Chapter 243 The Bustle in Linglong Pavilion
Chapter 243 The Bustle in Linglong Pavilion
Princess Mingyue was brought to the counter by the waiter. Some people were already standing in front of the counter. The waiter had no choice but to take a few beads from a plate of glass beads on the counter and put them in another tray and showed them to Princess Mingyue.
"There are only a few of them. Are there more over there? Please ask those people to move aside. My princess will choose first."
"This..." The young man looked at the maid beside Princess Mingyue with some embarrassment. The maid didn't look like she was willing to give in.
"Heh, where did this princess come from? I have never heard of her. When did a Princess Mingyue appear in the capital? I'm afraid she is not an upstart from another place pretending to be her.
This country bumpkin is so bold that he dares to put any hat on his head. He doesn't even look at where we are. This is the capital under the feet of the emperor. There is no self-proclaimed Princess Mingyue. "
Su Tang looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman in a long green dress standing in front of the counter.
Chunmei whispered in Su Tang's ear: "That's the Liu family's second daughter, Liu Wanning."
Su Tang raised her eyebrows. Is this the Liu family she was thinking of?
As expected, Chunmei continued, "She is the daughter of the Empress Dowager Liu, the Minister of Revenue, Lord Liu."
Su Tang walked to a counter with kingfisher-inlaid hairpins, and the waiter who had just served Su Tang immediately took out the jewelry from the counter.
Su Tang picked up one at random and fiddled with it in her hand, but she kept paying attention to the situation on the glass bead string from time to time.
"Who are you to disrespect Princess Mingyue? Our princess was conferred the title by His Majesty himself."
"Oh, I'm so scared. It was His Majesty who conferred the title personally. When did it happen? How come I have never heard of it? By the way, Madam Shen, have you heard of it?" Liu Wanning patted her chest and looked frightened. She said it exaggeratedly, but there was no sign of fear on her face at all. She was completely mocking the honorary princesses.
"Pa!" How could Princess Mingyue stand being questioned repeatedly? Her face turned red with anger. She quickly walked to Liu Wanning's side and raised her hand to slap Liu Wanning in the face.
The crisp sound was like a spell, shocking everyone in the room. They were all stunned and unable to react to what had just happened.
After a long while, Liu Wanning screamed and grabbed Princess Mingyue who had already taken a step back.
The maids brought by Liu Wanning also followed their master and rushed towards the people around Princess Mingyue.
For a moment, the store was in chaos.
Fortunately, the guys reacted very quickly, and those who were closest to them quickly moved the jewelry from the container and hid in the inner room.
A few people who were far away immediately gathered around and tried to stop the fight.
But the people fighting in front of them were all women, and one of them was Liu Wanning, an old customer of their store.
The guys were all young men, but they didn't dare to step forward to stop the fight and could only persuade them from the side.
In the center of the chaos, Liu Wanning's face was full of ferociousness.
No one had ever hit her in her life, let alone on the face.
Liu Wanning felt that half of her face was swollen. The other party had used quite a lot of force.
Liu Wanning didn't expect that the other party would hit someone. Not all the noble ladies in the capital could get along well with each other. There were always a few people who disliked each other for various reasons, but they only said a few words to each other when they met, just like she had just said to each other.
But no noble lady would ever suddenly attack someone, so Liu Wanning was caught off guard and was injured by Princess Mingyue.
How could Liu Wanning tolerate this? Her character, which never suffered any loss, made her fight back immediately.
The maidservants around Princess Mingyue seemed to have anticipated that Liu Wanning and the others might counterattack, and had already protected Princess Mingyue in the middle.
Liu Wanning only pounced on the maid who was blocking her, but even so she still dug into the other party unwillingly.
It was summer now and everyone was wearing cool clothes, so under Liu Wanning's twisting and grabbing, the maids protecting Princess Mingyue were soon injured.
"Master, do you want to kick them all out?" Chunmei stood in front of Su Tang, afraid that the trouble over there would be directed to Su Tang, she asked with some concern.
"No need, go call Manager Zhao over and ask him to calculate the losses in the store." Su Tang said to the shop assistant next to her.
"Yes." The guy immediately understood what Su Tang meant. With a smile on his face, he quickly ran to the backyard.
Soon, Shopkeeper Zhao came to the front, and the waiter had just told him what Su Tang said.
He understood what Su Tang meant.
But when I came over, I was still shocked by the situation in front of me.
