Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

It's broad daylight now, so it's a bit difficult to find out. Fortunately, Bai Yutang's kung fu is good, so it shouldn't be too difficult for him.

"I'll go in and try my best to attract their attention, you look for an opportunity to sneak in." After Zhao Hanyan said that, he threw away his straw hat, walked out generously from the alley, and went straight to Wangyou Pavilion.

The waiter in the Wangyou Pavilion immediately recognized Zhao Hanyan, because she knew that when she came last time, her shopkeeper had some trouble with her.Now that this person came again, he didn't dare to offend him, catered carefully, invited her to sit, and quickly reported the name of the dish in Wangyou Pavilion to her.

With a flick of Zhao Hanyan's arm, the blue and white porcelain teapot brought by the waiter in the shop fell to the ground and smashed to pieces.The sound resounded throughout the lobby, and the guests who had been drinking, talking and laughing in the hall quieted down and looked at Zhao Hanyan at the same time.

Zhao Hanyan said unhappily: "The shopkeeper said last time that it was the cook's fault, and he was in a hurry to open the store again, so there was no time to change the menu. Has the store been open for a while now? Why do you say that the menu seems to be the same as the first day?"

"The shopkeeper said that since Zhao Chaye promised to use it, he would look down on Zhao Chaye if he didn't use it, so the original dishes were not removed, but more than 20 new dishes were added." The waiter told him with a polite smile.

Seeing this, the other two shop waiters in the hall hurried over to clean up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, and persuaded Zhao Hanyan not to be angry, and they went to invite the shopkeeper Xue to discuss it.

Zhao Hanyan snorted and sighed: "In terms of thick skin, no one can compare to your shopkeeper Xue. First, give me a portion of each of the twenty new dishes, and give me a taste."

"Master Zhao eats so much alone?" The waiter in the shop was surprised.

Zhao Hanyan sent it over with a flying knife, "Can't you?"

"Okay, of course, I'll go and order it now." The shop clerk agreed with a smile, then turned around and hurried to the back of the hall to deliver a letter to shopkeeper Xue.The remaining two shop waiters stayed by Zhao Hanyan's side, apologizing politely and comforting other customers in the shop, saying that the misunderstanding is no big deal.The two of them didn't dare to go far. Apart from picking up guests, they wandered around Zhao Hanyan for fear that she would make trouble again.

Shopkeeper Xue was seeing Aunt You in the account room, and when he heard Xiao Er knock on the door, he called him in and handed Aunt You a bag of money by the way.

The shop waiter came in and hurriedly told shopkeeper Xue: "That poor master Zhao came to find fault again last time."

"I'm sorry to trouble you." The shopkeeper Xue ignored the words of the waiter, and smiled warmly at Aunt You.

Aunt You looked at shopkeeper Xue with a serious face, and promised: "This is all as it should be. In the future, if the shopkeeper has something to do, just tell me."

"Then I won't keep you any longer. There is still something I need to take care of at the Wuyou Pavilion." The shopkeeper Xue nodded politely, then nodded to Aunt You, and left with the waiter.

Aunt You put the purse into her sleeve, looked around, turned around and left in a hurry through the back door of Wuyou Pavilion.

Bai Yutang closed the gap in the back window, climbed over the wall and exited the Wangyou Pavilion. After waiting for a while behind the pile of firewood at the back door of the Wangyou Pavilion, he saw Aunt You coming out and hurriedly heading east.Bai Yutang followed immediately.

Zhao Hanyan drank the tea refilled by the waiter in the shop, and when he saw shopkeeper Xue coming, he put down the teacup and asked him why he was so slow.

"I just had a guest to deal with, why is Mr. Zhao interested in coming recently, but don't sit in this lobby, there is a place in the private room upstairs." Bai Yutang immediately invited Zhao Hanyan to sit upstairs.

"Forget it, don't go. I was born in a poor family, so I can't enjoy that kind of blessing. Could it be that the food in the private room tastes the same as the food in the hall?"

Shopkeeper Xue: "If you order the same dish, it will taste the same."

Shopkeeper Xue's heartfelt voice: It's obvious that the drunkard's intention is not to drink, but he still talks to me about food.

Zhao Hanyan saw shopkeeper Xue looking at him very vigilantly again.Aunt You just came, she came, such an obvious matter must not be hidden from the clever shopkeeper Xue.But this just shows that there may be an affair between him and Aunt You, so when the official dispatch comes, it triggers vigilance.If there were only unrelated guests before her, shopkeeper Xue would definitely not be so vigilant.

"Where's Aunt You?" Zhao Hanyan asked,

Shopkeeper Xue just sat down opposite Zhao Hanyan, and when he heard her question, he was stunned but felt at ease.Things are better said than not said.

He pretended to be puzzled and asked Zhao Hanyan: "Could it be that Mr. Zhao is here to find Mrs. You? To handle the case? She just settled the bill with me, so she might leave now."

"What bill?"

After Zhao Hanyan asked, he put the tea to his mouth and bowed his head to pretend to drink it.Shopkeeper Xue's eyes seemed to see through everything.

