Zhao Pan'er also reacted, patted her chest in panic, and was afraid of her own naive thoughts.
"Should I continue to ask Ouyang Xu for this Night Banquet painting?"
"Of course I will continue to ask for it. If you don't ask for it now, wouldn't it be easy for him to see the clues? If such a person with bad intentions knew the truth about the Night Banquet Picture, he might have some inappropriate thoughts."
"Oh, okay, I understand."
Zhao Pan'er nodded. Things were becoming more and more troublesome, which gave her a headache. So she simply stopped thinking about it.
Zhou Chen took out a token and handed it to Zhao Paner.
"Take it."
"what is this?"
Zhao Paner took the token and saw that one side of the token was engraved with the word "Zhou" and the other side was engraved with "loyalty and bravery".
"Token?"
"Well, this token can represent my Loyal and Brave Marquis Mansion. Tokyo is different from your Hangzhou. There are troubles everywhere. You won't bully others, but that doesn't mean others won't bully you. If you encounter troubles and dangers in the future, this token should be very useful. If this token is useless, then you can go directly to me. In Tokyo, I, Zhou Chen, still have face."
"This is too expensive..."
"Ok?"
"Okay, I'll take it."
Zhao Pan'er tactfully put away the token and carefully put it into her sachet.
"My Lord, you looked really domineering just now."
Zhou Chen smiled and said, "You call this domineering? That's because you haven't seen me on the battlefield. If you had seen me on the battlefield, you would know what domineering means."
"Ah? You've been on the battlefield?"
Zhao Pan'er was surprised. She knew that Zhou Chen was very skilled in martial arts, but she didn't know that Zhou Chen had ever been on the battlefield.
"Ha, my family of Loyal and Brave Marquis originally had military commanders. As a Loyal and Brave Marquis, it's not surprising that I've been on the battlefield."
Zhao Pan'er didn't know what to say. Although she knew that Zhou Chen was the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, she knew very little about the affairs of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's mansion.
Song Yinzhang suddenly came running over with a pipa in his arms.
"My Lord, Sister Sanniang took Zhou Huai to buy food, and she asked you to stay for dinner."
"Okay, I have nothing to do today, so I'll stay and taste Madam Sun's cooking."
Song Yinzhang was very happy and said enthusiastically, "My Lord, if you are free now, I will play some music for you."
"Uh, that's fine, then let's go to the garden courtyard over there."
Zhou Chen pointed to the garden pavilion not far away, and then several people walked over.
After Zhou Chen sat down, Song Yinzhang sat down not far away, placed the pipa in front of him with a solemn expression.
"I am going to play the song 'Ming Fei Qu', please appreciate it, my lord."
As she spoke, she took a deep breath to calm herself, then held the Lonely Moon Pipa with both hands.
"Ding……"
The clear and melodious sound of the pipa sounded long and deep. Zhou Chen was already a great musician and he had also studied ancient music in the world of Langya Bang. In terms of his mastery and understanding of music, he was definitely better than Song Yinzhang.
After the song ended, Zhou Chen couldn't help but applaud.
"Well, Madam Song's song of the Concubine Ming is truly wonderful and will linger in your ears for three days, leaving you with an endless aftertaste."
He was praising sincerely. Although the song "Ming Fei" had some flaws in his opinion, it was definitely excellent. You have to know that Song Yinzhang was only seventeen years old. To be able to achieve this level at this age, both talent and hard work are indispensable.
He then made a few comments.
Song Yinzhang's eyes were full of surprise. She thought Zhou Chen was not good at music, but what Zhou Chen said always hit the point. If it weren't for his outstanding musical level, she would never be able to make such an evaluation.
Even Zhao Paner looked at Zhou Chen with surprise. He also didn't expect that Zhou Chen was also good at music.
The more she interacted with Zhou Chen, the less clear she could see. Look at the abilities Zhou Chen had demonstrated during the time she had known him.
He is skilled in martial arts, knows tea art, medical skills, and music. What else doesn't he know?
Zhou Chen understood music, which made Song Yinzhang more interested. He then started to play a new piece of music for Zhou Chen, and then waited for Zhou Chen's comments with great anticipation.
