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Chapter 465 You are really disrespectful! [Thank you! Thank you again! I owe you 40k more]

The sun sets over the western mountains,

The sky is still bright,

When the weather gets hot,

As in previous years, there were fruit vendors on both sides of the streets in Bianjing.

"New peach~sweet and juicy new peach~"

"Papaya~"

"Just made some new rice dumplings, take a look~"

Amid the shouting,
In front of the fine saddle on the back of a horse on the street, a hand tied with exquisite ropes gently pulled the mount.

"Ouch! Goro, what's wrong?"

Zai Zhang, who was following beside him, looked at Xu Zai Jing with confusion.

Xu Zaijing pointed to a three-story restaurant on the street and said, "Brother, the one downstairs is my cousin's personal attendant Dong Rong."

Hearing this, Zai Zhang stood up on his horse and leaned over to take a look: "It's true."

Zai Zhang waved his hand and shouted: "Dong Rong~"

Dong Rong, who was about to enter the restaurant, looked back and walked over quickly, bowed and saluted: "Greetings, son-in-law, Wu Lang."

"Is my father-in-law here?"

"My dear son-in-law, the master and his old friends from Yangzhou are having a banquet in the building today."

Zai Zhang looked up at the bustling restaurant, thought for a moment, took off the purse from his waist, and threw it into Dong Rong's hand: "Well! Add some dishes or some good wine for the adults, and tell my father-in-law that I won't go up."

Dong Rong felt the weight of the purse in his hand and bowed quickly, "Yes, son-in-law."

Zai Zhang nodded, waved his hand, and left with Xu Zai Jing.

Watching Xu Zaijing and the other person walk away, Dong Rong turned and went into the restaurant.

Private room on the third floor,

The waiter in the restaurant is serving the dishes.

Sheng Hong was wearing casual clothes and sitting at the table facing the door.
Sitting across the table was Sheng Hong's boss when he was in Yangzhou, who had previously worked with him on the Yuan family's affairs at the Yangzhou dock.
Next to him was Lord Liu Fuming, who worked at the Dali Temple in the same year as Sheng Hong.

"Enjoy your meal, gentlemen."

After serving the dishes, the waiter took the tray, bowed, left the private room and closed the door.

Lord Hong, looking depressed, raised his glass:
"Come on, Brother Sheng, I'll toast you a glass."

Sheng Hong waved his hand quickly: "Hey! My Lord, you and I have worked together in Yangzhou for many years, and you have taken good care of me. How can you call me brother? Just treat me like we are in Yangzhou."

Lord Hong shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Now I can no longer bear your calling me 'Ming Gong'. If you don't mind, Brother Sheng, you can call me brother?"

"Brother Hong!"

As he spoke, Sheng Hong raised his wine cup and clinked it with Lord Hong.

Lord Hong drank another cup with Lord Liu and sighed, "It's funny, ever since this disgraceful incident happened at home, I haven't drunk outside for a long time."

Lord Liu picked up the food and said, "Brother Hong, the news of our family has spread all over Tokyo. It is a blessing that you have not been reprimanded by His Majesty and demoted."

Lord Hong nodded, and filled his wine cup with emotion. He raised it and said, "It's all thanks to Brother Sheng for saying a few good words for me."

Sheng Hong said with some embarrassment: "Brother Hong was loyal to the state in Yangzhou, I just told the truth. Speaking of which, the promotion of officials in the southeast was suppressed by His Majesty before, and Brother Hong's career was blocked after he came to Beijing."

Lord Hong drank a glass of wine in a depressed mood. After calming down, he poured wine and raised his glass, saying: "I have made up my mind to follow Brother Sheng's advice and go to Bai Gao's old place, hoping to make some achievements there."

Lord Liu raised his glass and said, "Brother Hong, I think this is a blessing in disguise! With Brother Sheng's connections, you can show your talents in the northwest."

"Hey, Brother Liu, you're too polite!" Sheng Hong waved his hand quickly.

