Cui Mansion.

Different from the previous visits, this time Xu Xiang arrived, and the servants of the entire Cui Mansion were full of smiles and politely welcomed him in.

When Cui Mi heard that Xu Xiang was coming, he didn't care about making love to his concubine, so he put on his clothes and came to the living room.

After the guests and hosts sat down, and the servants looked at the tea, Xu Xiang did not explain his intention for the first time, but exchanged pleasantries.

"Young Master Xu, I'm really embarrassed. Yesterday the steward of your house said that you had asked me to go out of the city to give alms, and I was very happy to go. It's just that there is something at home and I can't go, I'm really sorry! Cui Mi talked about inviting him out of the city yesterday, and he looked apologetic.

Xu Xiang knew that this was just his prevarication, and it was impossible for a noble son like Cui Mi to let him go out and deal with those homeless people.

So he didn't care, and said with a slight smile: "It's okay, I also want to recruit some people on this trip to make up for the lack of manpower in the fried chicken restaurant." ”

"Oh? In this way, whether Xu Gongzi has been recruited, if not, I can help arrange some people to help. Cui Mi said kindly.

"Cui Gongzi has a heart, and the people have been recruited, so I won't bother Cui Gongzi."

"That's good! That's good! The fried chicken restaurant is doing so well, it really needs to increase the number of people, and the store needs to be expanded, and I have a lot of friends who want to try the fried chicken and barbecue! Cui Mi said.

"Cui Gongzi, I came here this time for this matter! Of course, in addition to this matter, there is another happy event that I have to tell Cui Gongzi first. Xu Xiang saw that he was almost done talking, and he could start talking about business.

"Oh? Wedding? Let's hear it. ”

Xu Xiang took out a gold token from his arms and handed it over, "This is the token of the food appreciation officer, from today on, congratulations to Cui Gongzi for becoming the first food appreciation officer in Daxia!" ”

When Cui Mi saw the token, he was overjoyed and took it. Holding it in his hand, he couldn't put it down and looked at it, there was a word "Jian" on the front of this token, and a line of small words was engraved under the word "Daxia Food Appreciation Officer Cui Mi". On the back is a carved bird, which reads Daxia Dragon Sparrow Yamen Heavenly Sparrow Division.

Cui Mi was very excited and asked excitedly, "Is this ...... This is the Food Connoisseur? I belong to the Great Xia Dragon Bird Yamen? ”

"Not bad! Although this official has no rank for the time being, he directly belongs to the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Heavenly Sparrow Division and is not subject to any yamen's constraints. Xu Xiang nodded and said.

"So what do I need to do?" Cui Mi was very excited, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, from now on he will be the person of the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, wouldn't he be able to walk sideways in Ningdu?

"That's right, for this official position, because it is new, there is still controversy within the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, and it has not been recognized by the other seven divisions for the time being. Therefore, I have to grieve Cui Gongzi for a period of time, and I must not publicize it in a high-profile manner. However, the Heavenly Sparrow Division is already doing this, and when the dust settles, it will be announced that you will be the first food connoisseur of Great Xia! ”

"I see!" Cui Mi showed a sudden look, he could naturally wait, "Xu Gongzi, don't worry, I will be tight-lipped." ”

"You've seen it in the store a few days ago, right? How hot the fried chicken and barbecue are. ”

"Well, it's true, it's full almost every day, and there are a lot of people in long queues." Cui Mi nodded.

"So many people love fried chicken, so I wanted to take the opportunity to open a restaurant in each of the other two urban districts."

"That's a good thing!" Cui Mi said very approvingly.

"But I don't have much money in my hands, and it's a little difficult, so I asked Cui Gongzi to invest. Of course, for the two newly opened stores, I will give Cui Gongzi corresponding profit dividends! Xu Xiang said the purpose of borrowing (pitting) money.

"What is investment?" Cui Mi asked, puzzled.

"This investment is to put money in, gold and silver at home, it will never make money. Only when you enter the market will you earn more money, so this is called investment. ”

"Oh? I don't know how much worse Xu Gongzi is? Cui Mi smiled, this "investment" aroused his keen interest.

Xu Xiang stretched out his palm and said, "Five thousand." ”

Cui Mi smiled, he could still take out five thousand taels, so he said, "No problem, I'll give five thousand taels of silver to Xu Gongzi." ”

"It's gold! Five thousand taels of gold! Xu Xiang added.

Cui Mi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Eh...... To have so much? You don't need so much to open two stores, right? ”

"It's true that if you open two stores casually, you won't have so much. But I, Xu Changsha, either don't do it, or do it best! Xu Xiang explained, "I decided to buy a piece of land, make it into a commercial street, and hire hundreds of guys, in addition to fried chicken, barbecue, there will be other things in the future." ”

Xu Xiang told him the model of the commercial street and shopping mall in later generations, and then listed them one by one and calculated the accounts.

"All of them add up, at least 50,000 taels of gold! The initial investment is at least 10,000 taels of gold, so I thought of Cui Gongzi. ”

Cui Mi pondered for a moment and asked, "Are you sure you can make money by doing this?" ”

"Has Cui Gongzi forgotten my activity of making flyers and eating a whole chicken for one dollar? I will never do anything that I am not sure of! Xu Xiang said with an oath.

