Chapter 140

The guests in the lobby of the restaurant looked up from time to time, and some people saw clearly the flower girl who took off her cloak and hat, and sighed with a whistle in her mouth: "Yo, it's still a beauty, this Baihua Lane is really out of business, and such a pretty flower girl has come out to take over business." ”

"What do you know, Baihua Lane is not lively, and no one is allowed to pay to call a few to come over to accompany the wine, you just can't afford to spend this money yourself."

"Don't look at who it is, even if you go to Baihua Lane, you may not be able to afford it."

"Tsk, that's a Chu Chu girl, it's more expensive to go out than to go to Baihua Lane."

Everyone looked at the figure of the two flower girls going up, until they entered the second room of Tianzi, the door was closed, and then reluctantly withdrew their gaze, among which there were two men sitting on the table by the pillar, holding wine glasses in their hands, not like other guests to drink freely, only drinking lightly, the eyes turned from the second room of the son of heaven to the first room of Tianzi, there was no half drunkenness in his eyes, staring tightly.

The drunken guests in the lobby chatted loudly, and gradually stopped paying attention to the box upstairs, and the sound also overshadowed the laughter and coquettishness faintly coming out of the box. ”

Fan Zhu threw the wine jug in his direction: "Do you have a way?" ”

Ji Zihe drank and shook his head, how could he do it, he couldn't go back to Zhuzhou, there were people guarding near the house, and there were people following him when he went out for a drink: "Don't you want to find a way to find her?" ”

"No way!" Fan Zhu's face froze, "Even if I couldn't guess what Qi Henian was going to do when I came, now it's clear that he just suspects the identity of Acacia, no matter how careful we are, someone will follow us, and we can't go." ”

"A few days ago, Mrs. Qi entertained my mother and Aunt Fan, and Acacia was not present." Ji Zihe looked out the window, Kyoto City didn't have much of a good impression of him, the atmosphere was dreary with heavy snowfall, and they were under house arrest in disguise, "I inquired, she should have been taken away by the people of Yuwangfu." ”

Fan Zhu was silent, the cup in his hand kept turning, and his mind was chaotic. They have been staying in Kyoto City for ten days, and they must find a way to go back to Zhuzhou, and now they can't do anything, staying here will only cause trouble for Acacia, and if they let Niang and Acacia meet, I don't know what will happen.

"You say, this Qi He Nian is talking about him left and right, and he is going to Zhuzhou famous doctors, what are your plans?"

There was silence in the box for a while, they all had things that they couldn't think through but were clear, although the Fan Ji family was a businessman, they were not characters to be manipulated, how could a little imperial doctor have such a big power to keep them in Kyoto City, the answer was obvious.

It's also this powerlessness that makes people unwilling, who has been provoked by the Zhou family in the past and now by the Fan family, by whom has the Ji family provoked, and by the Qi family.

Fan Zhu put the cup on the shelf: "First find a way to send my mother and your mother away." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound in the screen a few steps behind Fan Zhu, and the two of them stared at that place, the screen seemed to have been hit by something from the inside, and it shook slightly and then stopped moving.

The two of them looked at each other, Fan Zhu, who was close, got up, walked towards the screen with a vigilant expression, and only took a step, only to hear a "bang" sound that was not heavy behind the screen, and the screen was hit, with a soft shout.

A woman's voice?

The cup that Fan Zhu was holding tightly in his hand loosened slightly, and a slender jade hand held the screen, revealing his pink sleeves.

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Late at night, after a few rounds of drinking, the guests in the lobby fell drunk at the table, and the noise was quiet, but it highlighted the movement in the box on the second floor.

The two men sitting by the pillar were always staring at the box, and occasionally there was the sound of a woman laughing at a man's persuasion to drink, and through the door, it seemed that they could feel the red pink rouge in the box like in Baihua Alley.

At this time, in the No. 2 room of the Son of Heaven, which everyone was envious of, there was only one flower girl accompanying the three guests, one of the guests was still dressed as a man, and the voices of those women laughing and coquettish were all made by the two of them, and the Chuchu girl who was missing by the guests downstairs was in the No. 1 room of Tianzi.

In Fan Zhu's hand is the letter that Chu Chu just handed over to him, the handwriting on it is very familiar to him, it is written by Acacia, but even so, he is still wary of this woman who seems to be innocent and has no scheming, and the people of Qi Henian outside are staring at him, is this woman who suddenly appeared another trap.

Ji Zihe repeated what she had just said: "You said that Doctor Qi asked you to take us out of the city?" ”

"Yes." Chu Chuyan smiled and said, "At the beginning of December, the Zhao family in Pucheng has a banquet, and I invited a lot of flower girls and singers from Baihualou to help the fun, I will go with a few sisters, you have to go to Longfu Temple outside Kyoto, come down from the back mountain and join me, and I will take you through the checkpoint to Pucheng." ”

On the day of the funeral of the Queen Mother, vocal music is forbidden in Kyoto City, but Pucheng, which is a two-day drive from Kyoto City, does not follow it in this way, and it is common for someone to invite the famous singers in Kyoto City to help the fun, which is not surprising, but it is not easy for them to quietly leave from Longfu Temple, and it is impossible for all people to go to the incense to pray for blessings, how to go.

