Chapter 43: The Whiplash Effect (1)
Changshou stayed in the No. 5 private room of Qingyun Tea House, calmly waiting for Ou Qingjin to come out after finishing his work.
There was a chuckle in the room, and then someone stood up, and Changshou knew that the matter inside was over, and immediately stood outside the door with his hands bowed respectfully.
After a while, Ou Qing came out from the inside: "Let's go." Changshou quietly looked into the No. 5 private room, but saw nothing. The two walked to the lobby, and the shopkeeper stepped forward to say: "Fourth master, can you drink well?" ”
Ou Qingjin smiled and said: "I haven't drunk such a good tea for a long time, so I wrapped the white silver needle just now." Xia Ruixi loves to drink the white silver needle, or rather, she loves to see that when the tea is brewed, "full of floating tea milk", the silver needle is erect, and the top and bottom are staggered.
The shopkeeper smiled carefully: "That is the best during this time, it is extremely difficult to come by, and now that there is war, even if there is good tea, it can't be shipped." ”
Changshou thought that he wanted to ask for more silver, and was slightly impatient: "How much silver?" We have. ”
The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed: "It's not silver, it's only three taels or less, if it weren't for the fourth master today, the small one wouldn't take it out." Otherwise, the guests will come, and if there is no good tea, they will not come in the future. This means that it should be kept for the store and not sold.
Longevity was not happy: "Who are you lying to?" There is a huge shop, and there are only three taels of good tea, "What door do you open and what kind of business do you do?" Egoists often come to take care of your business. That's how you repay your customers? ”
The shopkeeper's forehead was sweating: "The fourth master's care, although the small one is kept in mind, it is really ......"
Ou Qing stopped Changshou: "If not, forget it." Who would have a reason to keep their business out? I don't know if there are other homes? ”
The shopkeeper sighed and said: "I won't tell you, this good tea is available in the Wen family in Phifu Lane in front, and our good tea comes from him." It's just that he is adulterous, and he is only willing to sell half a catty every time, which is ridiculously expensive. Selling loose tea, you can barely get back to the cost, if you weigh two numbers, I'm afraid that no one will be willing to buy it.
We can't get good tea from other places, so we have to spend this money in order to support the stall. I don't say anything else, but the fourth master is different from others, you go and take a look, maybe he is willing to sell half a catty to the house. ”
Ou Qingjin kept this Phifu Lane Wen family in mind, it seems that this family is very scheming, but I am afraid that it will not be long before the good tea in the entire western capital will be monopolized by his family.
Changshou looked at Ou Qingjin's eyes and threw a silver ingot of five taels on the counter: "Thank you." ”
Changshou said: "Fourth master, Phifu Lane, isn't the old house of my aunt's grandmother there?" Didn't the young master and the old housekeeper go there too? Shall we take a look? ”
Ou Qingjin also wanted to see what the origin of this Wen family was, and why he could get good tea that no one else could get. The two pharmacies that Xia Ruixi married have no supply now, if they can have some relationship with the family, it would be good to transport some medicine when transporting tea.
This day is the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, it is a good time to "kill pigs and cut the meat of the New Year", although there are few things, but the streets are full of people, not trying to be lively.
Ou Qingjin rode a horse, feeling that there were too many people and it was inconvenient, so he simply got off the horse, let Changshou lead the horse and follow him slowly, and walked to Phifu Lane first.
There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and a rouge horse galloped from Liji Street near the entrance of Phifu Lane, and stopped beside Ou Qingjin with a gust of wind: "Hey, the master asks you, have you seen a thief in white passing through here?" "The handsome young man on the horse wore a black brocade jacquard robe, brown buckskin boots, and a big red feather satin fox fur cloak, his face was like jade, and he looked forward to Shenfei, so he was not handsome.
The horse is a good horse, and the talent is also first-class, but it is a pity that it is too rude and arrogant, Ou Qingjin glanced at him lightly, shook his head slowly, and kept under his feet.
The young man had probably never been treated so indifferently, glared at him angrily, and was about to leave, when two black horses rushed out of Phifu Alley. The two blue-clothed young men who were dressed in general clothes immediately and were equally handsome muttered loudly at the red-cloaked young man: "Young master, there is no one in the alley, the thief must have gone to a crowded place." ”
"There, I saw it."
The three of them rushed out at a gallop. Everywhere he went, there was an exclamation.
"Little thief! Tell you to run! Tell you to run! The young man at the head shouted loudly.
"Yikes!" The crowd shouted, and Ou Qingjin stopped and stood with his hands in his hands and watched from afar. I saw that the horsewhip in the hand of the red cloak was twice as long as the ordinary horsewhip, about six feet long, like a flexible and powerful snake, unscrupulously pumping towards the noisiest crowd.
"Don't be afraid of death or injury, just surround it!" With a shout from the young man in blue,
The crowd dispersed like a tide, revealing a white-robed young man in the middle, with his hair scattered, scrambling to protect his head and face desperately avoiding the snake-like whip. No matter how fast he was, he couldn't beat the whip of the red cloak, and soon the white robe was whipped to shreds, revealing the white silk inside, as embarrassed as he was. Fortunately, the red cloak is mostly teasing, not asking for human life, so he was able not to see red.
