Chapter 8: This Night Is Not Peaceful
"Alas, that's a long story!" he shook his head, sighed in vain, looked at the appearance of the two of them, and said, "this is not the place to talk, let's go and sit in the teahouse in front." ”
So the two of them led their horses, and in this hazy twilight, followed Alai through the drowsy streets, and after a while, they came to a tea-house, and the reception standing at the door was actually a woman who was a half-old, wearing a cloth skirt with white flowers and a blue background, and a blue cloth around her waist, and greeted her with a smile:
"Alai, your guest, please sit inside!" she instructed a young man again, "Huzi, come and take the two distinguished guests' maximas to the back trough to feed!"
So, a boy of eleven or twelve years old ran out in a hurry, took the reins from the hands of the two of them, and led the horse to the backyard to feed them.
The woman happily brought them into the house, Wu Shuang chose a seat under the window lattice near the street, and looked at the surrounding environment when he sat down, but occasionally from the openwork window lattice, he caught a glimpse of a man who looked like a man in a teahouse under the light outside, whispering to the little boy who had just led the horse to the back trough to feed, and, with his hand, he gestured to the scene inside the guest seat, looking like that, with bad intentions, and then the little boy ran out quickly, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye. And Wu Shuang only pretended not to find it, looked at the scene of this tea house, put seven or eight seats, there were five or six guests, lit two bowls of clear oil lamps with paper covers, and there was an old man in green clothes standing on the counter, he was looking down and fiddling with the abacus, but occasionally raised his eyelids and opened a picture of the front scene. Seeing this, Wu Shuang smiled and asked the hostess.
"You're the hostess, aren't you?"
"The guest officer has good eyesight! The woman smiled and said, "What kind of tea does the guest drink?"
"Well, what kind of tea do you drink when the lights are turned on at night?" said She Gang as she sat down.
"Yes, it's all here. Alai added with a grin, "Then, stir-fry a few good dishes and eat them with five-cornered wine!"
"Okay! No problem. The woman said with a smile. So, pour a bowl of ordinary tea into each person's bowl, and after that, put down the teapot and say:
"Three guest officers use it slowly!" and walked away, and when he left, he took the opportunity to glance at Ah Lai quickly, as if he had conveyed a message, and Wu Shuang only pretended not to know anything, and only cared about talking to She Gang.
After the woman left, Wu Shuang asked Alai softly.
"Brother, why is Lord Wang's door sealed?"
"Don't mention it!" said Alai with a sigh of relief, "It's all an ugly thing to lose the dead!"
"What ugly thing to disgrace the dead?" Wu Shuang asked, but pondered in his heart: "Wang Zhi's father and son are also upright people, how could they be like what he said, what ugly things did they do!"
Alai also looked around, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to them, he raised a palm and bent it into an arc, leaned into Wu Shuang's ear and whispered:
"Our lord was corrupt and bribed, and he was reported by others!"
Seeing him look sneaky like this, Wu Shuang was displeased, but he only put it in his heart, and his face did not attack, on the contrary, he smiled and said:
"I really didn't expect that even their father and son would be like this!" Wu Shuang also pretended to be down.
"But isn't it!" said Alai, who really came to his senses, as if he did not have the slightest gratitude to his former employer, on the contrary, he also had hatred, "On weekdays, they all say that their father and son are honest and honest, and even those of us who are subordinates have not rubbed a little oil and water in their house, but he himself has embezzled so much! Alas!
Wu Shuang finally heard from his words, it turned out that he was complaining that the master did not bring them a good reward. Therefore, Wu Shuang asked him:
"Brother Alai, how much monthly profit can you earn in the governor's house!"
"Not much!" said Alai, "it's all a fixed number of the public, and there is not a single one!"
"Oh, that is to say, you are all official servants who eat the emperor's grain," Wu Shuang said, "Are your monthly profits and benefits regularly distributed by the imperial court?"
"That's it!"
"How much is that per month?"
"That's twenty taels of silver. ”
"Then you are still not satisfied!" She Gang suddenly said, "We are a capital eunuch in Luoyan City, and the monthly profit is only twenty taels of silver per month!"
"Hey, look at what your brother said!" Ah Lai said very dissatisfiedly, "We are here in the capital, it's different, this is the foot of the Son of Heaven full of gold, where is twenty taels of silver whatever!
"I understand!" Wu Shuang suddenly looked at him and smiled and said, "You feel that there is no oil and water in such an old man's house, so there is no energy!"
"Hey, it's all human life!" said Alai, shaking his head in annoyance.
"Then how much money did he embezzle?" Wu Shuang asked.
Alai stretched out his left palm and shook it, but did not speak.
"Fifty thousand taels?" She Gang asked.
Alley shook his head and sighed:
"500,000 taels of gold and silver jewelry!"
"Sure enough, it's a big number!" Wu Shuang said, "Then who came to seal it?"
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried and panicked footsteps outside the door, mixed with the sound of people shouting horses and swords.
As soon as She Gang turned around, he saw that the open space outside the door was full of officers and soldiers, some of them were holding swords and shields, some were holding bows and swords, some were holding torches and spears, and in the middle were a green-robed young man riding a red horse. At this moment, they were ready to rush into the tearoom, their knives were unsheathed, and they seemed to be ready to rush into the tearoom at any moment.
She just turned around and was about to tell Wu Shuang about this, but found that Alai was no longer sitting on it, so he asked in surprise:
"Owner, what about others?"
"Slipped!" Wu Shuang said with a smile. In fact, when Alai left, he and Wu Shuang found a very reasonable excuse, saying that they were going to Gong, and Wu Shuang had already known that he was an excuse to slip away, neither stopping him nor embarrassing him, but smiled and nodded.
"This birdman!" She Gang said angrily, he pointed outside again, "Zhuang Master, there are so many officers and soldiers from outside here all of a sudden, it must be coming at us!"
"Very likely!" Wu Shuang smiled faintly and said, "This Alai seems to have a lot to do with the framing case of Governor Wang's father and son, and this group of people outside must be him, and the notice came!"
"Then I, when I see him again, I'll kill him with a knife!"
"Now, it's hard for us to meet him again......"
Before he could say anything, he saw Alai running from the back door of the tea house to the group of officers and soldiers, and he nodded to the green-robed officer on the horse, and he didn't know what to say. Seeing this, She Gang was so angry that he shouted:
"Damn, it's a dog mongrel!"
"Listen, the people in the room, there are two court prisoners here just now, and the rest of you come out one by one with your heads in your hands, otherwise, I will be killed!" Suddenly, the green-robed officer shouted loudly, "Archers prepare!"
The torches outside the door were shining brightly, like the white sun, dozens of archers, with their bows and arrows, aimed at every gap in the house that could be shot into the feather arrows, the situation was very serious, the people inside were to resist slightly, dozens of arrows were shot at the same time, and all the people inside could be shot to death.
So, except for Wu Shuang and She Gang, who were sitting in their positions, they didn't move, and the rest of the people were frightened, holding their heads one after another, and shouting if they knew it.
"Lord Shen, we have all done what you said, don't let go of the arrows!"
So, the people inside walked out one after another with their heads in their hands and bent over.
Wu Shuang said:
"It seems that we are very honored! As soon as we came, they were charged with crimes committed by the imperial court!"
"So what about the owner?"
"What they want, we'll do!" (To be continued.) )