The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 87 Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival
After returning to the house, Zhang Tingyu naturally had nothing to eat.

Fortunately, nothing major happened to him, but he just had a drink with his friends.

It's just that Gu Huaixiu didn't quite believe him, he held him down and took off half of his clothes before he believed that he was doing something serious.

There were not many days left until the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, and Liao Fengyuan's boat was ready for Zhang Tingyu.

Just finished a round of interrogation, Gu Huaishu leaned on the reclining chair, while Zhang Tingyu went directly to the couch with his legs crossed.

Gu Huaishu laughed, and taunted him: "Second Master has a good capacity for alcohol, and you won't get drunk after a thousand cups. Look at you in such a mess."

"Yesterday was a really big event, but I didn't drink much." How could Zhang Tingyu reveal the fact that he was not drunk after a thousand cups?He just listened to their plans, and he became excited, "If I told you that something big will happen at the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, would you still go?"

My heart shuddered, big deal?Gu Huaishu raised his eyes, "Recently, Jiang Ning's major events are all about Shen Tie's abacus, right?"

"Isn't it?" Zhang Tingyu yawned lazily, and said, "It's exactly this one."

"That……"

Gu Huaishu frowned, tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, "How big is it?"

Zhang Tingyu would not come to ask her for no reason or not, how big this matter is, Gu Huaishu must know, otherwise how can he make a decision?

What's more, Gu Huaishu was also very curious about this matter.

Obviously, someone wanted to deal with Shen Chao, but now Shen Chao and Liao Fengyuan were grasshoppers on the same rope.

The two of them have been lurking since the beginning of August until now, and there has been no news outside, and no one seems to know that Shen Chao is still alive.

But they were in the dark, if Shen Qi had already decided to do something at the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, then he must have heard some important news, right?

In other words, once he appears in front of everyone, he must be sure that he will not be assassinated, or that he has the ability to protect himself.

The person who killed Shen Chong died in the first place, so he should know that Shen Chong still has support behind him.

Now Shen Yang is showing weakness, just trying to lure the snake out of its hole.

This man is very scheming, but also has a vicious mind. He doesn't want his children to be trapped by wolves, and he doesn't change his expression when he invests billions of dollars in this gamble.

Speaking of which, Gu Huaishu really admires this person.

If you let go, you can accomplish great things.

Zhang Tingyu seemed to know what Gu Huaixiu was thinking, and directly poured cold water on him: "This person has a vicious heart and a cruel mind. Even if he can achieve great things now, it is not in the long run. How prosperous he is now, he will lose in the future."

He has always boasted that "the iron mouth will break Zhang Banxian", and he has his own reasons for seeing people.

Hearing what he said, Boss Gu Huaixiu became unhappy: "Good people don't live long, and evil people live for thousands of years. I think this one is a bit interesting. But don't avoid the topic, what's going on?"

It must be what they discussed yesterday, otherwise Zhang Tingyu wouldn't be talking about it now.

"Now there are many merchants. Seeing Shen Qi's absence, their minds became active. Judging from the tragic situation on the ship, Shen Qi is probably more ominous. What about the businesses he left behind at this time?"

Zhang Tingyu spoke while Gu Huaishu listened.

In a blink of an eye, she thought of the person who rushed in that day.

Zhang Tingyu said again: "These people are all ambitious. On the one hand, they dare not say that they want to deal with Shen Chao and the business he left behind. They only press Liao Fengyuan, but Liao Fengyuan is actually the same in front of these people. Few people know about Shen Chao. How exactly Chi was targeted, and they didn't know who was behind him trying to move him, and they didn't even know that Liao Fengyuan and Shen Chao were on the same boat. So...they trusted Liao Fengyuan, told shopkeeper Liao the news, and wanted him Follow them to carve up Shen Chao's business."

Gu Huaishu instantly understood, that is to say...

Liao Fengyuan is now Shen Yang's insider?

Under the premise of "Shen Chao is missing", he can easily know the movements of those opponents who are planning to plot evil, and plot people behind their backs, which is probably easy for Shen Chao.

Judging from what Zhang Tingyu said before, is Shen Chao planning to show his sword against them on the day of the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival?

She waited for Zhang Tingyu to continue.

Zhang Tingyu didn't bother to hide it anymore. Gu Huaishu knew the seriousness and would not say to the outside: "The bottom line for those people is the day of the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival. Liao Fengyuan is dragging that group of people along now, and he has shown that he wants to occupy Shen Chao's life alone." The meaning of the business that has come down is that there are already intentionally created cracks inside."

In fact, if Gu Huaixiu casually asks someone out to inquire now, he will know that rumors have spread throughout Jiangning.

