Don't help me, I can sit up by myself

Shopkeeper Chang quickly held an oil umbrella and went to the carriage to greet the noble man.

As soon as the footstool was put down and the curtain was lifted, a young man in rich clothes suddenly appeared in the dark carriage.

The round-necked silver robe is embroidered with gold, the cuffs are embroidered with Ruyi patterns, and the whole body is embroidered. The needlework is filled with gold threads, and every small pattern is decorated with a pearl the size of a rice grain. The hair is tied up with a silver crown, with a pearl inlaid in the middle of the hair crown. Even the shoes are inlaid with silver patterns.

The young man got out of the carriage with a folding fan in his hand. In the dark night, the dim light of the lights seemed faint in the wind and rain, but the young man's heroic appearance and wealth hit him.

Behind the boy, there is a woman with her hair in a bun. The woman wears a bright green fragrant cloud gauze skirt, covered with a water-colored fragrant cloud gauze shirt. The fragrant cloud gauze is thin and light. It is cool and smooth when worn on the body, making it look shadowy. The fragrant cloud gauze is embroidered with a white crane spreading its wings and ready to fly. The crane's eyes are decorated with pearls and coiled with silver thread. Even the clouds above the crane are embroidered with silver thread. Gray forbidden steps, tired and drooping.

The woman has bright eyes and delicate eyebrows, and a delicate peony flower is inserted diagonally on her temples. Under the peony flower, there is delicate pink rouge. The rouge is hazy and tranquil, and the lip color is as bright as peach blossoms.

The woman holds a round fan in her hand. The white round fan is embroidered with colorful peonies. The stamens of each peony flower are embroidered with gold thread, and the bright yellow stamens are decorated with finer and smaller pearls smaller than a grain of rice. .

The boy and the woman seemed like a couple, a couple so bright that one couldn't take their eyes away.

Yongxing City is a small place, and I have never seen such a battle.

In the dark night, shopkeeper Chang was almost blinded by the glittering gold and silver pearls.

It seems that a distinguished guest has arrived. How expensive is this distinguished guest? He almost has the word "rich" written on his face.

Shopkeeper Chang thought he was well-informed, but he was still shocked by the couple in front of him.

The third floor of Yuelai Inn is the most luxurious place in the entire inn.

Shopkeeper Chang took people directly to the third floor and opened the most luxurious private room.

Before shopkeeper Chang could report the price, the young man took a fifty-tael silver note.

The shopkeeper was horrified: "This is what you are, sir. Young man?"

"We're going to stay here for a month."

"That's enough, that's enough. You won't need so much for a month's stay. Don't worry, young master, all the drinks are included. Just live in peace. If you need anything, just ask, as long as our Yuelai Inn can provide it. I will definitely not disappoint you. If I have suffered any injustice due to poor hospitality, please forgive me."

Having money is good.

The waiter thoughtfully brought warm water for the two of them to wash their hands. He also brought Yuelai Inn's signature sauce beef and other side dishes, as well as a pot of good rice wine. He also said that chicken soup was simmering on the stove and it would be ready in a while. .

"Our food is vulgar, so the noble generals can use it." Shopkeeper Chang personally served the dishes.

The young man took one bite and put down his chopsticks: "You are a very honest shopkeeper and your words are not bad. This food is a bit vulgar. Madam, what do you think?"

The woman shook her white round fan, and the tiny pearls on the fan flickered like thousands of stars. The woman behind the stars had a slightly red cheek: "My husband is absolutely right, but in this poor and remote place, I can barely use it."

Sauced beef is a craft handed down from shopkeeper Chang's ancestors. In Yongxing City, everyone said it was good after eating it. The price was naturally higher, at least twice as expensive as ordinary beef. Unexpectedly, these two people actually thought it was vulgar. ?

The waiter akimbo: "I wonder what the two customers usually eat?"

This is considered to be asking about the strengths.

The woman gently waved her round fan and picked out the dishes at random: "Seven-star fish balls, steamed grouper, duck with duck, squab with honey, sea clams in chicken soup, yellow shark's fin, pears stewed with osmanthus, and plum blossom shochu."

Young man: "Stewed fat duck with green pepper, roasted round fish with golden legs, shredded crab meat with double bamboo shoots, single-cage golden pastry, spring-broiled chopsticks, and crab stuffed with orange."

Shopkeeper Chang was stunned for a while after hearing this.

There were so many dish names, some of which he had never even heard of.

Judging from the two men's dressing style, the soy sauce beef in the store is indeed a bit vulgar.

"I wonder where you two are from? Why did you come to Yongxing City?" Shopkeeper Chang poured the wine.

The young man drank it all in one gulp: "I'm from the capital, so you can call me Sixi. This is my wife, her name is Wanzi, you can call her Mrs. Wanzi."

The shopkeeper Chang hesitated.

What is this name and how do you call it?

The young man smiled: "Does Shopkeeper Chang not understand the word "interesting"? Don't you think my name is very kind?"

You are right that you have money.

