While a few people were talking, a noisy voice came from outside the door. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info This small courtyard is really a little small for Xu Ping now, and as soon as there is a little movement outside the door, it will be transmitted to the room. It's just that his parents, Lin Suniang and others didn't come back, Xu Ping stayed in the capital alone, and he didn't want to live in a mansion outside the city, so he would still live here.

After a while, Liu Xiaoyi brought a group of people in, but it was the same year jinshi of the fifth year of Tiansheng, Han Qi, Wang Yaochen, Wen Yanbo, Zhao Yan, Wu Yu and Wang Su, followed by a Wang Gongchen.

After entering the courtyard and meeting Xu Ping, Han Qi said: "Yun Xing has been very busy since he returned to Beijing, and it is rare for us to have a chance to get together in the same year. I heard that you are free today, and you are going to talk together anyway, so I made a special appointment to come to you. It's just that we haven't had a good time for a few days, so we specially brought a rich man here. ”

Wang Gongchen spread his hands behind him and shook his head helplessly.

In the first two years, Wang Gongchen was the poorest among the pavilion officials, and he often had to be helped by Xu Ping. A few years have passed, Wang Gongchen's family is well-off, and he has become a big eater for others. This is not because of his father-in-law Xue Kui, but the camp is well paid, and the minister's money and the like are almost open. In addition, Xu Ping took his family to do business, and he made some money.

These people brought Wang Gongchen here, not just to make him pay for it, but because they all knew that his relationship with Xu Ping was different from that of others, and they could help him talk. They are all advanced soldiers in the five years of Tiansheng, Han Qi, Wang Yaochen, Wu Yu and Wang Su are a little better, just arrived in Houxing Wailang, the rest of the people Chinese Yanbo and Zhao Yan are prominent, just promoted to Dr. Guozi this year, and the gap with Xu Ping can no longer be counted. Xu Ping is already a member of the Sanpin Classics, and he is one step away from Zaizhi, and these people have just touched the side of the middle-level officials. The status is far behind, and the words are so casual as the previous two years.

Gao Daquan, Yang Wenguang and Di Qing saluted a few people, and they couldn't say anything to these people, so they said goodbye and left. How could Xu Ping let people go like this? instructed Liu Xiaoyi to take them to a nearby restaurant to have some wine and rice, and Gao Daquan would accompany him on his behalf. Don't look at it as just a servant of the Xu family, Liu Xiaoyi's identity is rising, if it weren't for Gao Daquan together, Yang Wenguang and Di Qing really couldn't invite him to dinner.

Seeing that it was not early, the group went out, Xu Ping said to Han Qi: "I haven't been in the capital for the past two years, I don't know what restaurants are particularly outstanding recently." It's rare for everyone to get together, and it's necessary to find a satisfying place to have fun. ”

Han Qi said with a smile: "If it is excellent and has a great reputation, you don't need to look elsewhere, the restaurant opened by Yun Xing and Wang Jun Zhen by the Wuzhang River is excellent." In recent days, there are the most guests there, and the name is all over the capital. ”

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment, he had too much property in his family, and he didn't care about that snack bar for a long time. The reason why the snack bar was opened at that time was to pull Wang Gongchen, who was in difficulty, and secondly, what should he do to engage in the service industry in the industrial zone in order to set an example for others. I didn't expect that I didn't care, and that small shop would be bigger.

After asking in detail, I found out that the original small shop is now not only stir-fried with hot oil, but also added a new way to eat it in the first two months. After the various exquisite ingredients have been processed, the dishes are laid out on the table, and after the guests have paid, they take the plates and go to choose their favorite dishes. As long as you can eat, you can eat with your stomach open. Because most of the dishes are fresh and rare vegetables, exquisite meat, and even fresh seafood, the price is high, and ordinary people can't afford to eat it. And these people can't eat much, so this business is quite cost-effective and popular.

Listening to the people around him, the more Xu Ping listened, the more ridiculous he felt, wasn't this a buffet from his previous life? What a genius came up with this thing without a teacher! To say that the appearance of this new thing is not abrupt, Xu Ping set up a canteen in the Sansi Yamen a long time ago, which is the situation of the buffet. However, the canteen is not of high grade, it is a fixed price, a few meat dishes and a few vegetarian dishes are set, and some people specialize in cooking, not to eat whatever they want. In a few years, someone has transformed it into a real buffet and started a business? And it's still its own business.

They mounted their horses, took their retinues, and went all the way north. Remembering that a few years ago, half of the people here couldn't afford to buy a decent horse, once they went out and had a rent, and even Wang Gongchen rode a donkey, this change was really big.

It's summer, the weather is getting hot, and the willows on the roadside are as green as jasper, and occasionally a few red flowers pop up from the bushes. The sun is about to set, and the pedestrians on the road rub shoulders and look at the scenery on the roadside unhurriedly, and all kinds of vendors are carrying baskets or carrying burdens, shuttling through the crowd and shouting for sales.

The capital is still much more lively than Xijing, Xu Ping has been tossing in Luoyang for a year, and several business districts are still prosperous in the busy business season, and there will be no one as soon as the business is cold. Every inch of land is expensive in the city of Tokyo, but there are empty spaces everywhere in the city of Luoyang, and it is still the countryside compared to the capital. The area of the two cities is basically the same, but the population is nearly ten times different, and it is really not something that can catch up overnight.

When I arrived at the Wuzhang River, the place was still the same place, and the pattern had not changed much, Xu Ping vaguely knew it. However, the big shed has been turned into a three-story building, and there is a large open space by the river in front of it, with all kinds of bamboo tables and bamboo benches. It was almost evening, and it was already crowded, and workers from various fields were still pouring here.

Wang Gongchen said to Xu Ping: "The provincial lord hasn't been here for two years, so I don't know him, right?" ”

Xu Ping nodded: "I vaguely recognize it." ”

He shook his head again: "It's just not what it was back then, the place looks bigger, but the seats are much cramped." ”

Wang Gongchen said with a smile: "It's just outside, there is no way, the workers in the field are not comparable to two years ago, and now there are many more." If you want to do their business, you have to change the seat to a smaller one, otherwise how can you sit down? The seats by the river, which can only be made by expensive guests, are still as spacious as before. ”

Led by Wang Gongchen, he bypassed the hustle and bustle outside along a path covered by bamboo and went inside. This side of the river is separated by a row of bamboo bushes and flowers and trees, and there are two worlds outside, but it is the pattern in Xu Ping's memory, and it is even more spacious.

Seeing that the master was coming, the little maid hurriedly ran over to serve him diligently, and served tea first.

Wang Gongchen said to Xu Ping: "This is our own shop, we can eat whatever we want." Provincial Lord, would you like to try our new dishes here? Lined up over there, you can take whatever you want to eat, and a plate counts as a portion. ”

Xu Ping had already seen that there was a row of long tables next to him, with all kinds of dishes. However, he didn't take it himself like before, but stood a few neat little guys with clean shoes and socks to serve food to the guests. Takeaway fast food is not uncommon in this era, and it is called "standing sale" in Kaifeng City, and I don't know how popular it is, and there are all over the bustling streets. But this buffet format is really the first time I have seen it, and Xu Ping feels novel. said to Wang Gongchen: "Don't worry, call out the supervisor who came up with this method, I have something to ask him." ”