Chapter 173: The Queen

When the autumn breeze rose, Meng Quezhi slowly changed to the tea room in the center of the tea room on the first floor of the Phoenix Building, with a plaque - "Gan Ming Ju".

The saltpeter storehouse is taken care of by the good students, and only a small amount is taken out for backup, and a large number is not moved out.

Tofu and soy milk are different, and there are different dishes throughout the year.

The lack of seasonings makes the battle between sweet and salty bean curd not enthusiastic enough.

It's stinky tofu, without spicy and oil, and it seems to have lost a little bit of soul.

But the people still love this soybean, which allows more people to feed themselves.

In winter, the most indispensable thing is the pot.

It's just that the hot pot needs so many seasonings, and Chu Xujun has a phoenix building, so he doesn't dare to easily open a hot pot restaurant.

A hot pot with only clear soup and mushroom soup cannot be called a hot pot.

Pepper can still be used as a rare thing equivalent to a daughter in the Tang Dynasty, Chu Xujun can still eat a pot at home, and if he really opens a store, he is a relative of the emperor and the country, and he can't eat it every day, I'm afraid that he will not go bankrupt.

Gan Mingju and ice drinks have achieved a transition with the season, but this cup of tea, since it appeared, has not been sold as a free drink, as before.

Although tea can be found everywhere in the country, before it is consciously planted, it is like a wild vegetable, and it is not mass-produced. The process of roasting tea is complicated, and if you make a mistake, the taste will be wrong, and the whole pot will be wasted.

There is not much inventory in the milk tea villa so far, so it can only be sold finely.

Zhu Qi has already gone to Jeju, according to the timeline of the original book, the war is imminent, and he will harvest a quick money first.

Meng Quezhi followed Chu Xujun to learn to make tea, and learned eighty percent.

Chu Xujun is an amateur, but Meng Quezhi has spirituality, and the tea can produce the most fragrant taste at a few points, and she quickly figured it out.

There are only five or six private seats in Gan Ming Curie, except for the nobles who dare to talk about large paper transactions who dare to walk in, and the ordinary people who dare to stretch their necks on the periphery to take a look.

They protected the chips in their hands and lined up step by step, but they couldn't stand Meng Quezhi brewing the tea, and the faint fragrance of tea overflowed.

On cold nights, guests come to tea as wine, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling red.

Chu Xujun recently got a few cans of oolong tea, similar to the Zhengshan small species in later generations, and the aroma of the room is full of flavor when it is brewed, which makes people mouthful.

It tastes less interesting, but it is the most suitable for hanging the appetite of guests on the first floor.

Some of the guests who often go to the tea room on the second floor will know that it is the tea that Mr. Paper handed them to drink.

They also asked several times if they could buy tea.

Mr. Paper just shook his head and didn't speak.

Now that Gan Mingju is on the first floor, it is also clear that the threshold for buying tea is to be able to enter the tea room on the second floor.

Everyone can't drink it, but they are happy to smell this unique aroma.

After a little longer, the guests who came into the Phoenix Building knew that if there were no separate guests in Gan Mingju, the tea made by Meng Xiao's shopkeeper from the beginning would be held outside and given to the earliest batch of guests to taste for free.

Of course, such an opportunity is extremely rare, and it is all a matter of luck.

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In front of the Phoenix Building, when the tea fragrance was far away and the nose was refreshing, Chu Ji and Chu Jie returned to Chu's house one day earlier.

Chu Ji still has the appearance of a humble gentleman, but the original fitting hospital uniform has become wider, his cheeks have become thinner, and his chin is so sharp that he can poke people.

His face was pale, and he attended the banquet prepared for their brother as usual.

There were few people at the table, and when I heard that the second uncle Chu Qiu was going to Jeju, Chu Ji's expression was stunned, and it was very complicated.

Chu Xujun didn't say much.

Chu Jie didn't show up, and as soon as he came back, he stayed in the house, refusing to come out, and asked people to bring food and wine in.

