Reborn I want to be a giant

Chapter 5 Autumn Banquet
"This money is for you, you just take it." Gu Yanqing was dissatisfied.

Gu Changyan didn't want to quarrel with him, after all, his brother wanted to help her, "We still have more than 800 taels of silver left in our hands. I plan to put it into the shop first, but this business will not pay back so quickly. In the next six months we will I don’t have any money left. Brother, your silver is considered timely rain, so use it to live.”

Hearing what his sister said, Gu Yanqing finally smiled.

In the days that followed, Gu Changyan devoted all her attention to the preparation of the tavern. Her original intention was not to be unconventional, but to have some characteristics as much as possible under the premise of conforming to the current public aesthetics. Among them, she emphasized comfort.For this reason, she made a special plan for the small yard, planning to build a spacious and magnificent toilet room.

According to her request, Nanny Jin found two cooks, a buyer, four assistants, and a handyman. Except for the cook, everyone else was young and all had dead contracts.I rented a cheap small yard in an alley near Dongshi for these people to live in.Gu Changyan was heartbroken to spend hundreds of taels all at once, but there was nothing he could do. The initial investment was always inevitable, and it was hard to have a profitable business in this world.

Gu Changyan is not entangled, she is confident that she can earn it back.The most urgent task is to decide on the menu of food and wine.

"We need to be separated from the restaurant where we eat. We are just a place to drink. There is no need to prepare rice. We should make more fried and grilled food with a stronger taste." Gu Changyan said to the two cooks.

There are many restaurants in the area of ​​Dongshi, with rich cuisines from all corners of the country. Her store is small, and she can't compete with similar restaurants. In the end, she can only compete on price. This is not a long-term solution, and she is new to business, so it is inevitable that there will be too much noise. There were rumors.So from the very beginning, her positioning was very clear, that is, a small tavern that is open every day from Mao to Yin.

The two cooks understood what she meant, and took the money to buy vegetables and went back.Prepare [-] dishes first, and send them for tasting tomorrow.

After Madam Zhou sent the cook away, Madam Hu came over.Ever since Chen Mengling divorced and carried away the proud dowry, it has been a few days since Mujin Courtyard has seen these respectable nuns in the inner courtyard.The little brothers and sisters have a lot of things to do now, and from the bottom of their hearts, they don't want to be remembered by outsiders.So when Hu Nanny came, Gu Changyan frowned slightly.

"The Autumn Banquet at the Princess Jinyang's Mansion..."

Mother Hu thought that the child in front of her was ignorant, so she said angrily, "This is the emperor's most beloved younger sister, Miss San is not to be neglected. Aunt Tang will send the materials later." The girls would wear new clothes to the banquet, and Duke Liang's mansion would naturally not neglect the young master in this regard, after all, going out represented the face of the Duke's mansion.

Gu Changyan put down the post, "Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Hu Momo didn't expect the other party to send her away like this. She was rewarded in Gu Changxi's Changle Courtyard and Gu Changyu's Liangxia Courtyard.She thought that Gu Changyan had forgotten, so she stood there for a while, but she didn't expect the other party to say nothing, and the maids and women were also busy with their own affairs, leaving her alone.So he strode away angrily.

"Miss, I'd rather offend a gentleman than a villain..." Nanny Zhou has not been at the mansion for a day or two, and she knows how hard it is to get along with these women who walk through the inner courtyard.

"We never gave her money in the past, why make an exception this time?" Gu Changyan didn't care.It would be best if Madam Hu wanted to make trouble, but unfortunately, she was just someone who only dared to provoke with words.No one in Liang Guogong's mansion now thinks highly of their brothers and sisters, so why waste that money on someone who is not worth dating, she is not rich.

Aunt Tang came to the Hibiscus Courtyard after holding the lamps. After Gu Changyan confirmed the material and appearance of a few pieces, she no longer cared about them.Now that she has a marriage contract, and the two elder sisters above are at the age of seeing each other, the family naturally pays more attention to them, and she is also willing to be an inconspicuous foil.

This is not the first time for Aunt Tang to deal with Gu Changyan. She has always felt that among the ladies in the house, the third lady is the most worry-free, and she often suffers losses, but she never cares about it. indulgence.She always felt that such a temperament was not very good. There was not only one child in the family. If the brothers and sisters did not fight or rob, the benefits would fall to others in the future.Especially Gu Yanqing, Gu Zheng has made it very clear that in the future, he will be placed in the Ministry of Households or the Ministry of War to help the young master Gu Yanyun.

