Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 113 Gu Tingye leaves Beijing

By noon, there were no more customers in the teahouse.

Li An simply asked people to close the door and eat.

The hired dessert chef can naturally cook the food, but the taste is not very good.

"Aniu, can this teahouse really make money?" Shi Lin asked worriedly.

He knew how much Li An spent to open this teahouse.

The rent deposit, purchase of some things, and materials for tea and snacks all cost nearly two hundred taels.

We hired two waiters, two pastry chefs and two storytellers. The wages of these six people alone were more than ten taels a month.

Including the monthly rent, the cost is sixty or seventy taels.

On the morning of the opening, the dim sum sold was less than one tael. Excluding the cost of the dim sum, it can be said that the loss went to my grandma's family.

Li An was eating deliciously. He stopped when he heard the words, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Master, don't worry, I know it well. In the first few days, I didn't plan to make money at all. You will know after a few days." .”

When fame opens up, everyone will be restricted to a minimum consumption, and it will not be easy to make money.

He visited several popular teahouses in Bianjing. Those teahouses all had channels for collecting Newspapers. They mostly told stories that had never been told before, and most of the teahouses were full.

Those stories were far different from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and they all had this effect. He didn't believe he couldn't make money.

"Since you are sure, let's take a look first. But if you can't make any money this month, why not make braised pork sounds? I can do this. As long as the spice recipe is not known to others, it will not be spread. Shi Lin said.

"Well, master, don't worry, I'm not stupid. I will definitely quit if I can't make money." Li An said with a smile.

After the meal, the teahouse continued to open and the previous three lectures were repeated.

Li An didn't go down either, so he was reading upstairs.

Not long after watching, Gu Tingye, Qi Heng and Sheng Changbai came again.

The second floor did not accept guests, but because he had told them, Gu Tingye and the others were not stopped by the waiter when they came, and went directly to the second floor.

"Why are you here?"

As soon as Li An asked, he noticed that something was wrong with Gu Tingye's expression, and thought to himself: "Could it be that Gu Yankai is back?"

"Zi Qian, I'm in a bad mood, so I asked you to go drinking with me." Gu Tingye said.

Li An knew what was going on and didn't ask any more questions, and said, "Okay, let's go."

The four of them left the teahouse and did not go anywhere else. They found a restaurant nearby.

When the waiter brought the food and wine, Gu Tingye asked the waiter to go down, take the wine bottle and pour it for the three of them and himself, picked up the wine glass and said, "Here, drink!"

The three of them had a drink with Gu Tingye and put down their glasses.

Gu Tingye poured another glass and drank it.

Seeing that Gu Tingye kept drinking, Sheng Changbai held down his arm and said, "Zhong Huai, you can tell me what happened, and we will help you find a solution. You can't solve the problem by drinking like this, and This is not the Zhong Huai I know."

"Yes, Zhong Huai, what happened?" Li An also asked.

Gu Tingye smiled bitterly and said, "Ze Cheng, Zi Qian, I may not be able to be a classmate with you anymore."

"What happened, you tell me? Could it be that your father came back and refused to let you study literature?" Sheng Changbai frowned.

"My father came back today, and I asked him about my mother." Gu Tingye said.

"Could it be that your father's affairs are really related to your father?" Sheng Changbai asked in surprise.

When he was in Yangzhou, Gu Tingye told Sheng Changbai and Li An about the matter between his mother and father.

Sheng Changbai never believed it, thinking there must be some misunderstanding.

Looking at Gu Tingye now, it should be confirmed. "Although my father didn't say it, I can see from his expression that it must be true." Gu Tingye said in a dry voice.

Now no one knew how to comfort Gu Tingye.

Li An had known it for a long time and had no intention of persuading him, while Sheng Changbai and Qi Heng didn't know how to persuade.

After all, it was his father who killed his mother. No one could accept such a thing.

After a long silence, Li An said: "Zhong Huai, what are you going to do next?"

"I don't know, but I don't plan to stay in Bianjing for the time being." Gu Tingye shook his head.

He wanted to escape before because he was afraid of getting this answer.

Gu Yankai was his father, could he still kill his own father in order to avenge his mother?
  Gu Tingye now just wants to leave Bianjing far away.

"Then where are you going after leaving Bianjing?" Sheng Changbai asked.

He also felt that leaving Bianjing first was a good choice.

This way Gu Tingye can have time to calm down.

"I want to go back to Yangzhou."

Gu Tingye didn't know where to go for a while. The only place he could go was Yangzhou.

"Second uncle, I have a relative who teaches at Bailudong Academy. I can ask my father to write you a letter of recommendation. You might as well take the letter of recommendation and go to Bailudong Academy to study." Qi Heng said.

"Give me some time to think about it. Let's drink first." Gu Tingye said.

The three of them also knew that Gu Tingye was in a depressed mood. However, it was difficult for outsiders to persuade him about this kind of thing. He had to look after Gu Tingye himself, so they did not persuade him anymore and drank with Gu Tingye.

……

Gu Tingye finally left. After sobering up the next day, after careful consideration, he asked Qi Heng to go home and write a letter of recommendation to his father. He took the letter and went to Bailudong Academy.

In his words, he could not avenge his mother. He could only obtain a meritorious service and see if he could earn a life for his mother.

"Come on, let's go back."

Sheng Changbai looked at the disappeared ship, came back to his senses, and said to Li An and Qi Heng.

"Yeah." The two nodded.

The three of them got on the carriage, and Sheng Changbai sent Li An to the teahouse. When Li An got off the carriage, Sheng Changbai told him that Xuexue Zhuang would arrive in Bianjing in the next few days, and school would start by then.

Zhuang Xuexue will assess everyone before teaching and let him prepare well in the past few days.

"Well, why are there so many people?"

Li An got off the carriage and saw the surrounded teahouse. He secretly thought something was wrong and ran over quickly.

At first he thought these people were here to make trouble. When he ran to the back of the crowd and heard the comments from the people behind him, he realized that it was the opening poem he plagiarized that attracted some scholars. These scholars had come to read the poem. However, after asking the waiter, I learned that this poem was actually written by a twelve-year-old boy, which was a bit unbelievable.

I have to clamor to see Li An.

The waiter could only tell them that Li An was not in the store, but the scholars didn't believe it.

Because the scholars were noisy, they attracted many passers-by, so the scene that Li An saw happened.

After Li An learned about the situation, his first reaction was to run away.

Once he goes out, he will inevitably be questioned and the trouble will be even greater.

But if he leaves, these scholars may continue to cause trouble, and he may not be able to continue his business.

After hesitating for a moment, Li An said loudly: "Give way, I am the owner of this teahouse."

(End of this chapter)