At night, Jinzhan and Yinzhan served Yin Hui to wash her feet.
“Madam, our auspicious restaurant is very famous in Pingcheng, why did you ask the third master to go to Li’s Piaoxiang restaurant?”
Jinzhan sat on the small bench and asked puzzledly while rubbing her master’s feet.
Yin Hui smiled, “It’s called virtuous avoidance of relatives. I don’t want the third master to think that I am soliciting customers for my own restaurant.”
In her previous life, she also recommended Piaoxiang restaurant.
The marriage between her and Wei Luo was an honor to the Yin family, but Wei Luo didn’t think so. If he invited his brothers to drink in his wife’s restaurant, it would be more likely to take advantage of his wife’s family, and he would appear poor and stingy. With Wei Luo’s pride and aloofness, even if she broke Wei Luo’s leg to carry him to Jixiang Restaurant, Wei Luo would still struggle, determined not to step into it.
That night Wei Luo still slept in the front yard, and the next morning he left the palace with Chang Feng as usual, but not long after he left, he told Chang Feng, “Go and find out what the Yin family has with the owner of Piaoxiang restaurant, and then book a restaurant that has nothing to do with these two.”
Chang Feng took the order.
The master and servant separated, one rode out of Pingcheng, and the other went to the most prosperous main street in the city to inquire.
When it was almost noon, Chang Feng also came to the guard.
Wei Luo stayed in his barracks and was preparing to have lunch. He shared a small kitchen with Feng Su and other officers. The food was definitely better than that of the soldiers, but it was a little more refined. Two meat, one vegetable and one soup were not too much. .
Two guards stood guard outside, and after passing the pass, Chang Feng was let in.
“My lord, I’ve found out everything.”
“Yin and Li were family friends. Mr. Yin liked to drink wine from Piaoxiang Restaurant. Whenever he wanted to entertain guests, he would book there. One year, when Madam probably was five or six years old, Mr. Yin took her to Li’s house as a guest. There were also some young ladies in the Li family. When they played with her, they had some disputes. They were disrespectful to the madam, and she was so sad that she burst into tears. Angry, her grandfather took her away, and later hired famous chefs from all over the country, opened Jixiang Restaurant, and grabbed a lot of business from Piaoxiang Restaurant with dirty calculation.”
Wei Luo listened silently, and a five or six-year-old Madam Yin appeared in his mind. After being excluded, she cried like Xiao Heng, with tears on her face.
Her eyes were big and beautiful, with long eyelashes. If she cried, she would be pitied by her elders.
It was nothing more than a quarrel between children, but Mr. Yin actually opened a restaurant for it, which showed how much he loved Madam Yin.
“Which one did you place our order for?” Wei Luo asked.
Chang Feng: “There are three major restaurants in Pingcheng. The Yin family’s Jixiang Restaurant that gathers famous dishes from all over the world. The Li family’s Piaoxiang Restaurant is better at Beidi dishes, with good wine. There is also a Xiankelai, which specializes in Huaiyang cuisine. The decoration of the restaurant is also very elegant, so I booked a private room in Xiankelai. By the way, Xiankelai also has a special feature, that is, there are some singers who are good at playing and singing, and they specialize in serving the guests in the private room. Do you want to arrange for singers? I’ll ask them to prepare them. If you don’t like it, I’ll tell them that they don’t have to play and sing.”
Wei Luo thought for a while and said, “Arrange it.”
Since Xiankelai came with a feature, there must be a sound of playing and singing in other private rooms. So if it was not in his room, his second brother would definitely tease him for being stingy.
The fifth child was only twelve. Even if the second elder brother had any extravagant plans, he wouldn’t mess around in front of the fifth child, the singer would just sing for fun.
At dusk on the day at the end of the month, the five brothers met in front of the east side and left the palace together.
“Third Brother, have you told father about this?” Wei Yan asked worriedly while riding on the horse.
Wei Luo said, “Yes, I did. Father told us to come back early.” The implication was that drinking and eating were fine, and no one should even think about sleeping with the flowers and willows outside.
Wei Yan touched his nose in disappointment.
Wei Yang smiled and said, “Which restaurant did you book?”
Wei Luo looked at Wei Yang and said, “Xiankelai, I heard that the singers there play and sing well.”
Wei Yan immediately recovered, pointed at Wei Luo and said, “Well, Third Brother, I usually thought you were serious, but you know it well.”
Wei Luo smiled faintly, “Second Brother, as long as you can have fun.”
Wei Yang reminded, “The fourth and fifth are here, you take it easy. If you really spoil them, just wait for our father to deal with you.”
Wei Yan glanced at the two young children regretfully. If they had known that the third child was enlightened, he would not have called the two younger children.
The five brothers rode horses and soon arrived at the Xiankelai Restaurant.
Apart from King Yan, they were the most honored guests in Pingcheng. The owner of Xiankelai personally welcomed the five masters to the private room, and also arranged for five beautiful singers who were said to only sell their skills but not their bodies to play and sing.
Five singers, one playing the Qin, one holding the pipa, two playing the flute, and one sitting among the four girls singing.
The second master Wei Yan picked a seat facing the singers and he could no longer take his eyes off them.