Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 15

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Xiao Chuan was quite trustworthy in his words, and that night, Xiao Chuan asked someone to deliver a note to Young Master Zhang with an address written on it—needless to say, this was of course the residence of the Xiong Hu brothers and sisters in the capital.However, Young Master Zhang, who already knew about the ins and outs of Xiong Tingbi's case, couldn't be happy at all. He hesitated over and over whether to meet Xiong Hu's brother and sister, but Zhang Shitou shouted recklessly, "Great, I finally found that one." The whereabouts of the tigress are gone, young master, let's look for them tomorrow."

"Go find a fart!" Young Master Zhang yelled angrily, "What we did at Linqing Pier last time, we didn't do it properly. Just going to see her like this, why don't we send her home to beat her up?"

"But young master, didn't you say that when you came here? As long as you work hard and grind the stick into a needle, there will be a way to bring that little girl named Xiong back to Linqing." Zhang Shitou was not happy, and asked: "If we don't If we went to find that tigress surnamed Xiong and her gentle and beautiful servant girl, Xiu’er, wouldn’t our trip be in vain?”

"Who says it's a waste of time?" Young Master Zhang changed the subject and said, "Didn't Xiao Chuan come to deliver the letter today, and this young master has already been appointed No. 3 in the first class, and I will be ranked first!"

"Really?" Zhang Shitou was skeptical about this matter from the very beginning, and said suspiciously: "When you entered the examination room that day, you didn't write a single word, young master, how could you be selected? From my childhood point of view, that Xiao It is rumored that it is most likely to cheat you, young master, of your happy money, so I fabricated this ranking nonsense to make you happy, young master."

"Fuck you, you are so suspicious at first glance? Do you think everyone is like the young master, me and you?" Young master Zhang hit Zhang Shi's head with the handle of a fan, and hummed: "If you don't believe me, you can go and find out tomorrow. Find out when and where the list will be published, and we will find out when the time comes." After finishing speaking, Young Master Zhang lay down on the bed with his body, hid in the quilt and continued to decide whether to go to see the Xiong Hu brothers and sisters.Zhang Shitou had no choice but to lay down on another bed muttering, "Okay, I'll go to inquire tomorrow - it must be a lie, if you can win the test without writing a word - then I can also become a Jinshi gone."

The reason why Young Master Zhang’s determination to rescue Xiong Tingbi was shaken was indeed because he was frightened by Xiao Chuan’s words, but we can’t blame our Young Master Zhang for being cowardly, after all, our Young Master Zhang is just the young master of a rich man from the countryside He has little money but no power, got involved in such a heinous case as Xiong Tingbi, framed Xiong Tingbi's eunuch party and Donglin party, no matter who stood up, he could crush our Young Master Zhang into powder with a little finger , Young Master Zhang recklessly mixed in, isn't it courting death?Therefore, our always selfish young master Zhang was timid, so we inevitably came up with this kind of thought - otherwise Xiong Tingbi should not be rescued, and when he becomes a part-time official in the future, he can find a way to save Yuan Chonghuan, so he can still stop him Manchu Tartars entering the customs?Thinking about it, Young Master Zhang, who was exhausted from fighting for three days and three nights at the Suhuai Academy, gradually fell asleep...

After making up my mind not to get involved in the muddy waters of the Xiong Tingbi case, in the next two days, our Young Master Zhang was completely free, and just led Zhang Shitou to play around the capital every day, admiring the scenery of the capital, and waiting for the exam results to be released .Although Zhang Shitou kept urging Young Master Zhang to visit Xiong Hu's brothers and sisters during the period, and earlier tried to find a way to get Xiong Hu's master and servant back home to be his wife, but our Young Master Zhang ignored it at all. Walking around, eating, drinking and having fun, I also regained the feeling of being a civil servant in my previous life.

After noon of the day, Master Zhang and his servant came to Shichahai, Beijing, ready to enjoy the scenery of Yinding View Mountain, one of the eight scenic spots in Yanjing. There was a commotion on the other side, and a large group of tourists quickly gathered like ants. Young Master Zhang knew that there must be something wrong, so he led Zhang Shitou to join him.

