"The boss of Xuanyang Paper Mill lives in a manor outside the city?"
Li Mo's mind moved slightly.
Xu Shan from Zuixianlou has a manor outside the city, as does the boss of Xuanyang Paper Shop, so it seems that Jiang Yunyi from Yunyi Bookstore may also have one.
Speaking of which, I don't have a real mansion yet. When my money is freer, I will try to find a way to buy a mansion in the city or outside the city. Although the back hall of the restaurant can be lived in, it is still a bit inconvenient.
And there are many things you can do outside the city, and you can better cope with the Anshi Rebellion in the future.
However, according to memory, the price of a good manor is extremely high, some even cost ten thousand taels of silver.
Now I only have less than 20 taels of cash in hand, and I still need to work harder.
"Lang Jun, the boss's surname is Liu and his name is Liu Ping. The house is called Xuanhe Village. It occupies a large area."
At this time, Zhao Hai said again.
Today I spent a lot of effort to find out the news. Xuanhe Village is five miles away from Luoyang. It is at the foot of a mountain and has a beautiful scenery. It can be seen that the boss of Xuanyang Paper Factory is also quite powerful.
"By the way...how is Yunyi Bookstore's business today?"
After writing down the name, Li Mo turned around and asked again.
He is not the kind of person who can only talk when someone bullies him. Yunyi Book Club has been causing trouble behind his back time and time again. Even though due to some combination of circumstances, the book club has developed better in Nanshi, things cannot just let it go.
"Lang Jun, today...it is said that only fifty copies of the Yunyi Bookstore's manuscripts were sold. Later, Jiang Yunyi was a little unable to hold on. The price dropped from 350 Chinese characters per copy to 300 Chinese characters per copy. Still not many scribes bought it.
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Mentioning Yunyi Book Club, Zhao Hai chuckled.
When he heard the news today, he felt so happy.
If you let your kid do mischief behind my back again, retribution shouldn't come too soon.
"Okay! I'll go outside the city early tomorrow to meet Liu Ping."
Li Mo nodded.
This is just the beginning... When the full manuscript of Journey to the West is released, what will happen to Yunyi Bookstore?
"Mr. Lang, it's a long way outside the city, so I'd better go with you as a kid!"
Hearing this, Zhao Hai said hurriedly.
"No, you stay in Yibo Building to help... It is estimated that there will be more scholars and scribes coming to make reservations tomorrow. Erhou and the others still have things to do in the restaurant to be busy."
Waving his hand, Li Mo said that he could do it alone.
Today's Journey to the West has already talked about the monkey being crushed under the Five Elements Mountain, which is the place where Lai's waiting point is. As for the later part of the journey to learn the scriptures, in order to avoid trouble, he has replaced Li Shimin in the original book with another fictional emperor.
Otherwise, people with serious intentions will seize the opportunity and accuse him of setting up Emperor Taizong.
"Mr. Lang..."
Zhao Hai was about to speak but stopped.
Seeing that Liu Ping's estate was quite large, he was really worried that his husband would suffer a loss if they could not reach an agreement.
In addition, my husband has to rush back to give a lecture at noon tomorrow, and it will be bad if he misses the time.
At this time, Xue Song came over and patted Zhao Hai on the shoulder to tell him not to worry, then turned to Li Moyan again.
"Mr. Lang, I will go with you tomorrow."
"This...your body..."
Li Mo paused.
"Don't worry, Sir, after taking the medicine today, you will be fine!"
After saying that, Xue Song moved his body and looked like a normal person.
"Okay! Tomorrow you and I will go pay a visit to Liu Ping!"
Li Mo did not refuse again.
Xue Song is currently the only free person in the restaurant. It would be nice to bring him with him to familiarize himself with the environment of Dongdu. With Xue Song's talent, staying in the restaurant to help is really unworthy of him. Perhaps the green forest of rivers and lakes is where he should stay.
"Yes, Langjun!"
After deciding to leave the city tomorrow, Li Mo looked at the kitchen.
Since he decided to build his own manor next to improve his self-protection ability, it was still a bit slow to rely solely on the book club to make money. Lu Fang, who had just reported the accounts from the accountant, gave him a new idea.
If you run a restaurant well, you may be able to earn more.
Today, the lobby was only full and we made a net profit of fifteen taels. If the private rooms on the second and third floors were full, wouldn't we make even more?
Although he was not a chef and could not cook when he was on earth,
But he knows that there is no hot pot in the Tang Dynasty... If hot pot can be introduced into restaurants, as long as the taste is right, not only can the private rooms on the second and third floors be full, but it can also grab the business of the Zuixian Building opposite.
Best of both worlds!
