"Stock soup dumplings are steaming." Inside the Dongcheng Gate of Yangzhou, a guy was shouting loudly in front of a steamer. In his nine-layer cage, there were famous snacks in Yangzhou and soup dumplings.

The soup dumplings are small and exquisite, with tender thin skin and exquisite, wrapped in oily but not greasy pork and fragrant and delicious soup. When you put them on your mouth, a scent that comes from your face will penetrate your nose. You will gently take a small bite, sip the thick soup, and chew the mellow meat filling. It is simply a pleasure.

Therefore, soup dumplings are very popular in Yangzhou, and their stall has been in Yangzhou for decades.

"What is it for in front?" A guy couldn't help but take a look from a distance. There was a stall in the open space today, a row of long and low tables, with several stools on both sides, and a manger was set up near the roadside.

Two people were busy in front of the manger.

"Brother Gou'er, put the charcoal inside, we need to light the charcoal first." Chen Feng said.

Today is Chen Feng’s first day in business. In his previous life, during his college days, Chen Feng was on an outing with a few classmates and ate lamb skewers by himself. Therefore, Chen Feng is still familiar with the deliciousness of this later generation.

There are almost open-air lamb skewers stalls in the streets and alleys. At night, there is an attractive fragrance everywhere. Drinking beer, eating broad beans and peanuts, is almost an indispensable nightlife content in summer.

However, in the entire Central Plains, there is no such snack, so Chen Feng invested all his property: Erguan of money here.

Thirty pounds of mutton, nine hundred cents were used to make a box of kebabs with iron, eight hundred cents were used, and a bucket of rice wine from the winery on the east side, a large bag of steamed buns from a steamed bun shop two streets away, and a piece of cumin, salt and other pieces bought from the market. The money was consumed. The bamboo sticks were all cut with bamboo, so they didn't need to spend money.

This wine is also a big expense. Now, it can only be the wine that can enter the wine shop. After a while, you have to make wine yourself and increase your income. As for steamed buns, it is too cumbersome to make money by yourself and make less money, so Chen Feng plans to buy it from the steamed bun shop all the time.

Although it was illegal to brew wine privately at this time, the Mongolians did not strictly manage this aspect.

"Young master, are we going to light the fire in this manger?" Liu Gou'er asked.

Manger? Chen Feng had the urge to slap Liu Gou'er. What's the name of Manger? That's... the oven! Chen Feng turned his hand and patted Liu Gou'er on the back, saying, "Light up quickly, don't delay our business!" After that, he handed Liu Gou'er a fan.

However, looking at the appearance of my oven, it is 80% similar to a manger. Have you ever seen a manger made of iron? The mangers are made of stone. The mangers are fed to the horses and the ovens are fed to people.

Today, everything was ready, and Mu's illness improved a little. Liu Gou'er asked the warehouse manager for a day off and accompanied Chen Feng to set up a stall.

When Liu Gouer was igniting the fire, Chen Feng also cut the meat on a simple chopping board, cut the mutton into long strips, and then stringed it with bamboo sticks.

These meats have been marinated in advance. Chen Feng skewed the meat skewers, cut a few steamed buns and skewed them on bamboo sticks.

When he turned around again, he saw that there was still thick smoke in the oven, but it was not on fire. Liu Gou'er was still fanning with a fan, or even blowing it directly with his mouth, which was impossible.

"Brother Gou'er, look at me." Chen Feng picked up the fan, followed the oven tank, and slapped it a few times, and then a flame emerged from it.

"Young Master, you are really good." Liu Gou'er said.

"Brother Gou'er, don't call me Young Master." Chen Feng said: "Just like Mom, just call me a nickname, Feng'er."

"That's not possible." Liu Gou'er said, "Young Master, you have a noble status. I can't be on par with you. I'm breaking the rules."

"Then you call me Brother Feng, is this okay?" Chen Feng said, "That's all."

Liu Gou'er's face was flushed and she said, "Then I'll call you Brother Feng."

"Well, Brother Dog, this is just right, bring me the meat skewers."

On the first day, the business is good or bad, it depends on the fragrance of the mutton skewers.

Chen Feng controlled the heat and grilled the cumin powder and salt powder with his hands, sprinkled evenly on the mutton.

