Chapter 494: Something Better
Chapter 494: Something Better
Even if it was not the first time he had entered the palace, Bai Susu was still cautious and cautious everywhere.
She didn't have anyone in the palace who knew her and could rely on her, so maybe she would have to leave her life here if she was not careful.
This time, the Queen Mother's attitude was even better, but what did it mean to mention the Seventh Prince to her outside of the words? Especially the queen mother, an elderly person, sat and chatted with her for a long time, and even didn't take a nap after lunch.
"Does the Queen Mother want to take a break?"
Bai Susu finally couldn't help but make a suggestion.
The palace maid next to the Queen Mother couldn't help but want to take her to a nap for a long time, but because of the Queen Mother's previous explanation, she didn't make a sound.
For Bai Susu's interest, the palace maid nodded to her gratefully.
Bai Susu also really confirmed that there was something wrong with the Queen Mother asking her to come to the palace.
"I haven't seen a clever girl like you for a long time, so I don't feel tired of this excitement, so I just have to take a nap every day, and it's nothing if I don't have one today."
The Queen Mother tried hard to keep her eyes open to make herself look better.
It wasn't until Bai Susu once again proposed that it was not too early and that she had to rush home that the Queen Mother made her purpose clear today.
"Xiao Qi is also a lot older than this year, the mourning family and the emperor have been thinking about letting him marry a main room to enter the door, but he has no intention of this, and we are good at talking about it, so he will accept a girl in the room, if he doesn't find a main room, even if he accepts a concubine to enter the door, it really makes the mourning family sad."
"These things still depend on the meaning of the Seventh Prince, Queen Mother, you just have to think about your Qingfu, why bother yourself."
Bai Susu pulled the Queen Mother to comfort a few words, and said a few good words to the Seventh Prince, who would have thought that the Queen Mother would pull her directly and ask, "Su Su, your previous marriage has withdrawn, so now do you have a favorite candidate?" ”
Bai Susu was stunned for a moment, quickly lowered his head, pushed away the queen mother's hand, and sat aside shyly.
"Queen Mother, why do you ask these words so bluntly?"
The coquettishness of the daughter's family successfully amused the queen mother.
Hui An was not like Bai Susu when she asked for marriage here, and the Queen Mother intuitively felt that Hui An recognized Chu Hengyu at that time, as if it was a matter of course to be with Chu Hengyu.
Now Bai Susu's reaction should be what the average daughter's family should have.
But isn't that ......
"Tell me which kid has this blessing? How about the mourning family be the Lord for you? ”
Bai Susu's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly waved his hand and pulled the Queen Mother to refuse.
"Queen Mother, Su Su just wants to be happy with the person she loves with her heart, if you can have a couple for a lifetime, that's the best, if not, Su Su will also be a lady of the main house, and never be someone else's concubine and let others trample on it."
The Queen Mother was surprised that Bai Susu had such an idea, but she also reacted, the girl didn't fancy the position of the concubine of the Seventh Prince at all, so she didn't mention it anymore, and after saying a few words, she finally let Bai Susu out of the palace.
On the way back, Bai Susu suddenly remembered that the Queen Mother had let her live in the palace for those days, but I was afraid that it was also for this matter.
Some time ago, she heard that the Seventh Prince had returned to her fiefdom, and she didn't know why the Queen Mother was thinking about mentioning this matter now.
But now that the matter has been resolved, Bai Susu doesn't bother to think about anything more, and still studies her sketches with one mind.
Originally, the things in the palace were generally unknown to the people, but Bai Susu was unknowingly spread by the Seventh Prince, and it happened to be spread on the day that the Seventh Prince's upcoming wedding was released.
Coupled with Bai Susu's bad reputation before, there are many more people who watch her jokes now.
Xu was busy arguing with the long-tongued woman on the street all day, but he was busy.
Bai Susu didn't bother to care about it after hearing too much, but fortunately, Chu Hengyu often came to visit her at home, and she became more and more unaware of the others.
The sketch is set to open at the Baijia Teahouse, which is still the same way of selling tickets as before, and there are slightly more people who come than the dismal business during this time, but it is still not as good as before.
Those who came to power were a little disappointed.
There are few people below, and there is no motivation for the performances above, as if the past efforts have been in vain.
Bai Susu had to warn everyone that they must be 100% serious, even if there is no audience below, as long as they stand on the stage, they must perform with all their might, so that they can be praised by the audience, and more and more people will come to watch.
reluctantly pushed everyone up to perform this first sketch, and the applause of the audience had made everyone forget the number of the audience and become more and more interested.
By the time they stepped down, everyone had completely lost their previous dejected appearance.
Bai Susu expected that this sketch combined the joy of cross talk, and was close to the real life situation, so that the audience present all applauded, even if they went out and asked when there was the next show, they still wanted to come and watch.
The good beginning gave Bai Susu's second group a lot of encouragement, and even their expressiveness improved a lot.
The resumption of the Bai family opera troupe made Xu's family welcome again when he went out.
In the first three days, Bai Susu deliberately lowered the price in order to attract people, and after three days, as soon as the price recovered, everyone began to complain.
But the plot of the sketch still attracted a steady stream of people to enter the venue, and those who began to hesitate could only listen to the movement outside, and continued to line up the next day.
In order to make a celebration banquet for everyone, Xu Shi deliberately went out to order rice, noodles and vegetables, but she didn't want the price to be what she knew before.
"It's only been a few days, why are your prices so high? Could it be that I watched me buy too much and deliberately raised the price for us? ”
Xu Shi looked at the rice again, but it was still of the same quality as before, but the high price was a bit excessive.
Which grain store has increased its price during the non-New Year's Festival?
The boss shouted that he was wronged, if he dared to raise the price of such a big customer, wouldn't he throw the silver out?
"Madam Bai, you are our big customer, we can't bully anyone who bullies you, we can't hide it, this"
The boss glanced at the other customers in the store and pulled Xu to the other side.
"Last year's heavy rains, the grain production in the south has decreased a lot, this has not fully recovered, the north has begun to drought again, this year's grain prices will definitely double again, I advise you to take advantage of the present to buy more, and in the future, maybe you can't buy it with money."
Xu felt that what he said was too evil, but he also listened to some persuasion, although he didn't buy too much, it was a lot more than the original plan, and the grain store owner specially sent it to the door.
Food prices have remained high for several days, and there is even a faint tendency to raise them again.
Fortunately, the Xu family was persuaded by the owner of the grain store to buy it a few more times, and filled the warehouses of the Bai family and the Ma family with grain, so that even the entire troupe could eat peacefully for a year.
Bai Susu secretly wondered how long the good life of the troupe would last, if it was really a disaster, not to mention that no one listened to the play, but I was afraid that it would be good if I didn't come to Kyoto.