I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 280 Snatching Tea Leaves
Different from the hostility and hatred between Zhang Minhua and his concubine Zhang Yiyi, as the eldest son of the Zhang family, Zhang Minxian has almost no contact with Zhang Yiyi. He is ten years older than Zhang Yiyi. The courtyard followed the master to study.

When Zhang Yiyi reached the age he could remember, Zhang Minxian was already a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. He was studying in the academy while preparing for the imperial examination, and he only took a rest and went home once a month.

In addition to visiting his mother and two younger sisters in the back house, he also asked his father Zhang Zhifu for homework in the study in the front yard.

So I only meet my concubine a few times a year, and by the time Zhang Yiyi reaches Ji, Zhang Minxian has already married and established a career, and has been released as an official.

Whether it was Zhang Yiyi who married into the General's Mansion and became a young wife, or whether Zhang Yiyi defected to the Zhenbianhou Mansion when the Yang family fell into trouble, what Zhang Minxian and the Zhang family did was in line with the situation. Although he had a grudge against his superiors, he did throw stones at the General's Mansion back then.

After putting down the teacup and pondering for a long time, Zhang Minxian finally said: "Based on Old General Yang's behavior, he will not take revenge on our Zhang family. First, our Zhang family is not qualified for the Yang family to take revenge. Second, the Yang family has just recovered. The target of retaliation is also the enemy who framed the Yang family and treason."

Zhang Minhua's expression turned ugly in an instant. The Zhou family she married into was a well-established family. Both families were officials' families. Similarly, Zhang Minhua's father-in-law is now a fourth-rank magistrate, and his husband is also the heir of the Zhou family. The eldest son, like his elder brother, is now a fifth-rank co-knowledgeable.

But once the general's mansion is restored, it will be a top-notch product!Moreover, he was a Genuine Grade One with 20 military power in his hands. In contrast, the Zhang family was just a humble existence like ants, and it was indeed not qualified for the Yang family to take revenge.

But thinking of Zhang Yiyi, that bitch who gave up the General's Mansion, but now she is a prisoner, and the Zhenbian Hou Mansion also gave up on her, Zhang Minhua couldn't help showing a smile on his tense face, feeling extremely happy.

"Brother, it's not surprising that there are so many people! Our Zhang family was also trying to protect ourselves back then. As in-laws of the Yang family, we would definitely be implicated. Now we apologize sincerely. We don't ask for a relationship with the general's mansion. We only ask for a relationship." Peace of mind."

What's more, the reason why the Zhang family made trouble against the General's Mansion back then was because that bitch Zhang Yiyi used the name of the General's Mansion to use the name of the General's Mansion to blackmail the Zhang and Zhou families.

"Besides, Zhang Yiyi betrayed the general's mansion and gave Yang Shoucheng a cuckold. Now we are going to deal with Zhang Yiyi. This is full of sincerity." Zhang Minhuai's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

Back then when the little bitch went to the Hou's Mansion, the Zhang family not only did not dare to take revenge, but also feared that this bitch would use the name of the Hou's Mansion to deal with Zhang's and Zhou's family.

Fortunately, this bitch followed Zhenbian Hou with a bad name and bad words, and he didn't live up to his expectations in the past eight years, and he didn't give birth to a single bitch, so he didn't dare to act in the name of the Hou family.

Zhang Minxian nodded in agreement, lowered his voice a little, "You have to be more considerate in your actions, and don't leave anything behind."

Zhang Minxian doesn't care about the life and death of a concubine, this is the sincerity of surrendering to the general's mansion, but at the same time, it will also indirectly offend the Zhenbianhou's mansion. As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the Zhenbianhou's mansion No matter how weak it is, it is still easy to clean up the Zhang family.

"Brother, don't worry, I know it well, even if the Hou Mansion sends people to investigate, they won't find anything." Zhang Minwei's tone was calm, which daughter of an official family didn't have the secret medicine at the bottom of the box, otherwise why would he be able to find it? For decades, she has been firmly seated as the head wife.

The siblings finished talking and waited for Yang Shoucheng to come to the appointment. No matter what, they were also Yang Xu's uncle and aunt. Zhang Yiyi deserved to die, but this blood relationship could not be broken.

At this moment, downstairs in the lobby.

"Wait!" Zhou Shuyao, who had bought sugar-fried chestnuts, suddenly said to the maid beside her, "Qiaoer, go and see if that is my mother's favorite top-grade cardinal."

Black tea is less than green tea, and in Longyou Road, all good tea is transported from Jiangnan Road, and the quantity is not much. Every year when the tea comes to the market, the supply is in short supply. Buy the best tea.

