Chapter 1 Business is Contracted
The sky is gradually white, and it is the time for businessmen to prepare for the opening.
Zhu Yuan saw his father sighing and hanging the wooden sign at the door, his brows furrowed, so he smiled and said: "Dad, how can you make money and have a sad face, the God of Wealth is scared away when he sees it." ”
Zhu Fang sighed, "In this situation, even if you are smiling, the God of Wealth will not come to our house!" ”
Zhujia restaurant is good at making fish, but since the fishing industry has entered the off-season, the rise in fish prices can be described as fast, originally they are a small business, and the guests are all aiming for the words "good quality and low price".
Now that the cost of ingredients has increased, the price has naturally gone up, so that restaurants are becoming more and more crowded, Zhu Yuan sighed in his heart, "I think that the chef of my dignified five-star hotel will one day be reduced to the point where there is no food to make!" ”
Zhu Yuan picked up the vegetable leaves on the table, went back to the house and stuffed a small copper plate into his pocket, thinking about going to the fish market to buy some cheap fish and coming back.
"Do you want to go to Uncle Tong's house on West Street, or to Aunt Li's house on East Street? Or ......" Zhu Yuan lowered her head and calculated, just walking out of the alley not far away, she suddenly stretched out an arm to block her way.
"Yo, Sister Yuan, this is out to buy fish? Tut-tut, I heard that your small restaurant has been out of business for a few days? That's a great thing, and I don't know if there's any fish in the fish market that you can afford! ”
Zhang Chi stretched out a finger and dangled it in front of Zhu Yuan, with a gloating smile on his fat face, "Oh yes! I remembered, probably no, because ...... The fish at the fish market have been contracted by our family! Hahaha, it's been a month~"
This Zhang Chi is a well-known landowner and scoundrel in the town, with a lot of money, and a group of fox friends and dog friends, Zhu Yuan can't be guilty of barrishing with him, and purses his thin lips, not wanting to say more to him.
With no more fish to buy, she turned around and went home.
"Stop!" Seeing that she was leaving, Zhang Chi waved his hand behind him, and suddenly several big men stepped forward to surround Zhu Yuantuan.
Zhu Yuanxin was vigilant, and he was no longer polite, "What do you want to do?" The sky is blue, I advise you to better converge! ”
"Sister, don't be in a hurry, brother, I'll find you a way out." Zhang Chise stared at Zhu Yuan in a daze, "As long as you give the secret recipe of Qinglong Feitian to your brother, my brother will let you be a bed-warming concubine, and you don't have to worry about eating and drinking all day long, do you think it's okay?" As he spoke, he was about to touch Zhu Yuan's face.
"Smack!" At this moment, Zhu Yuan's face was slightly red, and the anger in his eyes was extremely obvious, almost subconsciously, he reached out and slapped his fat hand away.
"You haven't woken up in the middle of the day? It's your turn to do such a good thing, why don't you go to heaven?! ”
"Yo-he!" Zhang Chi didn't get angry, but touched the back of the hand that had been touched by Zhu Yuan, and laughed obscenely, "It's quite energetic, but ...... It's good, I like it, hahaha......"
Saying that, he and a few big men forced Zhu Yuan to retreat to the wall, stretched out his hand to grab her, and suddenly heard several angry shouts from the intersection-
"There!"
"That's him, quick, don't let him run!"
Not far away, a group of people came over, all tall and strong, with fierce eyes in them, running straight towards Zhang Chi, and pressing him to the ground with their hands and feet.
Zhang Chi's subordinates obviously didn't expect this situation, and they cowered like shrimp and didn't dare to step forward.
Zhang Chi was pressed to death, and a shadow was suddenly cast in front of him, he struggled desperately, and kept shouting in his mouth: "Who are you, do you know who Lao Tzu is!" Dare to move Lao Tzu, tomorrow you will not be able to eat and walk around, Lao Tzu...... Old ......."
The person who came gritted his teeth and ordered, "Don't wait until tomorrow, I will tell you to walk around today if you can't eat!" Give me a slap! ”
Before he could recover his senses, Zhang Chi was slapped down by a strong force, and half of his face immediately became red and swollen, and he kept wailing and begging for mercy, but no one paid attention to it. The strong man really gave Zhang Chi twenty slaps, and then respectfully retreated to the carriage.
