Chapter 41: Changfu Inn
Changfu Inn is the most luxurious inn in Yuzhou City, and there is no one. It is only two blocks away from the city's busiest area, and the location is excellent.
At the entrance of the inn stands a tall pure natural stone tablet, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dances:
Yuzhou City Rest Inn, there should be no heaven on the earth.
The southward tour of the vendor spent a night, lying towards the mouth of the deep cave of Baiyun.
This inn has a total of five floors, and there are big red lanterns hanging on the beams of each floor, if you book the room for the night on the top floor, you can also have the privilege of watching the sunset in the east of the river, and the grand occasion of thousands of sails.
The four of them entered the store with another group of people, and coincidentally, those people also lived in the hotel.
The shopkeeper greeted him warmly and said to everyone: "Forgive me, there are only two rooms left in the business of the shop, and you are invited to borrow them from other inns." β
Bang Dangβ
A money bag full of silver was slapped on the counter with one hand, Zhao Bingyu was ecstatic in his heart, there were a total of eight people in that group, and there were also old people and children, the two side rooms couldn't live at all, even if they were crowded, it was extremely inconvenient, and the side rooms belonged to them.
"It just so happens that we want these two wings, so let's book them for five days. Hey, what about the shopkeeper? β
"Here."
A thin hand was the first to stretch out from under the counter, Zhao Bingyu thought that the shopkeeper was really short, and the whole person was covered by the counter, so he stretched out his head to look into the counter, only to see a butt twisting on the ground, suddenly the bottom of his eyes was dark, and a figure suddenly jumped up from in front of him.
"I've finally found it, my baby."
This person is even taller than Zhao Bingyu, skinny like a skeleton running out of a coffin, and the nutrition all over his body seems to be used for height.
If it weren't for the bright lights of the inn, everyone would have thought that they would be alive and dead. He muttered and wiped the picked up and put it back on, his eyes lit up, and he looked at everyone sluggishly, "Do the guest officers stay in the hotel?" β
The shopkeeper walked around to the back of the counter with an embarrassed face, pulled his sleeve behind his back and whispered to everyone: "Uncle Xiang, why do we only have two side rooms." β
The shopkeeper hummed, grinned and laughed, laughing extremely terrifyingly, Zhao Bingyu pushed the money bag in front of the shopkeeper and asked him to register.
Unbeknownst to the group, one of the burly men directly took out two pieces of silver and put them on the counter, and said, "We have covered the side room." β
Xi'er just wanted to step forward to say something to the shopkeeper, but was pulled by Jin Jiaojiao. The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper looked embarrassed, and said to the man: "Guest officer, how about giving the side room to these young ladies and gentlemen, the four of them can just stay, a few more steps forward, there is still a Shuiyun Inn over there, and there should be a lot of side rooms." β
One of the women holding the child whispered, "We just came from the Shuiyun Inn, and it's already full. β
"Why can't you just live with us?" The man blew his beard and glared, slammed the silver on the counter, and said unhappily: "We want these two wings, it's a big deal, we add money, you let them live elsewhere." β
The shopkeeper had no choice but to turn his gaze to Zhao Bingyu pitifully, hoping that he would make a concession. Zhao Bingyu couldn't get used to the man's strong and domineering appearance, isn't he rich, who doesn't have it?
"We'll add money too." Zhao Bingyu requisitioned An An's money bag and added it to the money bag just now.
The problem was lost to the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper.
"It's not about money, it's just that there are no extra rooms in the shop." The shopkeeper explained, returned the money to them, and thought of a compromise method, "It's better to do this, give you two a room for one person, as for how to live, it's up to you to arrange." The shop can give you an extra bed free of charge. β
"What do you two think?"
The burly man seemed to be compromised. At this time, the child in the woman's arms cried, and the man hurriedly took the child to comfort him, Zhao Bingyu immediately relented, thinking that it was not easy for others to be a family.
"Forget it, let them live."
The shopkeeper returned the two bags of money to Zhao Bingyu with gratitude, and he took back the money bag and walked out of the inn in disappointment.
At this time, Jin Jiaojiao gave Xi'er a look.
Xi'er took out the private seal of the Golden Mansion from the baggage and handed it to the shopkeeper: "Can the private room on the top floor be cleaned up?" β
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and he carefully took the private seal to check it, and immediately showed a flattered look, "Uncle Xiang, Uncle Xiang, it's the young lady of the main family who has arrived." β
The shopkeeper who was registering stopped his pen, helped the slap on the bridge of his nose, and looked Jin Jiaojiao up and down.
"Uncle Xiang, I haven't seen you for seven or eight years" Jin Jiaojiao took two steps forward, "What, you don't know me?" β
"Oops, oops, it's really you little girl, it's really a female college eighteen, and she was only so little bit when she was a child" Uncle Xiang gestured on his waist, and dragged Jin Jiaojiao around in place for a turn or two, and sighed: "How can this grow up in the blink of an eye, it seems that Uncle Xiang is old." β
The shopkeeper took their package and interjected: "Uncle Xiang received a letter from you a few days ago, and he has already instructed his subordinates to clean up the private room on the top floor spotlessly, and I just hope that the young lady can arrive as soon as possible." β
"There's Uncle Lao Xiang."
"What are you polite to Uncle Xiang?"
Uncle Xiang glanced at Zhao Bingyu behind Jin Jiaojiao, and suddenly seemed to realize something, and his smiling face immediately turned into an indifferent face.
