Xiteng Teahouse was a personal betrothal gift from Yinzhen to Jinxi.
The scale is similar to that of Xiangji Teahouse, with double the depth of an ordinary store, six rooms wide, and two floors. There is also a small courtyard behind the teahouse.
The reason why Yinzhen likes to open a teahouse is to collect information. Nowadays, spies from all over the capital are flooded inside and outside the capital, and the teahouse is the place where the most information is collected.
This time, Yinzhen adopted the decoration features of modern private rooms, high-backed Western-style dining chairs, and Western-style dining tables with glass tops... Even the private partitions in the lobby are no longer antique continuous embroidered screens, but
It is a Japanese-style sliding door with a gauze curtain. The spacious hall is partitioned by exquisitely carved wooden flower stands. Various wisterias and spider plants are placed on the flower stands, adding a bit of greenery.
The stage in the center of the hall is surrounded by elegant gauze curtains, which are loosely hung with fabric knots when not in use, giving the teahouse an elegant and quiet feel.
The design of the VIP room on the second floor is even more unique. Although spring-type European-style sofas have not yet been developed, they can be made of solid wood. Chinese-style sofa chairs with cotton and soft brocade cushions are also very popular. There are also the same sofas casually placed on the backs of the chairs.
Colored cushions, pillows, and the coffee table in the center of the sofa chair also have a glass top. According to the style of the sofa chairs in each VIP room and the different fabrics of the fabric cushions, the glass top of the coffee table also has different colors. There are clear colors.
Transparent, dark brown, frosted... In short, just custom-making these glass countertops cost Yinzhen thousands of taels of silver.
If we were to find a similarity in the decoration style of the entire Xi Teng Tea House with Xiang Kee Tea House, it would probably be the peepholes installed in the hidden places of each box. However, the ones installed in the Xi Teng Tea House were made by Yinzhen
The advanced gadget that Torok bought back from France a long time ago - the listening device. The effect is better than the cat's eye hole. It is for no other reason than to eavesdrop on important information during special periods.
Xiangji Teahouse only has a few hidden peepholes. Because of this, Yinzhen intends to slowly guide Xiangji’s important customers to Xiteng, so that other book friends can read normally:.
As expected, after more than three months of trial operation and two promotions, Xi Teng Tea House has attracted a lot of regular customers.
One promotion is a preferential activity for ordinary people, that is, "order various scented teas and get matching snacks".
The other one is for princes and nobles from all walks of life, that is, if you apply for the "VIP Annual Card", you can not only enjoy the VIP private room on the second floor all year round. You can also enjoy a free pot of top-notch Dongding Oolong with every purchase.
"So, this kind of promotion activity is very attractive both in modern times and in the Qing Dynasty. Guess how many tickets worth three hundred taels of silver each have been sold in the sixteen VIP rooms on the second floor?
VIP rooms use annual passes?”
Hearing Yinzhen's confidence, Jinxi stretched out two fingers and said, "Thirty?"
"Guess again!" Yinzhen curled his lips.
"Fifty?" How many princes and nobles are there in the capital? Is it possible to give one back?
Yinzhen chuckled and shook his head. He answered in her ear with a polar voice: "Sixty-five. This does not include the five cards I gave away as a favor."
Tsk tsk! Jinxi clicked her tongue for a while after hearing this.
"Aren't you afraid that so many card-holding VIPs will swarm in at the same time? How will you deal with it then?" She glanced at him coolly, shook her head and sighed.
"You're stupid. It's impossible for each person to ask for a separate room. Those card-holding VIPs are all familiar to each other. On weekdays, when I go to Xiangji, I usually go in groups to drink tea and chat. Now each person gets one
, it’s just to prove their VIP status.” Yinzhen was not worried at all about Jinxi’s reminder.
He has made careful calculations. Now everyone who should hold the card will get it. Next, he will stop selling VIP cards. In this way, even those card-holding VIPs will come to Xiteng Tea House in groups to drink at the same time.
Tea, other book friends read normally: He is not worried that the private room will not be enough. Because, even if these people disperse the small group activities, they can be divided into at most thirteen groups, which is enough to cope with it.
While they were talking, the carriage had already arrived at the entrance of Xiteng Teahouse. The two got out of the car and walked hand in hand to the entrance of Xiteng Teahouse. When the waiter who was greeting guests saw Yinzhen, he couldn't help but smile. When he saw him next to him again,
The young girl immediately guessed Jin Xi's identity and welcomed them into the lobby with a smile on her face, "Big shopkeeper, Brother Si is here!"
Qin Langyue, the first manager of Xiteng Tea House, who was busy arranging the account books behind the counter, immediately poked his head out of the counter when he heard the waiter's instructions.
"It's him!" Jinxi recognized the big shopkeeper as soon as she saw him. Isn't that the same Qin Langyue who went to Meishan Villa to buy fresh fruits a few years ago, and indirectly inspired her to open the "Language of Fruit"?
"He...is yours?" Jin Xi stared at Qin Langyue who turned out of the counter and greeted them with a smile, and asked in a low voice.
"Yes. You've seen it before, haven't you?" Yinzhen glanced at her with a smile, knowing what she meant by "It's him!"
"Do you know that I have met him?" Could it be that that time when Qin Lang went to Meishan Villa to purchase fresh fruits, it was Yinzhen's instruction? Hearing this, Jinxi raised her eyebrows and looked up at him in surprise. Finally, she couldn't help but frown.
She frowned slightly: "So you were already helping me back then!"
At that time, I was still complacent about being able to come up with such a business that could make me rich in one fell swoop. How stupid!
Also, Xiaotangshan, apart from the former forbidden garden and the hot springs that emerged later, has not attracted a large number of merchants to spend money and effort to purchase agricultural and sideline products.
What's more, Xiaotangshan's fresh fruits and flowers were not famous three years ago. In recent years, thanks to Qin Langyue's purchase, since the successful opening of "Fruit Language", honey language aromatherapy shops and
Huaguo Winery gradually became famous.
"It's not a help, Xiang Kee really needs to use fresh fruits to brew jam and make snacks. But at that time, I didn't know that your secret sauce recipe and snack baking recipe were so powerful, and our Xiang Kee snacks lost half of their customer base in one fell swoop.
"
"So then you came to buy two of my unique formulas?" Jin Xi glanced at him funny, pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Do you know what major I studied in before?"
"Regarding this topic, we will have a good chat when we are alone in private. Now, let me introduce to you, Qin Langyue. Although you have met once, I still want to say that he is my savior. If not
He must have ceased to exist in this world when he was four years old." As Yinzhen spoke, Qin Langyue came to the two of them with a smile, pointed to the top of his head, and gestured for the two of them to go upstairs.
"What happened? Could it be that you sneaked out of the palace and were almost hunted down by anti-Qing and Ming people?" Upon hearing this, Jinxi became curious.
"Half and half. It is true that I was chased out of the palace, but not secretly. Instead, I went to the Temple of Heaven to worship my ancestors with Huang Ama's Luan Jia. On the way, I was disrupted by the remnants of the Ming army who suddenly rushed out. Qiying
At that time, I was swarmed by more than 20 people. If I hadn't met Qin Langyue who was coming down the mountain to collect medicine, I would have definitely died at that time."
Thinking about the past, Yinzhen was still a little sad. He thought he would return to the West less than five years after coming to this world, but unexpectedly he was saved by a little medicine boy.
Since then, he has been pestering Qi Ying every day to practice martial arts.
Although it can't match Qi Ying's beautiful skills, it is enough when it comes to self-protection.
Qin Langyue also had a smile in her eyes when she heard Yinzhen talking about things that happened more than ten years ago. She led the two of them upstairs into Yinzhen's private room, poured a cup of rare Tieguanyin for each of them, and said with a smile:
"Brother Si and Ge Ge were drinking tea and chatting. I went to the kitchen to pick out some freshly baked food."
Seeing Qin Langyue exiting the private room without being humble or arrogant, Jinxi turned to look at Yinzhen and asked worriedly, "Hey, have you never doubted that he had a purpose in saving you back then? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?"
Yinzhen looked back at her meaningfully, "You and Qiying thought of the same thing. However, after he rescued me, he left without asking for anything. It was not until two years later that I ate Xiangji and prepared to reopen the business.
I met him in the market at that time. At that time, he was selling Gastrodia elata with a basket of herbal medicines. After talking in detail, I learned that his family was in Baliting, a suburb of the country. There was a father, a mother, and a
His sister, who is seven years younger than him, should be around thirteen or fourteen now. His father made a living by hunting in his early years. After he injured his leg, he started doing ironwork at home. He followed his father into the mountains since he was a child and learned about various herbal medicines.
Flowers and fruits, after his father had an accident, he picked up herbal medicine. Firstly, it was convenient to treat his father, and secondly, he could exchange for some silver. Later, I arranged for him to go to Xiangji. At first, he helped Luo An take care of Xiangji. Later, he met Xiangji.
Kee’s business was very good, so we simply let him go out on his own and take over the leadership of Xiangji Sauce Shop.”
After listening to Yinzhen's eloquent talk about Qin Langyue's financial background, Jinxi also let go of her worries, but she still needed the necessary reminders.
"Try to be more careful. After all, anything can be faked..."
"Qi Ying once sent his subordinates to strictly investigate the sneak attack on Luanjia that year, and it was confirmed that he was the 'Third Prince Zhu'. Qin Langyue had nothing to do with them, and his ancestors' wealth could be traced back to the Song Dynasty. Now, you
Are you relieved?" Yinzhen glanced with a smile.
"What does this have to do with me? Even if he has a problem, you are the one who is in danger." Seeing that Hao Duan Duan's topic turned to a joke again, Jin Xi glared at him angrily.
"Yes, my wife's safety will be taken care of by me!" Yinzhen squinted and joked.
"Don't be rude. Don't you think it's creepy to call a girl who is only eleven years old and still in vain?" Jin Xi stroked her arm with a shy expression.
"Didn't you say that your soul age is over thirty? And my two lifetimes combined are almost fifty, so what does it matter?" Yinzhen took a sip of tea and replied with an extremely natural expression.
Jinxi sighed, "That's true, but after being a child for too long, I really feel like I'm still a baby. No, I'm still far away from adulthood, and I'm about to get married. To be honest, I doubt it.
Didn't Yue Lao specially bring me to this life to experience the marriage at a young age in order to make up for the difficult marriage in my previous life?!" Girl, this time, it's almost the truth. (To be continued)