The most important thing for hot pot is the base. Once you have the base, the next thing is very simple.
.......
After a while, Li Mo appeared in the kitchen.
Duan Chong and Miao Fei were packing their things when they saw their husband approaching and saluted hurriedly.
"I've met Mr. Lang!"
At this moment, the two of them were in the same mood as the accountant Lu Fang.
Although they are busy today, they like this kind of busy work instead of sitting in the back hall doing nothing every day.
Unknowingly, Li Mo's status in their hearts has been elevated to another level, which makes them more determined to follow Li Mo's footsteps and work together in the future.
If you can make the restaurant business so prosperous just by giving lectures, who else can do it?
A scholar is a scholar!
"Brother Duan, do you have a copper pot here? Or a copper basin will do!"
After nodding, Li Mo asked.
He didn't intend to explain it to the two chefs, just because he had never cooked hot pot when he was on earth, and now he just had this idea.
Although my super brain has the best hot pot base cooking methods in Sichuan and Sichuan, theory is theory and practice is practice.
"Oh? What does Mr. Lang want the copper pot for?"
Duan Chong and Miao Fei couldn't help but look at each other in surprise.
"Get something!"
Li Mo looked around the kitchen, not to mention... the dishes here are all complete, including meat and vegetables.
"Mr. Sir, please wait a moment!"
Hearing this, Duan Chong turned around without saying anything and found a copper basin from the kitchen.
"good!"
Li Mo took a look and was convinced that this copper basin was quite similar to the Jiugongge Hot Pot on Earth, and it was perfect for cooking dishes.
"Brother Duan, go get some more spicy food..."
After a pause, Li Mo was suddenly stunned when he was thinking about asking Duan Chong to get some more spices and garnishes for the hot pot base.
"Oh...how could you forget this?"
After slapping his forehead, Li Mo secretly cursed himself for being stupid.
Nothing else, just because Li Mo remembered a fact.
That is, there were no chili peppers in the Tang Dynasty. In that world on earth, chili peppers were only introduced to the country during the Ming Dynasty.
This is how to do?
The most essential seasoning of hot pot is chili.
Li Mo then walked to the back kitchen and looked around, and sure enough... there were onions, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, star anise, etc., but no chili.
"What do you want me to do for the little one? I'll find the little one for you!"
Duan Chong and Miao Fei became more and more confused and asked hurriedly.
"Forget it, it's nothing..."
Li Mo smiled bitterly, feeling a little disappointed for a moment.
The seasonings in this era were not monotonous. There were Sichuan peppercorns, pepper and even dogwood. These can add some spiciness to the food, but their taste is ultimately very different from that of chili peppers.
And the chili pepper itself is also edible...these flavors are simply incomparable.
"Okay, you guys have to clean up some more! You might be a little busier tomorrow."
It's hard for a good woman to make a meal without rice, but unfortunately the hot pot couldn't be made. Li Mo had no choice but to settle down and walk out of the kitchen, leaving Duan Chong and Miao Fei looking at each other.
"What are you doing, Mr. Lang?"
"have no idea!"
"But Mr. Lang must have his own intentions. It's better not to speculate yet!"
"Um!"
.......
Xishi, Yunyi Bookstore,
Wow!
There was the sound of something being thrown inside, followed by Jiang Yunyi's furious voice,
"Waste! A bunch of waste..."
In the inner hall, Jiang Yunyi was seen angrily pointing at several waiters and yelling curses.
When he took over Mo Ran Book Club earlier, he thought that there would be no problem with the business of his book club. However, when he returned to the book club and looked at the few scholars at the door, the smile instantly solidified on his face.
Business did not improve as I expected, but got worse.
In desperation, he finally had to sell the copies of "Liu Yi's Biography" at a reduced price, but no one was interested, so he directed all his anger at the clerks, thinking that they were not doing the job well.
"Sir...Actually, guys have really tried their best..."
Just when the atmosphere was getting more and more deadly, the manager of the book club beside him spoke in a low voice.
"Try your best? Try your best. Why did you only sell fifty copies today? Our inventory now reaches 700..."
Jiang Yunyi's eyes widened,
Although fifty copies were sold and about fifteen taels were recorded in the account, excluding various costs, etc., the book club actually did not make much money today.
In the past two days, there was a net income of dozens of taels per day. How could we not be anxious with such a gap?
And according to this trend, business may be even worse tomorrow.
There are also 700 copies in stock. If these can't be sold...then it won't be a matter of profit but loss.
"Sir... please calm down first. The biggest reason for the deterioration of our company's business this time is probably the Moran Book Club!"
The steward explained in a low voice.
"Mo Ran Book Club? Hasn't Li Mo's fellow already left the West Market?"
