Chapter 409: Lantern Festival (2-in-1)
The guest who resigned under the pretext was named Zhao Sihai, and he was alone and had no family.
It is said that people are as their name suggests, with a bold temperament and a wide range of travel, although their abilities are limited, they are very popular among the doormen, and they often drink together with Xuan Tongfang.
Wang 13 had met once when he first came, but they didn't pay much attention to each other at that time.
Wang 13 got his wish and got this person's information.
Chen Zishi is using Wang Shisan, responding to his needs, Tan Zhi is hurrying to find a suitable house, Wang Shisan saw that there was nothing to do here, so he quit and followed the clues to check Zhao Sihai.
In his mind, his uncle was riddled with everything, and it was impossible for him to do it all by himself, and there must be someone to take care of these things that did not see the light.
Just like Wang Guangji back then.
As long as there are no special circumstances, one thing is usually followed by the same wave of people.
Therefore, Zhao Sihai must know where Xuan Tongfang is imprisoned, and it is even possible that he is in charge of interrogation.
Among them, Wang Shisan did not wait for the height of the broom to be clear, he dared to say that if he came to get it, it would definitely not leak, Jiang Xianyan said that those subordinates came to him to make these tricks, which was tantamount to an axe in the class.
In this past month, in and out of Jiatong City, in and out of the city, Wang Shisan has been shopping all over the streets, if it weren't for the help of acquaintances, and he didn't want to startle the snake, he would be able to find out the whereabouts of Xuan Tongfang and others in two nights at most.
Even so, seven days is enough.
On the twelfth night of the first lunar month, Wang 13 found Xuan Tongfang and others in the backyard of a martial arts hall.
Several of them were held in dungeons, with about seven or eight guards. They disguised themselves as masters and apprentices of the martial arts hall, so that if the noise was occasionally spread to the neighbors outside, there would be no suspicion, and that Zhao Sihai was also there. It is a guest who comes to learn martial arts.
Wang 13 did not go down to the prison to see, eavesdropping on their idle conversation, although the prisoners suffered a lot, but fortunately they were all alive.
He went back and talked to Wen Sheng, and only waited until the day of Shangyuan Festival to save people.
In the past few days, the Chen family's house has also been found, and Tan Zhi took Wang Shisan to step on it first.
The house is not big. It is on Santai Street, not far from Sanzheng Hutong, where high-ranking officials and nobles live.
It is said that the owner of the house did a small business in Beijing, and now the family has left Beijing for the New Year. Ready to come back after the New Year, the house is temporarily entrusted to the neighbors to help take care of it, and the one on the side is also doing business, and the street market is so lively in the days before and after the Shangyuan Festival. As long as Wang Thirteen doesn't set fire to this house. Outsiders can't care if there are people in this courtyard.
Wang Shisan's heart was clear, the Chen family was not reluctant to spend money, but in this way, no matter how the Anguo Mansion traced it afterwards, it would not be able to find them.
After watching it, he was generally quite satisfied.
There are doors in the front and back of the yard, and the back alley is especially shallow and secluded, and it is dark at night. It is estimated that even on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, there will not be a few people walking from here.
The location is also very suitable, and the light tower of the Anguo Mansion should be set up outside the Duanzheng Hutong. It's only a little more than a mile away from here, and for him, it's just a matter of lifting his feet, and it won't be very hard for Wensheng and Tong Baishuang to withdraw at that time.
Wang 13 patted Tan Zhi on the shoulder and praised: "Not bad, very discerning." For just these two days, don't send any more people over there, lest you make people suspicious. ”
Tan Zhi patted him half of his body numb, and said with a smile: "Brother Lu, just rest assured, this place is only known by God, you know me, and even the eldest prince knows it." ”
Wang 13 sneered in his heart: It's strange to believe you. But the two brothers reached out and hugged his neck, and said, "Sort out the information on the deployment of the guards at the gate of the Anguo Mansion that night, and I'll get it tomorrow night." The day after tomorrow is the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and I have to accompany Mrs. Jiang. ”
Tan Zhi nodded and hurriedly agreed.
"After the Shangyuan Festival, I also have to avoid the limelight, if there are no special circumstances, don't meet for the time being, wait for the wind to pass. The eldest prince still has to trouble Brother Tan to help me explain. ”
Tan Zhi wished he had said that.
If you just teach a few doormen who don't have long eyes, how can you be so cautious. This Lu Buxun doesn't know what to do, whether he will poke a hole in the sky.
Tan Zhi felt like she was pregnant with a little rabbit, excited and nervous, Wang Shisan smiled at him, and the two separated at the back door of the house. Wang 13 raised his hands, hummed a little song pleasantly, turned around and slowly melted into the cold night.
The outside is almost ready. Wang Shisan came back and said to Wen Sheng, both of them felt that things were going very well, Tong Baishuang was easy to say, and when the arrangements were made, just tell her what to do, and the rest was for Mrs. Jiang.
