Flowers are expensive

Chapter 455 I got into a fight with the counselor 1
"How do you want me to help? Help you marry Sister Cuiyue and make her a child?"

"Aside from marrying, is there any other way?"

"Then do you like Sister Cuiyue? She is also two years older than you!"

"Uh..." Qi Xiang hesitated a little, "Two years older, it's not a big deal! I've never bullied a woman from a good family. At most, I'm a gangster in a brothel. Now give her to...then What's the matter, I'm appointed to be responsible, right?"

"Then after all, you want to be responsible for her, don't you like her?"

"It's not..."

"Does that mean you like it or don't you like it? Aren't you an expert at killing all kinds of flowers? You still don't know about this?"

Qixiang's eyelids blinked quickly, with an embarrassed and hesitant expression on his face.Xixi shrugged and said, "That means you haven't thought it through yet! Since you haven't thought it through yourself, why are you talking about marrying her? Marry her home and put it in a vase? Isn't that ruining her whole life? What a glorious thing to do in the palace, what an enviable thing! Go, who cares! "

Yan Amber and the others glanced at Yuan Yin at the same time, then lowered their heads and snickered.Qixiang said with a smirk: "Sister-in-law, are you talking about yourself? We all know that you don't care about the title of concubine, but you care about my brother! But even if it's just the name of concubine For the sake of it, don’t you and my brother still have a good life? So it’s just a talk about whether to be small or not. "

"I really care about your brother, but does sister Cuiyue care about you? If she doesn't care about you, I think you should stay where you are cool!" Xixi turned around and pestered Yuan Yin again and said, " Just go for half an hour, after half an hour you send someone to pick me up from the head office, right? I can also stop by and ask Sister Cuiyue what she thinks about this flirtatious little prince, okay? Okay? Agreed Right? Zhao Yuanyin, you are reasonable, right? You want to talk about business, I am bored at home alone, and I will come back after half an hour, just half an hour..."

"Half an hour?"

"Just half an hour!" Xixi said with twinkling eyes.

"I will send someone to pick you up in half an hour, if you disappear again..."

"Don't worry, I will wait obediently in the workshop, and I won't run around, that's it! Zhao Yuanyin, I really miss you!" Xixi rushed forward and kissed Yuanyin's forehead, completely ignoring Yuanyin's embarrassment and Qixiang and others' sniggering called Xin'er and Wuye to go out happily.

When the sedan chair arrived at the entrance of the workshop, it happened to bump into Meng Furu and Song Lingqiu.The two seemed to have just returned from outside the city, and their skirts and shoes were covered with a thin layer of mud.Xixi looked at the two of them and asked, "Going outside the city again?"

Meng Furu nodded and said: "It just happened to be raining in autumn, so I went to the flower garden to take a look."

"You don't have to go early in the morning, do you? Don't rush that time." Xixi said as she walked in.

"If you don't rush, I will," Meng Furu said with a sour smile, "I have agreed with the prince before, when the flowers and the moon are smooth, I will let my father and I go back to Longquanyi. I want to get the matter in hand early." It's all sorted out, so I can go back and help my brother manage the inn."

"I heard from Sister Cuiyue that your brother manages the inn very well! What are you worried about? Sooner or later, the Meng family's family business will be handed over to your brother. You might as well stay here and maybe find someone Where is Ruyi Langjun!" Xixi asked this question on purpose.

As expected, there was a hint of sadness in Meng Furu's brows and eyes, she shook her head and said with a smile: "This is not my home after all, I still have to go home. Anyway, things in the full moon have been smoothed out, so I should go back."

The two talked through the round arch and entered the backyard.The backyard was very lively, a dozen matchmakers were chirping and gossiping, and Cuiyue was also there.Seeing that Xixi was coming, the matchmakers automatically stopped their voices and stood respectfully with their hands down.Cuiyue greeted her and said: "I was thinking about whether to go to you, but I didn't expect you to come by yourself, so it's a tacit understanding."

"Is something wrong?" Xixi asked.

"It's about the feast, I'm afraid it might be a hindrance."

"How to say?"

Cuiyue turned around and called a matchmaker over.After saluting, the matchmaker said to Xixi: "Back to your mother, we saw people well a few days ago, but in recent days, some people who have entered the list will not let us see people, saying that they want to quit. !"

After the news of Yuanyin's disappearance spread, Xixi actually expected some reactions from the outside world, so she was not too surprised, and asked, "What do those people say?"

"They said that now that the prince's whereabouts are unknown, Jingyou City will change hands at some point. I'm afraid this feast will not be able to continue, so they don't join in the fun."

Xixi glanced at the other matchmakers, and asked Cuiyue, "Did this happen to them too?"

Cuiyue nodded and said: "Everyone has almost two or three withdrawals. Some of them are not even allowed to visit people at the door. I guess it is the prince's matter that makes the whole city a little uneasy, so they want to wait and see. However, in this way, the matter you and Fu Ru have worked so hard to come up with may die prematurely."

"Zhao Yuanyin didn't even have an accident, they panicked like this? If something really happened, wouldn't the whole city have to flee?"

"Xixi, is there any letter from the prince?"

Xixi frowned slightly, shook her head after thinking for a moment: "Not yet! However, I believe he was only temporarily delayed by some trouble, and nothing will happen. The matter of the feast must continue as usual, and it cannot be called halfway died young."

