Chapter 72: Fighting in the Ring
Situ Rou entered the palace the next day, and when he was about to go to see the old emperor, he changed into a man's dress on weekdays, and when he saw the old emperor, Situ Rou made a simple debriefing, and the old emperor did not find anything wrong, but always rewarded and encouraged him.
After Situ Rou accepted the old emperor's teaching, he happily left the palace and prepared to meet Xiao Chengze.
Xiao Chengze had already told her that he would set a table for her in Tianshun Building, the best restaurant in the capital, to wash the dust for her, and to have a good drink with her.
In order to make her faster, Situ Rou chose to ride a horse directly.
Situ Rou has always rode horses on the battlefield, and now that he has returned to the capital, although most people will choose to take a carriage or an ox cart It will be more comfortable, but for Situ Rong, at least he is used to it. And it will be more convenient and flexible, so let the groom drive the carriage back by himself, leaving only one horse.
Situ Rou was afraid that there were more people on the street into the city, so the horse also rode slowly, not as usual, but slowly forward, and finally arrived at the bottom of Tianshun Tower, Situ Rou handed over the horse to the shopkeeper.
Tianshun Lou can be said to be one of the best restaurants in the capital, and the dishes here are no worse than those in the palace, and there are all kinds of delicacies for people to choose from.
It's summer, and the seafood inside is a must. They are all freshly salvaged from the sea, and then rushed to the capital without the slightest delay. The freshness of the seafood is maintained to the greatest extent.
Xiao Chengze had already booked a quiet private room upstairs, and specially called Xiao Chengyu. Take him to eat something delicious to relieve the depression in his heart.
After Xiao Chengyu returned from the broken bridge yesterday, he found that the old prince had sneaked to the casino to gamble again.
Xiao Chengyu scolded the old prince in a fit of anger, feeling that he was very uncompetitive, he was old, but he was still addicted to gambling, and sooner or later the entire palace would fall.
But the old prince didn't care, and even felt that he had done nothing wrong, and Xiao Chengyu, as his son, how could he open his mouth and insult his biological father? This is simply disrespectful, so he started to beat Xiao Chengyu
Wang Shi and Wang Jiu were watching from the side, and their task was to protect the prince, but now it was the old prince who was beating people, and it was difficult for this Qing official to cut off family affairs, not to mention that the two of them were just subordinates of the palace.
Xiao Chengyu naturally didn't want to be wronged, so he simply slammed the door and ran away from home, but as a person who has been cared for since childhood, really running away from home is just a little temper, he just moved from his palace to Xiao Chengze's residence.
As soon as Xiao Chengze saw Xiao Chengyu coming to him, he knew that he must have quarreled with the old prince again, so he didn't ask in detail, so as not to sprinkle salt on his wounds, and directly entertained him to live in the mansion.
Just in time for today, Xiao Chengze and Situ Rou had an appointment, so they thought about taking Xiao Chengyu out to breathe, and it was not good for the old man in the province to be stuffy at home.
Situ Rou, under the leadership of the shopkeeper, went directly to the private room upstairs, and the moment he pushed the door open, Situ Rou saw Xiao Chengyu sitting in front of the left.
Situ Rou stared at Xiao Chengyu with his eyes, Xiao Chengze thought that Situ Rou had not seen Xiao Chengyu for too long, so he didn't know him at all now, and he couldn't remember who he was?
Xiao Chengze actively reminded Situ Rou, "He is Xiao Chengyu, the little kid who often followed my ass when I was a child." Do you remember? ”
"Remember, some impressions." Situ Rou is now wearing a man's clothes, thinking that Xiao Chengyu probably can't recognize herself, it is the woman he helped yesterday.
"Situ Rou has seen and seen the prince of King Jing."
"General Situ is well." Xiao Chengze instructed Xiao Chengyu before, so that Xiao Chengyu must have a better attitude when he sees Situ Rou at this time, because Situ Rou is a very irritable person, if he really provokes her, I am afraid that he will be beaten by fat, even if you are the prince of King Jing, it will not be an exception.
After all, Situ Rou had done it with him at the beginning, if it weren't for his strong martial arts, I am afraid that he would have been hammered into dice by Situ Rou long ago.
Situ Rou was still very happy to see Xiao Chengyu again, and was thinking about how to communicate with him, and then prove that she was the girl he rescued yesterday.
But before Situ Rou could figure out what to do, she heard a deafening cry for help downstairs.
The three of them walked to the window and looked down, and said that they were bullies who robbed people's girls in broad daylight, which was really too bad in nature, how could Situ Rou's chivalrous character allow her to sit idly by?
Before anyone else could speak, Situ Rou jumped down from the window on the second floor and jumped in front of the bully, giving the bully a kick directly.
"Shameless things, in broad daylight, dare to rob people's daughters." Situ Rou said with a dark face.
