Chapter Thirty-Eight: Chang'an (1)
Yueke Building in the West City, from the Wude period, is a relatively large restaurant in Chang'an, Huaxiang Building in Heping Kangfang, Yunxu Building in the East City, Ziyun Building on the side of Qujiang Pond and called the four major restaurants in Chang'an, its fame can be seen.
But now this restaurant is about to become the first in Chang'an, because it has undergone the modernization of Xuyang.
A street in the West Market has been hung with red lanterns by Xuyang, such an interesting scene is very attractive, now it is neither the Lantern Festival nor the Exorcism Festival, a street is all hung with dazzling red lanterns, it looks very festive.
On the streets of the West Market, people come and go, the sun of the sun is hanging high, it is noon at this time, the West Market has just opened, the blacksmith of the blacksmith shop opened the door of the shop, and saw the red on the street, and was surprised that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
The vegetable farmers who still carried the burden to sell vegetables in the West Market saw the red light building on a street and felt that they had gone to the wrong market.
"Mr. Wenfeng, how did this West Market become like this now? Is it a holiday today? A foreigner with a camel and blue eyes and curly blond hair stood at the entrance of the West Market and asked in a stiff Chinese.
When a middle-aged man with a crimson round neck and narrow sleeves on a blue background heard this, he laughed a few times and said, "Muhammad, this is not a holiday celebration, there is a restaurant in the West Market that is about to open." ”
"Restaurant opening?" The foreigner repeated in an exaggerated tone, "I have come to Datang three times from the Silk Road, and I have seen many restaurants open, but I have never seen a red light building hanging on a street when a restaurant opens." Muhammad blinked his big blue eyes and wondered.
"This one too." The red-robed middle-aged man scratched his head, then touched his beard and said, "Mohammed, you don't know, the owner of this restaurant is not ordinary, I heard that it is a descendant of the Guigu from overseas." ”
"Coming from overseas? Hehe, according to Datang's words, I am also from overseas. However, what is the Ghost Valley heir? Muhammad grinned with a mouthful of white teeth.
The middle-aged man in the red robe stroked his beard and said: "This ghost valley has been heard of in all dynasties of our dynasty, since the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the first generation of ghost valleys"
After listening to the introduction of the middle-aged man in the red robe, Muhammad's expression was very surprised, he couldn't figure out why a sect that only accepted two disciples could be passed down for thousands of years, which was absolutely unimaginable in the West.
"The land of the East is really amazing, then can we go to this restaurant to have a look, I want to know what the disciples of this ghost valley look like, can make an entire street hang red lanterns." Muhammad pleaded.
"Of course, we're friends."
"Yes, Allah provides, we are our most sincere friends."
When the red-robed man took Muhammad to the Yueke Building at the end of the street, it was already crowded with people, and a high platform was erected in front of the restaurant, and a young man wearing a green silk brocade robe stood on the high platform and said something.
Muhammad was shocked by the glass windows of the restaurant, this kind of glass crystal thing himself has also been bought and sold from Youzhou for ten times, sold to Europe and Arabia in exchange for a hundred times the profit, a full five taels of gold, and now the three items sold by merchants on the Silk Road are tea, porcelain and glass.
"The owner of this restaurant is so rich, this kind of glass costs hundreds of pieces of glass, he actually covered the whole building." Muhammad said to the red-robed man beside him.
At this time, the red-robed man could no longer hear what he was saying, and all his eyes were attracted by the girls with bright makeup wearing strange white silk clothes on the stage.
Muhammad followed his gaze and saw the maidens on the stage.
The aesthetic concept of the West is different from that of the East, so Muhammad did not think that the girls on the stage were very good-looking, but he was still attracted, and what attracted him was the clothes worn by those girls, which was different from the strict Tang costume, and the decoration at the corners of it had obvious Hufu colors, but the neckline was particularly low, revealing a touch of whiteness on the chest, which was very contemplative.
The whole costume is white, which seems to be the material of silk, and it is still the characteristic of the Tang Dynasty costume as a whole.
