By the time the guards and waiters at the restaurant were recruited, it was already the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The fourth brother was about to leave for the caravan, and Xu Qinyu went back to Yuanbao Town to check on Xu Ji. Now Xu Ji had many cooks and she didn't have to worry. Even if she was away for ten days or half a month, it would still run as usual and be full of guests.

Xu Qinyu stayed in Raozhou City temporarily. There were too many things to do on the hotel side. In addition to recruiting people, she also had to inspect the house after it was almost built, and move the furniture, kitchenware, and other things in. She had only paid half of the money for these kitchenware, furniture, and other things.

She and her fourth brother initially lived in the Bafang Inn. Later, when Mrs. Lu learned that she would be staying in Raozhou City, she specially vacated a two-story house for her to live in on weekdays, so that she would not have to live in an inn all the time.

Xu Qinyu thanked Mrs. Lu.

She will basically have to guard here from now on.

Over in Yuanbao Town, after Fourth Brother left, Wen Shi must have been worried about Yu Niang staying alone in Raozhou City, so she went to Raozhou City with Yu Niang. On weekdays, when Yu Niang went out to do business, she would follow her.

When Xu Qinyu was busy on weekdays, it was Wen who cooked, washed clothes and took care of her.

Because she not only has to do all these, but also has to teach the ladies how to massage their muscles and bones, which is also hard work. She has to massage them, teach them to recognize the meridian points, and let them practice with each other. This basically takes a whole day. Fortunately, these ladies are very serious in learning.

Two months later, the restaurant and the house outside the city were built, and the ladies had learned almost everything.

Gong Ge'er also taught almost all of his brothers to a church.

After the house is built, you can move in after putting all the furniture in.

The houses here are all built with bricks and tiles, and the interior decoration is all handmade with solid wood, without the use of various glues. It is environmentally friendly and does not require people to move in after the house is decorated, as in later generations, and the house must be ventilated for half a year or a year, otherwise it will cause great harm.

Xu Qinyu was unable to handle all the subsequent matters by herself, but with the help of Gong'er, Tao Qi and Wen, she finally managed to get them all done.

After the restaurant was completed, the craftsmen and laborers were no longer needed. They were paid their wages and went home. Only a small number of people were left to move things in when the time came.

These craftsmen and laborers were also very happy. After working here for half a year, each laborer earned several taels of silver. The monthly salary of the craftsmen was basically two or three times that of the laborers.

After all the furniture was put in place, a gardener was hired to help take care of the garden and plant flowers and plants.

However, it will take at least two or three months for these flowers and plants to grow lush. Now, except for some rockery and transplanted trees, the house still looks a bit empty.

Another month passed, and it was almost the end of spring, and everything was almost ready.

The silver Xu Qinyu had was almost enough.

Because Xu's Restaurant had an income of three thousand taels of silver every month, and Ning Jie'er also gave her all her savings, so there was enough money for the rest of the time.

On the other side of the restaurant, there is a large six-story attic restaurant that is more spacious than the largest wine shop in the city, and there is a huge courtyard at the back.

The courtyard is connected to the back room.

Whether it is a restaurant or a house where guests stay, there is a back room.

The back room is also much larger than the ordinary back room. It is where the employees of the hotel and the house live. It is a row of rooms, each with four bunk beds. In addition, there are four cabinets for the employees to place their clothes and belongings. They are all equipped with locks, so there is no need to worry about theft.

Seeing that the places provided for them to live were so good, the employees felt more at ease.

During the past two or three months, everyone was still feeling uneasy. They knew the boss was good, but if there was no business, it would be useless no matter how good he was, because they had never seen anyone open a restaurant outside the city.

Xu Qinyu is tentatively a waiter at the restaurant. Everyone has two days off per month, which are rotated.

In addition, the hot springs on the mountain were also dug up. Before leaving, the fourth brother left a mark on the mountain to tell Xu Qinyu which place to dig.

The hot spring had been dug up some time ago, and the hot spring water bubbling out of the spring inside also made the villagers of Raozhou City and nearby villagers very curious. They didn't know why the owner of the restaurant dug an underground hot spring water. You know, this stuff can't be drunk. Drinking it will cause heartburn and vomiting.

