Xu Qinyu was naturally worried about her fourth brother. When she told him about this matter that day, he also told her that he would set off after the imperial eunuch left the southwest. She knew that her fourth brother would definitely go to deal with the imperial eunuch.

He also asked his fourth brother, "Fourth brother, are you doing something for the governor?"

The fourth brother was silent for a moment, and before he could answer, she continued to talk to herself, "Then the fourth brother should pay attention to his own safety. Everyone is worried about you."

The fourth brother then said, "Don't worry, Yu Niang, nothing will happen to me."

To Xu Qinyu, this officer deserved to die, and she certainly wouldn't feel sorry for such a person.

Besides, his body is obviously unhealthy, he is too fat, and he eats high-fat and greasy food all day long, which basically means he has high blood pressure and high blood sugar, making him prone to cerebral infarction.

Xu Qinyu would not use food to do anything to him, but she would not remind him either. This kind of person would only kill more people if he were alive.

If it were other diners, she would definitely remind them and send them to the hospital for a physical check-up. She would help them prepare a suitable diet.

Xu Qinyu thought about this and looked at Fu Chenghong again.

Although his face was greasy after eating, his complexion was not good.

Fu Chenghong certainly would not tell anyone else about such a recipe, even the two officials who followed him from the capital. Those two were also his followers, so even if they had any doubts, they would not dare to say anything. Moreover, even if the recipe was given to him by someone else, it would not matter if the King of Handong knew about it.

Seeing Fu Chenghong accept the menu, Xu Qinyu asked, "Sir, do you want to continue to eat in the restaurant tomorrow? I will make a few more dishes for you to try."

Fu Chenghong came back to his senses and said, "I will still have breakfast and dinner in your restaurant tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, but I want to personally see Zou's cooking skills for dinner tomorrow."

He was afraid that the young chef was playing tricks and the recipes he gave were fake. He would wait until he got home in the evening to look at the recipes, and then he would see the young chef cooking with his own eyes at dinner tomorrow and he would know the truth.

Of course Xu Qinyu knew his little thoughts, she just smiled and agreed and said okay.

After Fu Chenghong left, Xu Qinyu returned to the backyard, glanced at her fourth brother, and nodded at him.

Madam Zhu was relieved to see that she had returned safely, and asked everyone to go back and rest early.

When they returned to Madam Zhu's house, Xu Qinyu couldn't sleep after washing up. She sat in front of the window, and Pei Weixuan helped her wipe her still wet hair. Xu Qinyu had a lot of thoughts in her mind. First, she was worried about the safety of her fourth brother. Second, because of her recklessness, she might put herself and the Pei family in danger. If she was really forcibly taken back to the capital by Qinchao to present her to the King of Handong or the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother would become suspicious because of her help to Madam Zhu, and worry that she had some relationship with the Pei family and the Prefectural Government.

After she came to Beijing, it was impossible for her to keep dressing as a man, and her true colors would be exposed sooner or later.

It is dangerous to both himself and the Pei family.

She turned around and spoke to Pei Weixuan, "Fourth brother, I'm sorry, it's my fault. I was too rash to help Madam Zhu and put myself and the Pei family in danger."

She looked a little depressed. If her fourth brother hadn't reminded her, she would never have thought that the imperial guard would want to take her back to Beijing.

After all, she was not from this era, and some of her thoughts and ideas had not changed. This was because apart from the hardships of those few days on the road to exile, her life had become more and more prosperous after she settled down in Yuanbao Town. The officials in both Yuanbao Town and Raozhou City were all good officials who loved the people. She had not experienced the despair and injustice of the feudal system, so of course she wanted to help Madam Zhu according to her own thinking.

This imperial emissary is not the same person as Magistrate Yang and Governor Zhu. When she heard her fourth brother say that this imperial emissary did not take human life seriously and tortured and killed the little maid in the mansion, she should have known what kind of person he was. If he really had any intentions towards her, even Governor Zhu could not save her.

Fortunately, Fourth Brother had anticipated this and asked her to prepare such a menu, and he also figured out Fu Chenghong's character, so he didn't let her be targeted by this man.

After this incident, she will remember it.

