Daliang Kyoto Qianmen Outer Street, is the most lively place in the whole capital, where a group of merchants gather, but all the people can imagine, whether it is gold, silver and jade, silk and satin, or swords, ceramics, paper and flower playthings, can be bought here.

However, the most lively in Qianmen Street is still the theater Guangqing Building. Regardless of men and women, young and poor, rich and poor in the capital, they all have the habit of listening to operas, and Guangqing Lou is the best in the theater in Beijing.

Ye Xizhu is a frequent visitor to Guangqing Building, and he is very popular with the shopkeeper and the little two of Guangqing Building because of his generous and bold shots, as soon as he stepped into Guangqing Building, a familiar little two came forward and said with a smile: "Ouch, isn't this Ye Wu Master, I know that you will not miss this new play." The old seat is reserved for you, is it a pot of big red robes first? ”

Ye Cizhu wanted to nod, but he remembered something and glanced at Lu Chunwang who was following him, so he said to Xiao Er: "Outside the big red robe, let's have another cup of milk tea." ”

Xiao Er glanced at Lu Chunwang, who was still childish on his face, and said "Okay" knowingly, and led the two to the second floor.

When the two of them entered the door, the song on the stage had already been sung for half of the time, and now they were singing the passage where the protagonist of the play found that his wife had committed adultery with her brother, and the fans liked to see this bloody passage the most, and the applause came one after another, and even the cubicle on the second floor could hear it clearly.

Ye Cizhu ate peanuts and said with a smile: "This Guangqinglou is very bold, he dares to really make up a tune about the Xie family in the capital and put it on the stage, and he is not afraid of being settled by the Xie family afterwards." ”

Lu Chunwang knelt quietly on the side, took a sip of tea, and said: "The master behind Guangqing Lou is Li Guangji, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the Wen family seems to be involved. ”

Ye Cizhu stopped eating peanuts and looked at Lu Chunwang curiously: "How do you know?" ”

Lu Chunwang smiled and said, "When I was in the poor alley before, I met a lot of homeless people and beggars, and after I came to the Ye family, I also helped from time to time, and they also trusted me very much, and were willing to tell me some inside stories that others didn't know. Don't underestimate them, how many rumors originate among the small people in the market, they may not know much about the big things in the court, but they know a lot about the small things. ”

Lu Chunwang took a sip of tea and said, "Earlier, a friend of mine found an errand at the largest vegetable household in the capital, and was responsible for delivering food to all parts of the capital. When he was delivering food to Li Guangji's mansion, he accidentally saw the steward of the Li Mansion, and then saw the steward in the Guangqing Building asking the shopkeeper of the Guangqing Building for the account book, which was the only way to speculate. ”

Ye Xizhu was amazed and said, "No wonder Qiong'er will recommend you to the eldest brother, you really have some ability." Okay, the next play is almost halfway through, I've brought you here as Qiong'er said, and you can do the rest by yourself. ”

Lu Chun looked at his head, drank the tea in the cup, and then said, "Okay, we can go back." ”

Ye Cizhu almost got stuck in his throat with a mouthful of peanuts, and only after drinking another cup of tea did he recover, and asked rhetorically, "Go back?" ”

"Yes." Lu Chunwang said, "You just need to make a happy appearance later, and I'll say it." ”

The second monk Ye Cizhu was confused, listened to Lu Chunwang's instructions and made a look of lost interest, followed Lu Chunwang downstairs, and sure enough, the little two who greeted him earlier bumped into him and asked, "Fifth Master Ye, why did you leave so early, this scene is not to your liking?" ”

Ye Cizhu didn't speak, and Lu Chunwang beside him replied: "It's not a matter of the play, it's just that watching this play, it is inevitable that it will touch the scene and hurt the scene, and it will make the fifth master of my family think of his niece who is going to marry a fool." ”

Ye Xizhu sighed cooperatively, making a look that he couldn't say much.

The little second rolled his eyes, and asked with a smile: "But, I heard that the little one in Beijing said that the girl in the second room of your family is willing to take the initiative to marry." ”

Lu Chunwang deliberately grimaced and said, "Yes, if you are willing, who can not want to?" Then he refused to say more.

