Chapter 62: Gathering the Crowd for Joy

[The 71st year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, March 24th, noon, Chang'an City Road Zhengfang, Deyue Building first floor atrium]

Since Hu Yiyi persuaded Mao Jiaojiao to enter Cuiyun Tower, in the blink of an eye, ten days have passed.

In the past ten days, Li Yi, the king of Zhao, has been staying in the palace of his fourth brother of the king of Wei, and he is almost inseparable from the king of Wei.

Li Zhen was naturally surprised, he asked why the third brother came to accompany him every day these days, Li Yi just smiled, saying that he couldn't rest assured of Li Jin's body, and wanted to personally supervise him to practice the "Four Elephant Gong".

Li Jin's mind was so thorough, he couldn't see the look of worry in his third brother's eyes, so he asked the third brother, was someone trying to assassinate him?

Li Yi knew that nothing could be hidden from him, the fourth brother, so he informed the fourth brother that Lu Huoli, the national teacher of Xiao Guo, had secretly infiltrated Chang'an and attempted to assassinate the King of Wei or a certain prince.

Li Zhen couldn't help but gasp in his heart when he heard this, and he immediately asked the third brother, how is this Lu Huoli's kung fu, could it be that with all the guards of his entire Wei Palace, he still can't resist it?

Li Yi naturally smiled, and said that with the swordsmanship of the "Flowing Frost Old Monster", don't say that those guards in your entire Wei Palace, even those masters in the palace, don't want to resist!

Li Zhen was a little skeptical, but when he saw that the third brother was so solemn, he naturally didn't dare not listen. So, in the past ten days, Li Zhen has stayed with Li Yi almost every day, but he is also happy.

The two brothers have been very close since childhood, and when they grow up, it is rare for them to sit together and eat a meal. Nowadays, they are "tired" of being together every day, eating together, getting up together, resting together, practicing together, reading together, and sleeping together...... Li Jin didn't feel as if he was back in his childhood, remembering that when he was a child, he often followed the ass of his third brother Li Yi like this, and the two were always inseparable.

In Li Jin's memory, when he was a child, the third brother Li Yi was naughty and active, and he couldn't stay idle, but he was quiet and introverted, and liked to sit in the house and read books all day long. At that time, the two of them often played together, and although the palace was large, there were not many places where they could play. Under the leadership of Li Yi, the two of them would always sneak into the imperial garden of the palace to catch crickets, climb tall trees to dig bird holes, and wade into the water to touch fish and shrimp...... Li Yi also often chased the white rabbit that the concubine was free-guarding, and for this reason, the two of them were not less disciplined by adults. And his third brother's favorite thing to do is to use some mud to live into mud pills, make all kinds of villains, and take these villains to line up and fight, as if the third brother is the generalissimo who leads the army......

Time passed in a hurry, more than 40 years in a flash, and now, he and his third brother are both middle-aged, although the past is long, but it is already yesterday.

Today's Li Yi, although he is forty-six years old, still looks cheerful and radiant, as if he has just passed twenty. And Li Zhen himself, due to trivial worries, worked day and night, and his sideburns were already full of gray hair.

However, the third brother will always be his third brother, even if the two of them are standing together now, and the irrelevant people are still a father and son, but in Li Jin's mind, the third brother is still an example he respects.

Seeing that Li Yi was accompanied by him every day, Li Zhen couldn't help it, so he entered the palace in person and told his father about the matter.

When Li Chongsheng heard this, he was also taken aback, and he immediately secretly ordered Cheng Wanli, the general manager of the forbidden army, to send a military cadre to strengthen the defense of the Wei Palace. At the same time, Cheng Wanli and Li Yi were alternately on duty, and Li Jinquan must be guarded.

With Cheng Wanli's help, Li Yicai finally had time to withdraw. Everyone in Chang'an City knows that the general manager of the forbidden army has profound martial arts and superb swordsmanship, and is known as "the first master in the capital". Only when Cheng Wanli is in charge of the Wei Palace, can Li Yi really rest assured.

