"I'll wait for you outside the Hou Mansion." Hu Die deserved to be happy.
When Gu Xiyan went to Zaohui Hall, the four Liu sisters had not arrived yet.
She took the lead in saying hello to the old lady, and then mentioned that she would leave the Marquis' Mansion later.
"You need someone to protect you when you go out. How many nursing homes should you find to accompany you?" the old lady asked with concern.
"I asked Miss Hu Die to protect me. She is very skilled in martial arts. I just went to Jixiang Tower, and her company is enough. I will be careful, don't worry, grandma." Gu Xiyan responded obediently.
The old lady looked at Gu Xiyan like she was looking at a golden bump, and she became more and more kind: "You have to be careful when you go out."
Gu Xiyan heard the voices of the four sisters of the Liu family getting closer, and replied with a smile: "That's what grandma said. I heard that there are secret pastries from the palace in Jixiang Building today, and you have to queue up to buy them. I have to go there early and buy some for you.
If grandma tastes it, I will leave the house first."
Liu Huiyan had the sharpest ears, so she heard what she heard very clearly. She quickly stepped forward and said, "What a coincidence, shall I go out with my eldest sister?"
"Yes, it's rare for us sisters to go out together." It was Liu Chaoyan who answered.
Their cooperation made the smile on Gu Xiyan's face disappear: "It's not that I don't want to go out with my sisters, but my carriage is ready, and the sisters should come later..."
"The carriage can be ready at any time. Big sister, just wait for us sisters." At this time, Liu Junyan came in. When she saw Gu Xiyan's makeup clearly, she would be lying if she said she wasn't jealous.
Not only Liu Junyan, but also the other three girls from the Liu family saw Gu Xiyan clearly, and their expressions suddenly became uncontrollable.
Gu Xiyan has obviously already arranged a marriage, but she still dresses like this. Who is she trying to seduce?
In the end, Liu Junyan came to her senses first: "Grandma, we sisters will go out first."
The old lady was happy to see the Liu sisters interacting more with Gu Xiyan, so she naturally agreed.
In this way, with Gu Xiyan's "unwillingness", everyone left the Hou Mansion and headed to Jixiang Tower.
Just as Gu Xiyan said, when they went to Jixiang Tower, there was already a long queue.
It's just that the pastries haven't been officially sold yet, so the waiting customers are a little impatient.
When Gu Xiyan and the four sisters of the Liu family appeared, everyone could only see Gu Xiyan, who was so beautiful in red clothes, that they could not take their eyes away from Gu Xiyan.
Is this the real number one beauty in Beijing?
It’s no wonder that the King of Qin rejected the engagement, and so soon a young talent proposed marriage to Gu Xiyan.
What normal man wouldn’t want to have such a stunning beauty?
Wu Tong, who was peeping on the third floor, saw Gu Xiyan coming, so he ordered people to move the pastry boxes out and start selling them officially.
When the pastries were officially placed and the prices were quoted, everyone was dumbfounded. The tenth guest in line shouted: "Fifty taels for a box of pastries, why don't you go grab it?!"
Wu Tong said seriously: "This is a long-lost pastry in the palace. It is priceless. If it were not for today's food festival, we would not be able to sell it and make a profit..."
As soon as Wu Tong finished speaking, the handsome man at the front of the queue raised his voice: "Shopkeeper Wu, bring me two boxes."
Gu Xiyan just got off the carriage and said, "Bring me five boxes too."
In fact, the top five guests are all the ones Gu Xiyan asked Su Mei to find.
Shopkeeper Wu looked at Gu Xiyan, said to her: "Although Miss Gu is a distinguished guest, we have to follow the rules today, so Miss Gu should queue up first."
Gu Xiyan looked at the long queue and sighed: "When the queue is over, all the pastries will be sold out?"
After thinking for a moment, she came up with an idea and said to the handsomely dressed young man who was ranked first in the queue: "Can I buy the young master's position with ten taels of silver?"
The Liu sisters couldn't see how good Gu Xiyan was. When they saw that Gu Xiyan wanted to buy a seat, they said to the handsome man: "I'll buy your seat for twenty taels!"
Gu Xiyan glanced at Liu Meiyan and said with a half-smile, "Fifth sister, why are you doing this?"
"Sister, I've always been generous, why don't you just give me this position." Liu Meiyan gave her a fake smile.
Gu Xiyan stopped talking nonsense to Liu Meiyan and said directly to the Chinese-dressed young master: "Fifty taels, young master, are you willing to give up your position?"
Liu Miyan's expression changed when she heard this, and she blurted out: "I'll buy this position for one hundred taels!"
The handsome man seemed to be still hesitating, but as soon as Liu Miyan said this, he readily gave up his position.
After achieving her goal, Liu Meiyan looked at Gu Xiyan proudly: "Sister, please accept!"
Gu Xiyan forced a smile: "The fifth sister bought me two boxes of pastries. I want to honor my grandmother and uncle."
She secretly sighed that the Liu sisters were indeed her best helpers. With the Liu sisters here, today's food festival was half successful.
"But I don't have that much money, so I can't help my eldest sister." Liu Meiyan refused Gu Xiyan's request mercilessly.
Gu Xiyan no longer wasted time arguing, and simply turned to the guest in second place: "Can I buy your seat for twenty taels?"
Liu Chaoyan also came over to join in the fun: "I spent one hundred taels to buy this position!"
The second customer's eyes lit up and he said without hesitation: "Deal!!"
Gu Xiyan didn't believe in evil, so she found the next two guests, but the Liu sisters bought their seats.
Gu Xiyan said angrily: "I can buy pastries without spending this wasted money! Chunhua, go and line up!"
"Yes, girl!" Chunhua quickly ran to line up.
Customers who were hesitating whether to continue queuing up saw the scene of the Liu sisters competing for a seat, and felt that people spent so much money just to buy a seat, which shows that pastries are indeed rare.
Furthermore, the diners who come to Jixiang House are all rich or noble, so spending fifty taels of silver on a box of pastries that only the nobles in the palace can eat does not seem to be a loss.
Everyone knows that Gu Xiyan's position in Wanqing Hou Mansion is awkward, and she is a marginalized figure in the Hou Mansion. The four Liu sisters and Gu Xiyan have never dealt with each other, so it is impossible that the Liu sisters were playing tricks just now.
In addition, the Liu sisters all spent a lot of money and bought twenty boxes of pastries at once. The customers at the back were worried that they would be sold out when it was their turn.
At this moment, another young man in brocade clothes ran up to Wu Tong and said, "Bring me fifty boxes of pastries, I want to give them away."
Wu Tong didn't speak this time, and other customers in line were chasing people away: "Quine according to the rules, first come, first served!"
This young man had no choice but to retreat to the back of the line and queue up honestly.
After that, people tried to jump in line one after another, but they were all kicked away.
As a result, almost everyone in the queue had a copy, and two customers bought as many as ten boxes.
By the time it was Chunhua's turn, all four hundred boxes of pastries had been sold out.
Hu Die watched the whole process from the side, and she realized that the person who asked for fifty boxes of pastries was also a shill.
She also had to admit that Gu Xiyan was a good businesswoman. She actually sold 400 boxes of fifty-two pastries.
This is a total of 20,000 taels. This woman is no different from a bandit who steals money!
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At present, the voice of Mr. and Mrs. Qishi is the loudest.
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