Chapter 173: Autumn Queen

When the autumn wind picked up, Meng Quezhi slowly moved from the place where he was selling iced drinks on the first floor of Phoenix Tower to the tea room in the middle, with a plaque above it - "Gan Ming Ju".

The saltpeter warehouse is well looked after, and only a small amount is kept outside for later use, and no large quantities are moved out.

Tofu and soy milk are different, and there are different dishes throughout the year.

The lack of seasonings makes the battle between sweet and salty beancurd less exciting.

Even stinky tofu seems to have lost a bit of its soul without the spiciness and oil.

But people still like this product made from soybeans that allows more people to feed themselves.

In winter, the most indispensable thing is actually a pot.

It's just that hot pot requires so many seasonings. Even though Chu Xujun has a Phoenix Tower, he doesn't dare to have the idea of ​​​​opening a hot pot restaurant.

A hot pot that only has clear soup and mushroom soup cannot be called a hot pot.

In the Tang Dynasty, pepper could still be regarded as a rare item worth a thousand pieces of gold. Chu Xujun could still make a pot of it at home. If he opened a shop, even the royal family and relatives would not be able to eat it every day, for fear of bankrupting the family.

Gan Ming Ju and iced drinks have made the transition with the seasons, but this cup of tea has not been promoted as a free tasting drink since it appeared before.

Although tea can be found all over the country, before conscious cultivation, it was just like wild vegetables and was not mass-produced. The process of frying tea is complicated, and if you make a wrong step, the taste will be wrong and the whole pot will be useless.

The Milk Tea Villa doesn't have much inventory so far, so it can only sell the products after they are refined.

Zhu Qi has already gone to Jeju. According to the timeline of the original book, a war is imminent, so he needs to make quick money first.

Meng Quezhi learned how to make tea from Chu Xujun, and he learned 80% of it.

Chu Xujun is an amateur, but Meng Quezhi is smart. She quickly figured out what time of tea can produce the most fragrant flavor.

There were only five or six private seats in Gan Ming Curie. Except for the nobles who dared to talk about large-scale paper transactions, they dared to walk in. Ordinary people with flat heads only dared to crane their necks from the outside to take a look.

They guarded the chips in their hands and lined up step by step, but they couldn't help Meng Quezhi to brew the tea, and the faint fragrance of tea overflowed.

On a cold night, guests come to drink tea and wine, and the soup in the bamboo stove begins to boil and turns red.

Chu Xujun recently got a few cans of oolong tea, which is similar to the Lapsang Souchong of later generations. Once brewed, the aroma fills the room and makes people salivate.

It doesn't taste very interesting to drink, but it's most suitable to whet the appetite of guests on the first floor.

Some guests who frequented the tearoom on the second floor knew it was Mr. Zhi who handed them the tea as soon as they smelled it.

They also asked several times if they could buy tea.

Mr. Paper just shook his head and said nothing.

Now that the Gan Ming House on the first floor has been put up, it is also clear that the threshold for buying tea is to be able to enter the tea room on the second floor.

Everyone is happy to smell this unique aroma even if they can't drink it.

After a while, the guests who came into the Phoenix Tower knew that if there were no single guests in Gan Mingju, the tea brewed by Mr. Meng from the beginning would be taken outside and given to the earliest guests to taste for free.

Of course, such opportunities are extremely rare and depend entirely on luck.

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In front of the Phoenix Tower, when the distant fragrance of tea refreshed the mouth and nose, Chu Ji and Chu Jie returned to Chu's house one day early.

Chu Ji still looked like a humble gentleman, but his originally well-fitting hospital uniform became baggier, his cheeks became thinner, and his chin was so sharp that it could poke people.

He looked pale and attended the banquet prepared for their brothers as usual.

There were only a few people at the table. When he heard that his second uncle Chu Qiu was going to Jeju, Chu Ji's expression was stunned and he was very complicated...

Chu Xujun didn't say much.

