Chapter 39: Nanxu Building
In the early morning of the next day, Shen Qingwu got up early and changed into a shirt, this time, it was not as delicate and gorgeous as yesterday, only a simple set of shallot-colored Suzhou embroidered grass flower moire short jacket with a lake blue horse-faced skirt, long hair tied back and combed a simple concentric bun, simple appearance, but still bright eyes and bright teeth.
When Mama Liu saw her dressing up, she couldn't help asking, "Miss, where are you going again?" ”
"Let's take a good look in Beijing today, go shopping, and loosen our muscles." Shen smiled lightly, didn't say anything to Mama Liu, only let her bring enough money to prepare the car, Mama Liu made the little ancestor confused, but she didn't ask in detail, let people prepare the car, talked back to Mrs., and went out with the family.
Sitting in the carriage of linoleum cloth, Shen Qingwu shook and shook with the body, and after getting down from the most prosperous street market in the capital, he looked around the street on both sides of the teahouse, tavern, pawnshop, and workshop, pinched his chin, and began to think in his heart.
Stepping on the bluestone slab road under his feet, Shen Qingwu wandered around in this bustling street market at will, and when he was tired of shopping, he sat on the tea stalls on both sides of the street, asked for a cup of tea, and looked at Wufangzhai on the opposite side of the endless flow of people, and couldn't help but say, "The business of this Wufangzhai is really good, this is not yet the point of eating, there are so many people, it is simply a daily gold." ”
"That's natural, the kitchen where people invite are all retired from the palace, or the veterans of the provinces, what birds and beasts, delicacies from the mountains and seas, can be made, the taste is across the street, all make people hang three feet, this rich nature eats there every day, and the rich people dream of going in to taste it in this life, from opening in the morning to closing at night, it has never stopped, and it is naturally a daily gold fight."
After hearing Shen Qingwu's self-talk, Xiao Er, who added tea, hurriedly smiled and spoke, and as soon as the words fell, she let Mama Liu beside her glance at herself and retreated.
"Miss, if you want to go to Wufangzhai for dinner, you can go in generously, and you have to sit in a dirty place here to do something, and Mama brought money." Mama Liu only thought that Shen Qingwu was thinking about going to Wufangzhai for a meal, and couldn't help but speak.
Shen Qingwu shook her head, she hadn't thought about how to get in, and after thinking about it for a long time, she decided to go home, or let Mama Liu go to her account office first and talk to her.
Shen Qingwu's bookkeeper was the manager of the dowry, shop, and grange for her when she got married, and he was over forty years old and named Wei Liang. As soon as he heard Shen Qingwu looking for him, he thought he wanted to check the accounts, and he came to see Shen Qingwu with a large stack of account books.
"Miss, are you looking for me?" The ledger blocked the figure, which startled Shen Qingwu, who was thinking about things in the room.
"Uncle Wei, I came to you because I had something to say to you, what are you doing with these?"
"I thought that the young lady wanted to check the accounts, so I brought these things." Wei Liang put down the stack of ledgers in his hand and placed them on the table next to him, and said with a simple smile.
"You have followed me for many years, I can trust you, naturally there is no need to check you suddenly, I came to you to ask you, if I want to take down Wufangzhai now, how much silver will I need? Or, instead of pleasing him, I bought another shop like him on his street, how much silver did it cost? ”
Miss, that Wufangzhai is such a place to make money every day, you let them sell shops, or don't think about it, Wufangzhai is the most lively place in the capital, and the wine shop and tea shop on the street are also the same, not to mention, it is a tea shop that sets up a stall there, and the income is also very expensive, not to mention the shops there, it is difficult to find a shop at all, but Miss does not have to buy a shop, when Miss got married, the old lady gave you a dowry There is such a set of shops, ready-made, now it is a tea shop, and the monthly income is about 1,300 taels, Calculated as a good income, I don't know what the lady wants to do with that shop? ”
Although Wei Liang is a wooden person, his ability to settle accounts is extremely fast, as soon as Shen Qingwu's voice fell, he immediately replied, Shen Qingwu thought for a moment, and continued.
"Is the tea shop far away from Wufangzhai?"
"It's not far, it's across the street, it's very close."
"Done! Then it was demolished and a craftsman was found to decorate it. ”
Wei Liang asked Shen Qingwu to call him brainlessly, and after a good question, he couldn't help frowning, and he didn't know what this little ancestor was discussing, as soon as he heard that this little ancestor was going to dismantle the shop and rebuild it, Wei Liang couldn't touch the north all of a sudden, and only looked at Mama Liu behind Shen Qingwu, Mama Liu only looked at him and motioned him to go down and do it.
In three days, Shen Qingwu scattered all the 50,000 taels of silver in his name and bought three shops on the street, demolished the decoration with his own tea shop, and sold the two Zhuangzi in his hand together, exchanged for 30,000 taels of silver, and handed it to Wei Liang, and gave Wei Liang a decoration map that he instructed and invited a special person to draw.
It's another conversation after dinner!
During these days, Shen Qingwu was busy inside and out all day long, so Wei Liang found a proper steward, shopkeeper, Xiao Er, and the people in the back kitchen, opened a new courtyard outside, taught the dishes in the back kitchen one by one, wrote the menu, wrote the steps, and also went out one by one in the whole courtyard, one by one, one by one.
