Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 30
Those who were curious immediately called Wen Shu over: "The little lady who sells jasmine, come here."

Wen Shu hurriedly walked over with a basket, and smiled sweetly: "This sister wants to buy flowers?"

The maid looked into the basket curiously, "You really sell Jasmine, let me have a look."

"It's still deceiving." Wen Shu smiled and lifted off the autumn clothes that covered her head, revealing the watery and white jasmine underneath. In an instant, a scent of flowers floated up against the wind and floated into the maid's nose.

Her eyes lit up, she took out a flower and looked at it, and asked curiously, "How can there be such a flower in this season?"

Wen Shu still used the same rhetoric, only saying that he came from a Taoist priest.

The maid asked in surprise: "But Xuan Qingguan's master?"

Wen Shu froze for a moment, then nodded again and again.

Xuanqing Temple is a small Taoist temple on the Lianshou Mountain in the west of the city. This Taoist temple was not well-known at first, but later became famous because of the vegetables that are only available in spring and summer in winter.

For a while, many dignitaries and dignitaries sought out the method, and the Taoist temple was generous, and taught them without any shyness. However, to the disappointment of the dignitaries and dignitaries, it was difficult to replicate this method.

Because Xuanqingguan was able to grow off-season vegetables all because of the hot springs in the back mountain, and they couldn't force it because of the convenience of the location, so they could only regretfully sell it from Xuanqingguan. Some dishes go back.

Although there were some clever people who thought of artificially increasing the temperature to create a fire chamber, but because of the high cost and low output, it was not cost-effective, and it was not for the wealthy families who could not afford it.

And the wealthy family does not lack the money for selling vegetables, so the vegetables produced are basically for their own food or as gifts for relatives and friends, and they will not be sold on the market at all.

That is to say, in Xuanqing Temple, occasionally some vegetables will be brought down the mountain to sell, but the quantity is limited, not to mention the out-of-season flowers.

So when Wen Shu proposed twenty cents a flower, the maid didn't show much surprise, she just told her to wait until she got back to her master before deciding whether to buy it or not.

Wen Shu complied naturally.

The maid went back to report, and the maids of several neighboring houses also recruited her to ask her one by one.Wen Shu answered one by one again, and those maids also said that they would go back and report to their master and asked her to wait.

Not long after, the maids who went to report back came back, saying that the master ordered to buy a few sticks and put them in the vase.

In this way, you had five jasmines, and I had eight. After a while, the basket of jasmines was sold out. Seeing that the market was very good, Wen Shu followed the same pattern and sold the last basket of jasmines.

Two quarters of an hour later, the three baskets of flowers were all sold out. Wen Shu happily put all the money earned from selling the flowers into the bamboo basket on his right hand, while holding two empty bamboo baskets in his left hand, he took a quick shortcut to leave here. Not far from the building.

Fanlou is the largest restaurant in Tokyo City and the first of 72 restaurants. It is located at the northern end of Yujie Street and consists of five buildings in the east, west, south, north and middle.The three stories are high, the fifth floor faces each other, and the flying bridge sill communicates light and dark.The overall building is undulating, with staggered eaves and corners, and the end is magnificent.

The Imperial Street where it is located is not far from Xing Cang Fang, and it takes only a quarter of an hour to walk there. When Wen Shu arrived, the building was already full of guests and it was noisy.

She didn't go in, but chose a conspicuous corner and stood there, with a pair of round black eyes, she looked around cleverly.

After about half a cup of tea time, a familiar figure came from the street with a bamboo basket on his shoulders. Wen Shu's eyes lit up immediately, and he greeted him, asking, "Father, how is it, can you find out clearly?"

Wen Tai wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said in a low voice: "I went to a dozen or so restaurants, and now the most sold fruits are lingo and citrus, and occasionally some fruits from overseas countries are sold at extremely high prices. Guess Qingfeng How much does a half-dish of grapes sell for?"

Wen Shu thought for a while, then shook his head: "How much?"

Wen Tai made a gesture.

Wen Shu covered her mouth in surprise for a moment: "One hundred coins!" After she was amazed, she became excited again: "Did the father show our peaches to others? What did the shopkeepers say?"

Wen Tai glanced around, and said in a low voice: "There are no peaches for sale in restaurants at this time. Our peaches are fresh and in good condition. After seeing them, the shopkeeper of Renhe Building is willing to bid 35 yuan a piece, and the shopkeeper of Qingfeng Building is willing The bid is [-] Wen, and the other prices are similar to this."

35 sentence
Wen Shu silently calculated an account in his heart, the majority of the bag of peaches at home should have a hundred or so, so selling all of them would cost three rounds, plus the three rounds for selling flowers, this trip made six rounds of risk, It's okay, just
"Did Dad go to the building to ask?"

"No, it's just arrived."

Wen Shulue thought for a while and said: "Then let's ask again. Since the Fanlou is the largest restaurant in Tokyo, maybe we can raise the price again."

Wen Tai nodded, he thought so too at first, so he went to ask elsewhere first.

The father and daughter hit it off immediately, turned around and entered the building.

"Are the two guests eating or having fun?" As soon as the two entered the door, an enthusiastic second came over to greet them.

Wen Tai looked at all the guests, smiled a little cautiously. "Dare to ask my second brother, where is the shopkeeper?"

Xiao Er paused and asked, "Why are you two looking for the shopkeeper?"

Wen Shu immediately lifted the clothes covering Wentai's basket, revealing two bright red and sweet peaches inside, and said with a light smile, "I want to talk to the shopkeeper about a business, and I hope my little brother will lead the way."

Xiaoer poked his head and took a look, seeing that the peaches were only available in spring and summer, he couldn't help showing surprise, and immediately nodded: "Okay, please come with me, both of you."

Wen Shu nodded and saluted, exchanged glances with Wen Tai and followed Xiao Er, but his eyes were always around the audience.

This is the first time for her to come to this building, because the people who can spend here are not high-ranking officials and nobles, but also wealthy businessmen and wealthy households. The most common meal in it costs a few dollars. For ordinary people, it is unthinkable.

If it wasn't for this business today, she probably wouldn't have had the courage to step into this rich building. Looking around now, she doesn't have such a reputation in vain.

Not to mention the delicate and elegant interior layout, what amazed her most was that the tableware, cups and bowls used by the guests were as rumored, all made of gold, silver and jade. It is said that the Lou Lou can receive thousands of guests at the same time when it is the busiest. How much gold and silver tableware has to be made!Wen Shu secretly clicked his tongue!
Just as she was amazed, she accidentally glanced out of the corner of her eye into the left-hand compartment, where a familiar figure was chatting with a group of students in long gowns and square scarves.

Wen Shu blinked and thought he was wrong, but when he took a closer look, he was right, it was Fan Sanlang.

She wondered, didn't Fan Sanlang's family make cakes, why did he have the money to come to this kind of place, and after a little thought, she suddenly realized that maybe he was dragged here by his classmates and friends.

After thinking about it, she sighed softly, and only hoped that he wasn't the one who was forced to treat guests in the end, otherwise, how long would he have to sell for today's meal to get back.

Follow Xiao Er through two narrow corridors, turn around a hall, and finally stop in a small hall. At this time, many people gathered in the small hall, as if they were playing some kind of game. There was a "good, good" cheer.

Xiaoer asked their father and daughter to wait on the corridor, while he went into the small hall, walked up to a middle-aged man in a dark dark pattern gown and said a few words, and after a while, the middle-aged man came He turned to look at them, and then walked over.

(End of this chapter)