In fact, the teahouse industry is still unpopular in today's Suzhou, and only a few nobles open teahouses, but not to make money, but to make friends with these scribes. [Ran^Text^Library] [](Ran Library (7764))

Shiquan Street Lilac Lane Ji Xianju is a family, it is said that the origin is not small, but in the end it is the big family standing behind the scenes, no one can say, but it is also an old shop with some names, and it is said that Gu Yuanqing, the tea ceremony master, has also visited.

Gu Yuanqing was famous for his book of tea recipes many years ago, and he had unique attainments in drinking tea.

This also laid a certain reputation for Jixian Ju, so that later some literati and ink writers visited, making it also a famous teahouse in Suzhou, attracting a large number of literati to sit here.

At this time, there were several scholars drinking tea and chatting here in Jixian Ju.

"Brother Qingshan's masterpiece yesterday was really amazing, vaguely with Tang Yun, and it can be regarded as a rare masterpiece in Suzhou in recent years."

The scholar named Qingshan is named Gu Qingshan, this person has a certain status among the readers of this generation in Suzhou, and his poetry has the style of the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, now Ming novels are the mainstream, whether it is the early "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", or the "Journey to the West", which was listed as ** during the Jiajing period, it has become the mainstream.

Although Tang and Song poems are still often picked up by literati, they no longer have the same influence as they did back then, and what is more common in ordinary people's homes is actually novels, while poetry is more regarded as elegant and shelved, and in essence has gradually declined.

Gu Qingshan is one of the young people who have touched elegance, and now he has made some achievements in Suzhou, and he also has a high status in the eyes of these literati, and he is actually the first talent in Suzhou.

"It's just a spare sum, Brother Boning is not bad, your article was also accepted by Deyuelou."

Hearing Gu Qingshan's appreciation, this scholar named Zhang Boning was very useful, and he shook his head and said: "It's really not worth mentioning compared to Brother Qingshan, it's just that, when will the people we wait for look at Brother Qingshan." ”

Gu Qingshan was arrogant, and he was impatient when he heard the other party's words, but his face didn't show anything, and he said casually: "Today's Biluochun of Jixian Ju is very good, what do you think?" ”

In fact, drinking tea is not for tea, these young people know this, and it seems inappropriate to describe it as vassally elegant, after all, they are really a group of elegant people.

While eating tea and laughing, the sky turned cloudy.

Looking at Lilac Lane from the second floor, a group of children in Confucian robes seemed to go out without umbrellas, and were busy running towards the stalls on this side of Lilac Lane.

Looking at this scene, Gu Qingshan smiled slightly and said, "Have you heard that a new teahouse has opened on the side of Daru Lane?" ”

Zhang Boning chuckled lightly and said lightly: "Yesterday, those children were very fierce, and when they saw me and a few friends, they surrounded me, and at first I thought they were here to ask for poetry, but later I found out that it was a notice." ”

A scholar on the side was obviously also a party to the case, and only said: "Although the words on the notice are printed, it can be seen that there are some attainments in the original, but the content on it is a little strange." ”

Gu Qingshan obviously read the words on the notice, but he didn't say anything, but said curiously: "That teahouse said that it was called 'Awakening Eight Guests', this name is somewhat interesting, and it seems that the shopkeeper is also a little gentle." ”

Although the status of literati was at the top of the class in this era, and the merchants were inferior, there were still many literati who gradually engaged in business, especially in Suzhou, where it was very common for literati to engage in business.

It's just that Zhang Boning obviously doesn't agree with literati in business, he sneered and said: "I'm afraid that he is a vassal and elegant person, and now these businessmen have to climb up to the word literati no matter what, which is really pitiful and ridiculous." ”

Zhang Boning's point of view was agreed by several other scholars, so he was even more convinced, and laughed and said: "Don't think that if you find a few children like this and give them a literary name, you can really be elegant, a businessman is a businessman after all." ”

Regarding Zhang Boning's words, Gu Qingshan just smiled faintly and didn't say anything, although his ideas were not so radical, but in his heart, he also thought that a businessman was a businessman after all.

He only knew that the teahouse was officially opened today, and yesterday's publicity work was very good, and many guests came to the door early this morning.

Although there are a lot of guests, but after all, it is not too busy, after all, eating tea is a long process, the guests order tea, Yue'er sends it over, and the time after that is actually relatively idle.

At this time, the two of them were lying on the counter, looking at the spring rain outside the door and it was very boring.

