As early as three days ago, all the wealthy families in Buffalo City, except the Sun Mansion, had received Su Qiutong's invitation.

With the help of Su Qiuting's influence, all 38 tables and eight private rooms in Wenxianglou were fully booked one day in advance.

Widow Zhou and Widow Xu were also busy during this period. They trained eight of Su Qiuting's sold-out slaves to be chefs.

At Chu Wen's suggestion, the team divided the tasks of butchering and washing, cutting, preparing side dishes, cooking, steaming, serving and waiting, and recruited nearly fifty employees.

Moreover, for the first time, they hired sixteen female waiters, two of whom were responsible for front desk reception, eight were responsible for the private rooms upstairs, and six were responsible for welcoming and seeing off guests.

These women were all under the age of 20 and came from poor families. Su Qiutong specially had someone train them in etiquette for a month.

Chu Wen personally designed three outfits for them and also taught them some hospitality skills.

At that time, wages were not high. The monthly salary of waiters in other restaurants was only about 600 wen, while the waiters in Wenxiang Tower were given a monthly salary of one tael of silver plus a monthly bonus.

Widow Zhou and Widow Xu were appointed by Chu Wen as executive chefs, in charge of kitchen and logistics affairs.

Su Qiutong was appointed as lobby manager, in charge of wiki and financial matters.

The old monk is responsible for the supply of drinks.

Before the You hour, there were loud gongs and drums and firecrackers in front of Wenxiang Tower, as well as lion dance performances and wedding candies being thrown.

Soon hundreds of people gathered, blocking the west street of the city.

The You hour had arrived, and a fierce drum beat rang out. Then, more than a dozen drummers pressed the drumheads at the same time, and the scene suddenly became quiet.

Chu Wen pushed the door open with his three sisters and stood in front of the door. Immediately, someone familiar greeted them loudly.

Chu Wen and Su Qiutong responded with a smile and a wave, causing a commotion at the scene, with women screaming from time to time.

Chu Wen bowed to the crowd, smiling and said happily:

"Dear elders, distinguished guests, dear friends, good afternoon!"

After he said this, the crowd cheered, especially the women.

Many of the men were whispering to each other, wondering how could Feng Yin, a mere scholar, appear at the restaurant opening ceremony.

Then Chu Wen said loudly:

"I am standing here with great excitement. First of all, I would like to express my warmest welcome and sincerest gratitude to everyone for taking the time out of their busy schedules to attend the opening ceremony of my Three Sisters Restaurant!"

After this was said, there was a lot of discussion at the scene.

Su Qiutong is somewhat famous in Buffalo, not only because of her beauty, but also because of her special identity.

Everyone was asking each other when Su Qiuting became Feng Yin Jushi's sister and who the other two women were.

Sun Shangwu was also in the crowd. He had long known that Su Qiutong was going to open a restaurant, but Su Qiutong had always kept the details from him.

I only found out today that Brother Feng Yin has become Su Qiuting's younger brother.

Sun Shangwu was full of doubts.

What the hell is going on?

When did these two hook up?

After the crowd calmed down a bit, Chu Wen continued:

"Today, after months of preparation, the Wenxianglou of Three Sisters finally opened. As a restaurant dedicated to providing high-quality dining experience and first-class service, Three Sisters continues to innovate and develop dozens of delicious dishes, striving to let all guests experience unique and novel flavors. At the same time, the restaurant launched an exclusive new wine called Shaodaozi, and everyone is welcome to taste it."

These words caused another round of discussion.

One was about the three women creating their own dishes, and the other was about the strange name of the new wine.

Sun Shangwu was completely confused after hearing this. Didn't he know what kind of person Su Qiuting was? She was a person who had never done any housework. It would be incredible if she could come up with new dishes.

Su Qiutong and the two widows all looked at Chu Wen when they heard this. They didn't expect that Chu Wen would take credit for the innovative dish.

Chu Wen continued, "Here, I want to promise on behalf of my three sisters that Wenxianglou will continue to innovate, carefully select fresh ingredients, and cook delicious dishes, striving to create an ideal space for everyone to enjoy food and exchange emotions. Finally, I would like to thank all the guests today again, and sincerely wish you all good health, good luck, peace and happiness!"

After he finished speaking, Su Qiutong and the old monk in the crowd took the lead in applauding, and soon the whole audience burst into applause.

Amidst the applause and cheers, Widow Xu and Widow Zhou tore off the red cloth on both sides of the gate, and Su Qiuting tore off the red cloth covering the plaque.

Everyone looked up and saw three large gold-plated characters of "Wen Xiang Lou" engraved on a huge nanmu plaque.

There is a couplet inscribed on both sides of the gate.

First couplet: When you smell the fragrance, you should dismount.

Second line: I wish to get drunk and climb the tower

Judging from the handwriting, it was obviously written by Feng Yin Jushi himself.

Then, drums sounded, and fifty shop assistants walked out of Wenxiang Tower.

There were both male and female workers, all wearing uniform, new and different styles of work clothes. They lined up in five neat rows, and bowed to the crowd on the street.

This surprised everyone, and not just at the novel styles of the guys' clothes.

What is even more surprising is that a restaurant has fifty waiters. The commission alone is not a small amount of money. Who can guarantee that the restaurant business will be prosperous every day?

The next part was welcoming guests. Because the restaurant had already been fully booked and was not accepting individual customers today, many guests were turned away.

Entering the gate of Wenxiang Tower, you will see a white wall in front of you, on which is written a poem in the form of flying dragons and dancing phoenixes:

Wine

“Have you not seen that the water of rivers comes from the sky, rushes to the sea and never returns.”

"Don't you see, the bright mirror in the high hall has sad white hair, and it looks like blue silk in the morning and turns to snow in the evening."

"You must be happy in life, and don't let the golden bottle face the moon."

"I was born to be useful, and I will come back after the money is gone."

"It is fun to cook sheep and slaughter oxen, and you will have to drink three hundred cups at a time."

"Friends in the mountains, guests in the water, let's drink, don't stop."

"Sing a song with you, please listen to it for me."

"Bells, drums, delicacies and jade are not expensive, but I hope I will stay drunk and not wake up."

"In ancient times, all the sages were lonely, but only the drinkers left their names."

"Heroes and heroes raised their cups together, drank ten thousand cups of wine and enjoyed themselves."

"What does the master say about the lack of money? It's up to you to decide what to sell."

"A horse with five colors and a fur coat worth thousands of gold. I'll call my son to go out and exchange it for good wine, so that we can share our eternal sorrow."

All the guests stopped in front of this poem, and the receptionist was responsible for introducing the simplified Chinese pronunciation.

Many people can recognize this unique writing style as the handwriting of Feng Yin Jushi.

If the receptionist cannot recognize you, she will naturally give you a prompt reminder.

Everyone who has read this poem praises it as the best piece of poetry to encourage drinking in history.

Especially this line in the poem "Why does the host say that he has little money? I must buy some wine to drink with you", which makes the host feel very excited.

After watching it, people usually say: "Okay! I won't go home until I'm drunk today!"

Let me translate this sentence for you:

Why should the host worry about not having enough money? Just go buy some wine and we can drink together, don't worry about the cost.

Let’s just say whether Li Bai is a bad guy or not.

Tang Meng wore the cheongsam tailored for her by the county magistrate

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