"Huh? No one is making trouble, huh? Pearl was a little confused, "They just spoke a little louder, and the people in line in the store thought they were going to cut the line, so they argued twice, only to find out later that they had made a mistake." ”

As she spoke, Pearl took out a vermilion invitation from behind her, "They came here to deliver this, saying that there would be a meeting in two days, and they would invite the two shopkeepers to go." ”

Su Xiaoman couldn't help but joke with Xia Wanrou, "Sister, if you went downstairs just now, the misunderstanding would be even greater." ”

Xia Wanrou blushed rarely, in order to hide her embarrassment, she got up and took the invitation card in Pearl's hand, "Who handed over the invitation here, can you say the name?" ”

"It seems to be the Jiang family in the west of the city, but the little guy who came said a lot, and I don't know what to do." Pearl scratched her head and replied with some embarrassment.

The Jiang family in the west of the city?

Although Su Xiaoman has been in Beijing for a while, because he has been holding back at home some time ago, and later opened a shop, he is so busy all day long that he can't even take care of eating, so for the big family in Shangjing, except for Shi Yu, who often comes to find fault, the rest don't know any of them.

Looking at Xia Wanrou's appearance of carefully opening the invitation, Xiao Man was curious: "What is the origin of this Jiang family, I have never heard of it before. ”

As soon as I finished speaking, the invitation card was also opened, and the letter inside was unfolded, only to see that the two ladies were invited to Ann at the beginning, and then looked down was the real purpose of their invitation.

It turns out that the garment shops, jewelry workshops, rouge shops, and weaving layouts in Beijing are like clouds, and there are several generations of imperial merchants, specializing in supplying clothes and jewelry to the masters of the palace, they will hold a competition every year, although there is no practical significance, but because of the sudden rise in recent years, several competitions have been won by newcomers, and these generations of imperial businessmen are not happy.

In addition, there is also an intention to suppress the more and more arrogant imperial businessmen, so they will promote these newcomers more and more, and there is a great intention to let them replace these old imperial businessmen, so everyone has been holding back a ruthless energy in the past few years, and no one will let anyone.

Originally, this competition only invited famous big families and a few imperial businessmen in Beijing, but in recent years, the threshold has been lowered, but all the shops that can be called in Beijing can participate, and the most unfortunate ones want to coat their shops with gold edges, and the shopkeepers can pay money to participate, but these are just going through the motions, so as to show off that they have attended the same game with the imperial businessmen.

Each shop has its own specialty, and all of them have to go through five competitions before they can be shortlisted for the final competition to determine who is the winner.

However, because the Imperial Merchants were the first to initiate the competition, and they were involved in various projects, they only needed to participate in the final competition.

Xia Wanrou thought that her store would have to wait a few years to get this invitation after the shop's business stabilized, but now that this invitation was delivered to her door so quickly, she was naturally overjoyed.

She pulled Xiaoman to talk about this competition for a long time, and also counted the new shops that have won the top spot in recent years to Xiaoman carefully, after speaking, Xia Wanrou sighed again: "However, although they are new shops, they have been open for at least three or four years, if they are just grown up teenagers, then we can only be regarded as newborn children." ”

"Just opened, what about the kids?" Su Xiaoman stuffed the invitation into the invitation card and said with a smile: "Isn't this also an invitation handed over now?" Sister Wanrou, don't worry, since we got the invitation, we must be qualified to participate in this competition. Even if we lose, we can still go to this meeting for a long time, right? ”

Xia Wanrou smiled softly and nodded, "You're right, it's time to go for a long time." ”

Now Xiao Man is always much more energetic than when Lu Li first left, at that time, Xiao Man is getting thinner and thinner, and he can't be interested in anything, Xia Wanrou thought that Xiao Man would continue to fall like this.

Later, it was proposed to open a shop just to distract Xiaoman's spirit, so as not to make her think about Lu Li every day, but she didn't expect that Su Xiaoman was so concerned about it, and she also ran the shop so well, Xia Wanrou was naturally pleased.

The other guys in the store were very happy when they found out about this, and Xiaoman was even more happy, while it was still early, she let the guys close early, and then took a group of guys out to eat.

Along the way, the three guys were also very happy, especially Wang Qi and Xiao Hao, the bookkeeper, the two chattered and discussed non-stop all the way, praising Su Xiaoman and Xia Wanrou for saying hundreds of sentences.

Such a guy made Pearl and Xia Wanrou's maidservant Hongyu laugh non-stop, and the group talked and laughed, and in a blink of an eye, they arrived at Baiwei Zhai.

Baiwei Zhai is one of the best shops in Beijing, and it is widely praised for its large portions and good taste, although it is slightly more expensive than ordinary stores, but compared to Qingshu Zhai, the price of this Baiwei Zhai is fair enough.

"Shopkeeper Su, are we really going to eat here today?" Wang Qi stood at the door of Baiwei Zhai, looked at the ordinary coarse cloth clothes on his body, and did not dare to step into the door.

