Chapter 108: Prelude (4)

"It's okay!" Wan Shijun just replied lightly.

Wan Shijun didn't say a word about the matter of placing Xu Chen at the night banquet in King Teng's Pavilion last time, as if there had never been such a thing, since the other party didn't mention it, Xu Chen naturally wouldn't say it. Both sides are people on the scene, and this kind of method of fighting behind the scenes and being affectionate on the surface is called a perfect game!

A few days ago, Xu Chen's invitation was sent to Wanjia, Wan Dezhao just flipped it over and threw it aside, Xu Chen's prediction was not wrong, the heads of these big families will not sell you the face of a little beggar, all the identities on Xu Chen's body together are not qualified to move them.

As for the so-called auction, it is even less in their eyes, you Xu Chen was still begging on the street some time ago, can you come up with something good that they haven't seen now? As for those new furniture, it will not be put in their eyes, like those weaker families still need to rely on these things to show their face, but a first-line family like Wanjia does not need those foreign things, even if there is no these, who in Yuzhang City dares to doubt the heritage of his Wanjia?

Therefore, for the arrival of these first-line families, Xu Chen has no hope today, and he doesn't need their participation in today's plan anyway. Huang Kai and Luo Xing were able to come, probably for the sake of the face of the teacher Xu Fan, as for Wan Shijun's visit, it was really a bit unexpected by Xu Chen.

In fact, Wan Shijun has been staying at home recently, there is nothing important about staying at home, the last defeat made him understand his own shortcomings, coupled with his father's proper teaching to him, so that he really learned a lot in failure, and he has been reflecting on life at home these days!

And the last time he fiddled with Xu Chen at the night banquet of King Teng's Pavilion, although it was indeed out of a trace of jealousy in his heart, I have to say that Wan Shijun's shot last time was really old, and his grasp of timing and choice of content were accurate. He is a smart person, but it was only because of his lack of practical experience that he lost last time, and now he has indeed matured a lot after being educated by his father.

This time, Xu Chen's invitation came to his hand, and after reading the invitation, he intuitively felt that Xu Chen's opening ceremony was a little unusual, and I am afraid that there were some other things hidden in it. Out of curiosity, Wan Shijun came and went today.

Xu Chen's enthusiasm was treated coldly by Wan Shijun, and the atmosphere on the field was also a little embarrassed for a while, after Luo Xing saw this, he immediately stood up to enliven the atmosphere, and said with a smile: "Haha, what are you doing standing here! Let's go in first, don't affect the people Boss Xu greets guests." ”

Luo Xing's words relieved Xu Chen, Xu Chen smiled, stretched out his hand to greet a guy, and sent the three of them to the elegant seat on the second floor. Today is a big day for the new store, Xu Chen stopped the business of Chongrenfang Restaurant and transferred all the guys to the new store, so although there are a lot of guests in the hotel recently, the hotel is still sufficient.

After Luo Xing and the three left, Lu Hao knew that the eldest brother must have something to ask and came up, and sure enough, when Xu Chen saw him coming, he immediately asked in a low voice: "Who was the surname Zhou just now?"

Now Xu Chen's brothers have begun to have their own clear division of labor, the third Tie Niu is still in charge of business matters, the warehouses and shops on Changshan Island and the workshops on East Lake and Huxin Island are all run by Tie Niu, Lao Si Zhou Kang is responsible for the training of the teenagers and the guards of Huxin Island and some important places at home, and the second Lu Hao is responsible for sorting out and analyzing the intelligence of various places and providing intelligence support when making plans with Xu Chen. As for the stones, the hair hasn't grown yet! Xu Chen naturally won't rest assured that he will be in charge alone.

The information sent by Zhu Da now needs to be reviewed by Lu Hao, after all, there are more and more things, and it is impossible for Xu Chen to do everything by himself. So for the origin of this strange young man surnamed Zhou, Xu Chen believes that Lu Hao should have some answers here.

"This person's name is Zhou Bin, and he is a master of building a foundation!" Sure enough, Lu Hao did not disappoint Xu Chen.

Seeing that the eldest brother was listening silently, Lu Hao continued: "Zhou Bin's Laozi is called Zhou Gang, and he is the leader of the army of Yuzhang County, the commander of Yuzhang Zhichong Mansion, and the general of Guide Zhonglang from the fourth grade. ”

Yuzhang County was originally the Hongzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which is a relatively typical military government, and the status of the warriors is still very high, and the number of troops is also quite large. Although Xuanzong changed it back to Yuzhang County and sent civilian officials to lead military and political affairs, in fact, Wang Xian, the nominal head of the military, did not have much prestige in the government army of Yuzhang County, and this Zhou Gang and Zhou Lang were the actual heads of the military of Yuzhang County.

Hearing this, Xu Chen frowned, he didn't know what he had done recently, and he actually provoked Zhou Gang, the first person in the military of Yuzhang County. Although it is not the early years of the dynasty, and the status of military generals has been suppressed a lot by civilian officials, it is not uncommon for people to kill people on the street! Military generals are far more direct than civilian officials, and they will not talk nonsense with you.

Xu Chen has a big head, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still can't figure out where he offended this Zhou Gang, this feeling of being suddenly targeted is really bad, but you can't be scared to pee your pants as soon as you hear someone's name, right?

"Heh, Zhou Gang, it turns out that his father's name is not Li Gang!" Xu Chen used such a sentence to dilute the trace of irritability in his heart.

Ignoring Lu Hao's puzzled eyes, Xu Chen regained his spirits and beckoned the guests......

Time flies quickly, just now the sky can still see a touch of the red halo of the setting sun, but now the light of the bright moon has also sprinkled the entire Yuzhang City.

