Chapter Seventy-Seven: Night Talk
In the backyard room, Yu Wenwen accompanied his wife Wei Chi Chi to dine, and he just knocked on a group of big households in the front yard, and he made do with some of them, and now he is busy and returns to the backyard to accompany his wife to the second scene.
"Erlang, Thorn Lang is still in the house, the concubine should go back" Yu Chi Chifan said, today Yuwen Wen is going to talk about things in Wuwei Zhai, and even brought her with him, and asked people to arrange the guest room and say that they were going to spend one night in Wuwei Zhai.
"Thorn Lang has a nurse with him, Sanniang don't have to worry." Yu Wenwen took a bite of the dish and said with a smile, "Wuwei Zhai is its own industry, you have to come and see it, don't you?" ”
Yu Chi Chifan still can't let go of her son, she has taken care of her since the birth of Thorn Lang, although she was taken care of by the nurse at night, but now she is still a little worried when she is not in the house.
"Look, even the wrinkles are coming out with a frown, and now that the curfew is there, the husband can't take the lead in breaking the ban, right?"
Yu Wenwen is not ashamed, he took office several times at night because of official business, although it is unreasonable to look at the curfew of ancient cities from the perspective of modern people, but after starting to manage the city, he found that the curfew was indeed helpless.
To put it bluntly, what else can you do at night, not to mention what barbecue stalls and skewers are used to enrich the nightlife, these things are not affordable by the common people, and night entertainment such as KTV and big health care is completely unrealistic.
Nightlife must be supported by economic strength, where is there so much consumer population in a city like Xiyang City, Bazhou, where there are so many consumer populations, other factors are secondary, and the most headache is public security.
In these years, the lighting conditions at night are poor, don't think about having street lights without electricity, so it's dark everywhere, and don't say anything about lighting candles for public lighting, modern candles are products of the oil industry, and ancient candles are not cheap.
Lighting torches is easy to cause an accident and burn the city, so there are only sporadic lanterns in the city at night, and the natural lighting is not good, and the night walkers are rampant when it is dark everywhere, and the only way is to curfew.
The gates were closed so that no thieves could enter or leave, and the gates at the entrances of the streets were manned, and anyone who appeared on the street except for the patrol team had a problem, except for official business or seeking medical advice to save people, and the rest were all suspects.
Seeing Yu Wenwen say this, Wei Chi Chi Fan hesitated for a moment and still questioned, she said what about the diners who came to Wuwei Zhai to eat and drink, and what about the shopkeepers who came to talk about business.
"So I'm going to take you out to see, Wuwei Zhai has many guest rooms, and the shopkeepers naturally live in the guest rooms." Yu Wenwen, "As for the other diners, they will be informed when there is still half an hour before the curfew. ”
"Then I will clear the scene at the time of a stick of incense, and if I don't leave, I just want to make trouble, so naturally someone will take care of it."
Yu Chi Chi nodded when she heard this, she knew that Wuwei Zhai was her own property, but she didn't have any actual feeling except for checking the accounts, and even the account books were brought to the house by the shopkeeper, if it wasn't for today's husband taking her out, I really didn't know the specific situation of Wuwei Zhai.
"Then if we spend the night here, will it give the thieves a chance?" Wei Chi Chifan remembered a key problem again, she knew that someone had lurked in the city, not only trying to disadvantage her husband, but also coming to Yang Lihua in the side room.
"It's okay, Wuwei Zhai is not a thatched house that leaks everywhere, and the courtyard we live in is even more heavily guarded."
Yu Chi Chifan nodded and picked up the bowl and continued to eat, the dishes in Wuwei Zhai can also be eaten in the house, but there is a different feeling after changing the environment, and she is also a little shy when she thinks that she will spend the night here in a while.
Of course, Yu Wenwen has bad intentions, the so-called posture should be changed often and the location should be changed frequently, there is no freshness in the house, it is time to 'shift the position', the car shock, horse earthquake and other earthquakes are not suitable, it is no problem to go to the hotel to 'open a room'.
Husband and wife life needs to be adjusted to talk about some mood, of course, safety first small couple can not stand under the dangerous wall, like the kind of running to the dark corner of the park to talk about love, but the result of meeting bandits and robbing money and sex can not appear.
Wuwei Zhai was specially placed by Yu Wenwen in order to facilitate the negotiation of business, of course, as a patient with deep victim paranoia, he is also very concerned about the security of Wuwei Zhai, not only to prevent enemies but also to prevent wealthy businessmen from all walks of life.
The glass mirror is the glass mirror, its profits can make people take risks, although the workshop is in the Xiyang County Mansion but Wuwei Zhai is also very critical, the shop is opposite Wuwei Zhai, Wang Yue talks about buying and selling is in Wuwei Zhai, if it is taken away by people, it will not be good.
