Xiao Qi, who didn't know that he had become someone else's scenery, pleaded with Ting'er, talking about the plea to inquire about things.

"Princess, aren't we going to pay a visit?"

"No, you don't."

On the high-rise building of the most luxurious courtyard in the east courtyard, a girl who was not very well dressed looked out from afar by the railing, and the direction was Xiao Qi's courtyard.

There is a high-rise building in the east and west courtyards of the palace, which can be built for these rulers, and the meaning is also clear, showing that the Zhang family attaches great importance to imperial power, which is higher than any building in the palace, which is to reflect the meaning of submission to it.

"That's nice."

The attendant on the side looked at the girl in front of him and smiled very gloomy, and his eyes were full of gloom.

"Princess, don't you just say it?"

The girl turned around and looked playfully at the attendant behind her, "What's wrong?" ”

"No.. No. The attendant was stared at in a panic, but he didn't dare to tell the truth, "Princess, it's really hateful that those people didn't greet the princess in person." ”

The girl knocked on the railing and smiled a little charmingly, "It's okay, it's good enough that they didn't turn me away, not to mention arranging for us to be in this place." ”

Turning around again, he stared in the direction of Xiao Qi's courtyard.

"Wait, some of them are playing."

The west of the capital

In the noisy street market in Xicheng, there has been a very peculiar phenomenon recently, and there is a long queue in the corner of the street, anxiously waiting for something.

Most of the people in the queue were well-dressed, their faces were full of disdain, and the words "servants" were almost written between their eyebrows.

There were also some servants of small families lining up inside, waiting for the slow movement of the long line.

This scene was seen by ordinary people, I am afraid that I will think about it for a day, there are few servants in this capital who are not arrogant and domineering, and do not bully others, but the scene in front of them, although the servants of those big families do not look at each other, but no one fights, but honestly queues up.

This situation is really rare, and what makes several people even more rare is this store.

Looking along the long line, there is a shop at the end, the plaque on the top of the door reads the word "crispy", and the two signs next to it read, "All beings are equal, just get out of the queue".

These usually arrogant minions of big families, seeing these two words are obediently lined up without any complaints, it makes people curious.

At the entrance of this "crispy" store, a man holding grass and a long sword at his waist stood at the door of the store, and smiled disdainfully as he looked at the customers who were happily running out of the store holding oiled paper.

This shop is the shop of the dim sum "puff" that suddenly swept the capital, such a big battle, the century-old store in Beijing has never seen it.

Ordinary passers-by just took a look, and they didn't dare to look at this shop anymore, and from the people in line, they could see the specifications and grades of the dim sum shop, which was not something that ordinary people could hope for.

In a teahouse not far away, a man in his thirties was talking to the junior in the teahouse: "This 'crispy' dim sum shop is so hot today? ”

Xiao Er finished serving him tea, wiped the water stains on the other table, and replied unhappily: "Isn't it." ”

These days, because of this "crispy" reason, they have brought a lot of guests to their teahouse, but these individuals are the masters of the iron rooster, and after working hard for a long time, Xiao Er didn't get half a word, so he couldn't help but have no good face for the people who came.

The owner of this teahouse is also a guy who picks the door, and often says to a few people in the store, "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself." ”

I clearly don't want to pay them anything, whether there are many people or few people, how it should be every month.

If there is no comparison, it would be fine, but he heard that in the teahouse not far away that is in competition with the boss, his second child depends on how much people are paid.

I wanted to serve these high-ranking servants and maids well, and ask for a few happy money, but I never thought that they would pick and search, there was no reward, and I wanted to pay less for the money for tea, and a few people who inquired about the news didn't want to pay a lot of money.

It seems that they are all people who only care about whether they can buy pastries or not, and they don't care about his background.

This little two can be regarded as seeing clearly, rather than wasting energy to explain to these people kindly, it is better to leave saliva and slander the stinginess of his boss.

I saw this person take out three copper plates from his arms and put them on the table, "Xiao Er, look at your hard work all day, these..."

The little second-hand eye quickly walked over and blocked the copper plate with a rag, "Look, you can tell you anything about it, and it is our duty to serve the guests." ”

The customer pointed to the "crispy" dim sum shop and asked, "This shop opened not long ago?" ”

"No, this store has been open for a few days, but it wasn't so popular a few days ago."

After Xiao Er answered, he refilled the tea for this person, and said: "Guest, you don't know, this shop, there was no one a few days ago, and I don't know how, suddenly it became popular." ”

Xiao Er looked at the long queue with some envy, thinking that the helpers hired by this family would definitely make a lot of money.

"Do you know anything else?"

