Chapter 101 The End of Acting
Zong Zheng Xiao advised, "You just ate. It's easy to have food stagnation if you go to sleep like this. I'll rub your stomach for you so you can digest it before you go to rest. Is that okay?"
"Yeah." Rong Yin was too lazy to argue with him. She leaned lazily into his arms, emptying her mind and letting his warm big hands massage her abdomen.
Since that day, Rong Yin never left the bedroom again, nor did she see anyone except Zong Zheng Xiao.
Food and other things were handed over by Zong Zhengxiao and the palace maids outside. Rong Yin spent most of his time lying in bed, chained up and unable to go anywhere.
Zong Zhengxiao would read to him, play stupid games with him, and chat with him.
Most of the time, as long as Rong Yin's body allowed, Zong Zheng Xiao would cling to him and make love. The stage before became their place of performance, and most of the pearl curtains were torn off when Rong Yin was aroused.
Rong Yin's legs temporarily lost the ability to walk, so as long as he left the bed, Zong Zheng Xiao would hold him in his arms, and it was useless for Rong Yin to refuse.
Since the beginning of the show, Zong Zhengxiao has carried out the overbearing and authoritarian character to the extreme.
Because he always over-expended his energy, Rong Yin often slept day and night. It was common for him to lie down in the afternoon and wake up the next morning.
Zong Zhengxiao was so stupid as not to tell him the date, so he had no idea how long he had been acting with him.
After another joyful moment, Zong Zhengxiao asked the palace maid to bring some hot water. Rong Yin was thirsty, and seeing that Zong Zhengxiao had not returned yet, she got out of bed with shaking legs.
Fortunately, the chain was long enough to reach the table beside the bed. Although the tea had become cold, Rong Yin didn't mind as long as it could quench her thirst.
When Zong Zhengxiao came back, the scene he saw was Rong Yin standing by the table with a long chain on his body, drinking cup after cup of tea.
He was completely naked, with only his waist-length hair covering his back. Looking down, the juice from his plump peaches flowed down his slender thighs and dripped onto the cold floor.
Zong Zhengxiao swallowed subconsciously, walked over and picked up Rong Yin from behind, scaring her so much that she almost spilled the tea in her cup.
"What?" Rong Yin looked at him puzzledly.
"Why did you get out of bed without waiting for me to come back?" Zong Zhengxiao stared at Rong Yin's rosy lips.
"It's obvious that I'm thirsty." Rong Yin touched Zong Zhengxiao's chin with the hand around his neck, swinging her legs leisurely, "Don't be unhappy, I will definitely let you hold me next time, okay?"
Zong Zhengxiao took the empty teacup from Rong Yin and put it back on the table, then carried him to the bed.
Rong Yin was a little confused, "Don't you want to take a shower?"
"Wash later." As if afraid that Rong Yin would refuse, Zong Zheng Xiao directly blocked his lips.
The chain rang for a while, and when it stopped, Zong Zhengxiao could only order hot water again.
Rong Yin only ate half a bowl of rice that night. Zong Zhengxiao wanted to coax him to eat more, but Rong Yin pulled his hand and pressed it on his belly, saying fiercely, "I'm already full. It's your fault."
Zong Zhengxiao was embarrassed for once, so he pecked Rong Yin on the face and said, "I won't do this again in the future."
Rong Yin: “…”
Haha, the credibility of this sentence is no different from that of a cow flying to the sky.
At night, the two of them lay together. Rong Yin sat up, looked at Zong Zhengxiao seriously, and asked, "Tell me the truth, how many days have you kept me locked up?"
Zong Zhengxiao tried to get away with it: "It hasn't been that many days."
"You don't want to tell me, right? Then I won't act with you from now on. I'm going out." Rong Yin said precisely.
As he was about to stand up, Zong Zhengxiao quickly hugged him and said pitifully, "You agreed to act with me, Ayin, how could you change your mind at the last minute?"
Rong Yin said, "I see you are acting and taking it seriously. I am willing to take the initiative to act with you, but you can't hide it from me, otherwise I will feel that my sincerity has been betrayed."
Rong Yin's words were a bit serious, so Zong Zheng Xiao stopped playing coquettishly and immediately sat up straight and confessed, "From the second day after the dance to today, it's been seven days. I didn't lie."