"I bought two servants from her the day before yesterday, and I happened to stay in Wangyou Pavilion to do odd jobs. Master Zhao also knows that my Wangyou Pavilion has just opened and is short of manpower, so I asked Yazi to buy people." Shopkeeper Xue Staring at Zhao Hanyan with a smile, he was silent for a moment, and asked Zhao Hanyan half-jokingly, "I wonder if this is against the law?"

"It's not against the law, but Mrs. You is against the law." Zhao Hanyan saw two plates of food served, picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, then frowned and sighed, "It smells so fishy, ​​if I didn't look at it, I would think I was eating fish Not chicken."

Shopkeeper Xue was not annoyed at all after hearing Zhao Hanyan's evaluation, and apologized to Zhao Hanyan with a smile.

"I will tell the cook to pay attention later."

Shopkeeper Xue's heartfelt voice: So what if the food is unpalatable, but the people are even more unpalatable. It seems to make you anxious.

Zhao Hanyan stared intently at Shopkeeper Xue, and found that the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he was actually smiling wildly.

"Shopkeeper Xue isn't going to change his name?" Zhao Hanyan asked again.

Shopkeeper Xue froze for a moment.

Zhao Hanyan reminded: "The last time you heard about the origin of Wangyou Pavilion in Jianghu, you seemed to be very taboo, and even said that you would ask Taoist priests. I thought you would change the name."

"I intend to change the name, but after hearing about it, the Taoist told me not to change it. If I change the Feng Shui layout carefully, it will be completely destroyed, no wealth will be gathered, and there will be bloody disasters. The name of Wangyou Pavilion can just stop evil spirits." " Shopkeeper Xue sighed helplessly, "If he doesn't say these things, I will definitely change them, but after hearing what he said, I would rather 'believe what's there or not'. I love money the most, and I'm afraid of doing business. Compensation is even more afraid of causing trouble. I asked a few guests casually, but none of them knew that there was a Wangyou Pavilion in Jianghu, so I called it that."

"Master Xue is eloquent." Zhao Hanyan sighed.

"It's not something eloquent. It's a real thing. If you don't believe me, you can ask the Taoist priest. He still lives here." Before Zhao Hanyan refused, shopkeeper Xue immediately sent someone to invite the blind Taoist priest.

Blind Taoist?

Zhao Hanyan inexplicably felt a little familiar, and had a vague premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, when the Taoist priest was invited down from the second floor by the waiter in the shop, Zhao Hanyan recognized at a glance that this was the 'blind' Taoist priest who said she was a woman on the street and said that she would meet rotten peach blossoms.

At this moment, the Taoist priest was not pretending to be blind, and was walking down the stairs briskly.

"This Taoist priest is called Blind Eye, but he is not actually blind. 'Blind Eye' is just a Taoist name given to him by his master. Strange, isn't it? But I heard that his master is a weirdo, and he is also a weirdo, so it's not surprising Already, the elders are very strange."

After the shopkeeper Xue briefly introduced Zhao Hanyan, he stood up, greeted the blind Taoist priest with a smile, and introduced Zhao Hanyan to him.

"Eh? It's you!" The blind Taoist immediately recognized Zhao Hanyan when he saw him, and sighed in surprise.

Zhao Hanyan turned to look at shopkeeper Xue: "The shopkeeper may have been fooled by this quack Taoist. I always thought that shopkeeper Xue was very smart, but I really didn't expect you to be deceived sometimes."

"What was cheated? My calculations are always accurate." The blind Taoist looked Zhao Hanyan up and down, then sat down at the invitation of shopkeeper Xue, and asked Zhao Hanyan if he had encountered a rotten peach blossom recently.

Zhao Hanyan frowned and gave him a white look, but didn't answer him.

"Haven't you touched it yet?" The blind Taoist hurriedly raised his right hand, moved his fingers to calculate, and still looked at Zhao Hanyan puzzled, "It's strange, it shouldn't be. No one will tell you the truth. Frankly speaking, it's very difficult." like you?"

Shopkeeper Xue was watching the excitement with a smile on his face: "Master Zhao is handsome, so it's not unusual for any woman to meet her favorite."

The blind Taoist turned his eyes and gave shopkeeper Xue a blank look, "The shopkeeper is questioning my ability?"

"It's not that I'm questioning you, she is indeed good-looking." Shopkeeper Xue argued.

The blind Taoist turned to look at Zhao Hanyan, "You still don't believe me?"

"You are a quack Taoist who pretends to be blind and deceive others, why should you believe it?" Zhao Hanyan said.

"Pretending to be blind is a last resort. To put it bluntly, I have to obey my master's orders. The master said that my eyes are so powerful that I can see through the secrets, so I can't use them all the time, so I occasionally walk, eat, and sleep with my eyes closed. That day You and that white and handsome young man just happened to meet when I closed my eyes." The blind Taoist explained.

Zhao Hanyan laughed.

The blind Taoist laughed, feeling that this was a funny thing.Shopkeeper Xue also laughed.

Zhao Hanyan: "It's funny. I think you and Shopkeeper Xue are very similar in making up reasons. It's hard for you two to get mixed up."