Pei Weixuan paused his hand that was wiping Yu Niang's wet hair and said gently: "Yuniang, don't blame yourself. You asked me before, and I told you to do whatever you wanted. You don't have to take this matter to heart, let alone hold a grudge against it." The worst outcome of this matter would be that Yu Niang was taken away from Raozhou City and returned to Beijing by Fu Chenghong. But he could bring them back halfway without waiting for them to return to Beijing and kill all of Fu Chenghong and his men, and the result would be the same. It's just that Yu Niang would see them at that time. He was only worried that Yu Niang would be frightened, so he used the safe method of offering the recipe.

And no matter what Yu Niang wants to do, he can help her find a way to cover her up.

In his eyes, this matter means nothing.

Xu Qinyu nodded, but still warned herself in her heart that next time she met such a powerful person, she should not act rashly.

After their hair was dried, they went to bed.

When she woke up the next day, Xu Qinyu found that not only was half of her leg resting on her fourth brother, but her whole body was also leaning against him.

Fourth brother's body was warmer, and she felt cold at night, so she naturally snuggled up to him.

Xu Qinyu felt quite embarrassed. She got out of bed quickly with a red face, put on her clothes and went to the small kitchen to boil some hot water.

Pei Weixuan then opened his eyes and woke up, with the tips of his ears a little red.

Today, when we went to Zhu's Restaurant, Xu Qinyu prepared a simple breakfast, a pot of spicy soup.

Although it is just a pot of spicy soup, the spices and ingredients required are not simple.

Hu La Tang requires pepper, but pepper is too expensive, so she used green pepper powder and two other spice powders. The taste is a bit similar to pepper, and added a dozen other spices. The ingredients used include day lily, fungus, thin vermicelli, thousand sheets, peanuts, pickled mustard, tofu skin and a dozen other ingredients. The soup base of her Hu La Tang is made from lamb bones, and the meat in it is also lamb. The large pieces of lamb are cooked until crispy and paired with the thick, smooth and flavorful Hu La Tang, which tastes spicy and fragrant.

Hu La Tang should naturally be eaten with fried dough cakes.

Xu Qinyu fried a lot of pancakes.

It's been a bit cold when I got up early these past two days. It's so comfortable to eat a bowl of spicy soup with fried cakes.

Fu Chenghong was very satisfied with the meal.

At dinner time in the evening, in addition to the roast suckling pig, Fu Chenghong ordered a few dishes from the recipe Xu Qinyu gave him.

He had a special liking for roast suckling pig. The recipe of roast suckling pig was on the recipe sheet that Xu Qinyu gave him. Fu Chenghong memorized all the recipes on the recipe sheet when he went home last night.

He himself was a scholar by training, so memorizing these was no problem for him.

Watching Xu Qinyu make roast suckling pig, it was exactly the same recipe as written for him. Even the dishes he ordered were prepared the same way as on the recipe.

After tasting it, he found it was still delicious without any change, so Fu Chenghong felt relieved.

In addition to the evening meal on the first day, he gave 100 taels of silver.

He had not paid any money for his meals at Zhu's Restaurant these past few days. He thought that one or two hundred silvers were enough, but he did not consider that he had booked Zhu's Restaurant for only one hundred or two silvers for a few days. This was clearly taking advantage of Zhu's Restaurant.

But Madam Zhu didn't dare to say anything and just hoped that the man would leave quickly.

The next day, Fu Chenghong spent another day at Xu's Restaurant, eating breakfast and dinner.

After he had his evening meal, he called Xu Qinyu over and gave her a hundred taels of silver as a reward, saying that the food she cooked was very good and that the silver was a special reward for her.

He also said that he would leave Raozhou City and return to Beijing tomorrow.

Xu Qinyu had no choice but to agree. She finally breathed a sigh of relief after everyone left.

When Fu Chenghong and his two subordinates left in a carriage, the two subordinates could not help asking, "Sir, why don't you take this boy back to the capital? He is such a good cook, whether he cooks for your house or presents it to the King of Handong, it will be a great achievement."

They thought that this young man had extraordinary cooking skills, and that bringing him back to the capital to present him to the King of Handong would help win his favor.

Fu Chenghong said sternly, "My brother lives in the southwest and doesn't want to leave. How can you force him to leave? Isn't this bullying?"

The two officials did not say anything, but they knew that Fu Chenghong was a bully.

I don't know why he let that kid go.