A group of dragons cannot be without a leader. The cloth and tea shops that were originally controlled by Shenyang are facing crisis. If no one comes out to preside over the overall situation, they are afraid that something big will happen, so they decided to elect a new head on the Mid-Autumn Festival. By.

It happens to be the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, and everyone chooses while swimming in the lake, which is also very suitable for the occasion.

and so……

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, there will definitely be a good show to watch.

Gu Huaixiu's eyes gradually lit up, she turned over, leaned over to the side of the bed, sat down and asked Zhang Tingyu: "We must go when the time comes, and we need to find a good place to watch a play, will they be on a big boat?" ? Can we go in too?"

Zhang Tingyu suddenly had a headache, and suddenly said: "I shouldn't have said this to you."

When he came back from a hangover, he just closed his eyes and stopped talking.

Gu Huaishu lay on the edge of the bed watching for a while, fanned him, and stood by the window again.

The maid who went out to buy clothes came back. They were cut for Li Wei and asked him to change into them and come out for a walk.

There are not many maids in Jiang Ning's yard. Duofu Duoxi in Tongcheng is there to serve Gu Huaishu personally. After arriving here, he bought a few maids for sweeping, and there was a woman who looked after the house and a few servants.

Now everyone came out, looking at the only kid in the yard who hadn't grown up yet.

Li Wei, who had just changed into new clothes, was a little embarrassed, as if he was afraid of getting his clothes dirty, so he was a little cautious.

A face has been washed clean, but it looks too thin, but the eyes are bright.

Because he has been in the market a lot, he is a little bit sloppy at a young age, and his eyes are much more mature than usual for children of this age.

Gu Huaishu looked at it for a while, then yawned, and lay down next to Zhang Tingyu and fell asleep.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival.

Before dawn, the street was already bustling with shouts and hawkers.

Gu Huaishu woke up very early for the first time, seeing that Zhang Tingyu hadn't gotten up yet, he quickly woke him up too.

Zhang Tingyu opened his eyes and found that it was not yet dawn. He was extremely helpless: "Young Mistress, it will be night if you have something to do. You should sleep a little longer now to avoid dozing off at night."

After finishing speaking, he tucked Gu Huaixiu into the quilt again and closed his eyes.

The entire Jiangning is approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, but it is getting more and more chaotic.

I don't know who came up to provoke trouble, and even smashed the rice shop that was hung under Shen Qi's name, and within two days, several shops were smashed.

Those shopfronts that belonged to Shen Yang, the closed doors, the defected ones.

Now that they saw the shop that was still open, they basically took down the little abacus at the door, smashed it or threw it away.The timid one hid the abacus, thinking that if Shen Qi was still alive, he would hang it up as soon as Shen Qi came back, so as not to suffer disaster in time.

But no one knew that when they took down the abacus at the door, someone from Liao Fengyuan walked around the streets and alleys and wrote down the names of these shops.

Not only in Jiangning, but also in Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Gaoyou and other places, what should have happened has already happened.

Shen Tie Abacus disappeared for less than half a month, and everything that belonged to him in Jiangning began to crumble.

The little abacus that represented the legend of Jiangnan merchants began to gradually disappear, and many people began to rumor that "Shen Qi fell down", or that he died, or that he left and retired.

Anyway, there are all theories, and some people speculate that he is still alive, but there is no evidence at all.

Everyone is blind in both eyes, and now it depends on who is more capable and can grab more territory.

Now that things have happened, who still believes that Shen Qi has a chance to make a comeback?

Tonight, all the major merchants in the south of the Yangtze River came to join in the fun, including those who were not planning to participate in the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival.

On the Qinhuai inland river, I don't know how many big ships stopped, and it was unprecedentedly lively.

During the day, Gu Huaishu and Zhang Tingyu didn't go out, but the maids below went out to buy a lot of things and talked in the courtyard, Adeqingdai, Li Wei and others also chatted there.

A few days ago, Zhang Tingyu went to the capital to edit the book, to greet his relatives there, and also went to Gu Huaishu's letter to the Gu family.

At night, Gu Huaixiu finally couldn't sit still, and it happened that someone from Liao Fengyuan's side also came to invite them, so they got into the carriage together.

Instead of going to Kuixia Garden, they went directly to the river, where a rather gorgeous painting boat was parked.

Zhang Tingyu helped Gu Huaixiu to board the boat, and saw the people sitting inside, they all knew each other by chance.

Needless to say, Liao Fengyuan was in front, his wife Liu Shi also came with him, Wu Sidao and Shen Yang sat in the back, and there were a few people he didn't know.

Wu Sidao hadn't seen him for a long time, and now he was only wearing a green shirt, so it might not be very gorgeous, right?The wine in Duo's hand turned into an aged Xinghuacun.

