But Meng Yue coughed lightly: "Even if we both got drugged that night, I can recognize you." ”

After a short silence, the Seventh Prince slapped the table again: "You mention that night again, Lao Tzu really chopped your second child!" ”

"Don't mention it, don't mention it, you are angry, you are angry."

It happened that the voice of a guy sounded, and it was the potato flour they ordered that came over, so Meng Yue took the opportunity to let the Seventh Prince taste the potato flour.

"Potato flour is such a good thing, and it's cheap, and ordinary people can afford it. Why don't you give your father some advice and open a few more branches in the capital? ”

"At lunchtime, you have to wait in a long line to eat at this restaurant."

Meng Yue was actually worried about the problem of the branch.

"Wait for me to do a field trip." The Seventh Prince did not agree to come down.

"Haven't you paid attention to this restaurant before?" Meng Yue asked in surprise.

"Nope."

"And what do you do on weekdays?"

"Is it your turn to ask?" The Seventh Prince snorted.

"It's not your turn. But the business of this restaurant is really good, why don't we come over tomorrow night and have a look? ”

"Not available." The Seven Princes' answer was cold.

But Meng Yue didn't seem to care at all, but asked again with a smile: "Then when you are free, let's come again." ”

At this time, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu had quickly finished eating the potato flour in their bowls, and the two of them went out to settle the bill lightly and silently.

The two of them went out and walked towards the duck shop together.

Because the potato noodle restaurant is relatively affordable, it is not as open in the east of the city as the royal dim sum shop, and the potato noodle restaurant is open in the north of the city, not far from the duck shop.

Before going out today, Zheng Qianqian said that he wanted to eat roast duck, so as soon as he went out today, the three of them went to the duck shop first and told the guys over there to reserve a few roast ducks. Just now, Li Qiao and Taozhu went to eat potato flour, while Li Dashan drove the ox cart to the duck store.

Since I bought 12 new people, the duck shop business was finally able to last until about one o'clock at noon.

But it only lasted until this point, and it couldn't be like a dim sum shop that would open until the afternoon to sell all the things.

When he arrived at the duck goods shop, Li Dashan was sitting in the shop talking to Guofu and Minqiang, and when he saw Li Qiao and Tao Zhu coming, he immediately picked up the food box on the table next to him and prepared to go home.

Sitting in the ox cart home, Li Dashan leaned on the door of the carriage and turned his head to talk to Li Qiao: "Uncle, just now Li Guo and Li Fu said that they went to the vegetable market to buy ducks today, and there were many fewer people selling ducks. ”

At this time, there was no special duck factory, and the vendors who sold ducks in the vegetable market were all ducks collected from farmers or people in Shengjing City, and in this case, the supply was somewhat unstable.

However, because of the small number of duck shops, they can only make a maximum of 250 ducks a day, so several vegetable markets together can supply the goods.

But today, when Li Guo, Li Fu, Li Min, and Li Qiang went to the vegetable market to buy ducks, the previous few vendors who regularly sold ducks actually sold out of ducks.

The four of them visited all the vegetable markets in Shengjing, and only then did they buy enough ducks.

"Not enough ducks?" Li Qiao narrowed her eyes.

The duck that has always been stable is suddenly in demand?

This plot is somewhat familiar.

When they were in Sanliu Village before, the Zheng family needed to use pig intestines to make roasted sausages, but later the pig intestines in the entire Pingcheng were monopolized by Zhao's shopkeeper in Zuixianju.

"Yes, they were worried that this would happen tomorrow, so they asked me what to do."

"I thought if I might as well go and ask the vendors who sell our ducks tomorrow what's going on."

Li Dashan Road.

"I'll go, I'll ask what's going on."

Tao Zhu opened his mouth.

Since he added new manpower, the duck shop has relied on duck goods, vegetarian dishes, and drinks, and its monthly profit has been as high as 3,500 taels.

This is the most profitable business for him and Li Qiao besides vermicelli, but there can be no problem.

"No, I'd better go, anyway, I'm going to take a look at it today. You go home first. ”

Li Qiao said.

"Hmm...... Okay, then you go and see. ”

Tao Zhu changed his mind.

Li Qiao is now a fifth-grade official, and he will definitely be better than others when he comes forward in person.

So Li Qiao first sent Tao Zhu home, and then went to the vegetable market in the north of the city with Li Dashan.

Although it was afternoon, the shops were all open because the market was full of fixed stalls.

Li Qiao asked Li Dashan to lead the way, and went straight to the shop that sells poultry that he often goes to on weekdays.

When the owner of the shop saw that Li Qiao was coming, he explained with a smile that tomorrow's duck had also been booked, and he didn't dare to say who had booked it.

Li Qiao's whereabouts are still unknown, he is a five-grade official, but the shop owner doesn't dare to say that the other party must be higher than his official position.

He didn't embarrass the boss, but left with Li Dashan.

Li Dashan frowned sadly: "Uncle, what should I do?" ”

"Cold salad, you can't help but let the other party buy duck."

