Hearing this, Cao Youning's expression changed suddenly.

Carrying a table home, although it will look a little weird no matter how it is packaged and sent to the university scholar's mansion, but after all, it is the only thing in the world, and it can be rubbed...... As long as there is ink and paper, hundreds or thousands of sheets can be extended, if you really take the rubbing book back, how should you explain it to your brother-in-law?

He looked at the slightly dark face of the little maid who was not clear, and said with a dark face, "Who are you?"

Miss Shui Zhu'er glanced at him, and knew what he wanted to do, so she smiled helplessly and introduced: "The table you want to buy, although it is the immortal...... Written by Master Yan Se, it is Ning Que's original work. This girl is Ning Que's personal maid, to be honest, I'm afraid that I can be Ning Que's most of the family, if you really want to take something back home, it's best to be polite. ”

Cao Youning was taken aback when he heard this, and quickly entered the stream, and waved his hand to Sang Sang very politely, and sincerely said his intentions: "Little girl, although Tuoben will naturally be precious in the future, what I want to buy is something unique. ”

Sang Sang thought that this was the first guest after the young master became famous, and he always had some preferential treatment, so after thinking for a while, he calmly responded: "I'll stamp it for you, if it doesn't work, my young master will ask Master Yan Se to personally sign this rubbing." ”

After saying this, she took out a seal from her arms for a long time.

Cao Youning's eyes lit up at the seal in her hand and asked, "Is this ...... Rather everyone's private seal?"

Sang Sang was extremely unaccustomed to the young master being called Ning Family, and always felt that this was too similar to the title of Jian Family, and frowned slightly.

Cao Youning was silent for a moment and then put forward his own conditions: "Can you promise to only print my rubbing?"

Sangsang nodded.

Cao Youning raised his head, looked into her eyes, and said, "Please make an offer." ”

Sangsang said: "Three hundred taels." ”

Cao Youning exchanged three silver tickets for a piece of paper and a bright red seal, and left the courtyard with some joy and some disappointment. Shui Zhu'er and Sang Sang watched his back disappear into the doorway, only then did they withdraw their gaze and look at each other.

Xiaocao smiled and hugged Shui Zhu'er's plump arm, and said while shaking: "Sister Shui Zhu'er, just apply some ink, wrap a cotton cloth and hammer it twice, you can exchange it for three hundred taels of silver tickets, you are making a fortune now." ”

Shui Zhu'er responded with a smile: "That is, the first one, and it is worth this price with Ning Que's private seal." ”

"But you can print it casually. Xiaocao counted with his fingers and said, "This business is much more cost-effective than dancing and singing." ”

Shui Zhu'er smiled, didn't answer anything, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip lightly, and then continued to look at Sang Sang.

During this time, Sang Sang didn't do anything, just quietly watched Shui Zhu'er.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little weird.

Shui Zhu'er slowly put down the teacup, looked up at Sang Sang and said with a smile: "Seventy-three, you are seven, I am three." ”

Sang Sang was in a hurry to come to Hongyu today, because Ning Que deliberately told her that she must find the chicken soup post, but she didn't expect that she was still many steps late after all, not to mention that the original post had been taken away by Master Yan Se, even the handwriting left on this table had already begun to be used by Shui Zhu'er as a way to make money.

Previously, she had been quietly looking at Miss Shui Zhu'er, just to see how the other party planned to deal with this matter, and at this time, listening to your seven and my three or four words, Sang Sang felt very satisfied, and nodded to the other party with a smile.

Shui Zhu'er raised her sleeves to cover her lips and smiled, and said softly: "With an old table, I can easily surpass Lu Xue, when will you bring Ning Que over, I will be punished by Jane's family, and let him be happy." ”

Sang Sang smiled, didn't answer the topic, walked to the table and looked at it curiously.

After entering the courtyard first, she just took a cursory look, and at this time it was actually the first time she saw the original text of the chicken soup post, and she saw that this sentence that made the young master favored by the rune master and was already famous in Kyoto was written like this.

