Maoyoufang

With the coolness in the wind, maples and maples change their clothes one by one, a yellow leaf flies down, and the scenery is quietly dyed with autumn colors.

Autumn trials are held in various places, farmers are busy with autumn harvest, businesses are rushing to settle accounts and pay taxes, and the scenery in the world suddenly becomes busy.There are also many festivals that need to be prepared during the period. Even the teaching workshops inside and outside the palace are not idle for a moment to arrange and practice music and dance.

Fengdi, the capital of the Great Jin Kingdom, was once the capital of the Four Kingdoms, with a total of more than 100 squares, [-] from east to west, and [-] from north to south.Each square is like an independent city, so some literati joked that this is a big city with a small city, and small means small in Fengdi people's language.

The street in the square is called Qu, which is named after its different properties. The squares adjacent to the south of Mingle Palace are more prosperous, and many of them are places for dignitaries to travel in a low-key manner. Therefore, there may be more than ten art gardens and restaurants in one square alone. ,teahouse.Among them, Maoyoufang and Kuangyifang are even more secretive, but in this well-planned city, they can keep a low profile and make money from their connections.

"Pipa, harp, qin, zither, flute, and sheng should be put in their respective music rooms, and other non-collectible items should be put in Shaoyu Pavilion first, and other disciples can pick them up by themselves." Yu Younian stood in the left courtyard of Kuang Yifang and counted Newly purchased and repaired musical instruments, Zhu Jinrong and his disciples on the other end also sorted out the music scores and other items.

Kuang Yi Fang is a folk teaching workshop. The two of them are the masters in charge of singing and music in Kuang Yi Fang. The dancer is led by Jiang Maoyou. The profit and loss will be counted by the accountant Lang Qingchi and submitted to Jiang Maoyou for counting.

As small as a hairpin, a flower tin, and as large as the cost of building renovations, they are all listed carefully and clearly. Although Kuang Yi Fang will not treat the geisha under it badly, Jiang Maoyou is very fussy about money, and he hates waste.

Thousands of years ago, Jiaofang was an official palace office. After thousands of years, it has undergone several ups and downs and changes, and its essence has also changed.At present, Yayuefu is the one in charge of rites and music in the palace, and it is only responsible for solemn performances on formal ceremonial occasions;Although many of the teaching workshops have become brothels, there are still many high-end sorceress halls that are only performing arts. At least the geisha have to communicate with customers in private. As long as it does not affect the business, most of the teaching workshops will not interfere.

Among the waterside pavilions, a young man was holding a small script and leaning on the railing, as if looking down in thought. A piece of beige linen paper was pressed on the small table in front of him. People on the shore came and went, and suddenly came a man in a suit. The middle-aged man in blue flicked the candy on the table towards his face.

"Huh?" He was startled and almost fell off the railing. When he looked up, he complained flatly, "It's Lao Qin, why are you making trouble with me!"

The man called Lao Qin, whose real name is Qin Siyuan, is a famous chef Jiang Maoyou poached from a famous restaurant. He has a weird temper, but his cooking skills are superb, his seasoning is exquisite, and his knife skills are exquisite, which is inversely proportional to his violent temper.Qin Siyuan is one of the few people in Kuang Yi Fang who dares to take charge of the house, because Jiang Maoyou's greed is the only one he can handle.

Qin Siyuan questioned him immediately after opening his mouth: "Didn't you mean to count the dance clothes and go to the cloth shop to pick out cloth?"

"I'm going to get ready for that later. But Lao Qin, don't you have business to do, why did you come here and throw candy at me?"

"Yeah. We're all busy, why don't you help?"

"Uh, I'm busy too." Jiang Maoyou sat upright, turned his face slightly and yawned secretly, and explained: "The eldest princess asked me to think of the title of the new drama for her, and I...I'm thinking of it for her."

"That's her own business. You think people rely on you, maybe they have already decided on the title of the play by themselves. You are the only one in the whole workshop who has the time to sit here in a daze."

"That's right, but I'm still busy after all, busy with socializing and dealing with those wolves, tigers and leopards, so you can't see me sneaking away?"

"Idlers are not allowed to eat my food. Believe it or not if you are lazy again, I will beat you until you vomit it all out?"

"If I spit it out, won't I find something to eat again?" Jiang Maoyou said with a naughty smile.

"Jiang Maoyou!" Qin Siyuan raised his hand and showed a long knife for cutting fish. Jiang Maoyou screamed "Wow" and jumped away, took a pen and paper and ran away with a smile.Qin Siyuan shook his head and sighed: "When will this playful guy grow up? If you say he is smart and clever, he is blessed by nature, but his personality is really a big flaw, he is lazy and plays with the world... If he hadn't been with that The owner of the teahouse had a deal, so I really don’t want to talk to this brat.”