The three of them drank a cup together, and when they put down their cups,
"Dong dong."

"Enter."

Dong Rong walked in with a bow and said a few words in Sheng Hong's ear.

After Dong Rong left, Sheng Hong smiled and said to the two of them, "My son-in-law just got out of school and bought this delicious meal for us."

Lord Hong looked embarrassed: "How can we do this?"

Sheng Hong waved his hand and said, "It's okay."

As they talked, the three of them continued to clink glasses.

The sky is already dark,

Mr. Hong was also drinking a lot to drown his sorrows. "When I first learned about my daughter's affair, I really wanted to beat her to death, but her mother tried her best to stop me, so I had to let it go."

Lord Liu nodded and said, "Wait for Brother Hong to go to Baigao's hometown, thousands of miles away from Beijing, and find a good family."

Lord Hong exhaled: "Speaking of which, I am also ashamed of Old Master Bai. This marriage was arranged by Old Master Bai and Madam Gu. Who knows. Alas!"

Sheng Hong asked in confusion: "Brother Hong, you have only been in Bianjing for a short time, how could your niece..."

Lord Hong pounded the table angrily and said depressedly: "Brother Sheng, you should know that my eldest lady has some relationship with the Wei family of Fu'an Marquis. After entering the capital, she often went to the city to play polo with the cousins ​​of the Wei family, the girls of the Ma family, the Sha family, and the Han family."

"All in all, it's because I didn't discipline her enough. Alas!"

Lord Hong shook his head and drank another glass of wine.

Lord Liu nodded: "The families that played with the Korean public boys all liked to play polo."

In fact, after the accident happened to the daughter of the Hong family, the general outline of what happened was spread.

Today's conversation is just another reiteration of the matter.

Bianjing,

Outer city Dunjiaofang,
Sheng family's big house,
Backyard,
Mrs. Li, the eldest wife, was calculating the accounts under the candlelight.

"Snapped."

The account book was shut forcefully.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

Pinlan, who was whispering with her sister Shulan, asked.

"fine."

After saying this, Mrs. Li stood up and walked out.

Standing in the courtyard,
"Go, send someone to call Mother Bian."

"Yes, madam."

While waiting,

There were unknown insects chirping softly in the yard.

With the faint noise of the market coming from outside the yard,
Soon a lantern came towards this side.

"Lady."

The woman bowed and said.

Madam Li glanced at the candlelight in the room and whispered, "What's wrong with Scholar Sun? It's only been a few months, and he's already spent nearly 1,500 strings of silver."

"My dear Madam, Grandma Sun said that my future son-in-law will participate in poetry gatherings in Bianjing, and sometimes he will ask great scholars for advice, so he often comes to the account office to withdraw some money."

"The eldest girl agreed to it."

Madam Li took a deep breath and was about to say something when she heard footsteps coming from the moon gate.

After a while

Sheng Wei brought Sheng Changwu and his entourage into the yard.

Mrs. Li waved to Mother Bian, and Mother Bian turned and left.

"Changwu, is your father drinking again?"

The strong Sheng Changwu nodded.

Sheng Wei, who was drunk, waved his hands: "It's okay, I didn't drink much! Why did you call the Bian family here at this time?"

Mrs. Li seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.

"Ok?"

Sheng Wei asked with a frown.

Madam Li looked back into the room and said softly, "Scholar Sun has spent fifteen thousand strings of silver during his time in Bianjing."

Sheng Wei put his hands behind his back and said, "It's not much. The scholar Zhuang in Hong'er's school earns more than 3,000 strings of cash a year."

Madam Li frowned and looked at her husband, and said with some shame: "These are the expenses of Mr. Sun's participation in the poetry gathering."

Sheng Wei was stunned: "Before, the Sun family was afraid of gossip, so they didn't live in our house. We rented it to them. Now we have spent all this money, but we still haven't hired a teacher?"

Madam Li nodded. Sheng Wei shook his head and said in a particularly stern tone: "How do you manage this?"