Red sparrow is a treasure in black tea. There are tea gardens all over the south of the Yangtze River, but there are very few red sparrows, let alone in Longyou Daoli, and Zhang Minyu cannot drink green tea because of his health. In Xiangwu County, Zhang Minhua hadn't had tea in the past seven or eight days.

"Yes, miss." As Zhou Shuyao's big maid, Qiao'er is in charge of taking care of these things on weekdays. This flying sparrow-shaped jar is the unique symbol of the cardinal. A jar can only hold one or two tea leaves, which can be done in Jiangnan. It was sold for 30 taels, and it was shipped to Longyou Road for at least 50 taels of silver per jar.

The waiter in the tea house paused, and before he could speak, Qiaoer walked over quickly, grabbed the tea pot in his hand, opened it, looked at it, and said happily: "Miss, it is the cardinal, unfortunately there are not many of them. Yes, at least make a pot."

Zhou Shuyao nodded in satisfaction, "It's just for my mother to satisfy her hunger."

"Miss, the tea was ordered by the guests at this table, and they have already paid for it." The waiter hurriedly replied, looking at Zhan Feiyu at the table by the window.

Because there is no need for a tea doctor to make tea, so the buddy brought the tea pot over, and the charcoal stove has been lit on the table. Looking at the dried longan, red dates, and dried fruit placed in the small dish, it is clearly for cooking. Tea.

Of course, in the eyes of the waiter, it would be too wasteful to use the five taels of silver for the cardinals to make tea, but this little girl is not short of money, so the teahouse naturally doesn't care how the other party drinks tea.

Zhan Feiyu actually doesn't care what kind of tea she drinks, she doesn't pay attention to it, and she doesn't know much difference in her drinking, except for those from well-established families, the juniors in the family have been nurtured and trained since childhood, otherwise ordinary people really can't drink medium-grade tea and high-grade tea. The nuances of tea.

But what Zhan Feiyu uses now are all sent from the capital by Gu Xueshi or Yin Wuyan, and many of them are tributes from the palace. Her taste has also improved a little bit, at most it can be regarded as arty.

"Which family bumpkin is also worthy of drinking red sparrow, don't spoil this tea." Zhou Shuyao sneered.

Although she is a half-grown girl, she only brought a servant girl with her when she went out to the teahouse. She is shabby, but the key point is that she is from a merchant’s house. She smells like copper. She probably doesn’t even know what kind of tea tea is. , but you can order whatever tea is expensive.

Zhan Feiyu doesn't mind exchanging a tea if the other party has a nice word to talk to.

Looking at Zhou Shuyao who was full of contempt and disgust, Zhan Feiyu said loudly, "Don't say it's a waste, I'm happy to feed the tea I bought with money to the dogs."

Zhou Shuyao's pretty face suddenly sank, and a cold light and anger burst out from her eyes, "Nurse, slap your mouth!"

"Yes, miss." Nanny Zhang quickly walked over to the table in a gloomy manner. The elderly nanny, with a wrinkled face, looked vicious and mean when her face sank. Nanny Zhang could be scared to cry with a straight face.

"Yeah, I said the wrong thing." Zhan Feiyu rolled her eyes. She really didn't mean to humiliate Mrs. Zhou, Zhang Minhuai. She just used an analogy, can you not feed the things you bought to the dog?Money is hard to buy, I am happy.

He Nuan stood up and stopped the vicious Nanny Zhang, not to mention that the lady just said it casually, so what if she really scolded her?

"Get out of the way, dare to insult my wife, don't say you are a little girl, even if your master and wife are here, you have to kowtow to apologize!" Nanny Zhang said sharply, her gloomy eyes fell on Zhan Feiyu. People are well-raised, and this white skin is so tender and tender that it can squeeze out water.

Nanny Zhang has never been married, and the older she gets, the more perverted her psychology becomes, especially when she sees those delicate little maids, she wishes she could torture them to death, and she has become an old woman. They are all young and tender, looking at them Just bored.

He Nuan stood still at the same spot, and suddenly thought about whether he should bring a nanny with him when he travels in the future, otherwise he would have to follow him, because everyone was a lady and came from a businessman, and wanted to step on it a few times.

"Shame on you!" Nanny Zhang didn't have any anger towards He Nuan, who had ordinary facial features, but she dared to block herself, which made Nanny Zhang suddenly angry.

On weekdays, Nanny Zhang always said the same thing to the servants of the Zhou Mansion. As the head wife's nanny, she was considered a half-master in the Zhou Mansion, and no one was disrespectful.

Even the master's housekeeper called her Big Sister Zhang, but a maid from a lowly merchant's family dared to disobey her.

At the same time as the angry reprimand fell, Madam Zhang suddenly raised her hand, and immediately slapped He Nuan's face with her big palm.

