Wu Haogu looked at the woman in front of him, and when he was a little stunned, Guo Jing had already stood up drunkenly, staggered forward, and twisted a big papaya on Yan Po'er.

"Yan Po'er, the Sprinkle family came to tell you, this is the famous one, the painting saint Wu Haogu on Panlou Street, a martial official!"

"Yo, it turned out to be a martial arts official."

Yan Po'er glanced at Wu Hao Gu Yingying, and then gently pulled her bandeau well, made a blessing, and said softly: "Yan Qiqi, a slave, has seen a martial official. ”

Wu Haogu is a person in two lives, both of them are very serious, although he has also made friends with a few kabuki in this life, but they are all the kind of people who sell their art and do not sell their bodies, and they have never dealt with such a bold woman. But he still gave a salute: "It turned out to be Miss Yan, Da Lang is polite." ”

"It's really a chick." Yan Po'er smiled stupidly, "If the slave is a teenager younger, he deserves this ceremony." But now the slave is a happy old bustard...... If Da Lang is interested, he can come to Yihong Courtyard to look for slaves at any time. ”

Wu Haogu was deceived by her words, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he said, "Miss Yan...... In the next, there are some mundane affairs in the search for Guo Sange and Liu Xiaoyi. ”

"It's still a crepe, the slave likes it the most......" Yan Po'er threw a flattering look at Wu Haogu again, and when she saw that the other party didn't react, she turned her head and asked Guo Jing, "Third brother, how is it?" ”

Guo Jing's amount of alcohol is very good, and he is only slightly drunk until now, and when he saw Wu Haogu coming with Gao Yu, he knew that there must be something serious. He stood up and said to Yan Po'er: "Mother-in-law, Liu Xiaoyi is too drunk to do it, so I will leave you here tonight." I went with Wu Dalang and this big official. ”

"It's okay, just leave Liu Xiaoyi behind." Yan Po'er was also reasonable, and immediately helped the drunken Liu Wuji with another sister to leave.

Wu Haogu introduced Gao Yu and Guo Jing to each other: "Brother, this is my brother Guo Jing, known as Guo Sanlang." The one just now is Liu Wuji, known as Liu Xiaoyi.

Third brother, this big official is the elder brother I often tell you about. ”

Guo Jing arched his hand and gave a salute, "Little Guo Jing, I have seen tall officials." ”

"Don't talk about being a big official," Gao Yu waved his hand politely, "Gao is also from the forbidden army, and he is a fellow brother with Guo Sange, so it is better to be a brother."

This is not the place to talk, why don't you go to my house, it's in the right three camps lane. ”

In this area of the north chamber of Kaifeng City, the place names are mostly related to the military camp, but not all of the people who live here are forbidden soldiers or their families. This is because Wang Anshi laid off a lot of people when he changed the law, and there were a lot of vacancies in all departments of the forbidden army stationed in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the actual strength of each commander was usually only half of the staff.

Therefore, being able to get a establishment in the forbidden army is very lucky for Ding Nan in the north of Kaifeng City.

However, even if Guo Jing, who was "so lucky", still couldn't buy an estate in Kaifeng Mansion anymore, so he could only rent two dilapidated houses with his mother and a sister who had not left the cabinet.

In order to save some money, he evened out half of the house he lived in to Liu Wuji, a fake Taoist priest who came from other places.

is so frugal, Guo Sanlang still can't save money, he doesn't have to think about buying a house, and there are not many opportunities to be happy in places like Yihong Courtyard.

It wasn't until he made a fortune with Wu Haogu not long ago that he became a little bigger.

However, if you want to settle down in Kaifeng Mansion and marry your sister to a good family with dignity, the money you can get from the single transaction of "Drunken Arhat" is still not enough.

The current Kaifeng Mansion really makes Wu Haogu feel very familiar, as if it is the metropolis that he will work hard in his later life.

Money is very profitable. Even if it is a worker, you can have a few dollars a month, which is worth a year of work in many small places.

However, there are more places to spend money, so most people feel that money is tight.

Even the house of the "Taiwei Gaoyu" does not look very rich, there is no yard, only a tiled house built along the narrow streets and alleys. It is far less spacious than the mansion of the martial arts family in the first sweetwater lane, and it looks a little dilapidated, and it has not been repaired for many days.