"Young Master Sangsang, I won't come back to sleep if I'm drunk today, you remember to drink the leftover chicken soup on the pot." ”

Looking at the first two words of the scribbled handwriting on the desktop, the name that belonged to him, Sang Sang was silent for a long time, and then laughed, his slightly dark cheeks were full of pride and happiness.

After Sang Sang left the small courtyard accompanied by Xiaocao, Shui Zhu'er's personal maid walked in, her eyes rolled around, and she whispered: "Girl, although the note is indeed written by Ning Que, the table is ours, and Master Yan Se is also Yaxing who moved when you spend the night here." He should have given his master and servant some dividends, but the ratio of seven or three is really a bit of a loss. ”

Shui Zhu'er smiled, gently poked the eyebrows of the loyal maidservant, and said: "You, seeing things are always so shallow, not to mention that the two of these twenty-nine words are the names of Sangsang, only that if I take the lion's share, which high-ranking official in the court will take a fancy to it in the future and ask for it, how should I refuse? Now that the big head belongs to Ning Que's master and servant, I am just a custodian, if anyone really dares to come and force this small table, they will not come to me, they have to pass Ning Que's pass first." ”

The maid was slightly stunned and understood the meaning of the girl's words, bit her lower lip lightly, and said, "But girl, isn't the relationship between you and Ning Que Ye very good......?

Looking at the servant girl who wanted to stop talking, Shui Zhu'er smiled and said angrily: "Do you think I am not kind to the girl?" I really don't know if you are my maidservant or Ning Que's maidservant, he hasn't been here for months, and he still thinks of him like this. You don't have to worry about these things, Ning Que is now appreciated by His Majesty, and he has become the successor of the rune master, not to mention that he can bully people casually in Chang'an City, but at least no one dares to bully him casually. ”

On the table by the window of the private room on the second floor, there are a few refreshing snacks and two pots of fruit wine.

A girl sat by the window, looking at Sang Sang, who was sent out of the building by Xiaocao, and said with a smile to the middle-aged guest next to her: "See that little girl, that is Ning Lacking's little maid, the girls in our building feel that she will definitely be Ning Lacking's room in the future, if it weren't for such an identity, how could Jane's personal maid be so good with her?"

The middle-aged guest's eyebrows are slightly white, and his complexion is like iron, which looks quite vicissitudes. He followed the girl's guidance and looked out the window, and after a moment of silence, he asked curiously: "This young man named Ning Que can really be said to be a one-day Chang'an, but I don't understand why you all call him Ning Que so smooth." Some time ago, he was not as famous as he is today. ”

The girl smiled and explained softly, "Ning is not an ordinary person...... Although the girls in the building didn't know anything unusual about him before, the person who could make Miss Shui Zhu'er feel distressed by her younger brother and her younger brother called her brother could make Miss Lu Xue take a vacation and make a special trip to dance Hu Xuan must always be a little different. ”

The middle-aged mulberry raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Why is this?"

The girl thought for a while, and found that the girls in the building really liked Ning Que, but if she really wanted to summarize what Ning Que had to like, it was very difficult, so she had to shake her head and say with a smile: "Since the first time he entered the building, everyone Jian has looked at him differently, maybe Shui Zhu'er knows something? But just based on the attitude of everyone in Jane, he is worthy of being called a young master by us." ”

The middle-aged guest smiled, stopped talking about it, drank some fruit wine with the girl, talked a little gossip, and left.

With a red sleeve move, the middle-aged man got into a carriage and instructed the coachman to walk around Chang'an City at will and make a few turns, and finally stopped somewhere in Beicheng. He paid for the car and got out of the car, and then walked through two alleys to the back of a complex of buildings surrounded by green trees, knocked on the back door, and entered.

In the back study of Chang'an Mansion.

Shangguan Yangyu looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and asked expressionlessly, "It took three months to narrow down the suspect to seven people. Ning Que is last among these seven names, why do you suspect him? What evidence do you have?"

The middle-aged man's surname was Tie Mingying, he was the head of the criminal name team in Chang'an Mansion, and he had been in the Criminal Department for more than ten years, and he was very experienced in investigating cases. ”

Shangguan Yangyu's face suddenly turned cold, and he reprimanded: "At that time, there were hundreds of people in the red sleeve move, could they all be suspicious!"

