Chapter 40: First Encounter with He Hu
Yulong found a small inn, not too far from the Imperial History Mansion, only one street, the shopkeeper was a middle-aged woman, and when she saw Chu Lingke, she was also full of praise and said that she would introduce her second uncle's daughter to him. Chu Lingke looked at Yulong and smiled helplessly and pushed him out, "Thank you for your kindness, but Chu already has a family and has a bad temper, if you marry the daughter of your second uncle's family, you will definitely be bullied by her." It just so happens that Chu's little brother is still alone now, if you don't dislike it, you can introduce him to him? ”
The female shopkeeper hid her face, nodded with satisfaction, stepped forward and patted Yulong's shoulder twice, and said, "Although not as handsome as this little Langjun, he is quite strong!" Not bad! ”
Yulong looked at Chu Lingke and wanted to cry without tears, what kind of trouble is this? When did he marry a family? Neiko has a bad temper, and I don't see that Shizi would bluff people like this! Looking at the female shopkeeper in front of him, Yulong motioned Chu Lingke to help with his eyes! Otherwise, he would have really been married by the daughter of Raushzi's second uncle's family! Then he thought about it, phew! What does it mean that he was married by the daughter of the second uncle's family! It's all because Shizi likes to make jokes about him on weekdays, otherwise how could he remember this kind of joke so clearly!
"Hehe, the shopkeeper should open a room for us, first settle our brother and then talk about being a matchmaker, my brother will definitely not run, you can rest assured!"
The female shopkeeper nodded again and again, turned around and went back to get a key, and then walked with them to the backyard, Yuan Qingshu was still sluggish, his eyes looked straight ahead, he didn't know what to think, Yulong leaned down and passed him to his back, fortunately, Yuan Qingshu was skinny, but it was not difficult to carry it, all the way through the corridor to a side room, the female shopkeeper opened the long lock on the door with the key, turned around and said, "Xiao Langjun, is you satisfied with this room?"
Chu Lingke went to see first, let Yulong carry Yuan Qingshu and wait outside, the size of the inside was about the same as the inn outside, there were many large and small objects, there were two windows, one was facing the corridor and the other was in the opposite position, pushing it open, it was the other side of the inn, and the corridor did not know where it led. However, it is reassuring to know that there is a wooden bolt under the window, which can be locked on the inside, so that people outside will not easily open it, unless the sound of violence is sure to attract attention.
"Yes, then Chu will take one month as a deadline, you can pay some deposits first, and when a month passes, Chu will definitely send someone to pay the rest of the silver taels, what is the opinion of the shopkeeper?"
The smiling face of the female shopkeeper is about to bloom "That's okay! Xiao Langjun looks at it as an honest man's duty! ”
Yulong put Yuan Qingshu on the round stool, stood aside, pounded his waist and asked, "Shizi, how can he live so long without eating or drinking every day? If I died so early! ”
Chu Lingke looked at Yuan Qingshu, who looked like a wooden man, and shook his head without knowing "His hand is injured like this now, and I don't know if it can be healed... When I get back to the Imperial History Mansion, I have to think of a way. Yulong asked stupidly, "Could it be that the prince will take over the ability of tendons?"
Ben Shizi studied medicine when he was young, and he knew some about these things, but he didn't really practice them. But if you do research, you might be able to do it. Now I'm just afraid of him running around..."
Yulong's temperament almost said it, why do we still have to take him out if he is afraid of running around! Now I really brought a drag oil bottle! He simply controlled his mouth, if he said it, he was afraid that it would be another beating, and he wanted to go back to Daliang City to see the snow!
After settling Yuan Qingshu, Chu Lingke took the jade dragon and walked on the street back to the Imperial History Mansion. The small vendor in the distance kept shouting, and occasionally a little woman threw a small flower at Chu Lingke with a shy face, Chu Lingke walked to the place where he first came to Huizhou to get off the boat that day, the little woman was still selling small kumquat there, and her little face was red when she saw him, and her eyes flashed around: "Xiao Langjun, do you want to buy a frame of oranges?"
Chu Lingke smiled slightly, squatted down and looked at the small oranges in front of him, all of them were full and round, and the fine oranges exuded a fresh fragrance. Picked up two baskets from the ground and threw them to Yulong, and took out two taels of silver and put them there, and when the little woman saw it, she hurriedly grabbed his sleeve and said, "Xiao Langjun! Too much! I haven't found you the money last time! After saying that, he rummaged through the purse around his waist.
"It's okay, it's just two taels of silver, your oranges are delicious" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a quarrel in the stall next to him, and the people around him stayed away and didn't dare to approach, the soldiers surrounded the stall and took a closer look, and there was a man in a navy blue python robe and an official hat in the middle who was talking about something with his waist crossed, Chu Lingke's eyebrows furrowed and he was about to go, but he was stopped by the little woman "Xiao Langjun don't want to go!" This man can't be messed with! ”
As soon as Chu Lingke heard that this person couldn't be provoked, he knew who he was, and who else couldn't be messed with in the Huizhou realm except for the assassination of Shi Hehu? Today, it was a coincidence that I encountered such a situation. With a slight smile on the side, he walked forward with the jade dragon, and when he walked to the front, he heard what the man said, "I said that I will pay the money today!" Is this official so easy to fool! If you still don't pay twenty taels of silver, don't blame the official for being ruthless! After saying that, the surrounding soldiers raised their spears and aimed them at the man's wife and child.
"I'm afraid it's not appropriate to bully the people in broad daylight with only twenty taels of silver?"