As for Shen Chi, today seemed unusual to him. He was wearing a black satin gown embroidered with patterns of dark silver treasures, a pendant in the shape of a jade knife and coin was hung on his waist, and a pair of Lao Hong was holding in his hands. The shiny walnuts are turning slowly.

As soon as Zhang Tingyu Gu Huaishu came in, Liao Fengyuan and his wife came over.

Gu Huaishu followed Mrs. Liu to the back, bypassing the front hall of the ship, and walked behind the screen. Shen Chao followed suit, but soon turned back to look at Zhang Tingyu.

Their boat will be near the middle of the river in a while.

The entire Qinhuai River is full of lights, filled with all kinds of lanterns, singing and singing one after another.

At this time of year, no matter whether you are a local high-ranking official or a wealthy businessman, you may not be able to hear the sound of throwing a handful of gold into the river.

There is a gorgeous big boat in the middle of the river, surrounded by lanterns, and there is no one on it yet.

When he came in, Zhang Tingyu glanced over there, and then came to sit down.

Liao Fengyuan said: "It's still early to start, Lord Shen, you can sit inside later, I'll go find out the news."

Shen Yang thought that the relationship is good, isn't Mrs. Zhang Er Shao also in it?

But Liao Fengyuan also thought that Mrs. Liu was also inside.

Wu Sidao stepped forward to greet Zhang Tingyu: "Second Master, it's been a long time."

"Mr. Wu is polite." Zhang Tingyu had helped Wu Sidao before, and Wu Sidao would not fail to guess, so he took the initiative to talk to Zhang Tingyu.

Now Wu Sidao is Liao Fengyuan's think tank, everyone calls Mr. Wu, but he feels that this work is too tiring, he might as well be happy as a teacher.

At any rate, he has been busy for many days, and there will be a result today, and Wu Sidao is also looking forward to it.

Except for a few people here, I am afraid that the whole of Jiang Ning may not be able to find a second person who clearly knows what will happen today.

Perhaps, Shen Chao's dark chess knew.

When Gu Huaishu heard the words in front of her, she glanced at Mrs. Liu and knew that this was Liao Fengyuan's first wife.

The Liu family just came from an ordinary family. When she married Liao Fengyuan, Liao Fengyuan hadn't made a fortune yet.Compared to the young Gu Huaishu, Mrs. Liu can only be considered very old, in her forties, almost 50 years old.

Wrinkles appeared on her face, her hair was also a little white, but the maid beside her was exquisite.

Mrs. Liu held Gu Huaixiu's hand, and said: "It's really my blessing to see such an noble person like you. I heard that Zhang Ergong has been busy with my family. I don't even have time to be grateful. .”

"Shopkeeper Liao also helped my second master a lot, why are you so polite?"

Gu Huaixiu didn't expect Liu Shi to be so enthusiastic about him, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was probably arranged by Liao Fengyuan. After all, Gu Huaixiu was not familiar with the place here, so he didn't know the situation at all. It's not bad.

Mrs. Liu said "Hi", "This is not being polite, it's the truth. Men are talking about things, and we women are sailing now. Why don't we go along the river and guess lantern riddles."

That's the bow, and this is the stern.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a row of small boats on the river. Lanterns are hung on each boat, and lantern riddles are pasted on each lantern.

If you know the answer to a lantern riddle, you can dictate or write it down, and you can get the lantern with the lantern riddle written on it back and hang it on your boat.

Two quarters before midnight, whoever has the most lanterns on the boat will win this year's prize.

This lantern riddle meeting is held every year. Some merchants pay for the lantern riddles, and the merchants who participate in the lantern riddles invite all kinds of literati to the boat to help solve the lantern riddles.

If anyone is lucky enough to win the first prize, it will be a matter of honor and dignity.

Gu Huaishu had never participated in such an event before, so he was a little curious.

Holding a fan with a picture of broken pomegranate branches in her hand, she walked behind the boat, and she saw the river bank full of lanterns.

The boat deliberately rowed slowly, even following the current, and hardly moved when not rowing.

Listening to Gu Huaishu and the others, the rowers paused for a while.

Mrs. Liu sighed: "I don't know a single big character, so I can only rely on Second Young Mistress to guess lantern riddles."

Gu Huaixiu looked left and right, and found that the Qingdai beside him could be used, and Ade in front could also be used, so he asked Duofu to ask the second master to borrow someone.

Ade was still in front, standing behind Second Master listening to the matter, Duofu came from the side of the boat, stood outside and bowed and said: "Second Master, Second Young Mistress asked you to borrow someone."

Borrow someone?
Zhang Tingyu said strangely: "I brought Ade with me when I came out, what is the young mistress doing, and who will I borrow?"

Duofu said: "The Second Young Mistress is borrowing Ade to guess lantern riddles in the back, saying that she is looking for someone who can read to make up the numbers."

