Those who often come to Suxianglou to listen to Dr. Cha speak, have some spare money in their hands, and many people really like to bet on a plate, not trying to make much copper plate silver, just to have a good time.

As soon as Dr. Tea said these words, he obviously knew the inside story, and immediately aroused everyone's interest, and they pricked up their ears.

"What? The doctor thought that Miss Gu would be good friends with Miss Xu? Someone asked.

Dr. Tea laughed: "Everyone doesn't know, Miss Gu and Miss Xu haven't turned their faces again."

We Suxianglou never tell stories indiscriminately, and last month in Zhongyuan, Miss Gu and Miss Xu were still watching the Pinghu River Lantern together in our upstairs private room.

At that time, Miss Xu and the son of the Ji family did not discuss marriage at all.

Don't say it in the next mouth, you can inquire, our Suxiang Building was full on the day of Zhongyuan, and there should be many people who saw those two girls coming in and out, right? ”

There happened to be the guests present that day, but the girls went out wearing hats, and they couldn't tell their identities, frowning and recalling carefully.

Someone poked his head out of the private room on the second floor and asked in a loud voice, "Which private room was it that day?" ”

Dr. Tea raised his hand and pointed: "At first, I sat in the No. 2 room along the street, but then the No. 3 room was vacant, so they moved over." The son and girl of the Pingyuan Marquis Mansion were also there that day, and Cheng Sangongzi was sitting in the No. 2 room of Tianzi. ”

The questioner patted his head and said, "Yo, it turns out that I saw the back of Miss Gu that day." Ladies and gentlemen, I was sitting in this private room that day, I saw a girl enter the second place, and then moved the third day, I don't know the girls, but I did see Cheng Sangongzi. ”

Cheng Jinzhi often comes to Suxiang Building, and the frequent guests know him, and when he hears that Dr. Tea and the guests on the second floor are thoughtful, his doubts are gone.

Dr. Tea said: "As long as you have inquired, you will know that Miss Xu and Miss Gu are moving around, and the dealer has set up a village, don't you know?" It's clearly the silver of the pit! ”

The saying "pit silver" made the guests who invested money excited.

They do not lack the money, but they do not like to be so calculated, and if they are quick-tempered, they will immediately go to the dealer to settle accounts.

The proprietor rubbed his hands on the side, greeted the guests, and sighed: "In fact, in the final analysis, it is the little matter of the elders, but it involves the younger generations. Otherwise, where did the brothers and sisters for many years come from so much disharmony. ”

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

There is no shortage of this kind of thing in the guests' homes, and they immediately understood the meaning of the host, and they couldn't help but smile and say.

However, one afternoon, when waiting for dinner, Jingli said that Gu Yunjin had no rules for doing things, or those who were high and low, and tended to be inflammatory, had already dispersed, and if anyone still put these "crimes" on it, he would immediately be laughed at for being backward.

In the Shilang Mansion, Wei Shi was rewarded, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

In Pearl Alley, Gu Yunjin looked at the two names mentioned in Xu Lingyi's letter, confused.

The woman is the wife of Zuo Shaoqing Fang of Honglu Temple, the old lady is her mother-in-law, and the Fang family has also lived in Qingliu Hutong for a long time, and has been adjacent to Xu Mansion for many years.

With Gu Yunjin here, there is no contradiction anymore.

Somehow said such a thing on the table, obviously deliberately causing trouble, but I don't know who they were shooting at.

Gu Yunjin had the heart to inquire about this Honglu Temple Zuo Shaoqing, but Nian Xia and Fudong were not people with a way, she thought about it, or put it aside for the time being, and planned to go back and ask about the wind.

The relationship between Beijing and Central China officialdom must have been known more by listening to the wind.

At the end of the month, Imperial Physician Wu came to see Xu, and he was naturally not followed by Xia Yi, but with a fresh face.

At the age of about ten years, his face is still round, and he looks very pleasing.

Doctor Wu liked this little child very much, and pointed out, "I didn't want to teach my disciple anymore, but when someone led me to me, I wanted to laugh when I saw him." Smile more and open your arms, Changle will live a long life, I want to live a few more years, so I will accept him. ”

The old lady laughed as she spoke, obviously very fond of the child.

Gu Yunjin sat on the side, supported his cheeks and smiled, laughed, couldn't help but think of Xia Yi, and then thought of the flood of the two lakes, and naturally thought of Jiang Muyuan.

There are rumors about the flood situation in Beijing, but the rumors in the market are not as good as the news from the government, and Gu Yunjin doesn't know if it's accurate.

Some say that the flood has flooded another city, and some say that there is an outbreak of disease in a place, and the news is strung together and the people are discussed.

Gu Yunjin sighed secretly, how long did this flood last in the past? The more she tried to remember, the more she couldn't figure it out, and in the end she had to give up.

It also rained in Jingzhou Mansion.

An autumn rain and a cold, and the heavy rain for several days made it cold in the middle of the night, making the life of the people who were already affected by the disaster even more difficult.

At the same time, the heavy rain has also aggravated the water situation, and the water surface is almost against the high part of the embankment in this area, and if there is another flood peak in the upper reaches, the Jingzhou area will not be able to protect it.

Jiang Muyuan lit the candlelight and carefully compared the map of the two lakes.

Han Lei knocked on the door and said in a low voice, "Master, the fifth master has arrived." ”

Jiang Muyuan bowed, and the fifth master walked in quickly.

The clothes were taken off at the door, but the rain was too strong, and the clothes on the fifth master were still a lot wet, a pair of shoes were muddy, and the wet hair stuck to his forehead and cheeks, which was not much better than scooping up in the water.

With this appearance, who can believe that he is the rich fifth son of the Zhou family in Yecheng.

The two of them got straight to the point, and they didn't talk about those vanities.

Wu Ye took the hot tea handed over by Han Lei, drank it all, his eyes fell on the map, and said: "I have been walking around the two lakes these days, and after the embankment burst, I also thought about the situation, and the little grandfather thought the same, this water situation is not quite right." ”

Jiang Muyuan raised his eyebrows, noncommittal, and waited for the fifth master to continue.

"This one, near Chenjiazhuang," Wu Ye's finger tapped the map, "I happened to be in Chenjiazhuang before the flood, and I saw the embankment, I thought this place should not have been broken." ”

Regardless of whether there is a problem with the construction of this section of the embankment, there are two breaches in the upstream, and the flood water rushes to flood the villages and towns, which makes the pressure on Chenjiazhuang located downstream much less.

It is said that Chenjiazhuang was able to cross the flood peak safely, but it broke soon after the upstream embankment burst.

"Chenjiazhuang is flooded," said the fifth master, "I met a man who escaped from Chenjiazhuang, and he said that on the night of the levee burst, he happened to go up the mountain, and he heard a bang, and then the flood came." He had always thought that the sound was bursting the embankment, but now that he was relieved, he thought that it was gunpowder. ”