Chapter Twenty-Six: Great Fortune

Yang Xuening pursed her lips and complained: "Daddy, what are you talking about, I heard Second Brother Kong say just now that it seems that something happened to us in Luoyang, what is going on?" ”

Yang Wenfu's eyes narrowed and he snorted coldly and said: "This Luoyang is an important town in the world, I wanted to set up a hall here, but I accidentally recruited a treacherous traitor!" Yang Wenfu said with a long sigh and said: "I didn't expect that I, Yang, would actually have a time to look away, the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Luoyang City, even those ordinary people can't be underestimated." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Yang Xuening asked: "Daddy, what's going on, tell me in detail!" ”

Yang Wenfu looked at him and said, "Ning'er, you also know how difficult it is for us to maintain a hall. This not only involves the selection of personnel, strict organization, but also the money to keep our hall running. ”

Yang Xuening's hands suddenly clenched and said, "Could it be that someone swept away our silver?" ”

Yang Wenfu nodded, then shook his head and said, "There are two main sources of silver in our hall, one is the donation of believers, and the other is a little ashamed to say. I planted the believers in the local rich merchants, hoping to collect some evidence of their crimes of being rich and unkind, so as to threaten them to take out the money, but just yesterday, our local newcomers betrayed our church. ”

"That man's name is Zhao Yuanhua, and I originally installed him in a wealthy local merchant named Zhang Youcai. Yesterday, there was news that Zhang Youcai had offended someone who should not be offended, and he had stumbled into prison, and I wanted to call him back, but the people who went to Zhang's Mansion today came back to report that Zhao Yuanhua had taken most of Zhang's property, and had escaped with Zhang Youcai's concubine Dong Congyan. ”

Yang Xuening's eyes widened and said, "Elope, isn't this elopement?" ”

Yang Wenfu didn't seem to like to say these words that were contrary to heavenly morality from Yang Xuening's mouth, and frowned and said: "Then Zhao Yuanhua is just holding money and property, I will treat him as doing the right thing for heaven, robbing the rich and helping the poor, but he also took away Zhang Youcai's concubine, which is our big taboo, this is the iron law of *** women, and no one can touch it!" ”

Yang Xuening laughed and said: "I admire this Zhao Yuanhua a little, the Zhang Mansion was stolen, there must be an official mansion to capture him, he betrayed our hall, and we will not let him go." At such a time of crisis, he can still take the woman from Zhangfu, I think he has a bit of a manhood that will never give up. ”

Yang Wenfu slapped the armrest and said angrily: "Ning'er! How can words that deviate from humanity come from your mouth? I still admire those two shameless people who should be immersed in the pig cage, I think you have forgotten all the things I taught you since I was a child! ”

Yang Xuening stuck out her tongue and said softly: "Daddy, Ning'er knows that she is wrong. ”

Yang Wenfu can't help it, his daughter who has been wild since she was a child, except for scolding him at all, he can't think of any other way to restrain her, can he do it? Yang Wenfu sighed, this is his own daughter, he has never touched a finger of her since he was a child, how can he be willing to beat her?

Yang Xuening saw that Yang Wenfu didn't speak, and thought that he was still angry, so he took the initiative to ask: "Daddy, I came to Luoyang this time to help you." Since there is something here, I will go out to find this Zhao Yuanhua later, I want to see what kind of person this Zhao Yuanhua is! ”

Yang Wenfu sighed in his heart and said: "The sea of people is vast, since he has already run away, where can I go to find him?" ”

Yang Xuening said: "I can't draw conclusions about everything without trying it, this is what you taught me Daddy, what if I find it?" ”

Yang Wenfu turned around and glanced at Yang Xuening's eager appearance, and said secretly in his heart: "I'm afraid that if you just came to Luoyang City, you can't help but want to see this bustling city." With many years of experience as a father, he could see at a glance the small abacus in Yang Xuening's heart, thinking that Yang Xuening had traveled thousands of miles to see him, and he couldn't bear to lock her up in this small courtyard, so he had to reluctantly nodded.

