Chapter 115: Cheap Tricks
Looking at the days, she finally got through to the day of Lingyuefeng, Tan Luo pondered that she was a coolie for two people, and her salary was estimated to be double that of Nanfeng.
Outside the account room, Tan Luo saw Nanfeng walking out happily when she received Yuefeng, she stepped forward and asked in a shy, "Nannan, how much money did you receive this month?" ”
Nanfeng cautiously stretched out two fingers.
"Twenty taels?"
"That's not right!"
"Could it be two hundred taels?"
Nanfeng knocked a chestnut on her elm head: "I really think I am the master of this East Palace, see clearly, we only have two taels of silver!" ”
"What's the matter, the gap between my teeth is not enough for me to stuff." I think that when she was in the eldest grandson's mansion, a table of meals cost ten taels of silver, and sure enough, she was full and didn't know that the hungry man was hungry, and it seemed that she would have to save some money for eating, drinking, and Lazar in the future.
"It's my turn, Nanfeng, go back first!" She beckoned and strode into the bookkeeper.
"What's your name?" The bookkeeper asked without looking up.
"Set up a hot water room, Tan Luo!"
"Hmm." Mr. Bookkeeper's ink-stained fingers flipped back and forth on the roster, and she was worried for a while.
"Found it, Tan Luo, right, your Yuefeng has been detained." He pointed to the marks on the booklet that had been crossed out with pen and ink.
"What's the matter, why are you deducting my money!" She asked anxiously, snatching the roster and flipping through it.
"Little brother, don't worry." Mr. Bookkeeper finally raised his head, and his old face covered with folds twitched a few times, "Ten days ago, Gonggong Liu specially looked for the old man, and he said that the prince's oral message was passed on, and Tan Luo of the hot water room did not perform his duties, and went out of the palace without permission, and deducted the moon as a warning. ”
"You say I left the palace without permission, but is there any evidence?"
"Yo, you really think that the guards of our East Palace are all idle meals, not to mention that you are such a big living person, even if it is a fly, it will be impossible to escape the eyes of the law!"
In this way, she was really discovered when she slipped out of the palace that night, could it be Zhai Ying's secret?
If this is the case, the shadow brother is too lacking in virtue, in vain he has read the books of sages, and he doesn't know that there is a saying called forgiving and forgiving, and besides, he is not also climbing the wall and slipping away.
That night, as soon as Lin Yuan entered the house, he saw Tan Luo looking at him with a resentful face, if his eyes could kill, he felt that he had been cut by a thousand knives.
"Linyuan!" A resentful woman roared in a deep voice.
The boy shuddered and leaned against the wall.
"Brother Tan, what's wrong?"
"Your son-in-law is a despicable villain!"
"Why do you slander Gongzi like this, he is the benefactor of Linyuan!"
"Then let me ask you, where did Zhai Ying go, do you know, just because he sued in front of the prince, my salary this month was deducted, and I didn't have a penny! Anyway, I don't care, Lao Tzu doesn't have a moon now, you have to compensate me! Tan Luo's last sentence revealed his original intention, where the money is lost, it must be picked back.
"Son, he left the palace ten days ago and did not return, how can he still sue in front of His Highness, if you don't believe it, you can ask Lord Xuancheng."
Tan Luo saw that Lin Yuan didn't look like a person who could lie, could it really have nothing to do with Zhai Ying?
"So, you're not going to lose money to me?" Tan Luo slowly approached, and finally found a wronged leader, how could she let him go cheaply.
"How about I give you half of it?" Lin Yuan honestly shook open the money bag, which contained ten taels of silver.
"Count you in, brother, thank you!"
"What about my son?"
"Naturally, it's a misunderstanding, how can someone as friendly as Brother Shadow be a despicable villain who betrays his brother!"
"What Brother Tan said is extremely true!"
Tan Luo estimated that she was not enough to have all the equipment, and it seemed that she had to have a lot of money to do it.
The next evening, in the courtyard where the handymen lived, a few shadows lurked in the shade of the trees.
A slightly petite "man", dressed in plain coarse cloth clothes, wears a small hat on his head crookedly, and has a Jigong fan stuck behind his collar.
"I've bought it and left it, don't regret it, uncle, I'm going to play the cards!" Tan Luo stroked the mustache on her lips and smiled very proudly, judging from the cards in her hand, she still won this round.
"Four pennies!" Tan Luo threw out the card in his hand, and the leaf-sized card was painted with a scholar.
"Ten cents!" Nanfeng immediately played his card, this time it was a jinshi.
Tan Luo glanced at Lin Yuan, and after opening the pupil of rebirth, how could this ordinary card block her peeping, so she could see the hole cards in everyone's hands clearly.
Poor Lin Yuan didn't have a bigger hole card in his hand, Tan Luo had expected this, and rubbed his little hands proudly.
"Come, give money, give money!"
Lin Yuan was ashamed in his pocket, and looked at her hesitantly: "Brother Tan, you have won all the remaining silver and silver I have left, or I will be exempted this time." ”
"Then what's the matter, it's only right to repay debts, and if you have anything of value on you, mortgage it to me."
Lin Yuan's pitiful handsome face was even more embarrassed at this time: "I really don't have it on me"
"Okay, okay, I make my uncle look like a bully who forced me to be a prostitute, for the sake of our two brothers, you can go to the hot water roof and I will be half an hour, just add firewood."
