Looking at the large piece of land in front of him, Xie Youcai felt that it was too right to defect to Li Xiao at the beginning. This is a large piece of land outside the Xibian Gate, and some people think that it cannot be compared with the land in the capital. But Xie Youcai felt that this place was more valuable than the land inside the city walls.

After seeing the renderings of Li Xiao, Xie Youcai seemed to have a three-story building in front of him. A house made of cement with tiles embedded in the exterior walls. On a clear day, the sun shines on the white tiles, and the holy light makes people dare not look directly.

In Xie Youcai's heart, this is heaven. He has decided that no matter whether he will be punished by Li Xiao afterwards, he must build such a house. Father and mother have lived in the alley all their lives, if they can't live in such a house, Xie Youcai feels that he is a son of man in vain.

The identity is different, he is now Li Xiao's big shopkeeper in the capital, and Ai Husheng's most important subordinate. Li Xiao's business in the capital is all up to him. The world is like this, as long as you have money and power in your hands, the people who befriend you will surround you like flies.

Xie Youcai only sighed for a moment, and there were already a few guys standing beside him with smiles on their faces. There are old and young, and there are even customers who Xie Youcai served when he was a big teapot.

The guys who didn't even look at Xie Youcai before were now all hunched over with the most flattering smile on their faces. Standing next to Xie Youcai, he didn't dare to speak, for fear of affecting Xie Daguan's thoughts.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you were all introduced by the lords in the court. Some of them are entrusted, and some of them are bought and sold by the adults themselves. My Lao Xie is also a person who has been in Sijiu City for decades, so there is no need to say more.

A lot of materials are needed to build here, and as long as the quality is up to standard, it will be given to anyone. Since there is someone behind you, the business is yours. But let's talk about ugly things, our family wants to do word of mouth. Whoever sent the thing, don't blame my surname Xie.

The adults in my family are military men, and the family also practices military law. If the errand is really not done well, I don't want Lao Xie's head. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not coaxing you every day. Since the beginning of my family's origin in Liaodong, which battle is not a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. In the just-concluded Battle of Jinzhou, more than 10,000 Tartar heads were chopped. Xie Youcai turned around and glanced at those guys who were usually arrogant.

They are all the people who are in charge of the business from the adults' families, and they all have a heart of seven tricks.

"Xie Daguan said with a smile, doing business is to be honest. Although there are adults of the imperial court standing behind us, there will be no ambiguity in this business, as long as you find something shoddy, you can dig up my old Yu's tricks. Cui Chengxiu's housekeeper was old and swore to pat his chest.

This time the sale is a big fat meat, although the price is a little lower than the public price in the capital. It's a lot of people! There is no second buyer of this kind other than the Imperial Palace. is not an official eunuch, and there is no chance of getting this kind of business. Now that Xie Youcai is relieved, why don't you hurry up and finalize the matter?

"If that's the case, I'll thank someone, thank you." Xie You's consortium is a hand, and they are all in charge of the eunuchs, and there will be many things to use each other in the future. Mixed on the ground in the capital, what is mixed is that the head and the ground are familiar.

Li Xiao also had something to say when he left, Cui Chengxiu's family, as well as Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng, had to take care of their businesses. After all, they are all local snakes in the capital, and if they can't eat this bite of meat in their mouths, they won't be happy if they don't say it.

Now Xie Youcai still remembers Li Xiao's words, doing business should be a win-win situation, the guy who eats alone looks terrible, and he died the worst in the end.

Wise sayings! I have been in the capital for more than 30 years, and I have seen the rise and fall of many people. When there is power and money, many people hold it, and there are smiling faces around them. Once you are unlucky, those guys who hold you on weekdays and greet you with a smile when you see them are often the ones who step on you the hardest.

No matter what business Li Xiao does now, he is all pulling these adults. Xie Youcai often said, intentionally or unintentionally, that there are emperors and nine-thousand-year-old people in the business. When I went to the yamen in the capital to do business, the chief official personally came out to greet him. In the past, when I went to these yamen, those big men sat on them and used the tone of their subordinates to themselves. He shouted loudly at every turn, and his attitude was worse than that of the dog at the door.

Now they are all smiling, and they have to watch tea when they get to the lobby.

