Daming Yinghua

Chapter 119 It's okay to give money, but don't give it to others

Wang Yuesheng once told Zheng Haizhu that the sound of the piano is the most peaceful sound in the world.

According to the sound, it is like telling a lifetime.

Sanyin, open-minded and distant.

Harmonic, clear and clear.

However, at this moment, Zheng Haizhu couldn't feel calm in the sound of Wang Yuesheng's piano.

She stared at Xu Dahua, who was leaning on the armchair, enjoying the way he closed his eyes and shook his head, constantly stimulating adrenaline, wishing to press this pious face like Lu Xiangsheng's usual experimental cow urine bubble. To the pool water in Qingyuan.

He doesn't know anything about himself!
Wang Yuesheng has been chasing Zheng Haizhu's gaze, using his eyes to match simple lip language, telling her, Miss Zheng, it's okay, don't be impulsive.

After listening to three qin pieces in a row, Xu Dahua opened his eyes in satisfaction, and suddenly sighed: "I remember clearly that the only one who could let a girl play three qin pieces at once on the banks of the Qinhuai River was my fellow villager, that Shanyin The eldest son of the Zhang family is called... called Zhang Dai."

Wang Yuesheng lowered his eyes and said: "Siqing has a good memory. However, a good man should be like Siqing, fulfill his duties, serve the king and the community, collect gold and silver from all over the world, and benefit the common people."

Xu Dahua pursed his lips: "Miss Cheng Meng thinks highly of it."

Taking a reproachful tone again, he blamed Zheng Haizhu and said: "Please play the piano, Guangling guest, the master has wine to enjoy this evening. Miss Zheng, it's dusk, and you don't prepare some wine, how can you have a good time tonight?"

Zheng Haizhu stood up: "Siqing wait a moment, I will ask Zhilong to hire a sedan chair, I will accompany Xiang Sheng, please Siqing to have dinner at Ting He Xuan, Ting He Xuan, the view is very good..."

Xu Dahua interrupted her, and gestured for her to sit down: "You don't need to spend too much time, just have some drinks and light meals here. I know that you are short on money for making firearms. I will invite you for this meal. I have already let Abao Going to set it up."

Zheng Haizhu thought to himself, no wonder when he turned around just now, he found that Xu Dahua's servant Xu Bao had disappeared.

She wanted to go out of the garden to call Lu Xiangsheng, but she didn't want to leave Wang Yuesheng to deal with Xu Dahua alone, but she didn't leave.

She could hear Xu Dahua whining and singing along with the sound of the zither, the voice was harder than the call of the old raven, it was really like sitting on pins and needles.

After another incense stick, Xu Bao came back with two large bamboo food boxes.

Wang Yuesheng took the piano.

When Zheng Haizhu got up to scoop water to clean Xu Dahua's hands, he saw Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Zhilong standing quietly watching from a distance under the setting sun outside the courtyard.

Her heart was a little more stable.

This is her own territory, besides the two men Lu and Zheng, there are also masters of the Ge family who are also muscular men, so Xu Dahua needs to be strong, so it's not enough.

Looking at the table again, there are three wine cups, several plates of braised meat, and several plates of pastries.

Xu Bao held a wine jug with a fat belly and a thin neck, and filled three cups.

Xu Dahua picked up the cup, and said with a pleasant face: "Miss Zheng, Miss Wang, I am usually busy with official duties, today I can steal half a day's leisure to discuss firearms with Miss Zheng, and enjoy the melody of the piano with Miss Wang. I am very happy. Come on, do it." A cup, eat some side dishes, and I'm going back to the station."

Zheng Haizhu saw that he drank it first, and drank his own wine. Exhausting the last bit of patience, he said in a harmonious voice: "Thank you, Siqing, for your understanding. Yuesheng will go to see my family's Ding to practice tomorrow. A tune to teach the school children, she should really go to bed early."

