Chapter 7 Gastronomy
In addition to paying attention to the establishment of the oil mill, Chen Wenhui also used the ingredients in his hand to teach Yinhong a way to cook every day. In addition to fried chicken fillet, there are croquettes, Dongpo elbows, West Lake vinegar fish, tamales, pancakes, back to the pot meat, kung pao chicken, fried shrimp balls, stir-fried eel slices and so on. These delicious delicacies made Chen Yuanheng and Bai Shi breathtaking, and the most excited was Chen Wenlin, who rushed to his mother's room like a rocket after learning to taste his sister's newly invented dishes. Although Chen Wenjun is young and old, he can't resist the temptation of food, curiosity and deliciousness, which also makes him and his younger brother run to his mother's room every day. These days, the Bai family room is surprisingly lively, and the Chen family gathers for delicious food, tastes together, and laughs together. Chen Wenhui likes this life very much. With the increase in the number of dishes, Bai saw a huge business opportunity in it.
Chen Wenhui won the first battle, and she was also very excited, and she was busy discussing with her mother, now that she has soybean oil, can she open a restaurant by herself, and put the dishes she recently taught Yinhong to cook in the restaurant, it must be a good business. As soon as Bai heard it, he was in the right mood, in fact, Bai had this idea when he ate it for the first time. You must know that the big families in Beijing have opened restaurants, and restaurants are the most profitable and fastest. In Anseong, there are many rich people, but the food is not as good as in the capital. Now Chen Wenhui's dishes can compare with those in the capital, let alone Ancheng. Besides, in Ancheng, her husband is the first governor and the emperor of the soil, so he is not afraid of those who find fault, and he is not afraid of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, if he does not do the restaurant business, he will really lose money. At this time, as soon as her daughter brought it up, Bai felt that her daughter was even more intimate, and she must be the reincarnation of the God of Wealth. At the moment, regardless of her daughter's age, she discussed with her daughter about opening a restaurant.
Chen Wenhui was originally worried that her early wisdom would cause worry and panic in her family, but now she sees that the Bai family dotes on herself so much and obeys her words. Besides, Chen Wenhui is just giving advice in the inner house, and it is his father Chen Yuanheng who goes out to do errands. Chen Yuanheng is good at general affairs, and he is also the county magistrate, and he relies on the big tree of the Chen family behind him. Chen Wenhui thought about this qiē, and once again sighed that it was good to have privileges in ancient times. In this way, she reassured her plan and said: "Mother, let Daddy first buy a restaurant in the central and prosperous area of Anseong, if there is a ready-made one, it is the best, if not, you can buy a plot of land to build one." At the same time, the mother has to find a good buddy and shopkeeper first, and the chef has to let Yin Hong come, and also give Yin Hong a few hands, preferably her own people, so that Yin Hong can rest assured to teach cooking skills, and when she is stable, she can go back to me to serve, wouldn't it be good? Bai happily hugged Wen Hui and kissed her.
In the evening, Chen Yuanheng came to the backyard, and the Bai family told the plan. Chen Yuanheng also agreed. Immediately instructed the housekeeper Chen Cai to call someone to buy someone, and at the same time let Chen Cai let out a rumor that the county was going to buy a restaurant. For a time, the wealthy families of Anseong rushed to offer ideas. Wang Yihe was the first to get the news and immediately submitted a prayer post to meet Chen Yuanheng. Chen Yuanheng was joking with his wife and daughter when he received the post, and after reading the post, he said to them: "This Wang Yihe is obedient, he has a good business vision, a big belly, and a long-term vision, and he can get things done." Chen Wenhui and Bai thought so. Chen Yuanheng immediately changed his clothes and went out to see Wang Yihe.
Bai Shi said to Chen Wenhui: "Hui'er, this Wang Yihe is a person who can intersect. If we want to develop in Ancheng, we must use such local squires, although our Chen family is one of the best families in the Great Chu Dynasty, but the strong dragon can't suppress the local snake, and we must make friends with the local squires in Ancheng. Although the Wang family is a big local family, I don't know how many rich people are in the Great Chu Dynasty, these people are not covered by people in the official face, and the existing wealth is empty, maybe it will fall one day, and it can only develop locally, and it can't become an atmosphere. So he made friends with your father again and again, not because your father was the county master, but to climb the big tree of the Chen family. But we know ourselves, because your father and I are both concubines, and we are not valued in the family, and if we want to be valued in the family, we must first have money and second, we must have power. Now your father's future depends on the people of the capital, which requires a lot of money, so your father and I racked our brains to think of ways to make money, just to earn a good identity for you and your two brothers in our family. Chen Wenhui was very moved after hearing this, and immediately took Bai's hand and said, "Mother, I will definitely help you and your father achieve their wishes, and we will definitely be able to return to our hometown." Bai was touched by her daughter's intimacy and filial piety, and did not expect that her daughter would really help them achieve their wishes in the future.