"This time it's just a lesson! Next time, if you dare to fool the palace with the fake green dragon flying sky, just wait to see you! The man kicked the man who was lying on the ground like a dead pig and let him go.
Taking advantage of Zhang Chi's beating, Zhu Yuan in the crowd quietly shrunk his neck, secretly cursed that he deserved it, and bowed down to leave quietly.
Seeing that the matter was almost over, the carriage curtain next to him was suddenly lifted by a slender hand, and a man's face was revealed, a pair of deep pupils under the thick sword eyebrows, thin lips slightly pursed, and the curvature of the chin was perfect not like a real person! Zhu Yuan looked at it, and he had some strange thoughts in his heart.
There is such a beautiful face in this world...... Man?!!!
I'm afraid it's a woman dressed as a man?!!!
The man in the carriage quickly looked away, just for a blink of an eye, just in a blink of an eye, just in line with Zhu Yuan's gaze, the four eyes were in pair, and the atmosphere was a little delicate.
The man frowned slightly, why did the little girl look at him so strangely? That's it, the eyes of the girls on the left and right have never been normal when they look at themselves.
With a cold face, he quickly lowered the curtain, and after a few orders, he let the carriage go.
"Huh...... Look, why is it so familiar? Zhu Yuan retracted his gaze stupidly, laughed secretly, said that he was too careful, and turned to leave.
"Boss, boss, are you alright?" When everyone was gone, the subordinates who were so frightened that their legs trembled hurriedly ran over to help Zhang Chi on the ground up, "Boss, are we offending people?" ”
"Phew, it's not a few of you that are in tatters, waste, you can't even look at it well, the people from Ruiwangfu are here, why don't you call Lao Tzu in advance! It also hurt Lao Tzu to be beaten, get out, don't touch Lao Tzu! ”
Zhang Chi wailed and scolded, stumbled away, and the surrounding discussion intensified:
"Hey, have you heard? King Rui specially came to us from the capital, just to wish the green dragon flying in the restaurant! ”
"I've heard that the prince is famous for his hobby of eating two Huai dishes! It is estimated that this person made a fake and sent it to the palace. ”
"It's really bold, the prince has eaten two Huai dishes for so many years, is it true or not? Can you still tell him to fool the past in vain? You really deserve it! ”
Zhu Yuan trotted all the way home, picked up the cold tea on the table and poured himself several big mouthfuls, Zhu Fang saw his daughter rushing into the house panting, and didn't bother to ask her why she was empty-handed, only reprimanded: "Why are you running in such a hurry?" A girl's family doesn't know how to be more restrained! ”
"Daddy! You don't know, I just met the butler of the Rui Wang's Mansion on the street! Zhang Chi was beaten for a long time! Zhu Yuan had a hippie smile, obviously not taking his father's words to heart.
"Rui Wangfu? Is it the King of Rui who came from the capital a few days ago? Zhu Fang was stunned, "How could you beat Zhang Chi?" ”
Zhu Yuan briefly told Zhu Fang about it.
"No wonder ......" seems to be clear about the wishes.
Zhu Yuan wondered: "What's the wonder? ”
"No wonder he came to me a few days ago to ask for the secret recipe for the Green Dragon Flying Heaven, but I didn't give it to him."
"What! This shameless villain came to ask for a secret recipe! You don't know what that pig's head did to the three! Today, when I went to buy fish, I learned that his family had contracted all the fish in the fish market for a month! Zhu Yuan said angrily, but in his heart, he didn't mention Zhang Chi's request for her to be a concubine.
"The Zhang family actually contracted a fish market for a month?" Zhu Fang was stunned, but he knew that this matter was true, and sighed heavily as he spoke.
"This is also the decline of our family, I think that our Zhu family had several chefs in the imperial dining room, and now the secret recipes that have been handed down are all left by them! Since your grandfather, that's it, what are you talking about! If our green dragon flying can enter the eyes of the prince, it can be regarded as revitalizing the past glory of the Zhu family, maybe we will not fall into such a field. ”
Zhu Fang felt sorry in his heart, but Zhu Yuan walked up, what happened to his grandfather at the beginning, causing the entire Zhu family to return here from Kyoto, relying on such a small restaurant to make a living? Dad has always been reluctant to say it, and she doesn't want to always remind him of his unhappiness.
Somehow, the extremely handsome face of the man in the carriage came to her mind, and looking at the respectful looks of the people around her, his status in the palace should not be too low, if so......