Squeezing into the crowd, I saw a group of people dressed as domestic servants beating a middle-aged scholar in Confucian shirts and robes, swearing, "Little rascal, you have the guts of a leopard. How dare you take a fake painting?" Go to the pawn shop to cheat money? Lord, I will beat you to death!" The scholar in his 20s held a scroll tightly, and shouted aggrievedly while dodging the beatings, "This pair of "Snow River Picture" by Wang Mojie is mine. The family heirloom, it’s not fake, it’s because you don’t know the goods!”

"It turned out that I was found out that I used fake paintings to cheat money." Young Master Zhang saw the name, but after a blink of an eye, Young Master Zhang realized that something was wrong—the people who beat the young scholar were all dressed as servants, not like It's the pawnbroker.But even though he saw that this was wrong, our young master Zhang has always been too lazy to meddle in his own business. He just hid in the crowd and watched the fun. Who would have thought that he would never be able to escape the troubles that should come? , actually endured the pain and rushed towards Young Master Zhang, the dozen or so servants also howled and chased after him, and the crowd gave way one after another. The middle-aged scholar was desperate, and hid himself behind Young Master Zhang again, mouthing Li also shouted: "Brother, please save me."

"You're not my brother-in-law, why should I save you?" Young Master Zhang was angry and was about to push the scholar away, but the dozen or so servants had already surrounded Master Zhang, his servants and the scholar.One of the leading servants pointed to Young Master Zhang's nose and cursed: "You bastard, if you don't want to die, get the hell out of here, or I will beat you up too!"

"Fuck you, who are you scolding?" Being scolded for no reason, Young Master Zhang couldn't hold back no matter how good-tempered he was, he closed the spring palace painting fan in his hand, slapped his palm, pointed at the servant's nose and shouted: " In broad daylight, you not only commit murder and hurt people, but also utter evil words and insult innocent passers-by, is there any law? The road is not fair, and others will shovel it, young master, I will take care of this business today!"

"Okay!" There was a burst of warm applause and applause from the crowd of onlookers—no way, since it's a game, of course, the more excitement you can watch, the better.The middle-aged scholar was also moved to tears, and he choked up to Young Master Zhang: "Thank you, brother, thank you for making the decision for Xiaosheng." The servants were furious, and shouted: "Damn, you little bastard Have the guts of a leopard, dare to meddle in the old man's business? Let's fight together!"

Shouting, those servants rolled up their sleeves and rushed forward again, but at this moment, a team of officials from Shuntian Mansion just heard the news and rushed to stop the servants in time.The leader of the yamen servants shouted majesticly: "What are you doing? What are you doing? At the foot of the emperor, in the first good area, you fight in the street and want to rebel?" That guy was not afraid. At first, the leader of the team shouted happily: "Brother officer, You came just in time, we caught a liar selling fake paintings."

"A liar who sells fake paintings?" The group leader looked up and down suspiciously at Young Master Zhang—obviously, the unique lecherous temperament on our Young Master Zhang has successfully caught the attention of the group leader in an instant, and on his back Suspected of scammers selling fake goods.Fortunately, the leader of the housekeeper quickly pointed at the scholar and shouted: "This is the guy who took Wang Mojie's fake painting to Wanyuan's pawn shop to cheat money, and we found out that we wanted to arrest him for an official, so he fled here. "

"I'm wronged." The scholar cried out in tears, "Brother servant, this painting of mine is real and is a family heirloom. It's just that our brothers and sisters didn't have the rent and food money in the capital, so we took it." I came out and pawned it for money, and I will find a way to redeem it in the future.”

"Whether you are wronged or not, we will talk about it in the court." The team leader snorted coldly, and waved his hands to order the arrest.The boy's servants immediately cheered, and all of them had a wicked smile of success.When things got to this point, our Young Master Zhang was too lazy to meddle in such nosy matters, but the servant unexpectedly pointed at our Young Master Zhang's master and servant and shouted, "Brother servant, there are two other accomplices who sell fake paintings. They should be arrested too." The head of the yamen servant team had long felt that our Young Master Zhang didn't look like a good person, so he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, let's take it together."