Tie Ying lowered his head and clenched his fists, and said in a deep voice: "But my subordinates feel that there is something wrong with this person." ”

Shangguan Yangyu frowned slightly, and said unhappily: "How can you act by feeling when investigating a case?"

"Zhang Yiqi died outside the side door of the red sleeve sign, and it was not handled as a homicide at that time, so the scene was not examined, and the people in the building at the time were not left in custody for interrogation, so it was really difficult to find evidence. ”

Tie Ying continued quickly: "But if you believe my instincts about the case, please let me continue to investigate, my subordinates have been dealing with homicides all their lives, and this stick case can sniff out some problems even by just sniffing it." ”

Shangguan Yangyu seemed very interested, and asked "What did you smell something?"

"Ning Que didn't have a lot of money before, and he could even say that he was a little poor, how could such a young man be happy in the red sleeves? Why did everyone appreciate him? Why did the girls like him? What did he want to do when he entered the red sleeves? I think the problem is that there shouldn't be any relationship between him and the red sleeves, but there is. ”

Tie Ying looked at Lord Fu Yin's disapproving expression, his expression became solemn, and he began to state another thing he had investigated: "Shortly after the death of Yushi Zhang Yiqi, Huiyuan Tongqian Zhuang exchanged a few silver tickets, the amount of which was huge enough to be two thousand taels of silver. ”

"The name signed by the person who redeemed the ticket is Sang Sang, who is Ning Que's little maid. He didn't have a good reputation at that time, and he sold his books very cheaply, so how could he have so much silver? Who gave him all this money? What did those people do with him for so much silver?"

Listening to this information, Shangguan Yangyu's brows furrowed tightly, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "Don't move anything else, check the matter of the silver ticket first, and if there is indeed a problem, you can continue to investigate." ”

The curtain shines into Chang'an Mansion.

Standing under the green trees in the courtyard, Lord Shangguan Yangyu, who should have been shining with a red face by the sunset, but his face was full of iron blue that was not in harmony with the surrounding environment, he looked at Tie Ying in front of him like looking at the enemy who killed his father, and the cold voice seeped out from between his teeth, and he seemed a little sharper: "The silver ticket was deposited by the Fish Dragon Gang into Huiyuantong, that is to say, the two thousand taels of silver were given to Ning Que by Xiaoshu, as for why, if you haven't forgotten the corpses that fell on the street next to the Spring Breeze Pavilion one night, you may be able to guess a little." ”

"This official will not forget that night. Shangguan Yangyu said coldly: "Because it was precisely because of that night that countless bigwigs fell in the imperial court that I was able to sit in the position of Yin of Chang'an Mansion." As for Chao Xiaoshu's identity, I don't think I need to remind you anymore. Ning Que took two thousand taels of silver, which is equivalent to doing things for the palace, do you still have to insist on investigating?"

Tie Ying forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, clasped his fists and said: "My lord, there are many doubts in this matter, the Spring Breeze Pavilion was indeed a masked man beside Xiaoshu that night, but I heard that it was a young master from the Moon Wheel Country, as for the two thousand taels of silver tickets, whether it was a matter of rewarding the Spring Breeze Pavilion, or if there was another source, it should be carefully checked." ”

Shangguan Yangyu roared angrily: "How else to investigate? Do you know who Ning Que is? Even if you didn't know before, but after today, who else in Chang'an City will not know that name! If you have evidence, this official will do things for the people of the court, even if you give up the black veil on your head, you have to investigate, but if you don't have any evidence, only that damn intuition and smell like a rotten dog are going to check this person, then don't blame this official for picking off your official uniform first!"

Tie Ying was struck by the adult's scolding and lowered his head, and was silent.

Shangguan Yangyu calmed down a little, looked at him and asked lightly, "Have you notified the military department about this matter?"

