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"It's delicious! It's indeed the restaurant with the best fish in the capital. The Yellow River carp in this 'Linshuiju' is truly outstanding."

After eating and drinking, Wanda wiped her mouth and narrowed her eyes in satisfaction.

"Sure enough, you have to go out to eat with locals in order to eat the most authentic local dishes."

He didn't wear the uniform of Jin Yiwei today, but changed into a set of pink Taoist robes that have been quite popular in the circle of the Beijing government recently, which complements his skin like snow, red lips and white teeth.

Yang Xiuxian picked up his wine glass, thinking that clothes really depend on people.

Now he doesn't look like a servant and cook, with his eyes squinted in the sun, he is just like a big satiated cat.

Yang Xiuxian likes cats, and Yang's house is full of stray cats he picked up from the street.Black and white, tiger-skinned and three-flowered ones, each raised fat and strong.

It's just that he has been away from Beijing for more than a year, and when he came home yesterday, none of those little ancestors knew him. When they saw Yang Xiuxian, a "stranger", they either shrank into a corner or hid behind the housekeeper, making him feel disappointed for a long time.

Yang Qianhu, who couldn't get the cat out of his way, saw the untied, high-up hair on Wanda's head, and couldn't help touching it...

"Well?"

Wanda, who was rubbing her belly, didn't notice for a while, but he was slapped.

"Ah... This subordinate saw that the hair of the lord was not tied properly, so he helped the lord to tidy it up."

He replied calmly.

"I'm not good at combing my hair. I usually wear a hat when I'm on duty, so I can't tell... Is it really messy?"

Wanda touched his head, and sure enough, he touched a bunch of hair that was protruding from the side.He fumbled a couple of times indiscriminately, and finally gave up completely, "Forget it."

"Isn't Mrs. Wan's house a girl who combs her hair?"

Yang Xiuxian asked.

"The family bought a girl, but they are all serving my father and my elder brother and sister-in-law. I don't need anyone to serve me."

Wanda said.

As a modern person, a simple laborer, he really does not have such capitalist habits.

Although he has already lived in a big mansion, and now there are butlers, servants and maids at home, Wanda still does not change his nature.In daily life, you should take care of yourself.

Even though his sister-in-law and mother-in-law are in charge of the kitchen, he still prepares meals for the whole family when he is free.

The only difference is that you don't have to wash dishes and boil water at home.

"Master Wan lives a simple life, and the lower officials admire him."

Yang Xiuxian said sincerely.

Although he also thought that his life was fairly simple, and there were no female relatives or maids in his family.However, the Yang family has a good family background, and they have all the housekeepers and servants. Yang Xiuxian has been served by others since he was a child.

"Damn! I'm 'working hard' and I don't know how to enjoy it."

Embarrassed by his praise, Wanda smiled and turned her head.

At this moment, a noise came from the street downstairs. Wanda leaned on the fence and leaned down, and saw a group of people gathered around the tea stand below the hotel. Two men were arguing about something, and their faces were red.

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"You obviously took my money, but you still don't admit it? Big guys, come and judge, this guy took 40 taels of silver from me and won't admit it!"

At the tea stand, a middle-aged man with a thin face and small eyes was grabbing the elbow of another young man and shouting, "Don't go! Hand over the money!"

The man caught by him was probably in his early twenties, with an angry face, he kept tugging at the sleeves held by the thin man, "You are so unreasonable. I am doing good deeds, but you actually blackmailed me?"

"Who blackmailed you? You took my money!"

"Nonsense! I'll kill you!"

When Wanda and Yang Xiuxian got into the crowd, they saw the young man punching the skinny man in the face. The latter fell down covering his eyes, and after two ouches, he was silent.

"It's not good! Someone was killed!"

"Hurry up and find the military master of Wucheng Bingma Division!"

The young and old who were watching the excitement also panicked at this moment, some held the young man to prevent him from escaping, and some were about to run to report to the police.

"No need to report to the official, it's no big deal."

Yang Xiuxian grabbed the man, then walked to the thin man's side and squatted down.

"This man was beaten and lay on the ground. How can it be nothing serious? Young people really don't know the seriousness!"

Because Wanda and Yang Xiuxian both went out in casual clothes today, Wanda was dressed in Taoist robes, and Yang Xiuxian was dressed in a blue lotus-colored straight body, so the common people did not know that both of them were officials.

Yang Xiuxian smiled slightly, stretched out his finger and pressed somewhere on the man's body.

The next moment, the guy who was lying on the ground with his head tilted and pretending to be dead straightened up like a dead body, screaming "Ouch".

