Chapter 48: Ten Miles of People
Before Shen Shixu reached the door of the house ten miles away, he heard the sound of stringed instruments, the graceful singing of women, and the sound of men clapping their hands in admiration.
These sounds mixed together make the place sound more like a modern KTV than a dining place.
Shen Shixu walked up the steps. The waiter at the door saw another guest coming and immediately showed his big white teeth and smiled and invited him in.
As soon as Shen Shixu entered, he felt his ears were hurting and his eyes were dirty. He came at a very good time. At this moment, there happened to be a drunkard with a brown wine jar in his hand. He staggered to the place where the oiran was performing and grabbed her hand.
He shamelessly tried to take advantage of her, which scared the courtesan so much that she screamed. The high-decibel sound made Shen Shixu feel his ears buzzing.
"Let go, let go of me, save me, someone come and save me!" The courtesan Shaoyao from Chunfeng Tower was frightened by the drunk man and started crying. A tear actually fell from her watery almond eyes, and her originally rosy face turned snow-white with fright. Her hair, which was originally tied up loosely, fell to the ground and broke into two pieces due to the struggle.
Shaoyao cried and begged for help from the men around her who had just cheered for her, but they all avoided her gaze and turned their heads away, ignoring her.
Shaoyao's heart suddenly sank. Although she had long known from the madam of Chunfeng Tower that men in the world were the most untrustworthy, she had never expected that he was so unreliable. He was still pursuing her in the last second, but he could turn a blind eye to her being hurt in the next second.
Just when Shaoyao accepted her fate and was thinking of letting him go, the man who was harassing her grabbed her by the collar, kicked her on the knee, then bent down and pressed his neck with his arm to force him to kneel down.
Shaoyao broke away from the man's entanglement and hurried to see who had saved her. It was a person she had never seen before, but who was as beautiful as a painting.
She had been dancing at the Shili Renjia for six or seven days, and she could basically recognize everyone who came to watch her dance.
The only thing was that he had never seen this young man before. Today was the first time he saw him. But it was this man, whom he had never met before and had no previous contact with, who saved him.
Shaoyao looked at Shen Shixu, who had an elegant figure and a handsome face, and her heart couldn't help but be moved.
As soon as Shen Shixu caught the drunk, the owner of the restaurant rushed over with his men. When the man was making trouble, the waiter saw that something was wrong and quickly went to find someone.
The boss of Shilirenjia is a handsome man with exotic charm. Unlike the big man, he does not tie his hair up. His hair is loose and wavy. There is a braided pigtail on his forehead, which goes from left to right and has a blue tassel pendant.
He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, dark brown eyes with deep eye sockets, and a tall stature. He was wearing a navy blue brocade robe with an open chest, and a brown leather belt around his waist, with silver pieces strung together to form a silver chain.
Seeing that the commotion was stopped, he first glanced at the people who were making trouble in his store, and then looked at Shen Shixu who had stood up straight.
"Thank you for your help, sir. To express my gratitude, I have prepared a private room for you upstairs. All your consumption today is free of charge."
The first time Alebron saw Shen Shixu, besides being dazzled by his appearance, he felt that this man was not simple, and it would be better to make friends with him if possible.
After this experience, Shen Shixu originally wanted to leave. He had heard the waiter at Tianxiang Tower and people who just passed by say how good Shili Renjia was, and he was looking forward to it.
But after coming in, I found it was just so-so. It just had a big stage compared to Tianxianglou, and the things around it were placed more elegantly. There was some unknown incense burning in the store with a subtle and elegant smell, but there was nothing else special.
On the contrary, it can cause trouble. It’s better to go to Tianxianglou, where the food is delicious and it’s less troublesome.
But just when he was about to leave, the boss suddenly invited him and said he would treat him to a free meal.
Shen Shixu thought about it and decided to stay. Since he was already here, if he went to eat somewhere else at this time, he would be late for the afternoon shift.
So I followed Allebrow to the second floor. The second floor was different from the first floor. It was an independent private room with a sign hanging at the door. Different from the Tianxianglou's "Tian" and "Di" brands, the ones here were painted with plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, etc.
It looked much more cultured than Tianxiang Tower. Shen Shixu was invited into the room with a piano plaque hanging on it. As soon as he opened the door, he smelled the fragrance of orchids and saw a seven-stringed guqin placed in the room.
A beautiful woman was sitting behind the seven-stringed guqin. When she saw a guest coming in, she began to strum the zither with her bare hands, and a piece of elegant music was slowly played out.
Shen Shixu walked around the screen and sat down. Through the hazy screen, he could see the beauty playing the piano. The half-covered screen was quite alluring. No wonder it attracted so many talented and romantic men.
It's no wonder that Tianxianglou was run so badly. The owner of this restaurant is quite capable. However, Shen Shixu never thought that the owner of the restaurant would be a foreigner. He just didn't know where he was from.
Before Shen Shixu could order, a waiter came in with more than a dozen dishes of various kinds, and someone else came in with a pot of wine.
"Sir, these dishes are the signature dishes of our Shili people. The green dragon lies in the snow, the Qin mulberry tree has low green branches, the swallow grass is as green as silk, I wish to be a pair of wings in the sky, and the window contains the eternal snow of the Western Hills..."
The waiter's introduction was very poetic, but in reality it was just cucumber with sugar, shredded beef with green pepper, stir-fried shredded seaweed, shredded green pepper and shredded mushroom, a pair of roasted pigeons, and egg white puffed into the shape of a mountain sprinkled with sugar...
It sounds nice, but it's just an ordinary dish. Shen Shixu picked up the chopsticks and tasted a dish of Qin Sang Di Lv Zhi. The taste was just so-so, and the beef was a little overcooked.
Listen to those people praising it so highly, it is just because of the good name, good environment and decent taste that it became popular in Beijing.
Shen Shixu filled his stomach, put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and asked someone to serve him tea to moisten his throat.
As for the wine that was delivered, he didn't touch it and didn't know what it was. He only found out that it was wine when he asked the waiter when he brought him tea.
Good wine tastes sweet after a while, while not-so-good wine tastes sour and astringent. Shen Shixu didn't like it very much, and he didn't touch it because he had to be on duty in the afternoon.
Shen Shixu returned to the Dali Temple and changed into his official uniform, and continued to review the files that were sent to him. Those without problems were directly put into the warehouse, and those with errors were sent back for re-examination.
He worked until the sun went down before leaving the Dali Temple. In the evening, he ate the roast chicken brought back by Shen Zexi, read for a while, and then washed up. Just as he fell asleep, he was woken up by someone, saying that a murder had occurred and asked him to go.
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