Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 24
Li Tian got into the car, took off the hood and held it in his hand, staring blankly at the gently shaking indigo coarse cloth car curtain, Yue Niang sat cross-legged comfortably, looked at Li Tian and asked: "What's wrong? You can't help it Already?" Li Tian turned his head to look at Yue Niang, and said with a wry smile, "You treat me as a fortune teller, there are no difficulties in the world, and there are no plans left?"

"Huh? You told shopkeeper Cheng so firmly, you have already thought of something, and what money is going to be used on the blade, it looks like a fortune teller!"

"Look at shopkeeper Cheng's face, his face is ashen. If I don't hold up the momentum and calm down the situation, shopkeeper Cheng will be scared, and so will Sun Liu. Before the battle starts, my feet will be broken first. You don't need others to fight, you will lose first!"

"Oh!" Yue Niang stared at Li Tian, ​​and after a while she couldn't speak: "Then do you have any ideas?"

"A little."

"Ah? Just a little? Then are you sure? How sure are you?"

"Yue Niang, there is a saying that it is man who plans things and God who makes things happen. How can there be any confidence in this world? Only luck." Li Tian lowered his eyes and said, Yue Niang blinked a few times and stared at her for a long time. He took a deep breath and said: "Your words are false and true, it's the art of war, but looking at you like this, you are so godlike, you really have a bit of fairy air."

Sun Liu sent a lot of letters, Li Tian spent two days sorting out them, and walked around the verandah countless times with his head lowered, and asked someone to prepare a car to go to Rong'an Hall.

Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Sun Er picked up Li Tian and went into the room. Li Tian called Shopkeeper Wang to come in first, stood up politely and accepted a half ceremony, let Shopkeeper Wang sit down, and said bluntly: "Treasurer Wang really wants to honor this honor. The big shopkeeper of Antang will let the shopkeeper Sun Er do it?"

"It's not a concession." Shopkeeper Wang leaned forward and smiled: "Shopkeeper Sun Er has taken care of all the big and small things in the shop in the past two years. , I’m getting old, and what happened last year.” Shopkeeper Wang stopped talking, as if he was thinking about what to say: “What happened last year, my boss, Ningshe Shop, also wants to protect my old life. I am convinced from the bottom of my heart, this Rong'an Hall is entrusted to him, the owner can rest assured."

"Yeah." Li Tian breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and said: "This is the best, I happen to have something to do here, and I need a seasoned and thoughtful shopkeeper like you to preside over it. I would like to ask you to work hard for another year or two to help me. Add [-]% more than now, do you think it will be possible?"

Shopkeeper Wang was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Tian hesitantly and said, "I don't know about my boss... I have no other intentions, but I'm afraid I won't do well and miss my boss's business."

"You can do well. I'm a girl's family, and it's not easy to show my face. Although Cao Si's family is careful and capable, she is a woman after all, and it is inconvenient to travel outside. I must have a trustworthy person here to help those outside. It's something." Li Tian explained, Shopkeeper Wang thought for a while and nodded and said: "If the boss can trust me, it will be done!"

"Thank you, shopkeeper Wang. I have urgent matters here. I have something to do tomorrow, so please come over. We told shopkeeper Sun Er and the big guys about it today. How do you think?" Li Tian discussed with a smile on his face. , Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly nodded in agreement, Li Tian signaled Yue Niang to call Shopkeeper Sun Er, and said what he had discussed with Shopkeeper Wang.

Although shopkeeper Sun Er knew that shopkeeper Wang had mentioned this matter to his owner years ago, he didn't dare to think about it at all. He was only in his early thirties, and this Rong'antang was the first brand of herbal medicine shop in the capital. How could the owner rest assured that he would hand it over to him?Hearing Li Tian's words now, his face blushed with excitement, and he tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, trying to appear generous and calm, but he couldn't say a word. Li Tian looked at him with a smile and said, "Treasurer Wang If I can trust you, I can trust you, just."

Li Tian paused with a smile and said, "I still have an errand for shopkeeper Wang. He can't be your second shopkeeper. You can choose a suitable second shopkeeper yourself. It's inconvenient for me to show my daughter's family, so I'll let Wang The shopkeeper told everyone on my behalf that the door will be closed early tonight, and you can go to the Qingfeng Building to ask for a few tables to wait for a table, and everyone should congratulate you." Li Tian stood up as he spoke, put on his veiled hat and went out.

Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly sent it out with Shopkeeper Sun Er, Yue Niang passed by Shopkeeper Sun Er, patted him on the shoulder heavily and praised: "Good boy, promising!" Only then did he stand firmly, looking at Yue Niang dumbfounded.

Li Tian and Yue Niang left Rong'an Hall and went straight to Fanlou.In the secluded private room in Fanlou, shopkeeper Cheng and Sun Liu were already waiting in the private room. Seeing Li Tian coming in, shopkeeper Cheng and Sun Liu hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Looking at the withered and green bamboo forest outside the window, he turned his head to gesture to Sun Liu.

"There's nothing else about it, just the same thing. Shopkeeper Zhao and Manager Dai from Wen Guogong's Mansion went into the Liuqi Hotel behind Qianchunfang one after the other, and then came out one after the other. From the year before to yesterday, there have been six times in total." Sun Liu looked at shopkeeper Cheng and said, shopkeeper Cheng frowned, looked at Li Tian and said, "Boss, last night I had a drink with some book offices in the inspection office, and I got a bit of trust. That song was indeed quoted by Wen Guogong's mansion. Take it."

