In the City God Temple, let Qingwen's words make Xiao Yiran's heart empty, and after looking for a long time, he didn't see the young man who was dressed in white and had been watching them as Qingwen said, so he had to leave stupidly. After coming to the street, Xiao Yiran walked in front silently, followed closely by Qingwen and Musk Yue.

After walking for a while, seeing that the young lady did not like to go to the shops on the street like she did when she entered the city in the past, but kept walking forward silently, Qingwen couldn't help but ask:

"Miss, where are you going next?"

"Just take a walk."

In fact, Xiao Yiran was looking for the Sun Mansion in Jiangning Mansion according to the memory of the thirteenth year of the Northern Song Dynasty. It's just that, after nearly four hundred years, today's Yingtianfu is no longer the original Jiangning Mansion, the change is too great, until the red sun sinks in the west, the twilight is thick, and still no shadow of the Sun Mansion is found, Xiao Yiran has to give up.

"Qingwen, Musk Yue, do you two know that there are any powerful or rich people in Yingtianfu today?"

"Miss, the guests who usually go to the painting boat occasionally talk about the powerful people in Yingtianfu, and I remember a few of them, as if they were talking about the Zhu family, the Zhao family, the Yin family, or something."

Listening to Qingwen and Musk Yue talk a few times, they never heard the Sun family, and Xiao Yiran was not too disappointed. I thought to myself, even if there is a Sun family, it may not be the Sun family four hundred years ago. Taking a step back, even if it is the Sun family, I don't know how many generations have passed, and no one will definitely remember his eldest uncle Sun Jidong and others, let alone his mother Sun.

"It's getting late, let's go back."

"Miss, this time you came out, but you haven't seen anything, you haven't bought anything?"

"What do you two want to see, what do you want to buy?"

Xiao Yiran asked casually.

"Miss, there are not many silk threads used for embroidery, and the weather is getting cold, so it's time to prepare winter clothes for Miss. Last year's clothes, I'm afraid that the young lady can't wear them. ”

"Well, it's not early today, isn't it the same when we come back tomorrow?"

Qingwen and Musk Yue looked up at the sky, and knew that it was late, so the three of them turned back to the painting boat on the Qinhuai River. I don't want to, as soon as I arrived at the painting boat, I saw Wang Ma standing at the entrance, who was looking outside, and when she found Xiao Yiran and the three of them, she hurriedly ran down and said eagerly:

"Miss, there are guests."

"What guest? When did it come? ”

Qingwen was quick to talk, and asked Wang Ma repeatedly.

"Not long after you left, the guests came. It doesn't seem to be a local, so let's go in and receive it. ”

Xiao Yiran asked Wang Ma to answer the hospitality room for a while, and the three of them went back to their respective rooms from the corridor on the side of the painting boat, changed into men's clothes, and then came to the living room. I saw three people sitting in the living room, the one in the middle was the oldest, who seemed to be about forty years old, and the two on both sides were relatively young, the one on the right hand was in his early thirties, and the one on the left hand was the youngest, estimated to be twenty-four or five years old. All three were dressed as merchants, and all wore brand new clothes.

Xiao Yiran came to the three of them, took the freshly brewed tea brought by Qingwen and Musk Yue, and held it to the three of them with his own hands to express his apologies for making them wait for a long time.

"Because these days are the autumn season, there have always been few guests, so I only went to the city for a visit, I don't want to wait for the three, please forgive me."

As he spoke, he curtched and saluted the three of them.

"Presumably this young lady is Miss Xiao Yiran, right?"

"It's the little woman."

The older guest in the middle asked first. Immediately, the youngest guest on the left hand side asked:

"Last night's piano sound, but Miss Yiran played?"

"The skill of micro end is difficult to enter everyone's ears, and it makes gentlemen laugh."

"Miss is too modest. Although we don't know the rhythm, we are also intoxicated by the sound of the young lady's piano. It can be seen that the young lady's piano skills have already entered the house. ”

Listening to the conversation of the guest in his early thirties on the right, who seemed to be a person who had read poetry and books, Xiao Yiran turned his head and looked at the other party carefully. Seeing that the other party has a straight nose and a square mouth, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, although he is dressed as a businessman, he does not have the vulgar temperament of a businessman at all. Listening to the accent, Xiao Yiran also heard that the three of them were not from Ying Tianfu.

"Aren't the three guests locals?"

"We are merchants from Yanjing Beiping."

chatted with the three of them for a while, knowing that they shouldn't have dinner yet, so he motioned for Qingwen to go down and make arrangements. After a while, the wine and food were ready, and Xiao Yiran accompanied the three of them to have dinner and sat down to drink tea again.

"Last night I was waiting to eat in the painting boat next door, and when I heard the sound of the piano coming from here, I was shocked for a moment. So, I just came here today to feast my ears, I wonder if Miss Yiran would like to play a song on the piano? ”

Although the three of them were all dressed as businessmen, their conversation was not vulgar, since the guests came to listen to the piano, Xiao Yiran had no reason to refuse, so he ordered Qingwen and Musk Yue to bring the piano table, clean their hands and burn incense, sit upright behind the piano table, and play it in a tinkling voice. The tune is still last night's tune, but Xiao Yiran's heart is not quiet today, and it is inevitable that the playing is not as fascinating as yesterday.

After the song was played, seeing that the three of them were still intoxicated, Xiao Yiran secretly apologized in his heart.

"Although it's still last night's song, it's a little less ethereal, maybe it's because I listened to it last night from the boat."

The older guest commented first.

Xiao Yiran knew in his heart that the other party obviously heard that tonight's song was not as good as last night's, and talking like this was just saving some face for himself.

"Forgive me, the guest officer, because of trivial matters today, it is inevitable that there will be unsatisfactory things in playing the tune. Ask the guest officer to take it for a while, and play it again. ”

With that, Xiao Yiran stood up and saluted the three of them, and then was about to leave the room, wanting to go down to take a shower and play the song again quietly.

"Miss doesn't have to be like this, in life, how can everything go well, no one can **** be in a good mood. It's not early today, so let's listen to Miss's piano another day. ”

The older guest in the middle didn't care about Xiao Yiran's somewhat absent-minded playing, and after speaking, he took the lead in standing up. took out a fifty taels of silver ingots from his arms and put it on the coffee table, clasped his hands into fists, gave Xiao Yiran a slight salute, and led the other two to leave.

"Guest officer, please take back the silver taels."

Xiao Yiran hurriedly motioned for Qingwen to return the silver on the coffee table to the guest.

"A little silver, why bother. Besides, how can there be a reason to eat and listen in vain, and I took my leave. ”

The three of them did not stay, nor did they accept the silver handed by Qingwen, and after the painting boat landed, they landed and left.

"Miss, why did you return their money?"

"The song didn't play well tonight, and the guests heard it. How shall we receive their money? ”

"Even if the song doesn't play well, don't they still eat?"

"If we're here for food, will our food and drinks be better than the taverns in the city?"