Chapter 3 Xiangxi Thirteen Youth
Looking at the red cloud on Gu Xiao's eyebrows, Tao Jiang's heart moved, and he thought of the law of luck that the customer service had said, and decided to roll up his sleeves and do it!
Gu Xiaomei saw that Tao Jiang didn't answer, and tested the temperature of her forehead with her hand again, and said half-angrily and half-strangely:
"You're not in good health, so why do you want to try it? If you really have something, what can you do with the second aunt! ”
Tao Jiang took a sip of strong tea, suppressed the nausea in his stomach a little, turned his head to stare at Gu Xiaomei, and tried his best to put on an unfathomable look:
"Second aunt, are you blaming me for winning the competition?"
Half-truths and half-truths are the most confusing.
Hey...... It seemed that the verbal attack was really useful, and Gu Xiaomei's red cloud dimmed a little.
Gu Xiaomei paused, the facial features on his face didn't have time to adjust, and he looked at Tao Jiang with a stiff smile.
Tao Jiang smiled brightly, his gaze approached Gu Xiaomei's eyes, and his tone was soft and soft, but no one could hear a trace of provocation:
"Doesn't the second aunt want Gu Chonglou to win the game more than if I win? Otherwise, why did I fall into the water inexplicably, and why did my second aunt persuade me to give up the competition after falling into the water? ”
The red cloud above Gu's head darkened a little more......
If I catch Gu's crazy output overnight, will I be able to go back to my dear motherland?
The sky outside the door darkened layer by layer, and the people had not had time to light the windproof lamp under the eaves, and Gu Xiaomei couldn't see Tao Jiang's expression clearly in the dim and dark corridor.
Could it be that she knew about letting the little girl push her into the water?
No way!
This matter was done extremely secretly, and even the little guy who started it was robbed and killed by the bandits on the way out she was instructed to go out to do errands.
There is no proof of death, how can Tao Jiang know the truth?
Or did Gu Chonglou say something on the competition field today, which made her suspicious.
I have long instructed Gu Chonglou to let him act in a measured manner, don't be in a hurry, everything is planned and coordinated by my aunt.
It seems that it is still bad on his mouth!
Fortunately, Tao Jiang, this little girl, has always been obedient to herself, as long as she bothered to coax for a few days, even if she heard any rumors, she couldn't afford any big waves.
Thinking of this, Gu Xiaomei hurriedly turned her head, and there was more flattery in the corners of her eyes:
"What are you talking about, girl! In the second aunt's heart, not to mention Chonglou, even Taoluo can't compare to you! Your grandfather has prepared a banquet in the front yard, just to celebrate your victory today, let's hurry over! ”
As he spoke, he was going to take Tao Jiang's hand.
The red clouds and values on Gu Xiaomei's eyebrows suddenly disappeared, making all the words of the tiger and wolf prepared by Tao Jiang stuck in his throat, what was going on?
I'm just ready to show my strength and output like crazy!
I only heard the beautiful melody of "To Alice" sounded by the Book Piercing System Bureau, and it was actually the customer service who got off work!
That means that all the values are now sealed, and no matter what the original body does, it will not change any values.
Tao Jiang sighed heavily--I must give advice to the Bureau of Wearing Books, and it is still necessary for customer service to work in three shifts!
So she hurriedly withdrew her skills, not wanting to waste more time on Gu Xiaomei, so she waved her hand and said:
"I'm a little tired today, so I'll go back to sleep first!"
After saying that, he didn't even say hello, turned around and left.
Tao Jiang's slender figure disappeared at the end of the corridor, and Gu Xiaomei still didn't come back to his senses--
This kind of alienation and indifference, she has never seen on Tao Jiang's face.
What happened in just one day?
Can he still pinch her as usual and pave the way for his biological daughter Taoluo?
Gu Xiaomei's mind was shaken for the first time.
This night, Tao Jiang slept very lightly, and as soon as he closed his eyes, his luck value rose and fell, which was even more bluffing than the trend of the A-share market.
Just after Yin, my mind was clear, and I couldn't sleep anymore, and I couldn't help but think of today's exam question - clearing crabs.
Tao Jiang shook his head, what kind of topic is this?
If you put aside the modern era and call a few friends, it will definitely be a foodie going out, and there will be no grass!
"Miss, it's still early, do you want to sleep a little longer?"
Sleeping on the floor was Tao Jiang's personal maid Tsurushi, at this time she heard the noise, and hurriedly got up to look out of the window, her hands were still rubbing her sleepy eyes.
Tao Jiang shook his head, motioned to Citrus to freshen her, and then searched hard in the memory of the original owner, and suddenly turned his head and asked Xiang Citrus:
"I remember that a few years ago, when my father was a merchant in Dongyi Kingdom, he brought back three bottles of peach blossom brew outside the stopper, is this wine still there?"
