win the hairpin

Chapter 194
Shou Dong's long life, Shou Sui's mother's long life, for Mrs. Song's long life, Song Huiyue made full preparations and sat opposite Yin Xiao by the brazier.

Outside was the sound of firecrackers roaring like a tsunami, drowning out the sound of musical instruments coming from the Forbidden Palace.

Early this morning, the Grand Court Meeting began in the palace, and there were envoys in the palace to congratulate, which is called a row of battles. King Jin entered the palace before dawn, and has not left until now.

Song Huiyue said while eating tangerines: "During the Lantern Festival, let's also hang two lanterns out, put up lantern riddles, and see if anyone can take a fancy to our lanterns."

Yin Xiao nodded.

Song Huiyue knew that he was not good at words, so she continued on her own: "The year I left from Kyoto, there was an interesting incident at the Lantern Festival. A man hung up a chrysanthemum lantern, and I don't know who was next to him." I hung a cucumber lantern. I was young at the time and didn’t understand anything. I only knew that everyone was laughing. The angry man carried the lantern and went back. He came out with a peach lantern, and in the end he had someone hang a monkey lantern beside him. , The man grabbed the person who had trouble with him, and the two fought, and later heard that the person who hung the chrysanthemum was Xianggu who was picking up guests from the Xianggu House, and deliberately misrepresented him as his benefactor."

At that time, she didn't know what the Elephant Girl's House was. She only knew that A Niang had been complaining about A Daddy, and she shouldn't be allowed to listen to such nonsense.

Dad said that if others dare to speak, she can listen. If she doesn't understand now, one day she will understand in the future. Isn't it interesting to think about the past?

It's better than remembering the past, dry, without even a funny joke.

Just like when she thinks about it now, she can make herself laugh.

She smiled, and Yin Xiao laughed too. There was no content in the smile, and he didn't know whether he understood or not, it was just unconscious. When Song Huiyue smiled, he laughed.

After talking nonsense for half the night, Yin Xiao suddenly leaned forward with his upper body: "Miss, it seems that there is water somewhere."

"Here we are?" Song Huiyue stood up quickly.

"No," Yin Xiao shook his head, "The sound is a little far away."

Song Huiyue slowed down and listened carefully, but her ears and Yinxiao's ears seemed to be different, except for the deafening sound of firecrackers, she heard nothing.

She frowned and walked out: "Go out and have a look, at this time, the palace has just left."

Yin Xiao took off his cloak and chased after him. While walking behind Song Huiyue, he opened his arms, shook the cloak away, picked up the wind, and draped it on Song Huiyue's shoulders, as if his hands came from behind. Hugged Song Huiyue once, and left with one touch.

Opening the gate, Song Huiyue stood at the gate, stopped to listen, and this time she also heard the sound, crackling, the sound of sparks exploding in the sky.

At the same time, the sound of firecrackers also became quieter.

People who were still watching the year and playing all looked at the red-hot sky. There seemed to be more than one place where the fire broke out. The fires were of different sizes. It seemed that there were three places.

When the fire came together, the Forbidden Army who reacted faster than Yinxiao was the night watchman. The Spring Festival was different. The three Yamen of the Forbidden Army stayed up all night. In addition, there were more fires at this time, so there was no great panic. The Sanya of the Forbidden Army took the lead. , led the patrolling garrison, the yamen servants, and the men on horseback, carrying water bags, pumps, mats, and fire hooks, and those behind carrying ladders and buckets. The soldiers divided into three groups and rushed away.

Someone on the street said: "Is it done carefully?"

"It must be. I heard that Xi Zuo has not finished arresting. When he was first caught, it was the second or third day. Didn't Xi Zuo kill someone?"

"It's a good thing that the fire started in the outer city."

The outer city is not as densely populated as the inner city, which is more convenient for the imperial army to enter and exit, and it is also easier to dig ditches.

The sound of firecrackers sounded sparsely again, mixed with the sound of horseshoes, the sound was unbearable, so those who love to join in the fun also flocked away, but unfortunately they couldn't be divided into three places, they could only choose to watch the excitement depending on the size of the fire venue.

There is no need to make an appointment to come back to meet up. If there is no accident, when the fire is extinguished and the spectators return in twos and threes, they will talk about it and tell the details of the fire scene.

Song Huiyue couldn't avoid the vulgarity, and wanted to join in the fun, so Yin Xiao chose the place with the biggest fire, and followed the crowd.

Before the forbidden army arrived, the common people could fight the fire, but after the forbidden army arrived, the common people could not mix with each other and could only watch the fun outside.

Therefore, there are more people watching the excitement than fighting the fire.

Song Huiyue stood far away, looked at it for a while, and suddenly frowned, patted Yin Xiao, reached out and pointed at the group of people who just came forward: "Is that Zhang Xutang?"

The person who came was Zhang Xutang.

Zhang Xutang should have come out of the palace in a hurry, and his clothes were still very solemn. Looking at the slowly weakening fire in front of him, he was heartbroken to the point of numbness.

Stored here are the [-] gold-woven brocades given to the Zhang family by the Suzhou Weaving Department. There are ten different types of brocades inside. On his body, the golden light was shining, like gold in a furnace flowing on his clothes.

The five countries of Liao, Xia, Jin, Dali, and Yuan were fond of this kind of brocade, and sold it at a high price.

Now it's all reduced to ashes.

Even if it is not burned out, the cloth and gold thread will become unusable after being scorched by the fire.

The loss here was so great that he didn't care about the other two places - a newspaper office and a restaurant.

Knowing that the Zhang family has stored [-] bolts of golden brocade here, they are all confidantes. They have kept it for so long, and they are waiting for the envoys to come to line up the battle during the Chinese New Year, and then take them away when they return. .

It's been fine for so long, why did something happen at this time?

Is it Jin Wang or Xi Zuo?
Who is around him that needs to be cleaned up?

In fact, no one betrayed Zhang Xutang, but when Ni Peng was sorting out the famous posts, he found two famous posts from the Zhang family, one was from Zhang Xuling, which contained Zhang Xutang's lawsuit, and the other was from Zhang's family steward. Yes, plead for the newspaper.

After the name of the newspaper was given to King Jin, King Jin immediately found the tabloid, read it carefully with Xie Chuan, and found that the tabloid had repeatedly praised weaving gold brocade.

Afterwards, Xie Chuan checked again, and the price of the brocade was also rising.

Whose family tabloid belongs to is their tongue. Could it be that the Zhang family is hoarding and planning to make a fortune in brocade?

Jin Wang pondered for a long time, and asked You Song to take people to the pier overnight, find the guild that was in charge of the wharf's labor, and dug out the ledger of unloading the goods during that period of time.

The ledger was very rough, and only recorded the time when the ship arrived, how many people were needed to unload the cargo, which team was assigned to it, and what it was about.

But that's enough.

You Song found out that there was a boatload of brocades that had been woven into the capital, but it didn't show up in the major cloth houses, so the Zhang family had to hoard them up, and King Jin followed the vines and found it here.

Then a big fire burned up the whole place.

Song Huiyue looked at Zhang Xutang's cloudy face under the firelight, and quietly walked home with Yin Xiao.

Today is New Year's Eve, and moving iron is a crime, she doesn't want to cause any more trouble.

(End of this chapter)