"It hurts! It hurts to death!"

"I'll just say it's okay."

Yang Xiuxian clapped his hands, stood up in a leisurely manner, and walked to the side of Wanda who was watching the show all over his face.

"This man was just breathless just now. I'll rub him and he'll be fine."

He said solemnly, and the people around him nodded.

Seeing that the thin man was fine and sounded quite energetic, the young man who beat him was finally relieved.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Yang Xiuxian pulled Wanda to find a seat at the tea stand and sat down, raised his chin, and asked the young man.

He has been a Jinyiwei for many years, and he has a posture of not being angry but powerful.Coupled with the hand that was shown just now, the people present couldn't help but be convinced.

"My lords, just now I was relieved in the toilet of 'Linshuiju', and saw a bundle hanging on the pillar."

The young man licked his lips, tidied up and began to speak slowly.

This young man is called Ali, and he is a clerk at a nearby raw medicine store. When passing by a restaurant, he felt anxious, so he went in to relieve his hand.

When I was about to go out, I saw a green coarse cloth bundle hung on the pillar of the toilet.

I looked around, but saw no one.So he took off the bundle, and when he opened it, he saw that there were a full ten taels of snowflake silver inside.

As soon as he walked to the door of the latrine, he bumped into this thin middle-aged man, surnamed Hou, who hurried in.

The person surnamed Hou asked him if he had ever seen a bag, which he accidentally dropped in the toilet when he took over it just now.

This Ali is also a real person, thinking that the surnamed Hou is the owner, he directly gave him the burden, turned around and wanted to leave.

Who knows that this surnamed Hou caught up with him in a few steps, saying that there should be 50 taels of silver in the package, but now there are only ten taels left, clamoring for Ali to hand over the rest of the money.

Ali said that when he picked up this bundle, there were only ten taels in it, where did the extra money come from.

So the two of you dragged me, and I dragged you, all the way from the toilet to the tea stall, attracting crowds of onlookers.

Finally, the young man couldn't hold back and moved his hand.

"You said you lost 50 taels of silver?"

Wanda listened with relish, took the two ingots of silver in his hands, padded them up and down, and smiled brightly.

"Yes! I lost 50 taels."

The one surnamed Hou saw Wanda's decent clothes, and thought he was the son of some family.I also saw that Yang Xiuxian was also well dressed, so he must be the young master of a rich family.So the arrogance towards Ali just now disappeared immediately, and he said respectfully to the two of them.

Yang Xiuxian saw that Wanda obviously wanted to stand out, and also wanted to see how he would solve this problem.

He simply asked the doctor at the tea stand to bring him some tea, and drank the tea from the cup.

"What you picked up was ten taels of silver, and what you lost was 50 taels... What does this mean?"

He raised his eyebrows, pointed to Ali, and then pointed to Hou.

"It means that he is greedy..."

"It means that this is not your burden at all!"

Wanda said decisively, "You lost your baggage too? Go look elsewhere, you might not find it if you go late."

As soon as this remark came out, there was silence everywhere.

"puff……"

Even though Yang Xiuxian was well-informed, he never thought that Wanda would say such a thing.Almost spit out the tea in my mouth.

"You, you...you bastard, talking nonsense!"

The middle-aged man didn't expect that this son-in-law was very handsome, and the words he said were indeed so annoying.

"Why am I talking nonsense? I think you are talking nonsense! You lost the money yourself, and you think that the money in the street is all yours?"

Wanda rolled his eyes, pointed at the two ingots of silver wrapped in the fur skin, and said in a very rascal tone, "How do you prove that this is your silver? You call it, will it agree?"

If it agrees, then this is silver from "Journey to the West".Then I, Wan Xinghai, have traveled into the world of classical fantasy novels.

"Hahaha……"

Ali, who was framed for embezzlement of money, reacted, clapped his hands together and laughed.

This skinny monkey used to bully him because of his sharp teeth and clumsy tongue, but he was obviously trying to make money, so he insisted on framing him.

Now that a young man who is even more eloquent has come, the thin monkey can only be deflated.

The onlookers also laughed, and even the guest officials above "Linshuiju" poked their heads out and applauded.

"Young master! Well said!"

"you are welcome."

Wanda raised her head and cupped her fists against it.

Hey, with sharp eyes, I noticed that there is a handsome guy holding a flute upstairs.

"Yangou" Wanda couldn't help but glance more.

"You! Don't mess around. Ah... I can see that you are in the same group!"

Seeing the people pointing at him, the surname Hou burst into anger, and shouted at Wanda, "This is my money! It's my business money."

