Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 81

    Gu Ye ordered soup dumplings and biscuits again, and each had another bowl of soup.

    After a hot meal, there was a layer of sweat on the back, and the hands and feet warmed up. So happy!

    After eating, Gu Ye cleared his throat and opened his mouth with guilt: “Uncle, the playbook you wrote is so good! It’s the boy who is reckless, such a good book is only given to uncle A deposit of five taels of silver.”

    Emperor Zhengyuan didn’t come here for money, so he waved his hand in disbelief when he heard the words: “You all say that our family is familiar with each other, so you don’t need to say that.”

    Gu Ye has been observing his expression, and seeing that he does not seem to be lying, he finally feels relieved, “I will supply Uncle 15 taels of silver in the future, totaling 20 taels. If it sells well, I will give Uncle other bonuses. In addition, I will give Uncle a VIP of our house and save some money, so that Uncle can come to our house for breakfast when he is free, how about it?”

    This time Gu Ye showed him the outline of the play at the back – he also hid a hand in the front, and only showed Emperor Zheng Yuan the scene where the widow and the emperor met again. Although it was a cliché story, it was the first time he thought about a story, so he couldn’t tell a stranger at once.

    Emperor Zheng Yuan naturally took over the rest of the work. The two stayed for the whole morning and only parted at noon.

    Gu Ye wanted to invite him to lunch, but Emperor Zheng Yuan had to go back to the palace in time, so he said he would have dinner next time.

    Gu Ye sent him off and sent him back to the Suzaku Street in the palace, and then we parted.

      New play.

    There is not much rest time in this line, and the Huadan in the same troupe is a little unhappy. He still stays in this small troupe, purely because of Xiaofeng’s master, who is the original The old class master was kind to him.

    No matter how great the kindness is, it is not worth the passage of time. By now, Li Yuanzhu has extended an olive branch several times, and he has been shaken.

    Brother Xiaofeng has already divided the playbook according to his individual parts, and showed him the part that belonged to the pretty widow.

    Look, the person who sang Hua Dan has no complaints!

    He went over a hundred taels in one go, and the old people in the troupe advised Brother Xiaofeng not to do this.

    The owner of the auspicious theater, Li Yuan, laughed crookedly when he heard the news. He waited for the little troupe to disperse, and then brought Xiao Feng and Qiao Huadan back to Home!

    He stopped the person who was rushing to persuade, and instead helped Xiaofeng brother: “Although the junior class leader is young, he has a big vision. You have known the junior class leader for so long, how can you not Trust him? Little class leader, I trust you! When your play is ready, I will arrange the best show for you!”

    By mid-November, the first scene of this drama is scheduled.

    Brother Xiaofeng found Gu Ye and asked him the name of the play.

    Gu Ye patted his head, yet he didn’t have a name yet!

    But the story is what he thought, and it is normal for him to think of the name. Gu Ye, who doesn’t know a few big characters, directly named it “The Story of Love”.

    In late November, “The Merry” was officially put on the stage.

      At the beginning, the attendance rate was only 60-70%.

    But once the play begins, the pretty widow makes an appearance and timidly opens her mouth…

    In a play, the emperor went out of the palace and came to Shiweitian, praised the restaurant’s food, and gave a generous reward.

    The owner sent a pretty widow to thank them.

    “How come it ends here!”

    “Yeah, I just felt the smell!”

    Only then did the spectators realize that it was almost evening outside, and it was time to eat dinner.

    “How come it’s been so long?”

    “Yeah, I haven’t realized it yet, why did it pass all of a sudden?”

    No one said anything at this time, just urged Brother Xiaofeng to quickly get rid of the back.

    There are those who really like this play and have already booked the show for the next afternoon.

    This drama is really good, any sentence you pick out is memorable and memorable.

    How can they be willing to go home? I have to quickly change places with a friend who is watching the show to reminisce.

    There is no need to think about the place anymore, it is naturally the end of the opera, and the emperors in it all praise the food for the sky.

    On Gu Yin’s side, the beef from those cows has been sold out. After all, the meat is not fresh after being frozen for a long time, and the taste will become worse.

