Xu Qinyu was stunned when she heard this, "Guards? How come there are guards coming?"

There are only twenty guards Huo Jiang and Lianhua at the restaurant. There are no guards. There are not many officials and eunuchs who have guards in Raozhou City. Besides, Xuji Restaurant has been praised by diners for the past three years. Chao, Xu Ji has never had a grudge against the dignitaries in the city, how could there be guards surrounding the house?

Chuntao shook her head, "I don't know about the servants, but I heard someone knock on the door outside, and the servants went to open the door. Then, I saw a group of guards in black armor surrounding the house, and they also said that they wanted to see you, Xu Ji's owner."

Guards in black armor?

Xu Qinyu froze in her heart, she knew that those black armored troops were wearing black armor, so it was possible that those outside were the black armored troops, but since Raozhou City was taken over by the black armored troops a year ago, she and the black armored troops have joined together. There is no intersection, and have never even seen the little leaders of the Black Armored Ar, and have never seen them come to Xu Ji for meals.

But Xu Qinyu didn't know at this moment whether the black armored army was outside. After all, the black armored army had already hit the capital now, and what was inside the capital was unknown. The black armored army left in Raozhou City was only a few.

So who are these guards? Come here to remember what is going on?

No matter what happened, Xu Qinyu had to go out to see. Xu Kee Restaurant did not evade tax and evaded taxes, and she did her best to treat diners, so she was not afraid.

Xu Qinyu said, "I'll go out and have a look."

Chuntao's voice was loud, and Ning Jie'er and Wen Shi had already heard what she just said, Wen Shi and Ning Jie'er had already dressed and came out of the room, when they heard Xu Qinyu say this, they immediately said, "Mother Yu, I'll go take a look with you."

"Sister-in-law four, I'll go with you."

Xu Qinyu nodded, the three of them headed towards the courtyard gate, Chuntao hurriedly followed, and Mo Yu, who had been by Xu Qinyu's side, also walked towards the gate with her.

In fact, before Chuntao came to report, when Xu Qinyu was still washing in the room, Mo Yu was sleeping under the window of her room, but suddenly she ran out of the room with her ears pricked up and came to the courtyard, her ears pricked up and motionless. It wasn't until Chuntao came in to report that it looked at Chuntao again, but still pricked up its ears, obviously already aware of what was going on outside.

Xu Qinyu felt relieved when she saw Mo Yu following her.

In winter, Bai Yu doesn't know where to hibernate in the mountain. Originally, snakes usually hibernate for three to four months, without eating or drinking, and no one makes a noise and will not wake up. But Bai Yu is different. I will come back once every half a month, and I will go back to the mountains within two days after I come back.

So Bai Yu was not there at the moment, only Mo Yu followed.

The four walked forward with a majestic black leopard.

The weather was overcast, the snowflakes were still falling, and there was a layer of white snow on the ground. Xu Qinyu stared at the squeaking white snow that had been trampled on the ground, and her heart was beating a little bit. For some reason, she always felt a little weird, she didn't think What harm will the guards outside the house do to her and Xu Ji, but so many guards are really weird...

Soon he arrived at the door of the house and went around the shadow wall. Xu Qinyu saw that the courtyard door was still closed. It should be that Chuntao saw so many guards outside and wanted to come in to pass the sound, so he quickly closed the door of the house.

Those guards didn't force their way in, so it's definitely not a bad thing to come to find her.

Is it still a good thing?

Xu Qinyu felt strange and at a loss.

Chuntao ran over and opened the red door of the house. Xu Qinyu saw the situation outside. Indeed, as Chuntao said, there was a row of guards wearing black armor standing outside, and these guards had very serious faces. Just dozens of guards.

When these guards saw Xu Qinyu, Wen Shi and Ning Jie'er coming out, they all stepped back with their right feet, raised their left arms, and bent over to give a big salute, and then these guards shouted: "I respectfully invite the Empress, Empress Dowager. The empress and the princess are back in Beijing."

Xu Qinyu was silent.

Wen's and Ning Jie'er were similar to her, and they seemed to be a little unresponsive.

