Zhu Hao felt very unhappy as he was about to take to the streets at noon and there was no shade. Today was the third time that he and Tang Yin went out to participate in a "literary meeting".
Tang Yin is not a local, and there is no one to guide him. It's more like wandering on the street. Although he knows where the literati gather, he doesn't know anyone when he goes there. Just go up and say a few words... They won't treat you as a lunatic and drive you out.
Even if it's good.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
Zhu Hao was eating ice cream while walking.
Tang Yin looked back at him from time to time, feeling a little bad.
"Mr. Lu, want a bite?"
Zhu Hao casually said that Tang Yin really wanted to eat but he still wouldn't give it to him.
Tang Yin shook his head: "Hurry up, we will be there soon."
Zhu Hao quickly finished the remaining few bites, clapped his hands and took out a handkerchief to wipe it. At this time, he happened to pass by a wine shop and saw Tang Yin unconsciously looking up at the door plaque of the wine shop.
Needless to say, when an alcoholic sees a liquor store, it is like a cat seeing a fish or a dog seeing shit. The greed in his eyes can be felt by everyone.
"Mr. Lu, I heard that after your drinking buddy left, no one has been drinking with you recently...Are you greedy for wine? You said you brought me out to discuss knowledge with others, but why are you staring at the wine shop?"
Zhu Hao was cheering from the side.
Tang Yin glared at Zhu Hao fiercely, and was about to take heavy steps to move forward when he saw someone pushing out of the wine shop.
The man who looked like a man was scolding the dirty drunkard: "Go away! You still want to drink here if you don't have money? It's your fault! Come back when you have money!"
The person who was pushed out got up from the ground without worrying. He patted the dust on his body and tidied his messy hair. He was about to leave when he turned around and saw Tang Yin and Zhu Hao...
The drunkard turned out to be Zhu Wanhong, Zhu Hao's uncle, who had a relationship with the two of them.
"Isn't this Zhu Qianhu?" Tang Yin spoke first.
Zhu Wanhong looked Tang Yin and Zhu Hao up and down, glared, or his eyes were blurry, but he knew that he couldn't rub his hands with sand, so he could only see the person clearly by widening his eyes, and immediately frowned: "
It looks familiar, but I can’t remember who it is.”
Zhu Hao thought to himself, it was such a coincidence that he bumped into his uncle?
Don't plan ahead to block us here, right?
Could it be that he was pretending to be drunk?
But if you smell drunk, uncle, you can be considered a capable actor if you are acting.
Zhu Hao smiled innocently and stepped forward to greet him: "Uncle, it's me."
"Uncle? Oh...it seems to be the child of the third family? Why are you here? He..."
Zhu Wanhong seemed unable to remember who Tang Yin was.
Zhu Hao introduced: "Uncle, have you forgotten? When you visited Prince Xing's Mansion before, you met Mr. Lu... Mr. Lu was a tutor in the Prince's Mansion."
Tang Yin didn't expect Zhu Wanhong to have such a bad memory. He originally wanted to remind Zhu Hao that since the other party didn't remember, he shouldn't tell himself his family name. After all, he, Tang Yin, was a gangster and was avoiding the pursuit of Prince Ning's palace. It was not a good thing to be targeted by a thousand members of the Jinyi Guards.
But now that Zhu Hao had introduced him, Tang Yin could only clasp his fists and salute: "I'm from Lu, I've met Zhu Qianhu."
Zhu Wanhong came closer: "Brother Lu, have you brought any money? It doesn't need to be much, just a few coins. Let me go in for a drink and return it later..."
Drunk guy borrowing money on the street?
Zhu Hao pondered in his mind, was the uncle deliberately pretending? Or was he really down to this level?
Tang Yin was about to pay, when Zhu Hao held Tang Yin's hand and asked with a smile: "Uncle, didn't I hear that you returned to the capital? Why are you here? You should go visit your grandmother. After all, you are at home.
Now I am the elder uncle."
Indirectly reminding Zhu Wanhong, don't pretend to be pitiful here. Who doesn't know that you are from the Zhu family of Jinyiwei Qianhu. Don't say you have no money. You can get everything just by going home.
Besides, if you put on the flying fish uniform of a Jinyiwei official and wear an embroidered spring knife, I don't believe any wine shop dares not to entertain you, and who dares to ask you to collect money?
Tang Yin said: "Zhu Qianhu, I'm a guest in Anlu. I should have invited you to my house for a drink... Well, it's better to choose a different day than to catch the sun. Today I will be your host and treat you to a drink."
A drunkard meets a potential drinking buddy, and Tang Yin actually takes the initiative to invite him?
This was something Zhu Hao never expected.
Zhu Wanhong smiled and followed Tang Yin back to the wine shop. Zhu Hao wanted to say, he was just kicked out, can we change to another restaurant?
But it seems that two drunkards don’t want to take another step. They have money in their pockets and still care about what the restaurant thinks of them?
If you have wine today, you will get drunk today. Let’s drink wine first to make ourselves happy...
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The second floor of the restaurant.
The waiter brought two bowls of wine over with disdain and put them on the table. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Zhu Wanhong said loudly: "Now that we are guests, why don't we serve some good food quickly?"
The waiter looked sideways at Tang Yin, as if wondering whether the person who took the initiative to treat him was also preparing to eat the King's meal, but seeing that Tang Yin was well-dressed and dressed as a scholar, he looked like a respectable scholar, so he should not refuse to pay.
"Wait!"
The guy turned around and went downstairs to get ready.
Zhu Wanhong reminded again: "Remember to replace the bowl with a cup... Do you think we are the burden-bearers in the past? It's really a dog's eyes that look down on others!"
