The shopkeeper hurriedly held an oil umbrella to the carriage to greet the nobles.

As soon as the footstool was put down, the curtain was lifted, and a young man in gorgeous clothes appeared in the dark carriage.

The round-necked silver shirt with gold placket is embroidered with ruyi patterns on the cuffs, embroidered all over the body, and the needle and thread are full of gold threads, and each small pattern is decorated with a pearl the size of a grain of rice. A silver crown is tied with a pearl in the center. Even the shoes are inlaid with silver patterns.

The young man got out of the carriage with a folding fan in his hand, and in the dark night, the faint light of the lights appeared faint in the wind and rain, but the heroic posture and wealth of the young man came to his face.

After the youth, it was a woman with her hair in a bun, the woman wore a bright green Xiangyun gauze skirt, covered with a layer of water-colored Xiangyun yarn shirt, the Xiangyun yarn was thin and light, and it was cool and slippery on the body, and the shadow was full of shadows on the Xiangyun yarn, embroidered with white cranes that were about to fly, the eyes of the cranes were decorated with pearls and silver threads, and even the clouds above the cranes were embroidered with silver wires. Gray forbidden step, tired and drooping.

The woman's eyes are bright, her eyebrows are delicate, and the sideburns are obliquely inserted with delicate peony flowers, and under the peony flowers, there is a pink and delicate rouge. The rouge is hazy and tranquil, and the lip color is as bright as a peach blossom.

The woman holds a group fan, the white fan is embroidered with colorful peony flowers, the stamen of each peony flower is embroidered with gold thread, and the bright yellow stamens are decorated with finer and smaller pearls smaller than rice grains.

The boy and the woman are like a good couple, a pair of bright couples that people can't take their eyes off.

Yongxing City is a small place, how have you ever seen such a battle.

In the dark night, the treasurer of this gold, silver and pearl flashing is blind.

It seems that the distinguished guest has arrived, how expensive is this distinguished guest, and he almost wrote the word rich on his face.

The shopkeeper thinks he is well-informed, but he is still shocked by the good couple in front of him.

The third floor of Yuelai Inn is the most luxurious place in the entire inn.

The shopkeeper led people directly to the third floor and opened the most luxurious private room.

Before the shopkeeper could quote the house price, the young man took a silver ticket of fifty taels.

The shopkeeper was terrified: "This uncle. Sir, what are you? ”

"We're going to stay here for a month."

"It's enough, you can't use so much for a month, don't worry, sir, all the drinks are covered, you just have to live with peace of mind." If you have any needs, just ask, as long as we can supply Yuelai Inn, we will not let you down, if there is any inconsiderate hospitality that has wronged you, please also ask your guests Haihan. ”

Rich is good.

The shopkeeper intimately brought warm water for the two to clean their hands, and brought up the signature sauce beef and other side dishes of the Yuelai Inn, and also served a pot of good rice wine, and said that there was still chicken soup stewed on the stove, and it would be fine after a while.

"If we eat crudely, the nobles will use some of it." The shopkeeper often personally serves the cloth vegetables.

The young man took a bite and put down his chopsticks: "You shopkeeper is very honest, and what you say is not bad, this meal is a bit vulgar, what do you think, madam?" ”

The woman shook the white fan, and the fine pearls on the fan flashed like thousands of stars, and the woman's cheeks behind the stars were slightly red: "Xianggong said very much, but in this poor and remote country, I can barely use some." ”

Sauced beef is a craft handed down by the ancestors of the shopkeeper, in this Yongxing City, everyone eats it and says that it is good, and the price is naturally higher, twice as expensive as ordinary beef, but I didn't expect these two people to really feel vulgar?

The shopkeeper crossed his waist: "I don't know what the two guests usually eat?" ”

This is a question of strengths.

The woman gently shook the fan and brought it to her fingertips: "Seven-star fish balls, steamed grouper, Shanai stuffy duck, honey pigeon, chicken soup and sea mussels, yellow stuffy shark fin, osmanthus stewed pear, plum blossom shochu." ”

Teenager: "Stewed fat duck with green pepper, roasted round fish with golden legs, shredded crab mushrooms, golden soufflé in a single cage, spring roast with rice head, stuffed orange with crab." ”

The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard it.

There were so many names of dishes, some of which he had never even heard of.

Looking at the momentum of these two people's dress, the sauce beef in the store is really a bit vulgar.

"I don't know you two. Where did it come from? What is the matter with coming to Yongxing Star City? "The shopkeeper often pours wine.

The young man drank it all: "I'm from the capital, you can call me Sixi." This is my wife, called Maruko, you can call her Mrs. Maruko. ”

Often the shopkeeper is stagnant.

What's the name and what is it?

The young man smiled: "Could it be that the shopkeeper doesn't understand the word taste?" Don't you think my name is very affectionate? ”

You've got money, you're right.