Mrs. Li looked embarrassed and said, "I am a woman and I don't understand these things about studying."

Chang Wu, who was standing by, said in a deep voice, "Father, mother! Chang Bai, Chang Feng and several other sons of the noble families in my uncle's school have all passed the academy examination and become scholars."

"I heard from my second grandmother before that those people would sit in the hall from the morning hour every day and study hard until the evening hour."

"And I don't see this Mr. Sun, the scholar you found for my eldest sister, being so hardworking!"

finished,

Changwu, who was also drunk, rolled up his sleeves.

Madam Li said, "But, he became a scholar at the age of twelve, and after he became a scholar, the fortune-telling Taoist priests said that he had the potential to become a prime minister!"

Chang Wu shook his head and wiped his forehead: "We should find that Taoist priest and ask him to tell Sun Xiucai's fortune again!"

Sheng Wei looked at his eldest son angrily and said, "Nonsense, how can we find such a wandering Taoist priest after such a long time?"

Chang Wu curled his lips and said, "Father, you have been in the capital for a long time and have seen a lot. Which Jinshi who passed the imperial examination did not study hard! Look at the people in my second grandmother's school. The young master of the Qi family and Chang Feng were not much older than that scholar Sun when they passed the imperial examination!"

When Sheng Wei was a child, he also studied in Bian Jing with Sheng Hong.

The place where I first studied was the private school of the Duke of Lingguo, Lu's family.

But because the students in the private school were too dirty and filthy, he went elsewhere.

Sheng Wei pondered for a moment and said, "It is common to take until 20 or 30 years old to pass the imperial examination. Don't be too anxious! Let's wait and see!"

"Father, I still remember you told me that Uncle Hong said that Mr. Sun's articles were not as good as Mr. Feng's. Have you sent the articles that Mr. Zhuang has pointed out these days?"

Sheng Wei shook his head: "I have been busy with family business these days and have not asked about this matter."

"Mother?"

Mrs. Li shook her head in embarrassment and said, "I sent it several times in March, but Mr. Sun stopped sending it after reading the comments on the letters he sent back."

After listening to this, Sheng Wei said: "Ah! After two days, when Hong Ge is on leave, I will go and talk to him again."

inside the house,

by the window,

Pinlan was standing next to the table, her hand suspended in mid-air grasped the teapot, and she began to pour the herbal tea for herself.

"Pinlan, the tea isn't ready yet?"

"Sister, I'm here."

A few days later,
It's time (ten o'clock in the morning)
Chaoyun Pavilion,
Under the gorgeous entrance,

Liang Han dismounted with a smug look on his face.

Several young men from Bian Jing who followed him and were on good terms with him raised their eyebrows.

Then, these young men from Bian Jing looked at one of them with smiles on their faces.

A servant took away the horses of Liang Han and others.
Liang Han brought his personal fishing cart and walked to the side of Qiao Jiulang who was surrounded by the crowd.

Holding Qiao Jiulang's shoulders, Liang Han looked at the tall wooden building of Chaoyun Pavilion and said, "Jiulang, do you know why I brought you here?"

Qiao Jiulang looked at the expressions of the others beside him and shook his head, "Liu Lang, why?"

Liang Han patted Qiao Jiu on the shoulder and said, "Come in and you'll know."

After Liang Han finished speaking, the teenagers around him smiled maliciously.

Then, everyone entered the building.

It was morning now.

The wooden building of Chaoyun Pavilion did not have the debauchery and extravagance that it would have had after dark.

There were only a few musicians playing their instruments in the building.

In the evening, on the stage where the female musicians danced, only the opera troupe was tuning their instruments. The whole building looked quite elegant.

At this time,

A mother in the building came over with her dry eyes blinking: "Hey, Liu Lang, why are you here at this time! The girls are all resting!"

Liang Han smiled and waved his hands, saying, "That's fine. I heard from Madam Ruan that you have a prostitute here called 'Little Yunniang'?"

Hearing Liang Han's words, Qiao Jiu's eyes widened and he turned around to walk out.

