Chapter Thirty-Eight: Striking the Grass and Startling the Snake

The fireworks alley looks particularly depressed during the day, but at night, it is like a honeycomb that has woken up from hibernation, the cars and horses are like dragons, the lights are red and green, and the sedan chairs and carriages and horses that come one after another stop at the door of a ** museum, and then there are people in civilian clothes who walk into the fireworks pollen field under the front and back of the servants. Bayi Chinese Network

If he hadn't put himself in his shoes, Liu Chengfeng would never have thought that there would be such a free place at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and then compared with his dilapidated hundred households, compared with these ** pavilions with carved beams and paintings, it is really a heaven and an underground.

Different from other wandering warblers here, no one has painted rouge to solicit customers, even the atmosphere is extremely elegant, there is no unbridled laughter in it, but the sound of silk and bamboo quietly floats out, and every window is shooting out dark red light.

Liu Chengfeng only stood in the crowd of freshly dressed and angry horses for a while, and then pulled the timid old Huo beside him, and said, "Go, go back." ”

Lao Huo was surprised and said, "Adults are not going to ......"

"you." Liu Chengfeng taught him seriously: "What is there to go in such a messy place? I'm a family with a sister-in-law, what do you think of me? Besides, the Qing people in this ghost place can't touch it, they can't touch it, they take some songs, pipa and the like to fool your money all day long. ”

Lao Huo couldn't help smacking his tongue and said in a low voice: "Adult, be quiet, it's not good to be heard." "There are endless crowds here, there are pretentious talents, there are masters of various mansions, Liu Chengfeng's words can be regarded as scolding them to the point that they can't be more thorough, maybe it will not end well if it causes public anger.

Liu Chengfeng took Lao Huo out, and at the end of the day, they said goodbye.

Back to Wen's house, as soon as he entered the gatehouse, Liu Chengfeng was intercepted by Wen Chenruo, Wen Chenruo was wearing a sassy leather armor today, heroic, and his slim figure was wrapped in this tight leather armor, which made it even more convex and backward, Liu Chengfeng's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but think of what Fang had just said in the fireworks alley, and thought to himself, why did I say to Lao Huo that there was a family and a sister-in-law? It's so evil, is there such an evil thought in my heart? Don't even let go of your own sister-in-law?

He thought about it, and then immediately dispelled this thought, this little girl is too cruel, it is better not to set herself on fire.

Wen Chenruo grinned at him and said, "Look at what you see, and then look at gouging your eyes." ”

Liu Chengfeng is not the nerd he used to be, he had to fight a cold war in the past, but now that he has done a hundred households, he has an unprecedented self-confidence in body and mind. Liu Chengfeng laughed and teased her: "If you gouge out my eyes, I will shout loudly and shout indecent ......"

Wen Chenruo took a sip of Liu Chengfeng and said, "Who is rare to insult you?" Today, in order to find out the news for you, I was really tired to death, and I tortured a few guys who didn't know each other before I asked something. ”

Liu Chengfeng immediately got serious and said, "My good sister-in-law, let's talk about it, what did you find out?" ”

Wen Chenruo's big eyes arched into a crescent moon, and said, "What's the benefit of saying it?" ”

Liu Chengfeng said: "Brother-in-law and sister-in-law are also so vulgar? The friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, you are a gentleman among women, and I am a fighter among gentlemen......"

"What is a fighter jet?"

Liu Chengfeng was stunned, and said with a smile: "A moment of slip of the tongue, a moment of slip of the tongue." All in all, brother-in-law and you can't talk about benefits, and when you talk about benefits, the relationship will fade, think about it, who is your closest person? ”

Wen Chenruo tilted his head and thought for a while: "Grandmother......"

Liu Chengfeng said seductively: "What else? ”

Wen Chenruo said: "My father." ”

Liu Chengfeng gritted his teeth: "Is there anything else?" ”

Wen Chenruo said: "Naturally, there is my sister." ”

Finally put the words out, Liu Chengfeng clapped his hands high-fived: "That's it, your closest person is your sister, my closest person is my wife, the closest person to my brother-in-law is the same as the person closest to you, what kind of fate is this?" ”

Wen Chenruo couldn't help but smack his tongue: "You just want to find out the news from my mouth, why bother going around in such a big circle?" You scholars are really hateful, all of them are sanctimonious, male thieves and female **. ”

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but be defeated by her logic, going around in circles has a little to do with hate, but what is the connection between going around in circles and being sanctimonious, male thieves and women's **?

Wen Chenruo smiled like a silver bell and said, "Okay, I won't accompany my brother-in-law to talk so much, I will go to my grandmother's place later." After that, he took out a booklet and handed it to Liu Chengfeng and said: "The news of the sixty-three ** museums in Fireworks Hutong is here, you can see it yourself." ”

After that, Wen Chenruo seemed to drift away like a puff of green smoke, leaving only a faint scent of incense. Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but rub his nose and said in his heart: "What kind of incense powder is this?" How do I remember that this little girl never wears incense powder, why is she good today? I didn't have time to think about it, but I opened the book casually through the lantern under the eaves and looked at it, only to realize that the information here was so detailed that there was no omission.

Liu Chengfeng felt even more confused, just one day, what method did this little girl use to find out? It seems that Chenruo is not simple, she usually looks stupid, but I am afraid that Liu Chengfeng underestimated her.

Liu Chengfeng put away the booklet and hid it close to him, and then walked leisurely back to his courtyard to rest.

After a few days, Liu Chengfeng went to the 100 households to take care of official business every day, and occasionally went to the Guozi Prison to listen to the lectures. He has already developed a tacit understanding with the doctors and prisoners in the Guozi Prison, although everyone may not be warm in normal times, but no one shows Liu Chengfeng a contemptuous look at him, and sometimes even someone will salute each other with him, showing respect for these hundred households.

Dr. Qin and Liu Chengfeng already have a friendship, and occasionally they will chat with Liu Chengfeng after class, Liu Chengfeng sometimes has nothing to do, and Dr. Qin will also borrow a few hand-copied books for him to read. Borrowing books is a means of falling in love, but such an old man and Liu Chengfeng borrowed books and returned books for three days and two days, which made Liu Chengfeng feel a little weird in his heart.

The spring of the capital has quietly gone, the early summer is scorching, after a period of spring rain, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, now there are precocious watermelons sold in this Beijing division, although it is not sweet, but the price is appallingly expensive, the school captain who went out to patrol the streets are sweating profusely, full of resentment. But at this time, rumors were spreading in the Guozi Prison.

Some of these rumors are conclusive, and some are chasing after the wind, but all the focus of public opinion is on the fireworks alley.

"The Fireworks Alley is the livelihood of the head of the household money and grain, I heard that even the owner of the Flower House is the house slave of the head of the family, and this master has a big family business......

"Hmph...... What a family business! The dignified court officials, they don't even want to be polite, righteous and shameful, they are secretly doing business, and they are still doing this kind of skin and meat business, which is really swept away, and when I see him, I am still sanctimonious, and I can't think of the copper smell and male thieves and women in my belly. ”

"It's not just the Flower Pavilion, even Cuiyunfang is also related to the imperial court officials, and I heard that it is related to a certain adult in Shuntian Mansion."

"The human heart is not ancient...... Such a person has nothing to do with **, the four words of Shinong industry and commerce, it was a precedent in the time of Taizu, business is a cheap business, I can't imagine that today's officials are good scholars, officials don't do it, but they do such a cheap business......"

These news, at first just circulated in secret, and slowly began to be discussed in the Guozijian, the matter of Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, has now been diluted, and the spearhead of the Guozijian, this time is directly aimed at the fireworks alley, and the sound of criticism is endless, seeing that another storm is brewing, and the momentum is extremely huge.

The news transmitted from the Guozijian was the gathering place of the Qing discussions, guiding the tide of the Qing discussions, and the news transmitted from here immediately triggered the criticism of the Qing discussions, and the whole city of Beijing seemed to be surging under the noise of some kind of invisible and incomprehensible undercurrent, but everyone who was involved in it could not help but start a cold war.

"Lord Baihu, I have recently noticed some abnormalities in the Guozijian Hall, and the doctors and prisoners in the Guozijian are now so excited that they openly insult the imperial court officials in class, and a few even say that they want to burn the fireworks alley......"

In the main hall of the hundred households, Liu Chengfeng stood in front of the desk holding a pen and meticulously writing calligraphy, while listening to the school captain sitting in the hall.

He smiled, waited for the captain to finish speaking, then threw the brush into the pen holder, carefully studied his words, then raised his head, and said, "I know, go down." ”

"But ......"

"But what?" Liu Chengfeng spoke softly, as if he was a humble gentleman, and said with a smile: "We are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, as long as it is not related to the royal affairs, follow the words of the scholars of the country, don't take care of the things that shouldn't be managed, don't get into trouble, do you know?" Let's go down. ”

Wait for the captain to quit.

Liu Chengfeng carefully looked at the four characters on the case that he imitated Dong Qichang's calligraphy with thick ink, couldn't help but smile, and muttered: "Fight the grass and scare the snake...... These four words are well written, and there is progress. ”