Reckless

2021-05-21

  Chapter 12 Life Experience, Ups and Downs, Rain and Ping Ping

Clean up the small courtyard under the waterfall, Zuo Lingquan and Wu Qingwan bid farewell and left the bamboo forest.

At noon time, Zuo Lingquan finally arrived at Perching Phoenix Valley, and did not rush back to the capital. On the grounds of familiarity with the environment, Xiao Hua Senior Sister was asked to lead the way around Perching Phoenix Valley.

Perching Phoenix Valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides, only the valley mouth is for people to come in and out, the internal area is not small, about five miles around.

According to Xiao Hua Senior Sister, the biggest in Perching Phoenix Valley is Sect Master, which is Imperial Teacher Yue Pingyang. There are five rooms under Sword Wielding House, Disciplinary Hall, Pill Item House, Ancient Books House, and Daily Life House. Five Martial Uncles are in charge of the house. Wu Qingwan is the house of Pill Item House.

There are nearly 3,000 people in Perching Phoenix Valley dísciple, and the five palm houses must not be able to teach them. Therefore, there are several deacons under the five houses, responsible for the management of dísciple and preaching.

After visiting the places where Perching Phoenix Valley can go, the sky gradually darkened, a spring thunder resounded through the sea of ​​clouds, and the dense spring rain fell again.

Zuo Lingquan will have to go to Rising Cloud Platform to participate in Prince Consort tomorrow. He needs to prepare in advance and does not stay long. After thanking Xiao Hua Senior Sister, he rode back to Eastern Flower City.

In February, the spring rain is like a crisp rain. Thousands of sails on the Bailu River gather from the water gate of Riverfacing Lane. The riverside streets are also very lively. Under the eaves of the street can be seen everywhere, merchants and pawns sheltering from the rain.

After Zuo Lingquan entered the city gate, he happened to pass by Riverfacing Lane. Before he had dinner on the way back, he entered the Fangmen directly and came to the Tang Family restaurant.

In the evening, the light rain continued, the light on the Linhe street was slightly dim, the yellow wine flags swayed in the wind and rain, the four wine tables in the wine shop were all seated with guests, the arrests I met yesterday Fast Old Zhang is also among them.

Zuo Lingquan stopped at the window when he saw the guests were full. From the window, you could see Tang Jingxun dressed as a woman, sitting by the small stove warming the wine.

Tang Jingxun slept on the table last night. She didn’t know if she didn’t sleep well, she looked a little faint, and she was listless with her hands on her chin.

Although I don’t know the exact age of Tang Jingxun, looking up, it’s about twenty-five-six and sixty-six. The market dress of bead hairpin and sarong does not conceal the softness of in the bones. At this time, he is slouched. It also adds a bit of lazy beauty of’late to get up with sick wine, sweet and lazy thrush’, which is completely different from yesterday’s hot and talkative image, but it is equally attractive.

The wine shop is full, Zuo Lingquan wanted to leave silently, but wanted to say hello before leaving.

After hesitating for a while, Tang Jingxun didn’t see him. Old Zhang, who was sitting at the wine table inside, noticed him first:

   ”Oh, Young Master Zuo is here. Come in, quietly, don’t doze off, the distinguished guest is here…”

Tang Jingxun turned his eyes when he heard the sound, and after seeing Zuo Lingquan in the window, his eyes lit up and stood up:

“Little Zuo, why are you here again? No, what brought you here…”

Incoherent, obviously not awake.

Zuo Lingquan shook his head and smiled, put away the umbrella and leaned against the door, and entered the small wine shop:

   ”I have nothing to do, come and sit.”

Helped the vigil last night In the morning, he left without saying goodbye and did not forget to pay for the wine. Tang Jingxun did not say goodbye to thank him. He felt sorry in his heart. He hurried into the back room and said:

“Young Master, sit first, haven’t you eaten?” I’ll prepare wine and food for you.”

There is no room in the wine shop. Zuo Lingquan came to the table of Old Zhang with a sword and sat down, pushed the cup and changed a cup and chatted for a while, and Tang Jingxun carried two dishes. The warm side dishes came out and put them on the wine table.

