Chapter 114: The long-spouted teapot
85_85563 Qingyunxuan's private room is always equipped with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the eldest aunt took a piece of paper from the bookcase, handed it to Xia Qingyun, and said with a smile: "Please write down the recipe for the eight treasure tea, and later bring chrysanthemums and wolfberries, and I will mix it out." โ
The eldest aunt is a careful person, who helped in her own pharmacy when she was young, and she is quick and meticulous in her work. Weighing the ingredients in the kitchen is her idea.
"The recipe is simple, but there is a trick to brewing Babao tea." After writing the recipe, Xia Qingyun said with a smile.
Walking to the bookcase, spread out a large piece of paper, everyone gathered around to watch, and with Xia Qingyun's sketch, a large teapot with a strange style slowly appeared on the paper.
"It's called a three-foot-long kettle, made of brass, with a โง spout, and a ยคnsโ โ om is three feet six long, but the spout is only one point. The boiling water flows through the long mouth, which naturally lowers the temperature, which is just right for making tea, and also adds to the pleasure of tasting tea. โ
After marking the size of each part of the long-spout pot, she put down her pen, "I don't know where to find a craftsman with good craftsmanship in the river, the key is that this spout must be long and thin enough, and the water outlet must not be wide." โ
Yao Xili thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid there is no place in Hejian, I asked people to go to the capital, there is a coppersmith in Beifang City, and even the utensils in the palace are handed over to him to do." โ
When the ink was dry, Yao Xili happily rolled up the drawings, handed them to the third aunt, and said, "You go home, let the housekeeper go to the capital, find the Xinglong Copperware Shop in Beifang City, and specify that Master Guo will build it, spend more silver, and the sooner the better!" โ
The third aunt and the eldest aunt left as companions, and Tian Zhenyu also pulled Xia Qingyun's father and asked him to go downstairs to listen to cross talk.
The private room suddenly fell silent. Xia Qingyun stood at the window and looked at the restaurant opposite, "Third uncle, how is the business of Tayun Mansion recently?" โ
"There are a lot of guests, but there are many individual guests, and there are few people at banquets."
It's no wonder that now who in Hejian County doesn't know that the backstage of Qingyunxuan is the two princes, and those officials and eunuchs naturally don't dare to go to Tayunlou to have dinner with great fanfare.
For the restaurants in the river, individual customers can only maintain food and clothing and really make a lot of money. It still depends on the banquet.
Aunt Nine prides herself on having the power of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Just relying on the relationship can attract a lot of favors, but I didn't expect to be suppressed by Qingyunxuan as soon as it opened, and since then, it has been sluggish, and it will never be beautiful again.
Huang who joined forces with her. It's even more hateful and itchy. Don't say anything about the loss of money and 10,000 taels of silver. also fell to Aunt Jiu and complained for a long time.
Aunt Jiu's face was gloomy, so she naturally didn't want to come to the restaurant often, anyway, it was the Huang family who paid the money. There's nothing to lose if you lose yourself. Huang returned to the capital, and both of them are now hands-off shopkeepers, neither of them can just ask about the business of the restaurant, and let them fend for themselves.
"In my opinion, they won't last a few months, they have run out of money, and they are waiting to close!" Yao Xili was somewhat gloating.
"If that's the case, then I'm going to take it down."
Yao Xili said with some surprise: "Let's open a restaurant too?" โ
"I see that it is close, and I plan to make a tea house, the first floor is arranged into an exhibition hall, and the upstairs sells tea and tea tables, and the wholesale and retail are also operated."
As he was talking, Hua Sedum pushed the door in, beckoned the guy to accept the refreshments on the table, and put on a new set of tea sets, while the three of them were tasting tea while discussing how Qingyunxuan would open a franchise store.
According to Xia Qingyun's plan, he will set up a fruit forest farm in the newly bought Zhuangzi, find some people with both ability and political integrity, and train them to be tea masters, luthiers, storytellers, etc., including men and cooks who will also be trained together, and when the franchise stores are opened, these people will be assigned to various stores.
In addition to personnel, Zhuangzi can also plant fruit trees, raise dairy cows, and make dried fruits and cheese, which are distributed to the franchisees along with tea.
She also mentioned that in addition to the VIP card, the teahouse can also make some regular customer cards to give frequent repeat customers a nine-percent discount.
In addition, some tea art performances, tea ware appreciation, poetry competitions and other programs can be held regularly to enrich the cultural connotation of the tea house.
Yao Xili and Hua Sedum listened and took notes, and from time to time proposed some suggestions, and when it was time for lunch, the three of them briefly used some snacks and chatted until it was dark, and said that they would go to see Zhuangzi together the next day, and then dispersed.
During this period, Xia Qingyun's father came up twice, and when he saw that they were discussing matters, he didn't bother, and left a message to go back to the other courtyard first, so that Xia Qingyun would go to live in the mansion in the county seat when he was late.
It's rare to be quiet alone, but Xia Qingyun has been talking all day, and his mind is chaotic, and he can't calm down, so he goes into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion to relax.
The strange thing is that Qingmei and the others, who she can usually see as soon as she comes in, have no shadow today, and even Xue'er and Black Star don't know where they have gone.
She didn't bother to look for it, so she went to the hot spring, soaked comfortably in the warm water, closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.
I have been in the capital for so many days, but I have not received a letter from Si Hongbowen, and sometimes I heard a few words from Si Hongrui, saying that the southwest is calm, and he has been ordered to go to the northwest. It can be seen that he did not have time to write letters, so why did he forget himself.
Thinking of this, there was a slight throbbing pain in a place in my heart. remembered the scene when he was in the southwest military camp, Si Hongbowen endured the pain and caught fireflies for her, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bend.
In a moment of thought, I fell asleep unconsciously.
"Sister Qingyun! Sister Qingyun! โ
Someone was shaking her shoulder, and in a haze, Cher's pretty face shook in front of her eyes.
"Cher?"
"Sister Qingyun, wake up! I have good news for you! Cher couldn't hide her excitement on her face.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Xia Qingyun came to his senses, sat up straight, grabbed the dripping water on the tips of his hair, and tilted his head to ask.
"Black Star and I have figured out a good idea, Qingmei and they don't have to wait another two years, maybe they can go outside the Treasure Pavilion with us now! Get up quickly and take them out to try. โ
In the past few days, Xue'er and Heixing told Qingmei about the prosperous scene in the capital, which made the nine people itch, but they can't come outside the treasure pavilion in human form yet.
Black Star had an idea, took off the gold collar he was wearing on his neck, and was with Xue'er, found a cave with a strong aura on Daqing Mountain, and took Qingmei and the others to the cave to cultivate.
The result made them overjoyed, and the magical effect of the gold collar allowed Qingmei and others to complete the key transformation ahead of schedule.
Xia Qingyun hurriedly changed into a new long dress, dried her hair, and came to Daqing Mountain with Xue'er.
"Sister Qingyun, take us out to try it?" Qingmei and the others surrounded her with smiles on their faces.
Xia Qingyun smiled and nodded, "Ready?" Walk! With a thought, everyone appeared in the bedroom of the house.
"Huh? How did you end up like this? Cher and Blackstar cried out in unison. (To be continued......).