Chapter 70: Drunken Jiangnan 3
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It was a pitch black underground, but at the moment it was brightly lit, and the people who came and went were holding the money bags in their hands, and their expressions were also different, or nervous, or hurried, or quiet, back and forth, and the expressions on each face seemed to reveal the same desire, and it seemed to be just an ordinary face
Ying Si pretended to be an ordinary person, and at the first checkpoint leading to the underground behind the restaurant, he first raised the money bag in his hand, and then paid a deposit of fifty taels of silver, and then walked down the steps step by step.
After entering, he thought that he would be greeted by pitch black, but now the feeling of this underground is not at all like that, buyers with different looks, and patrolling guards, look lively but not out of order.
He walked cautiously in the center of the crowd, looking around, this auction conference for the purpose of donating officials, so many people, and with patrol guards, it looked very lively, and it was quite formal.
Thinking of this, he secretly made fun of himself, but it was not official, it was all made by the local magistrate, in order to fill his purse, he naturally had to try his best to maintain the safety of this venue, and this scale, if it was too simple, not to mention that those rich businessmen would have some suspicions in their hearts, that is, he was afraid that he would have to mumble.
"Eh, Brother Zhu, you're here too!" A thin guy on the side ran over to greet Ying Si.
"Oh! It's Little Six. "Ying Si originally became a pseudonym surnamed Zhu, but he hasn't had much contact with people these days, and someone called him, if it weren't for the fact that the person was the shopkeeper in the inn, he still couldn't react for a while.
"Yes, Brother Zhu, you are also here to donate officials, but I remember that you are not from our Jiangnan......" Xiao Liu's small eyes looked Ying Si up and down, a little puzzled, he remembered that this person was not from Jiangnan County, but from the north, how could he be interested in participating in this local donation conference?
Hearing his words, several people around him also cast scrutinizing glances at Ying Si, after all, there are more and more people donating officials, but there are still only those official positions, and this sudden appearance of a person from other places can't help but arouse their vigilance.
Ying Si was furious by those people, and kept scolding this shopkeeper for being a bad thing, not to mention the good, it's all here to dismantle people's platforms.
"Ah...... Hehe, actually...... I'm that, well, my ancestor is from Jiangnan. Ying Si had an idea and thought of a way to deal with Xiao Liu.
"The ancestor of the guest official is from Jiangnan?" Xiao Liu's expression was still a little suspicious.
Shadow Four looked at the scrutinizing gaze on his body more and more, and secretly screamed in his heart, if this was to attract the attention of those guards, it would be a bad thing.
"Ah, yes, this time my mother asked me to go back to Jiangnan to inquire about my relatives everywhere, no, you also saw it a few days ago, I often go out at dawn, but the moon hangs up before the inn. Shadow Four continued to laboriously circle Fang Cai's nonsense.
"Oh, that's it, it's really not easy for Brother Zhu, why did you come here today? Do you also want to donate an official?" The suspicion in Xiao Liu's heart was gone, so he continued to chat with him.
"Oh, you don't know, I'm a businessman, but my eldest brother is not, I don't have anything to do all day, so I'm idle at home, but I'm in a hurry for my old mother, this time I came to Jiangnan to look for relatives, I didn't expect to catch up with such a good thing, I thought if I had more silver, so that my eldest brother also has a landing, so that my old mother can be happier in her heart, do you say this reason?"
Ying Si was making up a lie that he had an old mother who asked him to visit relatives, so he thought that he could pretend that Ying Yi was his eldest brother, so he talked nonsense like this, which made Xiao Liuxin think it was true.
"Oh, I can't see that Brother Zhu, you are really a filial son, huh...... He's still a good brother!" Xiao Liu hammered him with his thin fist, and the two laughed.
"What about you, why did you come to this donor conference?" Ying Si followed him, and asked a few more questions by the way, after all, he had checked a lot about this donation conference in the past few days, but no one knew much about it, and after that moment of nervousness, which was almost punctured, this time, Ying Si had become comfortable again.
"Oh, me, it's not some time ago, my aunt told me about a family business. It's all about making a fuss. Speaking of this, the expression on Xiao Liu's face became a little annoyed.
"Isn't this a good thing, dear? As soon as you say it, I still remember listening to the shopkeeper say that day, that girl looks quite smart, isn't she?"
Speaking of which, Ying Si still remembers, a few days ago, when he was eating supper below, he heard the shopkeeper of the inn ridiculing Xiao Liu, saying that such a good girl, why did he marry this thin monkey.
"Yes, that's it, that girl's family is satisfied with me everywhere, but she doesn't look down on me as a runaway...... "Xiao Liu let out a long sigh.
"What's wrong with the running hall, there are so many running halls in Hangzhou City, and there are also rewards from merchants from time to time, and they earn a lot of silver, why don't they look down on the running halls?"
"Yes, but there is still no way, isn't it? In time for this official donation conference, my mother took out all the silver that she had saved at the bottom of the box at home for so many years, saying that she was going to try my luck. ”
"Alas, but you don't have much money, what kind of official can you be when the time comes, and it will not be easy to marry a daughter-in-law. Ying Si also expressed deep emotion when he said to him, this is really a scripture that is difficult to read in every family.
