Beihai City is small because it has only two main streets, horizontal and vertical, and the main streets are flanked by the heart of the city. Most of the shops and markets in government restaurants are concentrated around these two main streets. However, in a sense, Beihai City is not small, because in addition to these two main streets, there are hundreds of alleys and alleys like cobwebs all over the city, and nearly 70,000 people live in these grids.

In the southeast of Beihai City, the tributaries of the Daqing River pass through, and where there is water, it naturally becomes a prosperous area. Most of the houses near the water are the residences of local wealthy families, and there are luxuriant flowers and trees, pavilions and water pavilions, and flowers where there is more than ordinary life. And this enjoyment can only belong to large families with wealth.

For decades, the southeast corner of Beihai City has been a gathering place for large families in Beihai County, but in fact, the number of people is not large, and there are less than 100 households in the entire Beihai County who are really rich. Dozens of families still live in the county seat under their jurisdiction, and there are less than 50 households in Beihai City. The owner of Beihai Restaurant, Qian Santong, is one of them, or one of the best.

Qian Santong was originally from Hangzhou, and when he was very young, he worked as a young man in a luxury restaurant in Hangzhou. Clever and unwilling, he deliberately approached the spoon master to curry favor, in order to steal his cooking skills, especially his master of cooking West Lake fish, which is the unique housekeeping skill of every spoon master.

Once, when Qian Santong was stealing the ingredient recipe of the master in charge, he was caught red-handed. Stealing other people's cooking secrets is a taboo in the industry, so in order not to sit in the class, Qian Santong had to take out all his savings to settle the matter, and since then he can no longer gain a foothold in Hangzhou City, because his bad reputation has been spread, no one wants to hire him to do work anymore, and they are worried that the family thief will be difficult to prevent.

Qian Santong, who was penniless, had no choice but to leave the place of birth and seek a way to make a living elsewhere. A few years later, he wandered to Beihai County by chance. At that time, Beihai Restaurant was not too famous, just a small restaurant, and the shopkeeper's name was Sun Laoba, who was an honest person, and he lived alone with a daughter supporting the store. Qian Santong didn't want to be paid, he only asked for food and a place to sleep, and persuaded Sun Laoba to take him in.

Sun Lao is eight years old, and he has already worked hard, and a young and strong helper who does not need to be paid is what he urgently needs. Moreover, this money three-way is also quick and diligent, and does things in an orderly manner, Sun Laoba is very satisfied with him.

However, soon after, Sun Laoba found that something was wrong, he found that his only daughter Aunt Mei seemed to be a little wrong, she retched at every turn, her face was sallow and her body was sweating, as a person who came over, Sun Laoba realized that she was afraid that something was wrong, so he closed the door and asked Aunt Mei harshly. Aunt Mei had no choice but to tell the fact that she was lured by Qian Santong and lost her body and became pregnant. Sun Lao was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and his first reaction was to report to the official and take the money three links, but when he thought of Aunt Mei's reputation and his own reputation, he couldn't do so.

Sun Laoba thought about it, although he hated Qian Santong to the core, but it seemed that there was no remedy other than marrying his daughter to him. So Qian Santong turned into a son-in-law of the Sun family. Although the matter subsided, Sun Laoba was depressed after all, and over time his body became ill, and he died a few years later. Sun Laoba can also be regarded as a little scheming, before he died, he secretly gave his life savings to his daughter Aunt Mei, and warned Aunt Mei that the money was in case of emergency, and that she must not take it out unless she had to, that is, Aunt Mei's own life in the future.

Because Sun Laoba has seen clearly in a few years, Qian Santong doesn't like his daughter at all, and the reason why he seduces Aunt Mei is to take away his own property, because his daughter Aunt Mei is ugly, and Qian Santong is dignified, it is impossible to take a fancy to his daughter.

Of course, in order to reassure Qian Santong's heart, Sun Laoba still handed over the small Beihai Tavern to Qian Santong, hoping that Qian Santong would be better to his daughter.

However, only one year after Sun Laoba's death, Aunt Mei couldn't stand Qian Santong's rhetoric, and took out all the savings left by her father to let Qian Santong expand Beihai Restaurant and expand the scale of business. When Aunt Mei had no savings to come up with, Qian Santong began to scold Aunt Mei for unwarranted trouble. After a few years, he had enough of facing the ugly Aunt Mei Qian Santong, he found all kinds of reasons to scold and insult Aunt Mei, and finally on the anniversary of Sun Laoba's death, he drove Aunt Mei out of the house with a letter of resignation, completing the last step of occupying the Sun family's property.

