On this day, Zhu Wanqing went to the street dressed in men's clothes, and this time she went out of the palace to ask for something from one person as a birthday gift for her father.

Ling'er and Zhang Xiaohu are also dressed up in ordinary clothes, following closely behind.

The streets and alleys of the capital have been decorated for the emperor's birthday, and the lantern shelves erected on both sides of the street are higher than the eaves. The cries of doing business on the roadside continued, and it seemed that Zhu Wanqing was passing by in the style of a son-in-law, and they would laugh and say, Son, look at what I am, why don't you do it?

Zhu Wanqing ignored it, only glanced down slightly and walked away. If it weren't for the tragic situation of the people on the border of Langcheng with his own eyes, just looking at this capital, I would indeed think that the Ming Dynasty is now a peaceful and prosperous era.

Nanhua Street is the most lively place in the capital, and the dignitaries and nobles in the capital like to come here for pastime.

For example, flowers and birds, crickets, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, listening to music and playing horns and other fun can be found in Nanhua Street.

The three of them came to Xiangmanlou, which is the largest teahouse in the capital, and the person Zhu Wanqing is looking for is here.

Although this fragrant building is only a tea house, it is 30 feet wide and 40 feet high, and the bricks and tiles used are all palace specifications, and its emerald green glazed roof exudes dazzling brilliance under the sunlight, which is very beautiful. As far as the eye can see, Xiangmanlou is the most dazzling landmark building on Nanhua Street.

"Yo, guest officer, please come inside, there is a private room upstairs." Although the little brother who ran the hall saw Zhu Wanqing's face, this boy was obviously dressed as a rich master.

"No need, find me a good place downstairs, I like the excitement." Zhu Wanqing said, and the trotting hall led the three of them to the table closest to the singing platform to sit down, but whoever sat here would most likely lose a few dollars to hold the corner of the stage.

At this time, it was not yet time to start singing, and in the teahouse, whether it was a dignitary or a third-class person, they were all drinking tea and discussing the situation in the world, and they were all pointing out the style of the country.

Zhu Wanqing asked for a new pot of tea and four plates of snacks, and was about to taste it, but was attracted by a shout.

"Huanzi! Why? Come and greet your guests. An ugly-looking man led a brightly dressed handsome man into the Xiangmanlou.

Zhu Wanqing knows both of these people, but the ugly one is Zhu San'er, and no one knows what his original name is. He is also a member of the royal family, his ancestor was the king of the county, and later committed a crime, so that the Zongren Mansion was removed from the title, and now he is a gangster wandering the streets.

It's just that although this person is down, he relies on a clever mouth to meet up and down, and he has also gained a lot of benefits by bridging the gap between the royal family and the middle class.

That handsome boy is called Zhu Yu, he is the prince of the dynasty, today he must have met Zhu San on the street, and people dragged him hard, who let him get acquainted with the two of them.

Zhu Wanqing was sticking to her mustache, and neither Zhu San nor the prince recognized her.

"Cousin, you haven't been back to the capital for a long time, and now everyone is holding Liuqin cigarettes, ouch, don't you know the girl's figure......" said a few of them went upstairs to the private room.

After a while, there was a person on the stage, and the master of the singing class saluted everyone and put a reward list on the side.

This reward list can hang a small wooden card, but anyone who has a reward of more than ten taels can get a small wooden card with their name written on it, and the most rewarded amount will be hung on the top, and then down.

The person Zhu Wanqing is looking for this time is the top brand of the Beijing private training workshop in Zhu San's mouth just now.

Ordinary people don't know that the reason why this Liuqin smoke can be popular is because the emperor met her during a private visit to Weifu before, although he only met and sang a song, but the emperor was so fascinated by her that he didn't want to.

It's just that due to various reasons, the emperor couldn't take it directly at that time, and he was thinking about getting closer in the future, but he fell ill before he thought about it.

Some people at the bottom know that Liu Qinyan is the emperor's new favorite, and it is not enough to hold it, but this one is completely popular, and it is red through most of the capital.