Li Yi also suddenly remembered that he had not inquired about the investigation of the case for ten days. In the past ten days, he has been worried about the safety of his brother day and night, as for how to catch demons, how to solve cases, and how to calm the people's grievances...... These things have long been put aside by him.

However, to Li Yi's surprise, for ten consecutive days, calm suddenly returned to the capital.

Not only have I never heard of the cat demon hurting people again, but even the dead bodies that appear on the street every night have never appeared again.

Chang'an City seems to be really safe.

This ten consecutive days of calm is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow to the panicked people of Chang'an.

The people rushed to tell each other, the cat demon fled, and Chang'an City was fine! Even, some people swore that the cat demon who was trying to hide the world had been killed by Zhao Wangye!

The prestige of Li Yi, the king of Zhao, is almost a household name in Chang'an City, and now, everyone knows that the mastermind of this investigation is Zhao Wangye. In the minds of the people of Chang'an, with Zhao Wangye in charge of investigating the case, how could the murderer dare to commit the crime?

I'm afraid, even Li Yi himself never dreamed that he had been busy for more than half a month, and he hadn't even caught a single hair of the cat demon, and now, he stayed out of the matter for more than ten days, and the cat demon would disappear without a trace!

Where did the cat demon flee to? At this time, no one in the entire Chang'an City cared about this topic.

What people are most concerned about is that the cat demon escapes, business can return to normal, and life can get back on track. The things that they couldn't do, didn't dare to do, and were inconvenient to do before, now they are rushing to do them!

In the past, everyone was afraid to go out, but now, everyone is scrambling to go out.

Except for the strict curfew in Chang'an City after dark, all men are not allowed to go out, during the day, almost everyone, but when they have time, they will run to the street, or drink tea, or talk......

Chang'an City has returned to its former prosperity, on the long street, bustling, east and west cities, lively and extraordinary. The streets and alleys were filled with all kinds of sounds: the coachman waved his whip vigorously and made the sound of "snorting" through the air; the wheels of the carriage rolled past and the wheels made the sound of "rattling" against the ground, the merchants shouted vigorously and made a long and crisp sound of selling, the guests talked loudly and let out the sound of joy and laughter, and even the officials who patrolled the city became extraordinarily calm when they ran. The largest city in Shenzhou, after more than half a month of panic, has finally regained its vitality again......

As soon as the cat demon left, the happiest thing was the shopkeeper of those restaurants, teahouses, and restaurants. Originally, the news of the cat demon in Chang'an City scared all the men out of the house, and the business in the natural restaurant also plummeted. Now, there has been no dead body in Chang'an City for ten consecutive days, and the business of this restaurant is gradually booming.

Among these restaurants and restaurants, the shopkeeper of Deyue Building is the most happy. Originally, the business of Deyuelou was also greatly affected, if it were not for the support of such a huge wealth as "Lord Shu", it would be almost unsustainable, but in the past two days, once the news of the cat demon escaped, the crowd rushed to tell each other, and there were countless people who came to his restaurant to drink and celebrate. Because the business is so good, the building is always full, and sometimes, if the guests want to find a place to drink inside, they have to take a sign and sit outside the door to wait in line.

At this time, it was noon, it was lunchtime, and the business in the Deyue Building was extremely hot. Not only is the lobby on the first floor full, but even the spacious atrium in the middle of the restaurant is almost full.

The shopkeeper had no choice but to add several tables between the flowers and lonely trees and rockery gravel in this atrium, but even so, it was in short supply.

Naturally, on the wooden platform in the atrium of Deyue Tower, whenever there is a meal, there are all kinds of talents staged one after another, such as singing, dancing, talking, teasing, juggling, or ventriloquism...... Endless.

At this time, standing on the high platform to perform for the diners, it was two rappers. The two men are both middle-aged, one of them has a pea-sized white spot on the bridge of his nose, which is the "teaser" in rap, and the other has a ball of white powder on each cheek, which is a "teasing". In the middle of the two, there is a small long table.

