There are towers and pavilions on all sides, and there are tall pavilions in the middle. Qing Chen likes to sit on the roof of the pavilions at night and watch Yige City. The city under the night is brightly lit, which is more mysterious than the majesty and magnificence of the day. The bustling hidden in the dark is particularly attractive, and sometimes there is a warm feeling.
The scene in the dark night is somewhat unreal, but it is precisely because of this that people are willing to indulge for a moment, thinking about what kind of mortal world lies in the shadow of the invisible lights.
Looking from here, the brightest place among the lights in front of you is the once dead Tianwu Zuifang, now it is full of brilliant singing and dancing, lively noise, and BMW cars and guests. Except for the first period of time to arrange the arrangement, Qing Chen didn't go there often after the business got on the right track. The nominal owner of Tianwu Zuifang was Su Niang.
Su Niang has been helping Xie Jing to manage affairs in Simianlou for many years. She is meticulous, intelligent and shrewd. All the bearded women in Tianwu Zuifang have been trained very properly in her hands, which is reassuring. When the song and dance club was at its lowest point, Simianlou bought several karaoke studios at a low price. Sure enough, within a month or so, Tianduzhong gradually recovered its former prosperity. Tianwu Zuifang regrouped at this time. Its unique dancing postures and novel repertoire swept through Yige like an exotic wind, and also inspired other song and dance workshops. The previous accident faded away so silently.
Qing Chen looked away from a distance, but the four-sided building in front of him was quiet, only whispers could be faintly heard through the glazed lights, and the silk and bamboo were quiet. Few people would have thought that Tianwu Zuifang and the four-sided building were run by the same person.
The women who can sing and dance in the four-sided building are not the most outstanding. These days, Qing Chen selects the wise ones from the original women to give pointers, explain poems and prose according to the standards of ladies, strictly talk, teach piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and wine arts. In the tea ceremony, a woman with some aura will see the difference immediately after a few hints. In order to teach, she also learns by herself, and she always responds to inquiries from Yingying, Yanyan and other young masters. She feels that she has made great progress in poetry, calligraphy, piano and chess, and has benefited a lot.
Today's Simianlou is full of music and dancing, quiet but fragrant of tea, drunk but not decadent, accompanied by beauty but not licentious, it can be called elegant in character and fresh in taste. There are not many people here, but they are not high-ranking nobles who spend a lot of money, or famous scholar Hongru, and they gradually make a name for themselves in Tiandu.
At this time, Qing Chen had just played a piano in Xiaolan Pavilion in the building. During the day, he was a handsome young man, and at night, after the clouds were winding and heavy, his superb piano skills shocked everyone. relation. But to Xie Jing, she only said that she invited her younger sister Wen Yan to come to help. Xie Jing had never actually seen the so-called "Wen Yan", but she didn't seem to doubt it, and didn't even ask a question.
After autumn, the night wind was getting colder, Qing Chen raised his head slightly, and when he gazed, a little bit of clear light fell into his eyes, and the eternal and distant memories flashed lightly. She remembered that she sat alone under the starry sky on a lonely night not long ago. At that time, she looked up and saw a pair of deep eyes, and the vast starry sky fell into them, with a cold and peaceful feeling. I don't know if the owner of these eyes is safe now, maybe one day we can meet again in Yige City, but it is also a joyful thing to think about. Just as he was smiling, someone beside him suddenly said, "Wen Qing, you are indeed here."
She was taken aback, but she didn't need to look back to know that it was Xie Jing. This man seemed to walk without making a sound. She even suspected that he didn't climb up the ladder from the attic like herself, but flew up to the roof. With a wry smile, he said, "Brother Xie, please make a little noise when he appears in the future, otherwise I will be scared to death one day."
Xie Jing said with a smile: "Before I come up another day, I will beat gongs and drums below to inform Wen Qing."
Qing Chen's bright eyes raised lightly: "Then Yige City will spread the word tomorrow, and there will be a new monkey show in the surrounding buildings. Thank you boss for performing it personally. Three pennies a game. It's very exciting."
The two are very acquainted with each other now, and they tease Xie Jing with a smile and never mind, and sit next to her: "I heard that you bought another karaoke room, and the price of the singing and dancing room is not the same as before. Is it time?"
Qing Chen looked at the night lights and smiled: "I was just about to tell you that this business might be a money-losing business, so I plan to run it myself so as not to hurt you."
"Oh? Didn't you say that you talk about profit in business? Is it convenient for Fang to tell me what kind of business you will do if you lose money?" Xie Jing asked.
Qing Chen said: "I want to turn that song workshop into a medical center, and try to gather together doctors with unique medical skills in Tiandu to treat diseases and save people. lose money."
