"I really can't be angry with what you say," Yuan Xiucai looked at the shopkeeper Wang without saying anything: "At first glance, you are an honest person, you and your proprietor are both ...... It's all ......" Yuan Xiucai couldn't think of how to describe it for a while: "Interesting, what kind of drama do you want to write?" Let's say okay first, I can write as much as I want, but if there is a star that annoys me, this matter is over!"

"Don't tell Mr. I'm not going to tell you, I don't know what kind of play to write, this is a separate courtyard of our proprietor, not far from here, if Mr. has free in the afternoon, our proprietor wants to invite you to have a cup of tea, and then talk about this miscellaneous play." Shopkeeper Wang took a note from his sleeve and pushed it in front of Yuan Xiucai, Yuan Xiucai picked up the note and looked at it, then pushed the note back and said, "Okay, I'll go and meet your proprietor for a while!"

In the blink of an eye in the middle of February, the shopkeepers of several shops gathered in the backyard of Rong'an Hall as usual, Li Tian brought Yue Niang and Cao's fourth daughter-in-law in, and the two stood behind Li Tian with their hands down. ”

Shopkeeper Zhao hesitated and said with a smile: "There is no letter yet." Shopkeeper Wang, who was sitting in the first armchair on the left, frowned, Li Tian lowered his eyes, took a sip of tea from the cup, slowly put down the cup, looked at the shopkeeper Zhao and asked with a smile: "When did you have confidence in previous years?" ”

"In previous years, Huang Da's shopkeeper did this, and the small one was ...... I didn't pay attention. Shopkeeper Zhao swallowed his saliva and prevaricated, Li Tian changed the topic in a soft voice and asked, "Have you prepared any food, wine barrels or anything this year?" ”

"Don't worry, the owner is ready." Seeing that Li Tian was no longer entangled in Qu Yin's matter, Shopkeeper Zhao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly leaned over and replied earnestly: "The orders for the grain, wine barrels, and wine bottles to be used this year have all been placed, and there will be no mistakes." ”

"Deed of life or deed?"

"Death Pact." Shopkeeper Zhao felt a faint uneasiness in his heart, and hurriedly explained: "The death contract is much cheaper, and it is something that must be used anyway." ”

"In previous years, it was all decided so early? Is it also the amount of a full year at a time? It's all a death deed? Li Tian asked repeatedly, the corner of Zhao's shopkeeper was sweating, he was annoyed and angry for a while, and looked straight at Li Tian and said: "The owner, this business has a year's market, if it is the same as taking care of housework, everything is as usual in previous years, then there is no need for us to be the shopkeeper, the owner can appoint a housekeeper to manage the shop!"

"What Shopkeeper Zhao said is that this year is indeed different from previous years, grandma passed away, Huang Da shopkeeper suddenly resigned, and Rong Antang was almost blackmailed," Li Tian paused, and continued with a flat and expressionless voice: "It's time to let go and do a big job!" Shopkeeper Zhao's face turned purple and stared at Li Tian, Li Tian stared at him coldly, and Shopkeeper Zhao, who was looking directly, turned his head stiffly.

Shopkeeper Sun, who had just been the shopkeeper of Rong'an Hall for a few days, subconsciously straightened his upper body, and was about to speak, when Shopkeeper Wang stopped him with his eyes, glanced at the other four shopkeepers who were sitting still with their eyes and noses, noses and hearts, coughed lightly, interrupted the suffocating silence in the room, and said: "Everything is afraid of what if, this year is indeed different from previous years, in case there is a change in the things that are introduced by the song......"

"What can change? It's not been a year or two since we Qianchun Fang received these dozen music citations!" Shopkeeper Zhao found the place where he was vented, and opened his mouth to block Shopkeeper Wang.

Shopkeeper Sun glared at Shopkeeper Zhao, and was about to say a few words to help Shopkeeper Wang, Li Tian raised his hand to stop: "Since Shopkeeper Zhao is so sure, this is a good thing, seeing that it is not long before the inspection office starts to cook and compete for wine, Shopkeeper Zhao has a good look at brewing this year's bidding wine, I mean, this year we have to compete for the first brand in this competition." ”

Shopkeeper Sun looked at Li Tian in a daze, this sentence jumped too fast, and several other shopkeepers also looked at Li Tian in astonishment and confusion, why did they suddenly want to compete for this top brand of wine? Shopkeeper Wang lowered his eyelids expressionlessly and drank tea, Shopkeeper Zhao was furrowed, his eyes flashed with joy, and he hurriedly smiled: "Isn't the owner's idea still the same as Xiao's idea?" The proprietor is really a smart man. ”

Li Tian glanced at him with a smile, discussed a few more side matters, and dismissed everyone, but left a sentence for Shopkeeper Zhao: "Shopkeeper Zhao, please stay, and there is a sentence to discuss with Shopkeeper Zhao." ”

Shopkeeper Zhao had to keep his steps, with a smile on his face, he didn't sit down, he stood in the middle of the room with his hands behind his back, and looked at Li Tian condescendingly, Li Tian slowly sipped his tea, and watched everyone go out of the house, then put down the cup, looked up and down at the shopkeeper Zhao slightly, and said with a smile: "I heard that the business of being a shopkeeper is the most important word reputation, and it is common for the guest and the host to be incompatible, but if you eat the traitor of the layman, even if you only do it once, this reputation is completely bad, but like this?" ”

"I don't understand what the owner is saying!" Shopkeeper Zhao's body stiffened suddenly, his eyes stared at Li Tian fiercely, and he replied very toughly, Li Tian picked out a slight sneer at the corner of his mouth, and leaned at the shopkeeper Zhao with pity, and said with a hint of lazy pity: "There is a saying, once you stumble, you will become a thousand years of hatred, and then you will only have a dry bone when you look back." People, those few steps at a critical time, but you must not make a mistake. ”

As he spoke, he stood up with the armrest of the chair, Cao Si's daughter-in-law hurriedly stepped forward and raised her hat to help her put it on, Li Tian shook the black silk yarn that hung down to her feet, and coldly ordered: "Brew a few jars of good wine, don't mistake me for the first place in this drinking party!"

