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Chapter 417 Business is booming
The breakfast business of Huixianlou is not favored by others.

Maozheng, although it is already dawn, most of the people walking around at this time are peddlers and lackeys. Huixian Building is luxuriously decorated and the food is expensive. Although I don’t know what they are selling for breakfast, they can’t really sell soybean milk sesame cakes, right?
It’s so expensive that no peddler or lackey can afford it.

Looking at the major restaurants, none of them are in the breakfast business.

At this time in the morning, all the civil and military officials were busy going to court. The lower-ranking officials who were not going to court were also busy going to the Yamen to work on errands. The noble ladies were busy at home, taking charge of the house and managing directors in the morning and dusk, and the young ladies were busy setting up shop. Rules, those who stay in bed probably haven’t woken up yet.

Selling breakfast? To whom and what to sell?
They don’t really sell wonton noodles, sesame seed cakes and soy milk, do they? Don't let those untouchables come in and pollute the grounds of Huixian Tower, so that the nobles will not go there for lunch.

But the food at Huixianlou tastes really wonderful, and everyone who has eaten it applauds it. There are still many people looking forward to what kind of breakfast Huixianlou will serve.

Amid the heated discussions among the people in the capital, Huixianlou opened its doors to sell breakfast that day.

Before Maozheng arrived, the guys opened the seven doors one by one from the inside. After opening a crack, they met a pair of eyes outside and said, "Yeah!"

The waiter was startled, and when he saw it clearly, he said, "It turns out to be Mr. Sun. Are you here so early?"

Mr. Sun, the former Minister of Rites and now the Minister of Justice, is the father of Sun Yanbo. He almost became the grandfather of Princess Sun Miaoren of Yue.

Compared with the other old ministers in the six departments who were eager to take their positions and refused to let them go, Mr. Sun retired from his position early for the sake of the career of his children and grandchildren. There is no other way. If you don't become an official, your children and grandchildren will either have to work in other provinces and not be able to return to the capital, or they won't be promoted or reused.

There are not many people in Beijing who are as sensible as Mr. Sun.

“It’s still early, everything is in order, can we still do business?”

"It's our fault for keeping you waiting." The waiter didn't argue with him. It was clear that it was not time, but he still apologized respectfully. "Please come in quickly."

Mr. Sun was very satisfied with the attitude of the waiters. It was not unreasonable for Huixianlou Yiqi Juechen to see how well these waiters were taught. Given the waiters’ service attitude, he would be willing to come every day.

He said to the old friends following behind him: "Follow me quickly, there will be no more room at the round table."

Several friends who had been invited by him early in the morning couldn't help but mutter: "Why are there no seats? Who comes so early like you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, all the doors of Huixian Building were opened, and the diners who came from nowhere rushed in like running water, and everyone went to the folding table. Old Mrs. Sun said anxiously, "I got there first. , don’t occupy my seat!”

Several old friends behind him were stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly ran after seeing the situation.

It's an injustice if you wake up early and can't sit down.

A few old men didn't care about their image at this moment. They rushed over and grabbed a seat each. They didn't relax until they sat down and looked at each other, everyone looked proud.

Looking at the table again, it was still empty.

In order to wait for this meal in the morning, I have been on an empty stomach since last night. He frowned and said, "Waiter, why aren't you serving food yet?"

What exactly is being sold for breakfast? Why doesn't the table move?

I looked again and saw that the round table was already full of people, and everyone was staring at them with big eyes. Then I looked at the twenty-eight booths in the lobby, and people were taking them one after another. But I just didn’t smell the aroma of the food.

As soon as Mr. Sun finished speaking, he saw a group of waiters filing in. Everyone was holding a big tray in their right hand and carrying it on their back with the other hand. Their posture was strong and their backs were straight. They were walking with a steady pace. This, walking It's quite beautiful.

The clothes are of the same color and style, which is a pleasure to look at.

Grandpa Sun has fallen in love with Huixian Restaurant since it opened. Just looking at this guy with his big toothy smile makes me feel at ease.

