The Golden Age

Chapter 424: Aunt Rong is downstairs

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The rule of Qingfeng Building is to enter the store as a guest. No matter who comes in, the store must make the guests feel at home, and there must not be behaviors that dislike the poor and love the rich.

Having said that, Qingfenglou is a well-known restaurant in Kyoto after all. It has high-end atmosphere and expensive dishes. Ordinary people will only look at it when they pass by. It is absolutely impossible to actually come in and eat.

Therefore, it is extremely rare for a commoner like Qin Xiao to enter the store.

Although the shop clerk was polite on the face, he still looked a little contemptuous in his heart, not to mention the commoner boy came in with a boat girl.

In the eyes of Kyoto people, Chuanniang is the lowest group of people.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the country was quite civilized. When the saint nowadays became the throne, not only women officials appeared in the palace, but the restrictions on women from the people were also relieved. At least there will be women entering and leaving restaurants and tea shops. Strange, but after a long time, it adapts.

However, in the eyes of some literati, a woman's public appearance is not in compliance with the rules. In fact, the boat ladies who punt and solicit passengers in the river are not much different from the geishas in the band.

"Guests, those four dishes are the delicacies of our restaurant." The shop clerk smiled and didn't smile: "The four dishes add up, not even the drinks, it costs more than 20 taels of silver, the guest... Don’t think about it?"

With Qin Xiaobuyi in his body, the shop assistant really couldn't think of where the young man would get the money later.

Qin Xiao was calm and composed, but Qiuniang was taken aback.

She was exhausted in the river, and at the end of the year, she would only earn ten taels of silver. These dishes cost twenty taels of silver. That was her salary for two years. She couldn't help but blurt out: "Why is it so expensive?"

"Xihucuyu is the number one dish in our restaurant. It is guaranteed to be fresh fatty fish salvaged from West Lake in Qiantang. After salvage, we will send people to Kyoto immediately. This will cost a lot of manpower and material resources." Smile explained: "The second dish is steamed bear paws. It is a blind bear caught from the mountain. It is genuine. The third dish you want is stir-fried swan tongue. This dish...!"

"It's all written on it, I can read." Qin Xiao has already interrupted: "Did I ask you to explain?"

The shop clerk was taken aback for a moment, feeling a little upset and uncomfortable. He just said: "Then the customer wants these four dishes?"

"You didn't understand?" Qin Xiao was not polite, and naturally he also saw the arrogance of the shop assistant: "Four dishes, one for each, don't I need to say it again?"

The shop assistant didn't say much, turned around and left.

Qiuniang leaned forward and approached Qin Xiao said, "The food here is so expensive, let's not do this, let's go home and eat?"

"I've ordered the dishes, let's just wait." Qin Xiao picked up the teapot, poured a glass of water for Qiuniang, and asked: "Right, do you want to drink? There is so much wine in it, it should be good. Wine, shall we have two glasses?"

Qiuniang hadn't spoken yet, but she could hear someone beside her with a smile and said, "Brother Yuzhi, you found something weird in the countryside a while ago, have you heard of it?"

"Oh?" The opposite person was very cooperative: "Brother Zhushan, what is the weird thing you said?"

Brother Zhushan smiled and said: "There is a village where the people are simple and honest, and there is a farmer working in the fields. I saw two people passing by the road. Only their backs were seen, but they were short in stature and walked very well. It was strange. He was very strange, so he asked the person next to him what was the origin of the two."

"Oh?" Brother Yuzhi asked, "What's the reason for that?"

"The man on the side is an old man. He saw a lot of things. He just glanced at it and laughed and said that the two were not humans, but two monkeys." Brother Zhushan said: "It turns out that there are two on the nearby mountain. A monkey, a male and a female, likes to learn the posture of walking, and the clothes he stole that day put on, pretending to walk past people. But after all, monkeys are monkeys, although their appearance changes, their temperament cannot be changed."

Brother Yuzhi laughed and said, "Brother Zhushan said that he was crowned by a monkey."

Many people around immediately laughed.

Qiuniang was very clever. The story told by Brother Zhushan was clearly mocking himself and Qin Xiao. She was annoyed and glared at Brother Zhushan. Brother Zhushan laughed louder and said, "The old man said it was broken. Two monkeys crowned by monkeys, the two monkeys were very angry, the female monkey came from the ground

Footsteps, turned her back to the old woman, did not speak, but the old woman had already stepped forward and said with a smile: "Late Autumn, don't you know me?"