"Damn it, it seems that if you don't teach these guys a lesson today, they won't know that Lord Ma has three eyes!" Young Master Zhang finally got angry and shouted at the head of the yamen servant: "Very good, since you don't know Just arrest people casually, then I will let you arrest, but I can warn you first, I am afraid that it is easy to arrest me and let me go!" After finishing speaking, Young Master Zhang turned to Zhang Shitou and proudly shouted: "Shitou, go to the Zhenfu Department immediately. Yamen, send a letter to my elder brother who is the Jinyiwei, asking him to come to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion to testify for me..."

Young Master Zhang's words hadn't finished yet, the yamen servants and servants who were aggressive just now were all dumbfounded, and the head of the yamen servant who ordered the arrest was even more ashen-colored, with sweat rolling on his forehead, he quickly called his servants to stop, and rushed to the front of Young Master Zhang He nodded and bowed his waist and said: "The villain has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai. I don't know that the young master is still related to Lord Jin Yiwei. How offending, offended. Dare I ask this young master, what is the name of your elder brother who is Jin Yiwei, and what is his official position?" "Master Zhang was too lazy to speak, so he pouted at Zhang Shitou, and Zhang Shitou understood Xiao Chuan's official position and name in the ear of the group leader. Old ten?!"

"Huh? Can't you see that Xiao Chuan is one of the thirteen imperial guards of Jinyiwei?" Young Master Zhang kept his face calm, but he was also a little surprised in his heart, and secretly scolded Xiao Chuan for being strict with his mouth and not telling the truth to his brothers.After the team leader was surprised, he immediately shouted like a pig: "The little one is really blind, and he offended the young master, offended, offended."

"Those who don't know are not guilty." Young Master Zhang waved his hand incomparably magnanimously, then pointed at the guy and said, "However, I have something very strange. Since these people insist that the scholar is selling fake paintings, the pawn shop Why don’t the shopkeepers and guys report to the authorities? Why are they so enthusiastic? Are you still slandering me with red lips and white teeth?”

"That's right." The team leader came back to his senses, and turned his suspicious eyes to the servant.That guy Ding also knew that he had kicked on the iron plate, and he uttered a timid sound, and then ran away together. The group leader was furious, and immediately chased after him with the yamen servant, leaving Master Zhang and the scholar behind. on site.Seeing this scene, the scholar who had been beaten with a bruised nose and swollen face breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly saluted and thanked Young Master Zhang, "Thank you for saving me, my lord. If it wasn't for my lord's righteous help, Xiaosheng would not only be beaten by those rascals, but I will have to sue, and I am afraid that this peerless and famous painting left by my ancestors will not be preserved. Your son's great kindness and virtue will never be forgotten by Xiaosheng."

"Don't be polite. When you see injustice, others will shovel it. Those slaves are bullying others. I have a high moral character, so of course I have to take care of it." Young Master Zhang waved his hand in a big way—as if he had forgotten that he didn't want to meddle in this business just now. .Young Master Zhang asked curiously again: "By the way, are you selling fake paintings? If not, why did the servants target you like this?"

"My lord, this painting is a family heirloom of Xiaosheng. How could it be fake?" The scholar seemed to have been greatly insulted, and held the scroll in his arms in front of Young Master Zhang, and said excitedly, "If you don't believe me, you can do whatever you want." Check it out for yourself, if the famous painting is fake, Xiaosheng will jump into the Shichahai Lake to make atonement with death."

"No need, I believe you." Young Master Zhang waved his hand, thinking that I could tell if it was true or not, then I would have gone to buy antiques a long time ago.The scholar explained again: "As for those servants, they deliberately opposed Xiaosheng. Originally, Wanyuan Pawnshop had agreed to buy this painting with 150 taels of silver, but it happened that those gangsters saw it, and they jumped out." They said it was a fake painting, so the Wanyuan pawn shop didn't dare to buy my painting. They wanted to rob me of my painting and arrest me to go to the government. Xiaosheng had no choice but to run to a crowded place. Son, save me."

"Those servants know you? Do you have any grudges?" Young Master Zhang asked.The scholar nodded and replied: "Their master and my father were imprisoned together. Their master bribed the dignitaries in the court and not only put all the blame on my father, but also ordered relatives and family members to persecute us brothers and sisters in Beijing, trying to force us brothers and sisters into prison." From Beijing, there is no one to complain for the father." Speaking of this, the scholar added, "I heard that the landlord who our brother and sister rented was also bribed by them, forcing us to pay the full year's rent within three days, otherwise we will die. Drive us away, let us have no place to stay in the capital."

