Chapter 575: People are there and tea is there

The servants of Tianxiang Pavilion received a yamen runner in a short while.

The man gave a gift and took out a post, handed it over with both hands, "Sir, this is a post sent by my magistrate. I want to ask the prince consort to go to the sky tower tonight to have tea."

Chongtian Tower is an elegant teahouse in Guanquan Mansion. It does not sell wine and vegetables, but only sells tea that is not cheap. There are also a large number of piano, chess, calligraphy, paintings, and ornaments in the building, which are all elegant things.

If you like something, you can buy it home. In order to make it elegant and tasteful, people don’t say they are buying it but keep it.

Anyone who believes that he has tastes must come here for a treat. Fortunately, in addition to tea, the refreshments here are also particularly exquisite, and even drinking tea will not make people swell.

Zhuang Rou has asked the servants of Tianxiang Pavilion about the situation in Guanquan Mansion these days. She knew that this tower climbed to heaven was not interested in seeing it at that time.

There must be many rules in this kind of place, and there will be many literary scholars, which is so scary.

But now she is the prefect who treats her, so of course she has to go there. After all, she can be an official in a place full of sects, so her connections and methods will not be bad.

So Zhuang Rou picked up the post, "No problem, I will definitely arrive tonight."

After saying that, he took out a piece of silver from his purse and stuffed it into the man's hand.

The yamen runner refused and then smiled and put it away, "Thank you, my son-in-law, then I'll go back and report to the prefect."

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Zhuang Rou smiled, and the yamen runner left.

After the person left, she opened the invitation and looked at it a few times. The magistrate's surname was Zhao. She didn't say that she could take a few people over. She thought about it and planned to go by herself.

Qin Qiu stayed here to guard Zhuang Jin. As for Old Man Song’s closing of Tianxiang Pavilion these days, the girls did not pick up customers. He went to play with those girls every day, and he was addicted to the gentle village and could not see anyone.

It is even harder for the silver tyrants to go. Those literati may faint when they see it.

No one has any objection to this decision. Not to mention that climbing to the sky tower is not fun, it is even more annoying to meet officials. Who will suffer this hardship in the cold weather?

At night, Zhuang Rou wrapped herself in a thick cloak and took a carriage to climb the sky tower under the cold wind.

Sure enough, going out at night was not a happy thing. Her mood became depressed. She almost wanted the coachman to send her back to Tianxiang Pavilion halfway.

Fortunately, I climbed the sky tower not too far, and I arrived in a short while.

This is a seven-story colorful building with many colorful lanterns hanging, and all the words are written on the lanterns, some are puzzles, and some are couplets with half a sentence, and there are many poems with only half a poem.

Zhuang Rou got off the carriage and looked up at the lights hanging by the window curiously. From time to time, maids took off the lights outside by the window with bamboo poles with hooks.

At other windows, there were also new lanterns with the words inscribed, which looked very lively.

"The prince-consort is here to visit us. The prefect is already waiting upstairs, so the villain will take the prince-consort upstairs." The waiter who climbed upstairs was refreshing and elegant, but he deliberately distinguished himself from the literati who came.

Otherwise, they will feel that they are dressing like their servants, and are they laughing at them as they climb the sky tower?

Zhuang Rou handed the groom a piece of silver, letting him drink a glass of wine outside to keep warm, and then followed the waiter upstairs.

She walked to the seventh floor, where she divided the entire floor into two, with two private rooms for peace and quiet.

Not only are there places to enjoy the scenery and drink tea, but even the soft couch that took a night of nap is also separated. The fragrance is lighter, and there is a faint fragrance in the air. It is not sweet but has a calming effect.

At the door of the room on the left, two yamen runners stood, one blocked Zhuang Rou, and the other went into the house to report.

The prefect here is full of airs.

Zhuang Rou stood at the door and smiled, looking at the yamen runner who had been staring at him, feeling a little nervous.

She smiled and said, "Do you want to search?"

"Ah?" the yamen runner was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "I have to search for it on weekdays."

"Is your adults afraid of death, or are they trying to show off their official accent? They still have to search for him when they see him." Zhuang Rou smiled. If they dare to search for themselves, they would beat him to death on the spot.

Before the yamen runner could speak, the door opened, and a hearty laugh came from the inside, and a fat man who looked very kind came out.

"It's a great honor for Zhao, the prince-consort to be willing to admire the glory." Zhao said with a smile, as if he was very familiar with Zhuang Rou.

Zhuang Rou nodded slightly, "You are polite, Lord Zhao."

The prefect Zhao waved her hand and let her in, "Please take your seat, Prince Zhuang."

The tea set had been set up in the room, and the water on the small fire had been heated, waiting for the guests to take their seats to start making tea.

The teamaker was an elegant female tea master. When she saw the guests sitting, she didn't need anyone to remind them or say hello to the guests. It seemed that she was the only one in the room and started making tea.

