Chapter 22 The poor can't open the pot

early morning

Jiang Guantong was in a daze, only feeling that his eyes were covered by something, he got up from the bed and reached out to touch it, but a strip of cloth was still wrapped around his head. Jiang Guantong ripped the strip of cloth off his head, touched something like ointment, and then handed the strip of cloth to his nose and sniffed it with his nose, it was the smell of chrysanthemums and the bottle of dendrobium fairy given by Aunt Dai Jin before, Jiang Guantong suddenly had mixed feelings in his heart.

It was Ji Fan, who gave her medicine to her eyes after she fell asleep last night, Jiang Guantong's hand holding the cloth tightened, and he said to himself, "Ji Fan, who has different hearts, isn't he angry, why did he come to secretly give me medicine in the middle of the night?"

Jiang Guantong fumbled up, washed the cloth strips in the basin, and carefully placed the cloth strips neatly under the pillow. It seemed that he felt that something was wrong, so he pulled out the strip of cloth from under the pillow again, pinched it in his hand and groped for the direction of the door, to find Ji Fan to ask for clarification.

As soon as I went out, I happened to meet Mama Wang and Xiaoxiao, some time ago Mama Wang returned to her hometown, Ji Fan was afraid that she was old and her legs and feet were inconvenient, so she wanted to find a female dependent to accompany her, but there were few female dependents in Chenfu, so Jiang Guantong asked Xiaoxiao to accompany Mama Wang to take care of her on the road.

As soon as Xiaoxiao saw Jiang Guantong open the door, he immediately ran forward and said, "Princess, Grandma and I are back."

When Jiang Guantong heard the voice, he happily took Xiaoxiao's hand, "Xiaoxiao, Mama, you are back"

"I was originally back yesterday, but you weren't in the palace and moved here, so we asked Lixia to bring us over early this morning," Xiaoxiao said.

"Princess, this place is really beautiful, it's better than King Chen's mansion."

"Yes, I heard that the houses in this Yahou are only bought by rich businessmen, and among all the houses, this Zhuoran House is the most luxurious," Jiang Guantong explained.

"That's right, this is a sixteenth birthday gift from His Highness's uncle. His Royal Highness's uncle is the richest merchant in the south, and the things he sends are inevitably more expensive," Mama Wang explained.

"I see, I don't think Ji Fan is the kind of person who is extravagant and greedy for pleasure," Jiang Guantong said.

"Yes, so His Royal Highness has never moved here to live, but for some reason he actually moved here in the past two days" Mama Wang wondered.

Jiang Guantong smiled, "The reason why we moved here is because we have important things to investigate, and it is inconvenient to go back to the palace, so we moved here."

Mama Wang nodded understandingly, and then took out the embroidered purse from the burden she was carrying and handed it to Jiang Guantong to speak

"Princess, the purse you ordered the old slave to embroider has been embroidered, and you are still satisfied with it."

The purse has fine stitches, and the white purse is inlaid with gold edges, which looks very pleasing to the eye.

Jiang Guantong stretched out his hand to take the purse and touched it, and said, "I am naturally satisfied with what Mama did."

"Wow, Mama, this purse you embroidered is so beautiful" smiled and answered.

Jiang Guantong instructed Xiaoxiao to put away the purse, and said that after returning to the palace, he would fill it with spices and give it to Ji Fan.

Seeing that Jiang Guantong had been standing outside for a long time, Mama Wang smiled and helped Jiang Guantong to leave.

But I heard Ji Zheng's voice coming, "Guan Tong, why did you get up so early?"

When Mama Xiaoxiao heard this, she saw Ji Zheng rubbing her sleepy eyes and standing in front of the door.

"I've just gotten up," Jiang Guantong said.

"Since the two princesses are up, the old slave will go and see if breakfast is ready," Mama Wang said.

"Okay," Ji Zheng said without thinking.