Xu Dahua sneered in his heart, aren't you implying that you have some power in Songjiang?

This self-proclaimed honorable and coquettish fourth-rank civil servant put down his wine cup, raised his chopsticks, picked up a piece of smoked fish, and put it on the plate in front of Wang Yuesheng: "Miss Wang, you are tired of playing, eat some."

Wang Yuesheng wanted to get up and Fuli, raised his hands halfway, then suddenly fell down, then his shoulders shook, a pair of peach blossom eyes stared at Xu Dahua, his eyes became more and more blurred, his mouth was slightly opened, as if he wanted to speak but couldn't speak.

Zheng Haizhu was taken aback, and went up to support Wang Yuesheng: "What's wrong?"

Wang Yuesheng closed his eyes and leaned softly on Zheng Haizhu's body.

"Miss Zheng, let Miss Wang rest for a while, she is fine. Ah Bao has something to say to you."

Xu Dahua said calmly.

Zheng Haizhu saw Wang Yuesheng's breathing was stable, leaned her gently on the armchair, stood up with a livid face, and walked to the corridor with Xu Bao.

Xu Bao took out the book of poems with the banknotes in it, handed it to Zheng Haizhu, and pouted in the direction of the wine table: "Siqing doesn't want money, but people."

Zheng Haizhu was once again so direct and shameless, which refreshed the three views.

She stared at Xu Bao: "You tampered with that wine?"

"It's just a mandarin duck pot. Don't worry, it won't hurt Miss Wang. Si Qing is afraid that you are thin-skinned and soft-hearted. You won't be able to persuade her when she is awake. Why don't you just follow us to the post house while half drunk. After one night, it will be fine." In fact, in the next ten days, I will accompany Siqing for a walk in the south of the Yangtze River, and let her come back after Siqing returns to Beijing. Miss Zheng, don't you think it's a big deal, they are such bitches, It could have been sold."

Xu Bao said a few words in a tone that he thought was enough to give the other party face.

Zheng Haizhu met the other party's gloomy, but somewhat understated gaze, and asked, "How much can she sell this time?"

Xu Bao looked at the pretty face in front of him, feeling a little pity in his heart.

The master's bid is so straightforward, it would be great if this Zheng surnamed be added to the head and rewarded for himself to enjoy.

Although this woman is not as submissive as Miss Wang, she is a businessman, and a businessman can negotiate prices more calmly than a bitch.

Forget it, I am a domestic slave after all, if the master doesn't give it to me, I can't ask for it.

So Xu Bao suppressed his provocative heart, and said in a deep voice: "In our master's hands, there is still a surplus of fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver. Buying a horse is also buying, and buying a cannon is also buying. The girl does the math herself, enough How many cannons were built?"

Zheng Haizhu nodded, turned and walked back to the wine table.

Xu Dahua put down his wine glass and looked up at her.

"Miss Wang still has to compose music tomorrow, so she's going to rest. Xu Siqing, please come back."

The corners of Xu Dahua's eyes shrank, he leaned back in the chair without moving, and said calmly, "What did you say? Think it through before you speak."

Zheng Haizhu's eyes fell on the jug.

She felt a self with horns on her head popping out of her body, grabbed Xu Dahua's brocade-patterned and luxurious robe front, angrily said to him: "What do you ask me for?"Let me tell you the fuck, if Xu Guangqi begged you, you bastard, Gu Nian, I would not say anything, but do something, such as smashing your pig face with a flagon!

In this brief moment, Zheng Haizhu was holding his lungs to the point of exploding, and finally controlled his hand that was about to reach out to the jug.

"Siqing, please go back." She repeated coldly.

"Ho..."

From the depths of Xu Dahua's throat, a gloomy low laugh came out.

He tilted his body slightly, glanced into the distance, sighed, and said to Xu Bao: "Let's go, Miss Zheng, on this mountain, although there is not much money, there are not few people. She has a stubborn temper. I can't afford it."

