PFC Chapter 180 Chapter 179
Chapter 180 Chapter 179
Chapter 180 Chapter 170
Xiao Cui came in in response: "My lord, why are you so angry?"
He stepped forward and grabbed the woman's hands: "It's a pity."
The Tongfang girl didn't know where she showed her flaws, and said anxiously: "Master, save me."
"Xiao Cui, let's see what's in the tea?" Jia Rong walked ten steps away from the maid, in case she would jump over the wall in a hurry.
Xiao Cui scanned it and said with a smile: "Colorless and tasteless poison, ordinary people will die within five breaths after drinking it."
Tongfang girl's complexion was pale, she didn't understand how to reveal the secret.
"Take it to Er Gouzi and let's see which god it is." Jia Rong smiled coldly, and then said: "I will use this cup of tea to send her on the road later."
After Jia Rong finished speaking, she turned and went back to her residence, ignoring Tongfang girl's pleas at all.
"What a silly girl, didn't you discover the master's big secret last night? Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy the secret honestly and enjoy the wealth?" Xiaocui smiled sarcastically, poured the tea into the teapot, threw the teacup out the door and smashed it, letting the heavy rain wash away .
Holding Tongfang girl in one hand and teapot in the other, he went to Er Gouzi's place.
Jia Rong went back to the house to wait for the result, Ping'er went to Lin Daiyu's house, and the remaining maids saw that Tongfang's maid was taken away, their faces paled and trembling with fright, thinking that they had followed a big devil, their faces paled.
He brought in some tea and ran out, avoiding the master as if he had seen a ghost.
Jia Rong sat at the table and did not dare to touch the tea, fearing that there would be ghosts inside.
After a while, Xiaocui came back: "It's been found out, it's the Bailian Sect who is behind the scenes. Er Gouzi and Zuo Qianhu have already gone to arrest the mastermind. Let's see if there are any spies in the house."
Jia Rong grinned: "Since you hate me so much, let's take some time to kill some Bailian sub-rudders. Do you think there is any problem with this tea?"
"No. Master, my clothes are all wet." Xiaocui scanned and began to act coquettishly.
"Your clothes are in the box next to me. I'll find them for you." Jia Rong thought about it.
Xiaocui smiled slightly: "I'll serve you at night, and I'll make dinner now."
The two got close for a while, and Master Rong drank tea.
At dinner, Zuo Qianhu came to report: "Master, the Yangzhou branch of the White Lotus Sect has been wiped out, and there is still a young man in the mansion who is an inner ghost and has been arrested."
"Let Er Gouzi figure out how to contact the rudder of other departments, and find an opportunity to return gifts to them after a while." Jia Rong hated the White Lotus Sect, and did whatever she wanted, always thinking of harming herself.
"Yes." Zuo Qianhu looked very serious, the White Lotus Sect is not a good thing.
Jia Rong sent him away and returned to the house. Ping'er cleared the table by himself: "Where did the maids go?"
Ping'er heard Xiao Cui talk about the maids in the house, and threw the maids to another room: "Shove them to the next room, just to be worried."
"I've checked it out, don't worry about using it." Jia Rong walked behind her.
Ping'er blushed: "Master, I'm going to serve the food."
"It's raining heavily, go to the next room and let the servant girl carry it." Jia Rong let her go and sat beside her.
For dinner, Xiaocui cooked a lot of dishes for the master and drank a few glasses with him.
The maids in the room changed their minds after hearing what happened.
At night, Ping'er slept outside, and when it was getting dawn, he was disturbed by the master and made a fuss about it.
Sign in in the morning to get three thousand soldiers and horses.
The rain continued, and Master Rong wanted to go to the city to see the actual situation if he had nothing to do.
Lin Mansion is located in a prosperous area, a little far away from poor areas.
Putting on the raincoat and rainshoes, he took some food and fifty catties of rice, called a carriage and took Xiaocui into the impoverished area of the city.
The heavy rain wiped away the traces of the battle left on the ground. The good streets are paved with stone slabs, but the roads in poor places are full of yellow mud.
Occasionally pedestrians and carriages pass by on the road.
Jia Rong and Xiaocui got out of the car under umbrellas and walked inside.
Although there is some water in the low-lying places, it is not deep. The houses are made of adobe or pure loess, and there are cacti on the mud walls, which are washed clean by the rain.
The bottom of the wall is made of stone and mud, made of grass stems, and the loess has fallen off in many places, exposing the stones.
The gates of many houses fell down and were moved to the courtyard by the house owners and placed on the ground.
Adults and children sat at the door of the house, looked outside, and were surprised to see three people in a carriage. The military control was lifted today, but what to do out in the rain, the nobleman's thinking is really strange.
Jia Rong walked for a while and found that the residents here did not look worried.
When I walked to a house without a gate, I saw a little girl running into the rain mischievously, wet her clothes, was carried back by her father, beat her twice, and went to find her mother crying.
Wanting to go in and ask about the situation, Jia Rong walked to the door of the house: "Brother, can I go in and drink some water?"
The man hurriedly said, "My lord, please come in. I'll ask your mother-in-law to boil water and make tea for you."
Xiaocui couldn't help smiling when she saw him at a loss.
"Thank you, brother." Jia Rong put down her umbrella and took off her raincoat.
The man found two wooden stools for the two of them.
The little girl looked at the two curiously.
Jia Rong talked to him for a while before asking: "There is a war in the city, why are you not worried?"
"Young master, people from the government came to distribute food yesterday, saying that the war is over, and the weather is fine, so we need to recruit workers and pay wages with food. Yes." The man rejoiced.
"How much food did you give to make you so happy?" Jia Rong asked the actual situation.
"Eighteen catties of rice, save some rations for more than 20 days. I have never heard of such a good thing. The adults in Yangzhou are really good officials. My family buys very little food. I just bring some back after work. It’s military control and it’s raining, so I almost didn’t worry about it to death. It’s all right now, and I won’t be afraid of the rain for a few more days.”
The man paused, and then said: "There is a happy event this year. It usually rains heavily, and the water here is very deep. This time it flows clean for no reason. God blesses you."
The man's wife, dressed in coarse cloth, served tea: "My lord, please drink some tea, my lady."
"Thank you sister-in-law." Jia Rong smiled, thinking about how twenty catties turned into eighteen catties: "It's a good thing to say, I heard that the grain distributed is twenty catties, how can it become eighteen catties?"
The man smiled and said: "So many people on duty need to eat, so it's normal to lose two catties." This young man doesn't understand the low-level things.
"So that's how it is." Jia Rong suddenly realized that the unspoken rules at the bottom were given in full.
Unspoken rules are everywhere and all the time.
"At noon today, I'm disturbing my elder brother's house." Jia Rong thought to herself, and it will be the afternoon before returning to Lin's mansion.
"I can't wish for it. It's just that there is only rough tea and light food at home. Don't be disgusted, sir." The man was very bold and generous, and ordered the wife to bring out the preserved bacon from the house to entertain the guests.
Jia Rong asked Xiaocui to take the groom to fetch all kinds of food and fifty catties of rice from the cart.
Ask the groom to arrange for the horses to come in and drink some hot tea, and then have dinner with them.
The groom quickly agreed, thanking the master.
Xiaocui found a plate and bowl in the house and put all kinds of dishes on the table in the house.
(End of this chapter)