Zhou Yu walked around the kitchen, asking each chef about the dishes one by one, most of them just listened to the method and looked at the finished product. Except for a dish called Tendon Chun, which is cooked with diced quail meat in a frying method, and Zhou Yu disputed the cooking time.

There were different opinions, there was no other way, Zhou Yu still made a copy according to his own ideas, compared with the chef's work, it was not surprising that Zhou Yu made a better taste.

Several chefs in the palace finally saw that this young man was not an ordinary person, maybe it was a chef from somewhere who came to steal the master, so they hurriedly reported the situation to Steward Li.

Although Steward Li didn't like Zhou Yu to see him, he still said: "You can teach him, this is the chef of His Highness's own restaurant." After the person who reported it left, Steward Li muttered to himself, "That guy is really so powerful? ”

After receiving Steward Li's instructions, the chefs did not hide it, and handed over their own specialty dishes to Zhou Yu, without the need for actual operation, just to inform the practice, which also saved a lot of time for everyone. Zhou Yu added more than ten or twenty dishes to his mind, and he left the palace kitchen satisfied.

Zhou Yu was about to say goodbye to Chen Jin, but was stopped by Steward Li.

"Gongzi Zhou, someone is coming to the palace, His Royal Highness is receiving him, please wait for Gongzi." Steward Li said.

Since it was someone from the palace, Zhou Yu naturally didn't want to bother, and was about to retreat, when eunuchs walked out accompanied by Chen Jin.

"Your Highness, the slave will return to Beijing to hand over the decree." The eunuch bowed.

"Father-in-law Lian has a good trip!" Chen Jin returned the salute. It stands to reason that Chen Jin, who is the king of Yu, does not need to give a salute to a eunuch, but this eunuch came by the emperor's will, and Chen Jin should also return the salute.

Seeing off Lian's father-in-law, Chen Jin found Zhou Yu waiting on the side.

"Old Zhou, why are you still standing, come into the house and sit!" Chen Jin greeted warmly.

"Old Zhou?!" Hearing Chen Jin's address to Zhou Yu, Steward Li's eyes suddenly widened.

"I heard Steward Li say that there are people in the palace, and I don't want to disturb me, just wait outside!" Zhou Yu, who entered the main hall, found a stool and sat down.

"You really should have come in, the people in this palace are here because of you!" Chen Jin said with a smile.

"Coming at me?" Zhou Yu was a little suspicious of his ears.

"Yes, last time you sent wine, I picked two jars to offer to my father, and his old man was very happy, and rewarded me with five hundred taels of gold and three hundred brocades. You say, is this coming at you? ”

"If it's not a reward for me, how can it be regarded as coming at me?"

"Who's to say it isn't? I have thought about it carefully, if it were not for the wine you sent, there would be no such rewards, and these gold brocades are all you deserve, and I have decided to give them to you! Chen Jin said generously.

Sake red face, gold heart. With so much money, it would be false to say that Zhou Yu was not impressed. But after all, it was the emperor's reward to King Yu, what did he say if he was taken by an outsider?

"Forget it, this is your father's reward for you, what's the matter if I take it?" Zhou Yu shook his head and said.

"My father rewarded me, so won't it be over if I reward you? What's not to say? Chen Jin said firmly.

Zhou Yu saw that he had made up his mind, so he said: "Then let's do it, this money will be used as the non-operating income of our restaurant, and dividends will be distributed according to the shares, I will be six and you will be four, how about it?" Zhou Yu gave a very valuable proposal.

Chen Jin thought for a while and said, "That's fine! So he gave sixty percent of it to Zhou Yu, that is, three hundred taels of gold and one hundred and eighty brocades. In this era, the ratio of gold to silver was one to ten, which means that Zhou Yu's assets increased by another three thousand taels of silver. And Zhou Yu thought that the brocade was inconvenient to carry, so he asked Chen Jin to send someone to his new residence.

After talking about the bounty, Zhou Yu began to talk to Chen Jin about the restaurant again.

"The wine I sent to you last time was distilled and purified with the wine in your house, so the cost of the wine obtained is too high and the yield is low, and it is impossible to promote it on a large scale." Zhou Yu said.

"Last time you said there was a more powerful brewing process, is it true?" Chen Jin asked.

"Of course it's true, can I lie to you?" Zhou Yu glanced at him with disgust: "Most of the wine on the market is made from glutinous, but this process is not advanced enough, and the alcohol content in the wine is very low, let me tell you a method, you can make high-concentration spirits......" Before Zhou Yu finished speaking, he found that Chen Jin was looking at him with confused eyes, so he stopped and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"What is 'alcohol concentration'?" Chen Jin asked.

Zhou Yu then remembered that there was no such statement in this era, but if he explained it from a professional point of view, he was afraid that Chen Jin would not understand, so he chose the simplest statement: "You don't care what the alcohol concentration is, you just need to know that within a certain range, the higher the alcohol concentration, the more fragrant the wine will be, and the stronger the taste, and vice versa." ”

"Does that mean that the higher the alcohol concentration, the better it tastes?" Chen Jin asked.

"Theoretically, this is true, but if the alcohol concentration in the wine is too high, it will hurt the body if you drink it, so I said that it should be within a certain range." Zhou Yu explained.

"And what does that range look like?" Chen Jin's curiosity was aroused, after all, Emperor Wen liked wine the most, and he definitely had to inquire about these things clearly.

"Spirits are forty degrees, forty-five degrees, forty-eight degrees, fifty-three degrees, sixty-two degrees, sixty-eight degrees. But generally 40 to 53 degrees is enough to drink, and drinking too high a concentration of alcohol is not good for the body. Zhou Yu said.

