The Golden Age Chapter 424: Aunt Rong, downstairs
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The shop assistant was taken aback and surprised.
The rules of Qingfeng Building are that customers enter the store. No matter who comes in, the store must make the guests feel at home, and there must be no behaviors that dislike the poor and love the rich.
That being said, Qingfenglou is a well-known restaurant in Kyoto after all. It is high-end and expensive, and the food is expensive. Ordinary people will only look at it when passing by, and it is absolutely impossible to actually come in and eat.
So 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, it was quite civilized. After the saints now enthroned, not only did female officials appear in the palace, but the restrictions on women from the people were also relieved. At least there will be women coming and going in restaurants and tea shops. There was something strange in my eyes, but after a long time, I got used to it.
However, in the eyes of some literati, a woman's public appearance is not in compliance with the rules, and the boat maidens who punt and solicit passengers on the river are not much different from the geishas in the band.
"Guests, those four dishes are the delicacies of our town shop." The shop clerk smiled and said, "A total of four dishes, not even drinks, cost more than twenty taels of silver, you... .. Think about it?"
Qin Xiaobuyi is on his body, the shop assistant can't think of where the young man will get the money later.
Qin Xiao was calm and composed, but Qiuniang was taken aback.
She worked hard in the river channel, and at the end of the year, she could only earn ten taels of silver. These dishes cost twenty taels of silver. That was her salary for two years. She couldn't help blurting 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 salvaging, we will send people to Kyoto immediately. This way, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources." The guy explained with a smile: "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 says 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?"
"Did you not 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 clerk didn't say much, turned around and left.
Qiu Niang leaned forward and approached Qin Xiao said: "The food here is so expensive, let's not do this, let's go home and eat?"
"The dishes have been ordered, 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? The wine is full of fragrance, it should be There is indeed a good wine, shall we have two glasses?"
Qiu Niang hasn't spoken yet, but she can hear someone 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 the back was seen, but they were short and walking. His actions were very strange. He was very strange, so he asked the person next to him, what is the origin of the two."
"Oh?" Brother Komae asked, "What the **** is that?"
"The man next to him was 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 turned out that the nearby There are two monkeys on the mountain, one male and one female. They like to learn how to walk. Moreover, the clothes that were stolen that day were put on, and they pretended to pass by. However, the monkeys are monkeys after all. Although the dress is changed, the temperament cannot be changed. ."
Brother Yuzhi laughed and said: "Brother Zhushan said that he was crowned by a monkey."
Many people around immediately laughed.
Qiu Niang is very clever. The story told by Brother Zhushan was clearly mocking herself and Qin Xiao. She was angry and glared at Brother Zhushan. Brother Zhushan laughed louder and said, "The old man Said that the two monkeys who broke Muhou's crown, the two monkeys were very angry, and the female monkey came from the ground
Footsteps, her back turned 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 the Yuanwailang whose surname is Qian, but when she sees Qiuniang finally turned around, she reluctantly smiled. Called: "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: "How come you have become like this? When I entered Beijing this time, I saw that the boat girls in the river were dressed similarly to you. Wouldn't you be reduced to a boat for a living?" The tone of voice was full of superiority, and that ridicule could be heard by individuals.
Qin Xiao frowned.
He didn't know for a while 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.
Qiu Niang bit her lip, lowered her head, and did not make contact with Aunt Rong’s eyes. She looked a bit restrained and nervous. Qin Xiao saw that Qiuniang was uncomfortable, so she got up and went forward without paying attention to Aunt Rong. , Xiang Qiuniang said: "Sister, let's go."
"Wait a minute, your food has been prepared." The shop assistant jumped out: "Even if you don't eat, you have to check out."
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, so two dishes are good here. The price of the dishes. By the way, the bowl of shark fin that I ate on it just now seems to be not cheap. 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, do you go back to Beijing once, your nephew is naturally Be entertained."
Aunt Rong smiled and said: "Good nephew." She glanced at Qin Xiao, and finally asked, "This is this?"
Although Qin Xiao feels that Aunt Rong does not seem to be a kind person, if she is really a close relative of Qiuniang, he would not lose her manners in the face of Qiuniang, and he said, "I am... ..!"
"In front of the elders, I don't even know what to say, and I really don't know how to say it." Before Qin Xiao reported himself, Yuan Wai Lang interrupted coldly: "It's no wonder that he will do rough things here. "
Qin Xiao frowned, feeling a little angry in her heart, but Aunt Rong already smiled: "Does this young generation look young? Are you an apprentice in Beijing? Late autumn, you are not wrong, they are all this age. Nobles, high-ranking officials 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."
Qiu Niangxiu 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. Let's go, man, You add a soup to them."
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 him humanely: "It's Master Zhu from the Criminal Ministry, don't lose courtesy!"
The one who came in from outside the door was impressively Zhu Dongshan, the servant of the criminal ministry.
Zhu Dongshan came in with a big belly, followed by a few officials, and swept away, and suddenly looked at Yuan Wai Lang, with a smile on his face, he was walking towards this side, Yuan Wai Lang saw that Zhu Dongshan was actually right With a smile on his face, flattered, he hurriedly greeted him, and was about to bow his hands, only to find that Zhu Dongshan didn't even look at himself, and walked directly by him, only when he didn't exist, he went straight to Qin Xiao. Over there, he smiled and said, "Qin Xiao, are you here? I've only come out to eat until I'm so busy now, how about going up for two drinks?"
In fact, it’s not right for people who knew Zhu Dongshan at the scene, but Yuan Wailang mentioned it when Zhu Dongshan came in, and when he saw Zhu Dongshan, Wailang took the initiative to greet Zhu Dongshan, even if he didn’t know him or heard it. Seeing that Zhu Dongshan's status is not low.
No one thought that Zhu Dongshan turned a blind eye to the foreigners of the sixth rank, but took the initiative to say hello to the young man in commoner clothes. For a while, he felt that it was weird. Brother Zhushan and others who had conflicts with Qin Xiao just had a cold back.