Chapter Thirty-Six: The Wine Putty Who Lost His Money
"Third Master Xu, don't come unharmed!" Desheng dart game, Lu Peng raised his hand to meet Xu Hanyun.
"Master Lu, don't come unharmed." Xu Hanyun walked into the Desheng dart game with two family members carrying a box.
"Xu Sanye, please!" Lu Pengju saw the box behind Xu Hanyun and knew that business came to the door. raised his hand and let Xu Hanyun to the front hall, the two sat down to drink tea, and the box was carried to the backyard.
"Master Lu, the things in this box have to bother you to make a trip." Xu Hanyun took a sip of tea and said slowly. He had long heard that there was a teahouse in the Holy City where he could buy officials, so he wanted to try his luck, but the silver taels he prepared last time were still far behind.
"Or to the Holy City?"
"Yes, it's the same place last time. I have sent someone to deliver a letter in advance, so that Xu Fu is waiting for you in the imperial city. "Xu Hanyun's personal servant Xu Fu went to the Holy City with the Dart Bureau last time, and after buying a house, he temporarily lived in the Holy City.
"Xu Sanye rest assured. Huachen, count! ”
Huachen clenched his fists and left.
"Lord Chen." As soon as Chen Xiao opened his eyes, he heard someone shouting outside the door.
"What's the matter?" Chen Xiao pushed away the woman who was wearing only a red belly pocket in his arms and asked through the door.
"Yesterday, the messengers have counted the official silver in the treasury and the grain in the granary, please take a look."
"Got it. Put it in the study, and I'll be there in a moment. "Chen Xiao doesn't like his current errands very much. Although you are the lord of a city and are called adults, he himself understands that he is a dog raised by Zhang Qingyan.
"Yes." The people outside the door left.
Chen Xiao leaned on the head of the bed in annoyance, he couldn't understand why Zhang Qingyan had to come to Licheng, a place where birds don't, to take office. Since taking office, if he has nothing to do every day, he didn't expect to dig tunnels with the people sent by Zhang Qingyan day and night. It is said that in three years of the Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, but Chen Xiao felt that he might as well go home and farm as an official.
"Master Chen, the Holy City Zhang National Master has sent a letter." Just as he was thinking, the servant's voice was remembered again outside the door. As soon as he heard that it was the Holy City Zhang, Chen Xiao panicked and didn't even wear his pants, jumped out of bed barefoot, and ran to the door.
[Seeing words like faces, Chen Xiao, you can be an official with peace of mind, and it will be of great use later. 】
Chen Xiao looked at the few words on the paper, and didn't feel that the nameless fire started, and tore the letter to shreds it in three or two times, and smashed it to the ground.
"Slow down." Quan Ye took two small servants and stopped at the back door of Mingyue Xuan with a sedan chair. The sedan curtain was opened, and Qiu Tang slowly walked out of the sedan chair, full of pearls and golden hairpins, reflecting the sunshine and dazzling people's eyes.
"Master Quan is hard." The autumn begonia is fluttering, and the jade agate on the waist is tinking.
"Go ahead, we'll pick you up later." Quan Ye handed the pipa to Qiu Tang and left with the little girl.
Under the guidance of the shopkeeper of Mingyue Xuanshen, Qiu Tang entered the teahouse, and before he showed up, he heard the voices of people in the teahouse, so it was not lively. Peeking in, some gold and silver bills of various sizes have been thrown on the table. Qiu Tang helped the golden hairpin in the hair room, stepped onto the stage, and before he walked to Taichung, the originally lively teahouse instantly quieted down. Qiu Tang fluttered and blessed, and the audience applauded, followed by money and things thrown to the stage. Faintly, you can still hear the sound of a few old customers showing off.
"See the golden hairpin on her head? I bought it for her! ”
"Do you see the pair of jade bracelets on her wrist? I bought it for her! ”
"Look at the jade pendant on her waist, I gave it!"
Qiu Tang's eyes were slightly raised, the autumn waves between the two eyes flowed, a smile and an indescribable ten thousand styles, holding the pipa, half covering his face, adding a little shyness. Qiu Tang sat in Taichung, lightly raised the jade wrist, plucked the strings with the slender jade fingers, and lightly opened the red lips, like a spring breeze, the yellow warbler cried spring, soft and tactful, like silk around the fingers.
"Alright, don't listen." Outside the crowd at the entrance of Mingyuexuan, a handlebar type pulled a blind fortune teller.
"Hey, what are you pulling me for?" Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the blind fortune teller knocked off the handlebar-style hand.
"Don't pull you, you're still going to listen to her sing! Have you forgotten the task given by your master? "The handlebar type is not angry and falls on the other party.
"I haven't forgotten, it's never too late to listen to a song and do it again!" The blind fortune teller argued.
"Did you bring a bounty? Just listen! Go to work! "I took a bite of the handlebar.
"Gotta have it, can't I stop listening? What a disappointment! The blind fortune teller rolled his eyes again, took a stick, carried the guise of a half-fairy, and left the teahouse.
"Don't say it, this chick is so pretty." He glanced at the teahouse, muttered, and drove away.
"Ahem...... Mu Lingyu staggered a few steps and coughed up blood.
