Three hundred acres cost more than four thousand taels, which is indeed not cheap.

but...

This manor is close to the city, so it's normal that the price is a bit higher.

Tian Youyou handed the blueprint to the shopkeeper Xie, "How about we buy a farm?"

Manager Xie was still worried. "We are only buying a farm now, and we have to build a restaurant... Isn't it too late this year?"

He is not sure whether hot pot will still be so popular next year.

Tian Youyou didn't force him, "It's okay if Shopkeeper Xie doesn't want to participate."

"Yan Yao, are you interested?"

She looked at Yan Yao with burning eyes.

Yan Yao has never run a restaurant, but... he really wants to try it.

"Is it okay?" He was not very sure, because Tian Youyou clearly wanted to cooperate with Manager Xie.

"Of course." Tian Youyou agreed immediately.

Manager Xie was hesitant, but seeing that Yan Yao agreed...he was afraid that he would miss the opportunity.

"Girl, I...I'll do it with you." He finally made up his mind.

"Okay." Tian Youyou immediately made the decision, "We'll each contribute 3,000 taels, for a total of 9,000 taels."

"Buy the manor immediately, then call in craftsmen and rebuild it within a month."

"You are responsible for recruiting craftsmen, and I will be responsible for drawing the pictures."

Since he had decided to do it, Manager Xie immediately took out three thousand taels of silver.

Yan Yao was not willing to be left behind and took out three thousand taels.

Tian Youyou also took out three thousand taels of silver notes and gave Ling Xiang four thousand taels, "Ling Xiang, I'll leave the matter of getting the land deed to you."

"The name on the title deed?" Ling Xiang took the banknote.

"Write down the names of all three of us." Since it is a collaboration between three people, it should naturally be the names of three people.

After Ling Xiang left, Tian Youyou had the hot pot removed, asked for pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and started drawing.

The first thing is to determine the location of the restaurant.

Tian Youyou decided to locate the restaurant about a hundred meters away from the main entrance of the manor.

There are paths drawn on both sides...

Manager Xie and Yan Yao watched her paint small houses on the paths on both sides.

"Miss Tian, ​​what are these small houses used for?"

"There are few vegetables in the winter, so I want to build some greenhouses on both sides to grow vegetables."

"It is only for hot pot use."

“You can also collect mushrooms from the mountains and grow them specifically.”

“Also, collect various beans and grow various sprouts.”

Mushrooms and sprouts are both popular dishes in hot pot.

In addition to these, there are also various kinds of meat.

Parts of the pig...loin slices, pork belly slices, pig brain, pig feet, and pig throat.

Gizzards, blood, intestines, claws, etc. from chickens and ducks.

It would be best if there was seafood, but Cizhou Prefecture is not near the sea, so we are not considering it for now.

The restaurant should be built with three floors, with a hall on the first floor, side rooms on the second floor, and VIP rooms on the third floor.

Guests can go directly to the restaurant to eat, or they can go to the greenhouse or mushroom room to select fresh ingredients first, and then take the fresh ingredients with them to eat.

It can also be considered as... adding some interaction.

Finally, there is the dipping sauce for the hot pot.

Currently, there are ginger paste, garlic paste, peanut crumbs, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil...

Tian Youyou needs to add some ingredients, such as sesame paste, sweet and spicy sauce, shrimp paste, mushroom sauce, and onion sauce.

The richer the dipping sauce, the more choices there are to meet the needs of guests from all over the world.

Now that we have the dipping sauce, we have to change the base of the hot pot. It can’t be so salty, and we can have multiple options.

Mushroom hotpot base, bone soup base, spicy hotpot base, and medicinal hotpot base.

It’s a pity that there are no tomatoes, otherwise I could make tomato sauce or tomato soup base.

Tian Youyou wrote down whatever she thought of, and ended up with more than ten pages of writing.

Manager Xie and Yan Yao looked at the pictures one by one and were extremely shocked.

A hot pot can actually extend to so many things...

But when they read it, they didn't find it tedious at all. Instead, they found it...very interesting.

It’s so exciting.

Tian Youyou listed the things that needed to be prepared, and Manager Xie was asked to prepare to recruit workers, build restaurants, greenhouses, and other matters in Cizhou Prefecture.

Yan Yao went to buy the ingredients she needed, such as sesame seeds, garlic, onions and peanuts.

She is responsible for preparing all kinds of fresh food.

"If everything goes well, we can officially open in February next year."

"Before the opening, please ask Mr. Xie to recruit 100 assistants. I will come to train them in advance."

"Okay." Manager Xie agreed immediately.

After the matter was settled, the snow stopped.

"It seems like this snow fell specifically for the hot pot business." Yan Yao said with a smile.

When we returned to Xiaohegou Village, the village was bustling with preparations for the New Year.

Aside from the excitement, everyone seemed to be discussing something.

