For a long time, as the first impression of Zhen Feng's post-master era in the Southern Tang Dynasty before the early Song Dynasty dominated the world, it was the merry and happy night banquet of Han Xizai, the ingenious craftsmanship of Gu Hongzhong's paintings, and the lyrics and love stories of Li Yu's tryst with gold-threaded shoes after Xiao Zhou, which were elegant scenes.

However, during this period of time, what he came into contact with should be the true face of elegance, the family's struggle for power and profit, the greed for pleasure, the government's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the merger of interests in Qinglou, and the displacement of the people...... These trivial things in the tube are the real Southern Tang Jiangning evening photos, the Southern Tang Dynasty lives in a rich land, and it is only a matter of time before it is unified by the Central Plains. In other words, there is no cure.

These are just his momentary thoughts and grievances, and his practical contradictions are still in front of him. Xia Xiaoniang or the Zhen family's competition for the dominance of the restaurant is just the beginning. However, Zhen Feng gained an admiring gaze. This is a little solace before the confrontation of the unknown future. He was right to be worried, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Xia Xiaoniang had just left the gate of Wangjianglou, and not long after she got into the carriage, she was stopped at just a corner. She lifted the curtain in a rage, and saw a maid dressed as a maid, but dressed in bright clothes, approaching.

On the Jiangning territory, it may be possible to smash the princes and nobles or the rich eunuchs with any spit, Xia Xiaoniang judged what kind of expression she should use to deal with it according to her clothes, so she chose to swallow her anger, bow to the forces, and act at the opportunity.

"Mother Liu, please get in the car and talk about it." The woman spoke softly but indifferently, as if she were talking to herself. For this kind of nobody, Xia Xiaoniang chose to greet her with a smile.

It seems that the girl is already an experienced veteran in the world, and she knows how to make the other party climb on the pole, and takes the initiative to stick her hot face up.

Xia Xiaoniang also had a delicate heart, guessing that Mother Liu was also here for Wangjianglou and Zhen Feng, she must have felt threatened, but I don't know how Mother Liu wants to deal with Zhen Feng? In any case, the enemy of the enemy is the friend.

Entering the carriage, it was an illusion of another time and space. When Xia Xiaoniang came out again, she felt that her life had returned to color, and the irritability just now was swept away: Hehe, Zhen Feng, you wait for the old lady, the old lady will definitely make you regret being a man.

And Mother Liu in the carriage showed a meaningful smile, taking care of a small Wangjiang Building, why do you need to go out by yourself? Some miscellaneous people won't be able to do it.

Zhen Feng sneezed, looking at the occasional fallen leaves in the treetops, did he catch a cold? He didn't know what was going on, but he had a sense of vigilance in his heart that "there are always people who want to harm me".

This feeling reminds me to be careful and careful, except for my aunt Wu and Zhantang, everyone else and things must be careful, otherwise I don't know when I will be sold again. It's a bit tiring to live like this, but if you want to make a breakthrough, it can't be smooth sailing, and it's a matter of time before you make enemies.

In this era, there is no such thing as intellectual property rights, and it depends on inheritance. For the command of the restaurant, Zhen Fengneng relies on spirits dishes. It's a double-edged sword, and if you use it, you can hurt yourself. Zhen Feng was still too naïve at first, and took it out before clearing the obstacles, but he seemed to have no choice.

Zhen Feng called to the exhibition hall and asked him not to just buy ordinary wine and distill it directly, the process is too simple and it is too easy to be exposed, and people who are interested will guess one or two when they pay attention to it, and they have to muddy the water. First buy some sorghum, wheat, glutinous rice, rice, koji and other brewing materials, this is not enough, you also have to buy some valuable things, what is valuable.

Spices are preferred. Sand kernels, jasmine, cardamom, angelica, cloves, licorice, fennel, cinnamon, star anise...... Whether you've heard of it or not, you can buy anything that can be used for food. Buy less or no expensive ones, and buy more points for medium or low prices. Dried flowers and petals are also required, it is autumn, you can't just buy chrysanthemums, you have to buy others, it doesn't matter if it's expensive.

Zhan Tang quickly went into action, and he also realized that it didn't seem to be good, and he had to protect the secret recipe.

Zhen Feng felt that he still owed something short, by the way, a fake secret recipe. To cover up the truth, you have to do a full set of plays. So he began to consider, three points true, seven points false, a variety of raw materials, spices, petals to select a few to apply to each link, such as simplified thirteen incense, flower dew and other by-products, and then conceived a set of performance process, waiting for the exhibition hall to come back to teach again, and also had to excerpt the training to some newcomers, these people are used to create by-products and deceive others, in fact, the exhibition hall of liquor distillation does not need assistants for the time being.

For recipes, it's simple. The seasonings that need to be placed and pickled in advance are all prepared by Aunt Wu in advance, and she will distribute and control them. There is no soy sauce in this era, only some of Zhen Feng's self-made before, and he doesn't believe that others can quickly imitate this. On the contrary, the aunt Wu is like a big enemy, in addition to seasoning, she is also thinking about how to group the newcomer training and disperse the process to keep it as confidential as possible.

The arrangement and training of the newcomers were handed over to the two deeply, and everything was in order. Zhen Feng's mind is not on this, in the lecture of the personnel gathering, Zhen Feng only said two sentences: "No matter what you did before, you will be a family in the future, there is no distinction between high and low in Wangjiang Tower, only different division of labor and different responsibilities, who dares to laugh at others in this way, will be severely punished; If someone betrays Wangjiang Tower, we will beat you back to your original form together, from where you go back and forth. ”

Hearing that they were not slaves, and that they regarded themselves as family here, they almost all believed it. Although Zhen Feng is young, he has established his prestige in the scene of angrily scolding Xia Xiaoniang, and in the eyes of these people, Zhen Feng is like the head of a family who protects calves. For the hard-won days, although the place to live is a little crowded, it is already a great satisfaction for the homeless and beggars.

Until one day later, when it was close to noon on the twenty-eighth day of September, the wind inside and outside the restaurant was calm, and Zhen Feng was a little suspicious of whether he was nervous.

The challenge of "three bowls but not the river" is even more popular, and many people have made a special trip to the challenge, and the scene has reached the point where it is difficult to find a place and needs to be grabbed in advance. In Wangjiang Tower, some talented scholars came to challenge the eternal absolute, but unfortunately the lower link left behind was unsatisfactory, and even Xu You, who was known as "deliberately" came to see the situation of the eternal absolute lower link, also shook his head again and again.

"Today's scholars, too young, bold are big, and they dare to come and sacrifice ugliness if they are not good at learning. Look at it, 'Upper Eighth Bridge, Middle Eighth Bridge, Lower Eighth Bridge, 3824 Bridge', such a couplet with a meaning, a background, and a story, it turned out to be a 'first nine times, nine times, nine times, three hundred and twenty-seven times', nonsense, filthy, shameful......"

Zhen Feng was speechless for a while, and secretly slandered in his heart: Old man, don't people just don't learn and have no skills, eight against nine, bridge against second, up and down against front and back, what are you thinking?