Then he summoned two more men and ordered, "You settle the other guests, and I will take the young lady upstairs to rest first." β
Then he led Jin Jiaojiao and them upstairs, "You must have a while more fun this time, there are a lot of delicious and fun things in Yuzhou City, and you have caught up with the mask temple fair, which is suitable for you young people to participate." β
Zhao Bingyu looked at the acquaintance of the two and wanted to ask if this was also the private property of the Jin family, but he couldn't interject at all, so he could only follow them upstairs.
Uncle Xiang was a runner when he was young, young and frivolous and impulsive, for a Qinglou woman and a gang of old men to tie the knot, the old man was crippled, so he suffered a big lawsuit. The Qinglou woman did not wait for him, and ruthlessly married someone else's concubine, but he was ostracized everywhere, and he was in a mess all day after he was released from prison.
When Uncle Xiang couldn't get along in Yangzhou, it was Jin Jiaojiao's mother Nan Jingjiao who lent him a helping hand, and Uncle Xiang was grateful for this kindness and volunteered to become Nan Jingjiao's personal servant and silently guarded her side.
Before Nan Jingwei got married, she loved travel and food, and her favorite was the spicy hot pot in Yuzhou City, so she lived here for half a year and opened this Changfu Inn. After the death of Nan Jingjiao, he gave the Changfu Inn to Uncle Xiang, and he has been staying in Yuzhou City to take care of the Changfu Inn all these years, which can be regarded as a kind of remembrance of the deceased.
There are a total of four large wings on the fifth floor, and each room has been meticulously tidy. When Nan Jingjiao lived in Yuzhou City, she lived on the fifth floor, and after she died, Uncle Xiang only opened the second, third, and fourth floors to the public, and the fifth floor was reserved for Jin Jiaojiao.
Pushing open the windowsill, it seems that you can smell the fragrance of green pines in the mountains, and most of the tiredness of the whole body is swept away in an instant.
The room layout is very large, Jin Jiaojiao said: "Uncle Xiang, the four of us can't live in so many rooms, it's better to give up two rooms for the guests just now, their big family, two rooms can't live in it." β
Zhao Bingyu was happy when he heard it, and two rooms meant that he shared the same bed with his wife.
"Why can't you live, the four of you just have one room." Uncle Xiang didn't want outsiders to quarrel with Jin Jiaojiao to rest, and deliberately ignored her relationship with Zhao Bingyu.
But someone with a bad idea prefers to find a sense of presence in front of him,
"Uncle Xiang, I think Madame is very reasonable, so let's give them one or two side rooms. My wife and I can stay in the same room, and as for Xi'er and An'an, they can live in one room if they want, and two rooms if they want to live in two. β
Uncle Xiang glanced at him and asked knowingly, "Who are you?" β
The news that Jin Jiaojiao took her uncle back to Yangzhou had already spread to Yuzhou, how could he not know who the people around Jin Jiaojiao were. It's just that when he saw Zhao Bingyu for the first time, Uncle Xiang didn't look down on him, just like when Nan Jingwei led Jin Wen back to Yangzhou and said that he wanted to marry this person, he didn't look down on Jin Wen.
It's purely a calf care mentality.
When he was on the first floor, Zhao Bingyu felt the hostility from Uncle Xiang, and he was not annoyed, so he cheekily introduced himself: "Uncle Xiang, hello, I am Jia Ming, the delicate newlywed." β
Uncle Xiang snorted from his nose, "The young man is quite temperamental, and he loves to be majestic." β
He pointed out that Zhao Bingyu and the tough man just now called the board, and he took his wife's money to show off his might, what kind of man is he.
Zhao Bingyu saw the contempt in his eyes, touched his nose and didn't say anything, and went around to the inner room to pack his luggage.
There was only a dim lamp in the inner room, and Jin Jiaojiao glanced at his back when he went in alone, like a sandbar immersed in damp and lonely. Inexplicably, she felt that Zhao Bingyu was telling her silent grievances.
"Uncle Xiang, I haven't seen you for many years, and you still like to tease us like children." Jin Jiaojiao winked at him, and softened the atmosphere in a joking tone: "Be nice to him, I finally got married!" β
"This kid borrowed your power to show off his might, obviously he took a fancy to your money, why did your father choose such a person for you?" Uncle Xiang was dissatisfied and asked, "Could it be that you also like this embroidered pillow?" β
"What if you don't like it? What about liking? He and I are both married. Jin Jiaojiao said calmly: "Uncle Xiang, how can people be perfect everywhere, you just don't have deep contact with him, he is actually quite kind." β
Uncle Xiang didn't dare to agree, but finally agreed to her proposal, vacated two rooms for the guests just now, chatted with Jin Jiaojiao for a few more words, and let the next person serve Yuzhou's specialty tea and snacks, fresh melons and fruits, and went downstairs to greet the guests.
After a cool breeze blew for a while, Jin Jiaojiao saw that Zhao Bingyu hadn't come out yet, and there was no movement in the room, she was puzzled, and called out tentatively, "Jia Ming?" β
No response.
Walking around the bead curtain to the inner room, Zhao Bingyu was already asleep on the bed, his lightly closed eyes were bent into two thin lines, his light eyelashes hung quietly, and his snort was very light. Jin Jiaojiao approached him with light steps, and finally squatted on the side of the bed with her chin on her lips to admire his sleeping face curiously.
The room was quiet, and Xi'er and An An had already gone to the other room to pack their luggage. After admiring it for a while, her hands were sore, Zhao Bingyu showed no signs of waking up, she changed her posture and lay her head on the side of her arm, as if she was addicted, and looked at Zhao Bingyu blatantly.
Time rendered magic, the boat of time came to a sudden halt in the silver river, and he opened his eyes without warning, and the melodious mountain wind carried this heartbeat that no one knew.