Chapter Eighty-Three: Cat and Mouse, Profiteers, and Tricks (1)
Zhou Fuxiang asked what the situation was outside, Zheng Yue said: "The sons are all studying behind closed doors at home, and today I saw Wen Gongzi's little servant on the street to celebrate his birthday, saying that Wen Gongzi lives in Quaid Building not far from us, and asked him to come out to buy pen and ink." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info and uncle's former classmates Zhang Gongzi Fang Gongzi also lived in Quaid Building, and he also asked about the uncle on his birthday, and asked him to go to Quaid Building to find Wen Gongzi to sit when he was free. ”
Zhou Fuxiang said with a smile: "I didn't want them to come early, and I was called at that time, but I didn't get up because I was too lazy to move because it was hot." In this case, Ming'er will meet them when she goes to Quaid House again. As he spoke, he flipped through the book in his hand, and saw that there was nothing to say, and said, "Is there anything new recently?" ”
Huo Zhen said with a smile: "What's new is just a matter of the scholars rushing to take the exam, and then there's something we have here." ”
Zhou Fuxiang hurriedly asked what was the matter, Huo Zhen said: "Just now the two of us were sitting in the store drinking tea, and there was a merchant in the store who bought a cat out of nowhere, and I heard him say that the gold is extremely expensive, worth a thousand taels." It's a pity that the two of us didn't look carefully, but I don't know what kind of magical power that the cat has, and it is worth so many silver taels. ”
Zhou Fuxiang really wondered, sat up with a smile, pushed away the book in front of him and said, "Oh, there is such a thing? It's a pity I didn't see it, don't be him deceiving people. ”
Huo Zhen smiled and said that it may not be known, squinting at Mingyue and Qingping coming in with water, knowing that they were going to serve Zhou Fuxiang to take a bath, he hurriedly said goodbye to Zheng Yue and Zhou Fuxiang, and asked Mingyue and Qingping how the two girls were good. Mingyue doesn't interact with the people on night duty at the second gate, just laugh, Qingping is the proud person in front of Mrs. Zhou, and she delivers most of the daily orders, and the two have some friendship, so they put down the barrel in their hands and said with a smile: "Huo Sanye, it's inconvenient for Brother Qiao outside the door to come in, please take care of one or two." ”
Huo Zhen smiled and agreed, and saw Qiao'er wearing a bleached silk machine gown, yuan-colored silk trousers, and a silver-red Xingbu twenty-four jade-colored silk silk, standing in the yard, counting the grass on the wall. He called behind her, "Brother, sit in front of you, the sun is strong outside, and I didn't burn you." ”
When Qiao'er heard this, she hurriedly turned around and smiled: "The third master is busy with you, the uncle is used to sweating, and he has to wash two or three times a day, but the time is short, I'll just wait." ”
Huo Zhen saw that he couldn't move him, so he smiled and went back to the room with Zheng Yue to rest. Qiao'er put one hand into the brim of her hat, propped it on the door of her head to resist the sunlight, but with the other hand, she stroked the half of the wall, and sketched it little by little along the grass imprints. This kind of thing, when she was a child, was the most common, such as the window opening on the wall, everywhere is finely carved. When her mother was too busy with her housework to take care of her, she sat by the window or on the threshold with her nurse in her arms, and traced the grass and flowers in the same way.
As I painted, my thoughts fell into the past, and the scenes were clearly recognizable, including the happy smiling faces of my mother and father, the faces of my great-grandmother and grandmother's teachings, and the playful faces of Uncle Bao and Aunt Lin. She painted seriously, but she didn't know that Zhao Si had already made a fuss outside, shouting everywhere to find cats.
Several businesses that closed their doors for lunch break were all disturbed by him, and even the narrow households in Qumen were disturbed, and the guys made amends, saying that the cat worth thousands of gold was lost, and the owner was in a hurry. When everyone heard this, they were as puzzled as Zhou Fuxiang when they first heard it, and they all went back to their rooms to look around, but they wanted to see what the cat worth a thousand gold looked like, even the Jiazi opera troupe was not exempt from vulgarity.
The attacker had just come back from Baochai, and he didn't know what the noise was for, so he quietly took the maid back to the room, and called a Tan official who sang Hua Dan in the troupe to ask, only to know the cause and effect, so he smiled and said: "Then our house should also be carefully turned over, not that we are afraid that the cat that hides other people's houses will arouse suspicion, but that the big guys are tired for a long time, if the cat is disturbed by sleep at night, it will not delay things." The maids and ladies all laughed and said that they were very busy, and they went to the bottom of the cabinet and the bottom of the bed to look around.
Here Zhao Si saw that his conspiracy succeeded, and he was naturally proud in his heart, looking at an inn in a good end that was disturbed by him, all the things he had never seen appeared at this moment, he still pretended to be looking for a cat, and went to look at each room, paying attention to whether there were girls around twelve or thirteen years old that Jia Huan said, and he looked for them one by one from the front, but he didn't see the person who matched what Jia Huan said, so he frowned and went to the backyard.
