Chapter Forty-Six: The First Look at the Thatched House
Cai Huang lived in the house for a few days, and gradually became familiar with the environment, coupled with the leadership of Ruyi, a crazy girl, she gradually revealed her naughty and innocent side, and often joked with Gao Huan to tease him.
Men have loved beauties since ancient times, and they love the beauties who hug the left and right the most, Gao Huan can naturally be an exception, every day with these two beauties and delicate babies to accompany the days feel brisk, often take the two to the lake to play, enjoy the flowers in the back garden, sometimes go to Beppu to the big man, the old lady please bring her two, Gao Lan also often comes to walk around with the two girls.
"Ruyi, how about I take you for a walk outside the Saiwai?" On this day, Gao Huan asked on a whim in the study,
Ruyi put down the chess pieces in his hand, jumped to Gao Huan's side excitedly, and said happily: "Really? Great, I've always dreamed of running horses outside the Seychelles and swimming all over the savannah. Then he turned back to Er Zhu Caihuang and said, "Sister, what do you think?" Let's go together! ”
Er Zhu Caihuang went out with Gao Huan for the first time, and he couldn't hide the excitement on his face, but he also said lightly: "I listen to Gongzi, he can arrange it however he wants." ”
"Cut, sister, you're so boring, why do you have to listen to the official's arrangement, let's arrange it ourselves!" Ruyi pouted unhappily.
"Okay, okay, you can arrange it, but hurry up, let's go early and return early to go home for reunion on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival." Gao Huan doesn't want to offend this villain, if you can follow her, you can follow her, and if you can spoil her, you can spoil her.
"Ah, it's only been out for two months, it's so boring......" The girl was suddenly a little deflated. Two months off is not too little, if you know that I only took seven days off a year in my previous life, would you still be with me? Gao Huan thought to himself.
So under the Ruyi operation arrangement, Gao Huan took Gao Lan, Gao Yue and Caihuang, and the group came towards Beilingqiu County, Yanzhou.
Gao Huan rode the frog horse slowly, behind him Yuan Ruyi and Caihuang talked and laughed side by side, the two maids also rode horses and followed, Gao Yue opened the road in front, and Gao Zhongming escorted the car at the back.
"Childe, the front is Beilingqiu City." Gao Yue rushed back from the front and reported to Gao Huan. This time, Gao Huan deliberately disguised himself as a rich boy to go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers in order to hide people's eyes, so the people accompanying him changed their names. so as not to be targeted by those with ill intentions.
Beilingqiu City is a small remote city close to the northern grasslands, with a small population, a depressed economy, and years of war, the whole city looks more like a military fortress, with military camps everywhere.
Gao Huan and his entourage came to the largest inn in the city to arrange a stay, and when they had dinner, Gao Huan asked Xiao Er: "Dare to ask the little brother, is there an official of Murong Shaozong in the yamen of this county government?" ”
"Murong Daguan, who doesn't know who doesn't know in this Lingqiu City? I don't know what the guest officer is looking for to do with the big officials? Xiao Er asked curiously.
"I am a distant relative of his, and I have come here from the south to look for him." Gao Huan immediately took a tael of silver from Ruyi and stuffed it into the little second-hand, and continued: "This is a gesture of heart, and I hope that the little brother will tell this Murong official where he lives?" ”
Xiao Er has never met such a generous guest in the past few years, and he patted his ass with a smile on his face: "As soon as I look at the son, I know that you are from an extraordinary background and have an elegant temperament." This Murong official lives in the south of the city......"
"Is it the old street full of willow trees that we passed as we entered the city?" Ruyi asked Xiao Er.
"Exactly, the girl is amazing. Guests, you may not know that this Murong official is a well-known filial son and Qing official in our Lingqiu City. After that, Xiao Er looked around for a while before whispering to Gao Huan and others: "The officials in the city are all favoritistic and greedy, only our big official is honest and honest, and he is also filial, and his mother is in her fifties, and his wife is also sick in bed all the year round, all supported by the big official, alas." Xiao Er sighed with emotion.
"Since this big official is honest and honest, I don't know what achievements and achievements he has in office?" Gao Huan picked up the teacup and took a sip, and asked quietly.
As soon as Xiao Er heard this, he immediately came to his senses, shook his head like a storyteller, and said: "Guest, you are asking this is the right person, we are still very clear about the heroic deeds of this big official." This big official has been serving in Lingqiu for five or six years, and as soon as he arrived, he organized the government and militia to eliminate all the bandits in the Lingqiu Mountain area, and then organized the common people to farm and weave, animal husbandry and business. Xiao Er was proud and affectionate, as if he personally led the team to get the people out of poverty and become rich.
"Then according to the words of the little brother, since this big official has such good political achievements, he should be praised and promoted by his boss, how can he serve in a county for five or six years." Ruyi said the doubts in his heart for Gao Huan.
"Cough, miss, don't you know, our Taishou is a native of the palace of King Erzhu, the general of the Zhu Kingdom, and all the political achievements made by the big officials were impersonated by him, and he became rich in exchange for his own promotion. Besides, this Murong official is busy taking care of his family, and never competes with those despicable things for fame and profit, he is really a good person and a clean official. Xiao Er had a somewhat uneven tone.
Gao Huan had a preliminary understanding of this Murong Shaozong, in short, this person still has a certain ability and can be promoted to do things, so he turned back to Ruyi and said: "Tomorrow you and Caihuang will go to the street to buy some gifts and cloths and the like, and then we will go to Murong Shaozong's mansion to visit." ”
That night, everyone had dinner and rested early, and due to the fatigue of the journey, the group slept soundly.