At this time, the smell of the dishes on the tray in the waiter's hand penetrated directly into people's noses. The fragrance is so delicious that it makes people drool.

Old Mrs. Sun and others had straightened their backs and looked straight into the tray.

I don't know where the waiter pressed, and the table started to move. It made a low whine, which was not loud and not harsh. The waiter who passed the dishes put the dishes on the conveyor belt one by one from the tray. Before the dishes were transferred to the front, Mrs. Sun and other diners could not wait to take out the bowls and chopsticks from the secret cabinet in front of them and put them on the table.

The movements are skillful, and it can be seen that it has been done more than once or twice. These noble people have girls and servants to take care of them at home, so there is no way they can do anything personally. But in Huixian Tower, everyone enjoys it.

In an instant, the conveyor belt of the round table was filled with various dishes.

Everyone craned their necks to look up. What is this? Looks like chicken feet? And steamed pork ribs? Boiled vegetables? Have these for breakfast? Waiting for the dishes to slowly come to you, wow, there are really steamed buns, fried dough sticks and pancakes.

But the fried dough sticks were not the usual brown color. They were green, red, and purple, and they looked delicious.

And the steamed buns, they are not just vegetable and meat buns, but also open-faced barbecued pork buns, pork ribs buns, and custard buns. They are also made into various shapes and colors. The waiter said that there are various fillings inside, some sweet and some salty. . There are also noodles on the table, also in various colors, and there are also wonton dumplings, some dry, some with soup, and some fried, served in a small plate...

There are also shortbread, various pastries, and various things called bread, as well as finger-sized buns and pan-fried buns, and then there are all kinds of porridge. It seems that there are more than ten or twenty kinds. , various colors, various ingredients, including salty porridge and sweet porridge...

There are so many things in front of you that you are dazzled and you don’t know which one is best for you.

Old Mrs. Sun could hear the diners on the left and right swallowing their saliva, but no one took action yet, just watching. After looking around for a while, I wanted to wait until I had completed a full circle to make sure before I started.

Old Mrs. Sun just stared at things he had never seen before, just those things he had never seen or eaten before. I just stared at all kinds of things with different shapes and colors that I couldn't name and had never eaten before, and hugged them in front of me.

After a while, the twenty-eight booths were filled with people, but there was no menu. They were only asked to order tea first, and then they were asked to sit and wait, saying that a waiter would bring the dishes over.

Guys gonna push over? What do you want to eat? Can you pick it up on site? Fresh.

Before the waiter came over, some people couldn't wait and saw that the dishes were already served at the round table. They were very upset that they came late and didn't get a seat. They also wanted to see what was for breakfast, so they rushed over Look around the turntable.

Someone knows Mr. Sun, "Mr. Sun, is this red intestine-like thing delicious? Are you eating chicken feet this early in the morning?"

You, a former minister of six departments, eat these scraps?
"What's wrong with eating chicken feet? Didn't you hear the guy say it's chicken feet? Can it be the same as chicken feet?"

As he spoke, Mr. Sun raised his neck and looked at the table. After looking around, he didn't see the chicken feet turning in front of him. He immediately felt that the table was turning slowly and that the waiter didn't add the food in time.

He also wanted to eat the steamed chicken feet. They were soft and glutinous and melted in the mouth. They were most suitable for an old man like him. He licked his lips and was still exhausted.

He won't say it's delicious. If he says it's delicious, people will finish it.

Xianlou Chicken is in a rush right now. The dishes are all rationed for the day. Once sold out, they won’t be replenished. If you want to eat, you have to wait until tomorrow.

The diners standing behind him knew what he was doing when they saw him like this. Mr. Sun is a famous glutton in the capital. Even ordinary food cannot enter his mouth. If he talks about something delicious, it must be extremely delicious.

Just as I was thinking about it, a dozen more waiters were already pushing wooden carts full of food to the lobby to sell them.

There were several layers of steaming hot meals on the cart, packed in small baskets. The waiter enthusiastically introduced, "There are red rice sausages, rice rolls, walnut buns, pork ribs buns, barbecued pork buns, raw porridge, steamed buns, etc." Chicken feet, steamed pork ribs, boiled cabbage hearts..."

