Chapter 082: Tempting Fish
There were a few soft tuks outside the canopy, and the two of them hurriedly stopped talking and listened attentively, and the coachman whispered:
"Young Master, Miss Lin, I've found a place."
This is a narrow street in front of the Dinglong River, and the name is Dinglong Front Street.
On the north and south sides of the street, there are many liquor shops and restaurants, and together with the adjacent Jiaolan Lane, it is the most prosperous street in Kyoto.
The entrance of a two-storey small building that Xu Pozi just entered is on Dinglong Front Street, which is a row of buildings backed by the Dinglong River, and there are many pavilions and flower galleries near the river.
There are sake shops and tea shops that set up guest seats in the flower gallery near the river, which gradually connects into a scale, and since noon, there are frequent carriages and horses, and the warblers and swallows along the river are staggered, which is a wonderful place for the rich and noble families in Kyoto to entertain guests and dine.
Because the side facing the street in the small building did not open the window, it was impossible to find out the situation inside, so Zu Yong ordered the coachman to drive the carriage to Jiaolan Lane, which is located on the other side of the river, and parked under the willow trees covered with snow.
In order to enhance the viewing effect, most of these buildings have all the windows on the riverside side, and the upstairs has made a hollow flower gallery, after opening the windows, everything in the interior can be seen clearly.
It's just that the window of the small building where Xu Pozi entered the river is also closed, and the pavilion on the flower gallery is empty.
I don't know when Huang Qi also got into the car quietly and sat side by side with the coachman on the front of the car.
At this time, it is the middle of winter, and the river has been completely frozen, just because the flower gallery adjacent to the river is heated by charcoal fires day and night, and the air near it is warm, and there is little freezing.
There are also shrewd hawkers who buy or rent all kinds of boats to sail through the river under the flower gallery, selling seasonal snacks and daffodils and plum branches, etc., if there are customers who want to buy, they hang small baskets with soft ropes, and give copper coins to the vendors on the river, and the vendors take their own copper coins and put their belongings in the basket, and the buyers carry the rope and pull them up.
"Heh......"
Zu Yong exclaimed.
Everyone followed his gaze and couldn't help but exclaim.
A slender girl walked out of the flower corridor of the small building, different from the Central Plains woman who was weak and petite, the woman's figure was thick and delicate, exquisite and graceful, half a head higher than the ordinary Central Plains woman, leaning on the side of the water and shining flowers on the side of the flower in a group of killing colors in Kyoto winter.
She glanced inadvertently at the river, and several people exclaimed at the same time, turquoise eyes, although they had not seen a worm, but just by the appearance of this girl, everyone was sure that she was a worm.
At this time, a small boat full of green plums stopped downstairs, and the vendor on the boat seemed to be talking to the worm, and Xu Pozi in the house also followed out when he heard the sound.
Although she is also a woman and has seen all kinds of beautiful women with fat and thin rings, Yiqiu is still shocked by the beauty of creeping.
In addition to being shocked, seeing that Zu Yong was still looking at the beautiful woman on the opposite flower corridor stupidly, Yiqiu couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, fortunately, there was reason for her to feel that her anger had no reason, and she couldn't help but slap Zu Yong's head, but she heard him snort stupidly:
"In this weather, she should be fine if she falls into the water."
Yiqiu then remembered that he was going to save the worm from the cage, but now these few people who are not promising......
She kicked Huang Qi fiercely, and her strength was also full of Fang Cai's anger towards Zu Yong, "It's so easy to find!" Don't hurry up and contact people! ”
"Slowly, slowly."
Zu Yong grabbed Huang Qi and stretched out his hand to block him.
Seeing that several people turned their eyes to him again, Zu Yong did not avoid suspicion, and said boldly to Yiqiu:
"My aunt, have you only been beautiful and have no brains for many years?"
This compliment...... Bold and novel, Huang Qi went through it in his heart, and found that this kind of compliment was not suitable for him to use for Yiqiu, so he couldn't help but laugh for a while, trying not to laugh.
Zu Yong looked at Yiqiu's cheeks that were gradually dyed rouge, and his heart felt as if he had been softly punched, and he sighed in pain.
"Your father...... Uncle Lin wants you to find Worm, don't you want to find out who detained her? ”
Yiqiu suddenly, yes, who hid the worm to blackmail Fu Zhi?
"So, you have a way again?"
Half an hour later.
"Overboard! Someone overboard! ”
Liu Qi guarded the entrance of the small building and drank a little wine.
Just before Xu Pozi left, she explained that she couldn't hurt the worms upstairs, and she shouldn't be allowed to show up on the flower gallery.
I only heard her ask a simple question with the plum blossom seller on the river boat, and she was about to go upstairs to stop it, but she heard a plop, and when she went upstairs, there was still a creeping shadow, and there was no trace on the river.
It just so happened that the other vendors' boats on the river were far away at this time, and it was just past lunchtime, and most of the diners on the upper floors nearby dispersed at this time, and no one noticed that there were people overboard.
Looking at the river with broken ice and struggling and hesitating, Liu Qi decided to go to Qinghe Tower now to find Xu Pozi to move the rescuers.
A canopy boat laden with green plum branches sailed lightly east along the river and docked behind a secluded abandoned garden.
Several people on the shore pulled the black cloak of the worm ashore, and then pulled Huang Qi, who was wet and wrapped in a quilt, up from the boat.
He just showed the ability to climb the head of the city during the siege war, easily went up to the flower gallery on the second floor of the small building, and with the skill of capturing the enemy general alive, tied the worm plug mouth to his back and climbed the rope down, and finally jumped on the flower gallery to untie the rope, and closed his heart and eyes and threw himself into the river......
Although this ancestral son has a lot of ghost ideas, in his Huang Qi's opinion, it is purely to please the young lady, and when it is his turn to work on the real details, he simply doesn't know anything and throws it to himself.
For example, Fang Cai, how to go upstairs silently to save the worm, he couldn't give a way, Huang Qi had to take out the battlefield skills he had practiced for more than 20 years, and directly tied people up. The orchid was so strong, and after her hands, feet, and mouth were restrained, she was about to hit her head on herself and wanted to die together, and she really used a lot of skill to rescue people, and she also performed the illusion of falling into the water.
In the carriage on the other side of the river, Yiqiu lifted the sedan curtain and stared motionlessly at the movement of the small building on the other side of the river. It has been nearly half an hour since Huang Qi rescued people, but no one has come.
"Young master, where are the flowers and food you bought?"
"I don't want this, I'll reward you."
Zu Yong replied casually, and the coachman who had carried a bunch of things in front of the carriage thanked him with a happy face, and threw all the flowers under his armpits on the ground, and only carefully put the food he was holding in his arms, and sat on the ground and ate it in a big gulp.
Yiqiu smiled when he saw this:
"I just became a big customer, led all the reasonable vendors over, bought so many things, and only used the food quilt to the fullest."
Zu Yong ordered the coachman to take the silver to a place a little far away from the small building to buy a lot, attracting all the vendors on the river, so that Huang Qi could climb up the small building and enter the house during the day to bring the worm down.
At this time, the river where Xiaolou was located became noisy, and about seven or eight small boats entered the water, searching for something around Xiaolou and in the direction of downstream.
Yiqiu and Zu Yong looked with bated breath, and on the flower corridor of the small building, beside Xu Pozi, a middle-aged man wearing a royal blue brocade cloak appeared, with the long beard under his chin trembling slightly in the cold wind, and he commanded the busy people on the small boat on the river in a frustrated manner.
"Find a few more people to follow him, don't chase him too closely, just know where he went and lived."