Xu Zhuchen sat at the table, took a slow sip of tea, and looked at Guan Shan opposite with some helplessness. Guan Shan was unaware of her gaze. He just held the brush and clicked down line by line.
"Hmm... Longjing shrimp, crab roe lion's head, crispy squab... and... um, add eight treasures rice, exquisite tofu box... why not rare fruit and vegetable cake? Forget it, add a salt and pepper Scones…”
This girl was so rude. Xu Zhuchen took her to the restaurant, and before she even said she was going to treat him, she naturally sat down and started ordering.
Also, I think she had a private chef growing up, so she probably didn't know that she had to pay for meals.
Xu Zhuchen listened to her ordering them one by one. There were many kinds of dishes, and they were all expensive and time-consuming. He couldn't help but said: "Xiao Xiao, don't order too much. It's hard to carry them if you can't finish them for two people."
Guan Shan raised her fair little face, not knowing why: "You can't give rewards or give them to--" she pointed to the waiter walking around, "Those--well, next, those people?"
Xu Zhuchen couldn't help laughing when he saw her hesitantly swallowing the word "servant".
"This is a restaurant, not a house. Eat as much as you order. It's not good to waste." After she finished speaking, she took the order book and looked at it one by one. She couldn't laugh or cry, "You, you really treat this place as the royal dining room." .”
Xu Zhuchen ticked off the dishes Guan Shan ordered one by one. Guan Shan felt a little regretful and muttered in a low voice: "This is not the imperial dining room. The emperor eats six foods, six drinks, six meals, one hundred shames, one hundred sauces, eight delicacies, what? Japonica rice, yellow rice, sorghum, millet, wheat, wild rice... cattle, sheep, hogs, dogs, wild geese, fish... hundreds of dishes, if you only eat a little of each, that would be real extravagance."
Xu Zhuchen didn't hear clearly and looked at her: "What?"
Guan Shan quickly raised his head and said aggrievedly: "Sister Zhuchen, I'm so hungry."
Xu Zhuchen rubbed Guan Shan's head comfortingly, and while handing the menu to the waiter, he chatted: "Have you ever been involved in accounting before? You use a red and black pen to record all the income and expenditure in the account book, and calculate the One day’s profit and loss.”
As she spoke, she dipped the water on the table and wrote on the wooden table: Fu Yuan Hu, three coins.
"Use a black pen here and write down the expenses."
Guan Shan looked at it and felt a little flushed. She said calmly: "Sister Zhuchen, as a martial arts person, is so knowledgeable. I have lived in a house for a long time and know nothing about this. I am really ashamed."
When Xu Zhuchen saw it, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "I still have some shops and the like at home. You will understand these things after seeing them more."
This is true. Although Xu Zhuchen has never been interested in doing business since he was a child, he always learns quickly and understands these trivial things, so he has always been his parents' favorite heir.
Even if she went to the shop and played wildly with Shi Songhan Ling, disturbing the workers, her father would always nod with a smile and turn around to clean up the mess for her.
On the contrary, my younger brother, who studied business with his father since he was a child, may have made many mistakes and was always scolded for various unimportant reasons.
When Xu Zhuchen reached the age of hairpin, he began to travel around the world, looking for teachers and asking questions, and did not go home often. Occasionally when I walk in and pass by my younger brother, I can always see Xu Zhujue with his black hair hanging down, and there is always a lingering gloom on his face.
Xu Zhuchen occasionally envies Xu Zhujue: He has the same black hair and eyes as his parents and ordinary people, so he will not be regarded as an alien by others; he has been well-behaved and obedient since he was a child, and he will be praised wherever he goes.
As for Xu Zhujue's meticulous life since he was born, no matter how glamorous it looked to others, Xu Zhuchen never liked it.
A person has never chosen, persisted, loved or struggled in his life. Just because he was born into a privileged family, he was arranged to become a pawn in the family business. How could such a thing be lucky?
Thinking of her younger brother, she couldn't help but sigh, and turned to look at Guan Shan: "Xiao Xiao, what does your family do? How come you have never been involved in bookkeeping?"
Guan Shan was just leaning against the window and was lost in thought. When he heard Xu Zhuchen's question, he carefully replied: "My family... seemed to have done business before I was born. I traveled to eleven states and had contacts with foreign countries. But later I moved. When we arrived at the capital - Qinzhou next door." She hurriedly covered up the truth she had leaked, "In Qinzhou, I started to set up education and other things. Later, I started to help others do some book business, and I was not very involved. …”
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Xu Zhuchen secretly, feeling a little panicked in her heart.
Although she had thought of this answer before going to bed last night and had thought about it many times, when she told it to Xu Zhuchen, she still couldn't help but worry about being discovered by her.
Thinking like this, Guan Shan tangled his hands together and did not dare to look at Xu Zhuchen. He turned his head slightly and looked at the scenery outside the window.
They chose a stall with ventilation by the window. Xu Zhuchen didn't want to be extravagant, and Guan Shan also wanted to be novel. The compartment is elegantly decorated, the carved window lattice exudes a faint fragrance, the beige window paper trembles in the wind, and everything in front of you is very fresh.
