Travel to ancient times to be a fast catcher

Chapter 157

   Coming back from the six doors, the thought that flashed through was always ups and downs in the depths of consciousness, but it couldn't break through the ground. The Chinese New Year is coming up in a few days, and Chu Xiaoyun didn't have any special thoughts, so he focused on preparing for the Chinese New Year.

This year is the first New Year that the family of three will spend together, and the place to celebrate the New Year is still a special place like the Imperial Palace in the capital, which Chu Xiaoyun attaches great importance to. For the next few days, he spent dust removal and sweeping with Su Wen, Xiao Shuyu, and the palace ladies and eunuchs, preparing for the new year.

To celebrate the New Year in the capital, in addition to preparing your own family's New Year's items, you also need to prepare some gifts and items to greet and reward the servants. Although they were given tokens from above, the number of times they can enter and exit the palace is not limited, but because the eldest prince is with them, it is still inconvenient to always show up in public, so they basically entrust Zhou Ying to help with the purchase of New Year's supplies. On the next day, they will go to Zhou Ying's store to get it back, which saves a lot of trouble.

Before the New Year's supplies arrived, Chu Xiaoyun and the people in the palace dusted and cleaned together. Su Wen took the children and the eldest prince to watch with a sweet face, giving advice from time to time.

Two days before New Year's Eve, although there had been an agreement in advance, Zhou Ying still asked the shop assistants to send a letter to inform them to pick up the purchased items tomorrow. Chu Xiaoyun rewarded the guy who came to deliver the letter, went to the car dealership to hire a carriage, and made an appointment to pick him up at Tonghua Gate at the end of the next day. In the morning, the family first strolled around the capital to feel the atmosphere of the New Year in the capital, and in the afternoon they went to Zhou Ying's store to pick up the items for the New Year.

In the early morning of the second day, according to the plan of the day before yesterday, Chu Xiaoyun took Su Wen, Xiao Shuyu and the eldest prince out of the palace to go shopping. Because he brought the eldest prince with him when he went out, Chu Xiaoyun also brought a maid with him to help Su Wen take care of the child.

The streets and alleys of the capital are bustling, and the shops and mansions facing the streets have already hung red lanterns. Firecrackers also sounded from time to time, giving people a lively atmosphere everywhere.

Watching lanterns on the street, guessing lantern riddles, pairing pairs...all kinds of activities are happening. Excited people surrounded each stall. Su Wen looked at the festivities all over the street, and happily said to Chu Xiaoyun: "The New Year in the capital is really lively. There are small lanterns sold over there. Let's go and buy one for Yu'er and... the eldest son. Take it. How festive it is."

Fu Lang said it naturally, and Chu Xiaoyun led them to the stall that Su Wen said. The vendor greeted the guests and said, "What do you guys want to order? The lanterns in the small shop are all ancestral handicrafts. The lamp poles are all polished and wrapped with silk. It's the best for children to play with." You won't lose money if you buy it."

Chu Xiaoyun looked around, and took down two small lanterns with inscriptions: "How much is it?"

Seeing how straightforward Chu Xiaoyun was, the peddler said happily, "Twenty yuan a piece, sir, take two." Here, I will send you a window grille."

Chu Xiaoyun thanked him, and took the window grille from the vendor.

Next to her was a little girl who was about six or seven years old holding her mother's hand and said in her mouth: "Good luck, prosperity and peace."

It was the words written on the two lanterns in Chu Xiaoyun's hand.

Chu Xiaoyun smiled at the little girl, but Su Wen on the side praised: "It's really amazing to know so many words at such a young age." The

child's mother was a little proud: "Thank you for your praise, Mr. She is willing to teach, and she also loves to learn."

The little girl answered: "What is literacy, little Maodou can know a lot of words. It is good to be able to match the pair." "

Who is Little Maodou?" Su Wen asked curiously.

"It's my younger brother. He's two years old." Seeing someone talking to her, the little girl said happily, "He's at my father's place now." "You

can read at the age of two?!" Su Wen sighed.

"That's right." The little girl proudly said, "I can still match." "

Oh, then what kind of pair will you be able to do?" Su Wen asked.

The little girl thought for a while, then pointed to the small lantern in Chu Xiaoyun's hand and said, "Wealth and prosperity are in the light of the lucky stars, good luck and good luck come." At such a young age, she was able to

continue the four characters on the lantern to form a pair, which lasted forever. Chu Xiaoyun, who was watching from the sidelines, was also quite surprised, and followed Su Wen to praise him.