Not to mention Chuntao, she stared blankly at the guards who were saluting in front of her. What were these guards doing?

Xu Qinyu was a little at a loss...

What? What Queen Empress, Empress Dowager, Princess? Are you talking to them?

calling them?

But how did they become the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother and the Princess?

No, if they want to become the queen dowager and princess, it can only mean that the fourth brother has become the emperor? ?

When the fourth brother becomes the emperor, she can become the queen, the mother-in-law can become the queen mother, and Ning Jie'er can become the princess.

Xu Qinyu finally reacted, but she still couldn't believe it, her mind was blank, she always felt like she was dreaming, could she still not wake up from the dream?

How did the fourth brother become the emperor? Could it be that the leaders of those Heijia Army are the fourth brother?

The businessman that the fourth brother said was actually taking the Heijia Army to the capital?

Xu Qinyu's mind was in a mess, and his heart was numb.

Wen Shi and Ning Jie'er were similar to her.

Ning Jie'er's face turned pale.

The three finally reacted and looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and no one spoke first.

In the end, Mr. Wen spoke first, "You, you..."

At this time, a man came out of this group of black armored guards. The man's appearance was not outstanding, but he was relatively ordinary. He was Huo Ye. At the moment when the Empress Dowager and Emperor Sheng Yuan, whether it is His Highness as the vertical king, or as the leader of their rebel army, His Highness is no longer His Highness, but the current sage.

The Holy Sage captured the Empress Dowager and Emperor Sheng Yuan, and the people in the border town were the most worried, so Huo Ye personally led a team of people and rushed back to the border town to take the queen and the others into the capital.

Huo Ye said: "Wei Chen is the chief commander of the Sage, and he is specially ordered by the Sage to take the Queen Mother, the Empress and the Princess back to Beijing. The Sage has been cautious and cautious all these years, and he has never revealed what he wants to do. He is just afraid Empress Dowager, you are worried. Now that the big event has been completed, the most worrying thing is the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager can rest assured that the throne of the Holy One is not only the favor of the people, but also the inheritance of orthodoxy. , the Holy Master found the edict and added a posthumous title to the eldest prince, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Sheng Yuan have been recruited, and they were the ones who poisoned the first emperor."

Hearing this, Wen Shi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and covered his eyes, tears streaming down his fingers.

Ning Jie'er and Xu Qinyu were not feeling well either, their eyes were red, they didn't persuade Wen Shi, they just let her cry.

At this moment, Mrs. Zhu also led Sister Qian and Brother Feng out.

She came to the main courtyard to find Yu Niang and they couldn't find it. The maid said that there were a lot of guards surrounding the house. Yu Niang and the others came out to check, and Zhu Shi led the two children to find it...

When Huo Ye saw Mrs. Zhu, Brother Feng and Sister Qian, he immediately said, "Congratulations to Mrs. Zhu and the princess and the prince to return to Beijing."

Zhu Shi and the two children were at a loss.

Huo Ye told the three of them what they had just said, and the confusion of the three finally turned into shock.

Zhu Shi was even a little frightened, and his body was shaking a little.

Xu Qinyu was afraid that her grandmother would be frightened, and it was still snowing outside, so she said, "Let's go ahead and talk about it."

It's definitely not possible to go to the restaurant to cook the morning meal today, but she still asked Chuntao to go to the restaurant and talk.

Chuntao was still in a daze, "Okay, okay, the servant will go over and talk to the restaurant."

When Xu Qinyu led his family and Huo Ye into the house to speak, the other guards remained outside the house.

Chuntao also ran towards the restaurant in a trance. She didn't even know when she ran into the restaurant. She buried her head and rushed towards the back kitchen. What are you rushing, be careful to hit the hot pot of hot soup in the back kitchen and burn yourself, where is the boss, why are you here?"

Chuntao raised her head in a trance and called out to Aunt Chen.

Mrs. Chen has been working with Xu Qinyu for several years. In the first year of Xu Ji Restaurant’s opening, she hired Mrs. Chen, Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Yuan. The first three female employees of Xu Ji Restaurant were all have followed Xu Qinyu to the restaurant for three years.