Tian Youyou drove a ox cart into the village and the villagers came to greet her.

"Youyou, you're back."

Tian Youyou jumped off the ox cart and asked, "What are you discussing? It sounds lively."

Yang Hua came up to her with a smile, "Youyou."

"Didn't you go through the county on your way back?"

Tian Youyou shook her head. She was in a hurry to come back. She didn't even go through the county town, but came here directly.

Yang Hua covered her mouth. "I don't know what Mr. Chen was thinking. He suddenly said... that he would hold a beauty pageant for the Fairy Anping in the county town on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival."

"Fairy Anping... this title sounds quite impressive."

"The reputation is one thing, but the key is that the prize is one hundred taels of silver."

Nowadays in Xiaohegou Village, one hundred taels is not a lot.

But in other villages, one hundred taels is still a lot.

"I heard that the girls from every village are scrambling to give it a try."

"Hey, Youyou, how about you try it too?"

Tian Youyou hasn't spoken yet.

Yang Hua was the first to respond, "Youyou is in charge of such a big thing, and is so busy that she has no time to take care of those things."

"Besides, what happened to Fairy Anping?"

"How can it compare to our little river ditch lucky star?"

"Yes, yes, yes, Youyou is the lucky star of our ditch. Thousands of Anping fairies can't compare to her."

Tian Youyou shook her head helplessly, "Come on, stop ridiculing me."

"I really don't have time to take care of these things. I'm very busy during this New Year holiday."

"But...if there are girls from our village participating, we must go and cheer them on."

Yang Hua pointed at Tian Xiao Hua, "Your Ling Ya can do it."

"And Xiaoyu."

"It's a pity that Cui'er just gave birth to a child, otherwise I could have given it a try."

Tian Youyou took Niu Niu home, leaving their words behind.

Yang Hua followed and said, "A few days ago, Tian Cui gave birth to a boy."

"Zhu Gong was so happy."

"I sent a lot of gifts to your house."

Tian Youyou probably knew what Zhu Gong was happy about.

In this era, everyone believes that having a son is the way to pass on the bloodline.

Zhu Gong was thirty years old. He had always thought that he would never be able to find a wife. However, he followed Tian Youyou to make fried tofu skin. Not only did he get money, he also got a wife, his leg injury healed, and now he has a son.

In one year, everything was there.

Of course he had to thank the Tian family.

Tian Shounian and Jiang Xiuxiu, who received the news, came out to greet them.

They were a little surprised to see Yan Yao coming back with them.

"he..."

Tian Youyou patted Niu Niu's butt, and it obediently went into the yard and took off the ox cart.

The lucky ones jumped off the ox cart and had a nice time with sister tiger and uncle leopard in the yard.

"Yan Yao, come and celebrate the New Year with us." Tian Youyou said as she walked into the yard.

Tian Shounian and Jiang Xiuxiu looked at each other.

Jiang Xiuxiu quickened her pace, grabbed Tian Youyou's hand, and led her into the house, "Youyou, come and see Lele and Aqi."

As soon as she entered the house, she lowered the door curtain.

Tian Youyou took Tian Lele from the nanny and coaxed her, "Lele, sister is back, do you still remember her?"

Tian Lele still remembered Tian Youyou. When she saw her, she happily hugged her neck and buried her little face in her neck.

"Haha, it seems Lele still remembers her sister."

"Youyou." Jiang Xiuxiu pulled Tian Youyou.

Tian Youyou turned her head and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"

"Youyou, um...why did Yan Yao follow you back? Why doesn't he stay in Qinzhou Prefecture?" Jiang Xiuxiu asked.

Tian Youyou didn't think too much about it. "He has no family in Qinzhou Prefecture. It's the New Year, so it's not good to leave him alone in Qinzhou Prefecture."

The New Year is a day for family reunion. If he stayed alone in Qinzhou Prefecture, he would inevitably be sad.

Jiang Xiuxiu couldn't bear to hear this, but...

"Youyou, you, you are engaged to Master Xiaoyao, and now you are hanging out with Yanyao... This is not good."

Jiang Xiuxiu held Tian Youyou's hand and said, "You better be careful."

Only then did Tian Youyou understand why Jiang Xiuxiu was so anxious to pull her into the house.

"Youyou, mother and father absolutely believe in you. We are just worried that if what outsiders say gets to Master Xiao Yao's ears in the future..."

"Mom, don't worry."

Tian Youyou held Jiang Xiuxiu's hand with her backhand, "Yan Yao was entrusted to me by Xiao Yao."

"If he finds out and continues to think about it, I'll be the first one to get back at him."

Speaking of this, Tian Youyou suddenly felt strange.

She frowned and looked at Jiang Xiuxiu, "Mom?"

"You all know that the engagement was fake..."

Since it was fake, there was no such thing as her and Xiao Yao being engaged.