At this time, shouts came from the crowd, and the woman said to Su Wen apologetically, "The head of my family has called me, so let's take my leave first."

Su Wen also said goodbye to them.

After the mother and daughter left, Chu Xiaoyun gave the lantern inscribed with wealth and peace to the eldest prince in his arms; he handed the lantern inscribed with good luck to his son.

After finishing, Chu Xiaoyun raised his head and looked at the sun: "It's noon, everyone is hungry. Find a place to eat."

Every food stall on the street was overcrowded, and Chu Xiaoyun took his family to find it with great difficulty. Someone left the wonton shop and sat down, and greeted the boss to bring three bowls of wonton and two bowls of rice porridge. When eating, Chu Xiaoyun said: "It's getting late, we should go to Zhou Ying's store to get the goods after eating."

Su Wen had no objection, and the itinerary for the afternoon was confirmed.

The New Year is approaching, which is a good time for business. When they arrived in front of Zhou Ying's shop, the front door of Zhou Ying's shop was full of customers, and it was inconvenient to pick up goods from the front door, so Chu Xiaoyun asked the coachman to drive the carriage to the shop to pick up the goods. The alley where the back door is located is naturally less crowded than the main street where the main entrance is located.

However, the back door is mainly where goods are loaded and unloaded, so it is not suitable for Su Wen to wait there with his two children. The carriage passed by the main entrance of Zhou Ying's shop, Chu Xiaoyun carried Su Wen and the two little guys out of the carriage one by one, and asked them to wait in the shop. If you want to walk around, you must be very careful.

Probably because the store was too crowded. After Chu Xiaoyun left, the two little guys didn't want to enter the store. They cried as soon as they walked into the store. Instead, they were curious about the busy street outside. Since the children didn't want to go in, Su Wen decided to take the children to play outside, and unfortunately met the little girl whom he met at the lantern shop this morning.

But at this time, there was a little boy beside the little girl.

"We met again." Su Wen said to the little girl with a smile.

The little girl was also very happy to see Su Wen: "Master Shuang'er, this is my younger brother, Little Maodou."

Su Wen finally saw the little girl's two-year-old literate brother.

"Little Maodou, hello." Su Wen greeted Xiaomaodou. There are only two siblings here, and he didn't see her adult, so he asked the little girl worriedly, "Where is your adult?" The little girl nodded

, pointed to Zhou Ying's store and said, "My parents are shopping there. "

Following the direction of the little girl's finger, Su Wen saw that in front of a cloth processing counter in Zhou Ying's shop, the little girl's mother whom he had seen before was choosing the cloth that had been reduced in price in the shop, and a man stood beside him. Probably hearing their conversation, the girl's mother looked out the door and met Su Wen's gaze.

After the girl's mother made eye contact with Su Wen, she said something to her husband, who nodded, and she put down the fabric in her hand and walked towards Su Wen and the others. Husband continued to pick at the counter.

"I didn't expect to see you here again." The girl's mother came over to say hello, "Are you twins?"

The woman asked Su Wen and the eldest prince in the arms of the maid. When they met before, it was Su Wen and Chu Xiaoyun who were holding the child, and the maid was carrying some small things, so they naturally regarded the maid as a maid.

The eldest prince is half a year younger than Shuyu, but because of suffering from birth, he is thinner and smaller than Shuyu. It seems that the two children are about the same age.

This question is not difficult to answer, but the identity of the eldest prince is difficult to answer, making this question difficult to answer. Su Wen thought for a while and said: "No. One of them is a friend's child."

Although he and Concubine Wang Xian hit it off and fell in love with each other, even though Concubine Wang Xian is in distress and living in a cold palace, after all, the other party is a king and he is a citizen. Overstepped. But otherwise, it's really hard to say.

The other party didn't ask why the friend wasn't there, probably just met once before, and now the children are playing together again, trying to find an excuse to start a conversation. The two chatted for a while, and Su Wen learned that they were picking out some fabrics in the store and making new clothes for their family when they turned back.

After a while, the head of the other party bought the fabric and came out. Previously in the downtown area, he only heard his voice but never met him. Now that he was face to face, Su Wen could see clearly that the other party was a tall man with a simple and honest face. It looked familiar. However, most of the simple and honest men look simple and honest, and it is not surprising that they look familiar.

