Banniang said: "I also sent a hairpin to Sister Lu, sister to see if you like it, I am also familiar with Miss Wusan, the owner of Tai Ruixiang, if you don't like it, I will go back to you to change, if Sister Lu wants to go to Tai Ruixiang to order the head one day, only find the shopkeeper Lu Niangzi, said that it is my friend, Lu Niangzi will definitely give my sister a good price." ”

"I really didn't expect that you and Miss Wu still know each other, I have also seen her from afar, speaking of which, Miss Wu is really beautiful, never seen again, and I heard that she is a very capable person, has never had a chance to meet, and it is a pity, if there is a chance in the future, I invited the eighth sister to come to my house with her to play."

"Sister Wu is indeed a very likable person, if our restaurant is opened, we must invite her to have a show, and then introduce Sister Lu to her. If you want to come, you two must get along. ”

While talking, Lu Siniang opened the box, took out the silver hairpin, looked at it carefully, and said happily: "It's really chic and exquisite, it's not the same as the full house in other shops, and the hairpin is also okay, it's just a box, it's really an unusual thing, is it also equipped with Tai Rui Xiang shop?" ”

"Sister likes it," Banniang smiled, "This box is really special, really, this hairpin is not as good as the box, and it is also Tai Ruixiang, now when I go to her house to buy things, I will have this box, but the box is not only sold." However, because I knew the master who made the box for Tai Ruixiang in the past, I got some, if Sister Lu likes it, I will go back and pick two pieces, and I will send them to you one day. ”

This box Lu Siniang really likes tightly, holding it in his hand and looking left and right, and talking about the restaurant, because he heard Banniang say that he was sorting out the recipes when he was free these days, Lu Siniang said: "You and my brother are two practical things, because the eldest uncle went out to visit friends, no one cared about him, he soaked outside all day long in the past two days, and also said that he was looking for a suitable shop. ”

To say that the Song people are the most fond of eating out, the morning market, the morning shop is almost full, because it is sold cheaply, like a few people in the Banniang family, a person is full of ten cents, not much more than cooking at home, and it also saves trouble, and the same is true at night, and the small stalls in the night market are also overcrowded.

As for the guests at home to invite people or something, impatient to prepare at home, most of them go to the restaurant to book a whole table of seats, send them to the house, that is, do not order ready-made seats in the restaurant, you can also invite the cook to come to the house, everything is ready, you don't have to worry about it at all, as long as you pay for it, the service is thoughtful, and it is more than the world in which Banniang lived in her previous life, so the business of sprinkling the building, as long as the dish is good and the taste is good, it is not bad.

This is also the main reason why Banniang wants to open a restaurant in addition to relying on her own cooking skills.

I heard Lu Siniang say again: "My brother is looking for a relationship these days, and he wants to get the qualification to sell wine, so that he can add a lot of money to the restaurant, and he can also attract a lot of drinkers." ”

The Great Song Dynasty people are good wine, because of good wine, so even the court is reluctant to give up the profits of wine, generally some of the wine is monopolized by the yamen in various places, and the yamen through the method of buying Pu and then distributing the right to sell wine to each wine shop. Although there are some private liquor shops, the quality of the wine is much worse than that of the government-run wine.

Buying Puyuan is a way for the court to solve the tax, because some places are too small, the tax is not much, if the local yamen is responsible for collecting taxes, the personnel and other costs are too high, so I thought of a way, the implementation of a fixed tax, handed over to the local Shikun or some large merchants to collect, when the time is handed over to the tax department at that time to the original agreed taxes, and later this method was also used in other places, the method is a bit like the bidding in later generations. The one with the highest price wins.

Because the profit of liquor is too high, and because it is controlled by the yamen, it is really difficult to get the monopoly right of liquor, and more than 90% of the restaurants are taken from the shops that have the right to drink.

Therefore, when Banniang heard this, she was overjoyed and hurriedly asked: "Did you directly take the right to sell liquor, or did you find a source of goods to get the goods from elsewhere?" ”

Lu Siniang said with a smile: "Such a relationship is naturally directly taken the right to sell wine, and it is not long before the end of the year, after the New Year's Day, next year's wine camp should be moved, my brother bears the name of his uncle, and others always have to give a little face." ”

That's just as well.

Since Lu Siniang said this, Bacheng is a reliable thing. Banniang didn't ask any more.