Jiang Xiuxiu was stunned in embarrassment, then touched her nose guiltily.

"Mom..." Tian Youyou dragged out the last syllable and stared at her with a slight glare.

Jiang Xiuxiu avoided Tian Youyou's gaze...

"this..."

"Ok?"

Jiang Xiuxiu couldn't resist Tian Youyou's gaze, so she had to tell him the truth about what happened a few months ago.

"Youyou, do you remember that before Master Xiao Yao left, he chatted with his parents in the house for a long time?"

Tian Youyou remembers this.

"In fact, that time, Master Xiao Yao...he and Fang Sihai formally proposed marriage to my parents."

"My parents saw that he was sincere and had agreed to a three-year contract with you, so they... agreed."

Tian Youyou sighed helplessly. Her parents just sold her out like that.

"There's nothing going on between Yan Yao and me. If my parents don't think it's appropriate, I'll hire two maids to follow us, and we won't be a single man and a single woman anymore."

Jiang Xiuxiu knew that she had to go out to do business and negotiate business, and many things were unavoidable, so she said, "It's fine this way."

Tian Youyou left the room and Yan Yao was sitting at the table, drinking tea with Tian Shounian and Yang Hua.

"Uncle Tian, ​​Youyou is so amazing."

"This time when we went to Qinzhou Prefecture, she made another amazing thing."

“We brought a few back.”

Yan Yao opened the bag and took out the silk quilt he had brought back.

Jiang Xiuxiu just came out, and he stuffed it into Jiang Xiuxiu's hand, "Auntie, take a look."

"This is the silk quilt we made in Qinzhou Prefecture."

"My family has been raising silkworms and making silk for many years, but we have never thought of making silk quilts."

Jiang Xiuxiu held the silk quilt and scratched it subconsciously. The quilt felt very soft in her hands, as if it was nothing.

"Such a light blanket?" she muttered, "Can it keep me warm?"

Yang Hua also went over and rubbed the quilt out of curiosity, "This quilt is so soft, what's inside it?"

The quilts they use now are stuffed with cotton, but they were stuffed with wadding before.

"It's really warm!" Yan Yao said like a recommendation officer, "Aunt, don't underestimate it, it's really warm."

"Youyou is really smart. She can come up with this idea."

"You don't know how well this silk quilt sells in Qinzhou."

"In just two or three months, Youyou helped us earn 1.3 or 400,000 silver coins."

He wanted to tell Jiang Xiuxiu how well the products were selling, but Jiang Xiuxiu might not have any idea. But when he mentioned the amount of money, Jiang Xiuxiu's eyes widened.

"One million, three hundred thousand or four hundred thousand taels of silver?" Jiang Xiuxiu emphasized the word "ten thousand".

I've been busy this year and I think I've earned hundreds of thousands of taels.

A trip to Qinzhou Prefecture...earning so much in more than two months?

Yang Hua was also stunned, "So many?!"

When she was doing the scented tea business, she already thought it was incredible to make so much money in a few months.

"Mom, aunt, our business is just a small business. The Yan family's business is the real big business." Tian Youyou said.

"Yes, yes, it's unimaginable." Over there, Yan Yao was still excitedly sharing with them, "Even the Yan family hasn't made money like this in a long time."

Silk products are expensive, but growing mulberry trees and raising silkworms is not easy, and a lot of silk is wasted every year.

When silk is put on the market, its quality also counts...

If sales are not good, preservation is also a big problem.

So in the end, the money you can actually earn is not even close to what you get from a silk quilt.

He brought out two more small quilts, "Here are some small quilts for Lele and Xingqi."

In addition to Lele and Xingqi's beds, Tian Youyou also prepared two beds for Tian Cui's children.

She wrapped the two small quilts separately in a bundle and said, "I'll send these two to Sister Cui'er later."

Yan Yao was still praising Tian Youyou to Tian Shounian, and now he started talking about the hot pot farm in Cizhou Prefecture.

Speaking of opening two months after the New Year, Tian Shounian couldn't help but ask, "Isn't that a bit tight?"

"As long as Manager Xie can recruit enough people, there won't be much of a problem." Tian Youyou is not worried about this.

Manager Xie is from Cizhou Prefecture, and his base is in Cizhou Prefecture. How can it be difficult for him to recruit workers?

The most difficult part lies with Yan Yao and her.

"Yan Yao will take a rest today and go out to buy things tomorrow."

"I will also go to the mountains to look for some things starting tomorrow."

Go find mushrooms.

Try sprouts again.

"Youyou, is there anything your mother and I can help you with?"

Tian Youyou looked at them...

"Then... Dad, you will go shopping with Yan Yao starting tomorrow."

"Mother and the nanny just need to take good care of Lele and Aqi at home."

“I’ll go up the mountain with the little ones.”

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