Chapter 27 Choose another branch

"I'm really angry with your words," Yuan Xiucai looked at the shopkeeper Wang with no expression: "At first glance, you are an honest person, but you and your master are... both..." Yuan Xiucai couldn't think of any description for a moment: "Interesting, what drama do you mainly write? Let's talk about it first. I can write as much as I want, but if a little bit of a star annoys me, it's over!"

"To tell you the truth, I don't know what to write. This is a separate courtyard of our owner, which is not far from here. If you have time in the afternoon, our owner would like to invite you to have a cup of tea and talk about this miscellaneous play." Wang took a note from his sleeve and pushed it to Yuan Xiucai. Yuan Xiucai picked up the note and looked at it. Then he pushed the note back and said, "Okay, I'll go for a while, your owner!"

In a blink of an eye, in February, the shopkeepers of several shops gathered in the backyard of Rong'an Hall as usual. Li Tian came in with Yue Niang and Cao's fourth daughter-in-law. The two stood behind Li Tian. Several shopkeepers bowed their hands to see the salute. Li Tian politely received half a salute and let the people sit down without much noise. Looking at the shopkeeper Zhao of Qianchunfang asked: "This is the middle of February. Has the matter of the inspection office been settled?"

Shopkeeper Zhao hesitated and said with a smile, "I haven't believed yet." Mr. Wang, sitting on an armchair on the left, frowned. Li Tian lowered his eyes, picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, slowly put down the cup, looked at Mr. Zhao and asked with a smile, "When will I be sure in previous years?"

"In previous years, the shopkeeper Huang Da was the general manager in charge of this matter, but the small... didn't pay attention to it." Shopkeeper Zhao swallowed his saliva and said, and Li Tian gently changed the topic and asked, "Have you prepared any grain, wine barrels and so on this year?"

"Don't worry, it's all ready." When Mr. Zhao saw that Li Tian was no longer entangled with the Quyin, he was secretly relieved and hurriedly leaned over and replied attentively, "All the orders for grain, wine barrels and bottles to be used this year have been placed, and we will never miss anything."

"Live or death?"

"Death." Manager Zhao felt a little uneasy and quickly explained, "The deed of death is much cheaper. Anyway, they are all things that must be used."

"Did it all be settled so early in previous years? Is it the same amount for the next year? Is it all a death contract?" Li Tian asked repeatedly. The forehead of the shopkeeper Zhao was sweating. For a moment, he was angry and looked straight at Li Tian and said, "My landlord, there is a year of business. If everything is the same as taking care of housework, everything is as usual in previous years. There is no need for us shopkeepers. A steward can manage the shop!"

"What Manager Zhao said is that this year is indeed different from previous years. When grandma passed away, Manager Huang suddenly resigned, and Rong Antang was almost blackmailed away," Li Tian paused and continued in a flat and expressionless voice: "It's time to let go and do a big job!" The shopkeeper Zhao's face was purple and stared straight at Li Tian. Li Tian looked straight at him coldly, and the shopkeeper Zhao turned his head abruptly.

The shopkeeper Sun, who had just been the shopkeeper of Rong'an Hall for a few days, subconsciously straightened up and was about to speak. Wang stopped him with his eyes, glanced at the other shopkeepers who looked at his nose and nose, coughed gently and interrupted the suffocating silence in the room and said, "I'm afraid of anything in case. This year, it's really Unlike previous years, in case something happens..."

"What can change? It hasn't been a year or two since we received these dozen songs in Qianchunfang!" Shopkeeper Zhao found a vent and opened his mouth to block Shopkeeper Wang back.

Shopkeeper Sun stared at Shopkeeper Zhao and was about to help Shopkeeper Wang a few words. Li Tian raised her hand to stop him and said, "Since Shopkeeper Zhao is so sure, this is a good thing. Seeing that it is not long before the inspection office is open to cook the competition wine, Shopkeeper Zhao takes a good look at brewing this year's bidding wine. What I mean, we will compete for this year. The first sign on it.

Shopkeeper Sun looked at Li Tian in a stunned way. This sentence jumped too fast, and several other shopkeepers also looked at Li Tian with surprise and confusion. Why did they suddenly compete for this top wine? Mr. Wang lowered his eyelids and drank tea without expression. Mr. Zhao was stared, and his eyes flashed with joy. He hurriedly responded with a smile and said, "Isn't this idea still the same as a small idea? The host is really smart."

Li Tian glanced at him with a smile, discussed a few other things, and dismissed the crowd, but left a message from Shopkeeper Zhao: "Shopkeeper Zhao, please stay, and there is another sentence to discuss with Shopkeeper Zhao."

The shopkeeper Zhao had to keep his steps, with a smile on his face and did not sit down. He stood in the middle of the room with his hands behind his back and looked at Li Tian condescendingly. Li Tian slowly squeezed the tea and watched everyone out of the room. Then he put down the cup, slightly looked up at the shopkeeper Zhao, and said with a slight smile, "I heard that the shopkeeper is the most important thing. It is normal for the guests to disagree with the word reputation, but if you pick up the lay traitor, even if you have only done it once, the reputation will be completely bad, but is that so?