As a result, he was blocked by several people around him.

The mother of Chaoyun Pavilion waved her handkerchief and smiled, "Mother Ruan is really well-informed. To tell you the truth, Liu Lang, we do have a prostitute here, but it is a bit inconvenient for her to meet you gentlemen today."

Liang Han was stunned: "Why is this? Haven't we started receiving customers yet?"

As he said this, he glanced at Qiao Jiu beside him.

The mother smiled with difficulty: "This..."

"This is the person you are talking about. We can still have a say in him in Bian Jing," Liang Han continued.

"Hey, it was a guest who spent some money on this 'young lady' in our building. Yesterday, after drinking, he asked the girl to sleep with him. Ouch~ the girl refused, so he slapped her. Her face is still swollen now!"

Liang Han looked at the others with regret, except Qiao Jiu. Just as he was about to leave, Qiao Jiu in the crowd asked, "How much money did this guy spend to have this girl sleep with him?"

"At most, it's only a few thousand silver coins."

The mother finished speaking.
Liang Han smiled and said to Qiao Jiu: "Compared to you, you are really far behind. How did you deal with that person?"

Hearing this, the mother from Chaoyun Pavilion looked at Qiao Jiu with eyes full of regret.

Yunniang, who worked under Mother Ruan, squeezed nearly five or six thousand strings of silver from this Qiao Jiulang, which made them very envious.

"So you called me here just to tease me like this?"

Qiao Jiu frowned.

Liang Han smiled evilly and said, "What else? I'll treat you?"

Qiao Jiu: "Me!"

After watching the noble young man in front of her finish his words, he yawned with his handkerchief covering his mouth. The brothel mother continued, "We didn't dare to deal with that guest either, so we asked him to go to the guest room and sent a girl to accompany him to sleep. Who let him say that he had some relationship with the Yongyi Marquis Mansion?"

"what?"

Liang Han and others were surprised.

At the entrance of Chaoyun Pavilion,
Sheng Wei got off the carriage and looked at the smiling middle-aged man beside him and said, "Mr. Tian, ​​how did we get here?"

"I heard that Brother Sheng's ancestral home is in Yangzhou. This Chaoyun Pavilion is quite elegant during the day. Today, there happens to be a southern opera troupe there. We can listen and chat while we listen, which is also an elegant thing to do."

Sheng Wei nodded: "Mr. Tian is thoughtful, please."

"please."

As they talked, they went into the building.

Under the guidance of the building manager, I walked to the second floor.

There was a loud shout from a teenager in his voice change period.

"I grew up with Xu Jia Wulang, how come I have never seen you before!"

"You thief, what kind of relative are you to the Marquis's Mansion? Tell me!"

"Don't tarnish my brother Wulang's good reputation!"

During this time, a man trembled and said, "Let go! I have no grudge against you, stop pulling my blanket!"

The steward who was leading us smiled reluctantly and said, "My two distinguished guests, these are the children of several marquis families in the capital who are having fun in the building. Please come this way."

"Brother Sheng?"

Mr. Tian looked at Sheng Wei, his big customer, with a smile and asked in confusion.

Sheng Wei waved his hand with a straight face and said, "Let's go over and take a look."

When walking that way,
Just then I heard someone say, "You bastard, you want to sleep with someone just by spending a few thousand coins, you really have a wild idea."

"You, you are so disrespectful! Give my clothes back to me!"

Hearing this,

Looking at the brothel girl who ran out of the room, holding her chest,
Sheng Wei's face turned very ugly.

"You've been to a brothel, and you're still talking about being polite to us. You're really disrespectful."

A young boy retorted loudly.

At this time, Sheng Wei came over.

Qiao Jiu at the door turned his head to look at Sheng Wei and the others and asked, "What do you do?"

In the room, someone who was held by Liang Han under the quilt heard Qiao Jiu's voice and looked over. When he saw Sheng Wei at the door, he said in a trembling voice, "Sheng is not my Yue."

(End of this chapter)