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Chapter 16 Seeing Yiren Again
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Instigated by Zhang Shitou intentionally or unintentionally, our young master Zhang immediately became interested—no way, although Zhang Shitou is loyal and considerate in taking care of young master Zhang, but he is a big man after all, making beds and warming quilts It is better to buy one or two beautiful maids to do things like this.Henceforth, Master Zhang and his servant quietly followed the scholar who had gone away as if his conscience had discovered him, and secretly escorted him back to Ankang Hutong near Deshengmen.

Fortunately, the guy who started to trouble the scholar was probably chased away by the yamen. The scholar didn't encounter any trouble on the way back to Deshengmen, and Zhang Shitou's words were not completely lying. There were indeed many people outside Deshengmen. Boys and girls with grass marks on their heads are waiting for sale.Our Young Master Zhang originally wanted to follow here and forget about it. He stopped to see if there was any girl he liked for sale. He never thought that Zhang Shitou’s conscience was still alive and he insisted on doing good things to the end. The scholar was quietly escorted into Ankang Hutong, which is located in the northwest of Deshengmen.

Ankang Hutong in this era was still a residence for the poor, and there were coolie peddlers with the smell of sour sweat coming and going, as well as old people in ragged clothes and children running around with bare buttocks. The air was full of fishy smell, Garbage and human excrement were everywhere on the potholed ground, and there was almost nowhere to set foot—of course, this was only for Master Zhang and his servants who wore cotton shoes with a pair of thousand-ply soles that cost two taels of silver.Seeing this scene, our Young Master Zhang held his nose and shouted angrily: "I won't follow you anymore, Master, I won't follow you no matter what, Master, I can't stay in such a ghostly place for a minute!"

"Master, let's go in and have a look, maybe there will be surprises waiting for us." Zhang Shitou persuaded again with good intentions.Young Master Zhang snorted coldly and ignored him, turned his head and left, but at this moment, there was a burst of yelling and cursing in the alley, "Get out! Get out if you don't have any money! I live on rent, not as a raiser." It belongs to the Jiyuan (Ming Dynasty Welfare Organization)!" "What? You want to delay for another two days? Shit, I have already made you delay for half a month. If you don't pay the rent today, I will throw out all your broken furniture. ...Hey, what do you want to do?"

"Master, it's exciting to watch." Zhang Shitou hurriedly bewitched again.Only then did Young Master Zhang get a little interested, he stopped and nodded and said, "Okay, let's go and have a look."

Carefully walking through the rubbish on the ground, following the sound, they found a dilapidated and simple house where there was a quarrel. Looking through the door, the master and servant of Young Master Zhang saw a middle-aged woman leading a few children in the courtyard at first sight. In the middle of crying, the scholar holding the scroll was pulling a tall and burly middle-aged scholar. Standing opposite them was a large group of young and strong men with crooked hats and cloaks. The scholar scolded: "Your uncle, you bastard not only refuses to pay the rent but also wants to beat people? Okay, come and beat me. If you don't dare to beat me today, you are my brother-in-law! Come on, come on!"

"I beat you!" The tall scholar's temper was obviously very irritable, and he flew into a rage when provoked by that person, struggling to fight with that group of people.Fortunately, the painting book seller hugged him tightly, crying: "Brother, calm down, calm down, a gentleman uses his mouth but doesn't move his hands, don't fight with others."

"This big guy is really stupid. Just you, can you beat a dozen hooligans with a guy?" Young Master Zhang snorted coldly in his heart, and he could already see that the gang of hooligans were deliberately provoking that tall book to life. .At this time, someone in the group of ruffians found Young Master Zhang and his servants peeping outside the door, so they shouted: "What are you looking at? Get out of here, or I will beat you up too." Turning his head to look, he immediately exclaimed: "Mr. Zhang, why are you here?"

"Sun! This time, it seems that you can't do anything this time." After being discovered by the painting scholar, Young Master Zhang, who wanted to stay out of the matter, was too embarrassed to continue to watch the fire from the other side, so he walked into the yard with his hands behind his back, and smiled to the painting scholar: "This brother At first, I was worried that the servant would trouble you again after I left, so I secretly followed you to protect you, but I didn't expect this to happen. I hope my brother will forgive me for my rudeness."

"Young master is really getting more and more shameless. If I hadn't dragged you here, would you meddle in these nosy affairs?" Zhang Shitou was disdainful, while wandering around the yard with a pair of thief eyes, as if he was looking for something.The painting and calligraphy student believed it, and burst into tears with gratitude, "Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for your concern. You are a true chivalrous man." The tall and tall scholar was confused, and asked the painting and calligraphy student Said: "Second brother, what's going on?"

