Chinese dining table

Chapter 72
Yun Chu listened intently to the movement outside for a while, then took another bite of the pancake and said, "We've already hidden, so don't be afraid."

The little woman lit the oil lamp, pointed at Yunchu's green shirt and said, "You are an official, why don't you go out to escort him at this time?"

Yun Chu said with a smile: "There are many guards around the nobles, there is no need for me to go out, besides, I don't have any weapons at hand."

The man quickly stuffed a thick-backed bone-chopping knife into Yun Chu's empty hand and said, "Go now."

Yun Chu was dazed for a moment, then put the knife aside, and said to the little woman, "Is there any water? I choked on dry pancakes."

The man stood up, pointed at Yunchu and said, "You are just an edible goodie."

Yun Chu was not ashamed when he heard the words, and said to the beautiful little woman, "You don't come from a poor family, do you?"

Seeing Yunchu's eyes looking straight at her, the little woman nodded shyly and said, "I have been a servant in the big courtyard for several years."

Yun Chu took a bite of the mustache and swallowed it: "It's not right at first glance, don't look at it as a small workshop, you can tell it's extraordinary in the way it does things, alas, why doesn't my family have such a capable servant. "

The little woman looked at the man who sold the sesame seed cakes in embarrassment and dared not speak, and finally just let out a long sigh.

Yunchu said to the man again: "Your wife is not bad."

The man yelled at Yun Chu: "Thief your mother!"

When Yunchu clapped his hands and came out of the Hubing workshop, the little woman tremblingly handed Yunchu a Hubing with meat she bought, and asked in a low voice, "Is what Mr. Lang said true?"

Yun Chu looked at the man lying on the ground like a puddle of mud and said, "Live your life well, don't think about things you have and things you don't have all day long."

After all, he left Guangfufang calmly with the lotus leaf-wrapped cake and meat and held an umbrella. He also looked back and remembered this small shop. The things are good, and he can come here often in the future.

When they walked up Zhuque Avenue again, the nobleman had already left, and all the Jinwu guards rushed into the alleys to search everywhere, but Yunchu walked up Zhuque Avenue at this time, but no one cared.

After crossing Zhuque Street, passing through Anye, Zhangde, Chongxian, and Changshou, Yunchu put the frozen Hubing meat into his arms, and shook off the thick snow powder on the oil-paper umbrella , and entered Fengyifang.

Fengyifang occupies a large area, and behind it is the tall and majestic Chang'an City Wall. For the sake of defense, all the people living here are lowly merchants.

Once something happens, the defenders at the top of the city can tear down the stone bricks and tiles of Fengyifang to defend against the enemy.

As soon as he entered the gate of the workshop, Yunchu was almost overwhelmed by the stench of the sun sauce. He tied his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and after getting used to it for a while, Yunchu walked into Fengyifang.

There are many pedestrians on the inner street here, and there are countless horse-drawn carts, ox carts, donkey carts, and even wheelbarrows.

However, the carriages are basically covered with green cloth curtains, which means that no nobles will come here all the year round.

Yunchu even thought that placing the soy sauce workshop at the entrance of the workshop itself was a strategy of the merchants here, because they didn't want those nobles such as checking accounts and blackmailing them to come in.

The more he walked inside, the more Yunchu believed that his guess was correct, because after walking 300 meters forward, the smell of the sauce jar completely disappeared, replaced by the slightly sweet smell of distiller's grains.

The side of the street is full of wine flags, the wine flags are very high, and the wine flags of each family are higher than the wine flags of each family.

This kind of long banner was blown by the wind, making the handwriting on the wine flag seem to come alive, which has a very advertising effect.

Ruyi is a nice name, and Zhixia is also a nice name, but the tavern is not very good.

The wine flags of other people's houses were tall and majestic, but the wine flag with the word "Ruyi" written on it was stuck on the flagpole, refusing to fly.

However, this is not to blame for the wine flag, because it is too short. The height of other people's wine flags is basically higher than the city wall. Only the wishful wine flag is shorter than the city wall, so naturally there is no wind to blow it.

Yunchu stood at the entrance of Ruyi Winery and observed for a while. It snowed heavily today, which is a good time for the guests to cook wine and enjoy the snow. At the entrance of other people’s wineries, all the people who come in and out are holding wine jars. Only the entrance of this Ruyi Winery is deserted.

Just when Yunchu was about to enter Ruyi Winery, a man in a blue shirt strode out from the inside, yelling and cursing as he walked: "I want to gamble, what can you do to me, can you take me in on weekdays?" Your mother and son are already showing kindness to me.

Now I'm not allowed to gamble! "

A woman with disheveled hair hurriedly caught up and begged, "This is the last bit of money. Without this money, how do you want me to buy distiller's yeast to make wine?"

The man kicked the woman down and cursed angrily: "It's really unlucky to marry you. For more than ten days in a row, I lost most of my money."

Yun Chu walked towards him with a smile, and just as the man passed by Yun Chu, for some reason, the man stepped on the ground, and under the watchful eyes of the spectators, he stuck his head on the blue stone. Hewn steps.

Yun Chu stretched out his hand to grab it, but it was empty, and the bridge of the man's nose hit the sharp corner of the blue stone step heavily.

