The New Year is approaching, the chaos is over, and Yangzhou is still prosperous.

Although the eight families of salt merchants fell four at a time, the place should have shaken and affected countless people.

However, because the Qi family took action and took the other three to assist the Yanyuan Yamen to take over the salt affairs of the four companies, although there were small waves in the market, in general, it was still a peaceful and prosperous era.

Not only that, but also because these four salt merchants ate pies that fell from the sky, even if it was only temporary, but such a golden river and silver sea could eat for a day, and it was enough for ordinary people to eat and drink for ten lifetimes.

It was also the New Year, so Qi, Chen, Li, and Peng squandered a lot of silver, driving the businessmen of all sizes in Yangzhou City to benefit from it.

Even the coolies on the dock have followed a fat year.

A prosperous scene.

Dongguan Street North, Sanwei Book House.

This place has been bought by Jia Qiang for 3,000 taels of silver, not only that, but Yu Dezhi, the former owner of Sanwei Bookstore for generations, was also invited by Jia Qiang to become a steward.

His stupid son Yu Rui was also rescued by Jia Qiang, and after the previous hardship, even if he had grown up, he was willing to stay in the bookstore to help.

Qi Yun and Xu Zhen watched Jia Qiang talk with Yu Dezhi and his son for a long time in a very standard corporal posture, and after handing him a scroll of paper manuscripts, they both became very interested.

After Jia Qiang was done, Qi Yun looked at Jia Qiang and said with a smile: "Liangchen, what kind of immortal situation are you arranging here?" ”

Jia Qiang frowned and said, "It's a ghost's game!" I have a lot of sisters in my family, and when I was idle and bored, I wrote a book together, and I bought this bookstore and prepared to print it into a book, which can be regarded as another kind of history history. How, do you want to do it together? There are sisters in your family......"

Hearing this, Qi Yun and Xu Zhen were both speechless.

The words "sisters in the family" are really far away for the two of them.

It's not that there are no such things, but it's better to have them than not to have them......

However, Xu Zhen asked again: "Second master, the Sixi team of Sixi Building was selected by you, and you also said that they should rehearse a new play and prepare for the New Year, isn't it also for the sisters in the family?" ”

Seeing his frowning appearance, Jia Qiang didn't bother to pay attention.

This bastard wanted to invite him to visit the painting boat for three days, and Qi Yun also invited him twice, but after being refused, the two kings and eight calves actually brought two charming and enchanting rabbits to the banquet.

Before the two of them could speak, they were knocked to the ground by Jia Qiang's real Ge'er and drove away the rabbit master.

Only then did they understand that Jia Qiang was really clean and self-conscious.

However, after Qi Yun's little grandmother and third sister returned home from the Yamen of the Salt Courtyard and described the appearance of the eldest lady of the Lin family and Miss Xue Jiabiao of the Yamen of the Salt Courtyard as rare in the sky and difficult to find in the ground, and the real beauty in the world, Qi Yun and Xu Zhen thought that they understood Jia Qiang's thoughts......

At this point, the matter of the bookstore and the theater was put aside.

Left and right are not very profitable......

Jia Qiang saw that the two were no longer entangled in this section, and smiled in her heart.

Everything else is easy to say, even if you make a lot of money in a business, you can partner in, how can gold and silver be earned by one person?

It's just that......

There is no room for outsiders to interfere in the matter of publicity.

In this regard, Ben did not think about making money.

Even for a long time, it could only be supplemented with a large amount of silver, which was used to merge and expand......

But when it comes to the right to speak, there is no room for a second voice!

……

The three of them took their escorts, and did not ride horses, and walked to Dongguan Street.

Looking at the door of the ice room, which was still crowded, Jia Qiang was not surprised, he tightened the neckline of the fox fur, and said to Qi Yun: "Zhou Ji...... No, it should be called Qi Ji Wanxianglou now, are you ready? ”

As a family of eight salt merchants, the business will naturally not be just a single salt industry.

In addition to the salt industry, each family has also dabbled in other industries.

For example, the Bai family's theater, the Chen family's pawnshop, the Shen family's car shop, the Wu family's dock, and the Zhou family's restaurant to make a living, most of these livelihoods are now swallowed by the other four, of course, they have to pay a large sum of money to the Yanyuan Yamen!