The blind Taoist was stunned, couldn't laugh anymore, and looked disgusted, "Who is like him! You look down on me, Master Zhao, you can beat and scold me, but you just can't compare me with him like just now."

"What do you mean?" Shopkeeper Xue was upset when he heard this, and asked the blind Taoist.

"You are too tired to live, and you only see money. It's nothing, but I simply don't like it." The blind Taoist shrugged, and then smiled and moved to Zhao Hanyan's side, "I don't mind if I look like Master Zhao."

"Sit down, stay away from me." Zhao Hanyan warned.

"Otherwise?" the blind Taoist asked with a smile.

Zhao Hanyan turned his eyes: "Go to the Yamen?"

The blind Taoist hurriedly handed over his hands and made amends.

"Why did you say that I was a woman that day?" Zhao Hanyan was full of confidence, "Could it be that I asked me to take off my pants and show you?"

"Blame me, blame me. It must be because I drank a little wine that day, and the sky eye is a little out of order."

Zhao Hanyan snorted and warned the blind Taoist priest that if he bluffed and cheated again, he would be arrested in Kaifeng Mansion.She immediately got up and hurried to the door.

"You have to leave after serving so many dishes?" Shopkeeper Xue asked in surprise.

The blind Taoist grinned and stared at the table full of food, his eyes sparkling, "Can you let me eat?"

After all, the person left without answering half a word.Shopkeeper Xue looked at the back of Zhao Hanyan leaving, his face became serious.

The blind Taoist had already devoured the dishes on the table.

Shopkeeper Xue glanced back at him, didn't bother to care about him, and hurried back to the back hall with his hands behind his back.

When Zhao Hanyan returned to Kaifeng, seeing Bai Yutang was about to come out, he rushed to him and asked how he was doing.

"I've brought Mrs. You back, but I haven't interrogated anything yet." Bai Yutang said to Zhao Hanyan, "When I went to listen, shopkeeper Xue and Mrs. You didn't have any special conversations. Shopkeeper Xue just talked to Mrs. You." Said to wait a moment, then turned around and went to the wooden box on the bookshelf to take a bag of money and gave it to Aunt You. The shopkeeper came to shopkeeper Xue and said that you were making trouble in the lobby, and shopkeeper Xue sent Aunt You away.

I followed Aunt You for two streets, and seeing her walking faster and faster, I felt something was wrong, so I immediately brought her back. "

Zhao Hanyan nodded, and Bai Yutang was right to pick people out of caution.

"Don't recognize it at all?"

"She said that Qian Shi only occasionally came to her place to pick someone up, just one of the regular customers. As for the two living together that Zhou Yazi said, Aunt You firmly said no, and said that Zhou Yazi was robbing her of the business, so now she is here. Deliberately smearing her and taking revenge on her." Bai Yutang told Zhao Hanyan that Ma Han had already inquired that Yazi Zhou and Aunt You had indeed competed for business.

"Is that bag of money still there?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

Bai Yutang agreed and told her that she was in Sansitang.

While walking, Zhao Hanyan talked about what happened to her in Wangyou Pavilion just now.

"That Taoist priest pretending to be blind is here?" Bai Yutang snorted coldly, "It's a pity I'm not here, otherwise he would have been stabbed."

"One coincidence, another coincidence, why is there so many coincidences in Wangyou Pavilion, but there is no way to get the handle of shopkeeper Xue."

"You can interrogate him for Mrs. You's matter, why not arrest him first, and then think of a way to deal with him." Bai Yutang suggested.

Zhao Hanyan was not sure whether this was feasible, so he had to ask Mr. Bao to make a decision first.

After arriving at Sansi Hall, Zhao Hanyan checked the money bag, which was made of blue cloth with a drawstring at the mouth, and contained six taels of silver and three hundred coins.

Money is money, tape is tape, nothing special is found.

……

Palace, Zichen Hall.

Zhao Zhen heard Taishi Pang talking about how bad the Kaifeng mansion was for the first stick of incense, and seeing that he was talking endlessly and wanted to talk about the second stick of incense, Zhao Zhen gave him a seat with a smirk and asked Taishi Pang to have a sip of tea for a rest.

After Grand Master Pang took his seat, he obediently drank his tea, and continued to talk to Zhao Zhen: "My lord, my sister's granddaughter was taken away for several days, and there is no news so far. The people in Kaifeng Mansion are still bullying others. He even helped the brother-in-law of Qi Desheng who lost his child. Poor my brother-in-law, who is so old, he was scared and fell ill by two yamen servants who were as old as children in Kaifeng Mansion."

"There is such a thing? Bao Zheng is an official, it doesn't seem like he is not strict with his subordinates."

"Knowing people, knowing the face, but not knowing the heart, even if Mr. Bao has a straight character, it is difficult to guarantee that all his subordinates have good character when they are behind the scenes. This servant of the Kaifeng Mansion, I have seen it once a few days ago. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he is particularly arrogant, and even sees his ministers domineering." Grand Master Pang continued to complain.

When Zhao Zhen heard that the yamen servant dared to make trouble in front of Grand Master Pang, he was curious who had the courage, so he hurriedly asked his name.

Grand Master Pang: "Zhao Feibai."