Of course, Wang Yue doesn't understand the production process of glass mirrors, but others don't think so, and the merchants who come to negotiate from all walks of life must spend the night in Wuwei Zhai, so it is also very important to protect the safety of customers and their belongings.
"Speaking of Wuwei Zhai, how is the input?" Yu Wenwen asked, his focus was on leading the troops, and the family's finances were managed by Wei Chi Chi, so he didn't know much about the specific situation of Wuwei Zhai, but he knew that he could take care of his own profits and losses.
Wei Chi Chifan remembers it very clearly, of course, the truth is also very cruel: Wuwei Zhai has been losing money since it opened, deducting wages and other expenses, and has been filling in money for the first few months, and turned losses into profits last month, but the profit is not even less than 100 yuan.
Yuwen Wen coughed dryly when he heard this, because of the extremely poor consumption power of Xiyang City, he didn't think it was strange to have this kind of result, ordinary people couldn't afford to consume the banquet, and the so-called big families didn't have so many reasons to consume.
The most important thing is that the waste of ingredients is shocking, there is no freezer and refrigerator in these years, and there is less stocking in case there are more guests to make a fool of it, and if there are more stock, there are not so many people to order, so you can only dispose of it.
It's not Yuwenwen's luxury, Wuwei Zhai takes the route above the mid-range, and if you cook with stale ingredients, it will have a bad reputation, but after opening for more than half a year, you have experience in going to the shopkeeper and chef to buy, and the waste of ingredients has begun to reduce.
"Husband, why did you let other people come to learn the dishes in the store?" Wei Chi Chifan turned into a problem baby, she has wanted to ask this question for a long time, other wine shops are hiding the dishes, but they do the opposite.
"Signature dishes are naturally not taught, and the rest doesn't matter"
Yu Wenwen began to explain his idea, first of all, the promotion of dishes such as Dongpo meat and sauce elbow is beneficial, people's demand for pork will increase greatly, and pig farmers will also be motivated.
Pig is a good thing, especially in the eyes of Yu Wenwen is a good thing, not to mention that the lard alone is very useful, of course, the latest use is to make soap, soap, of course, how to saponify lard This is a secret.
By analogy, Yuwenwen is to benefit the people, soy sauce for condiments is one of them, soy sauce is made of fermented beans, if the amount is large, there are naturally people to grow beans, and beans can also be used to extract oil, that is, vegetable oil.
The name of the foodie empire is not for nothing, and the promotion of dishes is used to promote the increase of various corresponding demands, but the most important thing is that there are more commercial activities, and the catering industry can only flourish when there are more merchants in Xiyang City, so that a series of demand driven by this is the most.
How to 'attract investment' to invigorate the economy is a big problem, and the first start of catering is just Yu Wenwen's idea, of course, it remains to be seen whether it can be realized, and it may be just wishful thinking, but he is unwilling not to try it.
In his impression, the ancient Bazhou (later Huangzhou) did not have any excellent specialties, of course, the pork praised by Su Dongpo in later generations was not yet famous, and the specialties referred to the specialties that were actively purchased by merchants, as for the "Huanggang Middle School Exam Questions", this is a thousand years later.
Wei Chi Chifan didn't understand what "Su Dongpo" was, but she probably understood that her husband was going to do something, and she knew that her husband had used any tricks in order to raise soldiers.
Talking while eating is already full of wine and food, this time there is a good wine for dinner, Wei Chi Chifan unconsciously drunk, she saw that her husband was still in good spirits and couldn't help waving her hand again and again: "The concubine is not strong enough to drink"
"Can't afford to drink?" Yuwen Wen laughed, he held the beautiful woman with a peach blossom face and misty eyes in his arms, one burned himself in flames and the other wanted to welcome and refuse.
The maids listened to the wind and rain inside outside the room, and their faces were red, and they couldn't go far, so they could only look down at their toes and count the ants......
At night, there was silence in Xiyang City, and the originally lively Wuwei Zhai was also quiet, not far from the entrance of a street that had closed the gate, two gray-clothed people were climbing beside the watchtower.
The watchtower, along with the rooms downstairs, was used for night watch, and they were not only responsible for closing the gates after the curfew began, interrogating any suspicious persons, but also observing the fire, but the person napping on the watchtower at this time did not notice that anyone was near him.
Like geckos, the two silently left the watchtower, and ran to the other side of the roof to avoid the sight of the night watchman, and they cautiously 'crawled' towards the backyard of Wuweizhai on the roof, taking a step and stopping, as if to watch out for an ambush around.
