Qiu Tang endured the pain from the tips of his fingers, finished singing, shook off his sleeves, covered the blood stains on the pipa, and got up. The ring, necklace, hairpin, crackled and fell behind him.

"I'll leave the rest of the time to you." Qiu Tang whispered as he passed by Wan Tong's side. Wan Tong seemed to have won a big bargain, and hurriedly ran onto the stage with the corner of her skirt.

"Hostess, can I ask you for a cup of tea?" Qiu Tang smiled slightly.

"Miss Qiutang, what's wrong?" The proprietress Shen Mishi saw the blood stains under her sleeves and hurriedly asked. Qiu Tang's current worth can't afford to be neglected.

"Don't worry, I also bothered the proprietress to give me a glass of clean water, so that I could wipe the blood stains on the pipa." Qiu Tang broke free from the boss's hand, pulled the sleeve and covered his fingers.

"Go, quietly go to the Rejuvenation Hall and invite Shao Lang." Shen Mishi stopped a young man in the shop, and when the young man heard this, he hurriedly slipped out of the back door of the teahouse, "Come, Miss Qiutang, come here and sit down for a while, I'll go and serve water." The proprietress helped Qiu Tang and sat down on a chair in the corner.

"Thank you, lady."

"Doctor Si, don't come unharmed." Shao Lang had just come out of the Rejuvenation Hall with the young man in the teahouse, Xue Bowen and Luan Puan stepped into the Rejuvenation Hall, and at a glance they saw Si Duhan drinking tea in the sun in the corner.

"City Lord Xue is here, but there is something at home?" Hearing Xue Bowen's voice, Si Duhan hurriedly stood up.

"You sit, you sit." Seeing Si Duhan trembling and standing up, Xue Bowen hurriedly helped Si Duhan to sit down, "It's nothing else, isn't this an inventory of the granary, I found that the granary was troubled, I want to ask you for some Hedinghong, go back to medicine mice." ”

"Lingcheng hasn't had a rat in years. The city lord, you sit down for a while, I will go to the warehouse to look for it, see if there is anything else, if not, I will ask the city lord to forgive me a few days, and I will let the apprentice go to buy some goods. Si Duhan got up with a smile and walked to the backyard.

"Okay, I'm sorry for the doctor." Xue Bowen seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"City Lord, it's really unfortunate, this crane top red can't be used all year round, and I haven't checked it all the time, there is only this little bit of foam left, and it is estimated that there is no medicinal effect, or the city lord will wait for two days? I can help the lord find a cat to send first. "Si Duhan stayed in the backyard for a while and then came back.

"Don't be in a hurry, in this case, then I'll wait for two more days, no hurry, no hurry." Xue Bowen politely rejected Si Duhan's kindness to send the cat, handed Luan Puan a look, and the two left the Rejuvenation Hall.

"The city lord is easy to go." Si Duhan sent his hand to the door, looking at the backs of the two of them in the distance, Si Duhan sighed, turned around and went back to the house, and gently closed the door, "Alas, it's time to come, it's still here." ”

Leaving the Rejuvenation Hall, Xue Bowen's heart gradually stabilized, he sat down at a tea stall on the side of the road, asked for two bowls of herbal tea, drank it in one go, calmed down his emotions, pulled Luan Pu'an, looked around, and whispered: "Pu'an, you tell me the truth, this Hedinghong is really what Zhang An wants?"

"City Lord, when did your subordinates tell you a lie?" Luan Pu'an looked around and responded in a low voice.

"Did he say what he was going to do?" Xue Bowen's palms were about to sweat.

"Nope." Luan Pu'an licked his lips, "He only said that there seem to be rats in the house, but city lord, you know, there are two or three raccoon flowers in our house, where there may be mice, this is obviously to be used for other things." ”

"Pu'an, you are like this, you go to Huize Garden to ask for a table of banquets, send them to the small courtyard where Fei'er lives, invite Zhang An to the small courtyard alone at night, and the rest of the people are not allowed to come." Xue Bowen thought about it again and again, but decided to find a way to come up with Zhang An's plan, if something happened to Lingcheng, it was not Zhang An who was beheaded by the saint, but Xue Bowen. When Zhang An came, he only said that he was looking for someone, but he asked him for a red crane in the past two days, and he had to guard against it.

