Chapter 68: The Sale of the Stork's Tower
It was almost lunch time for the two sisters to come out of Jiang Feng's bookstore, Jiang Tingliu and Jiang Tingmei played around for a while and asked, "Shall we eat outside?" ”
Jiang Tingmei nodded in agreement, and Jiang Tingliu instructed the coachman to go to the famous stork tower.
To say that this stork tower is very famous in the entire Daye Dynasty, not only because of the excellent taste of its dishes, but also because of the very special rules of the stork tower.
There are five floors in this stork building, each floor has a different theme, guests can go to which floor they want to eat, but to order the signature dishes on this floor, you need more than silver, but also to complete the task set by the owner of the stork.
These tasks are varied, sometimes they are reciting poems, sometimes they are playing the piano and drawing, and sometimes they are guessing and solving words...... In short, there are many tricks, and if you can't complete this task, the guests will not be able to eat this signature dish even if they have more money.
The world thinks that the owner of the stork tower must be some kind of royal relative, otherwise how can such a strange rule of not earning silver be maintained in the capital full of nobles?
But Jiang Tingliu relied on the memory of several lifetimes of cheating and knew that the owner of the Stork Tower was not so capricious because he was powerful, but because of the real power behind the Stork Tower.
An all-knowing intelligence organization, as long as you can come up with a sufficient price, you can even find out which concubine the emperor ordered to sleep in the Stork Bird Tower tonight.
The existence of this organization is both secret and not secretive, and it is said that it is secret because no one knows where the people behind the stork tower and the base camp are, and it is just a wayward restaurant on the surface, and no matter how you search, you can't find anything.
It is said that it is not secret, but because everyone in this Daye Dynasty who has a little power and money knows that such a mysterious intelligence organization exists, and many nobles come here to eat not really to satisfy their appetites, but the real purpose is just to buy and sell news.
In addition to this intelligence business, Stork House also does some other business, such as helping people who can afford to spread the news.
So when he was in Baofeng Temple, Jiang Tingliu actually asked Fusheng to come to this stork tower to buy a service to spread the news, and deliberately spread the news that he had martial arts secrets in his hand to Xiao Yun's ears.
Of course, Jiang Tingliu now also figured out why Xiao Yun appeared as soon as the news spread, he himself was in the capital, it is estimated that he heard the news as soon as it spread, can it not come quickly?
Jiang Tingmei didn't know the secret behind the stork's tower, she only knew that the stork's tower was doing very well, and the location of each floor was full every day.
When the carriage stopped again, Jiang Tingliu stopped the two girls who were about to open the carriage door, first took out two hats with curtains from the small cabinet under the seat, she put one on herself, and handed the other one to Jiang Tingmei for her to bring, Jiang Tingmei didn't know why she still did it obediently.
When the two sisters who wore the curtain stood at the door of the stork tower, they saw that the stork tower was already full of people.
Jiang Tingmei said with a really such expression: "The business of the Stork Bird Tower will always be so good." ”
She pulled Jiang Tingliu's sleeve: "Third sister, if we don't change places to eat, so many people don't know when to wait." ”
Jiang Tingliu smiled and took Jiang Tingmei's hand: "Fourth sister, don't worry, since I brought you here, I naturally want you to have a good meal here today." ”
The three richly dressed sons next to them couldn't help but snort when they heard Jiang Tingliu's words, and the three of them seemed to be chatting but pointed at Jiang Tingliu one by one: "Some people are really ashamed, what kind of place is this stork building, even if the princes come, they have to wait honestly if they have no place, but some people think that they can go to heaven with a few stinky money in their own family." ”
"Zhang Gongzi is right, I don't know where there are people with high earth."
"Exactly."
Jiang Tingliu squinted at the three sons, and recognized that they were the sons of several earls who were in a higher position than the Guo family and the Tan family, and the three of them obviously came late and had no seats, so they were waiting here.
And they probably saw the marks on the Jiang family's carriage just now and guessed the identities of Jiang Tingliu and Jiang Tingmei, which is why they are so disdainful of them.
Jiang Tingmei naturally heard the chat of the three of them, her face was a little heavy, but she didn't have any intention of resisting, she only shook Jiang Tingliu's arm: "Third sister, let's come early next time, let's eat in another place today." ”
Jiang Tingliu glanced at her and found that the little girl was also unwilling in her eyes, but perhaps knowing that she was born in a merchant was indeed not treated well by the aristocracy, Jiang Tingmei quickly suppressed this unwillingness.
But Jiang Tingliu has never looked down on the identity of a merchant, she sneered, and said in a voice that was not too big or small, but just enough to be heard by the three of them: "Didn't the fourth sister say that she thinks I am very credible? Why don't you believe what I say in the blink of an eye? ”
Jiang Tingmei hurriedly said, "No, I didn't mean that. ”
Jiang Tingliu raised his hand and scraped the bridge of Jiang Tingmei's nose, and continued to say in that volume: "Some people don't learn and don't know how to do it, and they only know how to rely on the momentum of the elders in the family every day, don't you know that there are things that they can't know at all. ”
She was simply pointing at the noses of the three of them and scolding them for being squirrel, but these three people were really not regarded as the future light of the inheritance of the great cause in the three earl's mansions, and they were only a little bit away from the cats and dogs.
Therefore, Jiang Tingliu's words are no different from pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man, and the three of them can still bear it when they hear it, even if they want to come over and teach the "lowly" merchant girl a good lesson.
Jiang Tingliu took the first step to drag Jiang Tingmei into the Stork Bird Tower, whether the Stork House is full or not, there will be two small maids who have been guarding the door, responsible for guiding the seats when they are not full, and responsible for stopping the guests when they are full, this will see Jiang Tingliu and Jiang Tingmei and the two maids go directly inside, and the two little maids hurriedly greeted each other left and right, and quietly blocked Jiang Tingliu's way.
The three Earl's Mansion disciples stopped when they saw this posture, and the three of them had the same schadenfreude on their faces, just waiting to see how the outspoken Jiang Tingliu was driven out.
The little guy on the left had a warm smile on his face, and was about to say the words of rejection that he had said countless times to Jiang Tingliu, but Jiang Tingliu took out something from his arms and fell into his arms.
The little guy hurriedly caught the little thing in his arms, and when his fingers just touched it, the familiar touch made him guess what it was.
But the little guy still dutifully lowered her head and carefully verified, Jiang Tingliu stood calmly, the thing was real, so she didn't panic at all.
After a while, the little guy on the left respectfully lifted the thing up and returned it to Jiang Tingliu, and the little guy on the right hurriedly followed together when he saw this, and the two sang in unison: "Your guest is coming, greet you." ”
No matter what they were doing in the building, the clerks shouted in unison: "Your guests are coming to the door, greeting." ”
A sound was heard from the first floor to the fifth floor, startling most of the diners who were eating in the building.