Tie Ying raised his head and argued nervously: "Since your lord ordered this matter to be investigated secretly, of course your subordinates don't dare to leak it, I dare to guarantee that except for your lord and subordinates, there is absolutely no third person who knows that Chang'an Mansion has ever suspected Ning Que." ”

"That's fine. Shangguan Yangyu lightly grabbed the sparse beard under his jaw and said, "Erase Ning Que's name and check the remaining six people first." ”

Tie Ying took the order and left.

Shangguan Yangyu returned to the back house, and after dinner, he began to sit in front of the oil lamp in a daze, and suddenly his brows furrowed and stared at the oil lamp in front of the bookshelf, and asked unhappily: "Why did you light three more lamps! ”

Mrs. Fu Yin was sitting at the end of the study and chewing the rope and taking shoes, suddenly hearing the scolding of her master, she raised her head in confusion and asked: "Master, now you are also a member of the court, why are you still like this, isn't there something wrong with today's business?"

Shangguan Yangyu is not good-looking, and can even be said to be a little ugly, and his temperament is extremely slippery, insidious and despicable, but he has quite merit in family affairs. He married a lady who was also unattractive when he was young, but after his career, he treated his wife as much as yesterday, never moved the idea of taking a concubine, got along well and intimately, and even hid many private matters from each other.

After telling Madame Yu about the things he heard during the day, Shangguan Yangyu frowned and said to himself: "When I was in charge of the criminal name in the Chang'an Mansion, my first move was to dig Tie Ying from the criminal department, because I know that this person is very experienced, and even as he himself said, he has a natural intuition for clues to the murder, what if ...... Ning Que is really related to Zhang Yiqi's death, and I really don't know how to deal with this matter. ”

Mrs. Shangguan frowned slightly, put down the needlework in her hand, poured a cup of hot tea for the master, and said softly: "Since the master is in charge of the security of Chang'an City, and he is in charge of the imperial court, the case that should be investigated must be investigated." ”

"But there is no evidence, and ......"

Shangguan Yangyu looked at his wife, sighed and said sadly: "I really don't dare to investigate." His Majesty likes him, I heard that he has entered the second floor of the academy, and he has become the successor of the rune master, without the will of the palace, where do I dare to check this kind of person?"

Madame Shangguan was stunned, puzzled and said, "If such a character is like this, how can he be involved in the murder?"

Shangguan Yangyu heard this, two bright lights suddenly flashed in his ugly triangular eyes, and he patted the bookcase and said in a deep voice: "What Madam said is reasonable, how can such a person do such a thing?"

"The lord decides the case, but you can't listen to the nonsense of our women. ”

Madam Shangguan was taken aback by his reaction, and hurriedly dissuaded, "What if it's really him?"

Shangguan Yangyu looked at the hot tea in front of him, gritted his teeth with a firm expression and said, "It's not true, it must not be, even if it's ...... Neither is it. ”

Golden silk mixed with seaweed, four happiness small sub-boxes, marinade drenched fragrant ru, Huadiao drunken shrimp, medicinal soup chicken...... Listening to the names of the dishes reported by the eunuchs, and looking at the dishes on the plate that caused them to be extremely exquisite, Ning Que couldn't help but look up at the carved beams and pillars in the hall, and his eyes were shaken by the bright palace lamp raised by the copper pillar in front of him, and then he realized where he was and what he was doing.

In the imperial study, His Majesty the Emperor asked him for a book to appreciate, but was blocked by his sentence of selling for money. Ning Que thought that this would inevitably make the Son of Heaven angry and unlucky. However, he did not expect that although His Majesty was angry, he did not drive him out of the palace, but took him out of the imperial study, made a few turns in the garden, and came to a quiet temple somewhere, facing the rich dishes.

What kind of treatment is this to stay in the palace and have dinner with the Tang Emperor? The gentle and quiet queen mother from before even served a bowl of soup for herself, what kind of treatment is this? Even Ning Que, who was used to seeing life and death and might not blink an eye before the collapse of the Minshan Mountain, finally couldn't help but start to get excited and nervous.

