Chapter 167 Opening the Royal Milk Tea Shop

Xiao Yunzhou stayed in Changchun Palace for nearly an hour.

Fruit tea, five or six kinds of tribute fruits, put together in the clear tea soup, chopped peaches, apples, citrus... tender pink and yellow, dyeing the green tea soup into a jewel-like color.

Poured into a newly fired transparent glass cup, it looks beautiful.

The smell of fruit and tea is refreshing, and it tastes refreshing and slightly sweet. It is even more refreshing and clear after being iced.

If Xiao Yunzhou had not been for health and longevity, he might not have stopped.

But in the end he still cherished his blessings and looked at Concubine Liu and the others, "I think it tastes good, you can try it too."

He divided this mixed fruit tea between Cheng Gan and Cheng Shan, and also took a golden spoon to dip some fruit juice to moisten Xiao Chuchu's mouth.

But the children's tea was not iced, and Xiao Yunzhou was also afraid that they were young and had poor spleen and stomach, and would get sick after eating.

After a while, several people finished the fruit tea on the table.

Liu Channiang and Minpin were still using small golden spoons to scoop out the fruit pieces in the glass cups.

From time to time, they would give Chuchu a small bite.

"I thought this orange was just average before, but after mixing it with the tea fragrance, it turned out to be quite good." Minpin, a person who doesn't like to eat vegetarian food, has begun to love fruit tea.

"I like grapes." Chengshan also has his own taste.

He asked Qiuli to make him a separate portion on the spot, "Just this crystal grape, don't put anything else."

[Hehe, separate grapes, isn't that the succulent grapes from Heytea~]

Xiao Chuchu blinked, [My sixth brother really knows how to eat.]

Xiao Yunzhou listened and looked at his sixth son with rare appreciation, "I also want a separate crystal grape."

[If strawberries are on the market, I also want to drink Zhizhi strawberries~]

Xiao Chuchu pondered.

[By the way, peaches taste good alone~]

Xiao Yunzhou silently noted his daughter's preference, and hurriedly said to Qiuli, "Give me one portion of these fruits alone, with milk."

Drinking milk is smart, he remembered what his daughter said.

Usually, drinking alone is a bit greasy and smelly, but today Xiao Yunzhou feels that he can drink it every day.

In a short time, most of the things on the eight-immortal table were tried by Xiao Yunzhou and his friends.

Xiao Chuchu was too lazy to point at the table later.

On the table, some are modern milk tea ingredients, and some are masterpieces that Liu Channiang, Minpin, and Cheng Shan asked the kitchen and the tea room to send, such as crystal balls, osmanthus cakes,... fermented rice, mung beans, jujube paste, longan, etc.

Liu Channiang and Xiao Yunzhou could hear their daughter's voice, and the combination was relatively conservative, more like traditional milk tea.

Cheng Gan was not fond of sweets, and stopped after a few cups of tea.

On the contrary, Minpin and Chengshan enjoyed it very much. Seeing that Chuchu was tired, they played with their own ideas and put all kinds of things into the milk tea.

In addition to honey and syrup, there were even salt alone...

It was really crooked, "Hey, this salty milk tea is also delicious~"

[Awoo, this is called sea salt milk tea! ]

Xiao Chuchu laughed and grabbed Minpin's hand and forced a small golden spoon to drink.

Chengshan was even more amazing. He put all the red beans, mung beans, coix seeds, glutinous rice, taro balls... sent from the kitchen into the milk tea.

[Awoo, it's a family milk tea! ]

Xiao Chuchu watched from the side and was very happy.

After one or two rounds, basically everyone had mastered the rules.

It's hard to go wrong with sweet on sweet.

The combination of sweet and salty is a bit risky.

Some of Minpin's devilish combinations, such as milk tea with spicy, Xiao Chuchu kept her mouth shut and didn't want to try them at all.

The good-tempered Liu Channiang kept declining.

When the table was almost empty, everyone drank enough water and ate enough food.

"For dinner, have something easy to digest."

Xiao Yunzhou patted Liu Channiang's hand and gave Cheng Shan, who ate the most, a sharp look.

"You can't give these to the little princess often in the future. She's still young. You can only taste them occasionally..."

As he was talking, Wei Zheng, who was happily drinking milk tea, noticed the figure of a little eunuch swaying outside the window.

Wei Zheng frowned and quietly walked out, "What's the matter? Didn't you see that the emperor and the little princess were having fun?"

"Wei Anda, the Ministry of Rites has received news that Duoti wrote a letter about the rescue of Sangtu and sent it back to the grassland."

"Sangda Khan is very happy and is willing to thank him with 500 cattle and sheep. He also hopes to send two grassland doctors to Jingguo to learn medical skills in the spring. The tuition fee will be calculated separately."

Wei Zheng did not dare to delay and hurried to inform Xiao Yunzhou.

Xiao Yunzhou could not help but look at the sleepy little princess.

The strategy of conquering Duoti, a heroic figure, not only improved the national strength of Jingguo, but also more closely connected the relationship between Jingguo and Wu Yunguo.

Xiao Yunzhou sighed and did not stay any longer, "I will go back to the imperial study to handle official business. You can rest."

