Da Suining

Chapter 79
From childhood to adulthood, when Xiang Yan cried, someone must be unlucky.

For example, when Xiangyan was six years old, when she went out for a spring outing, she happened to meet a kite vendor selling kites. Unfortunately, there was only one kite left, and it was the other little girl who fell in love with it first. Xiangyan wanted, I don't know what to say, but I just looked at the little girl tearfully, the little girl was about to leave with the kite, and she followed her tearfully, like the rain in July and August, one by one, full and mellow, The shirt was wet from crying.

The onlookers thought that the girl with the kite had bullied Xiangyan, and gave pointers one after another.

In the end, the little girl couldn't resist everyone's strange gazes, she hurriedly stuffed the kite into Xiang Yan's arms and ran away.

There are still advantages in front of strangers.

Let alone in the government.

During the Dragon Boat Festival that year, the mother-in-law of the house prepared dozens of sachets, some in the shape of peony flowers, some in the shape of deer, some in the shape of rabbits, and some in the shape of hearts. Feeling sick, Xiangyan had already picked out a sachet to wear, but unexpectedly saw the sachet made for Xiang Suining by Mrs. Xiang. Great Britain.

Xiang Daying ordered Xiang Suining to take off the sachet for Xiang Yan to wear.Xiangyan got the little ball sachet, and threw it away after less than an hour of playing with it.

Now that Xiang Suining has grown up, he is no longer the timid child he used to be. Xiang Yan's ability to cry, make trouble, and hang himself, when others are manipulated, Xiang Suining refuses.

No, Xiangyan still had the idea of ​​playing with that golden hairpin, a piece of great honor personally rewarded by the emperor.The two gold hairpins are hollowed out and carved with cumbersome techniques, and the gold threads on the stamens are actually thinner than hair.I am afraid that Zhenbao Pavilion does not have this skill.

Xiang Daying naturally put it on for Xiangyan herself, and the maid Chunyu joyfully held up the bronze mirror for Xiangyan to take a picture of.

The skin is fair, and it has been coated with good powder, making it even more delicate. The eyebrows are drawn into the temples, and the cherry-colored lip balm is lightly painted on the lips. The golden hairpin is inserted behind the ear, which is really beautiful.

Xiang Suining also thinks Xiangyan is beautiful.

Whether you are beautiful or not, the hairpin is mine.

Xiang Suining stretched out his hand to pull out the hairpin, and he did it in one go, without any mercy, a gust of wind picked up in his hand, almost knocking Xiang Yan down.

Xiangyan frowned, and she shed tears as soon as her eyes drooped: "Father, look at the second girl."

"Don't worry about it, I'm still the same." Xiang Suining said coldly.

Xiangyan ignored Xiang Suining, and only talked to Xiang Daying: "Father, it's just a hairpin, and the second girl also snatched it from me."

Obviously it belonged to Xiang Suining.

Xiang Daying stretched out his hand: "Hand over the hairpin."

Xiang Suining put his hands behind his back.

Xiang Daying personally snatched the hairpin and put it on for Xiang Yan. Knowing that Xiang Suining was not happy, he threw out five taels of silver: "Didn't the emperor reward you with the brocade from Changzhou? You take the brocade to Liuyunfang, let the Are the two clothes they cut for you the same? Yan'er is your sister, you let her have some, it's your sister's attitude, don't take good things by yourself."

Five taels of silver rolled on the table of the Eight Immortals, spinning in circles.

Xiang Yan also turned around, and Xiang Daying clapped her hands with joy: "Yan'er looks more and more beautiful."

Xiang Suining took five taels of silver and asked Mingzhu to go to Liuyunfang with the azure brocade in her arms.

The people in Qingcheng have already taken off their cotton shirts and coats, and the clothes on their bodies are even thinner.

Xiang Suining didn't take the carriage, but just paced slowly along the Yong'an River.The railings on both sides of the Yong'an River are moist to the touch and slightly cool.But as I walked, sweat came out.

Mingzhu hugged the brocade and followed Xiang Suining, she raised her sleeves to wipe the sweat off her face, she thought that Xiang Suining gave up the golden hairpin for five taels of silver and lost his integrity, and was bullied by Xiang Yan for nothing, feeling a little depressed : "Third Miss snatched Second Miss your golden hairpin, why is Second Miss silent?"

"I made a noise, but it didn't seem to have any effect."

Mingzhu swallowed, it seems that her second daughter is not very sad?She was not reconciled: "But the second girl—"

"Mingzhu, you have to know, how can you know that it is not a blessing if you lose your horse? Just like when I was assassinated in Jiguang Temple, I not only survived safely, but also received a reward from the emperor."