As he spoke, without waiting for Shopkeeper Zhao to answer, he walked away from him.

Shopkeeper Zhao's face was red and uncertain, and he stood for a long time before he exhaled heavily, took a 'puff' on the ground, strode out of Rong'an Hall through the front door, stood on the street and hesitated for a moment, and went straight to a hotel not far from the Wenguo Mansion.

The shopkeeper Wang sent Li Tian out of the corner door, and seeing that Li Tian was about to get into the car, he couldn't help but say: "Owner, there is a ......" Li Tian hurriedly turned back, looked at the shopkeeper Wang and waited for him to speak, the shopkeeper Wang said in a low voice: "The owner, the matter of the shopkeeper Zhao, I see that you have a number in your heart, you said that you want to compete for the first place in the wine, are you planning to win the first, why do you have to give a few copies of the inspection office?" ”

Li Tian hesitated for a moment, nodded, and the shopkeeper Wang smiled bitterly: "The owner, on the day of the wine competition, this song has already been released, where is it still useful?" You? ”

"It will be useful, don't worry." Li Tian said in a low voice but affirmatively, the shopkeeper Wang nodded, no longer talked, and watched Li Tian's car go away, before he let out a long sigh and entered the yard with his hands behind his back, a girl's family has such a big family business, what kind of blessing is this, this is a burden!

In the upper room of the main courtyard of the Wenguo Mansion, the eldest princess of Ningguo was crooked on the kang with her eyes half-closed, and the two little girls with beads and emerald hair and gorgeous clothes at her feet took the white jade beauty hammer and gently knocked her legs, in front of the kang, Wu Chenglin, the Duke of Wenguo, sat on the armchair in front of the kang and drank tea, and the steward Dai bowed down and stood in front of the kang, and was replying: "...... Looking for it in a hurry, it's not a big deal, just that the little girl of the Li family said that she wanted to compete for the first place in this year's drinking party. ”

"Fight for the first? She's so angry, can she win Qingfeng Building? Dreaming!" Wu Chenglin pursed his lips and sneered, the eldest princess of Ningguo glanced at him and said: "Don't underestimate that little girl, she began to learn to take care of housework with her grandmother at the age of ten, this business ability, I'm afraid that you are not as good as her, let her fight if you want to fight." ”

"Ancestor, will it? What happened to the regeneration? Steward Dai looked at the eldest princess of Ning Guo with lingering palpitations and said, Rong Antang caused a big storm because of a judgment that time, and the shop in hand was sent back.

"What can be born? That Nizi just said that if she competed for the first place in hand, the inspection office would have to take care of the face of the first and give her a few copies of the qu citation, in the end, she is young and careless, and this song quotation can still be kept until April to compete for wine? It was sent out half a month earlier, let her fight, she is willing to make us a wedding dress with gold embroidered phoenix, let's wait to accept it with peace of mind, and it will be regarded as a compensatory for Rong'an Hall. The eldest princess of Ning Guo looked at her son and continued: "She is fighting for us in front of us for the first place, if we are handy, we can help, this is a good thing!"

"Yes!" Steward Dai heard the eldest princess of Ningguo say this, a big stone fell to the ground in his heart, and he promised to the end, Wu Chenglin also agreed casually, and quickly calculated in his heart, can he use this to get an extra set of a few thousand taels of silver from A-Niang's hand?

In late February, the capital has been blooming in spring, the tender willows are spitting green, a group of early spring full of vitality, the shopkeeper Wang got off the car in the second gate of a house two or three alleys away from Sangjia Wazi, with his hands behind his back, while walking inside, while enjoying the scenery of early spring.

This place is according to Li Tian's meaning, specially rented for Yuan Xiucai to write scripts and arrange miscellaneous plays, although the house is a little old, but it is better in the garden is deep and wide, and the wall is high.

Shopkeeper Wang walked all the way along the bluestone path to the warm dock hidden in a peach blossom bush in the south of the garden.

The temporary hired female envoy outside opened the curtain and motioned to the shopkeeper to speak softly, the shopkeeper nodded to indicate that he knew, and came in lightly, and saw Yuan Xiucai standing in front of the window, with his eyes closed, the folding fan in his hand slapped in the palm of his hand, and hummed a little song in a hoarse and ugly voice. The shopkeeper Wang often comes and goes, and he has long been accustomed to hearing Yuan Xiucai's extremely ugly male duck voice, so he found a chair and sat quietly, waiting for Yuan Xiucai to finish this little song.

Yuan Xiucai sang again and again, stopped, and sang for more than an hour, before he proudly said "Wonderful", turned around, dipped his pen in ink, and quickly wrote down a tune that had just been changed. Yuan Xiucai changed the tune, picked up the paper, read it again, and then put the paper on the case with satisfaction, and turned his head to see the shopkeeper Wang and said in surprise: "When did you arrive?" Your steps are getting quieter and quieter, and I don't even hear them. ”

"It's been a while, and the tune has changed again?" Shopkeeper Wang smiled.

"Well, there is still a tune that has to be changed, not enough to complain......" Yuan Xiucai said at length, and then he remembered something important, and quickly asked, "How is it?" What is your proprietor doing? ”