Chapter Eighty-Three: The Master of the Mansion (3)
This meal was the most sumptuous they had eaten in the past ten days, or the most sumptuous dinner they had ever eaten since birth, and the whole restaurant knew that there was such a table where two people ordered a big meal with gold leaves, and also rewarded the beggars outside for seven or eight tables of banquets.
Tie Lang saw that there were more and more people at the door of the private room, and he and the red sleeves had already eaten, and he was afraid of recurring branches, so he pulled the red sleeves and left, and the onlookers at the door dispersed with interest. Who knew that when they arrived at the door of the restaurant, they saw a group of beggars surrounding the door, Tie Lang and the two came out, and someone had already reported the news, and these beggars saw the two come out to bow their heads.
Tie Lang and Red Sleeves were taken aback, those beggars didn't say anything, just knelt there and kowtowed, Tie Lang saw that the crockpots in front of these people were full of wine, meat and food, and he knew that these beggars probably also had a banquet that would be unforgettable for a lifetime.
Seeing that these beggars were ugly, Red Sleeves secretly pulled Tie Lang to leave, and Tie Romantic's eyes saw that there were about seventy or eighty beggars, mostly old and young and disabled women, and his heart couldn't help but tighten, and he turned back and asked Red Sleeves: "How much money do you still have?"
The red sleeves didn't have much money and things with him, and he threw a gold leaf to the restaurant just now, but when he saw Tie Lang asking, he knew that he was going to give alms, and said happily: "There are two more gold leaves."
Tie Lang stretched out his hand to come over, but he was worried, although the gold leaf is very valuable, how can it be divided equally among these people?
Seeing Tie Lang frowning with two gold leaves, Red Sleeves knew that he was worried about dividing his property, so he chuckled and said, "Where do you people beg for a lot of things on weekdays?"
At first, the strangers below were all gossiping, and slowly turned into a unanimous voice: "West Street Steamed Bun Shop"
Red sleeves said: "You have to run fast, go to the owner of the steamed bun shop."
As soon as the words fell, a young man about eight or nine years old got up and rushed away, about a cup of tea, the young man pulled a lean middle-aged man over, the middle-aged man was still wearing a white apron, obviously the owner of the steamed bun shop.
When Red Sleeves saw the man coming, he shook the two gold leaves in front of everyone and said, "Are you the owner of the steamed bun shop?"
The owner of the steamed bun shop looked at the golden golden leaves, swallowed and foamed: "The small one is the one who opened the steamed bun shop."
Red Sleeves grinned and said, "That's good, these two gold leaves are enough for these people to eat steamed buns for a few days?"
The head of the steamed bun shop owner is a little big, and he calculates in his heart: one tael of gold and fifteen taels of silver, this gold leaf is so thick, there are ten taels, that is one hundred and fifty taels of silver, one tael of silver is consistent, always is a thousand copper, one steamed bun and one copper, then these two gold leaves are 300,000 steamed buns? Thinking of this, I felt that my head was a little wooden, and finally trembled his lips and said: "Two or three years is enough"
Red Sleeves smiled and said, "Okay, how about two years?" After speaking, he threw the two gold leaves to the owner of the steamed bun shop and said to the beggars: "You all saw it today, he took your food money, and you will go to him when you can't eat enough in the future, but you can't stay every day and do nothing, but you understand"
The owner of the steamed bun shop held the two gold leaves in his hand and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, everyone will go to the small shop to eat steamed bread if they don't eat in the future."
Tie Lang saw that everyone was overjoyed, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and said in his heart that this girl still had such a strategy, and she was really impressed.
Early the next morning, Tie Lang and Red Sleeves packed up and went to the Zhiming Building, and as soon as they got out of the inn, they saw the young beggar who went to pull the owner of the steamed bun shop yesterday hiding from the cat outside the inn.
