Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 177 A Beautiful Day with Full Moon (Fourth Update)
Once people have a goal, they will live with spirit.

This is the current state of Luxi.

When she realized that her second brother wanted to protect her so that she would not be implicated by him, he would rather be misunderstood and hated by her than break up the engagement with her. The heart-wrenching pain then disappeared with the wind.

At first, she was extremely worried that her second brother would do anything for revenge and that he would kill someone. She was so worried that she lost her appetite and could not sleep.

However, after such a long time without any news about her second brother, she felt relieved.

She would rather not have any news about her second brother than hear bad news about him.

Today, the reputation of "Song Family Flavor Restaurant" has been completely established!

Although she is not developing new dishes as fast as before, there are always some new ideas coming out every few days.

Either a new dish or an improvement on an already invented dish.

This has kept the popularity of "Song's Flavor Restaurant" unabated.

Today is August 15th, and the results of this year's exam will be posted today.

Three days later, the Qiantang River Tide Racing Competition will be held.

The people of Lin'an are now celebrating one festival after another, and everyone is very happy.

Dan Niang has already agreed with Lu Xi that after the Tide-Playing Competition, they will hold a "Tail-burning Banquet" at the "Shuiyunjian" restaurant for several successful candidates in this year's imperial examinations.

At that time, Luxi and the chefs from Fengweilou will be invited to perform at "Shuiyunjian".

At Dan Niang's suggestion, Lu Xi has "exchanged shares" with her, and both parties have invested in each other's restaurant.

In this way, the two of them truly achieved a state of mutual dependence, sharing benefits and sharing risks.

Fengweilou is located in the downtown area, and Shuiyunjian is located in the scenic area.

After the two restaurants shared the new dishes, they became the leaders of the restaurant industry in the two most profitable areas of Lin'an City, truly achieving the effect of one plus one being greater than two.

Old Man Song knew clearly why Dan Niang did this.

He always felt that his good daughter was being taken advantage of, but when he calculated carefully, it seemed that she had not suffered any loss.

Old Man Song felt that he suffered from his lack of education and couldn't even do the math.

Dan Niang just took Qingtang shopping and said she would be back later.

Luxi didn't go because she was working on a new dish.

This is a fish dish made with grass carp, vinegar and sugar as the main ingredients. It looks like sweet and sour fish, but it is not sweet and sour fish.

The method of cooking this fish was also mentioned by her second brother when he talked to her about his "foreign experiences".

However, the second brother did not give much description of the dish, so Luxi was not very sure about how to make it.

So it wasn't until today that she thought of trying to make this dish.

If she really succeeds, wouldn't that mean there will be another delicious dish on the human menu that can be passed down to future generations?
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The Privy Council was originally located near the Imperial Palace, not far from Houshi Street.

Hua Hao and Yue Yuan followed Yang Yuan to Houshi Street. The three of them were really eye-catching and attracted a lot of attention.

A handsome young official with two young girls, one pretty and one sweet, such a combination is sure to make others envious.

When they arrived at Houshi Street, they realized that their Deputy Secretary Yang was actually very rich.

Lin'an is known as a place where "customs and ceremonies are admired by all quarters as a model", and its commerce is the most developed in the world.

The high-end shops along the Imperial Street are lined up one after another, with roofs connected to each other.

Yang Yuan went in and out of luxury stores and bought things without any hesitation.

Buy this exquisitely shaped silver-gilt phoenix-patterned flower hairpin.

Exquisite and shiny gold engraved flower bracelet, buy.

Buy these cute gold stacked earrings.

Two pieces of yellow silk with gold-pattern design are available first, and it costs more than three hundred strings of cash per piece.

This Deputy Secretary Yang is really not short of money!

The beautiful couple were dazzled by his generosity.

Could it be that he bought it for both of us?
Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin followed him and exchanged glances with him while he was choosing gold jewelry.

We will accept a can of high-quality roasted tea, but as for the gold jewelry... haha, we will politely decline.

This person's way of winning people's hearts is so simple and crude, what a fool!

However, Yang Yuan never said this, so they naturally couldn't be sentimental and take the initiative to refuse.

So they just watched with a smile and waited with a smile.

The shopkeeper looked at the appearance of these three people and thought they were a young and proud official who came to shop with his two concubines.

When Yang Yuan was shopping, he kept praising the young master for his good taste and how beautiful the two ladies would be when wearing the jewelry.

Yang Yuan did not argue, which made the two sisters Hua Hao Yue Yuan more convinced of their previous judgment.

After Yang Yuan bought all the jewelry, she went to the silk shop and selected some gorgeous silk and had it packed.

He never said that these were for Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin, which made the two girls laugh even more.

This poor man, his trick of playing hard to get was so clumsy. Xue Bingxin even felt a little sorry for him. When he said he wanted to give these gifts to them and they refused, it must be very embarrassing, right?
Or, should I just accept some cheap gift from him?

But what he bought wasn’t cheap.

Alas! For a moment, Miss Yueyuan was worried about Yang Yuan.

