Lu Zhou also pricked up his ears and looked at Yan Junqi curiously.

Yan Junqi: "The Ma family." ”

Lu Xu was stunned for a while, "Ma family? ”

Lu Zhou: "Brother, Ma Ruoqi said that his family has distant relatives in the capital. ”

Lu Xu: "His family is a civil official, how can he have a relationship with the mixing and matching of the copper and iron workshop?" ”

The three of them were at a loss.

Lu Xu thought for a while and said to himself: "But the relative of the Ma family who is an official in Beijing seems to be the uncle of Ma Ruoqi's grandfather, so he should have been gone a long time ago." ”

"Well, it seems that I only contact my hometown once in a year or two." Lu Zhou studied in the academy and knew a little more about the Ma family than Lu Xu, although Ma Ruoqi had already been admitted to Xiucai and did not study in the county school, but the Ma family had other children in the county school to study Mengxue.

The Ma family has a big business, but Lu Xu doesn't like it very much, except for knowing Ma Ruoqi when he first arrived in Guanyang, he has no contact with the Ma family.

Ma Jiatian has a lot of production and wants to sell grain to Shuozhou, but Lu Xu still looks at the face that Ma Ruoqi lent him books at the beginning, and helps the Ma family and the Xiao cavalry to build a line.

Later, the Ma family wanted to open an inn and a restaurant in their hometown, and they also asked Lu Xu for recipes, but there happened to be no other restaurant restaurant in that town that had found him, so Lu Xu signed a document with the Ma family to cooperate.

"Is it possible...... The Ma family met the people of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion in the Xiao Cavalry Army? Lu Xu was stunned by his own brain supplement.

After all, the brothers of the Zhang family of the Xiao cavalry army have a great relationship with the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, and the small dagger that Zhang Chang gave him was given to Fan Xiao by others, and Fan Xiao gave him his righteous son, and his righteous son gave it to Zhang Chang, and Zhang Chang gave it to him.

So he helped the Ma family meet the Xiao Cavalry, and the Ma family met the Dragon and Tiger Battalion through the Xiao Cavalry, and also used his recipes to connect with the people of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion?

Lu Xu said angrily: "This is too shameless! ”

Yan Junqi asked him to calm down for a while: "This is just speculation, and it doesn't have to be the case." ”

But Lu Xu really couldn't think of anyone who could, who dared, and who still had a way to connect with Jingzhong.

If it weren't for Yan Junqi coming to the capital for the exam, they wouldn't have come here for the rest of their lives.

Daqi's household registration management is strict, and without a legitimate reason, he is a merchant and the government will not give him the documents to enter Beijing casually. If Yan Junqi has other relatives, he won't be able to come this time.

On the documents given to them by the Yamen, the identities of Lu Xu and Lu Zhou were not filled in by neighbors, but by grooms and scholars.

That is, the Guanyang Yamen was familiar with them, and knew that Yan Junqi had no other relatives, so he turned a blind eye and approved the documents for them.

Yan Junqi: "It's very simple to verify, just make some changes to the recipe of the Ma family, and then compare it with the new menu of Ruixiang Building, but it is quite troublesome in the future." ”

Lu Xu gives ten new dishes every year, and as long as one or two dishes are listed in the recipe for the Ma family, if the new dishes launched by Ruixianglou are the same as the recipes of the Ma family, they must be undoubted.

It's just that it's the end of April, and this year's recipe is already on the way, and we can only wait for next year at the earliest.

Lu Xu was depressed.

Even after the verification, they will not admit it, and it is very troublesome to collect evidence from such a distance, in addition, whether to sue the official in Guanyang or in the capital, how long the case will be sentenced, and whether it can be smooth or not, it is difficult to say.

This is a small case, they have no power and no power, the yamen of the capital will definitely not pay attention to it, and when they return to Guanyang, the other party will definitely not go back with him, and they want Guanyang to send people to the capital to get people, which is theoretically possible, but it is basically impossible to operate.

It's no wonder that the other party is so fearless.

But just watching the other party take his recipes and make money freely, he couldn't bear it.

Lu Xu hugged his chest and pondered how to block the other party.

The other party makes him unhappy, and he must not make the other party happy.

Yan Junqi said: "There is another method, which will be faster and more useful than the previous one, but it will only be done after my palace test." ”

Lu Xu hurriedly asked, "What way?" It won't affect your career, right? ”

If Yan Junqi is affected by the money of a shop, then he would rather not want it, it is a big deal to go back, and he will not give the Ma family a recipe, according to the document treaty, he broke the contract is nothing more than to lose several times the money of the Ma family, and he can't afford to pay it.

Yan Junqi smiled: "No, I have a sense of proportion." ”

"Hmm." Lu Xu narrowed his eyes, "I also thought of a good way." ”

There is still a month before the palace test, and the other party will serve new dishes in May, so of course Lu Xu will not be so idle.

The recipes were all left by him to Lu Wen in advance, what was written in them, and did anyone know better than him?

Lu Xu leaned forward and muttered to Yan Junqi and Lu Zhou.

What he thought was very simple - before Ruixiang Lou came out with a new dish, he would first get the dish out, so that the whole capital would know who the dish came from.

Yan Junqi listened, shook his head and said, "This is not good." ”

Lu Zhou frowned, and also said: "What if we launch a new dish first, they won't come out, or get some other dishes out?" ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Lu Xu scratched his head, "Yes." ”

Lu Zhou: "Why don't we ask the owners of those restaurants to inquire if they can't produce new dishes this year, when it will come out, we will also come out on that day, and when the new dishes of the two will be the same, we will make them more delicious than them, and they will have nothing to say." ”

Lu Xu: "Then what if he says that we stole their recipe?" ”

Lu Zhou was stunned, shocked that he could still be so shameless.

