While several people were talking, a noisy sound came from outside the door. This small courtyard was a bit small for Xu Ping now. When there was a little noise outside the door, it was transmitted to the room. However, neither his parents nor Lin Su Niang came back. Xu Ping stayed alone in the capital and did not want to live in the mansion outside the city, so he would still live here.

After a while, Liu Xiaoyi brought a group of people in, but they were Jinshi in the same year of the fifth year of Tiansheng, including Han Qi, Wang Yaochen, Wen Yanbo, Zhao Xu, Wu Yu and Wang Su, followed by Wang Gongchen.

After entering the yard and meeting Xu Ping, Han Qi said, "Yunxing has been very busy since he returned to Beijing. We had a rare opportunity to get together in the same year. I heard that you are free today and have to talk together no matter what, so I made an appointment to come to find you. But we have not been able to live a few days, so we specially brought a rich man to come."

Wang Gongchen spread his hands behind him and shook his head helplessly.

In the past two years, Wang Gongchen was the poorest among the officials of the museum, and often needed Xu Ping to provide assistance. A few years later, Wang Gongchen's family was well-off and became a wealthy family for others to eat. This was not due to his father-in-law Xue Kui, but the land management was well-fed, and the minister's money was almost open. In addition, Xu Ping took his family to do business and made some money.

These people came with Wang Gongchen not only to make him pay, but also because they all knew that his relationship with Xu Ping was different from others and could help speak. They were all Jinshi in the fifth year of Tiansheng, Han Qi, Wang Yaochen, Wu Yu and Wang Su, and they just arrived at Houxing Yuanwailang, and the rest of the people, Yanbo and Zhao Xu, were outstanding. They were just promoted to Doctor of Imperial College this year, and the gap with Xu Ping was no longer possible. Xu Ping is already a serious third-rank official, and one step away from the priest. These people have just touched the edge of middle-level officials. Their status is far behind, and their words are so casual as they said in the past two years.

Gao Daquan, Yang Wenguang and Di Qing bowed to several people, and they had no idea what to say to these people, so they said goodbye and left. Why did Xu Ping let someone leave like this? He ordered Liu Xiaoyi to take them to a nearby restaurant to have some wine and meals, and Gao Daquan represented himself as his accompanying him. Although it was just a servant of the Xu family, Liu Xiaoyi's identity was rising. If Gao Daquan had not been with him, Yang Wenguang and Di Qing would not have invited him to dinner.

Seeing that it was getting late, the group went out, Xu Ping said to Han Qi: "I have not been in the capital for the past two years. I don't know if there are any restaurants that are particularly outstanding recently. It is rare for everyone to get together. It is necessary to find a satisfying place to enjoy the fun."

Han Qi smiled and said, "If you say it is outstanding and famous, you don't have to look for it elsewhere. Yunxing and Wang Junxuan are the restaurants by the Wuzhang River. In recent days, we have counted the most customers there, Daming is the capital."

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment. He had not cared about that snack bar for a long time. The reason why that snack bar was opened at that time was that Wang Gongchen, who was in a difficult family, and the other was to set an example for others, what should he do in the service industry in the industrial area? In order to set an example for others, he did not expect that if he ignored it, the small shop would become bigger.

After asking in detail, I found out that the restaurant has added a new way to eat it in the first two months. After all, the exquisite ingredients are processed, and they are placed on the table. After paying, the customers take the plate and choose the dishes they like. As long as they can eat, they can just let them go. Because the dishes are mostly fresh and rare vegetables, exquisite meat, and even seafood, the prices are high, and ordinary people cannot afford them. Officials must have higher salary or wealthy families, or they are wealthy people. But these people cannot eat much, so the business is quite cost-effective and popular.

Listening to the people around him, Xu Ping felt the more ridiculous he heard it. Isn’t this a buffet in his previous life? Which genius had no teacher to learn about this thing? It was not abrupt that this new thing appeared. Xu Ping had set up a canteen in the Sansi Yamen a long time ago, which was the situation of a buffet. However, the canteen was not high and had a fixed price. A few meat dishes and several vegetarian dishes were set up. Some people specialized in cooking, but they did not eat whatever they wanted. In a few years, some people transformed into real buffets to start a business? And this business is still its own industry.

Everyone rode on horses, took their followers, and headed north. I remembered that half of the people here could not afford a decent horse a few years ago. Once they went out, they had rented it, and even Wang Gongchen even rode a donkey. This change was really big.

It is already summer and the weather is getting hot. The willow trees on the roadside are as green as jasper, and sometimes a few red flowers emerge from the bushes. The sun is about to set, and pedestrians on the road are flocking to each other, looking at the scenery on the roadside slowly. Hawkers of all kinds are carrying baskets or carrying loads, shuttle through the crowd and hawking loudly.

The capital is still much more lively than Xijing. Xu Ping has been struggling in Luoyang for a year, and several commercial districts are still prosperous in the season when business is busy. Once the business is deserted, there will be no one. Every inch of land in Tokyo is valuable, but the city of Luoyang is full of open space, which is still in the countryside, compared with the capital. The area of ​​the two cities is basically the same, but the population is nearly ten times different. It is really not something that can be caught up in a day or a night.

When we arrived by the Wuzhang River, the place was still the same place, and the pattern did not change much, Xu Ping vaguely understood it. However, the shed had turned into a three-story building, with a large open space by the river in front of it, with various bamboo tables and stools. It was almost evening and there were already crowds of people, and workers from various places were still rushing here.

Wang Gongchen said to Xu Ping: "The provincial master hasn't been here for two years. Is it a little he doesn't know, right?"

Xu Ping nodded: "I can vaguely recognize it."

He shook his head again: "It's just not what he was back then. The place looks bigger, but the seats are much more cramped."

Wang Gongchen smiled and said, "It's just that there's no way outside. The worker in the field is not comparable to two years ago. Now there are a lot more. To do their business, I have to change the seats to a smaller one, otherwise how can I sit down? The seats by the river are all made by guests who have to spend a lot of money, and they are still as spacious as before."

Leaded by Wang Gongchen, he walked around the hustle and bustle outside along a small path covered with bamboos and reached inside. This side of the river was separated by a row of bamboo bushes and flowers. It was two worlds from the outside, but it was the pattern in Xu Ping's memory, and it was even more spacious.

Seeing that the master was coming, the servant hurried over and served him diligently, and came to tea first.

Wang Gongchen said to Xu Ping: "This is our own shop. You can eat whatever you want. Do you want to try our new dishes? There are a row of colors over there, and you can get whatever you want. A plate is worth a portion of money."

Xu Ping had seen it a long time ago, with a long table next to him, and all kinds of dishes were placed. However, it was not what he had taken by himself as before. A few servants with clean and neat shoes and socks stood to serve the guests. Takeout fast food is not uncommon in this era. It is called "Limai" in Kaifeng City. I don't know how popular it is, and there are all on bustling streets. But this is the first time I have seen this buffet, and Xu Ping felt it was new. He said to Wang Gongchen: "Don't be anxious, call out the supervisor who came up with this method, and I have something to ask him."
Chapter completed!