Chapter 30: The Story of the Restaurant
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It was the third day back to the capital.
In the garden of the palace, it was the high-spirited Zhao Ling and Xu Changshan chatting!
After being gloomy in Meizhou for a while, His Royal Highness's words were less than before, but this time he was really excited to return to the court, and it was rare to be in a good mood, regardless of the cold, he sat in the garden with Xu Changshan and talked about wine!
Usually he is accompanied by Concubine Yan, but today I don't know if His Royal Highness is drunk, or if he has other thoughts, when he was drunk for thirty years, he called her over drunkenness.
In front of Xu Changshan, Zhao Ling was unobsessively holding Xu Yuyan and chanting poetry there!
Later, when the wine was gone, Xu Yuyan, who had not had this experience for a long time, helped Zhao Ling back to his room, as if he had recovered from the past, and would mumble a few words of blame, His Highness drank too much!
As a result, when she was helped to the bed, she was grabbed by Zhao Ling and said to her seriously: "I want to marry you!"
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The woman was so excited that she almost gave up everyone's reserved beauty.
Fortunately, Xu Yuyan is a steady woman, so she worked hard to hold on.
Although I have also experienced skin-to-skin kisses with His Royal Highness, it is also the mood of a hard-working mandarin duck, and I can't help but kiss it. But in the future, the sand on the arm is still a heavy burden!
Although he said that this was a joke of His Highness, he had already taken it seriously in his heart!
Unexpectedly, the next day, this drunken remark was said by Zhao Ling in front of her again!
This time
It's true!
In fact, he also understands that Zhao Ling has always had her in his heart, from the earliest time as a substitute for Liang Hezhen, he has been with him, and now he has feelings, which is the result of years of hard work!
Although Concubine Yan has always been very polite to her, there is no right or wrong in emotional matters.
To be pressed is to be pressed!
Although Xu Yuyan is a lady, she will not quarrel with Concubine Yan, nor will she quarrel, let alone intrigue and play some small tricks. But there are still times when I hide in no one and cry on weekdays.
Now it's kind of a big eyebrow!
I was happy when I thought of this, I hadn't used the bonus for more than a month, and suddenly on a whim, I wanted to use it!
Women are the ones who please themselves.
So I went to Pailou Street with the girl next to me, where there was the best bonus in Quanjian'an.
It is said that it is Pailou Street, but it is actually a downtown area.
Jian'an is a big place, and naturally business is developed.
Affected by the battle between Dongyi Taibai and Wang Dingyang, the downtown area near the imperial city was also affected by the pond fish.
The houses are dilapidated, the archway has also collapsed, and the prince has died again in recent times, and the capital has changed greatly, so the public security is also a little chaotic.
Petty thieves on the street dare to hit people and rub oil in broad daylight!
I don't know which lady it was, she was hit by a thief and lost her purse, but fortunately she reacted quickly and screamed to catch the thief.
The thief ran and flew up, but he was unlucky to run into Dangzhou Topaz, Miss Xu's eyes glared, and he lay down!
In order to thank her, the young lady invited her to sit in the restaurant.
Let's talk about it, I know that this restaurant is the lady's house! Please don't be polite!
Speaking of which, it's all happy events recently, and I also chatted with the lady, and I didn't realize that I spent a morning in the restaurant!
At noon, suddenly the restaurant became lively, and a group of people came, surrounded by a Taoist who came in and found a big table to sit together.
While eating the baked cakes, I was there to talk about the mountains.
Miss knows, explain to her, that the Taoist is called Wang Chongming, recently in Jian'an City to catch demons is very famous, last night, Wang Daochang helped Li Yuanwai catch the goblin who seduced his son, I didn't expect to catch a quasi, actually caught a female ghost! This is a god, I heard that with the female ghost hand-to-hand combat, the Taoist chased out of the city, this will be a success in catching ghosts, come back everyone thanked him, then invited him to eat a big wine, by the way to listen to Wang Daochang today how to catch the ghost!
"That female ghost is hiding in that big clump of cannas in your house! Do you know what a canna is?"
Look at everyone's heads shaking like rattles, this showy work has to be done by the Taoist!
"This canna is yin, and its flowers and leaves have a peculiar fragrance that can confuse people's hearts. ”
"Hey! Dao Chief, I know a little about medicine, but I know that this canna is a good medicinal material! Shu meridians and active meridians, can cure rheumatism, numbness, and heart pain! And this canna flower is still a good hemostatic gold medicine! How did it become a yin thing?"
The Taoist leader smiled and nodded, affirming this person who knew a little about medicine.
This canna is really the flower of the best medicinal herbs, and it is full of treasures!
The rhizome can be used for bruises, rheumatism and numbness, as well as for soothing the nerves and treating some gynecological diseases. And the canna flower is one of the necessary raw materials for the best herbal medicine for the treatment of trauma.
But then the Taoist chief said: "When collecting medicines, you need to wear a face towel to cover it, do you know why? It is because there are many varieties of herbs in the mountains, and it is difficult to say the effect of exotic flowers and plants!