It became even more strange when I saw that the owner of the restaurant had a pond built on the spot where the hot spring water was bubbling in the mountain, and that spring water was bubbling in the pond.

Later, of course, the hot springs on the mountain were connected to the hot spring pools at the foot of the mountain.

Behind both the houses for the ladies and the men are connected to a separate courtyard, which is the hot spring pool built by Xu Qinyu. The hot spring pool is made of some large stones that were cut and polished, so it is relatively non-slip, but it must be cleaned regularly on weekdays.

This courtyard is built in a relatively secretive way. In addition to the courtyard wall, there is also a wooden frame covered with curtains. Outside the courtyard, there are many natural large trees with lush branches and leaves, which provide excellent privacy.

There is an open-air pool for men.

This is also because the conditions for women in this era were relatively strict, and women’s bodies were usually not allowed to be seen by outsiders.

You know, there isn't even a bathhouse for women here.

Girls are not allowed to wash in public bathhouses because they are afraid of being seen by others and ruining their reputation.

Xu Qinyu actually thought it was nothing, the hot spring pool was built in a relatively secret place, and those who came to soak in the hot spring must be girls, but she was also worried that the girls would be embarrassed to soak together. So for the female guests, Xu Qinyu prepared a huge bathtub in each room, and they could go to the pool to fetch hot spring water and pour it into the bathtub to soak their bodies, and the effect was the same.

Although the waiters on the female guests' side are all ladies, there is absolutely no outsider to be seen. Even the guards are ladies who are skilled in martial arts and specially hired by Xu Qinyu.

Although there is a courtyard wall covering the men's side, there is no wooden frame on top.

The hot spring pool is relatively large and has running water. The hot spring flowing down from the mountain will naturally keep flowing. If the pool cannot hold the water, it will overflow, so it will not get dirty.

The temperature of the hot spring water on the mountain is about 60 degrees, but after passing through the bamboo, the temperature is only about 40 degrees, which is just right for soaking in the hot spring.

As for the female guests, Xu Qinyu had thought more carefully about the room and other aspects, and the furnishings in the room were more refined and elegant.

Xu Qinyu even thought of hiring a doctor to see patients in the hotel, in case the guests were unwell when they came to visit.

On the other side of the lake, Xu Qinyu specially planted a lot of lotus seeds and released a lot of fish fry. Although there are many wild fish in it, in case people come to fish for fun in the future, some fish fry still have to be released, and it is about one batch a year.

In addition, a small workshop was built next to where the female guests lived, which was specially used to make rouge, powder, perfume and cream.

Three months ago, after Ying Shuchang knew that Xu Qinyu was coming to Raozhou City, she met with Xu Qinyu and discussed with her about coming here to be the shopkeeper.

The restaurant's areas are separated, and Ying Shuchang was appointed as the receptionist for the female guests.

For the male guests, it was Gong Ge'er.

Gongger didn't like to cook, so he usually helped Xu Qinyu run errands. Now that Gongger had grown up, Xu Qinyu let him take Tao Qi and the others to take care of the men's side.

Since Xu Qinyu met Ying Shuchang last year when she wanted to buy a piece of land at the foot of a mountain outside the city, she helped him get back the family property left to her by her parents. She then sold all her family property and donated it to the military camp. With their protection, she has been living in a small courtyard in the city for the past few months. Although the Ying family still harasses her from time to time, wanting to ask her for the formulas of incense and rouge and powder, she refuses to even see the Ying family.

Since she was going to be the manager of the restaurant, Ying Shuchang brought Nanny Zhang to live near the workshop a month ago after the restaurant was built, and also brought the dog that she raised in the small courtyard.

The workshop hired two young ladies to help Ying Shuchang make rouge, powder, creams and incense.

This month, I made a lot of rouge, powder, cream, and incense, enough for the female guests to use for a while.

In the restaurant, the stove, various kitchen utensils, kiln, etc. are all ready.

