Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 722 Li You's First Floor

When Li Mingda's carriage entered Dengzhou, he didn't need to be checked, just entered directly. You only need to walk for about 10 minutes on the main road of Dengzhou, and you will see a remarkable building complex.

This building complex is a courtyard-style building group composed of five three-story pavilions in the east, west, page, north and middle.

In terms of layout, it adopts the form of east-west vertical buildings extending in depth.The east building is a store facing the street.

The roof of the east building is composed of 4 nine-ridge halls (Xieshan style), 30 wing corners, and 12 roof ridges to form a whole roof.

This is Dengzhou's Gold Cave, the first floor!
The behind-the-scenes owner of the first floor is of course Dengzhou King Li You. Since Dengzhou developed into a central port of trade, a large number of wealthy merchants began to gather in Dengzhou.

In order to empty the money of these wealthy merchants, Li You also took great pains. He built casinos, amusement parks, hotels and many other entertainment venues successively. The first floor also came into being at this time.

The first floor is not only gorgeous and spectacular, but every night, the lights and candles are brightly lit, which makes the "lights on the first floor" a grand sight in Dengzhou.More importantly, strictly speaking, this restaurant is not a pure restaurant for banquets. She has the first-class geisha in the Tang Dynasty.

According to the regulations of the Tang Dynasty, geishas were allowed to accompany wine, banquets, tours, sing and dance, and play and sing, so they were called geisha, not prostitutes. Serving woman.

There is a fundamental difference between a prostitute.

The geisha on the first floor are all beautiful and talented, but you can only watch from a distance and not play with them. If you dare to play with them, you must be prepared to have your legs broken.

These geisha are all good at singing, dancing, calligraphy and painting, they are gentle and considerate, with smiles all over their faces. Many gentry sent money to them with all their might. Li You, a villain from modern times, started the game of voting for the most beautiful oiran again.

If you want to support the geisha in your mind to become an oiran, you have to buy snowflakes made of silver. One snowflake is worth the money. The most oiran received 100 million silver snowflakes directly. Just tell me how much it costs Bar.

Of course, apart from these, the service, food, and environment on the first floor are all the best.

Li Yin got down from Li Mingda's four-wheeled carriage and looked up at the first floor in front of him. The first floor in Dengzhou is three stories high, and there are two stone foundations below it. The total height is five stories. .

This height can be regarded as very impressive in Dengzhou, and the surrounding street view is unobstructed.

The restaurant is not only tall, but also has a very "magnificent" decoration on the facade.

In front of the gate, long wooden poles are used to build the "Cailou Huanmen" which is as high as the building. On each floor, a mountain-shaped flower stand is built, decorated with flower and bird ornaments, and silk tassels are hung under the eaves, which is exquisite and gorgeous.

At the entrance or on the roof of the restaurant, there are also towering "Wangzi", also known as "green curtain" or "wine flag", mostly made of blue and white cloth, with restaurant advertisements written on it, which can be seen from a long distance.

In addition, a row of wooden fences will be installed on both sides of the gate of high-end restaurants to block pedestrians and carriages. This special fence is called "cabinet fork". The brand name of the building is high.

When you come to the door of the restaurant, don't panic, pretend to be a regular customer, and walk in steadily.

There will be two handsome young men greeting you at the door, which is equivalent to today's doorman welcoming guests.

"Wearing a square-shaped turban on their heads, a purple shirt, and silk shoes and clean socks on their feet", they bowed their heads and guided you to your seat.

If you want to experience the hustle and bustle of the market, just sit in the lobby.There are many tables of different sizes in the hall, called "Zotou".If you want to have a private conversation with your friends while eating, you can go upstairs to the "Ge Er", which is a private room.

Of course, Li Yin and his party went to the box. Li Yin is also familiar with the road, because he has been here about two or three times, but even Li Yin has not been here many times. After all, the price here is a bit scary.

After being seated, the first person to serve is "Guomai", that is, the guy who orders food.

Overselling is very discerning and has a very good memory.After ordering for you, he will sing the ordered dishes to "Dangtou", the head chef.The two cooperate very well, and all dishes only need to be sung once.

Next, the bartender who is in charge of ordering drinks will come to serve you.

You must know that only the first floor has bartenders, and other Datang restaurants do not have such services. However, unlike modern restaurants, food and wine are ordered separately on the first floor, and Guomai and bartenders perform their duties to ensure service. professional.

In fact, this is also Li You's bad point, just to make more money, hee hee.!

After ordering the food and wine, take a short rest, and the "hand (xínɡ) disher" will serve you.

These food handlers are unique in serving dishes. They hold three bowls in their left hand and can hold twenty bowls with their right arms, and they are guaranteed not to make mistakes.High-end restaurants have extremely high requirements for service quality. If the name of the dish is reported wrongly or the dish is served on the wrong table, the waiter will be deducted from wages or even fired.

After the dishes are served, it will be the turn of "Dr. Measuring Wine".

Although they are called doctors, they are not scholars, but waiters in charge of making, measuring and screening wine.Doctor is everyone's respectful title for their profession, similar to "Mr. Tony" in today's barber shop.

In the process of serving wine and food, they will not be idle even if they are oversold. They will observe the changes in the dishes on the table and keep changing dishes for you.

When you raise your glass to drink, you will be replaced with "xie choi", that is, hors d'oeuvres.After changing the fine dishes, the high-end famous dishes will come on stage, making your eating and drinking throughout the meal very layered.

In addition to eating and drinking on the first floor, there are also delivery boys who will always wait by the first floor, waiting for the opportunity to provide customers with paid errand services.If you want to add some outside dishes, the takeaway brother will help you buy it, which is equivalent to today's food delivery brother.

It can be seen from this that the management of the restaurant on the first floor is very generous, and it does not "refuse to bring your own drinks".

When you're drunk, is there anyone to cheer you up?

Of course there are.

In order to provide customers with a full range of services on the first floor, singers were allowed to perform in the restaurant, which was called "catch up" at the time.The common performing arts are playing and singing, and there are also blowing flute, playing Ruan, gongs and boards, and Sanshu.When the guests tasted the delicious food and wine, they "ordered the singers to sing at will, even if the banquet lasted until Dan, they would never tire of it."

But the price is also very beautiful, at least ten pennies at a time, hey, this is the kind of money you earn, the goal of making money on the first floor is very clear, it is the money of the rich, if you don’t have money, then don’t come first floor.

Li Yin, Li Mingda, Li Xiang, Li Jue, and Li Heng spent a total of 320 guan for a meal. To be honest, when paying the money, Li Yin's heart was bleeding.

I kept asking for the money, I am the younger brother of King Qi Li You, can I get a discount, there is no way, the accountant had to waive [-] guan, this time I paid a total of [-] guan, it is really terrible.

(End of this chapter)