Chapter Eighty-Four: Drinking

Xie Lin'an rode out of the side door of Ning Anbo's Mansion on a horse, and was immediately followed by the fans of Xichang behind him, Xie Lin'an didn't have to look back to know that these fans must follow openly, without hiding it at all.

These days, he is used to it, the silver is sent, the wine and food are invited, and the eunuch of the four rats, who is said to be extremely face-saving in front of the emperor, is small and small, and his face is silent, he is really a slippery person, and the benefits he sent are all scattered by him to the people below, and in the end, they are being watched more closely in the Ning'an Mansion.

It is strictly forbidden to ride horses in Yanjing City, and Xie Linan rode a horse in front of the horse's hooves.

Those fans are also "da" in the back.

"Da" all the way to Gulou Street, Xie Linan still didn't know where he should go.

His father-in-law was transferred to a foreign post, and every time the brother-in-law who stayed in Beijing saw him, it was like looking at an enemy, and he was not a person who could be counted with him.

In the past, those friends who drank and meat had no news since his father was imprisoned, and naturally they were not reliable.

Looking at the people coming and going on the street, Xie Lin'an sighed softly, but if he could find someone familiar and let him complain for a few words, he could also make his head clearer.

Walking from the east end of Gulou Street to the west end, Xie Linan did not find a familiar person.

He was amazed.

It's already noon, even if, even if those flower buildings haven't opened in earnest, what kind of wine shop teahouse, those gentlemen in Yanjing City should have been stuck in it as if they were going home, right?

Why did he walk for so long, and he didn't even see a familiar high-ranking disciple?

What about people?

A fan who was already familiar with Xie Lin'an said with a smile: "Lord Shizi, you should also have enough of your thoughts, if you don't know where to go, it's cold on the street outside, we should also turn back."

Xie Lin'an turned around and looked at those fans.

I touched my body, but I only found a piece of silver cake, and I didn't even feel like I could take it for drinking.

Xie Lin'an smiled bitterly: "I'm tired of accompanying me to blow the wind outside, and when I go back, I will definitely invite you to drink."

"There's no need to drink, but Xie Shizi, if you want to sit in the restaurant and teahouse on Gulou Street, I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet any old things."

The fan smiled and said, "The weather in this Yanjing City is terrifyingly cold, how dare the family sparrow go out easily?"

What does this mean?

Xie Lin'an looked left and right blankly: "Could it be that something has happened in the capital?"

Fanzi only smiled and didn't speak.

His Majesty first ordered the investigation of the Taifu Temple, and then took down the uncle of the great country in court, and then put the second son of the British public in prison for questioning, and later strictly ordered a thorough investigation of prostitution in Yanjing City. Even if they dare to come out, their families don't dare to let them out.

Knowing that he couldn't ask anything, Xie Lin'an turned his horse's head and planned to go back.

"Yo, this person down here is a little familiar, but is he from Yu Linwei?"

Xie Lin'an followed the sound and saw a man with a large cloak on his body greeting him on the second floor of a restaurant.

The man was born with beautiful eyebrows, he was already in his forties, but his face was still fair, and he wore a mink warm hat on his head, and he looked like a rich idler. ….

Xie Lin'an hurriedly turned over and dismounted: "Xiaguan Yu Linwei commanded the servant, and he has seen the commander."

The man hooked his hand at him: "What kind of adult, the drinking friend I originally made here entered the Beizhen Fusi this morning, and you came up to drink with me."

「…… Yes."

Carrying his robe and hurriedly walking to the restaurant, as soon as he saw the man, Xie Linan wanted to salute again.

"Don't be so polite, disturb the tranquility of my drinking, hurry up, I've been holding back at home for a few days, and today I can come out while my wife enters the palace."

As he spoke, the man picked up the cup and poured Xie Lin'an a glass of warm wine:

"I can't remember what your name is, let's have two drinks casually, and new friends will be old friends, just have a good time."

Look

The wine in front of him, Xie Linan still wanted to excuse himself, but he felt that he had come to the point where he was today, and there was nothing to excuse, so he directly raised his glass and drank it all.

The warm wine soaked his lungs with the aroma, and he realized that his internal organs had already been infiltrated by the cold.

"Master Cao, I have bitterness in my heart!"

"If there is suffering, just talk about it, anyway, it's a drunken word, let's forget it after hearing it."

After taking a bite of the lamb's head meat in front of him, the man raised his head and drank again: "If you want to say bitterness, who can be bitter more than me? A litter of people surnamed Cao, I am the only one with a brain, a sister is the queen mother, I don't want to live a good life, I nag every day with some old things, an elder brother is an uncle, a serious royal relative, but he only thinks he is a bandit...... Pigs can do better than him."