Mingzhu knew about the Jiguang Temple, but she didn't quite understand the previous sentence: "Second girl, what kind of horse do you know? Anyway, I don't know if the horse is familiar or not. I know that the third girl robbed you." Hairpin, the second girl should be wary of the third girl, when I left the mansion just now, I saw that the third girl was also going out, I don't know where she is going."

Xiang Yan went out wearing a golden hairpin. On the handle of the golden hairpin was engraved with the word "Neizao". The word "Neizao" is of great significance. Jewelry made by people.

Seeing Xiang Suining go out, Tang Xiaoniang told Xiangyan to follow secretly: "Didn't you say she was dishonest? Now she has gone out again, just see if she secretly met someone again."

Xiang Yan wished she could fly out with a pair of wings.

Her hair was complicated, her clothes were exquisite, and the golden hairpin made her face look high, and she walked like flying through the clouds, with endless energy all over her body.

Xiang Suining stopped at Rihengchang's bank.

Xiang Yan followed behind, holding a sugar figurine in her hand, seeing Xiang Suining looking at her, she quickly put the sugar figurine in front of her face, how could she be able to block it?
"You follow me?"

"I don't have it." Xiangyan put down the sugar figurine in her hand, "I... I was passing by too."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm really not following you." Xiangyan leaned on the wooden signboard at the entrance of Rihengchang Bank and loosened her muscles: "Qingcheng is so lively, I haven't eaten beef buns yet, and I haven't tasted fried dumplings yet. There is Zhenbao Pavilion, it is said that the owner of Zhenbao Pavilion got a piece of jade that glows at night, what kind of rare thing is that, I have to go and have a look when I am full after a while."

"Then we will face the sky, and each side will go." Xiang Suining walked past the gate of Rihengchang with Mingzhu, turned around a narrow alley, and headed towards Liuyunfang.

Xiangyan supported the hairpin, put the sugar figurine into the hand of the maidservant Chunyu, and gave Chunyu a wink, asking her to see if Xiang Suining had gone away.

Chun Yumao bent over and followed, until she saw Xiang Suining entered Liuyunfang's shop, and then came back to report to her: "Third Miss, Second Miss has gone to Liuyunfang to make clothes, should we follow?"

"What to do with her, it's boring."

"But the young lady said... let the third girl follow the second girl."

"Are you listening to my mother or to me?"

"Listen to the third girl."

"That's all right." Xiang Yan straightened her clothes: "Let the second girl know that I followed her. If my mother asks, I can explain it. Now it's all right, we can hire a carriage."

"Where are the three girls going?"

"Go to the overpass." Xiangyan got into the carriage called by Chunyu, and gave the driver several copper coins: "Hurry up, I can't wait to go to the overpass to watch the excitement, I heard that there is a playboy from Fujiang Kingdom these days." Snake man, the snake in his hand is as thick as the mouth of a bowl, coiled around his neck, round and round, oops, I'm excited just thinking about it."

The driver turned his back to Xiangyan and drove the car. Because Xiangyan gave a lot of money for the car, he talked more: "Who said it wasn't? The snake charmer in Fujiang is really eye-opening. The snake is black and white. The letter in the mouth is one foot long, but only some men dare to read it, not many girls like you dare to read it, even young masters and brothers are sometimes startled."

"Is there any son or brother to see?"

"That's right, it is said that the people in the palace also came out to watch."

Inside the palace.

Xiang Yan's face flushed with embarrassment.

The coachman was there again talking about his driving experience, the situation by the overpass, why the big black dog in Yanzhi country could eat the moon at night, and a man from Luocheng in the south put women in a box and then split the box into four pieces with a knife. , the woman was safe and sound, and so on, what he said was bizarre, but Xiangyan couldn't listen to her, and she said, "drive well, and just get to the flyover soon."

Liuyunfang is still the same, Xiuniang is still busy day after day.

Because Tong Siyue went out for an outing and was not in the shop, Xiang Suining measured himself, paid the deposit, and only exchanged a few words with Tong Siyue's mother, Mrs. Su, before leaving.

Mrs. Su recognized that the new material was something from the palace at this time, and personally sent Xiang Suining out of the door: "We are not here in April today, Miss Xiang Er will sit here for a while?"

"No, thank you."

"It's not far away anyway, and the weather is getting hotter. Liuyunfang has made a lot of summer shirts, and there are also a batch of jewelry, which are also newly made. When Miss Xianger is free, come and choose."

"it is good."

"When the brocade dress is ready, I'll have someone deliver it to the girl's house in person."

"Thank you."