When the woman saw her husband, she introduced Su Wen to him, and said that she had met him at the market before.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Su Wen greeted the head of the other party.

"Ah, nice to meet you." The man greeted Su Wen and said to his wife, "We still haven't bought some things, so let's go and have a look before we get together." While talking, Chu Xiaoyun finished

pretending The goods came back in a carriage, and met the woman's family.

The woman's family said goodbye and left.

"Go home." Chu Xiaoyun kissed the son in Su Wen's arms, took the eldest prince from the maid's arms, and walked to the carriage.

After taking two steps forward, he paused hesitantly, looking sideways at the direction the carriage was coming from. Su Wen hugged Xiao Shuyu and the palace maid twisted things and followed.

"What are you looking at?" Su Wen asked.

Chu Xiaoyun withdrew his gaze and said, "That person looks familiar just now, I seem to have seen him somewhere before."

"Which person?" Su Wen hugged the little book and looked back in the direction Chu Xiaoyun just looked back.

"It's the family just now, the man we greeted." Chu Xiaoyun turned his head to look again, "Hey, so fast, where is the person?" As far as the

line of sight is, there is a busy street. where to go.

"Did you mean they are the head of the family?" Su Wen showed a surprised look, thought for a while and said, "When you say that, I really think it looks familiar. I felt a sense of familiarity before, and thought it was that He looks very simple and honest."

"It seems that we met that person together after we met." Chu Xiaoyun said, "I didn't expect to see an old friend from Hejing County in the capital."

He and Su Wen After getting acquainted, Su Wen left Hejing County, except for going to Beijing this time, the only time he went to Qingzhou was last time. That time in Qingzhou Mansion, Su Wen didn't even show his face in public, so it's impossible for him to meet anyone with him; after coming to the capital this time, he went out together a few times, and it's impossible for him to forget the people he met so quickly.

That person could only have been seen in Hejing County.

On the way back to the palace by car, Chu Xiaoyun filtered all the people he had met, and he didn't find the impression of a woman in charge of the house from his memory. I thought it was a friendship that I passed by in the street, so I ignored it.

Back in the palace, he asked the maids and eunuchs to arrange the items that could be arranged in advance.

On New Year's Eve, Chu Xiaoyun got up early. Working with the maids and eunuchs inside and out, hanging lanterns, pasting couplets, and pasting window grilles, I was very busy.

The lower lanterns had already been hung up, and the lanterns on the high wall were wrapped by Chu Xiaoyun. Using lightness skills, he hung a string of lanterns in the direction designated by everyone. Just as he was about to jump down, an eunuch hurried past with something on his back, and accidentally bumped into Su Wen. I was so scared that I apologized again and again.

Su Wen said gently that it was all right, and let the eunuch continue to do his own work. The eunuch thanked him gratefully.

In Chu Xiaoyun's eyes, this scene touched his dusty memory. He extended the memory of the man he saw yesterday from that man to the family around him, and the memory gradually became clearer, and soon it was frozen in a certain scene.

Then, that scene brings up another thing, another person.

By the way, that person! ! !

Chu Xiaoyun's thoughts stopped here, and this time he caught the previously floating consciousness.

Things got straightened out, Chu Xiaoyun fell down from the palace wall, and said to Su Wen: "I have something to do, go to the six gates. You just let them handle the things arranged in the palace." Su Wen went in without knowing it

. : "What do you go to Six Gates this year in your thirties? Don't they keep bathing?"

"In such an important place as Six Gates, there must be someone on duty for rest." Chu Xiaoyun rolled up his sleeves when he was working. Put it down, "I'll talk to you later."

Presumably her husband remembered something about the case, Su Wen knew that her husband never procrastinated on the case, nodded and said: "Okay."

Chu Xiaoyun went back to the room to change Putting on some more formal clothes, he left the palace and rushed to the six gates.

"Brother Ji." Seeing Ji Chengyue, Chu Xiaoyun couldn't wait to say.

"Brother Chu?" Ji Chengyue was very surprised when he saw Chu Xiaoyun on New Year's Eve, "Why did you come to me when you are thirty this year, and you are not in the palace to spend the New Year with your wife and children?" Chu Xiaoyun said, "Can you find me?

" A painter is here, help find someone."

Ji Chengyue saw his serious expression, and his expression became serious: "Who are you looking for, so urgent."

Chu Xiaoyun nodded seriously.