When Old Mrs. Sun heard about steamed chicken feet, he immediately ran over, grabbed the small steamer and ran away, "Old Mrs. Sun, this is what I ordered!" The waiter also persuaded from behind, "Old Mrs., take this over there. Not easy to check out.”

Mr. Sun didn't care, he dug around, took out a silver bean from his pocket, and threw it towards the waiter. The waiter caught it quickly with quick eyesight and hands. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He turned to comfort the diners, "There are more here, do you want it?"

"If you want it, give me a cage."

"Give me a cage too. Give me a cage of those red rice sausages too!"

After a while, the trolley was empty, and there were more than a dozen baskets on the guest tables, as well as various porridges and soups, both sweet and salty, and in various colors, which looked good. It doesn’t matter if you can’t finish it. You can pack it up and take it home for your family to eat later.

On the first day Huixianlou opened its doors for breakfast business, the competitors thought the business would be bleak, but unexpectedly the door was packed with customers. Customers queuing up outside wanted to get in, but the customers inside were still sitting and unwilling to get up.

There are many customers who ask the shopkeeper to open the private room upstairs.

When everyone heard that the breakfast at Huixianlou was different from that sold outside. It was packed in baskets and sold one basket after another. There were so many varieties that the number of people was countless. They also sold steamed buns, but the steamed buns were made into various shapes, some of which were salty. There are sweet ones and various fillings inside, which I have never heard of before. Some people can't help but feel annoyed that they didn't rush over to try them.

After asking again, it turned out that breakfast was no cheaper than a full meal. Everyone who was waiting for Huixian Tower to lose money was dumbfounded again.

When the King of Yue opened a restaurant, did he want to do a good deed? If you don't make money, what kind of breakfast business can you do?

But this early in the morning, are there really so many people going to have breakfast?

How not.

Rich old men like Mr. Sun who like to look for delicious food everywhere, as well as officials who take a break from their busy schedules when the Yamen are not busy in the morning, can still find time to have breakfast before going to the Yamen for errands. Those shopkeepers and managers who go to open shops early in the morning still have enough money for a breakfast. There are also those students in the academy who are rushing to go to school in the morning. How can there be no one there?

It was so crowded that there was no room left.

Normally, customers with a certain status and a small amount of money would disdain to eat in the open air on the street, often with an empty stomach, or nibbling dry food on a horse-drawn carriage or donkey cart. Now that there is finally such a grand place selling breakfast, who would want to stay outside? Hungry or eating dry food?

There was such a rush, and in less than a day, the reputation of Huixianlou's breakfast had spread.

When the waiter opened the door the next day, it was crowded outside. Before the waiter could remove the door leaf, customers rushed in for fear of not being able to grab a seat.

The chefs in the back kitchen were so busy that they almost flew into the air.

"Princess, there are too many guests. People who can't grab a seat stand in the lobby around the trolley to buy. Some of the takeaways are fine, but some of them are standing in the building to eat, waiting to be seated while eating. This is really inappropriate. Do you want to open the private room upstairs?”

The guests gathered around him and asked him to open the private room upstairs. They also asked him to order someone to bring the table. They said that there was still room for it in the lobby. They also said that the stage on the first floor was also very big and they could put the table on it. .

Lin Zhaoxia had thought about this breakfast business. With such a format and variety, it was a business that major restaurants had never done before. There must be no shortage of customers, but he didn't expect it to be so popular.

She heard outsiders saying that the breakfast business was not profitable and no one would come. Most of the people who came would be peddlers and lackeys, and they would be disliked by lunchtime customers. Before the breakfast business opened, she was worried.

But she knows that in her world, everyone attaches great importance to breakfast. It is the first meal of the day. Eating well is very important to the day and affects people's good mood throughout the day. And she knew how popular the breakfast business in the restaurant was.

“Have you ever heard of hunger marketing?”

"What marketing?"