The oil and water of the mutton were roasted, dripping drop by drop onto the charcoal fire below, and a small stream of flame kept popping out of the dripping oil.

With the green smoke, the aroma of meat spreads throughout the street.

The guy who poured the soup buns sniffed in the air, it smelled so good!

Just when I smelled the fragrance, a sound like a piercing sounded halfway through the street: "Mutton skewers, sell mutton skewers! Mutton is fragrant, mutton is fragrant, and the stomach is warm. Men eat hard and women eat watery."

"Young Master, how could you say such words!" Liu Gou'er heard this, and it was a bit unacceptable to him.

Then, Liu Gou'er was slapped on the head: "Brother Gou'er, I've said it many times, don't call me Young Master!"

After saying that, Chen Feng shouted again.

On this first day, if you don’t promote it, how can you play the brand?

"Mom, I want to eat it, buy me a bunch!" At this time, a child who was only five or six years old couldn't help it. He smelled the fragrance of mutton skewers and asked his mother for a question.

The woman slapped her child: "What to eat! Didn't you just eat meat last month?"

"Mom, I just ate two roasted grasshoppers. Is that considered eating meat? Woo..." the child started crying.

When the child cried like this, the woman looked at the pedestrians around her and became a little uneasy. Such a shameful thing was so shameful. However, no matter how small the grasshopper was, it was still meat.

"Or we'll buy a bunch and give him a try." At this time, the man next to him said.

"How much does it cost to mutton?" said the woman. They are not a wealthy family. It is good to be able to have enough food. She has no spare money to buy mutton outside to eat. She has already regretted it and walked along this road.

"Two cents a string, five cents a string, three strings a delicious mutton skewers!" Chen Feng continued to say loudly.

It was only two cents a bunch? Looking at the charcoal fire, the mutton skewers that were simmering oil, the man swallowed and said, "Or, we will buy a bunch to satisfy Mao Ji's cravings."

Chen Feng did not expect that the customer of his first business was actually a child whose nose was about to flow into his mouth!

Chen Feng handed over a string, then thought for a while, and handed over another string: "I just opened today, this string is given to you."

Mao Qi happily held a bunch in one hand. Although he ate it for the first time, he skillfully bit it and chewed it into his mouth, and the fragrance was even more scented.

"Or, let's buy two skewers too," the man swallowed and said, "We haven't eaten meat for a long time. This time I found a new job and I can earn one or two hundred more money in a month."

At this moment, Chen Feng's words rang out in time again: "Men eat hard, women eat watery lamb skewers with crispy outside and tender inside, and full of fragrant mouth..."

"Okay, then let's buy a few strings." The woman finally agreed.

They sat in the stool inside, ordered a few skewers, and started eating.

Soon, they found that as long as they could eat, they could not stop and had never tasted such delicious food!

Moreover, not only were there mutton, but also roasted steamed bun slices. After eating meat and adding steamed bun slices, I quickly became full.

There was the first one who took the lead and ate so deliciously. A silent publicity was soon filled with people on the stall.

Two cents a skewer, five cents a skewer, three skewers, are not expensive, they are still meat, which is very satisfying to eat. Moreover, you can just use roasted steamed bun slices and then serve two taels of rice wine. If you eat enough, you will not be able to eat it if you don’t have a few hundred cents in the restaurant.

Value, really value!

When I came today, Liu Gouer was still a little suspicious about whether the young master's method was OK. Now it seems that this mutton skewers are selling well.

Chen Feng was also very happy. Each pound of mutton can be skewed for more than 30 skewers, which means that it can be sold for more than 60 to about 70 skewed. Therefore, this is twice the profit, plus steamed buns and rice wine, you can take back the two taels of silver you invested at noon.

In this way, you can earn 60 taels in one month, you have bid farewell to poverty and start to achieve a well-off life.

Since there was no beer in this era, Chen Feng could only replace it with rice wine with a slightly closer degree to beer. It has steamed buns, meat and wine, which is already a very good lunch.

Although Chen Feng really wanted to open a night stall at night, in this era, he had to go to bed every night. If he went out in the middle of the night, he would be executed according to the law.

"Twenty skewers of lamb skewers!" shouted a man who was full of oil.

"Okay, wait!" Chen Feng replied to the man without caring about rubbing his sore arms.

