Chapter 54: Fighting Corrupt Officials
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the game of Guan Flutter is very popular. Pei Xiantong is very interested in this, and if he likes something, he will pull Tang Ning and say with great interest Dog Officer, Dog Official, let's go play Guan Pu! I want that!
warned Pei Xiantong countless times, but Pei Xiantong still couldn't change the title of dog official. Tang Ning had no choice but to silently endure this humiliating title.
However, the luck of the two did not seem to be very good today, and they played a total of six games before winning one. Pei Xiantong didn't eat Po Lou, who was holding a paper bag in his hand, and sulked with a pout.
I bought eight boxes of night-killing fruits and two handfuls of incense. When he came to a jewelry store, Tang Ning thought about going in and picking out a few pieces of jewelry for Pei Xiantong.
After entering, look left and right, all of them are not in line with Pei Xiantong's style, although it is a pity, but I can only give up. I had to wait until I got back to the inner city and went to the high-end jewelry stores.
Walking around, the three of them actually came to the vegetable market. The butchers who sold cabbage and meat shouted so loudly that Tangning originally thought that he would simply go home without any shopping, but suddenly thought that he would eat dumplings in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
So they bought more than a dozen cabbages and a dozen catties of pork, and asked the butcher and vegetable seller to send them to the Danyang Hou Mansion after a while, and the three of them went home.
In the jewelry store in the inner city, I bought a jade bracelet for Pei Xiantong. Fooled or not, Downing doesn't know. However, Pei Xiantong was very happy, holding his wrist to look at it, Tang Ning's delicate appearance made Tang Ning sigh, Pei Xiantong, this girl, is really a girl at heart.
After returning home, he handed over the night fruit, Tang Wen couldn't help it when he saw the box, and opened it and secretly ate one while Wang Shi was chatting with Liu Yier.
Tang Ning watched it, and he didn't stop it, children like to eat this kind of snack, so let them go.
After thinking about it, Tang Ning simply picked up a box, and then glanced at Tang Wen, Tang Wen understood, and followed behind Tang Ning, and the father and son left sneakily.
This night-killing fruit still came out of the court. The box is one foot long and half a foot wide, and it is filled with all kinds of snacks, such as candied fruits, peas, seasonal fruits, etc.
This game should be a must-have food on Chinese New Year's Eve, and if you are hungry during the New Year's Celebration, it is even better to eat it.
The maids and servants in the courtyard were cleaning the courtyard, and there were not many of them, because Tangning, who could go home, had given them a holiday. The rest are those who are far away from home, or who have no family, so let them stay here.
After noon, guests began to come to the house one after another. Some servants came to send greetings, and some came to visit in person.
Wang Shi had already prepared, and every time someone came, he would send them some gifts back, which could be regarded as a return gift. Those who didn't take the initiative to come couldn't be left behind, and Guan Ze, as a housekeeper, was just in the right place to come in handy.
With a cart of gifts, I ran all over the city of Tokyo.
To say that on Chinese New Year's Eve, the indispensable activity of the Song people is gambling. It's all done, and it's time to be free
always find something to do.
Ye Zi Opera is one of them. This so-called leaf play is actually somewhat similar to playing cards. There are four suits, representing the four seasons, and the rules are similar to bridge, and they are loved by men, women and children.
However, after Tang Ning got the playing cards out, the Tang family didn't like to play leaf play much. Either three people sit together to fight ~ the landlord, or a group of people sit together and smoke the king's eight.
Of course, 21 o'clock is also indispensable for people to doubt life, Qi Fu threw the explosive card in his hand to the kang, and pointed at Fang La and scolded: "You dog day out of the old man!" How can there be three consecutive 21 points? ”
Fang La was not shocked, and said lightly: "I'm lucky." ”
Fang Yongpi, who was in charge of issuing the cards, said with a smile: "Can't you afford to lose?" If you can't afford to lose, just say it, if you can't beat the brothers, just return the fifty taels of silver that won you to you. ”
Although Yang Yingzheng couldn't speak, this did not prevent him from slapping the table with Xiaoshi and coaxing.
Where did Qi Fu suffer such a grievance, and his voice screamed strangely, which scared Zhu, who came to Tang Ning's house for the holiday. said angrily: "Who said that Lao Tzu can't afford to lose? Come on, come on! Lao Tzu also has a coffin book to play with you! If you don't die today, no one will want to leave! ”
A general from the town in this room was playing cards while screaming, and he was very happy. But Tang Ning on the other side was a little uncomfortable, obviously he was just fighting a landlord, and he was about to fight.
Pei Xiantong grabbed a deck of cards in his hand and snorted coldly: "Grab the landlord!" ”
Qi Xianyu smiled and said, "I'll rob it." ”
Pei Xiantong glared and said, "I'll rob it!" ”
"I'll grab it."
"I'll rob it!"
"I'll grab it."
“……”
Tang Ning put the cards on the table and said angrily: "Can you still have a good time, looking for both of you to grab a landlord can grab it until next Chinese New Year's Eve!" Shut up! I rob the landlord! ”
“……”
Everyone in the family has something to do, Li Zi is holding a cup of tea, drinking it while smiling and playing chess with Tang Liang, who is sweating profusely.
Tang Yu and Tang Wen stood aside and watched the excitement.
Liu Yier was giving a lecture to the shopkeepers at home, and Wang Shi waited for Liu Yier's lecture to end and awarded rewards according to the merits of these shopkeepers.
The maids and servants were chattering in the courtyard and playing with pitchers, Wu Dazhuang didn't know when he got in, with his level, he was naturally one throw at a time, attracting the cheers of the maids in unison and the hostile eyes of the servants.
Just when the Danyang Marquis Mansion was in a mess, there was a sudden knock on the door. The porter dropped the teacup, stood up, and asked angrily, "Who?" Who's knocking? ”
"Be respectful!" An angry voice outside shouted:
"The noble man is here, why don't you open the door quickly and let your marquis come out to see the nobleman?"
Although the concierge often lacks a string in his brain, he is also very clever sometimes. As soon as the man said this, the porter immediately understood.
Quickly opened the door, and saw the handsome man with a smile on his face outside, and his legs trembled and he wanted to kneel.
The man said, "Don't kneel, for the New Year, let's only kneel our ancestors today." ”
The man is naturally Zhao Xu, he has nothing to do in the palace, he has sacrificed to his ancestors, and after seeing the Empress Dowager Xiang and his mother, he wanted to come out to see what Tokyo City is like now.
Walking and walking, I unconsciously came to the door of the Marquis of Danyang. Zhao Xu thought that he had come here anyway, so he would just come in and have a look.
As a result, Tang Ning hurriedly prepared things for Zhao Xu, and the Tang family became quiet.
The generals of the town, who had just quarreled like boiling the pot, were also honestly like quails, standing at the door like javelins.
Zhao Xu said with a smile and a smile: "You don't have to be so restrained, I came out in civilian clothes today, I just didn't want you to care too much." If you're like this, doesn't that make me unhappy?
You guys just did what they were just now, and it's okay to be what they are now, just because I didn't come. ”
After Zhao Xu finished speaking, everyone looked at each other. You look at me, I look at you, and I don't know how to react. In the end, Tang Ning understood Zhao Xu, and he knew that Zhao Xu said something that didn't mean anything else, it was literal.
So he waved his hand and asked everyone to do what they should do.
The person who carried the blame stood up, and everyone relaxed. However, although he continued to go back to play with himself, he was still a little restrained, at least the noise that filled the yard just now became very quiet.
Zhao Xu looked at the playing cards on Tang Ning's table and said, "What is this?" Leaf play? ”
Tang Ning shook his head with a smile and said: "No, no, this thing is called playing cards, it's ......" Then, Tang Ning told Zhao Xu like this.
Zhao Xu didn't really understand why it was named Poker, Tang Ning thought for a long time, and finally had to explain dryly that it was created by a person from the Western Regions called Poker.
Although the explanation was very lame, it made sense, and Zhao Xu reluctantly believed Tang Ning's statement.
Subsequently, Zhao Xu asked Tang Ning how to play. Tang Ning said about the gameplay of fighting the land ~ the master, and Zhao Xu said with a smile: "This name is good, fighting ~ the landlord ......"
Cold sweat broke out on Tang Ning's forehead, and he forgot that this person in front of him was the biggest landlord in the entire Great Song Dynasty.
So Tang Ning had an idea, and quickly changed his name: "Fang is Weichen's mistake, this game is actually called fighting corrupt officials." ”
"So, everyone has to rush to be a corrupt official?" Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows.
Tang Ning glanced at Zhao Xu, and wanted to crash to death on the table......