Volume 2 Injustices and Loud Chapter 36 Serving Tea to Guests
The palace is in the palace, the three thousand koi fish in Jiangnan Xingong on the edge of the Spring Snow Lake are urging, under the big sun in autumn, colorful, dazzling, the emperor has been always tired of reviewing the chapter recently, sitting alone by the lake for half an hour, for him who has been diligent and unremitting since his reign, it is already a very luxurious, and the emperor, who has always been gloomy, suddenly changed his habits, so that the eunuchs are extremely uncomfortable, and their hearts are even more frightened, not to mention other people in the palace. Lin Da Mink Temple seemed to think of something, and his pale face became even paler, not many people have seen this scene now, the former queen has seen it, Ma Qian has seen it, Li Yundao has seen it, he has also seen it, the emperor looked back at Lin Da Mink Temple in the distance frowned, seemed to feel something, stood up and walked to his side.
"Old fellow, a little worried?"
The old eunuch was not as sincere and fearful as usual, but he was just as respectful, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty's body is important, the old slave is about to die, and he may not be as good as that fat man in doing things, but he is not worse than others, and he is willing to share his worries for His Majesty." ”
"Alright, alright, I've figured it out, don't think about it, it won't be like this in the future. ”
The old eunuch did not relax his chest, and his body fell lower.
The emperor lightly kicked him on the calf, and scolded with a smile: "You are very fat, and you dare to face that fat man!" Then he slowly walked forward.
Mengmen Mountain is five kilometers away from the downstream of Hukou Waterfall, below the "Ten Mile Dragon Trough", in the riverbed at the bottom of the Yellow River valley, there are two fusiform boulders, standing majestically in the huge current, forming two islands in the middle of the river. There is a small temple on the mountainside of Mengmen, the small temple where the incense is not prosperous has a very loud name, Zixia Temple, there are three old cypresses outside the temple that two people hug the thick old cypress, the old cypress is straight into the sky, the canopy is lush, and the small temple has added a lot of style.
In today's small temple, there are a few guests who vote for the dormitory, so they deliberately hang a few lanterns, because two of the guests are generous, one raises his hand is one hundred taels of incense money, and the other is full of three hundred taels of silver tickets.
The young man who came alone and took out a hundred taels of silver, although he was carrying a sword, he respectfully put on a few sticks of incense in front of the Sanqing patriarch, and the etiquette was meticulous. It made the teacher very happy. Silver is silver, faith is faith, and if you have both, then it is naturally the best.
So when the young man turned his head out, the old man went up and asked, does the little gentleman want to count a hexagram?
The young man said with a smile that there are hexagrams in the family who are particularly smart, so they don't bother, because they want to go far away, and the family is good, and they don't have to do it too much.
The old Taoist priest knew that it was not the young man who felt sorry for the silver, and while sighing, he pretended to be atmospheric and said: When you go out, of course, there is a good fortune, and what the little gentleman said is reasonable.
Throwing out a large amount of silver tickets is four people walking together, three heroic men, thinking that middle-aged Confucianism, is drinking in the side room at this time, the sound is not too loud, but in the quiet small temple at night, it also seems very lively.
The young man passed by the lively hut, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, warm as jade, and happened to be seen by the reckless man who faced him in the house, and he was unconsciously stunned, and instantly felt that this young man seemed to be an old friend for many years, "Friend, why don't you come over and have a glass of wine?"
The young man was still smiling, bowing slightly, arching his hands, and said loudly: "Thank you for your love, but there is something to do tomorrow morning, and it is inconvenient to drink, thank you hero!"
The night was deep, the boy gently brushed the pages of the book under the lamp, the wind outside the house passed the ancient cypress, and inside the house, the breeze turned the book and rustled.
Qingcheng, the wind and rain are coming.
The successive personnel transfers have made people scratch their heads, and the entanglement of various interests has become more untidy and chaotic.
The major forces, which could have been at peace with each other, began to test each other, and the borderline contact gradually intensified in the irritability.
The Ji family of Odo recently caused a big trouble and a headache because of a child of a family who was not successful enough to lose more than anything, and caused a big trouble and a headache.
The deceased one is also licking the blood on the knife edge, climbing up step by step, in Qingcheng in fact, this kind of person is the most vulnerable, not relying on the sky, not relying on the official, people go to tea and cool, with the power of the Ji family, if it is in the past, this is not a matter at all, and even a lawsuit does not need to be fought, but the biggest backer of the Ji family is now transferred to Longyou, at this time he is running away, and he has such a thing, and he is being targeted by others, which is very troublesome, the bloodthirsty Qingcheng Haoqiang soon smelled the fishy smell, in Qingcheng, where human life was like a mustard, and when the Wang family, which was also a big cloth business, set off waves, plus other people's troubled waters, a straw can crush a huge family。
Orphans and widows face jackals, tigers and leopards, there is no way to sue, the Wang family's strong head also makes everyone focus their attention here, but no one noticed that the girl's mother had been a cook in Li Mansion for a few years many years ago, and the people who noticed it did not take it very seriously, Li Mansion has always been the young lady's master, Miss Li is said to have been out of the house for about a year, the main family is not there, with the low-key way of Li Mansion, no one can imagine that they will go to this troubled water.