Jiang Maoyou's parents used to be highly skilled entertainers in palace dance and music. Later, tens of thousands of artists were dismissed due to political disputes.Jiang and his wife later relied on their connections to establish Kuang Yifang in Baihuashen Lane, Beijing.However, the political situation is still turbulent. In order to maintain the huge expenditure, Jiang Maoyou abolished many old rules, opened the door widely, and even started publicity. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to deal with social situations.

When he was young, Jiang Maoyou had such a playful and unscrupulous personality, he was absent-minded in learning everything and was so angry. When he was nine years old, he fell into the water in the back garden and almost died. Later, he was rescued by a disciple who was studying art.Since he came back, his personality remains the same, but he seems to be able to learn everything, he is good at literature and martial arts, he is more good at calculation, and he loves opportunistic tricks.

At night, Jiang Maoyou checked the account books under the supervision of Lang Qingchi. The table was filled with the account books in autumn, but the account books from the warehouses in winter, spring, and summer filled the long table brought in from the hall.

"Qingchi, my eyes are so tired from watching." Jiang Maoyou rubbed his eyes, and Lang Qingchi pulled his hand down and glanced at him.

"Don't rub your eyes, bad habit." Lang Qingchi was more than ten years older than him. He was a calm man. Although he was still in his prime, most of his hair was gray. He had a refined and mature appearance and a loud voice.

"But my eyes are itchy."

Lang Qingchi looked at him with a frown, put on an elder brother's posture and said, "I don't like to punish you as much as Zhu and Yu, but don't be lazy."

Jiang Maoyou curled his lips, snorted and continued to go through the accounts.Although there are absolutely no omissions or mistakes in these accounts that have passed through Lang Qingchi's hands, but before Jiang Maoyou becomes an adult, the other gentlemen must fulfill their obligations of supervision and training. This is the will of the former head of the family.

Candle cried and dwarfed by half, Lang Qingchi saw that Jiang Maoyou was really tired, and said: "I'll let Lao Qin make some supper, you should rest first."

"En. Thank you very much." Jiang Maoyou lowered his head, his forehead pressed against the ledger, and quickly dozed off.

When he woke up again, Jiang Maoyou saw the supper that Qin Siyuan made for him, and the bowl of fungus and lotus seed soup was eaten up by a child in his early ten years old.He recognized this little girl, her name is Yuedu, such a small child is the owner of a tea house.When he drowned more than ten years ago, he went to her tea house. After he got out of ignorance, he gradually realized that the tea house was actually not in the mortal world, and its mystery was more ethereal than ghosts and gods.

"Maoyou, I'm sorry, this bowl of sweet soup is too fragrant, I couldn't help but eat it up." The girl stuck out her tongue and apologized, smiling wickedly and cutely.

"It's okay." Jiang Maoyou rubbed his eyes to make sure she was still there, and said with a smile, "Yuedu, you haven't changed at all in more than ten years. I thought I said I wanted to marry you back then, but now I'm even more sure that you really want to marry me." people."

Yue Du also smiled, "Hey, you didn't understand anything at that time. You should understand now, besides, it's not because you like it, it's just a moment of confusion." She put down the soup bowl and imitated him by lying on the table and looking at people .

"At that time, you also ate all my snacks and said you would pay it back, so you enlightened me."

Yue Du looked at him with a smile and listened quietly.

"You said that I am the flower and fruit of the fairy tree in your tea house, so your tea house is my destination. When can I return, living like this is actually very tiring."

"Are you bored?"

"That's a little bit. I have everything I want at my fingertips, and you think everything is boring?"

Yue Du didn't answer him, but just said with a smile: "The tea house is a place to drink tea and buy and sell dreams, not a destination. I came this time to give you something."

"what's for me?"

"This." Yue Du handed him a physalis. This thing is commonly known as a golden lantern or a brocade lantern. It has different names in different places, but its name mostly comes from its special appearance, which looks like an orange lantern hanging, and it is also a kind of medicinal herb.

"What are you doing for me? One is not enough."

Yue Du said with a smile, "This is the guiding light for coming to the tea house. If you need it someday, you can peel off that layer of paper and eat the fruit inside."

Jiang Maoyou frowned and smiled strangely: "I don't know when I will need this."

"When the outer layer of calyx paper leaves veins, the time is almost ripe."

"Can't we go now?"

"It's not the time. Whoever was holding the lantern at that time is destined to continue the dream." Yue Du shook his head and said to him, "Maybe we won't meet again. There are only passers-by in my place. You are a human being, so naturally you are here. Find a home in the world."

Jiang Maoyou stared at Physalis, thinking that it was something Yuedu used to coax him. He was still troubled thinking why he was not happy. He didn't need anything, but he just wasn't happy.One day he will be able to truly stand alone, get rid of those wordy lessons, no matter how absurd his world is, just be happy, right?

Life should be enjoyed in time.

Fight for what you want, Jiang Maoyou knows that he is living so carelessly now because he hasn't found a direction yet.Naturally, he was too lazy to face things that he wasn't interested in, and it wasn't as bad as outsiders said.