"That's it." Rong Yin sat back down and raised his chin proudly. "Bad Zong Zhengxiao, don't even think about bullying me."
Zong Zhengxiao said with a guilty tone: "Ayin, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide this from you."
Rong Yin held his face in her hands and said calmly, "I understand your majesty's thoughts. Just like I can't eat too much ice cream, but sometimes I can't control my mouth when I'm too greedy. At this time, your majesty will come out to stop me. The situation is the same now. We understand and care about each other. It's no big deal if we make a small mistake occasionally."
"Ayin, you are so nice." Zong Zhengxiao walked over and kissed Rongyin.
Rong Yin hugged his neck and kissed him back, "Let's continue performing for three more days, and then we can resume our normal lives, okay?"
Zong Zhengxiao nodded and asked expectantly, "Ayin, are you still willing to act with me in the future?"
"Of course I am willing. After all, we will be together for many, many years. We can always find free time like these days."
"Yes, there will be."
During the remaining three days, Zong Zhengxiao wished he could shrink Rong Yin into a small pendant and carry it with him all the time. Even when he went to ask the palace maids to bring him water and food, he would return as quickly as possible, as if if he was a second slower, Rong Yin would disappear from his sight.
On the third night, the two opened the window. It was a cloudless day outside, with the moon hanging in the sky and stars shining. It seemed that tomorrow would be a good day.
But it started to rain lightly in the house, dripping wet Zong Zhengxiao and Rong Yin, and then rolled down to the ground.
The corners of Rong Yin's eyes were red, and she leaned on the windowsill with her hands. She bit her lower lip tightly, trying her best to restrain herself from making any sound.
Zong Zheng Xiao's strength was so great that he seemed to want to knock Rong Yin apart. There was only one night left, and he wished that time would stay at this second forever, the night sky would not disappear, and the sun would not rise again.
But he eventually had to face reality.
After the cool breeze, the window was closed again. Rong Yin sensed Zong Zheng Xiao's reluctance, and not only did she let him do whatever he wanted, she also cooperated and acted as the superior, allowing Zong Zheng Xiao's hobby to be fully satisfied.
It was already afternoon when Rong Yin walked out of the bedroom the next day. After eating, he ran a few laps outside, gradually pulling his mind out of that little world.
Si Xi and the others seemed to be unaware of what had happened in the past ten days. At least they did not show any knowledge in front of Rong Yin. It could be seen that they respected their two masters very much and cared about their own jobs.
The red gauze dress was so torn that it could not be worn anymore, so Rong Yin threw it away. However, Zong Zheng Xiao kept the two chains, saying that they were kept as a souvenir and might be useful in the future.
Rong Yin's mouth twitched when he understood what Zong Zheng Xiao meant, but he did not try to stop him.
The days passed quickly and it was autumn in the blink of an eye. The crops were about to be harvested and it was time for them to go back.
After a few more days of rushing, they returned to the palace and stepped into the Silver Shark Garden. A familiar smell hit their faces and Rong Yin breathed a long sigh of relief.
As the saying goes, there is no place like home. You feel most comfortable at home.
But before Rong Yin could have a good meal and take a good sleep with her handsome husband, two pieces of bad news popped up, making him see stars.
The first bad news: When autumn came, the hot pot restaurant reopened, but Cui and Chen also opened a hot pot restaurant near Rong Yin Hot Pot Restaurant and started a price war with Rong Yin.
The second bad news: Xiao Ai is pregnant, but no one knows who the father of the child is.
Rong Yin could still bear the first bad news, after all, it was not the first time that his business had been robbed. But the second bad news made Rong Yin's eyes go dark.
"How come you're pregnant?" Rong Yin stroked Xiao Ai's bulging belly, his pupils trembled and his face turned pale.
He said that Zong Zhengxiao and he had originally planned to take Xiao Ai to the palace to escape the summer heat, but Xiao Ai refused to get on the carriage. Rong Yin thought that Xiao Ai didn't like traveling far, so he just let her go.
Now it seems that she has found a partner and doesn't want to have a long-distance relationship with him/her, so she abandoned them, the old fathers.
