Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 31 Investigation
Miss Su is planning at home how to find a way for her father to lead to the staff, but the atmosphere in the Wang family is a bit weird at the moment.

Just as Wang Sanlang reluctantly left Ruanrou Township and returned home, he saw his father happily setting up a large table of good food, and even opened a large jar of 20-year-old Huadiao wine.

Although the Wang family can be regarded as a middle-class wealthy family in Xixi Town, the landlord's family has no surplus food these days, and Father Wang is notoriously miserly. The family hired a female envoy, and they always deducted wages in different ways. He is not particular about food, so he treats his son better, but he can get meat and vegetables, and a bowl of dry rice on weekdays, which is already considered excellent.

"Son, Dad is very happy. Tomorrow, Dad will invite the official matchmaker to propose marriage to the Bai family. You can just wait for the little lady of the Bai family to be your bride with peace of mind."

Wang Sanlang was stunned, and saw his father laugh loudly: "The prodigal son of the Su family has returned, and he even came to our house to withdraw the engagement, haha, now no one can say that our old Wang family has broken faith!"

divorced?

Wang Sanlang's heart skipped a beat—he should be happy, didn't he think about how to withdraw the engagement quietly?But I don't know why, but it's a bit sour, it's not the taste!
Thinking of Su Tong's beautiful face that could never be found in the whole Xixi Town, and thinking of the thrill when he first saw her dressed up that day, for some reason, Wang Sanlang suddenly became unwilling.

He hadn't taken the initiative to propose to divorce Su Tong, but the Su family actually mentioned it first. Even though this did help him achieve his goal, being divorced by the woman always makes people feel uncomfortable.

Seeing his son's expression, Father Wang knew what he was thinking, and said with a frown, "This is a good thing. You will take the imperial examination in the future, so you don't want to leave a bad reputation. Now their Su family has self-knowledge and voluntarily withdraws the engagement, which saves us If you think about the means, if you feel sorry and marry the white lady in the future, let's take the girl from the Su family as a concubine, and when you become an official, wouldn't it be logical if you want to marry some beautiful concubines?"

Wang Sanlang's spirit was shaken, also, Ah Tong's reputation must be ruined by this resignation, so who else wants it?Apart from being a concubine for himself, there is no other way to go. When he becomes an official, he will go to Su's house and tell him, isn't Ah Tong crying and wanting to go with him?
However, I still have to take the time to coax her and let her know that I don't have her in my heart, and she can stay at home with peace of mind and wait for her to be famous and pick her up to enjoy the blessings.

Hey, now that Su and Wang's family is retiring, Ah Tong still doesn't know how to be sad, and he can't bear to think that Su Tong might be crying endlessly at home with pear blossoms raining on him.

If Su Tong knew what he was thinking, he might not be able to help but growl. This person is too narcissistic. Not to mention the current Su Tong, it is the temperament of the previous Su Tong. No matter how much he likes Wang Sanlang, he will not cry for a man Runny!

When Wang Sanlang was secretly thinking about whether to buy a candied haws that Su Tong liked best to make the beauty happy, the little girl he was thinking of was very happy, and went to 'date' with an old fairy with ease.

Wangchun Building

One of the better restaurants in Xixi Town is just opposite to Qingchuntang. Su Tong took advantage of the leisure time in the pharmacy to stroll up to Wangchun Tower to meet a 'master of Taoism'.

There are twelve signature dishes. Although the dishes are exquisite and the portions are not big, they are more than enough for two people. Gao Zhenren who is sitting opposite Su Tong is not wearing his signature Taoist robe this time, but is wearing a white dress very low-key , the hair is neatly combed, the beard is smoothed, and the whole aura is different from before. At a glance, he looks like a very ordinary little old man. Sitting with Su Tong, he looks like a grandparent and grandson.

Su Tong picked and ate the dishes on the table, muttering to himself while eating, she criticized a few stir-fried dishes to the point that she had almost every merit.

Gao Zhenren didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Little lady, this is Wangchunlou's signature dish, how could it be as bad as you said?"

"There is too little oil and water. Is this stir-frying or cooking?" Su Tong sighed. She might as well cook and eat in Qingchuntang. There is not much oil in the stir-fry!

Gao Zhenren couldn't help but rolled his eyes over: "Do you know what the price of oil is? It's more expensive than meat, okay? We Xixi Town can open up people who eat oil, and you can count them with a slap!"

Su Tong blinked, and suddenly felt a little guilty. She also remembered at this time that oil is very expensive now. Although cooking has become popular, most of the people who can afford it are wealthy families, and ordinary people can't eat a few taels all year round. Oil, let’s just say that in Su’s kitchen, Su Tong hasn’t seen any oil residue for a long time, but she cooks in Qingchuntang. , I also dislike the smell of lard, it really doesn't smell right.

Fortunately, she met the female shopkeeper who could tell at a glance that she was not from an ordinary family. Otherwise, with her style, no one would dare to hire her back to spoil things.

"Ahem." Coughing twice to hide his embarrassment, Su Tong smiled and entered the topic, "Okay, tell me the information you know."

Gao Zhenren sighed, put down the bowl with two chopsticks in it resignedly, looked left and right, closed the window of the box again, and said in a low voice: "I have checked everything you asked me to check, you The magistrate of Ding You who returned to his hometown was named Zhou. The Zhou family was a rich family in Chuzhou, with a scholarly family, and had a lot of connections in the court and the public. This Zhou magistrate was a descendant of the Zhou family. He married a wife named Zhang and had a concubine named Hu. It is said that the Zhou family’s wives and concubines are harmonious. On weekdays, the Zhang family and the Hu family have always entered and exited together. They are as close as sisters. Even the magistrate of Zhou County is behind. Listening to people's raps, Zhou Zhixian doesn't have any special hobbies, and he is fairly honest, but he likes to grow flowers, especially peonies..."

Gao Zhenren introduced the situation of the Zhou family in detail, including who in the Zhou family likes to eat, where they go for entertainment every day, and all trivial things, and kept saying that there is about one cup. The work of tea is considered finished.

In fact, he felt a little strange. Even if Su Tong had any ideas, he should inquire about the news of Gaozhi County in Xixi Town. He took the job, but there was no movement for half a year. Gao Zhenren even suspected that he had offended someone, and someone wanted to punish him.

Su Tong naturally didn't know the real person's slander, he was thoughtful while listening, his eyes rolled, and he saw that the real person had dropped his demeanor and was drinking one cup after another with a jug, he couldn't help laughing and said: " You really deserve to be Gao Zhenren, this news is well-informed!"

It took a total of one and a half days since she sent this person a letter asking him to inquire about the situation of the county magistrate's family, and he investigated the matter in such detail that it was comparable to a modern paparazzi.

The corner of Master Gao's mouth twitched. Those who work in their profession must be well-informed, especially those who are famous. If you don't investigate clearly, how can you do it? Do you really think that Gao Ren is so easy to be?
(End of this chapter)