A breakfast meal, with the bowl of noodles, cost a total of twenty-seven cents.
Zhu Pingan paid the bill, patted his warm stomach, and left the bakery. The shopkeeper who was busy outside the shop helping with the burritos, saw Zhu Ping An finish eating and walked out of the shop, yelling to see him off “Master, you go slowly, love to eat, you come back tomorrow.”
“This can be had.”Zhu Ping An smiled back and stepped into the bustling street.
“This customer is talking a bit strange ……”The shopkeeper rubbed his head, somewhat uncertain of Zhu Pingan’s verbiage with twenty-first century overtones.
After leaving the shop, walking straight along the street in front of the shop for more than ten minutes, turning left into the avenue, and passing through two more hutongs, he arrived at West Chang’an Street.
Once into the West Chang’an Street, far away from the lofty Yan House, Jieyu high walls, vermilion gate ……
Yes.
Zhu Pingan is here today to pay his respects to Yan Song.
Whether it is Linhuai Hou’s old lady’s instructions, or the hints of Seat Master Xu Jie, as well as Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen’s suggestions, visiting Yan Song is unavoidable.
Although he is sure to solve the current problem, but if it is to pay a visit, can solve the matter of the zhangzuo words, Zhu Pingan also do not refuse.
In front of the Yan House, the traffic, come to throw post to send gifts of people in an endless stream.
Zhu Pingan came earlier, lined up in front of the queue, carried a packet of tea, with the front and back of the heavy gold thick gift of people formed a stark contrast, caused before and after the frequent sidelong glances, but Zhu Pingan is calm and relaxed.
“Hey, this is your first time here, right?”A fat-headed official in the back pushed Zhu Pingan’s backside with the fan in his hand, showing his teeth and asking with a sense of superiority.
Umm.
You’ve come a lot.
But what’s there to be proud of!
Zhu Pingan glanced back and nodded slightly, although it was not the first time he had come to the Yan Mansion, it should still be considered the first time if he was paying a visit.
“Hey, don’t get it, you come to pay a visit to Pavilion Master Yan, you have to buy a fan first, a fan, get it?”The fat head official shook the fan in his fat paw and pointed out rather knowingly.
“Fan?”Zhu Pingan looked at the fan in the fat official’s hand and was confused. What is the relationship between paying a visit to Yan Song and buying a fan? I haven’t heard that Yan Song has a penchant for collecting fans?
“Do you see the way?”Looking at Zhu Ping An’s dumbfounded expression, the fat head and ears of the official quite a sense of superiority happy, show off open fan in front of Zhu Ping An waved, as if showing off medals.
Zhu Pingan shook his head, completely unable to see any doorway, not just an ordinary fan, the fan bone is not much expensive wood, the fan surface is also just ordinary satin.
“You are really a newborn calf, look here, this seal stamp, see?”The fat-headed official unfolded the fan, stretched out his chubby paw, and pointed to a small, inconspicuous seal stamp in the lower right corner of the fan surface.
Under the fat man’s guidance, Zhu Pingan found this small seal stamp, red seal stamp, seal stamp on the four words “He Nian Shu Zhai”, without a careful look, it is easy to overlook this small seal stamp.
Seeing the four words “He Nian Shujai”, Zhu Pingan could not help but think of the “West He Nian Tang” pharmacy in Caishikou. I wonder how the two are related. It always felt as if there was a connection.
“Come here ….”The fat-headed fat official beckoned to Zhu Pingan, signalling for him to come over with his ears.
The fat man was so mysterious, causing Zhu Pingan’s curiosity to rise, and he attached his ear over as the fat man said.
“I’ll tell you, this fan is not an ordinary fan, this is a fan from the ‘He Nian Shu Zhai’ opened by Mr He Nian.”The fat head and ears of the fat official mysteriously approached Zhu Pingan’s ear and said exaggeratedly.
“‘He Nian Shu Zhai’? What the hell?”Zhu Pingan still didn’t quite understand.
A rotten wood cannot be carved! A wall of dung cannot be plastered!
“Do you really not understand or are you just pretending to not understand, you’ve come to pay your respects at the Yan Mansion and you don’t even understand this?”The fat official rolled his eyes and looked at Zhu Pingan in a way that was roughly the same.
“Please also instruct senior.”Zhu Pingan humbly arched his hand and asked for guidance.
Zhu Pingan’s attitude greatly satisfied the fat man’s vanity, and after Zhu Pingan had asked for guidance, the fat man was immediately kind enough to point out the subtleties.
“Do you know who the head butler of the Yan House is, it is none other than the owner of this ‘He Nian Bookstore’, Mr He Nian.”When the fat official spoke of Mr He Nian, a fat face full of respect, ‘Mr He Nian’ these four words are fat official bowed and arched his hand and said.
Then, from the fat official’s mouth, Zhu Pingan pieced together an unspoken rule in front of the Yan Mansion.
The head butler of the Yan Mansion was Yan Nian, Yan Nian’s character ‘He Nian’. He is in this street, that is, the end of West Chang’an Street, opened a small ink, paper and inkstone shop “He Nian Shujian”, Shujian is inconspicuous, covers an area of about 20 to 30 metres, if there is no acquaintance to introduce the words, may not be able to find this Shujian.
The area is small and the interior decoration is simple.
However, this is a daily shop.
Buy a fan, is to visit the Yan House of the unspoken rules, that is to say, you come to visit the Yan House before, you have to come to this shop to buy a fan, and then carry the fan over to visit. People who come to visit with a fan will be treated favourably.
“How much is it?”
After listening to the fat official, Zhu Pingan asked curiously.
“How much?”The fat man grinned mockingly as if he had heard the funniest joke under the sky.
“Priceless.”
After mockingly laughing, the fat official returned with a straight face.
“Priceless?”Zhu Pingan was stunned. Really questioning the IQ, why are there so many dao in here.
“Yes, it is priceless, it has no price. Each fan is not marked with a price, the buyer sets the price, how much you think it’s worth, you can pay as much as you want, and the bookstore’s mate doesn’t care about you. However, after you’ve paid, the bookstore’s mate will note the price after your name tag, and forward it to the Yan Mansion along with it.”Fatty said with a frown on his face.
sh*t!
Who the hell dares to pay less when the Hernian Book Store is doing this. If you pay less, can you get into the Yan Mansion?
This Yan Mansion’s head housekeeper is quite good at collecting money, and his brain is good enough to come up with such an idea.
“Do you know how much I paid for this fan?”The fat official once again shook the fan in his hand and asked rather proudly.
“How much?”Zhu Pingan asked
“Guess.”The fat official sold out.
Zhu Pingan tentatively stretched out three fingers, looked at the fat official, thought about it and then stretched out both of the curled up fingers, and finally stretched out a hand.
“Alright, little brother, still have wisdom. In a flash you guessed it, yes, this fan is the one I spent five hundred taels on.”The fat official patted down patted Zhu Pingan’s shoulder and said appreciatively.
Cough cough cough.
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but cough at the words, with a constipated look on his face.
Line your sister ah, Huigen a hair ah, who guessed it at once?
I just guessed fifty taels, okay ……?This broken fan, if the actual price, one silver can buy ten OK, five hundred silver, this f*cking premium five thousand times!
