I am a prince in Zhutian Films

Chapter 370 Liu Wan Lets Go
When Zhao Pan'er went upstairs again, Zhao Wei was the only one left in the private room.

After making tea for Zhao Wei, Zhao Pan'er did not leave, but sat down opposite him.

"Your Highness, what do you think of our layout here?"

Zhao Wei looked around and said, "It's different from the teahouse in Qiantang. The teahouse in Qiantang is quiet and elegant, but this one is much more magnificent. The environment is okay and the location is not bad either."

Zhao Paner smiled and said, "It must be different. This is Tokyo. If we do things like Qiantang, I'm afraid no customers will come. Tokyo is prosperous and rich. If you want to make money, you have to adapt to the local situation."

"Yes, you have made progress. It seems that these days in Tokyo have not been in vain." Zhao Wei nodded and smiled, then changed the subject: "However, if you want to succeed, it is not enough to rely on just these. When I came here, I passed by Jinghua Academy and heard someone reciting, 'Oranges grow south of the Huai River, while tangerines grow north of the Huai River.' Just because you can do well in business in Qiantang, it doesn't mean you can do well in Tokyo."

"Really?" Zhao Pan'er turned her head slightly to look down and said with a smile, "Then the fact that there are so many guests here is the best proof, isn't it?"

Zhao Wei knew that Zhao Pan'er would soon encounter setbacks, but he didn't say anything else. There are some things that you will never realize unless you experience them personally.

"By the way, this is your letter of withdrawal of engagement. I brought it to you. Please check if there is any problem. If there is any problem, I will send someone to Ouyang Xu."

As Zhao Wei spoke, he took out the letter of withdrawal of engagement written by Ouyang Xu himself and handed it to Zhao Pan'er.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"We are so familiar with each other, and you are still so polite. You know what I feel about you."

Zhao Pan'er was startled by Zhao Wei's sudden words. She hurriedly avoided Zhao Wei's eyes and didn't dare to look him in the face.

"Your Highness, please stop making fun of me."

"You're making fun of me?" Zhao Wei shook his head and said seriously, "I'm not making fun of you. I'm just too busy right now to take any action against you. When I sort out the affairs of the court, I'll have time. I hope you can be prepared."

"what?"

Zhao Paner's voice changed with fright. What do you mean no action has been taken? What action will be taken after things are dealt with?
Zhao Wei took a sip of tea and said, "Sometimes I am easy to talk to, but sometimes I am also overbearing, especially to the people I like and recognize. Even if I have to snatch them away, I will get them to be by my side."

"Ah?" Zhao Pan'er was shocked again and became at a loss.

"Madam Zhao, I'm not kidding you. I like you and I want to marry you."

Feeling Zhao Wei's burning gaze, Zhao Pan'er became even more panicked and couldn't help feeling annoyed. Shouldn't she have stayed in Tokyo and returned to Qiantang?
Just when Zhao Pan'er was flustered and didn't know what to say, Song Yinzhang came over with a pipa in his arms and a look of joy on his face.

"Your Highness, you are here."

Zhao Wei nodded and said politely, "Madam Song, you played the piece very well. It sounded very nice. I remember that the palace seems to have a collection of the score of "Liangzhou Dabian". I'll have Shuangxi bring it to you when I have time."

Song Yinzhang was instantly overjoyed: "Really?"

"Of course it's true."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Song Yinzhang's smile became even brighter: "Your Highness, can I play a song for you now?"

"No, I came here today mainly to deliver the letter of divorce to Madam Zhao. I have other things to do. I will listen to Madam Song's pipa music when I have time." Zhao Wei shook his head, stood up and said with a smile: "By the way, Li Wu will get married in a few days, I will have someone come to pick you up."

Hearing that Zhao Wei was busy with something, Song Yinzhang couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. But then she laughed again when she heard Zhao Wei say that he would send someone to pick them up to attend the wedding.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Zhao Pan'er bowed and said, "Farewell, Your Highness."

Because she didn't know how to face Zhao Wei, she now wished that Zhao Wei would leave as soon as possible.

Zhao Wei did not show up for several days until Li Wu and Yin Ping got married. He showed up once and took Zhao Pan'er and others to a farm in the suburbs to attend their wedding.

Zhao Pan'er and the others were naturally very happy about Yinping and Li Wu's wedding, but after they returned to Tokyo to open their business, they became worried.

The reason is very simple, because the teahouse business has experienced a cliff-like decline.

That day, when Zhao Wei came to Zhao's Teahouse again, there was not a single customer in the teahouse. Only Zhao Pan'er and her two daughters were sitting there bored, analyzing the situation with worried looks on their faces.

When they heard the sound of someone coming in, they thought it was a guest and looked over with smiles. But when Zhao Pan'er saw that it was Zhao Wei and his entourage, the smile on her face turned into disappointment.

Only Song Yinzhang greeted him happily: "Your Highness, you are here."

Although she was also worried about the teahouse business, compared to meeting Zhao Wei, business was not a big deal.

