Chapter 333: The Strong Dragon Doesn't Suppress the Earth Head Snake?

Ningbo City Bo Division set up promotion, deputy promotion and officials and other officials, all officials usually deal with some tributary people, although to solve all kinds of disputes, the slightest carelessness is the big sin of killing the head, but on the benefits of oil and water is also first-class. Promoted Fan Tong's official residence from Wupin, he has been serving here since the first year of Yongle's resumption of the city, and he has steadily risen step by step, but in fact, his original background was just a prisoner. He was supposed to be the emperor of the entire city, but since the arrival of the prince Wang, who was ordered to supervise the city, he has lost the power to say everything.

Fortunately, Fan Tong is not a rice bucket after all, and after being suppressed at the beginning, he still figured out some methods. Since the Son of Heaven trusts eunuchs the most, then the nobles, and then the civil officials, then he can't afford to provoke the eunuchs, so it's always okay to try to make a few nobles through the way, right? As a result, Lord Fan Tongfan, who had already stood aside, gradually regained half of his sky, and although he could not compete with the eunuch Wang Darong in this city, the small days gradually became nourished.

However, Fan Tong has been very annoyed these days, unspeakably annoying, that face is simply like the sky before a rainstorm, black and oppressive, as if it can flash and thunder at any time. From subordinates to petty officials to miscellaneous servants, etc., even in front of those foreign envoys, his face has not thawed at all. When he returned home in this weather, he sat down on the Taishi chair in the main room, waited for a long time and didn't see anyone, and immediately scolded angrily.

"Where are all the people dead, Xiyan, that girl!"

After a long time, a panicked voice came from outside the door: "Master, Miss Xiyan is out!" ”

"Get out...... This dead girl, she knows all day long that she can't get rid of that country temper when she runs outside! I was counting on her to help me, but she knew what to do besides spending my money! Go to a few people, quickly find someone back for me, if you can't see anyone within half an hour, all the family law will serve! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain was raised, and a young woman entered. She is only twenty-eight years old at most, her face is like a full moon, her lips are like dancome, her eyes are like the morning star, and she exudes a shrewd and bewitching aura between her gestures. Although she was born well, she was also dressed up rich and festive, wearing a pearl hairpin, a jade-colored weft and gold-rimmed placket jacket, a purple and emerald skirt, and two small and delicate ruby pendants on her earlobes shining brightly.

"Dad, you are so unreasonable, people go out to do business, but you still make up such a call, and say that when someone is a daughter-in-law, you will arrange it like this?" As soon as she came up, she sneered, and then Ying Ying sat down on the chair next to Fan Tong, because she said with a smile, "This time the emperor quietly sent a large army to patrol the sea to hunt for widows, I heard that the sea is full of mourning!" Those characters who were usually fierce and fierce have now become lost dogs, and many of them don't even want the boat that they regard as their lives, and they have slipped ashore to avoid the limelight......"

"Have you said enough?"

Fan Tong was originally upset by this, but at this time, he felt that the beautiful face looked annoying, so he instinctively raised his right hand, but finally put it down. said that she was an adopted daughter, but this woman was not his concubine who was beaten and scolded, and he was unlucky in the end if he slapped him. Thinking of this, I had to reluctantly suppress my anger.

"Eunuch Wang is busy serving a guest these days, so busy that he even forgot to fish for oil and water, I estimated that this thing was unusual, so I asked people to inquire, it turned out to be the Qincha Lufeng who should be in Nanjing, and at this time the family was about to feast in Tianxiang Pavilion. A eunuch has already dealt with me, and now there is an even more unprovoked one. I was in a hurry just now, but Ayan, even if it's for the sake of you being my nominal daughter for a few years, don't make any more trouble here! ”

Fan Xiyan looked at the titular father mockingly, a smile gradually bloomed on the corner of her mouth, and then she said softly: "I know that my father is in turmoil, so naturally he won't run outside for no reason." Good godfather learned that there was not just one you can't afford to mess with, but two at this time. She stretched out her finger and gestured, and the smile on her face deepened, "Since Gonggong Lu arrived in Nanjing with that little Zhang, and he came to Ningbo, how could that one not come?" ”

Although Fan Tong had long been accustomed to Fan Xiyan's habit of speaking half-truths, he still gasped when he heard the words, and suddenly jumped up from the chair and asked nervously, "Is he really here?" ”

"I saw it with my own eyes...... Hmm, don't frown, I don't know Master Zhang, but naturally someone else does. Don't say that I won't tell you the news, at this time, that Wang Gonggong is just feasting in Tianxiang Pavilion, and he happens to be eating in the drunken country building opposite, if you rush over at this time, you may still be able to meet him. The strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, and that Gonggong Lu didn't do anything to Eunuch Wang, Lord Xiao Zhang always needs the help of someone who is familiar with the inside story when he first arrives, this is not your chance, daddy? By the way, he wears a stone blue pan-collared robe, and he is very young, Daddy, don't be mistaken......

