Guanqingzhai

After a while, nothing happens, it's like a dream in life. ——[Tang] Li Longji's puppet chant

"No, absolutely not... This matter is not as easy as what you said, old man." Hu Yue shook his head like a rattle, with a determined expression on his face.

"Sixty dollars, no more.

Hu Yue sighed and said, "If you can't handle your daughter's matter well, it will be very troublesome."

The old man frowned, as if he wanted to see a hole in Hu Yue's body, he gritted his teeth and said: "One hanging, one hanging money, don't pull it down."

Hu Yue frowned, but her eyes were already wandering.He said: "Let's do it this way, a drop of money, and then you give me two stalls of champion red, and I will settle this matter for you."

"This year, the champion red was bought by the palace. There are two stalls of Fenjiu, you mean man, stop bargaining. If you fail, I can ask the judge of Linshuiguan (the name for the Taoist priest) to do it."

Hu Yue tucked his hands into his robe and stuck a fan on the back of his neck. He leaned against the door and shook his head and said, "To tell you the truth, it's useless for you to find that Taoist Faye. That Taoist is willing to give you Running errands like this?"

Hu Yue pulled out the fan from the back of her neck, twirled it in her hand, rolled her eyes twice and said: "Okay, drinking soju in winter is also good...then press it. But I have to remind you about you, old man. "

The visitor had been arguing with him about the price all morning, but he was still standing at the door with his tongue dry.He didn't even have a place to sit, his legs were already shaking from standing, and he was carrying it with all his might.He thumped his waist and said, "What else?"

Hu Yue said: "You said that Ling Ai encountered those unclean things. But if the matter is found to be man-made, what are you going to do? Is it the newspaper? Or secretly solve it by yourself? Maybe Ling Ai will be implicated. Arrive Sometimes the officials intervene, and if I ask the reason, then I really have no choice."

The man said: "It's absolutely impossible. My daughter has been doing her duty since she was a child, and she has been hired by others. When she reaches the age, she will naturally leave the cabinet. How could it be... In short, since you agreed to this matter, then I can do it." There are three chapters in the contract with you. First, you can’t let me go outside to chew your tongue. Second, you have to deal with this matter seriously. It’s time for me to settle the reward for you. I’ve always been generous. Third, my daughter You have a beautiful face and a beautiful face, like a fairy, you poor scholar, don't be greedy."

Hu Yue pouted, patted her fan and nodded, then straightened up, bowed to the visitor and said, "Don't worry, I'll visit the door tomorrow. But you can pay the money later, you have to pay the deposit for the two jars of wine first." .”

The man gritted his teeth, Hu Yue saw that he had to think about continuing to lean against the door, waiting for him to think slowly.The man said: "Okay, okay, I know that Mr. Hu wants wine, and I will send it to you in the afternoon. But you have to make a written statement."

Hu Yue fanned her fan and said in a low voice: "I'm doing it for your own good. Your proof is fine, but you must write the reason on your proof, otherwise you won't get rewarded for nothing. This reason...is not easy to deal with." ..."

Hu Yue said it implicitly, meaning that you write, if there is a real quarrel, take it to the government office, and the master of Fu Yin will definitely ask the reason seriously. At that time, this matter will be revealed, and the written evidence will be in vain. , you can figure it out.

The old man's face was tangled, while Hu Yue's face was sincere. The old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he nodded and urged him again and again before leaving.

The person who came was Old Man Ge from Dongxian Wine Shop. He was a craftsman of brewing wine. Seven, she looks like a flower and a jade, and the old man treats her like a treasure.But recently, he discovered that his daughter was not sleeping at night, wandering outside at night, and her shoes were covered with mud. The old man just didn't believe that his daughter went out to meet her lover, and insisted on saying that it was evil spirits.

In the eyes of old man Ge, Hu Yue is just a pretty boy with a pretty face who is ignorant and ignorant. He picks up the corner of the skirt of the oiran lady and specializes in hooking up with a good girl. Pearl hairpins on the sideburns.In short, how come you are not serious.But he also heard that Hu Yue helped people several times. The last time the oiran lady Hongqiao was succumbed to an evil spirit and saved her life thanks to him. He did it.That's why I rushed to Guanqingzhai early in the morning.

So in Old Man Ge's eyes, Hu Yue is a flirtatious little boy who knows how to do evil things.

In fact, there is not much mistake in describing it like that... Hu Yue watched the person walking away, and then exhaled. He didn't sit down this morning...

He went back to his room and poured out some medicinal supplements, and took a deep sip from the flagon from his waist. Looking at these medicinal supplements, he was very depressed. Instead of giving wine, all the things that make up the body are stuffed into him, as if he is just a medicine jar.Hu Yue waved his arm. In fact, his body has recovered a long time ago, but Hu Yue has a knot in his heart. It is still about Yunzi, but he can't discuss it with Chu Jue. He feels that Chu Jue has something to hide from him. And this matter is more or less related to the cloud.