He did not dare to rest too much now.

Otherwise, wouldn't the little princess's painstaking advice be in vain?

"Go and call back Jiang Li from the Ministry of Revenue."

"And the Cabinet."

"The Imperial Kitchen."

…

“This roast duck wrap, with sweet sauce, is really delicious.”

Two handsome ‘young men’ who look very similar, feasting in a Beijing roast duck restaurant.

“Do it yourself, it’s quite interesting.”

“Xiaoyuan, you should try it soon.”

“It’s really interesting, there are also duck bones to eat dry, duck bones soup… one duck can be eaten in three ways.”

“This is the first time I’ve eaten a duck without any smell of mutton, and it’s so plump.”

“That’s true, Miss, no, Master, you didn’t eat duck meat at home before.”

“Yes, if the peddler hadn’t praised Jingguo roast duck to the sky, I wouldn’t want to try it.”

“Pack these up and take them away for dinner, I really can’t eat anymore now.”

The two ‘beautiful young men’ were ready to leave, but the maids around them were hesitant to speak.

"Miss, I just passed by Jingguo Money Bank. They said that if you deposit ten, you will get twelve back. I don't know if it's true or not. Will we come again next year? I kind of want to..."

"Xiaoyuan, be careful. We are here to study. See more, eat more, and listen more. Don't spend money on things you are not sure about. If a war breaks out, it's hard to say what will happen to the money bank."

The two beauties of Chu State ate roast duck and burped. They were satisfied, but they were still not optimistic about Jingguo Money Bank.

"Grandfather said that even if Jingguo has established diplomatic relations with Wu Yunguo, its national strength is still not as good as our Chu State."

"The Jingguo treasury may be very empty, so they thought of this method of temporarily borrowing money from the people."

Xiao Yunzhou in the palace didn't expect that the operation ideas of the money bank would be guessed by the two beauties of Chu State.

"Xiao Yuan, Jingguo Money House can survive in the short term, but it may be difficult to turn around in the long term. It's easy for you to deposit the money, but it's hard to take it out again."

The maid accompanying the two compatriots 'young masters' was so scared that she dared not even think about saving money.

"Thank you for your reminder, young master! Otherwise, I almost lost my wallet! It turns out that the money house is run by the emperor of Jingguo and cheats the people's money!"

But as soon as she finished speaking, the scholar at the table next to her stood up angrily, his face extremely ugly.

"Two young masters, are you Chu people who have studied here?"

"Since you are Chu people, how can you make arbitrary assertions without understanding the situation of my Jingguo!"

The blue-clothed scholar who spoke had a black birthmark on the left corner of his forehead, which looked quite scary.

It was none other than Zheng Qiru.

That day outside Zhengyang Gate, the talented man with an intelligence of 99 was favored by Xiao Chuchu.

Xiao Yunzhou treated Zheng Qiru, who had always felt inferior because of his ugly appearance, with courtesy that day, and he was deeply moved and decided to serve the court for the rest of his life.

So at this moment, when Zheng Qiru heard these two handsome scholars from Chu say that the Emperor of Jing was cheating and that Jingguo Money Bank was wrong, he was really angry and couldn't help but come out to refute.

"Two gentlemen, do you dare to bet with me that within three days, there will be merchants from Chu who are willing to trade with my Jingguo Money Bank!"

The two beautiful "talented men" were startled, but soon laughed, "Why not!"

*

In the imperial study.

Xiao Yunzhou put down the memorial of 500 cattle and sheep presented by Wu Yunguo, skipped the Ministry of Rites, and his eyes fell directly on Jiang Li of the Ministry of Revenue.

Finally, he looked at Liao, the chief steward of the imperial kitchen, who was confused.

"Ashamed."

"Ministry of Revenue, Kitchen!"

Xiao Yunzhou raised his head and sighed, "I am ashamed for you."

Ministry of Revenue Jiang Li, Imperial Kitchen Manager Liao: "......?"

The emperor went crazy again.

Didn't he just receive the gift from the grassland and have tea with the little princess? The emperor should be in a good mood.

They don't understand why they are ashamed again!

"These 500 cattle and sheep, and even the cattle and sheep transactions brought by the spring trade, Ministry of Revenue, how do you plan to deal with these large quantities of grassland cattle and sheep, have you thought about it?"

"Kitchen, now the Ministry of Revenue stipulates that all large expenditures must report project profits and budgets. Do you have any profitable projects this year?"

Ministry of Revenue Jiang Li and Imperial Kitchen Manager Liao were both confused by the question.

These cattle and sheep had just arrived, of course they had no time to think about it.

The Imperial Kitchen in the palace has always been responsible for food expenses, with only money flowing out of purchases and no income.

Profitable project, does it mean that the kitchen will ask the harem for money for cooking in the future?

Both of them were stunned.

Xiao Yunzhou slammed the table, "I don't even have the face to say anything to you!"

"???"

"?!"

Xiao Yunzhou's words were not interrogative, but affirmative, "My little princess is only four months old, and she has figured out a way to make money from this batch of cattle and sheep, and a way to make the imperial kitchen profitable!"

"How old are you, are you ashamed?!"

"..."

"!"

"Listen, I want to open a royal milk tea shop."