Hearing this, Yang Xuening hugged Yang Wenfu and said, "Thank you, Daddy!" With that, he strode out.

Yang Wenfu exclaimed: "Why are you going?" ”

"I'm going to find that Zhao Yuanhua!"

Yang Wenfu stroked his forehead and said in a low voice: "Have you seen that Zhao Yuanhua?" How to find him? ”

Yang Xuening's face turned red and said, "Hehe, Daddy, I'll just ask Second Brother Kong later, you don't have to worry." ”

Yang Wenfu said hatefully: "You go and change your clothes now!" A daughter's family is running all the way, dusty, and dusty, and she doesn't go to wash it quickly! ”

Yang Xuening sighed, and went to the backyard to boil water and prepare to bathe.

Yang Wenfu looked at Yang Xuening's back, shook it and sighed: "Hey, a good girl, not to mention Li Heishi's kung fu, how can she also learn the stinky problem of men who don't like to be clean...... I'm really worried about me, how can I find a good mother-in-law for her in the future......"

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Now that this season is really going to be considered, it's already autumn. It is only the menacing autumn tiger that makes the weather look hot and humid at noon, and in the afternoon, the aftermath of the sun is gone, and the pedestrians on the street gradually increase.

Zhu Yousong, who had slept back to sleep, was now in good spirits, and took Hu Tiande and Sun Changzhi, the two bully, to the street again. But this time, there is a twelve- or thirteen-year-old little Lori in their group, who is naturally Zhu Yousong's personal maid Lan'er.

As a palace maid, Lan'er has no chance to go to the palace during the day, except for some local palace people who can go home to save their relatives during the palace holidays, and stay in the palace all year round. And Lan'er has no relatives and no reason, her parents are dead, and she has no relatives to take refuge in the local area, so even when she is free, Lan'er generally stays in the palace and has nowhere to go.

Hu Tiande and Sun Changzhi followed behind Zhu Yousong with sad faces, the two of them just couldn't understand, how could a good and decent son become obsessed with shopping in the past two days, isn't this what only those women who have nothing to do all day long love to do?

If a big man walks down the street in the sun, isn't he afraid of tanning? Didn't Shizi be the most afraid of tanning before, why did he change sex now? Yesterday I went shopping and thought it was a whim of the son, but now it seems that this thing will be indispensable in the future. Other people's dignitaries are either in restaurants or in green buildings, why do we love shopping so much?

"Ah, Childe, look! That hairpin is so beautiful! Lan'er jumped for joy and threw herself into a stall on the side of the street.

Lan'er originally followed Zhu Yousong to go shopping at the beginning, and she followed Zhu Yousong wherever she went, but then the girl's nature made it so that she unconsciously began to take Zhu Yousong to go shopping. A little palace maid is neither big nor small, she doesn't know the idea of humility and humility, and she doesn't know the etiquette of the master and servant, Hu Tiande wanted to scold her, but was stopped by Zhu Yousong.

After that, the leader of this group seemed to be Zhu Yousong, but in fact, it was Zhu Yousong's maid Lan'er who really led the way, which was also the reason why Hu and Sun were quite worried in their hearts.

When the vendor saw the business coming to the door, he smiled and said, "Girl, it's really a good eye, our hairpin can be made by the old craftsman of Fengxiang Shop." With the appearance of a girl like a flower, it is a perfect match! ”

Zhu Yousong also followed, picked up the hairpin and looked at it, this is a copper hairpin, with a layer of silver foil on the outside, and the shape is a lifelike butterfly. The butterfly's wings were as thin as cicada wings, and when you touch it lightly, it flutters.

Zhu Yousong nodded, praising in his heart that the ancient craftsmen were really worthy of admiration, and they could create such an ornament with just one pair of hands.