The senior member of the fourth rank stood up, dusted off his robe, stared at Zheng Haizhu, said "Miss Zheng, we will meet later", then walked out of Qingyuan with his head held high.

Xu Bao cursed a few words, "I don't know what is good or bad, and you have to suffer", and hurriedly followed the master's pace.

After the two shameless master and servant finally disappeared, Zheng Haizhu sat down on the chair.

Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Zhilong ran in quickly, and before they could ask any questions, Wang Yuesheng, who was opposite Zheng Haizhu, suddenly opened his eyes.

Zheng Haizhu jumped up in a daze: "You, are you okay?"

Wang Yuesheng stood up staggeringly, and when he opened his mouth, he spoke with a big tongue, but he was not incoherent.

"Girl... don't be surprised. I was on guard. Because Xu Dahua was in the Qinhuai River back then, he used a mandarin duck pot for me, a sister who refused to be groomed and had a strong temper. I saw Xu Bao just now. When Xu Dahua poured wine for you, his gestures were different from when he poured wine for me. When he put the jug on the table, I could see that there were two holes on the left and right sides of the handle, so I spit it out while wiping my mouth after drinking. few."

After Zheng Haizhu listened, he grabbed the jug and took a closer look. Sure enough, he found two small holes the size of mung beans near the neck of the jug.

She lifted the lid and looked in, only to see that the neck of the jug was divided into two halves until the fat jug body. The whole wine jug was like a mandarin duck pot, and the liquids contained in each other were incompatible.

The anger in Zheng Haizhu's chest has already boiled like a hot pot, and he was about to smash the dirty jug on the ground when he suddenly realized that it was a physical evidence to make a statement with Xu Guangqi, so he had to put it back on the table. He copied the wine cup in front of him and slammed it on the ground.

Accompanied by the shattering sound of "Ping Xiao Xiao", Zheng Haizhu looked at Wang Yuesheng and said word by word: "Are you trying me?"

Frightened by the unfamiliar resentment in those eyes, Wang Yuesheng suddenly knelt on the ground with a thud, and eagerly confessed: "I don't, Miss Zheng, I don't. I'm afraid that you will cause trouble because of me."

Lu Xiangsheng stepped forward in three steps and two steps, wanting to help Wang Yuesheng, but he couldn't reach out, so he turned sideways and said to Zheng Haizhu: "Do you want Miss Wang to expose that Xu Dahua on the spot? What she cared about at that time was definitely not to implicate us."

Lu Xiangsheng's tone was blunt.He was a little angry at Zheng Haizhu's suspicious anger towards Wang Yuesheng.

Wang Yuesheng raised his head, his eyes reflected the last ray of sunlight that was about to disappear into darkness.

"Miss Zheng, I didn't try your mind at all. I reckoned that the dog officer was going to take me away. I just wanted to drink less medicine. If I really don't know people and things, I have to save my strength and go to the dog officer's place." Even if he stabs him with a hairpin, he will not be able to find the misfortune of the girl here."

Zheng Haizhu stared at her, and when he spoke again, his tone finally showed frustration: "So, did you think that I would let Xu Dahua take you away like this? Zhang Dai treats you as a human being, and I won't treat you as a human being." ?"

Wang Yuesheng froze suddenly, met Zheng Haizhu's eyes in a daze, and after a while, said with a trembling voice: "Young lady is a good person."

Zheng Haizhu took a deep breath, sighed heavily, held Wang Yuesheng's cold hand, and helped her up.

"Xiangsheng, an official, sit down too," Zheng Haizhu motioned to Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Zhilong, and then said to Cui Yu'er who rushed over when he heard the noise and stopped timidly in the distance, "There is a jar of wine in my room. Go and fetch the fish, and four of our own cups."

Cui Yu'er fumbled back and forth, and put the wine glasses on the table.

