Chapter 90: No one can afford to mess with it
Hearing the guard's report, the king's wine woke up completely, and he jumped up from his couch. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info"Little bunny, I knew he was going to get me in trouble sooner or later! ā
The office building became noisy for a moment, and the sound of hurried footsteps came, and Man Chang and Han Derong also came one after another. The guards at the gate of the mansion received a notice from the Kaifeng Mansion, and they could go separately to report to the king and the commander of the guards.
"Lord Wang, something happened to the young man?" Ordinary asked hurriedly with a blank glare.
"Well, I heard that Kaifeng Mansion is now!"
"Do you want to prepare a horse for you?" Han Derong also asked.
"Wait!" There were many people next to the king, but he calmed down, and before he could figure out the matter, he hurriedly went to Kaifeng Mansion to do something. He waved his hand to stop the anxious crowd, and the most anxious thing here was to talk about Lu Shenyan and Changchang.
Lu Shenyan grew up watching Tong Guan, so there is no need to say the feelings here; And often take Tong Guan from the king's side to Western Xia, I like this young man very much, although the two of them have fought on the battlefield, but because of this, I feel that Tong Guan is a seedling of a general.
Hearing that Tong Guan had an accident, everyone couldn't help but become anxious.
"Lu Shenyan, let Han Derong go to Kaifeng Mansion with you, find out what is going on first, and then come back to report."
Lu Shenyan listened to the promise and urged Han Derong: "Hurry up, go quickly!" As he spoke, he left the study quickly.
Wang glanced at Zhou Meimei, who was staying there, and he seemed to be confused by the sudden change. "Xiao Zhou, if you are tired, go down and rest."
"Not tired, not tired!" Zhou Meimei hurriedly replied.
"Then you go and order a pot of tea, and I'll talk to General Man!"
Zhou Meimei agreed crisply and hurried to do it, Wang Bian and Manchang were talking, while waiting for Lu Shenyan to bring back the news.
Seeing the Wang beside him drinking tea with an expressionless and unhurried face, he often asked, "Lord Wang, aren't you going to take a look?" ā
Wang Bi shook his head, and his mind quickly calculated: If you want to find the most famous place in Bianjing City, it should be Jinxiu Building; If you want to find the flower street and willow lane, and the place to find flowers and ask willows, it should be Futian Courtyard; If you want to find the most beautiful courtesan and the best place in Bianjing, then you have to talk about Huixian Tower.
Everyone knows that the songs of Huixianlou are good, and the courtesans are also very beautiful. But the Huixianlou is a place where courtesans don't sell their arts, or they can be said to be elegant places. Listening to the music belongs to the Huixian Building, and the wine and tea are the most expensive.
Courtesans sing songs for free, but there is a tax on buying alcohol and tea, and restaurants earn money for alcohol, and courtesans also rely on singing songs to sell alcohol.
The Song people not only loved to drink, but a large part of the financial expenditure of the Song Dynasty was also supported by the liquor tax. In order to receive enough liquor tax, the Song Dynasty was quite strict in the management of the production and sale of liquor, and the liquor tax had become one of the important taxes of the country at that time. Since there was no koji, sake brewing could not be carried out, and the imperial court monopolized the production of koji, which was also able to effectively control the tax on sake.
Of course, Wang Fang knew the reason for this, and when he heard that the place where Tong Guan often went was Huixian Tower, his worry about Tong Guan was nothing more than to wonder if he had made friends with wine and meat.
But since Tong Guan went to such a suspiciously elegant place, why did he still make a fuss?
This started with Tong Guan quietly leaving the palace.
The banquet next to the king was announced at noon, and at that time, Tong Guan had already made an appointment with his little friend for today's game. There are many people in the palace and many materials, not to mention preparing a temporary reception banquet, or it is not a problem to temporarily arrange a banquet for hundreds of people.
Tong Guan was also happy today, and suddenly saw so many people coming back from the house. Back then, I didn't think anything about it, but now everyone sees how he is a young son, and when he talks about the courage of Tong Guan and Wang Bian when they attacked Western Xia, Tong Guan couldn't help but feel a little fluttering.
In the middle of the banquet, the king left to see Xin Zan, and everyone waited for a long time to know that the person the prince saw was very important. Originally, Tong Guan had wanted to slip away for a long time, but Wang was next to everyone looking at Wang, and when Wang was not there, he was also a young son, so he always had to hold on to the scene. So it wasn't until the banquet was dispersed that Tong Guan took advantage of He Zhu, Fold Keshi, Seed Master Dao and others didn't pay attention to themselves, so they quietly went to the house immediately.
deceived Lu Shenyan, and left the mansion generously, which guard dared to stop him? Besides, the king had never ordered the guards to look at him, so no one at the gate of the palace took it seriously.
Huixian Lou is not far from the palace, far away you can hear the sound of silk and bamboo music from the building, this building is rebuilt only this year, the decoration is not inferior to the alum building. There are more than 60 pavilions upstairs, and 70 or 80 tables and stools are scattered below.
There were two men standing in front of the door of the building, they wore a square-topped turban, a purple shirt, and silk shoes and socks under their feet.
As soon as Tong Guan walked to the door, the man said, "Tong Gongzi, you are here!" Hurry up inside please. ā
Tong Guan swaggered into the Huixian Building, and when he entered the door, he looked around.
"Dolph! This way, this way! Tong Guan followed the voice, and the golf greeted him at a table near the stands.
Tong Guan walked closer, there were four or five people on the table, most of them were around sixteen or seventeen years old, and most of them he knew, all of them were descendants of officials in the court, and the highest title among them was Gao Gongji, the king of the county.