Lan'er saw that Zhu Yousong also admired this hairpin, so she asked, "Shopkeeper, how much is this hairpin?" ”

The peddler stretched out a hand and spread his five fingers and said, "One hundred and fifty wen." ”

Lan'er touched her purse, and although it was bulging, she slowly shook her head.

Seeing Lan'er's hesitation, the peddler said, "Girl, I only have this butterfly hairpin, if you want it, you should buy it quickly." ”

Lan'er bit her lip lightly, her eyes were fixed on the butterfly hairpin and asked, "Can it be cheaper?" ”

Seeing this, Zhu Yousong thought that Lan'er was shy in her pocket, so she said: "Okay, I bought this hairpin." ”

When the peddler heard this, he quickly wrapped the hairpin in a small piece of cloth, and laughed: "This boy is really generous!" A good hairpin is easy to buy and give to a beauty, you have such a beautiful concubine, you are really blessed! ”

Lan Erden blushed with shame, and just about to distinguish two sentences, Zhu Yousong had already laughed and walked away. Zhu Yousong left, and Lan'er didn't know how to explain it to the peddler, so she had to take the hairpin, stomp her foot, and hurriedly followed.

After the vendor sent Zhu Yousong and his party away with a smile, he took out a butterfly hairpin from under the stall and placed it in the most conspicuous position of the stall......

Lan'er caught up with Zhu Yousong and opened a small hand and said, "Childe, this hairpin is only 100 wen at most, and you give him 150 wen and lose a full 50 wen!" ”

Zhu Yousong smiled: "Alas~ I bought everything, what do you care about?" ”

Lan'er pouted and said, "Shizi, I'll return the money to you when I go back." ”

"I bought it and gave it to you, I don't need you to return it!"

When Lan'er heard that she didn't have to pay back the money, her eyes bent into a crescent moon: "Thank you, Childe." As he spoke, his eyes lit up, and his eyes frequently looked at the street.

Zhu Yousong bought the hairpin to apologize, and she lost a skirt from someone else, so it was not easy to apologize to her clearly, so I took Lan'er out today to see what she wanted to buy, so I could buy it as compensation.

Zhu Yousong saw Lan'er frequently looking at the street, thinking that she had taken a fancy to something again, and followed her gaze, only to see an old man in his sixties holding a wooden staff in the shade of the street, and the sorghum stalks on it were full of sugar gourds.

Zhu Yousong then walked over, and when he saw it, he was still an acquaintance, it turned out to be the old man who sold sugar gourds yesterday, although the sugar gourds made by this old man were not as delicious as those made in later generations, but since Lan'er wanted to eat them, he bought them, anyway, there was not much money, five cents and three strings.

Who knew that the old man who bought the sugar gourd saw Zhu Yousong, and suddenly became sad. As soon as Zhu Yousong walked over, the old man said, "Childe, please spare the old man." ”

Zhu Yousong said: "What? ”

The old man said with a sad face: "Son, yesterday you bought three strings of sugar gourds for five cents, and when I went home, I asked my mother-in-law to scold you." The old man's small business can't stand your toss every day! ”

When Zhu Yousong heard that his wife had scolded him, he deliberately didn't say anything: "Come to four strings today, don't bargain!" As he spoke, he took out a silver ingot and handed it to the old man who sold sugar gourds.

The old man said aggrievedly: "Son, don't come to humiliate the old man, this is a whole ten taels of silver, the old man has lived so old, he has never seen it at all." I can't find this little voice at all! ”

Zhu Yousong didn't know that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, silver was extremely scarce, and the common people were self-sufficient, and some of them had never seen silver at all in their lives. Although this old man is a businessman, he usually collects some copper coins during the day, who will take ten taels of silver to buy sugar gourds?

