Chapter 65: Rush to Licheng
In the Huguo Temple, he stayed until nightfall, until Long Xiaofei, a muddy boy, was subdued, and Leng Manyan and Long Xiaofeng came out of the Huguo Temple.
The two left Huguo Temple, Long Xiaofeng directly followed Leng Manyan back to the Shenduan Mansion, for the current Long Xiaofeng, the Shenduan Mansion is his second home, although the Shenduan Mansion is not as luxurious as the crown prince, but here is Leng Manyan, a woman who always gives people some wonderful moments, Long Xiaofeng Yan has been infatuated with here.
To put it more bluntly, Long Xiaofeng has long been deeply infatuated with Leng Manyan himself, after all, Leng Manyan's various practices and personalities are still very attractive to him.
Back in the Shenduan Mansion, Long Xiaofeng had been drinking tea in the hall in the front yard, while Leng Manyan went down to wash and changed into clean clothes before coming back to accompany Long Xiaofeng.
The two sat in the hall, drinking tea and chatting.
"I'm going to rush to Licheng tomorrow, and you should discuss the matter of burning Wanwei Gambling House with the emperor, forget it! After all, this must already be a big money-making industry, and it's not good to burn it. Leng Manyan mentioned to Long Xiaofeng that before the old emperor asked her to burn the Wanwei Gambling House.
"It's easy to talk about this, my father is just angry, and he made a decision for a while, and then I will go around and around, and it will be fine, but you are going to Licheng to catch Qin Huaiyu, I am a little worried about you." Long Xiaofeng frowned, expressing his worries about Leng Manyan in his heart.
Leng Manyan shook his head and didn't take it to heart.
Although she didn't know what the situation was in Licheng now, Leng Manyan still wanted to see how bad this Qin Huaiyu was, so she wanted to fight with Qin Huaiyu and sharpen his sharpness.
Thinking of this, Leng Manyan smiled easily, "I will go to Licheng this time, if I don't wait for the eldest brother to suppress the troops, I will not do it lightly, I must catch this Qin Huaiyu, otherwise it is not enough to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, I only go for two purposes, one is to cut Qin Huaiyu with a big ear scraper, and the other is to shock Zhao Tingde, the old fox, so I must definitely win this time, not defeat." ”
"Qin Huaiyu is easy to deal with, what I'm really worried about is not him, but Sun Yu." The more Long Xiaofeng spoke, the tighter his brows wrinkled.
"Sun Yu! I really want to dig him up to do things for me, but, hearing is false, seeing is believing, even if he Sun Yu is a victim, I will have to meet the cloud for a while, now that there is no progress in the case of the Ji family, I can't just sit here and wait for Song Shiyu to come back, right? Leng Manyan said that he was very impatient and spread his hands.
Song Shiyu has been gone for dozens of days, and there is no news at all, Leng Manyan can't just sit and wait!
In the cold palace before, Leng Manyan promised Ji Xunxue to overturn the case for the Ji family, and now the case has reached the point of exhaustion, it is indeed a situation that Leng Manyan has never thought of, so to speak, now Leng Manyan is a little anxious, she is eager to find a breakthrough in the Ji family's case.
And Leng Manyan believes that this Qin Huaiyu must be a breakthrough.
"This opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not only to wash away grievances for Mu Yuanyuan, but also to deter Zhao Tingde, so I can't miss it." Clenching his fists tightly, Leng Manyan made up his mind in his heart.
"You've made your decision, and there's nothing I can do to stop you, okay! You can take the three of them with a knife tomorrow! Long Xiaofeng was worried about Leng Manyan's safety, and wanted to let the three of them accompany Leng Manyan.
Leng Manyan shook his head, "No, the three of them have already fought with Qin Huaiyu, if they go again, it will be easy to be recognized, they don't have to go, I can just take Bai Xiao and Wang Xie with me." ”
"Bai Xiao? Who is it? Long Xiaofeng asked.
"Who else, isn't your sweet brother who invited me to beat me? That guy is strong! I'm also good at saying it, bidding 50,000 taels before I invited him, otherwise what do you think! Leng Manyan shouted angrily.
When Long Xiaofeng heard this, he immediately laughed.
Long Xiaofeng only now understands that the 50,000 taels of physical loss fees that Leng Manyan asked for from Long Xiaofei were used to invite Bai Xiao, no wonder Leng Manyan asked for money to live or die!
The two laughed for a while, and Leng Manyan talked to Long Xiaofeng about Wan Yan Rong again, as for Leng Manyan mentioning that Wan Yan Rong's real body was a woman, Long Xiaofeng looked surprised at all, obviously, Long Xiaofeng already knew that Wan Yan Rong was a woman, but he didn't open his mouth to break it.
The two talked like this until the second half of the night, and Long Xiaofeng said goodbye and left, and went back to the prince's mansion.
Leng Manyan, who was tired for a day, went back to the room to rest, and early the next morning, the sky was still slightly bright, and Leng Manyan went out with Wang Xie with his burden.
"My lord, there is a master standing outside the door, it is better to be careful." As soon as the two of them came out of the gate of the Divine Mansion, Wang Xie whispered a warning in Leng Manyan's ear.
