Traveling through books to ancient times, I provoke the love of villains and powerful ministers

When winter comes, everything becomes desolate.

After a few days of heavy snowfall, the entire capital city was covered in white snow.

The sky is freezing and the wind is blowing, but the business of Qi Qingxi's restaurant is better than usual.

She opened the heavy curtain to block the wind and snow and entered the door. The upper and lower floors of the store were full of customers, eating, drinking and chatting in front of the steaming hot pot.

When the waiter in the store saw Qi Qingxi coming in, he immediately greeted him: "Master, you are here."

"Is the box upstairs also full?" Qi Qingxi asked.

"Yes, the box is fully booked until the day after tomorrow." The clerk replied cheerfully.

Qi Qingxi was also very happy when she heard this, and she paid a lot of money to rent this place.

Speaking of it, I would like to thank Qi Jingxian for his help.

That day when she left Qi's residence, Qi Jingxian asked her what her future plans were.

"I still have some spare money, and I want to rent a shop in the capital to open a restaurant."

"En." Qi Jingxian nodded with his hands behind his back, asked her current address, then sent her to the carriage and watched the carriage leave.

Qi Qingxi thought he was asking casually and didn't care.

But within a few days, Qi Jingxian came to look for her, saying that he had found a place that was suitable for opening a restaurant, and asked her if she wanted to go and have a look.

Qi Qingxi immediately followed him out, and the two of them took the carriage for half an hour to Zhengyangmen Street.

After Qi Jingxian knew about Qi Qingxi's plan, he went straight to Jiaya, and the dentist took him to see the shop, and after a long time of picking and choosing, he finally found the shop that barely fit his heart.

This shop is on the side of Zhengyangmen Street. It used to be a two-story restaurant with a backyard. The shopkeeper went back to his hometown and quit, so the owner asked a dental firm to help find a tenant.

Qi Qingxi took a closer look inside and out. Although some places are a little dilapidated, if they really want to rent it, the original decoration style still needs to be changed.

"Are you still satisfied with this place?" Qi Jingxian asked her.

Qi Qingxi nodded: "It's very good here."

It's just that I'm satisfied. This shop is located along the bustling street, and the shops next to it are also thriving. It might cost a lot of money to rent it, and she might not be able to afford it.

Hearing Qi Qingxi's affirmative answer, Qi Jingxian took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to her.

Qi Qingxi opened it and saw that it was actually the lease contract of this shop, which said the lease period was five years, and her name was written on the lessee.

Qi Qingxi looked at Qi Jingxian in surprise.

Qi Jingxian only smiled and nodded towards her.

According to Qi Jingxian's intention, he wanted to buy this place directly, but unfortunately the owner only rented it, not sold it, so he had to sign a five-year lease with the owner first.

Qi Qingxi looked down at the rent on the contract again, and it really was a price she couldn't afford.

"Third brother."

Although Qi Qingxi knew that this small amount of money was nothing to Qi Jingxian, she felt that she could not take advantage of it for nothing, but she couldn't afford the rent for the time being, so she wanted to discuss with Qi Jingxian about partnering in this business.

Qi Jingxian provided this store, and she will be responsible for the decoration and operation, and the subsequent operating income will be divided according to the share.

"Since when did Axi and third brother become so estranged?" Qi Jingxian's tone was a little helpless.

Qi Jingxian didn't agree to buy the shares, but he couldn't hold Qi Qingxi back, so he had no choice but to ask her to return the money to him with the same interest as the previous money.

After the matter of the shop was settled, Qi Qingxi started busy with the decoration of the shop again. After more than a month of busy work, the decoration of the shop was finally completed.

Autumn starts to get cold in the north, and the cold weather lasts for a long time. Everyone wants to eat warm food when it's cold. Now it's winter, so Qi Qingxi still plans to start the hot pot business first.

With the previous experience of opening a shop in Ansui, the business here is quickly on the right track.

Qi Qingxi originally thought of moving directly to the yard behind the shop, so that it would be convenient for her to take care of the shop.

But Mrs. Guo agreed with all her life and death, and even specially found the shopkeeper of one of her own restaurants to help her take care of the shop, and only let her visit the shop occasionally. In desperation, she could only agree.

Qi Qingxi walked around the shop, saw that she was fine, and went back home.

After returning home, Qi Qingxi first went to the main room to greet her aunt Guo Shi, and all the maids and servants she met along the way showed joy, and when she entered the house, she found that Guo Shi was also smiling.

"Aunt, is there any happy event at home?" Qi Qingxi couldn't help asking curiously.

Pointing to a letter on the table, Mrs. Guo said happily: "Your uncle has a letter, and they will return from the northwest class soon."

There are some loose nomadic peoples on the northwestern border of Dayu. When the food is scarce in winter, they will start to harass the border of Dayu to grab food.

If several independent tribes provoke troubles, the border guards can easily deal with them.

But at the turn of winter and spring two years ago, those nomadic tribes suddenly united together and formed a coalition force to attack on a large scale. For a while, the border town fell and fell, and the frontier war was urgent.

When the imperial court received the battle report, it immediately assembled hundreds of thousands of troops and set off toward the northwest in mighty force.

Qi Qingxi and the others' uncle Li Wenkang, whom they had never met, was one of the military generals appointed by the Holy Majesty to go to the battlefield today.

Li Wenkang also understands that as a general, it is his unshirkable responsibility to fight for the country. Even if he cares about his family thousands of miles away, even if he does not give up his wife and children, he will go to the battlefield without hesitation.

This trip is two years.

In the past two years, the men of Dayu went on to defend the country with their bodies, bathed in blood on the battlefield, shrouded in horse leather, and finally defeated the tribal coalition forces. They even captured the leader of the coalition forces alive so that the entire northwestern tribe dared not act rashly on the border of Dayu.

When Guo received the letter from his family, it was not yet the end of the new year, and when the army really returned to Beijing triumphantly, it was already the end of March in spring.

In order to be able to see his general at the first time, Mrs. Guo booked a box in advance at a restaurant along the street near Andingmen.Early in the morning, Mrs. Guo took the children to Andingmen Street and waited in the restaurant box to watch the army rely on them.

Li Nianyue dragged Ah Nuan to the window and opened it to watch the excitement.

I saw that both sides of the entire street were crowded with common people, and officers and soldiers had already stood on both sides of the street ahead of time to separate the middle avenue, separating the onlookers into two rows of thick human walls.

"Cousin A Niang, come and see, there are so many people." Standing in front of the window, Li Nianyue kept waving to Guo Shi and Qi Qingxi who were drinking tea at the table.

If she was younger than ten years old, Guo Shi might really lie down in front of the window and watch the glorious moment of her general's triumphant return, but now there are groups of children beside her, no matter how she thinks about it, she can't lose her rules in front of the children decent.

When Li Nianyue and Ah Nuan were lying in front of the window to watch the excitement, Li Yuanzhe had already moved a desk, chair and tea table to sit in front of another window. The boss grabbed the melon seeds and handed them to him, and the two watched the fun while eating the melon seeds.