first minister

Chapter 236
Qin Li could only feel a fruity fragrance melting in his mouth, and the duck skin, which he thought would be very greasy, only had a crispy, slag-like feeling, paired with the sweetness of white sugar, it instantly captured the appetite of this rich daughter.

Then Xia Jingyun picked up a thin lotus leaf cake, picked up a little bit of his homemade sweet noodle sauce with chopsticks, spread it on it first, then picked up a piece of duck meat with skin, put it on top, and added finely shredded green onion and After wrapping the cucumber strips for a while, they handed them to Qin Li.

With the confidence just now, Qin Li reached out to take it, with a little more expectation in his eyes.

After taking a bite, the duck meat was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the aroma of sauce and meat, the freshness of cucumber, and the scallions added a touch of spicy sweetness. The complex taste lingered in her mouth, and she couldn't help it. I closed my eyes and felt it carefully.

It's not a great delicacy, but it's better than a novel way of eating that I've never felt before.

Xia Jingyun looked at the neat semicircle on the leftover duck meat roll in her hand, and couldn't help but think wildly, these teeth are so straight!
Qin Li carefully finished the remaining half of the duck roll, then looked at Xia Jingyun, "Master Xia, do you want to sell this dish to Mingyulou?"

Xia Jingyun breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Miss Qin would think that she was licking dogs and offering treasures, and if he didn't handle it well, it might be troublesome, but he didn't expect her to be so transparent.

He smiled, "Yes, and no."

Qin Li's smile slowly subsided, and he said calmly: "Master Xia, I admit that your dish is very good, but for a restaurant, one dish can't influence too much."

This attitude changed Xia Jingyun's attitude towards Qin Li a lot, and he suddenly understood why this daughter of the Qin family can sit in Mingyulou and make Mingyulou better and better.

It seems that the Qin family has been standing for so many years, but not all of them are such idiots as Qin Yuwen.

He smiled and nodded, "Ms. Qin is right. I have so many ideas. Ms. Qin might as well give you some details."

"First, for this dish, I am going to invite my elder sister, the Empress Defei, to persuade His Majesty to invite several high-ranking officials to a banquet, and then present this dish. If Your Majesty eats it, and can boast a few words , This is the Imperial Cuisine, a delicacy praised by His Majesty, and it has a basis for publicity."

"Secondly, I plan to find a most upscale restaurant and invite some of the most famous celebrities in the city to have a meal. Each person will be given an opening fee of 100 taels to create momentum for this dish and boast that it is the best in the world."

"Thirdly, invite a few more high-ranking officials to hold a banquet for their subordinates or colleagues, and to praise it again, making it a must-eat delicacy for the dignitaries in China and Beijing."

"Fourth, let the restaurant I work with launch a roast duck banquet to meet the needs of the rich and powerful in the city."

"Finally, after a few days, at a lower price, we launched a simpler roast duck banquet with some ingredients replaced, and sold it to ordinary restaurants in the city, so that ordinary people can try it. At this point, this dish will become popular all over the world. After a month or two, the trend of this dish will pass, and it will become a long-lasting delicacy, which will be sold to people who come to Beijing from other places, or spread to other places."

He smiled, "Miss Qin has an old relationship with me, so my first reaction was to cooperate with Mingyulou, but if Mingyulou doesn't like it, then I can only find another place. Before, Mr. Qin invited me I went to a place, and I feel that the environmental grade is not bad, so I can try it.”

After listening quietly, Qin Li sighed helplessly under Xia Jingyun's final threat, "Since Mr. Xia has such a far-reaching plan, if the little girl bluffs again, it will be disrespectful to you. How does Mr. Xia want to cooperate?"

It's not about the price, but how to cooperate
Xia Jingyun confirmed that Qin Li understood what he said, and said with a smile: "I developed the technique of roast duck, and I was responsible for teaching your masters. You developed the venue and fame of Mingyu Tower, and the follow-up promotion in other restaurants is also up to you. Mingyulou executes. Then I will provide the ducks, and in the end all the profits will be split between you and me."

After hearing this, Qin Li thought for a while, "How much is Mr. Xia going to sell?"

Xia Jingyun smiled and said, "Miss Qin, do you think it's expensive for a table of 100 taels, mainly roast duck?"

Qin Li glanced over a few small plates, and shook his head, "It's cheap. How about it, I'll handle the pricing of Mingyulou, anyway, it's not less than 100 taels."

As the owner of Mingyulou, she naturally knows the value in the pockets of customers who can spend in Mingyulou.

