Across the Market

Chapter 156

Seeing his younger sister's serious face, Zhu Xi didn't look like she was lying on purpose, so he pulled her aside and said, "Is there something that you have to keep from me?"

Zhu Fu thought, Brother Shen has already taken care of this matter, and he feels more at ease with the backing, so it's no harm to tell his sister this time, so he told the whole story, Zhu Xi's eyes widened and his mouth widened. It was also so big that it cost half the salary before I came back to my senses.

"Sister Fu, you...you are so courageous." Zhu Xi hugged his younger sister and exclaimed, "If he finds out, he will definitely kill you, thanks to your composure. It took so long to say it. But that’s okay, thanks to telling Big Brother Shen, Big Brother Shen has studied in Jinling Academy, so he must know a lot of people, since he told us to leave it alone, let’s just pretend we don’t know about it.”

Zhu Fu nodded and said, "It's better for us to cut off contact with that side in the future, so as not to get involved in the future."

Zhu Xi pinched his younger sister's face and said: "Mother is really angry this time. It seems that mother hates that witch to the bone, and she will never recognize that witch as her mother again." He patted his younger sister on the shoulder and said, " In fact, my mother also has a hard life, with such a mother, I don’t know how much suffering I suffered when I was a child, we have to be considerate of her.”

Zhu Fu said: "I also feel sorry for mother, those thieves are really not human. When I have the opportunity next time, I must teach them a lesson! It's a pity that my aunt has a busy career and doesn't have time to entangle with them, but it's easier for them !"

"Girls, you can't talk like that." Zhu Xi led his sister into the room together, and then laughed again, "However, you scolded well."

It's past midnight, every household has turned off the lights, and the small county town seems to have fallen asleep.

Shen Yulou accompanied his mother and younger sister to watch the New Year's Eve, and went back to his own room. Remembering what Zhu Fu had said to him, he didn't feel sleepy anymore. He just sat at the desk in front of the window, laying out paper and rubbing ink.

He was about to write when he picked up the pen, but he paused, thought about it carefully, and then decided to write a letter to Xie Yi on the spur of the moment.

Mr. Jianghuaiqing and the dean are from the same hometown. When Mr. Jiang passed by Jinling when he took office, the two met once, and Mr. Jiang once praised him.

However, Jinling Academy has produced a large number of talents, and it has been more than two years, Master Jiang may not remember him.Even if he remembered, Mr. Jiang might not believe his words for such an insignificant man.

Xie Yi's cousin Xie Tong was also an official in the court, if he wrote to Xie Yi, Xie Yi would definitely inform his elder brother about it, and Xie Tong would naturally know how to deal with it.

Thinking about it this way, Shen Yulou took up a pen and wrote the letter. The details in the letter were appropriate, but it made things clear.

Not sure, just talking about my own guess, I hope Mr. Xie can be taken seriously.

By the time the letter was sent to Dingjing and fell into Xie Yi's hands, it was already several days later.Xie Yi pinched the letter sent by Shen Yulou, read it several times, and finally almost jumped to find Xie Tong.

As soon as he ran out of his own courtyard, he bumped into Xie Miao, the second son of Duke Jing's mansion, Xie Yi hurriedly stuffed the letter into his sleeve.

"Second brother, where are you going? In such a hurry." Although Xie Yi and Xie Miao are brothers of the same father, he is obviously closer to his cousin Xie Tong. Therefore, Shen Yulou said in the letter He would definitely only discuss with Xie Tong about the important matter.

Xie Tong and Xie Miao are about the same age, and now they are both officials in the court, and they have some disputes in private.

Seeing that it was his brother, Xie Miao smiled on his usually gloomy face, stood quietly at the side with his hands behind his hands and said, "Go and pay your respects to mother, where is third brother going?"

"I made an appointment with the Cui family brothers to go out to the city for a horse race, but I overslept. No, I hurriedly put on my clothes and went." Xie Yi lied casually. In short, he didn't want Xie Miao to know that there were people smuggling smugglers in Zhejiang. The salt thing.

Xie Miao looked Xie Yi up and down, and saw that his clothes were crooked, so he chuckled and said, "Third brother is really interesting, it seems that he will be able to try it in a short time, you still have the heart to follow him." People race horses. Well, don't worry, I won't tell my mother about this."

"Thank you second brother for that." Xie Yi pretended to bow to Xie Miao in a hurry, then put oil on his feet, and ran away in a hurry.

Xie Miao brushed off his clothes with his hand, and then walked to Mrs. Xie's yard again.

Xie Tong was practicing swordplay in the yard in the morning. He was wearing a black dress, his hair was tied up high with a black ribbon, and a scarlet sweat scarf was tied around his waist. When the long sword came out, it swept across a tree of plum blossoms. And falling, like a plum blossom rain.

"Brother's swordsmanship is getting better and better, no wonder even grandfather praises you." Xie Yi strode into the yard, looked at the plum blossoms scattered all over the ground, and said, "It's a pity, such a good plum blossom , just fell down."

Xie Tong put away the long sword, took the wet and hot towel delivered by one of the servants, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I will have a competition with you someday, brother, to see if your swordsmanship has improved."

"Let's talk about it another day. I'm here today, but I have something important to tell my elder brother." After he finished speaking, he winked at the maid who was standing aside, and the maid took Xie Tong and wiped her face. Behind the scarf, silently bowed his head and retreated.

Only then did Xie Yi take out the letter from his sleeve, and handed it to Xie Tongdao: "Brother, do you still remember my classmate Shen Yulou? I received this letter this morning, brother, take a look."

Looking at Xie Yi suspiciously, Xie Tong took the letter, glanced at it quickly, and then slowly raised his head.

"It's illegal for merchants to mine salt mines without permission. Brother Shen wrote to me, probably because he wanted to tell you about it." Xie Yi paced back and forth, "What Zhang Fa Cai, I heard Ah Fu said However, it seems to be related to the Zhu family, and it was Ah Fu who discovered this matter again, so Ah Fu will not encounter any accidents, right?"

Xie Tong put away the letter, without too much expression on his face, he only told: "You don't need to say anything about this matter, wait until I enter the palace to inform the emperor, and then make a decision."

Xie Yi nodded in agreement, and after returning, he wrote a revised book and sent it to Songyang County.

When Shen Yulou received Xie Yi's reply, it was already ten days after he sent the letter. Seeing that Xie Yi said in the letter that he had informed Xie Tong about this matter, and that Xie Tong would tell the emperor, he was a little relieved.

The sun was shining outside, so he put down his book, thinking that Ah Fu should be busy in Fuji at this time, so he wanted to go to Fuji to find her.

Just when he was about to reach the entrance of Fuji, he saw a carriage parked outside Fuji, and two people came out of the carriage.

(End of this chapter)