Zhu Hao suddenly thought of Kong Yiji, who said "there are four ways to write the word fennel". His desolate appearance was very similar, but it was completely different from Zhu Hao's impression when he first saw Zhu Wanhong.
There can only be two explanations for this.
Either Zhu Wanhong is really a helpless Adou, and what he sees before him is his true state, or he is a showman who wants to make friends with Tang Yin in this way, so as to achieve his purpose of using Tang Yin to spy on the intelligence of Prince Xing's palace and even do evil... The latter's
More likely.
"Zhu Qianhu, we haven't seen each other for just a few months, how come... we are reduced to such a situation?" Tang Yin was puzzled.
Zhu Hao had doubts. Is Tang Yin so stupid that he couldn't see that the other party was evil?
Let’s not talk about anything else. The person in front of me is a member of the Jinyiwei Qianhu family. Although his ancestral home is not Anlu, the Zhu family is now considered a prestigious and wealthy family in the local area. As for being drunk on the street and unable to afford the drink?
Even if you don't want to go home, if you just go to Zhu's shop, will the waiter in the shop not give you a few pennies or what?
Zhu Wanhong picked up the bowl and took a sip of wine into his mouth. When he put it down, he spilled a lot of wine. He said with emotion: "I went back to the capital before and was treated like a beast. This time I went back to Anlu."
, if you don’t even have any subordinates around you, what’s the point of being a guard with thousands of households? And what’s the point of returning home with dignity? Why don’t you find a place in this city to have a few sips of wine, and get drunk and relieve all your worries!”
This sounds... very nonsense.
Zhu Hao went to see Tang Yin again and found that Tang Yin seemed to believe Zhu Wanhong's words.
Probably "we are both fallen people at the end of the world", Tang Yin also thought that he had a home and could not return, and he understood the pain, so he felt a sense of sympathy for Zhu Wanhong.
"Mr. Lu, your accent sounds like you're not from here?" Zhu Wanhong raised his head and looked at Tang Yin.
Tang Yin thought for a while, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "My ancestral home is Jiangnan."
I didn't mention the place in detail, but only told Jiangnan in general, to prevent my identity from being revealed.
"Jiangnan is a good place. If possible, I would also like to serve as a military official in Jiangnan. I would like to be transferred to Nanjing. Not to mention serving as a guard for thousands of households, but even for a hundred households, as a general banner. As long as I can serve in an upright and fair manner without getting involved in court disputes, my ancestors will be burned.
Fragrant." When Zhu Wanhong said this, he looked sad and sad, picked up the bowl and put a sip of wine into his mouth.
This mouthful was obviously larger than the one before.
Tang Yin asked: "Zhu Qianhu returned to Anlu this time, but... he has important errands? Or maybe there is something unspeakable? Why don't you tell me clearly?"
Turning around, Tang Yin actually went to inquire about Zhu Wanhong's situation.
Zhu Hao wanted to say, are you stupid?
Even if you think he is really drunk, don't think about it. He is a Jinyiwei who specializes in intelligence work. How can he get important information from you in just a few sentences? He has been able to survive under the strict supervision of Beizhen Fusi in the past few years.
If I don't have any skills, I'm afraid I'd have died there and turned into ashes!
Zhu Wanhong shook his head: "This time the imperial court didn't even assign me a retinue, what kind of errands can be arranged for me? The Zhu family has been in Anlu for so many years, so what if it is a family of thousands? It's just a name, thousands of families...
…The imperial court has designated a thousand households to be in charge, so what more can I ask for than to allow my Zhu family to settle down here and leave their hometown?"
It's very strange to say this.
But after Tang Yin heard it and thought about it, he found that it made some sense.
Originally Tang Yin was wary of the Zhu family, but through his two visits to Anlu, and this time he settled in Anlu for half a year, he found that the Zhu family seemed not worth mentioning at all, not like a local gentry family with some influence...
Targeting Prince Xing's Mansion is nothing more than an empty shell. If the court doesn't send anyone, what kind of threat can it pose to Prince Xing's Mansion?
"It's better, Mr. Lu. If you can gain the trust of King Xing and work in the palace, you will probably have great talent." Zhu Wanhong said suddenly with a look of envy.
Tang Yin quickly cupped his hands: "I don't dare to take it."
At this moment, a voice came from the stairs. It was the waiter who accompanied another table of drinkers upstairs and brought six plates of side dishes at the same time.
Zhu Hao could tell at a glance that this guy was a skilled man, and he was capable of serving six plates at once.
"That's it, do you want to add some soup?"
The guy asked.
"Go down. I didn't give any orders. I don't want to see your ignorant face again!" Zhu Wanhong did not answer, but directly drove the people away, as if he felt that the waiter had disturbed his business.
The waiter looked disdainful and walked straight to the table of guests next door without going downstairs.
Zhu Wanhong sighed: "What can't Mr. Lu do? If the prince asks for advice, he must be a scholar, right? In this era, scholars are the best. If you don't study, you will be like me, who is not confused but has accomplished nothing... Sigh
!Zhu Hao, how is your mother?"
This turning point...
Zhu Hao couldn't adapt.
Zhu Hao thought to himself, feel free to express your feelings, why are you thinking about my mother? Or do you think it's not good that your nephew is being ignored nearby, and he wants to talk to him, but can't find anything to say?
"My mother... is very good. Recently we also want to start a small business." Zhu Hao continued to say with a smile.
"hehe……"
Zhu Wanhong smiled, and the look in his eyes was somewhat meaningful.
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