    However, the boiled butter can be stored for a long time. You can only eat it by making an appointment or depositing money in advance to become a VIP who eats for the sky.

    Since Brother Xiaofeng has launched a new drama, Gu Yin will naturally follow up. With the tickets, you don’t need to book, you can order it as you go.

    On a cold and bleak winter evening, who can resist it?

    And the diners who eat for the sky heard about this event, as long as they are not unwatchable at all, they will also watch a “Merry Odyssey” in their spare time.

    The two sides influence each other, promote each other, and benefit each other.

    On the 10th, the whole capital knew that there was a very beautiful “The Mourning Story” at Jixiang Theater.

    How popular is this play?

    This Japanese master is worth it, and I heard the old man humming the aria!

    Everyone is watching, Mr. Wen didn’t feel any embarrassment, but said to Mr. Wen: “The plot of this play is too vulgar, but this song is really brilliant. Boss, you have time to spare. Don’t be bored at home if you have nothing to do. You can listen to it. It is best to find out who wrote it. I think with his talent, he is definitely not an unknown person. “

    Mr. Wen knew that this play was written by Gu Yin in order to promote food for the sky, so she specially went to support it when she was free.

    I didn’t expect this, and it attracted him too.

    He and Gu Yin inquired about the author, Gu Yin only said that Gu Ye was responsible, and she did not know the details.

    Gu Ye is not a big man, but his mouth is tight. He said that the gentleman he hired did not want to be named, so he never said it to the public.

    As soon as Mrs. Wen said this, Mr. Wen wanted to laugh but held back, only said: “Father knows, I don’t like listening to dramas.”

    And then he plunged into his study – he had to hurry to write the next scene.

    In the next few scenes, Gu Ye still let his mother check first, and then showed it to Brother Xiaofeng.

    This playbook has never been changed, and it was the last one. After listening to what her mother said, Gu Ye put away the playbook and did not send it directly to Brother Xiaofeng.

    The two are now very familiar with each other. Gu Ye carried the food box early that day and waited at the tea stall.

    After a while, Emperor Zheng Yuan came and asked him with a smile, “What delicious food did you bring?”

    “It’s the crab roe soup bag made by my mother, please eat it.”

    This crab yellow soup bun is a new VIP dish launched by Gu Yin. The chicken should be cut into pieces and blanched overnight, then the pork skin should be shaved, the fat meat should be cut off, and the scallion and **** should be boiled together to make meat skin chicken soup .

    The next day, wait for the meat-skin chicken soup to congeal into aspic, then cook the crab, pick out the crab roe and crab meat, and adjust the pork filling. Finally, the pork filling, jelly meat, and crab meat are mixed together, and then the seasoning is added and stirred, and the final filling is done.

    After wrapping, put the palm-sized soup bag on a small plate into the steamer, wait for the water to boil and then steam for ten minutes.

    As soon as the pot came out, Gu Ye jumped in line to take three out and put them into the food box.

    Although he has been emperor for almost a year, Zhengyuan Emperor is still fresh: “I have eaten soup dumplings before, and they are only a bite size, but yours are fresh, so big, I don’t even know Where are you going to speak?”

    Gu Ye took out a bamboo straw and gave it to him, and let him drink the soup first.

    Emperor Zheng Yuan did the same, the straw was inserted into the soup bag effortlessly, and the fragrant soup was immediately sucked into his mouth.

    Emperor Zheng Yuan ate two of them in one go, and said with admiration: “The food in your restaurant is really hard to pick, and the Hu spicy soup in front is better than the one you took me to, With this crab roe soup dumpling, it’s no wonder that business is getting better and better.”

    Seeing that Gu Ye held his cheeks silently, and did not touch the remaining soup dumplings, Emperor Zhengyuan asked: “Is there something to say? Do you want to recommend your soup dumplings in the play?”

    Gu Ye nodded and said, “It’s true that I want to change the show, but if you praise the soup dumplings, you can add them, and if you can’t add them, forget about it. It’s mainly a side effect.”

