Chapter 157 Hot Pot Restaurant Opening Preparation
"Yanran's death was also related to me. I shouldn't have persuaded her to stay in the palace. Yanran accidentally learned before the emperor ascended the throne that the emperor had approached her from the beginning just to use her to get the throne. Since then, she wanted to divorce. It was me who, out of my own selfish desires, privately persuaded her to stay in the palace. At least she was still the queen, the most powerful person in the harem, and her life would be better than others. It just so happened that Yanran was pregnant at that time, so she stayed for the sake of the child.
But life in the palace was the beginning of her nightmare. She had not been happy for a single day since she became the queen.
I know everything the emperor did, but I didn't stop him. Not stopping him means I acquiesced, so I am also responsible for the death of the Yuwen family and Yanran!
As his mother, I did not stop my son. I watched helplessly as he did one ridiculous thing after another, all for his own selfish reasons. I didn't want to see two people fighting for the throne. No matter who became the emperor, I was the queen mother, so I just acquiesced to everything!
But Yanran's death was beyond my expectation. I had thought that after Yanran gave birth to a child, her child would be the prince, which could be regarded as some compensation to the Yuwen family. However, I never thought that the emperor would re-establish the queen and the prince shortly after Yanran's death. At that time, the emperor and I argued with each other and after several arguments,
The Emperor issued an imperial decree saying that I was seriously ill and needed to go to Jiangnan for recuperation, so he sent me there. I was also unwilling to return to Beijing out of spite, so I stayed in Jiangnan for decades..."
Helian Chi felt very uncomfortable. He had never thought that things would turn out like this. The Queen Mother's kindness to him was just a result of her inner guilt.
His good father was the indirect murderer of his mother and the executioner who killed his maternal grandfather's family.
Although he had long felt that his father was responsible for his mother's death, he still found it hard to accept the result. He hated his father's indifference, his selfishness, and his cold-bloodedness.
Helian Chi opened and clenched his clenched fists, adjusted his thoughts, turned to Yun Li and said, "Li'er, don't ask!"
"good!"
Then, Yunli stopped swinging the bracelet, took out a drug and stuffed it into the Queen Mother's mouth.
The two men laid the Queen Mother down on the couch and left the Cining Palace.
Along the way, the two of them didn't speak, one in front and one behind, both walking silently.
Yun Li didn't know how to comfort him. The truth is often cruel and unacceptable. The imperial family is the most ruthless. But she didn't expect that as a father and a husband, he could be so ruthless. It was simply shocking.
Although the Queen Mother did not add fuel to the fire throughout the process, her silence from beginning to end was even more chilling.
She watched Helian Chi lose everything with cold eyes, and then began to feel sorry for him and treat him well. What was this? It was nothing more than making up for the guilt in her heart!
There's a saying that goes "Belated affection is worse than a dog's"? It's also appropriate here.
After leaving the palace, the two walked side by side. Yun Li quietly reached out and held Helian Chi's hand, and whispered to him, "Don't think about it. Everything in the past is over! You still have me!"
In the dark night, her eyes sparkled brightly, and she looked at him with curved eyebrows, brighter than the stars in the sky.
Helian Chi was attracted and healed by her eyes! Yes, he had nothing since he was a child. Everything he has now was earned by his countless military exploits and life-threatening experiences!
More importantly, he is no longer alone. He has someone to accompany him and two children! The three of them are his future.
Helian Chi pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly. "Well, I still have you! And two children! Thank you, Li'er!"
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In a blink of an eye, after a month, her hot pot restaurant was completed.
That day she brought cherries to Mankouxiang. The big red gilded plaque at the door had been hung up. The sunlight shone on it, giving it a feeling of splendor and brilliance.
Yun Li walked in. The shop assistants were helping to clean up. Many of them were from Prince Yu's Mansion. At the beginning, it was more reassuring to use their own people.
The final location of the hot pot restaurant was opposite Xiangyun Building. Because she knew that Xiangyun Building was the property of the prince, she bought the two-story building opposite Xiangyun Building at a high price.
This shop was originally a teahouse, and its business had long been suppressed by the prince behind the scenes, so it was not very popular. The shopkeeper had long wanted to sell it, but because of its advantageous location, the price he wanted was very high. He had approached many people but they backed off because of the high price.
The first floor hall of the hot pot restaurant is a scattered table. There are three tables for ordinary people to eat. There is a stage in the front where there are dances, music performances and other performances every day.
The second floor is very spacious, and she has divided it into twenty private rooms, each with a different design style.
There is the fresh and elegant style favored by scholars and literati, filled with poems and paintings by famous artists, as well as the free and unrestrained style of wine lovers, with various styles of tea sets and wine glasses taken out from the space, as well as modern wines from different countries, which are both decorations and for sale!
Maotai, red wine, foreign liquor, beer... everything is available!
There is also a style that combines women's favorite, elegant retro style! A combination of Chinese and Western styles, lace curtains, guzheng, pipa, large trumpet, phonograph, colorful oil paintings, exquisite coffee tables and chairs by the window, and aromatherapy, which is quite charming.
There are twenty private rooms, each in the Twenty-He style, including five high-end private rooms, which are not open to the public. There are consumption threshold requirements and only members of the store are accepted!
All the dishes are vegetables grown in the greenhouse of her farm in the countryside. There are not many varieties at present, only cabbage, lettuce, greens, potatoes, radishes, eggplants, tomatoes, leeks, beans, etc., which are only used in her hot pot restaurant!
Because the technology is not yet mature, it cannot be popularized for the time being. When the planting technology is improved and the vegetable yield is increased, she will popularize the planting technology of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other foods that can fill the stomach as staple food to the people.
There are many varieties of meat, including pork, mutton, beef, chicken, duck, goose, fish, shrimp, etc.
The hot pot restaurant also has some snacks and desserts, such as braised meat platter, crispy pork, fried tofu, and desserts include fruit ice jelly, osmanthus wine tofu pudding, and wine rice dumplings.
On the opening day, each table will be given a plate of watermelon! Watermelons don't exist in this world yet. They're in the space, and she hasn't tried to grow them in the countryside. But in her space, she sowed seeds in her spare time and planted a large area next to the Lingquan River. Now each one is very big!
As a gift promotion to win everyone's reputation, watermelon is very attractive and suits the taste of most people.
After the inspection, Yunli gathered everyone together and held a meeting. She had already listed all the procedures for tomorrow's opening, as well as the specific activities.
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