After the game emperor awakens

Chapter 27 Celebrities

The two guests entered the lobby, looked at the layout of the building without any trace, turned their eyes around, and landed on the screen in the center.

Huamanlou looked ordinary from the outside, but inside it was unique.The original kitsch decoration that was unique to the brothel has gone, and the environment is quiet and elegant. There is a screen between each table in the lobby to ensure the privacy of diners.The patterns painted on each screen are different, or ink mountains and rivers, or fish playing with lotus, or swifts flying together... Each has a poem with an inscription, and the poem is very well written. Very human pen and ink.

In particular, the fan of "Treading Snow and Seeking Plum Blossoms" placed in the center of the lobby is even more fragrant and vivid, and the painting is extremely vivid.

The poems and paintings on these screens alone can attract a group of literati to linger.Those who didn't know it thought it was a poetry club, not a restaurant.

When Huayan was designing the decoration plan of Huamanlou, she had a serious disagreement with Wang Yiming.Wang Yiming wanted to decorate it resplendently, but was considered vulgar by Huayan.Huayan wanted to make the red gauze tent warm, but Wang Yiming called it kitsch.The two have different aesthetics, and they couldn't stop arguing, so Huayan simply asked Fu Xinian to comment.

Both Huayan and Wang Yiming are semi-literate and do not like to read, but they both admire scholars, and they are inexplicably convinced by Fu Xinian, Tan Hualang's words.

After hearing the two proposals, Fu Xinian felt that neither would work.Huamanlou has just opened, and its customers must be rich or expensive.Although resplendent and resplendent is in line with the status of a guest, it has long been commonplace for guests to come and go in and out of such occasions, so it becomes invisible to the public.The red gauze tent is even worse... This is a restaurant, not a brothel, they are serious about business, don't let the customers feel lustful.

After hearing this, Hua Yan thought it made sense, and then worried: "What should I do then?"

Fu Xinian pondered for a while, saying that most of the customers are from the "scholar" class, and most of them are literati, so it's better to be more elegant.Painting some screens and placing them in the hall can pay attention to the privacy of guests, and secondly, painting poems and paintings on the screens is both elegant and attractive.But the skills in writing poems and painting must not be bad, otherwise it will be counterproductive to show timidity in the eyes of those literati and refined scholars.

Changli once had a stunningly talented Lu Xuechao, who was once in the limelight. The 14-year-old No. [-] scholar's title is not just for fun, Fu Xinian worships him like that, and other scholars can be called fanatics.For a while, scholars in Changli even rushed to follow suit, imitating him to wear white clothes and wearing white jade—Changli men used to wear sapphire around their waists, and because Lu Xuechao loved wearing white jade, this country's custom was born by him. Alone changed.

Lu Xuechao's poems and paintings were both excellent, and the literati admired them to the extreme.Fu Xinian's move is indeed attractive.

Huayan became even more worried: "Where can I find someone who writes poetry and painting?"

He doesn't know how to appreciate poetry and painting, and Wang Yiming doesn't understand either. If he finds someone who is fake, it won't be a signboard.

Fu Xinian said apologetically, "It's up to you to figure out a solution yourself, and I have to deal with the criminal case."

Huayan knew that everyone had been assigned tasks, so he couldn't keep bothering Fu Xinian all the time, and went out on his own in distress.

After thinking about it for a few days, she still couldn't come up with a solution, Huayan was so anxious that her black hair dropped a lot.Fu Xinian suddenly found him with two big dark circles under his eyes, and said that he had painted more than 20 screens in his spare time, and also wrote poems, which could be placed in Huamanlou.

Hua Yan looked at Fu Xinian's dark circles: ...do you really have time to spare?

Tanhualang is also a good person who is duplicity.

Fu Xinian said again: "If you can, you can ask Her Highness the Queen to paint a screen. I can paint a hundred screens, but I can't compare to your Highness's one."

Then he hesitated for a moment, and said shyly: "I am a little selfish... I want to see the calligraphy and painting of Her Highness the Queen."

Huayan was afraid that Lu Xuechao would be too busy, so she didn't dare to bother him about such a trivial matter.But thinking that Tanhualang would stay up all night to paint and write poems to solve his urgent needs, he should also satisfy Tanhualang's selfishness, so he boldly asked Lu Xuechao.

Lu Xuechao is very talkative, and painted Fan Treading Xue Xunmei.Fu Xinian was ecstatic, and devoted a whole night to appreciating it. The next day, he reluctantly handed over the screen to Huayan, and then placed it in the center of Huamanlou's lobby, becoming the treasure of the building.

Seeing the two guests staring at the "Treading the Snow and Seeking Plum Blossoms", Huayan thought, the honored guests really have discernment, so many screens, one can see the paintings of Her Highness the Queen at a glance.

Although this screen is indeed the most conspicuous.

"Does the guest officer want to be in the lobby or private room?" Wang Yiming asked.

The man in Tsing Yi said: "It's in the lobby."

After all, they are the only guests in the building now, and it doesn't make any difference whether they are in the lobby or the private room.

"Okay, guest officer, please." Since he was the first guest, Wang Yiming attached great importance to it. He spread the recipe written by his hand on the table and tried his best to sell it. "This is the recipe. Please read it carefully. Here I strongly recommend the ones from this building." The signature dish, squirrel mandarin fish, and this white jade dish, you must try..."

"Then let's go with these two dishes, and add some more dishes." The man in white said gently.

The first business is done!Wang Yiming's heart jumped for joy.

He is sure that as long as he makes a fortune, there will be one more repeat customer.

