"What?!" Mr. Chen was startled, tapping his cane and trying to get up.
Boss Zhang was shocked when he saw this, and quickly said: "Mr. Chen, please calm down! This Shangyuan Restaurant is your Chen family's property..."
It's okay that he didn't say anything. After he spoke, Bai Song immediately seized the opportunity and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Oh! That's it! Shangyuan Restaurant is Mr. Chen's own property. No wonder they mobilized troops to make trouble in my place! Previously, they had I couldn’t figure it out, but now I understand it! Mr. Chen, you are a great scholar and I can’t afford to offend you. I will close the store tomorrow and move to another place.”
Mr. Chen's face turned red with anger when Bai Song said it, and he leaned heavily on the ground: "That's nonsense! I never care whose store it is! You wait for me, and after I find out, if this store is really The Chen family’s shop is talking about the Three Kingdoms in the shop, let’s see if I will demolish the shop!”
Mr. Chen was not just talking. He hurriedly greeted a relatively young old man who was traveling with him and asked him to leave to investigate. He led the remaining few people to kill towards the opposite side with great momentum.
Boss Zhang was so anxious that he stopped in front and shouted: "Mr. Chen, we can't destroy our store! Why don't I just let the storyteller inside leave?"
Mr. Chen frowned and didn't respond. Bai Song shouted from behind: "Mr. Chen won't give our storyteller a chance to leave!"
When Mr. Chen heard this, he hit Boss Zhang on the head with a stick, making a clang sound.
Mr. Chen was so angry that he was ups and downs. He was supported by an old man and comforted him: "Mr. Chen, please don't get angry. You are already tired. Just watch this store from outside. Let me go and destroy the store."
Mr. Chen gasped and pointed inside: "You go, you go... I want to see who else dares to talk about the Three Kingdoms in Jixian in the future!"
After a while, several old people rushed into Shangyuan Restaurant. There was a ping-ping-pong-pong sound inside, and the guests screamed and fled. All kinds of tables, chairs, benches, porcelain bowls and glasses of wine flew out of the restaurant.
Bai Song really didn't believe that they were teachers. They all worked as urban management officers when they were young, right?
Boss Zhang was so remorseful that he was beaten so hard that a piece of his head fell off, and the shop was also smashed to pieces.
The old man seemed to be more ruthless in order to clear up the relationship. He was afraid of Bai Song's words of favoring one and favoring others, so he took special care of Shangyuan Restaurant.
The old people probably regarded today's trip as a workout, and they smashed it to no end.
A few minutes later, Mr. Chen Sanye, who came after hearing the news, saw the scene in front of his restaurant. He was furious. He pointed at several servants who were traveling with him and said: "Quick! Come on! You idiots dare to hit Chen Sanye in broad daylight." Beat me up in my store, and I will be the one to beat you to death!"
As soon as Mr. Chen finished speaking, before he could see the people around him clearly, a stick flew over and hit him in the face.
Mr. Chen was beaten until he staggered, and half of his face was numb. He spat, and there was blood. He became even more angry and shouted: "Who is it?!"
Mr. Chen was a little dizzy and roared. Seeing that the servants around him didn't move, he asked angrily: "Why are you still standing there? Come on, I'll do it!"
"You bastard, you still want to beat me to death, don't you?!"
The crutch swung over again.
This time, Master Chen was prepared and grabbed the crutch. Just as he was about to snatch the stick away from the other party, he turned around and saw the old man whose face was red with anger.
Mr. Chen was stunned on the spot, talking loudly: "Mrs. Mrs.... Master... you, you, you, how can you..."
Mr. Chen said nothing and stared at Mr. Chen, staring at his hand holding the crutch.
Chen Sanye realized that the matter was serious and quickly let go.
Mr. Chen didn't say a word, rounded his arms and hit Mr. Chen.
The old man didn't move very fast, even a three-year-old child could dodge, but Mr. Chen didn't dare to dodge, so he stood and closed his eyes.
"Ouch!"
Mr. Chen Sanye was knocked dizzy by a stick, and he knelt on the ground and kept wailing.
Mr. Chen didn't care about all this and kept beating people when he got angry.
Chen Sanye's bones were about to fall apart. He begged for mercy on the ground: "Master, please stop fighting. Chen San knows he is wrong... he knows he is wrong..."
"Bullshit! Do you still know that you are wrong? Where is the mistake?"
"I do not know?"
"I don't know yet!"
Mr. Chen beat him harder.
Mr. Chen is about to cry but has no tears. He really doesn’t know!
He just told his grandpa about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, saying that the story of the Three Kingdoms came from Donglai Restaurant. He knew that his grandpa would come to Donglai Restaurant to look for trouble, but how could he have thought that the fire would come to his own restaurant?
Now that he was beaten, he was still blinded. He didn't know everything about the situation. He only knew that someone was destroying Shangyuan Restaurant. He didn't even bother to eat, so he brought people here.
"Boy Bai, you've really done a lot of damage by diverting trouble to the east."
On the other side of the river where the incident happened, in front of Donglai Restaurant, which had just experienced a storm, Li Zhan walked to Bai Song's side with a smile on his face.
Bai Song looked at the opposite side and shook his head with a wry smile: "I can't help it. The shop opposite is always trying to trouble me, so they have to suffer too. It's just a pity. It's a good shop. I still want to buy it. Today If it gets smashed, the price will be lost a lot."