"Maoyou?" Jiang Ziwu shook his shoulders, Jiang Maoyou opened his sleepy eyes and rubbed them to look at her.

"sister."

"Look at how you fell asleep lying on the table, drooling and staining the entire ledger."

Jiang Maoyou didn't care too much, and wiped the sleeves casually, but the sleeves were dirty instead. He closed the book with a shy smile, took Jiang Ziwu's hand and said, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

"I won't come here until Brother Lang is gone, and I'll see you sleeping like this when I come."

"Ah." Jiang Maoyou spread out his palms, there was nothing there, he smiled and said to himself: "It really is a dream."

"What?" Jiang Ziwu tilted his head and looked at him.

"No." Jiang Maoyou shook his head and yawned sleepily.

Jiang Ziwu is Maoyou's twin sister, she and him look at each other and smile, they have been together since childhood, the only time they really separated was when Jiang Maoyou fell into the water.Jiang Maoyou walked into a tea house full of mystery alone. He was still young at that time, but his head was still clear. He felt that it was nothing more than a dream, but when he went back to the residence in Kuang Yi Fang, the adults said that it was him who was kidnapped by ghosts and gods. Hide it and give him a nightmare.

There are many strangers in the past guests of that tea house. There is a peach fairy who teaches him how to dance a sword, and a fragrance god who teaches him how to play the qin. He is so happy that he almost loses himself.Later, when he returned to Kuang Yi Fang, he found a miscellaneous book describing ancient anecdotes, which mentioned a tea house similar to the one he had visited in his dream, called Yuedu Tea House.

It is said that the moon tablet is an ancient god born from chaos. The tea house is located between dreams and reality, and the moon tablet has no fixed form, and it maintains its existence by buying and selling in the hazy time and space and picking up the dreams of passers-by.

It can be said that whoever can enter that tea house may get an opportunity to be reborn, transformed or affect real life.

Jiang Maoyou didn't mention his experience in the tea house, and even Jiang Ziwu didn't know about it. After a long time, although those memories were still fresh, they felt more vain, and even he wasn't sure whether it was real or a dream.

Jiang Ziwu pushed him to the room to undress and rest, and said: "Go to bed early tonight, there are things to do tomorrow. The newly opened Cuiyatang in Beijing, the boss Dou Xuemo will also come tomorrow, I heard The owner behind the scenes is Tong Yuguang, we have to establish a good relationship with him.”

Jiang Maoyou froze for a moment, then nodded and muttered: "Tong...Tong Yuguang, oh, that guy who made all the money in the world. The man who started in the salt and rice industry and now still cuts off the access to the outer domain."

"Yes." Jiang Ziwu nodded, taking off his brother's robe while talking, urging him to go to sleep.

"What is Cuiyatang doing?" Jiang Maoyou put on his clothes and pushed his sister back into the bed, as if he was going to lie on the long couch outside. "He has such a big business, how does this shop make a living?"

"Calligraphy and painting antiques." Jiang Ziwu opened his brother's hands and feet, Jiang Maoyou twisted his wrist and pulled away the restraints, and the two became fighting each other.

"Sister, I'm not a child anymore. Don't forget that we are the same age, men and women are different, you go to bed and sleep."

"What are you afraid of? I know all the moles on your body, and you're still shy, scoff."

Jiang Maoyou looked embarrassed, and said awkwardly: "Yes, yes, you are a hero among women, please let me go."

"Dad and mother are gone, that's why I care about you, sister, I really don't know what's good and what's wrong."

"Oh, then why don't you care about the eldest princess?"

Jiang Ziwu's face darkened, and he warned him: "Don't mention Li Yumu again!"

"Hey, it's so easy to get angry." Jiang Maoyou succeeded in getting angry, Jiang Ziwu closed the door of the inner hall, Jiang Maoyou turned around and leaned against the door, giggling, and lay down on the colder couch outside to rest.

Because Jiang Maoyou often enters the palace to teach art, it is rumored that the eldest princess admires Jiang Maoyou, and Jiang Maoyou always likes to tease Jiang Ziwu about the eldest princess.After all, Jiang Ziwu is the one who is really close to the eldest princess, and it is Jiang Ziwu who cares more about the eldest princess.

"Zi Ya Tang, hum, it's a good name. I forgot to ask who the owner of Zi Ya Tang is." Jiang Maoyou covered his mouth and yawned, and put it aside, it was tomorrow's business anyway.

However, people in the world don't know Jiang Ziwu, only Jiang Maoyou. In fact, most of the people who enter the palace to teach art are sister Jiang Ziwu, but it doesn't matter who they are to outsiders.Because in this world, no one knows the existence of Jiang Ziwu.

No one can tell the difference between the two of them, there is only Jiang Maoyou in the world, there is no Jiang Ziwu.If Jiang Maoyou was asked about his siblings, he could only answer: "My elder sister was ill-fated, she died at birth."