Chang'an is good

Chapter 124 It Really Looks Like It (Seeking Monthly Pass)
Ah Dian was also taken aback: "Little Ah Li... Where did you get so many beautiful colorful ropes!"

Chang Suining twirled his full wrist and thought it was very beautiful: "It's all from ladies."

Ah Dian was surprised: "Then you will have to cut it later!"

The custom of tying colorful ropes at the Dragon Boat Festival in the capital is to tie them on the wrists on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. When the first rain falls after the Dragon Boat Festival, cut the colorful ropes with scissors, put them into the river and float away with the rain, so as to pray for blessings and eliminate disasters. head.

"Then this rain will take a while longer." Cui Jing took one last look at the girl's wrist and said, "Otherwise the rain stops, Mrs. Chang may not finish cutting it yet."

Chang Suining didn't worry: "It's okay, just prepare a pair of sharper scissors. Whether one or a hundred scissors is just a matter of scissors."

Anyway, she can't cut it.

Overtones—even more can be tolerated.

"..." Cui Jing listened to the insatiable and insatiable words of the visitor, and then looked at the bare one on his wrist, feeling as if it was shabby.

And this shabbiness seems to be not his illusion alone, even Ah Dian couldn't stand it anymore, tied another one for him out of comfort, and said a little guilty: "Xiao Jing, I can only give you one more, The rest will be given to Uncle Chang and the others."

Hearing this as if he was afraid that he would cry, Cui Jing withdrew his hand: "...Senior, let's go."

Seeing that he hadn't made a fuss, Ah Dian was relieved, and ran to the common room and the others in the building.

Chang Suining lowered his sleeves to cover his overly wealthy wrists.

Xi'er said: "With so many colorful ropes, it will definitely help the girl drive away all those evil villains!"

"Evil is easy to get rid of." Chang Suining said casually, "Little people are always difficult to deal with."

Cui Jing heard the words and asked, "Are you suspicious that there is another mastermind behind today's act of Jieshi?"

"Well, although what I have done is enough to make Mrs. Xie gradually pay attention to me, but it will take a lot of thought and time to find out that I have something to do with Zhou Ding and get the painting—"

Cui Jing looked at her: "That painting..."

"That painting is indeed related to me." Chang Suining said, "But I didn't give it to Zhou Ding, but it should be in Bingzhou."

"Bingzhou?" Cui Jing frowned slightly, it was his jurisdiction.

Chang Suining nodded.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Cui Jing asked naturally—after all, they have become friends, haven't they?

Chang Suining also said naturally: "I haven't sorted out this matter yet, and I will trouble Governor Cui if necessary in the future."

Even why Ah Li's painting was in Bingzhou, and why it was "in the coffin", she had to ask Xi'er carefully.

"Even though Mrs. Xie had reason to regard me as a different kind before, he had never met me before, so he didn't spend so much attention on me." She said: "What she did tonight, including the relationship with Zhou's second child With the combination of codes, it looks more like being entrusted by others to go along with the flow to destroy my so-called reputation."

Hearing her clarity, Cui Jing nodded in agreement: "You already have someone who is suspicious?"

"It's not hard to guess." Chang Suining said: "Who I have offended is already on the surface - counting with my fingers, it is worth mentioning that I only beat two people in total. "

Cui Jing: "..."

Three, to be exact.

Faced with his silent demeanor, Chang Suining understood instantly, and couldn't help but look apologetic, and added: "...I mean, there are only two of them who have feuded."

The implication is that those who are friends naturally cannot be counted.

Cui Jing sounded inexplicably pleasing to his ears, but he didn't answer any more.

After all, holding on to the matter of being beaten would not do his face any good.

"Then only Duke Ying's mansion is left." His voice was not high, but he was determined.

Chang Miao made a fool of himself in the Imperial College, but it was only three days ago, and the Chang family did not have enough time to plan this matter.

And Ming Jin was beaten in Dayun Temple two months ago, the timing and motives were all right.

"The person who has a close relationship with Xie and can drive Xie to such a means must be a woman." Chang Suining said bluntly: "The wife of Mrs. Ying, Mrs. Chang, is the most suspicious one."

Coincidentally, she not only hit the Chang family's son Ming Jin, but also his nephew Chang Miao—the other party's actions tonight were probably aimed at new and old hatreds.

The painting is real, and Xie's prestige is also real. The other party should have been certain to win—but he bumped into her, a fake.

Cui Jing said: "Clearly Mrs. Xie has the intention of taking over everything, and it is expected that Mrs. Ying will not be easily confessed in the future."

"Well." Chang Suining said without any hope: "Even if we search along the painting, it's just a trivial matter. After such a long time, we probably won't be able to find any really useful evidence."

This Mrs. Ying Guogong's behavior is fairly clean, as can be seen from the fact that she borrows the hands of Mr. Xie to do things.

