Chapter 41: The Legend of the White Snake

Wangfu Restaurant has expanded its scale and changed its business model, and if today's business is said to be second in Huzhou Mansion, no one dares to recognize the first!

Even Tingyinlou is now in a disadvantage, and it is difficult to look back!

Chunlai Restaurant, the predecessor of Wangfu Restaurant, was a business of scholars and peddlers, and its reputation was not small, but the income could only be regarded as a midstream level in terms of the entire Huzhou restaurant.

After the palace was put under control and the entire Huzhou Mansion knew that this restaurant was the property of King Yong, the business was still not much better.

This situation really made Zhu Houwei a little unexpected, in his original opinion, as the industry of the palace, who would dare not give face to the top and bottom of the Huzhou Mansion, whether it is an official or a wealthy gentry?

Even if you don't treat the palace restaurant as a canteen, isn't it the right thing to take care of the restaurant's business from time to time?

However, Zhu Houwei thought wrongly, and it was outrageously wrong, in this era, the officials have always taken a superficial respectful attitude towards the vassal kings in their jurisdictions, but in fact they are disdainful, as long as the vassal kings are not okay to come out of the demons, the officials must hope that they will be out of sight.

When the Wangfu Restaurant opened, it was impossible for the official not to give face, so the officials on the Huzhou territory would come to cheer a few times, but after a few times, it was like that.

As long as the vassal king does not make it clear that the chariot and horse want to rebel, as long as the fiefdom is not a miasma, the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people even to the point of forcing the people to rebel, then the magistrate can only endure it even if he hates.

Because the magistrate is a rogue official, he can leave as soon as his term of office is up, who will have nothing to offend the vassal king, he really wants to offend, with the urine of the Ming royal family's calf, the career is light.

But Zhu Houwei is too low-key, so low-key that if it weren't for the huge Yongwang Mansion there, the people of Huzhou Mansion might not know that this is Yongwang's domain.

The low-key Zhu Houwei is not enough to make the officialdom more awe-inspiring, since he is not so awe-inspiring, after the opening of the Wangfu Restaurant has given him enough face, it is natural to be how it should be.

In addition, the restaurant wants to retain customers, relying on taste and culture, as for the wine, it is really nothing, the wine is similar these years, and no one is more noble than anyone else.

However, the Wangfu Restaurant bought the surrounding expansion, at least in terms of scale, it is already the leading restaurant in Huzhou Mansion, and the guests who invite guests do not want face, and the scale of the Wangfu Restaurant is one of the faces.

The scale alone is far from enough, but when the new wine of Wangfu Restaurant came out, it suddenly detonated the entire Huzhou City!

There is a hint of spiciness, but when you drink it in your mouth, you don't have a spicy voice with high alcohol on the market, so this kind of drink has naturally become a favorite of men!

There will never be a shortage of audiences for high-alcohol wine, and greedy drinkers can also be called drunkards, who can be the word alcoholic, as long as they drink the new wine of Wangfu Restaurant, who wants to drink those low-alcohol wines and inferior high-quality wines!

However, the price of the new wine in the palace restaurant is really too expensive, and it is really not something that ordinary diners can consume, which is also face for banquets, men have face, as long as there are high-rollers with silver, who cares about spending more silver!

The scale has supported the face of the Wangfu Restaurant, and the new wine has given the restaurant face and lining, but the high wine money is destined to only be able to keep the high-rollers who don't care about spending money and only care about the face.

High-end restaurants are positioned as high-end consumption, this concept cannot be miscalculated, but in today's era, if you want to adhere to this concept, you will inevitably sacrifice popularity!

In the service industry, popularity always comes first!

So what do restaurants use to make low-end consumers flock to them?

The answer is the dishes!

Today's cooking methods are rich enough, but the use of oil has not been able to get rid of the category of lard and rapeseed oil, lard is too greasy to eat, although rapeseed oil stir-fry is fragrant, but it is easy to destroy the original taste of the ingredients!

However, the Wangfu Restaurant does not exist, because the Wangfu Restaurant uses a unique clear oil, that is, the salad oil of later generations.

The dishes fried in clear oil extracted from sunflower seeds and peanuts are delicious, and will not destroy the original taste of the ingredients at all.

But the fundamental reason why Wangfu Restaurant really made it the first in Huzhou Mansion, and now it wants to book a table and even wait until a month later is because of the addition of geisha!

Gentle and moving, youthful and gorgeous, the geisha singing small songs make diners have a great appetite, so that both high-rollers and low-end diners are full of yearning for Wangfu Restaurant!

At this time, "The Legend of the White Snake" was being performed on the lobby stage of the main building of the Royal Restaurant.

The story of the White Snake can be said to be a household name in later generations, and Zhao Yazhi's interpretation is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and then swept the north and south of the country.

In fact, the legend of the White Snake originated from the Tang Dynasty, which is the story of the love of the man and the snake and finally got married, and the artistic packaging was carried out in the Song Dynasty.

But now the restaurant stage is performing a joke similar to the difference between the later generations, from the white snake coming out of the mountain to Xu Shilin's rescue of his mother, the scenes are completely interpreted according to the script, and it takes almost two months to complete all the performances!

This kind of performance, which is different from storytelling and similar to drama, but completely abandons the lyrics of geisha, is almost subversive, and countless diners go from being disapproving at the beginning to being deeply attracted and finally wanting to stop.

In order to watch the complete "The Legend of the White Snake", some gentry even directly chartered the second and third floor boxes of the main building......

In this way, the restaurant is making money every day!

At this time, in the box on the second floor, officials such as the Tongzhi and Tongju of the Huzhou Mansion were holding a banquet to receive the wind for the newly appointed prefect Feng Rui.

The former prefect Yin Wenyao's three-year term of office has expired, and he has been transferred to the capital in the comprehensive evaluation, and the future is bright in the household department.

"Your Excellency, please." Tongzhi Lin Zhi toasted with a cup.

Feng Rui took a sip of the cup, and said with a slight squint in his eyes: "This wine is good, very good, let the restaurant send a hundred catties to the mansion, and the mansion will withdraw the wine money."

"This ......," Lin Zhi was a little confused about how to respond.

"What? This mansion uses silver to buy wine, what is the difficulty of Lord Lin? Seeing that Lin Tongzhi seemed to be a little unspeakable, Governor Feng was suddenly full of doubts.

As the prefect of Huzhou, it is the honor of the restaurant owner to let the restaurant send wine to the house, so dare the restaurant refuse!

As for the wine money, of course I will give it, and I just give a little money left and right......