"Official, I waited for a table of wine in the hairpin building. Please also enjoy the light, and in the future, we will come and go often, and let us get closer and closer. "Lao Jiang, the steward of Tian Ergeng's family, is Jinyiwei. Although I didn't wear a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife today, the waist card of Jinyiwei was hung on my waist, and it was bright.

"Huh! Don't go to the hairpin building, my family opened a restaurant called Donglaishun. The food is quite unique, today I thank someone for a treat, let you old brothers also taste it. Xie Youcai smiled and arched his hand.

"Since it's Brother Xie's business, I'm going to join the show. Rest assured, in the future, my family's hospitality will be placed in Donglaishun. ”

They are all people who understand, and newly opened restaurants always have guests to cheer them on. Today, Xie Youcai said that he was a treat, but in fact it was a tasting. I just don't know what this Donglai Shun'er is. As long as it's not unpalatable, the field still has to be praised.

"Huh! In that case, brothers, please! ”

There is a three-story single-story building about two miles outside Dong'an Gate, covering an area of six or seven acres. Now all of them are surrounded by tall courtyard walls, and the atmospheric buildings have no cornices and arches, which look square-headed and square-headed. However, the exterior walls are all embedded in marble, and they are all people who have seen the world in the capital. But it's the first time I've seen a building with marble hanging on the exterior wall and a mirror-like surface.

The doors on the first floor are all floor-to-ceiling large glass windows, and the individual customers eating and drinking on the platform inside are clearly visible. There was a special place for carriages to park at the door, and the horses were led into the backyard. Such a building is reflected everywhere, and it looks so magnificent.

The front door faces four huge glass doors, all of which are white-steel edging. In front of the door hung a curtain of pearls, all of which were of the finest pearls, each the size of a thumbnail. The most wonderful thing is that under each curtain there is a small bell made of silver. It was blown by the wind and clanged, as if someone was playing music.

I don't dare to say anything else, I'm afraid there is no curtain in the palace.

Just as there is a plaque hanging on the head of the middle door, on which are written three large characters. Donglai Shun!

"Donglaishun? Dude, what does this mean? Old Qian raised his head and looked at the plaque and asked.

"My family is from Liaodong, which means that we people from Liaodong are doing business in the capital, and everything is going well."

"Oh, good signs, good signs." Old Yu Xiucai was born and liked this name quite a lot.

"Brother! The marble you ordered, just like that? Cui Yingyuan's housekeeper Lao Qian's eyes widened, Cui Yingyuan's family is in the stone business. From marble to white marble, but white marble is something that ordinary people dare not use. Not to mention the merchants, the use of marble in this place is not against the law. But the price is ......!

This year, the marble has to be transported from Henan to the capital, not to mention the old nose silver just for the freight. In the eyes of Lao Qian, this is not to put marble on the wall, but to put silver on the wall.

"That's how it works! In the future, the exterior walls of our houses will be like this. Every month, special personnel have to be sent to clean it. My family said that the first thing in this person's place is cleanliness. Hehe! ”

Several stewards glanced at each other, and they all secretly made up their minds. In any case, after the house is built, you have to find a way to get such a set. If you live in this kind of house, you will not come to the world in vain.

"Welcome!" As soon as they came to the door, two cleanly dressed little men smiled and bowed down and lifted the pearl curtain.

Stepping through the door, everyone was shocked again. The ground is also full of marble floor tiles, and the ground is as smooth as a mirror, but it is not slippery when you walk on it. No wonder last year, the price of marble in Beijing quietly rose by nearly one percent. It turned out to be all laid here!

"Shopkeeper, you're here. The private room on the third floor is ready for you. A guy in his thirties personally greeted him from inside.

"Okay, lead the way." On the ground of his own house, Xie Youcai is still full of aura.

The staircase is a foot wide with white marble and is bordered by black marble. The handrails of the staircase are made of yellow and clear brass, polished to a shiny tile. Some of the stupid ones thought it was made of gold and drooled over the railing. There's an urge to pry one and go home!

When you go up to the third floor, you can see the street in front of the palace from afar. Through the glass window, it is transparent. There are people who buy and sell in the market, and there are people who patrol the streets with knives. A gust of wind blew, raising the loess into the sky. People in the streets covered their mouths and noses, and some turned their backs to the street against the wall.

