One hundred and eighty-five teahouses

Xie Ning asked softly, "Where are we going?" ”

The emperor likes her to say the word "us". Bayi Chinese ???.? 8. Few people said "we" to him before, even when the Queen Mother surrounded him in the later room.

He smiled and said nothing.

Xie Ning muttered in a low voice: "What are you selling?" ”

She turned her head away, but after a while she turned her head again to look at him secretly.

The emperor is wearing a green shirt, although the material is very good, but the green shirt is a green shirt, no edging and no silk embroidery, it seems to be like the ordinary people's daily attire at home and going out. A scholar's towel was tied on his head, and even the corners of the pendant were just small silver droplets.

So shabby...... At best, it sounded like simple clothes, but Xie Ning still saw the emperor wearing it for the first time.

It can be seen that the clothes are not new, the color of the green shirt has faded by half, and the style of the headscarf is not the current style. Xie Ning looked at it and felt that his uncle also had an old hexagonal headscarf like this, and it would have been at least ten years.

"Where did the emperor find this body?"

The emperor said softly: "What he wore before ascending the throne, Bai Hongqi really knows how to store things." ”

Really good at storing things!

But Xie Ning thought about it, and said with a smile: "That's also the emperor's talent, and his figure has not been out of shape for so many years, otherwise he wouldn't be able to wear this clothes." ”

The emperor glanced at her with a smile, and saw that Xie Ning turned his face away with a red face.

They are out of the palace in micro-clothes, and the car they sit in is also an ordinary standard, of course, it is impossible to take the royal road as unimpeded when the royal car goes out on patrol, and there are many people on the street, and it is blocked at the street entrance.

In other words, ordinary people are afraid to be impatient when they are stuck on the road, but for the eldest prince and Princess Yuyao, even if the car stops and can't move forward, they keep looking left and right.

The eldest prince was very sensible, and his voice was deliberately lowered: "Father, what is that person selling?" ”

The man he was referring to had been carrying a basket with a white cloth on it. But when the intersection was crowded, the man might be afraid that the basket would be broken, or he might be afraid that someone would take advantage of the chaos to steal his things, so he put the basket on his head and held it with one hand.

The emperor didn't know, so he had to ask the people outside.

The people in front of and behind their cars were actually guards brought by the emperor. Of course, micro-services are micro-services, and guards and manpower still have to be brought with them.

A middle-aged man with a handful of beards went over and asked, then turned his head and replied, "Master, this man sells sugar cakes." ”

The emperor asked a few people in the car: "Do you want to try it?" ”

Xie Ning was a little moved, she hadn't eaten anything outside for a long time, what did she think back then......

But after glancing at the eldest prince, she had some concerns.

The eldest prince has a weak spleen and stomach, and he usually eats little, warm, soft and light, but he doesn't dare to give him something to eat casually, not to mention that others don't dare to neglect and neglect, even if the eldest prince himself doesn't dare to be casual, Fang Shanggong is not easy to mess with.

"Just take a bite and taste it, don't worry about it."

The emperor ordered to go down, and naturally some people squeezed over to buy sugar cakes. The man who sold the sugar cakes took two cakes with a long bamboo tong, wrapped them in clean reed leaves, and collected the money.

The sugar cake was still hot when it was handed to the car, Bai Hongqi didn't come out today, and the guard who handed the sugar cake was very dutiful...... I pinched a piece from the cake and stuffed it in my mouth.

When Xie Ning first saw the emperor having a meal, he was particularly surprised by the pomp and circumstance of someone trying the meal first, but now he is still shocked.

The emperor smiled and said, "Why be so careful. "Break the sugar cake and divide it for each person.

In fact, there is nothing delicious in the palace? Eating something on the street is just a matter of eating something fresh.

The eldest prince and Princess Yuyao each got a small piece, that is, a small bite, and the two of them ate very seriously, and the expression on their faces clearly showed the idea that "it turns out that the sugar cake outside tastes like this".

The car in front of them moved, and the car they were in began to move forward.

They bought a lot of things along the way. Some people tie chrysanthemums together, the big one is sold alone, and the small one is two or three flowers saved up and sold, lined with dark green leaves, and the person who buys it can put the flower plug on it, or it can be used for other purposes. Shainin and the others bought two handfuls of flowers, and they were pinned outside the carriage. It's not good to put it inside, the big prince with the fragrance of flowers is uncomfortable. The chrysanthemums are better, but the most difficult thing for the eldest prince is to pass the spring, the pollen flies all over the sky, and it is easy to induce coughing, and his residence never smokes incense.

The emperor led them through Chaotianmen Street. It's really embarrassing to say, the eldest prince and Princess Yuyao are both children born and raised in the capital, but except for the temple in the palace, they have not even seen the first street in the capital, which is known as the Heavenly Street.

Xie Ning is not better than the two of them, when she entered Beijing, she walked the West Rafter Gate, and when she entered the palace, she walked the North Corner Gate, and she was in Beijing for a few years, and she was also the first time she came back to this Chaotianmen Street.

