I open hotels everywhere to make money [Quick Transmigration]
Chapter 4 Chapter 4
Ancient people cherished calligraphy and paper, and literati generally cherished feathers, and they would not just give calligraphy to others.Ming Lu yelled in disbelief: "A small merchant dares to ask for our master's name? Isn't it just a piece of ice!"
Wang Bo himself became famous at a young age and has an arrogant personality. If he hadn't been demoted twice in a row and traveled around to sharpen his temper, he wouldn't have bothered to explain so much to Jiang Lihao just now.However, Wang Bo was still proud, so naturally he would not give the calligraphy as a gift to the merchant, so he stopped talking and left with his servant.
Jiang Lihao stared blankly at Wang Bo's departure, almost drooling: "Ah, it would be great if I could get the calligraphy. It's Wang Bo's authentic work. It won't make too much money if I sell it at the auction..." Jiang Lihao was immersed In sweet dreams.
"Starting tomorrow morning, we will transport a whole block of ice to the official station every day, and say that Wang Bo asked us to buy it." Dai Ao said.
Jiang Lihao wondered: "It didn't work, why did you rush to send it?"
Dai Ao said lightly: "If it doesn't work now, it doesn't mean that you won't agree in the future. People will always change their minds. Anyway, we have a lot of stock, so it doesn't matter if we give him a few dollars."
Jiang Lihao nodded, keeping this matter in his heart, and only then remembered that he was still angry!Why did you start chatting with Dai Ao!
Jiang Lihao got angry when he thought of this, he closed the stall, went back and asked casually: "Qiu'er, how satisfied am I now?"
Xiaoyou opened the notebook and said, "It's one thousand and five."
Jiang Lihao was curious. He had seen Xiaoyou take out this book several times before, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Let me have a look." Jiang Lihao brought the notebook over, only to realize that the notebook looks like an ancient thread-bound book, very simple and unsophisticated.
Jiang Lihao flipped the pages from right to left familiarly. The first page was the formation map, and the second page recorded his personal information. On it were his fake ID number, student ID number, and age and major.
Jiang Lihao turned another page, and this page was Dai Ao's information.But except for the name, a large piece of information below seemed to be shrouded in white mist, so I couldn't see it at all.
Jiang Lihao looked left and right to see if there was no one there, and dragged Xiaoyou to hide in the kitchen as if doing something bad.
"What are you doing?" Xiaoyou asked.
Jiang Lihao lowered his head, gathered spiritual power on his fingers, and wiped it on the white mist, trying to eliminate the blindness.
"It doesn't work at all..." Jiang Lihao rubbed it back and forth vigorously, almost crumpling the paper.
Xiaoyou was a little nervous: "Don't rub it, this is a method cast by Master Dai Ao himself, it's useless to do it like this."
"Hmph, so mysterious..." Forget it, Jiang Lihao turned a page and saw the information of his two shikigami.
When Jiang Lihao saw that the column for the names of the two shikigami was empty, he remembered that he had never named them.He looked to the side, and the little girl in the kitchen was sitting on the side, staring at him intently with pure eyes.
"I forgot to name you," Jiang Lihao said apologetically, "How about calling you Berry?"
Berry nodded.Jiang Lihao carefully wrote his name on the notebook, continued to read down, and saw a line: Shikigami level: 1.
"Wow! Qiu'er, does this still have levels? Can it be upgraded?" Jiang Lihao opened his mouth wide, feeling like he was playing an onmyoji.
Xiaoyou said: "That's right, when the shikigami is upgraded to level five, the business ability will go up to a higher level, and customer satisfaction will be added. If the shikigami is upgraded to level ten, it will be improved by another level. And so on."
Jiang Lihao shouted, "You didn't tell me!"
Xiaoyou hesitated and said, "She's only at the first level."
Jiang Lihao also filled in the name of the thin and tall Shikigami, called Shuguo.At this time, Dai Ao poked his head in through the small window of the kitchen: "What are you doing? Playing hide and seek?"
Jiang Lihao put the notebook in his arms, and greeted Xiaoyou carelessly: "This one, I'll take it away." After saying that, he rushed out of the kitchen and ran away by himself.
Seeing people running away, Xiaoyou whispered to Dai Ao, "My lord, it's a good thing you erased all the data before."
Dai Ao hummed, looked at the back of the far away, and said nothing.
A few days later, Jiang Lihao came back with ice cubes and wailed to Dai Ao: "Wang Bo is leaving! What should we do! The white money is slipping past our eyes!"
Dai Ao was writing at the desk, he picked up the paper and blew it, and handed it to Jiang Lihao: "Understood, I wrote a parallel essay, you go and get it to Wang Bo."
Jiang Lihao took it over and took a look. The paper was full of traditional Chinese characters, and there was nothing wrong with it. He was dazzled by the hundreds of characters, and Dai Ao's voice came over: "Do you want me to teach you how to read?" He looked up, Dai Ao had a smile in his eyes, with a bit of playfulness and banter.
Jiang Li bared his teeth and claws in arrogance, almost pounced on him: "I can read! Don't look down on me!"
Dai Ao clenched his fist and put it to his mouth, covering up the smile on his lips: "Go quickly, it will be too late when people leave later."
Jiang Li ran away in a huff.
Jiang Lihao successfully delivered the parallel essay to Ming Lu, the boy, but Ming Lu didn't even look at it, and took the things in a high-handed manner, even humming.
Jiang Lihao watched Wang Bo and his party walk farther and farther, as if seeing gold and silver treasures growing wings and flying away, the heartache felt like cutting flesh, and he didn't even have the strength to settle accounts with Dai Ao.
"Okay, this kind of thing can't be forced, and besides, all the famous people through the ages are standing in front of me, and others can't see it." Jiang Lihao grabbed the sauced chicken leg and gnawed it, eating it with thick oil and red sauce around his mouth. Quiet self-comfort.
Jiang Lihao has a big heart, isn't he just a pair of calligraphy, he is not a cultural person, he still can't appreciate the calligraphy of Wang Bo, a great literati.Porcelain is better, if you can earn money to buy Tang blue and white Tang Sancai, the money will come as usual.