Shopkeeper Chang echoed: "Ah, yes, yes, Mr. Sixi, Mrs. Wanzi."

"My wife and I have a rich ancestral fortune. My generation is already the sixth generation of imperial merchants. In addition to the capital, our family property also exists in other places. I heard that Yongxing City has been hit by disasters in recent years and there is a food shortage. To ordinary people, it is a food shortage. For us businessmen, this is an opportunity. That’s why we came here to take a look. We’re not short of money.” The young man said, shaking his bag.

While the waiter was pouring tea, he wanted to get close to the baggage and touch it. The groom at the door bounced a pebble, and the waiter almost had his tooth knocked out.

"A distinguished guest is a distinguished guest. Xiao Wangzi, why are you so unruly? You won't quit after being taught a lesson. Quickly prepare a bath for the distinguished guest. The distinguished guest should be tired."

The waiter named Xiao Wangzi went downstairs with his face covered.

The young man unpacked the baggage. The banknotes in the baggage were piled high, at least tens of thousands of taels.

Shopkeeper Chang said quickly: "Your Majesty, please put it away quickly. I have never seen rich people like you in Yongxing City. If someone with ill intentions finds out, I'm afraid your Majesty will be in danger."

The young man pointed to the groom at the door: "My groom is very powerful in martial arts. One can fight a hundred. If there is someone with evil intentions, my groom can twist his head off. And my family has dozens of such grooms."

Shopkeeper Chang had seen the world. When he arrived in the kitchen, he saw Xiao Wangzi pouring bath water into a wooden bucket, so he told him to cut off some flowers in the courtyard behind the first floor and soak the petals in the water. He was from the capital. The distinguished guests, in such a remote place as Yongxing City, must not be well received.

Xiao Wangzi also felt like it was a ghost. After working at Yuelai Inn for so many years, it was the first time he threw flower petals into the bath water. But he prepared bath water, and the guest on the third floor gave him a tip of one or two silver coins.

Xiao Wangzi was so happy that he almost jumped up. In the past, when he served guests, the guests would be rewarded with a few pennies at most if they were happy. The high-roller on the third floor would be rewarded with a tael of silver.

It would be nice if the guests on the third floor took showers eight times a day.

The rain has stopped, there is no sound of rain, and the night in Yongxing City is very quiet.

The window on the third floor was half open, and a man and a woman inside were pouring wine and drinking.

The waiter at Zhao Jimi's shop was also drinking under the lamp. In addition to drinking, he would also look up at the third floor opposite from time to time.

Although the waiter downstairs could not hear the conversation very clearly, he could still get a general idea of ​​the conversation on the third floor just now. Xiao Wangzi was so happy that he received a reward of one tael of silver, and the waiter at Zhao Jimi's rice shop had envious eyes. All red.

"We only have one tael of silver per month. This little Wangzi is so lucky. He received such a wave of customers in the middle of the night, and he only got one tael of silver for boiling bath water."

"Didn't you hear? These are rich people from the capital. Where is that place in the capital? It's where the emperor lives. The people in that place are enough for us to live for several lifetimes just by sweeping through the cracks in the bricks. They got off the bus You also saw it at that time. Have you seen the grandeur around him in Yongxing City?" "That's not true."

"I'm afraid she's here for big business. Look at the little lady brought by the rich man. She's very tall, but you can't find such a beautiful woman even in Yongxing City."

As they were talking, an old man holding a wooden basin staggered over. After entering Zhao Ji's rice store, he panted and squatted down, staring at the rice bucket in the store.

There are a hundred coins in the old man's basin.

Zhao Ji's rice store clerk looked at the money in the basin and didn't move it.

"The price of rice last year was ten cents per catty. It went up a bit in the old year, and this year the price of rice has gone up a bit more than in the old year. I have one hundred cents here. Please give me a catty of white rice. My son, grandson, and daughter-in-law are already here. I’m so swollen from hunger that if I don’t have rice to eat, my son and grandson will probably die.”

Dude doesn't move.

"This hundred cents could buy ten kilograms of white rice in the past. Now I only need one kilogram of rice. Just one kilogram of rice. You guys do well. My family is waiting to save people."

The waiter drank a glass of wine and rolled his eyes at the old man: "Old man Zhang, you also know that was in the past. Rice used to cost ten cents per catty, but that was the old days. Yongxing City has had no harvest year after year. Our place is remote. We Zhao The rice at Ji Mi Store is shipped all the way by ship, which costs a lot.”

"How much does it cost to buy a pound of rice now?"

"Two hundred coins."

"Two hundred coins? Aren't you taking the opportunity to raise the price? Isn't this a black heart?"

"Black heart? Yongxing City is such a market now. If you want to buy, you can leave if you don't want to buy. If you don't buy, others will buy. Tomorrow, you may not be able to buy food even if you take the money." The waiter couldn't help but say Pushing the old man out of the door, he simply closed the door of the rice store and closed the door panel.

The old man huddled at the door of the rice store, looked down at the coins in the basin, and left crying.