Xie Jing asked strangely: "Why do you suddenly think of opening a medical clinic?"
Qing Chen put his hands on his lap and looked at it, and said: "Since I have learned medical skills since I was a child, I don't want to waste it. What's more, when I haven't earned all my money and things, I have gained a little now, so I might as well take it." Where to use it, where to use it.”
Xie Jing said: "Are you going to withdraw from the business of Si Mian Lou?"
Qing Chen turned his head and smiled, "How can I be willing to do such a lucrative business?"
Xie Jing looked at the courtyard below, and joked: "It's not good, but if the four-sided building continues to earn so much, I'm afraid I won't be willing to give it up to you in half a year."
Qing Chen said: "It's fine if you don't want to part with it, I don't have to buy it."
Her casual tone made Xie Jing a little stunned: "At the beginning, you and I had a contract first, so if I said not to sell it, did you just forget it?"
Qing Chen said: "It's not you and Su Niang who are worrying about the inside and outside of the Simianlou and Tianwu Zuifang. What Brother Xie has done has already exceeded that paper contract. Besides, business is beneficial, but making friends is fun. I thank you Brother is a friend, and I will never force you to do what your friend doesn't want. If you don't want to sell the four-sided building, our contract will be void."
Xie Jing's eyes were slightly startled, Si Mian Lou is now very popular, Qing Chen said it so easily, he was silent for a while and said: "After so many years in the shopping malls, Wen Qing is the first person I admire. Friends like this can reach ten four-sided buildings. Since you have righteousness, I will not go back on my word, and these four-sided buildings can pass under your name at any time."
Qing Chen smiled indifferently: "Half a year is still too early, what are you in a hurry for?"
While speaking, he heard a faint sound of music, the sound was as light and distant as ethereal, hardly audible in the dark night, but it seemed clear as if it was in his ears. Qing Chen listened attentively, and it seemed that it was not the music of the surrounding buildings, and asked strangely: "Did you hear that, where did this sound come from?"
Xie Jing turned his head and smiled: "I don't know, maybe it's a song club. By the way, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do, so I need to go out."
Qing Chen stood up and said, "Go, I'm here."
In the morning, there were few people in the building and it was quiet. Qing Chen came down from upstairs and ordered the horses to go out.
In front of the low table in the vestibule, several women in double-breasted ladies' skirts are gathering together brightly, writing and writing, laughing and chatting with each other, which makes this place look extraordinarily interesting.
Qing Chen looked over, and there was a woman who slapped the jade paper on the table and stood up angrily: "Oh! Don't play, don't play, you must be a partner to plot against me."
All the women laughed and said, "Look, Lan Qi is in a hurry to lose!" Everyone raised their heads to see Qing Chen, and asked with a smile while saluting: "The young master is here, Lan Qi, are you ashamed?"
Qing Chen asked them with a smile: "What are you doing, so lively?"
Lan Qi hurriedly invited her to take a seat, then turned around and said: "Young master came just in time, and they are quite proud! They made some pairs out of nowhere, it's embarrassing for them, I lost a few rounds, young master, kill their prestige quickly."
The other women shamed her: "You bring the son to help out, who will win if you win?"
The paper and ink in front of the case are slightly fragrant, and the light pink paper and paper are beautiful and pearly. They are the coincidences in their books. Qing Chen glanced at them and said, "Lan Luo must win the most couplets."
Lan Qi said: "Isn't it? It's good that she is right every time, we can't do it, we won with a Cuiji and go!"
Lan Ying, who was wearing a yellow feather shirt, raised her hand and shook two pieces of purple jade: "I still have a pair of jade pendants here!" Lan Yu threw Luo Pa to laugh at her, Qing Chen said with a smile: "The game of betting you Don't even think about it? If you compete with Lan Luo in poetry, clever calculation with Lan Lu, and pipa with Lan Ying, you won't be surprised if you don't lose everything in your body. Conquer and win with your own strengths to overcome the other's weaknesses, Why don't you play chess with them, who won you?"
Lan Qi said: "They only came up with this idea after losing badly on the chessboard! No, you must help me win this round first." As he spoke, he took the pink note to his eyes, and Qing Chen saw that it wrote: Yu The beauty wears red embroidered shoes, and she walks every step of the way under the moon.
"It's a coincidence that this couplet came out, and the artistic conception is also beautiful." She picked up the pen and brushed the ink lightly, and saw several other women in the building playing the flute and practicing the piano by the lotus pond in front of the court. Qi said, "Isn't the next couplet right in front of you?"
Lan Qi couldn't understand it for a while, and saw Qing Chen's pen writing: "The water fairy is holding a jasper flute, and the sound is slow before the wind blows." Immediately she clapped her hands and asked Lan Luo, "You have the poppies Bubujiao, and my son has the water fairy with a slow voice, are you convinced?"