"Brother, the thing is like this..." The painting and scholar choked up and said the "chivalrous act" of our young master Zhang to "eliminate the strong and help the weak".I never thought that the moment the words finished, the tall scholar not only did not thank our Young Master Zhang immediately, but instead slapped the painting scholar on the face and roared angrily: "Zhao Lian, you are so courageous, you dare to pass on our family history. Take Zhibao as a pawn? Do you treat your father and the ancestors of the Xiong family?"

"The Xiong family? Xiong Zhaolian?" Young Master Zhang was stunned for a moment, and then immediately turned his murderous eyes to Zhang Shitou, causing Zhang Shitou to shrink his neck in fright, knowing that Young Master Zhang had already guessed the truth.The painting and calligraphy student Xiong Zhaolian said in tears: "Brother, I really have nothing to do. If we don't want to find a way to exchange some money, it's okay for our brothers to be homeless in the capital, but sister-in-law, younger sister and several nephews are all It is a weak body, can it follow us in the capital?"

"Then you can't sell the treasure!" The tall scholar roared, and raised his hand to slap Xiong Zhaolian again. Fortunately, the middle-aged woman and a few children came up to hold him in time, and the whole family burst into tears. .Seeing this, our Young Master Zhang couldn't hold back anymore, turned to the gang of hooligans and asked, "How much rent does this family owe you?"

"One tael and five taels of silver, plus one year's rent in advance, the total is five taels of silver." The gang of hooligans yelled.When Young Master Zhang heard it, he was very angry and funny, and immediately took out five liang of silver from his purse and threw it at it, "Take it, let me go, young master, if you dare to come here to make trouble again, young master, I will let you go around without food!"

Five taels of silver fell in front of him, and the gang of green-skinned scoundrels peeped at each other, apparently being thrown into disarray by Young Master Zhang, Cheng Yaojin, who came out halfway.Seeing their thoughts, Master Zhang sneered and said, "What's the matter? I'm afraid I can't talk to your backstage boss? It's okay, go back and tell your backstage boss. If he wants to know who I am, you can go to Wei Liangqing and Master Wei." Or Master Fu Yingxing to inquire about it."

"Who are you from Master Wei and Master Fu?" Someone in the group of hooligans asked in alarm.Young Master Zhang threw off the spring palace painting fan in a cool way, shook his teeth coquettishly and said with a grin: "You don't deserve to know." I don’t know Mount Tai, offended Master Wei and Master Fu’s friends, if you offend, let’s leave.” After saying that, the gang of hooligans picked up the money and fled out of the small courtyard in a swarm.

After the gang of scoundrels left, Xiong Zhaolian, a painting and calligraphy student, suddenly knelt down on his knees to Young Master Zhang, and said in tears, "Master Zhang, you rescued me twice, but Xiong Zhaolian can't repay you. Please accept Xiong Zhaolian's three kowtows." Xiong Zhaolian actually kowtowed to Young Master Zhang three times. The woman also led several children to kneel down to thank Young Master Zhang. Only the tall scholar looked at Young Master Zhang suspiciously and asked, "Mr. Zhang, we Xiong family and you I don't know each other before, why did you come to the rescue twice? Mr. Zhang, who are you?"

"Hey, brother, don't tell me you're a stranger, so you can't see injustice and act righteously?" Young Master Zhang sighed, and cupped his hands to the tall scholar, "Since brother suspects that Xiaosheng has evil intentions, then Xiaosheng will leave. "

After all, Young Master Zhang turned around and left - there is no way not to leave, if you don't leave quickly, you will get into trouble, if you bump into someone, our Young Master Zhang will have to be punched again.But after this, Xiong Zhaolian and the middle-aged woman were not happy, and complained to the tall scholar, "Brother (Xianggong), Mr. Zhang is kind enough to help us, how can you say that about him?" Regretted, he hurriedly caught up with Young Master Zhang, bowed to Young Master Zhang and said: "Master Zhang, Xiong Zhaogui's family has undergone tremendous changes and he has been framed many times, so he is a bit suspicious. I hope you will forgive me for the offense. Master please have tea in the room. Xiong Zhaogui would like to thank you again."

"Brother Xiong, you're welcome. Xiaosheng isn't angry at all. It's just that he has something urgent to do, so he's leaving immediately." Young Master Zhang dared to stay there, but kept waving goodbye.I never thought that Xiong Zhaogui had a straightforward personality, and would not let go of Young Master Zhang, and asked Young Master Zhang to drink a cup of tea no matter what.While they were talking, a crisp and sweet voice suddenly sounded outside the yard, "Big Brother, Second Brother, I'm back."

"Mother, I really can't do good things. I'm going to die today." Hearing this familiar voice, our Young Master Zhang's legs became weak, and he almost sat down on the ground...

(End of this chapter)