Linglong Pavilion has been open in Kyoto for decades, and he has been the shopkeeper of Linglong Pavilion for more than ten years. This is the first time he has seen noble ladies from the capital fighting in the store.
He knew the daughter of Minister Liu of the Ministry of Revenue. After all, she was a frequent customer of the store and was willing to spend money every time she came, so Manager Zhao had a deep impression of Liu Wanning.
In Shopkeeper Zhao's impression, Liu Wanning is a little girl with a bit of a spoiled brat's temper.
But the woman in front of him was shouting for help from the maid beside her while rushing towards the woman opposite, and she was no longer the same as before.
A fight between shrews is no more than this.
Shopkeeper Zhao glanced at Su Tang and saw that Su Tang was watching the fun, the corners of his mouth twitched.
He then watched the fight for a while. When he saw Liu Wanning pushing a maid and knocking over a display cabinet in the store, with a bunch of glass ornaments falling out, he quickly walked over.
"Stop it, stop it immediately, my shop can't withstand your smashing and destroying!" Shopkeeper Zhao's voice was loud and clear, and it immediately calmed down the people fighting.
Liu Wanning looked back and found that it was Manager Zhao from Linglong Pavilion. She immediately sat on the ground with her body half tilted and cried, "Wuwuwu... My, my face hurts so much... Is my face disfigured? Wuwuwu..."
Shopkeeper Zhao...
As for Princess Mingyue, she was well protected by the maid beside her and she was not hurt.
At this time, the people on both sides had stopped fighting. They stood separately and stared at each other vigilantly.
"What on earth is going on?" Shopkeeper Zhao stepped forward and pointed at the knocked-over counter and the debris scattered on the ground and asked.
"They, they were the ones who beat our young lady first." Liu Wanning's maid also had injuries on her face. They were the worst off.
Looking at Princess Mingyue's side, only the maids who were rushing in the front had some injuries, but there were no external injuries on their faces.
"You should be slapped in the face for speaking disrespectfully to our princess!" the maidservant in front of Princess Mingyue scolded.
"You, you dare to talk nonsense like this. When did a Princess Mingyue appear in Kyoto? How come I didn't know about it? She is pretending to be the princess. Can't I correct her?
No one in this capital has ever dared to pretend to be a member of the royal family. Manager Zhao, please send someone to the government office in Beijing and find someone to inform my father that I was beaten."
Liu Wanning had been helped up by the maid beside her. It was inappropriate for a young lady to sit on the ground.
Liu Wanning, supported by her maid, pointed at the person opposite and said.
"Okay, you are the shopkeeper of this store, so you should send someone to Prince Li's Mansion to invite my father to judge the matter." Princess Mingyue, who was protected by the maids, also said.
"Prince Li?!" Shopkeeper Zhao looked at the strange woman opposite him with some disbelief.
He had heard about Prince Li's visit to the capital, but the person who just wrestled with Liu Wanning was Prince Li's daughter?
Shopkeeper Zhao frowned and said to the two men, "The lawsuit between you two is not something I can interfere with, but the losses in Linglong Pavilion were caused by the fight between the two of you. Since both of you are not simple people, I believe you can compensate Linglong Pavilion for its losses."
Princess Mingyue and Liu Wanning then realized that their fight had damaged the things around them.
Especially with Liu Wanning's last push, a counter full of glass objects was pushed over, and the things inside scattered all over the floor and broke into pieces.
"Manager Zhao, please calculate the total loss. These things were knocked over by her pushing my maid just now. Even if we have to pay compensation, we should pay the least."
After Princess Mingyue finished speaking, a maid in front of her immediately responded, "Yes, if she hadn't pushed my cabinet, it wouldn't have fallen over. My princess shouldn't have to pay for it."
"If you hadn't hit me first, how could I have defended myself and fought back? The slap mark on my face is the evidence. Not only must you compensate for the losses here, but you must also compensate for my consultation and medicine expenses. I want to go to the best medical clinic in the capital, Xianren Hall, for treatment."
Su Tang raised her eyebrows. Ever since her Immortal Hall opened, she rarely went there to practice medicine. She only let an old doctor practice medicine there.
But because the consultation fee at Xianren Hall is too expensive, almost no one goes there for treatment.
Now, only the old doctor and Dongmei are looking after the Xianren Hall.
Since when did Xianren Hall become the price tag for Liu Wanning's compensation?
"San'er, go to Jingzhao Prefecture and invite the yamen runners over. Tell them that Linglong Pavilion was smashed and looted. Ask the master of Jingzhao Prefecture to help us solve the problem."
