come back.

Xi Yunzhi asked Cui Ya to pour a glass of water for Han Feng, who was sitting on the seat and directly holding a chicken to gnaw, it seemed that he was really hungry outside these days, and he didn't have time to rush back to restore his husband's life, so he rushed directly to Xi Yunzhi to beg for food.

Zhao Yi looked at his eating appearance with disgust next to him, if he hadn't asked him, he really didn't want to stand with this foodie.

"How is it, did you find the person you were looking for?"

Zhao Yi sat opposite Han Feng and asked anxiously.

Han Feng's mouth was full of chicken, he couldn't speak, he only made a few sounds, and it was an answer, Zhao Yi wanted to ask again, but saw that Han Feng simply grabbed the whole chicken in his hand, swallowed dates in his mouth, and after swallowing a few bites, he said to Xi Yunzhi:

"Madam, I have to go back and report to my grandfather quickly, this chicken...... It's so delicious. ”

"Oh, good. You slow down. ”

Xi Yunzhi walked out from behind the counter, watched Han Feng leave, and couldn't help but turn his head to Zhao Yi and ask, "Who did the husband ask Han Feng to find?" ”

Zhao Yi smiled mysteriously:

"Hey, a weirdo."

With that, he slipped back into the back kitchen, ready to see if there was anything to steal.

Zhang Yan's craftsmanship is simply beyond everyone's expectations, although there are no customers in the past few days, but he has successfully conquered everyone in the store, maybe he has not cooked seriously for many years, Zhang Yan's creative enthusiasm is unrestrained for a while, and he can often be seen in the back kitchen with the cheapest ingredients, making novel and delicious things.

"Eh, what's that, it tastes so good."

Zhao Yi followed Zhang Yan out of the back kitchen, and saw Zhang Yan wearing an apron, really looking like a chef, holding an old porcelain altar in his arms, sniffing and studying while walking.

I saw him come to Xi Yunzhi's counter and ask her:

"I saw this in the back kitchen, whose house?"

Xi Yunzhi glanced at it and said lightly: "Oh, it was given to me by Lao Liu, the former owner of this shop, probably because of the soup he made for me." ”

Zhang Yan stirred a few more times in the porcelain altar with a small spoon, and then said to Xi Yunzhi:

"In my experience, it's definitely a soup that's been brewed for more than 30 years."

Xi Yunzhi was stunned for a moment, put down the abacus and the account book he was writing, and looked at him puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

Zhang Yan saw that she didn't open her mind, and couldn't help but be anxious: "The diet is freshly made and eaten, but the soup is the essence, and it has been boiled for ten or twenty years and never stops the fire, so you can achieve a unique taste, what kind of friendship do you have with that old Liu, and he is willing to hand over the ancestral soup to you?" ”

"......" Xi Yunzhi was a little stunned when he heard this, and looked at Zhang Yan with big eyes for a long time without being able to speak: "Lao Liu just said, let me use this to cook ...... when I want to eat mutton in the future."

"Confused." Zhang Yan was furious: "If you really use this soup to cook a pot of mutton, it will be a violent thing and will be punished by heaven." ”

Zhao Yi and Xi Yunzhi were stunned: "It's not that serious." ”

Zhang Yan seemed to have encountered the most unacceptable thing in his life, and snorted indignantly: "Hmph, it's much more serious than this." A group of laymen who don't know what to do. ”

Zhao Yi was an anxious person, and he couldn't stand it the most, so he stepped forward and theorized: "If you have the ability, you can cook a pot and come out, what's the use of just talking." ”

“……”

Zhang Yan glared at him angrily, suddenly stomped his feet, and turned around into the back kitchen in a daze, Zhao Yi, who looked at him with a coquettish appearance, had goosebumps all over his body, and couldn't help but say something that made the audience laugh:

"Will it be ...... that came out of the palace? Eunuchs? ”

“……”

In the evening, Xi Yunzhi brought back two roast chickens from the store, cut them into pieces and put them on a plate, fried two or three vegetarian dishes, and after cooking a bowl of tofu soup, the family sat around to eat.

After the meal, Xi Yunzhi cut the fruit and sent it to the backyard and study as usual, and happened to see Han Feng and her husband discussing something, Han Feng suddenly knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty to Bu Tan:

"Master, I lost the man, you can punish me."

Bu Tan glanced at him expressionlessly, and without telling him to get up, he crossed Han Feng and greeted Xi Yunzhi.

Xi Yunzhi didn't know what was going on, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Bu Qin shook his head, and said to Han Feng without looking back: "You go down first, and then look for it tomorrow." ”

After Han Feng nodded solemnly, he bowed his head respectfully and went out.

