Tang's dining table

Yunchu listened to the noise outside for a while, then took another bite of the cake and meat and said, "We are already hiding, we are not afraid."

The little woman lit the oil lamp, pointed at Yun Chu's green shirt and said, "You are an official, why don't you run out to protect him at this time?"

Yun Chu smiled and said: "There are many guards around the nobles, so there is no need for me to go out. Besides, I don't have any weapons at hand."

The man quickly put a thick-backed bone chopping knife into Yun Chu's free hand and said, "Go quickly."

Yun Chu was stunned for a moment, then put the knife aside and said to the young woman, "Is there any water? I choked on the dry biscuits."

The man stood up, pointed at Yunchu and said, "You are just a good guy who can eat."

Yun Chu was not ashamed when he heard this and said to the pretty young woman, "You don't come from a poor family, right?"

Seeing Yun Chu's eyes looking straight at her, the little woman nodded shyly and said, "I worked as a maid in the big courtyard for several years."

Yun Chu took a bite of the biscuit and swallowed it and said: "It's wrong at first sight. Even though this is a small workshop, the way it does things is extraordinary. Alas, why don't we have such a capable servant as you in my family? "

The little woman looked at the man selling sesame seed cakes in embarrassment and did not dare to speak. In the end, she just sighed.

Yunchu said to the man again: "Your mother-in-law is pretty good."

The man yelled at Yun Chu: "Thief against your mother!"

When Yun Chu clapped his hands and came out of the biscuit workshop, the little woman gingerly handed Yun Chu a biscuit with meat she bought, and asked in a low voice: "Is what Mr. Lang said true?"

Yun Chu looked at the man lying on the ground like a puddle of mud and said, "Live your life well, don't think about things that you have and don't have all day long."

After that, he left Guangfufang calmly with the cakes and meat wrapped in lotus leaves and an umbrella. He also looked back and made a note of this small shop. The food was good and he could come here more often in the future.

When they walked back to Zhuque Street, the nobles had already left. All the Jin Wu guards rushed into the alleys and searched everywhere. Yun Chu walked back to Zhuque Street, but no one showed up.

After crossing Zhuque Street and passing through the four cities of Anye, Zhangde, Chongxian and Changshou, Yun Chu put the frozen biscuits with meat into his arms and shook off the thick snow powder on the oil-paper umbrella. , and entered Fengyifang.

Fengyifang occupies a large area, with the tall and towering Chang'an City Wall behind it. For defense reasons, all lowly merchants live here.

Once something happens, the defenders at the top of the city can tear down the stones and bricks of Fengyifang to defend themselves against the enemy.

As soon as he walked into the square gate, Yun Chu was almost knocked over by the stench of sun sauce. He tied his mouth and nose with a handkerchief. After getting used to it for a while, Yun Chu walked into Fengyi Square.

There are many pedestrians on the inner streets here, and there are countless horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, donkey carts, and even wheelbarrows.

However, the carriages are basically carriages with green cloth curtains as tops, which shows that no noble people will come here all the year round.

Yunchu even believed that locating the sauce workshop at the entrance of the shop was a strategy of the merchants here, who did not want their nobles to come in such as checking accounts, blackmailing, etc.

The further he walked inside, the more Yunchu believed that his guess was correct, because after walking three hundred meters forward, the smell of the sauce vat completely disappeared, replaced by the slightly sweet smell of sake lees.

The streets were lined with wine flags. The wine flags were very high, and each family had higher wine flags than the next.

This kind of long flag is blown by the wind and makes the writing on the wine flag seem to come alive, which has a very advertising effect.

Ruyi is a nice name, and Zhixia is also a nice name, but the tavern is not that good.

Other people's wine flags were tall and majestic. Only the wine flag with the word "Ruyi" written on it was hanging on the flagpole and refused to fly.

However, this is not to blame for the wine flag, because it is too short. The height of other wine flags is basically higher than the city wall. Only the Ruyi wine flag is shorter than the city wall, so naturally there is no wind to blow it.

Yunchu stood at the door of Ruyi Winery and observed for a moment. It was snowing heavily today. It was a good time for the guests to cook wine and enjoy the snow. At the door of other people's wineries, all the people coming in and out were wine jars. Only the entrance of this Ruyi Winery was deserted.

Just when Yunchu was about to enter Ruyi Winery, a man wearing a Lan shirt strode out from inside, yelling and cursing as he walked: "I want to gamble, what can you do to me, can you take me in on weekdays?" You mother and son are already kindhearted because of me.

Now I'm not allowed to gamble! "

A woman with disheveled hair hurriedly caught up and begged: "This is the last little money. Without this money, how can I buy wine and make wine?"

The man kicked the woman down and cursed angrily: "I'm really unlucky to marry you. I lost a lot of money for more than ten days in a row."

Yun Chu walked towards him with a smile. Just when the man passed by Yun Chu, for some reason, the man stepped on the air and, in full view of the crowd watching the excitement, he stuck his head on the green stone. On the carved steps.

Yun Chu stretched out his hand to grab it, but missed it. The man's nose hit the sharp corner of the blue stone steps hard.