There was a little looseness on Hu Yueben's indifferent face, and he frowned slightly. If Chu Jue really knew about Yun and didn't tell himself, what's the problem?It shows that at least Chu Jue knows something about Yun, and the worst is that Chu Jue prevents Hu Yue from being exposed to danger, but is this the only possibility?Hu Yue himself was puzzled, but he actually wanted to protect Chu Jue a little bit, and another calmer voice in his heart was: This matter must be handled by himself, and the result of pretending to be someone else can only be an extra problem.

Hu Yue sighed, picked out some herbs that can be used to brew wine, and took all the rest to the pharmacy to exchange for money. If you have money, you can naturally buy wine...

Then, after going back and forth, I actually exchanged a lot of broken silver.Hu Yue found a piece of strong linen and wrapped it up and stuffed it under the pillow.Touching his chin, he thought: "This doesn't seem appropriate..."

"Old brother, come out!"

Hu Yue turned her head when she heard the sound, Xuan Mingzi came here, waving his sleeves and waving his hands: "I have something to ask you."

Hu Yue hurriedly stuffed the money. Xuan Mingzi had already entered the room. He looked at the herbs on the table and said, "Hey, have you opened a medicine shop?"

Hu Yue laughed and said, "Why does the Taoist priest want to take some? Just exchange it with wine."

Xuan Mingzi shook his hand and said, "Don't talk about these things, I just want to talk to you about one thing."

"What's the matter?"

"About a dead man."

"Brother Dao, let's go, don't send it off."

Seeing that Hu Yue really raised his hand to give away, Xuan Mingzi quickly pulled his sleeve and said, "I said why did you suddenly change your sex? Didn't you like these strange things the most?"

Hu Yue said: "Then you also have to watch the time. It's already the twelfth lunar month. As soon as the Kitchen God sends it off, it's time to prepare for the New Year. You want me to deal with the dead? Hey, Taoist brother...you don't pay attention to Taoism, As a layman, I still pay attention to it.”

Xuan Mingzi sneered and said: "Nonsense, I don't think it's that simple. I haven't seen you often recently, I think you are thinking about something again. And this matter may be related to the matter you asked me to investigate... "

Hu Yue rolled her eyes and said, "How?"

Xuan Mingzi said: "This matter has something to do with rumors in the palace, and it also involves Chu Jue and Lord Chu."

Hu Yue paused, and said, "Chu Jue is involved? What's going on?"

Xuan Mingzi curled his lips and said, "You're interested when he's involved? It's only with him that you'll be so tired."

Hu Yue looked at Xuan Mingzi silently, Xuan Mingzi frowned and said: "It is said that an eunuch in the palace disappeared inexplicably, and this eunuch was implicated in the theft in the palace. The Yamen is already handling this matter. But a few days ago It was rumored at the Xiangguo Temple that someone found the eunuch's waist card in the snow, and the back of the belt card seemed to have a "Chu" temporarily engraved with a knife, but even a majestic Marquis would not find one..."

Just as Xuan Mingzi was about to continue speaking, unexpectedly, the door of Guanqingzhai was pushed open again. It was Zuo Yiqi who pushed the door and entered. Zuo Yiqi was stunned when he saw Xuan Mingzi, and then hurriedly bowed Said: "Young Master Hu, the student begged to see you abruptly..."

Hu Yue said, "Master Zuo, what's the matter?"

Zuo Yiqi smiled and said: "Students come here because of the case. There have been incidents of cardamom girls disappearing in the yamen recently. These girls are all beautiful and pretty."

When Hu Yue heard the last sentence, his eyes lit up and his spirit shook. He leaned forward with great interest and asked, "Master, please elaborate..."

Zuo Yiqi glanced at Xuan Mingzi, Xuan Mingzi no longer continued the previous conversation at this time, and sat on the stool drinking tea with an expression that you don't need to care about me.Zuo Yiqi's eyes froze slightly, but then he also said: "This matter is a little strange. There are not many women who disappeared, and they are all young and beautiful. And they are all very good at female workers. But the strange thing is that before they disappeared, it was said that they all disappeared. She said that she hurt her hand when she was a female celebrity. Then she couldn't make things anymore. But then her daughter became more and more lazy, and she would go out at night, and didn't come back until the next morning. If they were locked in the room. They just stood in the middle of the house all night, motionless, and terrified the family."

Hu Yue stroked her chin and said, "It's a similar thing again... It seems that Mr. Ge really guessed right about this matter."

Hu Yue smiled slightly: "Then where is the master investigating now?"

Zuo Yiqi said: "The last place I could find is the Lijiazhuang on the Dragon River outside the city. It is said that there used to be a puppet troupe here. It is said that there was a small famous troupe at that time, but it is gone now. Why did it fall? I don't know, maybe there are no successors, maybe they moved to another place. That happened hundreds of years ago. I can't even find a specific clue. I only found out about them after tracking the whereabouts of a victim. It's going there."

Hu Yue knocked on the table and said, "Since the master has already found this place, why don't you investigate further?"

Zuo Yiqi said embarrassingly: "Because I have sent people there several times and they all said that there is nothing abnormal. And the most important thing is where is the outer part of the imperial mausoleum. If we don't have the Holy Majesty's order, we shouldn't investigate too much. I also sent a few people secretly. Personal, but like a stone bull into the sea, there is no news..."