The car stopped, and the emperor smiled and said, "Come, let's get out of the car and take a look." ”

What is this place?

After Shainin got out of the car, he lifted the corner of the hat and saw the signboard of this shop.

"Wangxiang Tower?"

The emperor pulled the eldest prince and hugged the second prince, Xie Ning took Princess Yuyao's hand and entered the gate.

The emperor asked her, "Have you heard of this place?" “

"I've heard of it, and it's said that this teahouse is very famous."

But when she heard about it, she didn't expect that she would be able to walk into this teahouse one day.

"Why is this teahouse called that?"

She asked casually, but for the emperor, it seems that there is nothing that is difficult for him, and all kinds of stories are at his fingertips.

"The owner of this teahouse is surnamed Gan, and he has been in business for three or four generations. The first shopkeeper Gan who built a teahouse fled the famine to Beijing alone, and earned such a large family business with his bare hands. But after the teahouse was built, his body collapsed, and the idea of returning to his hometown became a utopia. ”

"That's why the teahouse is called Wangxianglou?"

The eldest prince said softly: "Does it mean to warn your children and grandchildren not to forget their roots?" ”

The emperor praised him with a smile: "We Ying Fan is really smart." ”

The eldest prince was embarrassed to be praised.

The teahouse is divided into three floors, and the hall on the first floor is full of people, and there is a storyteller in his forties and fifties who is telling a story on the platform against the east wall.

Coincidentally, the man was also wearing a green robe, and it had also been washed and faded.

Xie Ning looked at the emperor, and then at the storyteller, and followed the emperor up the stairs with a smile.

On the second floor are separate private rooms, with different signs hanging on the doors. There are Tianzi and Di Zi, the emperor has obviously come, and he is familiar with the way and led them into a Tianzi private room.

The children were very curious, and Shainin was better than them. In the end, she has also seen the world, although Wangxiang Wanglou is famous, but the basic style of the teahouse is there, which is not much different from what Xie Ning had seen earlier.

The guy with a white towel on his shoulder came in with a smile, put down four small plates of fruit, and asked with a smile, "What kind of tea do you drink?" ”

"A pot of Tieguanyin, and two more eight-treasure honeydew tea. Snacks you look on. ”

The man went out laughing, but in a moment the refreshments he wanted were delivered, and a table full of dried fruit and candied cakes was available.

But the eldest prince's attention was not on eating at all, and Princess Yuyao only took a small sip of the eight-treasure honeydew tea and twisted her head to the side.

For children who grew up in the palace, this so-called Babao honeydew tea is too sweet, greasy and too thick, and it is difficult to swallow at all. There are ground peanuts, sesame seeds, roses, osmanthus syrup and other things in it, which are too sweet, and there is even a layer of oil flowers floating on the tea soup.

In contrast, it is the lectures downstairs that attract them more.

The storyteller is talking about an old book "The Legend of Autumn Mountain", but it is very exciting, and it will change different voices depending on the people who appear, whether old or young, male or female. A folding fan in his hand and a piece of waking wood hang the heartstrings of the listeners high. Even if the tea guests know what will happen in the future, they are still looking forward to hearing him continue.

After a passage of the book was finished, the man came up with a plate and collected the reward for him.

The emperor explained to the eldest prince: "The storyteller relies on this reward to eat, and he has to give some to the teahouse, after all, the place is a teahouse." ”

The eldest prince asked curiously, "How much do you want to divide it?" ”

For the question of the eldest prince, the emperor was very pleased.

He didn't want his son to grow up in a wealthy township, and he had no concept of the word economy.

"Generally speaking, it's four or six, and there are also three or seven."

"Do you want to divide it out?" The Great Prince is very sensitive to numbers.

"It is he who can fall forty percent, and sixty percent will go to the teahouse."

The eldest prince was taken aback: "Why? ”

Why? Because the storyteller is lonely, and such a big shop as the teahouse is placed here, this person refuses, and there are others who will, and the teahouse does not worry about no one soliciting business.

"You go back and think about this slowly, and come up with it, talk about it with me."

The eldest prince responded: "Yes." ”

Princess Yuyao kept staring at the storyteller's folding fan and waking wood, looking very curious.

Two very simple props have a thousand changes in the hands of the storyteller. When making a woman's voice, the folding fan covers her face, and the voice is delicate and soft. When it comes to the critical place, Xingmu is gripping with a beat.

Princess Yuyao looked back, then reached out to take the folding fan that the emperor had placed on the table, and laboriously peeled the fan cover down.

Xie Ning was afraid that she would splash the tea on the fan, and just wanted to uncover the fan for her, but the emperor gently pressed her hand.

Princess Yuyao took off the fan cover, opened the fan to cover half of her face, looked at them with big black and shining eyes, and held a walnut in her hand, which made a "cluck" sound on the table.

Now everyone in the room saw what she was doing, and the emperor couldn't help but smile and said, "What kind of book is Yu Yao going to tell us?" ”

The eldest prince wanted to laugh but couldn't help it, so he had to turn his face to the side.