33. Tiger skin
Zhenshu was inconvenient to stay at this time, and saw Tong Qisheng running towards Qiaosheng with a vine on his back, and he also ran home with vague steps.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw her father Song Anrong standing on the steps with his hands in his hands, and when she came in, she beckoned, "You come." ”
Zhenshu followed his father into the door and sat down, and Song Anrong asked, "Can everything be sorted out?" ”
Zhenshu nodded slightly. Song Anrong said again: "I think about the affairs of your little daughter's family, I am afraid that it will not be good to be an adult, so I didn't ask you Uncle Zhao to follow, can he embarrass you?" ”
He suddenly saw the blood stain on Zhenshu's sleeve, grabbed it and asked, "He actually beat you?" ”
Zhenshu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I'm fine, but I just let the locust tree cut some flesh." ”
Song Anrong wanted to ask again, but Zhenshu suddenly covered his face and cried: "Father, my daughter has embarrassed you." ”
The adult daughter fell in the mountains for a few days without saying anything, and now she is still notorious by gossip, and Song Anrong's pain in her heart can be imagined. He pondered for a while before he said, "I'm afraid we won't be able to stay here." ”
Zhenshu stopped sobbing and said, "Then where else can I go?" This is our home. ”
Song Anrong grew up in Beijing since he was a child, so he naturally only regarded this as a temporary place to live. And Zhenshu was born here since she was a child, and Caijia Temple is her hometown in her mind.
Song Anrong said: "I came back today and I thought about it for a long time, and I also discussed it with your Uncle Zhao, and now you are being passed on here, I can't stop Youyou's mouth alone, and I really can't bear to insult my daughter again." So, I wanted to sell my family business and live in a different place. ”
Caijiasi is a big village, Song Anrong owns half of the land here, because it is close to the county seat of Huixian, and it is all paddy fields and flat land, which can be worth some value.
Zhenshu asked, "Then where else can we go?" ”
Song Anrong said: "Your Uncle Zhao used to be an apprentice in a framing shop in Beijing, and later came to our house, and this craft has always been there." Now that your aunt is gone, this is the place of his sadness, and he doesn't want to stay long. He said that he has craftsmanship, we will give some silver to set up a shop in Beijing, let's go to Beijing to open a framing shop to live, although from now on we have to work hard, but we always have to do something in life. I have nothing to do over the years, I have worked hard for many years to have a son, and now I am also in the mirror, and I have also put on the big affairs of several daughters, and I am very ashamed. Although you don't like it in Beijing, but now Caijia Temple has become like this, what can you do if you don't go? ”
Zhenshu hesitated: "I'm afraid that we foreigners will enter Beijing, and we will lose our money if we can't be relied on, what should we do?" ”
Song Anrong said: "How do you know if you can't be attached yet?" Besides, your mother has been bent on returning to Beijing all these years, and this time she has fulfilled her wishes and made her happy. I have no children, and my family business is ruined, but you can have a good home. ”
Zhenshu said: "Selling land and selling land, as well as this house, is not something that can be done with all the kuài. ”
Song Anrong said: "The four sons of Cai Genfa's family are in their prime, and they are in business, farming, and they have saved some silver in their hands, because they are going to divide the family, he wants to buy some fields for his sons, so that they will not lose their property, and now they are asking around about the fields." Our land is good land, and this house can be inhabited by people, why is he unwilling to ask for it? ”
Zhenshu's heart can only be like this, and now the father and daughter say goodbye and go to rest.
Let's say that after Du Yu said goodbye to Fujisheng, because he looted the silver tickets on the two entourages sent by King Ping, Nie Gan and Fu Quan, the three of them got a total of ten taels of silver, so they could barely make ends meet.
He was full of hope and hoped that after this errand was over, he would return to Huixian County and ask for a good life in the future, in order to be able to feed Zhenshu's snobbish and silk-loving old lady with more plates, he did not dare to sell the tiger skin, and was determined to use this good tiger who helped him find a wife to help him set up a family business again.