I don't know why Miss mentioned the matter of wine early in the morning, and tilted her head and thought about it for a long time:
"Yes, yes, yes! At that time, the master said that this peach blossom brew was extremely rare, and he would take it out when the young lady and the lady were ready, so he ordered someone to bury it under the peach blossom tree in the courtyard. It's just that the old man didn't wait for the young lady and the lady to poop......"
Citrus Fruit's voice gradually became quieter, and she secretly bit her tongue--
Miss was obviously just asking Peach Blossom Brew, why did she mention the master's matter, obviously everyone knew that the master's accident was the most taboo in the entire Tao Mansion!
Tao Jiang seemed to see the embarrassment of Citrus Solid, and waved his hand at her:
"You go and help me take out the three bottles of peach blossom brew, which will come in handy today."
Citrus Si breathed a sigh of relief, answered the call and ran out, but was stopped by Tao Jiang again:
"Do you know when Yiyun Academy will be in school?"
Yiyun Academy is located on Yiyun Mountain in Xiangxi Town. The academy has 150 houses and a collection of 2,000 volumes, and students from all over the world come to visit.
In the past few decades, there have been scientific research myths of 56 people and 30 Jinshi in the seven lists.
In addition, five years ago, Emperor Yang Mingxiu returned to his hometown and served as the president of Yiyun Academy, and the students sought after the quiet place of the academy.
So much so that there is a saying among students that "although Yiyun is good, it is not a long-term love home".
Citrus Fruit's brother worshiped Yiyun three times without entering, and studied hard at home day and night like a black-eyed chicken, so she knew a little about Yiyun's situation:
"Yiyun Academy has students who get up early to study before midnight every day, and everyone can be diligent in one competition!"
I just thought that Miss Today was very strange, and the questions she asked were irrelevant. But thinking that today's competition Miss Xu was too stressed, so I didn't ask too much.
saw Tao Jiang raise his head, and a smile flashed in his black and white eyes under the light of the candle flame.
……
The Toyomi Grange on the outskirts of the city is a public property of Wacaido.
In the early years, the situation was unstable, the army was chaotic, the south was flooded, the north was drought, and there was even a human tragedy of changing children and eating.
Several large businessmen in Xiangxi County enclosed land for self-protection, so they joined hands to buy thousands of acres of granges on the outskirts of the city, employing hundreds of tenant farmers to prevent natural and man-made disasters.
The third competition is set here.
When Tao Jiang arrived at the grange, there were already hundreds of people on the ridge, thinking that yesterday's game was exciting, and more people came to see the excitement today.
Seeing Tao Jiang, who was belatedly coming, Miao Yi walked over with an innocent face, three steps and two steps, and opened his mouth with anger:
"How did you get to this point? But yesterday you won the game, and today you are arrogant? If you are careless in Jingzhou, don't fall in today's game. ”
Miao Yiqing made a series of cannons, and after speaking, his chest shook with anger, and even the usual white beard was full of anger at this time.
Tao Jiang knew that Miao Lao was doing it for his own good.
Miao Yiqing and his father are old friends who talk about the past and the present, and when his father died with a false name, it was Miao Laoli who went thousands of miles to collect his father's corpse outside the Saiwai.
When everyone poked and poked at his father's fragrant death, it was also Miao Yiqing who stood under the plaque of "Dao Qia Datong" in Hecaitang and angrily testified:
"Tao Changqing is definitely not a small man in the mouth of Er!"
Tao Jiang saw that Miao Yiqing, who was over sixty years old, was still blushing like a child, and he didn't sell anything, so he quickly said with a smile:
"Uncle Miao, don't worry. Although the mall is like a battlefield, and the soldiers are fast, I can't fight without weapons, don't you say? So this morning, I went to prepare my weapons. ”
Miao Yiqing knew that Tao Jiang was eccentric, and his talent in business far surpassed that of his father, and when he heard her tone of voice, his hanging heart was slightly lowered:
"It seems that Jiang Er, you have been prepared for a long time?"
After speaking, he didn't ask too much, so he told Tao Jiang in detail about the strategies of the Shui family and the Gu family--
The first person to arrive at the Grange today is the only daughter of the Shui family, Shui Yuntian.
As soon as she arrived, she asked the tenant farmers to put down their farm work and expressed their willingness to buy the crabs in the fields for ten cents each.
When the tenant farmers heard this, they were all people who dealt with the loess paddy fields, and it was not a problem for one person to catch hundreds of crabs.
How much money can you earn by working hard for a day, but a family can earn half a lot of money by catching crabs for a day!
It's not a loss!
Tao Jiang looked from afar, and saw that under the instructions of the Shui family, many strong men in the field were shirtless and bare-chested, holding baskets in their hands and digging on the dam, and from time to time they could dig out two or three crabs.
