Chapter 3(1/3)
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Erkang began to feel restless since the Empress Dowager returned to the palace, and felt something was wrong everywhere. Before the Empress Dowager returned to the palace, he was generous and did not need to avoid it. Anyway, the emperor's words "protecting Shufangzhai" gave him a reason to be honest and bright, and no one in the palace dared to say anything. However, since the Empress Dowager came back, there were more people walking around at the door of Shufangzhai. When he went to Shufangzhai again, not only Ziwei was nervous, but he himself felt a little nervous, as if eyes were staring at him quietly on all sides. However, he couldn't control himself. Shufangzhai was like a big magnet, always attracting him.
Furthermore, what made him deeply worried was the queen. Originally, the queen and Ziwei Xiaoyanzi had stopped fighting for a while. Although the queen was still cold and Mama Rong was still gloomy, everyone kept their distance and could live their own lives. Now, as soon as the Queen Mother came back, the Queen seemed to suddenly wake up from her sleep, became more powerful and arrogant again, and her hostility with Ziwei appeared again.
Another thing that makes Erkang feel uneasy is Qing'er.
On that day, he walked towards Shufangzhai. By chance, Qing'er and a few palace maids walked towards him.
When the two met, they both stopped.
"Erkang! Hello! I have been back for many days and I don't have time to talk to you! It seems... so many strange things have happened to you!" Qing'er smiled and looked at him deeply.
"Have you heard of it?" Erkang said gratefully, "That day, thank you. Fortunately, you helped to help relieve the situation. Otherwise, the Old Buddha would not have spared Xiaoyanzi so easily!" Qing'er smiled, and his clear big eyes stared at him clearly. Erkang was actually a little cramped.
"I didn't expect that I went to Mount Wutai with Lord Lao Fu. It seemed that it was only a few days in the mountains. It has been thousands of years on earth, and everything has changed!" Qing'er smiled and said, "Erkang, are you okay? Are you very happy?"
"Yes! I'm all right, what about you?" Erkang became even more embarrassed.
"It's still the same thing, there is no self in life, only the Lord Lafayette! Of course, no one can talk to you in the mountains! When I returned to the palace, I heard many stories. I'm going to tell you, I'm a little disappointed and sad, and I feel that I haven't participated in these "earth-shaking" things. It's so regretful! Those stories are all listened to one sentence from the east and the west, incomplete! When can I hear you say it!"
"I will tell you when I have time!" Erkang looked at her frankly, "These days have really made a 'earth-shaking'. The fifth prince and I have also found a confidant to spend our whole life together. The life experience is really wonderful... Sometimes, I have to believe that marriage will be determined by heaven!"
Qing'er smiled sweetly.
"Although things are achieved in heaven, they are still planning in man, right?"
Ekang was stunned, not knowing what she was saying, and for a moment, he couldn't speak.
At this moment, Xiaoyanzi ran over, followed by Ziwei. Ziwei shouted: "Little Yanzi! Don't go to Jingren Palace! It's better for us to abide by the rules!" "No, no, I'm almost suffocating!" Xiaoyanzi shouted.
As soon as Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei saw Ekang and Qing'er, they hurriedly stopped their steps. Ekang hurriedly came forward.
"Why are you in a hurry?"
Ziwei looked at Erkang and Qing'er, and felt a little weird intuition and said softly:
"This is 'Girl Qing'!"
Qing'er immediately had a blessing.
"Just call me Qing'er!"
The little swallow's eyes lit up, her eyebrows were smiling, and she shouted:
"Qing'er! I thought you were a palace maid that day, but I didn't expect that you were a 'real' princess'! You could talk all the time in front of Lord Lady, and it made Lord Lady have no temper at all. You are so majestic!" Qing'er just smiled and looked at Ziwei involuntarily.
Erkang hurriedly introduced to both sides:
"Ziwei, Xiaoyanzi, you can get to know Qing'er well! She is a popular person in front of Lord Lafayette. From now on, you two may have to rely on her to help you in many places!"
Ziwei will be blessed.
"I am Ziwei, please take care of me!"
