Chapter 311: Overwhelm the guest
Chapter 311 Overwhelming guest
Upstairs.
Qin Lang was very leisurely drinking tea, knocking on pine nuts. The pine nuts were fried well, the mouth was just right, and the kernels were also crispy and crispy. He knocked a few, and he didn't forget to peel a few for Changle as well.
"Lu Gong, we meet again."
Lu Chengzong sat in front of Qin Lang with a dark face, in front of Prince Chengqian, it was not easy to get angry, but he knew that today he fell into a pit.
If this place is not settled, it will be impossible for the Lu family to become famous in Chang'an tonight, and it may become infamous in Chang'an. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to invite guests and meet friends without even being able to settle the bill?
"Saburo already dug a hole for me to jump?"
"I don't dare to respond to what Lu Gong said. It is you, Lu Gong, who want to book a restaurant for guests, and you also set up the Zuixian Tower yourself. I have neither sent anyone to bring you here, nor have I deceived you. Mr. Lu. I heard that the Lu family was so bold when they came to order the restaurant, and they directly slapped the gold ingots on the counter of my house, which made a mark, and they said that they were not short of money."
"Just now when Mr. Lu came to order, he even asked for a cookbook directly. He didn't even bother to pick and choose. He even wanted to buy all the recipes from my family. This is so arrogant and amazing."
"What's the matter, all the guests are here, and we have prepared all the ingredients, and we are about to serve, but Mr. Lu said that we blackmailed people? Said that the food is too expensive?"
"Is there no such reason in the world?"
Chang Le stretched out her small hand and snatched the freshly peeled pine nuts from the plate in front of Qin Lang, and said at the same time, "My Tang Dynasty must not be like this, my father and mother never taught me this way! "
Lu Chengzong gritted his teeth angrily.
But I overplayed it just now, and I didn’t expect such a pit to exist. It’s simply a sinkhole.
"A banquet of ten thousand successes, I have never heard of such a thing throughout the ages, even if the whole world judges it, there is no such thing."
"If Mr. Lu thinks it's expensive, why don't you order so much? It's not just today that you have a ten-thousand-dollar abalone. My family's Zuixianlou has been open for so long. There are thousands of people who order this dish and have eaten it. Four to five hundred. Everyone who ordered food said it was good, and praised Zuixianlou for its ability and level, allowing them to eat fresh abalone in Chang'an. Fan Yang Lu, who is famous all over the world, can buy a strange piano in Xishi Baijin, and he can smash it in public, he is very proud, now ordering an abalone, it will be too expensive at the end of the day!"
"It's strange. If word spreads, people all over Chang'an will be amazed. It turns out that Fanyang Lu's family is nothing more than that. In the past, the wife of the house minister, Lu's family, was jealous and refused to let her husband take a concubine. Today, there is Master Lu, the Duke of Fanyang County, who wants to eat it." Overlord meal!"
Lu Chengzong knew that he was cheated by Qin Lang, and he was miserable, but he was really unreasonable in this matter today.
The blame is only on him for being careless, but if he is forced to bear the tens of thousands of meals for the sake of face, he is really unwilling.
He could only turn his head and look at Prince Chengqian.
"Your Highness, please be the master of your subject!"
Chengqian pretended to be dazed, holding a walnut in his hand, "How can Lu Gong hope that Gu can help you decide? If Lu Gong has no money to pay the bill, Gu can borrow it from you."
Lu Chengzong almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.
"Your Highness, even if an abalone costs ten thousand yuan, it's not right for this table to cost ten million yuan."
Qin Lang sneered twice, "Look at what Lu Gong said, your banquet has more than two hundred delicacies from mountains and seas, and you have booked my entire Zuixianlou. There are so many guests, and the money is not much. My shopkeeper even gave you a discount and wiped it off for you."
It's expensive to book a table in a restaurant for tens of millions of dollars, of course, it's ridiculously expensive.