"Well, this can be put together." Li Tian lowered his head and picked the half-burned pancakes in the hand stove. After a moment of silence, he looked up at the two of them and said, "Qianchunfang has been rushing for years and years." I have ordered enough food, wine barrels and other things to be used this year, and they are all dead contracts." Li Tian's words were indifferent, but shopkeeper Cheng took a deep breath.

Li Tian turned his head and stared out of the window for a while, then turned his head, squinted his eyes slightly, smiled contemptuously, looked at the two of them and said: "The rules on the lighting side, how many invitations can these wineries get, It depends on how the new wine competition goes on April [-]st, but she started early, we still have a chance. Did you find the person I asked you to find?" Li Tian asked Sun Liu the last sentence, and Sun Liu hurriedly nodded and said: "I've found it, but I don't need to look for it. No one in the capital knows that Yuan Xiucai is the best at writing dramas, but this Yuan Xiucai is a weird person. He can't tell the difference between four and six." I was selected as a scholar, and I heard that he was still a top name, but since then, I have failed every year in the examination. After ten years in a row, I still failed in the tenth year. He was caught and beaten with twenty sticks. Since then, he never took the exam again, and just hung around in the tile and gourd. Every year he was poor and poor, but his temper was getting worse every year. He made himself angry. It’s called a stubborn stone, and it’s really a stubborn stinky stone.”

"Does he have a wife and children?" Li Tian asked, Sun Liu shook his head and smiled and said, "Who would marry him? His family is poor and ugly, and he likes to go to brothels and drink flower wine. He is very good to female prostitutes, regardless of age." Beautiful and ugly, both are very considerate, how much money is spent, plus he has that crooked talent, write a drama, write a ditty, no matter who sings, once he sings, he becomes popular, even in Goulan tiles If he can eat well, if he is willing to write dramas and ditties for others, he will get rich early, but he has a bad temper, and he has to write if he is pleasing to the eye, and he doesn't want money if he writes. Don’t write, because of this, how many times have I been beaten with a black stick, but I still can’t change it, such a great talent, now I can earn a living.”

Li Tian frowned, and Sun Liu hurriedly took out a roll of thin rice paper from his pocket and handed it to Li Tian: "Here are all the things he wrote except for those dramas and little songs. He is lazy and doesn't have much." Take a look." Li Tian took it, pulled it away, and looked at it very carefully. It took less than half an hour to finish reading the two-foot-long roll of paper, and slowly rolled it up. He stared out of the window for a while, then gradually burst into a smile and said: "Well, he is also a rare genius. You can ask where he often haunts, except the brothel."

"Yes!" Sun Liu hurriedly replied. Shopkeeper Cheng looked at Li Tian in confusion. Li Tian thought for a while, and then ordered: "I heard that Wu Chenglin loves female prostitutes the most, such as those who sing ditty songs, juggle, act Those who are in dramas only look at their looks without distinguishing their origins, ask around, which female actress he is most attracted to now."

"He also likes men, and he only inquires about women?" Sun Liu asked, Li Tian frowned in disgust and said, "It doesn't matter whether men or women, the more clearly you can inquire, the better."

"Is this what the boss wants?" Shopkeeper Cheng asked hesitantly, Li Tian turned to look at him and smiled and said, "Let's have a look first, there are too many variables here."

"Yes!" Shopkeeper Cheng knew that he had asked too many questions, so he hurriedly answered, bowed to the end, and watched Li Tian out of the private room with Sun Liu.

In an alley not far from Sangjia Wazi, the sky was just getting dark, Yuan Xiucai put his arms on his chest, hunched his neck and arched his waist shiveringly, procrastinating and yawning all the way to the entrance of the alley. Going in the gourd soup shop, the kid at the door saw him coming in, so he hurriedly poured the wash water and sent it over. Yuan Xiucai leaned against the charcoal basin and leaned against the charcoal basin. Stretching into the scalding water, he laughed and shook his legs and feet non-stop, making his hands red and hot. Then he twisted the cotton kerchief, shook it off and covered his face, and moaned happily.

Yuan Xiucai washed his face, took the willow branch from the child, squeezed it loosely, wiped his teeth, rinsed his mouth, stood up and stretched comfortably, stomped his feet, straightened his clothes and sat down again. The child had already brought a bowl of eight-treasure lei tea with ginger and scallions on it. Yuan Xiucai picked up the bowl and took a big gulp. He closed his eyes and tasted it for a long time before swallowing slowly and spit out a long mouthful. foul air.

Shopkeeper Wang was sitting at a table in the corner, holding a bowl of tea and looking at him half-drinking. Seeing that he drank half of a bowl of tea, his brows seemed to be stretched and refreshed, so he stood up. He walked unhurriedly to Yuan Xiucai's table and sat opposite Yuan Xiucai.

Yuan Xiucai frowned in disgust, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and looked up at the smiling shopkeeper Wang. Before he could speak, shopkeeper Wang smiled and said: "I heard that Mr. Stone is a chivalrous and straightforward person. Don't go around in circles, just say it straight, my proprietor wants to do business with Mr.

(End of this chapter)