Compared with those old women who like to pinch and pinch people, Nanny Zhang likes to slap the servants the most. She slaps down and doesn't say a word. Seeing that delicate face red and swollen from the slap, Nanny Zhang can't tell carefree.

He Nuan raised his hand to block it, then pushed it back, and slapped Mammy Zhang's rough old face full of wrinkles.

Ho!Not to mention that Zhang Nanny who was beaten was stunned, Zhou Shuyao and the two maidservants standing aside were also dumbfounded. After all, she was Zhang Minhua's nanny, and Zhou Shuyao also respected her a little on weekdays, and had the right to be half an elder .

But now?No matter in Zhou Mansion or Linzhou Mansion, there are some thin-faced Nanny Zhang who was slapped on the face by someone. Slapping Zhang Minhua in the face is tantamount to ignoring the Zhang family and Zhou family in Linzhou Prefecture.

"Little bitch, you dare to do it?" Angry to the extreme, Zhang Nanny's voice was shrill and piercing, like an enraged tigress, with a ferocious face, and then rushed towards He Nuan.

Zhou Shuyao frowned, Nanny Zhang's shrew-like behavior was embarrassing to the Zhou family, but she couldn't watch her being beaten without fighting back, so she said coldly, "Qiaoer, go and call a guard over."

It is impossible for Zhou Shuyao to do anything, and naturally her personal servant girl can't do anything either. The only way to do this is to let the guards come over and arrest him. At that time, don't say a slap, even if Zhang Momo smashes the maid's face to death It doesn't matter, it's just a maid, at most I will pay three to fifty taels of silver.

If you really refresh your mind and relax, you should come to the teahouse.

Zhan Feiyu slowly threw the longan and red dates on the plate into the teapot to cook, and said to the stunned waiter, "Bring me some black tea again. I don't care about the quality, as long as it is black tea."

Suddenly he came back to his senses, the buddy looked at Zhan Feiyu in a daze, how big-hearted is this girl, is she still in the mood to make tea at this time?
Zhan Feiyu grinned and teased, "I gave you five taels of silver, so hurry up."

"Yes, I'll go now, little one." The buddy nodded straightly. He couldn't get back that pot of linnets. He had to bring tea to the little girl, and he had to refund the money later. A pot of ordinary black tea would cost nothing. Two hundred texts.

Even though Nanny Zhang is tall, burly and aggressive, for a practitioner like He Nuan, kicking him will knock him down, and he will not be able to get up without support.

Zhou Shuyao glanced in the direction of the stairs, her face with strong features was covered with frost, even though Nanny Zhang made the Zhou family lose face by doing it, it was justifiable.

But she dared to kick Nanny Zhang to the ground, she just didn't pay attention to the Zhou family, and sent back to Linzhou Mansion, what face would her father have in the yamen.

"Do you know who I am? You dare to do anything, I think you are tired of living!" Zhou Shuyao yelled angrily, stepped forward, looked at Zhan Feiyu who was making tea, and said angrily: "I don't want to provoke your family!" You should kowtow obediently to Nanny Zhang to make amends, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"

The Zhang family and the Zhou family are both official families, and their in-laws, relatives and friends are all over the officialdom of Longyou Dao.

And because the real power of Longyou Dao is the generals who lead the battle, the officials of the various state capitals are twisted into one rope, and all are prosperous and all are lost.

So in Zhou Shuyao's view, no matter which state capital Zhan Feiyu came from or what business his family was doing, he would never dare to offend the local officials. Then the Zhou family only needed to send a letter, and someone would replace the Zhou family to clean up the other party.

Of course, if the other party has an enemy in Linzhou Mansion, you can also send a letter, and Zhou's father, as a fellow confidant, will also help. Here is to exchange information and help each other.

"This is Xiangwu County, and the county magistrate Zhu is well-governed. I heard that the wife of the Marquis of Zhenbian will be imprisoned in the prison of the county government because of a murder case." Zhan Feiyu spoke slowly, with a small voice. It dragged on for a long time, "No matter who you are, it is impossible to be more powerful than the Zhenbian Houfu."

People sit at home, and disaster comes from heaven!County Magistrate Zhu, who only likes to eat, drink and have fun, didn't know that he was being tricked by Zhan Feiyu. How could he dare to imprison the people of the Marquis Manor at the edge of the town?

It's not because Dou Qianhu ordered the arrest, County Magistrate Zhu didn't dare to offend the guards, nor did he dare to offend the Zhenbianhou's mansion. His worried hair has fallen out one after another in the past few days.

"Don't compare me with that bitch!" Zhou Shuyao said angrily. As Zhang Minhua's daughter, she knew the hatred between her mother and that bitch Zhang Yiyi. Prison was so happy that even mentioning that bitch's name made his mouth dirty.

(End of this chapter)