Chapter 166 (1/2)
Sweet water lane.
The capital is famous for its dust and fireworks.
If no one points out that this is sweet water lane, I'm afraid it's just an ordinary wide lane in the eyes of newcomers.
There are locust trees on the sidewalk, among which there are Tangli trees and hawthorn trees. Sometimes it is quiet outside, and you can hear the sound of musical instruments and books from the alley. Perhaps the most greasy and powdery is the sweet well in the depths of the alley, where many women gather. What they most often do is to pass on the poems written by a talented man and comment on who writes well.
Here live the Qing shepherds who are both talented and skilled. There are also those who serve people with color. Their identity depends on the lanterns and colored flags on the eaves in front of the door.
Early this morning, Qingning in sweet water lane was broken by neat footsteps. The forbidden army suddenly came to search sweet water lane. There were shouts or men's shouts from every attic in the lane. Before long, several forbidden troops escorted men with untidy clothes. They came out in despair when they saw the leader of the forbidden army.
Hou Yu: ”report! It's all over. We've got five. ”
Commander of the forbidden Army: ”who are there? Bring it up and have a look.”
Several detainees were sent to the commander of the forbidden army. He glanced at the person he didn't want to find, ”OK, do you have anything else?”
Hou Yu hesitated and whispered in the ear of the commander of the forbidden army. He said that he found the second son of the founding Duke in the yard of the private house of the Qing shepherd. He didn't stop them from searching people, and the private house was also not found.
The commander of the forbidden army raised his eyebrows and said, ”close the team!”
When the forbidden army withdrew from sweet water lane, the women in the attic put their heads out one after another, all of them covered their faces with round fans, ”Oh, that official brother looks fierce!”
”Why bother you so early?”
”I don't know. It seems that someone broke the discipline and ran out?”
Girls chirp. You look at me like a Oriole on a branch.
After drinking tea, Pei Shuo, the second childe, went to the corner of the courtyard and knocked five times against the bottom of the large water tank. The first three times knocked quickly, the first two times knocked down, and then fell the second time. This was the signal he had agreed with the people inside: ”come out, they're gone.”
The water surface of the big water tank shook, the water surface suddenly rose, and the people inside stood up with the urn. It turned out that there was another mystery in the water tank. From the edge to the inside, there was a pottery urn half a child's height. The pottery urn fits perfectly with the water tank.
The water tank is fixed on the ground, the lower half is hollow and connected to the underground, and a small cellar is dug to hide people.
Yu Hou was inexperienced. When he saw the reflection on the water surface, he only saw that he stretched out his hand to stir the water. He left without noticing anything unusual.
”Thank you for your help, young master Pei.”
Pei Shuo said, ”where, I have a good friend who buys a house in dongchengxiang. Please pay more attention to Yu Hou. Don't come to the street to collect rent one day on the left and make trouble one day on the right. He bought a shop at the end of the dongchengxiang night market. The picture is that there are many guests. The street makes trouble every day. He is in a bad mood and affects his business. ”
”It's easy to say.”
Seeing off Yu Hou of Dongcheng Xiang who escaped punishment, Pei Shuo twirled up the cakes and looked around. Alas, he missed the five-color cakes made by a Yao and the four Xi Shaomai.
The shepherd came out slowly. ”You know, childe.”