"In some places, it is rumored that this canna will become a beautiful woman, and it will seduce passing scholars, woodcutters, hunters, and medicine pickers, and suck the yang energy of living people to practice! It is because this canna can exude a special fragrance, and this fragrance smells fragrant, making people want to smell it unconsciously! And this canna is feminine, and it is especially easy to hide some unclean things. If passers-by don't pay attention, smell it for a long time, and add the ghostly haunting, it is very easy to hallucinate, like seeing a beautiful woman!"
As he spoke, the Taoist touched his beard, opened his eyes wide and said: "If you are not strong-willed, or you are tempted by beauty, you will fall into it and can't extricate yourself, and you won't be able to extricate yourself from this sneaky yang energy!
Everyone nodded and greeted the Taoist, and they all showed a hint of snickering!
What the Taoist chief said is sincere, that means that Li Yuanwai's son is a womanizer, so he was entangled by this sneak!
Think about the boy crying his nose there last night and still reluctant to let that ghost lady go, crying and shouting to be with her!
"I said, Dao Chief, then this ghost has already been accepted, why do you still say that your son-in-law can help!?"
"Ahem!" As soon as it came to professional issues, Wang Daochang became more expert and serious, and said with some subtlety: "As the saying goes, it is better to settle a grievance than to settle it, although that female ghost hides in the canna and secretly sucks people's essence in the night, but she has not yet turned into a powerful ghost!
"Why?"
"Hey, it's a bad fate!"
"Bad fate?"
The Taoist chief's long sigh not only attracted the people at the table, but many people in this restaurant heard it and came over!
Recently, there have been a lot of rights and wrongs in the capital, and the government is afraid that the storytellers will talk nonsense there, so they have ordered a ban on their mouths for a month. Now even the storytellers under the overpass don't dare to pull up a table and stand on the street to ask for a money!
It's boring!
"If you want to talk about this, you have to start from eighteen years ago!"
"Eighteen years ago!?"
Wang Dao Chang pulled his beard and said, "Xicheng Huji Lane was still a residential area for the poor in the city at that time, right!?"
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"Yes, that was more than ten years ago, and later, the government requisitioned land there, and many people were driven to Sanyuan Lane! This matter is too old, and not many people know about it!" An old man recalled: "Speaking of which, that land requisition was when Li Yuanwai made his fortune, he knew that the government was going to expropriate land, so he bought a lot of real estate in Hu Jixiang at a low price in advance, and then sold it to the government at a high price, making a lot of money from it!"
"It turns out that Li Yuanwai made his fortune like this!"
"One of the families who sold their properties to Li Yuanwai at a low price was surnamed Gao, originally a small courtyard, and the husband and wife were both working for people, and their lives were not rich, but they were not poor, and the two of them were happy. Li Yuanwai was young at that time, and he was full of spirit, his father gave him 50,000 taels to let him do his own business, which can be regarded as an officer, and Li Yuanwai was the first to set his sights on the real estate in this place, but his family only paid 20 taels of silver! It was too little, and no one was willing to sell his house so cheaply. What to do?"
So he went to the Gao family, who was working for his family, and offered to give them three times the salary, and asked them to persuade the people in the alleys so that they could sell their property to Li Yuanwai at a low price. This is a matter of conscience!"
It's a bad conscience!
The crowd could not help but be filled with righteous indignation.
"So, the Gao family refused!"
"That is, who would do such a conscientious thing!"
"There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, this Gao family just happened at this time!"
Wang Daochang sighed and said: "The man of the Gao family has contracted a serious disease, and he urgently needs more than 100 taels of silver to cure the disease! This is a large amount of money, and the daughter-in-law of the Gao family is named Hu Cuiniang, usually known as Cui Niang, and when she encounters this matter, she is also a master of the six gods, where can she get money? As a last resort, she asked Li Yuan to borrow it! Can this be borrowed?"
Many of the people present are subordinates, they are clear, Li Yuan's outsiders are not good, nor bad, if you ask him to borrow one, two, two or two, or stretch out, but if it is ten or twenty taels, you must be asked to collect interest, if it is one hundred taels! He can borrow it, hell! It's strange not to force you to write a deed of sale!
"I can't borrow it!"
"Hey!" Wang Daochang slapped the table: "Don't say it, it's really borrowed!"
"Borrowed it?Wrote the deed of sale!?"
"It's not true! It's just that Li Yuanwai asked Cui Niang to help him become a lobbyist and persuade those people in Hu Jixiang to sell the house to him at a low price!"
"This!? what a ......"
Wang Dao changed his words and continued: "However, Cui Niang didn't agree!"
"Didn't promise!?"
Everyone couldn't help but take a long breath, they didn't expect this woman's temperament to be so high, and she could resist the temptation of money at this time!
"But!"
But......?
This one just attracted the attention of everyone around,
upstairs
downstairs
Many people cast curious glances. Someone even got a little closer!
Originally, it was normal for people to drink in the restaurant, but at this time, they were silent and quieted down. Everyone is waiting for the king to talk about this, but!
Even Xu Yuyan, who is usually not very good at gossiping, was attracted.
Take a closer look at this Taoist elder eyebrows flying!