Chapter 77: Lou Wai Lou
Chapter 77 Building outside the building
The dark sky enveloped the earth, and a rooster crowed suddenly, breaking the silence of the world. A touch of fish-belly white slowly emerged from the sky, adding a bit of life to the gloomy earth.
The capital city, as the big city at the foot of the emperor, is the most prosperous place in the entire Beirong. Of course, the law and order is also the most stringent.
The sun is gradually rising, and the warm light shines on the earth, making the faces of the hawkers who came out early to set up stalls full of smiles looking forward to the new day.
On the road, students who go out to buy books can be seen everywhere, and I heard that even when they are walking, they are still reciting those poems and articles in their mouths. And all the inns in the capital city have the sound of reading books coming from them all day long, causing countless passers-by to show expectant expressions on their faces.
Working so hard, I don't know how far this year's scientific examination will reach?
People in the entire Beirong Kingdom are looking forward to the various endings of this year's scientific examination.
A few days ago, all the inns in the capital were full of students, but there were still many students without accommodation, including those who were rushing to the capital.
The empress learned that she ordered on the spot to open all the Zhuangzi in the capital of the imperial court for the students to live in.
The inn is now only for students to live in. Of course, passing businessmen are also allowed to wait to come in for dinner, but accommodation and noise are not allowed, otherwise they will all be driven out.
The scientific expedition is getting closer and closer, and it has been less than a month. There are fewer and fewer students who go out, and more and more people enter the inn to eat every day.
Building outside the building
Lou Wai Lou is a restaurant that suddenly opened a month ago. Although it is a restaurant that appeared later, it has been compared with those century-old brands.
The reason why Louwailou is popular is because of the reminder on the plaque: Qingshanlouwailou outside the mountain.
Except for the reminder, there is that elegant attire, like an indifferent, quiet, gentle and elegant young man, with a gentle atmosphere everywhere.
The food in the building outside the building is also very rare, which is very surprising. After eating, people will have endless aftertaste and articulate. Not to mention that there is wine made from grapes, but grapes are very rare, so Louwailou only asks a question in the middle of each month, and those who answer correctly will taste a jug of wine for free. In this way, countless people came to the capital specially to admire the famous building outside the building.
And today is the day when Lou Wai Lou writes a question.
Early in the morning, countless scholars and wealthy businessmen all rushed to the building outside the building, and under the leadership of the servants, they came to their seats one by one.
On the day when the Lou Wai Lou gave the question, there are two ways to enter the Lou Wai Lou. One is to pay twenty taels of silver, and the other is to answer a question of the doorman outside the door.
Wealthy merchants all choose to pay money, while scholars and students enter by answering questions.
It is said that on the day when Lou Wai Lou gave a question last month, the sum of money handed over by the wealthy merchants was at least ten thousand taels. This number undoubtedly made countless people envious. Therefore, there are many intentions to secretly attack the building outside the building, but without exception, all of them end in failure.
According to interested persons, the owner of the Louwailou had some connections with several high-ranking ministers in the imperial court, and even the owner of the Louwailou was one of those ministers.
As soon as the news came out, those people who were secretly envious of the business outside the building instantly extinguished those small thoughts in their hearts.
In an elegant room on the second floor, the faint scent of vanilla permeates the entire room. Some unknown flowers and plants are placed around the room, and several green bamboos painted in ink are hung on the wall.
A woman is sitting on a chair in a private room, holding a cup of bamboo leaf tea in her hand, her eyes drooping slightly, looking at the bamboo leaves in the cup, thinking.
The woman is wearing ink-colored clothes, and the hem of the clothes is embroidered with a few faint flowing cloud patterns with golden silk thread. The golden color is faintly visible, which sets off the noble atmosphere of the woman.
A crimson jade pendant around her waist, with a rough appearance, does not match the aura of this body at all. But those who know the goods will know that it is a blood-colored amber that is rare in the world!
It is said that blood-colored amber is rare to see in a thousand years. If it is carried on the body all year round, it will help martial arts practitioners to speed up their cultivation. Ordinary people can prolong their lives without worrying about major and minor illnesses. But there are too few blood-colored ambers in the world, only two pieces. One piece is in the Imperial Palace of Beirong Kingdom, which was donated by a small country that was defeated and surrendered a few years ago. And the other one is in the world-famous Medical Immortal Valley.
The woman didn't know what to think, she sighed lightly, and slowly raised her head. Show off that beautiful face.
Eyebrows like black, eyes like stars, nose like pine, lips like cherry blossoms.
She is really a woman who is more beautiful than a man, but that noble aura of self-importance makes people only look at it from a distance and not play with it.
The woman stretched out her slender fingers like white jade, rubbed her forehead lightly, put down the cup in her hand with a little boredom, and sighed silently.
This woman is none other than Junli who should be staying in the palace.
It has been more than a month since the palace change. On the morning of the second day of the palace change, she secretly sent Shi Feng away and dispatched a thousand cavalry to protect her. Doing the math now, they should have reached the frontier and started to attack the Nanban.
After Shi Feng was sent away, Imperial Physician Luo also ordered someone to boil the medicine, and gave it to the poisoned soldiers one by one, and the toxicity was temporarily controlled.
However, General Shen and the others dug the palace three feet, but found no trace of Yeluqi and Fang Zhiqiang, so they had to give up in the end, and when Shi Feng attacked Nanman, they couldn't believe that they would not show up!
