Theater pear orchards abound in the capital, to say that in recent days, the limelight is the most prosperous, and Chunxi Building is well-deserved. From the princes, ministers, and royal families to the wealthy businessmen, they all rushed to Chunxi Tower with a large handful of silver in their hands, just to compete for a good visual seat. To say that this Chunxi Building's business in the past was not ordinary, in the past half a month, it was suddenly full of people, and it was so lively that it was almost over the adjacent Wanhualou. Wanhualou is noisy and extraordinary, because there are the most beautiful and dazzling Oiran in the whole capital, and Chunxi Lou is an authentic opera garden, except for entertaining the guests who listen to the opera with some melon and fruit tea, and even the banquet is very rare.

Things have to start from a month ago, a new singing actor named Ren Yi came to Chunxi Building, no one cared about it at first, but he was just a singer with a humble identity, how could he stir up any storms? Unexpectedly, a few days later, Princess Xixi invited several aristocratic ladies to Chunxi Tower to listen to the play, and it was the new Jiao'er who served on the stage, and won praise from the ladies in the audience in the afternoon.

After that day, many official eunuchs came to visit, this new actor is impeccable in terms of figure and singing, and the song "Lovesick Yin" is amazing, which can be described as an instant hit. Shengdan is ugly, fairy tigers and dogs, people can handle everything, and their handsome and elegant appearance makes the famous ladies who come to listen to the play secretly agree. Now that he appears on the stage, he will inevitably be full, which is not even the dignified King Xu who was intoxicated a few days ago and couldn't extricate himself.

The high-class private room in the center of the second floor of Chunxi Building came to a very distinguished guest today, and the shopkeeper You Baichuan was surprised and delighted, and he didn't come back to his senses after a long time, he bated his waist with bated breath, and raised his sleeves from time to time to wipe the sweat beads from his sideburns.

A man in a goose-yellow brocade robe sat in the center, although his thin red lips were upturned, he was still not angry: "Shopkeeper You, this prince came to Chunxi Tower in person today, why don't you have to wait here for a long time for your boss to appear?" ”

Without waiting for You Baichuan to reply, I saw Xu Wang Yuwen Yuan Xuanle take the first step and said: "Hey, cousin Ye, don't worry, this boss has his own rules in Chunxi Building, and he will never go on stage until three o'clock in the afternoon." ”

The scarlet-clothed girl sitting on Yu Wenye's right blinked her eyes wide, and asked curiously, "Does His Royal Highness King Xu know who this boss is?" ”

"I heard that I came from Yanzhou, but it's a pity that this king couldn't listen to his play after staying in Yanzhou for half a year." Yuwen Yuanxuan swallowed the silver melon seeds, crossed Erlang's legs, and looked like an idle young man in the capital.

The shopkeeper You, who was waiting respectfully, finally inserted two sentences: "Our boss Ren is indeed a famous actor from Yanzhou, and the little one only learned later that he was extremely prosperous when he was in Yanzhou's opera garden." Speaking of which, he is still a person from Jiangnan, as for how he went to Yanzhou and then transferred to the capital, the little one is unknown. ”

At this moment, there was a noise outside the private room, and it was the Pingning County Lord of the Xixi Palace.

Yuwen Yuanxuan glanced thoughtfully at the scarlet-clad girl next to Yuwen Ye with eyebrows and apricot eyes, and asked with a deliberate smile: "Cousin Ye, do you want to meet the county lord of Pingning?" Do you want to let Shopkeeper You invite the county lord? ”

Before Yu Wenye could refuse, You Baichuan couldn't wait to respond eagerly: "His Royal Highness King Xu is reasonable, the little one will go and invite the county lord to come and meet the two highnesses." With that, he confessed and went out of the chamber, and in a short time brought in three young women.

Sima Ning, the lord of Pingning County, was dressed in silk, with black hair and half a curl, lightly sweeping his eyebrows, his skin was like clotted fat, and his lips were red and his teeth were white. The two handsome women who followed her were about her age and were her close maids. As the three masters and servants walked in, they brought in a strange fragrance and sultry people's heartstrings.