This is just to make a good show, she is so caring, this is not her own boat.

Zhang Tingyu couldn't help laughing, and turned around to wave his hands at Ade: "Young Mistress thinks highly of you, so you go... hey, wait a minute."

He suddenly paused again, and glanced at everyone, "Everyone is sitting still, if we sit inside all the time, it will be suspicious, why don't we go out to solve lantern riddles together, it's still early."

Half an hour before Zishi, everyone will gather on the big boat in the center, and that is the time for everyone to discuss.

Sitting in the boat now, there is nothing to do.

The Qinhuai River at night is illuminated by lanterns with radiant colors.

Everyone glanced at each other and felt that the idea was good, and they all agreed, even Shen Qi showed great interest.

It's a pity that before Zhang Tingyu went out, he suddenly said: "Master Shen can't show up yet, you should just sit inside."

Shen Chao's hand turning the walnut suddenly paused, he squinted at Zhang Tingyu, didn't speak for a while, and finally said: "Second Master Zhang is more considerate."

Of course it must be thoughtful.

Zhang Tingyu is a man, and he is very familiar with the way men look at women.

If Shen Qi hadn't been tied up with Liao Fengyuan now, it is estimated that Zhang Tingyu had planned to kill someone with a knife, so he might as well have let Shen Qi die.

However, how can you allow others to sleep soundly beside the couch?
There are some taboos, just write it down silently, the future will last forever, and some are opportunities for revenge.

It is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law, but it is easy to start a business and difficult to keep a business.

Zhang Tingyu went out full of emotion, and Wu Sidao and others also came to the side of the boat.

They were in the front, Gu Huaishu and the maids were in the back, and they also called Ade to help.

The boat was moving slowly, and everyone was guessing lantern riddles.

Shen Yang was the only person in the boat, looking deserted, he took a walnut in one hand, touched each other, listening to the voice of the lantern riddle outside, he was still a little moved after all.

There was a person standing in the shadow beside the boat, Shen Qi winked, and saw that person go out, and changed the order of the lanterns of various colors hanging on the side of the boat.

After watching all this done, Shen Qi walked leisurely across the screen and walked towards the back half of the boat.

From the back here, you can see Liu Shi and Gu Huaishu who are outside, Shen Qi is a dangerous person now, he can't go out yet, he just sits inside with a pot of wine and watches.

The beauty is slender, and to speak frivolously, I have seen so many beauties on the Qinhuai River, but I have never seen such a beautiful one.

Regardless of that face, or every frown and smile, they are all hooked like a little hook.

He suddenly thought of the oiran lady at Zhiliu Tower in Suzhou that he had seen in the early years. She was beautiful and moving, but to be honest, it was hard to compare with Mrs. Zhang's second young lady.

After all, he is a person in the world, and his thoughts are not as clear and vivid as Second Young Mistress Zhang, or his calculations are different, too sophisticated.Although Mrs. Zhang Er's eyes are sophisticated, they are transparent, a bit more calm and wise than others.A courageous woman with a little bad temper, hot enough, and daring to play tricks, a bit reckless.

But you have to calculate carefully, and you don't think anything about this woman is really out of line.

Everything is on the line.

Shen Chao looked at the beauty and drank the wine, and found it interesting.

Qingdai scratched her head in front of her, "Two three four five six seven... this mystery..."

Gu Huaixiu smiled, "Isn't there a shortage of food and clothing?"

Lack of "one" and "ten".

Qing Dai suddenly understood, and felt a little embarrassed: "My servant guessed so much that my head hurts."

Gu Huaishu looked at the lantern riddles on the opposite side, passing one by one, and suddenly said "Huh", "Drawing time is round, writing time is square, winter time is short, summer time is long..."

Shen Yang inside suddenly smiled, and said, "There's something in the East China Sea..."

"There is a fish in the East China Sea, which has neither head nor tail, not to mention the backbone."

A voice suddenly came from the side of the boat, Shen Qi's expression changed slightly, and he stopped talking.

The voice contained a smile, causing everyone to look back.

Gu Huaixiu knew it was Zhang Tingyu as soon as she heard it, so she couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Tingyu teased her again: "It seems that you have been lazy recently, and you forgot."

I still remember that when Gu Huaishu was punished to practice calligraphy, what he wrote seemed to be this pair of riddles.

There was a smile on the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, but she turned to the opposite side and said, "Bring the lantern, we guessed it."

I don't want to, but the person who read the riddle on the other side didn't understand, "This is called typing a word, Madam, you haven't given the answer yet."

Shen Qi's face was gloomy, his brows were furrowed, but he put down the jug, got up and left, with only two words protruding from his mouth: "Idiot!"

(End of this chapter)