Chapter II. 4. Relatively silent
At this time, Yan Tian had recovered from his speechlessness, and asked on the second floor: "What do these things of the family and the country have to do with the cook?" ”
Shen Gui smiled, pointed to the richly dressed students and literati around him, and said:
"You are all disciples of saints who have read poetry and books, and your family is quite wealthy, and you are still young, so you naturally do not understand the pain caused by war. 10,000,000 people, after a hundred years of war, the remaining number is only 30%. Now when it comes to it, it's just a number, but the 70 million people who died, I don't know how many women's husbands, and I don't know how many babies were fathers! Brother Mingde, the cook's party is not all women who don't know what shame is and are willing to be cheap. Most of them are forced to live, their husbands are either forcibly conscripted, or they are conscripted into the army and die on the battlefield, and there are parents and babies at home waiting to be fed, so they can only rely on their cooking skills to support their parents and young children alone. What's more, does Brother Tai think that the iron pot on the stove can easily be flipped by ordinary people? ”
After speaking, Shen Gui took Li Le'an's hand and walked into the back kitchen without looking back. And the crown prince Yan Tian was carefully digesting Shen Gui's words, and there were a few gorgeously dressed dogs around him who kept asking him: "Big brother, what did that kid say?" ”
Song Xingzhou was already standing outside the kitchen at this moment, looking at Shen Gui and Li Le'an in the kitchen, and took a deep breath of cigarette:
"Why are you here again?"
"Of course, I'm here for dinner, but do you still come here to pay New Year's greetings? The days are over. ”
"Didn't eat enough?"
"I'm full, I'm here for a treat."
"I see that you are also full, and you have nothing to do with the people in the garden, they can't understand people when they drink some Fanbang cat urine."
After Song Xingzhou finished speaking, he knocked the cigarette bag and pot under the windowsill, and then turned around and went into the kitchen.
Shen Gui was still outside and shouted, "Then can I take her in?" ”
After waiting for a while, there were no other words, so he dragged Li Le'an, who was blushing like an apple, into the back kitchen.
"Also...... I haven't ordered yet. ”
Li Le'an shook off Shen Gui's hand and looked around curiously. Shen Gui walked to Song Xingzhou's apprentice Xu Sidong's case with a big grin, and replied to Li Le'an while showing him his merits:
"If you can eat outside, why am I bringing you here? If you have a taboo, just tell Lao Song directly. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to stop Xu Sidong's movements: "Hey, hey, your knife is so loose, you will get rid of it when you cut it to the hard bones......
Li Le'an walked behind Song Xingzhou and said cautiously:
"I love sweet ......"
After Li Le'an walked out of the backyard of the Huiyou Building with his stomach, he jumped up and patted Shen Gui's shoulder very proudly:
"Delicious! I declare that from now on, our holiday will be written off! ”
Shen Gui rubbed his right shoulder, which was patted painfully, moved up and down, and said:
"Just now someone told me that he has clear grievances, and he wants to take revenge first. How can it be written off now? ”
Li Le'an's little round face turned red, and he said in a slushful manner:
"Let's start, I want to beat you half to death first, and then save you back, so that the grudge will be written off. But I haven't thought about it, what should you do if you can't beat it......"
Shen Gui smiled and spun around her, reaching out to snatch her long sword Chunyu:
"I just felt that your sword was too long, and it was not suitable for you to use at all. As you can see, I'm so tall, and this sword is quite suitable for me. ”
After speaking, Shen Gui took out the thunderous short sword that Gu Jie gave him from his arms, raised his hand and threw it over:
"Use it for a while, and I'll pay you back when I'm tired of playing."
After speaking, he staggered out of the back street, leaving Li Le'an, who was in a hurry to hold the thunder, looking at Shen Gui's back angrily, and holding the short sword with Shen Gui's body temperature in his hand.
As soon as Li Le'an returned home, the housekeeper Li Fu came to him with an anxious face:
"My eldest lady, Xiangye is about to make you angry...... Where did you get all this dirt? What about your sword? Robbery again? I always say to ask you to bring a couple of escorts......"