Even the ingredients are ordered from the city and delivered every morning.

At the beginning, Xu Qinyu didn’t order much ingredients as she was worried that there would be little business.

She knew very well that there would be no business at the beginning, and the money earned from Xu's Restaurant might have to be reinvested in the early stages.

After everything was ready, Xu Qinyu chose an auspicious day to open the business.

Three days later is a good day, and Xu Qinyu plans to open the business three days later.

Over at the restaurant, besides Cheng Ge'er, Xu Feng and Da Niu, Dong Qian and Chef Wang also came over.

It was definitely not busy at the beginning, so not many people were transferred here.

However, the assistants and chefs hired by Xu Qinyu here are still here to learn how to cook from Xu Qinyu, Chef Wang and Dong Qian, and learn all the Xu's dishes.

Three days later, it was gone in a flash.

During the past three days, Xu Qinyu, along with Wen and others, wrote a lot of lists by hand.

That is, the flyers of later generations were distributed in the city to the shops and residents on East Street and West Street.

In addition to the menu, the list also states that you can stay at the hotel, soak in the hot springs, go fishing and have picnics during the day, etc. It also states that in the first half month of opening, 80% of the price will be charged.

When these lists were passed to many people, many people couldn't help but sneer when they saw the dishes on them. "How dare this restaurant? The dishes listed here are really bold. This roast suckling pig is six taels of silver per serving, and the bird's nest in clear soup is two taels of silver per bowl. And this thing called Fu Shou Quan is fifty taels of silver per can! My God, this is more expensive than the dishes in Zuixianlou, and it's ridiculously expensive. What kind of dishes are these? How dare they charge so much?"

The restaurant opened by Xu Qinyu outside the city has attracted quite a lot of attention. Many dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in the city are curious about it. They have been waiting for it to be built for more than half a year. Finally, it is completed and ready to open for business. Look at the menu above. The prices are so expensive that they leave.

In fact, on the menu, the prices of Xu's Restaurant's original menus are still the same as before, but there are also many fresh dishes, which are all new menus that Xu Qinyu has re-arranged in the past six months. The overall price is also several dozen to one or two hundred coins more expensive than the dishes of Xu's Restaurant in Yuanbao Town.

As for the other dish, roast suckling pig, it is more expensive and the preparation process is more complicated. Although this ingredient is simple, Xu Qinyu does not intend to sell it too cheaply.

As for bird's nest in clear soup, it is made with the best bird's nests and soup stock.

To make bird's nest, you have to use the best quality bird's nest as the ingredient, and it takes four to five days just to soak it.

The chicken soup and many other ingredients are then used to make the soup, and then the complicated soup-making process is required to make the clear and sweet broth of bird's nest.

Two taels of silver is just one example, which is almost the amount of one bowl.

Moreover, this bird's nest in clear soup also needs to be booked several days in advance. If it is just the quantity for one, and they don't accept orders, they will need at least ten portions.

As for Fu Shou Quan, that is Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. This dish is more expensive, costing fifty taels of silver per can.

There is no way to order bird's nest in clear soup and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall because the ingredients themselves are quite expensive.

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall requires a variety of dried goods and seafood, which have to be shipped from the south. They are relatively rare in Raozhou City, and sometimes even if you make a reservation, you can’t buy all the ingredients and still can’t make it.

More than a year ago, Xu Qinyu made the dish of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for Old Lady Zhu. It took her more than two months to collect the ingredients, and she asked Madam Lu and the caravan of Fourth Brother to help find the ingredients.

So these are considered the most expensive dishes in the restaurant.

In addition, there are some other new dishes, but their prices basically do not exceed one or two taels of silver. However, there are also a few other dishes that cost one or two taels of silver.

So when seeing these dishes on the list, most people were a little bit incredulous, thinking that the owner of Xu's Restaurant had something wrong with his brain to dare to sell such expensive dishes. Most people had no intention of leaving the city to support the restaurant, thinking that the dishes in Zuixianlou in the city were already very delicious, so there was no need to come to such a fancy restaurant outside the city.

