I am a ruler in troubled times

Soong Peiyu still couldn't figure out the change in Emperor Yonghe's attitude until she got back on the carriage back to the Song Mansion.

In the end, it can only be attributed to the unpredictability of the emperor's heart. He thought he was smart, but in fact he was still not good enough.

Maybe Emperor Yonghe had already figured out his little trick, and he didn't mind the changes he brought to the East Palace just because he was delighted.

Thinking about it this way, Song Peiyu felt relieved.

He has no shame in his heart, and all he uses are ulterior motives, and he is not afraid of being seen through.

This time Emperor Yonghe summoned him secretly, Song Peiyu didn't tell Song Jinyu, but talked to Chong Yi in private.

Chong Yi still didn't care about it, and he didn't have any special reaction when he heard that Emperor Yonghe clearly said that he didn't want him to have anything to do with Concubine Liangyi Gong Shun.

If he hadn't seen Chong Yi's resignation to Concubine Shun with his own eyes, Song Peiyu would have thought that Chong Yi didn't care about Concubine Shun at all.

With Emperor Yonghe's words, Song Peiyu canceled the original plan to continue to disgust Concubine Shun, and to make Chongyi a good name by the way.

As long as Concubine Shun stops trying to use Chongyi to achieve her goals, Song Peiyu won't bother the women in the deep palace, he has more important things to do.

Years ago, Song Peiyu got two shops from Song San. One was used to sell soap and scented soap, which is Fragrant Garden. Income.

Another shop is about half a street away from Fenfang Court, which was originally a cloth shop.After the spring thawed, Song Peiyu also bought the shop next door to Buzhuang, and then asked someone to tear down the two adjacent shops, and built a three-story building on the ground.

Now everything is ready, just choose an auspicious day and a good day to open.

"The minister's teahouse not only has a storyteller, but also a performance that has never been seen in Xianyang before. Your Highness really doesn't want to go see it?" Song Peiyu issued another invitation.

This time Chong Yi finally did not refuse immediately, "Is this a story I have never heard before?"

Song Peiyu secretly thought that Chongyi would focus on the key points, and while nodding, he felt a strange sense of relief in his heart.

Chong Yi was not happy, "There is a new story, why didn't you send it to the palace first?"

"My teahouse is newly opened, so it is natural to have something new that no one has seen before to attract customers." Song Peiyu was confident, "If the story was sent to the palace in advance, would His Highness still go to see the opening of the teahouse?"

Under Song Peiyu's strong invitation, Chong Yi finally agreed to go out to the tea house to 'cut the ribbon' that day.

Song Peiyu deliberately chose the school without classes, and there was no grand court meeting, so she went to the palace to pick up Chong Yi in person early in the morning.

The name of the teahouse is 'Ming Ke Lou', and Song Peiyu specially asked Song Jinyu to write an inscription for him, and then used it as a plaque.In order to open today, many clansmen were invited to join in the show.

When Song Peiyu and Chong Yi arrived at Mingkelou, there were already many people waiting outside.

Song Peiyu got out of the carriage first, reached out to help Chongyi herself, and said with a smile, "Please pull down the red cloth hanging from the plaque, Your Highness, the teahouse will be officially opened."

Chong Yi ignored Song Peiyu's hand, jumped off the carriage, and landed firmly on the ground, making the small stool beside the carriage useless.

Song Peiyu was not embarrassed either, and pointed to the red cloth corner hanging from the gate for Chong Yi to see.

Chong Yi strode over, grabbed the hanging red cloth and gently pulled it, before the red cloth completely fell to the ground, he had already stepped into the tea house.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse blushed, and his voice had never been so loud, "The nobleman cut the ribbon, and the teahouse officially opened."

Xiao Er ignited the firecrackers that had been prepared long ago, and the atmosphere at the door became quiet because of Chong Yi's sudden appearance, and it became lively again.

The area of ​​Ming Ke Lou is very large. There are more than 30 tables that can seat six people on the first floor alone, and it doesn't look crowded at all.In addition, there is a high platform in the middle, and now the high platform is surrounded by brown silk cloth, and it is completely impossible to see what is going on inside.

Chong Yi paused for a moment on the high platform, then looked around, as if he wanted to find a pleasing place to sit down.

Song Peiyu led Chong Yi to a corner, and said in a low voice, when the show starts, this place has the best view.

