Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 327

There were more female guests on the third floor of ‘Food of Heaven’ day by day, and everyone even gave that place a great name fit for it, which was ‘Elegant Hall’.

Later, even Elder Madam Wen asked the Second Madam Wen to invite her. 

Elder Madam Wen was from a scholarly family, and she had a different background and personality than Second Madam Wen, who was a businessman’s wife. The two sisters-in-law had an average relationship. Knowing that that place was made by Gu Yin, Elder Madam Wen went to support her. 

Because of her many years of upbringing as a lady, Elder Madam Wen could not accept the massages at first, but only drank herbal tea and watched the performances on the third floor. But the sense of atmosphere, once people were immersed in it, could easily be affected. 

In addition, the privacy of each wing was ensured. Out of trust in Gu Yin, Elder Madam Wen soon went to the massage room frequently. 

Later, she also introduced other friends, all of whom were civil servants’ wives and liked elegant things. 

After they got together, they didn’t like to play cards and board games, but liked to recite poems, draw and play chess. 

Fortunately, Elegant Hall was compatible with all kinds of people, and naturally there were people who liked them. 

In layman’s terms, no matter what one did there, no other woman would look at the others differently. 

Seeing that the operation of the third floor was also on the right track, Gu Yin promoted Da Sun from the building to the third floor as the person in charge, and repeatedly told her to ensure that the female guests were not disturbed, especially in the wing rooms downstairs. 

Da Sun assured, “Don’t worry, owner. All of our men came from the battlefield, and if we didn’t have any skills, we wouldn’t have been able to support our houses till now. We must not let the female guests of our restaurant be disturbed. I’ll see to it.” 

Gu Yin couldn’t help laughing, she said, “You don’t need to be so serious, you just need to be more alert.” 

Many official’s female family members came and went, as long as they were normal people, they wouldn’t think about offending them. 

The guests on the first and second floors were under the watch of Manager Zhou and other guys. As long as everyone performed their duties, that kind of thing would definitely not happen. 

Gu Yin also reminded her on a routine basis, but she did not expect Da Sun to be so serious. 

However, it must be a good thing for employees to be serious and responsible, so Gu Yin still praised her, and later promoted Wei Sanniang, who was downstairs, to be the foreman on the first and second floors. 

After being busy for two months without going home, Gu Yin finally went down from work, and only went to eat after half a day every day. 

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, that day was the last day of the year before the court. The next time Emperor Zhengyuan returned to the court, it would be seven days later, the next year. 

The last time Gu Yin and Wu Qingyi had a good conversation was on the day Elegant Hall opened. Gu Yin was busy with the massage department after that, while Wu Qingyi was in charge of the finishing work of recruiting people for the boat business. Even if they met at night, they went to bed without saying a few words. 

On that day, she came back on the front foot, and Wu Qingyi came back on the back foot. 

He no longer wore the silver mask, but put down a bang on the side of his face, just to cover his scar. 

That was also a bit funny. Gu Yin painted plum blossoms on his face that night when he was drunk. 

Although it was really embarrassing for a man to have a flower on his face, Wu Qingyi promised her not to wipe it, so he was ready to be seen as a joke the next day.

But he didn’t expect that after a night, the color of the small flower depicted by the grease paint became much bleak, and after he fell asleep that day, he was tossing and turning, and most of it was printed on the pillow. When he got up the next day, if he hadn’t looked closely like Gu Yin had done the night before, he wouldn’t have seen anything at all. 

That night, when Gu Yin went to return the mask to him, Wu Qingyi wanted to explain it to her, but found that she had completely forgotten about that night and didn’t mention it at all. 

That thing made him struggle all day, but she forgot, making him laugh helplessly. 

So that day, the two of them could finally sit together and have a good conversation. 

Wu Qingyi couldn’t help but mention that when he went to court, many civil servants didn’t look right at him. 

Regardless of whether they were officials from the same dynasty, but since ancient times, civil and military officials had clearly distinguished themselves. 

After being looked at by those people who had never spoken to him before, Wu Qingyi was puzzled at first, and a little doubt arose in his heart—could they be impeached because of his misdeeds recently? 

When he was walking away, he walked slowly because he was thinking about something. He happened to fall behind the civil servants, and then he heard their greetings. 

“Master Xiao Li, how is your family today?” 

Master Xiao Li shook his head and said, “Don’t mention it. Master Zhang, how is your family?” 

Master Zhang sighed and he said, “My wife would not allow me to go out to socialize and drink. Now that she doesn’t nag me, I’m really not used to it. It’s really hard to go home every day to face a cold pot and a stove.” 

“Master Zhang and Master Xiao Li, have you ever thought about forming the husbands’ gang?” An officer asked. 

The two adults, one looking at the other, and didn’t say a word. 

Naturally, they didn’t want their wives to go out and play happily, but the place was not a bad place. It was just an ordinary women’s party, and from such a social place one could also get a lot of news.