64,64 Night Banquet and Buddha Head(1/2)
Three carriages from Kaifeng Prefecture, Tangmen and Taixue arrived at the villa of Wulong Village when they were in the lights.
The butler of Wu Longzhai brought people to greet him at the gate.
Zhan Zhao got off the carriage, raised his head first, and looked at the Wu family's villa in Kaifeng City. It was a coincidence that there was also a manor on the hillside not far away, which was a royal villa. Zhao Zhen had given it to the Eighth Prince before, and the prince often invited guests here. Zhan Zhao had been there several times.
The size of the Wulongzhai Villa is even larger than the Ba Wang's Imperial Manor.
Zhan Zhao instantly understood what Xie Yan said before, Wu Shanchuan was too rich... Is this kid really getting rich overnight?
The people from Kaifeng Prefecture were just here to mediate, and the focus of the treat this time was the people from the Tang Sect and the Imperial Academy.
The housekeeper was very kind and invited everyone to walk in, saying a lot of New Year greetings along the way.
Zhan Zhaohe Bai Yutang and Lin Yehuo walked at the end, observing the surroundings.
Zhan Zhao found that the people in Wulong Village can be roughly divided into three types: the butler and some disciples of Wulong Village all looked brought from the southwest, spoke with a southwest accent, and had a relatively high status.
Most of the servants who are busy are natives from Kaifeng, and they should have been hired after they arrived in Kaifeng.
There are also a few who are not like the disciples of Wulong Village or the servants, who seem to be guarding, and they are guarding two of them on the porch, courtyard gate, pavilion, etc., similar to guarding guards or guards. These people look more vigilant and their martial arts look good.
These guards attracted the attention of Zhan Zhao and others.
Logically speaking, it is very normal for a wealthy family to have a few guards who guard the house, but are there too many guards in Wulong Village? Is there treasures in this villa or are there any powerful figures? Do you need to have to have a slogan every ten steps and every five steps? In addition, there are many disciples in the Jianghu sect, but they do not need their own disciples to guard the gate, but they are more like hired thugs. This is a bit strange.
Zhan Zhaoxiang is familiar with him, but now there are many people, so he wants to talk to a few guards.
But the guards were very experienced in avoiding contact with him. When Zhan Zhao saw him look at him, they bowed their heads or went somewhere else.
Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly - it became more suspicious!
Long Qiaoguang, Zou Liang, and the two brothers of the Tang Sect who were traveling with him naturally discovered the abnormality here.
Even the four Taixue felt that the atmosphere was a bit subtle, especially Pang Yu.
The little marquis gently hit Xiao Baoxuan beside him.
Bao Yan looked at him.
Pang Yu grimaces him - guards are strict and guarding thieves inside and outside.
Lin Xiao and Xie Yan both looked at him - what does it mean?
The little marquis lowered his voice and said, "There is something shameful."
...
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang observed all the way and agreed with Pang Yu's statement - there are too many guards in this situation, and it is too difficult to have a secret spy.
Of course, no matter how many guards are, the more they are, the more they seem to be without silver here.
Unlike the vigilant adults, Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liangzi were still carefree, holding hands and walking forward together, following Xiao Wu who was lazy and responsible for taking care of them.
After passing a few wells, Wu Shanchuan came out.
Wu Shanchuan greeted everyone with a smile on his face. The show was very full as usual, but the atmosphere was still subtly awkward.
The two brothers of the Tang Sect were not very interested, and several students in the Taixue School were also more afraid of students.
Wu Shanchuan looked at the people and found that they were all men. When Tang Xiaomei didn't come, he asked Tang Sidao with a smile, "Didn't you come? Are you still angry with me?"
Tang Sidao glanced at him and thought to himself that you are quite thick-skinned.
Tang Er introduced Long Qiaoguang to Wu Shanchuan.
Wu Shanchuan was also surprised when he heard that the person in front of him was actually the Right General of the Song Dynasty. The old man even gave Long Qiao a look with some gossip. This handsome man was so young and in a high position... This time, Tang Xiaomei did marry a good family.
Wu Shanchuan recognized people and found that Lin Yehuo was also coming. He was a little puzzled. He didn't invite the master of Huofeng Hall, and who is the person next to him? The young man looked good but felt in a bad mood, and he had a stern face.
Lin Yehuo said he was here to have some food, but he didn't introduce Zou Liang, just said he was his own mute.
Wu Shanchuan thought Zou Liang was a disciple of Huofengtang, and thought to himself that it was no wonder he didn't speak, but he seemed to be a mute.
Everyone looked at Lin Yehuo speechlessly - would you say that the Left General of the Song Dynasty?
Zou Liang was in a good mood - no need to talk!
Bai Yutang thought this was a good way, so he glanced at Zhan Zhao.
Zhan Zhao nodded with understanding. Next time I eat, I will say you are mute, okay?
The fifth master nodded with satisfaction.
Wu Shanchuan's family has a great family, with three wives and concubines, eight children, five men and three women. The three daughters are not around, so they should be family members. Their five sons are Wu Jing, Wu Zheng, Wu Fei, Wu Jie, and Wu Ren.
The five sons all looked ordinary, but there was no one particularly outstanding.
