The two followers brought by the King of Jin were Song Huiyue and Huang Ting.
Tan Ran raised his head, not recognizing who the person in front of him was.
Song Huiyue and Huang Ting were both dressed as attendants, and there were no scars on their faces. It was impossible for Tan Ran, an honest man, to recognize them.
When the disciple saw that they were in a group, he looked unkind and said, "What are you doing? This is not an inn."
Huang Ting walked up to him and gave him a small silver coin with a smile: "Let's stay overnight."
Menzi pinched the silver ingot and bit it hard with his teeth. Still a little doubtful about the authenticity of the silver, he finally accepted it and opened the door: "In the last two rooms on the left, the horses can be tied by themselves. If you need fodder, you will have to calculate the money with the groom.
Everything you need to eat and drink is the same, go to the kitchen to buy it."
Huang Ting nodded, stepped out of the way, invited King Jin and Song Huiyue to enter, and went to the stable to tie the horses.
Song Huiyue took two steps, then turned back and said, "Tan Ran, come in and take shelter from the rain."
Tan Ran didn't refuse, and strode after him. When he passed the door, he didn't look sideways, as if the person he was arguing with was not him.
King Jin looked at Tan Ran, but without saying a word, he led the two of them from the corridor to the house.
He first opened the two rooms and took a look. The one at the end was more humid and seemed to have water seeping somewhere, so he walked in and sat down: "Eyue, eat something warm here before going to bed."
Song Huiyue nodded, took off her coir raincoat and bamboo hat and placed them under the eaves, and walked in.
Tan Ran suddenly said: "I remember who you are, you are the one...who wants to commit the crime!"
Song Huiyue smiled and said: "Yes, I haven't asked you why you are here?"
When the King of Jin heard Song Huiyue talking about Tan Ran, he whispered: "Sit down."
Tan Ran didn't notice who the person in front of him was at all, and didn't refuse. He sat down and said to Song Huiyue: "It's getting cold. I burned a kiln of charcoal with tea tree roots in the mountains and only sold half of it."
The people from the car and charcoal shop came. It must be said that I sold the charcoal without their permission, but I burned the charcoal myself, so why did I have to ask them for permission. In the end, they took away the car and the charcoal.
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The more he talked, the angrier he became. He slapped the table and shook the oil lamp.
King Jin wanted to move the oil lamp to the small table, and looked around, but found no other place to put the lamp, so he moved the oil lamp farther away from Song Huiyue.
Huang Ting brought hot tea and each of them poured a cup. After drinking it, Tan Ran became less angry.
He knew that others said that he was stubborn and a stubborn donkey, so he was prepared to leave immediately as soon as Song Huiyue persuaded him to pay the money.
These words made his ears tingle.
However, Song Huiyue just asked him: "Where are your family members?"
"I have no family," Tan Ran said. "After I have served my parents, I am the only one left in the family."
Song Huiyue thought for a while: "My family is looking for someone. I will give you two taels of silver every month. Do you want to go to Kyoto with me?"
Tan Ran asked hesitantly: "Can you get 2 taels a month? It's not against the law. If you work as a boss in a restaurant, you only get 2 taels a month."
Song Huiyue said with a smile: "Of course it's not illegal, but after my family goes to Kyoto, they will have to rent a new house. We need someone to look after the door and do rough work. You have to do the work of two people by yourself, and there won't be more than two taels."
She went to Kyoto and couldn't live in the palace again, but if she wanted to employ people, she had to use someone she could trust. Instead of going to Kyoto and worrying about it, Tan Ran, who was stubborn, felt relieved.
After all, people who are willing to die without paying the toll will not be easily encouraged in other matters.
"Do you have enough food?" Tan Ran mentioned his biggest concern.
"Enough."
"Do you want to give me a cotton-padded jacket?"
"hair."
After Tan Ran asked these important things, he nodded simply: "I have nothing to worry about here. I just want to go see the prosperity of Kyoto. I will go with you."