Gu Changyan didn't know why Aunt Tang was so dazed just now, she was preoccupied with earning her own private property now, and Gu Yanqing was going to be a scholar in the coming year, if she passed, she could leave ethnology.She also thought of Chen Mengling's 2000 taels of silver... She really couldn't treat this person as her own mother, even worse than her stepmother, so she regarded this money as a temporary loan, and when there was surplus in the future, she would use it with interest. Also on.

After thinking about a lot of things, I wrote a supplement to the decoration of the tavern and handed it to Nanny Jin. After taking a bath with Xi'er and Tweety'er, I went to bed and rested.Although she hasn't gone out much recently, she has a lot to do during the day.

In the afternoon of the next day, the cook brought over [-] side dishes with wine, and Gu Changyan asked Nanny Zhou to share some among the Hibiscus Courtyard, so that everyone could talk about their thoughts after eating.Gu Yanqing ate very happily. Some appetizers were very suitable for dinner because of their heavy taste. When the ten-year-old boy was growing up, he ate three bowls of rice in a daze.

"Change the stewed tofu into stewed tofu, change the sauced pork knuckle into sauced pork knuckle and boiled pork knuckle, cut into thin slices, boiled pork knuckle with sauce, the juice of sauced pork knuckle is drained, you can also try making pork belly and tripe, and then Prepare an eight-vegetable platter, fried soybeans, fried peanuts, fried pine nuts, look at it, and remove these few seasonal vegetables, change them into fried noodles, and prepare four or five dishes of freshwater fish..." As expected of a cook of 100 taels, the craftsmanship It's not bad, at least Gu Changyan has passed the test.

"Nurse Jin, ask Gao Sheng to come over tomorrow." Gao Sheng is the buyer. He is only 15 years old, but he is very smart and educated before. If there were no accidents in his family, he would not sell himself into slavery.Ren Ya said that his sister had to spend five taels of silver on medicines every month, as well as the foreign debts he owed from the previous lawsuit against his parents, and he was also desperate.

Gu Changyan is very short of people now, but she really has no spare money to buy people. She has already explained that everyone may not have time to rest in the first few months, and other people will come to help after the shop is up.Now that the deed of prostitution is in her hands, the people below naturally dare not have any reluctance.

Gao Sheng has been running around the various wineries in the past few days, and brought back some fine wines that he thought were pretty good. Just when Gu Changyan called him, they brought them to the Duke's Mansion together.

In her previous life, Gu Changyan would occasionally go to an izakaya to have a drink. During the dinner, she wanted to taste traditional baijiu, but the taste was still very different from that of this era, and it was hard for her to use her own taste to judge.But Gao Sheng is clever, he has done his homework, and the wines he selected are what people in the capital often drink, and the price is not too high, which is in line with the current positioning of Gu Changyan's tavern.

Gu Changyan thought about the two villages she bought. If she planted some fruit trees suitable for making fruit wine, the wine in the tavern would be more abundant.

"That's all settled. By the way, go and see if there are grapes, plums, hawthorns, pomegranates, grapefruits, and apples in the world at this time of year. If the quality is good, if the price is right, you can take some and send them over."

Gao Sheng didn't know what she was going to do, but the master must have his own plan, so he just had to follow through.

After they were sent out, Gu Changyan ordered Nanny Zhou to prepare some sealable wooden barrels, jars and sugar, sucrose is the best.At the same time, Xi'er asked the little maid in the yard to rearrange the warehouse that had been emptied, and she wanted to put things in.

Gu Yanqing felt that his sister was too much work, if it was a teahouse, she would definitely be relieved.

"Brother, if it's a teahouse, those scholars order a pot of tea and sit for half a day. We can't make much money at all." In addition to good tea, a good teahouse also needs to work hard on refreshments. , The cost of these things is not low, especially books, not to mention that books in this era are very expensive, it is very troublesome to collect them, if you want to do business well, you have to ask famous Confucian scholars to inscribe or something.With the current contacts and financial resources of their brothers and sisters, it is impossible to achieve.And if it is an ordinary teahouse, with no celebrities, no gimmicks, and the customers are all traffickers, then when will it be possible to earn back the money to buy the shop.

After listening to his sister's simple calculation, Gu Yanqing also felt that this was indeed the case. There were many rich children in the Gu family school, but there were also many poor children, and some of them went to school in patched clothes.It is said that such students are the status quo of ordinary people's scholars.If all the customers in the teahouse were like this, then they really wouldn't be able to earn much money.However, to be a famous teahouse, the conditions required are much harsher than those of a tavern, and the earning may not necessarily be higher than that of a tavern.