Jiang Yunyi raised his eyebrows.
Before, he thought that Li Mo was deliberately playing tricks with those scribes and scholars in private to buy copies of Liu Yi's biography at a low price. Now that Li Mo has been driven away, is it possible that he still doesn't give up?
This is of no benefit to him.
"Master, when my subordinates saw that business was not doing well, they inquired about it privately. Unexpectedly, they actually found out something! Although Li Mo left the West City, he moved to a restaurant in the South City... which attracted him
Many scholars and scholars went to Nanshi. And..."
The manager stopped talking midway through his words.
"And how?"
"According to my subordinates' understanding, the story of Journey to the West: The Legend of Shi'e is indeed very exciting, and it is not inferior to the Legend of Liu Yi."
The steward whispered.
In order to verify what the scholar said, he also spent ten coins to rent yesterday's and today's manuscripts from a scholar.
At a glance,
It’s really hard to say that even he was almost obsessed with it. Fortunately, he restrained himself from reading it in the end, otherwise he might have the urge to go to Nayibo Building to listen to the book.
This can only show that the poor business of Yunyi Bookstore is not caused by Li Mo and the scholars working together to cause trouble...nor is it that the scholars want to create momentum and deliberately lower the price of Liu Yichuan.
But those scholars and scholars had their own choices.
Yunyi Bookstore is just wishful thinking.
"Better than Liu Yi's biography? How is it possible! Don't you know what level Li Mo is?"
When Jiang Yunyi saw the steward's demeanor, he still spoke harshly, but his heart skipped a beat.
The steward has been with him for a long time and will never lie. Could it be that this guy Li Mo really wrote a masterpiece?
This is really a troublesome thing.
Why not find a chance tomorrow to get a copy of Journey to the West and take a look at it and see how it goes!
"Hmph! Even if Moran Publishing House's "Journey to the West" is good, my Chaowei can go to a higher level and create a more exciting legendary story than "Journey to the West"! Tomorrow I will let Chaowei write a new work."
After thinking about it, Jiang Yunyi said again.
It can be regarded as finding a step for myself.
"Sir, in my opinion, it is better to let Mr. Chaowei concentrate on preparing the reward for the Western Ducan Book. Once Mr. Chaowei becomes the secretary, destroying the Moran Book Club will not be as simple as squeezing an ant to death?"
At this time, the steward hurriedly advised me in a low voice and also made a gesture of wiping his neck.
"It's natural!"
Jiang Yunyi snorted coldly.
I was just talking, why would he let his nephew write a new work at this juncture just to get angry with Moran Publishing House? Tomorrow, he should be able to earn two thousand taels of silver after taking his nephew to compete with the poetry demon.
After the competition, my nephew will go to Xidu first to prepare for sending books for rewards.
Sending books as gifts is a big deal right now!
As the steward said, as long as his nephew becomes a scribe, no matter how wonderful the Journey to the West is, killing him is just a matter of a few words.
.......
As everyone knows, just when Jiang Yunyi was feeling depressed, Ningrenfang and Xu Mansion,
Xu Shanzheng and the stewards of the restaurant are also studying the next countermeasures.
"Master, how about we ask the manor's retainers to go find some trouble for Yibo House tomorrow..."
The steward said with a fierce look.
Today, due to the influence of Yibo Tower, there are many fewer diners in Zuixian Tower than usual, and they all go there to watch the excitement. With fewer diners, the money earned will naturally be less.
"No tomorrow! Moreover, Qin Fang from Yibo Tower also has some strength. It is said that he is about to break through to the realm of a sixth-grade warrior."
Hearing this, Xu Shan shook his head.
He did not know that Qin Fang had left the restaurant to Li Mo and went to seek refuge with Gao Xianzhi, the governor of Anxi, alone. At this time, he thought that Qin Fang had taken in Li Mo who had nowhere to go.
Although there is a sixth-grade warrior among his disciples, there is only one and there is no way to crush Qin Fang.
It would not be good for Zuixian Tower if trouble really breaks out.
"But...Master...are we just going to watch Yibo Building steal our business?"
The steward sighed.
We can’t make trouble, so what should we do?
"Let's talk about it after tomorrow. In fact, we don't have to worry too much. Several of Zuixianlou's signature dishes are second to none in the Eastern Capital, and no one can replace them! Those drinkers will eventually come back!"
Xu Shan secretly clenched his fist.
There will be a big deal with Jiang Yunyi tomorrow. If we can recruit the Poetic Demon King Chang Ling to his command, then we don't need to worry about Qin Fang anymore and just drive away Li Mo.
If Qin Fang dares to stop...then Qin Fang will also deal with it!