Sima Ning quickly glanced at Yu Wenye, who was sitting precariously, and didn't dare to look at him, but his face blushed in an instant. Although he was shy, he still performed the national salute in a proper manner: "Sima Ning of Xixi Wangfu respectfully invites His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Jin An, please Xu Wang An." ”

Yu Wenye's eyelids were not raised, and he said coldly as before: "The county lord is flat." ”

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie." Sima Ning was completely immersed in that low, magnetic voice at this time, and didn't care at all that there was still one person sitting in the box, except for the prince and King Xu.

The girl in the scarlet robe stood up and bowed slightly, the smile on her face was brighter than the spring peach, and the pleasant tone floated into Sima Ning's ears: "The lord of Pingning County is not harmed." ”

Sima Ning raised his head and was obviously taken aback, the scarlet-clothed girl was smiling, but her smile was obviously not up to the bottom of her eyes, this person turned out to be Bai Muguan!

This Bai Muguan, who came from Mobei and ate the bear's heart and leopard gall in front of the Empress Dowager Xiao last time, dared to give her Sima Ning a horse. Now she actually sat beside the prince and accompanied the prince and King Xu to Chunxi Tower to listen to the play, and this honor directly crushed all the famous ladies. Why would such a great good thing fall on Bai Muguan's head? It seems that the rumors from the outside world must not be true, thinking of this, Sima Ning felt deeply depressed, and secretly wondered how to clean up this Bai Muguan.

"You ......" Sima Ning snorted coldly and disdainfully from his nostrils, but his eyes couldn't erase the bright crimson figure.

Yuwen Yuanxuan noticed the subtlety of the two girls' eyes meeting, and in order to avoid the outbreak of discord, he hurriedly said with a smile: "How can Sister Pingning have the leisure to come to Chunxi Tower to listen to the play today?" ”

"King Xu doesn't know, my father is the gold owner behind the scenes of Chunxi Building, I often come to listen to music to relieve boredom, but the prince's brother is busy, and it is rare to come to Chunxi Building." Although he was answering Yuwen Yuanxuan's words, Sima Ning's eyes carefully wandered on Yu Wenye, and his title became an intimate prince brother.

Yuwen Yuanxuan narrowed his clear eyes, and subconsciously used his afterglow to pay attention to Yu Wenye, who was calm and relaxed, and found that he had been concentrating on the girl beside him, completely ignoring Sima Ning's existence. However, Sima Ning was amorous and smiled quite shyly, this scene was not funny.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is naturally very busy with government affairs, and he can't compare to me, an idle person, who is chic and free. It's strange to say, this king has come to Chunxi Lou dozens of times, but he didn't know that the owner was the king of Xixi. In a blink of an eye, Yuwen Yuanxuan thought of the current famous actor Ren Yi, because Princess Xixi invited several women and nobles to get together, and he performed on stage, and since then he has become famous.

I saw Sima Ning smile lightly: "My father has a lot of private property, and Chunxi Tower is just one of them." ”

Bai Muguan heard the meaning of showing off from her raised chin and commanding tone, and this show off was naturally aimed at Bai Muguan.

Sima Ning's father, Sima Yunqian, is the hereditary king of Xixi, thinking that his ancestors were the sworn brothers of the founding emperor of the Tianxi Dynasty, and he followed birth and death all the way, and was loyal. After the founding of the country, he was given a fief and a prince, becoming the only king with a different surname in the Tianxi Dynasty, and the only clan that has no blood relationship with the royal Yuwen family. In Sima Yunqian's generation, today's Son of Heaven Yuwen Haotian is no longer inseparable from the Sima family, the once strongest force, like his ancestors, and naturally he is no longer regarded as an indispensable right-hand man. Sima Yunqian found another way, openly and secretly started the business of major commercial houses, there were dozens of Zhuangzi alone, and his rich private property was full of inside and outside the capital.

Suddenly, with a burst of excited shouts from downstairs, Jinghu, Yueqin, and strings all sounded, and the famous characters who everyone in the audience had been waiting for for a long time finally took the stage.

The play sung today is a play ordered by Yu Wenye himself, which tells the story of Bai Zhanyi bravely entering the enemy camp of Beiling State more than 20 years ago, setting fire to its grain and grass, and beheading its generals, so he became famous in a war.

Yuwen Yuan Xuan watched the stage with great pleasure, it was not the first time he watched it, and he still commented with great interest: "Boss Ren's appearance is heroic, and he can barely show the bravery of General Bai back then. ”

Bai Muguan smiled slightly when he heard this, looking at the straight and heroic posture on the stage, his every move was really expressive, and his singing voice also had a bit of unique charm.