It was early in the morning when the two set out, the sky was bright and everything was covered with a furry hijab. At this moment, I am sitting in front of the cubicle window. The sunshine outside the window is just right, the flowers are blooming, and the vegetation is lush. Orioles are singing, swallows are dancing, butterflies are flying, and the land of Anbu looks so vibrant.
A completely different vitality from the scenery of the Royal Garden.
When Guan Shan was young, he once couldn't stand the rules in the imperial garden, so he plucked all the snow mirror flowers in the garden without telling his grandmother and his wife. The next day, with fear and pride, she quietly ran to the Imperial Garden, only to find that the snow mirror flower that she had pulled out yesterday had been replaced by a piece of green grass flower overnight.
That's the way it is in this palace, there's never a lack of anything, so there's no room for anything unique. There are no snow mirror flowers, but also green grass flowers. There is no Taifu, there is also a Young Master.
Without Guan Shan, there will be a new prince.
She stared at the flowers and plants outside the window in trance, her eyes a little moist for a moment.
Guan Shan didn't want people to think that she was weak and prone to crying, so she pretended that there was sand in her eyes, took out her handkerchief and rubbed her eyes. The more she rubbed, the more tears flowed and the sadder she became. Guan Shan covered her face with a handkerchief and had a good cry.
Dimly, she heard what Xu Zhuchen said.
Guan Shan quickly wiped away her tears and quickly put on a smile: "Sister Zhuchen, what did you say?"
Xu Zhuchen wrote something again with water on his face, and repeated what she said: "You only know that your family is in business, but you have never understood anything about it?"
After she finished speaking, she tapped the table with her finger.
Guan Shan lowered his head following her fingers, and fear suddenly arose in his heart. It turned out that while Xu Zhuchen was speaking, he wrote a sentence on the desktop:
"There are people checking downstairs, please follow my instructions."
Guan Shan looked at Xu Zhuchen's smiling face and nodded vigorously.
Xu Zhuchen continued: "Your family has done business in the eleven states, and they must have been to Yingzhou. But no matter how long it takes to go to Yingzhou from Yucheng, you will definitely go home and drink water by the river next to your home."
Guan Shan's mind was racing and he understood what Xu Zhuchen was talking about.
Yingzhou is located in the southeast of the ten states of Yu State, where the inn is located. Xu Zhuchen asked her to go near the inn, that is, "go home." As for "drinking water", there is no river next to the inn. The only thing that can satisfy drinking water is the well behind the inn.
After she thought about it, she replied: "That's right. It's just that it's not easy to cross the sea from Yingzhou and return to Yucheng."
Xu Zhuchen nodded, indicating that he understood her difficulty. She said: "When traveling in the world, you must have friends to help you. The same goes for doing business outside."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Zhuchen turned over and jumped to the back table, grabbed a man and jumped from the second floor.
The officers who were conducting interrogations downstairs saw him and immediately gathered around him. After seeing Xu Zhuchen's white hair and red eyes, he invariably took a few steps back and just shouted for her to let him go.
Xu Zhuchen grabbed the man with one hand and sneered: "A group of beetles holding silver coins, but you can't even see the wanted criminal right next to you!"
After she finished speaking, she put her hand on the man's face, and a human skin mask fell off, revealing a face with pits and red spots.
Seeing that his identity was exposed, the man stopped shouting and took out two Emei thorns from his boots with his backhand, and was about to stab Xu Zhuchen.
Xu Zhuchen retreated back to avoid the attack of Emei Ci. The long sword behind his back was not unsheathed. He hit the man's wrist with a blow, knocking the Emei Ci from his hand. He rushed forward again and pushed him to the ground.
Seeing that he had no hope of resistance, the man stopped struggling and just choked out a mouthful of blood and shouted: "I am not a sinner! She is not a sinner either! Miss Jingda is not a sinner! I am not guilty!"
Xu Zhuchen handed the man over to the officer, shook his head and said, "You can only tell the officer whether you are right or wrong."
She turned to leave, but was stopped by an official who looked like a team leader.
"Girl, please stay." The team leader saluted and said a little sheepishly, "Girl, is this the 'best swordsman in the world' Meichuan Xu Zhuchen's heroine?"
Xu Zhuchen nodded and asked, "Yes. What?"
The team leader smiled a little shyly: "I've heard of Xu Nuxia's name a long time ago. She is really one of the best among people."
As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his chest and handed it to Xu Zhuchen.
"Xu Nuxia, thank you for helping us catch this fugitive. If Nuxia is willing to help, I would also like to ask you to help us find someone."
Xu Zhuchen was a little confused. She opened the paper in her hand and found that it was a wanted notice.
The bottom of the wanted notice is a little blurry, and you can vaguely make out two characters far apart. The first character has been crossed out, leaving only one character: Shan.
In the middle of the wanted poster, there is an extremely realistic and vivid meticulous painting.
The girl in the painting has a round face, almond-shaped eyes, slightly disheveled black hair, a very playful tilted nose, and a slightly raised corner of her mouth.
The girl in the painting is the "Xiao Xiao" beside her.