Everyone saw that the "teaser" picked up the "shocking wood" and patted the small long table, and said loudly: "Rank officials, everyone is eating and drinking today, I am really happy, my brothers passed by the treasure land, and while they were happy in the ranks, they told a joke for everyone, to help everyone drink, add fun, what do you think?"

"Laughing" then said: "Brother, is the joke you want to say funny?"

teased: "It's funny or not, it's not necessarily, but the incident I talked about today is so peculiar!"

He pretended to be puzzled and said, "Brother, what is so curious about the incident you are talking about?"

teased: "Don't hide it from my brother, what I want to talk about today is 'a scene in Chang'an'!"

He said, "A scene in Chang'an, what kind of scene?"

Tease blinked and said, "Guess what?"

He folded his hands and said: "Chang'an City has Qiushui Plain, Balin Plain, Huamanlou, Stacked Dream Building, Xuandu Temple, Ziyun Temple, Dajue Temple, White Horse Temple...... I just don't know what kind of scene my brother said?"

He shook his head and said, "It's not a plain, it's not a building, it's not a view, it's not a temple!"

He put on a more puzzled expression and said, "That's strange, is there a new scene in Chang'an City?"

teased: "My brother is right, the new scene in Chang'an City has a name, called 'Bright Moon Bright'!"

He put on a curious look and asked in surprise, "Bright moon, brother, are you talking about the bright moon in the sky?"

He looked up at the sky again and sighed, "Brother, but tonight is not fifteen, and there is no bright moon in the sky!"

Teasefully waved his hand and said, "This 'bright moon' is not the other 'bright moon', and she is not in the sky!"

He pretended to look at the bottom again, and asked suspiciously: "The bright moon is not in the sky, is it under the ground?"

He glanced at him and said, "There is only the gold I buried last night under the ground, but there is no 'bright moon'...... ”

He hurriedly interjected: "Brother, you buried the gold last night, where did you bury it?"

Tease pointed behind him, pretending to be mysterious and said: "I buried a lot of 'gold' in Sister-in-law Zhang's vegetable garden, all of which were 'night incense' that I pulled last night, if you dig it immediately, it will still be hot!"

In the midst of the laughter of the diners in the audience, the man stomped his foot and sighed, "Ahem...... The 'gold' you said turned out to be this!"

It turned out that vegetable farmers at that time were extremely short of fertilizer, so they had to find some home fertilizer to bury in the soil to provide nutrients for vegetables. Therefore, the feces and urine of ordinary people are exactly what vegetable farmers can't ask for. Vegetable farmers often go to the city with carts to collect feces and urine from the homes of various households. In order to sound good, vegetable farmers often change the shout: "Harvest the dung!" to "Harvest the golden mile!". When the residents saw the carts loaded with dung buckets, they heard the vegetable farmers shouting "harvest gold", and naturally knew that the "gold" was not really gold, but the meaning of dung.

In fact, for the vegetable farmers who grow vegetables to support their families, the dung of ordinary people and the melons and fruits in the fields are indeed as precious as gold.

Today's teasing on the stage compared his "night fragrance" after last night's gong to "gold", which is a pun, not only taking the meaning of vegetable farmers, but also achieving an unexpected effect.

Seeing the laughter from the audience, he naturally worked hard, and said: "Brother, don't entertain your brother! The 'bright moon' you said is neither in the sky nor in the ground, is it hidden by you?......" Yue e-book

As he spoke, he rushed to Tease's side, and reached out to dig into Tease's crotch.

Tease hurriedly dodged, patted Teaser on the arm, and said, "Of course she's not in my crotch!"

Said competitively: "Good brother, then you can say it quickly!"

The funny eyes narrowed into a slit, and he looked around at everyone in the audience, and then said slowly: "The 'bright moon' I said, she is in the Cuiyun Tower in our Chang'an City!"

He pretended to be puzzled and said, "Cuiyun Building, where did the 'bright moon shine' come from in Cuiyun Building?"

The funny man sold a pass, and was about to answer, but a diner sitting in the audience somewhere preemptively said: "Isn't it the top brand in Cuiyun Building-Mingyue!"

