Listening to Gao Xiaosan and Shang Cheng both ordering "General Order" in unison, Hu Nu hesitated, lowered her head and said: ""General Order" is a major key, and the slave can't sing it alone, so he has to find two more sisters in the team, and he also needs drums and bells to ......" said and secretly glanced at Gao Xiaosan. There was some begging in his eyes. She is a person in the dust, and she has been observing words and colors since elementary school.

Shang Cheng stared at Hu Nu, not knowing what she was talking about. He has been in Da Zhao for a year and a half, but there is only a handful of time to watch the play, and because the words in the miscellaneous singing book are with ancient sounds, he can't understand it, there are exquisite and subtle places in the play, and he can't see it.

As soon as Gao Xiaosan heard what Hu Nu said, he understood that this "General's Order" was a big song, and the show girl couldn't sing and write it alone, and in this quiet and quiet teahouse room, there were drums and bells singing Tiege Jinma, whether other tea customers would be annoyed for the time being, and the teahouse would definitely not agree. But it was his choice to find a female singer, and "The General's Order" was also the song he ordered first, and Shang Cheng sat aside with a red face...... He thought about it, and still said to Shang Cheng: "Brother monk, this is a tea shop...... If you like to listen to "The General's Order", let's go to Huixian Lou to eat wine in the evening, and let Miss Xiu call the two sisters and sing for us. ”

"The tea shop can't listen to this "......," Shang Cheng asked. Can't the teahouse listen to the "General's Order", how can there be such rules? Since she can't sing it, why does Hu Nu mention this song again? Several questions popped up in his mind one after another. But looking at Gao Xiaosan's embarrassed expression, although he didn't know what was going on, he had already turned the words in his mouth and said, "...... military orders", then do not listen. He said to Hu Nu again, "Then play the song "Remembering the Old Man". …… No, what about "Fisherman's Q&A"? ...... "Dragon"? "Flat Sand and Falling Geese" should always be, right? ...... "Pu'an Mantra"? ”

When he said the name of the song, the Hu Nu's head was lowered by one point, and he said five or six song titles in succession, all of which were guqin songs that he had heard and had a little impression of before, but the Hu Nu shook her head. In the end, he couldn't help it, and said helplessly: "You should always know "Mountains and Flowing Water", right? What about "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms"? ”

Hu Nu raised her head abruptly and said hurriedly: "I will do this one!" I will "Plum Blossom Three Alleys"! ”

Shang Chang breathed a sigh of relief and said in a loud voice: "Okay, okay, you can play this tune to listen." There are only a few guqin songs he knows, and if Hu Nu shakes his head again, he should show his stuff if he continues to talk about it. He stretched out his hand to wipe the fine sweat on his forehead, and wanted to pick up the cup and drink saliva, but he saw Gao Xiaosan's eyes lowered and his eyes were staring, and he was also reaching for the cup with a blank face, and his fingers had already reached into the teacup unconsciously, until the hot tea soup made him tremble, and then he suddenly pulled his hand back and made a few long sounds, and the teacup immediately overturned and rolled on several cases, and the tea soup spilled half of the table......

The maidservant came at once to clean up.

Gao Xiaosan said with a very unnatural expression: "Thinking about the things in the warehouse, I was distracted for a while. One by one, the monk brother smiled. ”

Shang Cheng stared at him, his eyes flashed and disappeared, he squinted his eyes and glanced at the maidservant and the two female playwives, seeing that the three of them were busy with nothing to do, and said with a smile: "What did the little third brother say, what else did we laugh at?" If it weren't for the third brother Gao Yi, how would I be where I am today? As he spoke, he stood up and bowed deeply to Gao Xiaosan every few cases. Great grace is not grateful. ”

Gao Xiaosan was first taken aback by his sudden move, wanted to stand up and say a few humble words, his body was about to leave his seat, and suddenly remembered something, so he sat down again, straightened his body and accepted Shang Cheng's salute. He is a naturally shrewd and transparent person, he has been honed in the warehouse for ten years, and he is even more skilled, and he is a simple sentence and a courtesy, in his eyes, he is like a monk with Mingjing, which is to thank himself for the kindness of hiding his life history for him. He can accept this gift, and he must accept it one by one, and only by receiving the gift can the monk feel at ease......

