Chapter 94 At the Feet of the Son of Heaven
In the newly opened teahouse on the street, upstairs and downstairs, the people who work hard and run around are all mediocre, but in their words and deeds, there is a fresh and simple atmosphere of the farmer's daughter, which also makes the people in the capital refreshing.
The building is good, the people are good, and the tea is better. So although the opening of this teahouse has not been long, the business has been surprisingly good.
Of course, a teahouse with a good business can stand safely on this West Street, where every inch of land is valuable, which means that this teahouse, which looks like a strong rural atmosphere, is definitely not opened by a squire and villager. If you don't have any background skills, how can you level out those characters in all aspects, large and small yamen.
Of course, if the owner of the teahouse is a celebrity around the emperor, our majestic commander Feng has a little bit of a kiss and a little bit of reason, even if it is a relative who can't beat the eight poles, with the gold face of Lord Feng as a guarantee, it is natural that he can stand stable on this West Street.
In the official mansions in the capital that specialize in reaching out to merchants and extorting bamboo poles, the gossip has been spread conclusively, saying that this teahouse has a lot to do with Lord Feng. Lord Feng himself is tight-lipped about this. Thinking about it, he also wanted to avoid discussions, and he rarely even visited this place. However, Lord Feng's No. 1 right-hand man, Lord An Wuji, who was recently transferred to the capital, likes the farmhouse tea here very much. Three days and two ends, when you have free time, you love to run this way.
An Wuji has been away from the capital for so many years, and he has come back, and he is working in a relatively independent pedestrian department, and he doesn't have much to do with these large and small yamen in the capital on weekdays. He has great power. The title is just an inconspicuous deputy, and it is really nothing in the capital where a random basin of water can be splashed on the street to wet three officials.
Therefore, he wandered around the capital. On the street, the official horses and official sedan chairs went back and forth. But it is rare to meet an acquaintance who can nod and say hello. Therefore, Lord An is not very conspicuous when he goes in and out of this teahouse. After a long time, he has quietly become very familiar with the young girl who is the head of the teahouse.
On this day, the sky is clear and sunny, the wind is beautiful, and we are safe and sound, Lord An. An Gongzi shook the fan that he didn't need at all, and walked slowly into the teahouse.
As soon as I entered the gate, there were already many peasant girls serving tea in all directions, and greeted them politely: "Lord An." ”
Those tea guests who often come to drink tea also have a lot of smiling greetings: "Lord An." ”
An Wuji folded the fan freely, arched his hand to the four sides, and then shook his head at the girls: "It's Mr. An, not Mr. An." My lord, I have been screaming too much, and I am called old. Xiaosheng has never been married yet! ”
There was a lot of laughter all around. An Wuji leisurely swiped and unfolded the fan very complacently. casually asked the nearest tea girl: "Where are you young girls?" ”
"Cooking tea in the back!" The tea girl replied with a smile.
An Wuji nodded, familiar with the way, and walked away from the back garden marked with "Guests Stop".
It is now commonplace for people to go up and down in teahouses. No one would try to stop it. However, An Wuji's figure is gone. Naturally, this teahouse is no longer the pure cordial and warm in person. All kinds of gossip and speculation. One after another.
From ear to ear, a lot of words are not so good.
"It seems. The good things of this Lord An and the young girl are not far off. ”
"Yes, every time this Lord An comes back, he always asks the young girl to greet him personally, and now he goes directly to the garden. I heard that the young girl would take some family heirloom secret recipe to mix good tea and invite him to drink it alone, if you want to say that there is nothing between them, who will believe it? ”
"That young girl is a good person, she is also smart and capable, and she earns such a family business, but that ......" The gossip man coughed dryly, and lowered his voice to the lowest: "We really don't dare to compliment that look, and that leg...... Lord An is so young and handsome, and he is also an official, how can he be so cheap......"
"Hey, you still don't get it, dude? This young girl is related to the big celebrity around the emperor and the commander of the title. This teahouse can be built, and Lord Feng has greeted him everywhere. This Lord An probably wants to take advantage of the young girl's shareholder style to climb the big tree of Lord Feng......"
The listener suddenly realized and nodded frequently: "That's right, man, the future is always the most important." With a future, in the future, the family will accept a few more young and beautiful concubines, isn't it the same? ”
The guests whispered, snickered and sighed, and the peasant ladies who served the tea were inevitably looking at me, quietly expressing the envy and vague jealousy in their hearts.
Most of these tea girls are from different villages from Qinggu, and they are all recruited by the four towns and eight towns to do their work. Working in a teahouse for a month is more than working in the fields for a year, and it is an eye-opener. Since entering the capital and entering the teahouse, their status in the family has skyrocketed, and they have become the main source of money for the family, and they are the family members that their parents and brothers attach the most importance to.
Although everyone is a little grateful to Qinggu, there are a few young women who can not be a sparrow flying on the branch and turning into a phoenix. An Wuji is such a young, handsome, golden, funny, no shelf, no high hall, no wife and concubine, and an official, how can he not attract people's spring love and imagination?