When the little beggar saw the two of them come out, he couldn't help but greet him and said, "My mother is grateful for the two great kindnesses, let me come over to see if the two benefactors have any errand work, let me wait" The little beggar's clothes were still a little wet, presumably his mother bathed him and washed his clothes before letting him come.
Tie Lang couldn't help but be stunned, but Red Sleeves said commonplacely: "What's your name?
The little beggar pondered for a moment and said, "My name is Jiang Basket, I can catch birds, snakes, fish, and wild cats."
Tie Lang didn't feel anything, thinking to himself that he hadn't caught everything in the valley, but Red Sleeves was pleasantly surprised: "Okay, okay, you will go with me today"
As soon as the carriage arrived at the Zhiming Building, the little beggar stuck his head out of the carriage and sighed. Red Sleeves also wanted to stick out his head to take a look, but Jiang Basket blocked it, so he patted him on the back of the head and said, "What, don't hurry up"
Jiang Basket climbed out of the carriage and asked, "How did the benefactor get here?"
Tie Lang looked back at him and asked, "Do you know here?"
Jiang Basket nodded hurriedly and said: "I know, if you are very hungry on weekdays, you will come here, and there are often rich families who have died and children are thrown here, and some sacrificial food will be put in."
Tie Lang said with some disappointment: "Then have you seen anyone here who often appears?"
Jiang Basket thought for a while and said, "No, I came by myself, I'm afraid that if I tell others, I won't be able to rob them."
Red Sleeves frowned and said, "You often come alone, and there is no one around here, aren't you afraid?"
Jiang Basket smiled when she heard this: "What's so afraid of this, I just came during the day, and the sister who lives in the soil cave over there lives here every day and never sees her afraid."
Tie Lang listened to the heart, and didn't pay attention to it, so he flew into the Zhiming Building to take a look, and after turning around, he didn't find anything, and then came back dejectedly.
Red Sleeves looked at this Zhiming Building for a long time and muttered when he saw Tie Lang coming back: "Childe, this building is said to have been burned for more than ten years, why hasn't it collapsed?"
Tie Lang said absentmindedly: "Most of these woods have only burned some skin, not burned through, so they can still withstand some wind and rain."
Red Sleeves said: "This fire is up, even the stone can be burned to pieces, how can the wood not be burned through?"
Tie Lang was puzzled when he heard it, but Red Sleeves continued: "Childe, this building is set on fire from the inside, you look at these beams and pillars, even the paint is still on the outside, but it's dark inside."
As soon as he said this, Tie Lang sounded that after he hugged the beam and pillar yesterday, it was black on his chest, but there was no on his hands and arms, and he couldn't help nodding and said, "It should be burned from the inside."
"If it burns from the inside, it is not a heavenly fire, how can there be a heavenly fire from the inside out," said Red Sleeves with a frown.
Tie Lang only frowned and was silent, and the red sleeves were also meditating, and Jiang Basket next to him felt a little nervous when he saw that the two of them didn't speak for a long time, and couldn't help but say carefully: "Why don't I go and call that sister, I saw that she burned yellow paper here and went to the grave, so she may know something about here."
Red Sleeves listened and grabbed Jiang Basket and said, "Have you seen her burn paper and grave here?"
Jiang Basket was startled, and stumbled and said: "Well, benefactor, the little one has really seen it, just in the Qingming Festival a few months ago" The sister was crying and burning paper, and I ignored me when I talked to her in the past.
The soil cave that Jiang Basket said is at the foot of the ridge directly below the Zhiming Building, this hole is artificially dug, the hole is not big, but the inside is not small, and this cave has doors and windows, ventilation and light are ideal.
There were several quilts hanging on the flat ground outside the cave, and in the whole courtyard there was a valuable little donkey tied to the outside of the donkey shed, which was very solid in stone and earth, and at a glance it was clear that this woman was very industrious and very poor.
There was a woman in Tsing Yi sitting on the futon at the door, with a pale face and a delicate face, and when she saw that Jiang Basket had brought someone, she greeted her with a smile and said, "Basket Er is here to hunt wild food again?"