Zheng Haizhu pointed to the wine and said: "I bought it half a month ago. The store said it was good wine, but I didn't understand it. It was quite expensive, so it should be good wine. At that time Xu Hanlin said to bring us a God of Wealth, so I said I think, if we can really get a lot of money for making firearms, we will open this jar of wine and celebrate."

After she finished speaking, she went to pull out the cloth-wrapped wooden cover of the wine jar, but her hands were trembling, and she couldn't exert any strength.

Lu Xiangsheng moved her hand away, pulled off the lid, and filled the four bowls with wine.

Zheng Haizhu drank it down first, and immediately coughed violently, coughing and spitting: "Okay, I seem to have been cheated, two taels of silver for a pot! It's not very delicious."

Without waiting for the other three people to react, she laughed again: "But it's quite spicy and full of energy. Alas, it's too late. The wine is strong and timid. If I just drank it, it would be fine. I will, I will definitely grab you That Xu Dahua, ask him, have all your sage books been read into the stomach of a dog? Can you wear a blood-red official robe, so you can shamelessly humiliate the common people? Damn, you really think it’s too Did you get the several 10 taels of silver in the Pusi by yourself? It was all the people you oppressed, who worked so hard, sold themselves, and worked so hard to hand over to the court every penny!"

Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Yuesheng, and Zheng Zhilong looked at Miss Zheng who had completely changed, and they didn't dare to talk to her, let alone drink, and just listened to her in a daze.

Zheng Haizhu vented a lot, filled his bowl with wine, took a big gulp, and continued: "Wu Bangde, the descendant of Wu Weizhong, whom I met in Zhenjiang, told me that back then, the Qi family army was in Jizhen. At that time, the Japanese country invaded North Korea, and the imperial court transferred the Qi family army, and the soldiers left without saying a word. Old General Wu's life was almost lost in Pyongyang.

Then, the military salary promised by the imperial court was not paid.At that time, the old general Wu had been relieved of his military power by the imperial court and left Jizhen. The soldiers had no one to make decisions, so they could only surround the king of Jizhen to speak.The man surnamed Wang was already jealous of the Qi family army.He led the troops himself like a waste, and he was top-notch in conspiracies and tricks. He found the censor of the court and slandered the Qi family's army for making money and wanting to rebel.

Those censors, those Daming civil servants with the same conscience as today's Xu Dahua, together with the surname Wang, used the name of payment to trick the soldiers of the Qi family army to the school grounds.

Roll call one by one.

Everyone thought it was paid according to the name, so that they could be taken home to save the lives of their hungry wives and children.Who would have thought that all the checks were completed, and arrows were fired in unison.One thousand three hundred elites!Thirteen hundred living soldiers of the Qi family army who had fought countless victories for Daming were shot to death by their own people one by one.

Does this imperial court still have face? "

After Zheng Haizhu finished speaking, he leaned back on the chair tiredly.

The Jade Rabbit ascends to the east.

The half ice wheel quietly overlooks the world.

The water in the clear garden reflects the bright moon in the sky.

Zheng Haizhu tried her best to look at the moon shadow in the water through the haze formed by the smell of alcohol in front of her eyes.

Seeing that she had finally calmed down a bit, Lu Xiangsheng followed her gaze and looked at the pond where he simulated a naval battle for the children for a while, before he said, "Sister, what we do is not just fishing for moons in the water. Daming The court will not all be shameless like Xu Dahua."

The corners of Zheng Haizhu's mouth twitched, staring at Lu Xiangsheng, and the last words before he passed out of drunkenness were: "You are the best, work harder, next year you will win the examination, and the year after that you will be a Jinshi. You must remember Xu Dahua, you must remember to come out The idea of ​​trapping and killing the censor of Qi's army should remember this group of scumbags who eat nothing, are shameless, harm the people, and kill loyal people. After you become an official, you must not become the person you hate the most."

(End of this chapter)