Chapter 141: Wanli Xiang Restaurant
Speaking of Cai Yan, this woman is no lower than the status of the four beauties in the minds of later generations. Her original name was Zhaoji, and later because of the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, in order to avoid Sima Zhao, she was renamed Wenji. She is an extremely rare female writer in ancient times, and the daughter of Cai Yong, a great Confucian in the dynasty.
Cai Yan can be described as erudite and talented, good at literature, music, and calligraphy. Married to Hedong Wei Zhongdao in advance, her husband died not long after she married, because Wei Zhongdao's death caused the Wei family to be very unkind to her, and finally returned to Cai Yong's side.
Later, when the Central Plains was in turmoil, the Southern Xiongnu, who had originally surrendered to the Han Dynasty, took the opportunity to rebel, causing Cai Yan to be captive by the Xiongnu's Zuoxian King for 12 years and gave birth to two children.
Later, after Cao Cao unified the north, because he loved literature and calligraphy, he often communicated with Cai Yong in literature and calligraphy. Cao Cao saw that Cai Yong had no heirs, so he ransomed Cai Yan from the Southern Xiongnu with a lot of money and married Cai Yan to Dong Ci.
Then Dong Ci committed a capital crime, Cai Yan wore a hair and went barefoot in the cold winter to find Cao Cao to intercede with Dong Ci, and showed his ingenuity in this. Cao Cao was moved by Cai Wenji's actions and words, and pardoned Dong Xi.
And what really made him famous was the conversation and behavior between Cao Cao and Cai Yan later, if Bai Yang remembered it well, it should probably be Cao Cao who knew that Cai Yong left a lot of ancient books for Cai Yan, and asked if he still kept it. But Cai Yan has been displaced for so many years, so there are not many books left for her by her father. However, she has been smart since she was a child and has an excellent memory, and she actually wrote more than 400 articles silently according to her memory, and it is exactly the same as the original book. After Cai Yan returned home, he wrote two poems of "Poems of Grief and Indignation" in addition to grief and indignation.
From Cai Yan's life, it is tragic, and it is also the embodiment of a woman's social status at that time, even a talented person like Cai Yan is not immune.
But then again, Bai Yang remembered that Cai Yong should be afraid that he would not be spared, so he fled for his life in Jianghai, went away to Wudi, relied on the Taishan Goat Clan, and served in Wu for twelve years. Why is Cai Yong still working in Luoyang now? And what Xiao Er said just now means that Cai Yong actually served in the court.
Bai Yang slowly combed through it, and felt that he could no longer look at the things of this period with his previous normal thoughts. Whether this is back in ancient times or a parallel time and space in a multi-dimensional space no one knows, he only knows that his general historical events are the same, but some small things are far from what he knows!
"My lord, what do you think? Everyone is gone. Seeing where Bai Yang was stunned, Jia Xu said to Bai Yang slowly.
Hearing Jia Xu's ridiculous question, Bai Yang smiled and said, "Aren't you hungry?" Xiao Er, these are two poems written by Bai, how about you let your shopkeeper take a look? Fu doesn't follow your rules? ”
"Wait a minute, and the little one will ask." Xiao Er carefully took the two poems in his hand, and ran towards the backyard in a blink of an eye.
"Lord, Miss Cai Yan is good!"
"Lord, I also think Miss Cai is beautiful, just like a fairy."
"Big brother, I still lack a sister-in-law, look at you, now you are not too young, are you ready to prepare for your own marriage?"
Listening to a few people talking with hippie smiles on the side, Bai Yang was also speechless. are all characters who are so bullish in history, why are they so unorthodox.
"Don't be poor, we came to Luoyang this time for business, don't make trouble." After Bai Yang finished speaking, he turned his head and saw Xiao Er leading a middle-aged man with a mustache towards everyone.
"I don't know which son has such a literary style and makes such a masterpiece. It's been a long time since I've seen such works. ”
"No, it's Bai, you must be the shopkeeper of this Wanli Xiang! I don't know if Bai's two poems don't meet the rules of our restaurant? Can I dine on the 7th floor? ”
"Yes, so much. Any one of them can be called a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages, and this kind of work does not conform to the rules, that is, it is difficult for our restaurant to be a guest officer. After the other party finished speaking, he arched his hand to Bai Yang and said: "Zhang's single name is a word, licking it as the shopkeeper of Wanli Xiang Restaurant." I don't know the name of the gentleman? ”
"A certain surname is Bai Mingyang Wenqing, is a scholar, this time I came to Beijing to see it, I heard that Wanli Xiang is the top restaurant in Luoyang City, Bai and the brothers to feel it, I hope not to cause trouble to Boss Zhang."
"Zhang opened the door to do business, and I really hope that Brother Bai can come to trouble me often!" After Zhang Cheng finished speaking with a smile, he looked at everyone still standing in the hall and said to Bai Yang and the others: "Brothers, let's go upstairs first, let's talk while walking, and Zhang will give you a good introduction." ”
"Okay, then let's go upstairs first." After Bai Yang finished speaking, he took the lead, leading everyone up layer by layer, and at the same time, Zhang Chengcheng introduced Bai Yang and the others to each floor.
"Bai Gongzi, everyone, the hall on this floor is actually mainly for food, and people usually come and go, so the hall on this floor is full of small tables, generally one or two people sit at each table, and people simply eat one or two bites when they order one or two dishes."
"This second floor is a place for large banquet guests, and generally there are about a dozen tables at a time in this kind of place, and the dishes are all the same."
"Slow down, this is our third floor. The third floor and the fourth floor are actually the same, they are some private rooms, but from the third floor, some private room fees will be charged, and the fourth floor will start to have a minimum consumption. Of course, it's a small amount of money for all of you. ”
"I introduced the fifth floor to a few people, we have designed a private room on the fifth floor, which is very spacious, and there are specially equipped Xiao Er to serve at any time, but few people can go up to the fifth floor, because no matter what you order on the fifth floor, there is a basic private room fee of one hundred taels first, and the others are counted separately. So the fifth floor is relatively quiet. ”
"This is the sixth floor, you can see if it's different. There are a total of four private rooms on the sixth floor, which are decorated differently according to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and it is not accurate to say that the private rooms are actually a bit inaccurate, and you can even rest here, as long as you have money, you can live here all the time. Of course, the cost of the sixth floor is relatively high, 1,000 taels a day, and you should also know the rules, so the people who come here are either important ministers or children of various noble families. ”
"You guys go here with Zhang, this is the staircase leading to the seventh floor."
Baiyang and a few people can be regarded as having a long insight, or this is the imperial city! There are so many rich people! Come here for a meal.,Nothing to eat first pay a hundred taels, a thousand taels.,It's too much to take money seriously.,Compared to the cost of the ten taels of white sun paper just taught.,Now I want to compare it with this is a little drizzle.。。
However, from these decoration styles and business models, Bai Yang slowly saw a shadow of the catering industry in later generations. It's like the form of fast food on the first floor, the wedding banquet or banquet on the second floor, and the third, fourth, and fifth floors are a bit similar, all of which are operated in the form of a private room, a booth or a private room, but the price is different according to the degree of decoration and the service they enjoy.
But from this sixth layer, Bai Yang saw a feeling of a top-level club in the later generations. Bai Yang casually found a door and opened it to take a look, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as magnificent. At each doorway there are dedicated people standing there to serve, and not one, there are several.