Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 26
"I really can't be angry with what you said." Yuan Xiucai looked at Shopkeeper Wang with no expression on her face: "You are an honest person at first glance, you and your boss are both... both..." Yuan Xiucai couldn't think of how to describe it for a while: "Interesting, what kind of play is your host going to write? Let me tell you first, I can write whatever I want, as long as there is one thing that annoys me, it's over!"

"To tell you the truth, sir, I don't know what play to write. This is our proprietor's other courtyard, not far from here. If you are free in the afternoon, sir, our proprietor would like to treat you to a cup of tea before we talk about this miscellaneous drama." This matter." Shopkeeper Wang took a note from his sleeve and pushed it in front of Yuan Xiucai. Yuan Xiucai picked up the note and looked at it, then pushed the note back and said, "Okay, I will go to meet your boss for a while. !"

In the middle of February, the shopkeepers of several shops gathered in the backyard of Rong'an Hall as usual. Li Tian brought Yue Niang and Cao Si's wife in. The two of them stood behind Li Tian with their hands down. He received half a salute on his side, let everyone sit down, and without much greetings, looked at Shopkeeper Zhao of Qianchunfang and asked: "It's already mid-February, the matter of Qu Yin has been settled at the checkpoint." No?"

Shopkeeper Zhao hesitated for a while and said with a smile: "No letter yet." Shopkeeper Wang, who was sitting on the first armchair on the left, frowned, Li Tian lowered his eyes, took a sip of tea from his cup, and slowly put down the cup , looking at shopkeeper Zhao and asked with a smile: "When did you have confidence in previous years?"

"In the past, shopkeeper Huang was always responsible for this matter, but the little one... didn't pay attention." Shopkeeper Zhao swallowed his saliva and said, Li Tian changed the subject softly and asked: "This year's food, wine barrels and so on , are you ready?"

"My boss, don't worry, everything is ready." Seeing that Li Tian was no longer entangled with Qu Yin's matter, shopkeeper Zhao secretly heaved a sigh of relief, leaned forward and replied courteously: "The food, wine barrels, and wine bottles that will be used this year All the orders have been placed, and there will never be any delay.”

"Life contract or death contract?"

"Death contract." Shopkeeper Zhao felt a little uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly explained: "Death contract is much cheaper, and it is something that must be used anyway."

"Is it all settled so early in previous years? Is this the same time for a full year's amount? Are they all dead contracts?" Li Tian asked repeatedly, sweat dripped from the forehead of the shopkeeper Zhao, and he became angry for a moment, and looked straight at him. Li Tian said: "Boss, this business has a year-to-year trend. If it is the same as taking care of housework, everything can be done as usual. Then there is no need for shopkeepers like us. The boss can appoint a housekeeper to manage the shop!"

"What Shopkeeper Zhao said is that this year is really different from previous years. Grandma passed away, Shopkeeper Huang suddenly resigned, and Rong An Hall was almost blackmailed away." Li Tian paused, and continued in a flat and expressionless voice: "Yes It's time to let go and do a big job!" Shopkeeper Zhao's face turned purple, and he stared at Li Tian, ​​Li Tian stared at him coldly, and Shopkeeper Zhao, who was looking straight at him, turned his head abruptly.

Shopkeeper Sun, who had just become the big shopkeeper of Rong'an Hall for a few days, subconsciously straightened his upper body, and was about to speak, but shopkeeper Wang stopped him with his eyes, and glanced at the other four shopkeepers who were sitting still, looking at their noses and hearts. With a light cough, he interrupted the suffocating silence in the room and said: "Everything is just in case, this year is indeed different from previous years, in case there is a change in the things quoted..."

"What can change? It's not been a year or two since Qianchunfang received these dozen or so Quyin!" Shopkeeper Zhao found a place to vent his anger, and opened his mouth to block Shopkeeper Wang back.

Shopkeeper Sun glared at Shopkeeper Zhao, and just about to say a few words to help Shopkeeper Wang, Li Tian raised his hand to stop him and said, "Since Shopkeeper Zhao is so confident, it's a good thing, and it doesn't take long for the wine to be brewed at the checkpoint. Now, shopkeeper Zhao has carefully watched the brewing of this year's bidding wine, I mean, this year we will compete for the first brand at this wine competition."

Shopkeeper Sun looked at Li Tian in a daze. This sentence jumped too fast, and the other shopkeepers also looked at Li Tian in astonishment and confusion. Why did they suddenly want to compete for the first wine?Shopkeeper Wang lowered his eyelids and drank tea expressionlessly. Shopkeeper Zhao was stunned, with a flash of joy in his eyes, and quickly responded with a smile: "Isn't the master's idea the same as Xiao's idea? The master is really smart."

Li Tian glanced at him with a half-smile, then discussed a few other things, dismissed everyone, but left a word to Shopkeeper Zhao: "Shopkeeper Zhao, please stay, and I have something to discuss with Shopkeeper Zhao."

Shopkeeper Zhao had no choice but to keep his pace, with a smile on his face, he did not sit down, stood in the middle of the room with his hands behind his back, and looked down at Li Tian, ​​Li Tian slowly sipped his tea, watched everyone leave the room, and then put down his cup , raised his head slightly to look at shopkeeper Zhao up and down, and said with a slight smile: "I heard that being a shopkeeper is the most important thing about reputation. After a while, this reputation will be completely bad, but this?"