After several days in a row, Jiang Lihao was selling watermelons when he saw a camel coming straight from a distance, and the one on the camel was that old acquaintance, Ming Lu.
Jiang Lihao raised his hand in surprise and said hello: "Brother! You are here!"
"Hey, the master asked me to hand it over to you." Ming Lu handed Jiang Lihao a piece of letter paper with a look of reluctance.
It's a letter!Jiang Lihao's heart was pounding, he asked Ming Lu to come in and sit down, Ming Lu didn't even get off the camel, and said: "I have to hurry back, but you guys have a big face, let me run back and forth."
Jiang Lihao didn't stay any longer, and hurriedly handed over two slices of watermelon for Ming Lu to eat on the way.Ming Lu turned pale, and rode away on a camel.
Jiang Lihao sold the melons in a hurry, went back and opened the letterhead, and said pleasantly, "Master Wang Bo's calligraphy!!!"
Dai Ao leaned over to look, and saw that there were only two lines on the white paper: "The qin and wine shop in the border city are all from the Yue country."The short two poems are written in cursive, flowing like clouds and flowing water, and the pen is like a cloud of smoke. The date, signature, and seal are all there.
Jiang Lihao's eyes were shining. He held the paper and looked left and right. He couldn't put it down and asked without turning his head: "What did you write in the parallel essay? Why is it so useful? I sent so many ice cubes before and there was no sound. Why is it so loud today?" It took a lot of trouble to get the boy to come back and deliver the letter?"
Dai Ao didn't answer, looking at Xiao Xuan'er above Jiang Lihao's head, for some reason, he wanted to bully him again: "Can you understand what he wrote?"
It was like igniting a barrel, Jiang Lihao erupted completely, his seven orifices were filled with smoke, and roared angrily: "Don't you look down on others, don't you just live a few years longer than me? What's there to be proud of!"
Jiang Lihao held his breath in his heart and couldn't express it, like a balloon full of anger, he threw down the note and ran away, leaving the cold-faced butler alone.
Jiang Lihao was completely angry.
From the very beginning, the cold-faced butler looked down upon him, but later found him disliked for no reason, at first he laughed at his lack of cultivation, and now he began to laugh at him for his lack of education.
It is true that his cultivation level is not high, he is the youngest son of the dragon, he has been doted on since he was a child, and each of the eight older brothers will not let him.For 500 years in the Heavenly Court, he has nothing to do, acting like a coquettish here, cute there, no one doesn't love him, no one doesn't spoil him.
Back then when the Bodhisattva was holding a Dharma meeting, he caused trouble at the Dharma meeting. All the people in the heavenly court were watching, but the Bodhisattva showed a rare smile, turned a big problem into a small one, and easily resolved the matter.
If he hadn't angered his father later because of his papa, he was sealed as a chrysanthemum and thrown down to the mortal world, saying that he would come back after he had cultivated enough, he would not have been so angry.
How could he not understand parallel prose, but the ancient prose is not as good as the vernacular, and he needs to sit down and read it carefully.But what Wang Bo sent was cursive script. He had little contact with it, and only saw dragons and phoenixes dancing, but he could recognize it with a little recognition.
This Dai Ao looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.
Jiang Lihao felt that he was desperately trying to prove something, but Dai Ao condescended to look at him with cold eyes, pressing him down, like a heavy stone pressing down on his head, forcing him to bow his head, forcing him to break the jar , forcing him to admit that he "has been worthless all his life."
But he is the son of the dragon.
Jiang Lihao thought to himself, the more you look down on me, the less I will live up to your wishes.You think of me as mud kneaded at will, but I am the iron tempered into steel.One day it will impress you.
The next day, Dai Ao came over to talk to him early in the morning, with an indifferent expression and a relaxed tone: "You didn't sleep well last night."
Jiang Lihao thought it was none of your business, so he acted like he didn't hear, and easily picked up a large basket of dozens of watermelons and delivered them to the posthouse.
After Jiang Lihao came back, he was about to set up a stall, but Dai Ao came over with a calm face: "Let me set up a stall, you go catch up on sleep."
Jiang Lihao regarded him as a transparent person, and set up a stall on his own.
Dai Ao ate twice and held back. He touched his nose and wanted to explain but didn't know where to explain it.
I don't look down on you, I just want to bully you?What kind of explanation is this.
Dai Ao's eyes were glued to Jiang Lihao's body unknowingly, and he felt an indescribable depression in his heart for some reason.
After the stall was set up, Jiang Lihao counted a sling of money from the jar and went out to find craftsmen and craftsmen with the money. He brought a few masters and fellows to the inn and fingered in the room for a long time before he came out.
Xiaoyou flew over with her head poking around: "What is this for?"
Jiang Lihao chuckled: "Sophisticated, decorated, repaired."
A few days later, the clerk brought over a stack of sketches, and Jiang Lihao saw that the room on the sketches was exquisite and elegant, clean and elegant, making people feel that he was in Chang'an instead of a desert.The dozens of drawings that follow are all the same, and each has its own characteristics, but they are all elegant in style.Jiang Lihao picked up the pen and changed a few places, and handed the drawing to the assistant: "Tell your master that I am very satisfied, let him come and renovate the room tomorrow."
The guy left happily.
two months later.
Chen Jin came back from the Western Regions and stayed in Jiang Lihao's inn again.Jiang Lihao warmly received him, and mysteriously said that he would invite him to experience the new elegant room.
"What a coincidence, the decoration was just finished yesterday, and the elder brother came back today. You are the No.1 guest of our elegant room." Jiang Lihao said while opening the door and ushering people into the room.
When Chen Jin stepped into the door, he saw that the room had undergone earth-shaking changes.
They are located in the desert, in order to prevent sand and dust, the windows are made narrow and small.Even in the daytime, people feel gloomy and oppressive, and even turn on lamps when there is not enough sunlight.Now the room has been remodeled, the walls have been painted white, the moon windows have been re-pressed on the walls, and the window screens have been pasted up. The soft sunlight comes in, illuminating the whole room.