"That's the deal. As for the common people, let's set a table of five taels of silver."

Qin Li had a half-smile, "I've heard that Mr. Xia is very close to ordinary people, and it seems that's true."

"That's not true, but how much money does the common people have? If the price is set high enough, they can't afford it. On the contrary, they can't sell it for a penny."

Qin Li said straightforwardly: "Then it's settled, shall we make a contract?"

"Miss Qin, don't rush to agree. I found you this time because I have another consideration."

Xia Jingyun said: "On the Shangyuan Festival, you told me about Mr. Qian, and I thought the matter would be over, but I didn't expect that Mr. Qian provoked another incident a few days ago, but today's fight It's over for now."

Qin Li blinked, "It seems that you won, Mr. Xia again?"

It ended with Lingxiong being so angry that he vomited blood and fell into a coma.
Xia Jingyun murmured in his heart, and said: "The core battlefield between us this time is the duck, and I found Miss Qin to show my attitude. If Brother Ling sees me unhappy, I will follow all the tricks, and I will do it too." Boldly fight back, but I don't mean to have a full-scale enmity with the Qin family. I believe Miss Qin can understand the subtleties, right?"

Qin Li nodded seriously, "Actually, as far as the Qin family is concerned, they don't want to have any enmity with Mr. Xia and Concubine De. I don't want to say much about how my elder brother behaves like this, but as you said, my elder brother is my elder brother. It's me, the Qin family is the Qin family, at least Mingyulou, which I am in charge of, is willing to cooperate with Mr. Xia."

"That's good." Xia Jingyun smiled and nodded, "Then let's sign the contract."

Both parties had no objection, prepared pen and ink, and wrote the contract.

During this, Xia Jingyun made a small adjustment, changing the object of his technology sharing from Mingyulou to Qin Li himself. According to his explanation, he valued Qin Li and believed in Qin Li, and was worried that Qin Yuwen would use it. The clan resorted to taking Mingyulou back, then he would be a dumb man eating Coptis chinensis.

Qin Li agreed with his explanation, blushed slightly, and signed the contract.

Putting the contract in his arms, Xia Jingyun cupped his hands towards Qin Li, "Miss Qin, I wish us all the best."

Qin Li smiled and said: "Thanks to Mr. Xia's attention, I should do my best."

"Okay, then there is no further delay. Please trouble Miss Qin to find a place in the back kitchen and pick a few trustworthy masters. I will transport the tools over later and teach them the skills."

Qin Li hummed, "Young Master Xia, please rest assured, Mingyulou has its own means to ensure that they will not leak the secret recipe."

Xia Jingyun nodded, said goodbye and left.

After a while, he brought over four or five specially-made stoves from Jiang'anhou's mansion, and brought a lot of strange tools.

Then, he went into the back kitchen of Mingyu Building, went to the place arranged by Qin Li, and explained the details of making roast duck with the three masters Qin Li had chosen.

This busy work went straight into the early morning.

The three masters listened first, then tried to do it themselves, and then made rapid progress under Xia Jingyun's constant criticism and demands.

Although it is still far from being truly proficient, at least it has been able to slowly produce a basically decent finished product.

Xia Jingyun looked at the sky, felt that there was not enough time, and said, "You three, quickly find a place to sleep for a while, and don't run too far."

Although the three of them were tortured to the point of being dizzy and wanting to die, they felt quite a sense of accomplishment when they saw the progress of their technique. Right now, they were tireless and chasing after victory. When they heard Xia Jingyun say this, they hurriedly said : "Master Xia, we are not tired."

Xia Jingyun rolled his eyes, "You are not tired, I am tired! I only give you three hours, hurry up and sleep!"

When he came out, Chen Fugui said, "Master, why don't you tell them the truth, what if they don't take the time to rest?"

Xia Jingyun twitched the corners of his mouth, "How can they sleep for a while, if I tell them the truth, they probably won't be able to sleep for a moment."

He yawned and stayed up two nights in a row. Even though he hadn't done anything to make himself weak recently, he couldn't stand the villain looking up every morning, "Let's go, let's go back and take a nap for a while."
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In the early morning, Qin Yuwen woke up from a night of hangover, pushed away the lotus root arms and long legs that were hanging on his body, and Hua Kui Niang, who was embracing him like an octopus, also woke up leisurely, looking at him affectionately with her beautiful eyes, watermelon Clamping his arm, touching his chest with jade hands, he said in a coquettish voice, "Mm~ Young Master, let's sleep a little longer!"