"If brother has time, help my sister write some story books." I didn't intend to trouble my brother, because he will be a child and a scholar next year, and his schoolwork is so tight that he almost forgets to eat and sleep.But I am really too busy.

Gu Yanqing was actually not worried about the exams next year at all. When Gu Changyan said this, he directly tore new paper and spread it on the table.Gu Changyan asked Xi'er to move her a chair to Gu Yanqing's desk, "Brother, the story I want to tell is a bit weird..."

In a blink of an eye, it's time for Princess Jinyang's autumn banquet. Gu Changxi has always been high-minded and looks down on his two younger sisters, so he always has a car to drive.Gu Changyan didn't care, but Gu Changyu's usually amiable face became a little cold.

"Third sister, does the news that grandma is leaving for Beijing soon?" Gu Changyu said suddenly.

"Ah, I don't know." Mujinyuan is now like an information island.Of course, she doesn't care.It's just that Gu Changyu suddenly asked, is it because of this incident that she looks so bad?
"Master An Biao, Miss Biao, and Miss Duan Biao will also go to Beijing together."

"Hmm." Gu Changyan didn't know what to say.

Seeing that the third younger sister had an elm-headed head, Gu Changyu immediately stopped talking and sat quietly.

There were already carriages lined up outside the Princess Jinyang's mansion, and Gu Changyu's face became bright when he heard the sound of entering the inner door.The two of them were helped out of the carriage by the nanny of the Princess Mansion, and followed the maids to the room that had been prepared earlier to fix their appearance.Gu Changyan brought Cui'er and Nanny Zhou here today. Both of them are safe, and she knows very well that she is here as a foil, so she looks like she has nothing to worry about.

"Miss, it's better to be careful. Although His Royal Highness said that, it's hard to guarantee that others won't be interested. Besides, there are people in our Duke's Mansion who won't deal with them." Nanny Zhou reminded her in a low voice.

Gu Changyan raised the corner of his mouth lightly, "I know."

But sometimes if you want to keep a low profile, it depends on whether others are happy or not.

"Is this the fourth cousin's fiancée?" a thirteen or fourteen year old girl screamed.

The girls who had just gathered together looked at Gu Changyan one after another, all with probing eyes.Gu Changxi's expression was complicated. On the one hand, he cared about the feeling of being noticed, but on the other hand, he disliked the fourth prince as a cripple.Comparing the two, she temporarily endured her displeasure with Gu Changyan, and twistedly thought that Gu Changyan was just picking up what she didn't want, so she couldn't get on the stage.

Gu Changyan did not respond directly to the other party, but only said that he was the third daughter of Liang Guogong's mansion, and he was fortunate to know all the sisters and sisters.In fact, among the ladies who came here today, she is relatively young, most of them are fourteen or fifteen years old.Thinking of the fact that he still invited the sons of various families today, Gu Changyan quickly understood the real purpose of Princess Jinyang's autumn banquet.

The girls were chattering, and after a while, the mother came to report, and Princess Jinyang and several wives came over.So the atmosphere that was still active before suddenly quieted down, and the girls stood on both sides in an orderly manner.

Princess Jinyang is well maintained, with white jade-like skin and slender figure, it is impossible to see how many children have been born, and she is almost forty years old.Following her were Princess Sunan County, Mrs. Jing Guogong, Mrs. Wu'an Hou, Mrs. Chang'an Hou, Mrs. Gong Anbo, and the female relatives of several court officials.

"Look, you were still in full swing just now, now you're all pretending to be good." Princess Jinyang joked to the ladies behind her with a smile.

"The princess is right. Before I entered the door, I heard the sound of my two monkeys." A lady was annoyed.

"Let them make trouble." Princess Jinyang pretended to chase them away, "Go and play."

The girls can't stay anymore, it's rare to go out, it's so boring to accompany the elders.Now that the princess had spoken, everyone saluted one after another and then went out to the garden with the leading nun.

Princess Jinyang is indeed the emperor's most beloved sister. The house is extremely luxurious, just like the pavilion in front of me. From the guide stones to the steps to the pavilion itself, it is all made of excellent jade blocks. The tables in the pavilion The chair is also carved from a piece of transparent and flawless jadeite, and this is just an ordinary resting place in Jinyang Princess's mansion.

Staring at the pavilion, Gu Changyan thought of a business again. Although there is no money to invest in a short time, it is never wrong to make a plan first.Thinking of this, I can't wait to go home.

"Miss, wait a little longer." Nanny Zhou saw that the little master was getting impatient, so she persuaded her in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)