    At the end of the story of the playbook, the emperor and the pretty widow finally resolved their misunderstanding and took her and the little prince back to the palace.

    Of course it wasn’t all smooth sailing, a bad queen came out of it.

    Of course it will not succeed. The emperor saw through her true face, and then abolished her queen position and made the widow queen.

    “The queen is a good person, I don’t want to write such a bad queen in my story.” Gu Ye said.

    Speaking of this, Emperor Zhengyuan also remembered that the Hanlin scholar asked him when he wrote this paragraph.

    He didn’t take it seriously at the time and said: “This story was originally made up, Aiqing wrote it casually, there have been many queens in the past, and it’s not about this dynasty. I really want to sit in the right seat, the drama of the emperor and the queen is so much. Too much, I and the Queen will be too busy.”

    I didn’t expect him to care, but Gu Ye did.

    Emperor Zheng Yuan softened, “Have you seen the queen?”

    Gu Ye shook his head and said no, “But I know she’s fine, she’s just sick.”

    Gu Yin and Mrs Wang came home from a banquet in the palace, and it was inevitable to talk about the affairs in the palace.

    Of course, the ones who said the most were scolding Feng Guifei and Qin Shi. Then there is the Queen of Zhou.

    Wang’s heart was soft-hearted and persuaded Gu Yin: “I saw it when the Empress was staring at you, don’t take it to heart. I think she is just a nervous child, and she is too nervous.”

    At that time, Gu Yin nodded and said, “My mother doesn’t tell me I’ll save it. The Queen Mother helped our family. We should think of her for this alone.”

    Gu Ye was listening to it at the time, and muttered unhappily: “Although she helped her mother first, but the first mother glanced at the little prince, and she carried the prince out by herself. What are you staring at?”

    He protects his shortness, no one can stare at his mother anyway.

    Gu Yin explained to him later that people not only get sick physically, but also get sick emotionally.

    “The Empress seems to have a cold in her mood now, so she acts too tense. This is not her intention. You will hit you in front of you uncontrollably because someone has a cold. Sneeze, do you hate this person?”

    Gu Ye thought about it and said no.

    When he was in Hanshan Town, he also suffered from wind chill.

    So Gu Ye said: “The Empress is a good person, we don’t want to use her for entertainment. If she is even more unhappy, the ‘wind chill’ in her heart will not be better.”

    A cold heart? Emperor Zhengyuan frowned and pondered.

    In the past few years, he has only been the Queen of Zhou because he resented him and separated from him, so he changed his temperament and deliberately did those unpleasant things.

    But she never thought that this is not her original intention, but she is emotionally and psychologically ill, and she shows symptoms uncontrollably.

    “I see, I’ll change the script for the last scene.”

    “Then it’s troublesome uncle!” Gu Ye laughed, “Actually, there is no need to change, just change the bad queen to a bad concubine!”

    Anyway, that Feng Guifei is not a good thing!

    After parting, Emperor Zhengyuan returned to the palace and went directly to Kunning Palace.

    This time Queen Zhou still didn’t let him into the hall, and Emperor Zhengyuan didn’t quarrel with him either.

    Don’t talk about emperors and queens, don’t talk about children, just talk about the pleasant and unforgettable bits and pieces when the two got along in the past.

    In less than a quarter of an hour, Emperor Zheng Yuan was talking about the time when the two were just married.

    Queen Zhou came out blushing and told him to shut up!

    …

    At the beginning of December, all three scenes of “The Merry” were lined up.

    It’s hard to get a ticket like this, because now it’s not just fans of the show—fans have heard about this good show, and they’ve seen it more than once. Those who haven’t watched it have become outliers, and they can’t catch up with other people’s chat content. Even those who don’t like watching it very much have to buy tickets to watch it.

    Shiweitian Restaurant took advantage of this shareholder trend, and became famous in the second month of its opening, and customers came like a cloud.

    Gu Yin re-booked last month’s account, and the profit reached more than 500 taels, which was equivalent to the income of a year in Hanshan Town in the past.