Therefore, I don't dare to live in a store all the way, and when I meet a village at night, I stay in someone's wheat straw field, and if I can't touch the village on the road, I can drill into a cave. In this way, all the way over the Qinling Mountains, which cross the Central Plains and the west, along the area of Qinzhou and Shuzhong, and go straight to Ganzhou.
Qinzhou has been rich in ancient times, and it is a good place with beautiful mountains and rivers. Du Yu would rather drill the grass shed all the way than be reluctant to sell the tiger skin, this time to Qinzhou, Nie Gan fell ill due to the fatigue of the road, Du Yu was afraid that he would lose his life halfway but it would be his own fault, so he took the tiger skin out and hung it on the street to sell.
His father Du Guogong Du Wu is a protector of the ** festival, a soldier, naturally loves to hunt and shoot, Du Yu has followed Du Wu to hunt since he was a child, and he has a good skin. It is to cut the tiger skin except for the throat, it is completely and flawlessly, such a good tiger skin, if the rich and noble people buy it, and find a skilled craftsman to last it with chaff grass, it will be as majestic as a real tiger, but it is a good thing to go to the town house.
Du Yu asked Fu Quan to sell at the gate of Qinzhou City, and he wore a hat and squatted behind him to be equivalent. At this time, of course, many people came to bargain, and each of them added fifty or hundred. Du Yu almost died in this tiger's mouth, and the price was naturally cheap and refused to sell.
There is a huge rich man in the city, and he is here today to welcome a distinguished guest, because the guest is respectful, he does not even dare to sit in a sedan chair, and he gets up early to greet him at the city gate. He saw that Fu Quan had unfolded the tiger skin, which was a sun-dried and rough appearance, but the fur was bright and the skin was intact, and there was no damage at all from a distance, and he was tempted to come over to take a look, but he was afraid that the distinguished guest would arrive immediately, so he said to the housekeeper behind him: "You wait here, I'll go over and take a look." ”
The housekeeper said: "Master, the slave doesn't know what kind of car his godfather is sitting in, what kind of car it looks like, what if he misses it?" ”
Zhang Yuanwai said: "You are really an elm head, my godfather's carriage is naturally recognizable at a glance." ”
Yan Lu walked over, pointed to the tiger skin and asked, "Strong man, maybe give me a closer look at this tiger skin?" ”
Fu Quan saw that Zhang Yuanwai was followed by a group of people standing there respectfully, knowing that he must be a master who could afford the price, he held the tail in one hand and crossed the tiger's head from his neck with the other and said, "Master, take a closer look." ”
Just then, a carriage came in from outside the city, its body wide and brightly painted, and its wheels were seven or eight minutes wider than those of ordinary carriages. When the housekeeper saw it, he immediately clapped his hands and said, "This is really our godfather." ”
Zhang Yuanwai stretched out his hand and said, "Strong man, I will pay 1,000 taels to buy your tiger skin, how about it?" ”
Fu Quan looked at Du Yu sideways, and saw that he was staring at a carriage coming from the city gate, quietly pressing down the hat. Zhang Yuan's price code is the highest, so when will he not sell it at this time?
Yes, Fu Quan kicked Du Yu and said, "Du Gongzi, sell or not?" ”
Du Yu's hat covered his face, and he didn't move like an old monk in a fixed place. Zhang Yuanwai also saw the carriage coming in from outside the city at this time, and was about to catch up, so he saw that the prefect of Qinzhou and the garrison and others were also in civilian clothes, and they had already stretched out their hands to greet them. At this time, he could take care of the tiger skin there, and he also raised his head from afar and shouted: "Godfather, Zhang Sheng, who is so small, is here to greet you." ”
There was no movement in the curtain, and there was a middle-aged man with an ugly face standing next to the car, and the horizontal sword blocked everyone: "Father-in-law's trip is a secret mission, please return to the office, no one is allowed to disturb without a summons." ”
His voice, when he said it sounded, called the voice of the male duck, was extremely ugly, and it was so midsummer that people had goosebumps on the back of their heads when they heard it.