He Hu's rough eyebrows furrowed, and he turned to look behind him, "Who dares to speak wildly! In the official's territory, the official has the final say! ”
Chu Lingke walked forward step by step, the golden wire fan in his hand kept waving, and only when he came to the front did he really know what He Hu looked like, if Wang Qiwen gave people the feeling of being greasy and disgusting, then He Hu was using power to fight. It's not that a family doesn't enter the door, and it really responds to that sentence!
He Hu looked Chu Lingke up and down for a long time and said, "This son doesn't look like he's from Huizhou? How can people elsewhere take care of my affairs in Huizhou? ”
Chu Lingke saw Wang Qiwen behind him, who was squeezing his eyebrows, and ignored him and clasped his fists and saluted, "In Xia Shen Ke, it was a businessman from Liangcheng who came to Huizhou to do some business, and today he happened to see this and couldn't bear to come out to fight."
"Oh? When the official heard that the people in Liangcheng were all kind and charitable, and when he saw that this was the case today, didn't Shen Gongzi want to fight for him? That's right, let Shen Gongzi pay back the two hundred taels of silver you owe to the official for you today! ”
The man on the ground kowtowed to Chu Lingke repeatedly, "Son, don't respond!" Where did you get two hundred taels of silver? The villain just borrowed two taels of silver to see a doctor for the child..."
Yulong, who was standing next to him, was angry when he saw this kind of thing, but now He Hu sat on the ground and raised the price, which made him want to press him to the ground and beat him violently to relieve his anger!
"My lord, this is a mouthful! Fang Cai is obviously still twenty taels of silver, why did it become two hundred taels in just half a cup of tea? It's true that we're good bullies, aren't we? After Yulong finished speaking aggressively, he also moved his muscles and bones, he hadn't fought for a long time, and the excitement in his heart had reached its peak.
He Hu crossed his waist and looked at him, as if he was not afraid at all, "What if the official just opened his mouth? Isn't your son-in-law in business? Could it be that you can't even take out two hundred taels of silver? Dare to call yourself a businessman and don't make people laugh off their big teeth! The surrounding soldiers coaxed and laughed, Wang Qiwen's eyes were about to fly out, and he motioned to Chu Lingke to stop talking, and then he wiped his sweat and stepped forward and said, "My lord, this Shen Gongzi looks at his age, he is young and vigorous, and he doesn't know the depths, so let's be tolerant."
He Hu's face stopped smiling in an instant, turned around and said in a thick voice, "Why! Could it be that you know him? ”
Wang Qiwen wiped his sweat and nodded, "I don't know, I don't know."
Chu Lingke did not panic, although two hundred taels of silver is not a decimal number, but it is not impossible to take it out, but the silver taels he carries are indeed not enough, some of the silver tickets are just not able to be taken out, and the official seals of the Chu family and Daliang are printed on them, with He Hu's shrewdness, you can see who he is at a glance, and now Wang Qiwen's position makes him a little unpredictable, if he makes a hasty decision, he is in danger, not to mention, it will also affect the jade dragon...
"You can't get the silver taels"
There was a sigh of embarrassment around, He Hu looked up proudly, and when he was about to speak, Chu Lingke said again: "But this fan in my hand is worth two hundred taels and is more than one hundred taels, I wonder if this thing can replace those two hundred taels?"
He Hu noticed that the golden wire fan in his hand was really not a vulgar thing, just the handle of the fan was not made of ordinary sandalwood, and there were some lines on it, the fan surface was embroidered with a golden unknown name, and the fan was not an ordinary cotton cloth, so that the well-informed also made it difficult, coughed and raised his head and said, "How does this official know that what you said is true or false? If it is a false official, is it not deceived? ”
I had long expected him to say this, Chu Lingke, a handsome turning fan, showed the face of the whole fan, "This thing is a gift from a friend, the fan bone is a kind of waist bone called 'Shen Qian' in the Western Regions, there is only one bone on each Shen Qian's body, this fan has a total of fourteen fan bones"
"The fan is made of South China Sea shark yarn, which is taken from juvenile fish and has been specially preserved in a special way, which has a South Sea flavor. The gold thread on the fan surface is made of grinding golden beads of deep-sea mussel beads, and its value should be known to adults, right? ”
He Hu had lived for so long and had never seen such a treasure, so he was inevitably a little out of shape, and only after a while did he wave his sleeves and say, "This official knows it!" Since Shen Gongzi helped you repay two hundred taels of silver today, the official will let you go! If there is a next time, you will not be so lucky! He Huxiao, who took Chu Lingke's fan, couldn't open his eyes, and left here with a swaggering fan.
The man pulled his lady to kneel on the ground and kept kowtowing to thank him, "Thank you, Childe! Thank you, Childe! Your great kindness and great virtue will be rewarded! Chu Lingke helped them up, "It's okay, he doesn't trouble you, the child's illness is cured?"
"Alas, we can only maintain the basic medicine money now, and if we want to be cured, we have to spend money to buy good medicinal materials..."
Chu Lingke took out a bag from his cuff and stuffed all the silver in it to him, "There are not many silver taels, go and treat the child, it is not good for the child's body if it drags on for a long time."
The man's tears of emotion flowed down his face, and he called out the living bodhisattva again and again. On the way back to the Imperial History Mansion, Yulong finally couldn't help but ask Chu Lingke, "How precious is that fan of the prince, so it was given to the dog thief?"
Chu Lingke stopped, turned around and knocked on his head, "You know that the fan is valuable, how can this son get it on the surface?"
Yulong's eyes lit up and he said in surprise, "Could it be that it's a fake? Shizi's trick is too high! That dog thief was really fooled! ”
Naturally. The higher the power of a person like him, the greater the greed in his heart! ”
Looking at the sky in the distance, he sighed softly. Soon, they will be able to escape from the clutches and live a carefree life.