When Shang Cheng sat down again, he stood up and poured tea soup into Shang Cheng's cup, and refilled his own cup, sat down and raised the cup to Shang Cheng, and said respectfully: "Adults are people with great abilities, whether they have a meager strength of my senior or not, it's the same." ”

Shang Cheng heard that he had quietly changed his title to "adult" in his words, and he didn't say anything, he smiled, took the cup and drank it all, put down the cup and changed the topic and asked, "What happened in the warehouse?" ”

"Ugh." Gao Xiaosan sighed without speaking, "It's not a disaster caused by the Tuqi people...... he didn't hide it, so he told Shang Cheng everything about it. It turned out that Liu Ji Warehouse had really had an accident recently, and this matter was also related to Li Shen, an important general of the Yanshan Guard. Liu Ji is a well-known big merchant in the north, in addition to the long-distance escort and delivery, other businesses such as grain, cloth, medicinal materials, horses, leather goods, salt and tea...... These are all large transactions, and the amount of money in the exchange of goods is huge, and it is inevitable to deal with the government and yamen in various places. In order not to be entangled in the local government, Liu Ji also found a backer in the government, and the biggest backer was the Li family in Shangjing. In the past 20 years, Liu Ji has relied on the prestige of the Li family, and his business is invincible, and the stalls are getting bigger and bigger, and the semicolons have been opened to Jiazhou and Quanzhou; But it is precisely because of the prestige of the Li family that it has become a situation of both prosperity and loss over time. This time, Li Shen was involved in the Nanguan camp fraud case in Yi County and lost his official position, and the governor of Yanshan was also reprimanded by the imperial court, and Liu Ji was also implicated. First of all, Li Shen took away the principal and interest and the bonuses accumulated over the years from Liu Ji, and then the two small accounts that did not pay taxes in the year before were found out, and they were seized by the government at that time, until the general number urgently transferred a large amount of money to pay the fine to make up the taxes, and finally rescued the second son and the semicolon shopkeeper who were sitting in Shangjing from the prison of Pingyuan Mansion. The two things collided, and the liquidity of the warehouse was immediately stretched. In addition, the imperial court wanted to take action against the Tuqi people, and the Bohai Haiyan Mountain in the north, Dingjin, Xilongsi, and Davids were all sealed, and all the grain and cloth collected by the warehouse from the south were pressed in their hands. On the one hand, the storage fees for the backlog of goods, on the other hand, he has to bear the interest on the borrowed funds, and he also has to deal with the government's inventory and the withdrawal of shareholders. Even so, the situation is almost to the point where it can't hold on.

When Liu Ji encountered such a thing, Shang Cheng was also very emotional, but except for sighing with Gao Xiaosan, he couldn't help anything.

The quiet sound of the piano lingered in the private room, but neither of them had the heart to appreciate it, and each lowered his head to think about his thoughts.

After being silent for a long time, Shang Cheng re-found a topic and asked, "Have you returned to Yi County, have you seen my seventeenth uncle?" ”

Gao Xiaosan nodded and said that he had met twice on the streets of Huojiabao and said a few words.

Shang Cheng's brows suddenly furrowed. Gao Xiaosan only stayed at home for three days, and he actually met Huo Shiqi twice at the door of his house, there must be some clues in this, could it be that something happened to Uncle Seventeen? He took a sip of water from his cup and said with a smile: "Oh, he hasn't been busy with official business in the yamen recently?" ”

"He lost his ...... in his errand in the yamen"

There are 20 or 30 cases in the Yamen of Yi County that have been involved in the Nanguan camp, and there are only four who have lost their heads, and there are even more than 100 people in the county who have been sued because of this case, and the county magistrate of Yi County, who has only been in office for more than half a year, cannot escape the fate of being dismissed. The new county order is Qiao Zhun, the county master who does not deal with Huo Shiqi and Huo Liu. The first thing Qiao Zhun did after coming to power was to clean up the clerks and officials who "stretched out their hands indiscriminately" in the yamen, but after checking out, only four people were kicked out of the yamen, and Huo Shiqi was one of them. Huo Liu was also handed to the Duanzhou Mansion by Qiao Zhun with an official document and lost his errand because he "lost his deafness" in the case of Nanguan Daying, and is now idle at home "waiting for investigation".

