Chapter 11 Borrow flowers to offer Buddha, pack and take away
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"Shopkeeper, please move!" I saw Zhou Zhong suddenly shouting at the counter of the teahouse, attracting everyone's attention to him again.
Zhou Chong used to be a frequent visitor to this Fengyou teahouse, and every time he came, he was personally entertained by the shopkeeper, but now that the Zhou family has fallen, the shopkeeper is a little slack, even if he sees Zhou Chong and Steward Xu coming in together, he still stands motionless behind the counter, but now Zhou Chong directly calls him, which makes the shopkeeper no longer pretend not to see it.
"Gongzi Zhou, what do you command?" I saw the shopkeeper trotting over from behind the counter, and said to Zhou Zhong with a smirk. Anyway, Zhou Chong and Steward Xu used to be frequent visitors in the teahouse, even if the Zhou family is defeated now, they still have to live on face. In addition, the other tea guests in the hall also turned their heads to look at Zhou Chong, guessing what this Young Master Zhou was going to do?
"Shopkeeper, what's the most expensive tea you have here?" Zhou Zhong asked with a proud face.
"This ......" shopkeeper looked up and down with some embarrassment after hearing this, although their Fengyou teahouse is not a big teahouse in Hangzhou or Yangzhou, but it is also a leading teahouse in Songjiang Mansion, naturally there are a lot of valuable teas, such as there are several kinds of good tea, each pot has at least one or two silver, that is not ordinary people to drink, Zhou Chong used to drink often, but now ......
Zhou Zhong also saw the shopkeeper's thoughts, and said with a blank face at the moment: "What, are you still afraid that no one will pay the bill, didn't you see that the young lady and the second young master Song just now were rushing to invite Young Master Ben to tea?" ”
Hearing Zhou Chong's words, the shopkeeper realized that this Zhou Dashao was planning to slaughter the second young master of Song, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, and said with a smile on his face: "Gongzi Zhou, you are the big customer of our teahouse, don't say that someone has a treat, even if no one invites you, the villain will invite you!" ”
Hearing the shopkeeper's insincere words, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but glance at the other party, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect the shopkeeper to be also a person who values feelings, so why don't you treat him today?" ”
"Ahem~" The shopkeeper didn't expect Zhou Zhong to hit the snake with the stick, coughed twice to resolve his embarrassment, and then hurriedly introduced, "What's that...... Our teahouse has a new batch of new tea this year, including West Lake Longjing, Xinyang Maojian, Wuyi Rock Tea and Junshan Yinzhen, etc., all of which are the best teas, which do you always want to drink? ”
"Which is the most expensive?" The shopkeeper used the introduction of tea to divert the topic of Zhou Chong, but Zhou Chong did not pursue it, but asked again, this time he was determined to let the second young master of Song give blood.
"The most expensive is naturally Wuyi rock tea, of course, not the few big red robes on the rock wall of Jiulong, the big red robe has such a little output every year, and it is sent to the palace to make tribute tea, we naturally can't drink it, but our teahouse is also the top grade of Wuyi rock tea, ordinary people can't buy it with money, two taels of silver per pot!" The shopkeeper said with a smile that the cost of a pot of Wuyi rock tea is only one or two taels of silver, and you can earn eight yuan by selling a pot of tea, and those cheap tea leaves can be sold for ten catties, and you may not be able to have eight yuan of income.
"Two taels?" Zhou Zhong was quite satisfied with the price, and then said loudly again, "That's it, since Second Young Master Song wants to invite Young Master Ben to drink tea today, then I will borrow flowers to offer Buddha, please drink a pot of Wuyi rock tea to everyone here!" ”
The people around him were originally paying attention to Zhou Chong, but now when they heard that he was going to invite everyone to tea, they all started to coax at the moment, some applauded, some thanked them, and many people showed disdain, it is estimated that they also felt that Zhou Chong's behavior was a bit shameless.
Zhou Zhong also saw all the expressions of the people, and he also knew that after today's incident came out, it might have a certain impact on his reputation, but firstly, he didn't care at all, and secondly, he also had his own deeper intentions in doing so.
The shopkeeper heard Zhou Zhong say this, and he was a little embarrassed at first, there were twenty or thirty tables in the hall, if there was a pot for each table, it would be fifty or sixty taels of silver, which was not a small amount, and he was worried that the second young master of Song would not pay the bill. However, the last one couldn't stand the urging of Zhou Zhong and some guests, so he could only send a pot of Wuyi rock tea to each table.
Zhou Chongzai has never only made a knife, when the guy brought the tea up, Zhou Chong pulled the shopkeeper who turned around and was about to leave, and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, do you sell tea here?" ”
The shopkeeper almost vomited blood when he heard this, thinking to himself, why didn't he find out that the Zhou family was such a shameless person before? The surrounding guests who were tasting Wuyi rock tea also turned their heads one after another, and their eyes were a little strange when they looked at Zhou Chong.
"This teahouse has the rules of a teahouse, and our Fengyou teahouse only sells tea, not tea, I'm really sorry!" Although the shopkeeper really wants to make another profit on tea, the rules in the teahouse cannot be abolished.