"The rest of the brocade, if the second girl trusts us, you can leave it in our Liuyunfang, or I can ask the servants to send it back to the second girl's house."

"Then send it here." Xiang Suining gave Su Shi a blessing very politely, and took the pearl with him.

Mrs. Su leaned against the gate of Liuyunfang, looking at Xiang Suining's back, without blinking for a long time.

Her family's master, Tong Zheng, is also a sixth rank. Although he is a small official, he is conscientious and does not dare to delay for a moment in the affairs of the court. After so many years, the rewards from the emperor are also one of the few. Speaking of Tong Zheng I am not very old, and my gray hair is worrying about it. The emperor is not easy to serve.

Xiang Suining, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, still looks childish, to be rewarded by the emperor, one thing is enviable.Second, this Miss Xianger seems to be different from what she used to be. In those years, when the Xiangfu made clothes and jewelry, when did she have a share?Tang Xiaoniang didn't take this little girl seriously when she went to the prime minister's mansion to make clothes a few years ago. In such a short period of time, she seems to have changed. Even the emperor favors her?

"Is the second girl going back so soon?" Mingzhu played a round fan for Xiang Suining. There was a pink camellia embroidered on the round fan. The petals were pink and the stamens were beige. It's the same as opening on a round fan.

"It's still early, let's go around."

Xiang Suining walked leisurely through the streets and alleys of Qingcheng.

The old man making sesame seed cakes wiped the sweat from his neck, the flames in the bellows became more vigorous, the tongue of fire licked the bottom of the furnace, the white sesame seed cakes gradually turned golden, the aroma of roasted sesame seeds in the air gradually became stronger, and one sesame seed cake was ready up.

An old lady was sitting on the steps, and there was a boxy wooden box under the steps, with straw inside the box, and three black and white kittens were lying inside, looking at the passers-by in Qingcheng with their ignorant eyes. The coat color is very clean and the bark is pleasant.

A newly opened sausage noodle shop was full of people. Several lion dancers stepped on the bench with golden lions on their backs. With applause and whistles, the pot set up at the door turned over the heat wave, and the seaweed and egg drop soup was ready.The shopkeeper held a wooden scraper, opened the lid of a steamer, scraped lightly with the wooden scraper, and a box of Baishengsheng rice rolls was ready. Drizzle some chili oil, add some other small ingredients, and it was delicious. The rice rolls are ready.

"Come inside, eat at the new opening and get one free. Eat rice rolls and get free seaweed and egg drop soup." Xiaoer greeted the guests with a white towel.

Xiang Suining ate a plate of rice rolls, and went to buy a piece of water chestnut cake, but he couldn't eat anymore, he just felt thirsty.

Go to the tea house and sit down.

I deliberately found a tea house facing the street, the private room on the second floor, opened the window, and just saw the bustling street, not far in front, there is a pagoda, and after coming, it is Liuyunfang, opposite, is Riheng Chang Bank.

After all, I don't have strong legs, so I walked around and had a full stomach, but I didn't walk very far, I just circled the alley a few times.

The teahouse is very elegant and clean. There are not many people drinking tea at this time, so I ordered a pot of jasmine, and I can drink slowly and enjoy the scenery.

After drinking about half a pot of tea, the sweat on his body also went down. Xiang Suining asked Mingzhu to pay for the tea, but saw two men in black short robes with red borders came to Ri Hengchang for questioning. Knife, wearing black boots, and a black top hat.

Judging by the attire, he looks like a government servant.

Rihengchang's shopkeeper greeted him personally, but the yamen servant refused to go in for tea, so the three of them talked at the gate of Rihengchang's bank.

"I already made a deal yesterday. I'll ask again today. Has anyone come to withdraw 2000 taels of silver recently? Or 1000 taels? Anyway, the bank notes are 1000 taels."

With such a large amount, Ri Hengchang certainly remembered it clearly.

"A man who looked like a servant came to pick it up. He said it was 2000 taels. There was no one else but them. I saw that man as a servant, not like a rich master, so I followed him out to have a look. They The master is fatter, more bloated, and walks waddlingly, like a water duck."

"Where can we find a person like a teal?" The yamen servant asked him carefully, "Think about it carefully, what are the characteristics of that person, and is there any way to find him?"

"Characteristics?" The shopkeeper shook his head: "When I came out to look, they had already left. I only saw their backs, and never saw what they looked like. I am not related to them, so I am afraid that they will be gone if I look for them." It’s difficult, and I don’t know where they live.”

"Be careful, and let us know when you have a letter." The yamen servant wanted to leave, but was stopped by the shopkeeper: "You two servants, if you want to find him, that's easy."

(End of this chapter)