Tonight's guests are almost here, those who sent invitations and can't come, most of them also replied with a congratulatory gift to apologize, and finally counted the number of people and gifts that came, and the invitation sent out at the beginning is not much different, Xu Chen will no longer wait, and directly instructed the shopkeeper Wang to start the opening ceremony of the new store.

The internal structure of the new store has not changed much compared with the old store in Chongrenfang, but Xu Chen has made some changes for tonight's ceremony, and there are rows of staggered round wooden tables in the hall on the first floor, which are not the kind of square arrangement, random and informal, but the empty passage in the middle can also allow the crowd to evacuate quickly, which is convenient and safe.

The height of each row of round tables is different, and Xu Chen directly added a wide platform like steps to the hall on the first floor, like a terrace, to ensure that the people at each table can clearly see the platform where Xu Chen is standing in front of him.

The second floor of the hotel is semi-circular, and the private seats are now blocked by curtains, and there is a wide aisle with a row of bars at the edge of the aisle that reaches just enough to reach the waist of an adult.

The platform where Xu Chen is located is like a singing stage set up, and there is a huge lantern hanging above the stage, the lantern is surrounded by a thin layer of light yarn, and everyone can only see the slightest light light through the light yarn, but the appearance of the whole lantern is not clear.

The stage has been set up, and the big drama prepared by Xu Chen tonight will also be launched here......

The first step of the ceremony, first Xu Chen, the host, came to the stage and said a lot of words of gratitude, and then, Xu Chen also arranged a ribbon-cutting ceremony that was the same as when the fish market opened last time, but this time the specifications were not a little higher than a star.

Xu Chen deliberately cleared Wang Xian to cut the ribbon on stage, although Wang Xian came in casual clothes, but the people he should know still recognized him, and he also wanted to sell a few more people to Xu Chen, so that he could slowly return it, so he readily agreed. As soon as Wang Xian appeared, Xu Chen would not say anything more to the other guests he invited again.

After a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony was completed, Xu Chen ordered someone to lift a huge crockpot up, Xu Chen gently stroked the crockpot, and said to the audience everyone: "Today, the opening ceremony of our store, thanks to all of you for your face, I would like to express my deep gratitude to you, in order to thank you for coming, I have prepared a jar of wine for you just now, and you will be invited to taste it for free!"

"What is this kid going to do?" In a private room on the second floor, Xu Chen's teacher Xu Fan saw that his disciple was performing so hard again, and his previous experience told him that Xu Chen was going to prepare to pit people again.

The curtain in the private room on the second floor is specially made, and it seems that you can't see the situation inside from the outside, but the people sitting in the inner room can clearly see the outside through the gap in the curtain, especially Xu Chen, who is under the huge lantern, and the reluctant expression on his face is clearly telling sΓΉ Xu Fan, he is going to pit people again!

Xu Chen had reluctance on his face, but he resolutely slapped the mud seal on the crockpot, and suddenly the rich aroma of wine spread. This stage is specially made by Xu Chen, and on both sides of the stage, Xu Chen deliberately added two large wooden boat pulp to hide in two large wooden boxes standing upright. Now that the mud seal was opened, the guy hiding under the stage made the wood pulp start to turn, and the aroma of the wine quickly spread out along the wind brought by the rotation of the wood pulp, and got into the noses of the wine worms.

"Good wine!"

"Good wine!"

"Haha, just by smelling the taste, you know it's good wine!"

"Xu boy! Hurry! Fill it up for me!"

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As the aroma of wine spreads, the whole hotel is boiling, and the noise is almost like the roof is about to be lifted!

Xu Chen hurriedly instructed the guys to bring the porcelain bowls, and poured out the wine in the clay pot one by one, looking cautious, as if they didn't want to waste a drop of wine, while the anxiously waiting guests kept swallowing saliva on the seat, but Xu Chen's movements were so slow......

"Xu boy, why are you so fucking slow! Hurry up and bring the wine to Lao Tzu!" This is a big man who is anxious, a pair of bull's eyes staring directly at the crockpot on the table, eager to rush up immediately!

"Wang Fatty, what are you yelling about, can you order such a good wine accidentally! If you quarrel with Xu Gongzi and waste the wine, Lao Tzu will not finish with you!" another anxious person stood up, but he understood Xu Chen very well in words.

The atmosphere in the field is very hot, there are few bad wines in this era, but the degree of wine is not high this year, you have to treat the wine as if it were boiled water, so drink it for a few days and nights to enjoy it, but the wine is made of grain, except for those wealthy families, who can drink so crazy?

So seeing the appearance of such a jar of good wine, even these noble guests on the second floor were a little unable to sit still, except for Xu Fan, of course! Teacher Xu saw that the apprentice was there again to use the means of wanting to capture and indulge, and then thinking about the "free" words just now, he almost guessed Xu Chen's purpose.

Seeing that the atmosphere was almost mobilized, Xu Chen hurriedly sped up the speed in his hand, and after a while, the guys brought the porcelain bowls containing wine to the guests.

The anxious guests who had been waiting for a long time hurriedly stood up, rushed to the guys, stretched out their hands and carefully picked up a bowl of wine, watched the white wine flow in the white porcelain bowl, and sniffed deeply, before they could drink it, they were already drunk.

After pouring the liquor from the porcelain bowl, when the burning sensation of a knife extended from the throat to the stomach, most of the drunkards had tears in their eyes.

"Hahahaha, what wine!"

This sentence was shouted with tears......

Of course, the hotel is not all about this kind of sadness and joy.

Teacher Xu on the second floor took a sip of the porcelain bowl with a tense face, and the expression on his face suddenly stiffened. It's not moving! It's not surprise! It's an urge to resist scolding!

"Holy shit......! He actually mixed it with water!"