But the problem is that although all the dishes are expensive, they are all clearly marked.
"The shopkeeper said earlier that today's guests are so proud that they just order a recipe. I still don't believe it. Usually, there are three to five or a dozen guests in my family. The top-level banquet is only a few hundred thousand dollars. Lu Gong is worthy of being from Yanzhao, and he is so proud. As soon as he came, he ordered a whole recipe book, which is full of famous dishes of my Zuixianlou ah!"
Lu Chengzong gritted his teeth and looked at Chengqian.
Cheng Qian pretended to be embarrassed, "Teacher, Bachelor Lu came to Chang'an this time, and he also entered the Chongxian Hall as a direct bachelor, and he will also solve the problem of lonely teaching. Can the teacher give you a solution?"
"Just pay, tens of thousands of dollars may be a big deal for others, but for Fan Yang Lu, it shouldn't be a drop in the bucket. What's the matter, Lu's hundred gold to buy a barbarian from the Western Regions?" I just smashed the strange piano, and got a piece of broken wood and rotten strings. When I came here, I wanted to eat for free. In the end, I had to brag to outsiders that I had booked a restaurant to treat guests? This is not like borrowing flowers to offer Buddha. .”
"Teacher, why don't you change the banquet menu, it's okay!"
"I have prepared all the materials. I will slaughter what needs to be slaughtered. I will kill what should be killed and cut what should be cut. You don't want it now. Aren't all my materials wasted?"
The two of them sang together there, just like talking about cross talk.
"Teacher, it really doesn't work. Look at another menu. As for the wasted ingredients and labor, the teacher calculated how much it was, and it was paid for by Lu Zhi alone."
"What's the point of this? It doesn't make sense for someone else to show off and let His Royal Highness pay the bill in the end."
"It's really not possible, then even if I treat guests today, I happen to respect the scholars of the world very much, so I will invite you here! I will take this opportunity to get to know everyone!"
Qin Lang still pretended to be embarrassed.
"I'm afraid others won't appreciate it. Today is the time for people to make their name shine in Chang'an."
Lu Chengzong's lungs were about to explode, but he didn't dare to answer the words lightly. If Qin Lang played a scoundrel and insisted on asking him to pay the ten thousand guan, wouldn't he be wronged? It's true that the Lu family has money, but they don't have any To the extent that 10,000 customers are invited for a meal.
Today he booked the entire restaurant and brothel in Pingkangfang as a treat, originally he only planned to spend a few hundred guan.
"Lu Gong, what's the matter, what are your plans?"
Qin Lang asked with a smile.
Lu Chengzong looked at Qin Lang. When Qin Lang banned smuggling and set up a border market in Youzhou, the Lu family also suffered a disadvantage. Unexpectedly, it fell into Qin Lang's hands again this time.
"Bachelor Lu, how about borrowing your place today, borrowing your guests, and the literati of Chang'an, who will be president of the Guhui?" Chengqian said.
Speaking to this point, Lu Chengzong found that he really couldn't advance or retreat.
After a long time, he sighed.
"Thank you, His Royal Highness, for your help. Lu is more respectful than obedient."
Lu Chengzong secretly looked at the young His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, seeing his innocent face, he couldn't guess for a moment whether Qin Lang and the Crown Prince dug the pit together, or whether His Highness the Crown Prince really wanted to help him out.
I really can't figure it out.
So I had no choice but to recognize the favor of the prince.
"His Royal Highness, please come downstairs with me, and I will introduce you to His Highness!"
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Tai Chi Palace.
In the Hall of Liangyi, Li Shimin and Empress Changsun are playing chess. The husband and wife are playing a game of 槊槊.
"Unexpected!"
Li Shimin sighed while shaking the dice.
"Do you think it was a chance meeting, or did Qin Lang plan it in advance?"
"The concubine felt that this matter might just happen to happen, and then Qin Lang went along with the flow and helped."