The young man made him unable to make trouble, so he had to follow along, and Qiao'er was sketching to the last place, and he heard the front shouting: "Xuehua, Xuehua, where did you go?" ”
Qiao'er was puzzled, just thinking about who Xuehua was, Zhao Si and the little guy had already walked out of the photo wall, and the little guy saw her and hurriedly bent down and said: "Disturb my brother, I wonder if my brother saw a cat running into the backyard?" ”
Qiao'er shook her head after thinking about it and said, "I haven't seen it, why did anyone lose it?" ”
The young man pointed to Zhao Si and said: "It was this master's cat that was lost, and it was said that it was worth a thousand gold, and the little one didn't dare to slack off, so he followed the master to find it." If my brother sees it, he will help catch it, and he will be rewarded. ”
"Yes, there are many rewards!" Zhao Si hurriedly interjected on the side.
Qiao'er heard his vulgar words and indecent manners, so she intuitively looked at his appearance, and saw that his head was sharp, his eyebrows were like rat's tail, and he looked like a disgusting person. A rough look at his clothes made him look like a blue cloth shirt and a pair of green cloth pants, which made him look more and more nondescript. only said that this person was a plaything, so he didn't pay much attention to him, and only said to Xiao Er: "Little brother, don't worry, if you see it, you will definitely return to the original owner." ”
After hearing this, Zhao Si saw that although Qiao'er was dressed ordinarily, it was rare to have a beautiful face and a delicate figure, but she had a little bit of the appearance of the Qiao girl Jia Huan said. Seeing that he combed his hair in braids, and did not bring other bead jewelry, he was clearly dressed as a brother, and he hesitated in his heart, and he didn't dare to recognize it very well. Seeing that the door behind him was closed, I didn't know who was inside, thinking that maybe it was Miss Qiao, so he said sexually: "Don't bother my brother to do it, just bother my brother to make it convenient, allow me to go into the house and search, if not, I will naturally stop bothering in the future." ”
Allow him to enter the house and search? Mingyue Qingping in the house is still waiting for Zhou Fuxiang to take a bath, how to get in and how to search? Qiao'er raised her eyebrows and bluntly rejected him: "No need, it is not suitable for outsiders to enter the house, and please wait outside for a while, if there is really a cat running in, we will naturally catch it." ”
Zhao Si saw that she didn't want to think about it, so she refused, knowing that there was something inside, she was even more suspicious, so she said like a scoundrel: "That cat is human, after I picked it up, only I hugged it, and someone else carefully let it scratch it, don't dare to bother my brother, or I'll look for it." ”
This time, Qiao'er's eyebrows were raised even higher, her own family was backward, she had never been friendly with others, at this moment Zhao Si was so disgusted to her, her intuition stopped in front of him, and sneered: "Since the cat is psychic, and only you can hold it, why did it run away?" According to me, this master still went back to his room to look carefully, and saved himself from blaming others. ”
"Falsely accusing others? I...... Am I lying to others? Zhao Si asked her to tell the conspiracy, and immediately her face turned red, and she gasped roughly, "Little brother is young and taboo to speak, so I naturally don't care about you, but it is really my brother's blood spurting when I say it." Don't believe me, ask this guy, have you ever seen me come in with a cat? ”
The young man heard a busy saying, "He did come in with a cat." ”
Qiao'er said, "So have you ever seen what that cat looks like, and is it as expensive as he said?" ”
The young man was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "I've seen it, but I haven't seen it, and I can't show it to us." ”
Qiao'er secretly laughed in her heart, but she was afraid that this Zhao Si wanted to fish in troubled waters, so she took advantage of this to make a mistake, so she chuckled: "Then I persuade the little brother to think carefully, don't let others take advantage of the loophole, saying that he lost the cat in your store, and when the time comes, find someone to compensate him for the little-known cat, and your shopkeeper will be unlucky." ”
"This ...... This ......" The young man didn't expect Qiao'er's mind to be so painful, after thinking about it, although Zhao Si has made a little money these days, he is not rich enough to buy a cat worth a thousand gold, and then he thinks that he is a person on weekdays, so he only said that he really fell into the trap, turned around and said, "Master, our shop is small, and what we do is a small business, and we can't stand your toss." This brother also said it, I'm curious about where the cat I bought is unique, it's worth a thousand gold, and the others are deceiving us and defrauding us, right? ”
Zhao Si let him say in a hurry, he was angry and annoyed, he couldn't help but push the young man, and regardless of Qiao'er blocking the way, he went straight in and said: "What did the master lie to you, and let me find the cat, and then let you open your eyes, what is Jin Gui." ”
Qiao'er and the young man saw him so reckless, their faces froze, Qiao'er was about to persuade him, only to hear a creak of the door, and the green apple Mingyue inside had already heard the noise outside, and hurriedly put on Zhou Fuxiang's clothes, and the two came out together, standing on the platform and looking at Zhao Si and scolding: "Stop, anyone dares to break in?" ”
Zhao Si was so frightened when he heard the scolding that he stood still, and raised his eyes to see two girls standing side by side, one was double ten graceful, with a beautiful face and no majesty; A man of the age of a gentleman, who looks like an autumn moon and has a thin face and a thin face, is not the person Jia Huan said, so he laughed and said: "Girl, forgive me, the little one lost an extremely precious cat, I wonder if the girl has ever seen it?" ”
Qingping Mingyue looked at each other silently, not knowing what he meant by this, Zhou Fuxiang had already come out of the crown, and when he heard it, he was busy standing behind the two of her and asked, "But that cat worth a thousand gold?" (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )