There was a hint of embarrassment on Li Gai's face.

Lin Shan, who saw this scene, only felt surprised, but he didn't ask directly, but just muttered in his heart: When did the second brother have such a cowardly posture on his face as today?

Li Gai saw that although Lin Shan waited for a while, he didn't ask, but he put down his chopsticks and looked at himself, which was already equivalent to asking. Pouring the remaining half bowl of wine into his throat in one gulp, Li Gai exhaled lightly and shook his head: "It's nothing, it's small and miscellaneous, let's wait until you're busy with tomorrow's things and I'll tell you." ”

"It's small and miscellaneous." Lin Shan put some food in his bowl and said casually: "Could it be that you have a crush on a girl and want me to write you a beautiful letter of appointment?" ”

"How do you have that thought?" Li Gai refuted a sentence and then turned to ridicule: "If you want to belittle my ink rhyme level, you don't have to find this reason!" ”

"You didn't deny what I said." Lin Shan raised his eyes to look at Li Gai and said with a smile: "Calculate it, the second brother is fifty years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, and he is the commander of the Kyoto garrison, and he is no longer the shadow who only cares about the safety of one person before, and it is normal to marry a wife." If you still make an order, the eldest brother should be in a hurry. ”

"You're still talking about getting high!" Li Gai was helpless with a little restlessness, picked up two slices of garlic cabbage and smashed them into the bowl held by Lin Shan, and said: "Eat more greens, you can be light and clear." ”

Lin Shan couldn't help but smile, and then continued to eat.

And just as Li Gai lifted the wine jar placed at his feet and poured himself a full bowl of wine, before he could stabilize the wine jar, he heard a noisy sound from the direction of the street outside the private room. Li Gai's current position is in charge of Kyoto's security, but with his rank, these trivial disputes in the market are naturally handled by corresponding officials. He doesn't need to pay attention to it himself. But seeing that the incident happened in front of him, and his fierce Cheng dù couldn't even stop the private room with excellent soundproofing in Xianhe Restaurant, so he could only learn about it by the way.

Li Gai got up and walked to the wall facing the street, stretched out his hand to push open the double-layer built-in sliding window, and the noise outside seemed a little harsh, and the noise that exuded mania also broke into the private room.

"Come and see! They all came to judge, their donkeys trampled on my things, and they played a temper with me without compensation. You say, where is there such a domineering reason! ”

"Maybe that person is new here and doesn't know the rules of Kyoto, right?"

"I don't know if I can forgive it, but if the livestock I brought got into trouble, I still have to compensate!"

"Oh, how can you be so domineering? If they are all in such a mess, won't it be difficult to ensure the safety of the goods on the stall in the future? These are the lives of businessmen! ”

"Be careful to speak, notice that the man is carrying an entourage? Maybe it's the guest of honor invited by an adult! ”

"Who's a VIP. You can't openly disobey the edict of the Son of Heaven, right? ”

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It's getting late, and there can be such a big commotion outside, it seems that this mess is not small. Lin Shan patiently ate the remaining half of the bowl of rice and put down the dishes and chopsticks, he also left the table, walked to Li Gai's side and looked out the window, and asked casually: "What's wrong?" ”

Li Gai raised his hand and waved it. Said indifferently: "Kyoto ban, the urban area, especially the two major business districts, it is strictly forbidden to run wildly, and now it is the donkey who leads the donkey to break into other people's shops, and is making a claim!" Money-related matters are not a big deal, and someone will take care of them. ”

Lin Shan pressed his hand on the edge of the window, looked at the crowd intently, and said slowly: "The shopkeeper made such a noise. I'm afraid it's not just for money! ”

His voice had just fallen. Outside the crowd, two people who looked like family members walked quickly, and it seemed that the situation was the person on the side of the donkey.

One of the two family members, who had a slightly fat face and a kinder demeanor, looked at the cloth shopkeeper who was holding the donkey rope and looked angry, first smiled and apologized, and then said gently: "This shop that was kicked by a naughty donkey belongs to Your Excellency?" ”

A person with a pleasing appearance and eyebrows. If it weren't for truth and kindness, then it would be very likely that he would be the most damaging person, not to mention that this fat-faced family member obviously came from a good background.

The shopkeeper who was pulling the donkey rope listened to the other party's questioning words, and looked at the face that was smiling kindly, and the momentum of his shouting just now was like a fist hitting the cotton, and the force dropped inexplicably. The shopkeeper fixed his mind and said, "It's down here, who are you?" Can you call the shots for him? ”

The shopkeeper was referring to the young man standing by the donkey. The young man looked to be twenty-five or sixteen years old, with ordinary eyebrows and ordinary clothes. He was not ashamed that his donkey had kicked over someone else's shop, nor was he agitated by the shopkeeper's entanglement and oppressive momentum, but stood calmly and calmly, almost ignoring the fire of the shopkeeper's anger burning all around, as if it had nothing to do with him.

