Chapter 51 Chapter 51 How could Shen Xuan know that his shop...
Shen Xuan had no idea that his shop would become famous among the upper class society in Beijing.
Anyway, he would sell 200 chickens to anyone, so even if it was a prince who bought chickens, he wouldn't pay a penny more.
That afternoon, a carriage stopped in front of the store, and a servant got off and stood behind the line.
After a while, another carriage also stopped by the roadside. A servant ran down the car and stood behind the man.
"Young man, please tell your master that today's fried chicken has been sold out to the one in front of you." Shengcai walked out from the counter and said politely to the last servant.
After hearing this, the servant looked at the person in front and said, "Then let the person in front give me the last fried chicken. My master is the second son of the Xue family. Can you afford to offend him?"
In the Xue Family Marquisate, Lord Xue holds the second-rank official title, and his eldest son was named Crown Prince at an early age, so he does have some status in the capital.
If it were an ordinary family, they would probably give way immediately after hearing the name. However, the servant standing in front was not from another family, but the personal servant of Ye Chen, the young master of the Ye family.
The servant laughed when he heard this and said, "Everything should be done in accordance with the order of coming first and the order of seniority. When the second son of your Xue family sees our son Ye, he has to address him as cousin. Who do you think you are?"
The Ye family and the Xue family belong to different camps and have never gotten along well with each other. Ye Chen and Xue Fenglin are blood relatives. Ye Chen supports Xue Fenglin everywhere, so his relationship with Xue Fengli is naturally very bad.
Actually, Ye Chen is only one day older than Xue Fengli, but he happens to be Xue Fengli's cousin. Whenever he sees the other party, he deliberately acts like an elder.
The servant beside him naturally followed suit and stepped on Xue Fengli with just one sentence.
Xue Fengli's servant was so angry that his face turned red. He hurried back to the car and reported the matter to Xue Fengli.
After a while, Xue Fengli opened the carriage curtain with a snap, got off the carriage with a bad look on his face and said, "Whatever fried chicken is left in this shop, I'll buy it all."
It was only a little after 3 p.m., but the fried chicken in the store had almost been sold out. It was just ten fried chickens, and they were just sold to the servant of the Ye family.
Xue Fengli asked his personal servant to take the silver and distribute it, giving one or two taels of silver to each person in the queue in front.
Those who originally wanted to buy fried chicken included some servants who came here on orders. After taking a tael of silver, they all left happily.
This is a tael of silver that I got for free! No matter how good the fried chicken is, you don’t have to eat it today.
After those people left, Xue Fengli pointed at the servant of the Ye family and said to Shengcai arrogantly: "This is your last chicken. Don't sell it to him. I will give you ten taels of silver."
A full ten taels of silver is equivalent to half of the store’s daily income!
Shengcai swallowed his saliva when he heard this, and wished he could take the silver immediately.
However, this shop is not his. Brother Chen had already instructed that all transactions at the Theater Xianwei must be conducted in accordance with the queue order, no matter who comes.
Shengcai thought to himself that it was not that I didn't want to make money from you, and then he said to Xue Fengli with a bitter face: "Sir, it's not that I don't want to make this money, but the store has a rule that you must sell according to the queue order."
"Twenty taels." Upon hearing this, Xue Fengli immediately added another ten taels of silver.
The monthly tuition for a teacher at the Imperial College was only thirty taels of silver. Twenty taels of silver is probably the income of this shop for several days, right? He just doesn't believe there are any businessmen who don't like money!
"I'll offer thirty taels." Before Shengcai could answer, Ye Chen suddenly got off the carriage and said.
He walked up to Xue Fengli with a smile, waved the fan in his hand and said, "It's just a fried chicken, why are you doing this? I told you to respect the elders and the younger ones, why do you still not know the etiquette? If you don't know, you would think that Madam Xue didn't teach you well."
What Xue Fengli hated most were the words "seniority and inferiority". Because he always felt that it was because of these few words that Xue Fenglin was always superior to him.
The more Ye Chen emphasized these words in a sarcastic tone in front of him, the angrier he became.
"Forty taels!" Xue Fengli said.
"Then I'll give fifty taels!" Ye Chen said with a smile.
Xue Fengli: "Sixty taels!"
Ye Chen paused before raising his eyebrows and said, "Ah? Then I'll give you one hundred taels."
When Xue Fengli heard this, his head got hot and he was so excited by Ye Chen's playful look that he blurted out two hundred taels.
I thought Ye Chen would continue to bid, but he snorted and laughed and said, "Two hundred taels for a fried chicken? Not worth it. I'd better give it to you, my cousin. I'll buy it next time."
As he spoke, he made a gesture of invitation, asking Xue Fengli to step forward.
Xue Fengli glared at Ye Chen fiercely. He had clearly won the bid, but for some reason he felt something was not right.
But at this point the words had already been spoken, and many passers-by were watching.
As the second son of the Xue family, he could not go back on his word, so he could only bite the bullet and take out more than two hundred taels of silver, and asked the servant to pack all the remaining fried chicken and take it back home.