Soon the two of them walked along the long passage to the inside, and when they got inside, they actually went up again.
"Why is this going up again?" Shadow Four was a little puzzled.
"Oh, it's not for the emperor to parade to make trouble, the venue for the donation of officials is on the ground, but because the emperor is coming to Jiangnan, for fear of something happening, so I added such a procedure to go underground. ”
Xiao Liu looked at him with some doubts, thinking that this Brother Zhu was also a good one, but it was the first time he came, and he didn't understand much of this, so he explained it to him.
"So that's the case...... "Ying Si continued to follow the crowd thoughtfully, and began to walk up, but he was really thinking in his heart, in order to avoid the emperor, why did he have to go underground?
These people are really careful, but Emperor Zhaohua, the master he already knew, otherwise how could he Ying Si appear here? Thinking of this, Ying Si walked forward a little proudly.
Suddenly, an arm crossed and blocked his way, "You, do you have any identity documents?"
Ying Si was a little dumbfounded at this moment, this identity document, he has it, but what is written on it is not Brother Zhu, a businessman, but a sword-bearing guard in front of the emperor!
However, there was some panic in my heart, and I did pretend to be rummaging for something, pretending to be cramped and uneasy.
The little six on the side himself walked forward, and when he turned around, why did Brother Zhu disappear, and when he looked at him again, he knew that he had encountered a difficulty, and when he heard it closely, it turned out that he didn't bring his identity documents.
"Brother Chen, oh, it's really hard to be on duty, this Brother Zhu is a good person, a guest of our inn, you can be accommodating." Xiao Liu didn't think much about it, watching Ying Si rummaging up and down there, he had the heart to step forward to solve the siege.
"Hehe, yes, Brother Guard, I didn't expect that this place was going to be checked for identity documents, so I didn't bring it, and put it in that inn, so you can be accommodating." Ying Si saw that Xiao Liu came to help him out of the siege, so he hurriedly followed and said that he forgot to bring it, and he was not a bad person.
"Forget it, forget it, for the sake of you and Xiaoliu, I'll let you in. When the man saw that they were pleading for mercy and apologetic, he waved his hand and went in.
"Hehe, Brother Chen, it's really interesting, next time my brother invites you to drink! Xiao Liu smiled and patted the shoulder of the guard surnamed Chen, and then pulled Ying Si and hurriedly blended into the crowd again.
"What happened just now? I read what was posted on the bulletin board at the time, and I didn't say that I wanted to check the identity documents? Am I not mistaken?" Ying Si didn't want to miss any doubts about this official donation conference, and when he mixed into the crowd, he hurriedly pulled Xiao Liu and asked.
"Oh, I guess it's not been very peaceful recently, I'm afraid that something will happen, Brother Zhu, your body looks more powerful, so that person has to ask a few more words, it's okay, don't worry, it's not that you missed the announcement." Xiao Liu said to reassure him.
"What does this have to do with Tai Buping? Isn't it safe here?" Speaking of this, Ying Si also pretended to touch his money bag, making others look like he was a little panicked.
Xiao Liu saw him like that, laughed, and explained to him, in the early years, there was really an accident at the donation conference, when there was a group of bandits, disguised as businessmen, mixed in, and when the conference was about to start, they suddenly made a difficulty, robbed the businessmen present, and then coerced the government and fled.
At that time, most of the merchants present came here to donate officials with enough silver, and naturally they were loaded with a lot of silver tickets, and the bandits were also good at robbing, so the government had to watch the gang of bandits rob everyone's silver tickets in order to protect the merchants from being harmed, and then fled.
Since then, this donation conference has been for people like Ying Si, whose body bones look like they can take a few clicks, and they all have to be checked, so there is the scene just now.
"Oh, thanks to you, Xiaoliu, I almost couldn't get in. Ying Si patted his heart with some palpitations, this time he didn't pretend, he was really a little afraid, if he didn't get into the venue of this donor, not to mention what the master might want him to do, even Ying Yi wouldn't make him feel better.
The two of them talked and laughed and continued to walk inside, this out of the ground, to a three-story pavilion-like building, compared to, some time ago in Suzhou saw the Izumo Building of the Jiangnan Weaving Institute, the one in front of me seems to be relatively low-key.
But think about it, this is a disgraceful business after all, it is always necessary to keep a low profile, it is already very unexpected for him to be able to open it on the ground, according to his thoughts, this donation meeting should be carried out quietly under the ground, a place where it is difficult to see the five fingers.
Entering the building, Xiao Liu introduced him to him on the side, "Brother Zhu, this venue for donors is different from those auctions, you have to listen to my nagging a few more words, don't dislike me." ”
"Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, Xiaoliu, you say it, I'll just listen carefully. He wished that someone would tell him what was going on at the venue of this donor, and now that someone recommended a pillow seat, how could it not be used.
As the little six spoke, Ying Si listened carefully there, and sighed in his heart that he didn't know which design it was, but it was really ...... It's amazing.
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