Qing Fu Jin

Chapter 79 The Crippled Man

Ling Bo has been wandering all over the capital these days, where should he visit?Visit the candied fruit shop.

For example, now, she is sitting in the spacious shop of Hengfuji, with a small plate of Huamei in front of her.

Hengfuji is a long-established dim sum and candied fruit shop in Beijing, especially their plum and rose cakes, which are famous far and wide.It is said that it is made in the palace, and it cannot compare with the taste of Hengfuji.Since it is a time-honored brand, there are always some secret recipes.

The shopkeeper of Heng Fu Ji also has good eyesight. When he sees the carriage outside the shop, the guards beside the carriage, and Ling Bo's demeanor, and the clothes of the maids, he knows that he is a nobleman in front of him.If the service is good, not to mention the business, the reputation will be excellent, so I personally stood beside Ling Bo and waited.

After the Chinese New Year, the Empress Dowager will go to Shengjing. The journey is long, the car looks like labor, and the body is tired, which will also affect the appetite.The queen mother also hurt her, Ling Bo thought, prepare some candied snacks, or appetizers, or saliva, or hunger, for the queen mother to eat on the way.

The embroidered book said: "Gege, there is a special dessert maker in our house, why do we have to buy it outside? Wouldn't it be cleaner to make it at home?"

Ling Bo said helplessly, "I don't know if it's cleaner and more thoughtful to make it at home, but where can I find fresh yellow plums right now?"

The best snack to pass the time is of course Huamei.

She originally wanted the dim sum master in Fuchu to make it, or she simply learned to make it herself, but the master told her that the raw material for making Huamei is yellow ripe plums picked after the awn seeds, commonly known as yellow plums.

After the yellow plums are picked from the tree and washed, they are soaked in salt water for more than a month in a large tank, taken out and dried in the sun; after drying, they are rinsed with clean water and dried in the sun; then soaked in sugar and dried in the sun—— Repeated this many times, and finally got the plum.

But now it is winter, where can I still buy fresh yellow plums.

There are some stocks in the house, which are specially made for Li Rongbao's wife Fuhui.

Fuhui is twin now, and likes to eat some sour snacks.Ling Bo originally wanted to give the Queen Mother some plums that were in stock in the mansion, but after tasting it, he found that the master specially made it a little sour to suit Fu Hui's taste.

The queen mother is an old man, her teeth are fragile, and she can't bear spicy food, if her teeth are knocked down by plum sour, it will be terrible.

Therefore, Ling Bo had no choice but to look for Huahuamei outside on the street.

Fu Hui recommended her several famous dim sum shops in the capital, and Heng Fu Ji was one of them.

Hengfuji’s plums are steamed ten times and sun-dried for nine months. The plums are thick and crisp, with moderate sweetness and sourness. They are stored very well, moisture-proof and moth-proof, and can be stored for several years without deterioration.

Ling Bo picked up a plum, and the appearance was very good. He put it in his mouth and took a bite. As expected, his mouth was full of saliva, and it also had a slightly refreshing taste.

She nodded, smiled, and said to the shopkeeper, "It's really good, give me half a catty."

"Huh? Yes."

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then answered and walked back to the counter.

It's only half a catty...

Xiushu looked at his disappointed back, and said in a low voice: "Since Gege thinks it's delicious, why don't you buy more, not to mention that you can eat it at home, even the queen mother alone, half a catty is not enough."

Ling Bo said: "Although the first bite is good, I'm afraid that if you eat a few more, you will get tired. If so, the Queen Mother will take it with you. If you can't eat a few, you don't want to eat it. What's the point? Besides, it's still far away from the New Year. God, I bought it early, and we don't have a special container for storage. If the taste changes, it will not be delicious. Buy some for yourself and eat it. If it is really delicious and not greasy, we will buy it again when the Queen Mother is about to leave. "

Xiu Shu nodded, at this time the shopkeeper had already brought over a wooden box, inside which was half a catty of plums wrapped in sandpaper.

From this we can see the ingenuity of this Hengfuji, the wooden box for the dim sum is also specially customized, and the seal of Hengfuji is printed on the box.

Xiu Shu took the box and paid for it, Ling Bo got up and was about to leave the store.

At this time, three young girls, one master, two servants, walked in the door.

Xiu Shu's eyes lit up, and he said, "Ge Ge, it's Ge Ge Anzhuxian."

Hearing this, Ling Bo raised his head and saw that it really was An Zhuxian.At this time, An Zhuxian also saw her, and both of them greeted her with smiles, greeting each other.

An Zhuxian saw the snack box of Hengfuji in Xiushu's hand, and asked, "What did you buy?"

Ling Bo said: "A little plum, make a snack."

An Zhuxian nodded, and said: "This restaurant's plums are pretty good, and some other dim sum are also very good. The Fujin of our palace loves the sour plum cakes from this restaurant the most."

Hearing this, Ling Bo's heart skipped a beat, and when he looked at An Zhuxian again, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

She beckoned Xiushu to come over, bowed her ear and said a word, Xiushu nodded and walked to the counter. Not long after, she came back with two more boxes.

