Chapter 136: "A shill" turns into a distinguished guest
Luo Li lived very comfortably in the hot spring villa, but for the opening of Chuanran Hotpot City and Maotai Wine Shop, she had to return to the Qin Palace in the city.
Gao Ruoying and Yang Yanqi recommended two shareholder candidates, Xue Qing, the daughter of the right prime minister Xue Juzheng, and Cao Huiying, the daughter of Lu Guogong Cao Bin. When they heard that the Qin Wangfei wanted to pull them into the business partnership, they were excited and agreed on the spot.
After returning home, they persuaded their parents and came to the appointment with 20,000 taels of silver. They
met again at Shenghelou. When Luo Li arrived, the waiter Zhang Zhuzi greeted her happily.
: "Mr. Luo, you are here. Miss Yang and Miss Gao have brought two more young ladies, who have been waiting in the private room upstairs for a long time."
Luo Li shook the folding fan in her hand in a casual manner, "Lead the way!"
The waiter Zhang Zhuzi led the way in front, and secretly admired Mr. Luo.
Mr. Luo is extremely handsome, and he has such a way to please and deceive women. One can attract two, two can attract four, he is really lucky!
Arriving at the Xuanzihao private room on the third floor, Yu Li threw a silver reward to Zhang Zhuzi.
: "The old rules! A pot of boiled water, eight dishes and a soup."
Zhang Zhuzi took the silver reward with a smile and put it in his arms, and looked at Mr. Luo expectantly and asked.
"Mr. Luo, is it still the same old rule of eight dishes and one soup?"
Luo Li nodded and pushed the door open.
Zhang Zhuzi bowed to Mr. Luo's back with admiration!
Look at Mr. Luo, he can pick up four rich ladies without spending much money, this is a real skill!
Xue Qing and Cao Huiying were stunned when they saw a handsome, suave and elegant young man coming in!
Then they recognized that this was the Princess of Qin dressed as a man, and hurriedly stood up to salute.
Luo Li took a few steps forward and helped one up with one hand.
: "No need to be polite! From now on, we are all partners, and we should be like sisters."
Yang Yanqi sat steadily and called out: "Luo Li! Come and sit next to me."
Luo Li walked over and sat next to her, and raised her chin with the folding fan in her hand as usual.
"My little beauty, it's only been a few days since we last met, and you miss me so much?"
Yang Yanqi giggled shamelessly. "It
feels like a long time since we last met. I miss you so much that I'm suffering from lovesickness again."
"Come! I will give you a few waves of electric current to heal your wounds and diseases."
Luo Li joked, and her charming and handsome peach blossom eyes gave a few waves of electric current to Yang Yanqi's eyes.
Gao Ruoying smiled and reached out to hit Luo Li on the shoulder!
"Luo the idiot, Yang the idiot, don't scare Miss Xue and Miss Cao!"
Luo Li then put away the electric current in her eyes, turned her head and smiled at the two ladies, "We, the idiot trio, are used to joking together. Don't corrupt your two pure hearts!"
Xue Qing and Cao Huiying were shocked by the peculiar way of getting along with this trio of self-proclaimed idiots!
Xue Qing smiled shyly and lowered her pink neck, while Cao Huiying looked at the Princess of Qin with joy and admiration.
Luo Li picked up the fragrant tea, took a sip, and got to the point.
"Miss Xue, Miss Cao, a few maids and I have prepared this fine wine and hot pot delicacies just to make some money.
Yanqi and Ruoying said that they have a good relationship with you two, and they want to ask you to invest so that we can have some fun together and make some pocket money.
Twenty thousand taels per person is considered one share. Have you discussed it with your families?"
Hearing this, Xue Qing looked up and smiled slightly, "Princess, you are too modest.
Everyone knows that the things you have prepared are all rare treasures and a business that can make a lot of money.
It is our blessing that you allow us to invest! My parents also readily agreed, allowing Xue Qing to follow the princess and share in her glory."
Cao Huiying stared at Luo Li with admiration in her eyes!