"Mr. Chen is a difficult person. Today you made sarcastic remarks and made it difficult for Mr. Chen to get off the ground. He will target you tomorrow, and I'm afraid your restaurant business will be difficult to maintain. Have you figured out how to resolve this matter?"
"Isn't it enough for the prince to come forward to make Mr. Chen change?"
Li Zhan shook his head with a smile: "I have said that I will never influence anything with my status as a prince. Speaking to you today has broken the rules in my heart. Besides, in front of Mr. Chen, my status as a prince may not be able to influence him. Change. If you want to resolve this matter, you have to rely on yourself."
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After today's trouble, Mr. Chen did not continue to hold on to Bai Song.
Maybe it was for the sake of the prince, or maybe he felt that hitting someone regardless of their posture was detrimental to their status.
Mr. Chen and other old gentlemen also restrained themselves a bit.
But that doesn't mean they let Bai Song go.
Starting from the next day, Shangxian Publishing House gathered the disciples of various teachers and began to clean up the vendors selling Three Kingdoms manuscripts in Jixian County early in the morning.
Piracy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has surged recently, and several printing plants suddenly appeared in the county.
The traders were thinking of making money by printing books, but unexpectedly a group of literati came and cleaned up everywhere.
Because Shangxian Publishing House took the lead in this matter, and Shangxian Publishing House represented orthodox literature under the name of the imperial court.
Even though the vendors were filled with hatred, they did not dare to confront the literati who cleaned the manuscripts.
In addition to cleaning up manuscripts, in all the major restaurants in the county, wherever there are storytellers, there are also old gentlemen who lead students to cause trouble.
So much so that there are conflicts everywhere in the city, and there is excitement everywhere.
Mr. Chen and several respected old gentlemen even jointly issued a petition asking the Taishou Mansion to come forward to support him.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this approach is a bit extreme, but the old man's reputation is too high. The governor did not immediately adopt the suggestion, but he couldn't hold on for a few days.
The trend of "banning the Three Kingdoms" has caused uproar in the city and made people panic.
Donglai Restaurant is the center of the incident, and the bustling scene of the past is gone forever.
No one dared to come to eat, and it was not open for two days in a row.
Everyone in the shop was worried and didn't know what to do next.
Only Bai Song continued to live his life as if nothing had happened.
On the contrary, I feel that these few days have been peaceful and I can take the focus of my life away from the restaurant business and do something else.
One day when I went out at noon, I called a carriage and went to visit Miss Dongfang at her house.
This stingy oriental girl has not cared about the things in the store since Bai Song went to Hualou. She doesn't know why she is so petty, but since she is a partner, she must be coaxed.
Bai Song asked Wang Xiaohua for the address. When he arrived at the location, he got off the carriage and saw a plaque hanging above the door.
The two words above are actually "White Mansion".
Bai Song was stunned for a moment, and then thought of the Eastern girl's name with the character "白".
It’s not surprising to choose a Baifu.
Then he went up to knock on the door, and the little maid who often accompanied him came and opened the door.
"Mr. Bai?"
"Can the Oriental girl be at home?"
"My wife said she won't see Mr. Bai."
"Um... Then you go back and tell me that there is something wrong with the store these days. There has been no customer for two days. The two stores next to each other have also reached an agreement and are planning to rent both stores. Now If it’s about business, we have to meet and talk.”
The little maid thought for a while, nodded simply, and then went back to report.
After a while, the little maid came back, opened the door and led Bai Song in.
After entering the house, Bai Song found that this oriental girl's house had a rather poetic and picturesque style. There were not many secular and stable houses. There were pavilions, pavilions, and small paths. Perhaps it was because there were few people in the house. Flowers, grass, mountains and rivers could be seen everywhere, and the layout was exquisite. It is elegant, surrounded by the quiet fragrance of flowers, and you can hear the gurgling of streams everywhere. When people are inside, it is like stopping to draw a scroll and walking outside. Outside the walls is the secular world, and inside the walls are the mountains and rivers.
Bai Song walked around and looked at the flowers, and finally arrived outside a small building built on the water of a small pond.
The Oriental girl, dressed in white clothes and skirt, stopped in front of the small building, with long hair and waved to Bai Song. She looked like a fairy separated from the world in the landscape.
Bai Song followed him in a few steps, entered the small building, and said to Miss Dongfang: "I usually see girls who are very capable and do everything by themselves. But if you don't want to live alone at home, you can live so exquisitely. With such a small house, it would be better to Me, I don’t want to go to that worldly world anymore.”
Dongfang Bai's expression was indifferent, neither angry nor happy. He pointed to the wicker chair in front of him and asked Bai Song to sit down.
"Xiao Lian, take my Junshan Silver Needle."
"Yes, ma'am."
Xiaolian complained and left to make tea.
Dongfang Bai asked directly: "I heard that the shop is having some difficulties. What's the matter?"
Bai Songze told everything he had encountered.
Dongfang Bai was quite surprised and frowned.
She was angry in her heart, but she also recognized Bai Song's ability and felt that it was completely unnecessary for her to intervene in the business. With Bai Song's ability, she could still run the shop properly.
But I didn't expect to encounter such trouble recently. The other party is Shangxian Publishing House, which is a printing and distribution organization recognized by the imperial court. Regardless of the good or bad of the Three Kingdoms, what they did is undoubtedly challenging the authority of Shangxian Publishing House.