If it is wide, others may throw ten taels of silver to the old man in a chic manner, and then say lightly: "I am round." "But Zhu Yousong is a person who is used to living a hard life after all, everything else is easy to say, it's okay to pay an extra fifty yuan to buy a hairpin, if you take ten taels of silver to buy a sugar gourd, it will be a little reluctant. Zhu Yousong didn't have copper coins on his body, so he turned around and glanced at Hu Tiande.

At this time, Lan'er said coquettishly: "Uncle, I sell four skewers!" As he spoke, he handed the old man eight copper coins.

"Good, good!" The old man answered, and hurriedly picked up four strings of sugar gourds from the sorghum stalk and gave them to Lan'er, just looking forward to sending Zhu Yousong and his party away.

Hu Tiande and Sun Changzhi wailed in their hearts, and they wanted to eat this sweet and greasy sugar gourd again......

Zhu Yousong has eaten this thing, it is not as delicious as the one made in later generations, and handed his string to Hu Tiande, Hu Tiande wailed, it is still two strings!

Fortunately, there was this sweet-loving Lan'er in front of him, Hu Tiande also handed his two skewers to Lan'er and said: "Miss Lan'er, I see that you eat sweetly, I will give you these two skewers, we understand your heart!" ”

Lan'er was still young after all, so she took it with a smile, Sun Changzhi had already eaten half of the bunches with his head bored, and when he saw Hu Tiande transfer the burden to Lan'er, he regretted that it was too late, and he couldn't give his leftovers to other little girls, right? It's just that Hu Tiande's status has been raised to a higher level in his heart.

Lan'er held two strings in her left hand and two strings in her right hand, and her small mouth was full, and in a few moments, the three strings of sugar gourds were wiped out.

Zhu Yousong, who was looking at the buildings on the street, suddenly saw a house, the house was bustling and crowded, turned around and asked, "What is the place there?" ”

Hu Tiande stepped forward and said, "Childe, there is a gambling house. ”

"Casino? Let's go in and take a look! ”

When you come to this ancient time, there are two places that you must see, one is the Qinglou, and the other is the gambling house.

Lan'er pouted and didn't want to go in, but she originally followed Zhu Yousong out, and when she saw Zhu Yousong's excited appearance, she had no choice but to follow in.

As soon as Zhu Yousong entered the gambling house, he saw that the gambling house was crowded with people, and people were half-open, fanning their fans while staring at the gambling game in front of them.

After watching for a long time, Zhu Yousong didn't see some fame, Zhu Yousong was at most fighting landlords in his previous life, playing mahjong, and he didn't understand the way to play these dice and push pai gow.

As soon as you enter the gambling house, there is a lobby with a gambling table, and people are gathered in front of the table, some are smiling, and some are sad and sad...... Zhu Yousong had no interest in these, and after looking at it for a while, he stopped looking, and saw that there was a courtyard behind the gambling house, and there was also a lot of people over there, so he walked over to take a look.

It's actually a cockfighting place!

The two roosters fought together with their teeth and claws, and the feathers fell to the ground, and the two roosters were scarred and bleeding all over the ground, still fighting.

Lan'er don't look around, she can't bear to look at it again. Zhu Yousong saw a cockfight for the first time, and he watched it with great interest. One of these two roosters is black and very majestic, and the other is colorful and extremely powerful.

When they entered, the two roosters had reached the critical moment of separating the winners and losers, and at this time, the black rooster in the field suddenly let out a sad cry and fled from the battlefield......

There were people around who spat on the ground angrily, threw the bamboo chips in their hands to the ground and walked out of the door in a huff, and the rest were naturally the winners, congratulating each other with smiles.

Although the victorious son won, he was also scarred, and if he was not treated in time, he was afraid that he would not survive tomorrow.

Lan'er glanced at it and said, "Childe, let's buy those two roosters, shall we?" ”

Zhu Yousong was curious: "Buy chicken? ”

At this time, when a person heard Lan'er's words, he came up and said, "This son, do you intend to buy this good fortune?" ”