Finally came the opening day, Kangxi let me out of the imperial study early in the morning, I ran home excitedly, Xiaolian had already taken out a set of outfits that she had customized for me a few days ago, and waited for me to put them on.

After dressing up, I saw that Xiaolian’s face was ruddy, and she looked at me strangely, so I couldn’t help but take a look in front of the mirror.But seeing the young man in the mirror, wearing a white-rimmed green hat, inlaid with Hetian beautiful jade in front, wearing a blue gown with a brocade waist, a Zigang pendant hanging on it, and white low black boots on his feet, he couldn’t tell. the spirit of.As the saying goes, if a woman is pretty, she should be filial; if a man is pretty, she should be handsome.This outfit only compares to that of Pan An, no wonder Xiao Lian is fascinated by it.If I had known that I would be so handsome just by messing around, why would I still be wearing the eunuch clothes that no one wanted to see when I went out of the palace every day.In order to enhance the effect, I also took a folding fan from Kangxi and shook it lightly, ha, isn’t this just a Pianpianjia gentleman.

A hired sedan chair for two people had already parked outside the door, stepped into the sedan chair, said goodbye to the reluctant Xiao Lian, and rushed to the restaurant in a hurry.Xiao Lian’s boss is really wronged. Because she is a female stream, she can’t go to such a big business as the opening, so she can only watch me helplessly.

When I arrived at the restaurant, I never thought that Prince Kang would have arrived one step ahead of me, and he was strutting in front of the door with his stomach full.I hurriedly ran over and said with a smile: “My lord, you rushed over early in the morning to work, which song is it singing?” Prince Kang said with a smile: “The emperor can’t do without you. Come and say hello to you.” My heart was moved, and I said, “My lord, if you always arrange someone to do it, it will be over. You are so busy, so don’t miss your business.” Prince Kang spat and cursed : “Bullshit, the emperor just gave me such a little errand, and I finished it with my eyes closed. I am an old man who is too idle all day long. If you don’t let me be lively, why don’t you kill me?” The two laughed at the same time.

Seeing him directing Zhang Debiao and his gang at the front door to be lively, I went inside to have a look. The Li Yapen had already arranged the restaurant for a lively celebration, and all the female waiters were also fully dressed, standing everywhere, ready to welcome guests.Walking around upstairs and downstairs, I was very satisfied, and I heard the whispers of the waiters from time to time.

“Is this that Eunuch Gui? It looks so nice.”

“Yes, but it’s a pity that he’s a eunuch.”

“Could it be that your little girl has also taken a fancy to him?”

“Hey, you’re right, your hoof must have taken a fancy to him.”

I was very excited when I heard it, and kept wandering upstairs and downstairs in front of them, satisfying my modesty to the greatest extent.When going downstairs for the third time, I suddenly met a woman on the stairs. The clothes of the other waiters were bright red, but her clothes were the same style, but they were purple red. Looking closely, it was that Ao. Nashan, the daughter of Bai, Nashan still looked at me with unkind eyes, still vicious.I didn’t dare to look at her, I lowered my head and walked past her suddenly.

I found Li Yapeng downstairs and asked him about the situation. Li Yapeng said: “A few days ago, master, you told me to treat her well. Apart from being unreasonable to the master, this girl is really good at learning things very quickly. She is savvy, and all the girls listen to her, so I promoted her and made her the head lady.” I didn’t understand, so I asked him what the head lady meant, and Li Yapeng said the name It was him who made it up, which means the head of the female hall. I laughed and said: “You old man is also interesting, and you can make up an official name yourself. It’s not good-sounding, and it’s easy to make a taboo, so call it the foreman.” Come on, or you can call the manager of the lobby.” Li Yapeng said: “The master is knowledgeable, and he can come up with two such good names with his mouth. Lobby manager.”

Seeing that it was almost time and the guests had already arrived, I entered a private room under the arrangement of Li Yapeng. In this private room, besides a huge mahogany dining table, there was also a stage. There are only four rooms in the entire restaurant, and this room is the largest. According to Li Yapeng, according to Prince Kang’s instructions, Prince Naylor will be in this room later.It seems that Prince Kang is making a lot of noise and wants to bring all their relatives over.

Sure enough, after a while, Prince Yu Fuquan, Prince Gong Changning, Prince Chun Longxi, Fuguo Gong Yebushu, Zhenguo Gong Gao Sai, Chang Shu, Zhenguo General Tao Sai, etc., under the dignified and generous guidance of the female waiter, followed each other one by one. Enter the house.Everyone greeted me when they saw me.At this time, Nashan led the opera troupe to enter through the side door. When the gong sounded, the opera began to sing on the stage. Once the old prince liked this, he sat down to watch.Prince Yu and Prince Gong here are not very old, and they have a good relationship with me. They dragged me to the flower platform to watch the excitement downstairs.Prince Nakang stood on the doorstep and greeted the officials who came to congratulate him one by one. All the guests were never empty-handed. There were servants carrying congratulatory gifts, and some gave gifts directly. Li Yapeng was holding famous cards Pulling his throat, he announced the official’s name and gift list.Across the street are parked a lot of big green woolen sedan chairs with purple and gold roofs. If they were placed in my era, they must be big Benzes and BMWs.Both sides of the road were surrounded by crowds of spectators.Zhang Debiao led the warriors to maintain the order of the scene, kicking passers-by who stood too close to them far away from time to time.