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As soon as the disemboweling gong sounded, in the applause of everyone, Liuqin smoked a scarf with a gauze scarf on his face, and appeared with a pipa in his arms, sitting in the center of the stage.

This woman is slender, her skin is as white as congealed cream, although she wears a veil and can't see her face clearly for the time being, but the temperament exuded by her gestures has fascinated everyone.

The song "Tears of Leaving People" sounded, and the pipa was played with flowing clouds and water, like a melodious turn, and the people in the hall were fascinated by it.

After the prelude, Liuqin's throat opened: it looks like a flower or a non-flower, and no one regrets to follow the teaching.

Just one sentence won the applause of the whole house, this voice is really gentle and moving, like a heavenly sound.

In the upstairs box, Zhu Yu was also fascinated by the person on the stage, what kind of woman is she?

Zhu San'er looked at Zhu Yu's infatuated look, his eyes rolled, and he asked in a low voice, "Does Your Highness want to make a show?" ”

Zhu Yu ignored him, his eyes were always staring at the Liu Qinyan on the stage, and after a while, he slowly took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from his arms and pressed it on the table.

Zhu San'er's eyes lit up when he saw the silver ticket, and the guests he brought in, he could get a cut of how much he rewarded.

Liu Qinyan finished the song and got up and bowed to everyone.

All right!

There was a cheer from the audience, and a group of little errand girls began to come forward with wooden plates to collect the reward. Some of the people threw away a few coins and a few dollars, and some directly gave a penny or two silver.

"East Street Liu Ji Buzhuang Liu shopkeeper rewarded five taels of silver!" The younger two who have a relatively large amount will shout all over the house.

When the plate arrived in front of Zhu Wanqing, she took out a silver ticket of ten taels and put it in.

"Yo, this son, look at the face and dare to ask your surname, we will give you a sign." Seeing that a big customer was coming, the head of the class stepped forward and asked enthusiastically.

"My son's surname is Zhu, and he is a businessman from Shandong who came to Beijing to do business." Ling'er said.

"Yo, is it the current Holy Family?" The head of the class is afraid that this is not a merchant, but a prince from the local area.

"Exactly."

The class owner doesn't care so much, just give the money.

"Shandong merchant Zhu Gongzi rewarded ten taels of silver!" Xiao Er shouted, and the whole house was amazed.

The class owner immediately wrote Shandong Zhu Gongzi on the small wooden plaque and hung it at the top of the list.

"Upstairs in the private room Xinzhu Pavilion, Zhu Gongzi, reward one hundred taels of silver!" Zhu San'er held the silver ticket high and walked down the stairs all the way down the stairs.

"Yo, third master, are you getting rich?" Everyone didn't believe it, and asked with a little sarcasm.

This Zhu Sancheng knew that gambling money and playing women every day, although there were a few inputs, but he was basically in debt on weekdays, and it was impossible to have a hundred taels of silver tickets.

"Go, go, I'm talking about the one upstairs, not me!" Zhu San lit up the amount of the silver ticket in front of everyone, and then slowly put it on the plate.

"Dare to ask which Zhu Gongzi it is?" The class master is confused at this time, what's wrong today, Zhu Gongzi comes everywhere, and he is still mysterious.

"Hmph, Shanxi!" Zhu San'er said loudly.

"Shanxi Zhu Gongzi will reward one hundred taels of silver!" Xiao Er continued to shout.

At this time, Shandong Zhu Gongzi made Shanxi Zhu Gongzi suppressed, and the discerning people present could see that where did the royal family fight on the list, and there will be a good show to watch today.

Zhu Wanqing smiled, and also took out a hundred taels from her arms and threw them into the plate.

"Shandong Zhu Gongzi will reward another hundred taels of silver!" The class leader was so excited that he didn't wait for Xiao Er to shout first.

The brand on this list, Shandong Zhu Gongzi overtook it again.

Everyone was interested, and it was much more interesting to see the rich people brushing money than listening to music, so they all followed suit.

