Dressed as the best old lady in the famine years, I suddenly became rich

Chapter 198 Being followed

This was a chatty but dedicated waiter. Ke Muqing looked at the teahouse. Compared with several teahouses she passed in front of her, the business of this teahouse was not very good.

But from the tone of the conversation between the owner and the guests, it seems that those who come here are old customers. They are as familiar as friends, so they can say anything.

The waiter was very quick and served hot tea and snacks in no time.

"Guests, please try it. Our tea and snacks are excellent. We are a century-old teahouse. Everyone who has tasted the snacks made by the late chef will praise them, even the current Queen Mother has praised them. Everyone likes to eat it,” the waiter said.

Hearing what the waiter said, Ke Muqing became interested. He picked up a piece of white cake called Baiyugui Osmanthus Cake and took a bite. It was truly amazing. It melted in your mouth. The dense texture filled your mouth with the fragrance of osmanthus.

"It's really good." Ke Muqing asked, "How come the Queen Mother still eats your dim sum in the capital?"

"It seems that your guests really don't care about things." The waiter said happily, "Prince Zhuang is the only king of the opposite sex today. He is the brother of the Queen Mother. When the Queen Mother was young, Prince Zhuang accompanied her to visit Zhuang County, so Zhuang The prince's fiefdom is Zhuang County."

"It seems that I really don't know anything." Ke Muqing really didn't know about this. She thought that Prince Zhuang, like Prince Chen and Prince Shu, were the former emperor's princes.

"By the way, I was very interested in what you just said about Zhuangjun. Please continue talking." Ke Muqing was very generous and directly gave one tael as a reward, which made the waiter extremely happy.

"As long as the customer wants to know, I will tell you everything." The waiter quickly put away the money and continued, "Just now, I told the customer that it was difficult for the people in Zhuang County because everyone thought that the good weather in Zhuang County was as prosperous as that in Jiangnan. , But in fact, Zhuang County looks bright and beautiful on the outside, but it is very short of money on the inside. "

"Prince Zhuang is the biological brother of the Queen Mother. To put it bluntly, he is worth less than ten thousand people. His words are more useful than today. How could the Queen Mother be so close to her family?"

"The entire granary in Zhuang County is actually empty. It has been like this every year for several years. I heard that the grain in the granary was sold by King Zhuang to build a separate courtyard in the early years. Don't you know that it is a hundred years away from the capital of Zhuang County? Inside and outside, King Zhuang enclosed the land and built a summer residence. The courtyard is more magnificent than Prince Zhuang's mansion. Part of the money for building the courtyard was obtained from the grain in the granary. "

"I heard that it was sold to Shu County." The waiter said, "The wife of the Prince of Shu has a concubine in her natal family who is the concubine of Prince Zhuang. No one else knows, but what secrets can't be heard in a place like the teahouse where people come from north to south? ?”

If Prince Zhuang and the crown prince of Shu had such a relationship, it would be entirely possible that Prince Zhuang's grain was sold to Commander Shu.

The King of Shu is old and may have lost his energy for a long time. The Crown Prince of Shu has been in power for a long time. The Crown Prince of Shu has this ambition, so it is normal for him to take the opportunity to stockpile grain.

After all, it is useless to have money alone to recover from illness, you also need to have food.

When the waiter mentioned Shu County, he naturally had to mention what happened last night.

"I don't know where the guest stayed yesterday, but did he feel the power of last night's earthquake?" The waiter mentioned that he was still frightened by the earthquake last night.

Seeing Ke Muqing nodded, the waiter continued, "It's an earthquake in Shu County. The ground is shaking and the mountains are shaking. This is a divine punishment. It is a punishment sent down by God to the prince of Shu. King Shu has passed away for more than a month and the prince of Shu is still hiding it." , just burying the King of Shu quietly, this is unfilial and disloyal to today."

"Such an unfaithful and unfilial person, no wonder God wants to punish him! Otherwise, why would Shu County be affected? Our Zhuang County and Shu County are next to each other, and our Zhuang County is not as powerful as Shu County. "But even the mountains fell." "I heard that half of Shu County was buried, and tens of thousands of people were buried because of the earthquake. This is really scary. We people are suffering so much. The prince of Shu committed evil and made the people suffer, but the prince of Shu escaped the earthquake in Chen County. "

The waiter curled his lips, not daring to say some words, but his expression was clear, and he could not bury the disloyal and unfilial son of the Prince of Shu.

"Do you already know about Shu County?" Ke Muqing disagreed.

"I just know a few things. There were carrier pigeons that flew to our Zhuang County earlier. The news was that King Shu had passed away. I don't know which chivalrous man who couldn't stand the prince of King Shu spread the news, so he didn't let Shu. Prince Wang continues to deceive everyone. In fact, we common people know in our hearts that the old Prince Shu and Prince Chen are both benevolent. The common people must be heartbroken when the King of Shu is gone. "

The waiter in the shop actually heard about many things in Shu County and didn't know much about it. He also heard about the earthquake in Shu County in the morning.

Ke Muqing asked some more questions and then thanked him.

The snacks in the teahouse were indeed delicious, so Ke Muqing ordered several baskets of one kind and packed them all up to take away.

Ke Muqing was definitely a big customer in the store. Even the owner stopped cursing and came to entertain Ke Muqing in person, and then personally saw Ke Muqing off the teahouse.

After leaving the teahouse, Ke Muqing went to other shops. The prices of snacks in the teahouse had increased a lot, and the grain shop still had people crowding in to buy grain.

There are also many ordinary people setting up stalls on the roadside, selling everything.

Ke Muqing visited every stall and would pay for anything she liked. She was not short of these few cents, so as long as the asking price was not too outrageous, Ke Muqing was not short of these few pennies and did not pay anyone back. price.

In addition to teahouses, the most well-informed people are the small business owners who set up stalls here every day on the roadside. When he saw wooden tableware being sold, Ke Muqing also bought some.

Ke Muqing spends money, and he is a generous spender, so every stall owner is happy to chat with Ke Muqing, but there is no doubt that in this world, a person who shows his wealth like this will naturally be targeted.

Ke Muqing pretended not to know and continued to wander around the city. After an hour, he left the city on horseback.

The people who had been following her also followed her out of the city, but when Ke Muqing got out of the city, he swung his whip and rode away quickly. The two people knew that they had been discovered at a glance, but when they thought that there was only one person in the other party, they gritted their teeth. He also chased after him on horseback.

Ke Muqing ran until there was no one in front of him before jumping off his horse and hiding.

With her strength, she has no fear of two men.

After waiting for a short while, the two of them caught up on horseback. When they saw the horse tied by Ke Muqing on the side of the road, they also stopped.

"Sure enough, they found our brother and hid in the mountains. Let's go after him! That boy spends money so generously in the city, he must have a lot of money!" After finishing speaking, one of the men also jumped off the horse and took the money from his arms. He took out a dagger and held it in his hand.