After a night of indulgence, Qin Yuwen's depression seemed to have been vented out with sweat and energy last night. At this moment, his mind was full of sages and elders' advice, so he rudely pushed the oiran away, got dressed and walked away without hesitation. Going out, it seems that the obsession and depth last night were just a dream.

After returning to the Qin Mansion, he walked to Qin Li's courtyard, looked at the maidservants on duty, "Where's Miss?"

"Back to Eldest Young Master, Miss went to Mingyu Tower early in the morning."

Seeing how hardworking the younger sister was, Qin Yuwen suddenly felt a little ashamed of himself as a big brother, and said in confusion: "I remember that she usually only goes there after the time has passed. Why is it so early today?"

"The servant girl heard that she had a big business deal with Mr. Xia of Jiang'anhou's mansion, so she came back very late last night."

"Who?" Qin Yuwen suddenly became excited.

The maid was taken aback, and said weakly, "Young Master Xia of Jiangjiang Anhou's Mansion."

"Damn!"

Qin Yuwen turned around and ran out. The undisguised anger frightened the servant girl instantly. She realized that she had caused a catastrophe.

When Qin Yuwen hurried to Mingyu Tower, Qin Li was sitting on the top floor of the main building, writing something on the table.

"What business did you discuss with Xia Jingyun?"

Qin Li looked at his brother who was like an angry bull, feeling a little disappointed.

But no matter what, this elder brother with the same father and mother has doted on her since she was a child, and she couldn't possibly care about such a small matter, so she got up, poured him a cup of tea, and said in a warm voice: "He created it himself. One dish, I just want to cooperate with Mingyulou."

"What dish?"

"Roast Duck."

!!!

Qin Yuwen stood up vigorously, and instantly understood in his mind, son of a bitch, it turned out that you had this abacus!
"Cancel your cooperation with him!"

Qin Yuwen immediately spoke resolutely.

Qin Li looked calm, "We have already signed the contract. If we cancel it, we will lose money."

"How much? I'll pay for you!"

At this moment, he even didn't understand whether this thought was because of his anger towards Xia Jingyun, or his anger towards his own sister whom he had guarded since he was a child, and was tainted by the dog thief's concern.

Qin Li didn't open his mouth to say any offensive preaching, but sat down beside him with a smile, "Brother and Mr. Xia have lost a lot of money in this fight, right?"

Qin Yuwen snorted coldly.

Qin Li smiled and said: "Then I will earn back the money through this cooperation, and I will give it all to you at that time, so you won't lose money! This means that Mr. Xia's magic comes first, and Mr. Qian's tricks come second. dont you agree?"

Qin Yuwen was a little moved when he heard it, and immediately realized, "What! I was almost tricked into it by you. If you can earn money, can he earn less? At that time, he will still step on me and earn a lot of money! No way! , you absolutely must not cooperate with him."

Qin Li stretched out her hand and shook Qin Yuwen's arm like she did when she was a child, "Brother~~"

Qin Yuwen tore her hand off, "Since you want to call me big brother, you are not allowed to cooperate with him!"

Seeing that it was impossible to say good things or bad things, Qin Li felt a little angry, and turned his face hard, "Brother, you are late, and now we are out of our hands."

"Why can't we leave it alone? As I said, I will pay for the breach of contract. When will my Qin family ever worry about money!"

Qin Li shook her head.

Qin Yuwen frowned, "What? Is there someone else here? Who is it? Tell me, I'll go find him!"

Qin Li sighed, but turned her head to look at the hourglass in the corner of the room, "It should be almost there."

Qin Yuwen frowned puzzled, "What are you talking about?"

As soon as the words were finished, there was a sound of footsteps, "Miss, someone is coming from the palace."

Qin Li nodded and said, "Please come up quickly."

Not long after, a small yellow door came in, saw that Qin Yuwen was there, and hurriedly said: "My servant has seen Mr. Qin and Miss Qin."

Qin Li smiled and said, "Eunuch, you don't need to be too polite, why are you here?"

The servant in the palace said: "Your Majesty heard that Mingyu Tower has developed a new dish, and specially ordered the servants to invite several masters to the palace to cook a dish for His Majesty and Concubine De."

Qin Li got up quickly, "Okay, please sit down with tea in the living room, Eunuch, and I will arrange it right away."

When the servant in the palace followed her downstairs, Qin Li turned to look at her elder brother and spread her hands, "I told you, you're late."

　Two in one.

　　and also.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)