But if the adults don't have any ideas, they may have a chance to show up in front of the King of Handong. When they catch this young man and return to present him to the King of Handong, the food cooked by this young man is really delicious, even better than that of Jixianglou. It will definitely satisfy the King of Handong. As long as the King of Handong is satisfied, they will have a chance to come to the fore.

But now they have to follow the imperial envoy in everything, and they can't do anything. They will think of a solution after returning to Beijing.

The next day, Fu Chenghong and two of his subordinates set out for Beijing. They took the water route and sailed for two more days after leaving the southwest. When they were about to reach Tongzhou, suddenly a dozen masked men in black emerged from both sides of the shore and flew onto the deck. As soon as they came up, they chopped off the heads of the two subordinates beside Fu Chenghong without saying a word.

The soldiers around him finally reacted, drew their swords and shouted, "There is an assassin, come and protect the lord."

The masked man in black fought with the soldiers. The man in black should have good kung fu, but when fighting with these soldiers, he did not stab any of their vital points, but only stabbed non-lethal places such as the arms, thighs and backs.

Fu Chenghong was so frightened that his heart and liver were about to burst. He tried to escape with his fat body shaking, but he was too fat. He panicked and slipped, and fell on the deck. A masked man in black stabbed him in the chest with a sword. Fu Chenghong was so scared that his face turned pale and he pulled a soldier next to him to block him. Seeing this, the masked man had to turn the tip of his sword abruptly, and the tip of the sword stabbed into the soldier's arm.

Fu Chenghong immediately pushed aside the officers and soldiers and ran into the cabin.

Apart from the cabin, there was only the water bank outside. He couldn't swim, so jumping in would mean death. But if he ran into the cabin, these people could also kick open the cabin door, and he would still be dead. But at this moment, Fu Chenghong was so scared that his mind was in a mess. He couldn't think of who would come to kill him?

Could it be the prefect?

But why would the prefect kill him? It would only cause trouble for himself, as he was not the one who embezzled military pay.

Fu Chenghong had already climbed to the door of the cabin when he was suddenly kicked into the cabin and hit his head against a pillar. He felt dizzy, but he did not dare to leave himself lying on the ground. He immediately turned over and tried to get up. When he turned over, he saw a tall masked man.

The tall masked man looked down at him with a cold gaze.

Fu Chenghong shouted, "Don't, don't kill me. I'll give you whatever you want. I have something worth a thousand gold. If you let me go, I'll give it to you."

But just as he finished saying this, he felt a flash of sword and a sharp pain in his throat. After that, he knew nothing and fell into complete darkness.

The tall masked man looked at Fu Chenghong, whose head had been chopped off, and leaned over to take out the recipe from his sleeve, put it into his own sleeve, and stuffed another letter into Fu Chenghong's lapel.

When the soldiers started chasing him, he had already escaped through the window of the cabin and flew away.

The other masked men on board also fled upon seeing this, leaving only a boat full of injured but not dead officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment, and then looked at the imperial guard and the other two officials in panic, only to find that they were dead beyond belief, with their heads chopped off.

The officers and soldiers didn't know what to do for a moment and could only wait until they reached the nearest dock to report the news to the government office.

The nearby government offices were naturally shocked by such a major incident of murdering an imperial minister. They pulled the three bodies back to the government office and searched the bodies. They found the letter in Fu Chenghong's clothes. After reading the contents of the letter, they were shocked and panicked.

…

Xu Qinyu has been living in Madam Zhu's house these days. Madam Zhu's restaurant has started to operate as usual, but Xu Qinyu has not gone to Zhu's restaurant to help.

Xu Qinyu was thinking that she would open a restaurant or a bodega in Raozhou City in the future. If she continued to cook at Zhu's restaurant, after the diners had eaten her dishes and then went to her restaurant or bodega again, they would find out and her identity would be easily exposed. Therefore, now that Madam Zhu's crisis was resolved, there was no need for her to go to the restaurant again.

But since her fourth brother didn't come back, she couldn't go back to the Bafang Inn alone, so she waited for him at the Zhu family's house.

Fourth brother said he would be back in a few days.