Qin Xiao was a little surprised, wondering when Qiuniang met this old woman?

Although the old woman's dress is not luxurious, but at first glance, it is also a real family. The key point is that she is obviously related to Yuan Wailang, whose surname is Qian, but when she sees Qiuniang finally turned around, she reluctantly smiled and called out. : "Aunt Rong!"

Qin Xiao was even more surprised, thinking that this old woman is Qiuniang's aunt?

The old woman came up, walked around Qiuniang, and smiled: "Why did you become like this? I came to Beijing this time and saw that the boat girls in the river are all dressed up like you, should you? You will be reduced to a boat for a living, right?" The tone is full of superiority, and the ridicule is something that everyone can hear.

Qin Xiao frowned.

He still didn't know what kind of relationship Qiuniang and this aunt Rong had. If the old woman was really Qiuniang's aunt, then she would be regarded as a close relative, and she shouldn't have mocked Qiuniang so much in the public.

Qiuniang bit her lip, lowered her head, did not make eye contact with Aunt Rong, and seemed a little restrained and nervous. Qin Xiao saw that Qiuniang was very uncomfortable, so she got up and ignored her Aunt Rong and Xiang Qiu. Mother said: "Sister, let's go."

"Wait a minute, your food has been prepared." The shop assistant jumped out: "Even if you don't eat it, you have to pay."

Aunt Rong smiled and said, "How can you eat here on a boat? The price of the food here is not cheap. I heard that the boat girl earns a dozen silver dollars a year, which is the price of two good dishes here. By the way, the bowl of shark fin that I ate on it just now seems to be expensive. Haisheng, how much silver is there?"

"That bowl of shark's fin, three taels of silver, we got five bowls in total, which is 15 taels of silver." Yuan Wailang was very respectful to Aunt Rong: "Auntie, don't you go back to Beijing once? Naturally, your nephew should treat him well of."

Aunt Rong smiled and said, "Good nephew." She glanced at Qin Xiao and finally asked, "This one is?"

Although Qin Xiao felt that Aunt Rong seemed to be not a kind person, but if she was really a close relative of Qiuniang, he would not lose courtesy in the face of Qiuniang, and said, "I am...! "

"In front of the elders, I don't even know how to claim it. I really don't know how to say it." Before Qin Xiao reported himself, Yuanwailang interrupted coldly: "It's no wonder that he will do rough things here."

Qin Xiao frowned, feeling a little angry in his heart, but Aunt Rong already smiled: "Does this young generation seem to be young? Are you an apprentice in Beijing? Late autumn, you are not wrong. You are all at this age, senior official. The nobles naturally look down on you, and there is no hope of marrying into a wealthy family. It is better to find a younger one, you are also considered smart, as clever as before."

Qiuniangxiu frowned, her lips moved, as if she wanted to say something, but after all she made no sound.

"We have eaten well, and we will see you later." Aunt Rong said, "Haisheng, Wan Qiu and I are also old friends. Since we ran into each other, I will call the shots and give them a dish. Then, man, you give them. Add a soup dish."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard only a burst of laughter and footsteps coming from outside the restaurant, and then a few people walked in. Yuan Wai Lang saw the visitor, his expression was tense, he hurriedly sorted his clothes, coughed, and said to the people around him: "It's the criminal ministry. Master Zhu, don't lose your courtesy!"

The one who came in from outside was impressively Zhu Dongshan, the minister of criminal justice.

Zhu Dongshan came in with a big belly, followed by a few officials behind him, scanned it, and suddenly looked at Yuan Wai Lang, with a smile on his face, he was walking towards this side, and Yuan Wai Lang saw Zhu Dongshan facing him. With a smile on his face, flattered, he hurried forward and was about to bow his hands to salute, only to find that Zhu Dongshan didn't even look at himself, and walked directly past him, only when he didn't exist, he walked directly to Qin Xiao's side. He smiled and said, "Qin Xiao, are you here? I've only come out for dinner until I've been so busy. Why don't you go up for a drink?"

In fact, the people who knew Zhu Dongshan at the scene were not right, but Yuan Wailang mentioned it when Zhu Dongshan came in, and when he saw Zhu Dongshan, Wailang took the initiative to greet Zhu Dongshan. Everyone who didn’t know him could also see Zhu. Dongshan's status is not low.

No one thought that Zhu Dongshan turned a blind eye to the sixth-grade member of the foreign language, but took the initiative to greet the commoner young man. For a while, he felt strange. The Zhushan brother and others who had only contradicted Qin Xiao just had a cold back.