Zhao Pan'er and Sun Sanniang also stood up and began to greet them. Zhao Wei nodded, glanced around, and said with a smile: "Business in the store has not been very good these days, right?"

"Not only is it bad, there is no business at all." Sun Sanniang sighed.

Zhao Pan'er asked in confusion: "Your Highness, how do you know?"

"Do you still need to ask this? You can see it from the looks of it. You know, in Tokyo City, this is the time when the most tea drinkers come. But you don't even have a single customer here."

Zhao Pan'er became more and more distressed, and said with a worried look on her face: "We are worried about this matter. Your Highness, don't you Tokyo people like to drink some tea? Ever since we attended Yin Ping's wedding, the number of customers coming to our place has dropped sharply. Even the guests who come in just order a bowl of loose tea and leave after drinking it. If this continues, I'm afraid this teahouse will not be able to operate."

Zhao Wei shook his head and said with a smile: "That's because you haven't investigated it clearly. It's not that people in Tokyo don't like to drink tea. On the contrary, they like to drink tea very much, especially those literati and scholars. Most of the time, they can't drink tea for half a day."

"Then why is there no one here? Don't they like our cakes? But a few days ago I heard them say that our tea and cakes are delicious." Zhao Pan'er looked puzzled: "Also, I just found out recently that there are no restaurants or food stores on this street. This is really strange."

"You are asking me about me as if I were your bag."

Zhao Pan'er couldn't help but smile: "No, no, Your Highness, do you know the reason?"

"Yeah, but I'm sure you can figure it out."

"Business was good in the first two days after we opened, but it plummeted a few days later. We haven't even seen any customers in the past two days." Zhao Pan'er pondered, and suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Your Highness, was there an important festival a few days ago?"

Zhao Wei nodded, turned around and looked at Shuangxi, who understood and said with a smile: "Madam Zhao is smart, there is a Guanyin temple nearby, and the first two days when your teahouse opened were during the Buddha's birthday, so there were many pilgrims."

"So that's how it is." Zhao Pan'er suddenly realized that the reason why the business was good before was not because of her unique vision, but because of the dividends from Buddha's birthday.

"Then why are there so few customers these days? They all order loose tea and are in a hurry."

Shuangxi continued to explain, "Because this is Ma Xing Street, although Ma Xing Street is also a busy street in the city, the streets in Tokyo are divided by trade, so horse markets and horse dealers gather here. Tokyo people have known since childhood that they can buy herbal medicine in Yaoxiangju, buy clothes at Panloudongtou, and if they want to drink tea, they have to go to Chatang Lane."

Zhao Wei took over the conversation, "On weekdays, most people who come and go in Ma Xing Street are horse merchants. They don't have as much time as scholars and literati. They just want to drink tea as soon as possible and go to work. So the tea fruit in your tea shop is considered a unique one in Tokyo, but it is difficult to attract customers here."

Zhao Pan'er's expression kept changing, and finally she sighed, "So that's how it is. It's my fault for not investigating it clearly."

Zhao Wei nodded, then shook his head: "It is indeed your problem, but it is not your biggest problem. With your intelligence, you can actually discover these problems if you are given a little time. So your biggest problem is that you are too impatient. Once people are impatient, they will ignore many problems. In the final analysis, it is not that you are incapable, but that you are too eager to prove yourself."

Zhao Pan'er remained silent because she felt that Zhao Wei was right.

She was indeed too anxious, eager to prove that she could live well in Tokyo with Song Yinzhang and Sun Sanniang, and at the same time she wanted to use the teahouse to keep herself busy and quickly forget those sad things. "Now that you know the reason, what are you going to do? Continue to work here, or go to Chatang Lane, rent a new shop, and start over?" Zhao Wei asked curiously.

Zhao Pan'er thought about it and said through gritted teeth, "I just don't believe that a teahouse can't be opened well on Ma Xing Street."

As a well-known tea seller in Jiangnan, Wenjun is confident in herself, but more importantly, she has little money left.

Although her savings had been sent to Tokyo, there was not much left after paying off Zhao Wei.

It goes without saying that the rent for a shop in Chatang Lane is not cheap, and the money she has is definitely not enough to support a new start.

"It's a good thing to be confident. I'll just wait for Boss Zhao's business to become prosperous again."

"I will definitely make the business prosperous." Zhao Pan'er looked determined, and then asked, "Your Highness, what would you like to order?"

"Just watch it."

After entertaining Zhao Wei and his party, Zhao Paner made up her mind to close the teahouse and began to renovate it.

Sun Sanniang and Song Yinzhang naturally had no objection to Zhao Pan'er's decision and strongly supported Zhao Pan'er.

Just like that, the tea shop, which had just opened for a few days, closed down.

Zhao’s Teahouse was closed for half a month.

Zhao Pan'er, Sun Sanniang and others were not idle during this period. They went to Chatang Lane in batches to investigate the situation and learn about the preferences of Tokyo people. They also made detailed records of the prices of various teas and fruits.