The eunuch in charge of taking care of Xiao Ai knelt on the ground, shaking like a sieve, and explained in a trembling voice: "Since the time when you, my master, were preparing to leave for the palace, Xiao Ai has been acting strange. After you left, she often disappeared for no reason, and reappeared on her own after a few hours. I couldn't find her every time, until a month ago, when she looked very uncomfortable, I took her to find the old teacher at the zoo, and only then did I find out that she was pregnant."
Rong Yin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What is going on?"
"It's all my fault. I failed to take good care of Xiao Ai. Please punish me, my lord!" As he said this, the eunuch began to kowtow.
"No, no, no, it's not your fault." Rong Yin quickly stopped the man, saying, "If you keep knocking like that, you might make him stupid."
He said, "This is the nature of animals. How can humans stop it? It's also my fault. I only saw that Xiao Ai was growing up every day and eating more and more. I forgot that she was already a big girl and had reached the age of falling in love."
Rong Yin sighed. He now felt as if his girl had been kidnapped by the yellow-haired guy. The key point was that the yellow-haired guy had run away, leaving him with no place to vent his anger.
Zong Zhengxiao noticed Rong Yin's disappointment, patted him on the back to comfort him, and then said to the eunuch: "After all, you have lost your job. Let someone else do the job of raising dogs in the future. I will deduct two months' salary from you. It's a small punishment but a big offense."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you for your forgiveness!" Rejoicing that he had escaped danger, the eunuch kowtowed twice before retreating.
"My dear daughter, your father was traveling away for a few months, and you gave me such a big surprise when I came back. You are so filial!"
Rong Yin stroked the dog's head, and every word he said was heartbreaking.
Xiao Ai didn't understand the pain of the poop scooper. She licked the back of Rong Yin's hand happily a few times, and was as happy as a fool.
Zong Zhengxiao said soothingly, "I will ask the old teacher from the zoo to come over and take care of it until it gives birth safely. Don't worry, we will help take care of the child."
Rong Yin smiled bitterly: "I also became a grandfather in my twenties, and I still have to help my daughter take care of her children. This is probably the result of a sin in my previous life."
Zong Zhengxiao joked, "A dog can give birth to several babies at once. Ah Yin, you can fully demonstrate your talent for naming this time."
Hearing his teasing tone, Rong Yin threw a few punches at him.
Looking at the two fathers "fighting" each other, in the past, Xiao Ai would have run over to join in the fun. But it probably knew that it was inconvenient for it to move forward because it was pregnant, so it not only did not move forward, but instead hid behind.
After resting in the palace for a few days and finding a professional to look after Xiao Ai, Rong Yin felt at ease to go inspect the shops outside.
The day after Lu'e came back, she went to do business, so when Rong Yin arrived, she told him all the news she had heard.
"The two hot pot restaurants owned by Cui and Chen are basically copied from our restaurant, whether it's the store layout or the style of the pots, or even the trick of offering free dishes to customers if they give them suggestions. Fortunately, our employees are all reliable, otherwise he would have stolen the recipe as well."
"They are so shameless. They wanted to take advantage of you and His Majesty's absence to force the hot pot shop's employees to help them steal the recipe of the base material. I heard from the little monkey that one of their beggars was almost kidnapped. Fortunately, you made arrangements before you left, and His Majesty's people took care of them. The Cui and Chen families tried to make some small moves, but they were beaten back directly."
"The base sauce recipes used by Cui and Chen are half-learned and half-guessed from ours. The taste is quite different. Old customers will naturally still eat at ours, but they have also attracted many customers with their low prices."
Rong Yin took a sip of the iced drink and asked, "Are the prices the same at both stores?"
Lu'e said, "It is now. I heard that the two stores were competing to lower their prices at the beginning. Customers would go to whichever store offered the lower price. After all, they were our customers who were looking for a bargain. There were fewer of them, so they could only compete with low prices. But later, they probably reached a consensus privately, and now the price has stabilized."
Rong Yin raised an eyebrow, "I'm not stupid, I didn't act on impulse."
Lu'e smiled and said, "Master, I originally had the same idea as you. I thought they would stop fighting, but guess what? I heard a piece of news today that the Cui family is also planning to open a milk tea shop, and the shop is located near the Chen family's milk tea shop. It is said that they are also going to follow the Chen family's low-price route."
