EBE Chapter 247 Cement Road
Chapter 247 Cement Road
At noon, the restaurant's business was as booming as everyone expected, and there was a queue of customers waiting for a table at the door.
New dishes were served today and everyone found them very novel, just like the signboard of this restaurant. Other people name their restaurants after something like "Lou" or "Ge", but here they simply name their restaurants "Food Brings Good Luck", which has a good meaning and is easy to eat. The ingredients are even fresher and something no one has eaten before.
Today, when Manager Gao introduced lotus root to everyone, he also pointed out that it was a dish that even the emperor had eaten. He also used the idiom "藕断丝连" (root root is still connected) to let the customers experience it for themselves. Based on these two points, the guests ordered three dishes per table, just to eat a dish that even the emperor had eaten.
Zheng Sisi felt that Manager Gao had a talent for sales, so why did he run his restaurant so poorly in the past? Zheng Sisi thought that it might be because he had bad luck with money and lacked someone to guide him.
Because the restaurant business was good these days, the meat sellers in the vegetable market made a lot of extra money. In fact, the business on the street was also boosted.
When some wealthy businessmen go out to eat, they will bring their coachmen and servants with them. They will not let these servants eat with them, but give them some money and let them eat nearby, thus boosting the business of other people on the street.
After a few days of publicity, merchants and wealthy people in nearby counties either invited by friends or heard rumors would rush over to taste the red crayfish that they had never tasted before and was being talked about so much that the flow of people in the county began to increase.
At first, Captain Zhao didn't pay much attention to it when he was leading his men on patrol, but the next day when he saw a familiar carriage that didn't belong to the county town, he noticed it and later reported the situation to County Magistrate Cao and Lawyer He.
The two were also greatly surprised after hearing this, and said that the Princess of Anping County was extraordinary, as she had boosted the economy of an entire county with just one restaurant.
The two looked at each other, and Master He suggested, "Zhenyu, you said that the Third Prince brought a thresher and a windmill back to the capital. Should we write to your eldest brother, Imperial Censor Cao, to tell him about this, and also submit a memorial to the Emperor?"
County Magistrate Cao slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, tell this to Big Brother first and let him make some arrangements in the capital. The picture was drawn by the Lord of Anping County, the blueprint was given to us by the Third Prince, and we hired someone to make the machine. The Third Prince will not take our credit, but it is our duty to report to the Emperor. This is also our political achievement, Zhizhang, you are right to remind me, I will write to Big Brother right away."
Magistrate Cao went to make arrangements for writing the letter.
Here, the third prince stood beside a low wall and observed for a long time. This was a wall built with cement by his subordinates after Zheng Sisi's suggestion. A guard had just tried it and found that the wall was very strong and two guards with martial arts skills could not push it down.
Then he went to the open space next to the yard. The guards pulled out the flowers in the flowerbed, spread a layer of cement on the yellow soil, and smoothed the surface with wooden boards like they did when planting rice.
I watered the ground once in the morning, and now it looks like a gray ground. The watered areas are dark gray, and the dry areas are grayish white.
The Third Prince still remembered what Zheng Sisi had said, that even on rainy days the cement road would remain the same, without any mud. He had fought in wars, and on rainy days even the official roads would be covered in mud. When too many people walked on the road, the mud would be trampled into muddy water, deep enough to submerge people's feet.
If all roads are paved with cement in the future, won't they be very clean without mud? People and carriages will also be able to travel much faster on them. The third prince was thinking deeply and a lot.
"Master, master..."
Qingfeng called out several times before the Third Prince came back to his senses.
The Third Prince looked back at Qing Feng and asked, "What's the matter?"
Qingfeng was stunned. He saw his master staring at one place for a long time, and he was afraid that his master had gone crazy and that was why he was shouting. Now that his master asked him, how should he answer?
He suddenly had an idea and said, "Master, why don't you go up there and try to see if the road surface can bear the weight."