Almost all the guests were waiting. Prince Kang loudly announced that the auspicious time had come, and unveiled the plaque to celebrate. Immediately, firecrackers blared, gongs and drums blared, and the street in front of the store was lively with dragon and lion dances, acrobatics and wrestling.The old princes in the house heard the commotion, and walked up to the flower stand one after another. Looking at the other flower stands in the restaurant, they were also full of officials who came to congratulate.Several lords around me looked at the bustle and murmured, and said: “Kang Kang doesn’t know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd, so he opened the business himself, and there are still few shops under his name, so how can he invite guests to celebrate with such a big fanfare like this time?” “The other said: “It is estimated that I am bored all day long, and the whole shop is having fun.” It seems that not everyone knows that this restaurant is opened by me, so they can’t help but secretly feel happy.

The downstairs is bustling, the door here opens, Nashan leads a group of maids to serve the dishes, I invite everyone to sit down and start the banquet, everyone sits down one after another, the stage recites Xingyun Allegro, and several princes yelled to enjoy themselves , A group of people drank immediately.I thought that I can’t always let Prince Kang be busy downstairs, after all, he is helping me, and it would be too impolite if he can’t even make a meal, so I apologized and resigned and went downstairs.

Prince Kang was having a good time, and he was unwilling to go up even if he said nothing. He held a plate of silver in his hand, and threw out one or two ingots from time to time. I also found it interesting to reward the crowd of jugglers. The duck shed went to exchange money, but was stopped by Prince Kang, and said: “I have brought more than 2000 dishes here, enough for us to have a good time.” He waved his servant to take a dish and handed it to me.I was not polite to him, I grabbed a handful in my hand and threw it out. Suddenly, there was a commotion below. Dozens of people bent down to pick it up, and some people were squeezed down, rubbing their faces and covering their bodies with dirt.See us laughing.I suddenly had an idea, and said to Lord Kang: “My lord, why don’t you go to the room and throw it from upstairs, wouldn’t it be more interesting.” Lord Kang rejoiced: “Good idea, you can throw it upstairs even more.” Stay away.” He ordered the man to turn around and go upstairs with the silver plate.

Seeing that he went upstairs, I had nothing to do outside the door, so I threw the silver out of the plate in my hand, causing chaos in the audience, handed the tray to Li Yapeng, turned around and went upstairs, Suddenly a person squeezed through the crowd, ran up the steps in two or three steps, grabbed my arm, and shouted: “Gui Gonggong, stay a step.” I looked back, but it was Li Dequan, the eunuch who went to the study, thinking of the emperor’s words. When the congratulatory gift came, I couldn’t help being overjoyed, I cupped my hands and said, “Eunuch Li, why are you here too, does the emperor have any orders?”

Li Dequan looked around, then took my hand and walked out. I saw that his expression was a little nervous, and I couldn’t help worrying, could something be wrong?Or where did I offend the emperor?Immediately following closely behind, Zhang Debiao had great eyesight, ran forward and pushed away the crowd, allowing the two of us to squeeze out.

Li Dequan didn’t stop, and ran directly to me for more than 20 zhang, then stopped, and said to a young master who was standing with his back to me: “Return to the master, Eunuch Gui is here.” Who is the young master that Dequan calls the master, but seeing him turn around and look at me with a smile, I was shocked.

This person is Aixinjueluo Xuanye, the current sage, and when I saw him, I wanted to bow down. Kangxi raised his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: “This is a private visit, don’t give me my identity.” Exposed.” I laughed and said: “Your Majesty, you…” Kangxi hurriedly stopped me, looked around, and said in a low voice: “Call me Ai Gongzi.” Seeing how funny he is, I couldn’t help it. Live laughing.Kangxi said: “What’s so funny, I don’t look like me?” I said: “It doesn’t matter if you look like it or not, except for those in the restaurant, no one on the street will recognize you.” Kangxi asked again: “Why? So, how many people are here today? What do you all say?” I said, “There are quite a few people here, all of whom are guests invited by Prince Kang. Everyone doesn’t know that it is our business, and they think it is Prince Kang’s shop. “Looking at his face, I said again: “I sold a share of the shop to Prince Kang, and the old prince is trying to build momentum.” Kangxi laughed loudly and said: “Prince Kang, I just want to Having said that, he will take care of Huafeng Tower, I never thought that he would work so hard to solicit customers for you, it is really cheap for you.” Only then did I understand, no wonder Prince Kang is so concerned about the restaurant, it turned out that he received the emperor’s favor. Entrust.

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Kangxi drunkenly said: “You should eat, you should drink, I put this book in the collection. You dare to say no, come and see, there are tens of thousands of beauties in the palace, just look at it and touch it!”

[dedication]