"I understand." Rong Yin said, "The conflict over the hot pot restaurant hasn't been resolved yet. Otherwise, why did the Cui family's milk tea shop open earlier or later? Why did they open it just these few days?"
Lu'e was a little confused, "Aren't they allies? Why are they suddenly confronting each other?"
Rong Yin laughed and said, "Destroying a person's money is like killing his parents."
Lu'e half-understood: "Is it because everyone wants to start a hot pot business?"
Rong Yin said: "Not all of them."
Before Li Chu left, he schemed against the head of the Cui family, forcing the Cui family to protect the Li family. While Li Chu was away, the piece of fat meat of the Li family was hanging there in plain sight, with hungry wolves lurking around. With the Cui family, this vicious dog, guarding it, it was impossible for the Chen family and other small families to submit.
They did not dare to openly resist the Cui family, so they used business issues to annoy the Cui family and express their dissatisfaction.
But the Cui family had been in high and mighty power for so many years, so how could they tolerate their former younger brothers' disrespect to them? So they retaliated in their own way. When the Chen family made things difficult for the Cui family in business, the Cui family retaliated in the same way.
They had not competed with the Chen family for the milk tea shop business before because of their alliance. Now that the Chen family is shameless, the Cui family no longer needs to be polite.
The competition between Cui and Chen had little impact on Rongyin's business, so he sat back and watched the fight, to see how the two companies would end up.
Not long after, Cui's milk tea shop opened, offering low prices for promotions. Like Chen's, it mainly sold fruit tea, and repeatedly emphasized how enthusiastic its employees were and how clean the store was.
This move is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Chen family, because the Chen family milk tea shop was almost closed down due to hygiene issues before.
After Cui's milk tea shop opened, it took away most of the business from Chen's milk tea shop, so Chen's milk tea shop also started to lower its prices and started a price war with Cui's again.
Do you think that's all the excitement? The above are just appetizers.
Not long after, Chen's Milk Tea Shop discovered that a certain exclusive fruit tea recipe they had developed, which was considered the treasure of their store, actually appeared in Cui's Milk Tea Shop.
Chen's milk tea shop knew at first glance that there was a traitor in the store, and that the recipe of Cui's milk tea shop came from a dirty source, so they planned to catch the traitor and sued the Cui family for bribing employees to steal the recipe.
The first half was completed smoothly. The traitor was caught and admitted that he had accepted money from others to sell the formula. However, the second half was not so ideal because the traitor said he didn't know who gave him the money.
The Cui family was so meticulous in their work because they wanted to deliberately harm the Chen family and prevent them from finding any evidence.
The second young master Chen was a man of short temper. He believed that the Cui family was the one behind the evil, so without saying a word he brought people to the family's house and smashed their store.
This time the evidence was directly handed over to the other party, and Young Master Chen was taken to the government office. The Cui family did not want any compensation or apology, but wanted Young Master Chen to go to jail.
In the end, it was the eldest and third sons of the Chen family who came together, brought gifts and visited the Cui family, and then brought the second son of the Chen family back home.
On the surface, the matter seemed to have passed, but the feud between the Cui and Chen families was actually getting deeper and deeper.
Apart from business matters, the Cui and Chen families were not very harmonious in the court.
The Chen family had no fatal handle in the hands of the Cui family. Since the head of the Cui family could not control the head of the Chen family, they turned their attention to the other small families.
But when the Cui family decided to protect the Li family, these people from small families secretly sided with the Chen family, and they have even paid tribute to the head of the Chen family in recent days.
If the head of the Chen family sits back and does nothing when my younger brother is in danger, who would be willing to follow his orders in the future?
Thus, before the common enemy of the aristocratic families, Zong Zhengxiao, did anything, the Cui and Chen families began to target each other secretly.
There is no serious conflict of interest now, and the two sides are just arguing. If it really comes to a life-and-death moment in the future, I believe both sides will use their deadly skills.
At night, Rong Yin lay in Zong Zheng's arms and said to him, "I recently cooked a new hot pot base. It tastes good. I think the guests will like it."
Zong Zhengxiao said: "That's a good thing. It will give customers one more choice and maybe even attract more new customers."