When the guest saw Xiao Erzhi, he took out two copper coins from his arms.

Xiao Er put away the copper plate without a trace, and replied: "You can be considered a clever question, if you ask others, you may not be able to ask something." ”

"Oh, tell me about it."

Xiao Er first looked at the shopkeeper who was sitting at the counter and fiddling with the abacus, and whispered in the customer's ear, "That shopkeeper, it's a golden-haired guy." ”

"Oh, it's..."

"Shh

Hearing Xiao Er's voice, the guest lowered his voice and said in surprise: "The owner of that shop is a blonde and blue-eyed person? ”

"No, the owner of that shop has come to our tea shop."

On that day, the shopkeeper was left in the teahouse by their boss Zhou to sort out the goods overnight, just as the sun was setting, the pedestrians on the street had already returned home, and the owner of the "crispy" shop came to visit her with her snacks at that time.

"It's strange to say that they don't have a curfew there, it's weird."

Dacheng is in Crescent City in the west, where there is this kind of blonde and blue-eyed woman, although people in Beijing rarely see it, but it is not surprising that they have heard of it.

"Isn't this woman from our Dacheng Kingdom?"

Xiao Er shook his head and said, "Then I don't know, but that woman is not as good-looking as our Central Plains woman, she is a little white." ”

Then Xiao Er chatted with the man about the price rules of some shop pastries.

"Tell me about anything else."

Xiao Er looked at the person in front of him with hopeful eyes, and wanted him to pay some more reward, but what he had to say below was something he hadn't told others. As for the ones in front of him, he didn't know how many times he had repeated them these days, but those people weren't as generous as the people in front of him.

The man frowned and took out Sanwen from his arms, but caught a glimpse of the shopkeeper shaking his head and gesturing with his hand to a ten. The man smiled and patted out a small piece of broken silver.

Xiao Er smiled and reached out to take it, but was dodged by this man.

Then the man smiled and said, "The silver is there, but your news..."

Xiao Er held the middle three fingers of his right hand upward, with the palm facing outward. He swore an oath: "I promise that I will never deceive the guest officer, and if the news is false, I will thunder five times a day." ”

"If the oath is useful, what kind of official yamen do you want, you talk about it, if you don't do what I want, if you say it well, this piece of silver is yours."

This time it was Xiao Er's turn to frown and said, "What the guest officer said is reasonable, I decided, don't say it." ”

This surprised the man a little, and he asked, "Oh? Why don't you say it? ”

"Now I don't have the heart, besides, I don't think your piece of money is worth my news."

"Dog leftovers, hurry up and serve tea to the new guests."

At this time, the shopkeeper at the counter finally looked at Xiao Er's nagging here and there, and asked him to do something else.

Xiao Er, who was called the dog leftover, answered, put the rag over his shoulders and reluctantly walked to another place.

The man didn't care, ignoring the disdainful eyes in the tea shop, he summoned a beggar from outside the teahouse, and threw him the piece of broken silver that he was going to give to Xiao Er just now.

"Master, do you really want me to go and queue up for you to buy something there?"

Just now, the shopkeeper also said the rules in the store, just like the two sentences in front of the door, all beings are equal, as long as you line up well, you can buy her family's pastries.

The shopkeeper has seen those who don't line up being beaten by the person standing in front of the door.

The man nodded and said, "As long as you go and buy it for me, you can take all the change you find in this silver." ”

The little beggar said happily: "Got it, master, I'll go now." ”

In addition to buying a bag of pastries, this small piece of broken silver can at least have a dozen yuan left, how can these beggars not be tempted by the income of many days.

Those in line, seeing this beggar following the back of the line, although they were disgusted, but they also heard some things, and finally did not dare to be angry, so they could only hold their breath and not make a move.

The man saw that the beggar was fine, and shouted, "Little Er, another pot of good tea." ”

In this kind of ordinary alley teahouse, good tea is only a little better than ordinary tea.

After a while, the shopkeeper walked up to the man with a pot of new tea, "Guest officer, you ordered good tea." ”

The man nodded, took out another ingot of silver from his bosom, and placed it on the table.

"Guest officer, this tea money is a total of ten yuan, you... I can't find a small shop. ”

Xiao Er glanced at the silver on the table, it was a complete ingot, it was his salary for more than a year, and swallowed his saliva, "Guest officer, don't be embarrassed." ”

"I didn't embarrass you."

"You took out such a big ingot of silver, don't you just want the shopkeeper to come over, I admit that I was wrong, you just let the small one go."

Xiao Er's face was bitter, and he listened to it, and his salary in the past few days was about to be wasted.

"Don't worry, it's still what happened just now, as long as what you say is reasonable, this is yours."