Chapter 22: The Mysterious New Owner
As Red Sleeves expected, there is a storyteller's house that has moved, but he himself is still in the teahouse, Red Sleeves is a little strange, the two little guys have left, why don't he leave quickly?
After thinking about it, he asked Yunxiang: "Is it a manuscript to send to the teahouse today?" β
Yun Xiang nodded in agreement, and added: "The manuscript has been sent, and the old shopkeeper just sent the letter, so he sent the manuscript out by the way." ββ
Red Sleeves immediately stroked his forehead: "Quick, let people quickly inform the old shopkeeper that the manuscript in his hand must not be given to the storytellers, and then ask him to 'invite' the storyteller to the house, I have something to ask him." β
This storyteller doesn't leave, and what he is waiting for should be the follow-up manuscript.
Yunxiang let people go to the teahouse and learned that fortunately, everything has an old shopkeeper, and there is not much of a problem. Originally, I was going to give the storytellers a manuscript this afternoon: they would finish the manuscript in their hands in the afternoon, and they needed a little time to familiarize themselves with the rest of the story.
Red Sleeves asked the old shopkeeper to check Mr. Storyteller's home, and the old shopkeeper thought that there might be a problem with Mr. Storyteller, so he didn't give the manuscript to Mr. Storyteller, but only said that the manuscript would not be available until the evening.
Mr. Storyteller was invited, his surname was Zhang Xingwu, and he was called Mr. Wu.
Although Mr. Five's face was a little panicked, he was still calm in his words: "I don't know if Madame calls the villain to come again, but what do you have to say?" β
Red Sleeves smiled slightly: "It's not a big deal, I just want to ask who is the new owner of Mr.?" What kind of benefits did you give to Mr. and invite Mr. to move. ββ
Mr. Five didn't expect that Red Sleeves would go straight, and he immediately panicked; He originally wanted to mix up with other topics, and went out of the Hou Mansion to find a new owner, and didn't go back to the teahouse; I don't want the young lady to get straight to the point - does he already have any credentials?
After quietly glancing at the red sleeves a few times, she didn't see anything on her face, and Mr. Five's heart was even more worried: "Small, the villain doesn't understand what Madame means." β
"Don't understand?" The red-sleeved smiling face was put away, "Does Wuxian'er really not understand, or does he fake not understand?" Her title to Zhang Wu suddenly changed from Mr. to Xian'er. Although Mr. changed to the title of the master at this time, it can be regarded as an honorific title; And Xian'er is a profession in the lower nine streams, which means storytelling.
Mr. Five still knows that Red Sleeves $ lewd is Mrs. Hou Ye He was coldly questioned by Red Sleeves, and his knees softened: "Small, small, small ......" He hesitated for a while and didn't say anything. The cold sweat on his head came out: neither side could be offended by him, a small citizen of Shengdou; At this time, he really regretted it, he did a good job in the Xianling Teahouse, and he shouldn't be greedy for more than a hundred taels of silver.
It's just that if he wasn't greedy and greedy among the four storytellers, how could the other party find him? The other three storytellers, they didn't even pay attention to it, they just knew that they would not leave the fairy teahouse.
Red Sleeves didn't say anything more, just coldly "hummed" the doctor. β This sound frightened Mr. Wu three times in a row: If the Hou Yefu wants to pinch him to death, it is as easy as pinching an ant to death.
But he was thinking about his family, and he was really in a dilemma for a while, and he didn't know what to do.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Red Sleeves said coldly: "Drag it down, just wait for the master to come back and hand it over to the master." She didn't say anything powerful, just gave a simple order.
Mr. Five was so frightened that he knocked on the ground and begged for mercy: "Madam, the villain has said everything." It's just that Mrs. is also asked to let the villain and the villain's family have a way out. β
Red Sleeves didn't answer, just looked at him coldly.
Zhang Wu finally thought about it and thought about it, and said in a heart: "I don't know who the owner is, but I was promised a hundred taels of silver, and as long as I passed, I would give it; And every month, there are only a few guests, and I will have ten taels of silver, and the other rewards and so on are calculated separately. β
Redsleeves just listened, didn't look at him, and didn't answer; He didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he continued: "The shopkeeper over there also said that as long as I can get today's manuscript and bring it over, he will give me another hundred taels of silver." β
"Madam, that's all, the other villains don't know, please spare the little ones." After speaking, he kowtowed again and again.
Red Sleeves still didn't look at him, but said slowly: "You know that the Shen family is the Hou Ye, right?" Do you know that the Zheng family is also the Hou Ye? You know that I am the county lord of the emperor's own title, right? β
A series of questions made Zhang Wu's head lower, and he almost knelt on the ground and replied, "The little one, the little one knows." ββ
Redsleeves didn't speak, just glanced at him.