"It's a good push, but this push is too hard."
"Isn't this not good? Originally, the Lu family made such a big gimmick, which attracted the attention of the whole Chang'an, and invited the literati and lively people in Chang'an, saying that they would make friends through poetry, but in fact, they wanted to use this to attack The imperial court’s new imperial examination system. But now, with Qin Lang’s actions, Lu’s crusade against the imperial examination has become a banquet for Cheng Qian’s literati.”
This night, the big melon that countless people were looking forward to, came to him with a big reversal.
The Lu family hired all the restaurants and prostitutes in Pingkangfang, and invited the famous gentry talents from Chang'an to gather in the Zuixianlou, but in the end it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Duke Yi Qin Lang who came out.
The host was changed to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The delicacies of mountains and seas in Zuixianlou were made into flowers by the chef of the Qin family, which became an art, which is amazing.
But more importantly, the prince was generous, bold and intelligent that night.
During the banquet, everyone wrote poems and sang together, and the prince even wrote several excellent works. Qin Lang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, also wrote three masterpieces in a row. Cheng Chumo also made excellent poems.
In the end, even Qin Lang's groom, Ah Huang, actually exported it into poems.
This talent show of five surnames and seven families turned out to be a poetry competition between the crown prince and Qin Lang.
Lu Chengzong was downcast from beginning to end.
The heroes of the forty-four families with five surnames are all wilting like eggplants beaten by frost.
I feel dissatisfied, but his poems are really good.
This made the Chang'an literati and melon-eaters who came here all be amazed by the crown prince, and they were also full of praise for Qin Lang.
At the end of the banquet, the shopkeeper inadvertently revealed that the banquet cost tens of millions, and the person who paid the bill was the Prince of the Eastern Palace.
Lu Chengzong treats guests, and the crown prince pays. Talented men of the five surnames made friends with poems, and His Royal Highness the Prince's poems shocked Chang'an.
The Lu family and the five surnames and seven sects were not happy about this reversal, but the people in Chang'an were extremely happy, especially Jingzhao Weidu, Guanxi Yang's, Hedong Xue Liupei, Jiangnan Xiao Wangxie, etc., were even more happy to see The frustration of the five surnames is overwhelming.
After the banquet, Lu Chengzong left with a pale face. Before he left, he had to thank His Royal Highness the Prince for his kind rescue, and he owed the Prince a million dollars in vain.
Sitting in the carriage, Lu Chengzong even said bitterly, "If I had known this result, it would be better to grit my teeth and get this ten thousand guan!"
In the carriage, Lu Chengzong's son Lu Dalang said, "I never thought His Highness the Crown Prince would be so talented!"
"Do you believe that those poems were really written by His Royal Highness?"
"But His Highness the Crown Prince's poems about farmers earlier were quite astonishing."
Lu Chengzong shook his head, "He is His Highness the Crown Prince, so some poets are willing to dedicate their good poems to the Crown Prince, understand?"
"impossible?"
"I heard a word from the shopkeeper in Zuixianlou today, Juxianlou, everything is possible."
"Chang'an, everything is possible."
"After all, I still underestimated Chang'an, and I also underestimated Qin Lang, but I don't know whether it was Qin Lang's intention or the one from Taiji Palace."
At this moment, Lu Chengzong was both annoyed and hated, and even a little frightened.
He planned for a long time, but he was easily broken by others, and he turned it around like this, and took it for himself. These countless thoughts have instead become the crown prince and Qin Lang's fame.
It's really shameful to throw it at my grandfather's house.
"Aye, why do you think it's such a coincidence? Is there any trick in it?" Lu Dalang asked.
Lu Chengzong was surprised.
Could it be that Qin Lang is not too smart, but that there is a mole on his side? Boling Cui or Xingyang Zheng?
The pores of Lu Chengzong's whole body opened all at once, goose bumps all over his body, and his hairs stood on end.
(end of this chapter)