The Fan family, who has been friends with the Ji family for generations, also has a good family, usually comes and goes frequently, and at the beginning, it was also a strong support for the Ji family, but after a little Yamen handed over the words, the Fan family sent a letter, regardless of the cold lips and teeth, and stood far away.
In the general's mansion, the newly appointed young man did not take over the incense of his predecessor in the Ji family, and the Ji family hit a wall several times, this young general who has seen the world happens to know a trace of the relationship between China and China, and happens to know some things that happen in the Beijing division thousands of miles away. Happy to watch the fire from the other side.
The Ji family is running around but there is no way, when there is no way, a side branch of the child but brought back a surprise, he has traveled abroad for more than three years, he was favored by the Huishan Sect, accepted as a disciple, and now with the sect's teacher, just passing by the door, then go home to see, the Ji family naturally refused to let go of this life-saving grass, timely rain, I don't know what promise to make, so that the two finger Xuan masters are willing to sit in the Ji family's house. The wind and clouds suddenly changed, and several undercurrents were suddenly blocked.
When the young general heard the news, he didn't bother to raise his eyelids, but just asked how the old woman who was kneeling at the gate of the Li Mansion was doing? The soldiers reported that the door had not entered, but the chief butler of the mansion came out in person and did not know what to say to the old woman, and the old woman left crying. General Bingzhou threw the hook in his hand into the small lake again, propped up the fishing rod, put his hands behind his head, and fell asleep on the chaise longue, closing his eyes. The sound of autumn has stopped and gradually entered winter, and the rare warm winter sun can be enjoyed.
The two families who were originally torn their faces stood on the same running line, put aside the grievances in their hands, and first aimed the tip of the knife at the lamb to be slaughtered, and the peripheral business, shops, and teahouses had been carved up in a few days, only one hundred and fifty acres of fertile land in the south of the city, and the big mansion, the old woman held the house deed and the land deed in her arms and refused to let go. No matter how coercion and temptation you are, you just refuse to take it out. The Ji family and the Wang family soon lost their patience, as if they had made an appointment, and on this day, the two families set up a battle and killed the mansion in the south of the city at the same time.
The government has already done a good job here, but it is just that the movement should not be too big, otherwise no one will be able to deal with it, generally speaking, this is the unspoken rule of Qingcheng, whether it is a tiger or a wolf, you have to save some face on it, if you are annoyed, do you really think that 50,000 border soldiers are decorations?
According to the rules of the rivers and lakes, after five competitions, I am afraid it will be a bloody means, hundreds of people from the two families, plus watching the excitement, the entire south of the city is surrounded by black pressure.
The maidservants and servants of the house had fled in all directions, and the courtyard was in shambles, and the old woman sat alone in the main hall, leaning on her back, staring at the open door with her godless eyes, and her heart was like ashes.
Not far from the south gate of Qingcheng, a handsome young man led an old horse alone, swaying into this familiar city, not long ago received a letter from the house, roughly understand the complex relationship in the city, the end of the letter with a few strokes to say a little about this matter, in fact, when he saw the name of the general in front of him, this matter is just a matter of one sentence, but one is that he remembered the half-division and half-friend guy with a lewd face, so his scalp was numb, and the other is that he wants to be reasonable.
So, he didn't reply to the big housekeeper, nor did he speed up the trip, but came to Qingcheng with a little pinch. Entering the city gate, Li Jinglan followed the empty street, through the alley, and came to the back door of the mansion, where more than a dozen sturdy men were guarding the door, gagging, spitting and talking about the romance of the little son of the Ji family, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him, until he approached the door, he shouted and yelled, Li Jinglan didn't bother to reason with them, threw all his brains into the mansion, tied the old horse in front of a willow tree, and paced to the main hall.
The old woman stared at this unexpected person, a little nervous, and the old eyes were indeed dim, and she did not recognize this little man.
"Aunt Gao, do you remember the shock?" said softly.
The old woman could no longer remember the three or five-year-old child who was mischievous and often ran to the back kitchen to steal food.
"The Li family, shocked. It's Li Jinglan, who was blocked by his mother who secretly ate in the back kitchen, and hid under your apron to avoid a stinky beating!"
"Li family! Shock!" The old woman trembled, stood up tremblingly, and walked closer to look at the young man carefully, "It's not like it at all!"
"Aunt Gao, for some other reasons, this dough is fake. Li Jinglan said with a smile.
The old woman will be skeptical.
Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering cheer from outside the gate, presumably the two families decided the winner, and they were going to do that domineering thing in a while, and a trace of fierceness appeared on the old woman's face.
Li Jinglan stepped forward to support the woman, sent her back to the seat, took the fire fold she had hidden in her hand, and patted the woman's forearm: "Aunt Gao, don't be afraid, we're done, let's go back to the Li Mansion, and when you come over, there will be no shortage of things in our house." Feel relieved. ”
The boy went into the back room and boiled a pot of water, made two cups of tea, brought one to the old woman, and put one in front of himself.
Serving tea to send guests, this has been the rule of large families for a long time, and Li Jinglan now wants to send guests, but he doesn't know how to send it or where to send it.
Above the main hall, an old man and a young man sat upright, waiting for the evil guests to come to the door.