The matchmaker took the words and said: "But now the people in the city have no idea, they are all worried about the safety of the prince, and there are not many people who are willing to join in the fun."

"Furthermore," Cuiyue interjected, "there is one more thing. The manager of the inn that jointly held the banquet with us was invited to the yamen the day before yesterday, and he hasn't released it today! He planned to come here this morning." He came to me and said that the shopkeeper of his house was detained, and he was going to be sued for hiding fugitives!"

"Where did the fugitive come from?"

"It was a few years ago..."

Just as he was talking, a woman led a young man and walked in quickly.Cuiyue recognized the guy, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

The guy was sweating profusely from running, and he bowed to Xixi and said, "Shopkeeper Long, my master invited me to the yamen last night, and he hasn't come back this morning! My wife asked me to go to the yamen to ask about it." Ask, who knew that the yamen would not let people go, they said they would detain the master, and planned to sue him for privately collecting and selling official silk! Now the master is in prison, and the younger one spent a few taels of silver to see him, He asked the little one to come to you, and he wanted to bring you a few words by the way."

Cuiyue understood what the guy meant, and turned her head to tell Lu'er, "Take a call to these guys to sit here, we'll come as soon as we go."

Afterwards, Cuiyue and others went to Meng Furu's counting room.After closing the door, the guy said: "Master, I asked the little shopkeeper Long to remind you. He said that he always felt that this matter was aimed at our feast. The people who were locked in except the Fuxing Inn Shopkeeper, my lord, and when I came out of the prison this morning, I happened to meet the owner of the Liucai Pavilion and invited me in. You said, how could it be such a coincidence? They are all the ones who jointly held the feast with you So, my master asked you to come and tell you to make preparations in advance, so as to avoid other people's traps!"

Cuiyue frowned and said: "Your master has opened a silk and satin village for a few days. If I guessed correctly, he also did the business of reselling official silk in private, isn't it once or twice? With his Old Cheng, how could someone catch him?"

The guy patted the back of his hands sadly and said: "You are right! The job of closing the official silk has not only started in the past two years. Those who do this business must handle it once or twice, and it is not a big deal. Secret. My master was also puzzled at first! Why did the government suddenly ask the government to find out the old account? He was thinking about it in prison last night and only thought of one thing, but he didn't know if it was reliable or not."

"You said."

"There is an economy in the matter of private collection of official silk. My master has always been in contact with this economy, and he does not seek other people, because he is afraid that it will be inappropriate. Therefore, only my master and the economy know about this matter."

"Then why did the wind leak?"

"My master spent a lot of time thinking about it in prison last night, and then he came up with one thing. Every time he sees the economy, he likes to invite him to drink in the smoke and rain. You know that businessmen are like that. Head In two months, didn't there be a few new actors in Misty Rain? There is one named Yu Ping, who is the favorite of my master. Every time the economy comes, my master will lead him to stay at Yu Ping's place. The two When you get together, you must talk about business, my master has said it, except for mentioning the official silk at Yu Ping'er, he hasn't said it anywhere else."

"Really? He didn't say it himself and remembered it wrong?"

"You still know about my master, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have picked him to hold a feast together with you, would you? Please go there. My master has always been cautious in handling things, and he hasn't made any mistakes in Jingyou City in recent years."

When the words came to this point, Cuiyue and Xixi Mengfuru both looked at each other, and both felt that there was something interesting in it.When everyone was silent, Song Lingqiu suddenly said, "That's not surprising!"

Meng Furu turned to her and asked, "How do you say that? Do you know anything?"

Song Lingqiu said: "Speak out, please don't make fun of Lingqiu, my lady and the two storekeepers. Lingqiu was also sold to a kiln when her family was in decline, so I know something about it."

Xixi hurriedly said, "Let's listen!"

"According to Lingqiu's knowledge, apart from entertaining guests and collecting money from tipping, there is another way for the girls in the kiln to buy and sell news."

"Business news?"

"The so-called buying and selling news, to be more serious, is to steal the private affairs of the benefactor and sell them to other people. For them, if they are a little smarter, they will not be discovered and the money will flow."

"To put it bluntly, it's just careful work!" Xi Xi nodded and said, "It's just that their meticulous work will not be discovered too much at all, and the technique is also clever. Those men took the bait themselves, and no one can blame them."

The guy said anxiously: "So my master has also fallen into the trap of that jade vase? Damn it! She must have told the government the secret!"

Xixi shook her head and said: "I'm even more curious, why did she inform the government? If it's really her, she's a girl who is stuffed with smoke and rain, and she has a lot of patrons. She can still earn her money and sue your master. What is Mimi doing? I guess she was probably employed by someone else and sold your master's private affairs to other people. And this other person secretly disclosed these things to the Yamen. "

"The whistleblower must have contacts with the yamen, and they should have a lot of connections," Meng Furu said, "Based on my experience in dealing with the government over the years, such trivial matters as buying and selling official silks are very difficult for the government to deal with." I don't care much. Unless there is a big fight, maybe people will be caught and stolen, and the money that should be fined is fined. In prison, it seems unreasonable, unless there is an explanation later."

Cuiyue frowned tightly and said: "I don't think it's that simple, first the shopkeeper of Fuxing Building, then his master of the silk shop, and this morning the owner of Liucai Pavilion, all of them were detained one by one. , shouldn't it be my turn next?"

(End of this chapter)