The prefect and the garrison looked at each other, but they also hurriedly bowed their waists and shook their heads and said, "The lower officials can save it, save it." ”
"Zhang Sheng stays!" Suddenly there was a voice from inside the curtain, although it was softer, but it was also such a sharp voice.
Zhang Sheng smiled when he heard this, just like a monk hearing the Buddha's words, and a businessman saw gold falling from the sky, he hurriedly leaned forward two steps and said: "My son is here, my godfather has always been good?" ”
The curtain of the car opened lightly, and two fingers stretched out from the inside, which were very slender and shiny like jade in the sun, and pointed to the brightly colored tiger skin in Fu Quan's collection in the distance and said, "Go and send that thing to the Sprinkler family to the cyclamen inn." ”
Zhang Sheng couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Okay, good." ”
He saw that the coachman was already driving away, so he hurriedly took two steps to the man next to the car: "Father-in-law Mei, in order to welcome his godfather, the cold house prepared and cleaned a good courtyard a month ago, and I also implore my father-in-law Mei to say a few kind words to his godfather and ask him to stay in the cold house for one night." ”
This Mei Gonggong glanced at Zhang Sheng and said in a piercing voice: "We have our own place to go, if you come to give the tiger skin, you must tell who it is, otherwise the people below will not let you enter the inn." ”
The carriage set off, and the road was indeed quiet and quiet, but it was also heavily guarded on both sides, and the group of about three or five hundred people had only finished walking. Zhang Sheng called the official family and said, "Go back to the house and go to the silver ticket." ”
asked Fu Quandao again: "Two thousand taels, let's make a deal, okay?" ”
Du Yu lightly swept Fu Quan's clothes behind, Fu Quan naturally understood, waved his hand and said: "At least five thousand taels, if it is low, it will not be sold." ”
Of course, Zhang Gui also knew that this strong man who fought the tiger was going to slaughter himself today, but it was difficult to buy a Yu Yichen's favor, if he could vote for his temper, he would casually leak some rumors from the capital, and then take care of himself in various things, and his income would be ten times more than this, so he called the housekeeper and said: "Go to the tent to pay five thousand taels." ”
Fu Quan got the silver ticket and handed over the tiger skin, and when he turned around, he saw that Du Yu was still wearing the hat, and said with a smile: "Du Gongzi, we have money." ”
Du Yu turned around and took a few steps to carry Nie Gan, who was leaning against the wall, and said: "Now the important thing is to find him a Langzhong to prescribe some decoction first, you first find his money village to exchange it, you take all of your from me, and we can spend the rest along the way." ”
Fu Quan saw that Qian Zhuang was on the opposite side, so he took the silver ticket first and went to exchange the silver. Du Yu looked around with a Nie Gan on his shoulder, gritted his teeth and said: "Lao Tzu almost lost his life and killed a tiger, and the tiger skin was taken away by Yu Yichen, this eunuch saved my life." ”
Since you have silver, you have to stay in the best inn. Du Yu helped Nie Gan, Fu Quan swaggered in front, and the three of them prescribed medicine and went to the cyclamen. At this time, the gate of the cyclamen was heavily guarded, and Fu Quan had just gone up the steps, and the guard stretched out his spear and said, "This place is guarded, and no one is allowed to enter." ”
Fu Quandao: "It's strange, the inn is open, Lao Tzu has silver, why can't he live?" ”
Although Du Yu didn't see the carriage, just looking at these guards knew that they were from the East Palace, and stepped forward and pulled Fu Quandao: "If you look for a place, you can get it." ”
The three of them, and Nie Gan couldn't stand steadily, and Du Yu fell forward as soon as he let go. The guard thought that Nie Gan was coming to break through, and he stretched out his spear and was about to stab him. Du Yu naturally couldn't ask him to stab a hole in Nie Gan's body, so he raised his waist and kicked the spear in the guard's hand to the beam of the house and nailed it steadily.