Ling Bo said to An Zhuxian: "I heard that besides sour plum cake, this rose cake is also very famous. You can take some and try it. It's a little thank you."

Ahn Joo-hyun smiled and said, "Thank you very much."

She signaled the servant girl to take the two boxes in Xiushu's hand, then took Ling Bo's hand and walked out of the shop.

Both of them have their own carriages and guards waiting outside the shop.

As soon as he left the shop, a person suddenly rushed over and bumped into Ling Bo.

"Oh, you!"

Xiu Shu screamed and hurriedly pushed the man away, but there was still a stain on Ling Bo's skirt.

An Zhuxian grabbed Ling Bo's hand and said, "Are you all right, where did you hit?"

"It's okay." Ling Bo shook his head.

Only then did everyone turn their attention to the person who bumped into her.

I saw an extremely thin man who was pushed by the embroidered book and fell to the ground. The braids on his head were scattered, covering most of his face. The color, the head, face, and body are covered with lumps of mud, as if they just crawled out of the mud, looking very dirty.

Ling Bo took a closer look and found that his legs were bent a little strangely. Seeing how he kept struggling but still couldn't get up, he was probably injured or disabled on both legs.And she also noticed that the man was using two crude crutches. When he hit her, one of the crutches flew off. After being pushed down by the embroidered book, the other also flew out.

Xiushu frowned angrily, and shouted at the man, "Why don't you have eyes when you walk!"

The man just lowered his head and put his hands on the ground, trying to get up.

At this time, there was a noise from the side, as if several people were shouting and running towards this side.

When the man heard the voice, he immediately became flustered.

"Here! Here!"

Three short-dressed men ran all the way, saw the man, rushed over immediately, yelled, grabbed him, and cursed: "You are a cripple, how dare you not pay for the hotel, beat me to death! "

The three of them immediately punched him, bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bah

Both Ling Bo and An Zhuxian retreated to the door of the store, and the nursing homes of both families surrounded them to protect them.

Three men beat up a defenseless man, attracting people on the street to watch.

An Zhuxian frowned, and said to Ling Bo: "Although this man doesn't pay for staying in a hotel, there's no need to beat him like this, he's not afraid of killing someone."

Ling Bo also felt something was wrong, and whispered a few words to the embroidered book.

Xiushu walked out of the crowd and shouted: "Stop! Don't fight any more!"

The three men ignored him and continued to beat the man, even using the two crutches they picked up to beat him non-stop.

Xiu Shu was very displeased, and stomped her feet anxiously, and the two guards from the Fucha family rushed out, punching and kicking the three men aside.

"Who are you, why are you meddling in your own business!"

One of the men yelled.

Xiushu said coldly: "Isn't this person owed money to your shop, he needs to beat him to death?"

"This crippled man lived in our store for more than ten days, and asked our shopkeeper to help the doctor to see a doctor. As a result, he not only couldn't pay for the soup and medicine, he didn't even pay a penny for the store. This morning, he dared to steal it. Run, this kind of person has no face and no skin, so what if you kill him?!"

Xiushu said angrily: "Even if he commits a criminal crime, the government has his own decision. How can you carelessly ignore human life!"

The man spat at the man and said, "Then how about the money he owes us?"

Xiu Shu snorted coldly: "How much money does he owe you, we will pay it back for him."

"You guys?" The man glanced at her, then at Ling Bo An Zhuxian and the others behind her, and realized that the other party was a noble daughter, he immediately felt guilty, and just said, "Not much Quite a lot, exactly ten taels of silver."

Xiushu said disdainfully: "How much do I know, but only ten taels."

She is a maid of Fu Cha's family, and she usually sees either rich or expensive, but ten taels of silver is already a huge sum of money for ordinary people, and the man didn't know what doctor he saw or what medicine he took, but he owed her money. so much silver.

Xiushu didn't say anything, took out two silver ingots weighing five taels, and threw them to the man.

The man saw that he was indeed twelve, so he didn't say anything more, summoned two companions, took the two crutches, and squeezed out of the crowd cursing.

Seeing that there was no excitement to watch, the onlookers dispersed with a loud noise.

Xiushu walked up to the man and put two ingots of silver on the ground in front of him.

The man sat slumped on the ground with his head lowered. When he saw Yinzi, he looked up at the embroidered book in surprise.

The embroidered book said: "Our lady thought you were pitiful, so she helped you pay off the debt. This is ten taels of silver. You can live with it, and don't owe others any more money."

After hearing her words, the man looked at Ling Bo behind the guard again.

Ling Bo and An Zhuxian stood on the steps, on a high ground, he had to look up, his messy hair slid to the sides of his face, revealing most of his face.

What kind of face is this, skinny only skinny bones, cheekbones protruding high, sharp and thin, lips without a trace of blood, there are a few dry rivers of blood, and the eyes are even more bloodshot.This face must have endured the pain and vicissitudes of many lives, otherwise it would not be so haggard.

Seeing his face, especially his eyes, both Ling Bo and An Zhuxian felt their hearts twitch for no reason.

This person seems to be kind.

　one more chapter later

　　
　
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