The queen mother took a chilled bamboo shoot and put it into Her Majesty's lips, and said with a smile: "Since it is a meal, Mo Lao said how many times he has seen the flowers bloom on the other side, otherwise Ning Que This child will be grateful and ashamed, where will there be time for An Ansheng to eat a few bites of food?"

His Majesty the Emperor was really in a good mood, so he chewed the bamboo shoots on the tip of the queen's chopstick, and said with a vague smile: "Then eat." ”

As soon as Chrysostom came out, it was a holy decree, and Ning Que held the gold-painted red lacquer bowl in his hand and began to eat. It's just that at this time, how can he have time to taste the taste of food, and his mind keeps thinking about what he saw, and today he finally knows that the relationship between the emperor and the queen is really as glued as rumored, but who is the empty position opposite?

There was a light ring, the light fragrance came from afar, and the fourth princess of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zha, who was dressed in an extremely grand skirt, came in the company of the palace maid Jiao Yan. Ning Que was stunned, his eyes subconsciously fell on her face, and he noticed that the eyebrows and eyes that usually only felt delicate in the past looked very beautiful under the backdrop of gorgeous palace makeup and gorgeous skirts, and couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

Li Yuze, who saw him appear in the hall, was even more surprised, couldn't help but cover his lips with his hands, and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

After returning to the palace from the academy, she slept for a whole day to make up for her spirits, and she was still a little tired at this time, and she didn't know about the things that were rumored outside the palace for the time being, and she didn't know that Ning Que had entered the palace.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at the two of them and asked suspiciously, "Xiao Wang'er, do you recognize him?"

Li Yu quickly regained his composure, and explained with a smile: "Father, when I came back from the grassland last year, I was escorted by Ning Que all the way, and I met at that time, and I went to the academy last night to watch the opening ceremony of the second floor, and it was him who I saw. ”

The journey back from the grassland came from the Golden Horde tribe, passed through Weicheng, killed the North Mountain Pass, and arrived at Chang'an City with difficulty, about the hardships that his daughter had suffered, His Majesty the Emperor Xià knew very well, but he didn't know that on this journey, there was a border city soldier named Ning Que, who had saved his daughter's life until today.

Listening to Li Yu finish telling last year's trip in the shortest language, His Majesty the Emperor's eyes when he looked at Ning Que were different from before, no longer just appreciation, but a little more sincere affection.

Li Za smiled and asked, "Why is my father interested in seeing Ning Que today? I think it shouldn't be because the second floor is opened." ”

"I mentioned to you that there is an extra picture of a wonderful word in the imperial study. ”

His Majesty the Emperor looked at his daughter, smiled happily and said, "Do you know that the five characters of the other side of the flower are written by Ning Que." Both the government and the opposition greatly appreciate your ability to observe people, but since you know him, you don't know that he still has such skills, and it seems that those words cannot be true. ”

"The daughter just doesn't want to leave a legacy of talents, so she looks for materials for her father and the court, how can she have any real vision. ”

Li Zha, under the service of the palace maid, lifted the hem of his skirt lightly and slowly sat down next to the desk. She looked at Ning Que on the other side with a smile, and said: "As for Ning Que's handwriting, I know, but I don't know that it is so good, but speaking of which, what this guy is best at is to hide deeply, pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and I don't know where he learned such a boring style." ”

There was a deep meaning between the words, and Ning Que didn't know how to answer, so he naturally buried his head in eating and pretended not to hear. Since you want to pretend to be a pig, then of course you have to pretend to be a competent pig, just listening to the emperor and queen laughing Yan Yan, watching Li Slag float to make fun of her eyes from time to time, I always feel that this imperial banquet does not have the solemn appearance of the imperial banquet, it is more like the dinner of ordinary people? More importantly, it is impossible for green onions and pancakes to appear on this imperial banquet, but these seemingly delicate dishes are not very delicious even for pigs.

The tip of the chopsticks pulled out the light and tasteless marinade and poured fragrant ru, and after Ning Que doubted whether the imperial chef was taking a fake certificate from New Oriental, he began to miss the leftovers in the old pen house in Lane 47 with deep affection, and even began to miss the sour chicken soup in the pot.

...... (To be continued.)