"I don't understand what my boss said!" Shopkeeper Zhao stiffened all of a sudden, staring at Li Tian fiercely, and replied very forcefully. Li Tian sneered at the corner of his mouth, and looked at Shopkeeper Zhao pitifully, with a smile on his face. Silk lazily said with pity: "There is a saying, once you make a mistake, you will be hated forever, and when you look back, you will only be a dead bone. People, you must not make mistakes in those few steps at the critical moment."

As he spoke, he stood up while leaning on the armrests of the chair. The fourth daughter-in-law Cao hurriedly stepped forward and lifted the veiled hat to help her put it on. Li Tian shook the black silk gauze hanging down to his feet, and coldly ordered: "Make a few jars of good wine." Come out, don't miss me competing for the first place in this wine competition!"

Saying that, without waiting for shopkeeper Zhao to answer, he brushed past him and left.

Shopkeeper Zhao's face was bluish and red, and he stood there for a long time, then he took a deep breath, let out a "pooh" on the ground, strode out of Rong'an Hall through the front door, stood on the street for a moment, and went straight to Li Wen Guogong. A hotel not far from the government passed.

Shopkeeper Wang sent Li Tian out of the corner gate. Seeing that Li Tian was about to get into the car, he couldn't help but said, "Boss, I have something to say..." Li Tian hurriedly turned around and looked at Shopkeeper Wang waiting for him to continue. He said: "Boss, I see that you have a good idea about shopkeeper Zhao. You said that you want to compete for the first place in this wine competition. Are you planning to win the first place? No matter what happens, the inspection office will give you a few quotations?"

Li Tian hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Shopkeeper Wang said with a wry smile: "Boss, on the day of the wine competition, this song has already been released, so what's the use? You?"

"It will be useful, don't worry." Li Tian said in a low but affirmative voice. Shopkeeper Wang nodded and stopped talking. Seeing Li Tian's car go far away, he sighed and walked into the yard with his hands behind his back. A girl's family has such a large family business, what kind of blessing is this, it is a burden!

In the upper room of the main courtyard of Duke Wen’s Mansion, Princess Ningguo was leaning on the kang with half-closed eyes, and at her feet were two bejeweled and gorgeously dressed little girls who held white jade beauty hammers and gently tapped her legs. , Wen Guogong and Wu Chenglin sat cross-legged on the armchair in front of the kang drinking tea, and Dai Guanshi stood in front of the kang with his hands down, and was replying: "...the search is urgent, but it's not a big deal, just talk about the Li family. That little girl announced that she would compete for the first place in this year's wine competition."

"Fighting for the first place? She's so excited, can she win Qingfenglou? It's just a dream!" Wu Chenglin sneered and said with his mouth curled up. Princess Ningguo glanced at him and said, "Don't underestimate that little girl, She started to learn from her grandmother to take care of household affairs when she was ten years old, I'm afraid you are not as good as her in this kind of business skills, if you want to fight, let her fight for it."

"Old Ancestor, will it happen? What will happen again?" Steward Dai looked at Princess Ningguo with lingering fear and said, Rong'an Hall caused a huge disturbance because of a piece of judgment, and the shop he got was gone again. Sent it back.

"What can happen? That girl is just pretending to be the number one. No matter what, the inspection office has to take care of the face of the number one and give her a few quotations. After all, she is young and inexperienced. Can Qu Yin stay until April for the wine competition? We have already dispatched half a month earlier, let her compete for it, she is willing to make us a wedding dress with gold and embroidered phoenixes, we will accept it with peace of mind, as an honor Andang's compensation." Ningguo Eldest Princess looked at her son and continued: "She is fighting for the first place for us in the front, if we can help, it's a good thing!"

"Yes!" Dai Guanshi heard Ningguo's eldest princess say this, and a big stone fell to the ground in his heart. Changyi finally made a promise, and Wu Chenglin also agreed casually. A Niang put a few thousand taels of silver in her hand?

In the second ten days of February, the capital city has already bloomed in spring, and the willows are turning green, full of vitality in early spring. Shopkeeper Wang got off the car at the second gate of a house two or three alleys away from Sangjia Wazi, walked in with his hands behind his back, While admiring the scenery of early spring.

According to Li Tian's intention, this place was specially rented for Yuan Xiucai to write scripts and stage dramas. Although the house is a little old, it is better than the garden and the tall walls.

Shopkeeper Wang walked straight along the bluestone path until he reached a warm dock hidden among peach blossoms in the south of the garden. Yuan Xiucai took a fancy to this place and chose it as his living place.

The temporarily hired female envoy opened the curtain and signaled shopkeeper Wang to speak softly. Shopkeeper Wang nodded to indicate that he understood, and came in lightly. He saw Yuan Xiucai standing in front of the window with his eyes closed, beating the folding fan in his hand. Beating the time, humming a ditty in a hoarse voice.Shopkeeper Wang came and went frequently, and he had long been used to Yuan Xiucai's extremely ugly male duck voice, so he found a chair and sat quietly, waiting for Yuan Xiucai to finish changing this little tune.

Yuan Xiucai repeatedly sang, stopped, and sang. After singing for more than an hour, she said "wonderful" proudly, turned around, dipped her pen in the ink, and quickly wrote down the song that she had just corrected. support song.Yuan Xiucai corrected the tune, picked up the paper, and read it again. Then he put the paper on the case with satisfaction, and turned to see shopkeeper Wang, who was surprised: "When did you arrive? Your footsteps are getting softer and lighter. Yes, I didn't hear it."

"It's been a while, and the song has been changed again?" Shopkeeper Wang said with a smile.

"Well, there is another piece of music that needs to be changed, it's not sad enough..." Yuan Xiucai had a long talk, and then remembered an important matter, and asked quickly: "How is it? How is your boss looking?"

(End of this chapter)