Before she finished speaking, she saw Fan Tong rushing out of the door without saying a word, and he directly slammed the door curtain and went outside. Hearing the shouting and ordering the carriage to be prepared, she couldn't help but laugh, thinking that her cheap father would definitely be grinding hard to bring people home later. After all, the ban on opening the sea was tried out from the Ningbo City Shipping Division, and a year's tax silver may not be a small amount, not to mention other inputs, and now a position in the Municipal Shipping Division does not know how many covetous eyes it has attracted.

took out the note from her sleeve, Fan Xiyan looked at it carefully again, pondered it, then smiled bitterly and crumpled it into her mouth and swallowed it as usual. Compared to burning the ashes that can be left, this is naturally the safest and safest way.

It's just that Yue Changtian kept saying that Princess Yongping felt that Fan Tong was not enough to succeed and that he was more than defeated, so he wanted to borrow Zhang Yue's hand to get rid of him, but Fan Tong has always been a springboard between the Yan family and the Marquis of Fuyang, that is, Princess Yongping, and he knows many things. If Zhang Yue really took it down, wouldn't everything be in vain? Also, if Fan Tong died, how could she live alone?

Thinking of this, Fan Xiyan couldn't help frowning deeply, thinking about it, she finally gave birth to a bold idea. Even if she didn't come here to do this dangerous thing, she was just an ordinary slave in Princess Yongping's mansion, and the best result would be to be taken in by Li Maofang, Marquis of Fuyang. Rather than waiting for someone else to take her life after Fan Tong fell, it was better to strike first.

If she can make a contribution in front of this Lord Qincha, she can at least escape with her life!

The winter night came very early, and before even two o'clock, the sky was completely dark. Although the people's homes may not be willing to light the lanterns, the restaurants and inns near the city have hung lanterns high, ushering in the most lively time of the day. The small half of the seats that were originally empty in the drunken township building were already full at this time, and Zhang Yue saw that there was not much wine and food left on the table, and the door of Tianxiang Pavilion was still closed, so he simply stood up.

At his stop, Fang Qing and Ma Qinjiu didn't dare to sit anymore, and Hu Qi, who was sitting at the next table, hurriedly got up to settle the bill, and the baby-faced guard Tian Wen even slipped downstairs to lead the horse. Everyone went down the stairs together, and as soon as they came to the gate, they saw a carriage stopped at the gate. Even though the carriage had not yet stopped, a figure could not wait to jump down, making it unbelievable that the bloated body could make such agile movements.

The short and fat middle-aged man was Fan Tong, who was in a hurry all the way, he looked a little embarrassed, and after standing still at this time, he hurriedly tidied up his placket. When he was about to enter, he suddenly saw Zhang Yue and his party who were about to go out, and couldn't help but think of his daughter's description. Although he couldn't eat accurately, in line with the principle of admitting mistakes rather than missing them, he still greeted him with a smile.

"Dare to ask if this is Zhang Gongzi?"

Zhang Yue had just arrived, and at this time, Zhang Gongzi came suddenly, and he couldn't help but look at the person who came suspiciously. The deerskin boots in the big silk jacket, combined with the short and fat body and honest smiling face, look like an ordinary person. However, at this moment, a voice of surprise and joy suddenly came from the side.

"Master Fan, how can you have time to visit the shop, this is your guest? cough, don't look at this crowd, the third floor seat has been reserved for you, hurry upstairs please, I immediately go and tell the kitchen to clean up a table of wine and food! ”

Fan Tong couldn't help but be a little annoyed, seeing that Zhang Yue understood a little, how could he pay attention to the diligent shopkeeper, and said with a smile: "Zhang Gongzi, I am really busy with the promotion of the city's boss, if it wasn't for the little girl who mentioned it when she came back, I didn't know that Lao Shangshu's son had arrived in Ningbo." Now that you're here, you've prepared food and wine at home, so you can let me do a little bit of the landlord's friendship. ”

As soon as he heard these five words mentioned by the city boss, Zhang Yue naturally did not think that the other party was crazy and recognized the wrong person. Although he was quite annoyed that someone had found out his identity, this was not the time to pursue this, so he nodded politely and followed Fan Tong into the carriage. The others were not surprised by this situation, but Ma Qinjiu almost didn't bite his tongue, and when he followed, he was even more absent-minded and almost fell, until the carriage began to move.

Didn't those errand soldiers say that Zhang Yue was a brocade guard, how did he become the son of Lao Shangshu at this time? Also, this well-known rice bucket master in Ningbo City actually came here to pick up people, and the news is too well-informed, right?

The Fan family's compound is at the west end of the city, which looks ordinary and simple on the outside, but it is a five-entry courtyard inside, and the more you go inside, the brighter and more atmospheric it becomes. Fan Tong originally thought that the people who came with him were all entourage, but when he entered the door, he turned around and asked, only to know that the middle-aged merchant was a famous Huai businessman, and the other young man was not only the patriarch of the Shanfang family, but also the son-in-law of the Yang family in Songjiang Mansion. At this time, he became more and more confused about what Zhang Yue was going to do when he returned to Ningbo, so he could only stubbornly lead the person to the flower hall.

When everyone was about to arrive at the door of the flower hall, there was a handsome little guy inside who came out with a cotton curtain with the pattern of eight immortals crossing the sea, and stood at the door and saluted deeply. Fan Tong, who was the leader, saw that the little guy was very familiar, but there was no such person in the house, and he immediately wondered, and when he entered the door in a daze, he suddenly woke up.

Where is the little guy, it is clearly Fan Xiyan dressed as a man! She retouched her eyebrows, sideburns, and forehead, and he didn't recognize it just now!