Sometimes the palace is sunny

Xie Lin'an rode out from the side door of Uncle Ning'an's mansion, and was immediately followed by the fans from Xichang. Xie Lin'an didn't even need to turn his head to know that these fans must be following openly, without any concealment.

These days he is used to it, the money is given away, the food and drinks are invited, the four-mouse eunuch who is said to be very popular in front of the imperial court is small and exquisite, with a calm face, he is really slippery, the benefits he sent All of them were given to the people below him without leaving any trace, but in the end they made Ning'an Bo's mansion be watched even more closely.

Riding horses is strictly prohibited in Yanjing City, and Xie Lin'an rode a horse in front of the hooves sounding "da da da da".

Those fans are also "da da da da" in the back.

"Da" all the way to Gulou Street, Xie Lin'an still didn't know where he should go.

His father-in-law was transferred to a foreign post, and the brother-in-law who stayed in Beijing looked at him as if he was an enemy every time he saw him, and he was not someone who could count with him.

Those wine and meat friends in the past have not heard from him since his father was imprisoned, so naturally they are not reliable.

Seeing the people coming and going on the street, Xie Lin'an sighed softly, as long as he can find someone familiar and let him complain a few words, he can also clear his head.

Walking from the east end of Gulou Street to the west end, Xie Lin'an did not find a single acquaintance.

He was surprised.

It's already noon, even if, even if those flower houses haven't officially opened yet, what kind of wine shop and tea house, those dudes in Yanjing City should have already stuck in it as if they were going home, right?

How come after walking for so long, he didn't even see a familiar high school kid?

What about people?

A fan who was already acquainted with Xie Lin'an said with a smile: "My lord, you should have enough time to relax. If you don't know where to go and the street is cold outside, we should turn back."

Xie Lin'an turned around and looked at those fans.

I touched it on my body, but only came out with a piece of silver pancake, which I didn't even feel able to take out to watch people drink.

Xie Lin'an smiled wryly: "Please, please accompany me outside to blow the air. When I go back, I will definitely invite everyone to drink."

"You don't need to drink, but Xie Shizi, if you want to sit in the restaurants and teahouses on Gulou Street, I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet any old friends."

The fan said with a smile: "It's frighteningly cold in Yanjing, how dare Jaqueer go out so easily?"

What does this mean?
Xie Lin'an looked around blankly: "Could it be that something happened in Beijing?"

Fanzi just laughed and didn't speak.

His Majesty first issued an order to investigate the Taipu Temple, then captured the uncle of the great country in court, and then sent the second son of the British public to prison for questioning, and then ordered a thorough investigation of prostitution in Yanjing City. Dare to go out easily?Even if they dared to come out, the family would not dare to let it out.

Knowing that he couldn't ask any more questions, Xie Lin'an turned his horse around and planned to go back.

"Hey, this person looks familiar, but he is from Habayashi guard?"

Xie Lin'an followed the sound and saw a man wrapped in a big cloak who was greeting him on the second floor of a restaurant.

The man had delicate features and was already in his 40s but still had a fair face and wore a mink fur warm hat on his head, giving him the appearance of a wealthy idler.

Xie Lin'an quickly got off his horse and said, "Commander Habayashi Wei, the next officer, has seen Commander-in-Chief."

The man hooked his hands at him: "My lord, the drinking buddy I originally invited here entered Beizhen Fusi this morning, you come up to drink with me."

"……Yes."

Holding the robe, he hurried to the restaurant, just as he saw the man, Xie Lin'an wanted to salute again.

"Don't be so polite, disturbing my quietness of drinking, come here quickly, I have been holding back at home for a long time, today I can come out while my wife is entering the palace."

With that said, the man picked up the glass and poured Xie Lin'an a glass of warm wine:
"I can't remember what your name is. Let's have a drink or two casually. New friends will be old friends. Just drink happily."

Looking at the wine in front of him, Xie Lin'an still wanted to decline, but felt that there was nothing to refuse since he had reached the point where he is today, so he raised his glass and drank it down.

The warm wine infiltrated his lungs with its aroma, and he realized that his internal organs had already been penetrated by the cold air.

"Master Cao, I feel bitter in my heart!"

"Just talk about it if you are suffering. Anyway, it's a drunken talk. We forget it after hearing it."

After taking a bite of the mutton head in front of him, the man raised his head and took another sip of the wine: "If you say it's bitter, who can be more bitter than me? I'm the only one with a brain and a sister in the whole bunch of people surnamed Cao." Became the empress dowager, I didn't want to live a good life, every day I babbled about some old things, an elder brother became an uncle, a decent relative of the emperor, but he only thought of himself as a bandit... A pig can do better than him Well done."

After taking another sip of wine, Cao Fengle, the younger brother of the current empress dowager and known as "Uncle Xiaoguo", put on a bitter face: "My sister sent me a letter yesterday, do you know what I said in the letter? She asked me to take care of my wife, don't Follow the queen. That's the queen! My wife is just a Mrs. Hou, what can she do with such a delicate person? The queen wants my wife to go to the inner study to be a female wife, and my wife can stop doing it if she says no ?"

Cao Fengle was complaining, but Xie Lin'an never stopped drinking.

He has held vacant positions in Yulinwei for so many years, and he has only met Cao Fengle three times, and they were all in places like the Qinlou Chu Pavilion. I ran into him in such a quiet restaurant.

What inner study?Wife?He was imprisoned for two months, why can't he even understand human speech?