Chen Shi said, "Chuntao, what's wrong with you? Your face is all white."

Chun Tao swallowed his mouth and said, "Chen Yan, the lady is not here to eat."

Chen said: "Okay, I will go to the kitchen for a while, and the owner should be tired. Let's take a day off today?"

Chun Tao blinked, "Chen Yan, the ladies will not come to Nianzhuang to eat and eat."

The lady is all the queen, and she must go to Beijing to enjoy the blessing. How can she continue to cook and eat, and she eats food, who dares to eat wow, but she has also eaten the lady's food ...

Chun Tao suddenly felt a bit soft.

Chen Yan froze, "You child, he speaks very nonsense? This is not a cursing Dong family."

Chen Yan felt that it would be the same except that the Dong family had a serious illness or disabled can no longer be eaten.

"Chen Yan, no, it's not a cursing Dong family." Chun Tao swallowed his mouth again, "The lady became a queen."

"What?" Chen thought he heard wrong, "Queen? What queen?"

Chun Tao said: "Only a group of guards had a group of guards surrounding the house ..."

She talked to Chen's what happened to Chen, and she was very detailed.

Chen's eyes were stunned, and finally murmured: "Is it possible that I am still dreaming? How can I have such a strange dream? Oh, it hurts me, it's not a dream."

As Chen kept thinking, she pinched her thighs, and her tears came out, so she knew that she was not dreaming at all.

Chun Tao laughed, "Actually, I still thought it was dreaming, and it was normal to think about it. The sister -in -law said to the people of the back kitchen, and I would not pass."

Chen's mind was still embarrassed. She felt that the owner would be the queen. It must be because the man of the owner became the emperor. Isn't the man in the owner a good -looking embroidered pillow, will he only run a business outside? Did you become the emperor? Isn't the leader of the Black Army hit Beijing? Is it possible that the man of the Eastern family is the leader of the Black Armor Army?

Chen stayed.

Chun Tao shouted again, and she returned to God, and asked, "Then, can the affairs of that owner tell others?"

Chun Tao feels that it must not be concealed. The ladies have to return to Beijing with those guards, and the lady did not let her guard her. "It should be said that the lady must return to Beijing with those guards. clear."

When Chun Tao left, Chen was still standing in place.

This was too shocking. She followed the owner for a few years and became the queen mother. My god master, she also eaten the queen's mother -in -law.

Not only she had eaten it, the people in half of Raozhou City and the people in Yuanbao Town had eaten it. After they knew it, they would definitely be almost the same as her.

After Chun Tao returned, the guards outside the house were still standing, even if she walked over, the black armored guards did not look at her.

In the house.

Huo Ye meant that when he packed up today, he will set off in Beijing tomorrow. Now the waterway is sealed. You can only take the official road. The carriages are ready. You don’t have to worry about it. God can return to Beijing.

Xu Qinyu had never spoken. She couldn't listen to Huo Ye and believed him. After all, she had never seen Huo Ye.

No, she has seen this person who had eaten in Xuji restaurants in Yuanbao Town before.

I just haven't seen the fourth brother with him, so still won't believe his words easily.

And she never thought that the fourth brother would be the emperor.

In the end, Huo Ye took out the family book written by the fourth brother to her. In the end, Huo Ye also said, "Is there a bells of the Begonia color in the hands of the queen? I said to give you the queen mother, that time, the subordinates followed the Holy upper to the sea. Or I could call Huo Jiang and the lotus. Queen, you are in danger of the queen mother's mother, so you have adjusted twenty black armor guards to be the guard of Fanzhuang. "

Xu Qinyu believed.

She hadn't brought out that glass hairpin until now. Except for the family members, no one else could know about it, not even Chuntao and the others knew that she had such a glass hairpin.

Since what Huo Ye said was true, he would definitely leave for Beijing.

Wen Shi said: "Yu Niang makes a decision, when does Yu Niang think we should set off?"

