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Chapter 18 Dangerous Times
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After finishing dinner in the courtyard rented by the Xiong brothers and sisters, it was already getting dark, because the Liansheng Inn is very far away from here, so Young Master Zhang offered to leave immediately, but the Xiong brothers couldn't keep them, so they had to send Young Master Zhang out of the house together .Before leaving, the rich and powerful Young Master Zhang had to hand over another 50 taels of silver to the Xiong brothers to help them tide over the difficulties. The Xiong brothers resolutely refused at first, but they couldn't hold back the enthusiasm of Young Master Zhang, and they were really nervous—— There was almost no overnight rice left, and in the end, he took over the money left by Young Master Zhang with great gratitude, and relieved the urgent need.

"Oh, young master, you are too bad." On the way back to the inn, Zhang Shitou basically rushed to rinse his mouth every time he saw a well, and kept complaining: "You know that Xiong Hu's tigress has bad intentions, You are forcing me to eat that bowl of rice, you have tortured me... vomit..."

"You deserve it, who told you that you dare to deceive the young master?" Young master Zhang smiled wickedly, "You think I don't know, young master, that today you deliberately tricked me into going to that tigress Xiong Hu's house? Do you think that young master, I really forgot?" Don’t know the address on that note?” Zhang Shitou was stunned for a moment, before he could even spit out the mouthwash, he swallowed it and asked, “Then why are you still being tricked into Ankang Lane, young master?”

"Two reasons, first, young master, I really want to see that pretty chick Xiong Hu." Young Master Zhang explained next to Zhang Shitou's ear: "As for the second reason, today we rescued Xiong Zhaolian for the first time. Didn't you notice that there were two people following us in a sneaky way? If the young master didn't fall for your tricks on purpose, and just ran to look for Xiong Hu in a foolish way, then it wouldn't make people suspect that the young master and I were in jail What does Xiong Tingbi have to do with it?"

Zhang Shitou recalled carefully, and found that after saving Xiong Tingbi's second son today, there were indeed two people who seemed to be staring at us and followed them almost until Deshengmen before disappearing. They look out for pickpockets and thieves.Thinking of this, Zhang Shitou shivered, and asked in a low voice, "Master, do you know who is following us?"

"If there is no accident, it should be from Dongchang." Young Master Zhang pondered and analyzed: "The capital is so big, Xiao Chuan was able to get the address of Xiong Hu's family within a few hours, which proves that Jinyiwei of Dongchang is very likely I was secretly monitoring the movement of Xiong Tingbi and his children. Today, when Xiong Zhaolian came out to sell paintings, it was impossible for the people from Dongchang not to follow and monitor. We rescued him, so they naturally had to pay attention to us. That's why I pretended to be deceived by you on purpose. The purpose of speaking so loudly is to let the people in Dongchang and Xiao Chuan know that our rescue of Xiong Zhaolian was just a coincidence, and not related to Xiong Tingbi's family, so that they will not follow us like ghosts in the future."

As we all know, the intelligence work of the Ming Dynasty has always been very good. It is said that when Hai Rui wrote a letter scolding Jiajing, Dongchang already knew the content of the memorial before Hai Rui handed it to Jiajing. Huang Jin, the eunuch in charge of the chief inspector of the East Factory, was not bad, and truthfully reported Hai Rui's determination to risk his life to remonstrate, so Hai Rui was not beaten to death by the imperial staff. This story was widely circulated among the people, and of course Zhang Shitou had heard of it.But it was precisely because he had heard this story that Zhang Shitou was even more terrified. He looked around and spoke with trembling voices, "Saving... saving people is being targeted by Dongchang. This... will something happen?"

"Useless things, we have nothing to do with Xiong Tingbi, what are we afraid of?" Young Master Zhang was quite open-minded, and said, "The Jinyiwei people are not completely unreasonable, if they have any contact with Xiong Tingbi's sons and daughters, they will be arrested. The people in Ankang Hutong have been caught long ago. Besides, my young master is now the default Jinke scout, even if Dongchang wants to move us, he has to weigh the consequences first."

"That's good, that's good." Zhang Shitou patted his chest and called out fortunately, and then asked curiously: "Master, there is a question I wanted to ask you just now, that tigress Xiong Hu saw you today, how did you Didn't rush up and tear you to pieces? Cut seventeen or eight knives?"

"Sun! If you give you some color, you will be too dyed!" Young Master Zhang was furious, and when he was about to teach Zhang Shitou, who was getting more and more presumptuous, a gloomy voice suddenly sounded from the alley beside the road, "That's because I Brother and sister-in-law are all around, I'm afraid they will pull me and let you go."

"Xiong Hu?!" Young master Zhang's master and servant's complexion changed drastically, and they screamed at the same time.

"That's right, it's me." With a cold snort, Xiong Hu, with a pretty face and gloomy face, came out of the alley with a hatchet in his hand.Young Master Zhang screamed like a frightened rabbit, and turned to run, but Xiong Hu shouted first: "Stop! If you dare to run, I will hack you to death on the road today!" Young Master Zhang shuddered, subconsciously retracted The steps that have already been taken——When Xiong Hu talked about achieving that kind of fiery personality, Young Master Zhang couldn't be more clear.

"Very good, you're smart." Xiong Hu snorted coldly, pouted towards the alley where he was hiding just now, and shouted: "If you don't want to die, come here, I have something to ask you." Young Master Zhang hesitated, Xiong Hu He snorted again: "What? Are you scared? How dare you act like a man? When you lied to me on the Linqing pier, why weren't you afraid?"