Lan Luo said: "All of us together can't compare with the young master, you shameless! Lan Ying just released a pair and I haven't figured it out yet. If the young master helps Lan Qi, he has to help me."
Qing Chen smiled and said, "Why don't you tell me?"
"The rain sprinkles ashes into pockmarks."
Qing Chen raised his head and looked around, thought for a while, and pointed to the lotus pond with a smile: "You don't leave our yard on the left or right, and this second couplet is still there."
Lan Qi asked, "Why is it still there?" But Lan Luo looked down and thought about it, and suddenly laughed.
Qing Chen asked: "Is there?"
Lan Luo covered her mouth and bowed her head: "Yes, I have, but I don't know if I think the same as the young master? The wind blows the lotus leaves like... like..."
Qing Chen said for her: "The wind blows the lotus leaves like a turtle!"
All the girls burst into laughter, and Lan Qi said with a smile: "You all lost to the young master, return all the jade pendants to me!"
Lan Luo said: "It's still for the young master, don't think about it!" Lan Qi said: "The young master is not the daughter's family, what do you want those for?"
Qing Chen couldn't help laughing, and smiled secretly. She was planning to go to the pawn shop to redeem her jade hairpin. Seeing that they were making a fuss, he said: "I won't accompany you anymore, I have to go out. I'll give you a couplet, whoever is right, I'll give this Cuiji jade pendant to her as a son."
"My lord, tell me!" they urged. Ink in Qing Chen's hands was fragrant, and he wrote a couplet: How much does the sun go in and the moon go out of the clouds.
Lan Qi looked at it and said, "This Shanglian seems to be not difficult."
Lan Luo thought and shook her head: "The wording looks simple, but it's not right. Young master's upper couplet first mentioned the scenery of the sun rising and the moon setting with clouds in it, and also talked about the passage of time and the changes of the years. The most difficult It’s because there’s also a question of calculating the income and expenditure of the day and month, but you have to think about it carefully.”
Lan Qi said: "As for the accounting of income and expenses, I have to ask Su Niang."
Qing Chen smiled and stood up: "Ask whoever you want, if I come back later, if I have a second couplet, I will give you another reward." As soon as he turned his head, he heard someone say in front of the hall: "Keep Xiao Lanting tonight. The wine and dishes should be finer, and the tea needs your 'Qing Yi' and 'Sizhu', and the most important thing is Miss Wenyan's piano, remember all of them?"
The steward in the building came in with one person, and said in a respectful voice: "I'll send someone to do it, please rest assured, Your Highness Twelve."
Qing Chen raised his eyebrows in surprise, turned around in a hurry and sat down again with a flick of his skirt. Lan Qi and the others saw that she looked strange, and before they could ask, Ye Tianli had already looked this way, suddenly slightly startled, and then shouted: "You , Turn your head back for this king!" Then he strode forward.
The one who yelled was really a bully, Qing Chen sighed secretly, knowing that he couldn't hide from him, so he stood up and turned to him and said, "I have seen His Highness Twelve."
Seeing her appearance in men's clothing, Ye Tianli was stunned, surprised and surprised: "It turns out that you are here, and you haven't..."
Qing Chen was afraid that he would reveal his identity as a woman again, so he bowed again and again: "Your Highness, I have something to say outside!"
Ye Tianli looked suspiciously at the beauties around her like clouds, Lan Qi and the others rushed to greet him if they recognized him, but they all quietly watched and wondered what was going on. Qing Chen coughed lightly and said, "What are you looking at, is the Twelfth Highness prettier than me, Young Master? Go back upstairs."
All the girls always obeyed her words, and upon hearing the words, they got up gracefully and retired in accordance with the etiquette. The clothes fluttered in a fluttering manner, and after all the hairpins and dingdongs dispersed, Ye Tianli was already laughing beside her.
Qing Chen waited helplessly for him to finish laughing, and said, "I'm about to go out, if you have free time, you might as well come together."
The two of them stepped out of the four-sided building, got on Ma Yetianli and said with a smile on his face: "You will enjoy it, so many beauties don't want to give me a few?"
Qing Chen glanced at him: "Women around me come and go voluntarily. When have you heard of the principle of giving away?"
"You actually run this four-sided building?" Ye Tianli looked back: "The Wenyan girl who is all over the capital here..."
"It's me." Qing Chen simply admitted.
Ye Tian said angrily: "I have been here so many times and you have kept it a secret!"
Qing Chen said: "It's not my fault, who can you blame if you can't see or hear?"
Ye Tianli snorted: "Why did you leave Prince Zhan's mansion suddenly? I asked Brother Seven several times, and even he didn't know where you went."