Catch Old Zhang knowing that the food and wine are prepared for Zuo Lingquan, and he didn’t mean to eat rice, so he took his saber and said goodbye:

   ”Young Master drink first, I’ll go out on the street.”

After the farewell, Zuo Lingquan sat back at the wine table and looked at the delicious dishes in front of him, including said with a smile:

“I have Lao Tang.”

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Tang Jingxun took the warm wine from the small stove, sat down directly next to Zuo Lingquan, and filled him up with the wine bowl:

  ”If you can do anything, you also have to pay for your meal. It’s not for you to eat free food.”

Zuo Lingquan took a bowl of wine and placed it in front of Tang Jingxun, and poured her a bowl of wine:

“I thought it was based on me and soup. Sister’s friendship can be spent for nothing.”

Tang Jingxun looked at the wine bowl in front of him, hesitated a little, then picked up and touched Zuo Lingquan, took a sip, and said softly:

   ”What kind of friendship, don’t talk nonsense. There are some women with long tongues in this street are the most annoying. They stare at other people’s door and gossiping all day, for fear that there will be nothing wrong with other people’s home…”

Tang Jingxun while speaking, Qingli’s eyebrows showed annoyance, and her eyes were still aiming at the end of the street. Obviously, there was something to say, not a casual complaint.

Zuo Lingquan held the wine bowl for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when he left in the morning, a woman in the buns shop at the end of the street looked at him.

He put away the chuckle on his face and asked:

   ”Is it possible that someone is talking about sister Tang? When I left in the morning, the sky was already bright, and the one at the end of the street Inside the steamed bun shop…”

“It’s her.”

Tang Jingxun heard this, and it became fire after rubbing against him. He even raised his hand and patted Zuo Lingquan’s arm. :

   ”You know that I live alone in a woman’s family, drank wine all night, and left in the morning, so you sneaked away, just and honorable to go out from the front door. Don’t you know, as soon as I opened the door this morning, I saw that The woman was chewing her tongue with someone, and she came to ask me if I found a friend…”

When Zuo Lingquan left in the morning, he did not think so much, he said with a clear conscience:

“This is a wine shop. I came to have a drink with Sister Tang innocent. I have to go to the main entrance naturally. How can there be a sneaky reason? Isn’t that a guilty conscience?”

“…”

Tang Jingxun thought for a while, as if so, so he found the grievance on the woman again:

   ”That dead lady is the lover of my fourth uncle. She was originally a sister of Goulan Yao. Nothing else, just I like to hurt others behind my back.”

Zuo Lingquan didn’t expect that the woman was still related to Tang Jingxun, so it was difficult to answer the conversation for a while.

Tang Jingxun and Zuo Lingquan complained. They thought that Zuo Lingquan and her would blame each other’s lack of virtue. Seeing this, they explained again:

“My mother is surnamed Chen, and Chen Family is here. The capital is also considered a big family, and Chen Maode, the supervisor of Yushitai, is my second grandfather.”

“oh?”

Zuo Lingquan was a little surprised, he thought Tang Jingxun is a lonely pretty daughter in a humble family, didn’t expect someone from the family to be an official in the Imperial court.

It’s just that Tang Jingxun is not at all complacent about these relatives, and even disgusted:

   ”Back then, my grandfather was the eldest son of the Chen Family. He took care of the business at home. There were more than a dozen shops in Riverfacing Lane. The shop belongs to my grandfather, but unfortunately my grandfather has only one daughter and no son. Later, my father went to Beijing to take the exam and met my mother. The two became relatives.

When I was born, something happened inexplicably. A big fire nearly burned half of Riverfacing Lane.

My name is’Jing Zhu’, because’Jing’ is wood bent by the fire. It was originally’forbidden’, for I changed it to the way it sounds nice.

After the fire, my mother gave birth and I was frightened again, and soon left; my father got sick because of this, and I didn’t learn how to walk. Time is gone too; I was taken by my grandma. It was fine at first, but since my grandma passed away, everything has changed.