After he finished speaking, he remembered something else: "You still owe me three silver hairpins. You said you would give them to me, but you took them away."
Song Huiyue smiled: "Here you go."
She took it out from the package and handed it to Tan Ran.
With wealth in hand, Tan Ran changed his clothes under Huang Ting's busy work, had a full meal, and did not ask for a room to sleep in. He directly made a bunk on the ground outside Song Huiyue's door and guarded the door for her.
He was just sleeping too deeply. When Yin Xiao came, he snored like thunder and didn't even turn over.
Yin Xiao stared at the unexpected gatekeeper on the ground and knocked on the door in confusion. When the lights in the room turned on, Song Huiyue walked behind the door and talked to Yin Xiao. Tan Ran had no intention of waking up.
He really is a magnanimous person with no worries at all.
"Madam, Madam, they and Xie Xianggong's family left in two separate boats. Prince Jin's luggage is all on Xie Xianggong's boat."
The journey back to Beijing was not smooth sailing, so Xie Zhou pretended to be the King of Jin and boarded the ship. In fact, the King of Jin was hiding from the public and did not even take You Song with him.
All the idle guards gathered on the two large ships of the Xie family and the Song family. If something happened, they would immediately abandon the ship and flee with the two families.
After Song Huiyue knew that everything was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you hungry?"
Yin Xiao answered truthfully: "Hungry."
Song Huiyue didn't eat much because she was worried about Mrs. Song. At this time, she put her heart back and felt hungry: "Let's go to the kitchen to get something to eat."
She put on her clothes and opened the door. Before the cold wind could hit her, Yin Xiao had already taken off his cloak and wrapped it around her.
These were the clothes he wore when he saw Mrs. Song boarding the ship. Mrs. Song saw that he was wearing too few clothes and specifically asked him to buy more clothes.
The two of them stepped over Tan Ran, who was motionless, and walked to the kitchen. Yin Xiao handed over two coins and went in to look for food.
Unexpectedly, it was late at night and the kitchen was also cold. Song Huiyue looked around and saw a strip of bacon smoked on the beam. She also found a few handfuls of dried radishes and dug out a bowl of pickles from the jar.
While washing the rice, she sighed to Yinxiao that the two coins were too expensive.
Yin Xiao chopped firewood to light the fire and let the rice pot simmer on the fire. Song Huiyue dug out another salted fish, brushed off a layer of black mud, and threw it into the rice pot.
Yin Xiao used his knife skills to cut the bacon into thin slices and handed it to Song Huiyue.
Song Huiyue set up the pot boldly and began to show off her fluctuating cooking skills - sometimes it tasted bad, sometimes it tasted terrible.
"It's cooked, it's cooked... Bring the bowl quickly... Damn it, I forgot to put the salt..."
Yin Xiao silently handed over the bowl, thinking that the aunt is really good. In just a few times of cooking, her cooking skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and she can cook it well.
Two bowls of vegetables, a piece of salted fish, and a large pot of rice were placed on the table.
Song Huiyue was eating salted fish, spitting out fish bones while eating: "The smell of fish is also afraid of too many thorns."
Yin Xiao held the rice bowl in one hand and the rice ladle in the other, mixed the food, scooped it up and stuffed it into his mouth.
Song Huiyue chewed the crispy fish bones in her mouth and made a crunching sound: "When I was in Kyoto, I forgot many things. I just remember that it was very cold one year. Not long after the summer, it became thicker and thicker from the cold."
The cotton-padded jacket, Qinghui wears it like a bear, he can't walk steadily, and he falls into pieces when he goes out."
Yin Xiao puffed out her cheeks and wanted to laugh, but she was too full of heart and not strong enough to open her mouth, so she couldn't smile.
In Song Huiyue's detailed words, Yinxiao ate up the two coins and felt very satisfied.