But there are also a small number of people who plan to wait until the restaurant opens and come to try the food. If it is not delicious, they will go back to the city to promote it to everyone to prevent more people from being cheated.

These people are just curious about the restaurant and don't really want to eat there.

Xu Qinyu didn't explain further.

Three days later, the restaurant opened to the public.

Xu Qinyu, Wen Shi and the restaurant's cooks all still lived in the back room.

In the restaurant, since the waiters include not only boys but also some women, the dormitories in the back room are also separated so as not to disturb each other.

Xu Qinyu had built a five-story house for herself, but she had not yet planned to move in. She would wait until her fourth brother came back and choose an auspicious day, and then they would move in.

At night, Xu Qinyu slept in the back room of the restaurant. She slept in the same room with Wen. She was a little excited and couldn't sleep.

Because this restaurant is also her unfulfilled wish in her previous life, so now in this era and time, to build a restaurant, she must be excited.

And these are all the hotel has now. In the future, there will surely be more entertainment options. She also plans to plant more fruit trees on the mountain so that people can pick fruits on the mountain in the future.

As she was thinking like this, Xu Qinyu finally fell asleep.

At the hour of Mao the next day, Xu Qinyu's biological clock woke her up on time.

Although today is the first day of business, there is nothing to be busy about as there are no customers for breakfast. This place is outside the city and no one lives here right now, so there is no need to prepare breakfast. We only need to prepare breakfast for the approximately one hundred employees.

For someone like Xu Qinyu, the employee wages plus food expenses alone would cost several hundred taels of silver every month.

Fortunately, she still had the profits from Xu's business to support her. Otherwise, with only a few hundred taels of silver a month, she would not be able to sustain it for a few months no matter what era it was, and would have had to close down.

Xu Qinyu didn't have to prepare breakfast. It was prepared by Chef Wang and Dongqian. Because they had to teach the newly hired chefs in the restaurant, the breakfast was all on the menu.

Today's breakfast is raw rolled fish porridge, custard buns, and some vegetarian buns.

We didn’t make many custard buns, just one per person, and the main purpose was to teach the restaurant’s chefs how to make them.

However, the raw fish congee and vegetable buns are all included.

Xu Qinyu also had no intention of letting her employees eat only coarse food and thin porridge, and have no energy to work every day, so the food expenses were quite high.

After breakfast, I naturally swept everywhere, and then there was nothing else to do.

Xu Qinyu also sat under the big tree in the backyard, writing and drawing, preparing some plans for the future of the restaurant.

Even in the backyard of the restaurant, she planted a lot of flowers and plants, and transplanted a lot of trees, so it will be lush and green in summer.

Around noon, Mrs. Lu from Raozhou City prepared to leave the city with her two good friends to spend a few days at Xuji's place.

Other people in Raozhou City don't know how delicious Xu Ji's food is, but she knows it. In order to eat the food cooked by Miss Xu, she bought a house in Yuanbao Town and lived there for two months to satisfy her appetite. After she came back, she still thought about it from time to time. Now Miss Xu has finally opened a restaurant in Raozhou City. Although it is outside the city, the journey is not far. It is just outside the city and it takes less than half an hour. She is so happy.

Knowing that the restaurant was opening today, he specially invited two of his close friends to come over and enjoy themselves.

The two ladies were about the same age as her, and they all had sons, daughters, and daughters-in-law. When they heard that they were going to eat outside the city and stay for a few days, they were still a little reluctant and couldn't help but say to Madam Lu, "Li Hua, there are a lot of fun and delicious things in the city, why do we have to go out of the city? It's really a bit remote. Why don't we have dinner early and go back? I feel uneasy living outside the city."

Mrs. Lu's name was Lu Lihua.

The two ladies' surnames are He and Yu.

He's husband's family is from Jiyangbo. She is in her forties and has grandchildren at home. Even if she goes out to have fun on weekdays, she usually goes to her friends' homes to have banquets, appreciate flowers, or listen to operas.

The other one, Mr. Yu, ran a money house in Raozhou City. It wasn't a century-old money house, but it was located in the southwest. He had a very good relationship with Madam Lu and was about the same age as her.