Entering the door is an arhat bed carved with dragon patterns, on which are randomly placed two blue satin backrest pillows, a small tea tray carved with lacquer for offering birthdays, and two chairs with openwork Luan patterns placed on the bottom, where you can meet guests or eat and drink. Tea.There are two treasure cabinets next to it, and a few figurines of ladies, camel figurines and the like are randomly placed on them.
The left side is separated by six lady's screens. Inside is a canopy bed carved with silk strings, with stone blue embroidered curtains hanging on both sides. Inside the bed are two large autumn-colored mattresses and three or four blue satin pillows.
There is a desk for books just under the moon window, a black lacquered Pengyahu door table, and a black lacquered armchair covered with scarlet cushions, just right for writing near the window.A pair of small three-color cover clocks and a small and exquisite screen lamp on the table look even more impressive.
Chen Jin was dazzled by the sight, but he didn't dare to move his feet: "A lot of work has been done on this. It's better than the house of a rich family."
Jiang Lihao quickly waved his hands: "It looks good, but it's actually made of the most common wood, allowing craftsmen to carve a lot of tricks."
Facing such a room, Chen Jin felt a little cramped, he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, and his servant didn't even put his luggage in his hands.Without hesitation, Jiang Lihao simply took Chen in to visit several other rooms.
"Brother, let's look at this again." Jiang Lihao opened another door and led people in.
It is still a bright room with exquisite furnishings, but the space is much smaller. The area used to entertain guests is gone. The entrance is the desk, the square table, and the canopy bed are blocked by a screen, which makes it more friendly to the people.
Chen Jin felt at ease here, and asked the boy to put his luggage.
Jiang Lihao simply took Chen Jin to visit all the remodeled rooms. Chen Jin found that each room was different and had its own characteristics. Some rooms were mainly decorated with orchids, while others were mainly made of purple bamboo. Even the window lattices were made differently. The doors of each room are decorated with different patterns, such as flowers, birds, fish and insects, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, which are elegant and fresh.
The elegant room he visited at the beginning had only two rooms, and the rest were small ones, which Jiang Lihao said were reserved for officials or literati.He also specially left a whole white wall, and said to Chen Jin: "If I can let them mention a word here, write a poem or something, my inn will be famous."
After settling in, Jiang Lihao went to work on his own, leaving Chen Jin in the room to touch this and that, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Looking at this child at a young age, he thought it was a young master who was released from a rich family to practice. The brain turns quickly and there are many ideas, but... the cost of such a change is too high. If no customers buy it, it means that the money will not make a sound in the water.
The next day, Jiang Lihao hung a sign at the door: "Exquisite and elegant room, unique in the world, welcome to book."
There are a few good people watching from the sidelines: "The guest room is just a bed, a table and a chair, how can it be elegant? It's still the same? This store's tone is too crazy."
Jiang Lihao didn't care, this was not a good time to sell watermelons, a few merchants noticed the brand, so they decided to stay conveniently.
As a result, after living here, his reputation spread as if he had grown wings.
Some say it is elegant and luxurious, some say it is generous and elegant, and some say it is exquisite and beautiful. The craziest reason is that once you check in, there is an ice mirror in each room, which stores ice cubes and fruits, and the room is cool. Incomparably, no matter how hot the sun is outside, the room is comfortable and cool.
Think about it, the scorching sun outside, people hiding in the house, eating ice fruit, fanning the cool breeze, what a sense of superiority.If you run into one or two rivals, open the window to say hello, one is exposed to the hot sun, the other eats ice fruit in the house, and they stare at you with complicated eyes, which is more refreshing than selling a few more bolts of silk.
"It's okay to run out of ice in the ice mirror, just call, and the store will add it to you immediately. If you feel cold at night, the store will also provide a charcoal basin." Several passers-by were discussing, and everyone who joined the fun was not tempted.
Someone asked: "What about the price? How much is it for a day?"
The man said: "The price is definitely not cheap. I heard that there are two different types of rooms. The normal one is [-] Wen a day, and the other is [-] Wen a day."
"Yo, it's so expensive."
"No, of course it is expensive. It is said that the pillows used there are all satin. Besides, they also provide ice cream!"
"The five hundred yuan a day is too expensive, and the room we usually live in is only a few dozen yuan a day..."
"Why don't we go and have a look? Let's open our eyes and see what kind of elegant room can charge so much money."
"Okay, let's go, take a look."
As a result, a group of people arrived at the door, but the shopkeeper smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, the rooms are fully booked today."
Fully booked?People looked at each other in blank dismay, a room of [-] Wen a day is so popular?
"What about tomorrow?" Someone asked unwillingly.
Jiang Lihao said embarrassedly: "Tomorrow is also fully booked."
After this question, not only tomorrow, but also the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, there will be no vacancies for the whole month in the future.
The next day Jiang Lihao put up a sign outside again: The elegant room is full.
As a result, the sign hung for more than two months.
The reputation of Jiang Lihao's inn is getting more and more famous, even the people in the official post know it, and there are a few officials who can't live in the official post and come to live in Jiang Lihao's elegant room.Since Jiang Lihao opened his business, he has reserved a luxurious and elegant room for fear of such emergencies.
The official in front of him was surnamed Guo, Jiang Lihao didn't know his rank, so he could only call him Guo Shaofu.
Guo Shaofu was dressed in an official uniform and wearing a hood. He inspected the Yafang, nodded his head to express his satisfaction, and praised: "A small businessman can decorate the room so elegantly, and the taste is not bad."
Jiang Lihao was docile on the surface, but secretly disdainful in his heart. I have lived for more than 500 years, and my taste was cultivated by heaven!Look down on businessmen again!
Jiang Lihao arranged the ice mirror without being humble or overbearing, and brought the charcoal basin in at night. After several days of exhaustion, his hard work finally paid off, and he won a poem written on the wall!
The poem on the wall that Jiang Lihao had been thinking about for a long time finally appeared!The ancients didn’t have TVs or anything, and these literati and poets led the trend. Celebrities who wrote a poem or a poem can be sung throughout the north and south of the river.
It's just that this Guo Shao's mansion doesn't seem to be that famous, Jiang Lihao searched in his mind, and refused to look for Dai Ao, so he just let it go.