There was also a bare-bottomed child, who followed behind his father, clapping his hands and cheering at the sight of a crab:
"Caught! Caught! Tonight, A-Niang is going to roast meat for me to eat! ”
The fields are a piece of subsistence and toil, but the people on the dam see the wild interest.
And Gu Chonglou, it's not too late to come today, and the lineup can even be said to be gorgeous.
He is dressed in a lake-green silk robe today, the lustrous fabric oozes moist spring in the sun, and the mutton fat and jade hairpin that binds his hair even more leisurely and spotless.
It's just that the image of this handsome noble son is very unsuitable for appearing in the current scene with his back to the loess facing the sky.
There are many moths and insects in the field, and the green clothes are even more insects, and Gu Chonglou has been bitten in the face of the red envelope in less than half a day since he arrived at the Grange.
At this time, his sword eyebrows fell sideways, his ten fingers tightly covered his face, and for a while he let the little maid fan to repel mosquitoes, and for a while he ordered the maid to burn wormwood and incense, and there was no one busier than him in the whole village.
Miao Yiqing looked at the excitement over there like cooking porridge, and squeezed out a cold snort in his nose:
Gu Chonglou told all the restaurants in the city that they were going to hold a birthday banquet for their father in the near future, and the theme of this birthday banquet was the Golden Chrysanthemum Crab Banquet. It is said that which restaurant can provide more crabs, and this birthday banquet will be held in which restaurant, and it will be held for three consecutive days! ”
Tao Jiang looked down along Miao Yiqing's voice--
Sure enough, the owner of the famous restaurant in the city, with his shopkeeper and his men, were busy in the fields.
"How? Stressed, right? Miao Yiqing saw that Tao Jiang still didn't make a move, and he couldn't help but feel anxious again.
Tao Jiang smiled and shook his head:
"The Gu family and the Shui family are very busy, how do you know that they didn't make a wedding dress for me in the end?"
Miao Yiqing was about to ask deeply, but saw a bustle in the crowd, and quickly cleared a small path.
The person who came at the head was not tall, but his body was as fat as a gourd, one foot deep and one foot shallow, shouting as he walked:
"Crabs! Is there the most crab here? ”
With a broken gong voice and an arrogant and domineering temperament, Tao Jiang also knew that this person was the only son of the county magistrate of Xiangxi County-Cheng Dashu.
And the dozen or so people who came with him were either dressed in gorgeous clothes or inlaid with gold and jade, and the main focus was a rich and compelling person.
This is the famous group in Xiangxi County - Xiangxi Thirteen Youth.
These thirteen people are either rich or noble, the father is either an official or a businessman, and the thirteen people are all gentlemen, specializing in playing with birds and dogs.
If these thirteen people don't learn and don't know how to do it, but they are vassals and elegant people, their favorite is to charter a flower boat, take two or three beauties, watch the flowers and plants drift through the green waves, and then give four, five or six poems.
"How do you sell this crab? I'm going to do it all! ”
As soon as Cheng Dashan stood firm on the dam, he pulled up a tenant farmer full of crabs and called out with a lot of money.
Where had the little tenant farmer seen such a battle, and at this moment he was afraid that someone would rob him of his crabs, so he immediately covered the lid of the basket and said in a trembling voice:
"I've worked so hard to catch these crabs! It's going to be sold to Miss Mizuki! She...... She gave me ten cents! ”
"What?" Xu had never heard of such a cheap price, Cheng Dashan's small eyes opened suddenly, and then he broke out into unbelievable laughter with his thirteen young men:
"Ten pieces of silver? What is there to eat with such a cheap crab! If we literati want to eat it, we can eat expensive crabs! One or two pieces of silver, how many can you catch, our Xiangxi Thirteen Young Men are all covered! ”
Cheng Dashan has a big waist and a round waist, and even with the middle qi is enough, this word is deafening, and it falls heavily in the paddy fields for a long time.
"What? One or two? Not kidding, right? ”
"What a joke! That's the prefectural son! Xiangxi Thirteen Shao, haven't you heard of it? ”
"Cheng Gongzi Cheng Gongzi, this is my crab! Big and fat! ”
"Cheng Gongzi, my crab roe is very full!"
For a while, whether it was the tenant farmers of the Shui family or the shopkeepers of the Gu family's restaurants, they all defected, and surrounded Cheng Dashan and others like a small mountain.
"That's your weapon, isn't it?"
Seeing the thirteen young Xiangxi killed out of thin air, Miao Yiqing's first thought was Tao Jiang.
Tao Jiang stood on the dam, his eyes were burning, and he said leisurely:
"The weapon is naturally mine, but the person who sent me this weapon is Dean Yang Mingxiu of Yiyun Academy!"