"I don't understand what the owner said!" Manager Zhao suddenly stiffened, stared at Li Tian fiercely, and replied very toughly. Li Tian picked out a smile at the corners of his mouth, slanted Mr. Zhao with pity, and said with a lazy pity: "There is a saying that a failure turns into eternal hatred, and when you look back, there is only a dead bone. People, those steps at the critical moment must not be wrong.

With that, he stood up with the armrest of the chair. Cao's fourth daughter-in-law hurried forward and raised her hat to help her put it on. Li Tian shook the black silk on her feet and coldly ordered, "Make a few jars of good wine. Don't miss me for the first name of this competition!"

With that, without waiting for the shopkeeper Zhao to answer, he went straight away from his side.

Shopkeeper Zhao's face was pale. He stood for a long time before he exhaled heavily, took a sip of the ground, strode out of Rong'an Hall from the front door, stood on the street for a moment, and went straight to a hotel not far from the Duke of Wen's Mansion.

Shopkeeper Wang sent Li Tian out of the corner door. Seeing that Li Tian was about to get in the car, he couldn't help saying, "Dear owner, there is a saying..." Li Tian quickly turned around and watched the shopkeeper Wang waiting for him to talk down. Shopkeeper Wang whispered, "Dong, you know about the matter of Shopkeeper Zhao. Do you think you are going to compete for the first place in this wine competition? After winning the first place, how many quotations does the inspection office have to give?

Li Tian hesitated for a moment and nodded. Shopkeeper Wang smiled bitterly and said, "My boss, on the day of the competition, this song has already been released. How can it be used? You?"

"It will be useful, don't worry." Li Tian said in a low but affirmative voice. Manager Wang nodded and said no more. Looking at Li Tian's car going far away, he sighed and entered the yard with her hands behind her back. What a blessing is this? It's a burden!

In the main courtyard of the Duke of Wen, the eldest princess of Ning turned her eyes half closed on the kang, and two beautiful little maids on her feet gently tapped her legs with a white jade beauty hammer. In front of the kang, Wu Chenglin, Duke of Wen sat on the armrest chair in front of the kang and drank tea. The stewor bowed and stood in front of the kang and was replying, "... I'm in a hurry. It's nothing serious. I just said that the little girl of the Li family said that she would compete for the first place in this year's cocktail party."

"Fight for the first place? She is so angry that she can compete for the Qingfeng Tower? Dreaming!" Wu Chenglin curled his lips and sneered. The eldest princess of Ningguo glanced at him and said, "You can't underestimate that little girl. She began to learn to take care of common affairs from her grandmother at the age of ten. I'm afraid that you are not as good as her. If you want to fight, let her."

"Ancestors, won't you? What's going on?" The stewman Dai looked at the eldest princess of Ningguo and said that Rong'ant Hall was because of a great disturbance caused by a judge, and the shop he arrived was sent back.

"What can happen? The girl just competed for the first place, and the inspection office had to take care of the face of the first place and give her a few quotations. After all, if she is young and careless, can this song be left until April to compete for wine? Half a month ago, it was sent out and asked her to fight for it. She was willing to make us a wedding dress depicting a golden embroidered phoenix. Let's wait to accept it and treat it as a replacement for Rong'ant Hall. Princess Ningguo looked at her son and then said, "She is competing for the first place for us. It's a good thing if we can help!"

"Yes!" Hearing what the eldest princess of Ningguo said, a big stone fell on the ground and bowed to the end. Wu Chenglin also casually agreed. He quickly thought in his heart that he could take advantage of this to get thousands of taels of silver out of A Niang's hand?

In late February, the capital has bloomed in spring, and the tender willows are green, which is full of vitality in early spring. Manager Wang got out of the car in the second door of a house two or three alleys away from the Sang family. He walked in with his back and walked in while enjoying the scenery of early spring.

According to Li Tian's intention, this place was specially rented for Yuan Xiucai to write a script and arrange miscellaneous dramas. Although the house is a little old, it is better than the deep garden and the wall is high.

Shopkeeper Wang walked straight into the bluestone path and entered the warm dock hidden in a peach blossom bush on the south side of the garden. Yuan Xiucai took a fancy to this place and chose it as a living place.

The temporarily hired female envoy outside raised the curtain and motioned shopkeeper Wang to whisper. Shopkeeper Wang nodded to know and came in gently. He saw Yuan Xiucai standing in front of the window, closing his eyes, patting the folding fan in his palm of his hand and humming a small song in a hoarse and unpleasant voice. Shopkeeper Wang often came and went. He had long been used to Yuan Xiucai's ugly male duck voice. He found a chair and sat quietly, waiting for Yuan Xiucai to finish changing this little song.

Yuan Xiucai stopped singing and stopped singing repeatedly. After singing for more than an hour, he proudly said "Wonderful". He turned around, dipped the pen in ink, and quickly wrote a newly modified song. Yuan Xiucai changed the song, picked up the paper, and read it again. Then he put the paper on several cases with satisfaction. He turned his head and saw the shopkeeper Wang and was surprised, "When did you arrive? Your footsteps are getting quieter and quieter, and I didn't hear it.

"After a while, this song has been changed again?" Manager Wang laughed.

"Well, there is still a song that needs to be changed, which is not sad enough..." Yuan Xiucai said a long story before he remembered something important and quickly asked, "How's it going? How does your owner see it?