The two brothers of the Tang family looked back at their brother-in-law, feeling that there was no harm if there was no comparison.
A banquet was ready in the garden, and Wu Shanchuan invited everyone to the table. At this time, two ladies came.
Several sons of the Wu family all got up and called him "Mom". It seemed that they were Wu Shanchuan's eldest and second wife.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both looked back together, wanting to see the legendary "Three Grandma", but the "Su'er" did not appear.
The two wives of the Wu family looked decent and greeted guests for Wu Shanchuan.
Zhan Zhao noticed that Wu Shanchuan saw the two wives coming, and looked behind them. After that, he seemed to be in a bad mood and forced a smile to sit there.
At this time, a man who looked like a housekeeper ran into the yard, walked behind Wu Shanchuan, and whispered to him in a low voice.
The banquet was quite lively. When Wu Shanchuan heard the butler talk, he glanced at the surroundings, but he didn't know that the shark shark was standing beside him now, lowered his head and listened to the butler whispering to him.
Not far away, the fifth master sat like he was in a daze, but in fact he was listening carefully.
I heard the butler and Wu Shanchuan report back, saying that the third grandma said she was uncomfortable and would go to bed first and would not come here to drink.
After hearing this, Wu Shanchuan asked the butler skeptical, "Where is she in the house alone?"
The butler nodded and said yes, and entered the house as soon as it was dark and never came out.
Wu Shanchuan whispered to him and sent more people to watch nearby.
The butler agreed and went out.
Xie Xie followed the butler out of the yard.
The butler called a few guards and asked them to send more people to the third wife's room to monitor.
Xie Xie continued to follow the guards, but they really arranged some people to monitor outside a small courtyard.
The cheesy walked into the yard. The three rooms in the yard were all very exquisite, with a light on in the middle.
The shark entered the room and saw a beautiful woman dressed in gold and silver sitting by the table in the room. She held her cheek with one hand and a letter with the other, sighing.
The cheesy chess walked around the woman and glanced at the contents of the letter.
The content of the letter is very short, it is an elopement letter. The person who wrote the letter made an appointment with "Su'er". Tonight, we met Ziwu Lane next to Wanghu Tower in the south of the city, and we walked away and became a fairy couple. The signature was - Suxin Ren.
The third lady sighed again, walked to the window and opened the window and looked out.
As soon as she was moving, two guards outside looked around.
Grandma San closed the window angrily, walked back to the table and sat down with anger, picked up the letter paper and lit it on the oil lamp, and burned it.
Youyou sighed, and the third lady walked to the bed and took out a brocade box from under the pillow. When she opened the brocade box, there was a jade pendant inside. The jade pendant was carved with the pattern of Wuyuan Shen Qiu, which was the same as the one worn by the big and small Changsu in Lin Xiao's painting.
Xie Xie tilted her head and looked at the third grandmother sitting beside the bed, staring at the jade pendant in a daze. At this time, she was also confused, and Bai Yutang who was looking all the way.
The fifth master felt that he had discovered so many clues just now, so he was a little panicked!
He leaned into Zhan Zhao's ear and whispered a little about what the shark saw. Zhan Zhao opened his eyes wide in surprise - it was so messy!
The fifth master nodded—right!
"The person who called out to Grandma San is Suxin, and he is still in Ziwu Lane!" Zhan Zhao said the point, "Should we help Grandma San elope?"
The fifth master thought it was a good idea. The time for elopement was midnight, so it should be easier to make trouble at that time.
Bai Yutang asked the entire manor of Cheongshe to take a look at the route first.
...
After three rounds of drinking, Wu Shanchuan indeed asked Xie Yan about several docks in Jiangnan.
Xie Yan dealt with it and felt that Wu Shanchuan was inexplicably interested in buying a pier in Jiangnan. Bai Yutang sat here, so why didn’t he buy it from Xiankong Island?
As he was talking, Wu Shanchuan turned the topic around the dock at Kaifeng Mansion Wharf.
Everyone understood in their hearts that the drunkard's intention was not wine. Wu Shanchuan's real purpose was the dock that Xie Yan bought in Kaifeng Prefecture.
Speaking of which, it may be a coincidence that Xie Yan bought the dock and Wu Shanchuan were both in front and behind. The butler picked one of them, but there were a lot of wood piled up inside, which was related to the Wu Zishuo School back then... Could Xie Yan mistakenly buy the dock that Wu Shanchuan wanted to buy?
Xie Yan pretended not to know, and Wu Shanchuan said that he would not respond to the dock. Wu Shanchuan was so anxious that he kept sweating.
Soon the banquet was finished, Wu Shanchuan withdrew and invited everyone to drink tea in the garden.
At this moment, Bai Yutang followed the mermaid and mermaid to visit the Wu family, but found nothing unusual. The only thing that attracted Bai Yutang's attention was that there were several servants working in the Wu family who were also mute.
When he came back, the fifth master asked the marsh to go to the third wife's yard to take a look.
The lights were still on in the room, and the cheesy didn't enter the door. Just as he was about to leave, he saw a figure suddenly appear on the paper door.
The shark stood outside the house, tilting his head to look at the figure...
To be continued...