As soon as Shopkeeper Zhao finished speaking, a waiter immediately responded and ran out of the store.
"Make way, make way!! The Jingzhao Prefecture's police are investigating a case." The Jingzhao Prefecture's police came very quickly. The waiter followed behind the police and shouted to Shopkeeper Zhao as soon as he entered the store: "Shopkeeper, I just went out and met the patrolling police on the street."
"Yeah." Shopkeeper Zhao responded lightly.
At this time, the entrance of Linglong Pavilion was already full of people watching the fun, and the entrance was blocked.
Hearing the officer's words, the crowd watching the excitement automatically made way.
"Manager Zhao, what's going on today?" The bailiff thought that Linglong Pavilion's business was disrupted by some ruffians.
But when they came in just now, they found that there were only some women in the store besides the waiters, and there were no scoundrels as they had imagined.
Come to think of it, Linglong Pavilion is said to be the property of the Second Prince. The hooligans in Kyoto would not dare to come here to cause trouble.
The leading yamen runner glanced at Liu Wanning and her group. Seeing that Liu Wanning turned around to avoid his gaze, he was also very discerning and did not look at her again, but turned his gaze to the shopkeeper Zhao in the store.
"Mr. Zhang, you've come at the right time.
You also saw that the counter over here has fallen over and the glass ornaments inside were shattered all over the floor. These two ladies both claimed that it was not their responsibility, but someone has to compensate for the loss here.
Do you think so? "
The corner of Zhang Pu Tou's eye twitched. He turned around, glanced at Princess Mingyue, and then looked at Liu Wanning.
He knew Liu Wanning. After all, Liu Wanning's personality was flamboyant. Although she didn't cause any big noise in Beijing, she was not quiet either. Most of the people with some status in Beijing knew her.
Looking at Princess Mingyue over there, although her clothes were quite decent, she looked unfamiliar. However, she brought a lot of maids with her, and they seemed to have some strength, so she did not let the domineering Liu Wanning get the upper hand.
"Hey, I'm Zhang Sanfeng, a yamen runner from Jingzhao Prefecture. This young lady looks unfamiliar. I wonder which lord's daughter she is?"
This prosperous and bustling city of Kyoto is where dignitaries gather.
On the streets and alleys, you can see people wearing gorgeous clothes and with extraordinary temperament everywhere.
People seem to have long been accustomed to living a life where they brush shoulders with the powerful and wealthy, but even so, if you accidentally bump into a seemingly ordinary person walking on the road, you must not take it lightly.
Because it is very likely that this person's family is related to some powerful person!
Therefore, the yamen runners of Jingzhao Prefecture had to be cautious and respectful at all times when doing things in the capital city, so as not to accidentally offend the noble children hiding in the crowd.
"Our young lady is the legitimate daughter of Prince Li's family. She was personally conferred the title of Princess Mingyue by His Majesty at birth."
The maid following Princess Mingyue raised her chin and glanced at everyone in the room.
"King Li?"
"I told you, this guy is an impostor. Prince Li went to his fiefdom a long time ago and hasn't returned to Kyoto for more than ten years. A prince who is granted a fiefdom outside the capital cannot return to the capital without being summoned. It's impossible that Prince Li didn't come back, but instead sent his daughter back to the capital." Liu Wanning also turned around at this time, pointing at Princess Mingyue and said.
Zhang Sanfeng glanced at Liu Wanning's face, then quickly turned his gaze to look at the broken glass ornaments on the ground.
"Please trouble Manager Zhao to take stock and calculate the losses here first. Since it involves the prince, I cannot make the decision. I still have to inform the prefect about this matter." Zhang Sanfeng said to Manager Zhao with a fist.
Now there are three victims in the room. One has the second prince behind him, one has the Minister of Revenue and Empress Dowager Liu behind him, and the other one even claims to be the daughter of Prince Li. He can't afford to offend any of the three parties, and it is not something that a small yamen runner like him can judge.
"Okay, I'll have someone count it right away." Shopkeeper Zhao raised his hand, and several waiters immediately came up and began to count the knocked-over counter and the items inside.
"Boss, this list records the names and quantities of the jewelry placed on the counter today." A clerk also handed a booklet to Boss Zhao.
Since Linglong Pavilion sells valuable items, the accessories in the counter are counted and placed on the counter before opening in the morning every day, then put away and recorded in the book after closing every day. They are then compared with the sales book of the day. In this way, the daily accounts can be clear.
Of course, these are also the changes made after Su Tang came.
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