My second grandfather, Chen Maode, has several sons. I’m not very competitive. As soon as my grandfather left, the Chen Family naturally fell in love with my family’s property, saying that my mother was a married foreigner and wanted to take back all of the property.

I am willing to sue the officials, but the government is not easy to control, because the industry is indeed the Chen Family ancestral business; later, Old Zhang couldn’t stand it, so he ran to the chief officer of the Arrest Division to come forward and make peace.

The chief officer said that my mother is a Chen Family. Even if I am not surnamed Chen, I also have Chen Family bloodline. I am not married, have no elders, and have no foundation for standing. As relatives, Chen Family must do their duty to raise the family and cannot take back the family property, otherwise it will be violated. Public order and good customs.

The chief officer is arrested, the official is bigger than the Chen Family. Chen Family dare not take it, but it is shameless behind the scenes. Since the age of fourteen, I have been married to Zhang Luo everywhere. I married out, so it is logical to take possession of the property.

These properties belong to my grandfather and my mother, why should I give them to them? So I will not marry, and I have to keep these properties when I die… …”

These grievances, I don’t know how many years Tang Jingxun held back in his heart, holding a small wine bowl and talking, his eyes were red at the end of the talk.

Zuo Lingquan listened carefully, and gradually understood Tang Jingxun’s situation. He also had shame and contempt for the Chen Family:

“This Chen Family is really not a thing. , I’m not afraid of retribution.”

“I’m a granddaughter, so Li doesn’t stand by my side. What can I do? I’m just spending time with them, so I won’t marry. Anyway, I’m old. Small, they die first…”

……

At sunset, the pedestrians on the riverside street are like weaving.

Tang Jingxun confided in the wine shop, Zuo Lingquan sat there and listened carefully.

Neither of them noticed that an awning boat floated by the river outside the door, and two pairs of eyes protruded from the awning of the boat.

“That kid, I saw him come out of Tang Jingxun’s house in the morning with my own eyes…”

In the boat canopy, the woman who sells steamed buns in the morning, cautiously hides her bloated figure, Talking to the middle-aged man next to him:

   ”Tang Jingxun must have a man. Let’s call the Chen Family brother over. Let’s catch the current one. I think she has any reason not to return the title deed…”

The middle-aged man is the Chen Family Old Fourth. He has been in the capital for many years, and he has some eye-sightedness despite being ignored and incompetent, but he didn’t listen to the woman’s instigation. He squinted his triangular eyes and looked at Zuo Lingquan in the wine shop carefully:

   ”This kid wears a robe like Yunzhongjin, but the texture is less than a hundred taels. The family must be rich or expensive, you know Identity?”

Yesterday, the ominous beast was so serious. The middle-aged woman was on the street. She naturally knew that she quickly said:

“I heard that it was like Lang, a servant at the Ministry of Justice. Family’s relatives, what is called Zuo Lingquan……”

Old Fourth Chen’s eyes twitched, and he ran to the door to catch the current thoughts and suddenly disappeared, cursing:

“You stupid woman, The Minister of Etiquette is Grade 3, older than my father and official, is this dare to make trouble?”

Be kind, now she has a man and still doesn’t pay the land deed. Isn’t this shameless…”

Old Fourth Chen waved his hand to let the woman stop making noises and ponder it carefully:

“Deputy Minister Zuo is an important minister in the court, and I heard that the family is very good. The house in the capital is bigger than the prime minister’s house. The Young Master in this family will marry a wife and take a concubine. The bride price will not be stingy…”

“It means not to make trouble, come to tell the matchmaker to match the two of them?”

“As long as Jing Xi marries, the industry will naturally be withdrawn, and my Chen Family can also get a gift. one move. , two gains, why do you want to tear your face?”

Old Fourth Chen thought about it for a while and thought it was a good idea, so he stopped staying and let the ship berth and disembark:

“I’m going to talk to my dad, I will choose Prince Consort tomorrow, all officials have to go to the Rising Cloud Platform, just this opportunity, privately with Deputy Minister Zuo to talk about this… you are sure of them I slept all night last night?”

“It’s true, I watched that kid come out in the morning, and I also lifted my pants…”

……

(End of this chapter)