"Two eldest ladies, come out to meet guests... Bah! Come out to eat!" Zhang Bi shouted at the top of his lungs.
The few people have been together for such a long time, and they have become like a family, free from restraint.
"I want to drink some wine tonight." Yue Rong sat at the table. Although his eyes were red, his mood had returned to calm.
"Drinking? Drinking is good!" Zhang Bi said, stroking his hands, "Second brother, why don't you bring out the good wine you have collected? Let's have a few drinks with Rong'er."
"Brother, I want to drink two drinks too!" Lin Long shouted happily. Over this period of time, her drinking capacity has improved a lot.
Among them, Lin Linyou's deliberate "cultivation" is indispensable. He has a poor drinking capacity. If Zhang Bi drinks him like this one day, it will be bad!
"Okay! Just have two drinks with your sister Rong." Lin Linyou raised his hand and scratched Lin Long's nose lovingly.
At this time, Jiang Jianxue brought a plate of dishes out of the kitchen, put the dishes on the table, and eagerly greeted Yue Rong: "Miss Rong." She bowed her body.
Yue Rong stood up and said a slight blessing in return.
"It's... it's been a long time..." Jiang Jianxue blushed, her eyes were filled with tenderness, and her mouth was stammering.
Zhang Ben stretched out his chopsticks to tap the plate of food and interrupted him ruthlessly: "I'm Keao... what are you doing? It's dark, is this edible?"
"Fried amaranth." Jiang Jianxue was not interested in "vegetables."
"Fried pickles?"
Jiang Jianxue only focused on Yue Rong: "Miss Rong, it's been such a long time..."
"Good wine, good wine is here!" Lin Linyou happily walked into the room carrying a jar of wine.
"I'm afraid these dishes are not worthy of wine!" Zhang Bi knocked on the plate in frustration, "Master Jiang, who has been busy all afternoon, has prepared such dark dishes for us."
"Xiaosheng said that he can cook, but the cooking is not delicious..." Jiang Jianxue whispered.
"Don't you think it tastes good?" Lin Linyou looked at several dishes that were either dark or slimy. "You can't eat this at all! That's all, I'll buy it on the street!"
Suddenly there was a knock on the courtyard door. Lin Linyou walked to the door and opened it. He saw a waiter looking at him with a smile on his face and holding six bulging lotus leaf bags in his hand.
The third brother Yang Fang followed behind the waiter with his hands behind his back.
"Third brother, are you willing to come back?"
"You're here at the right time, right? You can smell the aroma of wine from so far away!" Yang Fang said with a smile, "Send the dishes in quickly."
The waiter agreed, stepped through the courtyard door, bowed outside the living room, came in, wrapped the lotus leaves on the table, put them down, and stood aside with his hands tied.
Yang Fang followed Lin Lin and swam forward, took out a few coins and rewarded the waiter.
The waiter in the shop thanked him, bowed with a smile and said: "Guys, our shop has recently opened. You can buy an authentic Changshu Beggar's Roast Chicken for only 19 cents! There are also bone-in abalone from Suzhou Prefecture and Sanjiangtun from Shanyin." The razor clams...are all sold at a discount! We deliver them to your doorstep no matter where you are. As long as the shop sign is there, the roast chicken will still be sold! Go buy it now, and the first 100 customers will get a free plate of fennel beans! Hurry up to the small shop at the corner of the street and grab some! If you tell me what else you want, the little one will bring it to you right away!"
"Okay. Have a good meal and come back next time!" Yang Fang waved his hand and the waiter left.
"Third brother's move is really a help in times of need!" Zhang Bi reached out to untie the lotus leaf bag, "I'm worried that I don't have any food to go with the wine!"
"Brother, why do I feel that the waiter's rhetoric just sounded a bit familiar?" Lin Linyou asked, "Third brother, what is the name of this newly opened shop?"
Yang Fang thought for a while: "It seems, "Are you hungry?" It's a strange name."
Okay, there is a high probability that it was founded by a time traveler. However, a time-traveler like this is quite content if he runs a small business seriously. If you have time, you really need to visit.
"Hey, this is..." Yang Fang looked at Jiang Jianxue who came out of the kitchen with a rice steamer.
Jiang Jianxue put down the rice cooker, bowed and said: "Jiang Jianxue, a young student, was a candidate for the second place in the Wuzi Year. I have seen..."
Yang Fang: Oh, it turned out to be a civil servant. I thought the eldest brother and the second brother hired a servant!
"Just call me third brother." Zhang Ben smiled.
"No, my surname is Yang."
"I've met Mr. Yang."
"Sit, everyone, sit down." Zhang Ben waved his hand, gesturing for everyone to take a seat. Jiang Jianxue sat at the bottom of the table.
"These vegetables can't be wasted." Lin Linyou smiled at Jiang Jianxue, "Brother Jiang, you cooked them yourself, so you have to finish them."
