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Chapter 980 Tea House 'Bankruptcy', Ouyang Xu's End
Under the leadership of Zhao Pan'er, Zhou Chen came to the second floor of the tea house and sat down in a private seat by the street.

Zhao Pan'er did not leave, but sat down next to Zhou Chen.

"Master Hou, what do you think of our arrangement here?"

Zhou Chen looked around and said, "Compared to the tea house in Qiantang, it is much more magnificent, the environment is good, and the location is not bad, but if you want to succeed, you can't just rely on these."

Zhao Pan'er smiled and said: "It must be different. This is Tokyo. If we make it as simple as Qiantang Tea House, we will not be able to attract those high-quality customers. Tokyo is rich and charming, but if you want to make money, you have to pay attention to it." You have to go with the situation."

"Yes, I have made progress. It seems that these days in Tokyo are not in vain."

Zhou Chen knew that Zhao Pan'er would encounter setbacks soon, but he didn't rush to remind her that if you don't let her experience some things, she will never realize the problems.

"It's still the same sentence. If you encounter any troubles and problems in the future, you can go to the Hou Mansion to find me. If I'm not there, you can find Uncle Yan and tell you that I let you go."

"Thank you sir."

"We are so familiar, and you are still so polite, I don't believe you can't see my thoughts at all?"

"Cough cough."

Zhou Chen's sudden sentence startled Zhao Pan'er, and hurriedly avoided Zhou Chen's eyes, not daring to meet Zhou Chen's gaze.

"Master Hou, stop making fun of me."

"Teasing? I don't have time to make fun of you. That is to say, I'm still in the filial period, so I haven't taken any action against you. When my filial period is over for more than a month, I don't have to avoid it. I hope you can do it." Get ready, until then, you can still avoid me."

"what?"

Zhao Pan'er was so frightened that her voice changed. What does it mean not to take any action? What action will she take when the filial piety period is over?
Zhou Chen continued: "Sometimes I am very tolerant, but sometimes I am also very domineering, especially when facing someone I like and recognize, even if it is a robbery, I will grab it by my side."

"Ah?" Zhao Pan'er was surprised again, what kind of tiger-wolf words are these?
"Haha, just kidding, it scares you."

Zhou Chen laughed and said, "I just want you to prepare in advance, Pan'er, I don't just want to be friends with you."

Feeling Zhou Chen's fiery gaze, Zhao Pan'er panicked even more, secretly regretting whether it was a mistake to stay in Tokyo, should she go back to Qiantang?
Just when Zhao Pan'er was flustered and didn't know what to say.

"Officer Zhou, you are here."

Song Yinzhang walked over happily with his pipa in his arms, his face full of joy.

"Ms. Song, you played really well just now. I heard it outside the teahouse. It's really nice."

Song Yinzhang's smile became even brighter. She was good-looking herself, and she had been in the Jiaofang Division for many years, and she had Yin Ping, a maid, to help her, and she was also very good at dressing up.

It's just that in the past, she didn't smile much, and she was always a little gloomy, looking sullen.

But recently, there are more smiles, and the whole person looks more energetic, and looks more youthful and beautiful.

"Really? I'll play you another one if you like it."

"Okay."

Zhou Chen didn't refuse. He himself is a person who knows how to enjoy himself. Drinking tea alone is nothing compared to red sleeves and beautiful women playing the piano.

Song Yinzhang sat down not far from Zhou Chen, and was about to play the music. Zhao Pan'er stood up, poured some tea, and ran away.

The melodious voice echoed in his ears, Zhou Chen leaned on the chair and listened leisurely.

A few days later, when Zhou Chen came to Zhao's tea house again, he found that there was no customer inside, and Zhao Pan'er and his daughters were just sitting there looking around and talking boredly.

When Zhao Pan'er and his daughters heard the voice, they thought it was a visitor, but when they saw that it was Zhou Chen and Zhou Huai's master and servant, they all showed disappointment.

Only Song Yinzhang greeted him very happily: "Master Zhou, you are here."

Although she was also worried about the poor business of the tea house, compared to seeing Zhou Chen, this was not a big deal.

Zhao Pan'er and the others also greeted each other. Zhou Chen looked around and said, "It seems that the business in the store is not very good these days, right?"

Zhao Paner asked suspiciously, "How do you know?"