"Done?" Zhang Wan asked softly in the hammock. In the hammock, Mu Lingchen had just fallen asleep.

"Don't worry, mother." Qingxing said in a low voice.

"Okay." Zhang Wan closed her eyes lightly and let out a long sigh, "What about the eleventh prince?" ”

"I heard that he is still in solitary confinement." Qingxing helped Zhang Wan up from the hammock and walked towards the soft couch.

"Take something, go and beg You Dexing, and let You Dexing arrange someone to take care of Yi'er." After Zhang Wan finished speaking, she leaned on the soft pillow and fell asleep.

"Let me go out......" Mu Lingyi tapped on the palace door. He couldn't understand why his father suddenly imprisoned him, he wanted to go out and see Mu Jianyu.

"Eleventh Prince, don't shout. We can't help it......" The guards guarding the palace gate persuaded in a low voice, "Gonggong You, why are you here." Before the guard finished speaking, he saw a person stop in front of him, and looked up on his tiptoes, You Dexing's expressionless face came into view, and the guard was so frightened that he couldn't speak.

"What are you talking about?" You Dexing asked coldly with half-squinted eyes.

"The prince wants to come out, and I'm persuading him here." The guard laughed.

"He's the prince, you're a guard, why are you so big and small." You Dexing glared at the guards and said, "Open the door, I'll go in and take a look." ”

"Father-in-law You!" Mu Lingyi grabbed You Dexing's hand as if he had seen a savior.

"Miscellaneous family greetings to His Highness Eleven." You Dexing broke free from Mu Lingyi and knelt down to say goodbye.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Mu Lingyi hurriedly pulled You Dexing up, "Father-in-law You, but my father asked you to come?" Why is that? Mu Lingyi has a lot of things to ask at this time, since he can't see his father, You Dexing, who has been serving his father all the year round, may know something.

"Your Highness Eleven, let's go into the house and talk." You Dexing led Mu Lingyi to the house, and by the way, he waved his hand and signaled the little eunuch who came with him to close the palace door.

"His Highness Eleven has suffered." As soon as he entered the house, You Dexing knelt in front of Mu Lingyi again. Mu Lingyi is the son of the late imperial concubine Zhang Rou, Zhang Rou took good care of herself before her death, and now Zhang Wan also takes care of herself, and even bought herself a house outside and bought two women. You Dexing is naturally more kind to Mu Lingyi.

"Father-in-law You, please get up." Mu Lingyi hurriedly helped You Dexing up. You Dexing is a person next to his father, and he doesn't want to accept such a big gift.

"Your Highness, you live here with peace of mind, what do you need to tell the guards, it's chaotic outside, Xiao Guifei is desperately trying to protect you, you must not let down Xiao Guifei's hard work." There was something hinting in You Dexing's words, "Here are a few clothes and a few boxes of pastries brought to you by Concubine Xiao Guifei's miscellaneous family, you can put them away." It was inconvenient for the miscellaneous family to stay for a long time, so they retired first. Your Highness, take care. After saying that, You Dexing put the two boxes on the table and left in a hurry.

"Master Zhang, come on, come on, have another drink!" Xue Bowen ordered Fei'er to fill Zhang An with wine again. The best daughter Hong has already drunk three jars, and both of them are a little drunk.

Zhang An didn't shirk either, picked up the wine glass, tilted his neck, and purred, the color on his face turned a little redder.

"Master Zhang has a good amount of wine, full of it." Xue Bowen asked Fei'er to fill the wine again, "Master Zhang, let's just be in this room today, don't be restrained, let go and drink." ”

"Hiccup! I'm getting more and more fond of you! Zhang An burped drunkenly, stretched out his arm and climbed onto Xue Bowen's shoulder.

"Oh, it's all old men, I saw that you haven't gone out of the door for a few days, and you have less food, and I heard the servant say that you are still walking around the garden in the middle of the night and not sleeping, I think there must be something troublesome, so I want to ask you to drink some wine and relax." Xue Bowen picked up the wine glass and touched Zhang An lightly, and drank it.