The shopkeeper often echoed: "Ah, yes, yes, Sixi Gongzi, Mrs. Maruko." ”

"I and my wife have a rich ancestral business, passed to my generation is the sixth generation of imperial businessmen, in addition to the capital, there are also our family property in other places, I heard that in recent years, Yongxing City has been hit by disasters, food shortage, ordinary people see it as a food shortage, in the eyes of our businessmen, it is an opportunity. So take a look, it's not bad for money. The boy said, shaking off his burden.

The shopkeeper took advantage of the tea pouring and wanted to get close to the burden and touch it, but the groom at the door bounced a small pebble, and the shopkeeper almost lost his teeth.

"A distinguished guest is a distinguished guest, Xiao Wangzi, why are you so unruly, you don't quit after you get a lesson, quickly prepare bath water for your guests, you should be tired."

The shopkeeper named Xiao Wangzi covered his face and went downstairs.

The young man untied the burden, and the silver tickets in the burden were piled very high, at least there should be tens of thousands of taels.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "The nobles hurry up and put it away, how can I see a rich man like you in Yongxing City, if it is known by someone with bad intentions, the nobleman is afraid that it will be in danger." ”

The young man pointed to the groom at the door: "My groom's martial arts are strong, and he is a hundred enemies, if there is a bad intention, my groom can screw off his head." And there are dozens of such grooms in my family. ”

When he arrived in the back kitchen, he saw Xiao Wangzi pouring bath water into the wooden barrel, so he told him to cut off some of the flowers in the courtyard on the first floor and soak the petals in the water.

Xiao Wangzi also felt that he was alive, he had worked in Yuelai Inn for so many years, and it was the first time he threw flower petals into the bath water. But when he prepared the bath water, the guests on the third floor directly rewarded him with a tip of one or two silver.

Xiao Wangzi was so happy that he almost jumped up, he used to serve guests, and when the guests were happy, they would be rewarded with a few pennies at most, and the high-rollers on the third floor would be rewarded with one or two silvers.

Guests on the third floor would be fine if they took a shower eight times a day.

The rain had stopped, and the night in Yongxing City was quiet.

The window on the third floor was ajar, and a man and a woman inside poured wine and drank each other.

The guys in Zhao Ji Rice Store were also drinking under the lamp, and in addition to drinking, they also looked up at the third floor opposite from time to time.

The conversation on the third floor just now, although the guys downstairs didn't hear it very clearly, they could also listen to a rough idea, especially Xiao Wangzi was so happy that he got a silver reward of one or two silvers, and the eyes of the guys in Zhao Jimi's shop were red with envy.

"Our monthly silver is only one or two silver, this little Wangzi is lucky to go shit, and he picked up such a wave of guests in the middle of the night, but he got a reward of one or two silver for boiling the bath water."

"Didn't you hear, this is a rich man from the capital, what kind of place is that in the capital, it is the place where the emperor stays, the people in that place, sweeping the bricks and seams, it is enough for us to live a few lifetimes, you also saw it when they got off the car, the grandeur of the whole body, you can see it in Yongxing City?"

"Not really."

"I'm afraid people are here to do a big deal, just the little lady brought by the rich man, you see, how long it is, but you can't find such a beautiful woman in Yongxing City."

As he was talking, an old man holding a wooden basin staggered over, and when he entered the Zhao Ji rice shop, he panted and squatted down, but his eyes were aimed at the rice bucket in the store.

The old man had a hundred and ten cents in his basin.

The guy in Zhao Ji Rice Store looked at the money in the basin and didn't move.

"The price of rice the year before last. Ten pounds. The price of rice has risen a little bit in the old year, and this year the price of rice has risen a little more than in the old year. I have a hundred pennies here. Please give me a pound of white rice. Sons and grandchildren of the family. My daughter-in-law is already hungry and swollen, and if there is no rice to eat, my son and grandson are afraid to die."

Dude doesn't move.

"This 100 yuan can buy ten catties of white rice in the past, but now I only need one catty of rice, only one catty of rice, you can do well. My family is waiting to save people."

The guy drank a glass of wine and glanced at the old man: "Zhang Laohan, you also know that it was before, the rice used to be ten wen a catty, but that was the old yellow calendar, Yongxing City has been harvested year after year, our place is remote, and the rice in our Zhao Ji rice shop is transported by a big and distant ship, and the cost is high." ”

"Then how much money can buy a pound of rice now?"

"Two hundred wen."

"Two hundred? Didn't you take the opportunity to raise prices? Isn't this a black heart? ”

"Black heart? Now Yongxing City is such a market, you love to buy and buy, if you don't buy it, you can leave, if you don't buy it, some people buy it, and when you get to Ming'er, maybe you can't buy food even if you take the silver. The man couldn't help but push the old man out of the door, and simply closed the door of the rice shop and closed the door panel by the way.

The old man curled up in front of the rice shop, looked down at the copper coins in the basin, and left crying.

The windows on the third floor were closed.