In the center of the table stood a thick wooden board with words engraved on both sides.

On the top of the front is the word 'Story', from left to right are the names of different stories. Chong Yi saw the familiar 'Journey to the West', 'Liao Zhai', 'Legend of Long Aotian' on it, and there are also stories that he has never heard of before. "Fengshen Yanyi" and "Sou Shen Chuan" that I have heard

Turn over the board to see the three characters on the top of the back are 'stage play'

From left to right, it says 'jueying', 'birthday' and 'elope'.

Chong Yi found a gap on the top of the wooden board again, and pulled out a piece of rice paper full of handwriting. After the rice paper was unfolded, it was divided into three major sections: drinks, snacks, and meals. Among them were drinks and tea, pastries and nuts, cold dishes and There are hot dishes and other categories, each item is marked with a price, and each large plate has the same free gift.

"Aren't you a teahouse?" Chong Yi looked at Song Peiyu with suspicion in his eyes.

Song Peiyu opened the folding fan in her hand and smiled slightly, "It's just open for business. Customers think it's a teahouse and it's a teahouse. Customers think it's a restaurant and it's a restaurant."

Chong Yi casually circled some food on the rice paper that he thought had interesting names, and asked Song Peiyu distractedly, "If everyone is only willing to eat and drink some free gifts but refuses to leave all day, wouldn't you be at a loss?"

"Your Highness didn't pay attention when he entered the door. There is a writing board outside the Mingke Building. It says when to tell a story, which book is the first time, and when to perform a stage play. It says that Mingkeju charges by the hour. To enter the teahouse, you have to pay a deposit first, and even if you haven't had half a sip of water, you have to deduct the money." How could Song Peiyu make a loss-making business? As early as when he planned to open the teahouse, he had imagined all the situations.

Song Peiyu could even imagine that in a short time, there would be various high imitation Mingkelou in Xianyang, and the price would be cheaper than Mingkelou.

But Song Peiyu was not worried at all that Mingkelou's business would be affected.

From the very beginning, the Ming Ke Building was positioned like Fen Fang Ting, specializing in harvesting leeks from powerful families. The decorations in the building were all specially brought from Song Peiyu's warehouse, and the word "expensive" was prominently displayed on everything.

But anyone who wants to grab the business of Mingke Building with a price advantage can only say that they have gone far from the beginning.

Not long after, the people outside the door were let in one by one.

Today outside the door did not write which book, which stage play to perform, it was all up to Chong Yi to decide.He gave up "Fengshen Yanyi" and "Sou Shen Chuan" which he had never heard of, and decided to watch a stage play he had never seen before, and clicked "Elope".

Because Chongyi is on the first floor, no one wants to go directly to the second or third floor. Once the first floor is full, Ming Keju will not accept new guests unless they are willing to pay a very high price and go directly to the third floor.

The passionate drum beat suddenly sounded, and the noisy voices from the audience disappeared immediately, and everyone turned their attention to the stage.

After the drumbeat disappeared, the brown silk cloth surrounding the high platform was pulled away, revealing the smiling face of the shopkeeper.

"The nobleman ordered a play, and the stage play 'Elopement' will begin immediately. All guests, please abide by the rules of Ming Ke Lou, and do not make loud noises during the stage play performance, otherwise you will be invited out of the tea house." An extraordinarily loud voice came from the high platform everyone's ears.

They were also invited, and Ping Zhang and Mu Qing, who were sitting at the same table with Song Peiyu and Chong Yi, showed surprised expressions.

Others were also stunned by the stereo sound they had never heard before, and some left their seats to study on the high platform, but were reminded by Xiao Er that the stage play would start soon and not disturb the order.

Fortunately, everyone took into account that Chong Yi and Song Peiyu were there, so no matter how curious they were, they could barely restrain themselves.

Song Peiyu was about to explain the source of the stereo sound to Chong Yi, when Chong Yi's eyes moved from the wooden speakers around the high platform to the wooden speakers by the wall, and finally stopped on the root-like protrusion on the ground.

Song Peiyu stopped shaking the folding fan unknowingly, and stared at Chong Yi with burning eyes, "Your Highness, what clues can you see?"

After Mu Qingping heard the words, he also set his sights on Chongyi.

Chong Yi lowered his eyes, reached out to hold the teacup, "No."