"Annoyance? Hehe......" Zhang An drank the wine and sneered, "Can I not be annoyed, I work hard for others, and I don't know if it's worth selling ......?"

"In the same way, since we are courtiers, then we should share the worries and solve problems for the Lord." Xue Bowen snorted haha.

"Oh, if he is really the Lord, then I will never give up! But he has obviously been dismissed from the official position, and he still holds the official shelf, pushing all the dirty things to me to do. With that, Zhang An took another drink.

"You mean Zhang Guoshi......" Xue Bowen was shocked.

"National teacher? Not anymore! Zhang An looked contemptuous.

"Since it's not, what's the dirty? Could it be that you will be asked to wash the bucket for him? Xue Bowen said with a smile.

"If it's really a bucket wash, it's fine, at least you won't go to hell because you wash a bucket." There is a cup of belly between words.

"Why are you still going to hell? Master Zhang, you are blessed and will not go to hell. Xue Bowen's brows gradually tightened together.

"No matter how much virtue my ancestors accumulate, it can't offset my sin of slaughtering the city for others......" Zhang An may have really drunk too much, and before he finished speaking, he slipped under the table and fell unconscious.

"Master Zhang, what did you say?" Xue Bowen hurriedly shook Zhang An, "Slaughter the city? You just said slaughtering the city? But no matter how much Xue Bowen shook it, Zhang An didn't say anything, only the earth-shattering snoring and the smell of alcohol responded.

"Fei'er, take this dress and let the girls wash it." Xue Bowen took off his clothes, which were soaked in wine, and handed them to Fei'er.

"Pu'an, you come in." Seeing Fei'er walking away, Xue Bowen opened the door and called Luan Pu'an, who had been guarding the door, in.

"Mother Xu, it's early." Early in the morning, Shen Mi, the proprietress of Mingyue Xuan, stepped into the door of Linglong Pavilion.

"Please, in the hostess's house." Mother Xu raised her hand and led Shen Mishi to the front hall. Seeing that Shen Mishi was followed by four young men, carrying two red lacquer boxes, Mother Xu knew the purpose of Shen Mi's trip, "Pearl, tea." ”

"Mother Xu, count it." Shen Mishi was not polite, and directly ordered the young men to open the box.

"Hey," Xu's mother snorted, only glanced at the white silver in the box, and covered the box with her hand, "The proprietress of Mingyue Xuan, can you still miss my silver?" Come on, come on, come in and sit down, I'll go and let Wantong clean up, and let her go with you now. As he spoke, he motioned to the rough maid to take the young man to carry the box to the backyard and side room.

"Then there's Lao Xu's mother." Shen Mishi took the tea handed by the pearl and took a sip.

"It should." Mother Xu responded with a smile and motioned for Pearl to go to the small courtyard where the girls lived to invite Wantong to come.

After a while, Wan Tong carried a box and followed the pearl to the front hall. Mother Xu took the box and opened it casually: "Boss, you know, the girl who went out of our Linglong Pavilion can only take away the jewelry that she dresses up on weekdays, and when Wantong went to Mingyuexuan to sing music that day, you also said that all the jewelry you got belongs to my Linglong Pavilion, but after all, you spent five hundred taels of silver, no matter what, I don't want our girl Su Su to go out of Linglong Pavilion quietly, this will also slap me in the face, let people say that my Mother Xu is stingy, let Wantong take away this small box of jewelry."

"In this case, I will thank Mother Xu." Shen Mi's shallow and blessed road.

Looking at the backs of Shen Mi and Wan Tong in the distance, Pearl leaned in Xu's mother's ear and whispered: "Mom, Qiu Tang asked me to ask you if you are busy at this time, she seems to have something to tell you."

"What? She wants to make trouble too? "Just sent away a Wantong who doesn't know the height of the sky, Xu's mother is in a very bad mood now, and she only feels a nameless fire rushing to her head.

"Begonia won't. Maybe I just guessed that Wan Tong was going to Mingyue Xuan, and I wanted to say hello to you and show my loyalty. Pearl reassured.

"She's really as clever as ever." Mother Xu sneered, "Then you let her come over, it just so happens that I also have something to talk to her." ”