Compete for the Song Dynasty

Wang Pang walked around the restaurant up and down, and he probably understood it in his heart.The two sat down in the corridor on the second floor, and Wang Pang asked, "It's a pity that Cui has managed to sell the restaurant for so many years."

Cui Fu sighed: "It's a pity, but there's no other way. If you don't sell it, you can still lose three to four hundred taels of silver. If you don't sell it, you can pay dozens of taels a month; and the competition is so fierce, it will cost a hundred or so taels to redecorate. , and asking someone else is throwing money to try.”

Seeing that he was telling the truth, Wang Bang conceived a plan in his mind, so he said: "If I take over the restaurant and ask Cui to take charge of the affairs, in addition to the monthly salary of [-] yuan, I will also give the shopkeeper [-]% of the net profit. Would the shopkeeper be willing?" ?”

The shopkeeper knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Pang as soon as he heard the flutter, and said, "This restaurant has been my painstaking effort for most of my life, not to mention pure profit, I am willing if you don't give me wages."

Wang Pang quickly helped Cui Fu up, and said, "Director Cui doesn't have to do this, I have requirements for doing this." [

Cui Fu said: "Everyone says that Prince Wang is a man of benevolence and righteousness. If you like Renhelou and me Cui Fu today, you can ask for it."

Wang Pang looked at the building and said, "You listen to my instructions. The decoration will start tomorrow, and the outside will be completely covered with bamboo fences and cloth."

Cui Fu nodded and wrote down Wang Pang's instructions.

Wang Pang ordered Cui Fu to close the business tomorrow, cover the outside of the store with cloth, and refurbish the tables and chairs with "rhinoceros skin" paint.The most important thing is to transform the kitchen.Iron grates were added to all the original wood-burning stoves to transform them into coal-burning stoves.It is roughly estimated that it will be ready in early May.

The employer has no doubts, Wang Pang paid the money in one lump sum, and told Cui Fu that in the future, the waiter in the store will be upgraded and will no longer serve the dishes, but will watch the other employees in the lobby.The second child must be able to write the menu, and in the future, the written menu will be sent to the back kitchen, and the back kitchen chef will serve the dishes in the order of the menu.

For the employees, there must also be a clear distinction between chefs, helpers, and food service workers.The dishes have to be re-determined, and this recipe is naturally decided by Wang Pang. After coming to the Song Dynasty for so long, the most luxurious thing to eat is boiled and stewed.The reason, simple, is the problem of coal.There is no continuous burning coal with high temperature, just charcoal fire, and often cook some water, rice, stew and so on.

Wang Pang decided on the recipe, and searched his brains to think of the favorite dishes he knew in the previous life report: soft fried tenderloin, fried fresh mushrooms, fried fish slices, fried asparagus, fried shrimp, fried kidney flowers, fried tendons , fried three dishes, scallion fried meat, large and small came up with more than ten dishes;

After thinking about it for a long time, remembering that there were no dishes in the Song Dynasty, the shopkeeper Cui Fu took a look at the menu and was dumbfounded: "I said son, what are you doing with fried and fried?" Wang Pang smiled, and you recruit ten chefs first , let me speak in unison. "Ten?" Cui Fu thought he had heard it wrong, and he would usually rush off when there were two or three.Wang Pang smiled, "Ten"!

When Wang Pang left, the shopkeeper Cui Fu was still in a daze with the special dishes on the menu. The waiter came over and asked, what is the shopkeeper looking at?

Cui Fu showed the menu next to Wang to Xiao Er, and Xiao Er couldn't figure it out, so he decided not to think about it, and asked Cui Fu's shopkeeper: "I'm talking about the shopkeeper, this prince has always had a lot of ideas, what do you want us to do?" Just do whatever you want. Take a look, it's the end of April, we have to hurry up."

In the past few days, a bamboo fence was erected in Renhe Building, and the people on the street didn't know what they were doing. When they saw Cui Fu, they asked, Cui shopkeeper, what are you doing here?

Shopkeeper Cui shook his head, "This restaurant will be surnamed Wang from now on, and I don't know what he's doing after you tell me so."

Seeing this, everyone discussed this, and when they learned that it was the king of the Meyer mansion, they chased after Cui Fu and asked, is this young master going to do some tricks again?