Wei Liang chose people carefully, more than 20 cooks are all honest characters like him, and they are all willing to endure hardships, and a few of them are also elves, who know how to bring forth the new, so they have been busy for nearly three months, the decoration of the store has come to an end, and the cooks' craftsmanship has reached the point of perfection.
Shen Qingwu sent five cooks to the Shen Mansion to cook dishes for the family, while the others stayed in the building, waiting for the restaurant to open.
At that time, the silver was spent like flowing water, and Shen Qingwu's dowry had already been sold, except for the head jewelry at the time of marriage, even the chest of drawers was sold cleanly, Mama Liu looked at the silver that was drifting in the water, and the pain was beyond words, but Shen Qingwu still felt that it was not enough, on this day, when she got up in the morning, she looked at her jewelry box and started to calculate.
"Little ancestor, can you sell this box of jewelry anymore, if you sell it again, there will be nothing in the future, your loss-making business, only can't get in, but how can it be good."
In the past three months, before and after, I can't wait to spend all the 100,000 taels of silver, so far, the wine shop has been renovated, and it is still empty there, and there are many people eating underneath.
Shen Qingwu thought about it, even if she sold these, it was indeed a little worse, and after thinking about it, she couldn't help but move her mind, and only asked Mama Liu what dishes she had prepared on the stove today.
Mama Liu just read the menu, and hurriedly replied, "A first-grade official swallow has been prepared on the stove today, to make up for Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Shao, and the dishes next to it include a product of tofu, three immortal balls, lotus leaf porridge, meat stuffed eggs, and roast duck burritos are all prepared according to the taste of the young lady, what does Miss want to add?" ”
"No, pack a portion of these dishes, let's go into the palace." Shen Qingwu listened to Mama Liu report the name of the dish, couldn't help nodding, and said to Mama Liu with a smile.
Mama Liu got the order and only went down to do it, and Shen Qingwu had already asked Su Ge and Su Xin to change into a set of magpie annunciation Shu embroidered silk placket long skirts, a red pomegranate Su embroidered cloak covered with gray squirrel skin, a spirit snake bun, and a pair of ruby bat patterns inlaid with glass beads on each hairpin on the bun, trembling branches and golden steps, lightly applying powder, got into the carriage, and went towards the palace gate.
In the middle of the day, Su Heng in the Taihe Hall will go down to the court, and when he heard that Shen Qingwu asked to see him, he was stunned at first, and then asked Li Quan to call her in, under the orange warm light in the winter day, Shen Qingwu stepped on the lotus step and smiled with a smile on his face, Su Heng actually felt that Shen Qingwu at this moment was like a fox.
"Dancing lightly to the emperor to say goodbye." It is an ordinary family ceremony, Shen Qingwu has been used to being skinny in front of Su Heng since he was a child, and he has never had rules, and Su Heng has never cared about it.
"If you don't have anything to do, you will come to me to find me, what difficulties did you encounter?" Su Heng's subordinates no longer pay attention to Shen Qingwu all the time, knowing that she has recently spent a lot of money to build next to the best restaurant in Beijing, covering a three-story small building.
"Brother Mo Ruo, cousin, I really have something to ask you here, can you lend me your official kiln and burn something for me?" Shen Qingwu played with Laipi, only looking innocent and cute, and said to Su Heng.
"What do you want to burn?" Su Heng asked her to say this, and she was interested, and she couldn't help but say
Shen Qingwu saw that there was hope, and hurriedly handed over the drawings hidden in his arms to Li Quan, who presented them to Su Heng, on the drawings, the drawing was a rectangular hollowed-out cabinet-like object, with a height of about forty-five feet and a length of fifteen feet.
"You girl came to me to fight the autumn breeze?" Su Heng, who was accustomed to frugality, looked at the drawing, smiled wryly and frowned, and raised his voice.
"Cousin, don't say that, why did you come here with the autumn wind, I brought a gift, or else, you taste it first, after tasting it, I'm thinking about whether to help me hit this cover, I have an urgent need, you don't think it can be done."
Shen Qingwu can't help it, if she didn't really have no money, she wouldn't have hit this cousin who has always been treacherous, but the resources on the family are too rich, with a look, Mama Liu opened the food box in her hand and presented the dishes in it in front of the emperor one by one.
Only one first-grade official swallow, the soup is mellow and elegant, crystal clear, fragrant and fragrant, Li Quanguang looked at it, his index finger moved, scooped a bowl and handed it to Su Heng, Su Heng only tasted it and felt that it was tender and smooth, and the fresh fragrance was abnormal, and it was really a top-grade dish, which may not be comparable to that of the imperial dining room.
As soon as Shen Qingwu saw his expression, he knew that the matter was half done, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile, "Cousin, if you like it, I can assign a cook to you, you just need to help me build this crystal cabinet, if my cousin is willing, you can also splash ink with a pen and give me a plaque for this small restaurant, then it will be even more perfect!" ”
Eating people with a short mouth, Su Heng can be regarded as planted in the hands of this girl, pursing his lips and frowning, he asked Li Quan to take the drawings to the official kiln and let people burn the things that Shen Qingwu wanted, and then, with a piece of paper, wrote the words "Nanxulou".
Shen Qingwu looked up and stood on his feet, but saw that Su Heng also whispered, "The green trees in the south of the street are in spring, and the snow is full of spring roads." Your dish has the taste of Jiangnan March, and this name is very appropriate for you to make a restaurant! ”
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