By the time Shijia’s carriage arrived at Chang’an Avenue, it was already 4:00 (around 10 o’clock).
As soon as the carriage entered Chang'an Avenue, Shi Fulin and the others inside the carriage were startled by the sound of gongs and drums outside. As soon as the curtain was lifted, they saw crowded pedestrians and a festive lion dance team on the street.
"The mansions of the Duke of Ming Dynasty and the Duke of Cheng have opened stores on Chang'an Avenue, and the ostentation is too great."
"Isn't it? There are two families, one is performing a lion dance on the street, and the other is performing a lion dance at the end of the street. Today's Chang'an Avenue, because of these two families, became lively all of a sudden."
Hearing the noisy discussions on the street, Shi Fulin put down the car curtain, pouted and said, "I don't know what Sixth Sister thinks, why do you want to open a store on the same day as Dongfang Yunshang and Wei Yinghua? Just wait and see." , all the limelight today will be taken away by the Dongfang family and the Wei family, who cares about her shop."
Shi Fuying looked at Shi Fulin in surprise.
Different from the sour words in the previous complaints, Shi Fulin's tone at this time did not gloat, but was a little worried.
This surprised her too much.
"Seventh sister has also grown up." She also knows how to protect her family.
Shi Fulin looked at Shi Fuying a little speechlessly: "Fifth sister, you are only one year older than me, look at your old-fashioned tone, I don't know, I thought you were how many years older than me."
Shi Fu raised her chin: "I'm just a day older than you, and I'm also your sister."
Shi Fulin snorted, turned her head to look at the commotion outside the car, and stopped talking to Shi Fuying.
When the carriage of the family at that time was driving a hundred meters away from Shi Fuxin's shop, the carriage stopped moving.
No way, there are too many people ahead.
When the old lady looked at the crowd on the street, she was worried that the girl at home would be bumped into, so she could only order a detour to the restaurant that had been booked in advance.
When Shi's family entered the private room of the restaurant opposite Shi Fuxin's shop, it was already two or three quarters of an hour later.
As soon as everyone sat down, Mrs. Shi couldn't wait to ask: "What kind of stores did the Duke of Ming and Duke of Cheng open?"
When he came to inquire about the situation in advance, the manager quickly stood up and replied: "Minggong's mansion is a five-color stone building, and Chengguo's mansion is Jinmantang."
Pause, "Liu Miss' shop is still covered with a red cloth, and it hasn't been opened yet."
Mrs. Shi looked at Mrs. Shi in surprise: "Five-color stone building. The Dongfang family actually took out the family-heired skills at the bottom of the box this time."
At that time, the old lady was silent and did not speak.
The Dongfang family—the first family of Dachu, after passing on for five generations, inevitably went downhill.
This sign was actually revealed when the Dongfang family got married with the sixth prince.
Now it is not surprising that Liuli shop is started to operate in a fair manner.
Once upon a time, glazed and glass objects fired by the Dongfang family were hard to come by.
It's just a pity that the glass firing recipe left by Empress Wende to the Dongfang family was destroyed in the Dongfang family's infighting.
Otherwise, Dongfang’s family now owns a glass shop, so they don’t need to buy glass objects from foreign merchants at high prices.
Shi Da Furen walked to the window, opened the five-color stone building directly decorated with glazed tiles, and sighed: "The Dongfang family is so rich and powerful, opening a shop, it is directly decorated with glazed tiles."
As he spoke, he turned his attention to the shop opened by the Wei family.
Another resplendent and luxurious store.
In terms of wealth, the Wei family is not inferior to the Dongfang family.
"The title of the first family of Great Chu, the Dongfang family fully occupied the five periods of Taizu, Gaozong, Xingzong, Yingzong, and Renzong. Now that the Wei family has successively produced queen mothers, empresses, and princes, this position may not be maintained. "
Not always!
Shi the old lady silently replied in her heart.
The Wei family is prosperous now, but the emperor has too many princes, and most of them have grown up safely. It is still unknown whether the prince will be able to ascend the throne in the end.
"The Dongfang family sells glass, and the Wei family sells jewelry. Are these two families richer than their respective families? They are not afraid of attracting attention."
After hearing this, Mrs. Shi reacted, and replied: "Do you think the Dongfang family and the Wei family don't know this, but there is no way. Sometimes, it is very necessary to show one's own strength to outsiders."
The sixth prince stands behind the Dongfang family, and the crown prince stands behind the Wei family. If you don't show your strength, how can you let the officials choose to stand in line.
It's not good to talk about this outside, Mrs. Shi asked: "How is Sister Xin's shop?"
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Shi's expression was a little stunned: "It's okay, although it's not as luxurious as the shops of Dongfangjia and Weijia, but the outside decoration of the shop is quite elegant, and it doesn't feel much worse."
Standing by the window and looking at the opposite shop, Shi Fulin couldn't help but said: "Three shops, it feels like an orchid is inserted in the middle of peonies and peonies."
Everyone immediately had a picture in their minds.
Before I came here, I always thought that Liumeimei's shop would be a foil to the other two, but now that I look at it, I don't know who will set off the other.