Immediately, another diner next to him echoed: "The top brand in Cuiyun Building', 'Mingyue', who doesn't know this! What is 'Mingyue Bright', and what is 'Chang'an Xinjing', what kind of rare thing is my Dao, it turns out that this is it!"

This rap technique is to whet the appetite of the guests through a series of answers, and inadvertently, tell an answer that everyone does not expect. Now, the teasing person on the stage, who had been selling for a long time, was broken by the diners, he couldn't help but look embarrassed, and hurriedly said:

"This guest officer is not in a hurry, the 'bright moon' I am talking about, it is not just a top-notch bright moon. Did the guest officer know that there was a new top brand in Cuiyun Building recently, and her name was ...... Jiaojiao!"

"Jiaojiao?" hurriedly said, "Who is Jiaojiao?"

Said teasingly: "'Jiaojiao' is naturally Jiaojiao, this woman is not simple! I heard that she was born with a natural beauty, and she looks enchanting and moving, wherever she goes, the man behind her will follow, as if she has a kind of magic on her." I heard that the man who wants to have fun with her has already arrived at Deyue Tower from Cuiyun Tower!"

He said: "Brother, it turns out that the Chang'an scene you are talking about is the two top brands in Cuiyun Building, one is called 'Mingyue' and the other is called 'Jiaojiao'......?"

teased: "'Bright Moon' and 'Jiaojiao', these two together, don't they become 'Bright Moon'?"

Xiang Xiang squeezed his eyebrows, teased his eyelids, and said, "Brother, what is the scenery of the 'bright moon'?" Have you ever 'looked' carefully?"

The amused Yang Tian sighed, pretending to be extremely lost, and said: "I want to go to Cuiyun Tower and take a closer look at the beautiful scenery of the 'bright moon', but unfortunately, where did my brother get the silver in his hand?"

He immediately said: "Brother goes to Sister-in-law Zhang's vegetable garden to dig it, won't there be a lot of 'gold'?"

"Ahem......" also laughed amusedly: "That's what I left for my brother!"

Naturally, there was another burst of laughter in the audience.

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......

A group of diners in this Deyue Building, while listening to the rap of the two people, while eating and drinking, these people laughed twice from time to time, and felt that they were endlessly happy. When the two rappers preached the "bright moon" in Cuiyun Building, they all paid special attention.

Several diners have also been to Cuiyun Building, and after listening to the rap of those two, they said triumphantly: "Yes, the two top brands in Cuiyun Building can be called 'Bright Moon and Bright Moon', tsk! They are really interesting!"

Someone next to him immediately said:

"Then tell me quickly, what is that 'Jiaojiao' called, what does she look like, is she good at kung fu?"

"No matter how good Jiaojiao is, is it beautiful to have a bright moon! I think back then, in order to sleep with Mingyue for one night, it cost me five hundred taels of silver!"

"What is Mingyue! Compared with Jiaojiao, it's really not worth mentioning! Don't say it's five hundred taels of silver, and I don't want to do it for fifty taels!"

......

At this moment, the diners in the audience said a word, and the entire atrium became noisy. No matter how clever the two rappers were, they could only hear the gossip of everyone in the audience, and no one paid attention to what they were talking about next.

At this time, a man stood up from his seat, and he had finished his drink, and there was not much left of the dishes on the table. He called Xiao Er, settled the wine account, and walked out of the gate of Deyue Tower slowly.

This man was wearing a faded gray cloth robe, he looked to be about fifty years old, his figure was not tall, his facial features were a little obscene, and his head was already bowed. He squinted his eyes and walked slowly, belching from time to time. When others saw such an obscene and ugly old man approaching, they all avoided both sides, and many people couldn't help but show disgusted expressions towards him.

He walked out of the gate of Deyue Tower, and was suddenly exposed to a burst of sunlight overhead, and he could barely open his eyes, so he actually collided with a young man who walked into Deyue Tower.

"Dead old man, you can't walk!" said the young man angrily.