"No. I mean, let's take a look at the situation first, because there is no restaurant in Beijing that does breakfast business. We are the first one. Customers like to try new things. It has been so busy these days. Let's take a look at the situation first. If there is no breakfast business in the next few days, If it’s so popular, we’ll open the private room on the second floor, but don’t affect the lunch business.”

I'm afraid the building may be too busy.

Moreover, people nowadays are easy to imitate. If there is a business that brings in money, people will immediately follow suit and imitate. Lin Zhaoxia felt that within a few days, major restaurants, such as Yingbin Building, would also start breakfast business.

Sure enough, within two days, several restaurants such as Yingbin Building and Wanfu Building also opened their doors early and started selling breakfast.

Huixianlou's breakfast business is so popular now that it has become so popular in the palace, how can it not make people jealous.

Those important civil and military ministers who went to court on a starry night with hungry stomachs and could not taste the food in the building sent their servants to go to Huixian Tower to buy it. After the court was over, various yamen rushed to buy the products from Huixian Tower. The taste of food.

Some ministers who like to drink porridge early in the morning are so hungry that it is a pleasure to have a mouthful of steaming porridge to warm their body and stomach after the morning.

No one knows how to make porridge, but they just can't make it taste like Huixianlou.

Although the price is expensive, are these adults in need of some porridge money? Even the nobles in the palace and Emperor Zheng sent people outside the palace to buy them.

In the imperial study, Emperor Zhengzheng was happily drinking the raw porridge bought by the eunuch. Today it was crab porridge, which was so delicious that he squinted his eyes. He glanced at Zhao Guangyuan who was standing below and said, "Let's sit down and eat together."

"Father, let's eat. I'll use it later at the Yamen."

Emperor Zhizheng didn't say anything. He took a mouthful of porridge and looked at the dishes on the table. It was said that Mr. Sun, a wealthy and idle man in the capital, had rated the top ten dishes for breakfast at Huixianlou. Emperor Zhizheng nodded secretly. These are really good.

Sure enough, delicious food is still hidden among the people. The royal chefs in the palace are trapped in the rules and do not think about innovation. They are tired of eating the same things every day.

"Your Immortal Tower is said to be very popular. I think you will be able to repay the debt you borrowed soon."

"With my father's good words, if I can repay the debts from outside, I can also repair the palace, so that the snow will not fall down in winter and the ridge of the roof will collapse."

Emperor Zhizheng was stunned. The third and fourth sons said sourly in front of him that Lao Qi had made a lot of money and even the prince was jealous. He just wanted to beat Lao Qi. As a prince, he should not indulge in these common affairs. If he didn't want to, he would take advantage of him. Block yourself.

Thinking that he only had such a money-making industry, the palace really didn't have the money to repair it. If there was heavy snow in winter, it might really collapse the roof. A dignified prince, his house was damaged by snow, it would be embarrassing for him to tell anyone about it.

That’s all. The Yingbin Building of Lao San Lao Si has made so much money over the years, and it’s time to make room. Otherwise, the more money you have, the more courage you will have to fight.

She took a mouthful of porridge and looked at him again, "Besides building the palace, what else do you want to do?"

"I didn't think so much. Huixianlou has only been open for a long time, and the monthly interest is still not enough. If you have extra money, in addition to building the palace, of course you should eat and drink. Why should you leave it for others to inherit? ?”

Liu Qi, who was waiting on the side, lowered his head and wished he could close his ears.

Emperor Zheng also wished he could take back what he just said.

Others save money and pass on their wealth to their children and grandchildren. Who will the seventh child pass it on to?
Emperor Zhi Zheng originally wanted to hit Zhao Guangyuan with all the sour and deceitful words said in his ears by the King of Qin, King Chu and others, but all of them fell away at this moment.

"If you don't want to eat here, you can go out of the palace to work on errands."

"Yes, I will retire."

Zhao Guangyuan left the palace, but did not return to his home, nor to Si Nongsi. He took Xiao Guangji, who had been pestering him to stay for a few days after leaving the palace, and also wanted to have breakfast at Huixian Tower, to Huixian Tower, and asked someone to Go and call Jiang Xiang.