Suddenly, a clever person remembered that Ji Fan punished them for not eating, and then immediately stopped Mama Wang, who was about to leave

"Mama, Mama, wait a minute"

Mama Wang turned around, "What else does the princess have to say?"

Ji Zheng scratched his head in embarrassment, and said embarrassedly, "That, that doesn't have to go, even if the breakfast is ready, we don't dare to eat it."

Smiling, Mama Wang didn't understand why Ji Zheng would say that.

Then Ji Zheng explained, "We made a mistake yesterday, which made the emperor's brother very angry, and he punished us for not eating"

Then the aggrieved pout, ran to Mama Wang's hand, and said aggrievedly, "Guan Tong and I are about to starve to death, Mama, you have to save us"

Jiang Guantong took out the strip of cloth in his hand, "But last night he ran to my room to give me eye medicine while I was asleep, maybe he won't be angry with us anymore."

"What are you talking about, what are you angry or not?" a familiar voice came from the direction of the courtyard gate.

Ji Zheng looked up and saw that it was Jinran.

Then he immediately ran to Jinran. looked at Jin Ran back and forth.

Jin Ran looked at Ji Zheng's eyes and spoke

"Why, you miss me like this when you don't see me for a day"

"Who misses you, you come to the emperor's mansion, no matter how you say it, you have to bring some greeting gifts, what kind of snacks from the crispy building, didn't you bring the fruits in the West Market?"

Jin Ran shook his hand, and his sleeves were breezy.

Looking at Ji Zheng's anxious eyes, he spoke

"Why, have you spent all the belongings of King Chen's Mansion in order to buy this Zhuo Ranshe, can't you even afford fruits and snacks now, and you can't open the pot even if you are poor?"

Ji Zheng said impatiently, "If you want to come to Zhuo Ranshe, you must bring fruit snacks, otherwise you will not be allowed to enter, and get out of this princess."

"Okay, Zheng'er, in case he was called by Ji Fan, if he really drove him away, we might be even more miserable" Jiang Guantong spoke.

Jin Ran stepped forward and said to Jiang Guantong, "Princess Guan Tong is clever, I was indeed called by His Royal Highness, I haven't seen you for a few days, the princess is still so smart, not to lose the past."

Jiang Guantong smiled and did not speak.

Then I only heard Jin Ran commanding the little guy behind him

"Go, buy some snacks in the crispy building, buy some fruits in the west market and send them to the two princesses"

Then he turned to Ji Zheng, and Jiang Guantong said, "What else do you want to eat?"

Hearing this, Ji Zheng and Jiang Guantong all looked at Jin Ran with grateful eyes.

Ji Zheng, "I really didn't mistake you Jinran, you are really a good person" After speaking, he raised his hand and patted Jinran's shoulder.

Jiang Guantong "Jinran, I also apologize to you for beating you that night and poisoning you, you are really a living Bodhisattva in the world."

Jin Ran was stunned, when did these two people actually change their sex, and they would say these things to him. Then he said in disbelief, "No, are you really too poor to open the pot?"

Ji Zheng pursed his mouth and did not speak.

"Almost, anyway, Zheng'er and I are really hungry, and everyone else is fine, like Ji Fan, they are all big fish and meat, and they eat fragrant and spicy food" Jiang Guantong said pitifully.

"It's impossible, no matter how stingy Ji Fan is, it's impossible not to let you eat," Jin Ran said to himself.

Jiang Guantong and Ji Zheng laughed when they heard it, although they were laughing, it was indeed more ugly than crying.

Then Lixia walked from the gate of the courtyard to the crowd and leaned over to everyone, and then spoke

"Jin Gongzi, His Royal Highness said that if you talk to the two princesses here again, he will let you continue to be grounded"

"Ah, I forgot about Ji Fan when I patronized and chatted with you."

Then he added, "I took back what I just said, I made him anxious, he really did everything" and then waved his hand at the two of them and walked towards Ji Fan's courtyard.