Rong Yin shook her head and said, "But I don't plan to use it for my own hot pot restaurant."
"What does Ayin mean?" Zong Zhengxiao understood that Rong Yin couldn't be speaking without a purpose, he must have some plan.
Rong Yin raised a wicked smile at the corner of his lips, "The Cui family stole the Chen family's recipe, so the Chen family should steal it back. This is fair."
Zong Zhengxiao immediately understood Rong Yin's idea and said with a smile: "One bait catches two big fish. Ah Yin is really a master fisherman."
Rong Yin waved his hands arrogantly: "It's just so-so, just a little better than you."
Zong Zhengxiao smiled and said, "Yes, our A Yin is the most powerful."
Before he finished speaking, he turned over and pressed the person down on the bed, breathing rapidly, "Ayin, keep showing me your prowess, okay?"
Rong Yin hugged Zong Zhengxiao's neck, her eyes seductive, "Since you've been so sweet tonight, I'll satisfy you."
The moon is above the willow trees, and tonight is another sleepless night.
A few days later, a chef found Cui's Hotpot Restaurant and said that he had a recipe for the base material. If Cui's Hotpot Restaurant could hire him, he would help Cui's Hotpot Restaurant to move to the next level.
After tasting the dishes cooked with the base sauce he made, Cui's manager who managed the hot pot restaurant immediately agreed to hire him with a high salary and expected him to make even more delicious base sauce.
However, after deciding to hire him, the Cui family also investigated his background and discovered that he had previously opened a small restaurant and liked to research new dishes. Although most of the new dishes he made were unpalatable, there were occasionally a few that tasted good.
His interpersonal relationships are very clean, with no connection to the royal family or other aristocratic families. His personality of liking to research new dishes is also consistent with his achievements in creating new bases.
As soon as the new chef’s hot pot base was launched, it attracted a large number of customers to Cui’s hot pot restaurant, and even Rong Yin’s hot pot restaurant was affected.
Seeing the decreasing customer flow, the little monkey was so anxious that he almost climbed up a tree like a real monkey.
He found Rong Yin and saw that Rong Yin was still leisurely eating melon seeds and reading a storybook. He immediately showed an expression of anger at Rong Yin.
"Boss, our customers are about to be snatched away by the Cui family. How can you still be in the mood to eat sunflower seeds? Think of a solution quickly."
Rong Yin threw the melon seed shells into the plate. Not only did he not show any sign of anxiety, he even yawned leisurely.
"It's not like they took away everything. Aren't there still many customers today?"
The little monkey said angrily, "But there are not as many people as before. The Cui family will grab a little today and a little more tomorrow. It won't be long before all our customers will run away!"
Of course, this was an exaggeration on the part of the little monkey. He himself knew that the situation would not be that serious, because the Cui family only had one base to attract customers, and their hot pot restaurant had many kinds of bases to choose from.
But if a customer leaves, it means a loss of income for the store. Who in this world would complain about having too much money? Naturally, he hopes that everyone who wants to eat hot pot will come to their store.
Seeing that he was so flustered that his face turned red, Rong Yin grabbed a handful of melon seeds and stuffed them into his mouth, saying soothingly, "Don't think too much. It's impossible for our family to make all the money in the world. There are gains and losses, and now there are other people who should be worried. We can just stand aside and watch the show. After all, the Cui family's business will never be more prosperous than ours."
After hearing what he said, the little monkey thought about it and guessed, "Someone else? Boss, are you talking about the Chen family?"
"Yes, it is the Chen family." Rong Yin explained: "Little monkey, when you were still begging, you saw other beggars begging more money than you. If you felt jealous, would you envy the beggar first, or the rich and powerful families in the capital who ate and dressed extravagantly?"
The little monkey answered without hesitation: "Of course I envy the beggar, because I don't know how extravagant the rich and powerful are, but I can actually see the money in the beggar's hand."
Rong Yin asked again: "What if that beggar still has a grudge against you?"
The little monkey said, "Then this envy will turn into jealousy. Why can he have it and I don't, when we are both beggars?"
Chen family.
As soon as Chen Ershao came out of the ancestral hall after kneeling, his servant ran to find him and whispered, "Master, good news, good news!"
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