Xu Qinyu thought for a moment and said, "I'll go over to the restaurant in a while and say, as for the other luggage, there's nothing to pack, just a few changes of clothes, mother, you can put a few boxes for your precious clothes and jewelry separately. Let Commander Huo send someone back to the capital, and we can set off first. In addition, Mo Yu and Bai Yu, Mo Yu is in the house and can set off with us at any time, but Bai Yu is still in the mountains, and Bai Yu has been with me all these years. , If it goes down the mountain and can't find me, I'm afraid it will cause chaos..."

Huo Ye immediately said: "The Empress don't need to worry. The sage said that Bai Yu and Mo Yu are very spiritual. As long as the Empress leaves a token and speaks to Bai Yu, Bai Yu will return to Beijing with the black armor guards."

Xu Qinyu always felt a little awkward when he heard him call her empress.

Nothing really felt, it always felt like a dream.

And she is a cook, so how can she be a queen, not to mention that the fourth brother is now the emperor, but her marriage with the fourth brother is by chance If you don't come to the queen, she will only cook...

Maybe it's time to go back to Beijing, but she didn't go to the palace to be the queen. She went back to Beijing to see the original family, and then made it clear to her fourth brother, and she couldn't worry about her restaurant and restaurant. These were her efforts.

Xu Qinyu lowered her eyes.

Now that he decided to return to Beijing, Huo Ye began to prepare.

Xu Qinyu was afraid that Mrs. Wen and Ning Jie'er would see her strangeness, so she smiled and said, "That mother, Ning Jie'er, and grandmother, you should pack up first. I'll go to the restaurant. It must be arranged properly."

Wen Shi nodded, "Yu Niang, let's go."

Xu Qinyu got up, left the yard, and slowly walked towards the restaurant.

In fact, she knew very well in her heart that she did not want to continue to be with the fourth brother. The reason was very simple. The fourth brother would become the emperor in the future, and there would be countless concubines in the harem. daughters to secure the throne.

She is just a cook, she can't help her fourth brother with anything, she doesn't understand this, and she can't face being trapped in the harem, she will only compete with other concubines for favor.

She is not from this era and can't accept such a relationship between husband and wife. She simply lets go early while she and her fourth brother have nothing to do. Thinking that although the fourth brother doesn't like to talk, he is also a modest gentleman and will let her leave.

Xu Qinyu raised her head and glanced at the gloomy Tian'er, and couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled.

In any case, it is really good that the fourth brother can be the emperor and avenge the eldest prince and the first emperor. She hopes that the fourth brother will be successful in the future.

She congratulated the fourth brother for being able to be the emperor. The fourth brother is very good and knows the suffering of the people. In the future, he will definitely be a good emperor who is diligent in government and loves the people. In the future, the prosperous dynasty may really usher in a peaceful and prosperous age.

Xu Qin let out a long sigh, still feeling a little gloomy in her heart, no matter what, her feelings for the fourth brother are real, and if she wants to let go, she will definitely feel a little sad.

Soon after arriving at the restaurant, Mrs. Chen had already told the people at the restaurant that the owner had become the empress.

All the people in the restaurant were shocked and confused, and it always felt like a dream. Seeing Xu Qinyu at this moment was a little restrained.

It was still early, and they were still busy in the back kitchen, and no diners came to eat. Xu Qinyu called all the clerks over, and even had people go to call Brother Gong and Tao Qi.

Brother Gong is the steward of the restaurant. After all, Brother Gong and the others are also Wen's family members and relatives of their mother-in-law. Maybe they will return to Beijing in the future, but now there is no other steward of the restaurant, so I should ask Brother Gong to take care of the restaurant first. Wen's family really wanted to go back to Beijing, and she was making other plans, but she couldn't. She also had four brothers, who were her most trusted apprentices. Brother Feng was getting older and could start to learn how to manage the restaurant.

Xu Qinyu said: "Because, for some reasons, I will leave Raozhou City and go back to the capital, so the restaurant has to ask you all."

Brother Gong widened his eyes and said, "Sister-in-law Four, can you go back to Beijing? Could it be that the rebels have already overthrew the Queen Yao and the clueless emperor?"

Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "Your fourth brother is the leader of the rebel army. He also found the edict that the first emperor made the eldest prince the crown prince, so it can be considered a justifiable crusade against the concubine Fu. Back to Beijing."

Brother Gong was very surprised.

He knew that the fourth brother was the vertical king, but he didn't know that the fourth brother was actually the leader of the Black Armor Army.

Brother Gong should still be the calmest person inside. After Xu Qinyu finished his explanation, he said, "Four, no, Empress, don't worry, you can go back to Beijing with peace of mind, we are here at the restaurant."

Xu Qinyu couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't call me the Empress. You are embarrassed when you shout, and I'm embarrassed to hear it. How you shouted before, and how you shout now."

Brother Gong scratched his head, "How dare we do this."

Xu Qinyu explained some other things, taking into account the convenience and convenience of the restaurant, and finally explained a few brothers who are in good weather and let them learn more from brother Gong.

Xu Feng is about the same age as Brother Gong, and the two are no different from brothers now, but Xu Feng still wants to follow Xu Qinyu, but now Xu Qinyu is the queen, not just his master, he can't do it, but he also figured out that the restaurant and restaurant are Master's hard work, and he will guard the restaurant and restaurant for Master.

Xu Qinyu explained to Brother Gong and the others in the elegant room upstairs for more than half an hour, and the other cooks had already gone to the back kitchen to get busy.

When Xu Qinyu came down, the diners came one after another to Xu Ji to use the morning food.

Most of Xu Ji's diners recognized Xu Qinyu, and laughed: "Has the owner made the morning meal today? To be honest, although the food made by other chefs is equally delicious, the food made by the owner is the best, obviously they are all the same. The owner's cooking skills are still the best."

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "I have something to do today, so I didn't help in the back kitchen."

The diners laughed and said, "It's because we have no luck."

After Xu Qinyu left, the guys next to him looked strange and hesitated, and didn't dare to tell these diners that they would not be able to eat the food made by the owner in the future.

...

After Xu Qinyu went back, she also went to the city. She took out 300,000 taels of silver notes from the bank, which was almost one-third of what she had earned over the years. She had almost a million taels in the bank. The main reason is that the world is in chaos this year, and the business of the restaurant has been affected. Although the wine has been brewed, it has not been delivered to takeaways. It is planned to wait for the spring of next year to deliver it to other prefectures.

Before the world was in chaos, Xu Ji Restaurant's highest monthly profit exceeded 80,000 taels.

She intends to bring these 300,000 taels of silver notes back to her original family.

This trip back to Beijing, she was still very uneasy in her heart, not knowing how to face her original family and whether they would notice anything.

Everything was ready. Early the next morning, Huo Ye sent a carriage to pick up Xu Qinyu and the others. Huo Jiang and Lianhua also returned to the capital together.

Chuntao and the others, Xu Qinyu didn't bring them back to the capital, because they were afraid that they would not be used to the life in the capital, and she didn't plan to enter the palace, and she planned to go back to the southwest in the future, so she didn't bring Chuntao and a few maids, and she sold herself. The deed was returned to them, allowing them to stay in the restaurant to work and save some money, so that they could buy fields and land and set up their own family business in the future.

There are three carriages back to Beijing. They are much more spacious than ordinary carriages. They are covered with soft fur, as well as a small coffee table and a small tumbler. There is even a sleeping place for the coffee table and tumbler. The curtains of the carriage are also very thick and can be covered. All the wind and snow, there is also a hand warmer inside, and the whole carriage is warm and comfortable.

Xu Qinyu and Ning Jie'er shared a carriage, and Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Zhu took their children in the other two carriages.

Mo Yu was not willing to ride the carriage, and ran behind the carriage.

Even Ma Erqilin returned to the capital with him this time.

In this way, drove all the way to the capital, but no matter how fast the carriage was, it had to stop and rest at the post station. In this way, it took 20 days to reach the capital in the daytime and rest at night, and it was not in time for the New Year.

The day returned to the capital happened to be the fifth day of the first lunar month.