"I dare not be a good person! I have heard the story of the 'true and fake princess' along the way, and it is already 'having a long time since I heard of the famous name'! If I were the celebrity in front of Lord Lao Fu, you two would probably be the 'purple people' in front of many people!" Qing'er responded, her voice clear and pleasant.
Ziwei was stunned. Before she could reply, Xiaoyanzi shouted quickly:
"What 'paper man'? I'm not 'paper man'! Paper man breaks as soon as the wind blows, how can I be so fragile?"
Qing'er covered her mouth and smiled, looked at the three of them, nodded and said:
"Laofu sent me to do my business, but I haven't finished it yet! I can't talk more! I think you probably have something to do, I won't delay you anymore! I'm leaving, and I'll talk to you again another day! Goodbye!"
Qing'er glanced at Ekang again and left gracefully.
Ekang was stunned. Ziwei felt something and looked at Ekang uneasy. Xiaoyanzi didn't notice anything. She immediately put aside Qing'er and shouted excitedly:
"We're going to find Yongqi, okay? These days, we have been so nervous that we've been delayed by the 'Laofu Lord', and have delayed the opening of Huibin Tower! Aren't our gift halfway? Let's go and prepare it!"
Ziwei was still in a daze towards Qing'er's back. Ekang somehow felt that "I was not a thief, but I was guilty." In order to hide his sudden uneasiness, he hurriedly responded loudly:
"Okay! Let's go find the fifth prince and prepare for the big event in Huibin Tower!"
"Huibin Tower" opened that day.
At the entrance of Huibin Tower, there was a bustling crowd, and everyone was crowded there, looking at the golden signboard of Huibin Tower, the open door, the luxurious decoration inside, and a team of dragon and lion dancers danced over, beating and gongs. The dragon was several feet long, and the lion was jumping back and forth between the dragon heads, walking towards Huibin Tower in a noisy way.
Liu Qing and Liu Hong were all wearing new clothes, and they stood at the door with Bao Yatou and Huibinlou's men, looking around, waiting for Ziwei, Xiaoyanzi, Yongqi and Erkang who had never appeared.
Passers-by stretched their heads and watched the fun, and they were talking:
"What a grand restaurant, it's newly opened today!"
"I heard that this Huibin Tower is backed by the prince, and it is very popular!"
"It's not the prince. I heard that it has something to do with that Condor Heroes!"
In the crowd, there was a young man who was wrapped in a white scarf and listening attentively. His face was very pale, but his eyes were very sharp, his eyes were bright and shiny, he was tall, wearing a strange outfit, and his whole body was exotic. This man was no one else, but Meng Dan. His subordinates also wrapped a headscarf and followed him step by step.
Liu Qing, Liu Hong didn't notice Meng Dan and his men, and never saw Ekang and the others. Both of them were a little restless. Liu Hong stretched her neck and looked forward and asked:
"Have they come? Why didn't anyone see it?"
"I think they won't come! They rushed back last time, but I don't know if something happened?" Liu Qing said.
"The auspicious time is almost here. Should we wait for them or set off firecrackers?"
As he was talking, the dragon and lion dance team had already danced to the front of the door. Liu Qing asked in surprise:
"Liu Hong, have you called the Dragon and Lion Dance Team?"
"No!"
Liu Hong was wondering that a lion dancer took a letter and handed it to Liu Qing. Liu Qing bowed his head and said to him:
"We can't come out and can't come to congratulate us. We specially hired a team of dragon and lion dance teams to represent us. Congratulations on your opening!"
"So that's the case! They really can't come!" Liu Hong was very disappointed.
The dragon and lion dance team had already performed hard, and the dragon was extremely active. It was coiled together and flew into a straight line, vivid and beautiful, and unique, which made the audience applaud. The lion was particularly naughty, sometimes climbing on the dragon's back for a walk, sometimes jumping and dancing on the dragon's head. The lion and the dragon rolled around, and the dragon head and the lion head echoed each other, dancing in a colorful way. Such a beautiful dragon and lion dance made Liu Qing and Liu Hong also open their eyes and stared at it.
The onlookers watched with relish and applauded.