Cao Fengle's complaints were not over yet, and it was obvious that he was extremely depressed and came out to find someone to listen to him:
"Just because my wife was chosen by the queen to be the lady wife, there are still people who scold me! They scold me for being unrefined! They scold me for being incapable of disciplining my wife! They are all rotten things crawling out of the old sauce vat and dare to stand in front of me Make a mistake! I don’t even look at what kind of virtues I have! My sister even asked me to write a memorial to the queen in partnership with those people, telling me that it was for the reputation of the Cao family and the royal family? What is the reputation of the Cao family? Ha! Let me tell you, the greatest blessing in my sister's life was meeting the late emperor who matched her temperament. The late emperor indulged her and turned her into a fool! Let court ladies be able to read and write, and let female officials have a future, Didn't they serve her queen mother more attentively? What did she do with the group of old men who called the rooster the morning? Did she forget that she was also a... hiccup."

After finishing the warm wine, Xie Lin'an touched the mouth of the wine pot which was still cold, and directly picked up the wine jar and poured himself a full glass of wine:

"Lord Cao, the empress dowager still cares about the reputation of the royal family. My grandmother never took our Xie family seriously! My father is still...my brother is also missing, and I, her grandson, The eldest grandson is ten years old in two months, and she misses her nephew every day."

Breaking his fingers, Xie Lin'an took out the account that he had calculated countless times in his heart:
"The 60th NO.[-] people in Dongkuayuan have chewing food. We produce it. We have to eat the best rice, use the best charcoal, and everyone has meat every day... My cousin said that he eats bran and swallows it. For vegetables, the millet you eat must be fried with tea oil, and the wild vegetables you eat must be served with preserved venison. The palace sent someone to watch, and my grandma asked the cook to boil a few fish into a white soup before cooking. That tofu, white and tender tofu, needs four or five pieces of crucian carp to pad it out! It is also said that the bed looks too extravagant, so I specially found the best silk to make the quilt, not only the outside is silk, but the inside is also silk! Isn’t this extravagant? Isn’t this wasteful? I used the best charcoal to burn the ground dragon so hot that no one could stand in the room, and I had to open the windows to breathe in. My charcoal was really wasted! Two months, alone His cousin spent thousands of taels of silver alone! I thought I hired a helper, but I found a disaster star!"

Thinking of the money that was spent like water, and the money that his family was robbed and disappeared along with his younger brother, and his wife who has no face to deal with.

Xie Lin An sadly said: "My mother still knows how to comfort me, but my grandmother knows to let me go along with my cousin? How can I go along? The good is my cousin's, and the suffering is mine! If things go on like this, on the day my cousin makes a catastrophe, I'm afraid my grandmother will take my head and give it to him as the last one!"

"You're so biased?" Cao Fengle didn't even bother to cry when he heard it. He moved his buttocks with his chopsticks, moved closer, and asked, "Then what are you going to do? Just admit it like this?"

Xie Linan shook his head and sighed.

"My cousin is the only support in our family now, and I don't know what to do..."

"Ah." Cao Fengle sighed with him, "I can't help you much. If you have a useful woman in your family, especially one who has read a lot of books, I can ask my wife to introduce her to the queen. The way to the queen is also the way. Unfortunately, such a person is not so easy to find."

"Boom." The wine glass in Xie Lin'an's hand fell to the ground.

"Really, really? A woman who can read now can follow the queen's footsteps?"

His eyes have lit up.

"Yes." Cao Fengle didn't drink the cold wine and only ate a few mouthfuls of food, "I think female officials are more decent than ordinary officials at the end of this year. A few days ago, female officials went to the Hall of Martial Arts and almost killed Liu Ge. Get angry."

The more Xie Lin'an listened, the more surprised he became, but it was a pleasant surprise.

If there is someone who can help him and support Xie's family together, he, he won't have to be manipulated so badly by his cousin and grandmother!

"Thank you, Mr. Cao."

"Thank you, I called you to drink on the road, I should thank you."

As Cao Fengle said, he yawned, and Xie Lin'an saw that he was sitting barefoot.

"Master Cao, where are your shoes?"

"Oh." Cao Fengle laughed, "My wife is timid and afraid of getting into trouble. She is afraid that I will go to the brothel at this time and end up being locked up with my elder brother, so she simply took away all my shoes. Today is still my servant. Came up with me on your back."

Seeing the tall and tall servant standing by, Xie Lin was relieved to be amazed. He never thought Mrs. Cao's wife was a "cowardly" person.

"Lord Cao, even...you can wear servant's shoes?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Cao Fengle's face full of indescribable words:

"The servants I serve by my side are carefully selected by my wife. They have athlete's foot! Where do they wear their shoes?"

Xie Lin'an was speechless.

It's no wonder that someone like Mrs. Cao's wife was chosen by the queen and selected into the inner study.

In the evening, Zhao Surui was dragging his body and watching A Chi settle accounts for himself, when he saw a little girl hurried in:

"Ma'am, the Xie family has come to our village, and they have been captured by Pei Feng."

"Who is it again?" Zhao Surui spat out the melon seed skin in his mouth, he was lazy and didn't want to lift his head, "According to the old rules, take good care of the horse brought by the visitor, and search for all the money on him Those who are obedient and sensible will be dragged to work, and those who are not sensible will set up a wooden stake in front of Zhuangzi, and when they are honest, they will be released."

The little girl thought for a while and said, "Being honest is honest."

"Ah."

Zhao Surui nodded, and heard the little girl say:
"But that person said Xie Lin'an, the eldest son of Uncle Ning'an."

"Pfft." Zhao Surui raised his head, "What is he doing here? Isn't he locked up?"

Outside Zhuangzi, Xie Lin'an, who was tied up in a ball, looked at the strong man in front of him in horror, feeling as if he had just stepped out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den.