Chu Shubao saw the chicken full of ox carts and was slightly stunned. He turned his head and asked Jiang Yanyi: "Is this a chicken feast in the store?"

Jiang Yanyi was also confused. She went into the store and asked Yang Xiu, "What's the matter with the chicken in the ox cart outside?"

Yang Xiu said: "The driver of the royal mansion next door drove the ox cart over and said it was for us."

Jiang Yanyi was in a subtle mood. Did Feng Shuo send these chickens to her?

His gift-giving style is really different and unexpected.

There are many diners in the store now, so you have to pass through the store by taking the chicken into the backyard. For fear of hitting the diners who are eating, you can only temporarily put the dozen chickens in the ox cart outside.

Jiang Yanyi took Chu Shubao into the store and greeted the familiar diners with a smile. The other party knew that Jiang Yanyi had opened another noodle shop, so he could not congratulate him.

It was the first time Chu Shubao came to Jiang Yanyi's antique soup shop. He found that the place was a little smaller, and the layout and display were no worse than those famous restaurants. It was clean everywhere and did not look dirty or messy at all.

The half-person-high bamboo screen separates each table, so even if the tables are very close, it will not give people a sense of crowding. Even because there is a screen blocking it, it will be more secretive, and diners are more comfortable when eating.

There is a thin-necked white porcelain bottle on each table, with a half-open and half-retracted red plum at the mouth of the bottle, and it is accompanied by various exquisite plates placed on the table, which is so pleasing to the eye.

Before Chu Shubao could praise Jiang Yanyi's furnishings, he heard a table of diners shouting: "Waiter, prepare paper and ink!"

Chu Shubao looked in the voice and found that the diners on the table were all young men. After drinking a few glasses of wine, he was slightly drunk on his face. Perhaps because he found that there were young girls watching them, the faces of the young men were redder. In order to show his literary talent, he started drinking again. The voices of chanting poems were louder than the other. Diners at the next table were either smiling and watching the show, or commenting on the talent of these young people to a friend.

Jiang Yanyi seemed to be accustomed to this situation. She took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the bottom of the counter and handed it to Yang Xiu. Yang Xiu took it to the table. When the young master wrote poems, it would also attract diners around who were eating pots to get up to watch the fun.

Those who write good poems and write good words will naturally win a lot of praise. If they encounter pretentious behavior, they will also get rid of ridicule. This was after Feng Shuo wrote the antique soup to Jiang Yanyi Store, and she herself did not expect that it would develop into such a momentum in the end.

Her antique soup store seems to have become an ancient internet celebrity hotpot check-in point.

Other restaurants want to learn this gimmick, but unfortunately they can't learn it without that reputation.

Chu Shubao didn't know this and felt it was quite novel. He lay on the counter and whispered to Jiang Yanyi: "Does anyone often come to your store to write poetry? Then will you have to spend a lot of money on pen, ink, paper and inkstone?"

Jiang Yanyi smiled and explained to her in a low voice: "Only when the fame is established can you earn more."

She pointed to several hand-bound collections of poems on the wall next to her, "These are poems that I wrote after I came to the store to eat pots and became interested. The shopkeeper of the bookstore discussed with me and said that he wanted to print these poems into books and sell them. However, there were still several diners who wrote poems who had never met them again. I had no way to get their consent, so I ransacked the matter."

This is equivalent to a lonely book that only exists in her store. Many scholars will borrow those poetry collections to observe when they come to the store.

Chu Shubao was so excited that he took a collection of poems and read them. He found that some people replied with a small word under the poem. He was discovered by the owner of the poem, and he couldn't help but give him another poem. He went back and forth, which was quite a bit like making friends through literature.

She sighed: "Ayi, you are so smart. If I leave poems in the collection of poems, I will see if anyone will reply to poems for me every now and then."

Jiang Yanyi was keeping accounts in the account book. When he heard this, he held a brush and said, "If a talented man and beautiful woman became a marriage for poetry, there would be more customers who came to the store to keep poetry."

This era is strict with women. Xizhou is outside the Great Wall, and there are fewer rules to restrict women. In the southern capital, the more ladies are, the less free they are. They all pay attention to not leaving the door without going out.

Since childhood, a girl met with a man in addition to her own relatives, there were basically few men. Even when a man came to her house, she had to avoid being dissatisfied.

In terms of marriage, they basically follow the "partner's orders and matchmakers' words". Some even know what the person they marry looks like on the wedding night. How many pairs can there be? Most of the time, the woman just swallows her anger and creates an illusion of harmony and happiness.

Therefore, in the storybook, those tragic love stories that break through secular ethics are always particularly popular.

Chu Shubao asked: "Ayi, don't you sell antique soup in your store? How did you think of getting so many things?"

Jiang Yanyi said: "If you just want to do some small business, you only consider profits. But if you want to do it bigger, you have to make your own core things so that even if others learn, they can only learn to be a dog that is not a good person."

"There are many reasons why guests choose a restaurant. The delicious food is also the most obvious reason. Because no matter how delicious the food is, it will inevitably get bored after eating it for a long time. There are other things to guide diners to make choices, such as dining environments and fun you can find during meals."