But try to check it out, at least you can know it well, even if you can't finish this account today, there will always be a chance to settle it in the future.

Cui Jing: "But Mr. Xie's lesson this time will not stop there."

"Yes." Chang Suining looked towards the dimly lit street.

Xie is destined to shed a layer of skin, not just his face.

"But that's because today's incident has become a big deal. With this painting hanging in the Dengtai Tower, the saint in the palace can't ignore it, not because of the word of justice."

Cui Jing looked and saw that the girl's eyes seemed to be dimming with the fading lamps.

After a while, he said: "Slandering women's reputation has happened frequently, but if you want to use today's incident to add this to the law, it is not enough."

Instead, Chang Suining looked at him in surprise.

Has he seriously thought about the feasibility of this matter?
"Of course I know." She smiled, "It's not enough."

Although today's saint is a woman, he cannot represent a woman. On the contrary, this saint needs to try his best to eliminate the disadvantages brought to her by being a woman.

She can swing the sword at the nobles in order to stabilize the throne, but she does so because of the support of the poor family behind her.

But if she tries to shake the mountain of "balance of yin and yang between men and women", which has stood up for thousands of years, then she will be opposed to the entire huge and firm patriarchy, which has no distinction between men and women.

Isn't Xu Xu Tuzhi also okay?

Maybe it can.

But it is impossible for this saint to take risks for such "trivial" matters.

What she wanted was the throne, and her original intention was to seize power for herself, and she would not take anything else seriously—the fact that the other party acquiesced to the existence of Xie Shi, a teacher of women, for more than ten years explained everything.

Everything Empress Ming does will only focus on her own interests, and she will not and has no reason to do those meaningless things that will make her enemies.

Chang Suining was especially determined because he still knew each other well.

Moreover, regardless of the other party's original intention of proclaiming the emperor, the current situation of the other party does not allow the other party to do these things to fight for the interests of women.

At the foot of this seemingly stable and peaceful capital, the game of power has never stopped for a moment.

The controversy over the empress proclaiming emperor has never really disappeared, and as the puppet prince gets older, it will only become more difficult to suppress.

Just getting rid of one Pei family is not enough.

In this game, there is no way out for the Empress Dowager Ming, nor for those gentry, nor for the people who are coerced by various forces.

This country will be chaotic.

It's still unknown how chaotic it will be.

Under the general chaos, those little justices are not worth mentioning.

The pack of wolves cares about themselves, who cares about the ants.

Chang Suining looked at his own shadow under his feet, and at the two beggars standing beside the carriage waiting for her.

She is very weak now, and there is really very little she can do.

But she's trying to empower herself to do more.

Her eyes shifted slightly, and she landed on another shadow beside her - that belonged to Cui Jing.

He was also silent, wondering if he, like her, also thought of the overall situation of the world from this little justice.

All parties have camps, either explicitly or secretly, and Chang Suining is suddenly a little curious at this moment, which camp does he belong to?

Is he loyal to Ming Empress?

Or another loyalist?Or...be true to yourself?
At this time, the young man's voice sounded: "Anyway, if you need my help someday, just tell me."

Chang Suining came back to his senses, nodded with a smile: "Definitely."

"Today is a worthwhile trip." Cui Jing looked at Yuan Xiang who was waiting with his horse not far away: "I should go back."

Was it a worthwhile trip?
Her apprentice banquet was really wonderful.

Chang Sui Ning said with a smile: "Cui Dadu, go slowly."

She watched the tall and straight young man leap onto the horseback.

Before the young man drove his horse away, he did not forget to turn his head and nodded lightly with her.

Then without her needing to respond, he rode his horse and disappeared into the night on the long street.

In the inner hall of the backyard of Dengtai Building, Chang Kuo and the Meng owner had finished drinking a cup of tea, and the shopkeeper brought over the billing booklet.

Meng Dong's family took it, and the shopkeeper withdrew.

Chang Kuo put down the teacup and yawned when he got up.

Meng Lie also got up, bowed his hands and smiled very politely: "Sincerely three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight taels of silver."

Chang Kuo stopped his yawn and squinted at him: "What about the painting?"

Meng Lie smiled sincerely: "Didn't General Chang just say that there is no shortage of these three melons and dates?"

"You want to take it for nothing?" Chang Kuo stared, "What daydreams are you having?"

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the checkout booklet held in the other party's hand: "More than 3000 taels? How dare you open your mouth! You don't even wipe off a fraction, I think you are crazy about doing business, or you are not your own person." ?”

There are only two people here, and Chang Kuo has no scruples when he speaks: "You have no children, and you earn so much money, you don't feel like burning it?"

"That's wrong." Meng Lie lowered his voice and corrected: "It's not mine to earn more or less. In the final analysis, I was just ordered to guard the Dengtai Tower for His Highness."