Xiao Er looked like he understood, sent the two away with a smile, and turned his head to tell the shopkeeper of Guangqing Building about it.

"So, the girl in the second room of the Ye family was obviously forced to marry because she was helpless?" The shopkeeper asked.

"Absolutely." Xiao Er said affirmatively, "You haven't seen the faces of the two of the Ye family, it looks like a pickle jar that has been castrated for many years, it stinks." ”

The shopkeeper groaned for a while, stroked his palms and smiled: "Yes, how can any girl be willing to marry a fool." Regardless of whether the Xie family oppressed it or not, anyway, we just have to spread it out, and it was the Xie family who coerced the Ye family to marry a girl. I am having a headache about how to crack the rumor that the Ye family took the initiative to marry a daughter and the Wen family was treacherous, this new rumor spreads well, we can earn more face in the steward! ”

On the other side, Ye Qiong had already listened to the reports from Ye Xizhu and Lu Chunwang, nodded expectedly, and said: "Rumors also have two sides, the more widespread the previous rumor, the more widespread the rumor that the Xie family coerced the Ye family to marry a daughter." The daughter of the Wen family has been wronged, and she has been stigmatized as treacherous, and she is hating the Xie family to the core, and she will not give up any clues. Wait and see, there should be new rumors in the next few days. ”

Within a few days, there were new rumors in the capital, describing the Xie family in the capital as a family that forcibly married people's daughters and was full of evil, and there were even people who were uneven, taking advantage of the darkness to throw rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves in front of the Xie family. However, in just a few days, Jingzhong's remarks about the Xie family in the capital were completely reversed.

Xie Yongyan was so angry that he said that he was sick for several days, and he wanted to call Ye Chanyan over and scold him a few times, but Ye Chanyan did come, but he flatly denied it: "This matter has nothing to do with me, and I don't know how this new rumor spread in Beijing." ”

How did it get around? Naturally, it was the Wen family and Li Guangji's old puppet who intervened behind his back!

Xie Yongyan was so angry that his liver hurt, he glanced at Ye Chanyan suspiciously, and then put him back in Ye Mansion, as soon as Ye Chanyan went out, Xie Yongyan slapped the armrest of the circle chair in the study: "I can't deal with Li Guangji's old horseman, can't you Ye Chanyan, I still can't deal with it?" Who would like to believe that it was not you who stabbed me in the back, and wait and see! ”

The housekeeper of the Xie family came up at this time and reported to Xie Yongyan: "Tell the master, I have carefully checked who the three girls who fled have seen before. The third girl has always been closely watched, only she went to the Xinghua Hutong in the third room of the Ye family more frequently, and she had a deep relationship with the second girl in the third room of the Ye family. ”

"The second girl in the third room of the Ye family?" Xie Yongyan sneered, "Is that Zou Shuangrui's disciple who also painted a picture at the snow banquet and mocked Xuanjie's poor painting skills?" ”

The butler's back was bent lower, and he said, "Exactly." ”

Xie Yongyan's face sank, and he suddenly smiled weirdly: "I remember, her father and mother don't know how to do it, and they actually rejected her marriage to that fool." If her father and mother had gone down at that time, how could there be so many troubles today. Regardless of whether she has something to do with the matter of visiting Lan, this account should also be calculated. Go and call the steward of the other house. ”

The housekeeper low claims to be.

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Soon it was time for Ye Yao and Du Siheng to make a small ceremony.

Since Du Siheng came to the door to propose, the entire Ye family has entered a time when everyone is too busy to prepare for the wedding.

Ye Qiong is still in the boudoir, according to etiquette, there are many things that Ye Yao's wedding can't interfere with, but it is rare to become an idler, focusing on drawing a batch of drawings prepared by the ready-to-wear shop for the New Year and the Lantern Festival, but she can't help but love the lively Liuying has been nagging in her ear and asking her to come over to have a look, so she put down the pen and said, "It's okay, let's go and take a look." ”

Ye Qiong walked into the courtyard and saw that Feng's mother was dressed in new clothes, and she was smiling and directing the people from the Du family to give the dowry gifts, and put the dowry gifts into a special room one by one.