In addition to the old scholar telling books and writing poems in her store, Jiang Yanyi also held a pot throwing activity. If it is all, she can give away a plate of Yao Chuzi's specialty dishes for free. With the lottery, more diners come here to participate in the pot throwing game.

Chu Shubao is a good person and asked almost immediately: "Then, besides being easy to use, can my rouge be bought by female customers, what other ways can they like?"

Jiang Yan thought for a moment and said, "The celebrity effect may be useful."

Seeing that Chu Shubao seemed to not understand, Jiang Yanyi explained: "You came from the capital. You have a beautiful makeup on the other day. It is said that a princess or county lord in the capital is just the makeup. Can others say that it is not good? If you ask how you put on this makeup, what kind of rouge are used and what technique do you put on makeup? Then I sincerely praise how good this rouge is, but I won't it be sold?"

Chu Shubao nodded wildly, with admiration on her face, and she sighed: "Fortunately, you don't sell rouge, otherwise I'm afraid I'll have to buy it and lose everything."

Jiang's words were both ridiculous and hilarious.

After handling the matter in the account, she pulled Chu Shubao and hid in the backyard, discussing the layout of the rouge counter and how to sell it to the female customers.

After all the problems were almost settled, it was almost dark and the diners in the store had finished walking. Yang Xiu carried the chickens from the ox cart into the backyard and waited for Jiang Yanyi to deal with them.

Chu Shubao continued to write about her store opening plan in the room, while Jiang Yanyi went to the kitchen to help.

Although he had been greedy for a long time, Jiang Yanyi was still not so crazy that he slaughtered more than a dozen chickens together.

It’s great to keep a few old hens for stewing soup. Anyway, she has a large yard now, so she can come out in a circle and let them live for a while.

Jiang Yanyi picked a big rooster and asked Yang Xiu to kill him to remove the hair.

When Chu Yao saw the big rooster who had been killed, he couldn't help but praise it: "This chicken is well-raised. It can be used to make soup to replenish blood and nourish qi, and it can't be more warm and nourishing."

Jiang Yanyi said: "I plan to fry it."

Chu Yao thought she wanted to make dried chicken nuggets, so she shook her head and said, "That's a waste of such a good chicken."

Jiang Yanyi said, "The name of this dish is chicken pot, and you have to cook it with rooster to taste delicious."

Speaking of which, there is another story about this dish. A chef named this dish with his own name as the prefix, called "XX Chicken Pot". Because his name is the same as the place name of the mountain city, people from other places think that the chicken pot is a famous dish in the mountain city.

In his previous life, Jiang Yanyi was asked by his college roommate once. His roommate said that as a mountain city, you can make hot pot, why don’t you not **p the public pot?

Jiang Yanyi didn't know that "XX Chicken Pot" was not a local dish at that time. When she heard that it was not successful, she quickly learned how to cook chicken pot by herself. Looking back now, it was funny, but it really seemed like a different life.

The two most important steps in chicken pot are to make old oil and sauce.

The old oil thief is made of four kinds of oils and more than a dozen spices. These four kinds of oils are vegetable sesame oil, large oil, butter and chicken oil.

The other three types of oil are easy to find, butter is not easy to buy. Occasionally, there are those who sell butter beef on the market, and they are all slaughtered old cows. It is also because they often buy meat from horse butchers, and when they are familiar with each other, the horse butchers have a source of goods, they will leave a portion for Jiang Yanyi in advance.

When boiling old oil, add four kinds of oil in the pan. The butter is the last one. When it is heated until 30% hot, add ginger, onion and garlic cloves to stir-fry, followed by green and peppercorns, stir-fry the cornus to make the spicy flavor, and finally add all kinds of spices. Boil them on a low heat that does not allow the oil to be hotter than 50% hot for half an hour. Boil all the fragrance in the spices into the oil, which is several times more fragrant than ordinary forged and fried.

The sauce is made of more than ten kinds of spices with 60% hot sesame oil. After simmering it for half an hour, add rock sugar to make it fresher, and pour a spoonful of rice wine to make it fragrant.

Wash the chopped chicken with blood, marinate it with cooking wine and ginger to remove the fishy smell, and marinate it with boiled sauce for two quarters of an hour. This step is to marinate the chicken with flavor.

When the chicken is marinated, heat the old oil in the pot, add chicken pieces and stir-fry until it is raw. Add dogwood, pepper, ginger and garlic to make it fragrant. Then add lotus root, potatoes, tofu skin, winter bamboo shoots, black fungus, soaked instant noodles, sprinkle with salt and cooking wine to make it fragrant. Finally, pour a spoonful of broth and cook for half an incense stick. When the pot is opened, the chicken pot that is so fragrant that it is so fragrant that it is made.

Jiang Yanyi found a small casserole, filled it with a full casserole, and put a few pieces of coriander, and asked Yang Xiu to deliver the casserole chicken pot to Feng Shuo.

Considering that these chickens were sent by someone from the palace next door, Yang Xiu ran away without any complaints.