At this time, beside the young man, there was also a young woman. In such a sunny and good weather, these two people lined up to come to Deyuelou for dinner, and it can be seen that the relationship between this pair of men and women is naturally not ordinary.

The bald old man glanced at the young man, his lips moved, and he wanted to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Look at what are you looking at?!, Lao Tzu will beat you to death!" the young man rolled up his sleeves and yelled at the bald old man.

In front of the young woman beside him, the young man was even more aggressive, looking at his posture, if the bald old man did not apologize, he would immediately give the other party a punch and kick.

"Oh! Forget it! Brother Mao, let's hurry in! Don't take the seat that you have been waiting for for for others!" The young woman beside the young man pulled the young man and was eager to walk into the Deyue Tower.

"Okay, well, listen to Sister Zhu!" At this time, the young man who was called 'Brother Mao' no longer paid attention to the reaction of the bald old man, and led the woman beside him to walk towards the Deyue Tower.

The bald old man looked at a man and a woman behind him, and suddenly his nostrils turned to the sky, and he snorted coldly, although he had turned around and walked towards the door, his mouth seemed to be still muttering to himself.

At this time, if there was someone beside the bald old man, he could hear the old man saying in fragments:

"Hmph! What kind of thing! How dare you call yourself 'Lao Tzu' in front of this thousand households! If you go back to two months ago, when Lao Tzu was in the Nan'an Ping Division, hehe! Lao Tzu will first break your good teeth, and then arrest you into the secret room of my Nan'an Ping Division, so that you can have a good taste of the 'green character and five claws'!"

No one could have imagined that the old man with obscene facial features and hairless hair was actually the former Nan'an Pingsi Qianhu, Pei Caibao.

If you call the "Brother Mao" who just collided with him, and know that the ugly-looking old man in front of him is actually the terrified Tsing Yi Wei Qianhu in the past, I am afraid that "Brother Mao" will be so frightened that he will collapse on the ground and burst into tears.

It's just that Tsing Yiwei's reputation is too big, and it's too scary, even if it was a thousand households in the past, ordinary people would tremble with fear.

It's a pity that Pei Caibao's situation today is much worse than before. When he interrogated Zhao Yu in the secret room, he was just hit by Zhao Yu in the chest, and he fainted on the spot, and several ribs were broken. That Pei Caibao returned home and recuperated for a month, although he recovered from his illness, no matter how lucky he was, he couldn't afford to be in the sea of qi.

Pei Caibao sadly found that his martial arts had been exhausted, and he could only become a person who did not know any kung fu from now on.

The "Pei Family Knife Technique" that he had practiced all his life, and his original 26-way double knife secret technique, have now become useless moves.

Without the True Qi Channeling in your body, even if you learn the sword moves of the whole world, what is the use?!

Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yi, sent someone to visit him in the house, and after learning that his martial arts were exhausted, he shook his head, and even replied truthfully to Shen Huan.

Pei Caibao wanted to hide it at the beginning, but later, even he himself was disillusioned.

How can a person who has lost his martial arts still do things in the master Tsing Yi Wei?

Shen Huannian has served Pei Caibao in Tsing Yi Wei for many years, after all, for the sake of a veteran, although he knew that his martial arts had lost everything, he still wanted to leave a hundred households for him to do, but he was politely rejected by him at that time.

Although he lost his martial arts, he didn't want to lose his dignity!

If a "waste person" like him still licks his face and works in Tsing Yiwei, wouldn't it be humiliating himself?

What should his boss arrange for him? sweep the floor, serve tea, bring water, light a fire, or cook?

Not only did he resign from all his errands in Tsing Yiwei, but even the idea of recommending him to be a civil official by Li Zuo, the king of Han, also refused.

He was originally a martial artist, and he has always been used to commanding, how can he get a place in the civil official queue with trivial matters and factions?

So, he could only stay in his own home, drinking and getting drunk every day.

However, even if he indulges in alcohol every day, carnival and drunk, how can he extinguish this sadness in his heart......