"Three distinguished guests!"
The waiter shouted loudly and led Song Che and others into the elegant seats.
Sitting next to the window, you can see the West Lake and the wind and water. It makes you drunk even before you drink.
Shen Wenjun ordered West Lake Vinegar Fish, several Hangzhou signature dishes, and for the first time, a pot of "Five-Spice Huadiao". She said: "Beautiful people and beautiful scenery are so magnificent, how can we not be accompanied by fine wine?"
Song Che praised: "It's amazing, it's amazing. Even Miss Shen became poetic when she came to the West Lake."
Shen Wenjun raised his chin slightly, straightened his chest, and hummed softly: "Don't look at me. I only know women's music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and poetry. I am also proficient in everything."
Song Che said with a smile: "I am different from the common people. However, I have no culture, and I can travel all over the world with the words 'I am awesome'!"
Shen Wenjun hesitated to speak, his eyes unable to hide his disgust.
Zhou Yazhao looked at Song Che and turned his head with his fingers. Everyone knew this gesture. He was probably not thinking right.
Shen Wenjun said: "Ignore him, he is like this, he will say something incomprehensible at every turn."
Song Che smiled and said: "Madam, don't you understand? This is an exclamation. It expresses emotions spontaneously. Even if you are full of knowledge, it is not as good as this sentence."
"Come on, you are awesome - hum, vulgar and vulgar," Shen Wenjun said, "You, if only you were half as elegant as my third cousin."
When Zhou Tianci was mentioned, Zhou Yazhao's smile stopped abruptly. Perhaps she was the only one who knew best whether Zhou Tianci was ungentlemanly or not. It was strange that she was mute and could not speak.
"Here comes the vinegar fish!"
The waiter served the dishes one after another, and the three of them stamped their chopsticks and opened their cheeks to devour the food. It was sour and spicy, with endless aftertaste. It was delicious.
At this time, a burst of harp music suddenly sounded from behind the screen. The music was sometimes high and melodious, and sometimes low and melodious, showing that the musician was very skilled.
Then, a burst of beautiful singing came from the screen, and I heard her singing:
"In May, the misty rain sings about Hangzhou, and my heart is full of love. My mother was originally a pearl diver, but her soul died in Meizizhou. There are lovers in the sea who are ruthless, and both father and daughter shed tears..."
The soulful and sad singing, coupled with the vicissitudes of the piano, every sentence touched people's hearts. The diners put down their chopsticks and were led into misery by the music.
Sensual daughters like Shen Wenjun and Zhou Yazhao even wet their eyes and secretly wiped away tears.
"It's true that 'the hemp rope is cut at the thinnest part, and bad luck only finds the poor'!" Shen Wenjun sighed: "When the song is finished, I must reward you with more silver coins."
Song Che said: "Selling misfortune does make money."
Shen Wenjun, Zhou Yazhao, and even the guests at the next table stared at Song Che, "Why are you so heartless?"
Song Che curled his lips, "I've even fallen from the mountain before!"
Shen Wenjun sniffed: "You don't know how hard it is for the pearl fishermen on the coast. They have to dive to the bottom of the sea to fish for clams. If they are not careful, they will be drowned or bitten to death by fish."
"High risk, doesn't it mean high reward?" Song Che had just finished speaking and listened to the song behind the screen:
"My mother's death was not caused by a shipwreck, but someone broke the rope, and a wave came and she couldn't be found. So far... her bones are still cold, still cold..."
"This is an injustice!"
"The pearl fisher relies on the life-saving rope tied to the bow of the boat. If someone breaks the rope, wouldn't it mean that her life is cut off?"
"Why doesn't the girl report such a vicious person to the official?"
All the diners in the hall echoed the indignation.
The woman behind the screen stopped singing, and instead cried bluntly: "My father and I wanted to beat drums to complain, but we didn't expect that family was very wealthy and had bribed the government. Not only did they beat me and my father with sticks, but they also had my house demolished. Old house, it's a pity that our father and daughter are homeless and living on the street. Fortunately, the store owner is kind and allows us father and daughter to perform and sing here... The sky is blue and the wilderness is vast. If anyone can redress my mother's grievances, I am willing to sacrifice my life. I promise you my body, and my oxen and horses will serve you!”
"Girl, if you want us to help you redress your grievance, you have to tell me who the murderer is, right?"
"Oh, no need to ask. Looking at the whole of Hangzhou, there are only a few companies doing pearl business..."
"Could it be that Zhou - well, just drink, just drink."
The guests kept silent and just sighed and drank, denouncing the unfairness of the world.
Song Che sipped his wine glass, and combined with the young man whose family had been ruined outside the city, he found that the murderer who deliberately drowned his mother was most likely from the Zhou family.
I once remembered a saying that every diamond is stained with blood, so why not pearl agate?
"Pah!" Shen Wenjun slapped the table, stood up and said coquettishly: "The girls have never named me, why are you belittling yourselves? In addition to the Zhou family, the Lu family, the Ye family, and the Lin family in Hangzhou are all involved in the pearl business, and there are Those vendors who mess with jewelry also buy pearls from Dan people... As you know, spreading rumors is illegal!"
"Hiss... I wonder how excited you are. No one said that this matter is related to the Zhou family. It was you who took the lead!"
"Yes, little lady, we have never said anything bad about the Zhou family."
“There is no wind without waves, there is no wind without wind.”
"You clearly--"
"Okay, ma'am, why do you need to get angry when things are unclear?" Song Che pulled Shen Wenjun back to his seat and greeted him from behind the screen: "I wonder if the girl can come out of the screen to see me?"
The singer hesitated for a moment, then slowly helped the old father out of the screen. The daughter was sixteen or seventy-eight years old, but the old man had a beard as long as a halberd. The eyes of the father and daughter were red and swollen, and they had cried a lot of tears.
The father and daughter came to the dining table, bowed and said in a tearful tone: "My family, He Xianglian, has seen the young master and the two young ladies."
"Putting aside the facts, the ballad that the girl just sang was very touching. You can hold this money. If you can't fight it, you can at least escape it. You can go find another place to make a living."
As Song Che said this, he was about to take out the silver from his sleeves, but Zhou Yazhao took the lead and took fifty taels of silver and handed it to He Xianglian, his eyes full of sympathy.
Fifty taels of silver is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for ordinary people, but He Xianglian refused without even looking at it: "I don't accept rewards. I only hope that fair people in the world can redress the grievances of my deceased mother! The grievances will not be washed away for a day." , If the bad guys are not punished, my father and I will never leave Hangzhou!"
"Miss He, tell me, who is the person who harmed your mother?" Shen Wenjun grabbed He Xianglian's arm and asked.
He Xianglian hated her tears and said word by word: "The person who cut off my mother's life-saving rope was Niu Er, the bully on Meizi Island, and the employer behind Niu Er was -"
"Bah!"
Suddenly, a scolding came from outside the dining room, and then a group of government servants armed with hook-and-lock knives rushed into the dining hall. The leader had a rough face and a big beard. He pointed at He Xianglian's parents: "You are a bold and cunning woman, how dare you do this in public?" They are spreading rumors to cause trouble, cheating people out of money, come here, arrest them!"
"yes!"
The government officials were so furious that they tied up He Xianglian and his daughter in just a few seconds!