Yan Junqi smiled: "It's okay, it's up to them to go." ”

Lu Xu was justified again: "Hmm! They have mouths, we have mouths, we sit up straight, and we are afraid of these thieves? ”

Lu Zhou nodded, agreeing with what Lu Xu said.

Yan Junqi didn't be impassioned with the two brothers, and continued to say calmly: "The same dish, whoever makes it more delicious, is fair, we just need to make the dish." ”

Lu Xu: "Hmm! ”

The menu is all changed by him according to Longxing ingredients, and there are many problems that the sauce is not good enough, and because of this, he wrote down the seasoning with which sauce he used in a particularly detailed manner, for fear that the seasoning that others would find would be even worse.

Now that others are in the capital, the ingredients and seasonings are sufficient, and it is not up to him to improve them.

He didn't believe it, could a chef with a recipe be better than him, a cook.

When Li Kui meets Ghost Li, whoever is not good will be embarrassed.

The more Lu Xu thought about it, the happier he became, although this trick couldn't bankrupt Ruixianglou, it would definitely anger them.

He still has to think about how to find someone to build public opinion, and the roar must be louder than Ruixianglou!

Chapter 203: Fish-flavored shredded pork

After the five restaurants left the house rented by Lu Xu, they changed places and looked at the documents carefully.

"Well, it's pretty much the same as I heard."

It's even better than you expected!

They heard that Lu Xu would give ten dishes every year, and from the list of existing menus that Lu Xu listed for them, Lu Xu provided more than one dish every year.

And......

"Are there no these dishes in Ruixiang Building?"

"I'll see...... Not really! ”

They were so happy that they counted them carefully, and there were sixty-four dishes, and it was worth exchanging only sixty-four dishes with a three-percent bonus!

Many of Ruixiang Building's signature dishes, on their own, really can't be made!

The next day, they came to Lu Xu early, and both parties were full of expectations for this cooperation.

When he arrived at the Yamen in the capital, he rushed to pay the fee for signing the documents, and the clerks who ran errands were stunned.

Taking the paperwork contract stamped with the red seal, Lu Xu happily went to the agreed kitchen of the restaurant to teach them how to cook, while Yan Junqi and Lu Zhou stayed in the yamen and asked if they could borrow the post station of the official mansion.

Although he hasn't taken the palace exam yet, he is actually already an official, and when he learned that Yan Junqi had taken the fifth place in the exam, he just wanted to send a letter to his hometown to report the good news, and the yamen was not intolerant.

After the palace test, the imperial court will send good news to the first-class and second-class jinshi origins, but it is not for nothing that can't wait for the palace test.

Yan Junqi has such a good ranking, and he came out of a poor and remote place like Longxing, and the Yamen of the capital can quite understand his joy.

According to the usual practice, everything they deliver at the post station must be checked, but Yan Junqi's letter has already been written and sealed, and the other party has not checked it.

A candidate, a letter, is it possible that there is anything to cooperate with the enemy?

Now that the barbarians have finished fighting, he can't get through the enemy even if he wants to.

Yan Junqi paid the money, and the errand clerk didn't dismantle it, so he received Yan Junqi's letter into the grid of the post station, but he didn't expect Yan Junqi to report the good news, and asked Lu Wen to find the yamen notarization of the document template for their cooperation with various restaurants and send it back.

There are two new menus to be used in the coming year.

In addition, he also asked Lu Wen to find Luo Shen to help find out who had dealings between the Ma family and the people in the capital.

Chunshan Restaurant is a time-honored brand that has been operating in Dongcheng for nearly 100 years, and with the efforts of five generations for many years, the scale of the restaurant has been considered mid-range in Dongcheng.

Today Lu Xu is going to come here to teach food, Boss Song arranged for the steward to go to the market early last night to purchase, Lu Xu arrived when the kitchen had prepared all kinds of ingredients, and the other four cooks also arrived, each with two apprentices who specialized in cutting vegetables.

Lu Xu looked around and was very satisfied with the stove, pots, ingredients, and seasonings.

The capital is worthy of being the capital, a restaurant that is not high-end, it can already be compared with the most expensive restaurant in Qinglong City.

"Which dish do you want to start with?" Lu Xu asked.

"Fish-flavored shredded pork!" The five chefs said in unison.

That day, Lu Xu memorized the recipe in Ruixiang Building, but unfortunately they were not at the scene, listening to others relay the experience and recipes of the day, and I don't know if it is accurate, they have already tried to do it according to what they have heard, but they still feel that something is not right.

Lu Xu: "Fish-flavored shredded pork, are you all stuck in the sauce?" ”

"Exactly."

"It's simple, all-in-one, start with fish-flavored shredded pork, and then make a few dishes that need sauce. I'll take a look at how many vinegars there are first, let's pick the most suitable one......"

Lu Xu was full of interest and took a group of chefs to do dishes and try dishes.

In this era, the sauce, vinegar, wine, oil, etc. are all handmade, and the quality and taste of each house are somewhat different.

If Lu Xu was usually not so hard, but he was competitive, and he wanted to trample Ruixianglou under his feet, and he must let even diners with a weak tongue taste the huge difference in one bite-

It's not the ingredients, it's not the seasoning, it's not the difference that can be made up with a slight improvement, but the fundamental understanding of the dish is different levels.

After Lu Xu finished the first course, everyone already felt that the quality and taste far exceeded that of Ruixianglou, but Lu Xu himself was not satisfied at all: "It's sour." ”

He opened fire and came back into fire.

Do it all over again.