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"Prince, there are many interesting places in our Yangzhou city, especially Baoyang Lake, which is a scenic spot. We can take a boat and visit it completely." A "young man" in green clothes shaking a folding fan, but his steps were light and graceful. He said to the people next to him as he walked.

The Qingshan Gongzi said that Baoyang Lake is actually a famous scenic spot in later generations, Slim West Lake. It was originally a wider river outside Yangzhou City, with an area of ​​more than 480 acres and a length of 4.3 kilometers. It is the moat ruins of Tang Luocheng and Song Dacheng. It starts from the North City River in the south and reaches the foot of Shugang in the north. However, the water flows here and the coast is graceful, so it attracted many wealthy businessmen here. They bought a house business by the canal for the convenience of the salt industry, and here was completely for enjoyment. The Chen family had already bought a piece of land here, but had not started construction yet.

In later generations, it was not until the Qing Dynasty that all the scenery finally formed, and this place became a gold-selling cave for the rich. During the Qianlong period, the poet Wang Weng, who lived in Yangzhou, waved his pen and removed a popular saying: Weeping willows keep connecting with the broken wastes, and the red bridge of geese teeth is like a painting; it is also a pot of gold-selling, so it should be called Shrimp West Lake. Since then, the name Shrimp West Lake has been used.

However, even before its peak, Baoyang Lake at this time has become a beautiful scenery in Yangzhou.

The man next to him was wearing a short robe and was dressed in a strange way. The two braids hanging behind his ears and the flowing hair on his forehead were only a thigh in the middle. They were a common Mongolian dress, but they also had an indescribable sense of softness.

"Ruoxi, don't call me princess, call me Minmin. We ran out secretly this time. If Abu knows, he will be punished." said the person called Princess.

A smile appeared on Chen Ruoxi's face: "Yes, Minmin."

Princess Minmin doesn't like to travel around the mountains and rivers, but likes to come to the market. What's so fun here? Chen Ruoxi is very puzzled. However, her task is to accompany this princess well, which is related to the future development of the entire Chen family.

Half a month ago, after receiving the news that Lord Tuotuo was coming to Yangzhou, the Chen family immediately made preparations. Finally, they stood out among the various salt merchants and took on the task of receiving Lord Tuotuo. This is an absolutely good job. Now that the emperor can sit on the dragon throne, Lord Tuotuo has the greatest contribution. Although Lord Tuotuo is now unemployed, he will become an important figure in the court at any time. If the Chen family can climb up Lord Tuotuo, then the future development will be unlimited.

In Yangzhou, if you want to be a salt merchant, you can rely on your own ability, but if you want to be a big salt merchant, you still have to rely on the backend to be a strong enough.

In order to avoid accidents, some unreliable people from the Chen family were temporarily dispatched. The second brother said a few words to his father, and Liu Siniang and his son were also transferred out of the city. At that time, Chen Ruoxi also said a few good things for Liu Siniang and his son, but unfortunately his father didn't listen. It was probably because that was the father's original intention.

After Lord Tuotuo came, even his beloved daughter, Minmin Timur, brought out. At the same girl's home, there were naturally many common topics. So Chen Ruoxi immediately became familiar with Minmin Timur like a real sister.

Today, Princess Minmin felt that the Chen family was a little bored, and that she was always following the guards, so she was a little unfree. So, at her suggestion, Chen Ruoxi and Princess Minmin changed into men's clothing and wandered around Yangzhou City.

Soon, Chen Ruoxi knew why Princess Minmin liked to come to the market, holding a large string of candied haws in one hand and Huangqiao sesame cakes in the other. This princess turned out to like to eat flavored snacks! This kind of snack is not as elegant as the hall. Therefore, in the Chen family's mansion, these foods will not be prepared at all.

"It smells so good!" Suddenly, Princess Minmin smelled a special smell in the air, which was the mutton she was familiar with, but she had never seen it before. It was a bit like roasted whole lamb, not exactly like...

"Mutton skewers, mutton skewers, men eat hard, women eat watery..." A voice of a hoarse voice shouted out.

Watery? Yes, it is said that women in Jiangnan are watery. Our Mongolian women are not only bold and refreshing, but also like women in Jiangnan, watery.

With this sound, I had to eat a few skewers! Minmin made up his mind.
Chapter completed!