Of course, being able to have a small house in the north of the city outside Kaifeng is actually an enviable enough family business.

In Wu Haogu's impression, this house can't be taken without five or six thousand yuan!

With the income of Gao Yu as a scribe, it is a little extra money, and it is difficult to buy this house, and it is estimated that this house is also the property left by the ancestors of the Gao family.

When Gao Yu walked into the alley with Wu Haogu and Guo Jing, a tall and thin young man wearing a patched Confucian uniform greeted him.

"Big brother, you're back, sister-in-law and nephews are waiting in a hurry."

Gao Yu smiled at Wu Haogu and Guo Jing, pointed at the young man and said, "He is my brother Gao Lian, who is also studying in Kaifeng Mansion, and he should be the second student of the Dalang family." ”

In addition to a younger brother, Gao Yu also has three "Yanei", named Gao Yaokang, Gao Yaofu and Gao Yaoqing, who are now all little dolls, studying in the private school in the north of the city, and now they are all home from class, waiting for dinner.

Gao Yu's Hun family, that is, his wife's surname Chao, is in her thirties, she is a tall and stout woman with very white skin, and she is a typical forbidden army woman. Because the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty liked to select tall and white-skinned men to join the Fourth Army and Zhubanzhi, the forbidden officers and soldiers in Kaifeng, including Jiangmen, liked to marry tall women as wives and concubines.

After more than 100 years of "breed improvement", all the men and women who came out of the old forbidden army or the generals were often tall and white.

Gao Yu, Chao's, Pan Xiao'an, Pan Qiaolian, and Wang Shu are all like this. Guo Jing was also born tall, but it was a little darker, and he was afraid that he would not have a good future in the Kaifeng Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, which relied on his face to eat.

When Gao Yu led Wu Haogu and Guo Jing into the house, wearing sackcloth and aprons, Gao Chao, who was dressed as a working woman, had already brought three children out to meet the guests.

Chao's age should be younger than Wu Haogu's stepmother Feng Erniang, but because of the hardships of life, she looks old, and there are some crow's feet on the corners of her eyes. After giving birth to three children, her figure was also out of shape. However, it can still be seen that she was also a beauty when she was young.

Gao Yu's three dolls are still young, the eldest Gao Yaokang is about ten years old, his body has not yet opened, the short and thin one is also very regular, respectfully saluted Wu Haogu and Guo Jing, but I don't know if I will rob Lin Chong's lady when I grow up?

After showing up, Chao took the three underage dolls to the back kitchen, and did not sit at the same table with the Gao Yu brothers and the two guests.

The Gao family's house not only looks dilapidated, but it is also very crowded inside, and when you enter the hall, there is a square wooden table and a few old chairs. It was already dark outside, so there was an oil lamp in the house, and the light was very dim.

I don't know if it's because of the rain a while ago, which made this house a little moldy. As soon as Wu Haogu entered, he smelled a musty smell that couldn't be shaken away, very much like the houses in the crowded Jiangnan town where Wu Haogu lived in his previous life.

The four of them each found a chair and sat down, and after a while, the high-ranking Hun family Chao brought some wine and food to eat. There was a plate of rabbit meat, a plate of steamed mutton, a plate of green vegetables, a bowl of scrambled eggs, a stack of peanuts, a large plate of cooking cakes, and two pots of cloudy wine.

Gao Yu hugged his fists, "A little home-cooked side dish is not a tribute." ”

Guo Jing laughed: "You can cook small dishes at home, go to my house tomorrow, there is no such food." ”

Wu Haogu smiled bitterly: "If you can't send a vote ruthlessly, until the end of the month, I'm afraid that I will go to Kaifeng Mansion to eat prison again." ”

"Eating in prison? Why did you end up in prison? ”

Gao Yu's younger brother Gao Lian had been hungry for a long time, and he had been staring at the food on the table, waiting for it to start, when he overheard someone going to eat in prison, he was startled, and looked up at Guo Jing, who looked black and not slippery.

"Da Lang, is there really no way?" Gao Yu looked at Wu Haogu sympathetically and asked.

Wu Haogu also looked at Gao Yu, and suddenly smiled and said, "There is one more road." ”

"What's the bottom of it?" Gao Yu asked.

"Liar!"