There are a total of six restaurants in Qingyangfang City.
The one with the highest standards is undoubtedly the Peng family's 'Jingtai Restaurant', which integrates food, accommodation and entertainment.
The Liu family's "Shizhenlou" is second, specializing in monks' delicacies, with rich dishes and expensive prices.
Downstairs, there are one restaurant each for the Yang family and the Xu family. The next one is the two 'civilian restaurants' from the Wangfang family. They are open to ordinary cultivators and warriors. They mainly serve dishes for mortals, supplemented by special dishes for monks. , focusing on low prices to benefit the people.
The table in front of you is a 'One-Pin Complete Banquet', with eighteen dishes, all cooked with monster beasts, elixirs, and spiritual fruits, and are sold for a thousand spirit stones!
Ordinary casual cultivators cannot afford it in their lifetime.
Of course, there is nothing to say about the taste. Just look at Jiang Huan and Wei Cen. You can tell that these two beauties are eating with their mouths full of oil and pleasure.
Hearing Zhong Yan speak at this moment, he couldn't help but put down his chopsticks.
Liu Fanghong's smile froze, he paused in pouring the wine, and said with a smile: "Friend Zhong, please make it clear that our store will definitely improve."
"The rat is known as the most beautiful monster meat. It is tender and smooth, and the bones are crispy. What is this 'Baolian Jade Rat Treasure'? It has a nice name, but the meat is too old and the cooking time is obviously too long..."
"This 'Octagonal Bull Demon King' is not well-selected. The best way to make it is to use the hind leg meat of young green cattle. This is obviously the front leg meat..."
"And this black grouper, a specialty of Qingyang, actually has a fishy smell. Could it be that shopkeeper Liu is raising cuttlefish to make up for it?"
Zhong Yan's face was not red, his heart was not beating, and he commented one by one. He chatted with Ding Yin through sound transmission. He did not use his chopsticks much, and the bowls in front of him were all clean.
Everyone present: "..."
Jiang Hua blinked and looked at Wei Cen, both of whom seemed to be asking: Can the meat of the front legs and hind legs of the one-horned green beef be eaten?
The corners of Liu Fanghong's mouth twitched and he explained: "Fellow Taoist Mingjian, the black grouper is definitely authentic and wild, caught from the Wei River. Maybe there was something wrong in the cooking process..."
Zhong Yan shook his head and interrupted: "To be honest, this table of 'One-Pin Complete Banquet' is not worthy of its name and is a huge disappointment. It is not worth the price of a thousand spiritual stones. In the fairy city, you can eat more delicious and rich dishes with six hundred yuan. It’s enough.”
"What fellow Taoists criticize is that we must improve it in the future."
Liu Fanghong was secretly annoyed, with a smile on his face. He picked up the pot and continued to pour wine: "This is the secret wine of my Liu family. It is brewed with high-quality spiritual glutinous rice and eighty-eight kinds of spiritual fruits. I will give it to you for your collection."
As he said that, he looked at Ding Yin and said, "This time, our store didn't greet you well, so I'll give Fellow Daoist Ding a 30% discount."
Ding Yin waved his hand: "As much as you want. If word spreads, others will say that my Ding family can't afford it!"
Zhong Yan smiled and said: "Zhong spoke directly, shopkeeper Liu will forgive me."
Liu Fanghong said with a smile: "Where! Fellow Taoist, it is our honor to give you your opinion. I'd like to toast you all!"
Zhong Yan took a sip, smacked his lips and nodded: "Not bad."
"Then bring five more pots, one pot for each person!"
Ding Yin waved his hand proudly. The wine pot was really small, and one person could pour three to four glasses into the small wine glass.
And a good spiritual wine, one sip is worth several days or even dozens of days of meditation practice.
"Okay." Liu Fanghong responded with a smile and looked at the waiter. He was asking for trouble by not mentioning the price of the spirit wine. Anyway, he didn't have to worry about not being able to pay the bill.
Ding Yin's eyes flashed and he said: "By the way, brother Zhong, the store next door is yours. What kind of business are you planning to do? I think I have a lot of knowledge about food. Opening a restaurant seems to be a good idea."
Zhong Yan's eyes lit up and he thought seriously: "It's not impossible. Originally, I planned to open a teahouse. I've been to Shizhenlou a few times and the experience was really not good. Qingyang cultivators should have more and better choices. , Shopkeeper Liu, don’t you have any objections?”
He was planning to open a restaurant.
But this matter has never been disclosed to the outside world.
It has to be said that Ding Yin has a clear mind and follows the snake on the stick.