Based on the information they had obtained, they reorganized the teas and pastries they knew and decided to select some representative teas and pastries, and to distinguish them from the local pastries in Tokyo, and only make teas and pastries with Jiangnan flavor.

Zhao Pan'er also learned from the lesson of her last failure and prepared to give up ordinary customers and earn money from those literati and scholars, because these people have requirements and ideas about tea tasting. Although it is not easy to make money from them, as long as she can make money, it will be much better than ordinary tea drinkers.

Simply put, it means improving the style of the teahouse and doing business with middle to high-end customers.

After a busy half month, the new teahouse opened again.

Compared with the simple promotion last time, they put a lot of effort into promotion this time. They even specially consulted Zhao Huai'en, so that almost half of the inner city knew that there would be a newly opened Jiangnan-style teahouse on Ma Xing Street.

Although the new teahouse has not yet opened, it has already caused quite a stir and attracted a lot of attention.

In the study room of the palace, Shuangxi reported everything he had seen and heard to Zhao Wei, and finally said: "Your Highness, this is what happened. Madam Zhao and her friends are really amazing. They have caused such a big stir before they even reopened. Many children of the rich and powerful are talking about this. They said they want to go and see it when it reopens. Maybe they can really bring it back to life."

Zhao Wei nodded: "Just keep watching. As long as nothing happens, you don't have to worry about it."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Time flies.

That morning, Zhao Pan'er and her two daughters were full of energy and went to their posts in high spirits. The teahouse, which was renamed Banzhaimian, also reopened.

Because this time, enough time was spent to build up the reputation and ferment the business before the opening, so this opening was much more lively than when it first opened.

On the opening day, although there were many customers, most of them were ordinary customers. But this time it was different.

Most of the guests who walked into the half-covered room this time were scholars, especially the elderly scholars, who made up the majority.

As a result, Banzhaimian became bustling from the moment it opened in the morning and continued until the afternoon, with customers still coming in one after another, sweeping away the dejection of the previous few days and making Zhao Pan'er and her two daughters very happy.

When they opened the shop before, they were still cautious and kept the prices of tea and fruit down. But this time, at Zhao Huai'en's suggestion, the prices of tea, fruit and fruit increased several times. The money they earned in just the morning was much more than what they had earned in the previous few days of opening.

Not to mention, when they were promoting their show before, they used the name of Song Yinzhang, the top pipa player in Jiangnan, to attract customers. Even if only one-tenth of them come back as customers, they can still make a fortune.

The half-masked event was very lively, but Zhao Wei did not go to support it this time, but stayed in the palace.

The reason is very simple. Today, the royal family has a new heir.

Why say it again?

Because in addition to Princess Huiguo, who was born to Concubine Li Chenfei, Zhao Heng, under the care of Zhao Wei, made three concubines pregnant, and had already added a prince and two princesses.

The prince was born last year by Gao Hui's aunt, Concubine Gao. It was because of the birth of the prince that she was promoted to concubine.

As for the two princesses, one is the Princess of Lu who was born to Concubine Du last year.

That is the second daughter of the emperor who died young in history and was posthumously named Princess Weiguo after Zhao Zhen took power.

Because of Zhao Wei, this little butterfly, Zhao Heng was not as obsessed with Taoism as in history. Du Qiongzhen, also known as Concubine Du, was naturally not ordered to become a female Taoist priest because of offending Zhao Heng with her dress. Instead, she was promoted from a beauty to a first-rank Shuyi because she gave birth to a royal daughter.

The other was Princess Ningguo, who was born to Concubine Cao at the beginning of the year.

The one born today is also a princess, born to Concubine Yang Shufei.

Zhao Heng was very happy to have another daughter, and Liu Wan was also very happy. She was happy for Concubine Yang.

After all, in this harem, having offspring is the only way to be secure, even a daughter would be good.

Liu Wan held the newborn princess in her arms and said to Zhao Weile, "Look at your little sister. Isn't she cute?"

"cute."

Newborn babies are wrinkled and look like monkeys, which is not cute at all.

But Concubine Yang Shufei was a great beauty, and Zhao Heng was also good-looking, so it was foreseeable that the little girl would also be a beauty in the future.

"Then when will you give me a lovely grandson?"

"If you accept Madam Zhao, I will definitely let you hold your grandson within two years." Zhao Wei said with a smile.

Liu Wan frowned, and after a moment of silence, she asked, "Are you really sure about her?"

"Yes, I will marry her."

Liu Wan sighed helplessly and snorted, "I'll tell you after I meet her."

"Mom, you will definitely like her." Zhao Wei pinched his mother's shoulders like a lackey. Although Liu Wan had agreed before, he knew very well that Liu Wan was just perfunctory and only now was she really agreeing.

"Whether you like it or not, you won't know until you see it. Don't be too happy too soon." Liu Wan glanced at him and said, "Okay, stop being so attentive here. Get out of here. I'm annoyed just looking at you now."

(End of this chapter)