As for Zhu's Restaurant, the diners nearby and the shop owners all wanted to taste the delicious food that had tempted them for days. They even smiled and joked, "Madam Zhu, your restaurant is finally open for business. Did you hire a new chef when you entertained the imperial edict a few days ago? We can smell the food and it's making us ravenous. We must have a good meal today."

Madam Zhu could only smile and say, "Please don't misunderstand me, my neighbors. The food we served to Mr. Qinchao a few days ago was indeed prepared by someone else, but it was not prepared by the chef of Zhu's Restaurant. It was a kind and famous chef who helped. Now Mr. Qinchao has gone home, and the famous chef has also left. I don't know where he went, so the food at Zhu's Restaurant is still the same as before."

These neighbors and diners were inevitably a little disappointed, but they still ate at Zhu's Restaurant with great enthusiasm.

As for Xu Qinyu, she waited for five full days, and that night, she finally waited for her fourth brother to arrive.

Seeing her fourth brother's face, still with his normal appearance and no injuries, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Pei Weixuan took out the recipe from his pocket and handed it to Xu Qinyu, "Don't worry, Yu Niang, I've got the recipe back for you."

Xu Qinyu didn't care about the recipe at all; what she was most worried about was the safety of her fourth brother.

These past few days, she even had trouble sleeping. She always dreamed that her fourth brother got into trouble and came back covered in blood. She was so scared that she woke up several times. After waking up, she also figured out that something was wrong. It seemed that her feelings for her fourth brother were not just a simple brother-sister relationship.

What's more, they are sleeping in the same bed, so what's the point of brother and sister relationship? Even real brother and sister can't sleep in the same bed.

Xu Qinyu has thought it through thoroughly these days, and she will not resist this kind of relationship.

But there's no rush to get married or sleep together. She's just turned 18, so it's fine to just have a relationship first and then talk about it when she turns 20, when she reaches the legal age for marriage.

Seeing fourth brother coming back, he took the menu handed to him and threw it on the table, then pulled his sleeve, wanting to turn up his collar to see if he was injured.

Pei Weixuan froze for a moment, then realized what Yu Niang meant. He grabbed Yu Niang's hand and said, "Don't worry, Yu Niang. I'm not hurt."

Xu Qinyu felt relieved and asked, "Did Fourth Brother eat when he came back? If not, I'll go to the kitchen and cook something for him."

She had been living in Zhu Madam's house for the past few days and had not gone out. She had been eating and drinking in the small kitchen. Zhu Madam had specially prepared a lot of food for her.

Pei Weixuan nodded, took the recipe and went to the small kitchen with her.

He had checked the recipe and it was exactly the one he had written. When he got to the kitchen, he threw the recipe into the stove, and the flames instantly devoured the recipe, emitting high flames.

Xu Qinyu had a lot of mutton soup left over from her evening meal, so she made some mutton soup for her fourth brother.

While preparing meals for her fourth brother, Xu Qinyu briefly asked about Qin Cha's affairs.

Pei Weixuan did not tell Yu Niang that he had beheaded Fu Chenghong. He only told her, "It's all settled. He's dead."

Xu Qinyu didn't feel uncomfortable at all when she heard that he had died. She thought it would be better if such a person died.

Since the person is dead, Fourth Brother’s actions will definitely not implicate the prefect, so she has nothing to worry about.

After the mutton soup was cooked, Xu Qinyu also baked some meat cakes, which went perfectly with the mutton soup.

…

The next morning, Xu Qinyu said goodbye to Madam Zhu, saying that it was time for the two brothers to leave Raozhou City.

Madam Zhu thanked Xu Qinyu again.

Xu Qinyu and her fourth brother returned to the Bafang Inn. They sneaked back to the room. After reading the note left by Pei Weixuan, Manager Zhou kept the room for them and did not have anyone clean up the room. It remained the same as before.

After returning, Pei Weixuan took out the medicine from the bag and asked Yu Niang to wash off the medicine on her body.

He restored himself to his original appearance and asked the waiter to bring up hot water for the two of them to wash.

When Shopkeeper Zhou learned that the two had returned, he was not surprised, nor did he ask any further questions. He just pretended to know nothing.

Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan changed back into their own clothes and took another stroll around the city.

On this day, I finally finished touring the whole city. There are three restaurants that are being rented or sold. However, if I want to open a farm-style restaurant where people can eat, drink and have fun, it is definitely not possible in the city. Even if I buy two connected five-story houses, the space is still too small.