Yes, Jiang Lihao and Dai Ao haven't spoken for more than two months.
Jiang Lihao held his breath, he hated to be looked down upon.He would rather run with his own legs than ask Dai Ao to help him. The layout of dozens of rooms is all done by him alone, and he sleeps as soon as he touches the pillow at night when he is tired.
And Dai Ao deliberately approached him to help at the beginning, and after several times of cold faces, he brushed off his clothes and left, no longer trying to please him, and ended up being the one who ate for free, the most idle person in the entire inn.
Dai Ao, who had nothing to do, looked coldly at Jiang Lihao's busy feet not touching the ground, snorted and turned his head away, but after a while he couldn't help looking again.
You forget it if you are too busy.
Another month has passed, and the elegant rooms in the inn have become a hot commodity. Not only merchants rush to book, but also many officials and literati want to move in. Some businessmen want to go back to the mainland to stock up, and they even deliberately book rooms in half a year. house.
Literati and poets really love inscriptions, and gradually the entire wall is not enough for them to write. Jiang Lihao prepared the four treasures of the study in his room, let the inscriptions be written on paper, and then framed and hung on the wall.In this way, he can take it back and sell it at the auction.
Chen Jin drove the camel in, and Jiang Lihao greeted him energetically: "Brother Chen, I see you again. I have reserved the room you lived in last time. Come in quickly."
Chen Jin laughed: "Fortunately, I was careful at the time and booked the room first, otherwise you can reserve the room for me? Hahahaha."
Jiang Lihao jokingly continued: "Of course! How about leaving a kitchen for you?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Chen Jin stayed in the room much more comfortably. He checked the accounts by the moon window all afternoon, and when it was time to light the lamps, the servant suddenly ran in excitedly: "Master, there are new tricks in the lobby, go and see look?"
Chen Jin followed the boy to the lobby to have a look, and saw dozens of iron plates around the lobby, on which were filled various kinds of steamed cakes, hubing, and pancakes. He kept throwing himself into Chen Jin's nose.
Then there are all kinds of soup cakes (note: noodles), soup cakes are added to the broth that has been boiled for several hours, and a piece of boiled mutton is placed on top. There are five bowls in total. People took it all.
"Huh? Why did you just take it by yourself and leave?" Chen Jin was also salivating at the soup cake, seeing others take it away, brought it to the table and ate it by himself.
The servant explained: "Master, the store owner said it's called a buffet. It's a new way of catering. As long as you pay, you can take whatever you want until you're full."
It was the first time Chen Jin heard of this method, and he continued to look back, porridge, rice, wontons, dumplings, all placed in a row.In addition to the common okra and leeks, there are bad mutton, garlic steamed pork, and roast goose in sauce.
Chen Jin sat down, and the servant excitedly went to pick up a plate to pick up the dishes. Just as he came back with a plate, he saw Jiang Lihao coming out of the stove carrying a large plate of things: "The small pot of braised pork is out of the oven!"
I saw several people around me hurriedly got up and rushed over there, as if they were afraid of falling behind.
Chen Jin wondered: "Pork has a strong fishy smell, and it's not usually eaten very much. Why do these people like it so much?"
The boy didn't know either, and he said excitedly, "Maybe the pork is cooked differently? I see that the pork is packed in small earthen pots. Wait, master, and I'll bring you a cup."
The little servant quickly grabbed a can, opened it, untied the knot, and unsealed the seal. The tempting fragrance rushed to the face, and the little servant exclaimed: "It smells so good!"
There are several pieces of pork belly in thick oil red sauce in the jar, wrapped in sauce, reflecting the oily shine, when poked with chopsticks, it bounces tremblingly.Chen Jin carefully picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks. He didn't know how the meat was made, as if it could be broken with a little force.
Put it in your mouth and squeeze it open slightly, the fat meat melts between your lips and teeth like agar, and the sweet and fragrant meat smell spreads, without any fishy smell.The lean meat is lean but not woody. When you touch it with your tongue, it turns into shreds of meat, and it slides down your throat after a few chews.
Chen Jin felt that one piece was not enough, so he picked up three pieces in a row, before he stopped, and sighed: "It's so wonderful, so wonderful."
After Chen Jin ate for a while, Jiang Lihao came out again, holding a whole leg of lamb in one hand and a knife in the other: "The leg of lamb is ready, who wants it?"
A man at the next table motioned, and Jiang Lihao immediately ran over and asked, "Which piece do you want, I'll cut it for you."
The man pointed to a place, and Jiang Lihao cut open the crispy outer skin with a knife, exposing the tender and juicy meat inside, the juicy water flowed out, and the aroma wafted out.
Chen Jin immediately said: "Come with me too."
Jiang Lihao enthusiastically turned around, quickly cut a large piece for Chen Jin, and suggested that Chen Jin eat it with spicy powder.
Chen Jin took a bite, it was delicious!
Chen Jin unknowingly ate all the food here, and the people next to him ate well, Jiang Lihao quickly took away the bowls and chopsticks, ran to the gate and called: "No. 49!"
A man ran in excitedly holding a card in his hand: "No. 49, here it is!"
Chen Jin looked outside the door and couldn't help being speechless. There are still many people waiting in line to eat, and the line is still very long!
In the end, Chen Jin’s belly was round after eating, but he still couldn’t help eating a bowl of ice bowls. The ice bowls were finely grated from large ice cubes and topped with honey or watermelon juice. Although it was cold at night, he couldn’t help but delicious.After this meal, Chen Jin was completely convinced and admired this young man.
But when there are more guests, there will be more right and wrong.Jiang Lihao was handsome and full of vigor, he had a smile on his lips all day long, and he had an extremely kind and easy-going personality, some people looked at him with a little more appreciation and liking.
Coupled with the good south wind in the Tang Dynasty, and the extremely open atmosphere, on this day, two regular customers were half drunk in the shop and called Jiang Lihao over to cut the leg of lamb. When Jiang Lihao came over, they teased: "Xiao Lang is so beautiful, What kind of inn do you want to open, you should go to the theater to be a little girl and sing a song, isn't it more leisurely than you are now?"