Just hearing a click, the man's tense body immediately softened, and he saw a pool of black-red blood flowing down the steps like a stream, reflected by the white snow.

"Ah -" the woman screamed, flew over, hugged the man and cried loudly.

Yun Chu hurriedly stepped aside and quickly raised his hands to the crowd watching the excitement around him and said: "Please neighbors, please bear witness to a certain family. This person slipped and fell into the air, but I have nothing to do with it."

The people who had originally discovered that the excitement turned into a tragedy were about to leave when they suddenly heard Yunchu say the word "official" and stopped immediately. A man with a white felt hat on his head stepped forward and cupped his hands: " What Lang Jun said is absolutely true, Cao Wu was too busy scolding his mother-in-law and didn't look at the road when he went out, so he fell."

Yunchu immediately said to the wine shop clerk who was staying at the scene: "Quickly go and get some drinks. A certain family wants to invite all the fellow villagers to have a drink of wine to warm themselves up today."

After getting a handful of copper coins, the clerk immediately took out a large jar of wine, put it in Yun Chu's hand, and went to help the poor woman.

Yun Chu took a big sip of wine, then put the wine jar into the hands of the man wearing a white felt hat and said, "Drink some wine to get rid of bad luck."

The man was not polite. He picked up the wine jar and started drinking. This made everyone angry. For a while, the big wine jar was full of people who wanted to drink.

The woman shook the body of the fallen man vigorously, but received no response.

Yunchu knew that the man was dead. He fell upside down with his feet in the air and concentrated all his weight on his head. Then he hit his head, which could concentrate all his weight, on the sharp steps. Even if his head was not broken, his thin neck It must have been broken alive.

After a short while, Fangzheng had already arrived. After looking at the scene and asking everyone present, he covered the man's face with a piece of linen cloth and said that he would wait until the police and the gangster arrived.

As a witness, Yun Chu naturally cannot leave easily.

Just as everyone was finishing a jar of wine, a group of bad people came.

When the commander saw that it was not the police but the delinquents, he hurried forward and said: "The commander Teng Cheng has seen all the delinquents."

The leader of the bad guys snorted a word from his nostrils. As if he had received the gift, he squatted down and lifted the linen cloth, glanced at the dead man, and then pulled the man's head. The soft neck no longer supported his neck, so , the head swayed roundly twice.

The bad guy stood up and said, "Who was closest to this man when he died?"

Yun Chu stood up but did not hold back his hands. He nodded and said: "A certain family, when a certain family was about to enter, he was about to go out. Unexpectedly, this person stepped on the air and fell to his death. If you don't believe me, you can ask your neighbors."

The bad guy did not ask the neighbors but continued to ask Yun Chu: "Are you acquainted with Cao Wu?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "We don't know each other."

"Do you have any financial dealings with Cao Wu?"

Yun Chu frowned and said, "I have just returned from the Western Regions. Before today, I have never seen this Cao Wu, and I have no financial dealings with him."

When the bad guy heard what Yunchu said, he put away his usual arrogant look, raised his hands and asked, "I wonder who this gentleman's surname is, where his family is, and what government office he works in?"

Yun Chu lazily raised his hand and returned the greeting: "My surname is Yun, which means "chu". I live in the Yun family in Jinchangfang. I am currently serving as chief physician in the Imperial Medical Office."

The bad man heard that Yun Chu was working in the Imperial Medical Office, and once again handed over his hand and said: "I believe that Doctor Yun will not have anything to do with this rogue Cao Wu, and it is just for Doctor Yun's plan. I would like to ask, Doctor Yun is here as he wished." What’s going on at the wine shop?”

Yunchu sighed and said: "Before coming to Chang'an, a certain family took office in the Kucha Grand Pass Command Yamen. In the battle of Kucha, almost all the people in the Da Pass Command Yamen were wiped out except me... died in the battle. There were too many colleagues, so the Shangguan felt that the Daguan Ling Yamen was quite useful, so he rewarded him with a sum of money and ordered a certain family to bring him to Chang'an to support the orphans."

The woman with empty eyes originally knelt down on the steps quietly, guarding her dead husband. However, when Yun Chu's words penetrated her ears, she let out a squeak without even taking a breath. She fell limply onto her husband.

Yun Chu reached out and pinched her. Unexpectedly, after pinching her for a long time, the woman didn't look like she was about to wake up.

He touched her neck with his hand, then stood up with a sigh and spread his hands to the bad guy: "He's gone!"

The bad guy checked the woman's breathing, spat, and said: "I'm really out of breath. It's unlucky. They have to die together. It's their blessing. Okay, okay, everyone disperses and lets Cao Cao People from the five families came out to collect the bodies."

Seeing that the delinquent didn't mention money, Yunchu grabbed the delinquent's wrist and said, "According to my brother's instructions, there is a sum of money to be delivered to a woman named Zhixia."

"I am Zhixia!"

A cold voice came from the back house, and immediately, a woman in green clothes came out.

Her face was extremely pale, and she ignored the man and woman lying on the steps. Instead, she looked directly into Yun Chu's eyes and asked, "Did that fat man really die for his country in Kucha?"