Qing Chen lowered his eyes slightly and asked, "How is Your Highness the Seventh?"
Ye Tianli said: "It looks good, I haven't seen Seventh Brother is having a hard time yet, but you have to ask him what's going on."
Qing Chen didn't say anything, and got off the horse in front of the pawn shop, Ye Tianli asked strangely: "Why are you here?"
Qing Chen said: "A few days ago, I pawned something and wanted to redeem it."
Ye Tianli looked up, and said with a smile: "You pawned something to the Yin family's shop, so why not just pawn it to Seventh Brother."
Qing Chen was walking in, when he heard this, his body froze, and he turned around and asked, "What did you say?"
Ye Tianli replied casually: "This shop and the bank opposite are both owned by the Yin family. The imperial concubine and empress are rich and wealthy in Tiandu, and seven out of ten pawnshops in Yige City belong to their family."
Qing Chen was stunned on the spot, and there was an unknown fire in his heart for an unknown reason. No wonder such an ordinary hairpin can be used as five hundred taels of silver. In the end, it was only because of him that I got what I am today.
Seeing her frowning and not leaving, Ye Tianli asked, "What's wrong?"
Qing Chen said angrily, "Do you have a bank note with you?"
Ye Tianli always has a lot of money in his arms when he goes out, he nodded and said: "Yes."
Qing Chen stretched out his hand: "Lend me three thousand, and I will pay you back later!"
Ye Tianli saw that her face was strange and seemed to be angry, so he took out a few banknotes from his bosom: "What are you using so much money for?"
Qing Chen took out the two thousand he had brought, and thought angrily: "This is the end of the matter, I will return it to him ten times!" boring. Intentionally or unintentionally, can he blame him for this matter? What is he trying to vent his anger on, or is he causing trouble
Thinking of this, he frowned, turned around and handed the bank note back to Ye Tianli: "Thank you, I don't need it."
Ye Tianli saw that her complexion turned bad for a moment and then returned to normal, walking beside her suddenly asked: "You can't be angry with Seventh Brother for some reason?"
Qing Chen shook his head dejectedly: "No, but I just thought about something, and now it's nothing."
Ye Tianli smiled and said: "It's really a woman who turns her face like a book." Qing Chen raised her phoenix eyes here, and he continued: "Pretend I didn't say it!"
Qing Chen looked at him angrily. The old gentleman in front of the counter was not there, so she handed the pawn ticket to the boy inside. The young man looked at the pawn ticket and said, "Miss, do you want to redeem something? You are pawning to death."
"Damned?" Qing Chen was stunned, took back the pawn ticket and looked at it, the black and white words were really written clearly.
She frowned slightly, and asked on the cabinet: "How much money can't you redeem?"
The young man said: "Girl's lunch is gone, maybe it's not in our cabinet anymore."
Qing Chen said: "Please ask your shopkeeper to see if it is still there and if you can redeem it."
The young man said: "It doesn't make sense, I'm just looking for scolding to ask the shopkeeper, so don't even think about it."
Ye Tianli was just about to speak, but Qing Chen stretched out his hand and dragged him to go out without saying a word. He said dissatisfied: "What are you talking about with a clerk? Ask the shopkeeper to come out and take the things away, and then ask Seventh Brother to give this to you." It’s enough to say nothing.”
Qing Chen said: "I'd rather not go to him, it's not something important."
Ye Tianli said: "Why are you hiding from Seventh Brother?"
"Where do I have it?" Qing Chen asked.
Ye Tianli looked at her suspiciously, she got on the horse, the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. After rejecting a person, they continue to accept his protection actively or passively. When they think they no longer rely on him, they suddenly find that they are still under his protection. This makes people feel a sense of frustration, or more precisely He said it with a bit of shame, as if he owed him something all the time, and he would never be able to pay it back. After walking for a while, she asked in a muffled voice, "He probably doesn't know that I'm in the surrounding building."
Ye Tianli said: "I also said that I didn't hide from him. I have been here several times but I didn't recognize you, and Brother Seven doesn't come to these places, so I probably don't know."
Qing Chen said: "I have been here twice, but only stayed for a while."
"That's hard to say."
Qing Chen pursed his lips, and asked again: "Why are you asking Xiao Lanting tonight?"
Ye Tianli was about to answer, but paused again, and then only said: "Banquet."
"An important guest?"
"important."
Qing Chen didn't ask any more questions, some of them rode their horses towards Baihu Street, Ye Tianli raised the reins and said: "Today, the road is blocked, and the fourth brother led two 300,000 troops from Xuanjia and Shenyu to station After resting outside the city for a day, I will definitely pass by here when I enter the city today, my father went to the Shenwu Gate to reward the army, and the inner court army and the Jingji Division closed the road early in the morning to martial law."