Yu Wenye suddenly opened his lips, turned his head and looked at Bai Muguan with a smile, with a gentle light in his eyes: "How does Guanguan think he sings?" ”

With an intimate voice, Sima Ning felt a pain in his heart when he heard it, and his teeth itched with hatred, and even Yuwen Yuanxuan was a little surprised. The cold-faced prince is not close to women, and he actually spit out such gentle words from his mouth, and people who are obviously familiar with him seem to become strangers all of a sudden.

Bai Muguan just smiled and said: "The words are correct and round and sing very well, I don't know what His Highness thinks?" ”

"Not bad." Yu Wenye slowly said two words, which made You Baichuan, who was waiting on the side, breathe a sigh of relief.

Half an hour passed, and there were only three seats in the private room, and no one spoke, and Sima Ning, a latecomer, could only stand dryly. The crown prince and King Xu are not enough, Bai Muguan is just the daughter of a newly sealed marquis, and he dares to sit on the chair steadily, without the slightest intention of getting up and giving in. Anyway, she Sima Ning is the real second-grade county lord, the owner behind Chunxi Building, and no one cares about her legs numb now. The sense of surprise when I saw Yu Wenye at first glance was reduced by half.

The on-stage play was coming to an end, and Yu Wenye seemed to have just realized something, and spoke slowly: "Show the county lord a seat." ”

"Yes, yes, the little one was confused for a while and forgot that the county lord was still standing." You Baichuan hurriedly confessed to Sima Ning, turned around and told the maid to hurry up and bring a chair over. Where is he clumsy or forgetting, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has the most respected status in the house, has not spoken for a long time, and he does not dare to take the initiative to carry a chair for the county lord to sit on.

Sima Ning didn't care about any manners, she was so tired from standing for a long time that she sat on the black wooden chair, and after sitting down, she squinted at Bai Muguan who was next to her. It's a pity that the other party is so focused on watching the play that he doesn't seem to pay attention to her, and it's completely boring for himself.

After watching the seat, the maid had to serve tea and fruit snacks to Sima Ning, and for some reason, Sima Ning's hand that took the tea cup shook and the tea flowed out obliquely. She let go of the teacup, and with a "bang", the teacup fell to the ground and shattered, and the hot tea was completely poured on Bai Muguan.

Bai Muguan hurriedly stood up, looked down and saw that the crimson dress was completely wet with tea, fortunately, the early spring was not thin and did not burn the skin. Looking at Sima Ning next to him, he pretended to be stunned for a moment, and then raised his hand to slap the maid who served the tea when everyone didn't react.

"Bold, you can't even hold a cup of tea, and smash the signboard in front of the distinguished guests! Today, I will slap you twenty and then drive you out, Chunxilou will definitely not be able to keep you as a clumsy idiot! Sima Ning was furious, and pointed to the trembling maid who was kneeling on the ground and reprimanded.

You Baichuan was also so shocked that cold sweat was dripping on his forehead, and he didn't dare to look directly at Yu Wenye's expression.

"Guanguan, are you alright? Have you been burned, does it hurt? However, Yu Wenye only cared about whether his Wanguan was burned at the moment, in addition to the concern and tension in his eyes, there was also a surging anger brewing and fermenting.

"Out of the way." Bai Muguan signaled him to rest assured, and then smiled coldly, it was a shame that Sima Ning was able to make such a clumsy play. Anyone with a discerning eye can see through it, she didn't have to pick up the tea cup handed by the maid just now, but she didn't hold it steady after receiving it, and preemptively scolded the maid, if she didn't mean to believe it!

"Miss Bai don't be annoyed, it's all to blame for this's clumsy hands and feet." Saying that, Sima Ning turned his head to You Baichuan and reprimanded in a deep voice, "Shopkeeper You, most of the people who come and go in Chunxi Mansion are distinguished guests, and such a vulgar and stupid maid must not be used again in the future!" This time it was just to stain Miss Bai's dress, if she collided with a noble person next time, wouldn't it be Chunxi Lou's sin? ”

Just as You Baichuan said yes again and again, a cold and low male voice slowly came: "Lord Pingning's words are wrong, isn't it a sin this time?" ”

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