The emperor and Du Zhiyan sat cross-legged on the bed and began to think about what they had seen and heard along the way.

"Your Majesty, the name you gave to your concubine is too ugly, how can a woman be called a pill." Du Zhiyan rubbed his shoulders, bumped in the carriage day and night, felt that his bones were about to fall apart, fortunately he finally arrived in Yongxing City after a few days of travel, and finally lived in the inn, although the conditions were average, he took a bath and had a place to live at night.

"I think the name Maruko is very good, very low-key." The emperor leaned on the head of the bed and twisted his neck: "Easy to understand is the most meaningful." Simplicity is complexity, and this is the truth that can only be achieved by participating in Zen. ”

I believe you're a ghost.

You're just lazy.

Du Zhiyan certainly understood why the emperor chose such a name.

After leaving the capital and coming to Yongxing City, of course, the identity of the emperor and her cannot be exposed, so she has to find a fake identity.

As for why it is called "Four Happiness Pills", the emperor's careful thoughts, Du Zhiyan can see it thoroughly, isn't that the emperor's screen name in the game?

The emperor called Sixi Maruko in the game, so he directly split the four characters of Sixi Maruko into two names.

Balls are balls, they sound better than bricks and dog eggs.

"I'm going to the city tomorrow to investigate, the emperor, let's sleep." Du only yawned.

The emperor couldn't sleep: "When I arrived in Yongxing City, I followed what you said, I was lavish everywhere, spending money like flowing water, I should give ten taels, I gave twenty taels, I should give twenty taels, I gave fifty taels, Du Changzai, do you say this method works?" ”

"The concubine thinks that it is up to people to make things happen, and it is up to heaven to make things happen."

"What I spent was white flowers, and you told me that it was up to you, you irresponsible woman." The emperor said bitterly: "The treasury is empty, I am still here to be wronged, and I feel ashamed." ”

"Hasn't the emperor heard, he can't give up the child and can't hide the wolf. The emperor wants to control the price of rice in Yongxing City, and now the capital that has been given up is the emperor's bait. ”

Du Zhiyan got up early in the morning with the emperor.

The sky is clear.

Rare sunny day.

Although it was a sunny day, Yongxing City was shrouded in smoke.

It was colder here than in the capital, and there was rain again, and the mist of early autumn had already shrouded in.

The entire gray city was shrouded in white mist, like a fantasy.

People carrying baskets on their backs shuttled through the city, perhaps because they were hungry, all of them were yellow and thin, and they were weak.

"Did you ask about the price of rice? Is the price of rice up or down today? Can you still buy a pound of rice for 100 wen? ”

"When is the market of your old man, the price of rice yesterday was 200 wen a catty, that's it, there is still no market, if you want to buy it, you have to buy it as soon as possible, the rice in the barrel of Zhao Ji Rice Store is almost empty."

When everyone heard that the rice in Zhao Ji Rice Store was about to be sold out, they were a little panicked.

If there is no rice in Zhao Ji Rice Shop, then there will be no other rice shops.

Zhao Ji Rice Shop is the largest rice shop in Yongxing City, if it is also in a hurry, then the silver in everyone's hands can buy even less rice and noodles.

So everyone rushed to the Zhao Ji rice shop, and when they arrived at the rice shop, they found that there was a sign at the door of the store, and the price of rice on this day was changed to 300 wen a catty.

"All line up, line up, three hundred wen a catty, I'm afraid I won't be able to buy three hundred wen a catty tomorrow, and the rice in our Zhao Ji rice shop is also very limited."

When everyone heard this, they squeezed forward.

Although the price of rice is outrageous, who can not eat grain.

Du Zhiyan walked around the city with the emperor and found out the market.

There are about a dozen rice shops in Yongxing City, and Zhao Ji's shop is the largest, and those scattered shops are all small businesses, which can be ignored.

Zhao Ji's shop is large, the supply of goods is wide, I heard that the merchants in the surrounding Luoli City have supplied him with rice, and one of the cargo ships moored on the river is his family.

Some of the rice buckets in the other rice shops are empty, and only Zhao Ji is still maintaining business, but according to Zhao Ji's people, they don't have much rice, and it's first-come, first-served anyway.

The emperor decisively found the shopkeeper Chang to discuss that he wanted to open a rice shop on the first floor of the Yuelai Inn, which was called Yuelai Rice Shop.

The shopkeeper thinks it's outrageous, his own family is an inn, why is this Sixi son going to change careers for his own family as soon as he comes? Nowadays, the price of rice is when it is expensive, not only expensive, but also no rice, what rice shop to open at this time, isn't that a loser?

The emperor directly auctioned one hundred taels of silver tickets into the hands of the shopkeeper.

It's easy to say anything if you have a silver ticket, anyway, Yongxing City is not in a good world now, and there are few people living in the hotel, so open a rice shop and open a rice shop, as long as someone is willing to give silver, let alone open a rice shop, open the palace of the king of Hades.