"The people next to you, call him Zhang Qianhu." Ouyang Xiaoke seemed to be frightened. When he mentioned Zhang Qianhu, his whole body trembled involuntarily.
"Where is your guqin? He also took it away?"
"No, he didn't take the guqin. He trampled the guqin to pieces on the spot and threw it into the stove in the kitchen." With his head lowered, Ouyang Xiaoke felt like a child.
"You came to the capital to look for me, and you were afraid that they would recognize you, so you disguised yourself as a woman and played the piano in Zhongzheng Restaurant, waiting for me to show up?"
"Yes." Ouyang Xiaoke replied quietly.
"Why didn't you call me when you saw me yesterday? If it weren't for the different sound of your piano, I would have missed the chance to see me again." Xiao Chen couldn't bear to blame him anymore and said slowly.
"There were too many people yesterday, and I was wearing women's clothes, so I was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble to you."
"Okay, go and change your clothes. If you want to continue playing here, you can go on stage and play boldly. I will arrange for someone to keep an eye on this place secretly. If you don't want to play anymore, if you have any ideas, tell me,
I will try my best to help you do it. As for the Auditing Academy, since it has been closed down by Jin Yiwei, I will definitely ask them what the reason for the closure is."
There was a faint burning anger in Xiao Chen's eyes.
"I'd better hang around here for now. If I have other ideas, I'll go find the young master later." Ouyang Xiaoke stood up slowly, holding the guqin on the table in his arms again.
"That's fine." Xiao Chen stood up, "I have something to do, so let's go down together."
The two of them walked in tandem, and just as they reached the middle of the stairs, the shopkeeper Wang Zhongzheng walked into the door with great excitement.
"Xiao Qianhu, are you done with your work?" With a smile on his face, Wang Zhongzhen hurriedly greeted him.
"Shopkeeper Wang, you've come back just in time, I'm planning to find you." Xiao Chen smiled, holding on to the handrail of the stairs with one hand, and stopped in his tracks.
In Wang Zhongzhen's eyes, the current Xiao Chen was neither a Qianhu of Dongchang nor the purple-robed captain who was respected by everyone in the Ming Dynasty. He was his son and the person he was closest to.
Although I was thinking this in my heart, I still didn't dare to be careless in the words of address.
He clasped his fists and said, "If you have anything to do, Xiao Qianhu can give you orders, but as long as I, Wang Zhongzhen, can do it, I will never refuse."
"Okay, I'm relieved with what Shopkeeper Wang said." Turning around, Xiao Chen lightly patted Ouyang Xiaoke on the shoulder, "Ouyang Xiaoke, an old friend of mine. He was bullied.
He came to the capital to look for me. He was afraid of being recognized, so he disguised himself as a woman to hide from others. From now on, I will entrust him to the care of Shopkeeper Wang."
"Young Master Ouyang." Wang Zhongzheng hurriedly saluted Ouyang Xiaoke again, "You are an old friend of Xiao Qianhu and my friend Wang Zhongzhen. From now on, if you play the piano in our restaurant, your salary will be doubled. No, you can make whatever price you want, I will
Never make a counteroffer.”
I lack nothing but money. As long as I can buy my young master’s happiness with money, it’s all worth it.
"Shopkeeper Wang misunderstood." Xiao Chen took two steps forward and walked down the stairs, "It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. I entrust Young Master Ouyang to you because I want you to protect his safety. Anyone who causes trouble for him
, he is not an ordinary person, otherwise, he would not be so scared that he would not even dare to wear men's clothes."
"Not an ordinary person?" Wang Zhongzhen frowned, "A person from the world, or a person from the government?"
Xiao Chen chuckled: "People from the government are more vicious than Jianghu people. However, shopkeeper Wang doesn't have to worry too much. I will secretly arrange people to be on duty near the restaurant. Shopkeeper Wang only needs to provide Mr. Ouyang with a place to live and let him
Just come to the restaurant and play the piano."
"That's easy to say. The Zhongzhen Inn next door is also a villain's property. If you open a house, Mr. Ouyang can go there when he goes out." Wang Zhongzhen said very proudly.
"That's very good, then I'll thank you, shopkeeper Wang. I have something to do today, so I'll take a step first." Xiao Chen crossed his fists and saluted Wang Zhengzhen, then walked towards the door and was about to leave.
"Xiao Qianhu." Thinking of Mr. Zhang's incident, Wang Zhongzhen looked at Xiao Chen's back and shouted hurriedly.
Stopping, Xiao Chen turned around: "Is there something wrong with Shopkeeper Wang?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Seeing Xiao Chen's hurried look, Wang Zhongzhen felt a little confused about how to mention this to him.
