There is a black lotus in the deep palace

Chapter 283

Li Dequan handled it well, Tang Wanning nodded her head in praise, then suddenly asked with a frown.

"Although this Huai'an is not as rich as those places in Yangzhou Yuhang, it is still a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. How can there be people in this city of Huai'an making troubles in the streets for a few taels of silver? It's unreasonable."

"Hey ma'am, you don't know, this season is the time for rent collection. Presumably the tenant has no money to pay the rent, so it's not uncommon for the landlord to embarrass him."

"Okay!" Tang Wanning dismissed her doubts, and then lay down again.

Closing her eyes, she still felt a little suspicious in her heart. She always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what was wrong, so she simply gave up in the end.

Xia Houjue didn't think much about it.

Tang Wanning looked at him in a deep sleep, and thought that he was tired after all. Not only did he have to hurry, he also had to keep vigilant all the time, unlike himself who was so heartless and only cared about traveling in the mountains and rivers along the way.

Another point, after all, he was born in the palace and grew up in the palace. Even though he often walks among the people, he doesn't know the people better than she who grew up in the streets and alleys.

So in this matter, she could detect something was wrong, but Xia Houjue couldn't. After thinking about it, Tang Wanning fell asleep without holding back.

When I woke up again, it was already dinner time.

She was awakened by the smell of the food in the room, and the dishes with the unique flavor of the south of the Yangtze River went straight into people's nostrils, which was unavoidable.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she straightened herself up.

"Ma'am, you have a really sharp nose, the master just ordered someone to serve you a meal." Bi Yue admired her face.

"Actually, I'm hungry too," Bi Luo said lightly.

Tang Wanning gave her a disgusted look, then got up to dress and wash up, and prepared to eat.

……

The dinner is very sumptuous, all of which are famous dishes in Huai'an Prefecture, including fish, meat, and sweet soup, and there are all kinds of snacks after the meal.

The delicious food is so beautiful that Tang Wanning doesn't know which one to eat, so she just tasted some of the same

In the end, she pointed to the strawberry yam cake and was full of praise: "This is delicious. When we leave later, pack a few more for me. I want to take it with me on the way."

"Yes!"

Xia Houjue likes a steamed sea bass: "It is indeed a delicacy that literati and poets are full of praise, and it really lives up to its reputation."

Li Dequan said with a smile: "If the master likes it, you can invite a cook here to cook for us."

When everyone was talking and laughing, there was another burst of crying outside. This time, it was changed to the lobby on the first floor.

It was the voice of an old man. He was begging for something with a crying voice, and said in his mouth: "Next time I will definitely pay back, next time I will definitely pay all the debts, and please forgive me from the shopkeeper, otherwise I..."

Tang Wanning frowned again as she couldn't hear what was said next, but it was very miserable.

"What's the matter?"

Li Dequan went down again, and came up after a while and said that he was an old man pulling slops.

The slop of this inn was sold to him to feed the pigs, but the old man's pigs died for some unknown reason, and the money for the swill could not be paid, and the total was only a dozen taels of silver.

Li Dequan took the money by himself to settle the matter, and let them break up again.

"Oh! This kind of dispute is also normal." Xia Houjue nodded, got up and left the dinner table without paying much attention.

Tang Waning still felt that something was wrong, but the matter was simple and clear, it was just a dispute between businessmen, there was really nothing suspicious about it.

She could only shake her head, and followed Xia Houjue into the room.

……

The night was as cool as water, and the two of them stood by the window, blowing the midsummer cool breeze, smelling the sweetness brought by red flowers and green trees in the air, and they were in a good mood.

"I still feel something is wrong. I always feel that someone is deliberately approaching us." Tang Wanning said straight to the point.

Xia Houjue thought for a while, then put down the book: "If someone approached deliberately, they wouldn't use such a clumsy method as 1."

"The people in the palace don't know how to use it, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty don't know how to use it, but that doesn't mean others don't know how to use it," Tang Wanning emphasized.

Xia Houjue laughed again.

"The people in the palace are in the capital, and most of the civil and military ministers are my people, so who else will there be?"

"I don't know, but I feel uneasy for no reason."

"Okay." Xia Houjue rubbed her long hair and smiled comfortingly.

"Don't think too much, I'm still by your side after all, you have to be really afraid, we still have guards from the Imperial Forest Army, all of us are secretly escorting you."

Tang Wanning thought for a while, and finally felt relieved, yes, the people in the palace and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, who would use such clumsy means to make themselves uncomfortable?
What about other people, ordinary people or businessmen?Who would know what?Who dares to trouble the emperor, after all, he is thinking too much.

Tang Wanning shook her head to shake off the unrealistic thoughts in her mind, and began to read the book seriously.

Not to mention, the Jiangnan dialect is different, much more exciting than the capital.

……

After a deep sleep at night, Tang Wanning had nightmares all night, dreaming that the emperor was assassinated for a while, and dreaming that she was being chased and killed for a while.

She frowned and trembled with anger, wishing to have a fight with people in her dream and kill all those who didn't know what to do.

It's a pity that the dream is a dream after all, she couldn't kill all those people, and almost kicked Xia Houjue under the bed.

Xia Houjue sat by the bed, half asleep and half awake, very confused.

What Tang Wanning saw when she woke up was his innocent eyes.

"What... what's wrong?"

"You still have the nerve to ask." He gave her a supercilious look, and his eyes fell on the messy bed.

The silk quilt of Fuguangjin was wrinkled into a ball, one of the jasmine petal pillows fell on the floor, and the other was leaning on the side of the bed, she almost moved from the head to the end of the bed.

"..." I also smiled awkwardly.

"I didn't do it on purpose, I just dreamed..."

"What did you dream about?" Xia Houjue asked suddenly.

"I dreamed that you had another woman. You are noble, and there are countless women around you. There are so many beauties in Jiangnan. What if you come to a hero to save the beauty and abandon me?" Tang Wanning said deliberately.

Xia Houjue smiled.

"How can there be a hero to save the beauty? Even if there is a real beauty, you should save it. I'll just watch it from afar, and be jealous..." Xia Houjue pinched her face.

"Who let me here, just pretend to be you?" He said sincerely.

Tang Wanning pretended not to believe it, and joked.

"That's not necessarily the case. Even if there is no confidante, maybe there is a childhood sweetheart. Anyway, I don't believe it."

"If you don't believe me, I'll let you try it out right now to see if you're the only one here." Said and pushed forward.

The two of them tried their best to create human beings while the sky was not yet bright.

When she was exhausted, Tang Wanning leaned on the bed and hugged the quilt and sighed.

"Oh, son, if you don't come again, you will be tortured to death as a mother!"

(End of this chapter)