Shopkeeper, I've recently learned a few more songs, would you like to listen to them? ”

"Okay!" Song Xinshu sat aside, holding his chin and preparing to listen to the music.

Liushu's voice is cool, and there is a little bit of lazy tone, especially suitable for the style of the tea house, if you sit in the center of the hall and sing for an afternoon, you will definitely attract a lot of customers.

After singing, Liushu turned her face to Song Xinshu, waiting for her judgment.

Song Xinshu nodded and said, "The singing is very good, and you can go on stage tomorrow." ”

Lu Shu said with a sad face: "Shopkeeper, I'...... I'm a little scared ......."

Song Xinshu gently held her shoulders and said: "What's so scared of this, you just have to sing the song, it won't be like in the Qingyi Building, you need to pour wine, and when the time comes, someone will help you down." ”

Liushu's heart was still a little apprehensive, but after all, she had promised Song Xinshu before, this was the first time she had left Qingyulou to sing music, and she didn't know what it would be like.

Liushu secretly gritted his teeth, nodded lightly and said, "Okay, shopkeeper, then I'll give it a try." ”

Song Xinshu helped Liushu sort out the broken hair on her sideburns, and she believed that Liushu would definitely be able to.

The next day was Liushu's first time on stage, and Song Xinshu hadn't stayed in the Subei Tea House for a long time, she had told all the guys in the store to keep an eye on Liushu for a few days.

In the afternoon, there were more customers drinking tea in the store, and Song Xinshu helped Liu Shu to the stage in the center of the hall.

Lu Shu took a deep breath, picked up the pipa in his hand, and plucked the strings with a slight movement of his fingertips.

The sound of the piano suddenly flowed to every corner of the store, and the tea drinkers looked up in the direction of the stage.

Liushu's lips opened lightly, and he sang a small tune, and the guests all stopped their movements and listened attentively to Liushu's singing.

In the ears is the shallow chanting of the woman, the sound of the piano flows, and the beautiful face is covered with a layer of tulle, which has a little more hazy beauty of holding the pipa and half-covering her face.

On the side of the stage is a small money box, which is put into the small box if a guest wants to give a tip.

After a while, a guest stepped forward and put some bounty money inside.

Song Xinshu sat under the stage and watched quietly, thinking that it was not necessarily a bad thing for Lu Shu not to see, she was singing on stage, and if she couldn't see what was happening offstage, she wouldn't affect herself for some reason.

After Liushu sang a few tunes, Song Xinshu asked the guy to help her down from the stage, and the guests in the audience all looked unsatisfied.

Song Xinshu looked at it and thought to himself that it was just like this, if he had listened to all the tunes for the first time, he would not come back in the future.

Song Xinshu came to the backyard with the money box, and Lu Shu was already sitting on the stone chair in the courtyard waiting.

She walked over and poured the money in the money box on the table with a "clanging", counting every copper plate.

After counting, she put the money together, and then put it in Liushu's money bag and said, "I will send you the monthly money as usual, these are your other earnings, you take them." ”

Liu Shu hurriedly shirked it: "Shopkeeper, it's already my blessing that I can stay here and make money, how can I take extra money?" ”

"But these are all prizes from the guests." Song Xinshu stuffed the money bag into Lu Shu's hand.

"I ......" Lu Shu had never seen such a businessman, and after thinking for a while, he continued. The guest's reward will be half of the money for me and the shopkeeper. ”

"You just take it, you're alone, it's better for girls to have more money to have." After saying that, Song Xinshu put the money bag into Liushu's arms and left directly.

If she stays here, she may not know how polite she will be.

In the next few days, Song Xinshu would arrange for Liushu to sing a few songs on stage, and some guests would order a plate of snacks and a pot of tea every day in order to listen to her singing, and they would not leave until they listened to her songs.

Liu Shu is also getting more and more confident, singing better and better, Song Xinshu saw that his business was booming, and he couldn't help but be very happy, and every day he saw that his savings were getting more and more, and the more firm his idea of opening the store in the capital.

But in the past few days, Song Xinshu has found a strange phenomenon, a man who always wears a robe and carries a book always appears in the store, after ordering snacks and tea, he quietly listens to Liushu singing, and then gives a large amount of money, and the rest of the time sits quietly reading without saying a word.

Every day, I sit for half a day and leave, and the next day I come back at the same time and repeat the previous day's behavior.

Song Xinshu had been paying attention to him for a long time, so he called the housekeeper over and asked: "This person comes every day, and he gives a lot of reward every time, what is the origin of this person?" ”

"I've been paying attention to him for a long time, but he doesn't seem to be the son of Jinling City."

It's not from Jinling City, is it because you live in Lincheng and come here to listen to music and drink tea?

Could it be that the reputation of the Northern Jiangsu Tea House has spread so far?

