Chapter 364: Seizing the opportunity to make a fortune

The old woman packed up the wanted order and hurried into a dilapidated house.

This is the poor settlement of the capital, where all the people living there are poor people or foreigners who come to the capital to work.

The houses here are also dilapidated.

After entering the house, the old woman immediately locked the gates of the courtyard and the room.

Then, she uncovered the bedding and straw mat on the bed, and uncovered a two-foot square wooden board.

Looking inside, there was a dark secret passage.

The woman picked up a copper bell, knocked three times at the entrance of the secret passage, and then walked in.

Under the secret passage was a large underground secret room.

The woman hurried down to the secret room and called out in a low voice, "Master, it's me!"

The straw pile in the corner rustled, and two people came out from it. They were Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse, who had been on the run for many days.

The two had been hiding from place to place for days, and they were very fugitives.

They had already changed into coarse cloth clothes of the poor, and had wooden hairpins on their heads.

The two had dark eye sockets and their faces were scorched yellow, obviously they had not slept for many days.

"Song Po, you are here!" Liang Chaozong said indifferently.

At this time, Yao Jinse bent down and pulled up another person from the straw pile. It was the equally fugitive empress dowager.

"Have you brought food?" The empress dowager asked Song Po before she stood firm.

Song Po put the bamboo basket in her hand on the table, "Yes, yes, there are steamed cakes in the basket, and some salt. I will cook some rice for you later."

Yao Jinse and the Queen Mother immediately gathered around, not caring about their dirty hands, and took the steamed cakes from the basket to eat.

At this time, Song Po took out the wanted order from her sleeve pocket and handed it to Liang Chaozong: "My Lord, look, this has been posted in the past two days."

"I heard that yesterday, the Dali Temple had already beheaded those dozens of people at Caishikou."

Liang Chaozong's eyes fell on the wanted order, pursed his lips tightly, and said nothing.

Yao Jinse heard this, walked over while chewing a steamed cake, and took the wanted order in his hand to look at it.

"Husband, we are actually on the wanted order! It will be even harder to escape now."

The empress dowager looked at the wanted order, frowned, and said in a crying voice: "You said you would take me away, but now you are on the wanted order and you can't take care of yourselves, how can you take me away!"

"If I had known it would be like this, I might as well stay in Fanyin Temple. At least I can eat well, sleep well, and live a peaceful life!"

Yao Jinse sighed helplessly: "Mother, how can you say such a thing?"

The empress dowager recalled the suffering she had endured in the past ten days, her eyes were sore, and two lines of tears flowed down. She pointed at Yao Jinse and scolded: "I thought you were marrying a royal merchant, but I didn't expect it to be a prince of a fallen country!"

"There are so many men in the world, you can marry anyone else, but you have to marry this one!"

"If I had known that you had escaped from the prison that night, I would never have gone with you!"

Since the Queen Mother privately recognized Yao Jinse and her daughter, Yao Jinse had never told her the true identity of Liang Chaozong.

It was not until midnight that day when her daughter and son-in-law rescued her from the Fanyin Temple that the Queen Mother realized that her son-in-law was definitely not a businessman.

Later, they took her to a secret room to hide, and through their conversation, the Queen Mother discovered that this son-in-law was actually the prince of a fallen country.

She immediately regretted it. If she had known that her son-in-law was a desperado, she would never have gone with them.

Liang Chaozong glared at the Queen Mother coldly, then changed to a gentle expression.

"Mother, we are trapped here only temporarily. Don't panic, I have a plan. We just need to wait for a while, and someone will naturally take us out of Daxia safely."

Liang Chaozong's voice was very steady and gentle, giving people a very reliable feeling.

After hearing this, the empress dowager calmed down a lot.

Seeing this, Yao Jinse hurriedly comforted her.

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In a flash, more than ten days have passed since the palace banquet that day when the exotic ingredients shined.

These days, although the whole capital was shrouded in the news of the escape of the fallen prince Liang Chaozong, it could not stop the temptation of delicious food.

At the end of the palace banquet that day, Emperor Mingxi rewarded the first batch of precious exotic ingredients to every guest who came to the banquet.

Moreover, he specially asked someone to write down their methods one by one, and distributed them to everyone along with the ingredients.

After returning home, these princes and ministers happily asked the chefs in the mansion to cook the dishes in the same way, and then let the whole family taste them.

After tasting them, the whole family praised them highly, and only regretted that they had listened to the stupid rumors and did not taste these delicacies earlier.

Food has a unique charm. There is no need to spread it deliberately. People who have tasted it will enthusiastically tell those who have not eaten it.

In this way, in just over ten days, the princes and nobles in the capital, the wealthy merchants, the common people, and even the beggars on the street all knew about these new delicacies. For

a while, the streets and alleys were talking about where Liang Chaozong had gone, and roasted corn, fried tomatoes and eggs.

"I heard that fried tomato and eggs with white rice are the best."

"I heard that roasted corn is the best!"

"No, no, no! My sister-in-law works in the kitchen of Mr. Zhang's family. I heard her say that stewed beef brisket with tomatoes is the most delicious."

Many wealthy families went to the major restaurants in Beijing to inquire whether they could eat these new delicacies in order to taste them as soon as possible.

However, even if the restaurants found out the recipes of these new delicacies through their connections, they could not buy the ingredients and could only worry.

When Xia Miaoyuan learned about it, she immediately came up with a good idea.

She was close to the water and got the moon first. She got the precious ingredients from King Jin and immediately added these new delicacies to the menu of her own royal barbecue restaurant.

After several years of operation and development, Xia Miaoyuan's royal barbecue restaurant now has 30 stores in Beijing.

Thirty barbecue restaurants launched new delicacies at the same time. As soon as the news came out, all thirty restaurants were packed that day.