Song Peiyu didn't believe it, pointed to the cream cake on the table and said, "If Your Highness is right, I will give the chef who made the cream cake to Your Highness."

After finishing speaking, Song Peiyu personally divided a portion of the cream cake and put it on the plate in front of Chong Yi.

He had already discovered that Chongyi especially likes to eat sweets.

In order to successfully make cream, he specially made a new set of sugar refining tools. In the end, only less than three catties of the best five catties of sugar were left, all of which were used to make cream.

As expected, Chong Yi could not refuse the temptation of the cream cake, and pointed to the trumpet-shaped flowers around the high platform, the protrusions on the ground that looked like tree roots, and the much larger trumpet flowers by the wall, "Is it related to these decorations?"

Song Peiyu nodded. He couldn't explain to these people what solid-state sound transmission and cylinder-focused sound are. He only said that the private room upstairs has the same arrangement, and they can go upstairs to try it out for themselves later.

During the conversation, the brown silk cloth on the high platform was closed and opened again, and this time, a young gentleman in a scholar's robe appeared. He told himself that he was going to spend the night at a distant relative's house for the exam.

The brown silk cloth was closed and opened again, but the scholar disappeared, and the young girl and her maid appeared.

The stage play fits the name 'Elopement'.

The scholar fell in love with the girl from a distant relative's family at first sight, made a promise at the second sight for life, and eloped directly at the third sight.

Although everyone has read many similar scripts, this is the first time they have seen a real person acting out the plot.Even Mu Qing, who showed disapproval of the plot, and Ping Zhang, who made no secret of his disdain, watched with relish.

After seeing the scholar and the girl running down the stage hand in hand, the two of them still shook their heads with unsatisfied satisfaction.

"It's a pity." Mu Qing went to serve the teacup, but he didn't say why it was a pity.

In contrast, Ping Zhang's emotion was more direct, clapping his hands and sighing, "Fool!"

After finishing the fifth piece of cream cake, Chong Yi looked at Song Peiyu again.

However, Song Peiyu refused to let Chong Yi eat any more, her face was faintly green, "If Your Highness continues to eat like this, the cook will not have to mention it anymore. Although the cream cake is good, it cannot be eaten like His Highness's way of eating."

Seeing Song Peiyu's firm attitude, Chong Yi could only regretfully put down his chopsticks to wipe his mouth with a wet towel, and was about to speak when he heard the sound of drums, and then the voice of the shopkeeper reminding everyone to change clothes.

It turns out that the fact that the scholar eloped with the girl does not mean that the stage play is over. There is still a second half of 'elopement'.

Mu Qing and He Zhang regained their spirits, but began to be dissatisfied with the noisy voices in the hall.

Ping Zhang said to Song Peiyu, "Is the second floor more spacious? How about we go to the second floor to watch the second half."

Song Peiyu shook her head, and said in a low voice, "The second floor is full of delicate customers, and the servants are all servant girls. We don't accept guests like you."

Not only the female family members of the Song family are on the second floor, but also Princess Su, the eldest princess and some female family members who are close friends with the Song family are also on it.

From the very beginning, Song Peiyu planned to entertain male guests on the first floor and female guests on the second floor.

Ping Zhang was taken aback when he heard the words, and subconsciously said, "Aren't you lying to me? I was delayed by something when I came, and I arrived late enough, and I didn't see the frame of the female family member."

Song Peiyu laughed, and pushed away Pingzhang's close face in disgust, "The female relatives naturally go through another door, so as not to be bumped by things that don't have long eyes, and it's my master's fault."

"Where is the third floor?" Mu Qing was also curious and asked softly.

"There are four separate rooms arranged like the first floor. The sound insulation is excellent, so you can't hear the sound below. If there are distinguished guests who don't like the programs on the first floor, they can go to the third floor to order programs." Song Peiyu from the compartment of the table He took out a wooden board introducing the third floor and showed it to Mu Qing and Heping Zhang.

Naturally, everything on the third floor is better, and the price is better.If you want to book a room alone, the basic price is ten times that of the one downstairs.

After Pingzhang saw the wooden sign, he looked at Song Peiyu with more reverence than before, and said, "I was afraid that you would do well in Fenfang Ting but not open a teahouse. After thinking about it, I have prepared some money to lend you as a turnover."

Chong Yi glanced at Ping Zhang when he heard the words, and said flatly, "How could he be poorer than you."