Xia Wanrou smiled: "Anyway, it's the shopkeeper Su who pays, what are you worried about, go, let's eat recklessly today." ”

After getting along with these people for so many days, Xia Wanrou didn't have so many restraints, and she was like an ordinary friend when she got along with them, she abandoned her identity and mingled with these guys.

Su Xiaoman said proudly: "That's right, it's just Baiwei Zhai now, and if I have money in the future, I will invite you to Qingshu Zhai for dinner." ”

"Really?" Xia Wan asked with a soft smile.

Su Xiaoman suddenly wilted and sneered: "That, let's go eat first, finish eating early and go back to rest early." ”

Qingshu Zhai is still too expensive, no matter how much money she makes in the future, she is still reluctant, Su Xiaoman is just saying.

The other guys also knew, but they were already very satisfied to have an approachable shopkeeper like Su Xiaoman, and she personally brought herself here to eat, even if she didn't go to Qingshu Zhai, even if she didn't come to Baiwei Zhai, they would still be loyal to Su Xiaoman and Xia Wanrou.

The seven of them entered the store and sat in a quieter corner, and Su Xiaoman ordered the two maidservants to sit down as well, and then began to order.

The difference in the costumes of several people has already attracted most of the attention, and now that they see the two ladies and casual maidservants also on the table, the eyes of others are even more strange, and almost the entire diners in the hall are looking at Su Xiaoman's table.

But fortunately, Su Xiaoman and the others sat in the corner and did not act excessively, so others only looked here from time to time and did not dare to talk loudly.

The seven people were full of joy, patronizing the order, but they didn't even notice these eyes, they took care of their own food, and waited for Xiao Er to bring the food with a smile.

A portion of radish pork rib soup, a portion of white fungus wolfberry soup, two servings of stir-fried vegetables, plus two servings of cooked beef and a few plates of cold side dishes, plus two large plates of dumplings, large and small plates filled the table.

A few guys were originally a little embarrassed, but under the urging of Xiao Man and Xia Wanrou, Pearl and Hongyu took the lead in moving the chopsticks, and the rest of the people twisted for a moment, and then picked up the chopsticks and ate them.

I don't know how long it will be, and there will be some highs and lows of discussion next to me.

"Look, it's strange that the maidservants at their table are eating with their masters."

"Isn't that the shopkeeper of the Manrou ready-to-wear shop? How do you eat with the guys in the store? It's so unruly. ”

"Hey, a wild girl from the village knows what rules, even if she flies on the branch and becomes a phoenix, she can't change the nature of the pheasant."

Lao Zhou is old, and he is most afraid that others will be affected because of himself, he was the first to put down his chopsticks and looked at Su Xiaoman in embarrassment, "Shopkeeper, look-"

Su Xiaoman's face did not change, as if he hadn't heard anything, he interrupted Lao Zhou's words: "Lao Zhou, you can eat more, I have asked the guy to make a few more dishes, and when you go back later, you will bring a little for the family to eat." ”

"Madam, Anyway, Hongyu and I are full, so let's serve you first." Listening to those people's discussions, Pearl fidgeted, and she cautiously looked at Xiao Man's face and proposed.

Xia Wanrou looked at Su Xiaoman worriedly, obviously they were all sitting together, but those people just had to talk about Xiaoman, and they didn't dare to criticize themselves, didn't they just see that Lu Li was not in Beijing at this time, and they took a fancy to her mother's powerless family, and felt that Xiaoman was easy to bully?

She held Xiaoman's arm worriedly, trying to persuade but didn't know what to say, so she had to keep holding her arm, so that the other party would know that she was supporting her.

Su Xiaoman was also tough enough, and until everyone was full, he didn't allow any of them to get up.

However, the good meal was very aggrieved, and the smile on everyone's face disappeared when they came, and no one dared to speak.

When Xiao Er came to settle the bill, Su Xiaoman took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels directly from her arms, and she slapped the silver ticket on the table fiercely, as if she was venting her anger by this move.

Xiao Er trembled in fright, "Guest officer, ...... you"

"I paid for their tables." Xiao Man got up, pointed to the tables where he was talking about his most presumptuous, and said with a smile: "You don't have to pay, I'll pay for you." ”

Those people looked confused, not knowing what Su Xiaoman meant.

Even Xia Wanrou thought that Su Xiaoman was so angry that she wanted to pay these people.

The villain was also stunned, and the people who were eating in the house stopped their chopsticks, wanting to see what Su Xiaoman was going to do.

Su Xiaoman patted the silver ticket again, "Not enough?" ”

"Enough, enough," Xiao Er accepted the silver ticket and asked tremblingly, "Guest officer, what else do you have to order?" ”

Su Xiaoman pointed with his hand and said, "Throw the food and dishes on their table with you, and I will pay you exactly how much money you should pay!" You're going to throw everything on their table right now! ”