Hearing a click, the man's tense body immediately softened, and he saw a pool of black-red blood against the white snow flowing down the steps like a stream.

"Ah—" The woman let out a scream, flew over, hugged the man and cried loudly.

Yun Chu hurriedly stepped aside, quickly cupped his hands to the surrounding crowd and said, "Please neighbors, please testify to a certain family that this person has nothing to do with this person's mistake."

Originally, the people who saw the excitement as a tragedy were about to leave, when they heard Yun Chu say the word "I am an official", they stopped immediately, and a man with a white felt hat on his head stepped forward and cupped his hands: " What Lang Jun said is very true, this Cao Wu was so busy scolding his mother-in-law that he didn't look at the road when he went out, so he fell down."

Yun Chu immediately said to the wine shop clerk who was staying at the scene: "Hurry up and get some drinks, a certain family is going to invite all the neighbors to have a drink to warm up your body today."

The clerk got a handful of copper coins, immediately brought out a large jar of wine, put it in Yunchu's hands, and went to help the poor woman.

Yun Chu took a deep sip of wine, then stuffed the wine jar into the hands of the man wearing a white felt hat, and said, "Drink a sip of wine, and get rid of bad luck."

The man was not polite, he picked up the wine jar and drank it, which aroused the anger of the crowd. In a short while, the big wine jar was full of hands of people who wanted to drink.

The woman shook the body of the fallen man vigorously, but got no response.

Knowing that the man was already dead, Yun Chu threw his feet into the air, put his whole body weight on his head, and then hit this head, which can concentrate his whole body weight, on a sharp step. Even if his head didn't break, the thin neck It must have been broken alive.

After a while, the Li Chang, Fang Zheng, had already arrived. After seeing the scene and questioning all the people present, he covered the man's face with a piece of sackcloth, saying that he would wait until the arrester and Zuo Zuo arrived.

As a witness, Yunchu naturally couldn't leave easily.

Just when everyone was drinking a jar of wine, a group of bad people came.

When the village chief saw that it was not the police but the bad guys, he hurried forward and said, "Teng Cheng, the village chief, has seen all the bad guys."

The bad guy in the head hummed a word from his nostrils, even if he saw the ceremony, he squatted down and lifted the sackcloth, glanced at the dead man, and then pulled the man's head. His sagging neck could no longer support his neck, so , the head swayed round and round twice.

The bad guy stood up and said, "Who was closest to this man when he died?"

Yun Chu stood up but did not bow his hands, nodded and said: "A certain family, at that time a certain family was going to enter, and he wanted to go out, but he didn't expect this person to fall to his death when he stepped on the ground. If you don't believe me, you can ask the neighbors."

The bad guy didn't ask the neighbors but continued to ask Yunchu: "Do you know Cao Wu?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I don't know each other."

"Do you have a financial relationship with Cao Wu?"

Yun Chu frowned and said, "I just came back from the Western Regions. Before today, I have never seen this Cao Wu, let alone have any financial relationship with him."

Hearing what Yunchu said, the bad guy put away his usual arrogant appearance, and asked, "I don't know the name of this gentleman, where is his family, and which yamen does he work in?"

Yun Chu lazily raised his hand to return the salute, "The surname Yun Dan is a Chu character. He lives in Yun's family in Jinchangfang. He is currently working as a medical officer in the Imperial Medical Office."

Hearing that Yun Chu worked in the Imperial Medical Office, the bad guy cupped his hands again and said, "I believe that Doctor Yun won't have anything to do with this rascal Cao Wu, it's just for Doctor Yun's sake, so I want to ask you, Doctor Yun is here as you wish." What's up with the wine shop?"

Yunchu sighed and said: "Before a certain family came to Chang'an, they served as the guards in the Yamen of Daguanling in Kucha. In the battle of Kucha, almost all the people in the Yamen of Daguan Ling were wiped out except me... died in battle... There are too many colleagues, and the Shangguan felt that the Daguanling Yamen was still useful, so he rewarded a sum of money and ordered a certain family to bring Chang'an to comfort the orphans."

The empty-eyed woman knelt down on the steps quietly, guarding her dead husband, but when Yun Chu's words fell into her ears, she let out a cluck and didn't come up in one breath. Falling limply on top of her husband.

Among the people who reached out and grabbed her, Yun Chu didn't expect that the woman didn't look like she was going to wake up after holding her for a long time.

Touching her neck with his hand back, he stood up with a sigh and spread his hands to the villain: "The person is gone!"

The bad man looked at the woman's breath, spit and said: "It's really out of breath, bad luck, it's their blessing to die together, okay, okay, everyone spread out, let Cao People from the five families came out to collect the corpse."

Seeing that the bad guy didn't mention the money, Yun Chu grabbed the bad guy's wrist and said, "According to my brother's entrustment, there is a sum of money to be delivered to a woman named Zhi Xia."

"I am Zhixia!"

A cold voice came from the back house, and immediately, a woman in Tsing Yi came out.

Her face was extremely pale, and she ignored the pair of men and women who fell on the steps, but looked straight into Yunchu's eyes and asked, "Did that fat man really sacrifice his life for the country in Kucha?"

(End of this chapter)