Chapter 516: Getting Better at Coaxing People
After hearing Su Ying's question, the couple who were sorting the rice cakes raised their heads and said with a smile: "Young lady, you don't know that the Queen has established a girls' academy for children from poor families like us. As long as you meet the requirements, you can go to school if you are selected by lottery."
The woman's hair was half white, and when she smiled, wrinkles appeared all over her eyes, but Su Ying saw hope in her eyes. Her cloudy eyes were filled with joy and a halo. "We are lucky, Yueyue. We won the lottery yesterday. We can pack up and go to school tomorrow."
"Yes, yes, no one in our family can read. If she goes to the academy, Yueliang might be able to write poems and articles. She will be a scholar, different from the rest of us." The middle-aged man looked proud when he talked about this.
The two who were pounding rice cakes should be Yueliang’s brothers. They had happy smiles on their faces when they heard this.
Su Ying was infected by the joy of the family, "Then you have to study hard."
Yueliang nodded solemnly, "Thank you, sister. I will definitely study hard and will never let down the queen's kindness to us common people."
Su Ying suddenly felt that the soft and glutinous rice cake was so sweet that she couldn't help but buy two more.
The whole family was very grateful for Su Ying's care and gave her more.
"Very happy?" Xiao Jin looked at her raised eyes and a faint smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
"Yeah, I'm very happy." Before, there was no light in her world, but now, she can be the light for others, which is actually not bad.
The lottery format should have been invented by Zhou Xiangrong. It is good and relatively fair.
Su Ying was in a good mood and bought candied haws for the two little ones.
When Su Ying was tired from playing and was looking for a place to eat, she discovered that there was also a restaurant here where she had eaten last time.
However, judging from the taste of the dishes in that restaurant, it is normal for them to open a branch.
"Let's go to that store and take a break."
As Su Ying and Xiao Jin walked outside the restaurant, a young male waiter in uniform came out to greet them and walked up to Su Ying with a smile.
"Good afternoon, madam. How many people are here?"
Before Su Ying could speak, Xiao Jin walked up to her and completely blocked her line of sight from the male waiter.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows.
Xiao Jin said coldly: "Is the food in this restaurant delicious?" This question should be directed to Su Ying.
"tasty."
Xiao Jin's dark eyes fell lightly on the waiter's face, "I want a side room."
The waiter felt his entire body crawling with fear at Xiao Jin's gaze, and the smile on his face froze. "Sir, please come in, guests."
The waiter took them to the side room. Su Ying found that the decoration of the restaurant here was the same as the one she had been to before, so she asked, "How many branches does your restaurant have in Beijing?"
"Madam, have you been to other branches? We have opened six or seven branches in the capital alone, and there are also some in other places. Madam, you can try them out when you have the chance in the future."
Xiao Jin coughed lightly and signaled the waiter to take the order.
After Su Ying ordered the dishes, the waiter left. The next thing she knew, she saw Xiao Jin looking at her with displeasure.
Su Ying was confused. Was she starving? Not really. Didn't she eat a lot on the street just now?
"Wait, the food should be served quickly."
Xiao Jin: “…”
Su Ying felt that the atmosphere in the room was not right. She turned to look at the two babies for help. The two babies looked at Su Ying, then at Xiao Jin, and silently moved their stools to the side to ensure that they would not become the innocent victims.
Su Ying took a sip of tea, not knowing why Xiao Jin was acting strangely. "The owner of this restaurant is quite smart and knows what the guests need."
"What do you need, young and handsome man?"
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Su Ying almost spit out her tea, "They are quite young." Each of their faces is so tender that you could pinch water out of them.
The air pressure around Xiao Jin became even heavier.
The two treasures silently moved their stools to the side. It was so dangerous!
Su Ying licked her lips and said sincerely, "But when it comes to being handsome, I've never seen anyone more handsome than your father."
The moment the words came out of his mouth, the whole room was filled with clear sky.
Xiao Jin suppressed the smile in his eyes and said quietly, "You have good taste."
"Of course, I have eyes only for good things."
Bai Shuang hissed inwardly, "The Queen has changed. I don't know who she learned it from, but she knows how to make the Emperor happy."
The hotel's chef cooks really fast and the food was served quickly.
The two babies had eaten a lot of snacks on the road, so they were not very hungry, but the sight of the food on the table aroused their appetite.
"Mother, this meat smells so good."
"That's grilled beef tongue. It's tender and chewy. My mother likes it, too."
During the meal, elegant music sounded in the lobby on the first floor. Su Ying, biting a chicken leg, walked curiously to the corridor and looked down. She saw several pairs of men and women dancing on the stage on the first floor.
Su Ying knew this dance; it was a ballroom dance that she had seen in her memories before.
"Xiao Jin, come here."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Jin put down his chopsticks and walked over.
Su Ying pointed downwards, "Have you seen it?"
Xiao Jin looked at the hands of a man and a woman clasped together and shook his head slowly, "I've never seen that."
In the State of Chu, men and women did dance together, but it was definitely not in this style.
Su Ying tilted her head and looked at the men and women dancing below with interest. They had some beautiful masks on their faces. When they stood there, they were like a landscape, attracting the diners' attention as soon as they came out.
The customs of the Chu people are relatively open, and in the eyes of the public, those who can sing and dance are actors or actresses, so they don't think there is anything wrong with it.
"This restaurant is different in every way."
“It’s not quite the same.”
Su Ying sat back in her chair and continued eating.
Maybe the food tasted a little different, so the two babies ate quite a bit.
"Where do you want to go later?"
They were currently in the civilian area of the capital, and she wanted to visit the slums.
Xiao Jin naturally would not refuse. After eating, he left the restaurant and went to the most remote corner of the capital.
When they arrived at the place, it was almost an hour later. The carriage went around a street corner, and the buildings that came into view were completely different from the ones they had come from. There were rows of low houses. Even a tall man like Xiao Jin had to bend down as much as possible to enter the house.
They had already dressed in ordinary clothes before leaving the palace, but they still looked out of place standing in this place. The road in the middle was like an invisible ravine, dividing the prosperity of the capital and the desolation here into two different worlds.
When buying rice cakes in the morning, the little girl with a bright smile said that her home was here.
(End of this chapter)
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