Hu Yue said: "Then the master came to me recently because he wanted me to take a look?"

Zuo Yiqi clapped his hands and said: "The student doesn't want the young master to go and find out, if something happens to the young master, the student can't explain it to Lord Hou, but this time he came here to ask the young master to find a key for us. Clues? Mr. has contacts with many girls in the capital... Ahem, if this matter is related to this mysterious place, how can it be involved with these girls? There must be someone going through the needle."

Hu Yue looked at Xuan Mingzi and smiled, and replied: "If the master does this by himself, so what?"

Zuo Yiqi tilted his head slightly: "If it were me... Maybe I would sit on the sidelines and wait for the next one..."

Hu Yue frowned slightly and said, "There really is such a..."

At this moment, Chu Jue also pushed the door and came in. Seeing the excitement in the room, he was stunned and said, "What's the matter today? Brother Xian, did you post a message to invite someone? There are so many people?"

Seeing this, Zuo Yiqi swallowed what he had just said.Chu Jue just glanced at him, then turned to his original position and said, "What were you talking about before?"

There was a brief silence between the four, four expressions, Hu Yue drinking tea, Chu Jue calm, Xuan Mingzi twitching his mouth in a half-smile, Zuo Yiqi thoughtful.

But no one knows what kind of thinking is underneath these seemingly expressed expressions.

In this way, the four people looked at each other.Sometimes I laughed awkwardly, but I didn't open my mouth to say anything.

Chu Jue looked at it and made three people again. He reached out and handed Hu Yue a wine jar and said, "Here are some champion reds from the palace, and I specially reserved a jar for my virtuous brother."

Hu Yue squinted her eyes and said with a smile: "If you have a heart and a heart, brother Chu, sit down first."

He glanced at Zuo Yiqi, Zuo Yiqi immediately stood up, Chu Jue glanced at the seat, and sat down anyway.He picked up the teacup that Hu Yue handed over and said, "What are you doing here?"

Zuo Yiqi said: "The students are here to ask Mr. Hu for advice."

Chu Jue glanced at him, Zuo Yiqi lowered his head guiltily.

Suddenly the door of Guanqingzhai was pushed open again, Hu Yue thought that today Guanqingzhai has become an open restaurant.Just as he was about to open the door to let people in, the old man who came to ask Hu Yue to do something in the morning rushed in.

The old man was not polite, he slammed the door open and shouted: "It's terrible, Mr. Hu, you have to go back with me now."

The old man didn't expect that there were so many people in the room, and he just bit his tongue and swallowed the words he was about to say.

The old man pulled Hu Yue out and said, "Speak outside, talk outside."

Hu Yue was dragged outside by the old man, and there were only those three people left in the house.Chu Jue made tea on his own, Zuo Yiqi looked embarrassed and wished he could leave now.Xuan Mingzi chuckled twice and said, "Young Master Chu really takes Hu Yue seriously."

Chu Jue smiled slightly, his expression was very different from when Hu Yue was there, he smiled indifferently, and said, "I'm used to him, it really matters, he can't even get out of the Guanqing Zhai."

Zuo Yiqi trembled a little when he heard this, and then said, "Master Hou, the student still has work to do...resign first?"

A jasper ruler appeared in Chu Jue's hand at some point, and Zuo Yiqi was so frightened that people began to tremble slightly when he saw it. Do your best, don't meddle in things that shouldn't be meddled in."

Zuo Yiqi was sweating coldly on his forehead, he said yes quickly, and then left.Xuan Mingzi stroked his chin and said, "Master Zuo, wait for me, Lord Hou, the tea here is cold, so I'm leaving too."

Chu Jue didn't stop them, picked up the teacup and said, "What you say to him is the same to Brother Dao."

Xuan Mingzi was slightly taken aback, and he gave a chuckle without a smile on his face, but he had already clenched his hands tightly.Then the two of them fled out the door.

Hu Yue came in by chance, saw two people, they said goodbye in a hurry, and then he went out.Hu Yue glanced at it, and understood the reason, smiled and did not stop him, looked back and found that Chu Jue was dumping his medicinal materials, he hurriedly ran to stop him and said: "It's nothing, just take it out to see if there is any mold. "

Chu Jue raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "This is divided into two pools. Those that can be soaked in wine are put in a pile, and those that cannot be soaked in wine are wrapped up for you. When did my brother start trading medicinal materials?"

Seeing that there was no one left, Hu Yue sat lazily across from Chu Jue, opened the jug and said bluntly, "Brother, because you see death and refuse to save, little brother, I can only find my own way out. It's better to rely on myself than to rely on the sky and the earth."

Chu Jue laughed without saying a word, and threw him a wine jug and said, "Hey, you, you. Is it so uncomfortable without wine?"

Hu Yue took the jug, and asked with blank eyes: "Do you feel uncomfortable if you don't drink?"

When Chu Jue was asked by him, he couldn't refute it as if he had been sent to the army. Instead, he smiled and said, "It seems that my brother's upper beam is not upright, and his lower beam is crooked."

Hu Yue shook her finger and said, "No, no, it's just that if you share the same taste, you can call yourself a confidant."