Saying that, he patted Jiang Lihao's butt with his hand, and even rubbed it.
The expressions of Jiang Lihao and Dai Ao in the corner both changed.
Wang Bo himself became famous at a young age and has an arrogant personality. If he hadn't been demoted twice in a row and traveled around to sharpen his temper, he wouldn't have bothered to explain so much to Jiang Lihao just now.However, Wang Bo was still proud, so naturally he would not give the calligraphy as a gift to the merchant, so he stopped talking and left with his servant.
Jiang Lihao stared blankly at Wang Bo's departure, almost drooling: "Ah, it would be great if I could get the calligraphy. It's Wang Bo's authentic work. It won't make too much money if I sell it at the auction..." Jiang Lihao was immersed In sweet dreams.
"Starting tomorrow morning, we will transport a whole block of ice to the official station every day, and say that Wang Bo asked us to buy it." Dai Ao said.
Jiang Lihao wondered: "It didn't work, why did you rush to send it?"
Dai Ao said lightly: "If it doesn't work now, it doesn't mean that you won't agree in the future. People will always change their minds. Anyway, we have a lot of stock, so it doesn't matter if we give him a few dollars."
Jiang Lihao nodded, keeping this matter in his heart, and only then remembered that he was still angry!Why did you start chatting with Dai Ao!
Jiang Lihao got angry when he thought of this, he closed the stall, went back and asked casually: "Qiu'er, how satisfied am I now?"
Xiaoyou opened the notebook and said, "It's one thousand and five."
Jiang Lihao was curious. He had seen Xiaoyou take out this book several times before, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Let me have a look." Jiang Lihao brought the notebook over, only to realize that the notebook looks like an ancient thread-bound book, very simple and unsophisticated.
Jiang Lihao flipped the pages from right to left familiarly. The first page was the formation map, and the second page recorded his personal information. On it were his fake ID number, student ID number, and age and major.
Jiang Lihao turned another page, and this page was Dai Ao's information.But except for the name, a large piece of information below seemed to be shrouded in white mist, so I couldn't see it at all.
Jiang Lihao looked left and right to see if there was no one there, and dragged Xiaoyou to hide in the kitchen as if doing something bad.
"What are you doing?" Xiaoyou asked.
Jiang Lihao lowered his head, gathered spiritual power on his fingers, and wiped it on the white mist, trying to eliminate the blindness.
"It doesn't work at all..." Jiang Lihao rubbed it back and forth vigorously, almost crumpling the paper.
Xiaoyou was a little nervous: "Don't rub it, this is a method cast by Master Dai Ao himself, it's useless to do it like this."
"Hmph, so mysterious..." Forget it, Jiang Lihao turned a page and saw the information of his two shikigami.
When Jiang Lihao saw that the column for the names of the two shikigami was empty, he remembered that he had never named them.He looked to the side, and the little girl in the kitchen was sitting on the side, staring at him intently with pure eyes.
"I forgot to name you," Jiang Lihao said apologetically, "How about calling you Berry?"
Berry nodded.Jiang Lihao carefully wrote his name on the notebook, continued to read down, and saw a line: Shikigami level: 1.
"Wow! Qiu'er, does this still have levels? Can it be upgraded?" Jiang Lihao opened his mouth wide, feeling like he was playing an onmyoji.
Xiaoyou said: "That's right, when the shikigami is upgraded to level five, the business ability will go up to a higher level, and customer satisfaction will be added. If the shikigami is upgraded to level ten, it will be improved by another level. And so on."
Jiang Lihao shouted, "You didn't tell me!"
Xiaoyou hesitated and said, "She's only at the first level."
Jiang Lihao also filled in the name of the thin and tall Shikigami, called Shuguo.At this time, Dai Ao poked his head in through the small window of the kitchen: "What are you doing? Playing hide and seek?"
Jiang Lihao put the notebook in his arms, and greeted Xiaoyou carelessly: "This one, I'll take it away." After saying that, he rushed out of the kitchen and ran away by himself.
Seeing people running away, Xiaoyou whispered to Dai Ao, "My lord, it's a good thing you erased all the data before."
Dai Ao hummed, looked at the back of the far away, and said nothing.
A few days later, Jiang Lihao came back with ice cubes and wailed to Dai Ao: "Wang Bo is leaving! What should we do! The white money is slipping past our eyes!"
Dai Ao was writing at the desk, he picked up the paper and blew it, and handed it to Jiang Lihao: "Understood, I wrote a parallel essay, you go and get it to Wang Bo."
Jiang Lihao took it over and took a look. The paper was full of traditional Chinese characters, and there was nothing wrong with it. He was dazzled by the hundreds of characters, and Dai Ao's voice came over: "Do you want me to teach you how to read?" He looked up, Dai Ao had a smile in his eyes, with a bit of playfulness and banter.
Jiang Li bared his teeth and claws in arrogance, almost pounced on him: "I can read! Don't look down on me!"
Dai Ao clenched his fist and put it to his mouth, covering up the smile on his lips: "Go quickly, it will be too late when people leave later."
Jiang Li ran away in a huff.
Jiang Lihao successfully delivered the parallel essay to Ming Lu, the boy, but Ming Lu didn't even look at it, and took the things in a high-handed manner, even humming.
Jiang Lihao watched Wang Bo and his party walk farther and farther, as if seeing gold and silver treasures growing wings and flying away, the heartache felt like cutting flesh, and he didn't even have the strength to settle accounts with Dai Ao.
"Okay, this kind of thing can't be forced, and besides, all the famous people through the ages are standing in front of me, and others can't see it." Jiang Lihao grabbed the sauced chicken leg and gnawed it, eating it with thick oil and red sauce around his mouth. Quiet self-comfort.
Jiang Lihao has a big heart, isn't he just a pair of calligraphy, he is not a cultural person, he still can't appreciate the calligraphy of Wang Bo, a great literati.Porcelain is better, if you can earn money to buy Tang blue and white Tang Sancai, the money will come as usual.
After several days in a row, Jiang Lihao was selling watermelons when he saw a camel coming straight from a distance, and the one on the camel was that old acquaintance, Ming Lu.
