Chen'er left for Hechuan County early the next morning. When leaving, he insisted on leaving all four secret guards to protect Yang Ruoqing.
Yang Ruoqing raised her arm and made a fist, deliberately making a boxing champion gesture.
"Chen'er, look here," she patted her shoulders and arms,
"Look at your mother, she can stand up people with her fists and run horses with her shoulders. With this body, this strength, and this skill, who dares to bully me? Who dares!"
Although I understood that I was trying to reassure myself, my funny posture and exaggerated expression made Chen'er laugh.
Xiaoyu, who was holding a bundle in her hand, also covered her mouth and couldn't help laughing.
"Take all the secret guards with you. If you don't, my mother will accompany you, otherwise you won't worry!"
Yang Ruoqing returned to her normal standing posture, took the bundle rolled over from Xiaoyu and gave it to Chen'er to hang on her body.
Just like a primary school student carrying a shoulder bag to study.
Then she gently adjusted the collar of Chen'er's clothes, "Listen to mother and bring everyone with you. If there is any situation, there will be people available for you to change."
"This restaurant is the most upscale in Jianye City, especially the Tianzihao guest rooms are protected by the restaurant's nursing home,"
"Mom, I don't know how nice it is to live here. Be obedient!"
In the end, Chen'er couldn't defeat Yang Ruoqing, so he had to say goodbye to her and leave in a hurry.
But before leaving, he still turned a corner and found the shopkeeper of the restaurant. With both kindness and power, he told the shopkeeper that before he came back,
We must send extra manpower to protect this huge guest room.
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Ever since Chen'er went to Hechuan County to control floods and curb evil spirits, Yang Ruoqing hasn't been idle in the restaurant.
After breakfast every day, Xiaoyu and I would disguise ourselves as a young master and a follower, and go to the major teahouses in the city to drink tea and hear Mr. Shu's storytelling.
Teahouses, restaurants, and brothels were the largest intelligence networks in ancient times when science and technology and information were underdeveloped.
News from the east, west, north and south are exchanged and summarized in these places.
People from all over the world also stay here, exchange different information with each other, and then take this information with them to other places...
Like the entire information network of Daqi, it is like a huge spider web woven by a spider, with the center point being the capital city.
So restaurants and teahouses like Jianye are just a small, tiny node in this huge spider web.
Although it is small, it is still a connecting line.
Chen'er went to Hechuan County. Five days have passed in the blink of an eye, and there has been no news of his return.
On this day, the weather finally cleared up. Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoyu, both dressed in men's clothing, came to the teahouse again and sat at the table closest to the storyteller's seat.
Today I ordered a pot of fine scented tea and several exquisite refreshments, all of which are specialties here in Jianye.
Egg pot stickers, cold rice noodles, water chestnut cakes, and crab roe buns are all served together.
There were not many people in the teahouse at first, but after breakfast, there were gradually more people.
Jianye once served as the capital, and it can be regarded as one of the largest cities in the world. There were many wealthy people in the city.
These wealthy people don't need to get up so early to have breakfast. They usually have servants at home to serve them.
It was morning when I came to the teahouse. I was leisurely carrying the bird cage, and people came in groups to drink tea, listen and gossip.
So the number of people in the teahouse gradually increased. When the number of people reached a certain amount, the storyteller also appeared on the stage.
The storyteller slapped the gavel in his hand, and his loud voice echoed throughout the teahouse hall.
"Dear readers, we talked about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the last round. Zhou Yu fought against Huang Gai. One was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer. In this round, let's continue..."
Before the storyteller finished speaking, he was interrupted by a guest at a table next to him.
"Sir, let's play the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for now and talk about it another day. Today we come to the teahouse and want to hear something else!" the guest said loudly.
The storyteller smiled and asked: "Then what does this judge want to hear?"
The person who spoke before threw a silver coin towards the storyteller and said, "I'm tired of listening to the opera booklet. I can tell you some witty jokes or folklore to change my appetite."
The storyteller neatly put away the ingot of silver, thought about it, and his eyes lit up.
"Speaking of folk rumors, I have a novel story here. It's about water control in Hechuan County. It's very legendary. Why don't you come and have fun with it?" he asked.
"Control the water? What's the point of controlling the water? Isn't it just the government leading people to repair the dam or something like that? If you don't listen, you won't listen." The officer who had thrown away the money waved his hand without hesitation.
At the table at this side, Xiaoyu was a little dissatisfied and said in a low voice to Yang Ruoqing: "This person looks like a loser at first glance. He doesn't care about people's livelihood or the current situation at all. He only shows off if he has two bad guys!"
Yang Ruoqing curled her lips and threw two ingots of silver in front of the storyteller, "Tell me, I love hearing about flood control."
Seeing the double price, Mr. Reader's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to reach out to take it, the man who threw the money before slapped the table and stood up.
"Ha, who else dares to compare with me in terms of wealth? I'm going to ask you to pretend that you can't compete with me!"
He raised his hand and patted it a few times, "Bah, bang, bang!"
Several of his attendants took out a tray covered with a red cloth.
The attendant placed the tray and the red cloth in front of the storyteller. The red cloth was suddenly opened, revealing a tray full of silver ingots neatly stacked inside.
Each silver ingot is visually estimated to contain five taels. This is a full tray, at least five or six taels!
Not to mention the storyteller who was shocked and overwhelmed, the customers at other tables were also shocked.
There were whispers in Yang Ruoqing's ears.
"Isn't this Mr. Shen Qiancai, the boss of Jianye City? I heard that a while ago in Baihua Building, he fought for a singer from the Western Regions, and spent a lot of money to buy the singer's right to have her first night."
"Now I'm spending so much money again just to listen to books. I'm really a rich man, with a lot of money!"
Another customer echoed: "If you have money, you will be willful. If you don't have money, you can only accept your fate. Fortunately, we don't want to be in the limelight and we don't compete with Shen Qiancai..."
Here, Yang Ruoqing heard these remarks, and the corners of her lips curled up with a hint of contempt.
She looked towards Shen Qiancai, and Shen Qiancai happened to be looking this way too, with arrogance in his eyes.
"Aren't you going to be richer than Master Shen and I? Come on then, Master Shen, I have never been a coward in this field!" Shen Qiancai said loudly.
Yang Ruoqing smiled faintly, stood up and walked towards Shen Qiancai.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiaoyu quickly stood up and took Yang Ruoqing's hand.
He lowered his voice and said, "Sister, what do you want to do?"
Yang Ruoqing gave Xiaoyu a reassuring look, "Just sit back and don't come over."
Then, she went straight to Shen Qiancai's table.
Shen Qiancai was not tall, and had probably grown sideways. He was probably in his early twenties, but his face looked very bad.
