Chapter 214： Sing a book

A few people came to a wooden building with red paint and carved railings in Wa City. They saw the four words "Eight Immortals Tea House" written on the door plate.

The brothers and sisters walked into the teahouse, found a square table near the window and sat down, and asked the waiter to bring a few plates of snacks and a pot of tea.

There were several upside-down tea bowls placed in the middle of the table. Turning the bowls over, the boy poured tea for several people one by one.

They came earlier, the storyteller hadn't arrived yet, and there weren't many people in the teahouse.

The Yingbao siblings were eating snacks and looking outside.

Outside is much more lively than the teahouse. There are jugglers, people selling bruises and plasters, and people dancing with swords and guns.

There are also vendors carrying burdens and baskets, selling all kinds of homemade food.

Jiang Wu suddenly tugged on his sister's sleeves, pointed outside and said, "Look! Is the man in the flowered robe my uncle?"

Ying Bao looked over and saw in the crowd not far away, a man in his thirties wearing a blue tuan shroud robe, talking and laughing with two big men, walking towards the fence.

Jiang Quan also saw it and asked strangely: "Hey, weren't those two the ones who beat up my uncle and aunt yesterday? Why are they mixed together?"

The three of them walked into the hook fence arm in arm and quickly disappeared into a flower building.

Ying Bao watched the three of them disappear and turned to ask Dani: "Sister Dani, how much money did aunt borrow from uncle last time?"

Dani thought for a moment and said, "Fifty taels, maybe. I wanted to borrow a hundred taels from my parents before, but my mother didn't agree."

“Didn’t she say what she was borrowing the money for?” Yingbao asked.

Dani: "My aunt said that her shop needed to purchase goods and couldn't keep its business open. When I borrowed money from my grandma, she also said that my uncle was doing a big business with someone else and needed money as capital. She also said that she would pay it back soon, but the result was... Not yet."

Yingbao asked Erni again: "Did aunt borrow money from second uncle?"

"Borrowed it. I saw it with my own eyes. Dad gave her forty taels."

Erni said: "My aunt secretly asked me if I had any money. Well, I told her no."

ˆ Yingbao：······

Combining what happened yesterday, she probably knew why Jiang Yunniang wanted to borrow money.

Could it be to fill Zhang Jia’s hole?

Jiang Quan frowned and thought for a while, then said, "How about I quietly go to Goulan to see what's going on with the three of them."

“No! If you are discovered, you will be dead.” This is not alarmist.

Yingbao said, "When you see your aunt, just tell her what you saw today."

As for what Jiang Yunniang should do, it’s up to her.

“Otherwise, when we get home, we can tell my eldest uncle, second uncle, and dad that they should come to the county town to ask Zhang Jia face to face.”

If the man surnamed Zhang plays any tricks, and the three Jiang brothers join the battle, even one of them can drown him by spitting dirt.

While the brothers and sisters were talking, Dongmei and her father came on stage.

Looking at the tea table in the teahouse, 40% of the tea guests were already seated.

Gao Lifan glanced at a few children sitting at the table by the window, nodded to them, straightened his sleeves, and put out a wakeboard, a folding fan, and a handkerchief.

The boy had already run over with the teapot and poured him a cup of tea.

By the time Dongmei sat down next to Gao Lifan with her lute in her arms, some tea guests were already urging them to sing faster.

Today Gao Lifan continues to talk about the Three Kingdoms.

I saw him slap the wake tree and said:

“As the saying goes, horses have the virtue of holding back their reins, and dogs have the virtue of spreading grass;

Sika deer gather in groups when they see food, and the unrighteous people are hateful!

Let’s move on to talk about Lü Bulu Fengxian..."

Ying Bao and Jiang Quan listened with great interest, but Dani Erni and Jiang Wu soon became unable to sit still.

Jiang Wu pulled his sister's sleeves over and over again and asked: "Sister, let's stop listening and let's go and play outside, okay?" He didn't understand at all, so he just wanted to see the knife performer, or even the stilt walkers. Okay.

"Wait a while." Yingbao still didn't know how Dongmei helped promote her family.

Gao Lifan finally finished speaking a paragraph, took a tea bowl and took a break. His daughter Dongmei started to speak the opening remarks while holding a piba.

Her opening remarks were actually about introducing the Jiangji specialty shop across from the county school and the various goods sold in the shop.

Dongmei’s words were catchy and catchy, as if she had said it many times.

The audience was accustomed to it and did not express dissatisfaction.

After finishing her opening remarks, Dongmei played the lute and started singing.

After singing a section, the boy held the copper plate and began to collect the reward money from the table.

Yingbao took out a handful of copper coins from his bag and put it in, and said to Dongmei: "After my sister and husband leave, you can go to my shop."

I haven’t given sister Dongmei Wugen water for a month, so I plan to give her three bottles at a time today.

Since the New Year was coming soon, Yingbao couldn't guarantee when she would come to the county again, so she gave her a little more as compensation for Dongmei's sister to advertise for her.

Dongmei smiled and nodded.

The brothers and sisters walked out of the teahouse and bought several portraits of Zhong Kui at the calligraphy and painting shop, as well as several pairs of peach charms carved from peach wood slices, which they reserved for the New Year.

Dani and Erni went to the gold and silver shop and bought some silver jewelry, such as earrings, hoopoe, silver beads and flowers, etc.

These small items are not expensive. Of course, they also contain little silver, which is incomparable with government-made silver.

A few days later, Jiang Sanlang drove his carriage into the city again, preparing to take his children and niece home.

Before going back, we have to pick Jiang Jie up from the county government office and go back to his hometown together to celebrate the New Year.

Jiang Sanlang prepared some New Year gifts and sent them to the county government in advance to Mr. Wu and his wife.

There are chestnut cakes newly made at home, a pound of snow fungus and a pound of golden fungus, two boxes of persimmon cakes, and health pills made by my little girl.

Mr. Wu was very happy and asked Jiang Sanlang why he didn't bring Ying Bao.

The next day, Jiang Quan took advantage of his third uncle's good mood and told him about his aunt and uncle.

Jiang Sanlang frowned and immediately stood up to find Zhang Jia.

Jiang Cheng was afraid that his third uncle would suffer a loss by himself, so he quickly asked his second brother to follow him, and told Dani, Erni and Yingbao to keep an eye on the shop.

It was not until evening that the three came back.

Jiang Sanlang looked very stinky. He went to the house alone for a long time and didn't know what he was doing.

Yingbao had no choice but to ask Jiang Quan quietly: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Quan rubbed the back of his head and said, "The third uncle found Uncle Zhang and asked about his relationship with the woman and the attacker. Uncle Zhang immediately became angry and started to scold the third uncle. As a result, he knocked out two teeth with a few slaps. ”

“Then what?” Ying Bao asked curiously.

Jiang Quan: "Then my aunt suddenly came to fight with the third uncle. She also said that it was her family matter and that he did not need to worry about it. The third uncle was very angry and came back immediately."

He whispered again: "Uncle Zhang himself admitted that he raised an outhouse and gave birth to a pair of children, all of which depended on him to support him. Uncle Zhang also said that he wanted the two children to recognize their master and return to the clan. I don't understand. Why is my aunt still protecting him?"

This is a slap in the face of my aunt. Jiang Yunniang actually said that she didn't want her mother's family to care about her.

Ying Bao was simply stunned.

“What happened to the other two men who beat me?” she asked.

Jiang Quan: "I don't know. Uncle Zhang won't say. I guess he's from the outer room."

Because he had heard from the beater before that Uncle Zhang seduced his daughter.

That man with a sinister face is most likely the biological father of the young wife.