As if knowing what they were thinking, Chu Chu pointed to the envelope and said: "The eighth day of the first year Longfu Temple will help porridge, this year's snow is early, and the weather is cold, you can go to Longfu Temple one day earlier to donate grain and rice to help give porridge." ”

Fan Zhu clenched the letter in his hand, and Acacia asked them to let the elders leave from the back mountain first on the grounds of alternation, and then they took the opportunity to go to the temple to find people, as long as it could be delayed for two hours.

"You take us away, how can you ensure that we won't be found when you pass through the level?"

"I can't guarantee that." Chu Chu glanced around the two of them, as if he was assessing, and said slowly after half a sound, "They don't dare to search the carriage of the Zhao family in Pucheng, but in terms of this number, they have to wronged the two young masters." ”

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When did the two flower girls of Baihualou leave, the guests downstairs can't remember clearly, but the two guests of Tianzi No. 1 room stayed until the next morning, drunk and carried back.

The snow stopped on the 29th day, the day was exceptionally good, after the cold wave finally had a chance to breathe, many people wanted to prepare the New Year's goods as soon as possible, so as not to change again on this day, so the snow stopped on the street on the two days was particularly lively, many shops were out of stock, and the shopkeepers wanted to take advantage of the day to go into some back.

On the fifth day of December, a few days before Laba, it began to snow again.

Qi Henian has not been idle these days, running inside and outside the palace, keeping an eye on the movements of the Fan family and the Ji family, as well as the Yuwang Mansion that he can't put in.

The lamp in the study was already lit late at night, and in front of Qi Henian was half a map that had just been sent, which was found from Tulangzhong, a small county town in Yongzhou, and cost eighty taels of silver.

Qi Henian compared it with the previous ones, although there will be differences in the degree of newness of the map due to different ways of collection, but it was originally cropped out of a map, and the texture will not change. Half a ring, he moved open the candlestick on the edge of the picture, looking at the map that was almost a piece of the map that could be put together, and his eyes under the candlelight gradually appeared.

"What else did Tulang say?"

"said that it was his family heirloom, and a few years ago, when someone inquired about him, he didn't make a move." The steward paused, and explained what he saw in the Tulangzhong family, saying that the small county town was not as good as the countryside outside Kyoto, and the Tulangzhong home was even more dilapidated, and if it weren't for the cheap herbs and grinding crockpots in the courtyard, he would not have believed that the owner of the house practiced medicine.

"Who I was asking about before?"

"He didn't elaborate, only that the person who came to inquire was a doctor like him."

Qi Henian touched the broken corner of the map and laughed, there were really a lot of people who inquired about this: "How is the Fan family?" ”

"Young Master Fan and Young Master Ji often go to the restaurant when they have nothing to do, the two ladies have bought a lot of cotton cloth in the past two days, and they are rushing to make winter clothes, and they have rented a car, and they will go to Longfu Temple tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

Laba Ji porridge and rice, this is the tradition of various temples in Kyoto City, there are also wealthy families, who can't afford to open their own warehouses to send grain and rice, so they bring some to the temple to help those monks and masters to help the people together, one to accumulate merit, and the other to save some fame.

Qi Henian has been watching the Fan family for so many years, and he also knows that they will do some good deeds in Zhuzhou on weekdays, but when they get to Kyoto City, they have to think a little more deeply, so he ordered: "In those days, there were many people in Longfu Temple, so you sent more people over, and then sent people to Yuwang's Mansion." ”

The steward hesitated for a while: "Master, it's better to leave them in the house." ”

"Giving food and giving away is a good deed, how can we stop them." Qi Henian looked at the map over and over again, raised his head and looked peaceful, "We are inviting them to come to Kyoto City, we can't imprison people, you go and prepare a few carriages, let Mrs. prepare some grain and rice tomorrow, and go to Longfu Temple with the Fan family, so that you can take care of it." ”

"Yes."

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In the blink of an eye, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, the Laba porridge in the palace has been given to the Yuwang Mansion before dawn, Uncle Wang in the kitchen put the cooked Laba porridge into the food box, the thick curtain at the door was lifted, and it was rolled into a burst of snow, Qi Xiangsi rubbed his hands and trotted in, Uncle Wang looked back and saw that it was her, and said with a smile: "Isn't the Qi doctor girl going to follow the prince into the palace together?" ”

Qi Xiangsi walked to his side, looked at the remaining porridge in the pot and shook his head: "There are guards Lu, you don't need me to go." ”

Uncle Wang smiled and said nothing, and handed her a bowl of porridge from behind: "There are not so many rules in the house, if you are hungry, sit there and eat a little first, in previous years, the prince entered the palace and could not come back until the evening." ”

Qi Xiangsi held the bowl to warm his hands, sat aside, and blew the hot air in the bowl: "It's still fragrant from your cooking." ”

Uncle Wang smiled and brought her two side dishes: "Don't go out today?" ”

"The snow is too big, and I'll have to grind the medicine that dried a few days ago later." Qi Xiangsi ate a few bites, his stomach warmed, and his expression became satisfied.

"Laba is lively as soon as it passes, Longfu Temple has been very busy these days, and the grain and rice sent before dawn are estimated to have arrived now."

The expression on Qi Xiangsi's face was slightly sluggish, the spoon in his hand rested lightly in the bowl, and he looked at the slowly sinking spoon and said, "Yes, it's indeed almost there." 166 Reading Network