Seeing that people were asking too many questions, Cui Fu followed Wang Pang's instructions and asked three questions. Wang Pang said that this is called a sense of mystery.

In a few days, the project will be almost finished, and there will be more people around the gate.It turns out that Wang Pang's wedding invitation has already been sent out, and Wang Pang's big wedding is not held by himself, but in Renhe Building.Is this Renhe Building going to be redecorated? Is it going to change its appearance? ?

The cooks trained in Mayer's Mansion naturally learned how to cook the ten dishes, and what's more, they really liked the coal-fired stove.

Wang Pang signed contracts with them all, and the salary must be high, but he is not allowed to go to other restaurants within a year, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.Don't talk about signing a contract, if you don't sign a contract, Wang Pang will give you a high salary, so you are naturally willing to work with Wang Pang.

Wang Pang also specially found someone to customize uniform uniforms for the employees of Renhe Building.Now he is satisfied.Just wait for the arrival of the eighteenth day of the fifth lunar month.

As the middle of May approached, the interior of Renhe Building was tidied up. Wang Pang ordered Cui Fu to keep the cover up. Special purchases could go to the streets to buy new application items.In the past, all the old tableware and supplies were given to the neighbors. [

As a result, people around know that even the tableware in Renhe Building has been replaced with new ones. In fact, Wang Pang’s items are much less expensive than a complete renovation.But the focus of his refurbishment was not on the exterior of the furniture.The coal escorted by Yu Danian at the beginning of the month was also delivered.In this way, the coal yard is almost full.Some cars took advantage of the night to send it to Renhe Building, the coal shed prepared in advance in the backyard.

On the day of Wang Pang's wedding, the bamboo fence covering the outside of the Renhe Building was demolished, and people flocked to see it. Standing at the door, they were all surprised.

It can be seen that the people who attended the banquet in Renhe Building were all officials of the dynasty, nobles, businessmen and celebrities, and at least those who sat in sedan chairs, the entire street was almost blocked by sedan chairs.

Marriage is a day of great joy. The Song Dynasty stipulated that some arrogance could appear in clothing, and it was officially stipulated that common people could use Jiupin Mingfu as auspicious clothing for marriage.Wang Pang wore a flower head and a red flower on the chest of the official mansion. He stood on the steps to welcome everyone.

It's new to attend a wedding like this, especially when the groom's official stands on the platform to greet him personally. While everyone signs in at the door and presents congratulatory gifts, the mistress yells that Mr. So-and-so is here, and those who have no official position are called Mr. So-and-so from the firm's name.No matter if there is no business and no official rank, call a friend of Sina to come.

The receptionists were led to different locations according to the content of the call, and the immediate family members were on the third floor, each VIP room.Meet officials at all levels.However, in room No. [-] of Tianzi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, the right general Zhao Zongshi, Master Bao, Wang Anshi, Ouyang Xiu and others were sitting empty.

Room No. [-] in Tianzi is the female relatives of these people.

Tianzi No. [-] to No. [-] are the colleagues of various officials

Number seven and number eight are reserved for the buddies next to the king.

No. [-] is the place where the female relatives and the bride rest in the Wang's residence.

Everyone guessed, could it be that the king left such a place for himself?

The second floor is reserved for Zhang Yi to greet celebrities from various businesses, while the first floor is reserved for neighbors.

Seeing that the auspicious time was approaching, Wang looked over and saw two people walking out from the crowd in the south. A thin and about 50-year-old man with half-closed eyes half-smiling.The other followed behind with his head down.

Wang Pang smiled, and personally took this person to room No. [-], Tianzi, on the third floor.

As soon as this person came in, all the people sitting in the room immediately left the table to give a big gift.The man hurriedly closed the door and said, "Today, I want to see this folk wedding banquet and celebrate it. Everyone, sit down quickly."

Bao Zheng and Wang Anshi were both surprised and delighted, the child Wang Pang actually alarmed Sheng Jia Weifu to attend the wedding banquet.If people in other rooms or downstairs know about this, it will cause a commotion in turn.So he hurriedly obeyed the order and sat upright, without any atmosphere.

Renzong frowned: "You have been with me for so many years, how can the housekeeper eat with such restraint?"