Jiang Lihao raised his hand in surprise and said hello: "Brother! You are here!"
"Hey, the master asked me to hand it over to you." Ming Lu handed Jiang Lihao a piece of letter paper with a look of reluctance.
It's a letter!Jiang Lihao's heart was pounding, he asked Ming Lu to come in and sit down, Ming Lu didn't even get off the camel, and said: "I have to hurry back, but you guys have a big face, let me run back and forth."
Jiang Lihao didn't stay any longer, and hurriedly handed over two slices of watermelon for Ming Lu to eat on the way.Ming Lu turned pale, and rode away on a camel.
Jiang Lihao sold the melons in a hurry, went back and opened the letterhead, and said pleasantly, "Master Wang Bo's calligraphy!!!"
Dai Ao leaned over to look, and saw that there were only two lines on the white paper: "The qin and wine shop in the border city are all from the Yue country."The short two poems are written in cursive, flowing like clouds and flowing water, and the pen is like a cloud of smoke. The date, signature, and seal are all there.
Jiang Lihao's eyes were shining. He held the paper and looked left and right. He couldn't put it down and asked without turning his head: "What did you write in the parallel essay? Why is it so useful? I sent so many ice cubes before and there was no sound. Why is it so loud today?" It took a lot of trouble to get the boy to come back and deliver the letter?"
Dai Ao didn't answer, looking at Xiao Xuan'er above Jiang Lihao's head, for some reason, he wanted to bully him again: "Can you understand what he wrote?"
It was like igniting a barrel, Jiang Lihao erupted completely, his seven orifices were filled with smoke, and roared angrily: "Don't you look down on others, don't you just live a few years longer than me? What's there to be proud of!"
Jiang Lihao held his breath in his heart and couldn't express it, like a balloon full of anger, he threw down the note and ran away, leaving the cold-faced butler alone.
Jiang Lihao was completely angry.
From the very beginning, the cold-faced butler looked down upon him, but later found him disliked for no reason, at first he laughed at his lack of cultivation, and now he began to laugh at him for his lack of education.
It is true that his cultivation level is not high, he is the youngest son of the dragon, he has been doted on since he was a child, and each of the eight older brothers will not let him.For 500 years in the Heavenly Court, he has nothing to do, acting like a coquettish here, cute there, no one doesn't love him, no one doesn't spoil him.
Back then when the Bodhisattva was holding a Dharma meeting, he caused trouble at the Dharma meeting. All the people in the heavenly court were watching, but the Bodhisattva showed a rare smile, turned a big problem into a small one, and easily resolved the matter.
If he hadn't angered his father later because of his papa, he was sealed as a chrysanthemum and thrown down to the mortal world, saying that he would come back after he had cultivated enough, he would not have been so angry.
How could he not understand parallel prose, but the ancient prose is not as good as the vernacular, and he needs to sit down and read it carefully.But what Wang Bo sent was cursive script. He had little contact with it, and only saw dragons and phoenixes dancing, but he could recognize it with a little recognition.
This Dai Ao looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.
Jiang Lihao felt that he was desperately trying to prove something, but Dai Ao condescended to look at him with cold eyes, pressing him down, like a heavy stone pressing down on his head, forcing him to bow his head, forcing him to break the jar , forcing him to admit that he "has been worthless all his life."
But he is the son of the dragon.
Jiang Lihao thought to himself, the more you look down on me, the less I will live up to your wishes.You think of me as mud kneaded at will, but I am the iron tempered into steel.One day it will impress you.
The next day, Dai Ao came over to talk to him early in the morning, with an indifferent expression and a relaxed tone: "You didn't sleep well last night."
Jiang Lihao thought it was none of your business, so he acted like he didn't hear, and easily picked up a large basket of dozens of watermelons and delivered them to the posthouse.
After Jiang Lihao came back, he was about to set up a stall, but Dai Ao came over with a calm face: "Let me set up a stall, you go catch up on sleep."
Jiang Lihao regarded him as a transparent person, and set up a stall on his own.
Dai Ao ate twice and held back. He touched his nose and wanted to explain but didn't know where to explain it.
I don't look down on you, I just want to bully you?What kind of explanation is this.
Dai Ao's eyes were glued to Jiang Lihao's body unknowingly, and he felt an indescribable depression in his heart for some reason.
After the stall was set up, Jiang Lihao counted a sling of money from the jar and went out to find craftsmen and craftsmen with the money. He brought a few masters and fellows to the inn and fingered in the room for a long time before he came out.
Xiaoyou flew over with her head poking around: "What is this for?"
Jiang Lihao chuckled: "Sophisticated, decorated, repaired."
A few days later, the clerk brought over a stack of sketches, and Jiang Lihao saw that the room on the sketches was exquisite and elegant, clean and elegant, making people feel that he was in Chang'an instead of a desert.The dozens of drawings that follow are all the same, and each has its own characteristics, but they are all elegant in style.Jiang Lihao picked up the pen and changed a few places, and handed the drawing to the assistant: "Tell your master that I am very satisfied, let him come and renovate the room tomorrow."
The guy left happily.
two months later.
Chen Jin came back from the Western Regions and stayed in Jiang Lihao's inn again.Jiang Lihao warmly received him, and mysteriously said that he would invite him to experience the new elegant room.
"What a coincidence, the decoration was just finished yesterday, and the elder brother came back today. You are the No.1 guest of our elegant room." Jiang Lihao said while opening the door and ushering people into the room.
When Chen Jin stepped into the door, he saw that the room had undergone earth-shaking changes.
They are located in the desert, in order to prevent sand and dust, the windows are made narrow and small.Even in the daytime, people feel gloomy and oppressive, and even turn on lamps when there is not enough sunlight.Now the room has been remodeled, the walls have been painted white, the moon windows have been re-pressed on the walls, and the window screens have been pasted up. The soft sunlight comes in, illuminating the whole room.
Entering the door is an arhat bed carved with dragon patterns, on which are randomly placed two blue satin backrest pillows, a small tea tray carved with lacquer for offering birthdays, and two chairs with openwork Luan patterns placed on the bottom, where you can meet guests or eat and drink. Tea.There are two treasure cabinets next to it, and a few figurines of ladies, camel figurines and the like are randomly placed on them.