"Do you still have to ask? I can see it. If you usually drink tea, this time is the time when there are the most guests, but you can't see a single guest here."

This made Zhao Pan'er and his daughters even more distressed. Zhao Pan'er asked with a sad face: "We don't know what's going on, Lord Hou, don't you people in Tokyo like to drink tea? We have few guests here these days. The guests who came in also ordered loose tea casually, and left after drinking, there is no profit at all."

Zhou Chen said: "That's why you didn't investigate carefully. It's not that people in Tokyo don't like drinking tea, on the contrary, there are many people who like drinking tea, especially those literati, who can often drink for half a day."

"Then why is there no one here? And I only recently discovered that there are no restaurants or restaurants on this street, which is really strange."

"That's up to you to think for yourself."

Zhao Pan'er frowned slightly. What Zhou Chen meant was that he knew the reason, but he didn't tell her, and wanted her to figure it out for herself.

Not only her, Sun Sanniang, Song Yinzhang, including Yin Ping, also began to think seriously.

It's just that they racked their brains and couldn't think of the reason. In the end, Zhao Pan'er thought of something.

"In the first two days of our opening, the business was still very good, but a few days later, the business plummeted, and there were not many customers in these two days."

"Master Hou, was there some important festival a few days ago?"

Zhou Chen didn't speak, but looked at Zhou Huai. Zhou Huai said, "Miss Zhao, there is a Guanyin Temple near here. When your tea house opened a few days ago, it happened to be Buddha's birthday, so there were many pilgrims."

"I see."

Only then did Zhao Pan'er understand why the business was so good in the first two days of opening. It turned out that it was not because she had a unique vision and saw business opportunities, but because of the bonus of the Buddha's birthday.

"Then why are the rare guests these few days still ordering some loose tea and all in a hurry?"

Zhou Huai continued to explain: "That's because this is Ma Xing Street. Although Ma Xing Street is also a street with a lot of people in the city, there is a reason why it is called Ma Xing Street, because horse dealers and horse markets gather here. , people in Tokyo have known since they were young that they buy raw medicines at the Medicine Alley Bureau, and buy clothes at Panlou East, and if they want to drink tea, they have to go to the Tea Soup Alley.”

"Most of the people who come and go in Ma Xing Street are horse market businessmen. They don't have as much time as literati and refined scholars. They just want to drink tea as soon as possible and leave to do business. Therefore, it is really difficult for Mrs. Zhao to open your teahouse here to attract customers. "

Zhao Pan'er's complexion kept changing, and after a long time of trouble, she didn't know anything, so she opened the tea shop in a fever.

"It turns out that Tokyo people still have such a habit. This is my problem, and I haven't investigated it clearly."

Zhou Chen said suddenly: "But this is not your biggest problem. In fact, with your intelligence, as long as you give you a little time, you can discover these problems; but, your biggest problem is being anxious. You are too anxious. When you are in a hurry Many problems will be ignored, so in the final analysis, it is not that you are not capable, but that you are too eager to prove yourself."

Zhao Pan'er was silent, Zhou Chen was right, she was indeed too anxious, she was eager to prove that she could survive in Tokyo with Song Yinzhang and the others, and at the same time, she also wanted to open a tea house to keep herself busy and quickly forget the sadness things.

Seeing Zhao Paner's expression is not good, Zhou Chen said: "Since you already know the reason, then you should think about how to change it. It is to continue to do it here, but to go to Chatang Lane and rent a new shop. Start all over."

Zhao Pan'er thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "I don't believe that Ma Xing Street can't open a good teahouse."

She is confident in herself, but it's more because she doesn't have much money anymore.

It doesn't take much to think about it, the rent of the shop in Chatang Lane is definitely not cheap, and her current money can no longer support her to start all over again.

"Confidence is a good thing, then I'll wait for you to reopen the tea house."

…………

Great Song Xijing!

Ouyang Xu set off from the capital city and traveled hundreds of kilometers all the way, sitting in a carriage, stopping and going, and it took him nearly ten days to arrive in Xijing.

When he was in Tokyo, he only wanted to escape from Tokyo and Zhao Pan'er as soon as possible, so he had no choice but to accept the official position of the palace official.

Although others look down on him, he thinks this is the right path. At least he can escape from that place without being threatened by Zhao Paner.