"Brother Tan, you are so good!" Lin Yuan looks like he was sold and counted the silver for others.
"Of course!" A certain woman is cheap and behaved.
Since Lin Yuan has been squeezed dry, naturally there is a need to make up for the dead ghost, Tan Luo looked around, and pointed to the familiar and silent handyman.
"Little brother, do you want to come and play." Tan Luo smiled innocently, took out the Jigong fan and immediately turned into the old bustard of the Qinglou, "Come on, come and sit, how can there be a man who doesn't like to play, I guarantee that you will have a drunk and dream to death." ”
The poor boy couldn't help but be stalked by someone, pulled hard, and sat down with her cheekily.
"This kind of card is called leaf play, I don't know how to play"
"It's okay, man, you will inevitably be a little nervous for the first time, don't be afraid, my master will teach you by hand!"
"But I'm afraid of pain"
"It hurts, how can it hurt?" Tan Luo let go of the claws that were holding the other party, and retracted it, "As long as you bring enough silver, it's very cool." ”
"Brother Xian, why are you squatting here?" Not far away, a man's stunned voice was heard.
Tan Luo looked back casually, yo, there is also a gold lord here!
"Zhai Ying, you can be regarded as returning to the palace!" She beckoned her little hand and called, "It's just right, we're playing leaf play, and you're also coming over to be lively?" ”
Zhai Ying approached him, looked around, and after a moment of stunnedness, he smiled and said, "No, I still have something to find Lin Yuan, so I won't accompany you." ”
"It's okay, anyway, Lin Yuan is busy now, since they are all here, it's not too late to sit down and play two games before leaving."
"Lin Yuan is my subordinate, what else is he busy with?" Zhai Ying crossed his arms around his chest and smiled disapprehantly.
"Well, he lost all his money playing cards, so he took care of the boiler in the hot water room for me. It's hot, and it's hot enough. Tan Luo shook the Jigong fan in her hand, and the mustache on her lips danced in the wind.
"Do you know what crime you have committed?" Zhai Ying's eyes were pale, her eyes narrowed, and the curvature of the corners of her lips was unpredictable.
"Brother Shadow, are you angry?" Tan Luo stopped shaking the fan and looked at him.
Zhai Ying laughed heartily, her expression was as warm as a spring in March, and the corners of her eyes were slightly raised to exude a smile that did not reach the bottom of her eyes.
He patted Tan Luo's shoulder and arm, sighed and said, "I'm just worried, with a frank personality like Brother Xian who ignores the palace rules, although he is innocent and simple, he won't live long after all!" ”
"It is a felony for the palace people to gamble in private, ignoring the palace rules and disturbing the palace, I still advise you, don't do anything according to your temperament." Zhai Ying glanced at her deeply, turned around and walked out of the courtyard gate.
Not long after Zhai Ying's front foot left, Gonggong Liu suddenly broke into their remote courtyard.
"Bold Tan Luo, our family received a report from the guards, saying that you gathered people in the palace to gamble money, but there is such a thing!"
"Are you sure it's not Zhai Ying's little report?" Tan Luo asked rhetorically.
"Zhai Ying?" Gonggong Liu was slightly stunned, "Which Zhai Ying, our family has never seen it." ”
Did you really misunderstand him?
"Tan Luo, you are still a first-time offender, Your Highness is now at the time of employing people, our family only confiscated your gambling money, don't thank you quickly!"
Tan Luo wants to cry without tears, I would rather suffer from your big boards than lose money, she gritted her silver teeth, and scolded the eighteen generations of the villain who complained in her heart.
The dozen taels of silver that she had been kidnapped with great difficulty in her pocket were now all gone, and since then, she has not eaten well, slept enough, and has been depressed and depressed all day long.
"Nannan, if there are palace people in our palace who want to earn some softness in private, how do they do it?"
Nan Feng thought about it seriously, and replied insightfully: "If it is a palace person who is close to the palace, the masters will reward some broken silver when they are happy. If it is a palace maid who is in charge of the bureau, they usually embroider some handkerchiefs in private and ask the people who go out to do business to secretly sell them. ”
It's embarrassing for Tan Luo now, she is not a palace person who serves closely, and she is not good at female celebrities.
It can be described as a piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and everything is incomprehensible.
However, it is said that when she practiced talismans in the Shengtian Sect, she often had to draw talismans, but Danqing could handle it.
If ordinary people in the world can appreciate her amazing works, selling paintings is indeed the best way to make money right now
A few days later, when the crown prince Jingyao returned to the palace again, he saw the palace maids hiding in the dark, looking shy and unwilling.
He sat alone in the pavilion, and saw a pink-clothed palace maid secretly take out the picture scroll when there was no one around, and looked at it with a drunken face.
"What's in your hand?"
The palace maid was coldly frightened by the man who appeared behind her, and in a panic she wanted to hide the scroll in her hand.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, I"
"I'm so obsessed with it, why don't I dare to take a look at Lonely." Jing Yao smiled warmly.
The palace maid looked at the handsome man in front of her, with a warm smile, and even if she treated a palace maid like her who was not outstanding, she did not severely reprimand.
However, she lowered her eyes and looked at the scroll of the palm of her hand, if this Danqing was seen by His Highness, how should she explain it.
"Why don't you dare to raise your eyes, is it not as good as a mere picture scroll in your eyes?" Jing Yao restrained his smile, just turned around and stood with his hands in his hands, but the palace maid hurriedly knelt down in fear.