Mrs. Jiang is very happy this year, and her grandson will marry her daughter-in-law in a few days, and her grandson and Miss Gu have a very good relationship, and she may be able to hold her little great-grandson in the coming year.
It's a pity that because of the identity of his son-in-law, he has to hide it from the outside, and he doesn't dare to publicize this marriage.
Most of the time during the day, Wang Shisan accompanied her, poured tea and water to feed her medicine, and told jokes by the way.
He told the joke rudely, the old lady also laughed, Wen Sheng played a piece of "Logging", the old lady also laughed, Wang Shisan felt reluctant, and said in an expectant tone: "Grandma, I will take you to live in Daliang when I go back, let me be filial to you, okay?" ”
Mrs. Jiang said with a smile: "Oh, my grandmother is old, it is right to live with my son, how can I drag down my grandson, you haven't started a family yet, you are a child." ”
Wang Shisan wanted to speak and stopped, he himself felt that the situation in Daliang was unclear, and it was not good that one day Li Chengyun would turn his face or the Ji family army would be defeated, and he would take Wen Sheng to be the king of the mountain, and his grandmother would indeed be in the Jiang Mansion with him.
Jiang Xianyan is in Nanchong, although he is not as deep as Wu Deshui and Lin Shinan, and he also has some forces in his hands, so he should not collapse easily.
Old Madam Jiang hesitated and said, "No, what's wrong with you, but what is there to hide from your grandmother?" ”
Wang 13 hurriedly waved his hand: "No, I just feel that I have to be sneaky all my life in Nanchong, and I dare not let people know that I am my father's son and your grandson, I have many friends over there in Daliang, and I am still a high-ranking officer, if I go back." Maybe it will be better in the future. Say whatever you want, it doesn't mean anything else. ”
Mrs. Jiang's face collapsed when she heard this, and her grandson said that it was "just talk about it". But there was already an idea in the words.
Separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and there is a war, at his age, if he leaves, who knows if he can see him before entering the coffin.
can barely stay here and ask his uncle to raise him, and what his grandson said is not unreasonable.
The old lady's good mood was gone. The circles under his eyes were red, and he hurried to get the handkerchief.
Wen Sheng whispered a few words of persuasion from the side and said, "Old lady." It would be good if Daliang and Nanchong didn't fight, and then it would be just across a Feiyun River, and it would be convenient to come and go by boat, just like Nanchong's state to that state. Daliang and Dongyi hit. That's no way. There is no way to avoid it. There has been a three-hundred-year verdict with Nanchong, whether you annex me or I annex you, it is not a matter of simple words, it is the common people who suffer. ”
Old Madam Jiang lived for such an age, so she naturally knew the most bitter truth of the people in the troubled times, sighed, and held Wen Sheng's hand.
Wang 13 added oil and vinegar to the side. told the old lady about the tragic things he heard from the Baizhou condolence group that day, and Chai Shou's family was terrified to hear it. He covered his mouth with his hand, his eyes were full of tears, and he said in his heart how to say this to the old lady during the New Year.
Old Madam Jiang sighed: "I'd rather be a peace dog, don't be chaotic and leave people." ”
Wang Shisan's words changed and talked about the current situation in Jiangbei counties.
In fact, there were many factors in the Jiangbei Rebellion, and the occupation by the Nanchong army was on the one hand, and the root cause was still in the rebellion of Wang Guangji and the suppression of the rebellion by the imperial court.
Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but sigh: "It's best not to fight, Nan Chongtong is such a big place, and the elite and strong laborers are on the battlefield, everyone can make money when your uncle, you don't know, how hard he has managed the money and food for the front line in the past two years, and he can't sleep well." ”
Speaking of this, she sighed and shook her head: "Let's say it's useless, Old Master Wu wants to fight, Lin Shinan wants to fight, what does your uncle say doesn't matter, what can he do." ”
Wen Sheng seemed to be comforting the old man: "There will always be a way." ”
If it goes well on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, she and Wang Shisan will definitely cause an uproar in the Nanchong court, and Wen Sheng thinks that when they rescue Yunlu, they will return to Daliang first to avoid the limelight.
After leaving Daliang for so long, she also feels a little like an arrow.
But Nan Chong and they will definitely return.
At the moment of the war, in order to avoid accidents, she didn't dare to communicate more with Jiang Xianyan, so she could only chat more with Mr. Hu and Mrs. Jiang, hoping to get a glimpse of the whole leopard and understand Jiang Xianyan's true thoughts.
If the weather becomes the weather in Japan, it would be great if Jiang Xianyan was willing to advocate peace talks.
It doesn't matter if you say it, there are Wu Deshui and Lin Shinan in front of you, just find a way to move them away one by one.
Not to mention that in the future, as soon as this Shangyuan Festival passes, the Wulin family will be greatly injured.
