Chapter Twenty-Three: Thanks
Ji Liren came back from Linfeng, and there really was a letter from Yin Dongsheng. After getting along these days, he knew that she liked sweets, especially osmanthus cakes, so he really asked people patiently, and brought back a osmanthus cake from the cake shop at the end of the West Market, and did not forget to pay attention to the movements in the city halfway.
Just came from the West Market, Ji Liren deliberately took a detour, walked to the old house of Chen Da's family, and saw a group of movers moving all the things from the ruins from a distance, and there were some people around to talk about it.
Ji Liren leaned over to listen, but he didn't hear any news.
"This Chen family has also created evil, the family is gone, and the ancestral old mansion is cheaper than those who are officials."
"No, I heard that the government was going to take over the land to build a house, and then sell it, but I made another profit."
"Doesn't the Chen family still have a son who is a soldier? Why didn't you see him on the day he was buried? ”
"I heard that the son of the Chen family suddenly disappeared in the barracks, and he couldn't find it."
"Hey...... This family is also pitiful. ”
Those onlookers were gossiping, Ji Liren didn't want to listen to it, so he picked up the osmanthus cake in his hand and walked in the direction of Dongshi, walking all the way, all the way to see those patrolling officers and soldiers holding the portraits of the song and comparing them one by one, and the slightly younger men did not escape being interrogated. The various liquor shops, restaurants, and inns along the road were all investigated one by one, and a table was specially prepared in the place where the list was posted in the city, and several officers and soldiers were registering the reported news one by one, and a long queue formed in front of the table. Ji Liren walked over expressionlessly, thinking in his heart that this was really the same as Sui Ge's guess.
Just as he was about to leave, Ji Liren was sharp-eyed to find that a group of soldiers was surrounding a man in a black robe with a wide hat who was heading towards the emperor's list.
Mystery Man!
Ji Liren pretended to be those who wanted to provide information and lined up in the line, his eyes kept looking in the direction of the mysterious man. The man kept his back to Ji Liren, and Ji Liren still couldn't see his appearance clearly, but he saw the guards beside him reporting to him: "Qian Lei, the richest man in Luoyang, and others have arrived in Handan." The mysterious man replied, and saw the guard nod in response. At this time, a man dressed in an official palace led a few guards to meet him in a hurry, and he was very respectful to the mysterious man, but as soon as the official opened his mouth to say the word "country", he was silenced, as if he had been stopped, and then the group walked into the city tower.
Ji Liren continued to stand for a while before leaving the queue. After walking into the alley and confirming that there was no one, he took off his mask, nodded his toes, and the figure disappeared.
Sui Ge in the drunken flower building doesn't know when he fell asleep, the girl on that floor is also intimate, knocking on the door and seeing no one responding, he didn't come in to disturb, until he woke up and opened the window, the girl outside came to ask if she wanted to prepare lunch, and she promised to follow the song.
The girl put a few plates of delicate dishes on the table, soaked a pot of Biluo Chun before making a salute and preparing to go down.
Sui Ge stretched out his hand to stop it, and asked with a smile, "Little sister, what time is it?" ”
The girl just heard that there was a handsome guest in the building, and the flush on her face after seeing Sui Ge did not retreat, and now she asked Sui Ge, and immediately replied flatteredly: "Hui Gongzi, it has just passed noon." ”
Sui Song looked out the window when he heard the words, and sure enough, he found that the sun was a little dazzling. She wondered what had happened to Ji Liren outside.
The girl saw that Suige seemed to be thinking something, and asked with these expectations: "Childe, is there anything else that the little slave needs to do?" ”
The treatment of the girls in the green building is far less than those girls on the flower list, those guests who come here are nothing more than those beautiful girls on the flower list, if one day you are lucky enough to be favored by the guests, then the girl will be blessed, the good can be redeemed by the guests as a concubine or Mei Ji raised, the worst can also be among the flower lists of the drunken flower building, as a girl who picks up guests. What's more, if you meet a handsome brother like Sui Ge, if you are fancied, it will be a blessing that you have cultivated for several lifetimes.
Sui Ge didn't know what the girl was having, but when she asked, it gave her the opportunity to ask questions.
"Can you tell me who the Oiran of this drunken flower building is?"
Many of the guests who came here asked this, and the girl replied commonplacely, "It's Miss Fleur." ”
"Oh" with the song, but he didn't have the heart to inquire about the news of Furong, and continued to ask: "I heard Mei Niang say that there is a grand party in Zuihualou tonight, I wonder if you can tell me about it?" ”
The girl was overjoyed, and she wished she could ask her more questions and chat with her more: "Tonight is the annual Oiran selection of the Drunken Flower Building." We have a famous flower list in Zuihualou, where guests vote for flowers in the form of 10021 votes every month, and the girl who gets the most flower votes can perform at the annual Oiran audition. The guests who can participate in this selection meeting are distinguished guests from all over the world, some dignitaries will come, each guest can buy a flower ticket for 500 taels, vote for their favorite girl, and the guest who votes for the girl the most can spend the night with the girl. The Oiran selected on the day will be voted at a starting price of 1,000 taels, and the guest with the most votes will be selected and will be able to spend three nights with the Oiran girl. ”
Sui Song smiled and said, "That's really lively." ”
The girl seemed to open the conversation and answered, "Not really." Some of the girls in our building only sell on weekdays, but participating in this audition is equivalent to the first night of sales, and many customers are looking forward to this. ”
Sui Song's smile faded a little: "Oh? So what if the girl doesn't sell? ”
The girl tilted her head sideways and thought for a while before replying, "This little slave doesn't know either." I haven't heard of any girl in the drunken flower building who is unwilling, after all, the guests who participated tonight are noble, and the girl is eager to find a good master to redeem herself. ”
Sui Ge beckoned to her, stuffed a silver ingot into her hand, and whispered, "Keep it well, don't be discovered." ”
The girl's face was full of surprise, and her little red face was like a red apple, and she thanked her repeatedly. Sui Ge smiled and let her go.