Chen Yuanheng did not accept the restaurant presented by Wang Yihe, because the scale of the restaurant was too small and the location was not very good. Anseong is a prosperous place for business, and there are still many discerning businessmen. With the help of a group of local squires, Chen Yuanheng finally bought a restaurant with a good location and a good building. This restaurant is three floors high, which is very beautiful and the place is also big. There is also a large courtyard behind the restaurant, surrounded by curved water, which is very beautiful. It took 10,000 taels of silver to buy this restaurant. In fact, the actual value of this restaurant should be around 123,000, but who made Chen Yuanheng the county. This 10,000 taels is not Chen Yuanheng's money, and at the moment, the Chen family does not have such a big family foundation. This money was lent to Chen Yuanheng by Wang Yihe's bank, and the interest rate was very low, only symbolic.
Under the leadership of her parents, Chen Wenhui and her brothers looked at the restaurant together, and when they came back, they drew a simple picture for Chen Yuanheng and Bai. Chen Wenhui kept the first floor of the restaurant unchanged, with a private seat on the second floor and a private room on the third floor. In the yard, build a few private rooms around the water. Chen Wenhui's creativity made Chen Yuanheng and Bai's eyes shine. Chen Wenhui also proposed that the private rooms and courtyard rooms should be finely decorated and use high-quality furniture. Each private room and private room must have a dedicated attendant. In the yard, there are also rocks to build mountains and plant some flowers and trees. Chen Wenhui referred to the Suzhou gardens she had seen before, and picked a few samples to explain to Chen Yuanheng. Because Chen Yuanheng is a child of everyone, he walks outside all the year round, and he has seen a lot of gardens, so he understood when he heard it, praised Chen Wenhui, and hurriedly went to the front yard to discuss with the staff.
After discussing with the staff, Chen Yuanheng felt that it was very feasible, so he invited craftsmen, borrowed 5,000 taels of silver from the Wang family, and started construction. The Bai family and Chen Wenhui are not idle here. Bai asked Qingshuang to prepare a few gifts, and sent a post to the Wang family, asking Mrs. Wang to bring the children to tea.
Mrs. Wang came and brought Wang Yaozhen, the second lady of the queen's family, who she had produced. Mrs. Wang has the gentle and handsome appearance unique to Jiangnan women, although she is over thirty years old, she can still see the beauty of her youth. Because he was a guest, he wore a gold-sleeved robe all over the place, which was already gorgeous, and he had to wear a pomegranate red horse-faced skirt, and his head was full of red gold jewelry. The red gold gourd earrings on the ears have torn out the original white and beautiful ears. Wang Yaozhen is a typical Jiangnan person. Slender and weak, white and tender melon seed face, bright red phoenix eyes, cherry mouth, action like a weak willow to help the wind. At this moment, he was also very solemnly wearing a robe full of butterflies and flowers, and under the robe was an emerald green skirt embroidered with flowers, which was very lively, but it covered up the elegant taste of Jiangnan people. On the other hand, Bai's only wears a piece of jewelry on his head, which is a distraction full of ponds, but it is very delicate, and the distraction is lotus flowers, and the fish are very vivid, showing good workmanship. He was wearing a lotus lotus-colored folded gown with flowers and a dark green skirt, and only the skirt was embroidered with a circle of elegant aquatic plants. Although it is elegant, because the embroidery is very good, when Bai walks, those aquatic plants seem to swing with the wind. Wang couldn't help but glance at those aquatic plants several times. Because Chen Wenhui was going to meet guests, she deliberately wore a newly made pink jacket with gold trim, and a silver-red skirt underneath, with many small stars embroidered on the skirt side. This is designed by Chen Wenhui and made by Feiguang. Wang Yaozhen had never seen embroidery with star patterns, and since she saw Wen Hui, she had stared at those stars.
Chen Wenhui is very happy, coming to this world is the first time to contact the local ladies. After the two little girls and the adults met each other, Bai looked at Wang Yaozhen with a smile and ordered Qingshuang, who had been prepared a long time ago, to bring a meeting gift for Wang Yaozhen. It was a delicate purse, a delicate fan. Mrs. Wang also gave Chen Wenhui a meeting gift. It is a gold collar, a pair of emerald hairpins, and a green purse. Chen Wenhui saw that the gift she got was too precious, and couldn't help but look at Bai. Bai just smiled and nodded at her. Chen Wenhui was puzzled, but she still let Feiguang take the gift and thank Mrs. Wang from the new. Mrs. Wang smiled and held Chen Wenhui, beckoned to take the purse and fan given by the Bai family from Wang Yaozhen's hand and looked at it. I was stunned at this look. After a while, Mrs. Wang said to Bai Shi very excitedly: "Madam, this purse and fan you gave to the little girl are made in-house, right?" Bai's smile reached the bottom of his eyes: "I brought this from Beijing, the purse and the fan are just for internal use, more delicate than others, and it's nothing, but it's for the girls to play." The mother's money in the purse is okay and can be kept. Mrs. Wang hurriedly took out her purse, and sure enough, there was a small copper coin. Mrs. Wang was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Madame, this gift is too heavy, we can't afford it." Bai smiled and said, "What important things are just for the girls to play with." Master Wang helps our family so much, and our two families should be more close, these are nothing. Mrs. Wang had to accept it respectfully. is even more flattering to the Bai family. Bai said to Wang Yaozhen and Chen Wenhui: "Let's chat, you are boring, it is better to let Hui'er invite Miss Wang to visit our garden." These words were in line with Chen Wenhui's intentions, and she hurriedly pulled Wang Yaozhen to salute the two ladies and retreated.