"What does 'forty degrees' mean?" Chen Jin didn't understand again.

"Let's take a jar of wine as an example, to put it simply, 40 degrees means that the volume of wine accounts for 40%, and the volume of water accounts for 60%." Zhou Yu continued to explain.

"What's the volume?"

“……”

It took Zhou Yu a lot of energy to finally make Chen Jin understand what was going on with the concentration of the wine.

"I already know about this concentration, so you can continue to talk about this method of brewing." Chen Jin nodded.

Zhou Yu shouted three times in his heart at this moment: Thank God!

"Winemaking is inseparable from koji, we must first do a good job in the production ......of koji," Zhou Yu told Chen Jin several methods of making koji and winemaking.

"But according to what you said, this winemaking business requires not only people, but also a special winemaking workshop?" Chen Jin asked.

"That's right, a restaurant is a restaurant, no wine is not a building, wine is the key to the establishment of a restaurant. Our wine-making method is incomparable to other workshops, and must be kept strictly confidential, so as to ensure the first competitiveness of our restaurant! Zhou Yu said seriously.

"How about placing this workshop in Xiaolong Village? It is your place of residence, and it is convenient for you to start your work. Chen Jin proposed.

"No! Xiaolong Village is some distance away from Luozhou City, and the transportation is inconvenient, and the transportation of large quantities of wine is a problem, so our winery must be opened in the city, even if it is on the edge of the city. Zhou Yu immediately rejected Chen Jin's proposal.

"But in this hurry, where can I find such a big workshop?" Chen Jin also made a difficulty.

"There are two ways. First, you ask someone to find it, ask if there is a shop for sale, and we will buy him; Second, buy a ready-made liquor workshop directly and let them make wine using the new process. Zhou Yu gave a plan.

"I think this second method is good, but there are many wine workshops in this city, which one should be better?" Chen Jin pondered.

"The biggest." Zhou Yu said without hesitation.

"Okay, then I'll ask someone to ask immediately." Chen Jin called his subordinates and ordered the task.

"Do you remember the plan I told you last time about the restaurant?" Zhou Yu asked.

"Of course I remember, didn't you say that you would invite a famous local squire in Los Angeles to have a meal first? I've written a list of people to feast on, so take a look. Chen Jin handed the list to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu glanced at it, and a name caught his attention.

Liu Quan, Liu Yuanwai, is the Liu Yuanwai who wants to marry Feng Yue.

"Can this person's name be removed?" Zhou Yu pointed to Liu Quan's name and asked Chen Jindao.

"There's no problem with removing it, but this Liu Yuanwai is also a famous squire in Luozhou, why don't you want him to come?" Chen Jin asked.

"This person is not right, and when I was injured, he tried every possible way to marry Xiaoyue to be the fifth lady." Zhou Yu said hatefully.

When Chen Jin heard this, he didn't dissuade him anymore, and said, "Then remove Liu Quan from the banquet list?" ”

Zhou Yu's eyes flashed with a fierce light, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then responded: "No, no, let him come, how can I clean him up if he doesn't come?" ”

"Is there anything I need to do?"

"You can choose to watch the play, or get involved in the acting......"

Zhou Yu told Chen Jin about his plan.

"You're not a fuel-efficient lamp!" Chen Jin sighed.

"Who's not?" Zhou Yu replied.

Because he told Feng Yue in advance that he would not go back to eat at noon, Zhou Yu stayed in Yuwang's Mansion for lunch. Zhou Yu tasted the dishes made by the cooks, and after his guidance, the taste really improved.

"Lao Chen, I didn't say you, your chef is at an average level in our restaurant." After eating, Zhou Yu said teasingly.

"Then why don't you transfer two cooks from the restaurant to me?" Chen Jin asked rhetorically.

"That's okay, there are only five cooks in the restaurant plus me, and I can't be busy, how can I transfer it to you!" Zhou Yu ruthlessly rejected Chen Jin's request.

It happened that the people of the palace came back with the feedback of the purchase of the winery, and out of respect for the king of Yu, the owner of the winery offered 1,200 taels. Zhou Yu and Chen Jin contributed their own funds according to the proportion, and after sorting out, the winery could start making wine in a new way the next day, but it would take half a month of fermentation to produce wine. There is no way, before that, you can only use distilled spirits to deal with it first.

After sitting for a while, Zhou Yu went to the restaurant again, and by the way, he tested the cooking skills of the four teenagers. Under Zhou Yu's careful teaching, the cooking skills of several teenagers have been on par with the chefs of the palace.

Zhou Yu nodded with satisfaction, and checked the opening time with Lao Zhang.

"Xiao Yu, this decoration has been completed, just wait for you to speak, and choose the opening time!" Lao Zhang said brightly.

"I estimate that it will only be three to five days, has the renovation of the backyard been completed?" Zhou Yu asked again.

"It's already done, everyone can move in at any time! It's just ......" Lao Zhang hesitated.

"What's it?" Zhou Yu frowned and asked.

Lao Zhang pulled Zhou Yu aside and whispered: "We are all men, it doesn't matter if we live together, but those four girls can't!" ”

Zhou Yu thought about it, this was indeed a troublesome matter, so he said: "I'll solve this matter, are there any other problems?" ”

"Nothing else." Lao Zhang said truthfully.

After looking at the restaurant, Zhou Yu wanted to take a look at his new house again, and walked to the door, but found that the door was not closed. Zhou Yu wondered in his heart: Could it be that there is a thief in this house?

As soon as he walked into the courtyard, he was startled by the sight in front of him.