"Don't worry, he's the helper I hired, you can just relax." Leng Manyan explained to Wang Xie.
As he spoke, Leng Manyan hugged his fists and greeted him, "Brother Bai is really early!" It's so punctual, Manyan admires and admires. ”
"Needless to say, let's go! Go to Licheng, let alone three days and three nights, arrive as soon as possible, finish things as soon as possible, get money as soon as possible, and enjoy as soon as possible. Bai Xiao doesn't like nonsense, everything is done as soon as possible, and the expression on his face is also extremely cold.
Leng Manyan smiled dumbly, reached into his sleeve, took out 25,000 taels of silver tickets, and stuffed them to Bai Xiao, "This is half of the honorarium, you take it first, and then pay your other half after the deed, how about it, am I happy?" ”
"Yes, I like the character of Lord Shenju." After seeing the money, Bai Xiaole took the silver two into his arms.
"But first, let's talk about it! Our Shenduan Mansion has been financially tight recently, and there is no silver tael to embezzle for the time being, so this is far away, and my two servants don't have much money, you see that we have all raised the strength of the whole mansion and made up 25,000 taels of silver for you, is that the cost on the road, Brother Bai will cover the two of us, right? Now a few of us, you are the richest. "Leng Manyan, Leng Manyan, isn't this a little too funny.
Even Wang Xie stood aside and snickered.
Who doesn't know, Leng Manyan's 50,000 taels of silver was storted from Long Xiaofei's hand, and the Shenduan Mansion didn't spend any money at all, the reason why Leng Manyan did this was not because she was stingy to Zhou Papi, but because Leng Manyan wanted to take this opportunity to get close to Bai Xiaotao, so as to get closer.
Bai Xiao opened his mouth stupidly at first, and then he shook his head impatiently, "It seems that your Divine Judgment Mansion has suffered a lot in order to make up these 25,000 taels of silver?" ”
"Hey! If you suffer a sin, you will also give! Brother Bai must be worth the price! Leng Manyan pretended to answer very strongly.
"Oh well! I'll pay you on the way! Seeing Leng Manyan like that, Bai Xiao directly agreed happily.
But before Leng Manyan could be happy, Bai Xiao added, "Come on!" I'll be generous, borrow 5,000 taels from your master and servant, and when the matter is done, God will give me another 30,000 taels, which is good. ”
"You ......" Leng Manyan almost jumped.
"Save it! O God! Don't be cautious with me, I can't understand you yet? Let's hit the road! Bai Xiao said this to Leng Manyan with a smile, and he turned around and left.
Leng Manyan's face froze, and she was holding the five thousand taels of silver borrowed by Bai Xiao in her hand, she was really angry.
"My lord, it seems that this kid is not simple!" Wang Xie grinned and laughed in Leng Manyan's ear.
"It's not simple, don't eat my set, I really don't believe that I can't cure him, Brother Wang, carry the silver, and when we get to Licheng, we will earn him Qin Huaiyu." Leng Manyan shrugged and threw the silver ticket to Wang Xie, and threw such a sentence to Wang Xie, Leng Manyan strode up and followed.
Wang Xie followed behind, smiling but not speaking, he felt more and more that it was particularly interesting to follow Leng Manyan to do things.
Qidu is only a hundred miles away from Licheng, three days is enough time to reach Licheng, after Leng Manyan and the three of them left Qidu, they hired a big carriage, all the way to the carriage, with the help of the carriage, Leng Manyan and the three of them left Qidu on the second day, they came to Licheng.
But as soon as she arrived in Licheng, Leng Manyan found a phenomenon that did not make her happy.
That is, on both sides of the official road, from time to time, there will be some refugees dressed in tatters, which attracted Leng Manyan's attention, sitting in the carriage, Leng Manyan asked Bai Xiao, "Brother Bai, this Licheng is not very far from Qidu, and it has priority over other cities in all aspects of the economy, but why are there so many refugees on the official road in Licheng?" ”
"I have traveled all year round, and I have seen a lot of refugees, and I have long been accustomed to it, no matter which country it is, the closer the city is to the capital, the more refugees wander on the official road." Bai Xiao explained to Leng Manyan without care.
Leng Manyan was puzzled, "How can this be?" ”
"It's very simple, the more refugees, the more Zhenmin silver the court will make, so the county officials of those cities close to the capital, in order to make money, deliberately catch refugees from other places and send them to the official road, so that the face is done enough, and the court will allocate funds, isn't this a well-known thing? You don't know? Bai Xiao's words woke up the dreamer.
Leng Manyan realized that the unspoken rules of this officialdom were so hot in her heart! Isn't this a silver tael that pits the country?
was angry for a while, Leng Manyan was also very impatient, and now she had no choice but to put this question aside first, and asked Bai Xiao instead, "Then why did Brother Bai come to Qidu this time?" Are you here to visit relatives and friends in Qidu? ”
"No, I'm here to participate in the martial arts competition in Qidu." Bai Xiao shook his head, and without raising his head, he explained to Leng Manyan the intention of coming to Qidu this time.
"Martial arts competition?" Leng Manyan was puzzled.
Not to mention, she really didn't know what kind of event this martial arts competition Bai Xiao was talking about.