Part Three Chapter Twenty-Six: The Noble Performance of the Great Treasurer Tang Yuan
Waves of ethereal music floated down from upstairs and echoed in the hall. These pieces of music are not that rare, but just hearing them without seeing anyone makes me feel that such ordinary music adds a bit of elegance.
Meaning.
The ground is covered with a thick carpet, cyan, which gives people an unusually thick feeling. Although the color is not so conspicuous, it makes people feel warm and luxurious!
Each table has a name written on it. In the first row, there are naturally people from the royal family. They stand out from the crowd. There are only four tables. Everyone is thinking in their hearts: This noble hall is really a big name, and it doesn’t even have the royal family.
Arrange a private room... But the more they are in the same hall like this, the more people feel that they have really joined the ranks of real aristocrats - there is no distance between them and the royal family, are they still not a nobles?
So everyone was happy, well, except the royal family.
In the second row, there are people from major aristocratic families, in no particular order; in the third row, there are the descendants of officials and wealthy families with titles; and in the fourth row, there are the wealthy people in Tianxiang City.
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Between each row, there is a pearl roller curtain that seems to fall from the sky, but it only covers three feet above people's heads, but makes everyone feel that everything on the other side is hazy and unclear.
... In every corner of the surroundings, there is an extremely exquisite crane incense burner. The green smoke slowly spits out from the crane's mouth and floats in the air, making it feel peaceful.
Some people came very early and had been waiting for almost half the morning, but they did not look impatient at all. On the contrary, they were more energetic and interested.
Dozens of girls in light yellow clothes were holding tea cups and coming and going like butterflies in flowers. They were all light in posture, pretty in appearance, generous in manners, and measured in their advances and retreats.
In front of the first row, there is a thick milky white tapestry, as if falling from the sky, completely covering the back. At first glance, it looks like an unusually thick wall.
The music suddenly stopped.
Everyone is in high spirits. The show is finally about to begin.
The snow-white tapestry in front of them rose up silently, revealing a huge snow-white stage. At the moment when the tapestry rose and the auction stage was revealed, the surroundings suddenly shone brightly. It was inlaid with countless gems and decorated with different colors.
The parts are refracted and merged into an aperture, covering a round platform, a small square place.
There, there is a table.
There is a hammer on the table, a tuning hammer!
This is simply a dream-like arrangement. Shengbaotang, which is known as the number one auction house in the continent, compared with this design, is like a pheasant meeting a golden phoenix, a beggar facing the prince... Heavy footsteps rumbled,
Everyone was paying attention at the same time. Just hearing this sound made people feel unusual. What kind of heavy behemoth must be carried to produce such soul-shaking footsteps?
The light ends.
A pile of meat mountains was walking like a dragon and a tiger, and Gu Pan was walking slowly and proudly. With every step he took, the fat white meat under the solemn black robe danced a joyful dance, which was really rhythmic.
"Since you have received the invitation sent by this hall, you are the nobles of our Tianxiang City and also our distinguished guests! I am Tang Yuan, the chief shopkeeper of the Noble Hall, who is also the auctioneer. On behalf of the Prince Pingding Palace,
The Jun family and the Tang family, on behalf of the noble hall, would like to say hello to all the nobles and extend their warmest welcome." Tang Yuan said loudly and fluently as if he was endorsing you. After speaking, he even bowed.
In fact, Fatty Tang was still endorsing it. Because this speech was written by Mr. Jun himself, and it was so eloquent that it almost included the construction of spiritual civilization and material civilization.
There was a round of applause from the audience, and it was very warm. If they didn't say anything else, they would just say "the nobles of Tianxiang City". No matter whether they were genuine or not, at least they would be able to compete with those who they didn't deal with in the future!
"The Hall of Nobles, as the name suggests, is a place where only true nobles can come. So, what exactly is a noble?" The fat man tried his best to put his hands behind his back and look like he was giving advice. It was really difficult for him to say: "Fat Man"
Regardless of the fat body, he is not short in stature, and the proportions of his limbs are normal. Although he is not tall and powerful, he is still a middle-aged man. However, after adding that fat body, his arms, which were not short in the first place, were
Wrapped in fat, it was not short but too short. Coupled with the extremely thick waist, it was impossible to wrap around it. The two fat hands could not be connected behind the back. However, Tang Yuan still followed Young Master Jun's instructions and tried his best.
He made such a gesture to show his elegance, calmness and confidence.
However, although Tang Yuan felt good about himself and felt that this was the most outstanding moment in his life, in the eyes of the people below, he looked like a bear taking a pretentious walk with his hands behind his back, and every move he made seemed extremely clumsy. Every one of them looked like a bear.
Everyone tried their best to hold back their laughter.
Fatty Tang glanced around with a seemingly "majestic" look: "The so-called nobility means a superior person, a superior person! For example, this thing." Tang Yuan turned his hand over, and a round thing appeared in his palm: "I believe you all.
We all know and have tasted this crop called potatoes. As we all know, a pound of potatoes can be bought at the market for only three cents, which can be said to be the most common vegetable. But!..."