And this month, she was haunted by Xiao Moran's evildoer every day, and at night he took her to rest in his palace, ahem, of course, she didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
Being stared at by that monstrous evildoer, unable to leave the palace to form her own forces, she had no choice but to hand over all those ideas to Royal Doctor Luo and let her go out of the palace to do it.
The outer building was bought by Doctor Luo at a high price a month ago. Later, according to her request, the outer building was remodeled inside and out, and the outer building is now.
Today, she was the one who lured Xiao Moran away, and was able to escape, otherwise he might not know how to make trouble!
Just now she sighed mainly because she thought of Eunuch Duan.
After the palace change, she would visit Eunuch Duan's palace every day, and she didn't wake up for a day or two. She only thought that the injury was too serious and it would take a few days to wake up. But she didn't wake up for half a month, which frightened her, she hurried to the imperial hospital and pulled the busy Doctor Luo over.
Doctor Luo made a diagnosis, flipped through the medical books he brought with him in puzzlement, then pondered for a while, looked at her with a bit of pain, and said slowly under her uneasy eyes, "Eunuch Duan, what are you doing?" yes…"
He glanced at her hesitantly, gritted his teeth, and said, "Eunuch Duan's heart is damaged. It is not easy to save a life with Lengxiang. Now the medicinal power of Lengxiang has not been fully absorbed, so wait until Eunuch Duan completely absorbs Lengxiang." Only after the medicinal power of the incense is used will it wake up."
"How long?" Her voice was flat.
Doctor Luo bowed his head, "I don't know, one month if it's fast, one or two years if it's slow."
After that day, she went to see Eunuch Duan every day, but after half a month, she didn't see the slightest reaction from him.
Thinking of this, Jun Li suddenly felt a little bored, stroked his forehead, and turned his gaze downstairs.
The door of the private room is not a door, but a bead curtain made of beads, hanging outside the door. When the wind blows, the bead curtain makes the sound of jade beads colliding, which is crisp and pleasant, like gurgling water, which makes people feel comfortable.
The outer building has a total of five floors, and its height is only a few meters shorter than the palace. It does not exceed the height of the imperial palace, which seems to be treasonous, and also shows the huge financial resources of the building outside the building and the height of the owner behind it.
Now she is sitting on the third floor of the building outside the building, and only with the VIP card of the building outside the building can she have a private room on the third floor. The first and second floors are also private rooms, but the treatment is not as good as the third floor, as long as you have money, you can enter. The fourth floor is a place for guests to stay. The person who stays must be in the eyes of the owner, otherwise even if you are a rich person or a dignitary, you will never want to stay.
As for the fifth floor, it is the place where the building outside the building secretly collects information. Except for the owner and shopkeeper of the building outside the building, only those who allow them to enter can enter. If anyone wants to enter by force, they will be hidden in the dark. Dispose of it silently.
And these masters cannot be transferred from the palace. They can only choose from some of the elite soldiers and horses brought by Luo Yuyi that day, that is, those soldiers and horses trained secretly by the original owner.
As for the identity of the girl in black, she is Huawen, one of the five hall masters in the dark pavilion!
The first floor, the second floor and the lobby are already more than half full of people, but people are still coming in from outside.
Picking up the cold tea, drinking it indifferently, seeing a sudden commotion at the entrance of the hall, Jun Li frowned, does anyone dare to make trouble outside the building?
Because of the noise outside, even if she used her internal strength, she couldn't hear what was being said there? Just vaguely heard a few words: why not let us in? Isn't this your home? …
Called the young man waiting outside the door and told him to go and see what happened. The young man responded respectfully and ran downstairs quickly.
After a while, the boy ran over again, stood outside the door and said in a low voice, "A few scholars were stopped by the lady of Master Wang's family in the east of the city, saying that they are a group of poor scholars, and they are also worthy of entering here." The boy didn't The slightest way of adding oil and vinegar.
Jun Li smiled, but there was a trace of coldness in his eyes.
Master Chengdong?
Just a businessman, but she dared to stop people outside her building, how arrogant!
"Tell shopkeeper Wu to drive that Miss Wang away, and she will never be allowed to enter the building outside my building again. By the way, I will teach that Mr. Wang a lesson so that she doesn't have to go into business anymore, and go home and teach her daughter."
"Also, let's bring those scholars in again, so that we can entertain them."
"yes."
After the boy retreated, there was a sound of slaughtering pigs outside the hall, and then several scholars in coarse clothes strode in, led by the boy.
[I saw a joke in a book a few days ago, I don’t know if you have read it, share it:
Once upon a time, there was a family surnamed Pan. The elder of the family passed away, and an old gentleman was invited to be the master of ceremonies. But the old man didn’t have much ink in his stomach, and his old eyes were dim, and he couldn’t speak clearly, so he read the obituary: "Filial son: Pan Yinke, filial daughter-in-law: Chi, filial granddaughter: Pan Liangzi, filial grandson: Pan Daoshi,..." read it as follows:
"Filial Man: Do somersaults." Hearing this, the son of the family felt a little strange, but in the presence of the public, he had to do somersaults.
"Filial daughter-in-law: Yes—yes." The daughter-in-law became anxious when she heard it: "I want to turn it too?" But in desperation, she followed suit.
"Granddaughter of filial piety: Turn—twice—time." When the granddaughter heard this, she thought that her parents had turned over, so I should too! So he turned two somersaults.
The grandson of the family began to murmur in his heart: "Parent and mother just turned over once, and sister turned twice. How many times should I turn over?"
At this time, the old man opened his throat and read aloud: "Filial Son: Turn-to-death."]
(end of this chapter)