Li Qiao said that she was a little glad that the specific seasoning list of duck goods has always been in the hands of her own family. Moreover, when buying those seasonings, he also deliberately used a blinding method and bought several more seasonings.

When preparing the seasoning package, he also deliberately grinded all kinds of seasonings to pieces, and others could never see what big ingredients he added.

However, ducks cannot be replaced, whether it is chickens or geese, they cannot replace ducks.

So, in terms of the source of goods, he has to figure it out by himself.

He didn't go home directly, but went to Han Ning's house.

He wanted to hire someone to go directly out of the city to collect ducks from a farmer's house.

He didn't believe that the other party could buy all the ducks outside the city.

Moreover, in addition to the ducks outside the city, some people in Shengjing City also raised ducks at home.

There are also some large families who raise livestock on their farms to support themselves.

At this time, there is no special duck farm, but if you want to buy ducks, it is much easier than buying milk.

When Li Qiao returned home, it was already dark, and the two little cubs had already had dinner, which was taken care of by Li Xia and Zhao Shen, and the rest of the family was waiting for him and Li Dashan to have dinner.

At the dinner table, he didn't show anything unusual, only said that he would post a wooden sign outside the shop tomorrow, and in the future, the shop would buy ducks directly from the people in Shengjing City.

When he said this, the atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became a little solemn.

Zheng asked lightly: "Uncle, is it a ghost from the British government?" Didn't the Holy One decree that they should not be allowed to stir up any more disputes in the future? ”

"It's not a dispute, you can't help but let the other party buy ducks."

Li Qiao was still relaxed, and she could smile on her face: "The other party may also want to do duck business, so he went to buy ducks, which can only be regarded as competition in the shopping mall, not to provoke disputes." ”

“…… However, they are bullying us. ”

Zheng Qianqian grinded his teeth, and clenched his fist and gently slammed the dining table.

Seeing this, Li Dashan hurriedly grabbed his hand and rubbed it gently: "Don't smash the pain, otherwise it will be you who will suffer." ”

When Zheng Qianqian heard this, he gave him a roll of his eyes, but he didn't speak again.

Li Qiao picked up the chopsticks and beckoned everyone to eat: "Brother Qian, don't you want to eat roast duck?" Eat quickly. ”

As he spoke, he picked up a thin and very strong cake, picked up a few pieces of duck meat, smeared it with sauce, and then handed it to Tao Zhu: "You can eat it too." ”

Tao Zhu took it, and also smiled and beckoned Zheng Qianqian to eat quickly.

Anyway, the sky can't fall, and the rice still has to be eaten.

Zheng Qianqian sighed, picked up a large pancake, first sandwiched the fried soft vermicelli on the cake, and then sandwiched a few pieces of duck meat and rolled it up.

He likes to eat like this.

No matter, let's eat today's roast duck first and then talk about tomorrow.

The next day, after Li Qiao arrived at the Hanlin Academy, he read books and took notes as usual, and soon it was noon, this time, he took the initiative to take the meal to find Xin Zhi.

Xin Zhijia should have raised ducks.

Several families who are good friends with Xin Zhi are also big families, and they must have ducks at home.

Xin Zhi was very angry when he heard Li Qiao say this, he thought the same as Zheng Qianqian, if this was really done by the British government, then the British government was provoking disputes!

"Forget it, it's not easy to get a complaint from the saint for such a trivial matter. The saint has a lot of opportunities, and he hasn't been in a good mood lately, so I still don't bother him. ”

Li Qiao's performance is very open.

But Xin Zhi was about to pound the table: "It's so hateful, this is going to cut off your family's wealth." ”

"My family has so much money, and the other party can't cut it off." Li Qiao smiled.

Seeing this, Xin Zhi lowered his voice, leaned in front of Li Qiao and said: "Speaking of which, the British government also has a lot of industries, but in the past, their mansion mainly relied on the output of their own fields, and their family had a lot of shops, but most of the businesses were average, and later there was an unusual one, but it was a lack of morality. ”

"Oh? What is the lack of virtue business? Li Qiao was curious.

Zi Da and Lu Wenrong had a conflict, and he has been secretly collecting news about the British government in his daily life.

But he can't make it too obvious, and he doesn't have a lot of connections, so so so far, all he's gathered is some superficial information.

He really doesn't know about the lack of morality.

"Casino." Xin Zhi didn't sell it, and gave the answer directly.

"That's right...... That's a bit of a lack of morality. However, is it a British public who has saved the driver, but is he opening a gambling house in the open? ”

"Of course, it's in someone else's name, otherwise you have to be a businessman. Moreover, where do ordinary people know this, even not many people in the noble circle know about it. ”

"He is shameless himself, he has to go out to do this, who can do what with him? He did not violate the law of Dasheng. ”

Xin Zhi sighed.

It is not illegal to open a gambling house, and it is not illegal to open a gambling house in the country, which is not good to say.

But profiteering.

Gambling houses make money much faster than other industries.