lying down

Ouyang leaned against a table near the window in Guiyun Building, propped his chin with one hand, and smeared on the paper with a long stick of charcoal in the other.From time to time, he glanced at the passers-by who were hurrying outside the window, and then bowed his head and thought hard.

The window opened a small gap, and a few winter suns squeezed in, illuminating the table facing the window brightly.It's just that the cold wind doesn't seem to like this kind of comfort, whistling past, gently lifting the paper on the table.

"Oh, there is specialization in art, and the ancients would not deceive me!" Ouyang pressed the corner of the paper with one hand, and sighed helplessly.

He smeared several times on the few sheets of paper in front of him, and only then did he reveal a rough outline and plan.

The sound of hurried and powerful footsteps sounded, and Ouyang didn't bother to turn his head to look at it. It must be that the eldest brother and other brothers couldn't hold back their idle time, and came to inquire about the progress of the "special forces".

Sure enough, a few profusely sweating profusely pulled up the bench and sat around Ouyang, and the fifth brother said, "Eighth brother, it's the second day of the Lunar New Year, why don't we let our brothers go to the military camp for training? One month It’s time to say whether it’s tight or not, but after all, when the day runs out, you’ll lose one point of confidence. You often go to the governor to ask, and the brothers are almost suffocated.”

The other men all stared at Ouyang Yu after hearing the words, eagerly waiting for his answer.

Ouyang pressed the charcoal in his hands to the paper, and spread his hands in a helpless expression: "I don't know, it's only been a day, why are you so anxious? I'm afraid that you will all cry when you enter the barracks and start training. Please let me let you back."

Ge Ye stretched out his arm and patted Ouyang's shoulder with a "slap", and said with a fierce face: "Stinky boy, are you itchy? Do you want the seven of us to crush you to death? How dare you say that we cry for father and mother, but your brother and I I have been in the army for many years, from soldier to general, but I have never complained about suffering, and even bluffed people with big words."

Ouyang secretly laughed in his heart, when the time comes, he really needs to use the training method of special forces, he is afraid that they will not be able to move a finger when they look like dragons and tigers now, he is really not bragging.Helplessly, my elder brother is very powerful, so I can only answer carefully: "I really can't offend you, people say that the youngest in the family is a treasure, but I didn't expect that the youngest in our family is a grass, and I will be bullied by you unscrupulous brothers. Don’t remember what the governor said? He said that we must wait for the Ministry of War and the emperor to nod before letting us in, and he didn’t say that we can enter the camp immediately. Do you want the governor to give us bad military regulations, take the blame or something?”

When everyone heard this, Ge Ye slapped his forehead and said: "Hey, look at my memory, I only remember that the governor agreed that day, and I didn't care about anything else. I completely forgot the details. From Chang'an to our Jinyang, I estimated that it would take four or five days at the fastest to go back and forth. What can we do in these few days? I won't be eating and drinking in restaurants every day. Sleeping, it is the same as dying!"

Ouyang stretched his body vigorously, and cursed with a vague smile: "I don't know how to be blessed when I am blessed." After that, he pushed the paper on the table, pointed to the picture and said, "I can't spare you, here, this is our Take a look at the general appearance of the restaurant and blacksmith shop in the first step of the plan."

A group of people crowded over with a whoosh, looking over and over for a while.

Goro rubbed his head, didn't look at the picture, but looked at the words on the paper, he felt a little familiar but different, and asked aloud: "Eighth brother, what did you write, why can't I understand it? "

His question is actually everyone's question, but everyone is afraid of being laughed at, so they are embarrassed to ask each other.

Ouyang thumped in his heart, thinking to himself why he wrote the simplified characters of his previous life again.On the surface, he pretended to be relaxed and said: "Some simple characters I learned from my parents when I was a child are easy to write, and I still haven't forgotten them until now. Forget it, let me talk about it, so as to save you trouble."

He slightly adjusted his position, turned the picture with his back to himself and faced everyone, first pointed to the main picture of the restaurant and said: "Our first step is to make money, which is divided into two categories: restaurant and blacksmith shop. The restaurant has a history of a hundred years, said To be honest, I really feel a little bit reluctant to do it, after all, they are older than us, so they are worth keeping."

"Bullshit, let's get to the point!" Goro slapped Ouyang on the shoulder as he learned Song Ye, urging him hurriedly.

"Hiss, I said brother, can you be gentle? Why, you are so hard on your sister-in-law?" Ouyang grinned and rubbed his shoulders vigorously.Everyone laughed, and made Wu Lang blush.

Ouyang kneaded a few times and then explained: "You all have to be patient. It's not impossible to outline the contract, but I'm afraid it's too 'key' and everyone will be confused. Let's talk about this restaurant, it is now divided into three floors: the first floor is the supply The place where ordinary people eat and drink, the second floor is a consumption place with a little wealthy family, while the third floor is not a place for big merchants, but a place for people of some status to gather for dinner and drink. In my opinion, the previous proprietor advocated that my brother is After putting in a lot of effort, if we want to make a breakthrough and reach the peak of Rijin Baijin, we have to start with many details."

