After the guards and the restaurant staff were all recruited, the fifteenth day of the first month had passed, and the fourth brother was about to leave for the caravan. Xu Qinyu also went back to Yuanbao Town to see. Looking at Xu Ji, now Xu Ji has a lot of cooks, so there is no need for her to worry. Even if she is not here for ten and a half months, it will still operate as usual, and guests will be full of guests.

Xu Qinyu lived in Raozhou City temporarily. There are too many things to follow in the restaurant. Apart from recruiting people, after the house is almost built, she has to check and check the furniture, kitchenware and other things. Go in, these kitchen utensils, furniture, etc. are only half of the money.

She and her fourth brother first stayed at the Bafang Inn. Later, Mrs. Lu learned that she would live in Raozhou City, and specially vacated a second-class house for her to live in on weekdays, so that it would not be a time to live in the inn. thing.

Xu Qinyu thanked Mrs. Lu.

She basically had to be here guarding from the back.

On the other side of Yuanbao Town, after the fourth brother left, Mrs. Wen would definitely not worry about Yuniang staying in Raozhou City alone, so she would go to Raozhou City with Yuniang. On weekdays, when Yuniang went out to do errands, she would also follow her.

When Xu Qinyu was busy on weekdays, she would cook rice, wash clothes, and take care of her.

Because she not only has to do these things, but also teaches the ladies how to knead the muscles and bones. This is also a hard job. She has to knead them again, teach them to know the meridians and acupoints, and let them practice with each other. This is basically If you are busy, the whole day will pass, but fortunately, these ladies are very serious in their studies.

After another two months, the restaurants and houses outside the city were all built, and these ladies had learned about the same.

Brother Gong’er basically gave all the younger brothers to the church.

After the house is built, you can move in after putting all the furniture in.

The houses here are all built with bricks and tiles, and the interior decoration is also made of pure solid wood by hand, without using all kinds of glue, environmental protection, and there is no need to be like later generations. Half a year or a year, otherwise it will be very dangerous.

Xu Qinyu was too busy with these follow-up matters by herself, but with the help of Brother Gonggong and Tao Qi and Mrs Wen, she finally got it all done.

After the restaurant mansion was built, the craftsmen and the small workers naturally no longer needed them, and they all settled their wages and went home, leaving only a small number of people to move things when the time came.

These craftsmen and the small workers are also very happy. They have worked here for half a year, and each of the small workers has received several taels of silver. The monthly salary of the craftsmen is basically two or three times that of the small workers.

After all the furniture was placed, the garden also invited a gardener to help take care of it, and planted flowers and plants in it.

However, it will take at least two or three months for these flowers and plants to flourish. Now, apart from some rockeries and transplanted trees, all parts of the house still look a little empty.

It's been another month, it's almost the end of spring, and everything has been prepared.

The silver on Xu Qinyu's body was almost enough.

Because Xu Ji Restaurant still has 3,000 taels of silver coming in every month, and Ning Jie'er also gave her all the money she had saved, so the follow-up money was enough.

On the other side of the restaurant, the six-story attic restaurant is more spacious than the largest restaurant in the city, and there is a huge courtyard behind it.

The courtyard is connected to the rear enclosure.

Whether it is a restaurant or a house where guests stay, there is a back room.

The back room is also much larger than the ordinary back room. This is the place for the restaurant and the employees on the other side of the house. It is a row of rooms, with four upper and lower beds in each room. In addition, there are also There are four cabinets for these employees to store their own clothes and property. They are all equipped with locks, and they are not worried about being stolen.

The guys were more at ease when they saw that the place was so good for them.

In the past two or three months, everyone was still uneasy, knowing that the owner is good, but if there is no business, no matter how good the owner is, it is useless, because no one has ever seen a restaurant open outside the city.

Xu Qinyu is tentatively scheduled to be the guy on the restaurant side. Each person has two days off each month and takes turns.

In addition, the hot spring on the mountain was also dug up. Before the fourth brother left, he specially left a mark on the mountain to tell Xu Qinyu which place to dig.