Shang Cheng didn't speak for a long time. Before leaving Yi County, he had told Huo Shiqi about this, and at that time he was very worried that the new county order would be Qiao Zhun. In order not to let Uncle Seventeen be wronged, he also quietly went to visit Qiao Zhun, who was still the county master at the time, and the two of them talked a lot. Looking at Qiao Zhun's words and deeds, he also looks a little downright, why did he take revenge for personal gain just after he came to power?

He furrowed his brow and wondered what was going on. Although he didn't know the specific situation, thinking about Huo Shiqi's temperament and evaluation of Qiao Zhun on weekdays, it was more likely that Uncle Seventeen would provoke Qiao Zhun and lose his mission because he was not careful. As for the rights and wrongs of Huo Liu's encounter, it seems that it is possible in both public and private, and it is difficult for him to deduce for a while.

Seeing Shang Cheng's brows furrowed and worried, Gao Xiaosan comforted him and said: "I see that Uncle Seventeen looks very good, and when I saw him twice, he took Brother Zhao and Siya to walk around the street, and bought them a lot of food, as if he had lost the messenger in the yamen, but went to his heart." ”

Shang Cheng nodded and didn't say anything more. It's good or not, for the time being, it can only be like this, anyway, Uncle Seventeen has not made any mistakes in his official duties, even if Qiao Zhun really wants to do something to him, he can't catch the evidence.

Everything that should be said was said, and what should be inquired was also inquired, and the two of them calmed down and listened to the music.

The sound of the piano is sorrowful, the fingers are lonely and high, and the cold fragrance is condensed......

In the middle of Miao Miaoqin's words, he suddenly heard someone talking in the corridor, with an indescribable oily tone in his words: "...... Yanqing, don't look for it, we're here. After a moment, the man complained, "Why did you come at this hour?" We drank two pots of water,......" Halfway through his words, he suddenly lost his breath, apparently stopped by his companion.

Then I heard a hoarse and low voice say, "I don't have time to catch up with you, so I came to tell you that I am going back soon." Dun'an County reported urgently that a caravan was robbed by bandits and injured people, and it was only five miles away from the shallow water waterfall station......"

A voice asked urgently, "How many lives have been injured?" ”

At first, the voice said nonchalantly, "No matter how anxious you are, I'll wait until tomorrow." I have already booked a table in the restaurant, and I have invited a few friends from the Wei Mu Mansion for you, so that we can meet and get acquainted with each other first, and then I can speak well about your affairs......"

The later person, probably the one who was called Yanqing, truncated and said, "No! I'm leaving today! Yang Gongdu's daughter was also in the caravan and was robbed by bandits! ”

The other two held their breath together, were silent for a moment, and the first voice asked: "Yang Gongdu, this bastard, what is he sending his daughter to do in a good manner?" ”

"I don't know, some people say that it was sent to marry the second son of the Cheng family, and one by one is Cheng Qiao's second son. I have already asked the Cheng family, and they probably got the news, and Cheng Qiao was not at home, so he replied ambiguously, and he didn't say yes or no. Yanqing spoke anxiously, "My people are still waiting for me, and when the case is over, I will come to drink with the two young brothers and say goodbye." As he spoke, he heard the crackling of the floor stairs, and it was quiet again for a moment, and it seemed that Yanqing had left.

The two people in the room were distracted, and suddenly there was a crisp sound of broken strings, and the aftermath lingered, and then they remembered where they were.

Shang Cheng didn't pay attention to the panicked look of the Hu girl, stood up and said to Gao Xiaosan, "I haven't heard it now." Little third brother, I still have some things, so I'll leave first. He bowed his hand, and without waiting for Gao Xiaosan, he walked out of the door of the elegant room. When he went downstairs, he found his horse through a few streets and alleys from memory, and then he went straight to Weifu.

There are bandits in Dun'an County, and he, the captain on standby, wants to lead the troops to suppress the bandits, so he won't let him go, right?