After talking for a while, Ouyang felt thirsty, and was looking for some water to drink on the table, when he heard a "clack" sound. Yunniang and Chu Xiang each brought a tray with some tea, wine and dried fruits on it, and the old man brought it over. The wife followed behind.

"My sister-in-law still hurts me. Just thinking about being thirsty, the drink arrived. My sister-in-law is so nice!" Ouyang smiled and got up to welcome the two sisters-in-law and one mother.

The old lady pointed at Ouyang's forehead: "Youngest, you are the only one with a sweet mouth! Look at your stinky fart."

This was originally conceived by Ouyang alone, but was disturbed by the seven brothers. He didn't want the three women in the family to come together, so Ouyang simply called the seven brothers to merge the two tables, and invited his mother and sister-in-law to the table. After sitting around indiscriminately, I collected my thoughts and continued to speak.

"Ahem, just now I said that if a restaurant wants to develop, it must start with the details. The first one is the foundation of the restaurant: food and wine! If we say that we are in the Izumo Restaurant, this kind of dishes can be regarded as ranked in Jinyang No. But if you look at Datang, it is not first-rate, not to mention the wine, which is of a single variety, and most of them are good wines from the east of the river. Some merchants may not buy it when they come."

Among the seven, Ge Ye is the one with the most mouth. During his years as a general, he also ate a lot of good food and wine from the north and the south. It needs to be changed."

Ouyang continued with a smile: "The question of the dishes is simple. The original two big cooks don't move. After all, they have been cooking for a long time and have a relationship. What we need to do is hire a lot of money and buy shares in the store. Tomorrow... No, find a gentleman who can write well in the city today, and write him a hundred notices, saying that our Izumo Tower will hire two famous chefs from all over the world with a monthly salary of ten taels. Dry shares and monthly salary remain unchanged. Brothers, please run all over Jinyang, bring this news to the merchants' distribution center and the messenger dealer's place, and pay some money to ask them to spread the news all the way!"

"What? My son, are you out of your mind? Twelve months' salary!? And free stock? Even though this store is yours, mother has the right to manage you, so you can't burn money and lose money like this!" the old lady heard. Hurry up, this month is 120 taels, a year is 500 taels, and four cooks are a small 500 taels! [-] taels are placed in Panshan Village, enough to eat and drink for the whole family and be rich for five or six years!

Everyone was also smacking their tongues, this eighth younger brother is really generous, if you don't say it, you don't know it, and you will be shocked when you say it!

Ouyang hurriedly ran to the old lady's side, held his hand and said, "Mother, what are you talking about? My son is my mother's, and this shop belongs to everyone! Can you see that she cared about the gold and silver? Or do you think she is like a fool?" The money is gone?"

The old lady murmured in her heart when she heard the words, but this youngest is not a master who cherishes money and sticks to it. Money is like water in his eyes.But why did he do it?

Seeing the puzzled eyes of the crowd, Ouyang said: "I am doing this for the long-term. You must know that if you always stick to the old rules, you will be eliminated. Our store needs fresh blood and fresh dishes. It is top-notch! Let people spread the news that we have hired a chef with a lot of money, one is to enhance our reputation as a pity, and the other is to tell everyone that our restaurant is the master of leaning and saving essence, and it is not just perfunctory. Everyone Let's wait and see, don't say that this mere 500 taels a year is spent, and I'm afraid it will be credited with [-] taels a year!"

"Hey!" Everyone gasped, as if the gleaming ten thousand taels of silver were placed in front of them, blinding everyone's eyes.

Ouyang grabbed a teapot and drank a few sips "gudong gudong", and gave everyone a time to digest. After everyone woke up from the surprise, he wiped his mouth and continued: "The cook and the dishes are ready. Next I will Let’s talk about wine! There is no wine in restaurants or restaurants. The wines in our store are all from traveling wine merchants or shops in the city. In the long run, it will be a great flaw! In this way, before the new store opens, we will go to the traveling merchants to make more orders, and let them put in a few bottles of Datang's famous wines and special wines, and bring them back for everyone to taste one by one. You have to make a lot of it, not bad ones. Moreover, I still have a method of brewing wine, which can make some good wines that we don’t have in Tang Dynasty or even other countries, hehe, thinking of this is really making me hungry..." Ouyang said Here, thinking of all the good wines that I and my father tasted in the previous life, I was so greedy that I was about to drool.

"What? Eighth Brother, you actually know how to make wine!?"

"Still, it doesn't exist in the Tang Dynasty or even in other countries?"

"Eighth brother, how much stuff is in your stomach! How about you let the brothers shake it out today and see how they deal with you!"

All the older brothers are gluttons for wine, and when they heard that Ouyang could make wine, and it was the only good wine, they all became excited, eager to "take down" Ouyang.

Ouyang begged for mercy with a bitter expression on his face: "Brothers, you haven't asked me if I can make wine, have you? Can you blame me? I'm the youngest in the family, how can you 'bully' me like this?"

Everyone was amused by Ouyang's pretense, and hurriedly urged him to continue talking about the new wine.