"I don't understand why the young master spends money to buy milk, those things are so...... So. Forget it, I really don't understand what the young master is doing when he buys those useless things. ”

Shen Wuyan got up suddenly, pointed to the account book and said, "Do you know, young master, I only used one or two silver to buy fifty cows for a year's milk, which is a very profitable deal." ”

Milk was actually thrown away as waste in Daming, when Shen Wuyan knew the news, the whole person was happy, it would be a pity if milk, a thing that can be used in many ways, was thrown away, so he spent one or two silver to buy a year's milk from all the cows in a village outside Suzhou.

This tael of silver not only covers the cost of milk, but also includes the cost of delivering milk every day, which is really a very profitable deal.

Of course, Shen Wuyan now has a very bold idea, and this idea has a certain risk. After all, this kind of product in the idea has not yet appeared in Daming, but once it succeeds, there will be huge benefits, and now this product is under development.

"Milk is actually good for your health, a glass of milk a day, strong and bright people haven't you heard?"

Yue'er blinked, and she didn't continue to ask, she thought of another thing: "I heard a few scholars just now say that the Hujia Restaurant seems to be reducing its price in the past few days, saying that each dish is at least one or two pieces cheaper. ”

This is not a simple news, one or two pieces of silver is enough for ordinary people to spend half a month for one person. Suppose there are ten dishes at a table in Hujia Restaurant, then one table will be reduced by ten taels, and ordinary banquets will be at least ten tables, so it will be reduced by one hundred taels.

According to the previous bill of the Shen Family Restaurant, the profit per ten tables was about fifty taels, so now the ten tables have dropped by one hundred taels, which is equivalent to a loss of fifty taels.

Shen Wuyan was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "The Shen family restaurant has also encountered a strong opponent this time, according to the previous estimate, there will be about ten banquets in the big house every month, and it can't be said that these ten times will be divided by the Hu family, but at least half of them will be gone." ”

Yue'er also calculated in her heart, shook her head and said with a wry smile: "Yue'er also helped in the restaurant before, and those frequent customers of the Shen family actually went because the price was low and not too bad, but now the price of the Hu family restaurant has been reduced, I am afraid that the business of the Shen family will go to the seventh floor." ”

Shen Wuyan was ashamed of Yue'er's business talent, and he even planned to let Yue'er be the shopkeeper when the business of the teahouse gradually stabilized, and he was developing new products behind the scenes. As for the matter of the Shen family restaurant, he actually didn't take it to heart.

Yue'er's conjecture was gradually being realized in the Shen Family Restaurant at this time.

Shen Wuliang stood outside the door of the restaurant and looked at the Hu family restaurant in a daze, he probably guessed that the other party would have some strategies, but he didn't expect to be able to fight like this.

"There's nothing you can do." The Lu family, who walked out of the empty restaurant, looked at the Hu family teahouse in a daze.

Shen Wuliang took a deep breath and said slowly: "I have calculated, if the price is reduced according to him, I will probably lose three hundred taels of silver every month." This kind of price reduction is nothing more than for my Shen family restaurant, if it can drag them down, ....... ”

"Dragging?" Lu's face became more and more ugly, and she chuckled: "That's a relative of Governor Hu, how can we estimate how much wealth he has?" When the time comes, they don't cross us, but they cross first. ”

Shen Wuliang's method is also the only way, for the sake of today, we can only wait for the Hu family restaurant to not reduce the price, and those old customers of the Shen family will naturally come back, but it seems that the Hu family has set their sights on the Shen family restaurant.

Shen Wuliang pointed to a middle-aged man who walked into the restaurant and said disdainfully, "Did that adult see it?" The officials of Suzhou weaving used to come to our side, but now I am afraid that they are also like this in order to climb to Governor Hu. ”

In fact, this kind of thing only happened within two days, and the nobles who were still entertaining guests in the Shen Family Restaurant yesterday turned to the Hu Family Restaurant today, which in addition to the price deviation, there is also a part of the fear that it is also because of Hu Zongxian.

"The restaurant that was won so hard is why you have to throw it away like this? In fact, now that we have sold restaurants and houses, you and I can have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of our lives. ”

Listening to Lu's suggestion, Shen Wuliang's face changed slightly, and he suddenly laughed and said, "You're right, if you sell the house, you will have money." ”

Lu Shi glanced at the restaurant opposite that was thriving, and was extremely unwilling, but at this time, such a fate was actually good: "While the restaurant is still worth some money, it is better to sell it, so as not to become a drag in the future." ”

"Sell it." Shen Wuliang suddenly sneered, he looked at the Hu family restaurant and said disdainfully: "If we sell the house, we will have the capital to fight with him, I want to see who can win in the end." ”

If it were in normal times, the Lu family would definitely scold Shen Wuliang, but at this time she was a little hesitant, the Shen Wuliang in front of her was not at all like the weak waste she used to be, but a really terrible person, so she was silent