At dawn, the rooster strides forward, tail feathers open, fluttering wings to fly up to the treetops, facing the eastern sky of a piece of fish-belly white, singing at the top of their voices, drinking away the stars, waking up a day of the rising sun.
Qi Hua Men facing the East Factory, just facing the rising sun, greeted the first ray of sunshine in the capital.
At the time of the first ray of morning sun, two teams of armour-clad officers and soldiers stepped in formation into the gateway of the urn carved with ears of grain and opened the gates.
With the traffic flowing in and out of the city, the Qihua Gate, which had been silent all night, began to be full of vigour again.
The inner city river also began to get busy.
A boat full of grain, fruits and vegetables, meat and other things, rowed to the pier, unloaded by the manpower, and then loaded onto the trucks to be sent to the various morning markets in the capital, and then to be served on the tables of thousands of households in the capital.
In front of the wharf, there were a lot of people, and the calls of the labourers and fibremen were heard one after another, making the whole wharf the busiest place in Qihua Gate.
The streets in front of the pier were also crowded with people.
There were women who woke up early and went out to buy food, maidservants and boys who purchased ingredients, small families who took their families out for breakfast, old men walking with bird cages, and men who returned home after a long night of hangovers…….
Shops also opened their doors early to welcome the arrival of their golden masters.
This was the case with Princess Ning An’s Delicious Residence, which opened its doors early in the morning and set out fragrant pastries.
Princess Ning An was determined to run the pastry shop with great success and earn a lot of silver to impress her imperial brother.
I don’t want to rent it out, especially if I have to rent it out to that exhibitionist surnamed Zhu, humph! No way!
I’m going to use this shop to prove myself, Princess Ning An sat inside the shop and clenched her fists hard, thinking as she did.
“Selling pastries, delicious pastries.”Two palace maids, dressed in ordinary maid’s clothing, were outside soliciting customers.
However, the regular customers who were familiar with this street just swept a glance at the shop before leaving without looking back.
They knew that this shop, the prices were too high, the pastries were much more expensive than the meat, but they couldn’t afford to consume it.
However, with the palace maiden’s beauty and sweet voice, and the fragrant pastries, the attraction was still there.
Several curious passers-by were attracted over, but once they inquired about the price, they all shook their heads and left.
Early in the morning, only sold out a packet of pastries, or shop inside the cheapest one osmanthus flower cake.
“Selling pastries, delicious pastries, fragrant and sweet, crispy and soft pastries.”Affected by the poor performance, the two palace maids’ hawking voice also became breathless.
Do not blame them, hawking early in the morning, their throats are dry, but no effect at all, how can they have energy.
“To revolt ah, morning also did not see you eat less, how the voice so small? Is not to this princess have opinions ah!”The disadvantage of the Ning An Princess is nowhere to vent it, heard two small palace maid breathless voice, as if to find a breakthrough like, a brain vent out.
The two little palace maids were scared like a quail, lowering their heads, admitting their mistakes in succession, and their voices got much louder behind them.
But apparently there is not much effect.
Crowds of people coming and going rarely stop in front of the shop, instead, there are a lot of people on the opposite side of the pastry shop is being renovated shop interested up, stop and watch, and even have the tendency to crowd.
“What the hell, a closed more than half a month of the broken shop, decorate a repair what good-looking ……” Princess Ning An sat inside the pastry shop, swept a glance at the opposite side of the shop is being renovated, dissatisfied glanced at the small mouth.
Princess Ning An knew about this shop, it was previously a pharmacy, but the business was so bad that it closed down half a month ago.
I heard that this shop had bad feng shui.
Not just kidding, this shop is like bad luck, counting this time, this shop has changed owners three times in these two years, change owner, change business, from cloth shop to grocery shop to pharmacy, but no matter who the owner changes to, no matter what the business changes to, every time it is a loss to close down and change hands.
So, how ignorant are these people, not paying attention to the pastries made by the imperial chef, but actually interested in a shop that is destined to close down before it can open for long?
It’s really unbelievable.
Hmph, the Imperial Chef’s pastries, if it weren’t for this Princess, you wouldn’t necessarily have this fortune even if you burned incense for eight lifetimes.
Princess Ning An became indignant.
Compared to the coldness of the pastry shop, the opposite shop is obviously much more lively, not that the business is lively, but more people.
Normally, people do like to watch, but they don’t watch everything, what’s so good about a shop decoration.
But this shop decoration was an exception, its decoration style was very different from the shops on this street.
From the outside, its windows are twice as big as those of other shops, and the shape is different from that of other shops, which is very simple but coordinated and comfortable to look at. Looking inside, its interior painting is also based on clean and bright beige and white, supplemented by a big red, contrasting, very attractive to the eye.
Two carpenters inside the shop are busy laying wooden flooring inside.
Another three carpenters outside the shop to do carpentry work, has made a set of finished tables and chairs, tables and chairs are also with people commonly used tables and chairs are very different, highlighting a simple, but the shape is very innovative, looks very comfortable, so people can not help but want to go to sit a seat.
From inside to outside, full of modern minimalist decoration style, gave onlookers a strong impact.
This shop was one of the shops that Li Shu had acquired, as the little bun maid had said, and after the little bun maid went back and learnt from Li Shu, with a wave of Li Shu’s little hand, this shop became the rice paddy for Zhu Pingan’s experiments in the third industry – Zhu Kee Fast Food.
The modern and simple decoration style of Zhu Ji Fast Food is naturally from the hand of Zhu Ping An.
Early this morning, Zhu Pingan brought Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou, Liu Dahammer and six of them to the shop, arranging for the carpenters, masons, etc., who had made appointments yesterday, to begin decorating. In order to highlight the characteristics of the Zhu Ji fast food restaurant, Zhu Ping An adopted the common specialised style of modern fast food restaurants – the modern minimalist style.
The style that was universal in modern times was unique in Daming, and even though the renovation had only begun, this style of renovation had already attracted many people’s eyes.
“Hehe, Princess, isn’t the one across the street the one who came to rent a room yesterday?”
When Zhu Pingan walked out from the shop to check the outdoor decoration, he was spotted by the courtesan who was soliciting business from the pastry shop across the street, and couldn’t help but open her small mouth wide in surprise, pointing at Zhu Pingan and reporting to Princess Ning An.
“Eh? It’s really that exhibitionist?!”
Princess Ning An sniffed, followed the palace maid’s finger and instantly recognised Zhu Pingan.
It was really a narrow road between enemies!
As soon as she saw Zhu Pingan, Princess Ning An couldn’t help but think of the poem “I’m stupid” that Zhu Pingan had gifted her, and her anger flared up, her pretty face instantly turned iron blue, and her pair of eyes were as red as rabbits.
You still dare to appear?
I really wanted to go up and spit on Zhu Ping An’s face, then point at his nose and curse him, and then have the secretly protected guards teach Zhu Ping An a hard lesson.
However, thinking of the instructions from Empress Du and her royal brother yesterday, Princess Ning An had to endure it again.