The girl turned around in three steps, and after finally leaving, Ji Li jumped in from the window.
"You're buying people's hearts with money again." Ji Liren put the osmanthus cake on the table and advised: "You can eat it after lunch." ”
Sui Ge's hand stretched out to the pastry stopped because of his words, and after a while, he picked up the dishes and chopsticks and ate them by himself, and said while eating: "My trick is very useful, you should learn it." ”
Ji Liren put a piece of meat into the bowl of singing and said, "Okay, listen to you." ”
Sui Ge glanced at Ji Liren a lot, and always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it for a while.
Ji Liren put down his chopsticks, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Sui Ge.
Sui Song took a sip of tea before opening the letter, and asked as he opened it: "You didn't open it to see?" ”
Ji Liren took a bite of the dish and said in a disciplined manner: "This is a letter to you, others can't read it." ”
Sui Song smiled, no comment, but he was happy in his heart. opened the letter and read it for a while, and the eyebrows of Dai who sang with the song raised slightly.
"What, what's wrong?" Ji Liren put down his chopsticks, but after reading the letter handed over by the song, he also raised his eyebrows, "Yin Dongsheng is coming to Handan to find us?" ”
Sui Ge continued to eat and said: "He said that the case of the prefect of Xuzhou has been closed, and it is expected that the people here will not let go, so he personally brought the official document and the prince's dictate to save me." ”
"Why do you want to come in person?"
Sui Song shrugged, "I don't know, but I guess he must have something else." It's okay, it's okay to come, after Handan is here, we need to act separately. In the places mentioned by Chen Da, we can't delay, it's better to disperse the investigation. ”
When Ji Liren heard her words, his heart instantly sank like a stone, but what she said was reasonable, the situation was quite grim for them now, and he was not allowed to think about it.
Sui Ge didn't know what Ji Liren was thinking now, and only told him what the girl had just said to her. After listening carefully, Ji Liren said to Sui Ge that he saw a mysterious person on the side of the city tower today.
"The first word of the official to call the mysterious man is the country?" Sui Song twisted his eyebrows, speculated for a while, and didn't have any eyebrows, "This may be a name or a title, there is too little information to confirm the identity." ”
Ji Liren was headed, and he thought so too, "They also mentioned the richest man in Luoyang. I don't know if the winery in Luoyang has nothing to do with this rich man. ”
After a while, Suige had already run out of lunch, and she sighed after taking a sip of Biluochun: "The food in this Qinglou is really good, no wonder it is so expensive." After speaking, she couldn't wait to open the cake box brought back by Ji Liren, and as soon as she opened the package, she smelled the fragrance of osmanthus flowers. She picked up a piece and tasted it carefully, with a look of satisfaction on her face, and her mood improved. After eating a piece, she said slowly: "I heard that there is a grand party in Zuihualou tonight, and many dignitaries will come, anyway, we are here too, maybe we can meet someone I want to meet." ”
Ji Liren nodded and agreed, anyway, they can't do anything now.
"Can the brocade box be put away by the wind?" Since Yin Dongsheng is coming, it is obviously inappropriate to hand over the brocade box to him, so he simply let Linfeng take it. If necessary, he was able to easily escape and send it to the crown prince.
After Ji Liren calmly responded with a "put it away", he went out and called a girl to clean up the desktop.
The two of them had nothing to do, and they didn't know what to do, but they didn't know that just after the time came, Ruyan came with a girl.
"Ruyan has seen two sons." Ruyan softly saluted the two.
Sui Ge sat on the Taishi's chair, and Ji Liren stood behind him.
greeted Ruyan with the song: "The girl is so wow." ”
Ruyan said something to the girl beside her, and the girl obediently retreated outside the house, and helped them to open the door.
"It's rare for a son to remember like smoke, it's a blessing like smoke." Ruyan's face is much better at the moment, only occasionally there are a few coughs, "If there is no son to help today, Ruyan doesn't know what to do." "The thought of being sick to death and being ravaged by a boss like a pig makes me feel like smoke.
Sui Ge smiled slightly, "You really remember us." ”
Ji Liren was a little puzzled when he heard Sui Ge's words, but after looking at this smoke-like girl carefully, it took a while to wake up, this is the Qinglou woman who drugged her handkerchief last night, and her face was blue and white at the moment.
Ruyan pursed his lips and smiled: "I was offended by Ruyan last night and brought trouble to my son, I'm really sorry." Drunken Hualou has always had such a small trick, but it is only used for pleasure, and there is no big malice, and I hope that Gongzi Haihan. ”
"I didn't cause any big trouble, but it just made my family Ah Si a little confused." Sui Ge said.
Thinking of the embarrassment last night, now listening to the words of Sui Ge, Ji Liren's face couldn't help but flush faintly, his eyes avoided the two women, and he looked obliquely at the floor on the side. No matter how much anger there is in my heart now, it has been extinguished by the words of Sui Song.
After all, he tasted some sweetness last night.
"Confused." Ji Liren repeated in a low voice, and suddenly felt that these four words were also good.