But for the salt merchants, silver was the least valuable thing they had.

The Wanxianglou of the Zhou family is quite famous in Yangzhou City and even Jinling, Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other places.

Jiangnan flavor is extremely authentic.

Now that the Zhou family has failed, Wanxianglou's property has been bought by the Qi family.

However, there is Jia Qiang's stock in the middle.

Of course, Jia Qiang didn't have any cash, although the Zhao family brought 50,000 taels of silver to buy his son, but he still had a lot of use for these silvers, and it was impossible to use them here.

Therefore, he borrowed 80,000 taels of silver from the Qi family in the form of an IOU, plus a secret recipe for famous dishes unique to the world, accounting for 50% of the shares.

Although it does not participate in business management, it is qualified to supervise.

As for what famous dishes......

Hearing Qi Yun hesitate: "Liangchen, your dish, is it really feasible?" ”

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "I wasn't very sure, but after I arrived in Yangzhou, I realized that I had taken it for granted." You are too rich here, tired of eating sweet and delicious delicacies, many people have nothing to do but find some excitement, this dish is bound to be very popular. ”

Yangzhou people, as long as they are close to the salt merchants, even if they are an ordinary family, they can live to the point where countless white-collar elites in Jia Qiang's previous life are envious to their knees.

These people have nothing to do to the point of a limit, and their days are known as "skin and water" during the day and "water in the skin" at night.

Why?

It's a day, that is, spending time in teahouses and bathhouses, either drinking tea or taking a bath.

Although rich, it is boring to the extreme.

In this kind of life, give them a little stimulation, and most of them will be very popular.

Yangzhou cuisine belongs to Huaiyang cuisine, which pays attention to "harmony, refinement, clarity and newness", and the dishes are exquisite in form and mellow in taste.

In cooking, it makes good use of fire, pays attention to fire skills, and the raw materials are mainly aquatic products, focusing on freshness, and the taste is peaceful, fresh and slightly sweet.

It stands to reason that spicy and exciting dishes have no place in Yangzhou Mansion, but Jia Qiang thinks that there is one thing that the people of Yangzhou Mansion must like, especially in this cold winter.

That's hot pot!

Qi Yun has no confidence in hot pot, that is because his mental cultivation is too high, and he always restricts himself.

The heir whom Qi Taizhong has spent more than ten years personally cultivating can control the restlessness in his heart and will not seek stimulation impetuously.

But for the vast majority of sentient beings, eating whole grains and feeling all kinds of life, no matter happy, excited, frustrated, annoyed, bored, at this time, what can express the anger in the chest better than a pot of hot pot?

In addition to the hot and spicy hot pot, come to a bowl of sweet ice to cool off and enjoy the happiness of ice and fire, who wouldn't love it?

At that time, the livelihood of the ice house will also be brought up.

Xu Zhen agreed with this, and said to Qi Yunle: "Brother Qi, if you don't have confidence, why don't you give me Wanxianglou from the Qi family?" I think it's okay, I'll cooperate with the second master, how about it? ”

"Go, go, go."

Qi Yun said angrily: "Why did you go earlier?" If you want to take Wanxianglou, you have to get a silver plate. ”

The Qi family let Jia Qiang empty the gloves of the white wolf, and that was because there were greater interests mixed in it.

Xu Zhen's head is in the water, and he is also in a hurry to join in the fun, he doesn't have this dignity and value......

Driving Xu Zhen away, Qi Yun asked Jia Qiang: "In the evening, I invited all the decent young people in Yangzhou Mansion to have a feast in Wanxiang Building. The children of the high family, celebrities, young heroes of the rivers and lakes, and the Oiran on the top ten painting boats of the Slender West Lake, taste your hot pot banquet. Liangchen, you really don't show your head? ”

Jia Qiang shook her head and smiled: "I am introverted by nature and don't like to associate with too many strangers. ”

Qi Yun: "......"

After a pause, seeing that Jia Qiang's face never changed, he had to helplessly ask Xu Zhen again: "What about you?" ”

Xu Zhen snorted and said with a smile: "That's it, I won't show up tonight." Tonight is the field of your eldest young master of the Qi family, I will be a little follower when I go, and you don't divide my shares, I will accompany you in vain, I won't do it! ”

Qi Yun originally had the intention of bringing this kid along, although the Xu family is a local hometown in Yangzhou, but compared with the Qi family, in fact, it is not as good as a grass chicken.