"Princess Qin, the perfumes, shampoos, soaps, toothbrushes and other things you stir up are really amazing.
I am looking forward to the wine and food you stir up, and see how magical and delicious they are.
My parents also happily agree that you can let us get in on the action.
Princess, Cao Huiying will follow you from now on!"
Luo Li raised the teacup, "Okay! The five of us will use tea instead of wine to celebrate the grand opening of the hot pot city and the wine shop tomorrow, and may gold and silver flow in like water!"
The five of them smiled and raised their glasses together to celebrate!
While eating, they agreed on the time to arrive tomorrow to help out, as well as their respective goals of soliciting customers to act as "stooges" tomorrow. The five of them went downstairs with great satisfaction and went home to make preparations.
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Luo Li was worried that the first day of business would be a dull occasion, so she asked the other four shareholders to find their own targets and bring in the hot pot city and the wine shop as "stooges".
When she arrived at the scene, she realized that she was worrying for no reason.
The Chuanran Hot Pot City and Maotai Wine Shop, which had been advertised for many days, were opened by the Silly Princess. The news had already
spread among the rich and powerful in the capital, and they were all waiting for the opening day to see what kind of magical food the Silly Princess, who loved food and fun, had cooked up.
Crowds of people surged in front of the hot pot city and the wine shop, but this time it was the home turf of the nobles.
Luo Ning, who was unwilling to be idle at home to recuperate, volunteered to help the young lady manage these two businesses.
Under the protection of Hong Gu and the maids, Luo Li squeezed into the Hot Pot City and joined the four shareholders.
Cao Huiying's excited face flushed!
"Princess, even without those people we brought in as "stooges", this gate would have been squeezed out today!"
Luo Li raised her eyebrows and smiled triumphantly!
"I, a fool with brain disease, am famous in the capital. The things produced by this lady will lead the consumption trend of the powerful and wealthy families in the capital in the future!"
Cao Huiying and Xue Qing were both amused and trembling. The Princess of Qin was really funny.
The auspicious time has arrived, and the sound of firecrackers outside is lively and festive!
Luo Ning sat in a wheelchair pushed by Tingting herself, and appeared outside the wide gate of Hot Pot City.
Luo Li brought four shareholders who were dressed in fancy clothes, standing behind Luo Ning, the shopkeeper, to support him! Luo
Wenhao was busy sweating, and after leading a dozen people to maintain order in the queue, he came over to ask for instructions.
"Little sister, there are too many people. No matter how spacious our Hot Pot City is, we can't accommodate them all!"
Luo Li nodded and ordered, "Please let in the ones who were invited to help us as babysitters yesterday first. For the rest, we still use the old method of issuing orders, and let them in one after another in turn."
Luo Ning was pushed forward a few steps by Tingting, and shouted out the hospitality rules of Hot Pot City and the tavern next to it!
The second prince Zhao Yuanxi, who was hiding in the carriage, frowned slightly!
Wasn't Luo Ning, the servant of the Luo Mansion, cut all the tendons of his hands and feet by the fourth brother and his men, becoming a useless person paralyzed in bed? Although he was sitting on a wooden chair with wheels, how come he could still lift his hands?
Cao Wei and Gao Yingxiong, each with a group of brothers, were invited to the hot pot city in the first wave with great arrogance.
This was the benefit they got for agreeing to be a "tout" for their sister. Who would have thought that they would become the envied VIPs without having to be a "tout"?
Cao Wei came to Luo Li and bowed respectfully!
"Thank you, Princess, for your hospitality, Cao Wei!"
Gao Yingxiong also bowed carelessly! "Thank you very much! It's a great honor for us brothers to have the first seat today!"
Luo Li looked at the two guys who had turned from "stooges" into VIPs with a half-smile.
"Have a good meal, you two! There is absolutely no taste of embroidered shoes in the wine and hot pot food today!"
Cao Wei and Gao Yingxiong's faces flushed with embarrassment, and they rushed into the store in a wolfish manner amid the laughter of the crowd! After
the four guys who had turned into VIPs were invited in, they also let in the first hundred diners, and Luo Wenhao blocked the door with his men.
