diskusbooks Chapter 297 The Cook's Secret
Chapter 297 The Cook's Secret
"The Kanpaku lost."
"The Fatty won."
Mei Sanniang answered briefly.
Li Changxiao nodded, sat cross-legged on the snow, leaned back and supported himself on the ground with his hands.
He didn't know when he knew that everyone who came to the inn had a gamble.
The Guanpaku is at odds with the king.
He had no idea who the second in command was.
The cook is a master of meat and knife.
At a certain time, the opponent will come to you on his own, and when the two parties meet, the bet will come into effect.
At a certain moment, perhaps ten years, or perhaps thirty years, the winner will be decided.
The three of them were silent, none of them wanted to talk too much about this matter, and after the incense burned out, they divided the work and began to pick plum blossoms. This was hard work and there were no shortcuts. When picking plum blossoms, they needed to pick them one by one carefully by hand to ensure the integrity of the plum blossoms.
The proprietress had a fierce expression on her face and warned the two men that whoever dared to play tricks would not get any share of the plum-flavored wine next year!
This sentence was quite powerful. Li Changxiao felt that it was an overcorrection and was not a good thing, so he ran to argue with Mei Sanniang. However, the boss lady was still the boss lady after all, and she still had the final say. After a scolding, Li Changxiao obediently carried the basket on his back and went to pick plum blossoms.
It took a whole day.
The three of them carried the heavy baskets back to the Laiqu Inn, but did not rest immediately. Instead, they took out wine jars from the cellar, put the plum blossoms into the jars, poured in some mysterious liquid, sealed them with cloth, and put them back into the cellar.
such.
Wait until the spring of next year to proceed to the next step of brewing.
With the first step of plum wine is completed.
It seems that there is nothing to do this year. I just sit in the inn every day, waiting for guests to come, and play cards to pass the time at night.
Because it was the middle of winter, the weather was cold and there was constant snow and wind. However, even so, as long as the inn was not buried by the snow and wind, you could still meet a few guests every few days.
Most of the guests who come during this period are ordinary people. They will order a few dishes and even stay for a few days. They will not leave until the wind and snow subside.
Most people who travel in this kind of climate have enough budget, so they don't end up having no business when they go to inns.
However, sometimes we do encounter some strange customers. As the saying goes, beauty is a disaster. Once, two brothers checked into an inn and saw the beautiful proprietress. In order to please her, they started a fight and almost broke up. Li Changxiao punched the proprietress twice, and the bitch stopped watching the show and told them that there was no need to fight for her because she was already taken by this young man. Only then did the two brothers stop breaking up.
However, they turned around and directed their attacks on Li Changxiao, inviting him to a duel. In the end, Li Changxiao slapped each of them in the face, making them realize the gap in strength, and only then did they calm down.
There was no need to worry about trouble in the inn. After all, the tables in the inn were made of natural materials and were difficult to damage in the slightest by ordinary people, or even by martial artists with profound understandings. Not even a trace could be left.
A few days later, a guest came who was still fresh in the memory of Li Changxiao and others.
She was a person of high status and position. Because of her arrival, Laiqu Inn was able to rise to fame overnight. That single transaction earned more than fifty taels of silver, which was the largest single transaction made by Laiqu Inn in the hundreds of years since its establishment.
I heard that it was a princess of an imperial dynasty who needed to go on a diplomatic mission to a certain country. She encountered a snowstorm and lost her way. She accidentally came to the Laiqu Inn and stayed there for three days.
The princess brought dozens of guards with her. The escort team was extremely powerful. They were escorted by masters of the Natural Way, the Aperture Way, the Self-Sacrifice Way, etc. Even ordinary cultivators would not be so easy to shake.
Remember when the princess came.
The three men stood aside, clicking their tongues. It was rare to see such a procession. The princess was sitting in the carriage with a translucent curtain hanging down. Her figure could be vaguely seen, but her face could not be seen clearly.
Just like how Mei Sanniang attracted men, the princess of noble status soon noticed that the waiter in the inn was very pleasing to the eye. After a slight contact, the princess smiled sweetly and was so happy that she lifted her skirt and got off the carriage.
This is against etiquette, but she doesn't care. This scene makes Mei Sanniang feel jealous. She is extremely unhappy with Li Changxiao's behavior of selling his body. The cook reminds her that it is not the other person who sells his body, but his body that betrays him.
Treating dozens of guards with hot porridge and hot soup each cost a lot of money. When Li Changxiao saw this situation, he thought that if he kept them for a few more days, he would make a fortune. So he told the princess the story of the Snow Girl.
He was so upset that he started crying that the guards almost hit him, but the princess stopped him and waved her hand, allowing him to stay for a few more days. When he left, he still looked reluctant to leave.
Come and go.
A passer-by.
But perhaps in the princess's heart, that winter inn and the handsome waiter would be an unforgettable encounter.
"Oh oh oh." Mei Sanniang said sourly.
The cook was taciturn. Although he didn't say anything, he was actually a little jealous. Seeing Li Changxiao using his good looks to cheat people of their money and hearts, he was actually a little envious.
More than fifty taels of silver almost filled the inn's piggy bank.
end of the month.
When the salary was distributed, each person received more than ten taels of silver, which could be considered as a person with some money.
However, the chef had bad luck. In the following month, he lost more than he won, and almost half of his money was taken away by the proprietress.
He realized that this was not the way to go. With more spending than income, his money would be gone sooner or later.
So he often went out on snowy and windy days when there were few guests, saying he was going to chop wood, but he would be out the whole day, and chopping wood would not take that long at all.
Li Changxiao and Mei Sanniang looked at each other and discussed it all night. They suspected that the cook was in love with someone else and ran out for a tryst. When they came to this conclusion, the boss lady was furious. If that was the case, where did the cook put his beauty?
Once, the two men quietly followed the cook, wanting to see what he was doing.
As a result, I saw him walking all the way to the big city and coming to the Wolong Fengchu Restaurant. He made three rules with the restaurant owner and gave him four copper coins for every customer he brought in.
He thought that he had a good appearance and a melancholy look with very deep eyes. If he drank a few glasses of wine like Li Changxiao and sat by the window, he would surely attract a lot of customers.
The truth was as he expected.
Moreover, he also combined the advantages of the boss lady and inadvertently revealed his eight-pack abs.
The owner of the Wolong Fengchu Inn secretly gave him a thumbs up. In such cold weather, he was able to do this. He must be a ruthless man!
You know what, it really works.
At the end of the day, earning a few dozen copper coins is not a problem.
When Li Changxiao and Mei Sanniang saw this scene, and looked at the former knife fanatic who had to bow down for a few taels of silver, they silently returned the same way they came, and only dared to laugh out loud after leaving the city.
If it weren't for the Landlord game, the cook wouldn't value money so much. In fact, it wasn't the money that he valued, but the Landlord game, plus he couldn't swallow that humiliation.
"I will eventually get back what I lost!"
The cook thought to himself as his abs were half-hidden.