"Don't use His Highness as a cover." Chang Kuo snorted, "Who doesn't know that this Dengtai Tower is now owned by you, Menglie."

Meng Lie's voice became lower again, and his tone became slower: "When His Highness left 15 years ago, I promised to wait for His Highness to come back, and I will keep my promise to the end."

Chang Kuo wanted to choke him, but seeing his expression, he swallowed it back.

The two were suddenly silent for a moment.

In the end it was Chang Kuo who spoke, his voice was a little hoarse: "Stop talking stupid things."

Lao Meng is different from him. He is used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, and he is very clear about the boundary between life and death, so he never has any unrealistic ideas.

Meng Lie returned to his usual demeanor, and said with a smile, "Your Highness will do what you say."

Chang Kuo looked at him intently, and suddenly asked, "Old Meng...do you have something to hide from me?"

Meng Lie put his hands into his sleeves: "I have nothing to hide from you."

Even if there is, is it that he wants to hide it? In Wujue's words, this is called a secret that cannot be revealed... God's business, can that be called hiding it?

"Sincerely three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight taels of silver." He said again.

"Success!" Chang Kuo nodded happily, and immediately said in a generous tone: "I will charge you 4000 taels for that painting!"

Meng Lie: "?"

"Your jade pendant is not bad, but you can use it for 100 taels!" Chang Kuo casually took off the jade pendant around his waist, turned around and left: "The rest will be recorded in the account first, and I will leave it for my daughter to come to you for snacks!"

Meng Lie was so angry that he chased after him: "...you iron brave man, you should have taken care of this Dengtai building in the first place!"

After Chang Kuo led Chang Sui'an and Ah Dian out from the Dengtai Building, the purse with the bank notes on his waist was not at all flat, but instead had an extra jade pendant.

"The painting of Ning Ning is left here today, but I can't even use the banknotes I prepared!" Chang Kuo looked at his daughter with relief: "My daughter is worth a thousand dollars!"

Chang Suining was surprised: "The food and drinks are all free?"

"Yes." Chang Kuo nodded with a smile, and said helplessly: "This Meng Dong's family is also a real businessman. Not to mention the drink fee, he even forced me to give me a jade pendant. I can't accept it!"

Meng Lie, who had just chased outside the restaurant, resisted the urge to curse when he heard this sentence.

But seeing Chang Kuo's sons and daughters looking at him, especially the silly son with "Meng Dong's family is a good man" written all over his eyes, and several passers-by who were attracted by Chang Kuo's words, Meng Lie could only squeeze out a little. Laughing, he raised his hand towards Chang Kuo: "General Chang, go slowly..."

Tomorrow he will ask someone to hang a new one next to the no-credit sign in the lobby, on which it will be written - Chang family members and robbers are not allowed to enter!

Chang Suining: "..."

Will she be able to come back to this tower next time?
……

After returning to Changfu, it was almost Zishi.

Ah Dian fell asleep in the carriage, and when he got out of the carriage, Chang Suining shook him, and he said in a daze, "Little Ah Li, I'm too sleepy, you can carry me..."

Chang Suining took a look at his mountain-like figure, and said, "...Let's talk about it when I can move Zhanxiu first."

Saying that, he went to shake people again: "If you don't get up again, I'll just let you sleep in the carriage. No one cares about you when it thunders at night."

Hearing the word Dalei, Ah Dian opened his eyes dimly, but suddenly moved his nose, and sniffed at Chang Suining.

"Do what?"

"Little Ah Li..." He said with dim eyes and some curiosity: "Why do you seem to have the smell of the sun on your body? It smells just like His Highness."

Chang Kuo, who had just dismounted from his horse, heard these words, and turned his head to look at the carriage whose curtain had been pulled up by Xi'er.

The girl in the car raised her hand and sniffed her sleeve: "It's just full of alcohol, is your highness a drunk?"

Chang Kuo looked at the hazy silhouette of the girl in the car, and suddenly frowned in surprise.

So at first glance...

Really like it?
Why haven't you found out?

But if you say where it looks like, you can't tell why...

While Chang Kuo was wondering, Chang Suining had dragged Ah Dian out of the carriage, seeing him standing in a daze, "Father?"

Chang Kuo regained his composure and smiled: "Go in!"

It was very late, but Chang Kuo still led his two children to the study to talk.

Chang Kuo also had doubts about the origin of the picture of a girl with red beans.

Chang Suining gestured to Xi'er to say.

She was also curious as to why the painting was in the coffin in the first place.

　Ask for a monthly ticket at the end of the month!Try hard to see if the monthly ticket ranking can be squeezed up again, what if you get into the top ten? (づ￣3￣)づ╭
　　
　
(End of this chapter)