Zhou Chong was also a little regretful when he heard it, but when he saw the pastries on the table, his eyes suddenly lit up and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't sell tea, you can always sell pastries, so let's do it, how many pastries are left in your teahouse, all of them will be packed and sent to the house for me!" ”
As soon as Zhou Chong's words came out, the guests at several tables who were closer to him directly squirted out the tea in their mouths, and they had seen thick-skinned people, but it was the first time they had seen people like Zhou Dashao, and the tea money of the second young master of Song was not counted, and even the pastries had to be pitted.
However, the shopkeeper couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this, the pastries prepared in the teahouse can naturally be taken out, and the pastries are also one of the most important incomes in the teahouse, so there are a lot of pastries prepared in the kitchen, but if these pastries are packed to Zhou Chong, then they can't open the teahouse today?
At this time, Steward Xu next to Zhou Zhong really couldn't listen to it, although there was a shortage of food at home, and the second young master of Song was not a good thing, but his own young master's actions were also a little too much, so I saw him open his mouth and persuade: "Young master, people's teahouses can't do without pastries, if we take them all, then their teahouse will be closed today, so you see if it's ......?"
Hearing Steward Xu's persuasion, Zhou Chong also felt that it was almost the same, there was a degree in everything, the Song family's divorce almost ruined Bang'er's life, it is not too much to say that even if he killed the father and son of the Song family, but today's revenge is enough, otherwise it will only cause others to be disgusted with the Zhou Mansion.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong turned his head to the shopkeeper and smiled: "This is not well thought out, so that the shopkeeper is embarrassed, so let's trouble the shopkeeper to bring ten catties of Baiguo pine cake, cloud cake and mung bean cake!" ”
Hearing that Zhou Chong changed his mouth to only three pastries, this made the shopkeeper also breathe a sigh of relief, only to see that he did not instruct the guy, but ran to the kitchen himself to prepare, it seems that he is also afraid of Zhou Chong, worried that the other party will change his mind, so he hid behind under the pretext.
It takes some time to prepare the pastry, and Zhou Chong, who was bored, chatted without a word, and slowly the two were attracted by the storytelling table in the hall, and now there is a middle-aged storyteller standing on the platform, talking about "Journey to the West" formed in the traces of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Note that it is Journey to the West, not the Journey to the West that later generations are familiar with, Wu Chengen has not been born yet, and the Journey to the West that later generations are familiar with naturally does not appear.
Zhou Zhong is a standard post-80s generation in later life, it can be said that he grew up watching the TV series of Journey to the West, and later he deliberately found the original Journey to the West and watched it a few times, and he was naturally familiar with the story of Journey to the West. The Journey to the West flat story told by the storyteller on the stage was formed in the traces of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and later after folk processing and modification, it is actually similar to Journey to the West, and it is also the story of the four Tang monks and apprentices going to the West to learn scriptures, but the whole story does not have a unified outline, the stories are not connected together, and the storyline is too plain, far less attractive than Journey to the West, so Zhou Chong shook his head while listening.
Compared with Zhou Chong's tastelessness, Steward Xu listened to it with relish, he used to be a frequent visitor to Fengyou Teahouse, and he liked to stay in the hall to drink tea and listen to books, sometimes a stay is an afternoon, if the people of Zhou's mansion have something, they usually come directly to the teahouse to find him. It's a pity that since the defeat of the Zhou Mansion, it has become a problem for the family to even eat, and Steward Xu has naturally never been here again.
Finally waited for the guy to deliver the pastries, Zhou Zhong drank the teacup in front of him, seriously, he really couldn't drink two taels of silver and a pot of tea, what's good? In his opinion, tea is to quench people's thirst and refresh people, as for the subtle differences in taste, except for those idle literati who have pain in the egg, it is estimated that not many people will care.
Zhou Zhong pulled the reluctant Steward Xu out of Fengyou Teahouse, carrying thirty catties of pastries in his hand, these pastries are Bang'er and Duo'er's favorite food, anyway, they are not afraid of spoilage in winter, so much is enough for the two of them to eat until the New Year.
Steward Xu followed behind Zhou Chong, and while walking, he recalled the Journey to the West plain story told by the storyteller in the teahouse, and couldn't help but discuss with Zhou Chong after the last one: "Young master, the storyteller today is really good, and I have heard the Journey to the West many times, but today the storyteller has adapted the original story to make the story more interesting, and today it happened to talk about the Sanzang Master Lu Road Monkey Walker, and I don't know what kind of wonderful story the storyteller will add to the back?" ”
After hearing this, Zhou Chong pursed his lips and did not answer, thinking that the people of the Ming Dynasty just didn't know, and the good Monkey King became a monkey walker, and he could be excited to listen to a Journey to the West.
"Huh? Journey! A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Zhou Chong's mind, and his footsteps stopped suddenly. Steward Xu in the back didn't pay attention for a while, and his white and chubby face suddenly hit Zhou Chong's back, just hitting his nose, which made Steward Xu cry in pain.