So when I was sitting, I quickly accompanied the smiling face.But Wang Pang didn't care about this, outsiders came to report, please Mr. Wang and Mr. Bao to go to the second floor, and the new couple will kneel down in a while.

Standing on the corridor of the restaurant on the third floor, they immediately saw the ceremony of the couple on the second floor.The second floor was full of laughter.Although the people on the first floor couldn't see the excitement, they just saw the handsome groom.

Hearing the sound of firecrackers, it means that the sedan chair to pick up the bride has arrived.Yuexia is wearing scarlet, with a phoenix crown and Xiapei on her head, and a red hijab on her head.Even more charming.

When the salute was over and the banquet began, the whole restaurant was buzzing with people, and the waiter ran back and forth among the laughing crowd to serve the food.It was only then that everyone was surprised to find that today's banquet had so many dishes that they had never eaten before.

The ten chefs in the kitchen were working in full swing, and they were already proficient in what Wang Pang taught them.One by one, wearing hats and wearing aprons around their waists, they were frying there, and red coals were burning in the hearth. [

Renhe Building became popular all of a sudden, even the people on the second and third floors were full of praise, and the shopkeeper's eyes narrowed with joy.Although there is no income today, he has already seen the shining gold beckoning to him.

People were patronizing to taste the dishes, but they still couldn't get enough. They forgot that today is the wedding day next to the king. Like being in the palace, you can try the dishes first.

Renzong's food was really delicious, he praised all of them, and all the ones he praised were put in the middle, and a dozen pairs of chopsticks went down together, and the plate immediately bottomed out.Director Shi only heard the voice of admiration, and didn't even have the chance to taste the bottom of the plate.

This table is like this, not to mention other things. After eating two or three fresh dishes, as long as the waiter serves new products, they will all be wiped out.

Some people wanted to go to the back kitchen to look at it, but unexpectedly there was a special guard there, so the shopkeeper Cui hurriedly opened it, and he answered according to what Wang Pang taught, the dishes, the dishes are nothing special, but the method is different. I can't do it anymore, it's made of special coal from Wang Gongzi's Jinxiang Mansion Coal Yard. "

While the banquet was still going on, there was news from outside that Jinxiang Mansion's coal cooking was exceptionally good, and someone knew that Jinxiang Mansion's coal yard was just outside Xishuimen.There is still a banquet here, and there are shops in the Jinxiangfu coal yard outside the city to inquire about the price of the coal for cooking.

Wang Pang glanced at the situation of each table, and knew that the effect was good.So he went to the kitchen.Renzong in Tianzi No. [-] room looked at the plate and asked: "There are still new dishes that are gone. Officials, I only ate ten chopsticks together. Look, they are all gone."

Everyone laughed, they were almost drunk now, and Renzong was not so rigid at ordinary times, so it would be seen that he was not restrained, nor was he restrained.If you want to say that Lord Bao really loves Wang Pang, he suddenly asked: "Just now the groom was still toasting, where did he go?"

Director Shi finally found an opportunity to go out, and immediately said, "I'll go and have a look." He ran to the back kitchen in a hurry, and found that the groom was cooking the spoon himself.

After a while, Wang Bang went upstairs with a plate of colorful special dishes, and personally delivered them to Room No. [-] in Tianzi.

Renzong didn't move his chopsticks. The color of this dish is very beautiful. There are green cucumbers, red carrots, white lotus root slices, round peanuts, emerald green celery, and black mushrooms. This dish is king. It's handy, don't look at it, it's colorful.In fact, it is to blanch in clear water, then heat the oil for a while, add seasoning salt, a little wine, and drizzle some sesame oil on the pan.

Renzong found it pleasing to the eye when he looked at it. When he tasted it, he had the aroma of oil without losing the original freshness of various vegetables.Good color and fragrance.Can't help asking, "Wang Pang, what's the name of your dish?"

Wang Pang thought to himself: This is nothing more than Pansu assortment, but seeing Renzong's expectant gaze, he secretly smiled and said, "The Caomin personally made this for the Holy One, and I named him "Splendid Jiangshan." Wang Pang's voice Everyone clapped and applauded as soon as it landed, and the name of the dish is even better.

Renzong was overjoyed, and said: "Sure enough, the food is good and the name is good: I have given you a signboard for this restaurant, Jinxiulou."