Ou Qing sighed when he saw it, the white-robed young man had difficulty moving his legs and feet, and the red cloak had superb riding skills and was condescending, so it was no wonder that the white-robed young man was going to suffer. He has never liked to watch the excitement, and he saw that these three people were very rich and arrogant, so rich and arrogant, and it was estimated that they were also the nobles of the new dynasty, and rshǚ.сōm was too lazy to meddle in things, so he only walked forward slowly.
The red cloak here smiled proudly: "Little thief, do you think you can do that two-legged and three-legged cat kung fu?" Let you know how powerful the master is! The whip on it was like an eye, and rolled up to one of the sleeves of the white-clothed young man's robe, and simply went down, and one sleeve was removed, revealing the white-clothed boy's undergarment. The boy still held his head and face tightly.
The red cloak sneered: "Do you know how to wear white?" Why are you covering your face? Are you still afraid that the master will ruin your face? You let the master see what you look like, you are worthy of this white, no, otherwise you will be embarrassed and thrown to grandma's house! The whip in his hand rolled up the sleeves of the young man's white shirt again, and this time it was a little off, but instead of tearing off the sleeves, the whip brought a large piece of placket, and turned out the black lining of the white cotton robe.
Looking at the lively crowd, it was a little strange: "Is there anyone who wears clothes like this?" The material is not to make the face to make the lining, but to use muslin as the fabric? ”
A young man in blue shouted happily: "Hahaha, I know! It turns out that he doesn't like to wear white. He wears clothes backwards, black is the main color, and white is the lining. This kind of plan turned out to be a thief! ”
"It turned out to be deliberate." The red cloak put away the meaning of jokes, with a sinister aura in his eyes, and whipped at the young man's head and face: "You hide your head and tail like this, the master wants to see where you are sacred!" Dare to spy on the master's mansion! ”
The crowd of onlookers from a distance gasped, this whip was different from the previous whips with the intention of playing, it was extremely ruthless, this whip went down, I was afraid that half of the scalp of the young man in the robe would be swept away.
When Ou Qingjin heard that the clothes were black, he turned his head suddenly, and the more he looked at the figure of the white-clothed young man with his hair scattered, the more familiar he became, who was Shang Shiqing who was not pestering him to go out early in the morning? Seeing that this whip was coming dangerously, he couldn't get up in one breath, so he rushed forward without thinking.
Although his kung fu can't be compared with Mu Fei and others, it is very good compared to ordinary people. The whip of the red cloak had already touched Shang Shiqing's hair, and he grabbed it in his hand.
The red cloak was furious at first, then smiled darkly, and pulled back vigorously with the whip, which he had barbs on, so that he could whip those clothes all over the sky. He thought that only if he pulled and pulled like this, Ou Qingjin's palm would have to go to a trough of meat even if it wasn't stung. Who knew that he used all his strength to feed, and the whip could not shake half a point.
The red cloak had never suffered such a loss, his thin and long eyebrows stood up suddenly, his eyes widened with copper bells, and he couldn't wait to eat Ou Qingjin: "What are you doing?" Get lost! "I wanted to whip him down with a whip, but the whip couldn't be pumped in someone's hands.
The two blue-clothed young men changed their faces at the same time, and the two whips were drawn towards Ou Qingjin at the same time, Ou Qingjin saw it clearly, and before the whips of the two people got close to him, he wrapped the whips of the red cloak to the side and wrapped the whips of the two to death.
Red Cloak was ashamed and angry: "Who told you to meddle in your business!" Retire! Feed! Let go! ”
Ou Qing ignored the red cloak, stood steadily, and glared viciously at Shang Shiqing, who was squatting on the ground and holding his head: "Don't stand up yet!" What a system this looks like! ”
Shang Shiqing heard Ou Qingjin's voice, so he dared to put down the hand that was protecting his head and face, and said loudly: "Fourth uncle, I'm not, I didn't steal his family's things...... A dozen of them fight one...... If ......it weren't for the fact that these people didn't follow the rules, they came up and beat people indiscriminately, and they tore his old wounds by deceit, he might not have been so miserable.
"I'll settle accounts with you later!" Ou Qingjin glared at Shang Shiqing fiercely, turned his face and let go, and hugged his fists to apologize to the red cloak: "A few sons, I'm really sorry." This is the junior in my family, he is stubborn by nature, and he rarely gets into trouble, and if he wants to steal, he never will, and there must be a misunderstanding in this. Please give him a chance to explain, explain clearly, I asked him to apologize to a few people for drinking, and punish those who should be punished, and never tolerate them: if you break something, we will double the compensation for those who should be compensated, how about asking the prince to give up? ”
Seeing that he let go, the red cloak withdrew the whip and sneered: "You said that let the master go?" Just now, the master asked if you saw him, but you didn't say anything, it turned out to be a group. Look at how you look like a dog, it turns out that you are also a den of thieves! I'm going to whip him today, even if I kill him, he's going to suffer in vain, and I'll blind him all the time today, what are you going to do? How dare you? As he spoke, he pulled it into Shang Shiqing's left eye.
He is a master on the left and a thief on the right, looking unreasonable and demanding people's lives, which aroused Ou Qingjin's heart.