The strong man is also a practitioner, the muscles on his body are bursting, he is holding a leather whip in his hand, he is shaking it one by one, Cui Yan was kicked just now, but now his vitality is still very tenacious, he stood up like a nobody, and whipped the whip into Situ Rou's face, "Where did the yellow-haired boy come from?" How dare you meddle here. ”
"You don't care where I'm from, I'll take care of today's events anyway!" Situ Rou's whole person was domineering, and there was a bit of murder in his eyes.
Bully, this time I finally heard Situ Rou's voice clearly, and I knew that the person in front of me was a woman, not a man. "Yo, I'm not a kid after a long time, I'm a yellow-haired girl!"
After the bully learned Situ Rou's gender, the whole person seemed to be holding his big gold tooth as if he was winning, and he kept shaking the leather whip in his hand.
"Her father owes me money, and now I won't pay the money, so I'll pull his daughter in, the father owes the debt, is there anything wrong?" The bully said.
"Oh, is that so?" Situ Rou still used her body to protect the girl behind her, and turned her head 45 degrees to ask if what the girl bully said was true?
The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl nodded helplessly, it seems that it is really her unlucky father, because he has done something wrong, so in the end, even his daughter has to pay for it, it is really shameless!
"How much do they owe you?" Situ Rou asked again.
"232 silver." The bully burst out with a very precise number.
"No, my father only borrowed 12 taels of silver from him, and he has already repaid it later." The little girl cried.
"Fart, you know what! There is interest on this loan, and your family has not transferred a penny of interest to me until now, so you still owe me money nominally. ”
Situ Rou probably understood the bully in front of him, it turned out to be in the business of putting seals, so for other people, it was simply a very dark profession.
Those who are poor will borrow money because they are desperate and have no choice but to live, but they do not expect that the money borrowed will snowball, bigger and bigger, and more and more, until in the end, they need to pay double, two, or even ten times the price to repay the so-called interest.
Situ Rou was going to go to the palace today to report on her work, so she didn't have much silver taels on her body, and if she was full of money, she might have six or seven taels of silver, so she could take out more than 200 taels of silver at one time, I'm afraid there would be some difficulties, so Situ Rou set her eyes on Xiao Chengze and Xiao Chengyu who were standing upstairs watching the play.
Needless to say, Xiao Chengyu is a poor egg, in addition to some books left, there are also intimate clothes on weekdays, after the jade pendant is not sold, what kind of ornaments are the others? Things like blue and white porcelain have long been secretly taken out by the prince to pawn to maintain the family's life.
Xiao Chengze is rich, but it's a pity that he doesn't have the opportunity to go out shopping with cash, that is, to give the thief a chance, so the two of them are now estimated to be able to scrape together from their bodies in a hurry, less than 50 silver.
Of course. Situ Rou didn't plan to give this bully silver from the beginning, but wanted to teach him a good lesson from beginning to end, but now there are many people on the street, and as a general who has just returned from the frontier, if he makes trouble in the capital at this time, it will have some bad effects, so he thought of a way to kiss the bully first, and then solve it himself.
Xiao Chengze said: "Let's go downstairs and have a look." ”
Xiao Chengyu followed Xiao Chengze and the two of them downstairs downstairs, and there were already a lot of people downstairs watching the excitement, many of whom were also very sympathetic to the girls sitting on the ground, and wanted to say a few more words for her, but they were lighter than others, so they all pinned their hopes on Situ Rou.
Situ Rou's brain spun quickly and came up with a solution. "You said he owed you 200, that's good, today you and I let people fight, if I win, you will write off his account, if I lose, I will pay the debt for their father and daughter."
This is a good way, as long as the bully catches up with the ring, Situ Rou can guarantee that he will definitely come down sideways. The horizontal appearance here does not mean that Situ Rou will definitely kill him, but that it is very likely that he will be seriously injured or disabled.
This bully glanced at Situ Rou a few times, and looked at the whole person as thin and small, how could he beat a strong man who was almost twice as tall and weighed as Situ Rou.
"Okay, I promise you."
Situ Rou heard the bully agree to the first corner of her mouth, and she seemed to smile and curled.
When Xiao Chengze came down, he just heard that the two of them had completed the agreement, and Situ Rou was going to fight in the ring! This is to have fun, you can make it up for the two of them.
"It's better to do this, our brother will be a witness for the two of you." Xiao Chengze expressed his desire to be a witness with the heart of watching the excitement.
"What kind of witness are you cool, stay and go!" Situ Rou has always been very disgusted with Xiao Chengze's lively mentality, so he doesn't want Xiao Chengze to stir up trouble for him by his side, especially saying something that is not there, which is very disproportionate, thus reducing her image in Xiao Chengyu's heart.
Xiao Chengze smiled and said, "Believe me, you will need a witness, in case someone on both sides cheats, then I will definitely be the first to break his hand." ”
In the end, Xiao Chengze became a witness as he wished, and Situ Rou drew a circle on the side of the street for the circle axis to spread outward, and the rules of the competition as a ring are also very simple, that is, whoever is knocked out of the circle will lose.