Chu Jie didn't show up. When he came back, he stayed in the house and refused to come out. He asked people to bring food and wine inside.

Like a ghost, a resentful ghost.

Chu Xujun asked Chu Ji a few questions: "Brother, how is the paper situation at the academy?"

Chu Ji: "Right now, both teachers and students are using it. You can occasionally buy it at the martial arts school, and everyone is grabbing it.

"

"Is there anyone who wants to ask you?"

Chu Ji nodded: "Quite a few."

"Then brother, are you willing to pull strings?"

Chu Ji: "This is a business that Nuo Nuo worked hard for. How can I lick my face and get a piece of the pie?"

Chu Xujun: "Brother, I said it in the ancestral hall before, we are a family. Is it possible that you brothers are a family, and sisters are not?"

Chu Ji hurriedly said: "Of course they are."

Chu Xujun took out a can of tea: "This is a new product recently released by Phoenix Tower. Brother, you don't have to do anything more. Take it to the academy and make it for your classmates. If they are interested, you can give them a note.

, let them come over."

Chu Ji took it and said, "It turns out that this was also Yunsu's idea. If I know about it, I will definitely work hard if I can help Yunyu."

"Brother's focus is still on his studies, this is just for my entertainment."

Knowing that Chu Ji was in a bad mood, after dinner, Chu Wen asked Chu Ji to see his recent progress in the military camp.

Chu Liang also showed it to Chu Jie, and he followed what Mr. Tao learned.

Chu Ji's face was still gentle. He returned to his residence and glanced at his brother's house where the lights were still on. He walked to the door and turned back to his place.

During these days, he told his brother everything he needed to say, but apparently he didn't listen. He also began to avoid himself in the academy, indulged in drinking and sex, and was confused in his homework.

He thought that returning home, with his father watching over him, would at least make him sober up, but unexpectedly, his father left Zhongzhou directly.

My father refused to forgive Cheng, and my second brother refused to forgive what my father and the rest of the Chu family had done.

What about himself?

Can he forgive?

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The next day, when Chu Xujun got up, Maizi came to report that the brothers had set off first to the Caishikou execution ground.

Ximei: "I didn't use a bite of steamed buns or a bite of soup, but I took away a big box of good wine and food."

Chu Xujun didn't say anything anymore. When she went out, she saw the man in Xuanyi standing in front of the house.

"You don't have to go to the camp today?"

"Come to pick you up."

There is a Qiu Houwenzhan at Caishikou. He is a general and needs to dispatch soldiers to guard it.

During these days, as long as Wei Ling has nothing to do, he will come to Chu Mansion and Phoenix Tower to pick him up and take him home.

Like a conscientious "boyfriend".

Even if he had something to do and couldn't come in person, Li Yuan would still make a trip for his master and tell the general where she was, what she was doing, and when he would come to pick her up.

The situation was not stable at the moment. Prince Zhen only sent his deputy general to patrol the border, leaving Wei Ling to train in the military camp.

In every household, more and more people were drafted into the camp, and Wei Ling was certainly busy.

It's just that Chu Xujun devoted himself to the Phoenix Tower, and as the business grew, the Chu family's personnel dealings became more and more complicated, and it was no easier than a general in a state.

The two often returned home under the stars and the moon, chatting on the road: "Sisters, do you want to celebrate the New Year in Zhongzhou?"

Wei Ling: "They said that if my sister-in-law lets them stay, they will continue to stay, otherwise the Wei Mansion will be cold and boring, and they will not be happy. But my aunt has already sent Linlang back to Linlang immediately and will not come again."

Chu Xujun was speechless for a moment.

They were just engaged. How did he say the word "sister-in-law"?

Today, they have no interest in gossiping.

Hua Liancheng was very sincere and strictly prohibited her from coming to the scene personally.

It's just that she forgot that Phoenix Tower is not far from the "market". As long as you go up to the roof, you can see the grand scene of Caishikou without stepping on your toes.
Chapter completed!