The next morning, Gao Huan took Ruyi Gao Yue and his party to the south of the city, found this box street, and just arrived at the street entrance, they smelled a smell of livestock feces, and women such as Ruyi and Caihuang also frowned and covered their mouths and noses. Although this box street is not a slum, it is also like a suburban countryside, with most of the houses made of yellow mud and thatched roofs. The walls of the courtyard are also mostly surrounded by wooden planks and branches, and in short, the people here are probably not wealthy.
Gao Huan and his entourage asked for directions for a long time before finding Murong Shaozong's house in the depths of the street corner, only to see two loess thatched houses, surrounded by a courtyard surrounded by a circle of wooden planks and branches, Gao Huan asked Gao Yue to knock on the door. I saw an old lady standing tremblingly at the door of the house on crutches, looking at a group of strangers in gorgeous clothes and holding gifts in front of the courtyard gate, and asked strangely, "Who are you looking for?" ”
"Dare to ask the eldest lady, is this the home of Murong Daguan?" Gao Yue was afraid that the old man would be deaf, so he deliberately asked loudly.
The neighbors, the elderly and children all ran out to see the excitement, and few people came to visit the Murong family since they moved over, not to mention those who waited in line at the door with gifts. Everyone was very curious about Gao Huan, who they were from the Murong family.
The old lady came over and opened the courtyard door and let Gao Huan and his party enter the courtyard. Let the neighbor's children go to the mansion to inform Murong Shaozong that there is a distinguished guest at home. Gao Huan sat in the room, looking at the Murong Shaozong family with four walls, and thought to himself: "This Murong Shaozong's life is really so miserable? No matter how you say it, he's an official. Gao Huan always had the deep imprint of his previous life on government officials in his heart, and he always felt that this Murong Shaozong was pretending to be famous.
After a while, I saw a white and burly, scholar-like warrior, wearing the clothes of the officials in the county government, with two officials, hurriedly walking into the house.
The old lady got up and introduced Gao Huan to Murong Shaozong: "These are the distinguished guests from your uncle in Yecheng, and they said that they came to visit you. ”
Gao Huan hurriedly got up and bowed his hand to Murong Shaozong: "I have admired the name of a big official for a long time, and it is really a blessing to see you today." ”
Murong Shaozong looked at Gao Huan and his party with a little suspicion, and then hurriedly returned the salute: "Where is it, I don't know how the guest learned the villain's name?" What is the important thing to come here today? ”
"Uncle Ling and I are good friends, and he often mentions the affairs of the big officials, so I always look forward to meeting the big officials in person and making friends." Let's take out all the gifts that Gao Yue brought and put them on the table.
Murong Shaozong looked puzzled and said, "My uncle was a private school teacher in the Fanyang area in his early years, I don't know what is going on now?" ”
Gao Hua didn't reveal his identity, so he said: "I heard that he is now recruited by Gao Huan, the assassin of the Five States, to be a military adviser, and the specific situation is not very clear. ”
So everyone sat down, the old lady got up to make tea, and Murong Shaozong accompanied Gao Huan to chat about family life, Gao Huan felt that this person was more simple and down-to-earth, and he had something to say. When the two chatted, they only heard the coughing sound of a woman in the inner room, and Murong Shaozong hurriedly got up and said to Gao Huan: "The guests don't sit, I'll come when I go." Then he went into the back room.
I only heard the voice of a woman inside intermittently said, "How did the master get down so early today...... Ahem, did anything happen in the government office today...... Ahem. ”
After a while, I saw Gao Lan coming into the house with a pot of hot tea, and when she saw Gao Huan and the others looking at her with strange eyes, she hurriedly explained: "I see that the old man's legs and feet are not good, so I went to help make some tea." "I even blushed.
My sister Gao Huan still knows her very well, she is kind-hearted and bodhisattva-hearted, and she can't see others suffering, maybe she has suffered and suffered, so she can be more considerate of those who have suffered misery.
This is the old lady trembling into the house, said: "I have been telling this noble lady that I can't do it, for fear of staining the lady's clothes, alas, how embarrassed, let the guests make tea and eat." ”
"Old lady, we are bothering you, I still don't want to go, it's okay, you can go into the house to rest, we can just make our own tea." Gao Huan was also a little reluctant to go.
After a while, Murong Shaozong came out of the back room and said embarrassedly: "My wife has been sick in bed, and I don't have time to say hello to your guests today, I'm really sorry." The apology made Gao Huan and the others feel even more uncomfortable.
"Okay, I don't have anything else to do when I come here today, I just want to meet with the big officials. Since it's not convenient now, let's say goodbye first, and tomorrow I'll send someone to invite the officials to the city restaurant to have a drink, okay? After saying that, Gao Huan got up and saluted, and was about to leave.
This is the old lady trembling out of the inner room and said: "The first time we meet, it is the so-called uselessness, these valuable gifts still hope that the distinguished guests will bring back, we really dare not accept." After that, he insisted on asking Murong Shaozong to pick up the gift and return it to Gao Huan and the others, Gao Huan looked at Murong Shaozong with an embarrassed face, and there was no way at the moment, so he had to leave Murong's house with the gift. Before leaving, he asked him to stay for the banquet tomorrow, but he politely declined.
Gao Huan returned to the inn sullenly, and Ruyi didn't dare to upset him when he didn't speak when he saw him along the way. At noon, everyone went to the grassland outside the city and ran for a while. When I returned to the inn in the evening, I found that something had happened.