Because I have to go home to cook dinner, now the family is very mouthful, so Wu and Qi Niang are in order to start, the chef's things, are all Banniang himself, seeing that it is not early, Banniang resigned Ji Siniang and Cang'er, and said that if you invite the two to play at home another day, you will go home.

When I went home, I saw that Wu and the two sisters-in-law were making fillings again, and Banniangqi said: "Aren't the moon cakes all ready?" How do you make the filling? ”

Wu replied: "The students in the school, each family has sent a gift to your second brother, because there are not so many return gifts for a while, it just so happens that my father and Erlang tasted this moon cake and did it well, and I think the metaphor is good, so let me make more, and then cook some duck eggs, and the Songhua eggs you made last time, and send some to the relatives in each family and clan as a return gift." ”

The moon cakes she originally made were very simple, Banniang didn't expect it to be so popular, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking that it would be improved in the future, and if it was launched as a dim sum in the restaurant, it would definitely be very popular.

Thinking like this, I started to try to make the stuffing more delicious than the one prepared in the morning, in order to be welcomed by the broad masses of the people in one fell swoop, and even save some advertising expenses in the future.

Early the next morning, duck eggs and Songhua eggs were served and sent to each family.

Surprisingly, Chai Shijiu, who was far away in Kaifeng Mansion in the capital, also sent someone to give gifts to the Zeng family.

From Kaifeng to Nanfeng, you have to take the Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then turn to the Yellow River, and go hand in hand by land and water, and you can't get to Nanfeng without more than a month.

This is a real journey, and the friendship between his own family and Na Chai Nineteen will never be able to reach this. His move is really inexplicable.

Zeng Zigu asked: "It's hard for your son-in-law to think that he has given gifts from afar, is your son-in-law now in Linchuan?" ”

Tong Mo replied: "Mr. Hui's words, my son-in-law has returned to Beijing since more than two months ago, and has never returned to Linchuan, just because the villain came back to Linchuan to do business, my son-in-law thought that the villain must return to Beijing after the festival, and read that when he was in Linchuan, he often troubled Miss Eight in the house to make a lot of snacks to send, and the old lady in the house also took care of my son-in-law very much, so he ordered the villain to bring some gifts to the house anyway, and the things sent were just some ordinary ingredients in Beijing, although they were not valuable, but they were a piece of my son-in-law's heart. In addition, my son-in-law also said that after thinking that Mr. Township has tested, he should enter Beijing to prepare for the examination, and then visit Mr. in person. ”

Originally, Uncle Ouyang Yong had recommended the brothers of the Zeng family to go directly to Beijing to participate in the first exam, so they did not need to participate in the township examination of the state capital at that time, but they were very anxious to enter Beijing at this time, and they were afraid that they would not be able to catch up with the time.

Speaking of other first examinations, it is different from the general township examination, because the Great Song Dynasty attaches great importance to the imperial examination, in order to avoid the children of wealthy families from participating in the imperial examination and affecting the selection of the poor scholars, so at the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the children of the noble family are strictly forbidden to participate in the imperial examination, only this provision affects the interests of those noble children, so later there is the so-called other first examination, and it also opens another way for the children of the noble family to enter the court as officials, but the difficulty of the other first test is much lower than the normal township test. This is also the reason why Zeng Zigu did not rush to Beijing and stayed in the local area to participate in the township test.

After listening to Tongmo's words, Zeng Zigu smiled and said: "Thank you for your son-in-law's concern, I have to wait until I enter Beijing, and then invite your son-in-law to meet." ”

After saying a few words, Tong Mo presented two letters and pondered: "These are two letters brought by Gongzi to the villain, one is for Mr., and the other is for Miss Fushang's eighth ......."

When Zeng Zigu heard this, he raised his eyebrows, but he was not good at dealing with a subordinate, so he only snorted and took the letter in Tong Mo's hand.

Tong Mo breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that Mr. Zigu, who was a famous Great Song Dynasty, looked gentle and warm, but his cold face was so scary. When he originally wrote to Miss Zeng Ba, he knew that this level was not easy, how could a young man send a letter to a little lady who had not yet left the cabinet? Although this letter is over the clear road, it is not a private gift, but in the end it is not very compliant, only his son-in-law insisted, what can he do as a subordinate?

Childe's handling of this matter this time is really unreliable.

Or did he ignore the letter and not give it to Miss Zeng Ba?

God, he still wants to live a few more years, if this is confiscated by the letter that Gongzi knows that he stayed up all night to write, how will he live in the future? With the character of the son, he can toss him to death.