Chapter 36: Dreams
Duanju Street is adjacent to Mingji Street, which is connected to Xiling Road, one of the four main roads of the imperial capital, in the east, and Mingyue Lane, which sells rouge and jewelry in the west, is one of the main roads for merchants to and from Shendu. Although the drunken building occupies the entrance to the street, the meals and prices are also extremely cheap, but the merchants come and go in a hurry, and it takes more than three minutes to walk at the head of the street where the drunken building is located and the end of the street that connects with Mingyue Lane, and even if you ride a horse or take a car, it will take nearly a moment, which is absolutely impossible for the tired and most of the merchants who are in a hurry.
And at this time, in the middle of the street, there happens to be a restaurant, the food does not need to be compared with the non-drunk building, as long as it is not unpalatable, and has its own characteristics, and the price is appropriate, then these merchants may be more willing to settle here, do not have to walk hungry for more than a quarter of time to eat.
Moreover, these merchants traveled from south to north, and compared to the people in the capital, they knew it, and these merchants also knew. What they don't know, these merchants still know. ”
Xufu
Zheng Yan Pavilion
Outside the warm pavilion on the first floor, Liu's mother was guarding the door. In the warm pavilion, Chu Dai was helping Xu Youshan remove the hairpin ring, and while listening with his ears pricked up, Wu Lin said everything he saw today and what Wu Chou said to Xu Youshan in a slow voice.
"This idea is good, but it can't be that Wu Chou is the only one who thinks of it, right?"
But why is the restaurant on the street still closed?
After Chu Dai removed all the jewelry on her head, Xu Youshan glanced at the black face in the mirror, frowned and left the black lacquer ivory carved plum blossom makeup mirror, and walked behind the screen to ask Wu Lin to change her clothes.
"The opening time of the non-drunk building is not long, but it is a novelty on this street, and the price is very low, causing most people to go to see the excitement. If other restaurants want to snatch these customers back, they have to do a loss-making business at a low price, but how many restaurants with small businesses on this street can afford it? It's only been a few months, and it's all closed. ”
Wu Lin replied while serving Xu Youshan with his hands and feet neatly to change into a Shu brocade robe embroidered with gardenias.
"Oh, then Wu Chou means that he wants me to carry this loss-making business!" Xu Youshan chuckled.
Wu Lin hurriedly said: "Second Miss Hui, that stinky boy doesn't dare to think like this no matter how bold he is, he asked the old slave to return to you, there are still a lot of materials left for him, and he promises to return the restaurant to its original capital before the money is used up." ”
The most important thing in doing business is word-of-mouth and passenger flow, now the non-drunk building has been open for more than a month, and the novelty is not as good as at the beginning, but Wu Chou is not the main source of customers who are not drunk at the beginning, and the small people are promoted. From the very beginning, he had his eye on the merchants who traveled north and south.
And word of mouth is the easiest thing for Wu Chou, who has been in the imperial capital for many years, and he also has connections, and he is now waiting for only Xu Youshan's nod.
"Okay, then do as he says, you will go out again tomorrow and take care of everything."
Xu Youshan didn't doubt Wu Lin's every word, and she still understood some things. Besides, she can't move an inch now, and she doesn't have the energy to use her doubts.
And the most important thing is that the money that Xu Youshan gave to Wu Chou was all the money from the sale of the jewelry that Wu Lin had scavenged from the Lan family over the years or that the Zhao family had rewarded her with after returning to Beijing.
At night, from the locked broad-hollow orchid box, she put a silver ticket of five hundred taels and a strange transparent thin wire that was pulled tightly in her hand after groping into her arms and hugged it, Xu Youshan rarely slept peacefully.
But
The next day, before midnight, Xu Youshan still woke up unmoved, first put the things in her arms back in the box and locked them, and then let Chu Dai and Yue Dai help her freshen up with her swollen eyes, and then used some almond tofu casually, Xu Youshan calculated the time and went to the early autumn pavilion.
But today's Autumn Museum seems to be a little different.
As soon as Xu Youshan entered the courtyard, she saw Xu Yourong and Xu Chen sitting under the porch.
Even Liu Ru, Liu Yue, and Liu Yin were standing outside the door.
Xu Youshan turned a corner, and simply walked to Xu Yourong's side, and saluted: "Eldest sister, second brother." ”
"Hmm." There was no one else here, Xu Yourong sat there directly and didn't speak, but Xu Chen got up as soon as Xu Youshan came in: "Second sister." "Courtesy and thoughtfulness.
Xu Youshan turned sideways, didn't dare to accept Xu Chen's salute, and sat down together at Xu Chen's insistence.
Although they didn't ask why they sat outside, in fact, everyone knew that people like Xu Yourong and Xu Chen who could keep outside quietly, except for Xu Xi, would not think secondly.
And the person who is now confronting Pei in the room is indeed Xu Xi.
"Master, the concubine doesn't understand what you mean."
Pei Shi took a deep breath and took a deep breath, trying to control her emotions, but in the face of Xu Xi, she was always the one who made a bad move.
Xu Xi paused while holding the fingertips of the blue silver rice bead bamboo leaf tea bowl, "She hasn't had a good appetite lately, and she can't eat anything." ”
"So what?" Pei Shi didn't let a single step go and pressed.
"Not so." Fingertips brushed over the tea bowl and put it down, "It's impossible for the big kitchen to keep the fire on for her, and she also thinks that it's okay to let the Green Silk Courtyard build a small kitchen." ”
Sorry? Will she not be happy? She's not small enough!
In the whole house, there are only Taixi Garden, Qinhuatang and Shen Yuzhai with small kitchens. Not even in the early autumn pavilion, and now she is going to open a small kitchen in her courtyard?
It's not that she has a bad appetite, it's that she has a good appetite. Who is she trying to get over? Who is he trying to cross for her?
Pei's whole body trembled, and his hand pressed on a few cases on the side, wanting to support his body that was becoming more and more trance-like, but what can these small cases hold? People who have come through ups and downs are unreliable, what can these small cases be reliable?
"Xu Xiqi, you want to build a small kitchen for Gu Yu's Green Silk Courtyard, right? I tell you, it can't be. Do you feel sorry for her? Feel sorry for the child in her belly, right? Are you afraid that I will harm them? Then you go and make trouble, go to your mother's trouble, go to your father's trouble! I want to see how much your father loves you, and whether he has also complied with you and fulfilled you this time. Xu Xiqi, you go. ”
How many steps back does she have to take before she learns to be painless? She doesn't want anything anymore, she doesn't want his people, she doesn't want his heart anymore, she gives them everything, it's not enough, is it?
has a Xu Xuan standing in front of her child, and now she wants to create another momentum to produce the most favored child, right?
Xu Xi didn't want it a long time ago, but she still kept her children in her heart, but now they want to slap her children in the face again, right?
- Dreaming.