Mr. Wen looked familiar and asked, "Is this the guard of the Hou Mansion?"
Li Laoer smiled and nodded, "Yes, I was looking through the roster the day before yesterday, and suddenly I remembered the name of this place. I spent too much money and was afraid of offending Xiao Xiao, so I went to the Marquis Mansion to discuss with the housekeeper and temporarily hired some helpers. Unexpectedly, they really came in handy!"
Mr. Wen heard clearly but didn't believe a word of it. .
After all, the person who kept him up half the night was waiting for this moment. No matter how you looked at it, it couldn't be a spur-of-the-moment move? !
Li Laoer smiled, and regardless of what he thought, he directly asked the guards, "Brothers, please help me ask whose family these people belong to, and why they came to the door in the middle of the night?"
"Yes, uncle, don't worry. We will keep it for you to ask clearly!" the leading guard replied.
Then he asked Old Man Cao to find an empty room and brought the man in black in...
Li Laoer and Mr. Wen only drank a bowl of tea and ate a few snacks for a late night snack, and the result came out.
The leading guard came to report, "Uncle, these people are the guardians of the Wang family. They all carry scissors and sickles with them, just to come in and destroy all the famous flowers. They don't want Baiyuan Garden to open smoothly tomorrow."
Mr. Wen frowned, "This The Wang family is really good at calculating, but the people they chose are too poor..."
The leading guard explained: "Mr. Wen doesn't know something. These people are all skilled in martial arts. If they are not prepared, they will enter the yard and destroy it. It's easy to escape intact.
"But the courtyard has never been guarded before, and we have been hiding in secret. When they came to inquire in advance, they found nothing, so they relaxed their vigilance, so we took it down so easily."
Li Laoer nodded, "Thank you for your hard work. Take good care of these people and don't die. " I also keep the scissors and sickle. Their master may come over tomorrow, and then I will return them to their original owners.
The guards understood and retreated.
Li Laoer asked Old Man Cao, "Prepare some food for the guards. After all, we have to stay for half the night. Don't stay up all night hungry. "
"Yes, boss! " "Old man Cao immediately responded.
Thinking of how the flowers in the yard were almost ruined, old man Cao broke into a cold sweat on his back.
He was extremely grateful to these guards who protected his "darling".
Immediately, He helped to light the fire and asked the old woman to roll out the noodles and cook them. He also cut up the bacon brought by his relatives from his hometown, mixed it with minced beans, and fried the toppings.
The guards were full and asked the four Cao family members to go to bed quickly. , and then continued to guard the peace of the Baiyuan Garden.
Early the next morning, as soon as it got dark, Old Man Cao got up, looked inside and outside the courtyard, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
"These damn things , my rose flowers, many of them were trampled off! "
Finally, he called his son again, quickly took the ladder, and rearranged the rose vines.
Then, when passers-by walked by, they saw the bright flowers on the wall again.
When the sun rose three poles, Mrs. Li took the Tao Hongying and Jiayin were the first to arrive in a carriage.
Today there were all male customers, so it was not convenient for them to come here.
But Jiayin wanted to join in the fun. Almost all the flowers here were made by her hands. When the business opened, she How could they be absent?!
So, Li Laoer settled them in the west room of the main room in the backyard.
The room was spacious and had a kang, so it was convenient to take a nap when tired.
There was also a small door leading to the side room, so the Cao family could come in and serve. Easy.
Of course Grandma He and Shui Yun Shuiling also followed. Aunt He stayed in the room, while Shui Ling and Shui Yun helped Cao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law take care of the tea and snacks for the guests.
Soon, the first guests arrived.
It was Dean Zhou, Mr. Peng and Mr. Tang, along with a few gentlemen from the academy who had no classes today, plus their accompanying book boys, a dozen or so people, who immediately made the small courtyard lively.
In an auspicious moment, Mr. Li asked Mr. Cao to set off a firecracker outside the gate to celebrate the opening, which was very low-key and unobtrusive.
But the outer shell of the firecrackers shattered and fell like red snowflakes in front of the door and under the wall. The rose flowers lining the top of the wall had a different kind of beauty.
This makes the flower appreciators who come one after another feel amazed before they even enter the door.
Everyone has a love for beauty, and the embodiment of beauty in plants falls on flowers!
Being among the flowers, even the most cold-hearted person can't help but smile and relax.
The visitors include colleagues from the DPRK and China, famous celebrities from Xindu, gentlemen from the academy, and even relatives and friends of the Li family such as Mrs. Liu and Liu Zhiheng.
There are all kinds of distinguished guests who have received the invitation post, as well as idlers who have not received the invitation post and come to join in the fun. Together, there are a hundred or ten people.
With so many people drinking tea, eating snacks and cutting jade melons, it is no small task.
Nanny He soon went out to help, and together with Zheng Feng and Zheng He, she was barely able to take care of her.
Li Laoer simply asked people to place chairs under the eaves of the corridor, and parasols like those in the academy canteen had been placed everywhere in the courtyard.
In this way, the guests each chose familiar friends to gather together and sit down, blowing the wind, eating melons, and admiring the flowers. It was extremely comfortable!
Li Laoer let everyone wander around and took a clear look at all the potted flowers in the courtyard. Then he stood in front of the steps, smiled with everyone and said, "Dear guests, my brother's restaurant used to have famous flowers on display. Many friends complained to me that they didn't have a chance to appreciate it properly.
"So, I thought about a place like this, full of flowers, please enjoy it. Will no one say that our family is stingy in the future? I breathed a sigh of relief! "
Everyone also laughed and returned the favor.
Li Laoer smiled and said: "However, this is a business after all, and I still hope that the business will prosper. Everyone was happy to see it. They wanted to take their favorite flowers home and enjoy them all the time, but they still had to pay money, and the more the merrier! "
Everyone laughed louder this time. It stands to reason
that businessmen always use shrewd calculations when pursuing profits, which is not pleasing to people.
But Li Laoer said it so clearly, which was quite magnanimous.
Li Laoer pointed to the pot in front of him The blooming cuckoo said: "Everyone knows that our family is blessed with the emperor's grace and has a geomantic treasure like Broken Gold Beach to settle down. Now we have no worries about food and clothing.
"Our whole family is extremely grateful to the emperor and Tianwu, so we often think about using our meager efforts to repay the favor.
"This time, Baiyuan Garden opened, and our family made a rule. From now on, Baiyuan Garden will open. Half of the proceeds should be used for charity.
"Take this pot of cuckoos as an example. If it is sold for ten taels of silver, five taels of it will be counted as capital, and the remaining five taels will be taken out, exchanged for food, clothing, supplies, and medicinal materials, and sent to the Relief Department to relieve the old, weak, and sick. Can, to reduce the burden on the court.
"So, if you like the famous flowers here, you don't have to buy them with money. You can also buy them with grain, cotton, medicinal seedlings, and medicinal roots!" In short, as long as we take out what we need, we can exchange the flowers..."