    Of course, there is also Gu Ye’s credit for this. He not only bought a very high-quality play script at a low price, but also has a great eye for making friends – Gu Yin and Xiaofeng brother talked about advertising fees later, I thought that the other party would raise the price. After all, people’s dramas are so popular now that the price increase is reasonable. Unexpectedly, Brother Xiaofeng not only didn’t increase the price, but he didn’t even want the twelve taels agreed in advance. He bluntly said that Gu Ye was able to sing such a good book to their troupe, and they became famous today, which is already the best for them. Good reward too.

    The more than five hundred taels of profit, Gu Yin took home at first.

    Wang didn’t want it at all, saying that the family has enough money and money is about to be paid, so there is no need to worry about money.

    Then waited until Wu Qing decided it was worth it, and Gu Yin gave him the money again, saying that there was still a lot of working capital left in the previous store, and the five hundred taels could be disposed of at will. He had emptied his private house before to open a shop for her, and it was not good to keep some money by his side.

    Wu Qingyi refused to accept it, and instead said to her: “I was going to find you for this, and His Majesty said that Master Wen Er has already collected almost all the debts. Give it back to us, and ask me what reward I want.”

    The day she took Gu Yin off from work, Gu Yin’s sentence “It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach a man to fish, mutual benefit” gave Wu Qingyi great inspiration.

    He and Emperor Zhengyuan both regarded the care of wounded soldiers as an expense before, but never thought that wounded soldiers could also serve the court.

    With a change of thinking, he suggested to Emperor Zhengyuan that instead of giving money directly to the wounded soldiers, he would distribute the land near the capital to them and reduce their taxes a little.

    In this way, the wounded soldiers no longer have to pay rent or worry about taxes. As long as they work hard, they can naturally support their families.

    They are all members of the Rebel Army. They were seriously injured when they charged forward and did not retreat. There is no doubt about their loyalty.

    Although they are all disabled, those who have joined the army are **** and ruthless, and they are not comparable to ordinary people.

    The placement of these people in the nearby villages would invisibly strengthen the garrison of the capital.

    Emperor Zhengyuan is currently short of cash, but there is no shortage of real estate. Before, he thought about selling the good shops and turning them into cash, and then disposing of the real estate.

    Now one process is saved, and the property does not need to be sold, but can be sent directly to the wounded.

    From Wu Qingyi’s speech to the present, it has been going well for more than a month.

      to show loyalty.

    This credit was taken by Emperor Yuan himself. Wu Qingyi was not unconvinced.

    Before, Wu Qingyi probably wouldn’t ask for anything, but this time it was actually Gu Yin who ordered him, so the reward naturally belongs to her.

    So he said that he went back to discuss with Gu Yin. Emperor Zhengyuan couldn’t bear it any longer. He laughed and scolded him as “wife slave” and drove him out.

    After listening to him explain the ins and outs, Gu Yin pursed her lips and said with a smile: “I heard Wei Sanniang and the others say that they have all been allocated fields, but I didn’t expect this idea to be yours. Can you really want anything?”

    Wu Qingyi said: “His Majesty used to say nothing when he was not on the throne. This time he said ‘Even if you speak, I have nothing to answer’, you can say it.”

    With Wu Qingyi’s understanding of Gu Yin, she will definitely not make any excessive demands.

    And even if he mentions it, he will not lose anything if he speaks at most.

    Gu Yin thought about it and said, “Then can I have a boat? It’s the kind of big boat that can go out to sea!”

    The chili peppers in the store are in short supply now. This thing is expensive to buy from the market. If you can have your own merchant ship, you can naturally save a lot of money. And if you can find peppers suitable for planting in the Central Plains overseas and grow them locally, it would be even better.

    There are too many things overseas, but people don’t know how to distinguish them.

    Wu Qingyi nodded and said: “It’s not difficult, but I don’t know the specific value of a merchant ship, but His Majesty said that we have to pay back the 30,000 taels that we spent in front of our family. If the ship is very expensive, If it’s a big deal, we don’t want the 30,000 taels of silver.”