I have to say that Qian Santong does have some business talents, and his experience in Hangzhou is also his valuable experience, and he has also seen the power of collusion between merchants and the government. First of all, he improved the dishes he stole to meet the tastes of local diners, and then he actively befriended the people in the government, entertained them to eat and drink for free, and honored some money and goods every year. Every time someone in the government or a celebrity arrives in Beihai County, someone will take them to Beihai Restaurant, when they are full of wine and food, celebrities inscribe poems, officials pass it down, and Beihai Restaurant has become the first restaurant in Beihai in 20 years.

Once famous, the taste of the dish is actually not the point, even if a plate of fried vegetables, if a celebrity has praised him for its deliciousness, or if he has a poem or two, Qian Santong can sell the cabbage for the price of meat.

After Li Yong, the new Taishou of Beihai County, took office, Qian San informed him that this Li Taishou was a master who loved to eat and play, and naturally wanted to climb the friendship. But what I didn't expect was that although Li Taishou loved to eat and play, he didn't accept a penny from him. Although I also brought Baume & Mercier and friends to Beihai Restaurant to drink and eat, I paid the bill in full every time and owed nothing. Qian Santong's heart has always been hanging, although the business is still thriving, but no one supports him and always feels uncomfortable.

Fortunately, in the spring of this year, there was a new farewell to the capital, and when it was discovered that he was the prince's brother-in-law, Qian Santong immediately decided to climb into this person's relationship. His relationship seems to be more useful than Li Yong's. Li Yong is already sixty-nine years old, and he will have to become a priest in another year, and the relationship will not last long.

Qian Santong invested a lot of money and took out 20% of the shares to give to Liu Ji, hoping to establish a solid official and business relationship with Liu Ji. After Li Yongzhishi, it is very likely that Liu Ji will be the new Taishou of Beihai County, and by that time, he will have countless ways to make more money. As long as Liu Ji gives him secret support and gives him all kinds of preferential treatment and care.

However, good dreams are hard to last, and the world is unpredictable. That night more than ten days ago, a frightening scene appeared in front of him, he was tied up by a group of people in his sleep, gagged and put in a bag, and was robbed like a cloud of fog. After being let go, he saw several other bigwigs in Beihai County, as well as his recent hot and hot Liuji.

Later, he understood that Liu Bei had committed a crime, and the soldiers and horses in the capital had come to Beihai to take him, and the matter of secretly bribing him with 20% of the shares was also exposed. In addition to taking 20% of his own shares, Liu Ji also received a lot of huge amounts of property from other people, this guy is an insatiable person.

He thought that he would be unlucky, and he regretted not falling, he knew how heavy the sin of bribing officials was in the laws of the Tang Dynasty. This time, I'm afraid that half of my life's efforts will be in vain. But it seems that his good luck is not over yet, except for the fact that he was beaten up for a few words in order to show his loyalty to Liu Ji when the situation was unknown, the final result was that he was put home unharmed.

Looking at Liu Ji's expression, it is obvious that he has reached an agreement with the official from the capital, and from the situation at the time and the situation in the intermittent words, it can be judged that this agreement is not trivial, and the name of Li Yong, as well as the names of other strangers, made Qian Santong frightened. He knew that the more unfamiliar names he heard, the more troublesome the matter became.

Before they were released, the diminutive official in the capital with a pair of frightening eyes like a falcon gave them a lecture.

The official asked himself and the others to stay in seclusion after returning home, not to talk too much, to wait for the summons from the government, and to cooperate with the upcoming inquiry. The official asked everyone to heed his call at some point and do what he needed them to do, and after doing that, the matter between him and Liu Ji was wiped out, and no one was held accountable. Otherwise, they will be greeted with the severity of the law.

When the official said what needed to be done, everyone was stunned and understood the purpose of the people coming from the capital.

The first thing Qian Santong did after returning home was to quickly eradicate all the poems inscribed by Li Yong in the restaurant, and these poems that were used to attract people in the past became eye-catching spikes.

After hiding at home for a few days, some news came from outside that the capital was investigating the case, and it was Li Yong's case of embezzlement of public money. Qian San informed that he would be called to do that thing anytime and anywhere, and he hadn't slept well at all these nights, of course, not because he felt guilty for doing that thing, but purely because he had never encountered such a thing in his life, so he was very nervous.