The hot spring has been dug a few days ago, and the hot spring water coming out of the spring inside has also made Raozhou City and the nearby village names very curious. You can't drink it, you will vomit if you drink it.

When saw the owner of the restaurant let someone build a pond where the hot spring water was on the mountain, and the spring water was gurgling in the pond, it became even more strange.

Later, it was natural to connect the hot springs on the mountain to the hot spring pools below the mountain.

There is a separate courtyard behind the houses on both sides of the female and male guests. That is the hot spring pool built by Xu Qinyu. The hot spring pool is made of some big stones cut and polished. It is relatively non-slip, but it will definitely Also cleaned regularly.

This courtyard is relatively secretive, except for the courtyard wall, there are wooden frames covering it with curtains, and there are many natural trees outside the courtyard, which are luxuriant and provide excellent privacy.

The male guest's side is an open-air pool.

This is also because this era is relatively harsh on women, and women's bodies are usually not allowed to be seen by outsiders.

You must know that there are not even women's bathhouses here.

The girl's family can't wash up in the outside bathhouse, because they are afraid that if people see it, their reputation will be lost.

Xu Qinyu actually didn't think much of it, the hot spring pool was built in a relatively hidden way, and the people who came to the hot spring must be girls' homes, but she was also worried that the girls would be embarrassed to take a bath together. So for the female guests, Xu Qinyu has a huge bathtub in each room. On weekdays, he can go to the pool to lift up the hot spring water and pour it into the bathtub to soak his body, and the effect is the same.

Although the female guests are all ladies and ladies, there is absolutely no outsider to be seen, and even the guards are some ladies who are skilled in martial arts specially hired by Xu Qinyu.

Although there is a courtyard wall covering the male guest's side, there is no wooden shelf on it.

The hot spring pool is relatively large and has running water. The hot spring flowing down from the mountain will naturally flow all the time. If the pool cannot be filled, it will overflow, so it will not be dirty.

The temperature of the hot spring water on the mountain is about 60 degrees, but the temperature is only about 40 degrees when it is connected by bamboo, which is just right for soaking in the hot springs.

As for the female guests, whether it was the room or others, Xu Qinyu thought more carefully, and the furnishings in the room were more refined and elegant.

Xu Qinyu even thought that the restaurant had specially invited a doctor to sit in the clinic, because he was afraid that the guests would feel unwell when they came to play on weekdays.

On the other side of the lake, Xu Qinyu deliberately planted a lot of lotus seeds and put a lot of fish fry. Although there are quite a lot of wild fish in it, some fish fry still have to be released for fishing in the future, about one batch a year.

In addition, there is a small workshop built next to the female guests, which is specially used for making rouge powder, aromatherapy and cream.

Three months ago, after Ying Shuchang knew that Xu Qinyu had come to Raozhou City, she met Xu Qinyu and talked with Xu Qinyu, planning to come here to be the shopkeeper.

The area of ​​the restaurant is divided, and the shopkeeper who receives the female customers here is Ying Shuchang.

On the other side of the male guest is Gong Geer.

Brother Gong doesn't like being in charge, so he usually helps Xu Qinyu run errands. Now that Brother Gong is getting older, Xu Qinyu asked him to take Tao Qi and the others to manage the male customers.

Since Xu Qinyu met Ying Shuchang last year because she wanted to buy a field at the foot of the mountain outside the city, she helped get back the family property left to her by her parents, and she sold all the family property and donated it to the military camp. They all lived in a small courtyard in the city. Although Ying's family members harassed her from time to time, wanting to ask her for the formula of incense and rouge powder, she refused to even meet Ying's family members.

Since he was going to be the shopkeeper of the restaurant, after the restaurant was built a month ago, Ying Shuchang brought Aunt Zhang to live in the workshop, and the dog in the small courtyard. .

The workshop recruited two young ladies to accompany Ying Shuchang to make rouge powder, cream and incense.

This month, made a lot of rouge, gouache, cream and incense, enough for the female customers to use for a period of time.

On the other side of the restaurant, all kinds of kitchen utensils for the stove, oven, etc. are all ready.