I don't know how long it took for them to come to the roof closest to the outer wall of Wuweizhai, and after stopping for a moment, they were about to continue moving forward, when they suddenly got up and jumped backwards.
The sound of breaking the sky sounded, and four feather arrows were nailed to the place where they had just stopped, and the two of them turned around and fled for their lives without looking back, they were as light as swallows walking on the roof without making an obvious sound.
Several figures appeared on the roof of the originally empty Wuwei Zhai Restaurant, and they bent their bows and arrows at the two fleeing figures, although it was a moonless night, it still did not obstruct the sight of these archers.
Several feathered arrows rushed towards the backs of the two men like lightning, but the other seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, and as soon as he dodged sideways, he scattered, and the two jumped up and down like monkeys, and soon landed and turned into the alley.
However, there were people waiting there for a long time, and they saw several people holding rattan cards to protect themselves and move forward quickly, and the left and right were just to flank the prey, and the two men were so good that they climbed straight up the wall and climbed to the roof again.
Dodging a few feathered arrows that followed, they galloped between the rooftops as if they were walking on the ground, but the archers who appeared everywhere did not stop their arrows and forced them into the street.
The obvious ambush, the night walkers did not dare to fall into the courtyard of the house or be blocked by someone would be doomed, they jumped into the street and knew that this place could not stay for a long time, and was about to rush to the other side of the neighborhood, suddenly a group of people rushed out from the nearby night watchtower.
"In the middle of the night, don't leave if you come!" The first one wore an eyepatch and seemed to be a one-eyed dragon, and he ordered everyone around him to pick up his crossbow arrows, but just as everyone was about to release the arrows, they saw a flash of light explode in front of the two people.
After dodging the arrow, the two turned around and rushed to the house to climb the wall, but the one-eyed dragon turned over the blindfold and saw the figure of the person clearly with the eyes that were not flashing.
"Want to go?" He sneered and picked up his bow, and shot the two of them down the wall with five arrows in a row, and the rest of the people rushed up to capture the other party, only to see that both of them had been hit by arrows in the crooked knee, and one of them had an extra arrow in the right shoulder.
They were gagged so as not to bite their tongues and kill themselves, and a group of soldiers patrolling the streets came on the opposite side, and when they saw the people dancing with knives and guns on this side, they rushed forward one by one, and the people who had just released the arrows greeted them: "We are all guards in the palace of the Yuwen envoy, and the envoy will be ordered to accompany the guards on patrol tonight." ”
"Yuwen Envoy?" The team leader changed his face when he heard this, and when he heard the other party say that the whereabouts of the two thieves were exposed, everyone was relieved, but they still had to register the names and identities of the people in front of them according to the regulations.
"I am Zhang Dingfa, the head of the mansion guards, and I ask you to escort the thieves to the state government according to the regulations." Zhang Dingfa said that Yu Wenwen spent the night outside, which is a good opportunity for some people to start, so it is also a good opportunity for them to catch people.
According to the regulations of the government, no one in the city is allowed to arrest people without permission, which is to prevent the big families from doing whatever they want, and also to prevent people from taking people by taking advantage of the time of catching thieves.
Of course, in order to encourage righteousness and courage, it is not impossible to arrest people, but it is necessary to escort people to the state government and be guarded by the government, and the next thing will be handed over to the Yuwen envoy who judges the case like a god, or his right-hand man Bo Zhengtong.
Calm returned to the street, and two figures appeared on the roof of a house near the scene of the incident, and they watched the whole fight, and saw two unlucky people being captured alive, and one of the thin men scolded in a low voice: "This fang is really well guarded." ”
"It's a shame for me to be cautious, otherwise the unlucky ones will be replaced." Another sighed.
"How, at this time, Yuwen Wen may be negligent in taking precautions" The thin man was entangled.
"Do you think this fang will be overlooked?" Another asked rhetorically.
"Then let's withdraw."
"If the situation doesn't change, I'll wait and see what happens, I seem to have seen that guy just now."
"Seen? Do you recognize him? ”
"The impression is vague, but I won't admit it." The other person's tone was firm, "Do you remember, Lulujiao in Dinglong that year?"
"Dinglong Lulu is a series of five arrows!" The thin man seemed to think of something, "This can't be! ”
"Of course not, but I'm not mistaken." The other person whispered, "Yuwen Wen is cunning, this person is not a fuel-efficient lamp, don't fall for it again." ”
"What if," the thin man began to tangle again, "I'm afraid I won't be able to stop it." ”
"It's probably impossible this year, let's wait for the new instructions over there, and get out of the city immediately in a while, lest the whole city can't escape tomorrow." (To be continued.) )