Chapter 383 The restaurant officially opens
Chapter 383 The restaurant officially opens
The restaurant was bustling with activity.
Outside the restaurant, Li Guihua glared at the people inside the restaurant fiercely, gritting her teeth:
"Look at these people. They are our good relatives, my good elder brother, and your good uncle."
"Mom, what should we do? Qin Yan must be in there too. If we don't go in, how are we going to run into him?"
Today is the opening day of the restaurant. In their opinion, Qin Yan and others will definitely come for such an important day.
Even if Shen Nuo doesn't come, can Qin Yan not come?
But they originally wanted to enter the restaurant, but were driven out by Qingyi.
"It's all because of that guy. He looks so seductive. I think he must have fallen in love with Qin Yan and wanted to take the opportunity to be alone with Qin Yan."
Thinking of the handsome boy who spoke in a cold voice, Wang Erni's face became even uglier.
"Mom, that can't be possible. I think he has a good relationship with Shen Nuo."
"Humph, what do you know? Those bastards love to use this kind of tricks. Qing Yi must want to have a good relationship with Shen Nuo so that she can climb into Qin Yan's bed directly."
"Bah, what a shameless slut."
Li Guihua spat in the direction of the restaurant.
"These are really some unpresentable things. And your grandmother, she didn't even come to the banquet for such a big event."
The villagers only sent a few young people with their children to join in the fun; as for the older generation, none of them came.
Some grandpas and grandmas even told Yang Xu and his friends that every penny saved is a penny earned, as free samples would not fill people up.
Yang Xu and the others knew it, it was just a means to attract customers. Those who were supposed to try the food could just take a few pieces each, and the white rice porridge was enough to fill them up.
This is no different from giving out porridge.
Even though some people in Huanghua City have started to do normal business, in fact many families are still short of food and clothing.
Their restaurant is equivalent to providing free porridge for three days, and also allows people to try new dishes.
Their action actually affected a lot of people. At least the merchants from other places saw this and would learn to do the same when they returned.
Who doesn’t like having many customers in their store?
The merchants who traveled north and south quickly learned this trick and followed suit when they returned.
In this way, they can indirectly allow other people to get free porridge for a few days.
Even though it's only three days, it can at least allow many people to survive.
Even Lord Chen came to Zhuxiangju in the afternoon, in order to intimidate the victims who wanted to come and eat and drink, so that they would not cause trouble and remember the kindness of Zhuxiangju.
When an adult comes, other businessmen who come here will also come to join in the fun.
This resulted in the restaurant being packed with customers even after three days of normal business operations.
In fact, because the portions of each dish were generous, more well-dressed businessmen came.
At the same time, Zhuxiangju also donated some food to the government so that they could build a tent and provide porridge in the winter.
Huanghuacheng is a transportation hub between the north and the south. Wherever rich businessmen come, there will be poor people, especially disaster victims. Therefore, it is not possible not to provide porridge in winter.
The imperial court allocates a lot of disaster relief grain here every year so that the victims can survive the winter.
Lord Chen and Lord Li were deeply moved by this and sent their handwritten calligraphy to the restaurant the next day.
There are two paintings in total, one for each adult.
Yang Xu and his friends didn't hesitate to hang the calligraphy on the first and second floors of the restaurant, which happened to be what some literati and poets loved.
Although they couldn't understand what was written in such a flamboyant manner, they knew that some people would like to read it.
Some people will come here for this.
You know, the two adults are now prefects of the fourth rank. Having two prefects in one city is unique in Huanghua City.
Moreover, they were not sent by the city lord, nor were there any other officials. These two were the highest-ranking officials in the city.
On the other hand, both of them passed the imperial examination and became Jinshi. Although they did not get the top three places in the imperial examination, it is not easy to pass the imperial examination.
How many people cannot even pass the examination to become a tongsheng, let alone a xiucai. If a family has a xiucai, it is considered a great honor.
The imperial examination candidates could not even think about it, let alone the top scholar. As long as they failed to meet the standards, even if they were the best among all the candidates, the emperor might not necessarily choose them as the top scholar.
Therefore, even if it was just a successful candidate returning home, all students would go to flatter him, not to mention the two adults.
And the fact is exactly as they thought. Ever since the two adults' pens were hung up, students from other counties and towns in Huanghua City would come here when they heard about it.
Since then, Zhuxiangju has become the most famous tourist attraction in Huanghuacheng, and almost everyone who comes here will come to take a look.
“You made so much in just five days?”
Shen Nuo looked at the account books they brought back, reading them again and again.
"Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it? We've only been open for five days, and we've already made back the cost of the first three days of tasting."
Yang Xu and the others were very happy, even Qingyi, who was usually cold and aloof, was smiling.
Excluding the cost of sending out the food and the donated relief grain, the dozen or twenty people who participated in opening the restaurant could each get one or two taels of silver.
One tael of silver was the money they received, but they made it back in just five days.
"You are all very smart."
Shen Nuo couldn't help but praise them.
"No way, the free tasting idea was actually thought up by Gu Tong."
Yang Xu pulled Gu Tong out from behind him. Gu Tong blushed and said shyly:
"I, I also read the book that Nuo Geer gave me, and there are examples like this in it. I didn't expect that we could really succeed."
"Yu Ge'er's suggestion was the best. He was the first to bring up the idea of giving out porridge."
Qin Yu smiled and said:
"No, that's what Qing Yi said. No guests should be left out. The more lively the better."
"It's because our restaurant is big enough, or it was Sister Fang who suggested buying the winery next door, so that it will be big enough."
"I……"
More than a dozen people were praising each other, and Shen Nuo could only smile and watch them praising each other.
Seeing that the two of them didn't care about the matter, Qin Ruan rolled his eyes and said loudly:
"That's all thanks to Brother Nuo. It was Brother Nuo who discovered that our cooking skills are good enough to open a restaurant."
"Yes, yes, it was Nuo Ge'er and Qin Yan who taught us how to make an oven and roast duck and chicken."
Some people began to agree, and then they went from praising each other to everyone praising Shen Nuo and Qin Yan together.
Qin Yan is thick-skinned and not ashamed at all, but Shen Nuo is different. After sending the person away, Shen Nuo's little face is still red.
Qin Yan smiled and hugged him:
"Our Nuonuo has been praised a lot today."
"Humph, even you are making trouble for me!"
Shen Nuo turned around, angrily not wanting to look at this person.
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