The left side is separated by six lady's screens. Inside is a canopy bed carved with silk strings, with stone blue embroidered curtains hanging on both sides. Inside the bed are two large autumn-colored mattresses and three or four blue satin pillows.
There is a desk for books just under the moon window, a black lacquered Pengyahu door table, and a black lacquered armchair covered with scarlet cushions, just right for writing near the window.A pair of small three-color cover clocks and a small and exquisite screen lamp on the table look even more impressive.
Chen Jin was dazzled by the sight, but he didn't dare to move his feet: "A lot of work has been done on this. It's better than the house of a rich family."
Jiang Lihao quickly waved his hands: "It looks good, but it's actually made of the most common wood, allowing craftsmen to carve a lot of tricks."
Facing such a room, Chen Jin felt a little cramped, he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, and his servant didn't even put his luggage in his hands.Without hesitation, Jiang Lihao simply took Chen in to visit several other rooms.
"Brother, let's look at this again." Jiang Lihao opened another door and led people in.
It is still a bright room with exquisite furnishings, but the space is much smaller. The area used to entertain guests is gone. The entrance is the desk, the square table, and the canopy bed are blocked by a screen, which makes it more friendly to the people.
Chen Jin felt at ease here, and asked the boy to put his luggage.
Jiang Lihao simply took Chen Jin to visit all the remodeled rooms. Chen Jin found that each room was different and had its own characteristics. Some rooms were mainly decorated with orchids, while others were mainly made of purple bamboo. Even the window lattices were made differently. The doors of each room are decorated with different patterns, such as flowers, birds, fish and insects, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, which are elegant and fresh.
The elegant room he visited at the beginning had only two rooms, and the rest were small ones, which Jiang Lihao said were reserved for officials or literati.He also specially left a whole white wall, and said to Chen Jin: "If I can let them mention a word here, write a poem or something, my inn will be famous."
After settling in, Jiang Lihao went to work on his own, leaving Chen Jin in the room to touch this and that, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Looking at this child at a young age, he thought it was a young master who was released from a rich family to practice. The brain turns quickly and there are many ideas, but... the cost of such a change is too high. If no customers buy it, it means that the money will not make a sound in the water.
The next day, Jiang Lihao hung a sign at the door: "Exquisite and elegant room, unique in the world, welcome to book."
There are a few good people watching from the sidelines: "The guest room is just a bed, a table and a chair, how can it be elegant? It's still the same? This store's tone is too crazy."
Jiang Lihao didn't care, this was not a good time to sell watermelons, a few merchants noticed the brand, so they decided to stay conveniently.
As a result, after living here, his reputation spread as if he had grown wings.
Some say it is elegant and luxurious, some say it is generous and elegant, and some say it is exquisite and beautiful. The craziest reason is that once you check in, there is an ice mirror in each room, which stores ice cubes and fruits, and the room is cool. Incomparably, no matter how hot the sun is outside, the room is comfortable and cool.
Think about it, the scorching sun outside, people hiding in the house, eating ice fruit, fanning the cool breeze, what a sense of superiority.If you run into one or two rivals, open the window to say hello, one is exposed to the hot sun, the other eats ice fruit in the house, and they stare at you with complicated eyes, which is more refreshing than selling a few more bolts of silk.
"It's okay to run out of ice in the ice mirror, just call, and the store will add it to you immediately. If you feel cold at night, the store will also provide a charcoal basin." Several passers-by were discussing, and everyone who joined the fun was not tempted.
Someone asked: "What about the price? How much is it for a day?"
The man said: "The price is definitely not cheap. I heard that there are two different types of rooms. The normal one is [-] Wen a day, and the other is [-] Wen a day."
"Yo, it's so expensive."
"No, of course it is expensive. It is said that the pillows used there are all satin. Besides, they also provide ice cream!"
"The five hundred yuan a day is too expensive, and the room we usually live in is only a few dozen yuan a day..."
"Why don't we go and have a look? Let's open our eyes and see what kind of elegant room can charge so much money."
"Okay, let's go, take a look."
As a result, a group of people arrived at the door, but the shopkeeper smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, the rooms are fully booked today."
Fully booked?People looked at each other in blank dismay, a room of [-] Wen a day is so popular?
"What about tomorrow?" Someone asked unwillingly.
Jiang Lihao said embarrassedly: "Tomorrow is also fully booked."
After this question, not only tomorrow, but also the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, there will be no vacancies for the whole month in the future.
The next day Jiang Lihao put up a sign outside again: The elegant room is full.
As a result, the sign hung for more than two months.
The reputation of Jiang Lihao's inn is getting more and more famous, even the people in the official post know it, and there are a few officials who can't live in the official post and come to live in Jiang Lihao's elegant room.Since Jiang Lihao opened his business, he has reserved a luxurious and elegant room for fear of such emergencies.
The official in front of him was surnamed Guo, Jiang Lihao didn't know his rank, so he could only call him Guo Shaofu.
Guo Shaofu was dressed in an official uniform and wearing a hood. He inspected the Yafang, nodded his head to express his satisfaction, and praised: "A small businessman can decorate the room so elegantly, and the taste is not bad."
Jiang Lihao was docile on the surface, but secretly disdainful in his heart. I have lived for more than 500 years, and my taste was cultivated by heaven!Look down on businessmen again!
Jiang Lihao arranged the ice mirror without being humble or overbearing, and brought the charcoal basin in at night. After several days of exhaustion, his hard work finally paid off, and he won a poem written on the wall!
The poem on the wall that Jiang Lihao had been thinking about for a long time finally appeared!The ancients didn’t have TVs or anything, and these literati and poets led the trend. Celebrities who wrote a poem or a poem can be sung throughout the north and south of the river.
It's just that this Guo Shao's mansion doesn't seem to be that famous, Jiang Lihao searched in his mind, and refused to look for Dai Ao, so he just let it go.
Yes, Jiang Lihao and Dai Ao haven't spoken for more than two months.