"What kind of business do you do? How do you need such a large amount of silver?"

Wanda raised his chin, looked him up and down, and smiled evilly, "I don't think you look like a shopkeeper in your coarse clothes. Could it be that you are the accountant of some shop? Tell me Name, call your shopkeeper to confront him!"

Don't look at martial arts dramas, those heroes just order a few dishes in the tavern, and just put a silver ingot on the table, and don't spend the silver as money.

50 taels was not a small amount in the Ming Dynasty during the Tianshun period. If it is converted into the currency of later generations according to the price of rice, one tael of silver is equivalent to about 750 yuan-50 taels is [-] yuan!

Who would walk all over the street with nearly 4 yuan on their backs? There will be no such fools 600 years later, and even rarer 600 years ago.

In this era, shopping using copper plates and broken silver is the mainstream.

Generally speaking, only after the government collects taxes, will the broken silver be melted into a whole piece of silver and handed over to the treasury.Of course, there are also merchants who will carry a whole piece of silver for convenience when they go out for business-but they usually have bodyguards to protect them, okay?

Wanda used to work at the Linqing Restaurant in Bazhou, and his monthly salary was only one renminbi.In peaceful days, two liang of silver was enough for a family of three to live comfortably for a year.

"Yeah, I don't think you are a rich man. How did you get so much money? It can't be stolen, right?"

Yang Xiuxian added fuel to the fire with a smile.

"It must have been stolen!"

"Look at his wicked eyebrows, he is indeed a thief!"

The surrounding crowd was agitated by him, and began to attack Lao Hou's appearance personally.

"It's not stolen, it's not stolen, it's my money... I, I saved this money after selling my ancestral house. Today I'm going to the city to look at the shop."

The surname Hou shook his head in panic, rolled his small eyes, and said boldly, "This is all my net worth. I only got the money after selling a house and two pieces of land. When the buyer hands over the money to me, it will be whole silver."

"Sold the house? That's even better. I heard that your accent is also a local. Since you said that you still have land, then the land you are selling should be a land in the outskirts of the city. In front is the Yamen of Shuntian Prefecture. All the land deeds, sales and leases are held in the Yamen. They all have savings. Let's go in and ask to see if there is any record of your selling the house. "

Wanda stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar, "Let's go! Let's go now! Once we get to the government, we'll find out!"

"No, no, no, no, no!"

Lao Hou kept shaking his hands, and begged for mercy, "Little grandpa, little grandpa, I made a mistake. This is not my baggage, nor is it my money in it. The villain has poor eyesight, please forgive me, grandpas."

As he said that, he knelt down on the ground with a "plop", and kowtowed to Wanda and Ali.

"I admit, I just had a stomachache and wanted to go to the latrine. Who would have thought that I saw this little brother picking up a bag outside the latrine, and there was no one else around, so I became malicious for a while... I should die, I should die ..."

"Okay, so it's really not his money!"

"He's here to extort money! If this young man hadn't come out to speak up for justice, that young man would have been blackmailed by him!"

"Send him off! Send him off!"

The onlookers heard this, and were filled with righteous indignation. A few young men pulled the old man up from the ground, and prepared to follow the usual practice of catching a thief in this era - beat him up first, and then send him to the government.

Wanda liked this kind of drama very much, so she let go and retreated to sit beside Yang Xiuxian, shaking her head with a smile.

"Drink tea?"

Yang Xiuxian looked at the two disobedient hairs on his head, which were more and more bristled by the shaking, resisted the urge to reach out and touch him, and poured him a cup of tea.

Wanda took it cheerfully, and accompanied by Hou's screams, he felt that the tasteless tea had already smelled a bit fragrant.

Just as Hou was beaten and rolled all over the floor, the people from Beicheng Bingmasi who received the news came.Everyone pulled the surname Hou to an officer dressed as a captain, and began to talk about the case in a hurry.

This is not a big case at all, since the matter has been clarified, Ali himself has no loss, and the captain is ready to take him away after confiscating the money.

Wanda has been working in the Yamen of Bazhou all year round, and knows that usually this kind of ruffian makes trouble, and it will be over after being dragged to the Yamen to beat him up and teach him a lesson.

He stood up, feeling that he had almost digested it, and he could drag Yang Xiuxian to the next restaurant.

When this person met with me at Fangmen early this morning, he may have personally promised him that he would take him to all the famous restaurants and restaurants in Beijing.

It was just the first meal.

"Wait a moment."

Just as the patrol captain was about to leave with Hou, Yang Xiuxian stood up and called them back.