Zhuang Rou knelt across from her, watching her making tea with light and graceful techniques, and a fragrance floated in the house and never dissipated for a long time.

It is right not to bring Silver Ba here. If it is there, the beautiful scenery and atmosphere may be destroyed by it now.

The female tea master placed the jade cup containing tea in front of Zhuang Rou and Zhao Magistrate, and drank the tea in one mouthful of ox-eyed small tea bowl, and then savored the essence of the food.

When the tea was in the mouth, Zhao Gong swallowed it and praised: "Sure enough, the same tea can only taste it here."

"It's indeed a good tea." Zhuang Rou didn't know much about tea, but she still knew it was delicious. She was just waiting to see when the prefect Zhao spoke and asked her to come and taste the real purpose of tea.

After just a cup of tea, the prefect Zhao asked casually, "Monkey King Zhuang, I heard that you have a peerless treasure map on you?"

"Ah?" Zhuang Rou didn't expect that he mentioned this. He studied hard for many years and got the top scorer in the officialdom for so many years before becoming a prefect. Can he still believe this?

She said in confusion: "Mr. Zhao, do you actually believe that kind of rumors in the world?"

"Hahaha……"

Zhao prefect laughed and said, "The Prince Zhuang first came into contact with these people in the martial arts world. I don't know anything about it. A large part of them practice martial arts every day, and not many of them have read books. Even masters have people who only know their own names."

"Even if there is a treasure, it is very likely to be named "a peerless treasure map."

He touched his beard and said with a kind look on his face: "I heard that these people in the martial arts world are rumored that the prince consort of Zhuang has a peerless treasure map, and they all want to seize it from you."

"These people in the martial arts world are lawless. As long as they are good for them, killing and robbing is no problem. Regardless of whether the treasure map is on the prince-consort, they will definitely try it. The prince-consort only brought a few people, but it is quite dangerous."

If it weren't for wanting to hear what he was going to do, Zhuang Rou would have wanted to have an attack at this time. This was Guanquan Mansion. He was a dignified prefect and had the attitude to say that his bandits in the city were lawless.

So what about the sects, the people in the martial arts world? As long as they do something illegal, they will catch whatever they should be caught, and they will behead them if they should be killed. They will also talk about the morality of the martial arts world with the martial arts world. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse?

But she held it down, showed a panic expression, and said anxiously: "What should I do? I heard that the people in the Jianghu are very powerful, and the people I brought can't stop them."

"Mr. Zhao, you are the prefect of this place. What should I do now?"

The prefect Zhao picked up the second cup of tea, drank it down and comforted him: "Don't be too anxious for the prince-consort Zhuang. If you have this official here, you must protect the safety of the prince-consort."

"But the peerless treasure map on the prince-consort is likely to cause death. Zhao is willing to take over this evil guy. Even if they have great martial arts skills and their relatives do not recognize them, but this official is a dignified prefect, and they dare not openly break into the yamen."

Zhuang Rou said with emotion: "Mr. Zhao is so wise, how could Zhuang throw this life-threatening thing to the adult for his own selfish interests?"

"Don't worry, sir, you are a man with a wife and children. They dare not go directly to find you. Maybe they will target your wife and children. I am different. I am alone and my only brother is in the palace every day."

"If those rats in the martial arts world want to tie their relatives to threaten me, they will ask them to go to the palace to catch them, afraid that they will do anything." She said indifferently. How could they use this to deceive themselves?

Prefect Zhao frowned slightly, "Monkey King Zhuang, this is not a trivial matter, you have to be careful."

Zhuang Rou picked up the tea, raised her head and drank it, pursed her lips and smiled, "Master Zhao, this cup of tea is poisonous, does your cup have it?"

"What! Poison!" Zhao Magistrate threw down the teacup like a hot potato, and a headmaster who had been staying in the corner suddenly stepped forward.

He took out a silver needle as long as a finger and stirred it into the tea. The place where the silver needle touched the tea was immediately pitch black.

"Sir, it's really poisonous!" The captain shouted coldly and immediately grabbed the hand of the prefect Zhao, and the prefect Zhao was so scared that his face turned pale.

Zhuang Rou thought he had released the poison, but now she was so scared that she was afraid that even he didn't know it was poisonous.

She looked at the female tea master. The tea was found to be poisonous, but she still seemed to be nothing like this, as quiet as before, and continued to make tea.

However, the prefect Zhao stood up and kicked over the tea table, "You dare to poison me!"

The female tea master finally raised her eyes slightly and looked at Prefect Zhao.

The captain immediately protected him behind him and pushed him backwards to the door, "Sir, be in danger, leave quickly!"

Zhuang Rou sat in place without moving, but she forced the poison out with her internal force, and she was calm and did not rush to leave.
Chapter completed!