"What?!" Mr. Chen was startled, tapping his cane and trying to get up.
Boss Zhang was shocked when he saw this, and quickly said: "Mr. Chen, please calm down! This Shangyuan Restaurant is your Chen family's property..."
It's okay that he didn't say anything. After he spoke, Bai Song immediately seized the opportunity and shouted at the top of his voice: "Oh! So that's it! Shangyuan Restaurant is Mr. Chen's own property, no wonder they mobilized troops to make trouble here! Previously, they had
I couldn't figure it out, but now I understand it! Mr. Chen, you are a great scholar and I can't afford to offend you. I will close the store tomorrow and don't go out."
When Bai Song said this, Mr. Chen turned red with anger and leaned heavily on the ground: "That's nonsense! I never care whose store it is! You wait for me, and when I find out, if this store is really
The Chen family’s shop is talking about the Three Kingdoms in the shop, let’s see if I will demolish the shop!”
Mr. Chen was not just talking. He hurriedly greeted a relatively young old man who was traveling with him and asked him to leave to investigate. He led the remaining few people to kill towards the opposite side with great momentum.
Boss Zhang was so anxious that he stopped in front and shouted: "Mr. Chen, we can't destroy our store! Why don't I just let the storyteller inside leave?"
Mr. Chen frowned and didn't respond. Bai Song shouted from behind: "Mr. Chen won't give us a chance to let Mr. Storyteller go!"
When Mr. Chen heard this, he hit Boss Zhang on the head with a stick, making a clang sound.
Mr. Chen was so angry that he was ups and downs. He was supported by an old gentleman and comforted him: "Mr. Chen, please don't get angry. You have been exhausted. Just watch this store from outside. Let me go and destroy the store."
Mr. Chen gasped and pointed inside: "You go, you go...I want to see who else dares to talk about the Three Kingdoms in Jixian in the future!"
After a while, several old people rushed into Shangyuan Restaurant. There was a ping-pong-pong-pong sound inside, and the guests fled screaming. All kinds of tables, chairs, benches, porcelain bowls and glasses of wine flew out of the restaurant.
Bai Song really didn't believe that they were teachers. They all worked as urban management officials when they were young, right?
Boss Zhang was so remorseful that he was beaten so hard that a piece of his head fell off, and the shop was also smashed to pieces.
The old man seemed to be more ruthless in order to clear up the relationship. He was afraid of Bai Song's words of favoring one and favoring others, so he took special care of Shangyuan Restaurant.
The old people probably regarded today's trip as a form of exercise, and they smashed it to no end.
A few minutes later, Mr. Chen Sanye, who came to ask for information, saw the scene in front of his restaurant. He was furious, pointed at several servants who were traveling with him and said: "Quick! Come on! You idiots dare to smash the Chen family in broad daylight."
I'll beat you to my shop, or you'll be the one to beat me to death!"
As soon as Mr. Chen finished speaking, before he could see the people around him clearly, a stick flew over and hit him in the face.
Mr. Chen Sanye was beaten until he staggered, half of his face was numb, he spat, and there was blood. He became even more angry and shouted: "Who is it?!"
Mr. Chen was a little dizzy. He roared and saw that the servants around him did not move. He asked angrily: "Why are you still standing there? Follow me quickly!"
"You bastard, you still want to beat me to death, don't you?!"
The crutch swung over again.
This time, Master Chen was prepared and grabbed the crutch. Just as he was about to snatch the stick away from the other party, he turned around and saw the old man whose face was red with anger.
Mr. Chen was stunned on the spot, talking loudly: "Mrs. Mrs.... Master... you, you, you, how can you..."
Mr. Chen said nothing and stared at Mr. Chen, staring at his hand holding the cane.
Chen Sanye realized that the matter was serious and quickly let go.
Mr. Chen didn't say a word, rounded his arms and hit Mr. Chen on the body.
The old man didn't move very fast, even a three-year-old child could dodge, but Mr. Chen didn't dare to dodge, so he stood and closed his eyes.
"Ouch!"
Mr. Chen Sanye was knocked dizzy by a stick, and he knelt on the ground and kept wailing.
Mr. Chen didn't care about all this, he got angry and kept beating people.
Chen Sanye's bones were about to fall apart. He begged for mercy on the ground: "Master, please stop fighting. Chen San knows he is wrong... he knows he is wrong..."
"Bullshit! Do you still know that you are wrong? Where is the mistake?"
"I don't know?~"
"Don't know yet!"
Mr. Chen beat him harder.
Mr. Chen is about to cry but has no tears. He really doesn’t know!
He just told his grandpa about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He said that the news of the Three Kingdoms came from Donglaijilou. He knew that his grandpa would come to Donglai Restaurant to look for trouble, but how could he have thought that the fire would come to his own restaurant?
Now that he was beaten, he was still blinded. He didn't know anything about the situation. He only knew that someone was destroying Shangyuan Restaurant. He didn't even bother to eat, so he brought others with him.
"Boy Bai, you've really done a lot of damage by diverting trouble to the east."
On the other side of the river where the incident occurred, in front of the Donglai Restaurant, which had just experienced a storm, Li Zhan walked to the side of Bai Song with a smile on his face.
Bai Song looked at the opposite side and shook his head with a wry smile: "I can't help it. The shop opposite is always trying to cause trouble for me. I have to make them suffer too. It's just a pity. It's a good shop. I still want to buy it. Today
If it gets smashed, the price will be lost a lot."