Tang Yuan paused again, which was appetizing.
Everyone didn't understand why this guy was talking about nobility, but he took out a potato? Rich and famous families would never put this thing on the table!
"Potatoes cost three cents per pound. Not only are they cheap, but they are also convenient for cooking. You only need to boil them in water when you get home. You can eat them by shredding them, slicing them, or dicing them into cubes. It's all good."
Tang Yuan felt that his choice of words was very cultured and a bit like a 'Hongru'. He couldn't help but proudly made a 'gentle' smile. In the eyes of all the 'nobles' in the audience, he looked like he was hanging on the wall.
The sow's twitching after being whipped is simply too horrible to watch!
"But, as long as it is placed in the tavern, whether it is cut into slices or made into dishes, it will cost half a tael of silver and more than a hundred times the profit!" Fatty Tang gushed. "People who spend half a tael of silver in the tavern
, compared to people who cook their own food at home, they are obviously nobility, nobility, what they eat is the same price! However, this is still a relatively low-level one."
"If you were in a higher-level hotel, the same dish of potato shreds would cost at least three taels of silver. Naturally, this place is one level higher. If you count further, uh, for example, if you go to the brothel in Lingwu Lake,
Holding a fan in each hand, and then ordering a dish of potato shreds, it costs twenty taels of silver. If there is one more "everyone" who is an artist but not a prostitute to accompany him, the potato shreds will have to go up. Without fifty taels of silver, I probably won't be able to get it.
Yes, anyway, if you can invite 'everyone' to accompany you in Lingwu Lake, you will still care about some money..."
Fatty Tang spoke with great enthusiasm, as if he was giving a speech to a group of guests in a library, blinking his eyes, and showing a smile that only a man could understand.
Sure enough, a burst of tacit and obscene laughter suddenly sounded below. This kind of laughter made several female guests in the hall frown! Especially Yue'er's "everyone" who came with the second prince, was already angry.
Her pretty face turned green... Princess Lingmeng heard such laughter beside her. She looked sideways and saw her father squinting and stroking his beard. The light in his eyes was as if he had met a confidant.
Immeasurable smile with deep sympathy. He couldn't help coughing, and coughed again with a little more force. He muttered in a low voice: "Humph! Men are not good things!"
His Majesty the Emperor suddenly coughed twice in embarrassment, and then his face became as dark as water. He hurriedly put away his unrestrained memories and sat upright on the small pier with a serious look. But in his heart, he thought: Damn it! I was almost fooled by this fat man. We are not.
Here comes Masato... "... Of course, if you go to the ninth floor of Jie Tian Building, the most luxurious hotel in Tianxiang City, and order a dish of potato shreds, and a dish of potato shreds that also has no special features at all, you will have to pay the favor.
One hundred taels of silver!" Tang Yuan stretched out a finger and waved it gently in front of his eyes.
This action was also learned from Jun Moxie. Jun Moxie was tall and had slender fingers. When he did this action, he was naturally quite elegant and brought out the arrogance in his bones. Tang Yuan was envious and learned it secretly. At this moment
In front of a large public, in full view of everyone, I consciously showed off my coolness, and I felt secretly happy that my brother finally showed his face for once.
The fat man has undoubtedly shown his face. To be more precise, it should be said that he has leaked his face... because in the eyes of others, the fat man is like a fat old sow who can't walk with a carrot stuck in his hooves and swinging around like a dead man.
He put it away, with some nervous stiffness and trembling, and a very proud smile on his face. All the nobles present were terrified by it, even the powerful ones with considerable strength. It was really disgusting.
Got it!
"A full one hundred taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family of four to buy potatoes for five years! But in Jietianlou, they can only eat one plate of shredded potatoes, the cheapest dish on the top floor of Jietianlou.
Home-cooked food you can eat anywhere!”
Tang Yuan laughed and cheered: "Is this really shredded potatoes? No! What you eat is style, what you eat is elegance! What you eat is status! What you eat is taste! And, what you eat is taste.
It’s also the same price! What you eat is the loneliness of being so cold at a high place! This is the true enjoyment of the nobility!”
"Anyone of you who can be in the hall of our Noble Hall today, among the wealthy people in Tianxiang City, is equivalent to sitting on the ninth floor of Jietian Tower!"
Tang Yuan's voice was hoarse, and his muscles were trembling and jumping with excitement, and his expression was ferocious and crazy: "This is the paradise of true nobles! Even if you just drink a glass of water here, it is white water that belongs to true nobles! To paraphrase the previous sentence, what we drank
It’s not white water, but the loneliness of being so cold at a high place! The loneliness of being at the top, the loneliness that only true nobles can experience!”
There was thunderous applause. It can be said that the fat man's words were deeply popular and resonated greatly.
In a large room upstairs, Jun Moxie burst into laughter: "It turns out that the so-called real aristocrats in the fat man's mouth are lonely people who eat shredded potatoes and drink boiled water!"