It is probably because of the old oil, so it is really fragrant. Jiang Yanyi doesn’t need to ask for a meal. Everyone in the restaurant is waiting to eat at the door of the kitchen.

When Chu Shubao saw that there was instant noodles in the chicken pot, his eyes lit up instantly. When the meal started, others would pick up meat to eat, but only she was picking up instant noodles to eat with every chopstick.

Chu Yangui stayed in the Chu family for too long and would make the old lady Chu suspicious. Jiang Yanyi asked Chu Zhong to take Chu Yangui back a few days ago, and often cook some delicious food to the Chu family.

Jiang Yanyi picked up a piece of chicken for Chu Yangui. When she saw Chu Shubao eating instant noodles, she also picked up a piece for her: "Eat more meat."

Chu Shubao sucked the instant noodles in his mouth and shook his head: "I think the most delicious thing in this pot is instant noodles!"

Unlike the instant noodles cooked in Maocai at noon, this time the instant noodles were fried directly, with strong oil and red sauce, which is very easy to taste. The aroma of old oil and various ingredients is almost all integrated into the instant noodles, which is simply the essence of the whole pot of chicken pot.

Jiang Yanyi found it funny, Chu Shubao liked it, so she followed her.

During the meal, he couldn't help but ask about Chu Yangui's homework again. Now the news of Feng Shuo's rebellion has spread. As Feng Shuo's military advisor, Chi Qing is very busy every day, so naturally he doesn't have much time to guide Chu Yangui.

Chu Yangui was stubborn, but Chi Qing's mouth was so poisonous that he had been polished by Chi Qing. He had now been worn out with so-called crazy aura and was much more restrained.

When Jiang Yanyi asked, he said truthfully: "I have finished learning the Analects of Confucius. My senior brother said that when my master has time to come to test me, I just don't know what my master has time to do. Now I am reading the Doctrine of the Mean."

The old scholar also sucked instant noodles. Chu Yangui was a bit satisfied when he saw him growing up, and said to Jiang Yanyi: "Young master is talented and intelligent, so it is rare to learn "The Analects of Confucius" so quickly."

When Chu Yangui was praised, Jiang Yanyi was happy and said heroically: "Study hard, and I will stew an old hen to nourish your body tomorrow!"

Jiang Yanyi was thinking about how to eat the chickens left in the temporary chicken cage outside, from the chicken cage to the tip of the chicken wings.

Final Mansion.

Although Duke Chen was unwilling to ask about the world again, Feng Shuo rebelled, and he could still give some advice.

His whereabouts have always been kept confidential. After all, he used two death row prisoners to replace the Mu brothers. If he hadn't retired early, he would have been impeached and imprisoned by his political opponents.

He wanted to find the truth about Mu Wuhou's death back then. Those who wanted to cover up the truth would definitely not let him succeed, and might even send someone to assassinate him after learning about his whereabouts.

The fewer people know his true identity, the better.

Therefore, when he appeared in Fengshuo's study, there was no one else in the house except Fengshuo and Chi Qing.

"...The emperor's news came from that Xipin could only exchange it for one person in the Chu family." Chi Qing said with a headache: "Chu Changping was righteous and refused to only exchange his son for his own life. Chu Chengmao was also a kind of person. He shouted in front of the two armies that Chu Changping would replace his cousin's newly born son."

After Lu Linyuan was able to save his life, Jiang Yanxi put down the big stone in his heart and returned to Beijing to save Shangshu Jiang. When he learned that he would be taken hostage to the emperor, he seemed to know that there was no hope of escaping, so he was very disagreeable.

Feng Shuo looked at the defense map, without raising his head, his eyes and eyebrows were covered with coldness: "Didn't the emperor send a slim figure to save people? He cut off the slim figure's finger and sent it back to him, saying that it was Xipin's, let's see if he was relieved."

This method is not really about hiding the new emperor, but to deter him from it, so that he can know that the person he sent has been arrested and the next time he will be cut off, perhaps Jiang Yanxi's finger.

Chi Qing sighed, "I thought it was already yin enough, but I didn't expect you to be even more yin than me."

Feng Shuo gave him a look, and he shut up instantly. After a while, he told Chen Guogong, who was leisurely drinking tea, "Old man, you can say something at least."

Duke Chen opened his eyes and glanced at Chi Qing: "Don't you say this well? What do you want the old man to say?"

Chi Qing was so angry that he was so angry that he had no temper.

Duke Chen glanced at Feng Shuoshima map and said, "Taking Yuzhou is not a long-term solution to keep the grain road. It is not difficult to cut oil in Yuzhou to intercept grain and grass."

Feng Shuo said: "Xizhou is bitter and cold, not a place for grain production, and the surrounding counties are not rich. If the grain is forcibly collected, the people will complain lightly, and starve to death is great. For the sake of the present, we can only try our best to keep the food road."

Of course there is a safer way. He can move back to Yuzhou with his army, which is adjacent to Hengzhou. He has the strongest army and the richest supplies, and no one can shake him. But in this way, Xizhou has lost its garrison, and almost handed over the entire northern gate.
To be continued...