Even the ingredients are ordered from those in the city and delivered every morning.

At the beginning, Xu Qinyu didn't have many ingredients, so he was worried that there would be no business.

She knew very well in her heart that there must be no business at the beginning, and the money earned by Xu Ji Restaurant might have to be invested in the early stage.

After everything was ready, Xu Qinyu chose an auspicious day to open for business.

Three days later will be a good day, Xu Qinyu plans to open in three days.

At the restaurant, apart from Brother Cheng, Xu Feng and Da Niu, Dong Qian and Chef Wang came over.

It was definitely not busy at the beginning, so didn't call too many people over.

However, the helpers and chefs that Xu Qinyu recruited here are still here, and they have to follow Xu Qinyu, Chef Wang, and Dong Qian to learn how to cook, and they have to learn all the dishes that Xu remembers.

Three days later, fleeting.

In the past three days, Xu Qinyu followed Wen Shi and others to write many lists by hand.

That is, leaflets for later generations, go to the city and distribute to the shops and residents on the East Street and West Street.

In addition to writing all the menus on the list, there are also things that you can stay at the restaurant, soak in hot springs, go fishing and have picnics during the day, etc. It also states that the first half month of opening will be charged at 80% of the price.

When these lists were passed on to many people, many people couldn't help but sneered when they saw the dishes on it, "How dare this restaurant? She really dared to write the dishes on it, this Lao Shizi's roast suckling pig It’s six taels of silver a piece, a cup of clear soup with jelly vegetables is two taels of silver, and this thing called Fushouquan, it’s fifty taels of silver a can! My God, it’s more expensive than the dishes in Zuixianlou , it’s ridiculously expensive, what kind of dishes are these? How dare you ask for such an expensive price?”

The restaurant opened by Xu Qinyu outside the city has attracted more attention. There are many dignitaries in the city, as well as wealthy businessmen who are curious. After waiting for it to be built for more than half a year, it is finally ready to open. Look at the menu on it Boy, the price is simply too expensive to leave.

In fact, on the menu, the prices of the original recipes in Xuji Restaurant are still the same as before, but there are also many fresh dishes, which are all recipes re-made by Xu Qinyu in the past six months, and the overall price is also lower than that of Xuji in Yuanbao Town. The price of the dishes is tens to one or two hundred yuan.

The other roast suckling pig is more expensive and the process is more troublesome. Although this ingredient is simple, Xu Qinyu didn't intend to sell it too cheap.

As for the clear soup jelly, it is made of high-quality bird’s nest and broth.

The bird's nest should be made of top-quality bird's nest, and it takes four to five days just to soak the hair.

Then use chicken broth and many other ingredients to hang the soup, and then the tedious soup hanging process can make the soup clear as water and taste sweet and clear.

Two taels of silver is just one example, almost the amount of a bowl.

Moreover, this clear soup jelly dish also needs to be ordered several days in advance. If it is only for one serving, and if the order is not accepted, at least ten servings are required.

As for Fushouquan, it is Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. This dish is more expensive, at fifty taels of silver a can.

There is no way to cook jelly in clear soup and Buddha jumps over the wall, and the price of the ingredients themselves is relatively expensive.

Fotiaoqiang needs all kinds of dry goods and seafood, and they have to be shipped from the south. Raozhou City sells less, and sometimes even if it is booked, it cannot be made without all the ingredients.

More than a year ago, Xu Qinyu made the Buddha jumping over the wall for Mrs. Zhu. It took more than two months to collect the ingredients alone, and asked Madam Lu and the caravan from the fourth brother to help find the ingredients.

So these are the most expensive dishes in the restaurant.

In addition, there are some other new dishes, but the price basically does not exceed one or two taels of silver, but there are also several other dishes that cost one or two taels of silver.

So when they saw the dishes on the list, most people couldn't believe it. They thought that the owner of Xu Ji Restaurant had something wrong with his brain. How dare he sell such expensive dishes? Most people didn't go out of the city to join him. Thinking about it, feel that the dishes in Zuixianlou in the city are already very good, so why come to such a boo-booing restaurant outside the city.