Zhang Wuyi trembled, threw himself on the ground and said: "That person said that the new owner will definitely not be worse than the Shen family, otherwise he would not dare to get on with the Shen family; Moreover, if they open the door to do business and do their own business, even if the Shen and Zheng families are powerful and powerful, they can't open their own teahouse and don't let others talk about the teahouse business. β
He glanced at the red sleeves and said in a trembling voice: "Madam, the little one was a ghost at the time, and he thought that he was reasonable, no, there was a little bit of truth, plus the hundred taels of silver, I agreed, and I agreed in a daze. β
Red Sleeves didn't speak, he pondered, "When I thought of the idea of someone playing fairy spirit tea, I had a plan in my heart - naturally not ordinary people, where would ordinary people dare to offend the Shen and Zheng families?" It's just that there are more than a dozen families in Jingzhong and Shen Zheng on an equal footing, and there are even more princes, which one will it be?
It's not for nothing that the red fairy spirit tea is red, and many people have shown their intention to intervene with Shen Houye and General Zheng, but they were sloppy by both families; It doesn't matter if you let people mix in some silver and go out, but I'm afraid that everyone is drunk, and the intention is not in wine, but in tea.
These people all have backgrounds, and when the time comes, it will not be good for the Shen and Zheng families to turn their faces with each other because of a fairy spirit tea; So the best son is to ignore these people.
Therefore, Red Sleeves really didn't know which person would do it for a while; Maybe a few people have teamed up to deal with the black hands of the fairy teahouse.
She glanced at Zhang Wu and said lightly: "You can leave if you want to, you are just telling stories in our Xianling Teahouse, not selling yourself to our Xianling Teahouse, so you can stay at will; It's just that the book mentioned in the fairy teahouse is not your own manuscript, nor is it a joke that has been handed down; Therefore, you can't earn silver with the half of the manuscript in any other teahouse or restaurant for half a year. β
She didn't mean to embarrass Zhang Wu: he was just a small person, and his role was limitedβhe still had half of the story he was talking about, and even if she gave up this book, she still had a story to write.
Although it is not a good thing for Zhang Wu to be greedy for money and betray the owner, he is indeed not selling himself in the teahouse, he is indeed going to stay at will; Red sleeves are not unreasonable people.
Zhang Wunuo nodded and agreed.
Red Sleeves added coldly: "No matter who your owner is, if you really use that half of the book to work for your new owner, then ......; Do you think, will your boss turn against our Shen and Zheng families for you? β
There was more cold sweat on Zhang Wu's head, and he regretted it even more now: Why be greedy?! Staying comfortably in the Xianling Teahouse, you will have no worries about food and clothing in this life, and you can also buy a farm and a village, and your children and grandchildren can be rich in the future.
Now that he is caught in the middle, it is not easy at all: neither side takes his life and death seriously, but neither side demands anything from him; If he doesn't listen to anyone, he could lose his life.
After Red Sleeves finished speaking, he asked Zhang Wu to be taken down and asked him to go back to the teahouse to pack up his things: he was fired from the Xianling Teahouse.
She didn't have much anger about this matter, the monster could only blame her for her own poor thinking, whether it was Xiao Er in the teahouse or Mr. Storyteller, etc., she didn't bother to pay any attention to it, all of it was taken care of by the old shopkeeper. If she had been more attentive and had changed some modern things and used them, the current situation would not have occurred; The second brother is okay to say, but Mr. Storyteller is a character who holds a certain "core", how can there be no constraints?
Red Sleeves seriously considered this matter for self-study: of course, this matter could not be solved with a modern peace treaty; After all, the old shopkeeper is still very good, and the four storytellers are just one who has been bought. Human affection, people at this time now, pay much more attention to human feelings, thinking of the other party's move to pick up Xiao Er and the family members of Mr. Storyteller, Red Sleeves couldn't help but think: Do you want to gather all the people in the teahouse to live together? Thinking about it, he is indeed a good son, but this matter still needs to be discussed with Shen Miaoge; After all, it is a big deal, so many families need a lot of houses; And it's not just as simple as letting them move in.
Red Sleeves first thought carefully about the shortcomings in his teahouse, and after thinking of the remedy, he remembered the new owner again.
Who could it be? The eldest princess pony? Lord of Pingbei? Huainan Hou ......; There are really a lot of people, think about it, everyone has a little possibility, but the red sleeves don't have half a point of proof.
Even if there is evidence, Red Sleeves doesn't want to find other people's theories: what Zhang Wu said is not unreasonable, it is people's freedom to open a teahouse, why doesn't she let people open it?
She just wanted to know which one it was, so she could take precautions earlier: if she wanted to come to the teahouse to open, there would be a move against the fairy teahouse, and she didn't want to be too passive.
When Red Sleeves was thinking hard, the old shopkeeper came in person: because he had a big thing to say to Red Sleeves, he didn't take it seriously, but now that something happened in the teahouse, he couldn't think about it anymore. If his guess is correct, then ......; It's just that I don't know who wants to get along with Shen and Zheng's two mansions, even if it is more powerful than Shen Zheng's two families, is it appropriate to offend the two mansions for a teahouse?
The old shopkeeper was also puzzled.
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