"Poor, Da Ming version petitioning refugees." Young Master Zhang sighed, then after thinking about it, Young Master Zhang felt that it was rare for him to be a good person once, so he should just be a good person to the end, accumulate more virtue, maybe he can be reborn again in the next life Be a civil servant in the 21st century and continue to enjoy the blessings.Thinking about this, Young Master Zhang took out two 20 taels of silver bills, handed them to the scholar and said, "Since that painting is your ancestral property, then don't pawn it, you take the money first , let’s talk after this difficulty.”

Contrary to Young Master Zhang's expectations, the scholar did not cry out in gratitude or politely refuse, nor did he jump three feet high like some poor and rotten scholars, yelling that he had been insulted, but bowed his hands to Young Master Zhang with a calm expression, "Thank you for your kindness, young master, but Xiaosheng and young master have never met each other. Since young master rescued him with righteousness, Xiaosheng is already grateful. Xiaosheng can no longer take these money."

"What? Too little?" Young Master Zhang carelessly touched his purse again, and the scholar hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Master, I misunderstood. If you are content with yourselves, you are always happy, the young master and Xiao Sheng are strangers, so taking the young master’s silver is a reward for nothing; if the young master helps out in righteousness, and Xiao Sheng takes the young master’s silver, that is to look forward to Shu, which is against the way of a sage.”

"That's fine, then you can do whatever you want." Young Master Zhang was most afraid of dealing with this kind of nerd who was dumbfounded by his studies, so he put away the bank notes and turned around to leave.The scholar hurriedly asked again: "Master, you haven't told me your name and identity yet."

"Undergraduate candidate, Zhang Haogu." Young Master Zhang replied without turning his head.The scholar shouted at Eldest Young Master Zhang's back: "Master Zhang, Xiaosheng lives in Ankang Hutong not far from Deshengmen. If you are free, please visit the humble house. Xiaosheng will definitely welcome you."

"Ankang Hutong next to Deshengmen? I seem to have heard the name there?" Young Master Zhang was a little suspicious, turned to Zhang Shitou and asked, "Shitou, do you remember that the note that Xiao sent us said What address? Do you have that note with you?"

"I don't remember." Zhang Shitou shook his head, and added: "Master, you said that you don't want to go to Xiong Hu for the time being, so you didn't bring that note with you."

"Forget it, let's talk about it when we go back to the inn at night." Young Master Zhang waved his hand, but he didn't take this matter to heart.Never thought that Zhang Shitou blinked his bright triangular eyes, and said again: "Master, the gang of servants who beat that scholar just now were not caught, and that scholar might be bumped into by those servants again on the way home—" Anyway, it’s rare for us to do a good deed, so how about doing it to the end, quietly following him, and secretly protecting him when he goes home?”

"Fuck, when did you become so sympathetic?" Young Master Zhang asked with a smile.Zhang Shitou blushed a little, scratched his head and said: "The young one is as old as the young master. He is already 21 and has not yet married a wife. Presumably the young one has done too many immoral things and suffered retribution. So the young one occasionally I want to be a good person, accumulate a little virtue for myself, and get a beautiful daughter-in-law sooner in the future."

"Sun! If there is really retribution, just for the immoral things you usually do, you can't get a yellow-faced woman with a hundred sinful virtues." Young Master Zhang scoffed at Zhang Shitou's superstition.Zhang Shitou had no choice but to use his trump card, saying: "Master, actually, I have another purpose in wanting to follow - I heard that that area is the Renyazi Market in the capital, and I want Master to drop by to see if there is anything to see." If you have any eye-catching daughters, buy one or two and come back to wash and boil water for the young master, make the bed and make the quilt, it will be better than the younger ones, and the younger ones can also be lazy."

"Oh, then you should have said it earlier. Let's go, send Buddha to heaven, a good man will do his best to the end, let's go along - if the scholar who sells paintings is entangled by enemies again on the road, we, master and servant, will rescue him once. "

(End of this chapter)