Ye Qiong glanced at it curiously, and at the front of the dowry were two geese tied with red ropes, and after a bumpy journey, they were still full of energy with their heads held high. The warbler couldn't help but reach out and wanted to touch the wild goose's head, and was almost pecked.

Mother Feng hurriedly stopped the warbler and said, "This can't be touched." Among these dowry, these two geese are the most valuable. ”

The mother of the Du family, who came with her, also smiled and joked: "Not really." My son-in-law is good at solving the case, but he can't ride and shoot, and he searched all the hunters in Beijing, so he bought these two injured geese, a female and a male, healed the injuries and released them and then shot them down. Otherwise, we will also learn from the rude people and make up the number with the geese. ”

Ye Qiong laughed and said: "There is such a thing, although it can barely be regarded as hunting by hand, but it can be regarded as having a heart, and it is also an interesting thing to say." ”

The mother of the Du family dared to say this, she regarded the Ye family as her own family, and Ye Qiong naturally would not speak in a sinister manner.

The mother of the Du family really smiled more kindly, and the two sides were happy, and they had the appearance of a family before they officially got married.

There was still a dowry piled up here, and a maid outside the door hurriedly came in and said in Ye Qiong's ear: "Second girl, over there at the post station outside the city, the steward sent by the Xie family in Jiangnan to deliver silk came to say that a heavy rain last night wet most of the silk, and a lot of it can't be used, please go and see it in person." ”

Ye Qiong was shocked, this batch of silk was specially transported to the capital by the little aunt to enrich the dowry for her sister Ye Yao, the silk itself is not important, the important thing is that the little aunt's mind cannot be wasted like this.

Ye Qiong immediately said, "Okay, I'll go and take a look." As he spoke, he called for someone to prepare the car.

When he walked to the door, Ye Qiong happened to pass by Lu Shaodan, who came to congratulate him, Lu Shaodan stopped him and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry, isn't it your sister's little gift today, where are you going?" ”

Ye Qiong lifted the hem of her skirt and said anxiously: "I want to go to the post station outside the city, my little aunt sent a batch of silk from Jiangnan, saying that it was all wet by a heavy rain last night." ”

Lu Shaodan let out an "oh", frowned again and said: "Your family is so busy now, it is estimated that there are no other elders to accompany you, remember to bring a few more people, is the bone whistle I gave you last time still there?" ”

Ye Qiong touched her chest and said with a smile: "It's here." ”

Lu Shaodan nodded and said, "Okay, be careful on the road." I went ice fishing in Yunmengze a few days ago, and I got a sea bass, and when you come back, we will eat together. ”

Ye Qiong responded with a smile, called the egret and the cuckoo, and got into the carriage together.

When I arrived at the post station, because it was the end of the year, the post station was crowded with people, and the soldiers in charge of the maintenance of the post station were so busy that they could only care about serving Ye Qiong a cup of crude tea.

Ye Qiong didn't care about this, so she went into the room under the steward's bag and looked at the batch of wet satin, fortunately, when the steward reported it, he exaggerated that the wet silk only accounted for a small part, and only needed to separate some of the satin that was easy to string and dry it slowly.

Ye Qiong exhaled a long breath and instructed the people from the Xie family in Jiangnan to put the silk back on.

At this time, it was already close to noon, and the post station was even more noisy, Ye Qiong didn't plan to leave the guest room after a glance, but only told the cuckoo to follow the steward to buy some food and come back, so he sat in the middle of the guest room with the egret and waited.

The food was quickly delivered, Ye Qiong chewed a few bites, the dough cake was so hard that he cut his throat, so he didn't continue to use it, only drank a sip of the tea he brought from Ye's house, and after only taking a sip, he felt dizzy in his brain, and when he realized that he wanted to call someone, he had already fallen asleep.

In the guest room, the egret and the cuckoo were lying on the table, and the Ye family's nursing home was still downstairs with lunch.

The two figures quietly slipped into the room, confirmed Ye Qiong's identity from their clothes, put a hemp bag on Ye Qiong's head, and quietly moved Ye Qiong to their carriage as cargo when the station was the most noisy.