Madam Shi was not surprised by this, the Dongfang family and the Wei family have strong financial resources, and the sixth girl does not need help from the house, so it is considered good to be able to successfully open a store.
At this moment, there was a commotion on the street, and when everyone looked down, they saw Jin Mantang's clerk coming out carrying a large dustpan, which was filled with strings of five emperors' copper coins with the Wei family logo, and gave them to everyone outside the shop one by one. Pedestrians send it for free.
This operation immediately attracted countless people to flock over.
On the other side, the Dongfang family was not to be outdone. The Wei family had just started distributing copper coin strings, and they also brought out a dustpan of glazed beads from the store and gave them to those present for free.
All of a sudden, pedestrians on the street flocked to the two shops.
Shifuxin’s shop in the middle was empty, and there was no one there.
Three shops are next to each other, and Shi Fuxin's shop is like a dividing line, separating the two congested shops.
Watching this scene, Du Zixuan in the crowd hummed and said, "If I were Shi Fuxin, I would never open a store on the same day as Dongfang Yunshang and Wei Yinghua."
Hu Xinrui looked at Shi Fuxin's store, which was still covered with a red cloth on the board, and doubts flickered in her eyes: "Shi Fuxin is quite shrewd. She may be holding back some big tricks by doing this."
Du Zixuan shook her head: "What big tricks can she have? In the face of absolute power and financial resources, she should bow her head. Why bother to compete. If she can't compare once, it doesn't mean she can't compare every time."
Similar conversations also occurred in the private room of the restaurant opposite Yu Mantang.
"Tsk tsk tsk, that pomegranate that hit you is so pitiful, I can't bear to see it!"
Chu Qian looked at the three shops downstairs while shaking his folding fan, and said sympathetic words in his mouth, but his mouth was very poisonous: "I know he can't do it, but he insists on going up, isn't he stupid?"
Chu Yao glanced at him: "She is not stupid, not only is she not stupid, she is also very smart. Just wait and see, maybe there will be some surprises."
Chu Qian listened, and looked over in surprise: "From your tone, it seems that you know that girl quite well."
Chu Yao said lightly: "I don't understand it, I just met it a few times. I feel that girl. She has tenacity in her body, she is not afraid of things, and she is bold. Such a person will not sit and wait for death."
Chu Qian smiled: "Is your evaluation too high? That girl is only thirteen."
Watching Chu Yao look over, Chu Qian paused, thinking that Chu Yao had entered the Hall of Reincarnation when he was ten years old, and he was only thirteen years old when the emperor ascended the throne and began to be in charge of the special supervisor.
Chu Qian smiled sheepishly: "Age really doesn't mean anything."
Just as Chu Qian was about to find something else to talk about, there was another round of commotion on the street.
Chu Qian looked down, and was immediately delighted: "The Dongfang family and the Wei family are really competing, even Dongfang Changqing and Wei Yichen are here."
Chu Yao also walked to the window, looking at Dongfang Changqing and Wei Yichen who appeared side by side on the street, his eyes were a little grave.
The fact that the Dongfang family married the sixth prince was really just because Dongfang Yunrong fell for it?
Now he feels more and more that it was the emperor who pushed the Dongfang family to become the sixth prince.
Look, even Wei Yichen is here, the prince can't sit still?
In the private room of the Shi family, the girls of the Shi family exclaimed when they saw Dongfang Changqing and Wei Yichen.
Shi Fulin looked at Dongfang Changqing and Wei Yichen with piercing eyes as they walked towards Dongfang Yunshang and Wei Yinghua respectively: "I really envy Dongfang Yunshang and Wei Yinghua, they are too ostentatious to open a store."
Shi Fubin frowned and said: "What is there to envy? Didn't you hear the people on the street talking about it? Everyone is talking about the Duke's Mansion and Duke Cheng's Mansion. Why did you mention Dongfang Yunshang and Wei Yinghua?"
"On the surface, the two of them opened the store, but behind the scenes, everything was arranged by the Dongfang family and the Wei family. They are just puppets pushed by the two."
In terms of autonomy, she thinks that the sixth sister is the strongest in the family, at least she is not led by the nose by the elders in the family.
With the arrival of Dongfang Changqing and Wei Yichen, Chang'an Avenue once again set off a wave of climax.
Just when the atmosphere was at its most enthusiastic, a melodious piano sound suddenly broke through the air.
"唰,唰~"
With the sound of the piano, two red silks suddenly flew out from the second floor of the middle shop, and pulled open the red cloth covering the shop.
"Wow~"
The three words "Hong Yan Xiao" suddenly broke into the eyes of the crowds in the shops on both sides.
The red silk that flew out crossed and was directly tied to the eaves of the opposite restaurant. Then, a pink lotus bud flew out from the third floor of Hongyanxiao and landed firmly on the cross of red silk.
“Life is like a play”
A male voice with a dramatic tone sounded slowly amidst the sound of the piano.
The sound of the piano and singing swayed the entire Chang'an Avenue with the wind.
Lotus buds also bloomed slowly amidst the singing, and a graceful woman in a red flowing gauze dress holding a round fan to cover her face slowly stood up from the lotus.
Hahaha, when I wrote this scene, I thought of the song "Life is like a play", let's see if you can bring it into it