Sui and Tang Dynasties: Awakening the Supreme Skills at the Beginning

There were only a few sparsely populated customers in Li's restaurant.

Because although Shenxing Town is a town, it is actually just a slightly larger village. Naturally, there are mostly poor people in the village, and only a few can afford breakfast in the morning.

Li Zhen led his people into Li's restaurant and quickly filled it up.

"Waiter, give me forty-five bowls of mutton soup steamed buns and ninety Baiji steamed buns."

Li Zhen said loudly.

"Okay, sir, wait a moment!"

The waiter's eyes lit up, a big business had come.

After waiting for about a cup of tea, the Baiji steamed buns were served to the table one after another.

"Come on, two each, eat up! Don't think about saving money for me!"

Li Zhen waved his hand.

Everyone stepped forward and each picked up two Baiji steamed buns and started eating them.

Li Zhen took a roujiamo, which was freshly baked, with a crispy outer skin and soft inner part, and it smelled fragrant.

"It's so fragrant!"

The brothers Wang Qingshan and Wang Hanshan standing beside them sighed.

"I haven't eaten such delicious steamed buns for a long time..."

"Then eat more!"

Li Zhen turned his head and saw the three Luo brothers, who looked a little timid and unnatural.

He stood up, took a few roujiamo, and walked in front of the three brothers, "Luoliang, take it. How can you have the energy to work if you are not full?"

"Yeah! Yeah! Thank you, sir. Oh? No! Boss!"

"That's right, come and eat as much as you can. If you're not satisfied, there's more here!"

At this time, mutton soup with steamed buns was served on the table one after another. Everyone took up the chopsticks and the sound of slurping the soup was heard.

Li Zhen watched everyone finish their roujiamo, looking as if they were still not satisfied.

I couldn't help but wave.

The waiter stepped forward and asked, "What do you want, sir?"

"Sixty more roujiamo!"

"Okay, wait a moment!"

The waiter threw the rag over his shoulder and shouted, "Sixty roujiamo!"

The kitchen started to get busy again.

Watching everyone eating mutton soup with steamed bun, Li Zhen recalled his childhood when his mother went to the market and took him to eat mutton soup with steamed bun. At that time, eating a bowl of mutton soup with steamed bun and then taking a bite of roujiamo was so delicious!

"Delicious! Really delicious! I have never eaten such a delicious meal since I was born!"

Li Sihai sucked his fingers and praised it highly.

"Well, if it tastes good, eat more!"

Li Zhen smiled and nodded.

"Thank you, Brother Zhen'er. Oh, no, boss. I'm full! I really want to bring two back for my mother. She has never eaten such delicious roujiamo in her life!"

"Well, that's good. He can still remember his mother while eating. Good job! He is a filial son!"

Li Zhen nodded approvingly.

"Are you full?"

Li Zhen stood up and shouted loudly.

"I am full!"

Everyone shouted in unison, their voices nearly breaking the roof.

"Okay, waiter, check out!"

The waiter stepped forward and said respectfully, "Sir, the total is nine hundred coins."

Li Zhen reached out and took out a string of coins, counted out a hundred and put them back into the bag, and handed the rest to the second servant.

"Sir, have a nice trip!"

The waiter smiled with satisfaction, as he had never received so many copper coins in the first ten days of opening.

"Little second brother!"

Li Zhen called the waiter and spoke softly.

"Sir, what do you want?"

The waiter came forward happily, looking fawning.

"Prepare meals for fifty people tonight!"

"okay!"

The waiter smiled happily.

Li Zhen led his people out of Li's restaurant. Even after they were quite far away, the waiter was still waving at them devoutly.

Everyone followed Li Zhen into the wine-making workshop.

The workshop was originally a wasteland. The weeds were removed and the land was leveled yesterday. The main work today is to build walls and various wine-making facilities, such as fermentation tanks.

Li Zhen arranged everyone's work and waved his hand.

Wang Qingshan stepped forward and said respectfully, "Boss!"

"Tell the three Luo brothers to come over and follow me out to do some things!"

"Yes!"

Wang Qingshan stepped back and greeted the three brothers of the Luo family.

After a while, Luo Liang, Luo Xiu and Luo Cang came to Li Zhen and were about to kowtow.

Li Zhen quickly pulled the three of them together and frowned, "Don't kneel down so often in the future. This is not allowed here. Just bow with your hands clasped together."

The three Luo brothers were deeply moved. The boss was so kind to them. At the same time, they secretly swore in their hearts that they would work hard in this life to repay the boss' kindness.

Li Zhen walked up to Li Mantun and bowed slightly, "Second Uncle, I'll leave this to you. I'll be back soon!"

"Okay, go ahead!"

At that moment, Li Zhen took the three Luo brothers out of the wine-making workshop.

He first went to the West Market to order some wine jars and wine jugs.

It is market opening time.

On both sides of the street, there are shops lined up one after another, and hawkers are hawking their wares in an endless stream.

The main street is bustling with traffic and people coming and going.

Li Zhen walked on the road, looking at the street vendors, looking for business opportunities as he walked.

Although the wine-making workshop was established, it only solved the problem of food and clothing for forty or fifty people, while there were still more than a hundred households in Shenxing Town who could not afford food. He had to find a way to make a living for them and also find another way to make money for himself.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Zhen stopped in front of a porcelain shop.

Before I even entered the door, the waiter from the porcelain shop came out to greet me.

"Sir, please come inside!"

"Yeah!" Li Zhen nodded and walked into the porcelain shop.

"What kind of porcelain do you need? We have celadon, white porcelain, and flowery porcelain."

"Is your shopkeeper here? I need to order a batch of wine vessels."

Li Zhen unfolded his fan and waved it gently twice, acting like a scholar.