She wanted a restaurant where she could not only eat but also have fun.

Build a big lake and plant it with lotus leaves and lotus flowers. In the summer, it is so pleasant to take a boat in the lake full of lotus leaves and lotus flowers. You can also pick lotus seeds and go fishing.

People here don't know how to enjoy themselves at all. The girls' daily fun is just going shopping, or going to their good friends' houses for banquets and flower viewing. There is not even a beauty salon here!

Fourth brother is a good doctor. If she can open up her restaurant and ask fourth brother to prescribe some good creams, the creams he prescribes for them are very effective. Her skin has become white and tender, and feels like soft tofu.

At that time, we can also hire some ladies and teach them how to massage people's muscles and bones to relieve fatigue. They can massage the muscles and bones of the girls who come here to play and eat, and then use cream to care for their skin.

This is a bit like the high-end bathing buffets of later generations, but the place is more spacious, and you can go out to swim in the lake and fish.

As for the male guests, they just need to eat, fish and play Cuju.

But if you want such a large venue, you can only find it outside the city.

So the next morning, Xu Qinyu and her fourth brother went out of the city.

There are also a few scattered villages outside Raozhou City, with mountains on the right side, but that side is closer to the southwest camp.

There is a large lake between the southwest camp and one of the villages, as well as many fertile fields and a large open space. There is also a bamboo forest and green grass in the distance.

Xu Qinyu likes this place very much. If she really wants to open a restaurant, she has to do it outside the city.

And the location is good, right in the middle of the southwest camp and the village. If there are really bad guys, you have to weigh it.

Besides, once the restaurant is open, she can just hire some guards with strong martial arts skills.

Moreover, a five-story house can be built next to it, so she and the Pei family can live in a luxurious house!

She could also buy some good farmland nearby. She already had 100 acres of farmland in Yuanbao Town. It was never too much land, and she could continue to buy more after coming to Raozhou City.

However, if you want to build a restaurant and a house here, you have to buy the land, so naturally you have to go to the government office in Raozhou City to ask for permission.

There was no rush for this matter. She and her fourth brother had been out for more than ten days, and she was worried that the Pei family would miss them, so she returned to Yuanbao Town first.

But after they returned, Jianwen just asked them if they were tired and told them to eat early and rest. He was not worried about them being away for ten days. It should be that the fourth brother sent someone to deliver a message to the family, saying that they would stay in Raozhou City for a longer time to find a business or something.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "It's not hard, but my mother is tired. I've been taking care of the restaurant for the past ten days."

Wen said gently, "Mother is not hard-working. The one who works the hardest in this family is Yu Niang."

Yu Niang has been running around for this family, and she is the one who works the hardest.

After Wen finished speaking, she added, "Yu Niang and Wei Xuan have been running around all day. Let's go and rest early after dinner."

Xu Qinyu thought that she had been running all day, so she might as well have a good rest at night and discuss with her family tomorrow morning whether to open a wine shop or a restaurant in Raozhou City.

After dinner, Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan returned to Laixi Lane from the restaurant, washed up and went to bed early.

This trip to Raozhou City can be considered as a rebirth after a disaster. There was nothing else to do in Xu Qinyu's heart. She lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly.

She went to the restaurant the next day. The staff there were all missing her and were very happy to see her back.

Xu Qinyu was busy in the restaurant all day. In the evening, when everyone returned to Laixi Lane and sat in the wooden pavilion in the courtyard, Xu Qinyu told everyone about the wine shop and restaurant.

Wen asked, "What does Yu Niang think?"

Whether Yu Niang wants to open a wine shop or the kind of restaurant she mentioned, she will support Yu Niang.

Xu Qinyu hesitated and said, "If I open a wine shop, a few thousand taels of silver would be enough. A few thousand taels of silver would also be enough to buy a shop. If I open a restaurant, I'm afraid I'll have to invest all my money in it."

She had about 60,000 taels of silver on her. If she really wanted to open a restaurant outside Raozhou City, she would have to hire professionals to help design the restaurant's structure and construction, as well as various interior decorations.

It will take at least half a year to complete. If you really want to open a restaurant outside Raozhou City, you can build the house together with it.

But deep down she really wanted to open a restaurant, and only money can make money.