"Fifth Highness!" The maid who was waiting on the side hurriedly supported Mu Lingyu, who was pale and gasping constantly, "Imperial Doctor! Hurry up and get a doctor! Go and invite the virtuous concubine to come! ”
Someone over there hurriedly ran to the Tai Hospital, and four or five palace people carried Mu Lingyu back to the house, and just put Mu Lingyu on the soft couch, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the palace gate, mixed with Zhang Rou's voice: "What's wrong with Yu'er?" What happened to Yu'er? As the sound got closer, Zhang Rou stumbled into the room.
"Say hello to Concubine Xian." The palace people who were waiting for Mu Lingyu knelt down one after another.
"Get up and tell this palace, what's wrong with this palace's Yu'er?" Zhang Rou was anxious.
"Your Highness, he practiced martial arts in the courtyard, and somehow, he coughed up blood." The little maid who rushed up to support Mu Lingyu was the first to say tremblingly. Mu Lingyu's snow-white clothes, pale face, and dazzling blood made the little maid tremble.
"Tell the saint?"
"The saint went to Yulan Palace after noon, and he didn't ask anyone to follow......" The little guard who came back from the Tai Hospital was panting. He not only went to ask for a doctor, but also went to the imperial study, but learned that the saint had gone to Yulan Palace.
"Yulan Palace......" A trace of resentment flashed in Zhang Rou's eyes.
"Autumn Begonia girl walks slowly", an hour of time passed quickly. Shen Mishi, the proprietress of the teahouse, sent Qiu Tang out of the back door of the teahouse. Since Qiu Tang sang here, the income of the teahouse rolled up. In the words of Shopkeeper Shen, that is, you can wake up with a smile when you dream.
The pipa was handed to the little servant, the gold-painted box was handed over to the right master, and Qiu Tang Wanfu said goodbye to Shen Mi's family, got on the sedan chair and left.
Before he came to the stage just now, Qiu Tang heard someone talking about Zhang Bang's search. Qiu Tang raised his hand and touched the iris on his head, and the young man in a white robe involuntarily appeared in front of him again. In a white robe, he wears white, and he should be a person of status. As long as you have a fleur-de-tail, you are safe. At this time, Qiu Tang had already vaguely felt that Mother Xu might have known that the person in the portrait was herself.
"Master Zhang, is our bounty too small? Why didn't anyone come? "After waiting for one night and one morning, some of the family members couldn't sit still.
"So, you go, you go and change the bounty to twenty taels of silver." Zhang An groaned. It doesn't matter how much the bounty is written, anyway, as long as it comes, it will be a crime of harboring and hiding the daughter of a criminal minister.
"Master Zhang, Lord Xue sent someone to ask, what do you want to eat today." The curtain was lifted, and a servant entered.
"Let's order vegetables from Hui Ze Garden." Zhang An felt that Hui Zeyuan's cooking skills were not bad, similar to what he ate in Xiangye's mansion.
"Twenty taels...... Twenty taels! A drunken man in the tavern muttered.
"Shopkeeper, why did this man drink like this again?" The tavern boy glanced at the drunken man with disgust, and complained to the tavern keeper.
"Forget it, let him go, remember to wait for him to wake up later, just collect the wine money." The shopkeeper glanced at the drunk man in the corner, thinking that more is better than less, the emperor doesn't fight with the drunk, forget it, let's talk about it when he wakes up, anyway, it's not once or twice.
"Shopkeeper, come two taels of wine and two side dishes." As he spoke, two men dressed as vendors entered the tavern.
"Here we go!" Seeing the guests coming, the tavern hurriedly greeted the two of them to sit down, "The two masters sit down for a while, and the wine and food will come immediately." ”
"Hey, don't drink, I have to investigate the situation in the afternoon, and if I am found by the master again, I will be scolded again." One of them looked left and right and said in a low voice.
"I'm afraid of a fart! When did Lao Tzu do such a drudgery, and he was so tired that his heels hurt, and he couldn't drink two sips?" The other took a sip and whined.
"That's what I said, it's all that Chen Xiao, if it weren't for his bad work, we wouldn't be pretending to be like this, and we're tired like a dog to wipe his ass and clean up the mess." While talking, the wine and food were served, "Come on, come on, don't care what task he has, let's talk about it when he's full first." With that, the two picked up chopsticks and stuffed them up.
"Little two! Another jug of wine! The drunk man in the corner yelled inarticulately.
"Master, don't drink it." Xiao Er saw that the drunk man was a little sober, so he wanted to ask for the wine money first.
"Fuck off! Lao Tzu is not happy in his heart, and he can't drink! The drunkard swept the empty flask on the table to the ground and smashed it.
"It's okay, it's okay, I've drunk too much." Seeing the drunken man splashing, Xiao Er hurriedly turned around and laughed to appease the diners in the store.
"I tell you! Although Lao Tzu lost twenty taels of silver, Lao Tzu still has the money to drink! Bring the wine! The drunk slapped the table and yelled.
Xiao Er had no choice but to bring him another pot of wine. When the drunkard saw the wine, he picked up the flask, mouth-to-mouth, and the water flowed for a long time. The stimulation of the taste buds of the drink made him forget about a troublesome thing for a while.
"Little Er, you come." The man who drank wine and ate meat stopped the young man.
"Master, you say." Xiao Er knew that although these two looked like inferior people in their clothes, they had always been generous and not ordinary people, so he accompanied him with a smile.
"What did he say twenty taels?" The drunkard's words caught the attention of the two.