    When the twilight came together, Wu Qing decided to come back and find Gu Yin directly.

    Seeing that he came back so late with a complicated expression, Gu Yin guessed that things were not going well.

    She first asked someone to bring him a cup of hot tea, and then asked, “But Your Majesty didn’t allow it? It doesn’t matter, I am greedy.”

    Although what she wants is a merchant ship, she has to give the ship the qualifications to go to sea. Many things overseas are unknown to the court, and it is reasonable that Emperor Zhengyuan would not allow it.

    Wu Qingyi shook his head and said, “It’s not that it’s not allowed, it’s that it’s allowed too much.”

    Their family only needed a merchant ship that could go to sea.

    Unexpectedly, after a long while, Emperor Zheng Yuan said: “I remember that there was a ‘Ocean Ship Line’ in the previous dynasty, and I had a deep entanglement with the powers and officials of the previous dynasty. I fled before I started, and after I ascended the throne, I This shipping company has been sealed up. You mentioned it like this, and I remembered it. I don’t know how many merchant ships his family has, so he simply gave the entire shipping company to your family.”

    Afterwards, he asked Wu Qingyi to take inventory of the ocean-going ships.

    This shipping line has two huge merchant ships and a dozen medium-sized merchant ships that can carry over 100 passengers.

    If converted into cash silver, it is worth more than one million taels.

    I was busy counting these, so Wu Qingyi came back so late.

    Gu Yin was so frightened that she coughed, and waved her hands hastily: “No, I really don’t need to, what do I want to do with the whole boat?”

    Wu Qingyi stretched out his hand to give him a pat on the back, “I said the same at the time, but His Majesty said that this is what our family deserves. I said it was only about the wounded soldiers, I just mentioned it. I am ashamed to bear a little thought. Your Majesty said that there is still great merit in our family, and I will tell our family later in the year.”

    These words made Gu Yin wonder, what kind of great merit can get a reward worth millions of taels!

    But they didn’t dare to accept it, and it didn’t work. The next day, the ocean-going shipping line’s house deed, land deed, and boat deed were all sent to the British government.

    …

    In this side of Lu Guogong’s mansion, the atmosphere in the mansion is very bad these days.

    Spent 100,000 taels a month, it’s not a trivial matter to leave it to anyone!

    In the beginning, the Duke of Lu Feng Yuan felt that he had made a contribution to this matter, and he was happy at the same time.

    But I didn’t expect that after his own money was spent like water, Emperor Zhengyuan still treated Wu Qingyi the most affectionate.

    The matter of sending off the ship, Emperor Zhengyuan and the British government have not disclosed it yet, and Feng Yuan does not know yet.

    The recently popular “The Mourning” features a traitorous concubine, and her background is also from a family of military generals. Concubine Feng felt a great grievance, crying and complaining in front of Emperor Zhengyuan, asking him to order This play is not allowed to be sung outside the palace.

    This play was written by Emperor Zhengyuan, and it was used to contact the relationship between father and son. Can he allow it? At that time, it was said that Concubine Feng was too careful, and there were so many concubines in history, why should I take the right seat?

    This annoys Feng Guifei, and asks the family to check when the news comes out.

    It was easy to find out Shiweitian and the British government behind Shiweitian.

    No wonder Emperor Yuan is protecting him!

    The Qin shi couldn’t help but get angry. The day he heard the news, he opened the box and took out 30,000 taels of silver.

    Looking at Wu Qingyi’s appearance in the emperor’s heart now, it’s not good for them to directly take action against the British government, but is it always alright to fight a restaurant?

    The British government’s wealth is weak, and the property is only one restaurant. As long as this restaurant is defeated, it will be enough to damage the vitality of his family!

    After taking out the money, Qin thought about everyone in the family, and finally gave the money to his younger son Feng Tao—that is, he lost money in the casino before to Gu Ye, and asked his brother The one who can’t stand up.

     “Even though Tao’er went to buy a better and bigger restaurant, the family has enough money and money, and must run on that “food for the sky”!”