Cao Wei and Gao Xingxiong joined forces, and the dozen or so friends they brought sat together, waiting for the feast to start and taste the delicious food.
The spacious private room was filled with more than a dozen people, and two long square wooden tables were put together.
Two nimble waiters came over and brewed two pots of fragrant tea for the diners.
"This is the tea specially made by the Princess of Qin. Please taste it."
Cao Wei and Gao Xingxiong were both worldly-wise. Their sisters had brought this kind of fragrant tea home and had tasted it.
Seeing that his friends all looked curious, Cao Wei smiled and explained, "The tea soup made by the Princess of Qin is clear, but the fragrance of the tea is refreshing and unforgettable."
Everyone picked up their teacups and slowly tasted it.
: "Not bad! It's really fragrant and refreshing!"
: "Good tea! I didn't expect that the Qin Wangfei changed the way to drink tea and made the tea have such a magical flavor."
Everyone praised it, and they were looking forward to the hot pot food and wine below.
Several waiters in uniform came in, pushing small carts with small wooden wheels.
Four pots of wine were placed on the table first, and then the cups, plates, bowls and chopsticks were placed one by one.
Plates of fresh tofu, vegetables and delicious meat slices were placed layer by layer on the cart, but not on the table.
Everyone looked at it curiously, but no one asked, for fear of being laughed at as a country bumpkin.
Four copper pots burning with charcoal in a small cart were placed on the table.
Two of them were dripping with red oil, and the other two were white soup.
The waiter was a spirited young man of about 17 or 18 years old. After directing his men to put everything in place, he smiled at everyone!
"I am Liu Xi, responsible for serving these two tables for the guests. The two pots dripping with red oil are spicy, and the guests who don't eat spicy food can use the two pots of clear soup."
Gao Xingxiong finally couldn't resist his curiosity, "You don't serve the meat and vegetables, so you let us drink these pots of soup?"
Liu Xi smiled politely again, and explained while using long chopsticks to push a plate of thin mutton slices into the boiling copper pot.
: "These meat slices and dishes are placed on the small cart beside, which is more convenient for guests to eat hot pot."
Four plates of meat slices were poured into four copper pots. In the copper pots burning with charcoal fire, they changed color in a moment and floated on the soup.
Liu Xi stepped back, bowed and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation!
"Dear guests, you can eat now. Pick up the meat slices and dip them in the sesame sauce or seafood seasoning bowl in front of you, and you can eat it."
Gao Xingxiong heard it and impatiently picked up a large piece of meat slices with chopsticks from the pot of red oil, put it into the sesame sauce bowl in front of him, stirred it, and put it into his mouth.
"It's delicious!... I've been craving for this hot pot food that my sister has boasted about to me at home!"
People picked up their chopsticks, picked up the meat slices in the pot, dipped them in sesame sauce or seafood seasoning, and put them into their mouths to taste.
This tender and delicious way of eating mutton conquered everyone's taste buds!
They praised it while eating.
Especially the two pots with red oil, everyone rushed to put their chopsticks in.
The two waiters who were responsible for serving meat and vegetables just couldn't keep up with the speed of these foodies.
Gao Yingxiong watched the pot of mutton cut into small cubes being snatched up again, put down his chopsticks, and picked up the wine pot on the table.
These idiots only cared about grabbing the meat and didn't bother to taste the fine wine. I still wanted to grab the first taste.
The aroma of wine filled my nose! The people who were grabbing the meat nearby were immediately attracted.
Happy Bear drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp!
"Good wine!... My heartless sister always brags about how delicious the wine made by Princess Qin is, but she didn't bring me a jar of wine home to taste.
After tasting it myself today, I know what real wine is!"
People rushed to open the mud seal of the wine jar and poured it into the empty wine bowl in front of them to taste the fine wine in this world!
Another round of endless praises!
The wines from these four different altars instantly conquered the taste buds of these foodies!