Chapter 44: True Ghosts and False Ghosts
Caiye didn't give up, and said: "Let the other sisters accompany the general, the slave family is uncomfortable, so let's retire!" ”
The man hurriedly said, "Hey, don't go." Good colored leaves, don't be angry. It's really an important errand on the fifteenth day of every month, and I can't leave. I can come to accompany you day and night, but this fifteen can't. ”
Why is that? What else can a curfew do? Caiye asked in a voice.
The man hesitated: "This is a secret and can't be told to you, and it won't be good for you if you know." As long as you know that there are no ghosts in this world, you don't need to be afraid. ”
"Why is the general so sure there are no ghosts? This Demon Realm Emissary has been seen by someone with their own eyes. So many people have died. ”
"You women are just timid. General Ben gives you a packing ticket, that's not a ghost. ”
"Not a ghost? What is that? Yes.... Could it be that someone is pretending? Caiye exclaimed.
"Shhhh Be quiet! It's a fatal disaster, so don't ask that much. What's so good about this song and dance, let's go to the wing room and let General Ben accompany you well, you won't be afraid, hahaha...."
Cai Yejiao smiled: "The general is so bad, it's still so early!" Oops...."Before he finished speaking, he was picked up by the man.
The man laughed and walked out of the seat with the colored leaves in his arms.
Zhao Ting, who was next door, was moved when he heard this, and turned his head and ordered: "Go and ask, who is the man just now!"
"Yes!" He Chong walked out.
It didn't take long for He Chong to return. whispered in Zhao Ting's ear: "That man is Li Zhen, the commander of the forbidden army. He is in charge of all the forbidden armies in the Imperial City. ”
"Forbidden Army? Could it be that it has something to do with the palace? Zhao Ting thought to himself and took a sip of wine.
I couldn't help but feel upset when I heard these laughter and noise all the time. stood up, "This king wants to be quiet, you continue to watch singing and dancing here!" With that, he walked straight out of the attic.
When I went to the garden outside, it was much quieter, and I saw that the garden was built very exquisitely, and there were some courtyard styles of Jiangnan architecture. It is not surprising to think that this is the Yun family's industry.
There was almost no one in the garden, everyone was busy in the main building, and few of the dignitaries and dignitaries who came here came to enjoy the quiet, thinking to themselves, not without mockery.
The more I walked, the more quiet it became, I didn't see Yun Moxi a little stunned today, thinking that I would turn around after walking for a while, and saw a small courtyard in the distance faintly with lights and singing and dancing.
Zhao Ting thought to himself that those who could be arranged to be received in a separate courtyard must be senior executives and dignitaries. Especially in such a remote courtyard, could it be that the identity is even more different?
I was curious, so I used light skills to quietly hide and want to find out.
There are a few people in strong clothes guarding the entrance of the small courtyard, and it is not the nursing home of the Mingyan Workshop at first glance. The fact that the retinue was allowed to follow in the tea tobacco shop showed that this person's identity was even more unusual.
Zhao Ting went around to the back wall and jumped onto the roof. He was so light that the attendants inside and outside the courtyard did not hear any movement.
Gently lifting the two tiles, the candlelight came through, and I saw the scene in the house below.
I saw a middle-aged man sitting in the middle, dressed luxuriously, looking ordinary, but very arrogant, with dripping eyes and a treacherous look. The two Meiji on the left and right are feeding him squeamishly eating food and drinking wine.
"What the villain invited just now, can Xiangye agree?" Another man's voice said.
Looking for the sound, I saw that the person who spoke was also middle-aged, a little fat, wearing a precious silk robe, full of rich and auspicious embroidery and carving.
Zhao Ting thought to himself that since he was called Xiangye, the person who was on the throne must be Li Hao, the prime minister of Shu.
Li Hao took a sip of the wine fed by Mei Ji, and said impatiently: "Shopkeeper Yun, it's not that this matter is not that the prime minister doesn't help, it's just that this time it is the emperor's personal decree to see Yunbo City." How do you say this aspect can be stopped? You just let Yunbo City come to visit in person, won't it be over after a meeting? ”
It turned out that the person who spoke just now was Yun Riqi, the big shopkeeper of the Yun family.
Yun Riqi has been talking for so long, Li Hao is just playing Tai Chi, and he also knows that this person has always been powerful and slippery. Ben didn't expect to push him off the matter.
"Xiangye, the world doesn't know, but the villain can't hide it from Xiangye, my lord passed away five years ago."
"What?" Li Hao was taken aback, and then said with a sneer: "The big shopkeeper is really good at laughing, the Yun family's industry is all over the world, since Yunbo City is dead, there must be a family member, right?" Otherwise, why has the Yun family's business not only decreased in the past five years, but also more? ”
"The current head of the Yun family is the eldest lady. It's just that she has a daughter's family, and she is still weak, and the villain is just afraid that the eldest lady of my family will not know the rules of the palace, in case she annoys Your Majesty. Why don't you let the villain enter the palace on your behalf? ”
"Your Yun family is really face-saving?" Li Hao said unhappily, "Lao Tzu can't come for a while, and my daughter can't go for a while." How can this official explain to the emperor? ”
"The villain just doesn't want the master to show his face."
"Whoever the emperor meets, he must see! It doesn't matter if you're a woman or an old man. ”
Yun Riqi had no choice but to say: "Since the eldest lady must enter the palace, then please take care of the prime minister and say a few more kind words in front of the emperor." ”
"It's easy to say, it's not a problem. It's just that a little woman is in charge of such a big Yun family? I didn't expect that! ”
Yun Riqi clapped his hands, and the four house slaves carried in two boxes of things.
"Open!" Yun Riqi waved his hand.
The house slave opened the box, and the house was suddenly bright.
Li Hao opened his mouth wide in shock when he saw the contents of the box.
I saw that in the box, there was a box of round and large pearls, all of which were the size of pigeon eggs, and there were dozens of them.
In the other box, there is a blood-red coral, bright red, with a strange and complete shape, and it is hard to find.
The pearls shone brightly in the light of candles, and the room was as bright as day.
Yun Riqi looked at Li Hao's greedy appearance, sneered in his heart, and said: "Xiangye, this is a little bit of my master's heart, filial piety to Xiangye." ”
"Okay, okay, Miss Yun is really polite! It's hard to refute your intentions. Then take it! Li Hao just didn't salivate out.
Even Zhao Ting on the roof was surprised by Yun Moxi's generosity.
"The villain still wants to ask Xiangye about something."
"What's the matter? As long as the prime minister knows, he will definitely advise. Li Hao was already a pleasant face at this time.
"Our Yun family's business has been hit a lot this year, and I heard that they have all been replaced by a giant businessman named Jia Gui of the Northern Han Dynasty. The villain doesn't understand that in this Shu country, the Yun family has always had a good look, why is this all of a sudden? But what aspect of the Yun family is not good enough? ”
Li Hao put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "To be honest, Master Ben and the Yun family have always cooperated happily, but this Jia Gui has the support of the emperor. Ben Xiangye is helpless. ”
"In the past year, the Yun family's wine shop, silver number, grain store, and cloth have been repeatedly raided by the government under the pretext of the government, and even closed the store. However, Jia Gui's business name was opened all over the street, and the merchants of the Yun family were all robbed by Jia Gui. If this continues, this tea and tobacco shop will not be able to be saved, and Xiangye will have to think of a way. ”
"So since the emperor wants to see your master, then go to the palace to see him, and then see what the emperor means. I don't know what the emperor has in mind now, I'm afraid that this matter is related to Concubine Hui. Li Hao said.