Finally, Yang Yuan took them into a rouge and powder shop.

When buying jewelry and silk before, Yang Yuan did not ask for their opinions, and it seemed that he made his choices based on his own aesthetic taste.

But when he walked into the rouge shop, he began to ask the two of them for advice.

Leng Yuchan secretly laughed in her heart. This guy finally couldn't hold back anymore, right? The fox's tail was about to be exposed.

Yang Yuan looked at Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin carefully helping him choose rouge and powder, and he felt very satisfied.

When it comes to jewelry and silk, he knows what colors and styles are suitable for Luxi, but when it comes to rouge and powder, he really knows nothing.

Luxi is a girl who turned seventeen after the Chinese New Year. Her face is full of collagen, and the rouge and powder she uses must be a light style that is close to her natural look.

Hua Hao and Yue Yuan are not very old, probably around eighteen or nineteen?
And because they work in the Privy Council's Machine Room every day and have to wear men's official uniforms every day, their makeup is also very light and unobtrusive.

It would be perfect to ask them to help you choose.

The two girls were chatting animatedly with the shop owner and unknowingly pushed him, the main character, aside.

Yang Yuan was not annoyed. Professionals should do professional things. He just waited for the two to come up with their opinions and he would be responsible for paying the bill.

Finally, Hua Hao and Yue Yuan reached a consensus.

They bought two sets of rouge and powder in total, produced by "Zhang's Ancient Rouge Shop in the north of Xiuyifang" and "Wang's Rouge Shop in the north of Guanxiang", both of which are cosmetics that are extremely suitable for girlish style.

Although the things Yang Yuan bought were expensive, her rouge, powder, gold and silver jewelry did not take up much space.

It was just two rolls of fine silk cloth that were slightly larger, but he could easily lift it with one hand.

Yang Yuan held up the gift he had bought and smiled at Hua Hao Yue Yuan, "Thank you both for accompanying me along the way and for choosing the gift so carefully..."

Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin both showed a faint smile on their faces, with a dimple and a crescent moon appearing.

The dimple girl waited for him to speak, then she refused outright.

This is not the case with Crescent Moon Girl.

When she was choosing cosmetics just now, she asked the shopkeeper for one more thing as a bonus in addition to the matching cosmetics such as nail polish, eyebrow pencil, foundation, rouge, lipstick, and perfume.

Those two sets of brand-name cosmetics are very expensive. I bought two such expensive sets of cosmetics from your house, so what's wrong with asking you to give me something as a gift?

The gift Xue Bingxin asked the shopkeeper for was a lip balm, or lipstick.

The so-called practice of ancient women putting on lipstick and holding a piece of red paper between their lips is all imagined by the clever directors.

In fact, the lipsticks used by ancient people were either in the form of boxed pastes that were applied to the lips with a finger, or in tubes, which were similar to modern ones in appearance and usage.

The lip balm they used was made of beeswax, comfrey, cinnabar, and edible spices. It was made using small bamboo tubes or porcelain tubes as molds.

So, Prince Enping likes to eat women's rouge, and he really eats it.

If it was a modern lipstick made from chemical products, I'm afraid he wouldn't have the courage to try it.

Yang Yuan said, "I am going to meet a girl in the Qingshi Alley over there. Do you two still want to stroll along this street?

I am familiar with this area. If you go further, there is a big tile house over there.

If you are tired, you can go over there and see singing, opera, acrobatics, sumo and everything else. It is very lively.”

The faint smile froze on Leng Yuchan's face, and even the cute dimples on her cheeks seemed frozen.

"Ah, okay, then...don't bother Deputy Secretary Yang, I...let's go shopping on our own."

Miss Hua Hao was not feeling well at all now and could only answer awkwardly.

The full moon is now really full!

Xue Bingxin's pair of sweet crescent eyes had now turned into the tiger eyes of a white-browed tiger.

But she still had a fake sweet smile on her face: "Vice Imperial Secretary Yang, are you going to meet your sweetheart? Isn't that our future sister-in-law? Don't you even let me meet her?"

Yang Yuan smiled indifferently and said, "Of course, if you two want to see it, then come together."

Yang Yuan carried the things and walked forward.

Miss Hua Hao gritted her teeth and looked at Yang Yuan's back with a smile, her lips moving slightly: "You want to die, why should we follow him? He is playing tricks on us, don't you see it yet?"

Miss Yueyuan stared with her big black eyes and said viciously, "What do you think his sweetheart would think if he saw us two smooth-skinned girls following him around?"

Leng Yuchan's eyes lit up: "Good idea! Let's go, hurry up and catch up!"

……

After mergers, expansions and renovations, Song's Snack Shop has now become a two-story restaurant with scattered seats on the first floor and private rooms on the second floor.

In a corner of the seating area on the first floor, Matchmaker Liu and Matchmaker Wang were each sitting at a table.

The two of them were cracking melon seeds, looking calm and relaxed.

But when their eyes occasionally met, it was as if invisible sparks burst out.

These two matchmakers are here to act as matchmakers for Miss Luxi!
(End of this chapter)