However, when the shopkeeper mentioned him vaguely, the round-faced man arched his hand at him with respect in his eyes, and then turned his face to look at the shopkeeper, took out a brocade bag from his sleeve and held it out, and said very gently: "Don't worry about the shopkeeper, I also know that it is not easy to do business, and I usually earn small profits from getting up early and staying late, and it will take several days to recover the loss at all." No, as soon as my subordinates returned home and told me what had happened, I brought the money for compensation. There are enough ten taels of silver in this bag, you can order it yourself, forget about today's matter, and I will compensate you on behalf of my guests. ”

The shopkeeper hesitated, then let go of the rope leading the donkey, and reached out to take the money bag. He opened the elastic rope at the mouth of the bag and looked at it carefully, then tightened the rope mouth, and said with a bit of a marketplace on the money bag: "Wouldn't it be good if this was done earlier?" But ah, if you had paid me ten taels of silver just now, maybe things would have been so even, and I wouldn't even have time to count how much I lost. But it's just that you have dragged me for so long, so that the guys in my store have time to count, how can ten taels be enough! You look at this, look at this, look at this......"

The shopkeeper began to reach out and make a mess of his stalls where his goods were staggered.

In the crowd of onlookers next to me, I don't know if there are really people who know how to do it, or the kind of people who are good at making trouble, but in short, one or two voices came in, unconsciously contributing to the things that were about to subside.

"Hey, looking at the price of those goods, all up, ten taels of silver is really not enough to lose."

"Look carefully, the threshold has been trampled, and it will take some time to repair this and bring lacquer, and it will delay the livelihood, and it will indeed cost you more."

The words of the people who were watching the excitement came to the ears of the unconvinced shopkeeper, and he only felt that it was very useful, and his confidence was greater again. Of course, the five people on the side of the trouble also heard these words, but except for the donkey owner who was still calm and speechless, the other three did not speak, although their eyes were a little unkind, and they seemed to be waiting for the meaning of the round-faced family.

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in the eyes of the round-faced family, and soon he was covered by a smile that seemed to grow on his face and would not disappear and change, and he still asked in an extremely gentle tone: "Then may I ask, how much do you think the compensation is appropriate?" ”

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"That man's appetite isn't small." In the private room on the third floor of Xianhe Restaurant, Li Gai stood by the window and watched the farce downstairs ossify to this point, and suddenly opened his mouth with irony: "This kind of thing, if it happens to an honest person, maybe it can be a little money, but it's a pity that it meets the biggest thorn in Kyoto." ”

Li Gai thought that Lin Shan, who was standing on the side, would take over the conversation, but when he finished speaking, he didn't hear a response for a while. He couldn't help but wonder a little, withdrew his gaze from downstairs, and when he turned his head, he saw Lin Shan's slightly fixed gaze.

"What's wrong?" Li Gai reached out and grabbed Lin Shan's shoulder.

"What......" Lin Shan suddenly turned around, his eyes froze and he said, "What did you just say?" ”

"The thorns are the two housekeepers from behind." Li Gai stared at Lin Shan's somewhat discolored face, although he had doubts in his heart, he was still patiently explaining: "I have a little impression of those two people, they are from the Prime Minister's Mansion." The three sons of the prime minister's family like to make friends, and the prime minister's house raises a lot of diners, and there are inevitably people with uneven character, and they are not from the same place, and they occasionally violate the Kyoto system. In this way, the other three are also from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the one leading the donkey is estimated to be one of the diners. ”

"Oh......" Lin Shan's throat made a muffled voice, and the expression in his eyes was a little complicated, stunned, puzzled, and surprised...... All kinds of feelings are mixed together, and the relaxed and laughing appearance just now suddenly changed.

Li Gai pondered for a moment and then asked softly, "Could it be that you have met an old man?" ”

In fact, the old man who can make Lin Shan change color, Li Gai thinks that he also knows, but he is not sure what happened to Lin Shan in the ten years since he left Beijing. And looking at Lin Shan's expression now, it didn't seem to be very pleasant, and he was also a little worried.

"The man leading the donkey seems to be my junior brother, I have mentioned him to you before, but you have never seen him." Lin Shan was stunned, and after thinking about it for a while, he said: "Before I left Master's cottage, my junior brother went down the mountain to travel, and I didn't get together with him for more time than I left Beijing, and I don't know if I confessed my mistake." ”

"How could it be him?" After listening to Lin Shan's explanation, Li Gai also became surprised, and he suddenly understood why Lin Shan's expression had changed so much just now.

The junior brother he hasn't seen for many years has actually become a diner in the Prime Minister's Mansion! You must know that the current prime minister is also the prime minister who served in the previous dynasty for nearly 12 years, and the emperor's current attitude towards the remnants of the previous dynasty has been tended. It's okay if the prime minister has nothing to do, but if there is something, how should Lin Shan face it?

Li Gai saw that Lin Shan didn't speak again, and he just wondered in his heart whether to go downstairs with him to see clearly, at least whether to determine it first before he could plan a countermeasure. It's just that as soon as he thought about this, the business downstairs that was pressed and sorrowful came out:

"Fifty taels! Are you going to go over the beaten path? ”。 (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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