"Death is death! If this stinky girl really comes to chop me - I will push a stone to block the knife!" Young Master Zhang gritted his teeth, closed the fan in his hand, walked towards Xiong Hu, and shouted: "Stone, Let's go, young master, I want to see, I have helped the Xiong family over and over again, how dare she treat me, young master?"

"Master, you and Ms. Xiong finally met, and the younger one will not disturb your private conversation." Zhang Shitou said very faithfully: "Master, go in, the younger one will watch out for you at the entrance of the alley."

"You bastard!" Young Master Zhang's nose almost turned out of anger.But before Young Master Zhang could say more, Xiong Hu had already grabbed his ear and dragged our Young Master Zhang into a deserted alley like an eagle picking up a chick. His loyal servant Zhang Shitou was very loyal to guard him. At the intersection of alleys—by the way, I put on a posture of slipping away at any time.

"Oh, Ms. Xiong, pull it lightly, my ears are about to be ripped off by you." Young Master Zhang screamed and begged like a pig.And Xiong Hu didn't pay any attention, just kept dragging our young master Zhang into the depths of the alley, then finally let go of our young master Zhang, and then quickly put the hatchet on young master Zhang's neck, scaring our young master Zhang's legs Feeling weak, she repeatedly begged: "Miss Xiong, I have something to say. I was wrong at the Linqing pier that day, but I definitely didn't really want to bully you. It's just that I made a bet with my friend and wanted you to rest at my house overnight. You can only win their money the next day. Conscience, I really didn't lie to you!"

"Shut up!" Xiong Hufan blushed and shouted: "I won't bother with you for the time being on the pier. Let me ask you, why did you come to the capital with me? And deliberately approached my two elder brothers, again Why? Today my second brother went out to sell paintings, did you arrange the person who troubled him?"

"Heaven and earth conscience, is my Zhang Haogu that bad?" Eldest young master Zhang wept mournfully, beat his chest and said, "I can swear to God, the person who troubled your second brother today was definitely not arranged by me, I am really kind." Save him! If you don’t believe me, go ask your second brother, I was almost arrested by the Yamen servants of Shuntian Mansion in order to save him. If I save him with good intentions, I will secretly protect him and go home, and pay the rent for you at your house? "

"Really?" Xiong Hu asked suspiciously.Young Master Zhang wept and replied, "What's the benefit of me lying to you? If I had known that he was your second brother, I would have dared to send him home secretly? Am I not throwing myself into a trap? Miss Xiong, don't take my Is it alright to treat it like a donkey's liver and lungs?"

"You will be kind? Then the sun will come out from the south!" Xiong Hu snorted coldly, and asked again: "Then what are you doing in the capital? Is it because I beat you at the Linqing pier last time, and you want to come to the capital to seek revenge on me?" ?”

"Of course not." Young Master Zhang shook his head, and replied truthfully, "I came to the capital to participate in the examination."

"Participate in the test? Just you?" Xiong Hu sneered disdainfully, "I can't find a good excuse for lying. When I was at the dock in Linqing that day, I heard people say that you are a famous celebrity in Linqing city— — Zhang Gou Shao who can’t even write his own name!”

"I'm wronged." Young Master Zhang exclaimed aggrievedly: "Who says I can't write my name anymore? Seeing is believing, I've just written it for you to see!" As he spoke, Young Master Zhang snapped off a piece from the wall next to him. Bai Hui really wrote down his own name and Xiong Hu's name—out of these five characters, only the character 'Zhang' is in traditional Chinese characters, and it is very simple, so our young master Zhang can really write it down.

"Huh? You really know how to write your own name? Can you still write my name?" Xiong Hu was a little surprised, "Then how do people in Linqing City say that you don't know a single word?"

"That's because they're jealous of me. My family is the richest man in Linqing—the rich and the rich have a conscience, and the poor and humble have malice, so those people spread rumors and slandered me." Young Master Zhang replied confidently.Xiong Hu was amused by Young Master Zhang's words, and then immediately put on a straight face, humming: "What's the point if you can write a few words? You're not a rascal."

"Didn't I change it?" Young Master Zhang said without blushing: "Your father was imprisoned unjustly. Not only did I help your Xiong family again and again without avoiding suspicion, but I also tried every means to rescue your father from prison. For someone who treats you as well as I do, can you find another person in the Ming Dynasty?"

"What did you say?" Xiong Hu's tender body trembled, the hatchet flicked and stuck to Young Master Zhang's throat, and asked sharply, "How do you know that my father was wrongly imprisoned?"

"Of course I found out about it." Young Master Zhang replied with a wry smile: "Xiong Tingbigong is so famous, it's not easy for me to inquire about him? It's because I know that Xionggong was wronged, so I racked my brains to find a way to rescue him .”

Xiong Hu felt very comfortable being flattered by Young Master Zhang, so she couldn't help but relax a little, and hummed: "What does my father have to do with you, why did you try to save him?"

"Of course it's for you." Young Master Zhang was used to talking glibly with the lady sitting on the stage in the hair salon before, and he came almost as soon as he opened his mouth, and grabbed Xiong Hu's soft and soft hand, and said with a playful smile: "To be honest, I've been here since the beginning. After I met you at Linqing Wharf for the first time, I fell in love with you at first sight, and I just wanted to come to ask for a marriage and bring you home. In order to make my future father-in-law agree to this marriage, of course I must first find a way to get him out of prison."

(End of this chapter)