Time passed quickly, and the pipa performance ended only when Sun Sanniang came to call for dinner. Even Song Yinzhang looked as if he was still not satisfied.
After dinner, Zhao Pan'er and her daughters went to the inn, checked out of their rooms, brought their belongings here, and settled down in this courtyard.
In the next few days, Zhao Pan'er brought people to Ouyang Xu's house and made a scene.
Until one day, when Zhao Pan'er and a group of people including He Si, the fat boy under Chi Yanei, continued to shout slogans of paying debts at the door of Ouyang Xu's house, suddenly Ouyang Xu's old servant Uncle De came over with a group of yamen runners.
This group of yamen runners came up and took out sticks and rushed towards He Si and others. When He Si and others saw that they were government officials, they did not dare to resist at all and were beaten and ran away. Only Zhao Pan'er and her four daughters were left, who were captured and surrounded by many yamen runners.
"What are you doing? Let us go?"
Zhao Pan'er and the other girls struggled hard, but how could they resist so many yamen runners? They were soon controlled, even the extremely powerful Sun Sanniang was controlled.
Zhao Pan'er was nervous, but she pretended to be calm. Even when she was surrounded, she still did not show any fear. Instead, she asked questions to the man in official uniform next to Uncle De.
"Whose superior are you? We are just collecting debts. I don't know what law we have violated."
The other party shouted arrogantly: "I am the ward officer of the east wing of the city. In this area, I have the final say on all matters of thieves, robbers, and escapees from the household registration. You said that Master Ouyang owed you money, do you have a receipt?"
Zhao Paner said: "Yes, but I don't have it with me. I have a witness."
Sun Sanniang and Song Yinzhang immediately agreed: "We are the witnesses."
The clerk snorted disdainfully, "You have no evidence, just your words? Then I'll say you owe me a hundred strings of cash."
Then he pointed at Uncle De next to him and said, "He is the witness."
Seeing this scene, Zhao Pan'er didn't understand what was going on and looked at Uncle De with sarcasm on her face.
"So you went to get help?"
The clerk did not give them a chance to refute and asked, "Where are you from?"
"Qiantang."
"immigrant?"
The clerk's expression became even more disdainful. It was common for Tokyo locals to look down on outsiders.
"How many days have you been in Beijing? Do you have a certificate issued by Qiantang County? Without a certificate, you are a refugee."
At this point, his voice suddenly rose and he shouted, "Do you know that entering Tokyo privately is a serious crime?"
Uncle De then added fuel to the fire, pointing at Zhao Pan'er and the other girls, and said, "They are all prostitutes in brothels, and they come to Tokyo specifically to extort money from people."
Sun Sanniang was so furious when she heard this that she rushed forward and was about to take action, but was slapped in the face by the clerk and then restrained by other yamen runners.
Seeing Sun Sanniang being beaten, Zhao Pan'er rushed forward to help, but was pushed to the ground by the yamen runners. The three women fell to the ground, supporting each other.
The guard was not ready to let them go, and shouted again: "You are not honest, are you? Take off their clothes for me."
The yamen runners around heard the order and were about to go over to take action immediately. At the critical moment, Zhao Pan'er suddenly remembered the token that Zhou Chen gave her not long ago.
"Stop it, anyone who dares to touch us will die."
Zhao Paner let out a sharp scream, which actually made the yamen runners stop in their tracks.
When the clerk saw that Zhao Pan'er dared to threaten him, he became even more angry and stepped forward, ready to take action himself.
"You still dare to threaten me, I think..."
The next moment, his voice stopped abruptly, because Zhao Pan'er on the ground suddenly raised her right hand. In her hand, there was a token shining with golden light, which almost blinded his eyes.
The clerk stopped suddenly, his heart tensed: "What is this?"
Zhao Paner said angrily: "Look for yourself."
As he said this, he threw the token to the clerk, who was so frightened that he caught it in a panic.
Although he had not seen the token clearly, he was a man of some knowledge. In a place like Tokyo, anyone who could use gold to make a token would not be a simple person.