They held a grand banquet to apologize, and chose 'Jingtai Restaurant' to be more sincere, but settled on the Liu family's territory. Apparently they were sure that the Zhongfu was going to attack the Liu family, and they wanted to play it by ear, adapt to changes, and cooperate.
The ugly look on Liu Fanghong's face flashed away, and he said with a smile: "How could it be? You can do any business freely."
"Excuse me, I have something to do in the front hall, please use your leisure."
Zhong Yan nodded lightly, smiled and raised his glass to the Ding family uncle and nephew, as if Liu Fanghong had never come in.
After a stick of incense.
Liu Fanghong sent the group out of the store with a smile, his eyes flickering, and he hesitated for a long time but still did not report it to his family.
When the city was first established, all parties sat down to negotiate. Although the business was openly discussed, there was no rule that it could not be changed.
The key is whether you have the qualifications, such as opening a talisman shop and converting it into an elixir store. The premise is that you must have a way or you can make elixirs yourself.
Zhongfu has the ability to sell shops and open restaurants, but it has multiple competitors.
There is more than just Shizhenlou in Fangshi.
The only annoying thing is that it is located next door, which is a bit deliberate.
The next day.
Zhong Yan led Jiang Huan and Yan Sandao, the "left and right guardians", to visit Fangshi and went all the way to another shop of the Liu family.
Caozhentang, which sells spiritual herbs, mainly sells 'Orchid Yingcao' and 'Wisteria', because these two types are mainly cultivated in Liu's Lingtian.
"Fellow Daoist Zhong! Fellow Daoist, you are here. Welcome. What do you want?"
The shopkeeper immediately handed over the customers he originally received to other shop assistants and greeted them.
Zhong Yan looked around and offered a big deal: "Three hundred foundation building pill materials, I wonder if your store can gather them together?"
The young shopkeeper was shocked, but he was not dazzled by the benefits. He smiled and said: "Sorry, friend Zhong Dao, I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to ask the clan for instructions."
Zhong Yan nodded: "I don't trust you if you can make the decision. It just so happens that Zhong has something to discuss. Is Taoist friend Zhenbei here?"
"I looked back and reported my work the day before yesterday. I can return today."
"Well, I'll come over again tonight."
"How dare I trouble my fellow Taoist to make an extra trip? I'll inform Master Zhenbei to go to your mansion to look for my fellow Taoist."
"also."
Subsequently.
Zhong Yan went to four herbal medicine shops in Fang City, including Huoyun Pavilion, and ordered a thousand points of foundation-building elixir materials.
It's a big deal.
Because various spiritual herbs are of different years and sell at different prices, even if the lowest level Wudao Pattern Foundation-Building Pill is refined, the age of the spiritual material must be ten years or more.
Based on a rough estimate, one thousand materials would cost at least one hundred thousand spiritual stones.
Of course, a piece of material does not represent a Foundation Establishment Pill.
The key lies in the alchemist.
Some alchemists are highly skilled and have a high elixir-making rate. One to five elixirs can be made from one set of materials, and the quality varies.
And some alchemists are not very skilled, and a piece of material may only turn into one elixir.
In fact, there are many cases where the furnace or materials are completely scrapped.
The news quickly spread throughout the city.
Ru Wangdi's family couldn't even get together fifty pieces of materials at one time. When a surprise big business came, they immediately transferred goods from other stores.
That night.
Liu Zhenbei, the person in charge of the Liu family stationed in Qingyang, returned and couldn't help but ask: "Can the Zhong Mansion refine the Foundation Building Pill?"
Shopkeeper Cao Zhentang: "Probably not. 'Taiyue Pavilion' only sells several first-level elixirs such as Qi Condensing Pills. Could it be Yuan Zhiqing? She is an alchemist and should also be able to make elixirs."
Liu Fanghong, who had gathered together, pondered for a while, then told the story about the restaurant, and finally said: "Be careful that there is fraud in it. I always feel that the Zhongfu is targeting us."
Because Zhong Yan has been to the "Shizhen Tower" many times, he has had more contact with it and often encountered "verbal difficulties", so his intuition is relatively strong.
The shopkeeper of Cao Zhen Tang said: "That's not the case. It's not just from our place. All the herbal medicine shops in Fang City have been booked. The Fang family just came to ask me to make twenty copies."
Liu Zhenbei's eyes flashed and he said: "There is no reason not to do business. Let's contact the clan first to transfer the goods. I will go to Zhong Mansion tomorrow."
After saying that, he returned to the study to find out information about the Zhong Mansion and make preparations for the meeting.
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