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Jin Xiaolou and Lv Yun stood in front of the Golden Ape Lane, the surface of the river half frozen in cold light.
The two of them had even colder expressions than the surface of the river.
"That account really isn't a good thing!" Lv Yun spat, then turned and rushed at Jin Xiaolou: "Innkeeper, let's go, leave this place and find an inn to stay, wait for Chang An!"
"Chang An will definitely settle us down properly. At that time, it won't be too late for us to slowly think of a plan." Lv Yun frowned, she only wanted to pull Jin Xiaolou away quickly.
The name of Golden Apparel Lane was pleasant to listen to, but it was a gathering place for the rafters and shacks. Putting aside those who were performing juggling around, there were even more brothels along the alley.
Dirty land.
"He's right. It's the only place that doesn't need a guarantor." Jin Xiaolou did not move.
She paused for a moment before continuing, "From beginning to end, Chang An wanted to leave the capital for the Wuli River. He wanted to accompany Gao Lang. That Rainbow Garden is entirely up to Nan Yang, even if she were to let us have it for a while, once he leaves, we will not have anything good to eat. "
"Then what should we do?" Lv Yun was worried, "No matter what, I can't find a job in this place!"
Jin Xiaolou looked at the beautiful girls walking in and out of the Golden Aperture Lane, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"Why can't I?" Jin Xiaolou smiled brightly at Lv Yun, "I think this place is pretty good!"
With that, he walked into the alley.
The people in the alley were all curious about the two young women, Jin Xiaolou and Lv Yun, who were carrying children.
Lv Yun had always been thin-skinned, and before even walking two laps, her entire person was completely red.
Not long later, he saw a stage set up not too far away from him. The performance hadn't even started when tables and chairs were set up scattered around the stage.
If he wanted to go to the front and sit down, he would need to buy a ticket, along with a stack of snacks and a pot of tea. In the small open space behind them, anyone could look around. After a performance, there would be Attendant asking for money with a copper jar.
As for whether they were willing to give it or not, it all depended on the customer's own free will.
Jin Xiaolou handed the Lin'er over to Lv Yun, then walked over to talk with the Attendant who was putting up the chair, and quickly got a general idea of the situation.
This company was known as the Ding Dan Society. It was one team after another in the capital. Not only did it have ordinary singing and dancing performances, it also had archery, acrobatics, beast taming, and other performances.
The Cauldron Pill Club performed once every three days.
Every time the show started, all the seats were reserved, and the people standing outside were even more crowded.
"Then is this the only theater in Golden Appendage Lane?" Jin Xiaolou asked the Attendant.
Attendant shook his head repeatedly, "A few years ago, when the Pill Cauldron Restaurant first arrived at the capital, the teams here were still blooming all over the place, there were at least twenty or so of them. Now, all that are left are the Pill Cauldron, Liusu Pavilion and Linlang Workshop. "As for the rest, they are all brothels."
"However, I don't think that Linlang Workshop will last long." The Attendant's chatterbox could not be stopped, "A few days ago, the number one person in Linlang Workshop, Miss Yu Su, was picked over by the Liusu Pavilion. The number of ladies in Linlang Workshop were few in number, and now that there are less pillars, I'm afraid that it will close down in a few days."
As for the Cauldron Pill House, Liusu and Linlang Workshop were different.
Ding Dan Club's performance was more extensive. They built a tent outside, called the Peony Pavilion, which was all in the shed, and the shop in the back became the backstage for the performance and the people who served it. Tassel and Linlang, on the other hand, had more songs and dances, and there was no other shed, which was all in the pavilion.
Jin Xiaolou asked everything clearly, and as she had a plan in mind, she pondered for a moment, then led Lv Yun to head towards the Linlang Workshop s behind them.
The Linlang Workshop located at the end of Golden Appendices Lane was not the best location, but it was a place that was only connected to the river. The front door of the shop was in the alley, and outside the back door was a pleasure boat.
At this moment, with the Linlang Workshop still tightly shut, Jin Xiaolou took two steps forward and knocked on the door.
The door was opened by an elderly man wearing a gray robe and a white beard.
Jin Xiaolou bowed to the man, then opened his mouth to look at the owner of the Linlang Workshop.
The old man waved his hand and pointed to the notice by the door, only then did Jin Xiaolou see it, the sign said that Linlang Workshop were to be closed for the time being, and the boss, Xia Gu, had gone back to the village to raise chickens.
Looking at the notice, Jin Xiaolou's head jumped. She did not know why, but she was somehow filled with anticipation for this Xia Gu.
He hurriedly asked the old man where the countryside was.
The grandpa was deaf and dizzy. After a long while, he finally figured it out and pointed outwards, "Suburbs of the capital! In Spirit Water Village, Xia Gu's home is there. "
Seeing that it was still early, Jin Xiaolou wanted to leave the city without a word to go to the Spirit Water Village.
Lv Yun originally wanted to go with him, but Jin Xiaolou reckoned that after sending the Wuli Herba into the palace, she would definitely return to the Rainbow Garden. In order to reassure Chang An, Jin Xiaolou told Lv Yun to go back.
Jin Xiaolou gave Lv Yun some silver, "You don't need to go in and see Nan Yang's face. Just wait outside for a while, when Chang An tells him that we're all fine, just tell him, and tell him that we'll definitely be able to do better than Mountain Note in the next shop, and make him feel at ease."
"Tonight, you will go to the second inn on the left where we just left Black Tortoise Street. I think that inn is not bad, just wait there for me to come back."
After bidding farewell to Lv Yun, Jin Xiaolou carried Lin'er and called a horse carriage to rush to Spirit Water Village.