The lion suddenly jumped in front of Liu Hong, dancing with great dance, exaggerated movements, licking her face like a pug, and scratching her nose with her paws. Liu Hong was smiling and dodging at first, but the lion became less and less beautiful. She stood up and picked her up. Liu Hong was shocked and jumped down from the ground in a hurry, and became a little angry and shouted:
"What do you do? What do you do?"
Liu Qing also felt something was wrong and shouted:
"Hey! Stay away! Don't jump close to the girl!"
The lion is not willing to be obedient, so he gets closer to Liu Hong, rubs around and poses.
The dragon was restless and curled Liu Hong in the middle like a big snake, and the dragon's head kept approaching Liu Hong.
"What's wrong with you? Who asked you to come? Are you going to make trouble?" Liu Hong shouted.
"I'm not polite if I make trouble again!" Liu Qing was angry, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to take action.
When the lion saw that the two were already angry, he danced to Liu Hong's eyes, and suddenly took the lion's head away and smiled at Liu Hong. Liu Hong was shocked and saw that under the lion's head was the smiling face of Xiao Yanzi.
"Little Swallow! It's Little Swallow!" Liu Hong was overjoyed.
The big dragon also took away the dragon's head and showed Yongqi's smiling face.
Liu Qing was surprised and happy, and couldn't believe it:
"Five..." As soon as he spoke, Liu Qing swallowed the title alertly and hurriedly saluted Yongqi, "Your gift is too big, how dare we take it?"
At this time, under the dragon body, Ekang jumped out with Xiao Dengzi, Xiao Zhuozi, Xiao Guizi and Xiao Shunzi.
Erkang walked towards Liu Qing, Liu Hong, and bowed with his fists:
"Congratulations! Your Huibin Building will be opened today, how could we not come to congratulate you?"
"Yes! However, Xiaoyanzi's congratulations made us miserable!" Yongqi said.
"The two masters are so stubborn. Don't be afraid. We are sore in the back and back, and our arms are almost broken!"
Xiao Dengzi shouted.
"Yes! Yes!" Xiao Zhuozi, Xiao Guizi, and Xiao Shunzi responded one after another.
Liu Hong was so happy that she pulled Xiaoyanzi and shouted and jumped:
"You are like this every time, and it's impossible to imagine it! You can't guess it!" I searched around again, "Where are Ziwei and Jinsuo? Why didn't you see it?"
Ziwei took Jin Suo and smiled from behind the crowd, standing up with the crowd.
"Why won't we come to such a grand event? Xiaoyanzi doesn't allow us to show up. She wants us to hide in the crowd, for fear that we will reveal their secrets!" Ziwei said with a smile.
"Fortunately, it was our luck that we didn't want us to dance that dragon too!" Jin Zuo also smiled.
Liu Hong asked Ziwei in a low voice:
"How is that empress dowager? Is it fierce? Is it so good when I went back with my face full of paint last time?"
Before Ziwei could answer, Xiaoyanzi rushed to speak:
"What else? We met the nemesis again. That 'Laofu' is not a fuel-efficient lamp. We almost couldn't get out..."
"Shh..." Erkang hurriedly booed with a warning.
Xiaoyanzi shrank her neck and closed her mouth quickly. Liu Qing hurriedly shouted:
"It's fire! It's fire! It's good to open!"
Firecrackers were crackling. Xiaoyanzi and others followed Liu Qing and Liu Hong into the door.
Huibin Building was already full of customers and the business was booming. Fortunately, Liu Qing and Liu Hong had already left a big round table for everyone. Everyone sat down, and saw the waiter with Baoyao, passing through the room. Baoyao was only twelve years old and an orphan in the slum. Huibin Building opened, so he came to help. Xiaoyanzi couldn't sit still when she saw that the business was so good.
"I didn't expect that the business would be so good on the first day of opening! I think Bao Yatou is no longer busy, so I'll help you greet the guests!" As he said that, he jumped up and rushed towards Bao Yatou. "Don't worry, we have enough people to hire!" Liu Hong shouted hurriedly. Xiao Yanzi was reluctant to ignore it, and rushed to take Bao Yatou's plate and asked:
"You go and greet other guests! Which table is this?"
Bao Yatou pointed at the front:
"The third table in front!"
To be continued...