In the box, Zhu Yu frowned, and asked Zhu San, who had just run up, angrily: "It's not for me, right?" So Shandong Zhu Gongzi is a trust? ”

"Yo, you see what you said, it's not the first day you've played here, so it's okay to deceive rich merchants from other places with this trick, how can you be fooled?" Zhu San was really wronged.

Zhu Yu thought about it, the owner of the teahouse would not use this trick on the people of the old Zhu family, otherwise he would be looking for death, and then took out two hundred taels of silver tickets and handed them to Zhu San.

"Shanxi Zhu Gongzi will reward another two hundred taels of silver, a total of three hundred taels!" Zhu Sanfeng came down in a hurry and hung the sign of Shanxi to the top.

"Wow!" Everyone began to talk in exclamation, I am afraid that today is a fight between the gods, and some have seen it.

Some even took the lead and began to shout "Four hundred taels, four hundred taels." "Let's take Zhu Wanqing.

Zhu Wanqing was so set up that she could only keep up, so she took out two more silver tickets of one hundred taels.

"Shandong Zhu Gongzi has a total of three hundred and ten taels!"

"Good!"

Zhu Wanqing's heart was dripping blood, she asked her mother for 500 taels to buy a birthday gift this time, plus the hundreds of taels she had saved, a total of 1,000 taels of silver, and she had spent one-third of it at the moment.

I thought that I could see Liu Qinyan give her a portrait and give it to her father, in order to relieve his lovesickness that the old man could not see him, but he didn't think that he would be cut off by the prince now.

"Shanxi Zhu Gongzi said that he wants the whole audience to light up!" Zhu San ran up and down, tired and out of breath.

As soon as everyone heard that the whole audience was lit up, the whole teahouse seemed to be fried, and it boiled instantly.

The so-called lighting means that no matter how much money is rewarded, the lighter has to keep up, and if he can't keep up, he will lose his dignity. Generally, only the first-class big hands dare to play like this.

"I said old and young masters, we can't let outsiders in the capital see jokes, and we did it with him!" The shopkeeper of Buzhuang Liu took the lead and threw out the silver and jewelry on his body.

him!

As soon as the old and young masters of the capital followed suit.

Zhu Wanqing was also encouraged by this atmosphere, originally she still had the idea of retreating, but at this moment, her head was hot, and she threw out three hundred taels of silver.

"A total of 1,300 taels of silver! Shandong Zhu Gongzi has a total of six hundred and ten taels! "The teahouse owner and the head of the class have spent their eyes counting the money.

Now everyone's eyes gathered upstairs again, the hall was already full of firepower, a total of 1,300 taels of silver, if Shanxi Zhu Gongzi could keep up, then the people below would basically lose.

Zhu San walked out of the box and looked around at the old and young masters below, neither speaking nor taking money in his hands.

"Looks like I can't keep up!" Someone started talking.

Zhu San was unhurried and came to Zhu Wanqing's table to make a gesture.

"Third master, don't be ashamed today, the person you brought here is already very powerful." The tea guests comforted one after another.

Zhu San smiled contemptuously, "One thousand taels of silver tickets are here!" With that, he slowly took out a thousand taels of tickets from his pocket and showed them to everyone.

Most of the people here saw a silver ticket of 1,000 taels for the first time in their lives, and they sighed, saying that the one upstairs was really a god.

As the crown prince of the current dynasty, Zhu Yu obviously still has this strength.

"Do you still add it to the audience?" Zhu San asked imposingly.

Everyone bowed their heads one after another, and then looked at Zhu Wanqing together, Zhu Wanqing knew that she could not compare with the prince with financial resources, so she pretended to drink tea and ignored the eager eyes of the gang

After half an hour, the owner of the teahouse saw that Zhu Wanqing was silent, so he announced: "Shanxi Zhu Gongzi has successfully lit the lamp!" I asked for everyone's tea money today. ”

Good!!

Although everyone spent money, they also had a lot of fun, and Liu Qinyan continued to sing a few songs in order to thank the tea guests.