The windows on the third floor were closed.

The emperor and Du Jiyan sat cross-legged on the bed and began to think about what they had seen along the way.

"Your Majesty, the name you gave to your concubine is too unpleasant. How can any woman be called Wanzi?" Du Jiyan rubbed his shoulders and kept bumping on the carriage day and night. He felt that his bones were about to fall apart. Fortunately, he had been running for a few times. Tian finally arrived at Yongxing City and finally checked into an inn. Although the conditions were average, he still took a shower and had a place to stay at night.

"I think the name Wanzi is very good. It's very low-key." The emperor leaned on the bed and twisted his neck: "It is easy to understand and has the most profound meaning. Simple is complex. This is the truth that can only be understood by practicing Zen."

I believe you.

You are just lazy.

Of course Du Jiyan understood why the emperor chose such a name.

After leaving the capital and coming to Yongxing City, of course, the identity of the emperor and her could not be exposed, so she had to find a false identity.

As for why it is called "Four-Happy Meatballs", Du Jiyan could see clearly the emperor's little thoughts. Isn't that the emperor's online name in the game?

The emperor's name is Sixi Wanzi in the game, so the four characters "Sixi Wanzi" were directly split into two names.

Meatballs are just meatballs, they sound better than bricks or dog balls.

"We will go to the city for inspection tomorrow. Let's sleep, Your Majesty." Du Jiyan yawned.

But the emperor couldn't sleep: "When I arrived in Yongxing City, I followed what you said. I was lavish everywhere and spent money like water. If you should give ten taels, I will give twenty taels. If you should give twenty taels, I will give fifty. Two, Du Changzai, do you think this method will work?"

“I feel that it’s up to people to plan things, and it’s up to God to make things happen.”

"What I have spent is just money in vain. You told me that everything will come true, you irresponsible woman." The emperor laughed bitterly: "The treasury is empty, and I am still here to take advantage of you. I feel guilty."

"Didn't your Majesty hear that you can't trap the wolf if you don't give up your children? Your Majesty wants to control the price of rice in Yongxing City, and now all the money you're giving away is the Emperor's bait."

Du Jiyan got up early with the emperor.

The sky is clear.

A rare sunny day.

Although it was a sunny day, Yongxing City was shrouded in smoke.

It gets colder here earlier than in the capital, it rains again, and the early autumn mist has already settled.

The entire gray city was shrouded in white mist, like an illusion.

People carrying baskets on their backs were walking through the city in twos and threes. They were all sallow and thin, perhaps because they were hungry.

"Have you asked about the price of rice? Has the price of rice increased or decreased today? Can one hundred cents still buy a pound of rice?"

"You old man, what's the current market situation? The price of rice yesterday was 200 cents per catty. That's it. It's still cheap and there's no market. If you want to buy it, you have to buy it early. The rice in the barrel of Zhao Ji's rice shop. It’s almost empty.”

Everyone was a little panicked when they heard that the rice in Zhao Ji's rice shop was almost sold out.

If Zhao Ji's rice store is out of rice, let alone other rice stores.

Zhaoji Rice Store is the largest rice store in Yongxing City. If it is also in a hurry, everyone will be able to buy even less rice and noodles with their money.

So everyone rushed to Zhao Ji's rice store. When they arrived at the rice store, they discovered that there was a sign at the door of the store saying that the price of rice today had been changed to 300 Wen per pound.

"Everyone is lining up, lining up. It's three hundred cents per catty. I'm afraid I won't be able to buy three hundred cents per catty tomorrow. The rice in our Zhaoji Rice Shop is also very limited."

After hearing this, everyone crowded forward.

Although the price of rice is outrageous, who can not eat food?

Du Jiyan and the emperor walked around the city and found out the market.

There are about a dozen rice shops in Yongxing City, and Zhao Ji's shop is the largest. Those scattered shops are all small businesses and can be ignored.

Zhao Ji's shop is large and has a wide supply of goods. I heard that merchants from the surrounding Luolicheng City provide rice to him. One of the cargo ships moored on the river belongs to his family.

The rice buckets of several other rice shops are already empty. Only Zhao Ji is still in business. But according to Zhao Ji’s people, they don’t have much rice. Anyway, it’s first come, first served.

The emperor decisively approached shopkeeper Chang to discuss opening a rice shop on the first floor of Yuelai Inn, which would be called Yuelai Rice Shop.

The shopkeeper thought it was outrageous. He ran an inn, so why did Mr. Sixi change his career when he came? Nowadays, the price of rice is very expensive. Not only is it expensive, but there is no rice. If you open a rice shop at this time, wouldn’t that be a waste of money?

The emperor directly slapped the one hundred taels of silver notes into the hands of shopkeeper Chang.

It's easy to talk about anything if you have a banknote. Anyway, the world in Yongxing City is not good now, and there are few people living in hotels. If you want to open a rice store, just open a rice store. As long as someone is willing to pay, you can open a rice store, not just a rice store, but also the Palace of Hell.