"Mr. Chen is a difficult person to deal with. Today, you made a mockery of your words and made it difficult for Mr. Chen to get off the ground. If he targets you in the future, I'm afraid your restaurant business will be difficult to maintain. Have you figured out how to resolve this matter?"
"Isn't it enough for the prince to come forward to make Mr. Chen change?"
Li Zhan shook his head with a smile: "I have said that I will never influence anything with my status as a prince. Speaking to you today has broken the rules in my heart. Besides, in front of Mr. Chen, my status as a prince may not be able to influence him.
Change. If you want to resolve this matter, you have to rely on yourself."
…
After today's trouble, Mr. Chen did not continue to hold on to Bai Song.
Maybe it was for the prince's sake, or maybe he felt that hitting someone regardless of their appearance was detrimental to their status.
Mr. Chen and other old gentlemen also restrained themselves a bit.
But this does not mean that they let Bai Song go.
Starting from the next day, Shangxian Publishing House gathered disciples from various masters and began to clean up the vendors selling Three Kingdoms manuscripts in Jixian County early in the morning.
Piracy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has surged recently, and several printing plants suddenly appeared in the county.
The traders were thinking of making money by printing books, but unexpectedly a group of literati came and cleaned up everywhere.
This was because Shangxian Publishing House took the lead in this matter, and Shangxian Publishing House represented orthodox literature under the imperial court’s name.
Even though the vendors were filled with hatred, they did not dare to confront the literati who were cleaning the manuscripts.
In addition to cleaning manuscripts, in all the major restaurants in the county, wherever there are storytellers, there are also old gentlemen who lead students to cause trouble.
So much so that there are conflicts everywhere in the city, and there is excitement everywhere.
Mr. Chen and several respected old gentlemen even jointly issued a petition asking the Prefect's Mansion to come forward to support him.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this approach is a bit extreme, but the old man's reputation is too high. The governor did not immediately adopt the suggestion, but he could not hold on for a few days.
The trend of "banning the Three Kingdoms" has caused uproar in the city and made people panic.
Dong Lai Restaurant was the center of the incident, and the bustling scene of the past was gone forever.
No one dared to come to eat, and it was not open for two days in a row.
Everyone in the shop was worried and didn't know what to do next.
Only Bai Song continued to live his life as if nothing had happened.
On the contrary, I feel that these few days have been peaceful and I can take the focus of my life away from the restaurant business and do something else.
One day at noon, I went out and called a carriage to visit Miss Dongfang at her house.
This stingy oriental girl has not cared about the things in the store since Bai Song went to Hualou. She doesn't know why she is so petty, but since she is a partner, she still needs to be coaxed.
Bai Song asked Wang Xiaohua for the address. When he arrived at the address, he got off the carriage and saw a plaque scratched on the door.
The two characters above are actually "White Mansion".
Bai Song was stunned for a moment, and then he randomly thought of an oriental girl with the character "白" in her name.
It’s not surprising to choose a Baifu.
Then he went to knock on the door, and the little maid who often accompanied him came and opened the door.
"Mr. Bai?"
"Can the Oriental girl be at home?"
"My wife told me that I can't see Mr. Bai."
"Um... Then you go back and tell me that there is something wrong with the store these days. There has been no customer for two days. The two stores next to each other have also reached an agreement and are planning to rent both stores. Now
When it comes to business matters, we always have to meet and discuss it."
The little maid thought for a while, nodded simply, and then went back to report.
After a while, the little maid came back, opened the door and led Bai Song in.
After entering the house, Bai Song found that this oriental girl's house had a rather poetic and picturesque style. There were not many secular and stable houses. There were pavilions, pavilions, and small paths and buildings everywhere. Perhaps it was because there were few people in the house. Flowers, plants, mountains and rivers could be seen everywhere, and the layout was exquisite.
It is elegant, surrounded by the quiet fragrance of flowers, and you can hear the gurgling of streams everywhere. When people are inside, it is like stopping to draw a scroll and walking outside. Outside the walls is the secular world, and inside the walls are the mountains and rivers.
Bai Song walked all the way to see the flowers, and finally arrived outside a small building built on the water of a small pond.
The oriental girl, dressed in white clothes and skirt, stopped in front of the small building, with her long hair loose and waved to Bai Song. She looked like a fairy who had escaped from the world in the mountains and rivers.
Bai Song followed him in a few steps, entered the small building, and said to Miss Dongfang: "I usually see girls who are very capable and do everything by themselves. I don't want to live alone at home so exquisitely. With such a small house, it would be better to
I, I don’t want to go to that worldly world anymore.”
Dongfang Bai's expression was indifferent, neither angry nor happy. He pointed to the wicker chair in front of him and asked Bai Song to sit down.
"Xiao Lian, take my Junshan Silver Needle."
"Yes, ma'am."
Xiaolian said goodbye and left to make tea.
Dongfang Bai asked directly: "I heard that the shop is having some difficulties. What's the matter?"
Bai Songze told what he had encountered exactly as it was.
Dongfang Bai was quite surprised and frowned.
She was angry in her heart, but she also recognized Bai Song's ability and felt that it was completely unnecessary for her to intervene in the business. With Bai Song's ability, she could still run the shop properly.
But I didn't expect to encounter such trouble recently. The other party is Shangxian Publishing House, which is a printing and distribution organization recognized by the imperial court. Regardless of the good or bad of the Three Kingdoms, what they did is undoubtedly challenging the authority of Shangxian Publishing House.