Song Xinshu was very puzzled in his heart, but the person who came was a guest, so he couldn't rush up to ask, so he could only let the guys pay attention to it.

Today is the day of the monthly payment, and after the payment is completed in the evening, the guys have returned to their homes, and some of them are far away from home, so they moved their bunks and rolls and lived in the hut in the backyard.

At night, Song Xinshu had just changed his clothes, took off the hair accessories in his hair, and was about to go to bed when there was a sudden knock on the door.

Isn't someone's wages miscalculated?

She thought about opening the door like this, but as soon as she opened the door, she saw a person who was not a ghost or a ghost, and stumbled in.

She dodged backwards sharply, only to find that it was a man covered in blood who had fallen in, and she was shocked, and crouched down to carefully examine the man's face.

Fortunately, it was not Su Qing, she breathed a sigh of relief, the heart that had just been hanging back into her stomach, and when she was about to get up and call someone else, the person lying on the ground suddenly grabbed her ankle.

Song Xinshu suddenly sat on the ground in fright, and was about to raise his foot and kick the man's head, when he heard the man say in a faint breath: "Close the door, I'm Zheng Tianyi." ”

Song Xinshu was stunned for a moment, reacted suddenly, and quickly closed the door.

She crouched down to carefully examine the dying man in front of her, only to see that he was covered in blood, and could barely find a clean place.

His face seemed to be swollen by someone, and there was a tear about a centimeter at the corner of his mouth.

No wonder she didn't recognize this as Zheng Tianyi just now, her face was swollen like this, Song Xinshu said anxiously: "You wait here, I'll call someone!" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she was stopped by Zheng Tianyi: "No, my affairs here must be kept secret, and I can't let a third person know." ”

Saying that, Zheng Tianyi wanted to get up from the ground, but the injury was too serious, and he didn't get up after trying several times.

Song Xinshu couldn't look past it, and didn't care about the difference between men and women, so he hurriedly helped him up and sat on the chair.

She wet the hand towel, handed it to Zheng Tianyi, and poured him another cup of hot tea.

"How did you get this way?" Song Xinshu frowned and asked, she had never seen anyone embarrassed like this.

Zheng Tianyi wiped the blood stains on his face with a wet handkerchief, revealing his original face, and the wound at the corner of his mouth made his originally handsome face a little terrifying.

But he didn't seem to plan to answer Song Xinshu's question, just held the hot tea and drank it quietly, without saying a word.

Song Xinshu frowned, looked at him and said, "If you don't tell me what's going on, Subei Tea House can't take you in!" ”

Zheng Tianyi raised his head and glanced at her and said, "Can you be gentle, I don't know how your husband can stand you." ”

Song Xin's bookish face turned red, when did he not forget to play tricks, it seems that he was not hurt enough!

"You're forcing me to send off guests."

Zheng Tianyi was still unmoved, Song Xinshu raised his eyebrows and said, "Moreover, I will order someone to send you to the Taishou Mansion, I believe they can take care of you better than me." ”

Zheng Tianyi's face changed in an instant, and he straightened his waist and was about to speak, but he touched the wounds on his body, and grinned in pain.

"I told you I can't do it." Zheng Tianyi's ninja body was in pain, and Song Xinshu explained the original story.

"My parents are a merchant in the capital, doing the business of rouge gouache, my parents developed a unique rouge, sold well in the capital, and has been sold to the palace, at this time someone is eyeing our family's business, want to get a piece of the pie, but was rejected by my parents, those people are very jealous, killed my parents, snatched the formula, and started their own business."

Listening to his words, Song Xinshu remembered that the Fang family wanted to forcibly take the recipe of their own milk tea, nodded empathetically, and at the same time felt heartache for what happened to Zheng Tianyi's parents.

Zheng Tianyi saw the sad look on Song Xinshu's face, smiled bitterly and said: "This was all a few years ago, but they were afraid that I would seek revenge, so they kept sending people to hunt me down, I thought that I could live a healthy life by hiding in Jinling City, but I didn't expect ......"

"But you're Taishou's cousin, you can ask Taishou to help you!"

"Those people are quite powerful, when my father was alive, he repeatedly told my cousin-in-law not to fight with them, so don't tell them about today's events, I'm afraid they will worry, and when the time comes, I'm afraid it will hurt my cousin-in-law and cousin's family."

Zheng Tianyi said very sincerely, Song Xinshu suddenly remembered what happened in the capital last time, and said: "Are these people the same people who chased you in the capital last time?" ”

Zheng Tian nodded, picked up the teapot on the table and refilled a cup of hot tea for himself.

"I'm a man with a husband, it's not convenient for you to stay here all night, otherwise I'll take you to live in Zhou Sheng's room, don't worry, you won't be discovered."