But there are also a small number of people who plan to wait for the restaurant to open and come to taste the taste. If it is not delicious, they will go back to the city to promote it to the big guys, so as not to get more people cheated.

These people are just curious about the restaurant, they don't really want to eat there.

Xu Qinyu didn't explain much.

After three days, the restaurant opened to the public.

Xu Qinyu, Wen's and the chefs of the restaurant still live in the back room.

On the side of the restaurant, there are not only brothers but also some women who run the hall, so the dormitories on the back side of the room are also separated and do not disturb each other.

Xu Qinyu built the five-entry house for herself. She has no plans to move in yet. After the fourth brother comes back, she will choose an auspicious day, and then everyone will move in.

At night, Xu Qinyu slept in the back room of the restaurant. She and Wen Shi slept in the same room. She was a little excited and couldn't sleep.

Because this restaurant is also her unfulfilled wish in her previous life, so in this era, this time and space, the restaurant is built, and she must be excited.

And the restaurant only has these now, in the future, there will definitely be more entertainment items, and she also plans to plant more fruit trees on the mountain, so that she can go up the mountain to pick fruits in the future.

After thinking about it like this, Xu Qinyu finally fell asleep.

At Maoshi the next day, Xu Qinyu's biological clock made her wake up on time.

Although today is the first day of opening, there is nothing to be busy about, because there are no customers in the restaurant, and there is no one living here outside the city. Naturally, there is no need to prepare the restaurant, but only prepare the meal for more than a hundred employees.

Like Xu Qinyu, the employees' wages plus food expenses cost hundreds of taels of silver every month.

Fortunately, she still has the profit from Xu Ji, otherwise, it would be hundreds of taels of silver a month, no matter what era it is, it would be impossible to support it for a few months, and it would have to close down.

Xu Qinyu didn't need to prepare the Chaoshi, it was prepared by Chef Wang and Dong Qian, because they wanted to teach the newly hired chefs at the restaurant, so Chaoshi made all the dishes on the menu.

Today's morning food is sashimi porridge, custard buns, and some vegetarian buns.

There are not many custard buns, only one serving per person, mainly to teach the cooks in the restaurant how to do it.

However, the sashimi porridge and vegetable buns are all full.

Xu Qinyu didn't plan to let his employees eat bran-swallowed vegetables and porridge, and they didn't have the strength to work every day, so the food expenses were quite high.

After eating morning food, it is natural to sweep everywhere, and then there is nothing wrong.

Xu Qinyu was also sitting under the big tree in the backyard, writing and drawing, preparing some future plans for the restaurant.

Even if it's just the backyard of the restaurant, she has planted a lot of flowers and plants, and also transplanted a lot of trees, and it will be lush in summer.

When it was almost noon, Mrs. Lu from Raozhou City took her two best friends to go out of the city, and came to Xu Ji to play for a few days.

Others in Raozhou City didn't know the deliciousness of Xu Ji's meals, but she knew that in order to eat the meals made by Mrs. Xu, she bought a house in Yuanbao Town and lived there for two months to satisfy her hunger. Yu, still think about it from time to time after came back. Now Miss Xu finally opened a restaurant in Raozhou City. How happy.

Knowing that the restaurant opened today, I specially invited my two best friends over to have fun.

The two wives were about the same age as her, and they had sons, daughters, and daughters-in-law at home. When they heard that they were going out of the city for dinner, they wanted to stay for a few days. The lady said, "Lihua, there are many interesting and delicious things in the city, why do you have to go out of the city? disturbed."

Mrs. Lu's name is Lu Lihua.

These two ladies, one is surnamed He, the other is surnamed Yu.

He's husband's family is Uncle Jiyang, she is in her forties this year, and she even has a grandson in the family, even if she goes out to have fun on weekdays, she doesn't go to her best friend's house to have a banquet, enjoy flowers and listen to plays.

The other Yu's family opened a bank in Raozhou City, but it was not a hundred-year-old bank. They only opened a bank in the southwest. They also had a very good relationship with Mrs. Lu, who was about the same age as Mrs. Lu.