Then he gave out the bait, "Cui Gongzi invested these five thousand taels of gold, and I can give you a profit of one percent." And if you want to invest more in the future, you can get more profit share! ”

"Good!" Cui Mi agreed without thinking, although he didn't have five thousand taels of gold in his hand, but his father must have it!

When Cui Yun was invited over and was fooled by Xu Xiang, the two fathers and sons willingly took out 5,000 taels of golden tickets, and they didn't even let Xu Xiang stand up for a contract.

Originally, the Cui family's father and son planned to keep Xu Xiang for dinner, but Xu Xiang still had a lot of things to deal with now, so naturally he didn't stay.

Out of the door of Cui's mansion, the smile on Xu Xiang's face instantly retracted, walked into the carriage, and said to Yang Dianfeng: "Let's go." ”

From Cui's Mansion to his house, it will take more than an hour to take a carriage, and if you leave Qinglong City from the main road, it will naturally be much faster. But Xu Xiang does not have the status of a nobleman in Ningdu, so he is naturally not worthy of living in Qinglong City.

Therefore, if you want to take the main road, you will be interrogated by the people of the city patrol department.

Generally speaking, to enter Qinglong City and from Qinglong City to other urban areas, you have to register, and the previous few times you came to Luofu and Cui Mansion, they were all accompanied by Qin Zhiwei and Luo Min, so naturally there is no problem.

However, he was just an ordinary businessman now, and if he didn't have a valid reason, he wouldn't be allowed to enter the Qinglong City District.

In order to avoid trouble, he took that hidden road, which can be regarded as a "smuggling" within the City Patrol Division.

There are very few people on the road, and the entire Qinglong City is like a large villa complex, except for the soldiers patrolling the city, there are only carriages coming and going.

Yang Dianfeng drove all the way to the hidden road set up by the City Patrol Division, which was relatively much more prosperous, and there were even many small merchants and vendors at the junction of Qinglong City and Vermilion Bird City.

After paying the toll fee, they also returned to Suzaku City without any problems.

Xu Xiang lifted the curtain and saw the shouting vendors on the roadside, judging from their clothes, most of them were farmers, and they also sold vegetables, eggs, and fish.

Over time, a market was formed.

Generally speaking, the servants of the nobility like to come here to buy, and some have even formed a chain of interests.

"Lao Yang, stop, buy some food and go back." Xu Xiang stopped Yang Dianfeng.

The carriage stopped, and Xu Xiang noticed that the most sold eggs in this market were very cheap.

Nowadays, the mainstream of cooking is basically steaming and boiling, and the eggs are boiled and eaten until the mouth is very dry, so the aristocracy is not very fond of eating eggs, they are keen to eat meat, fruits and vegetables.

And these farmers who raise chickens are reluctant to eat themselves, and they can't sell them, and over time, the farmers have more and more eggs in their hands.

After coming to this world for so long, Xu Xiang has never eaten eggs, after all, he is also a prince, and the three meals that Yang Dianfeng gets him every day do not have this kind of food that is not the mainstream.

Seeing so many eggs, Xu Xiang couldn't help but think of many ways to eat eggs, thinking that he could have a whole egg dinner today!

Xu Xiang got out of the car and came to a white-haired old man, in front of this old man was a bamboo basket, very delicately woven, full of eggs, about a hundred or more.

"Childe, but you want to buy some chickens? Xiao Lao'er's chickens are very fresh, and they are all within ten days. When the old man saw someone coming, he hurriedly said.

"Old man, how do you sell this chicken?" Eggs were called chickens in ancient times, Xu Xiang asked.

"Childe, ten big money!" The old man hurriedly said.

I didn't expect it to be so cheap, which is equivalent to five cents a piece in the future! In this era, all of them are native eggs, and this price is simply the price of cabbage. Ah, no, it's almost October, the weather is getting cooler, and in this era when there are no greenhouses, the price of cabbage has begun to rise.

"Young master, do you want to eat chicken? You're prone to dry mouth when you eat something! Yang Dianfeng persuaded on the side.

"How many do you have here? I want them all! Xu Xiang asked.

When the old man heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Here are one hundred and twenty-three!" If you want all of them, just give twelve big bucks! ”

"This bamboo basket is well woven, can you sell it to me?" Xu Xiang said again.

"This bamboo basket is worthless, it is made of bamboo cut by the little old man himself, if the son likes it, he will give it to the child!"

"Thank you very much! Lao Yang, give money! ”

Yang Dianfeng took out twelve big coins and handed them over, picked up the basket of eggs, and put them in the car.

After Xu Xiang got into the car, he said to Yang Dianfeng: "I see that there are a lot of chickens here, Lao Yang, you go back and buy all these chickens!" ”

Yang Dianfeng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Young Master, do you want to buy hatching chicks?" It's a lot of work, it's better to go to a chicken dealer and buy ready-made chickens, it's not expensive, you can buy three for a big buck! ”

"Who said I was going to buy it to hatch chicks? I'm going to get some new dishes......" Xu Xiang smiled slightly, remembering a famous snack in later China - tea eggs.

The tea eggs themselves are just ordinary breakfast snacks, but the Chinese people located on the southeast islands of China think that the Chinese people in the mainland are very poor and can't even afford to eat tea eggs.

This kind of strange statement naturally caused an uproar in the mainland of China, so the tea eggs became so popular.