After another sip of wine, Cao Fengle, the younger brother of the current Queen Mother and known as "Uncle Xiaoguo", made a bitter face: "My sister sent me a letter yesterday, do you know what I said in the letter? She asked me to take care of my daughter-in-law and not follow the queen to make peace. That's the Queen! My wife is just a Mrs. Hou, what can she do with such a delicate person? The queen wants my wife to go to the inner study to be a female master, is it because my wife said that she can not do it?"

Cao Fengle was complaining, and Xie Lin'an's wine never stopped.

He has been in Yulinwei for so many years, and he has only seen Cao Fengle three times, and he is still in a place like Qinlou Chu Pavilion, this is the first time he has drunk Cao Fengle to talk, and it is really the first time he has met him in such a silent restaurant.

What is the inner study? Female master? He was imprisoned for two months, why can't he even understand human speech?

Cao Fengle's complaint is not over, and he is obviously so depressed that he came out to find someone to listen to him:

"Just because my wife was chosen by the queen to be a female master, and some people scolded me! Scold me for not repairing my inner clothes! Scold me for not being able to discipline my wife! What kind of stuff crawled out of the old sauce jar, and you dare to make a mistake in front of me! Don't look at what kind of virtues you have! My sister also asked me to write a recital with those people to sue the queen, telling me that it was for the sake of the Cao family and the royal reputation? What is the reputation of the Cao family? Ha! Let me tell you, my sister's greatest blessing in this life is that she met the first emperor who matched her temperament, and the first emperor indulged her and turned her into a fool! Let the palace maids be literate, so that the female officials can also have a future, aren't they more dedicated to serving her as the queen mother? What did she mix with the old horsemen who were shouting at Si Chen? Has she forgotten that she is also ...... Hiccup." ….

After drinking the warm wine, touching the mouth of the wine pot that was still cold, Xie Linan directly picked up the wine jar and poured himself a full glass of wine:

"Lord Cao, the Empress Dowager still cares about the royal reputation, my grandmother, she really never looked at our Xie family! My dad is still ...... My brother's whereabouts are unknown, and I, her own grandson, my eldest grandson, are two months old and ten years old, and she thinks about her niece every day."

Breaking his fingers, Xie Linan took out all the accounts that he had calculated repeatedly in his heart that he didn't know how many times:

"The 150 and 60 people of the East Cross Courtyard chew it, and we have to eat the best rice, use the best charcoal, and everyone has meat every day...... My cousin, said that he was eating bran vegetables, and the millet he ate had to be fried in tea oil, and the wild vegetables he ate had to be used with preserved venison, and the palace sent someone to watch it, so my grandmother asked the cook to boil a few fish into white soup and then cook the tofu, the white and tender tofu, you have to use four or five crucian carp to make the taste! He also said that the bed looked too extravagant, and specially found a good silk quilt, not only the outside is silk, but the inside is also silk! Isn't this extravagant? Isn't this a waste? Burning the earth dragon with the best coal, Yaregan thought of the money that had been spent, and the silver that had been robbed and disappeared with his brother, and his wife, who had no shame on himself.

Xie Lin came out of sorrow: "My mother still knows how to comfort me, but my grandmother knows that I went to my cousin's will? How do I go well? The benefits are all my cousin's, and the bitterness is mine! If it goes on like this, on the day my cousin had a big accident, I am afraid that my grandmother will take my head as the bottom of it!"

"How can you be so biased?" Cao Fengle couldn't care about crying when he heard this, he moved his buttocks with chopsticks, got closer, and asked, "Then what are you going to do?" That's it?"

Xie Lin'an shook his head and sighed.

"My cousin is the only thing our family relies on now, and I don't know what to do......

"Ugh." Cao Fengxi sighed with him, "I can't help much, if you have a useful woman in your family, especially if she has read a lot of books, I can ask my wife to introduce her to the queen, and it is also a way to follow the path of the queen." It's a pity that such a person is so easy to find."

"Bang." The wine glass in Xie Lin'an's hand fell to the ground.

"Really, really? Can a woman who can read now follow the path of a queen?"

His eyes lit up.

In the evening, Zhao Surui was dragging his body and watching Ah Chi settle accounts for himself, when he saw a little girl hurriedly walking in:

"Madam, the Xie family came to our Zhuangzi, and it has been taken down by Pei Feng and others."

"Who is it?" Zhao Surui spit out the skin of the melon seeds in his mouth, he was lazy, and he didn't want to raise his head, "According to the old rules, raise the horses brought by the people well, and search the money on your body, and drag the obedient and sensible to work, and if you are ignorant, you will set up a wooden stake in front of the Zhuangzi, and when you are honest, you will let the people go."

The little girl thought for a moment and said, "Honest is honest."

"Hmm."

Zhao Surui nodded, and listened to the little girl say:

"But the man said that Ning Anbo's son Xie Lin'an."

"Poof." Zhao Surui raised his head, "What is he doing here?" Isn't he locked up?"

Outside Zhuangzi, Xie Lin'an, who was tied up, looked at the sturdy man in front of him in horror, and felt that he had just left the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den.

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