Because Jiang Jianxue, an outsider, was here, it was inconvenient to discuss many things on the table, so everyone had to eat, drink, and chat about homely matters.
Jiang Jianxue picked up the rice and ate the food he cooked, which was particularly delicious.
Yue Rong filled a glass of wine and raised it to Lin Linyou: "Brother Lin, thank you for helping to find my brother. Seeing that he is safe, I feel relieved." After that, he drank a full glass.
This wine was quite strong for a girl. After Yue Rong drank a glass, her face turned red and she looked straight in the eyes of Jiang Jianxue who was cooking rice.
She is almost a sister-in-law, why are she still peeking? !
"Brother Jiang, don't you have two drinks?" Several people teased Jiang Jianxue.
Jiang Jianxue waved her hands repeatedly: "If you don't drink, I have to keep my mind clear. I have to participate in the Spring Festival next year!"
"Oh, then I have to toast you even more!" Lin Linyou raised his glass, "Brother Jiang, I wish you a successful start next year and a title on the gold list!"
"Thank you, Mr. Lin. I'm rude, so I'll have tea instead of wine." Jiang Jianxue picked up the tea in front of him.
"That won't work." Lin Linyou put down his wine glass, "I'll try it next year, but it's not tomorrow. Just drink two glasses and it won't hurt!"
"Then... let's do it!" Jiang Jianxue thought that she would have to stay here tonight, in case the host was unhappy and kicked her out... she didn't want to go to those abandoned temples anymore. You can meet strange things; you can't even go to places like Shefan Temple that house beggars. Those beggars are more terrifying than the things in the deserted temples. They always steal your own books and use them to wipe your butt. They sleep until midnight and give you a "back slap" all the time. "thorn", when I think about it, it feels like a thorn on my back...
After having a drink each with Lin Linyou, Zhang Bi and Yang Fang, Jiang Jianxue was already a little shaken. He reluctantly picked up a glass of wine and couldn't wait to have a drink with Yue Rong, but he saw his body swayed and suddenly slipped under the table. .
"Damn, this guy has a really bad drinking capacity!" Zhang Bi sighed, "I have to let him sit at the children's table next time."
"Jiang Sheng has never drank alcohol." Yuerong said.
Lin Linyou felt jealous for no reason.
"He is a good man." Yuerong said, "I am really lucky when I think about it. Along the way, most of the people I met are good people like Brother Lin and you."
"Miss Rong deserves a lot of praise. A kind-hearted girl like you should meet a good person!" Lin Linyou was too embarrassed to say anything else. Together with Yang Fang, he carried Jiang Jianxue to the room on the second floor and went directly to the room. Throw it on the bed.
After Yue Rong and Linlong had a drink and a meal, they knew that the three brothers had something to say, so they went back to their rooms to rest.
Lin Linyou and the three of them also drank almost till their stomachs were full. Lin Linyou patted Yang Fang on the shoulder: "Third brother, don't you want to go to the West? Second brother has a way here, Yue Rong's younger brother..."
Zhang Bi interrupted: "Let's not talk about the voyage to the West. First, let's talk about what Third Brother, you did secretly without telling us!"
Yang Fang was stunned: "I... I didn't hide anything from my two brothers!"
"Jubaomen guards Qianhu Li Xiangnan, what's going on?"
"he and I……"
"Stop hesitating. What can't you say to the eldest brother and the second brother?"
Yang Fang was silent for a long time, raised his neck and drank a glass of wine, and then slowly said:
It turned out that one night when he was at Nakazen Qianhu Station, Yang Fang and his captain caught Li Qianhu in an underground gambling house while he was gambling heavily.
Although Li Qianhu is a fifth-grade Qianhu, and his rank is much higher than that of Yang Fang, he, who guards Qianhu, is not affiliated with the guards and is directly under the capital, so he is naturally wary of the Jinyi Guards.
Not to mention being caught gambling.
According to the Law of the Ming Dynasty, anyone who gambles with property will be punished with an eighty stick. The property of the stall is transferred to the official. Anyone who opens a gambling den is guilty of the same crime. If you stop and see your hair, you will sit down, and your official position will be increased by one rank!
In other words, if a military attaché like Li Xiangnan is caught participating in gambling, he will be dismissed from his post and serve as a soldier in the military camp.
However, Yang Fang finally let Li Xiangnan go. Perhaps, there is a trace of sympathy for the hard-won official position, and it would be a pity to be dismissed as a soldier.
But the most important reason is still the saying, money can make the world go round.
Yang Fang needs money, and it is when he is most short of money that money will inevitably move his heart.
However, a tough guy is a tough guy. Yang Fang confiscated the money at the gambling stall according to the law. He joined the official impartially and didn't get a single cent. Instead, he took out the seventy taels of silver he had accumulated over the years and gave it to Li Xiangnan...
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