The relationship between the three is the best.

After listening to He's words, Mrs. Yu couldn't help but nodded, "No, I also feel uneasy living outside the city, and my heart feels flustered."

Although in the past few years, there have been no bandits outside the city.

Just like a few years ago, the First Prince hadn't come to the border town to fight against the country of Bin. At that time, the border city was quite chaotic, and there were bandits outside the city. Since the fight against the First Prince severely damaged the vitality of the country of Bin, the whole Southwest has been living peacefully in recent years. Not a lot.

Mrs. Lu smiled and said: "You listen to my advice once, if you didn't feel comfortable eating and having fun in the past, how about we go back tomorrow? What's more, the restaurant is next to the military camp, only a few miles away, there is nothing to be afraid of , Besides, don’t you occasionally go to live in your own village for a few days, it’s no different, just live in your own village for a few days.”

She saw the list of Xu Ji Restaurant two days ago, and saw dozens of dishes and desserts that she hadn't eaten before, and she was thinking about it.

Especially the Buddha jumping over the wall. At the beginning, Miss Xu asked her to help find the ingredients, so she was very curious. What kind of food has so many ingredients? heard that it will take two days and two nights to make it, even if it is fifty taels of silver a can now. , she also wanted to try it, so she also made an appointment with Mrs. Xu.

But Mrs. Xu told her that even if she made a reservation, she would definitely not be able to make it in ten and a half months. The restaurant had just opened, and the ingredients were hard to come by.

Madam Lu is not in a hurry, there are dozens of other dishes that she has never tried.

So a few days ago, she told Miss Xu that she would come over to eat evening food today, and she wanted to eat crispy suckling pig, and asked Xu Qinyu to help prepare two of the other dishes.

Mrs. He, Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Lu are both real best friends. Seeing her is very interesting, so it is not good to talk about other things. plan to wait until go to the restaurant to make plans.

Soon the carriage left the city and arrived at the restaurant.

As soon as you leave the city, you can see the restaurant not far away. It is indeed quite spectacular. There are several huge houses and gardens scattered around the six-story attic. On the mountainside, you can see some bamboo pipes winding down. .

The entrance of the restaurant is also easy to identify. There is a big stone standing at the entrance, with the four characters Xu Ji Restaurant engraved on it.

After entering, walked towards the inside, and after a while, arrived in front of the restaurant with a six-storey attic height.

When Xu Qinyu heard that Mrs. Lu was coming, she hurried to greet her.

Mrs. Lu got out of the carriage, and said with a smile: "Miss Xu, congratulations, I wish Xuji restaurant a prosperous business."

She also said that she also handed gifts, and she prepared a lot of gifts for Xu Qinyu, all of which were pulled by a carriage behind, which was a complete set of furniture.

She knew that Xu Qinyu had built a Wujin house outside the city, and would live with her family in the future. The furniture must not be ready yet, so she gave Xu Qinyu a set of furniture. This set of furniture is still made of huanghuali wood, which is more expensive.

She is not short of money, and she has made a lot of wine from the wine cooperation with Xu Qinyu, so the two or three thousand taels of furniture can still be given away.

After Xu Qinyu thanked Mrs. Lu, she ordered the furniture to be sent to her house for storage.

When people drove the carriage away, Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "The ladies have worked hard all the way, it's still early, why don't the ladies go to the garden to have a rest, soak in the hot spring, and then let the young lady help you Relax your muscles and bones, and then sleep for a while, the best way to relieve fatigue."

Mrs. Lu was still very moved, she didn't know what a hot spring was, but what Miss Xu said, she had never tried it, "Okay, we just plan to stay and have a rest today."

The carriage was parked with the help of others, and the box and cage brought by Mrs. Lu were also helped to move to the Jinxiu Garden.

The house where the female guests live is called Jinxiu Garden.

The male guest's side is called Purple Bamboo Garden.

There are mostly rockery ponds and flowers and plants in Jinxiu Garden.

There are not many flowers planted in Zizhu Garden, most of them are bamboo.

The restaurant is not far from Jinxiu Garden, about half an hour's walk away.