The relationship among three people is the best.

After hearing what He said, Yu couldn't help but nod her head, "That's right, I also feel uneasy living outside the city, and I feel uneasy inside."

Although there have been no bandits outside the city in recent years.

Just a few years ago, the eldest prince had not yet come to the border town to fight with the Bi Kingdom. At that time, the border town was quite chaotic and there were bandits outside the city. Ever since the eldest prince severely damaged the Bi Kingdom, the entire southwest has been much more peaceful in the past few years.

Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "Listen to my advice. If you don't enjoy the food and entertainment there, how about we go back tomorrow? Besides, the restaurant is right next to the military camp, just a few miles away. There is nothing to be afraid of. Besides, don't you occasionally stay in your own manor outside the city for a few days? There is no difference. Just think of it as staying in your own manor for a few days."

She had seen the menu from Xu's Restaurant two days ago and had been thinking about the dozens of dishes and desserts she had never eaten before.

Especially the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall dish. Miss Xu had asked her to help find the ingredients, and she was very curious. What kind of food would require so many ingredients? She heard that it would take two days and two nights to make it. Even though it was fifty taels of silver per jar, she wanted to try it, so she made a reservation with Miss Xu.

But Miss Xu told her that even if she made a reservation, it would definitely take ten days or half a month to prepare the food because the restaurant had just opened and it would be difficult to gather all the ingredients. She could only prepare the food for her when all the ingredients were gathered.

Mrs. Lu was not in a hurry because there were dozens of other dishes she had not tried.

So she told Miss Xu a few days ago that she would come over for dinner today and she wanted crispy suckling pig, and she would ask Xu Qinyu to prepare two other dishes.

Mrs. He, Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Lu were all true friends, and seeing that she was in great spirits, they did not want to say anything else and decided to make plans after they got to the restaurant.

Soon the carriage left the city and arrived at the restaurant.

As soon as you leave the city, you can see the restaurant not far away. It is indeed quite spectacular, with a six-story attic and several large houses and gardens scattered around it. Halfway up the mountain, you can even see some bamboo pipes winding down.

The entrance to the restaurant is also easy to identify. There is a large stone standing at the entrance with the four big characters "Xu Ji Restaurant" engraved on it.

After entering, I walked inside and soon arrived at the six-story restaurant.

When Xu Qinyu heard that Madam Lu was coming, she hurried to greet her.

Mrs. Lu got off the carriage and said with a smile, "Miss Xu, congratulations, I wish Xu's restaurant a prosperous business."

She also said that she had handed over gifts. She prepared quite a lot of gifts for Xu Qinyu, all of which were pulled by a horse-drawn carriage at the back. It was a complete set of furniture.

She knew that Xu Qinyu had built a five-story house outside the city, and that she would live there with her family, so the furniture must not be fully prepared, so she gave Xu Qinyu a set of furniture. This set of furniture was still made of huanghuali wood, and the price was relatively expensive.

She was not short of money. She had made a lot of money from her cooperation with Xu Qinyu in wine making, so she could still afford the furniture worth two or three thousand taels.

After Xu Qinyu thanked Mrs. Lu, she had the furniture sent to her house first.

After the carriage was driven away, Xu Qinyu said with a smile, "You ladies have been tired on the way. It's still early now. Why don't you go to the garden to rest and soak in the hot springs. Then let me help you relax your muscles and bones, and then take a nap. This will help you to relieve your fatigue."

Mrs. Lu was still very excited. She didn't know what a hot spring was, but she had never tried what Miss Xu said. "Okay, we're planning to stay here and rest today."

Others helped park the carriage, and also helped move Mrs. Lu's boxes to Jinxiu Garden.

The house where the female guest lived was called Jinxiu Garden.

The area for men is called Zizhu Garden.

Jinxiu Garden is mostly filled with rockery, ponds, flowers and plants.

There are not many flowers planted in the Purple Bamboo Garden, most of them are bamboos.

The hotel is not far from Jinxiu Garden, and it takes about half a minute to walk there.