C18 Advanced Restaurant
"Good idea!" Chief Steward Chen's spirit was lifted, and he said, "I can find someone who knows how to push and pull. His name is Sun Qi, and he lives in Xu Chang, and he specializes in massage and massage. He earns some money from other people's massage to maintain his family.
"Alright, go and invite him over. Tell him that I have business to discuss with him." Chen Yu said.
"Alright." Chief Chen gave some instructions to a waiter, who quickly ran out the door.
"Chief Steward Chen, bring me another thirty beautiful girls to listen to me."
"Young Master, if I feel like it, I can choose some smart and beautiful girls from the Chen family to listen to us." Chief Steward Chen said.
"Good idea, my Chen family has so many maidservants. Usually, when we have nothing better to do, we can choose some of them to come here to help." Chen Yu nodded.
"Take care of the decorations. You must make a large number of wooden barrels. The barrels must be painted with different colors of gold and silver, giving off a noble feeling."
"This subordinate will do it as soon as possible." Chief Steward Chen nodded.
"Right, you've entered the gambling den, right?" Chen Yu asked.
"Your subordinate has played with you twice."
"Alright then. Just follow the style of the gambling den and get your equipment ready. We'll open a gambling den on the third floor. This thing is extremely profitable."
"Second Young Master said that gambling houses are extremely profitable, however, they have only arisen in recent years. There is only one small gambling house in the whole of Xu Chang City, and I heard from the people at the gambling house that they earn at least thirty thousand silver taels a year."
Don't worry about the money. In addition, the current gambling facilities are usually only used by Mu Wu, so they are relatively simple. I have a type of gambling equipment called dice, and this is the sample. As Chen Yu spoke, she took out the jade dice she had asked the craftsman to make and handed them to Chief Steward Chen.
"This kind of thing, can we bet?" Chief Steward Chen looked at this new gambling equipment that he had never seen before, and his eyes were filled with curiosity.
"Yes, generally speaking, we use it to bet on size, or guess at the size of a pair. As for the specific rules, I will tell you about them later."
"But Young Master, five hundred silver can't do so much."
"I will naturally think of a way to pay for it, so you can only do what you want." Chen Yu said.
"Yes, this subordinate understands. If Second Young Master were to spend money like that, I think the entire restaurant would cost around three thousand taels of silver, or three hundred gold. This amount of money is not a small amount."
"Yes, I have my ways."
As the two of them were talking, a man in his thirties walked in. He had a simple and honest look on his face. He bent down and said, "Second master, what business do you have with me?"
"You're Sun Qi?" Chen Yu asked.
"Yes, that's me."
"How much do you earn by massaging people a month?"
"About a tael of silver." Sun Qi said.
"I heard that your massage technique is very good. If you come to my restaurant to help me teach students and give me a massage when necessary, I'll give you 10 silver coins a month. Are you willing?"
"This little one is willing." Sun Qi was overjoyed. Originally, he only earned one tael of silver a month and barely managed to maintain his family. But now, ten taels of silver a month was much better than before. How could he not do it?
"Yes, from now on, you will be the manager of the restaurant. You will be working here tomorrow." Chen Yu said.
"Work?"
"Oh, I'm just here to listen." Chen Yu accidentally blurted out modern words and hurriedly corrected herself.
"I understand." Sun Qi nodded happily.
"Alright, Manager Sun, take care of this matter here. I will come over from time to time to check on the progress of the project."
"Don't worry, young master. I will definitely settle this matter well." Sun nodded at seven.
After returning to the Chen family, the first thing Chen Yu did was to find Chen Feng.
"Uncle, there's something I need your help with."
"What is it?" Chen Feng asked.
Father recently let me manage the restaurant at home, I want to redecorate the restaurant and set up a large scale comprehensive entertainment. As long as this matter is done, it will definitely be extremely profitable, so, I would like to invite Junior Uncle to invest some money and make some money. Chen Yu said.
"For such a good thing to happen, Wen Xuan, you aren't lying to me, are you?" Chen Feng said.
"Hehe! Little uncle, you have to have confidence in me. Have you forgotten that I turned a hundred gold coins into one thousand and one hundred gold coins in three months last time?"
"That's true. Alright, count me in. I'll pay a hundred gold." Chen Feng said.
"I need three hundred gold. A hundred gold. A little less."
"How about this, I'll link up with the second and third generation members of the Chen Clan to help you get closer." Chen Feng said.
"That would be for the best. You can tell them that a year from now, I'll give them a double the principal."
"Hehe, they would naturally wish for such a good thing. This will definitely happen." Chen Feng started laughing.
Two days later, Chen Feng took out five hundred gold and gave it to Chen Yu, one year's worth of the principal's dividends, and every year after that, there would be such a good event. Naturally, the disciples of the Chen family would be very enthusiastic about it, thus, they originally only needed three hundred gold, but in the end, they raised five hundred gold.
Chen Yu expressed her gratitude to Chen Feng and then brought the money back to the restaurant. He was already an old man of the Chen family, and he had followed Chen Zhong for more than twenty years. Therefore, Chen Yu trusted him very much, and directly threw down two hundred gold coins for him to use.
Chen Yu was very busy, she ran back and forth between the cavalry and the restaurant. Fortunately, under Xu Qing and Dian Wei's training, the cavalry already had a rough idea of what they should look like, and the restaurant was nearing its end. In a week, they would open for business.
As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw the five big words of "Prosperous Entertainment Market". Chen Yu had considered the name, because the restaurant was no longer just a restaurant, but a selling pot, a happy place, so, when it was named "Entertainment Market", it was closer to the nature of the restaurant, giving people a new feeling of curiosity. As long as officials and nobles came, Chen Yu was confident that they could keep their hearts in place.
Entering the restaurant, he saw that below the restaurant was a large hall, the inside of the hall was partitioned into many rooms made of wood, the interior of the hall was decorated brilliantly, and the most rare thing was that the roof and walls of the hall were covered with mountain climbing tigers, the dark green leaves and flowers filling the hall with life.
Every single room was marked with a different name, such as the hall for making money, the hall for nobles, the hall for people, the hall for people, etc., and the decorations of each room matched the name, displaying different characteristics.
As he walked up the crimson staircase to the second floor, he saw that the second floor was separated into many rooms. Each room had a large bath, as well as several wooden buckets. Some of the bathrooms had small fish in them, some had milk in them, and some of the bathrooms had rose petals. There were two beautiful maids standing in each bathroom, ready to serve the customers at any time.
"It smells so good. I want to take a bath already." Dian Wei said.
"Haha, Hong Fei, Xu Qing, the two of you wash up first. It'll be like cutting the ribbon. I'll go to the third floor and take a look." Dian Wei and Xu Qing were standing at the side of a milk bathroom. Two maids came over and helped them undress and clean their bodies.
"They're really f * cking enjoying it." When Chen Yu came to the third floor and saw that there were some gambling tools on the third floor, in the Han Dynasty, gambling shops were banned at first, but only appeared in the recent few years. In the whole of Xu Chang City, there was only a small gambling house, and it was also not very big, and gambling houses like the Prosperous Entertainment Workshop were the first to appear. Moreover, there were many new gambling facilities designed by Chen Yu, such as nine cards, dice, and a turntable, all of which were things that had never appeared in this era before.