The two talked and laughed all the way to the nearby Panlou branch, before the meal, there were almost no guests in the store, even the idlers at the door of the hotel did not come to talk, obviously there was no need to find someone to go to the pavilion room, why bother to be bored. The guy who ran the hall said hello and led the two to the cubicle on the second floor, Yang Zhi sat down and asked the guy, "Is there beef today?"

The Great Song Dynasty forbade the killing of cattle, generally only if the cattle were sick or old and could not plow the fields, they could apply to the government to kill the cattle. The guy was a young man in his twenties, and said happily: "You two are coincidental, the yellow beef just delivered this morning is like a snowflake, fat and thin, and the master has just cooked it with sauce, and it is still hot." ”

Yang Zhi smiled and said: "Then give us two catties, another sweet and sour carp, a braised duck, two seasonal vegetables, and two bottles of Qingfeng wine." ”

There are more than 20 kinds of famous liquor in Bianliang, and Qingfeng wine is the signature wine of Pan Lou, but in Pan Lou of Yan'an Mansion, Yang Zhi has not seen this kind of wine; not long after, Dr. Jiu sent food and helped Yang Zhi open Qingfeng wine, and the room was immediately full of wine. Yang Zhi took a sip and asked Dr. Wine: "The Pan Building in Yan'an Mansion is your branch? ”

Dr. Jiu helped Yang Zhi and Cai Qing pour good wine and said: "This guest officer is very knowledgeable, Pan Lou has more than a dozen branches in other places, and it seems that the houses and dishes are similar, but this wine is something they can't imitate. ”

Yang Zhi took a sip and said, "Good wine, Dr. Wine, you are not needed here, you go down." ”

Seeing that there was no one outside the curtain, Yang Zhi took out twenty taels of silver and handed it to Cai Qing and said, "A few days ago, I took care of two more people, which is a little meaning, a little bit of heart. ”

Cai Qing generally receives gifts, when people are in prison, the family sends money and property, just hoping that the prisoner can live better in prison, like Yang Zhi, who has been released from prison, to return to thank, Cai Qing is the first time to meet; Cai Qing took the silver smoothly, put it in his arms and said: "Yang Daxia is really a person who values feelings, some small things, not enough to worry about." I heard that Yang Daxia is now in the horse trading business, and the market is not bad, right?"

"It's ok. Yang Zhi handed over another tael of silver and said: "I remember that there were two prisoners who took care of me at that time, and they were quite good to me. ”

Cai Qing took the money and said, "I'm going to go back and ask my brother." ”

Yang Zhi nodded and said, "That's natural, I remember that when I woke up, that person was right next to me, breathing evenly, like a master." ”

Cai Qing's face stiffened and said: "Yang Daxia, what you are talking about is the day you woke up, that person is not taking care of you, he is a big man in prison, a great sorrowful marquis." ”

The big man in the prison is the head of the prisoner in the prison, Yang Zhi asked curiously: "It seems that the Great Song Dynasty does not have this title." ”

"Of course not. "Even if the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi is strong in martial arts, there are things he doesn't know, and Cai Qing said proudly: "There are princes and princes in Bianliang Prison, the lonely king of Kaifeng Prison, the Yiyan Gong of the prison of the Criminal Department, the bitter uncle of Dusi Prison and the great sorrowful marquis we talked about. Behind them are the powerful people of the court, who eat and drink spicy food in prison, except that they can't go outside the prison, and live a fairy life. That day, the Great Compassion Hou heard that you had come back from the dead, so he ran to see the excitement, but he didn't expect to be seen by you. ”

"Are you very familiar with him?" Yang Zhi deliberately pretended not to understand, raised his glass and toasted to Cai Qing; Cai Qing finished drinking the wine in the cup and said: "I am not familiar with him, when I went to work in prison, the Great Compassion Hou was already in prison. But my brother Cai Fu was familiar with him, and said that the Marquis of Great Compassion turned out to be an officer in the army, and he was arrested for committing a crime, and when he was just brought from the northwest, he went through all the 36 sets of torture instruments in the prison, and the Marquis of Great Compassion simply did not admit his guilt. ”

Yang Zhi didn't want Cai Qing to be suspicious, so he didn't ask any more questions, only talked about some interesting things about Bianliang, Cai Qing took the opportunity to ask some questions about his fists and feet; Yang Zhi knew everything, the more the two talked, the more speculative they became, and the more they drank, the more enjoyable they became, so they were brothers. When the two drank the second bottle of wine, the two catties of beef had already been eaten cleanly; Cai Qing stopped Yang Zhi, who was about to open the bottle, and said: "The little brother is still on duty today, it's not good to come out for too long, so I'll invite my brother back another day." ”

Yang Zhi understood that Cai Qing came out with him to get the money, and now that the money was received and the wine and food were also used, he was naturally in a hurry to go back and talk back to Cai Fu. Yang Zhi smiled, stuffed the wine into Cai Qing's hand and said, "It's okay, I'll go to the Yujie Promenade to see the spices and those goods later, and I'll ask Brother Xian to bring this wine back, and we'll make an appointment when we find time later." By the way, brother, did the guy who came to prison get caught?"

Cai Qing showed a hint of embarrassment and said: "Don't hide it from my brother, I heard that the front division of the palace and the Kaifeng Mansion have not been investigated, I guess it is an unsolved case." My brother is out there now, so I really have to be careful in this matter. ”

Yang Zhi thanked him and sent it to the door, Cai Qing left first satisfied, Yang Zhi turned back and settled the account, and then slowly left Pan Lou;

Yang Zhi walked on the street, followed the flow of people towards the promenade of the Royal Street, this time he went to the northwest, and found a situation, in Pingxia City, there are officials who live alone like Wang Shu, but many generals seem to have their families, and there are also many women on the street of the inn where Li Gon lives.

The royal street promenade is a unique scenery in Bianliang, it was originally the place where the festival was tied with a flower shed, two rows of promenades were specially built from the time of Song Renzong, usually rented to merchants to make shops, and used to hang lanterns during the festival, and both ends were not delayed. Because it was inconvenient to carry goods back and forth every day, the local merchants in Bianliang did not care, so the corridor gradually became a place for Nanyang merchants to set up stalls, specializing in perfumes, spices, glassware and other items.

Yang Zhi went around and found that most of them were Arabs, and there were three European stalls in the south, the boss was tall, blonde and blue-eyed, and the bridge of his nose was high; Yang Zhi stepped forward to try to have a conversation in English, although many meanings were different, but under the kindness of the local accent, the two sides still negotiated a deal, and the price of perfume was thirty percent cheaper than in other places, five dollars of silver per bottle, and Yang Zhi bought twenty bottles at once.