Piaoxianglou is a well-known good restaurant in Yuanhe Town, the dishes are exquisite and delicious, the wine and wine are even more unforgettable, and the children of the official eunuchs and hospitable squires are frequent visitors here. However, before Cai Hong came to Yunhe Town, Piaoxianglou was just an ordinary restaurant, no different from Wang Yueying's mother-in-law's Chen's restaurant, the only difference is that Piaoxianglou can be regarded as a century-old shop, although the pavilion is not dilapidated, but the furnishings in the store are old. An old shopkeeper, two lame cooks, and three running shop juniors, the whole restaurant is a depressed scene.

Cai Hong saw Piaoxianglou for the first time like this, and for some reason, he finally bought the restaurant from the original shopkeeper Bai Su, and asked Bai Su to be his bookkeeper, and the old Mr. Bai in front of Wang Yueying was the former boss of Piaoxianglou. After Cai Hong's careful management, the restaurant business has become more and more prosperous, and the old appearance has been renewed, so that there is today's situation. When Wang Yueying saw Cai Hong as a vegetable seller, she guessed that he was not an ordinary person, and finally decided to use the recipe to buy shares in Piaoxiang Building and become one of the owners.

As one of the owners, Wang Yueying would come to Piaoxianglou once a quarter to check the accounts, so Shopkeeper Cai thought she was here to check the accounts.

"There is Lao Cai's shopkeeper, and there is Mr. Lao Bai!" Wang Yueying took the account book handed over by Shopkeeper Cai and looked forward from the current page.

"Business has been good in recent months!" A middle-aged man's voice came from a distance outside the hall, and everyone saw that it was Cai Hong who came over.

"Yueniang, don't come to harm's way, is the lawsuit of the Yamen over last time?" Before Wang Yueying could greet him, Cai Hong first asked about the lawsuit that Chen Shouli sued her for stealing the recipe last time.

"Boss Xie Cai cares, the lawsuit of the recipe is clear to Wu County, and Chen Shouli didn't take advantage of it in the end." Wang Yueying did not forget to praise Wu Xianling at this time, it seems that Wang Yueying is still very grateful to him in her heart.

"Hahahaha, our county magistrate is indeed a discerning person. You didn't have much contact with him before, and you didn't know much about it, Wu County ordered Yuanhe to be an official for more than a few years, but he never embarrassed any poor people, but he would not let go of rich people, and it was common to secretly accept property. In this way, the people will not complain about him, the rich can get things done with some money, and he has his own silver to take, killing three birds with one stone! Qing officials naturally can't talk about it, and good officials don't have his share. Cai Hong's introduction gave Wang Yueying a new understanding of Wu County's order, it turned out that this old man was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

"Boss Cai, I have something to ask for on this trip, and I hope you will give me advice." Wang Yueying

Wang Yueying came out of the blacksmith shop in Wutong Lane, and wanted to come to Piaoxianglou to inquire about Cai Hong's opinion on her opening a cooking school and invite Master Tu to teach knife work at the school, which was originally only her only purpose, but after hearing the ridicule and discussion of those people before the enrollment notice with Miao Cuihua, how to solve the problem of recruiting the first batch of students in the new school became her top priority.

"Boss Cai, I passed by the sign outside the Jiming Teahouse on the way here just now......" Cai Hong heard Wang Yueying talk about the sign outside the teahouse, presumably to ask herself about the idea of opening a cooking school for her, so she continued her words and said: "I have heard about you opening the door to accept apprentices a few days ago. ”

"You already know about it?" Wang Yueying asked.

"It's not just that I know, you opened the door to accept apprentices and posted notices, but it's difficult to know in Yuanhe Town. Your way of recruiting apprentices is very special, and the notice writing is excellent, I'm afraid there are a lot of people who are apprentices! You've taught me another trick. Cai Hong said.

"The problem I encountered was the problem of admissions, and no one has come until now." Wang Yueying looked a little anxious, and she continued: "I thought that people were not difficult to recruit, but now it seems that it is very wrong. Don't people want to have a skill? Relying on farming cannot improve their living situation, and they all say that the people regard food as the sky, and eating is a big thing. In our time, many people spent money to sign up for this kind of skill that could not only feed their stomachs but also support their families, but why did no one come to learn when I ran a cooking school here? Wang Yueying was in a hurry and said something out of her mouth.

"Your time? Yueniang, you are young, how can you learn to sell old. When Cai Hong said this, Wang Yueying knew that there were some flaws in her words just now, and hurriedly explained embarrassedly: "Oh, oh, I mean I thought it was like this, I said it too quickly, I said it wrong, I said it wrong." ”

"Hahahaha, Yueniang, you always have some whimsical words, which make me unconscious. Do you remember the admissions requirements written on your notice? Cai Hong asked with a smile.

"Requirements? I don't ask for anything like that! It is nothing more than asking students to take care of their own room and board and pay one or two silver tuition. Wang Yueying recalled the contents of the admissions notice in confusion.

"That's the crux of the matter." Cai Hong looked at Wang Yueying with an expression that you haven't figured out yet.

"What's the crux of the matter?" Wang Yueying really didn't understand what was wrong with this, so she also looked at Cai Hong with an expression that I really didn't know.

"Oh, I see." Miao Cuihua, who was listening to the conversation between Cai Hong and Wang Yueying, heard something ugly, she turned around and explained to Wang Yueying: "Yueying, what do you think!" Most of the people who come here to learn to cook are from poor families, and a tael of silver may be a year's savings for them, so where are they willing to spend this money to learn to cook? Wang Yueying has been in China for more than a year, but her thinking is actually that of a 21st century person. Usually you can learn well on the surface, but when you go to a place where you work hard, it is the idea of the 21st century, which is of course different from the thinking of people of this era. Wang Yueying suddenly realized that her 21st century brain still failed to adapt to the reality of the people of Shangguo, she pondered for a moment, and said lightly: "I still don't think enough, I didn't think of this, but isn't it necessary to send some bacon or something like that?" Charging tuition fees should be reasonable, right? At most, I'll take less. ”

"Yes, there are naturally some apprenticeship rituals to learn art, but they are all prepared by the person who learns the art according to his own conditions. When I was apprenticed, I spent half of my savings to buy a purple clay pot as an apprenticeship, which really made me feel distressed for a long time. After speaking, Cai Hong laughed.

"Boss Cai also learned to cook?" Wang Yueying and Miao Cuihua were a little surprised when they heard him say this.

"Or else? Otherwise, I wouldn't have bought Piaoxiang Building. Cai Hong tasted Biluochun and said, "The tea is cold, Lao Cai, make me a new pot of tea." ”

Shopkeeper Cai should be in harmony and lead Mr. Bai and a group of small servants out of the hall.