No one can refuse white jade jade and squirrel mandarin fish, no one!

Since there were no other customers in the store at this time, the dishes were served quickly.Wang Yiming served in person, eagerly waiting to see the reaction of the guests.

The two guests didn't show any special eyes when they saw the juicy cabbage and the fragrant mandarin fish.

These two seem to be well-informed at first glance, and they are either rich or expensive. It is normal for them not to react now.When they taste it in their mouths, they will definitely not have this expression!Wang Yiming thought firmly.

The guest moved his chopsticks, and when he ate it in his mouth, his expression was still calm, as if it was no different from eating ordinary home-cooked food.

Wang Yiming: "..."

Shouldn't be.

He also tasted the two dishes made by the cook. Although they were not as delicious as the ones made by the Queen himself, but they were strictly followed the recipes, and the taste was not far from it.

How could there be no reaction at all!

Or is it that they are old and experienced, and won't show their emotions like these little boys?

Wang Yiming was thinking wildly, and the guest's bowl of rice gradually came to an end.

Wang Yiming asked nervously, "What do you think of the taste?"

The man in white elegantly wiped his lips with a handkerchief, and made a serious suggestion: "The taste of cabbage is not sweet enough."

The man in Tsing Yi said: "The mandarin fish is more than crispy on the outside, but not tender on the inside. The chef who handles the spoon must be unskilled and needs to improve. Pay the bill."

Wang Yiming felt guilty when he heard this not-so-good evaluation, and said: "The shop is open, and you two are the first customers to come in, so this bill will be waived."

The guest smiled: "Thank you for the hospitality."

Seeing the two guests leaving together, Wang Yiming said in frustration, "This is different from what I thought..."

These two guests can be picky about such a delicious dish, did they eat a flat peach feast before!

Huayan couldn't make up her mind either.His Highness said that there will be distinguished guests coming, but the distinguished guests have come, but the response is mediocre, what should we do?

I thought the business would be bleak in the future, but I didn't expect that after half an hour, another imposing heroic man came to the door, and when he came up, he said loudly: "This is Lao Lu boasting that there are flowers all over the building?"

"Bring up your signature dishes—the squirrel mandarin fish, and the white jade jade dish—for this general to try."

Huayan opened her eyes wide: "Qin, Qin—"

General Qin?

General Weiyuan spent his entire life in the army. When he returned from the frontier squadron, Huayan saw him from a distance.

Moreover, Qin Yulong and General Qin were almost carved out of the same mold, even their upright and resolute aura was exactly the same.He had seen Qin Yulong, so it was not difficult to recognize General Qin.

Huayan had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly understood why the man in white looked familiar just now.

Because Her Majesty the Queen also looks a bit like him!

It's just that the temperament of the two is different.The man in white was purely gentle and polite, like a spring breeze.Her Majesty the Empress was gentle but cold, and there was a coldness in her laughing words, which made him forget it for a while.

This can explain why the two guests were as indifferent as eating ordinary home-cooked food, and could still pick out one or two deficiencies.

That is the real father of Her Highness the Queen!They must have tasted the handicrafts of Her Majesty the Queen on weekdays, isn't it just an ordinary home-cooked dish for them?

Of course, the cooking of Huamanlou is not as good as that of Her Royal Highness, and it would be unconscionable for them to praise it.

But obviously the prime minister and his wife are picky and judgmental in the building, and they must have praised Huamanlou after going out, otherwise there would be no general Qin saying, "This is Lao Lu's boast that there is no flower in the sky and nothing on earth." ", I asked for those two dishes by name when I came up.

No wonder Her Majesty the Queen is so sure that there will be a distinguished guest today, she dared to invite her own father.

Wang Yiming was stunned and still wondering who Lao Lu was, Hua Yan had already whispered to him: "This is General Weiyuan, the two guests just now were invited by Her Royal Highness, the prime minister and his wife."

Wang Yiming gasped.

Isn't Prime Minister Lu the queen's father——

Wang Yiming's family is a businessman, and he also has some understanding of the methods in the business field.

Among them is the same means of stimulating consumption, called "celebrity effect".

For an item that no one cares about, as long as a famous person praises it a few times, or even uses it once, it can drive a lot of people to buy it.When his father was in business, he would often hire some celebrities and ask them to say a few words about their products and spread the word, so that things could sell faster.

Huamanlou's clients are all scholar-bureaucrats. In terms of fame, who can be more famous than the prime minister, who is an extremely powerful minister?

Now that there is a big change in the imperial court, each family dare not act rashly, for fear that they will be investigated for any mistakes they have made, and wait to see the movements of the four great families.The four great families are headed by the Lu family, especially after the Queen's restoration, His Majesty's guilt and reliance on the Lu family are obvious to all. It can be said that every move of Prime Minister Lu is "politically correct".

Even if Prime Minister Lu just said "Huamanlou's signature dishes are delicious", all the dignitaries in Yujing would be moved by the news and come to have a try.Even if it is not delicious, it will be delicious, let alone really delicious.

Her Majesty the Queen, a literati, has become so proficient at this businessman's methods that he can even take advantage of his own father's reputation.

Even Wang Yiming couldn't help boasting that if she wasn't a literati, Her Highness the Queen would be a born businessman, calculating and black-hearted enough.

Prime Minister Lu was indeed invited by Lu Xuechao.

why not?

As early as the age of 14, Lu Xuechao discovered that the sapphires of literati all over the country had followed him and replaced them with white jades, and he realized that the celebrity effect is a terrifying thing to use.

Now it finally comes in handy.