These thoughts flashed through Wen Sheng's heart, but in fact, they were just a flash of work. She smiled and said: "Old lady, don't talk about these troubles, tomorrow is the fourteenth day of the first month, and you are in good health, why don't you ask Bu Xun to accompany you and go out for a walk." ”
The Lantern Festival on the side of Nanchong is a total of three days, the fifteenth day of the first month is the positive day, the fourteenth starts, and the sixteenth ends.
Not to mention that Wen Sheng and Wang 13 had other arrangements on the fifteenth day, but no, the old lady was so old, she had to take a car when she went out, and on the fifteenth day, the street was full of men and women enjoying the lanterns, crowded and crowded, and it was inconvenient for Mrs. Jiang to be mixed in the middle.
Old Madam Jiang was a little moved.
"Okay, when the time comes, set up a few big cars, and we'll all sit in the cars. I asked my grandson and my granddaughter-in-law, who had never passed through the door, to accompany my old lady to go shopping and watch the lights. ”
When she turned around, Mrs. Jiang found the Wu family and asked her to make arrangements.
At the same time, it also meant that she told her to talk to her son.
The old lady was rarely interested, and Jiang Xianyan knew that there was no objection when she arrived, so she ordered Di Qiuheng to bring a few guests and more than a dozen attendants to accompany her to protect her.
In fact, he was not afraid that someone would rush into the Jiang family's carriage without long eyes, and send Di Qiuheng to go, and the more important thing was to look at Wang Shisan and tell him not to cause trouble.
This nephew's ability to get into trouble is first-class, and Jiang Xianyan can't help but have a headache, and when he doesn't find it, he tries his best to find him back, and when he finds it, it's like a barrel, and he won't be able to blow it up at any time.
In the past few days, it seems to have stopped, I don't know why, like the calm before the storm, Jiang Xianyan always felt that something was about to happen.
And on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Jiang Mansion had an early meal, Mrs. Jiang's car, and Wu's car were all ready, everyone got into the car, and under the front and back hugs of the door guests, they rushed out of the mansion and entered Santai Street.
Wu's car was in front, and on the way he met the wife and daughter of his colleague, who was in charge of greeting and entertaining.
It's hard for my mother-in-law to go out, as long as she's happy.
Mrs. Jiang's car was very spacious, Wen Sheng and Wang Shisan were both sitting in the car, one accompanied her on the side, and Chai Shou's family and a big maid were waiting on the opposite side.
As soon as it gets dark, the lights on the street come on.
Every lantern festival, the most lively is Santai Street.
Thousands of red lanterns lined the streets with hazy and festive lights.
Chai Shou's family had to accompany the old lady to watch the lantern festival, so he did his homework in advance, and said with a smile: "This year, the saint has set up four lantern towers in the city, and we have one on Santai Street, and it will be a short walk away." I heard that there are lantern groups crossing the street every time the drum is sounded. ”
Old Madam Jiang nodded and smiled: "Okay, good." She turned to Wen Sheng, looked at her and felt that the little girl was thin-skinned, and then turned her head to Wang Shisan and said, "You two will accompany your grandmother to watch the lights tonight, and tomorrow the young man will come out for a walk by himself." Tomorrow night is more lively than that. ”
Wang 13 smiled, and said in his heart, Grandma, you are right.
Chai Shou's family began to talk about which one is ready to start the lantern tower this year, which one wants to treat guests, Jiangfu here because of the small population, not keen on this, in the past only a huge lantern to send to the street to meet the occasion, this year because of the preparation of Wang Thirteen's marriage, more unintentionally prepared, casually found a craftsman to make a double fish lamp, just out of the house, everyone has already appreciated.
When it comes to the Anguo Mansion, sure enough, like the news that Wang 13 heard before, their family built a lamp tower on Santai Street, which is slightly shorter than the one in the palace, and the two are not far apart, reflecting each other.
Today is not a positive day, and many exquisite and interesting lanterns will not be lit until tomorrow when the Great Wu Clan leads people to enjoy the lanterns.
The two carriages stopped and went along the way, and the Wu family in front of them met the relatives of the eunuchs from time to time, and stopped to say hello to each other.
Jiang Xianyan was in the second grade, and the other party heard that it was the old lady's car behind him, and he usually didn't dare to disturb if he felt that he couldn't get along, so he hurriedly avoided it and let this side go first.
Mrs. Jiang didn't know what to do.
Everyone talked and laughed, and they didn't realize the heart of Santai Street.
The drums just sounded, and it was a day of change.
Firecrackers and drums sounded in unison on the street, and I heard someone shouting not far away: "The light team is coming, the light team is coming." "It was followed by the sound of adults and children running.
Wang 13 lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, only to feel an itch under his buttocks.
At this time, an attendant came over to report: "Old lady, I met the car of the General's Mansion in front of me." (To be continued......)
PS: Late stage of procrastination.