Emperor Taishang made six southern tours, and the old lady Qi witnessed all the way, and returned to see the driver, and the emperor was friends in white, how honorable?

Xujia ......

Since the Xu family beat their ancestors, they have not been qualified to drive once.

Now for the sake of this kid's Jia Qiang, I want to take him to open up and open up contacts, but I don't know what to do!

Qi Yun didn't bother to deal with it anymore, and he only cooperated with this kid in the ice room.

After Qi Yun said goodbye and left, Jia Qiang looked at Xu Zhen, who was still happy, and said with a smile: "I don't know the virtue of lifting!" People want to carry you, but you don't have the eyesight to see it? ”

Xu Zhen smiled indifferently, and said lazily: "This person, the most taboo is half-hearted." Since I, Xu Ershao, have voted for you, Jia Ershao from the capital, I will no longer climb the high branches of his Qi Dashao. ”

Jia Qiang paused when she heard this, looked at Xu Zhen, and said with a smile: "What is the foundation of my Jia Ershao, will you not know?" Compared with Qi Da Shao, my path is not safe, and it is much more risky. Moreover, the future is uncertain. What is the reason why you sacrifice the near and the far, and the rich and the rich to seek instability? ”

The smile on Xu Zhen's face gradually put away, looked at Jia Qiang and said, "Second Master, if you want to be stable, I, Xu Zhen, guard the ice cellar of the Xu family, or do some other business casually, how can I not live a rich life?" What I value is the instability of the second master, and he is not taking the path of ordinary businessmen. Although until now, I haven't seen which way the second master wants to go, but I, Xu Er, can be sure that the second master's road must be the most unusual and strange road! The top old fox like the old lady of the Qi family is betting on you, the second master, how can I, Xu Er, let go of the real Buddha and go with a little fox? ”

Jia Qiang smiled when she heard this, but didn't say anything, just patted Xu Zhen on the shoulder, and then turned to leave.

Gao Long and Shang Zhuo, each with four men who were not good-looking but faintly had the aura of a tiger and leopard, escorted them from the left and right, and walked away.

Looking at the backs of the group, Xu Zhen's face gradually floated with an unruly smile.

Follow the Qi family?

Following the Qi family, no matter how good it is, it is only to the point of the Bai, Shen, Zhou, and Wu families.

But what can be done?

Isn't it that the Qi family says to sell it?

The Qi family was able to survive this time, and it was only by sacrificing these four followers that they continued their old lives.

Such a person, who loves to follow whom, anyway, he Xu Zhongluan doesn't dare to follow!

And Jia Qiang ...... Although it seems that the future is unknown, a person who can stir up the ups and downs of Beijing and Yangzhou will be a mediocre type?

For the sake of a big fool of the Xue family, he dared to directly put the right person with the head of the Qi family, and he was also relieved to follow him.

……

Yanyuan Yamen, West Road Courtyard.

Hou Le Xuan.

Aunt Mei took Xiuzhu, Zijuan, Snow Goose and Xiangling to arrange dishes and chopsticks at a round table.

On the other side, Daiyu, Bo Qin, and the newcomer Vivien, and her shy cousin Catherine chatted happily together.

Vivien and Catherine, needless to say, talked about a lot of local customs beyond Dayan.

And Baoqin actually followed suit, saying many interesting places in Dayan provinces.

Daiyu, who had listened to it for a long time, was about to say something, when everyone saw Jia Qiang, who was dressed in a snow fox trimmed with blue and red twisted gold lynx skin, slowly smiling, handsome, like a Zhilan jade tree, dazzling.

Vivien was the most enthusiastic, and stood up at once, but she still remembered Catherine, and took her sister to greet her.

It seems that she also knows that the veneer ceremony in front of the elders is a bit shocking.

Baoqin also got up with a smile and called, "Brother Qiang." ”

Only Daiyu, whose eyes gradually changed from surprise to unkindness, watched someone slowly sigh lightly, as if she had quietly written down a note in her heart......

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PS: Who doesn't vote, I let Aunt Lin register her name!