Live like a ghost, a resentful ghost.

Chu Xujun asked Chu Ji a few words: "Brother, how is the situation of the paper in the academy?"

Chu Ji: "Right now, both gentlemen and students are using it, and they can occasionally be bought at the martial arts hall, and everyone is grabbing it.

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"Can anyone ask you about it?"

Chu Ji nodded: "Not a lot."

"Then Brother Would Like to Pull the Strings?"

Chu Ji: "This is a hard-working deal, how can my brother lick his face and share this cup of soup."

Chu Xujun: "Brother, I said in the ancestral hall a while ago that we are a family. Could it be that your brothers are a family, and your sisters are not?"

Chu Ji hurriedly said, "Naturally, they are."

Chu Xujun took out a pot of tea: "This is a new product from Phoenix House recently. Brother doesn't need to do anything more, take it to the academy, soak it in your classmates, and if they are interested, you can give them a note and ask them to come over."

Chu Ji took it: "It turns out that this is also the idea of the Emperor. Brother knows that he can help him, and he will definitely work hard."

"Brother's focus is still on his studies, and this is just a pastime for Brother."

Knowing that Chu Ji was in a bad mood, after the meal, Chu Wen asked Chu Ji to see his recent progress in the barracks.

Chu Liang also showed Chu Jie that he followed what Mr. Tao had learned.

Chu Ji's face was still gentle, he returned to his residence, glanced at his brother's house where the lights were still on, he walked to the door, and turned back to his place.

These days, he has said everything he should have said to his brother, obviously he didn't listen, and he began to avoid himself in the academy, indulging in alcohol, and his homework was also muddy.

I thought that when I returned home, my father watched him, and I could make him sober up a little, but who knew that my father left Zhongzhou directly.

The father refused to forgive the Cheng family, and the second brother refused to forgive the actions of the father and the rest of the Chu family.

And what about himself?

Can he forgive?

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The next day, when Chu Xujun got up, Maizi came to report that the brothers had set off first to the Caishikou execution ground.

Ximei: "I didn't need a mouthful of steamed buns or soup, but I took away a big box of good wine and food."

Chu Xujun didn't speak again, and when she went out, she saw a man in Xuanyi standing in front of the house.

"You don't have to go to the camp today?"

"I'll pick you up."

There is an autumn queen at the entrance of the vegetable market, he is a general, and soldiers need to be dispatched to guard it.

These days, as long as Wei Ling is fine, he will come to Chu Mansion and Phoenix Tower to pick him up and go home.

Like a dutiful "boyfriend".

Even if he can't come over in person because of something, Li Yu must also make a trip for his master, tell the general where he is, what he does, and when he will come to pick her up.

The current situation is not stable, and Prince Zhen only sent his deputy general to patrol the border, while Wei Ling stayed in the military camp to train soldiers.

In every household, more and more people were conscripted into the camp, and Wei Ling was busy.

It's just that Chu Xujun is dedicated to the Phoenix Tower, and as the business gets bigger and bigger, the Chu family's more and more complicated personnel exchanges are feeding, and it is not easier than the general of Yizhou.

The two often wore stars and moons, and chatted on the road: "Sisters, do you want to celebrate the New Year in Zhongzhou?"

Wei Ling: "They said that if the sister-in-law left them, they would continue to stay, otherwise the Wei Mansion would be cold and boring, and they would not be happy. However, my aunt has already sent Linlang back on horseback, and she will not come again."

Chu Xujun was speechless for a while.

They were just engaged, the word "sister-in-law", how did he say it?

Today, however, they have lost the appetite for gossip.

Hua Liancheng was bitter and strictly forbade her to come to the scene in person.

It's just that she forgot that the Phoenix Building is not far from the "city", as long as you go to the roof, you don't need to step on your toes, you can see the grand scene of the vegetable market.

Chu Xujun didn't go, but went directly to the top floor, looking at the direction that was full of people early.