After the Xue family's carriage had gone far away, Xue Fengli looked up at the signboard above the shop and said with a smile, "You can tell at a glance that the words on this signboard were written by the prince. It must be his useless brother who doesn't understand his own brother so well, right?"
"I didn't expect that this famous theater, Xianwei, was actually opened by Fenglin. I wonder how Xue Fengli would feel when he finds out that he spent two hundred taels of silver to buy something from his archenemy's shop."
After he said that, he returned to the car and asked the servant to buy all the remaining red oil skewers in the shop.
When the boy brought the packaged red oil skewers to the car, Ye Chen took a bite and was surprised to find that the taste of the skewers was really very special.
After eating all the red oil skewers in one go, Ye Chen asked the driver to drive to the Imperial College. It was already evening and students at the Imperial College had already finished their classes.
Ye Chen specially invited Xue Fenglin to the private room of Guiyun Tower under the pretext of having a meal. As soon as she saw him, she asked, "Fenglin, tell me! When did you quietly open a new shop?"
"When did I open a shop again? How come I didn't know?" Xue Fenglin frowned speechlessly.
"You still deny it? If others can't recognize it, how can I not recognize it?" Ye Chen said, "The four big characters on the plaque of the theater Xianwei on Zijin Street are not your handwriting?"
When Xue Fenglin heard Ye Chen say this, he realized that he treated Shen Xuan's shop as his own.
"It's just a plaque." He said casually.
"How can you mention it if it's not your shop?" Ye Chen didn't believe it at all.
Xue Fenglin didn’t bother to care about Ye Chen at all, because the shop was opened by Shen Xuan. On the first day, he tasted the delicious food that Shen Xuan personally sent over.
Shen Xuan is quite talented in food, and the snacks he invented are indeed delicious.
Xue Fenglin had long guessed that the shop must be doing good business. He had also heard some rumors in the Imperial College recently, and it seemed that it was already very famous.
Seeing that Xue Fenglin didn't respond to his words at all, he only recognized that the handwriting was his, but did not recognize that the shop was his property.
Ye Chen was puzzled, and after having dinner with Xue Fenglin, he sent someone to find a nearby broker to check the next day. Then I found out that the shop was run by a man named Chen. Could he be Xue Fenglin's cheap country fiancé?
Ye Chen was shocked! Didn’t Xue Fenglin already kick that guy out of the Xue family?
He and the Ye family originally thought that Xue Fenglin got Shen Xuan out of the Xue family in order to avoid suspicion and to facilitate the cancellation of the engagement later.
But now he is secretly keeping close contact with that guy and even helping him open a shop!
Ye Chen immediately told his mother, Mrs. Ye, about this matter. When Mrs. Ye heard it, she could no longer sit still and several blisters appeared in her mouth. Someone was immediately sent to call Suyun and Suyue back from the Shen family.
After interrogating them, I found out that they both knew nothing about anything. On the surface, he was doing a respectable purchasing job, but in reality, he had been paid far more by Chen Xuan.
"Useless things! I asked you to keep an eye on someone, but you didn't even know such a big thing as the Shen family's son opened a shop!" Mrs. Ye scolded Suyun and Suyue. They deducted another month's salary from them before sending them back.
He also asked them to keep a close eye on Shen Xuan and report his every move.
After they left, Madam Ye sighed and said to Ye Chen: "Feng Lin promised me last time that he knew what was going on. I thought he had made up his mind. I didn't expect that he was confused."
"How could Chen Xuan, a boy, open a shop quietly by himself in the capital? I guess your cousin is the one who helps him run it?"
"Now that the prince has opened a shop for that guy, I guess he won't send him away in the short term. I wonder what his plan is?" Ye Chen said with a frown.
"What else can he plan? He will probably follow your aunt's last wish and marry that boy." Madam Ye said, "After all, that boy saved his life. Fenglin is a kind-hearted child. I'm afraid he wants to marry him to repay his kindness."
"What if he insists on marrying that guy? What can we do?" Ye Chen said, "It's just his own marriage anyway. He doesn't even want his future in order to repay his gratitude. Can our Ye family stop him?"
Mrs. Ye was silent for a long time after hearing this, then she shook her head and said, "Even if he wants to marry, it depends on whether the boy is willing to marry him. The Xue family is not that easy to stay in."
"Besides, he just wants that boy to have a good home. If you give him a good home, I think he won't have anything to say, right?"
"Ziyuan, get me some paper and pen. I want to write a note to that Brother Chen." Mrs. Ye suddenly said.
Then Ziyuan, the maid who served her, brought over the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, ground the ink and placed it in front of Madam Ye.
Mrs. Ye picked up her pen and wrote a line of small calligraphy on the note. After she finished writing, she let Ziyuan take the note away. Instruct her to deliver the post to Shen Xuan personally.
"Mom? Are you going to invite Brother Chen to come to the Ye family?" Ye Chen asked in confusion.
"That's right. The Double Ninth Festival is coming in a few days. I plan to hold a banquet at my mansion and invite all the wives and sons of appropriate age to come to the banquet. I will also invite Brother Chen to come and get acquainted with everyone."
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