The sand hit the heavy glass with a "crackling" sound. But it doesn't hinder the people inside at all! In the spring of this capital, there is a strong wind and sand, and there will be strong winds every year. Elsewhere, I really don't dare to open the windows this season. You can't see it even more!

Glass is precious, and now it is only in the imperial court that it is qualified to change it. The three or four officials of the imperial court who were waiting for leisure failed to replace the windows of their homes with glass. Don't dare to say anything else, just this decoration, this restaurant dares to be called the only place in the capital.

There are bamboo woven ornaments on the walls, and some landscape paintings, which are not ordinary at first glance. Lao Li and Lao Zhang had some ink in their stomachs, and they were talking about the calligraphy scrolls.

"Brother, this decoration costs a lot of money." Lao Yu looked at the past, and there were strange things everywhere. Especially a strange chair in the room, which was soft to sit on. Lao Yu sat on it and was so frightened that he bulleted. Seeing Xie Youcai sitting on it, he sat down with a red face. When you touch it, it looks like it's leather.

"Huh! Dude, this thing is called a sofa. Sitting on it, Xuan Tengteng is far from being comparable to a circle chair. To be honest, we have to do things, and it's really enough to sit on the circle chair all day. This thing is fluffy, and it is all made of good cowhide. If the old brother needs it, the cheap shop will have it. I'll have someone send you a home set? ”

"Oh! That's a lot of thanks to my brother. ”

Customers need to be cultivated, and they are all in charge. Give one out, and they will definitely buy one for the master's house. Otherwise, the slave is better than the master, and this steward will not have to do it.

It is impossible for the master to have a wife, plus the more favored aunt in the family. Count the heads and send out these sets, at least 100 sets of sofas can be sold. The wool is out of the sheep, that Mr. Ai doesn't look young, and his ability to do business makes Xie Youcai admire it very much.

"Brothers, please be seated!" The copper-edged embroidered lotus partition door of the private room opened, and a very large round table appeared in the room. Eight handsome maids stood aside.

It's the first time I've seen this way of eating, and there are eight chairs under the table. On top of each chair, there is a copper pot, and the lid is "gurgling" and bubbling white.

The meat on the table is all raw, and the seafood is also raw. A fish is cut by a thousand knives and arranged in a fish shape one by one. There are also some vegetables that I don't know, and I don't know what kind of vegetables they are. It's just that this spring is not green, and it's not easy to have green vegetables to eat.

They were all people who had seen the world, and they sat down in their chairs one after another. As soon as I sat down, I realized that the chair was not softer than the sofa, but it was comfortable to sit on. In particular, the backrest has a bulge at the waist, which is particularly comfortable to lean on.

Everyone sat down, and the maids took a cloth as white as snow and surrounded each of them. Seeing that Lao Yu was a little surprised, Xie Youcai hurriedly explained: "Old brother, this thing should be dipped in sauce and eaten." It would be very unsightly to get out of the house, but you won't be afraid of this thing. ”

"I see!" Lao Yu made a big red face. The old money on the side secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't ask stupidly just now. It would be a shame if this was asked.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Xie Youcai knew that they didn't know how to eat this thing.

Smiling slightly, he picked up a delicate small porcelain bowl first. On the side shelf, scoop the various sauces. Stir in a bowl and grab a handful of parsley in it at the end.

"Ladies and gentlemen, make your own sauce with this sauce. This thing is made of sesame seeds and the sauce is the main ingredient, this is the red side, this is the leek sauce, this is the ......! Oh, this red one has to be noticed. It's called a chili pepper, and it's so spicy in your mouth that it looks like you're on fire. Attention guys! Xie Youcai introduced the sauce the same, and the little maid next to him kindly asked about everyone's taste. Then with fingers like shallots, he twisted up the silver soup spoon and scooped it into various sauces.

Stir well and place in front of you.

The lid of the pot was lifted, and the milky white soup inside had been boiled to the point of fish eye bubbles. A strong fragrance immediately spread in the private room.

Xie Youcai picked up a chopstick fish and put it in the soup pot for a while. Take it out and dip it in the sauce and eat!