Chapter 23: The Morning Tea House
Kang Tai really didn't dare to guarantee for the unsparing Captain Qiao, and looked at his master.
The shop on Xizheng Street is small, which is relative to the industry in the hands of these powerful people like King Qi, but it is not small at all compared with ordinary shops, one is open and three-storey, in fact, it is not 'small', and it is used to do morning tea business, which is almost the same as selling bean sprouts.
Qiao Qingyu will be shallow-eyed?
Yan Tao said with certainty: "No." Two words.
After receiving the assurance of King Qi, Ji Rongjin was relieved, and immediately handed the agreement to Yan Tao, "I will send silver to His Royal Highness and Captain Qiao on time according to the agreement." ”
Yan Tao's master and servant didn't pay attention to this matter at all, and the agreement was casually thrown on the corner table in the corner of the box.
The servants who brought the tea and water rushed in, waiting for the master to clean his face and wash his hands, in an orderly manner. It stands to reason that at this time, some people should have the foresight to retire.
But some people don't, Kang Tai wants to remind, but the little lady Ji just doesn't accept his prompting eyes, and smiles in front of the master.
Wash your hands, clean your face, rinse your mouth, slowly, Ji Rongjin waited patiently until the servant Yuguan withdrew, and when King Qi was about to leave, she hurriedly ran to his side and stretched out her hand to make a respectful request.
Yan Tao turned his head sideways and lowered his eyes to look at the gesture of invitation: "Nothing to be courteous, not ......"
"No, no, absolutely not." Ji Rongjin was so frightened that he hurriedly interrupted.
"Then am I an old dragon clock, or have I fallen?"
Ji Rongjin followed Yan Tao's gaze and looked at his raised arms diligently, this sycophant ...... She lowered her arms and pressed them to her side, "Temple...... Your Highness ......"
Yan Tao raised his feet and strode out.
Ji Rongjin hurriedly caught up: "Palace...... Your Highness, the people still have something to ask for. ”
"Kangtai!"
"Ji Niangzi, the shop is yours for you, and other things have nothing to do with Your Highness."
"......", isn't it okay to give a name to the shop? Don't you hug such thighs? Ji Rongjin paused, how to play this?
Behind her, the little lady didn't follow again, Yan Tao couldn't help but look back, bent the corridor and entered the study.
decided to take over the shop on Xizheng Street, and the days after that would definitely not be so salty, the next day I plunged into the morning tea house and began a busy and fulfilling entrepreneurial life.
May flies by in a blink of an eye, ushering in the scorching June.
The officials who need to go to the court for five days and above are four or more in the Great Xia Dynasty, and the civil servants have a ten-day holiday, whether they are courtiers who need to go to the court, or civil servants who go to the office (except for Dali Temple), they basically have to pass through Xizheng Street.
During this period of time, many housewives in the mansions of the officials found that the men in charge of their families went to the court (office) without breakfast.
"Is there a morning meal in the Imperial City?"
"Mrs. Hui, no."
"Then the old man went to the restaurant?" The restaurant is not so early, the ladies will inevitably think crookedly, is there an outer room?
"Mrs. Hui, there is morning food in the morning tea house."
"Morning tea?" For the first time, the ladies heard: "The time of departure from home is about the same time every day, and there is still time to sit in the teahouse and drink tea, and besides, eating tea on an empty stomach in the morning will hurt the body." ”
"Mrs. Hui, this morning tea house is not a tea house."
"......" The ladies were confused.
The little maid couldn't reply clearly, "Madam, there is a special box for ladies in the morning tea house, you can try it." ”
Madame's eyebrows moved, it was a few grades to have a morning tea house for women, "I inquired, who is backstage?" "The newly opened teahouse can make your own adults give face to the face, which must be related to the people behind it.
"Mrs. Hui, it's His Royal Highness King Qi."
I see.
Half a month ago, the current saint decreed that Wang Yantao of Qi was appointed as the squire of the military department, which is a real job fat difference with real power, and it is the hope of many people in their careers.
When he welcomes him, patting his horse, it's quite human.
Madame immediately decided, "Go and see." ”
At the beginning of July, the scorching sun outside the house was like fire, the heat was steaming, and eggs could be boiled on the street and on the bluestone slabs; Inside the house, ice cubes are placed, and it is pleasantly cool.
Qiao Qingyu stood in front of King Qi and cried poorly, "Your Highness, since Layue entered Beijing last year, more than half a year has passed, and one or two salaries have not been issued, and the small ones can't even open the pots in their homes, and if they don't send them again, the small ones will starve to death." ”
The tower-like man, like a bear child who asks for candy, cries pitifully with a handful of tears and a handful of snot.
Kang Tai couldn't stand it and was ashamed of him.
Yan Tao's hand flipping through the book suddenly stopped, and Qiao Qingyu hiccuped in fright, "Your ...... The ...... of the temple pounded his chest hard, and Kangtai thumped it from behind, and only lifted it up in one breath.
Yan Tao finally raised his eyes.
"Your Royal Highness......" Qiao Qingyu and the lost children cried even more sadly when they saw their parents: "Please ask Your Highness to make decisions for the little ones!" ”
His own subordinates, he knows what Qiao Qingyu thinks, Yan Taomen is clear, his eyes are cold, "If there is any fart, let it go quickly." ”
The tower man who was still crying with the bear child just now immediately bared his teeth and grinned: "Your Highness still understands my thoughts." ”
The slender knuckle bone knocked on the table, and the ...... Du ......, leisurely again and again, Qiao Qingyu was frightened when he heard it, he said in his heart, he can't inquire, since the little lady took over the restaurant, His Royal Highness has never been to Osmanthus Lane once, is it ...... Didn't fall out of favor?
has never been favored, Kang Tai is worried about this tower, can his head be stuffed into his mother's belly and rebuilt?
Yan Tao swept his eyes, with a look of you not saying that I would drive you out.
"I said, I said......" Qiao Qingyu was so frightened that he poured the beans, "Your Highness, you will give me the morning tea house, which is enough to feed a battalion." ”
The captain of the Great Xia Dynasty led two brigades, one brigade of 100 people, two brigades of 200 people, Qiao Qingyu had 200 people waiting for him to feed, plus his family was also brought into the capital, life was really difficult.
But is there such a small number of people under Qi Wang Yantao? Of course not, he had an army of 100,000, 80,000 remained in the fiefdom, and 20,000 were in Gyeonggi, and less than 10,000 of the 20,000 horses could stay in the capital.
Qiao Qingyu is Yan Tao's loyal general, of course, he followed into Beijing, but this guy is simple-minded and has developed limbs, and after entering Beijing, the gold and silver on his body are enough for him to eat in the capital for two years.
But he was good, and he was tossed and lost in the New Year, Yan Tao withheld his military salary in the name of the court's lack of salary, but he didn't expect to put his hand on the woman, and he was still a woman who thought he only earned a few hundred dollars a day.
It's a headache.
"You're just staring at her?" Yan Tao laughed angrily.
Qiao Qingyu saw that his master's face was good-looking, and immediately hit the snake with a stick: "That shop is Your Highness, and her appearance is not worthy of Your Highness, I will take back the shop for Your Highness, what's wrong." ”
Speaking of posture, on a hot day, Kang Tai felt a little cold between his teeth, and Ji Xiaoniang opened the morning tea shop into the first breakfast shop in the capital with a yellow face.
There are reasons for His Highness, but there are many shops under His Royal Highness's name that are not profitable, how can you say this?
"To come back, can you make money?" Yan Tao asked indifferently.