He took the token and found it was very heavy, confirming that it was made of real gold. He then saw that the token was carved very delicately, with a large word "Zhou" engraved in the middle. He then quickly turned over the token and saw two more words.
'Loyal and brave'!
The clerk shuddered all over. The three words "loyalty, bravery, and Zhou" added together, even if he was stupid, he could tell where the token came from.
The Mansion of the Loyal and Brave Marquis, Zhou family!
Apart from the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, who else would make such a token representing an identity? In other words, this token is 99% likely to be the token of the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.
The clerk's body trembled again, and his hands holding the token began to shake, as if the token weighed a thousand pounds.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 978 Pan Er shows off his power, Ouyang Xu flees in fear
The clerk looked at the token in his hand that seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and was so frightened that sweat broke out.
The Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery has existed since Taizu established the capital in Tokyo, and has stood firm in Tokyo for decades.
Some outsiders, or those who have just arrived in Tokyo, may not know about the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, but most of the people who have lived in the inner city for many years have heard of the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.
Especially for a clerk like him who works for the imperial court, he must be very observant, otherwise he might easily bump into an important person.
He was not very clear about what the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery was like, but he knew that it was not a noble person that he, his superior, or even his superior-superior could afford to offend.
Not to mention, a few years ago, the former prince of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, today the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, was famous throughout the world, and even the emperor praised him as the young general of the Song Dynasty, which pushed the prestige of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion to a higher level.
He was just a clerk who was not even a formal official. It was impossible for him to get in touch with such a huge organization as the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.
Uncle De saw that his rescuer had not made any movement for a long time, so he could not help but ask, "Sir, what's wrong with you? What is this?"
He was about to go and look, but the clerk just held the token in his hand and refused to show it to him. He didn't even look at Uncle De, but turned to scold his men.
"What are you doing? Get out of here right now and don't disturb the ladies."
The yamen runners were all confused, not understanding why their superior changed so quickly, but they were all sharp-eyed and quickly let go of the women and stepped away.
Zhao Pan'er and the others helped each other to get up. Song Yinzhang and Sun Sanniang looked at Zhao Pan'er in confusion.
They all saw clearly that it was Zhao Pan'er who threw an object to the other party, and then the official's expression changed.
The clerk bent his waist and approached Zhao Pan'er cautiously, holding the token in both hands.
"Madam, what is your token?"
Zhao Pan'er replied coldly: "The owner of the token gave it to me. He told me that with it, I would have fewer troubles in Tokyo City. Why? Shangguan doesn't believe it. Do you want me to take you to find the owner of the token to verify it?"
"Don't dare, don't dare."
The clerk was so frightened that he trembled all over. He really wanted to have a chance to curry favor with this important man, but he couldn't do it in this way. That would be courting death.
"My dear lady, you have misunderstood. I have absolutely no such intention. I have absolutely no such intention."
He was not afraid of Zhao Pan'er, he was afraid of the token. No matter how Zhao Pan'er got the token, since it was in her hands, he could only worship it.
"Please don't alarm this gentleman. I was deceived and made a big mistake. As long as you don't alarm this gentleman, I will accept the punishment."
As he spoke, he held the token in both hands, lowered his head and raised it in front of Zhao Pan'er.
If he was an official with a rank, he would not have to be so servile to Zhao Pan'er, but the problem was that he was just a clerk, not an official at all.
What's more, Marquis Zhongyong is an important figure wearing a purple robe. Even a token is enough to make him serve carefully.
Zhao Paner took back the token naturally and put it close to her body.
"Now, can I continue to collect the debt?"
"Of course, of course, it's only natural to pay back debts."
The clerk had a smiling face and looked flattering.
This made Uncle De beside him very anxious: "Sir, they are just a bunch of lowly women, why are you..."
Zhao Pan'er angrily retorted: "We are of good origin."
The clerks echoed: "Yes, these ladies are all good people. Who told you to talk nonsense?"
He didn't care whether Zhao Pan'er's daughters were of good origin or not. As long as he didn't make Zhao Pan'er hate him, he would listen to Zhao Pan'er in everything.
"grown ups……"
"Shut up."
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