"Oh, Mr. Meng, are you here to visit us? Or is it that private room?"

As soon as they walked in, the waiter greeted them with a flattering face.

"Ah."

Meng Yu responded softly.

"Okay, you two are invited upstairs, two distinguished guests, private room No. 8 on the third floor."

The waiter hunched over and led the two of them to the stairs, then shouted to the people upstairs.

Deng Qiuzhi followed Meng Yu to the private room on the third floor.

As soon as they opened the door, they saw two maids bowing to them.

There was tea on the table, which was still piping hot. As soon as he sat down, two maids handed him a wet towel each.

The towels are also hot.

The two wiped their hands.

The maid took away the dirty towels and poured them tea.

Serve a fruit platter.

Then he stood aside and said nothing.

The private room is large.

It is completely incomparable with the private rooms of Yanxia Restaurant. One can only put down tables and chairs, while the other is like two rooms and one living room.

There are even beds for guests to take a break.

There is a guzheng in the room.

I guess I can even order some music to listen to.

It's no different from a brothel.

It was indeed a top-notch restaurant. Although Deng Qiuzhi had a little money, he had never been to a place like this. He timidly picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Shopkeeper Deng, I wonder if you can give me a recommendation. I also want to cooperate with Yan's pastry shop."

Meng Yu asked without beating around the bush.

He took a fancy to Yan's pastry shop and observed it for several days.

Although the family was not short of money, he would not be able to spend it all even if he lay down and spent several lifetimes.

But.....

Meng Yu's eyes flashed slightly. He was the second son of the family.

Originally he was the eldest son, but when his father became rich, he brought back a woman and a child, whom he said were his sweethearts. The child was older than him and was his father's eldest son.

This operation pissed his mother off to death.

The woman came to power and became his stepmother.

She is also the eldest lady of the Meng family.

His shady 'brother' became the eldest son.

After losing his mother at the age of eight and being raised by his sweet-faced and cruel stepmother, Meng Yu became a famous playboy.

He doesn't love literature or practice martial arts. He only knows how to eat, drink and have fun with his friends.

On the contrary, Meng Zhangting, the eldest son of the Meng family, has a good reputation. He took over the Meng family's Wanhua Building when he was 14 years old and managed it well.

Although he could not take the scientific examination as the son of a businessman, he could compose a poem in five steps, his handwriting was good, and his literary talent was not inferior to that of a scholar.

Meng Yu's father, Meng Qianguan, was originally famous.

He became a boy student at the age of 10 and passed the examination as a scholar at the age of 13. However, when he was 15 years old, he was deprived of his title as a scholar because he was involved in a question-buying scandal and was not allowed to take any more scientific examinations for life.

Meng Qianguan was born in a farm family. His father died when he was young, and his widowed mother raised him by washing clothes for neighbors. After this incident, his only widowed mother also passed away, so he simply married into the Bai family.

He became a door-to-door son-in-law.

The Bai family is a native of Jiangnan County and runs a teahouse. Business is good on weekdays.

There is only one daughter, Bai Mushuang.

Meng Qianguansheng was handsome, had taken the imperial examination, and was naturally very talented in literature. He pretended to meet Bai Muchuan by chance and captured her heart with a love poem, and the two fell in love at first sight.

In addition, Meng Qianguan is willing to be the son-in-law.

But in March, they got married.

Meng Qianguan had a sweet mouth and was good at coaxing people. When Bai Mushuang gave birth to Meng Yu in the third year after their marriage, he coaxed the two elders of the Bai family into taking over the teahouse.

Within half a year, revenue doubled several times.

The two elders of the Bai family passed away due to illness one after another. Meng Qianguan simply sold the teahouse at a high price and opened the Wanhua Tower.

Just four years.

He became a wealthy businessman known to everyone in Jiangnan County.

Then he opened restaurants, banks, pharmacies, etc.

Covers almost all industries.

He also became the richest man in Jiangnan County.

After marrying his sweetheart Xu Lianrou, he taught his eldest son all his knowledge and business methods.

But he ignored his youngest son Meng Yu.

Only money to spend, no education.

Meng Yu is eighteen this year.

I planned to live like this for the rest of my life.

But who would have known that in the middle of last month, his stepmother was going to marry a silly niece from her mother's family to him.

Of course Meng Yu refused, but what he got was a severe beating from his own father.

He also threatened to ask him not to think about the Meng family property. At most, he would be given a house and a hundred acres of land in the suburbs after marriage, but nothing else.

Meng Yu wanted to laugh.

His biological father seemed to be fascinated by his stepmother.

That's a fool!

He was allowed to marry a fat, ugly, drooling fool, was it just to please his stepmother?

On May 1st, Meng Yu left the Meng family with Xiaochuan, his slave who had been serving him since childhood.

Nothing was taken away, only his mother's private property, a shop in the Bai family and mother's jewelry.

He kept a hairpin that his mother often wore as a souvenir, and sold the rest.

Got three hundred taels.

Fortunately, his father was rich enough and the stepmother looked down upon these three melons and two dates, otherwise she would not be able to keep her private property.

Meng Yu is not as dandy as he appears. He has had a photographic memory since he was sensible. Also, how could such good genes produce a fool.

Bai Mushuang is a well-known talented girl, and Meng Qianguan was admitted as a scholar at the age of thirteen.

The children born will naturally have extremely high IQs.

His thoughts drifted back, Meng Yu looked at Deng Qiuzhi in front of him and said again.

"Don't worry, even if I open a branch, it will be at the end of the city. It will take half an hour to get there by horse-drawn carriage. I won't steal your business."

"Master, don't be anxious. Shopkeeper Yan will come to Jiangnan County in two days. I will be my host then, and you must reward me."

Both of them are straight men.

A conversation that should have lasted an hour ended in just three sentences.

"Okay, thank you shopkeeper Deng——"

Meng Yu's eyes were full of surprise.

He didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

The waiter came in with two menus. Meng Yu ordered five dishes and Deng Qiuzhi ordered three.

One lunch cost eighty taels of silver.

Meng Yu's balance was reduced by one-third.

But he felt it was worth it.

After drinking and eating, Deng Qiuzhi returned to the shop with a note on his waist that wrote Meng Yu's address.

When shopkeeper Yan came to Jiangnan County, he asked Xin Bao to call Mr. Meng to the address.

The next day, two more people came to the door.

One was also asking for a recommendation, and the other actually wanted to buy a secret recipe from him.

"I'm sorry, our store doesn't have a secret recipe. Our branches only purchase goods and don't make pastries."

Rejected the second person.

The first person’s address was left.

May 10th.

Yan Xia followed Qian Yi to Jiangnan County.

"Shopkeeper Yan, this is the account book. Please check it. It's 1600 taels in total."

It was dark outside the shop.

After the meal, the two handed over the accounts.

Yan Xia quickly read through it and took the money.

"Shopkeeper Yan, do you want to pay for the goods now, or do you want to receive them every 10 days as usual?"

"Collect it every ten days. It won't be difficult to reconcile the accounts. You just have some money left on you in case it comes in handy."

Yan Xia said nonchalantly.

She could trust Deng Qiuzhi's character.

The purchase money for 10 days is nothing more than a thousand taels. If Deng Qiuzhi ran away for just a thousand taels, then she would be considered blind.

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