"What a beautiful woman, you have to fall into the city, and you have no regrets in this life." The red-robed man next to Muhammad looked at the girls dancing and singing on the stage, and said with a confused look in his eyes.
"Mr. Wen Feng, Mr. Wen Feng?" Muhammad shouted twice, but Mr. Wen Feng next to him seemed to be fascinated, and did not react at all, the girls on the stage danced more and more eagerly, and there was a faint sound of singing, and then several bearded men held various musical instruments and went up to the high platform.
Drumming, gongs, blowing, all kinds of sounds sounded on the high platform for a while.
The whole West Market was attracted to this side, the blacksmith came out of the blacksmith shop, the vegetable farmer who bought vegetables came over with his burden, the son on horseback, the old man in the sedan chair, and the Hu merchant who led the camel, all gathered around, and looked at the girls who were eagerly dancing on the stage.
The musical instruments used by the bearded man on the stage are very different from the ones he sees in his daily life, so he said that the drummer has a bunch of large and small drums in front of him, and holds two small wooden sticks in his hands, and he beats it quickly, the rhythm is very cheerful, and from time to time he also beats the hanging gong.
Mohammed and Cai Wenfeng saw the end of the dance, and many girls got off the high stage, and Cai Wenfeng reluctantly came back to his senses.
"Mr. Wenfeng, do you think these girls are performing well, I Mohammed can buy one for you, what do you think?" Muhammad said with some courtesy.
The red-robed man smiled, "Mohammed, I understand your kindness, we are friends, as the saying goes, the friendship of a gentleman is as light as water, and the price of a Tang Dynasty dancer is also expensive, so it doesn't have to be so." ”
"Then the restaurant is open today, as a friend, I will definitely treat you to a wonderful meal." Seeing that Cai Wenfeng was unwilling to accept his gift, Mohammed planned to invite Mr. Wenfeng to a meal.
"Since the time and place are such a coincidence, then Cai is better to be respectful than to obey his fate." Cai Wenfeng also wanted to see what this newly opened restaurant was.
At the end of the performance, Xu Yang also told everyone that they had started selling VIP membership cards, a bronze card for one hundred yuan, a silver card for two hundred yuan, and a gold card for five hundred yuan, which was the same as the one sold in Youzhou Hotel, and the two shops could be used together, which was the prelude to opening a chain store.
At that time, when Xu Yang sued Wei Chi Baolin and Cheng Chu for selling VIP cards silently, these two people thought that Xu Yang was crazy, and anyone would pay if they didn't buy anything.
As a result, on the day of the opening of the restaurant today, they finally saw what the means of calling the ghost valley, the peculiar dancing girls, the exquisite music, and the crowded crowd constituted a strange scene on the streets of the West Market.
When the girls in piercing gauze and white clothes quietly promoted VIP membership cards, almost all the nobles who had a little face paid for it, and the least of them bought a copper card.
Mohammed and Cai Wenfeng stood far away, and did not hear what Xu Yang was standing on the high platform, and the two of them were talking and laughing while planning to enter the hotel for a big meal, but before they entered the door, they saw four black-robed men standing at the door like wooden stakes, and the bald man led by him was even more vicious.
"Please show your VIP membership card." Biao Daguang said angrily.
Cai Wenfeng didn't understand, and said suspiciously: "Dare to ask the strong man, what is this VIP membership card?" ”
Biao Daguang pointed to the crowd queuing up to buy cards in the distance and said: "It's the items they queue up to buy, and they can only enter the club by showing their membership cards." ”
Cai Wenfeng and Mohammed looked in the direction pointed by the big man at the same time, and saw hundreds of people crowded over there clapping up to buy something.
Cai Wenfeng hugged his fists and said: "Thank you for telling me." With a salute, he dragged Muhammad into the crowd.
Muhammad was puzzled: "Mr. Wenfeng, what is this VIP card, I have never heard of it in business for so many years." ”
"I don't know about this, so let's go into this crowd and ask what it is."