Chapter 55: Attacked at Night (Happy Lantern Festival to everyone)
Between the two of them, Baoyu took Jiang Yuhan's hand tightly and said softly:
"If you have the opportunity, you can go to me, and there is also a theater in Rongguo Mansion." After a pause, he asked:
"I heard that there is also a person named Qiguan in the palace of Prince Zhongshun, he is very famous, but I have never had the opportunity to see him."
Jiang Yuhan covered her mouth and smiled: "That's my nickname." ”
When Baoyu heard this, he said happily: "I am fortunate to meet, and it is indeed worthy of the name." ”
The first meeting made Baoyu happy, thinking that he should leave some things as a souvenir, thinking about it, taking out the fan from his sleeve, untying the jade fan pendant on the fan, and handing it to Jiang Yuhan.
Then he spoke: "Meager things, not enough to worry about, a little bit of today's friendship." ”
Jiang Yuhan refused to take it, looked at Baoyu and said, "No merit is not accepted, how can this be deserved." ”
Jiang Yuhan couldn't be stubborn, so he had to say: "Okay, I also have a thing here, I got up early this morning to tie it, it's still brand new, and I can show a little affection for me." ”
After that, he lifted the placket, untied a big red sweat towel tied to the small coat, and handed it to Baoyu.
And said: "This sweat towel is a tribute from the female king of Qianxiang country, and the skin is fragrant and does not produce sweat stains." What the prince just rewarded me yesterday, if it were someone else, I would never give it as a gift. ”
When Baoyu heard this, she was very happy, and after taking it, she hurriedly untied her Songhua sweat towel and tied it for Jiang Yuhan.
After some clever words, Baoyu had arrived in front of Feng's mansion, reluctantly said goodbye to Jiang Yuhan, and returned to the house with the four little guys.
Baoyu returned to the courtyard, and attacked humanity with a wide coat on the other:
"It's very cold tonight, I should have taken the car a long time ago, my sister prepared some warm tea, and I ate to warm up."
When the attacker heard this, he got up from the couch to prepare, but at a glance he saw that the jade pendant on the fan on the table was gone, so he asked:
"Master, what about the jade pendant on this fan, but it is a precious thing, and the old lady rewarded it."
Baoyu replied casually: "It seems that I lost it right away." ”
The two of them were lying on the couch, and when they saw that Baoyu had a brand-new red sweat towel tied around her waist, she had already guessed seven or eight points in her heart, and said a little sourly:
"Since you have a good towel, you should return my one to me."
When Baoyu heard this, he remembered that the sweat towel given to Jiang Yuhan was originally given by an attacker, and he should not have given it away, and he felt a little remorseful in his heart, but he couldn't say anything.
After thinking for a while, he could only smile and then said: "This towel is also excellent, I will compensate you for this." ”
As he spoke, he took off his scarf and tied it around the waist of the attacker.
The attacker got up and avoided it, and said, "I'm not unfamiliar with this business, so I'd better keep it for myself." ”
Lying on the couch again, the attacker only sighed, and the two of them didn't say much, and they didn't say anything all night.
It was night, and the sky was full of snowflakes flying with the cold wind, and the earth seemed to be wrapped in a white veil.
In a deep alley in the east city,
A group of peddlers, pawns, with sticks in their hands, were beating several beggars.
One of them shouted, "In the past, I didn't care much about you stinky flowers, but we were really easy to handle?" ”
After saying that, he fiercely beckoned to the beggars with a wooden stick a few more times, and the people around him also shot together when they saw this.
After a beating, the beggars were in pain, and they no longer dared to struggle and resist, so they all stopped.
"Finally, get out of this street right now, it's not a place for you to stay."
The crowd around took a few bites, and then made a way for them to get out of the way.
The younger beggar picked up his companion and walked out.
After walking a little way out of the alley, turning back and seeing the group of thugs behind him, the young beggar asked:
"Uncle Wu, the night curfew has arrived, and we can't go back to the villa, what should we do?"
The old beggar gasped for breath, "First find a shack and grass circle to survive this night, and I'll go to the Great Elder tomorrow at dawn." ”
"Uncle Wu, are you seriously injured, can you survive it?"
"I'm not afraid of injuries, when there was no big head in the past few decades, it was common to be beaten, but this ghost weather is too difficult to bear."
A few people walked a few hundred steps, and around the corner came to the back door of a high-door mansion, where the beggars wanted to drag some horse barn hay under them and cover them to protect them from the cold.
But he met another group of beggars, and when the other party saw the comer, he exclaimed:
"Wu Xiangtou, you haven't gone back to the villa?"
The young beggar saw that several of them were also wounded, and asked, "You were also stopped and beaten?" ”
"Yes, I don't know what happened today, the small traders who didn't have a lot of temperament in the past, but now they are in a mess, they don't pay attention to the rules at all, we are defenseless, and the alley was beaten to death by those dog offals in order to protect us." The man wailed.
After saying that, several little beggars around him wiped their tears.
The older man who was called Uncle Wu realized that something was wrong and that someone was acting against them.
I felt more and more that things were not good, so I had to report it to the Great Elder as soon as possible, and I couldn't delay it.
Lao Wu opened his mouth and ordered: "Xiao Wu, tomorrow the rooster crows, you will go to the gathering point to find the great elder, explain what happened today, and explain that someone is targeting our beggar gang, so that the big group head is more careful, this is most likely not for us to usually make small grudges, there must be someone who wants to be unfavorable to the big group." ”
The beggars around him stopped sobbing when they heard this, and they were all shocked, and someone asked in a trembling voice: "Wu Xiangtou, you are serious, don't scare us, how can we have such a good life without a big group." ”
Lao Wu replied: "You can't fake, it's better to be careful, Datuantou often says, be careful to make a 10,000-year-old ship." ”
Turning his head, he instructed Xiao Wudao: "If the Great Elder is not found in the gathering place, go to the treasure tube quickly and inform the shopkeeper Yun about today." ”
A young man named Xiao Wu responded: "Knowing Uncle Wu, rest assured that nothing can go wrong." ”
"It's too cold tonight, let's gather around and remind each other not to fall asleep, whoever closes his eyes and doesn't open them, he will put on a few ear scrapers, if he sleeps, the day will really pass."
Lao Wu was the oldest, and he was still the alley in the gang, and the beggars listened to him and moved everyone into a circle.
The cold wind was howling outside, and it was the end of the war, Ni Erzhen stood in front of the villa and asked:
"Haven't you come back from Dongcheng yet?"
Menzi replied, "I haven't seen anyone come back yet." ”
The information is blocked, and no one has delivered the news, and it is already a night ban at this time, so something must have gone wrong.
Ni Er's heart is like a mess, the uncle values him so much, if there is an accident, how can he explain.
Zhu Zhenyan beside him said: "Steward Ni will go back to the room first, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back today, I have been crawling and rolling from the rivers and lakes for so many years, I feel in my heart, the guards should be useful soon, and I should practice for two more hours every day in the future." ”