win the hairpin

Chapter 111 A Small Meal
King Jin brought two followers, one was Song Huiyue and the other was Huang Ting.

Tan Ran raised his head, but didn't recognize who the person in front of him was.

Both Song Huiyue and Huang Ting were dressed as entourages, and there were no scars on their faces. It was impossible for Tan Ran, an honest man, to recognize them.

Seeing that they were in the same group, Menzi looked unhappy: "What are you doing, this is not an inn."

Huang Ting stepped forward, smiled and handed him a small coin: "Let's stay overnight."

The door squeezed the silver ingot, then bit it hard with his teeth, still a little doubtful about the authenticity of the silver, and finally accepted it, and opened the door: "The two last rooms on the left, the horses are tied up by themselves, and the fodder is added to the groom. The food and drink are all the same, go to the kitchen to buy."

Huang Ting nodded, let the way out, and invited King Jin and Song Huiyue to enter, and went to the stable to tie up the horses.

Song Huiyue took two steps, then turned her head and said, "Tan Ran, come in to hide from the rain."

Tan Ran didn't refuse either, and strode to keep up. When passing by the door, he kept his eyes fixed, as if he wasn't the one who argued just now.

King Jin took a look at Tan Ran, but without opening his mouth, he led the two of them from the corridor to the house.

He opened the two rooms first to have a look, the last one was more humid, it seemed that there was water seepage, so he went in and sat down: "Huiyue, eat something warm here before going to bed."

Song Huiyue nodded, took off her coir raincoat and bamboo hat and put it under the eaves, and walked in.

Tan Ran suddenly said: "I remember who you are, you are the ... criminal!"

Song Huiyue smiled and said, "Yes, I haven't asked why you are here yet?"

King Jin heard Song Huiyue talk about Tan Ran, so he said in a low voice, "Sit down."

Tan Ran didn't notice who the person in front of him was at all, and didn't refuse. He sat down and said to Song Huiyue: "It's getting cold, I burned a kiln of charcoal with tea tree roots in the mountains, and only sold half of it." The people from the charcoal store came, insisting that I sold the charcoal without their permission, but I burned the charcoal myself, so why should I ask them if they agreed, and they took away the car and the charcoal. "

The more he talked, the angrier he became, he slapped the table and the oil lamp shook.

King Jin wanted to move the oil lamp to the small table, looked around, but couldn't see any other place where the lamp could be placed, so he moved the oil lamp farther away from Song Huiyue.

Huang Ting brought hot tea, each poured a cup, after drinking, Tan Ran became less angry.

He knew that others said he was stubborn, a stubborn donkey, and he planned to leave immediately as soon as Song Huiyue persuaded him to pay the money.

Hearing these words, his ears were calloused.

However, Song Huiyue just asked him: "Where are your family members?"

"No family," Tan Ran said, "I'm the only one left in the family after I've served my parents."

Song Huiyue thought for a while: "My family is about to employ someone. I will give you two taels of silver every month. Do you want to go to Kyoto with me?"

Tan Ran hesitated and asked: "Can you get two taels a month? It's not against the law, right? If you work in a restaurant, you only get two taels a month."

Song Huiyue smiled and said, "Of course it's not against the law. It's because after my family goes to the capital, we will have to rent the house again. Someone needs to watch the door and do the rough work. You have to do the work of two people alone. It's not too much."

She went to the capital, so she couldn't stay in the palace, but if she wanted to employ people, she had to be at ease. Instead of worrying about going to the capital, Tan Ran, a stubborn person, was at ease.

After all, people who are beaten to death without paying the travel fee will not be easily encouraged in other matters.

"Is there enough food?" Tan Ran mentioned the question he was most concerned about.

"Enough."

"Will you send out a padded jacket?"

"send."

After Tan Ran asked about these important matters, he nodded straightforwardly: "I have nothing to worry about here, and I just happened to go to see the prosperity of Kyoto, so I'll go with you."

After finishing speaking, he remembered one more thing: "You still owe me three silver hairpins. You said you would give them to me, but you took them away."

Song Huiyue smiled, "Here you are."

She found it out of the package and handed it to Tan Ran.

With wealth in his hands, Tan Ran changed his clothes under Huang Ting's busy schedule, had a full meal, and didn't ask for a room to sleep in. He directly set up a bunk outside Song Huiyue's gate and guarded the gate for her.

It's just that he slept too deeply. When Yin Xiao came, he snored like thunder and didn't even turn over.

Yin Xiao stared at the sudden doorkeeper on the ground, knocked on the door suspiciously, and when the lights came on in the room, Song Huiyue walked behind the door and talked to Yin Xiao, Tan Ran didn't even have the slightest intention of waking up.

He really is a magnanimous person who has no worries.

"Ma'am, Ma'am, they and Xie Xianggong's family are separated into two boats, and King Jin's luggage is on Xie Xianggong's boat."

The journey back to Beijing was not all smooth sailing, so Xie Zhou pretended to be the King of Jin and boarded the boat. In fact, the King of Jin avoided the eyes of others and didn't even bring You Song with him.

All the idle guards gathered on the two big boats of the Xie family and the Song family. If something happened, they would immediately lead the two families to abandon the boat and flee.

After Song Huiyue knew that everything was in order, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you hungry?"

Yin Xiao answered truthfully: "Hungry."

Song Huiyue didn't eat much because she was concerned about Mrs. Song. At this moment, she put her heart back and felt hungry: "Let's go, let's go to the kitchen to get something to eat."

She put on her clothes and opened the door. Before the cold wind could hit her, Yin Xiao had already taken off his cloak and wrapped it around her.

These were the clothes that Mrs. Song told him to add when he saw Mrs. Song getting on the boat, seeing that he was wearing thin clothes.

The two of them stepped over Tan Ran who was motionless, and walked to the kitchen. Yin Xiao paid two qian and went in to look for food.

Unexpectedly, it was late at night, and there were cold pots and stoves in the kitchen. Song Huiyue looked around and saw a piece of bacon smoked on the beam, found a few dried radishes, and dug out a bowl of pickles from the jar. While washing rice, he lamented to Yin Xiao that the two coins were too expensive.

Yin Xiao chopped firewood to light the fire, and let the rice pot gurgle on the fire. Song Huiyue pulled out another salted fish, brushed off a layer of black mud vigorously, and she threw it into the rice pot.

Yin Xiao used a knife to slice the bacon into thin slices and handed them to Song Huiyue.

Song Huiyue set up the pot drastically, and began to show her ups and downs in cooking—sometimes it was unpalatable, and sometimes it was unpalatable.

"It's ready... Bring the bowl... Damn, I forgot to put salt..."

Yin Xiao silently handed over the bowl, thinking that the aunt is very good, after just a few times of cooking, her culinary skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and she can fry them well.

Two bowls of vegetables, a piece of salted fish, and a large pot of rice were placed on the table.

Song Huiyue ate salted fish, spitting out fishbone while eating: "Fish smell is also afraid of too many thorns."

Holding the rice bowl in one hand and the rice ladle in the other, Yin Xiao mixed the food, scooped it up, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Song Huiyue crunched the crispy fishbone in her mouth: "When I was in Kyoto, I forgot a lot of things, but I remember that one year was extremely cold, and not long after the summer, it became thicker and thicker. Qinghui wore a padded jacket like a bear, and he couldn't walk steadily, and he fell a big ass when he went out."

Yin Xiao puffed up her cheeks and wanted to laugh, but she had more heart than strength, her mouth was so full that she couldn't open it, so she couldn't laugh.

In Song Huiyue's fine words, Yin Xiao wiped out the two coins, feeling very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)