"No, no, no! It's just a fight! It's okay, I'll go to see my father when I go back to my room to change clothes. Li Le'an interrupted Li Fu's words and reached out to close the boudoir door. Li Fu was still shouting outside: "Who is so bold as to dare to do something with our young lady?" Don't you die, right? Okay, you Wei Anheng, he doesn't plan to do this Fu Yin, right? The capital is about to become a den of thieves......" Li Le'an in the house threw out an embroidered shoe and hit the window, making a loud noise, Li Fu immediately shut up, turned around and motioned to the maid to help her wash and change clothes, and then quietly walked away.
"Le'an, my father is not a person who hates the poor and loves the rich, and he never expects to rely on his only daughter to climb the dragon and the phoenix. At the beginning, I opposed you and the second child of the Yan family, and a big reason was that the relationship between our Li family and the Yan family was really complicated. But don't get back a man named Hanako for your father! It's not because of the Guo family that I said that. It was really the father's opinion that the child was born stupid. Otherwise, how can there be a reason for the children of official eunuchs to be called Huazi? ”
At this time, in the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Prime Minister Li Deng was trying to persuade his daughter, while Li Le'an didn't know where to start, so he had to listen to his father's chatter in a daze.
"At that time, I was an official in Beijing, and I had no time to take care of you when I was young, so I had to leave you in the Great Wilderness City. Now your grandmother is leaving......" Speaking of this, his loving father Li Deng's eyes were a little red, and he waved his hand: "Don't say it, don't say it, now only our father and daughter are left to rely on each other, so you can listen to your father's words more, okay?" ”
Li Le'an saw that his father's eyes were red, and he was sad for a while. But the things that my father misunderstood couldn't be explained clearly. The indescribable grievances and sadness were tangled together in my heart and turned into tears rolling down my cheeks. The father and daughter were in the study, and because of a misunderstanding that was not a misunderstanding, they hugged their heads and cried.
And Shen Gui, who snatched the Spring Rain Sword, was sitting in the inn room in a good mood at the moment. It didn't take long for there to be a knock on the door, and after Shen Gui coughed lightly, Fu Yi and Fourteen pushed the door in. As soon as Fu Yi entered the door, he snorted angrily and turned over a tea bowl on the table, and only after three cups in a row did he breathe a sigh of relief. Shen Gui looked at him with a smile and asked.
"What's wrong? What else can I do? This tooth man in Fengjing City is too disagreeable. Originally, I was optimistic about a house, three main houses with gardens, the price was also good, and the monthly rent was only fifteen taels of silver. The tooth man brought all the contracts, and when he was about to sign them, another tooth man came, and the opening was to increase the rent! ”
Shen Gui thought for a moment, his eyes lit up and asked:
"How much did he say it would go up?"
Fu Yi stretched out his finger and gestured:
"That bastard opens his mouth for 10,000 taels! At first, I thought it was a joke. As a result, it turned out that the tooth man saw him take a mouthful, and turned around and left without saying a word. After he left, the bastard told me plainly: rent! Three main rooms! Bongseongseong! Ten thousand taels! What the is going crazy? ”
Shen Gui clapped his hands and laughed:
"You have to make another trip, go back and tell the tooth man that I rented 10,000 taels, but I have to let him run it himself."
Fu Yi jumped up and shouted hysterically:
"Are you sick too? 10,000 taels is enough to buy two such houses! You are a young master, haven't you ever used silver! Do you know how high 10,000 taels of snowflakes and silver can be piled up? ”
Shen Gui squinted and grinned, looking at the collapsed Fu Yi and yelling. After he calmed down a little, he said softly:
"Xiao Yi, this tooth man who can blackmail my silver has not yet been born. Don't shout, just do what I say. Also, I really haven't used much silver, and I've always used silver tickets. ”
Fu Yi gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand to nod Shen Gui, turned his head and left without saying a word. After a few streets, I came to the teahouse just now.
This tooth man named Qi Hui was still sitting in his original position, looking at Fu Yi who was bulging in front of him, and grinned.