"Shopkeeper Wang, please don't come out. If you have anything to do, just say it. I will entrust Mr. Ouyang to you, and we will be our own. If you are so polite, I am really not used to it." Xiao Chen laughed.
"It's okay, it's really okay. Xiao Qianhu should go and do some work. If you have time, come to the restaurant more often." Wang Zhongzhen gave up the idea of letting Mr. Zhang and Xiao Chen meet and recognize each other today.
There are too many grievances and grievances between the two of them that cannot be explained clearly in just one or two sentences.
Looking at Xiao Chen's hurried look, he must be busy with something.
It's better to wait until he has enough time before letting Mr. Zhang get to know him.
Xiao Chen put his hands behind his back and looked Wang Zhongzheng up and down carefully: "Is everything okay?"
"It's okay." Wang Zhongzhen chuckled.
"It's okay, I'm really leaving?!"
"Well, Xiao Qianhu, go and get busy."
Xiao Chen turned around, stepped out of the threshold of the restaurant, and disappeared into the crowded street.
From the window on the second floor of the Zhongzhen Inn next door, a pair of eyes stared closely at Xiao Chen who walked out of the Zhongzhen Restaurant. It was not until his figure completely disappeared on the street that he could no longer be caught, and then he slowly withdrew his gaze.
"It looks so much like him. Not only his appearance, but also the way he walks is exactly the same as the general back then."
With a smile on his face, Mr. Zhang's expression was calm and kind.
In Li An's mansion, the housekeeper Jia Ren had already made a pot of hot tea and placed it on the table in the living room.
Just waiting for Li An to go to court, there is a sip of tea at a moderate temperature to quench his thirst.
I walked to the door of the hall again, looked up at the sun in the sky, and felt that it was still early, so I raised my arms and moved back and forth a few times.
As a former Jinyi Guardsman, Jia Ren's skills are not top-notch, but it is not difficult to deal with a few ordinary people casually.
Seeing no one around, he got familiar with his own boxing and kicking skills in the yard.
"Oh, you're pretty good at it." A voice came from the door, and Li An walked in with his hands behind his back, smiling.
Hearing this, Jia Ren hurriedly stopped his men's movements and greeted him: "Master, you are back."
"Well, there's nothing important to do today. I have to go down early." He took off the stuffy hat covering his head, put it in Jia Ren's hand, and Li An walked towards the living room.
Holding the pipe hat in both hands, Jia Ren hurriedly followed.
Walking into the living room, he hung the pipe hat in his hand on the wall, then hurriedly ran to the table, turned over the tea bowl on the table, poured a full bowl, and handed it to Li An with both hands: "This is
The tea has been brewing for a while and is at a moderate temperature. Please use it, sir."
Li An raised his right hand, wiped away the sweat on his forehead, and threw it to the ground: "It's only April, and the sun is so hot that it makes my neck hurt. Every time I go to court and come back, I'm covered in stinky sweat."
He took the tea bowl handed over by Jia Ren, raised his head and poured it into his mouth. With two "bang" sounds, he swallowed, and with a "uh" sound, he couldn't help but burped.
Li An raised his sleeves and wiped the tea that overflowed from the corner of his mouth. Li An put the tea bowl on the table: "Have fun, pour another bowl."
"Yes." Jia Ren responded and hurriedly raised the teapot in his hand.
After drinking three bowls in a row, my thirst seemed to be completely relieved.
Putting down the tea bowl, Li An slowly leaned back on the chair behind him and took a long breath: "I don't know if Xiao Chen went to Zhongzhen Inn to pay for yesterday's banquet. If he didn't
Go, when shopkeeper Wang sees me and asks, I don’t know how to answer."
"Brother Xiao will definitely do what he promised. Don't worry, sir." Bowing his body, Jia Ren put the teapot in his hand on the table with a smile.
"No matter what, anyway, yesterday he promised to pay the money in front of shopkeeper Wang. Even if he didn't pay, shopkeeper Wang would come to him and it has nothing to do with me." Li An grinned and comforted himself.
"Brother Xiao is not such a person. If he says he will pay, he will pay." Jia Ren defended Xiao Chen.
"Not necessarily." Li An rubbed his nose, "Yesterday, I asked him to make up for the money behind, and he looked disgusted. That stingy guy, what he said yesterday, who knows whether it will be enough this time.
count."
Jia Ren frowned and wanted to continue to defend Xiao Chen, when a voice came from the door.
"You old thing, I just paid for you, and you're talking bad about me behind my back."
At the gate, Xiao Chen, wearing the uniform of the Dongchang school captain, stepped into the threshold with his eyes wide open.