But after he arrived in Xijing, he realized that he was really naive. The palace official said that he was an eighth-rank official, but in fact he was not even as good as a yamen servant.

In Xijing, the government didn't recognize him as a palace official at all. While he couldn't enjoy the treatment, he even had to pay for the place to live.

What made him even more desperate was that the officials asked him to come and invite Master Baoyi to return to the capital. If he could not be invited, he would not be able to return to the capital.

So after arriving in Xijing, he thought of countless ways to ask Master Baoyi to come out of the mountain, but unfortunately, after more than half a month, he couldn't even see Master Baoyi, let alone invite Master Baoyi to come out of the mountain. The teacher left for Tokyo.

He asked people everywhere and looked for connections everywhere, but no one took him seriously as an eighth-rank official. He was ridiculed and despised by others, and his dignity was almost lost.

Now, he rents a small house to live in Xijing. Fortunately, he brought some money with him when he came to Xijing, otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to live here.

Ouyang Xu dragged his exhausted body back to his residence. He went out early this morning and came back in the evening. He still got nothing and was stared at.

At this moment, he is becoming more and more confused about the future, but the resentment and anger in his heart are also getting stronger and stronger.

The more this happened, the more he swore in his heart that he must return to Tokyo alive and well, so that all those who looked down on him and bullied him would be ten times and a hundred times worse than him now.

Without this, he absolutely cannot give up.

Just when Ouyang Xu came home, in a small courtyard not far from his residence.Several people get together.

"Ninth brother, we have been following this kid for a month, when are we going to do it?"

There were five people in the yard. The one who spoke was a man in his twenties with a scar on his face. He was playing with a dagger in his hand and asked in a depressed tone.

The man called Brother Nine was the man in black who had appeared in Zhou Chen's study before, and he was also the leader of one of Zhou Chen's hidden guards. Two of the other four were members of his team. As for the remaining two The people are all members of the dark guards near Xijing.

Although there are less than 200 hidden guards under Zhou Chen, they are all spread out by area. After spreading out, the number of members in each area will not be so many, and the dark guards in each area are rarely contacted. Unless there is Zhou Chen's order, otherwise there will be no intersection.

Brother Nine is thin and looks like an ordinary farmer, but anyone who knows him knows that Brother Nine is a truly ruthless person and one of the master's most trusted secret guard leaders.

Ninth Brother glared at Scarface, and scolded: "Why are you so anxious? The master said that it is natural to let him die. Do you think it is as simple as killing him? If it is so simple, we need to follow him all the way from Tokyo. Are you going to Xijing?"

Scarface said: "It's easy to let him die. We actually had many chances to do it along the way, such as pretending to be a bandit and intercepting him, and sinking him while he was on a boat. Isn't that very natural?" .”

"Natural shit."

Brother Nine scolded: "Why are you talking so much nonsense, you can do whatever you want, you don't need to express your opinion."

Obviously, the scarred face looked much stronger than Brother Jiu, but he didn't dare to speak back to Brother Jiu's scolding.

"Okay, I won't talk anymore, listen to Brother Jiu, I just can't figure it out..."

"Don't think about it if you don't understand it. If you talk nonsense, I will beat you."

"Okay, I won't say anything."

Scarface aggrievedly walked to the corner and dug a hole with the dagger.

Brother Nine was still talking about the mission with the others, and with the scarred face in his early years, others would naturally not raise any objections.

The reason why Brother Nine was so cautious was because of Zhou Chen's order that they should not do anything until they arrived in Xijing.

Scarface was right, he had many ways to kill Ouyang Xu, but after careful calculation, there were more or less problems, that's why he didn't do it for a long time.

He is not afraid of accidents for himself, but he is afraid of implicating his master, so he would rather spend more time to continue following, but also to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

He thought he would have to wait a while longer, but not long after, he finally found an opportunity.

In this rainstorm, Ouyang Xu learned that Immortal Baoyi was at the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain. In order to meet Immortal Baoyi, he braved the wind and rain to go up the mountain regardless of the danger.

Brother Jiu was also very excited when he heard the report from the following subordinates.

"The opportunity has come, let's go, today is his death day."

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so all five members of Ninth Brother were dispatched, and there was a lot of wind and rain, but for these ruthless people who came down from the battlefield, in order to complete the mission, what is the wind and rain?
(End of this chapter)