Soon, the special painter of Six Doors arrived, and quickly made a portrait according to Chu Xiaoyun's description.

Ji Chengyue stared at the man on the painting and said, "Who is this man?"

Chu Xiaoyun said, "I'm not sure of his identity, but I have seen this man on the streets of Hejing County. At that time, he was carrying Wife and children, hurrying on the road with a burden on their backs, bumped into my little husband. At that time we only thought he was walking carelessly, but now thinking about it, he looks like he is running away in a panic." As he spoke, Chu Xiaoyun involved himself in Zhang Cheng's case and hid himself from

crossing About coming here, I told Ji Chengyue from beginning to end.

"Shortly after Zhang Cheng's death, his housekeeper Pei Jin went to the county government's arresting house to report to the officials, saying that a servant in the family was missing and wanted to arrest the servant. The arresting servant asked for a slave certificate, but the county government's signature said that the servant Zhang Cheng had already stripped him of his status as a slave and returned him to be free. But other people in the Zhang family's mansion didn't even know that the identity of the slave on the mansion's personnel list has not changed," Chu Xiaoyun said, "The famous Why does the Patriarch of the Zhang family want to remove a servant's slave status, and also hide the family and the housekeeper, this is really strange." "Do

you suspect that this person is the slave who was removed from the Zhang family's slave status?" Ji Chengyue asked.

"Originally, I was just curious about this matter, but today I met this person again in the capital, and when I remembered the past, I couldn't help but get in touch like this. Whether it is true or not, I hope Brother Ji can help me find out." Chu Xiaoyun thoughtfully road.

If that person is really the servant who was expelled from slavery by the Zhang family, maybe he can prove the identity of another person. However, these are just his current suspicions. He should not say more when the identity of the servants of the Zhang family has not been confirmed, and the strange removal of the slave status has not yet been known.

"Okay, I'll send someone to investigate right now." Ji Chengyue put away the portrait, "I'll send someone to notify you when I have news." After finishing the matter

, Chu Xiaoyun bid farewell to Ji Chengyue and rushed to the palace. Back in the palace, the small courtyard of the side hall where they lived temporarily has been fully furnished. The eunuchs and maids dressed up the entire small courtyard in a prosperous and joyful manner; the New Year's Eve dinner also began to be served on the table.

Seeing Chu Xiaoyun came back, Su Wen pulled Chu Xiaoyun back into the room and discussed quietly: "Can we go, Concubine Wang Xian invites us to celebrate the New Year together, he is deserted in the cold palace by himself, it's so miserable for the New Year. "

Chu Xiaoyun was a little hesitant to violate the palace rules, Su Wen said: "Nowadays everyone is celebrating the new year, and no one has time to pay attention to a person in the cold palace." Chu Xiaoyun also thinks it makes sense, and more importantly,

he also thinks It's too pitiful for Concubine Wang Xian and the eldest prince to separate father and son after the New Year's Eve.

It is inconvenient for him to walk in the palace as a man, so Chu Xiaoyun asked Su Wen to bring a court lady and a eunuch to the cold palace to pick up Concubine Wang Xian.

Concubine Wang Xian came to the small courtyard where they lived and saw her son, she couldn't help but hugged the eldest prince and cried bitterly. Chu Xiaoyun couldn't see Shuang'er crying the most, and signaled Su Wen to comfort her quickly. Concubine Wang Xian cried for a while, remembering that her father and son had already troubled others, and it was not good to bring bad luck to others by crying during the Chinese New Year, so she wiped away her tears and apologized repeatedly.

"It's okay, nothing else is important, the important thing is to cherish the moment." Chu Xiaoyun poured a glass of wine for Wang Xianfei, Su Wen and himself, and said to everyone with the glass, "Happy New Year's Eve everyone, eat and drink well !"

The author has something to say: Happy New Year, friends! I wish you all a bullish Year of the Ox! Qingqiu is here to wish you all New Year greetings!

We celebrate the new year, and the people in the article also celebrate the new year, it is really a fate. Originally, this chapter was intended to be posted on New Year's Eve, which is a more appropriate time, but it was always interrupted while typing, so I just finished writing and moved it to post here. Although it was a bit late and failed to be the last chapter of the Year of the Rat, it is not bad as the first chapter of the new year.

It's just that we were saying happy new year, and when we paid homage to the early years, Chu Tutou's family was still having the New Year's Eve dinner. Hahaha...

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