Originally, these rural women were also self-aware, and they would never really want to climb him. But An Wuji and Qinggu are so close, everyone will naturally think that Qinggu is such a father and mother, a broom star who has never been seen by anyone, is ugly and disabled, but An Gongzi has no difficulty in accepting her. That's me
If she is rich, it is better for her to have a big official relative, and she is cleaner than her in terms of chief, why can't this An Gongzi like me?
As a result, the little resentment and jealousy in my heart are inevitable. Naturally, because Qinggu is their food and clothing parents, this kind of mental assertion cannot be declared. But since everyone has the same mentality, there is no need to say a lot of things, and they can understand each other. There are many people who share the same hatred, and that kind of faint undercurrent has begun to quietly surge among the women in the teahouse.
However. There was a difference of 108,000 miles from everyone's guesses, and after An Wuji entered the back garden, he did not go to Qinggu, but continued to walk inside. Passed through two more portals. When it comes to the inner garden, even the people in the teahouse are usually not allowed to enter casually.
The inner garden is not large, and there are no pavilions and pavilions. But there were a few houses, and a relatively open area, with two trees planted, and a few large rocks, and a well in the middle.
An Wuji is familiar with the road. I found the door in the middle, knocked on it, and a very gentle voice came from inside: "Come in." ”
An Wuji pushed open the door with one hand, and said with a smile: "Rong Xian ......" was shocking, but it was a face full of beards, but An Wuji was so frightened that he swallowed the last word back, his body suddenly tensed, gathered his internal breath, took a half step back, and blurted out: "Who is it?" ”
Rong Qian hurriedly ripped off the fake beard on his face. smiled: "Wuji, all these years of spies have been done in vain?" I just added a mustache and you won't recognize it? ”
An Wuji looked at Rong Qian in amazement. I just felt like a big drop of sweat was going to slide down my forehead. Of course. It's just a mustache. Facial features, distance between eyes. and the eyes, all of which are familiar to him, have not changed. As a high-level agent, he should indeed be able to see through such tricks as changing clothes and changing appearances. But...... This person is Rong Qian, is that Hua Cai Manners noble and calm? Shrewd, strong, and gentle Dayan country!
The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, who has not been secretly heartbroken by his demeanor and bearing? Rong Qian is Rong Qian, he can wear a scarlet official uniform, calm the world between the palm of the court and the court, or he can wear a green shirt, blend in the landscape, and live his peaceful years away from the temple in that secluded and quiet village. The appearance of the Great Yan Kingdom is that he is locked in a filthy prison, that is, he is tied naked on the torture platform, and in the face of the eyes of thousands of people, he will also be gentle and quiet, calm and calm.
How could that person have a tangled beard on his face, a hard and fierce man, and a mess that makes people unable to find his face? Who can associate such an image with a look? He thought about Rong Xiang and entered the door, but at first glance at such a face, An Wuji felt that he didn't jump up and shout, but his heart and brain were already extremely strong.
Depressed, An Wuji darkened his face and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Rong, what are you doing here?" ”
These days, the two have been in contact with each other, and his attitude towards Rong Qian has also been much more relaxed, unlike in the past, which was purely up and down. Since he can change his name to Mr. Rong so smoothly, then, occasionally with an unceremonious attitude, he expresses his dissatisfaction with questioning, that is, smoothly.
Rong Qian spread his hands: "I have entered the capital, so I can't stay at home forever and not go out." There are many people in the capital, and there are many old acquaintances, although my appearance has changed a lot now, I dare not guarantee that I will not be recognized. So it's always not right to go straight out. I've been idle for the past few days, so I've fiddled with a few fake mustaches to see if I can hide my face. ”
Rong Qian smiled and pointed sideways at the table behind him. He gave way to the side slightly, An Wuji's gaze was no longer hindered, and he saw that on the table behind Rong Qian, there were rich patterns and varieties, some of which were extremely ordinary, and some of which were extremely freehand...... Beard.
"What do you see is right for me?"
An Wuji entered the room with a straight face, and pinched the strings of things with disgust on his face to look at them carefully. Black beard, white beard, flower beard, gray beard, three locks of sparse long hair, chest-length thick hair, short, goatee, close face velvet beard, really everything. The most outrageous thing is that there are two mustaches that look exactly the same as Rong Qian's eyebrows. If it weren't for Rong Qian's eyebrows still intact, he would definitely think that he had shaved his eyebrows. If you put this on your face, wouldn't you be a man with four eyebrows?
"You don't have to choose, I think Mr. just wore it the most suitable, and I guarantee that no one will recognize it." An Wuji gritted his teeth a little. Rong Qian, what should he be born to be, everyone's impression has long been ingrained. Now An Wuji feels that even if Rong Qian's biological parents leave Huangquan and come to visit their son, they can't recognize this guy with a beard on his face.
As for those spies who hold portraits in their hands every day and stare at a one-armed person for a long time when they find them, and the emperor who sent those people to look for faces in famous mountains and rivers, even if he passes by face-to-face with Rong Qian, who wears a beard, I am afraid that he will never dream that he is the person they are looking for.
Think about it, Rong Qian may be dressed like this for three days in the future, with a full beard, swaggering around the street, leisurely looking left and right, studying the development trend under the feet of the Son of Heaven...... An Wuji felt uncomfortable crawling with caterpillars all over his body.