The child looked up and down at Li Zhen.

Li Zhen was wearing a long silk gown, with a jade pendant and sachet around his waist, and a folding fan in his hand. He had three followers behind him, and it was obvious that they were not ordinary people.

"Sir, please wait a moment," the waiter walked into the inner room.

After a while, a young man in a white gown, with shallow brows and eyes, still young, came out from the inner room, holding a folding fan in his hand.

Li Zhen did not stand up to talk to him. He felt that this man did not look like a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper here must be an older man with a beard.

The young man came up to him and bowed, "Is this the gentleman who wants to order some porcelain?"

Li Zhen nodded slowly.

"Are you the shopkeeper?"

The other party responded politely, "I am Yuanlang, and I am the owner of this store."

Hearing that it was the shopkeeper, Li Zhen reached out and took out the blueprint he had prepared long ago and showed it to Yuanlang.

"Please tell me how much money these designs will cost and how long it will take to make them?"

Yuan Lang took the blueprint respectfully and looked at it carefully. After a while, he frowned and said, "Sir, you want to customize a wine jug with white porcelain?"

"Exactly! How much did it cost?"

"Sir, please go to the back and talk."

Although he was a little puzzled, this was a big business after all, and the shopkeeper's caution was understandable. Li Zhen didn't think too much about it, and got up and followed Yuan Lang to the backyard.

This porcelain shop seems to be quite powerful. The main hall in the backyard is spacious and bright, and the decoration is unique.

"Come here, serve tea!"

Yuan Lang called out and a servant came forward and poured a cup of tea for Li Zhen.

Li Zhen picked up the teacup, took a sip, and suddenly spit it out.

Li Zhen, who was used to drinking Longjing Maojian tea in the last life, was really not used to this tea soup from the Tang Dynasty.

The tea soup at that time did not have the tea frying technology of later generations, and various seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic, salt, etc. had to be added when brewing tea. The taste was really unpalatable.

"Sir, how does this tea taste?"

Yuanlang smiled confidently.

"Well! Very good..."

Li Zhen said politely.

"This tea is the famous Maojian tea from Bozhou. It is extremely precious and only ordinary people can afford it."

As he spoke, Yuanlang poured himself a glass, then raised it and sipped it slowly, looking quite intoxicated.

Li Zhen licked it gently again, and the choking taste made his face distorted.

Yuan Lang said calmly: "It was the same when I first started drinking tea. After I got used to it, I found the taste of tea to be wonderful."

No way! This shopkeeper!

You must have drunk too much fake tea!

Or maybe the tea has ruined my brain!

Can this thing be called tea?

Li Zhen put down the teacup and smiled slightly.

"Mr. Yuan is so brilliant, I cannot understand him."

Even if you beat me to death, I will never drink this sip of tea again!

Yuan Lang nodded slightly, "The subtlety of this tea cannot be appreciated without careful tasting, just like fine wine."

The topic finally turned to the main topic.

"Sir, do you really want to use precious white porcelain as a wine vessel?"

"Exactly!"

"Don't you know the price? And when will the goods be available?"

Li Zhen's eyes lit up and he asked.

"An ordinary wine jug costs only twenty coins and can hold two catties. If it were all made of white porcelain, wouldn't it cost two taels of silver?"

Yuanlang unfolded his paper fan and spoke slowly.

“What if you want a large quantity?”

"For example, we need 500 wine jugs and 200 wine jars, each with a capacity of 10 kilograms. The wine jugs need to have this pattern printed on them."

As he spoke, Li Zhen handed the pattern to Yuan Lang.

The pattern was specially drawn by Li Zhen. It features flowing water over a small bridge and drinking alone among flowers, which has a unique flavor.

The white porcelain is matched with the deep red pattern, and there is a drinking poem next to it, which is a beautiful scene.

Yuanlang happily stretched out five fingers.

"Five hundred taels of silver, no less."

"Five hundred taels? Why don't you just go and rob?"

Li Zhen remained calm. The quantity he wanted was large and he could order more later. Plus, with the quality of his wine, he was afraid that many wine glass manufacturers would compete to make wine glasses for him in the future. Five hundred taels was not enough.

"Two hundred taels, no more!"

"Tell me your reasons?"

Yuan Lang was stunned at first, then chuckled.

"You are a businessman, you will certainly make a lot of money out of the five hundred taels. Moreover, my wine is different from the previous ones. Once it is launched, it will definitely shock the world and make ghosts and gods weep. At that time, your wine jug and wineware will naturally become famous. Two hundred taels is not a small amount."

"Ha ha!"

Yuan Lang suddenly laughed, "Okay, sir, I'll do as you say. Then it'll be two hundred taels, and the goods will be delivered in ten days."

The wine that can be served in precious white porcelain is naturally incomparable to ordinary wine. The famous Western Region Sanlejiang on the market is only 200 coins per pot, which is not even enough to cover the cost of this wine pot. If this wine is really a hit, their drinking vessels will naturally sell well, and Yuen Long will naturally not do business at a loss.

"Come here, quickly prepare the writing materials. I will sign the sales documents."

Yuen Long ordered.

The servant came forward and handed over the pen and ink that had been prepared long ago, and Li Zhen finished the work in one go.

Yuanlang's eyes lit up, "What beautiful calligraphy!"

Li Zhen nodded and smiled, "Mr. Yuan, you are so kind."

The two men used their seals respectively and the document was signed. Li Zhen gave Yuan Lang fifty taels of silver as a deposit, then left with the document.

Li Zhen and four others turned a few corners in the West Market and bought a jar of Sanlejiang at a wine shop. Then they turned to Xuanwu Street and soon arrived in front of the Chang'an County Government Office.

When the three Luo brothers saw it, they were horrified.

"Boss, do you want to report to the police?"