Chapter 368: a little favor
Chapter 368 A little favor
It took a while for Qiongzhu to understand, and she sneered: "It's nothing, just that day my father brought a distinguished guest to your restaurant, and the honored guest said that the food in your restaurant was good, so he dragged my father to send it. I've got some stuff, and I'll ask you a few jars of peach blossom stuffing."
Wen Yuanliang breathed a sigh of relief, nodded desperately and said, "That's it, the lady doesn't know anything, our shop's business was good yesterday."
Qiongzhu just watched Wen Yuanliang bragging to Zhuo Qianyu without blinking, coaxing her into a grin, her jaw dropped in shock, and she was still a little stunned until she walked out of Liu'an Lane.
As soon as Qiongzhu left, Wen Yuanliang immediately asked Shu Yan to bring the car’s contents. There were two large boxes. One box contained some valuable supplements, a pen and ink box used by scholars, and a pair of calligraphy and painting. Wen Yuanliang took a look and couldn’t help but feel Complimented: "Good painting!"
Zhuo Qianyu also came over to appreciate it together, nodded slowly with a smile, his eyes fell on the signature, his expression condensed, and he looked at Wen Yuanliang in shock, "The distinguished guest who went to the shop last night was the emperor?"
Wen Yuanliang was shocked this time, "How did you know!"
"It really is." Zhuo Qianyu squinted his eyes, and said with some excitement and some joy: "Look at this seal, the word 'floating life' was used by the emperor in his early years, and no one in the existing paintings dares to use these two words. In addition to what Qiongzhu said about Prince Li's honorable guests, there are not many people who can be called honorable guests by Prince Li."
Wen Yuanliang laughed hard, "My lady is smart! In this case, we must keep this painting well, so that it can be a family heirloom in the future!"
Zhuo Qianyu also means the same, no matter what the use of the imperial gift is, it must be carefully collected.
Taking Wen Yuanliang to carefully put the scroll into the box, the couple looked at the second box again and opened it. There was a small box inside, which contained fifty ingots and one hundred taels of silver, a total of five thousand taels. Deputy Jinyu head and face, I don't know if this was given by the emperor or the prince.
The couple looked at each other and couldn't make up their minds for a while. In the end, Zhuo Qianyu asked Bai Lian to put all the things into the storeroom for registration.
Wen Yuanliang has stabilized after the 5,000 taels more. The things destroyed in the shop yesterday are estimated to be around 100 taels, and it will take three to four days to renovate them. It is estimated that these will cost more than 100 taels. The profit in three or four days is almost the same. One hundred taels, five thousand taels are enough to make up for his losses, and even more than enough.
Without the troubles in business, he has the leisure to think about everything that happened last night. Who are those people coming for? Mingshuo? Zheng Ying? Or. The Emperor?
Wen Yuanliang couldn't understand, at the same time, in the imperial study room of the palace.
The emperor looked gloomily at Ming Shuo and Zheng Ying who were kneeling on the ground, "It's been a night! A whole night! You haven't pryed their mouths open! I can't wait"
The emperor really wanted to kill them, and he swallowed the words again.
Mingshuo and Zheng Ying lowered their heads even lower.
"Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers can't pry their mouths open, but that this is a group of dead soldiers. They are all mute. They can hear, can't speak, and they can't read. .
The emperor laughed angrily, "That's your incompetence! Don't make excuses with me! Give you one more day, I want the result! If you can't get the trial, you all get out of my way!"
"According to the order." Ming Shuo hung his head and Zheng Ying walked out of the imperial study one after another, and the two looked at each other with bitter faces.
"What should I do?" Ming Shuo tugged at his hair irritably, because he had thick hair, otherwise he wouldn't be able to withstand such tossing.
Zheng Yingsheng was afraid that he would bald himself, so he hurriedly grabbed his hand and said solemnly, "We made a mistake in yesterday's incident. I didn't read the almanac when I went out, and now the best way is to put down my face and ask for help."
"Huh?" Ming Shuo pointed in the direction of the Department of Punishment, "Where?"
Zheng Ying shook his head, "The Ministry of Justice is still trying the case of Ouyang's family. Even if we ask to come, I'm afraid they won't listen to us. Who else do you think is more capable than the Ministry of Justice?"
"Dark camp?" Ming Shuo blurted out without thinking, "Impossible! That guy is very evil. We have no friendship with him. Asking him for help will definitely be indebted to me. I'm afraid I can't pay it back."
Mingshuo was still very smart at critical times.
Zheng Ying didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "General, now is a critical moment, and also, don't forget the friendship with Zhuo Bufan, why don't you ask Zhuo Bufan to come forward? After all, what happened yesterday happened to Zhuo Bufan's students, Wen Yuanliang still His eldest brother's son-in-law, Zhuo Bufan will not ignore it."
Mingshuo thought about it carefully, his eyes lit up in vain, "You are right! Then let's go out of the palace to find Zhuo Bufan!"
The way the two of them had succeeded in their tricks just happened to be clearly seen by Kang Chengwang, who was approaching, Kang Chengwang stopped them directly, "I heard that you were assassinated yesterday? Are you taking the emperor with you?"
Mingshuo screamed and jumped angrily, "Who said that? This is slander! Obviously it is."
He couldn't say what was, but he absolutely couldn't recognize this pot, otherwise those old guys from the Censor Desk who had nothing to do would definitely read his book.
Kang Chengwang knew Mingshuo's morality, and he didn't expect him to tell the truth, he just said with a straight face: "It's not important, what's important is to find out what's behind the scenes?"
One sentence made Ming Shuo dizzy. He drooped his head and shook his head, "The emperor said to give us one more day, how can one day be enough! No, the two of us together went to the dark camp for help."
Hearing that he was going to find the man in the dark camp, Kang Chengwang immediately regained his energy, "Let's go! I'll go with you!"
"You go too!" Ming Shuo widened his eyes.
"Can't you?" Kang Chengwang raised his eyebrows.
So the two-person line became a three-person line.
Walking outside the palace, Kang Cheng looked at Ming and Zheng rushing towards the outer city on horseback, and asked in a puzzled way, "I'm not looking for the dark camper, what are you running to the outer city?"
Mingshuo rolled his eyes at him angrily, "What a face you are! When you come to the door, people will see you! Can you do this without finding a middleman?"
Kang Chengwang suddenly narrowed his eyes, "Zhuo Bufan?"
Mingshuo gave him a knowing look and accelerated.
When the three of them arrived at Zhuo Bufan's mansion, he just happened to have not left the house. When he saw the three of them, his head was as big as a fight. Before Ming Shuo could speak, he asked, "For what happened last night?"
Mingshuo nodded solemnly, clasped his fists and said, "I also ask Master Zhuo to do me a favor."
Zhuo Bufan: "?????"
When Zhuo Bufan was standing outside Lao Jitou's house, there was nothing he didn't understand, and he glanced at Ming Shuo speechlessly, "So what do you call a little busy? Ask me to intercede?"
(end of this chapter)