After Jin Ran left, Ji Zheng spoke

"I finally have something to eat, I just hope that little guy will come back soon"

Then Xiaoxiao stepped forward with Jiang Guantong, and Ji Zheng whispered

"Princess, don't move here first, I'll go and steal some with Mama to pad your stomach first."

When Jiang Guantong heard it, sure enough, there are still many kind-hearted people in the world, "It's funny and funny, I know that you are a living Bodhisattva in the world, you are really a good person"

"Princess, you have already said this to Jin Gongzi just now, don't be so perfunctory," said with a smile.

"Alas, where the heart goes, from the bottom of my heart, go and get a snack" Jiang Guantong said.

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The front hall of the Joy House.

Jin Ran looked at Ji Fan, who was sitting expressionlessly on the main seat, and then spoke hard

"Your Highness, I checked the relationship between all the girls and guests in Youxiang Pavilion, and there are a lot of private gifts with officialdom, but they are all excluded one by one, but I think it is very suspicious that Mo Qingqing, the top brand of Youxiang Pavilion, is good-looking, do you guess who this old man Mo Qingqing is?"

"Could it be that you Jinran" Ji Fan said solemnly.

Jin Ran was blinded and said, "Your Highness, what are you kidding, this is not funny at all."

"Then you ask the king what he does, and if he guesses it, what use do you want it to do?" Ji Fan's tone was normal.

Jin Ran was dumbfounded, he really shouldn't be acting in front of Ji Fan

"This Mo Qingqing's good friend is Gu Ning, the deputy envoy of the Salt Division"

Hearing this, the expression on Ji Fan's face finally changed significantly. Raised his head and looked at Jin Ran's rather interested opening, "Oh, Gu Ning"

"It is said that Ning has to go to Youxiang Pavilion every three days to find Mo Qingqing, for Mo Qingqing, Gu Ning even paid a high price to let her not pick up customers at other times, in general, Mo Qingqing is just like the beautiful girl Gu Ning hid in Youxiang Pavilion, how much silver can be obtained if the head card of Youxiang Pavilion does not accept customers" Jin Ran touched his chin and speculated.

"The deputy envoy of the Salt Division is the official residence of the sixth grade, as far as you say so, it is impossible to act so generously according to the six grade officials, how is this Gu Ning's background" Ji Fan asked.

"This is the suspicious place, Gu Ning is from a poor family, so it is impossible for him to have so much money to come to Youxiang Pavilion for pleasure," Jing Ran replied.

"So I dare to conclude that stealing illegal salt is absolutely inseparable from him," Jin Ran continued.

"It's just that he is a sixth-grade official, from a poor family, and he didn't rely on wanting to do such a big deal, it is impossible to rely on him alone, and he must have a bigger backer behind him" Ji Ran analyzed.

Then he said to Jin Ran, "Continue to investigate and see who he usually has close contact with."

Jin Ran clenched his fists towards Ji Fan and said, "Well, obey His Highness's instructions"

"By the way, in a few days, it's almost time for us to go to Xiuyuan, and the investigation of this matter must find out the real culprit behind the scenes before we return to Xiuyuan, I'm afraid it will change later."

"Okay" Jin Ran opened his mouth cheerfully.

"That's it, Your Highness, I originally wanted to go and investigate the residence of Mo Qingqing in the Youxiang Pavilion last night, but the courtyard where she lives is a separate courtyard in the backyard of the Youxiang Pavilion, and there is a special person to handle it, it is very tight, or if you go with me tonight, I will lead the guards away, and you can sneak in and investigate" Jin Ran added.

"Yes, don't let Jiang Guantong and Zheng'er know, they love to have fun, if you know that you and I will visit Youxiang Pavilion at night, maybe you will play tricks and follow" Ji Fan spoke.

"No problem, then tonight, see you on the roof of the Youxiang Pavilion" Jin Ran said goodbye.

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