Jiang Lihao held his breath, he hated to be looked down upon.He would rather run with his own legs than ask Dai Ao to help him. The layout of dozens of rooms is all done by him alone, and he sleeps as soon as he touches the pillow at night when he is tired.
And Dai Ao deliberately approached him to help at the beginning, and after several times of cold faces, he brushed off his clothes and left, no longer trying to please him, and ended up being the one who ate for free, the most idle person in the entire inn.
Dai Ao, who had nothing to do, looked coldly at Jiang Lihao's busy feet not touching the ground, snorted and turned his head away, but after a while he couldn't help looking again.
You forget it if you are too busy.
Another month has passed, and the elegant rooms in the inn have become a hot commodity. Not only merchants rush to book, but also many officials and literati want to move in. Some businessmen want to go back to the mainland to stock up, and they even deliberately book rooms in half a year. house.
Literati and poets really love inscriptions, and gradually the entire wall is not enough for them to write. Jiang Lihao prepared the four treasures of the study in his room, let the inscriptions be written on paper, and then framed and hung on the wall.In this way, he can take it back and sell it at the auction.
Chen Jin drove the camel in, and Jiang Lihao greeted him energetically: "Brother Chen, I see you again. I have reserved the room you lived in last time. Come in quickly."
Chen Jin laughed: "Fortunately, I was careful at the time and booked the room first, otherwise you can reserve the room for me? Hahahaha."
Jiang Lihao jokingly continued: "Of course! How about leaving a kitchen for you?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Chen Jin stayed in the room much more comfortably. He checked the accounts by the moon window all afternoon, and when it was time to light the lamps, the servant suddenly ran in excitedly: "Master, there are new tricks in the lobby, go and see look?"
Chen Jin followed the boy to the lobby to have a look, and saw dozens of iron plates around the lobby, on which were filled various kinds of steamed cakes, hubing, and pancakes. He kept throwing himself into Chen Jin's nose.
Then there are all kinds of soup cakes (note: noodles), soup cakes are added to the broth that has been boiled for several hours, and a piece of boiled mutton is placed on top. There are five bowls in total. People took it all.
"Huh? Why did you just take it by yourself and leave?" Chen Jin was also salivating at the soup cake, seeing others take it away, brought it to the table and ate it by himself.
The servant explained: "Master, the store owner said it's called a buffet. It's a new way of catering. As long as you pay, you can take whatever you want until you're full."
It was the first time Chen Jin heard of this method, and he continued to look back, porridge, rice, wontons, dumplings, all placed in a row.In addition to the common okra and leeks, there are bad mutton, garlic steamed pork, and roast goose in sauce.
Chen Jin sat down, and the servant excitedly went to pick up a plate to pick up the dishes. Just as he came back with a plate, he saw Jiang Lihao coming out of the stove carrying a large plate of things: "The small pot of braised pork is out of the oven!"
I saw several people around me hurriedly got up and rushed over there, as if they were afraid of falling behind.
Chen Jin wondered: "Pork has a strong fishy smell, and it's not usually eaten very much. Why do these people like it so much?"
The boy didn't know either, and he said excitedly, "Maybe the pork is cooked differently? I see that the pork is packed in small earthen pots. Wait, master, and I'll bring you a cup."
The little servant quickly grabbed a can, opened it, untied the knot, and unsealed the seal. The tempting fragrance rushed to the face, and the little servant exclaimed: "It smells so good!"
There are several pieces of pork belly in thick oil red sauce in the jar, wrapped in sauce, reflecting the oily shine, when poked with chopsticks, it bounces tremblingly.Chen Jin carefully picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks. He didn't know how the meat was made, as if it could be broken with a little force.
Put it in your mouth and squeeze it open slightly, the fat meat melts between your lips and teeth like agar, and the sweet and fragrant meat smell spreads, without any fishy smell.The lean meat is lean but not woody. When you touch it with your tongue, it turns into shreds of meat, and it slides down your throat after a few chews.
Chen Jin felt that one piece was not enough, so he picked up three pieces in a row, before he stopped, and sighed: "It's so wonderful, so wonderful."
After Chen Jin ate for a while, Jiang Lihao came out again, holding a whole leg of lamb in one hand and a knife in the other: "The leg of lamb is ready, who wants it?"
A man at the next table motioned, and Jiang Lihao immediately ran over and asked, "Which piece do you want, I'll cut it for you."
The man pointed to a place, and Jiang Lihao cut open the crispy outer skin with a knife, exposing the tender and juicy meat inside, the juicy water flowed out, and the aroma wafted out.
Chen Jin immediately said: "Come with me too."
Jiang Lihao enthusiastically turned around, quickly cut a large piece for Chen Jin, and suggested that Chen Jin eat it with spicy powder.
Chen Jin took a bite, it was delicious!
Chen Jin unknowingly ate all the food here, and the people next to him ate well, Jiang Lihao quickly took away the bowls and chopsticks, ran to the gate and called: "No. 49!"
A man ran in excitedly holding a card in his hand: "No. 49, here it is!"
Chen Jin looked outside the door and couldn't help being speechless. There are still many people waiting in line to eat, and the line is still very long!
In the end, Chen Jin’s belly was round after eating, but he still couldn’t help eating a bowl of ice bowls. The ice bowls were finely grated from large ice cubes and topped with honey or watermelon juice. Although it was cold at night, he couldn’t help but delicious.After this meal, Chen Jin was completely convinced and admired this young man.
But when there are more guests, there will be more right and wrong.Jiang Lihao was handsome and full of vigor, he had a smile on his lips all day long, and he had an extremely kind and easy-going personality, some people looked at him with a little more appreciation and liking.
Coupled with the good south wind in the Tang Dynasty, and the extremely open atmosphere, on this day, two regular customers were half drunk in the shop and called Jiang Lihao over to cut the leg of lamb. When Jiang Lihao came over, they teased: "Xiao Lang is so beautiful, What kind of inn do you want to open, you should go to the theater to be a little girl and sing a song, isn't it more leisurely than you are now?"
Saying that, he patted Jiang Lihao's butt with his hand, and even rubbed it.
The expressions of Jiang Lihao and Dai Ao in the corner both changed.
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