Seeing him like that, Xi Yunzhi remembered what Zhao Yi said during the day, and there were some eyebrows in his heart: "The person that the husband asked Han Feng to find is gone?" ”

Bu Qin's dark eyes stared at Xi Yunzhi, not wanting to hide it from her, so he nodded and said, "Yes, I already knew the whereabouts of that person, but there was an accident." ”

Xi Yunzhi nodded, seeing that her husband was talking to the point, he didn't ask any more, pushed the fruit plate in front of him, and while the two were talking, they shared a plate of fruit, Xi Yunzhi was pulled by Bu Tan to sit on his lap and talk for a while, his ears and temples grinded for a while, and finally if he didn't say that there was still something to do in the kitchen, he couldn't say that Bu Qin wanted her on the spot.

Although Xi Yunzhi is ashamed, but also sweet in her heart, she was really lonely and afraid in the Xi family in the past, eating alone, living alone, and dealing with all kinds of eyes from Xi Mansion every day, as if there was a mountain on her body, which made her breathless, although the Bu family was not rich, but the relationship between the upper and lower levels was extremely harmonious, and her husband also hated herself from the beginning, to now gradually accept, this is already the best development process, she doesn't want her husband to give her glory and wealth, don't take care of it, as long as she can face him day and night, even if the life is harder, she is also willing.

On the eleventh day of the shop, Zhang Yan roasted ten chickens in the back kitchen early in the morning according to Xi Yunzhi's instructions, and as soon as the fragrance wafted out, someone came to the door, this was the first guest of the restaurant, I saw him looking around at the door of the store, snooping on something, Xi Yunzhi walked out of the counter, smiled at him, and asked:

"What is this guest officer doing?"

When the guest dressed as a small servant saw Xi Yunzhi walking out from behind the counter, he knew that she should be the shopkeeper, so he also entered the shop and said to her:

"The shopkeeper is polite, the lady in our building wants to eat chicken, and says that the fragrance is wafting out of your store, so she pointed out that I came to buy two and went back."

Zhang Yan was behind the curtain in the back kitchen, and when he heard this, he was overjoyed, after so many days, someone finally came to the door, if he wasn't afraid that Xi Yunzhi would annoy him, he really wanted to rush out and raise the price, so that people could know his ability.

However, Zhang Yan also knew in his heart that although Xi Yunzhi, a woman, looked soft and weak on the surface, docile like a sheep, she was also powerful on the inside, she would retreat when she should retreat, and she would never retreat half a step when she should advance.

"It's really unfortunate that the king in the north of the city held a wedding banquet and ordered eighty with us, saying that it was to entertain the guests from Beijing, and the chickens roasted from now on were sent to the king's house, and the ladies wanted to eat, so they had to change the day."

“……”

The guest walked out of the restaurant with a look of regret and helplessness.

Zhang Yan rushed out with a frying spoon, pointed at Xi Yunzhi and shouted:

"You have a sick brain, where did you come from, I waited for more than ten days, and finally came to a business, and you pushed it out, who did this business like you, and I didn't lose the door clearly, eh, I'm really angry!"

Xi Yunzhi was not angry, and glanced at him with a smile, Zhang Yan suddenly seemed to be choked by an invisible force, making him involuntarily swallow what he wanted to say more, in order to alleviate the embarrassment of being frightened by a little girl's eyes, he coughed lightly, touched his nose and said:

"That's it...... Lost. ”

Seeing that Xi Yunzhi didn't answer, just stared at him, Zhang Yan immediately felt a sense of powerlessness on cotton, took a deep breath, and said again:

"I, I'll go back and cook the mutton."

So he went back to the kitchen, not he shrugged, but was stared at by the woman with a smile, and he felt his scalp tingle, because he didn't know what she was thinking in her stomach, and the word "needle in the cotton" couldn't be more appropriate for that woman.

Xi Yunzhi saw that Zhang Yan had returned to the back kitchen and she had returned to the counter, of course she had her reasons for doing so.

If there are no rumors and gimmicks, who will think of you, being a person is different from cooking, being a low-key person to keep a peace, but if cooking is too low-key, it is easy to be obliterated in a small alley that no one cares about.

Just like Lao Liu, his mutton can be called a must, not greasy, and has an excellent taste, but everyone generally thinks that mutton is fat, and there is no good promotion platform accepted by the public, so Lao Liu's business is a failure.

After she took over, she couldn't repeat the path of Lao Liu's business failure.

No one can afford a chicken, and no one will bother because they can't eat a chicken, buy it today and eat it, don't want to eat it tomorrow, the seller can't get the initiative, and the business will be weak.

If she doesn't sell it today, it's to create a gimmick in the future, what people eat in their mouths is chicken, nothing special, it's easy to forget, but if she can make people eat all the gimmicks in their hearts, then she won't sell chickens in the future.