Chapter 2225 The son-in-law truly deserves to be called the top scholar.
Shu Yu returned to the shop, and soon after, Madam Jing and Madam Chang also arrived. She was late and missed meeting with Old Madam Qi and the others.
However, she came and went in a hurry, delivering her congratulatory gift and drinking half a cup of tea before leaving.
Lord Jing is the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, and due to the "prison break" incident at the Qionglin Banquet two days ago, he must be extremely busy right now. As for his wife, Lady Chang, she is probably also not free.
In the afternoon, Xiang Weinan came over, delivered a congratulatory gift, went upstairs to greet Meng Yunzheng, and left in a hurry as well.
Before he left, in order to support Shu Yu's business, he placed an order for three hundred taels of silver in front of all the customers on the first floor.
Shu Yu advised him that there was no need for that, and that he could just come back and buy whatever food he needed later.
Xiang Weinan simply left a message saying he was seeing someone off, and then left the shop.
Shu Yu had no choice but to prepare his goods.
Later, the Wan family also sent a gift, which Shu Yu knew was sent by Consort Hou. She was worried that it wouldn't be appropriate for her, as a concubine, to come, so although Shu Yu didn't care, she still sent it in the name of the Wan family.
After all the people who brought congratulatory gifts had left, Shu Yu returned to the second floor.
Unexpectedly, the group on the second floor, which originally consisted of about ten scholars, has suddenly grown to more than twenty people.
Those girls didn't leave either. No, not only did they not leave, but it seems like there were a few more people with them.
They were talking, drinking tea, and even... reading books alone in the private room?
Shu Yu did indeed place some books on the second floor, and also left quite a few storybooks. The ones these girls are holding are probably storybooks.
She looked at the guests on both sides, clearly separated, and seemed to be deep in thought.
She originally thought that only scholars liked Mr. Shanju's paintings, but now it seems that he appeals to men, women, young and old alike.
The second floor is spacious enough; otherwise, the private rooms would be used specifically to entertain women.
As Shu Yu was thinking, she saw Chen Kangtai carrying a tray upstairs with several bowls of instant noodles on it.
She paused, then asked, "For whom?"
Chen Kangtai chuckled, "Master, you don't know, the son-in-law is truly a top scholar, so eloquent and persuasive. It's noon now, and the son-in-law let everyone discuss among themselves, saying he was hungry and asked me to bring him a bowl of instant noodles. The others saw the son-in-law eating with relish and didn't want to leave, so they asked me if I could sell some. Knowing the price wasn't high, they each ordered a bowl. Not only them, but the girls in the private room also smelled the aroma and ordered a bowl too."
Shu Yu raised her eyebrows, looked up in Meng Yunzheng's direction, and told Chen Kangtai to quickly take it inside.
Then Xia Yan came up with a food box and distributed the food to everyone.
Shu Yu quietly went downstairs. Not long after, Chen Kangtai came over and said to Manager Yun, "The guests upstairs all want to buy instant noodles. I've made a note of it. Manager, please take a look and prepare some for everyone in a bit. I'll come down to pick them up later."
Manager Yun looked at the orders and grinned from ear to ear, patting him on the shoulder, "You're not bad, kid."
Chen Kangtai smiled sheepishly, "This is all thanks to my son-in-law. I'll go upstairs and get busy now."
"Go."
As soon as he left, Shu Yu went over to look at the order. Goodness, the smallest order was twenty pancakes, and the largest was fifty. How could they possibly finish all that?
Shu Yu shook her head and continued to entertain the guests.
The customers on the second floor were placing orders like crazy, and the customers on the first floor were just as enthusiastic.
(End of this chapter)
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