As soon as he got off the carriage, the first thing he saw was a continuous line of grey-green tiled sheds, and transportation in the countryside. As soon as he got close, he could hear the incessant cooing of the chickens.
Golden Lin'er's eyes opened wide at the sound of the crowing of the chickens. His small mouth was as round as the two pills of black mercury that were kept in white mercury as he pursed his lips and also imitated the sound of the chickens, cackling non-stop.
As soon as the two entered the village, Jin Xiaolou saw a group of dozens of women, all of them holding wooden buckets with grain rice and crushed vegetable leaves. They were walking towards the direction of the tiled shed, probably to feed the chickens.
Jin Xiaolou quickly rushed up and asked them if they knew Xia Gu.
Unexpectedly, the young lady in the front who was around the same age as Jin Xiaolou stood out and looked at him suspiciously: "I am Xia Gu, do I recognize you?"
Jin Xiaolou never thought that Xia Gu would actually be this young. She had thought that she should be around the same age as He Niang.
After being stunned for a moment, Jin Xiaolou hurriedly walked forward: "I don't know him, but I have a way to revive the Linlang Workshop."
Xia Gu suddenly laughed, and handed the wooden bucket over to the girls, and told them to continue feeding the chickens, but she stopped in her tracks and said to Jin Xiaolou: "Miss, do you think I don't want to continue driving the Linlang Workshop? That's my hard work. "
She paused before continuing, "To put it crudely, judging from your young age, I am afraid you have not seen much of the world. Doing business in the capital is not like arguing with your sister over a chain of hairpins and earrings. "How much power and influence do you have in the capital? There's always a tiger behind a wolf in the front. It's not as simple as just talking."
Jin Xiaolou nodded: "I understand."
"You don't understand." Xia Gu raised her voice, "I have a dozen or so girls under my hand, and their mouths are open for me, they need to eat and drink everyday, and Linlang Workshop cannot be spent, I cannot afford to spend it, so right now, De's Shop is expanding the farm, and I need chicken meat, I have already taken over this job, and have revived from the dead."
Jin Xiaolou never thought that the De's Shop would actually be able to imitate the pattern of a farm.
"If you say it, you might not believe it, but that De's Shop was an imitation of my Pu Zi Mountain Note." Jin Xiaolou slowly said, "I can cook every dish that the De's Shop Shop has. What they don't have, I can cook as well."
"How is this possible!" Xia Gu laughed involuntarily, "Do you know who is behind that De's Shop?"
Seeing Jin Xiaolou shake her head, she continued, "That was given to the new rich and famous person beside the Crown Prince, He Guangkun's family member, Lady Jin."
Jin Xiaolou finally understood how De's Shop could be learned by him to be so similar.
", the wife of, the son of someone who knows of the county and justice, is my cousin. My name is Jin Xiaolou." Jin Xiaolou returned, "The Mountain Note was started by me in the Xin Ning, Jin Xiaotao passed everything down."
"However." Jin Xiaolou laughed, "I don't only know how to open a restaurant, Xia Gu, if you are willing to believe me, not only will I revive Linlang Workshop, I will also bring it back to life."
Xia Gu frowned and hesitated for a while, until the girls came out with empty buckets. Then, she raised his voice and said to the girls: "Kill six chickens, tonight Lady Xiaolou will make us a table of De's Shop!"
Then, he turned around and said to Jin Xiaolou. "Do you have the ability?
Jin Xiaolou nodded and carried Lin'er into the kitchen.
He pulled a piece of cloth and carried Lin'er on his back, then sent the chicken to the chopping board.
But since she didn't have the noodles in advance to make the bread, the hamburger couldn't be made. However, Jin Xiaolou mixed the noodles with the noodles and branded it with a thin layer of noodles. She cut the chicken breast meat into shreds and marinated it in soy sauce, pepper and a little white spirit. Then she cut the cucumber and cabbage shredded with thin golden eggs, rolled them into the cake with the chicken, and made a simple version of the chicken.
The leftover chicken wings and legs were separated into three flavors: pepper, honey, and spicy. They were all roasted and served.
The rest was cut into pieces for chops and chicken, and a dustpan of potatoes was dug from the ground to make creamy mashed potatoes and french fries.
Because there were no tomatoes in the field, Jin Xiaolou mixed the honey sauce with the tomato sauce.
Jin Xiaolou was a little tired of eating these chicken pieces under the Mountain Note. She had long picked up two sweet potatoes and buried them under the firewood.
When the dishes were done and placed on the table, the fire in the kitchen was extinguished. Jin Xiaolou then took out the fire pincers and took out the sweet potatoes, causing Jin Xiaolou to blow on the scalding sweet potatoes.
They gently pried it open and fed each of them bit by bit into his and Lin'er's mouths.
Eating the warm sweet potato in the middle of the winter was the most comfortable, while the Lin'er was so happy that they were dancing.
Just as the two of them were eating happily, the door to the kitchen was pushed open, and Xia Gu walked in with sparkling eyes. Just as she stood, she said to Jin Xiaolou: "I'm called Xia Lianpeng, from the looks of it, I'm slightly older than you, you can call me Lianpeng Sis."
Jin Xiaolou immediately stood up, holding Lin'er in one hand and the sweet potato in the other, he asked, "Do you believe me, Sister Lian Peng?"
"The chicken pieces you made are much better than the ones we made at De's Shop. The ladies are all praising you endlessly."
She took two steps forward, her eyes red from excitement. "To be able to wait until Lady Xiaolou is truly a blessing to us, I hope .. I hope that I can really get what I want. Not only will it become a hot topic in the capital, I will also be satisfied if I can bring my girls and live on in Golden Appendage Lane. "