"What? The king of the county is also here? I said Gao Yu, whose team are you following?! ā
Gong Hui and Gao Gongji are brothers, and they are both nephews of Empress Gao.
"Anyway, we are all surnamed Gao, who are we different!!" Gao Yu greeted Tong Guan, just like the guy at the door just now, nodded and brought Tong Guan to a young man.
Sitting next to Gao Gongji was a little fat man, and his round head made it seem that the head on his head was like a bowl buckled on top of his head. He laughed loudly, and the flesh on his chest trembled: "Then it depends on who gives him a lot of silver, and he will follow whomever he wants." Anyway, I'm supporting Brother Gongji, and I'm betting on Brother Gongji this time, that's fifty taels of silver! ā
Gao Gongji pouted and said: "Zhu Zizhen, you are not happy to say that you are stingy, it is only fifty taels, and if Gao Yu releases water, I am afraid that you can win a few hundred taels of silver at that time." ā
"Hey, you also said that I was stingy, this will be Xianlou when I didn't check out......" The little fat man who was called Zhu Zizhen said unconvinced.
"Hey, hey, what are you arguing about! Who said that it must be the county king's mansion to win?! Tong Guan was not happy when he heard it, and a few of them were talking about the Keju Contest between the palaces in a few days.
Zhu Zizhen said: "Could it be that your Zhennan Wangfu wins?" The royal juju conference this time, if the Zhennan Royal Mansion can participate, it will already give your prince enough face, your prince doesn't give face to a few princes, and the boy doesn't give us a few faces? ā
Gao Yu dragged Tong Guan and said: "That's it, when the time comes, you will be the same as me, just release water to the king of Gao Gongji, and now his odds are high, then we will all make a lot of money." ā
"Go, go!" Tong Guan shook off Gao Yu: "I know that you boys are uneasy and kind, and I won't play with you anymore, I'll invite you this time!" As he spoke, Tong Guan took out two taels of silver from his arms and put them on the table.
This is all the style of everyone's son, you must know that in the Song Dynasty restaurant, the cost of four or five people is only a few tens of dollars. Even this high-end and high-grade Huixian Building can't cost three or four hundred dollars. One tael of silver is about three hundred dollars, and these two taels of silver can be doubled.
Seeing that Tong Guan was really angry, a tall and thin young man sitting next to Zhu Zizhen took the silver and stuffed it to Tong Guan: "Daofu, they are joking." ā
This person was the oldest, but he was only eighteen or nineteen years old.
"Yes, yes, we're kidding, why should Michio be serious!" Gao Gongji changed his words and smacked his lips at Zhu Zizhen.
"Good! Joke, come, drink! Zhu Zizhen immediately understood Gao Gongji's intentions, and Gao Yu hurriedly poured wine for a few.
Tong Guan looked left and right again.
"Michio, what are you looking for?" Gao Yu asked as he poured his wine.
"How did you choose such a place?" Tong Guan frowned and said, there are many people in this place, if he knows about it, I'm afraid he will be unhappy.
"Well, I said, it's all waiting for you. We know that you came late today, so naturally you came out late, and there is no upstairs attic here. The tall and thin man was Han Shijin, and he replied to Tong Guan's words.
"Alas, there's no point in just drinking!" Zhu Zizhen muttered, then raised his head and said to the counter: "Why haven't you come yet?!" ā
"Immediately, immediately, a few sons will do a little, Miss Hua will come soon!" The guy responded politely.
"This Miss Flower again?" Tong Guan asked.
"Hmph, Uncle Ben doesn't believe it, we came to praise her, and we didn't smile at all! I have to clean her up today, Zhu Zizhen said, pulling up the sleeves of the caftan made of good fabric. ā
"Who are you cleaning up, probably Miss Hua won't look down on you, so it's good to sing a song to you." Gao Gongji laughed and said.
After a while, a little girl came with a piano in her arms, bowed her head, saluted the teenagers at the table, and then sat down and began to play and sing. The little girl is fifteen or sixteen years old, she is not arrogant, but she has not been here to play and sing for a long time, and she is full of sadness, so she sings a song to complain and euphemist, coupled with her slightly childish and crisp voice, it has attracted the attention of many people who eat and drink in the restaurant.
Several teenagers didn't notice this, and halfway through the girl's singing, Zhu Zizhen slapped the table: "Okay, okay, the gentlemen are here to have fun, can't you sing something happy?" ā
The girl still lowered her head: "The slave family will not!" ā
"Smack!" Zhu Zizhen took advantage of the strength of the wine and threw the cup to the ground, and the shopkeeper hurriedly walked over: "Oh, Zhu Gongzi, this, this new girl is not sensible, I can't accompany you." Little Er, do you have the attic you want? ā
A guy ran down from upstairs with a pile of cleaned up dishes and chopsticks: "There you have, there you have it, there is just a room upstairs!" ā
The shopkeeper smiled with him: "A few sons, the downstairs doesn't count, the upstairs will prepare new wine and food for you, please a few upstairs!" ā
Zhu Zizhen squeezed his eyes at Gao Yu, and Gao Yu pulled the girl surnamed Hua: "Go, go upstairs and sing to the masters!" ā
The girl twisted this but couldn't break free, and the shopkeeper didn't stop it, and the flower girl was half-pulled and half-dragged upstairs to the single room by Gao Yu. While cleaning up the leftovers on the table, the man asked the shopkeeper, "Do you want to go up and have a look?" ā
The shopkeeper shook his head: "This, these people, none of them can be provoked!" ā
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