Chapter 248 (1/2)
Chatting all the way, I went back to Jinzhou Wei when it was dark. The Tibetan sword was worried about the safety of the Shizi Ye. I heard that Duan Tingxuan came back with a lot of fish and kelp. I was overjoyed and personally brought a carriage to meet him. Seeing the dark kelp, he touched his big head and asked hesitantly, ”this... This is the kelp that Lord Zhang sent back to say. Can you support food? This... Isn't this ghost hair?”
”Not ghost hair.”
Zhang Tianming explained it to his adults. When Zang Jian heard that he could eat it after cooking, he couldn't help being moved. When he returned to the yamen, he couldn't wait for someone to take the kelp to the kitchen and make him boil some water to eat. Suddenly, Su wennuan wondered, ”what's the pile on the corner of the yard? How do I look like scallops? Did Lord Zang send someone to catch seafood?”
Zang Jian laughed: ”Madam, I'm joking. Where do you have those people? These are several carts of smuggled goods found by my brothers during their inspection today. I don't know what's going on. Those people saw my soldiers and threw them out of the car and ran away. My brothers were rough people. They thought there was food on the car, but they came to see that there were several carts of river mussels. I didn't have time to pay attention, so I put them carelessly and thought about cooking tomorrow Eat“
A sentence aroused Duan Tingxuan and Su wennuan's curiosity. Duan Tingxuan said, ”where's Pingzhang? Didn't you ask him to have a look“
Tibetan sword said: ”Lord long went to the granary to check the surplus grain in the granary this afternoon. When he came back, he said he had a headache. Now he is still lying in the house. Miss Chu takes care of him. I think he must be tired these days. Alas! It's all due to the incompetence of the lower officials.”
”No wonder, I said that if Pingzhang were here, you wouldn't stack these things as river fresh food, and don't think about it. If it's River fresh food, is it worth smuggling?” Duan Tingxuan shook his head with a smile, and then took Su wennuan's hand and said, ”go, wennuan, let's go and see what it is.”
Cangjian hurriedly ordered someone to send two lanterns. The husband and wife came to the pile of things in the corner of the yard. Duan Tingxuan scolded: ”cangjian, this bastard, this... This thing is piled up like this. How can you eat it all night? Are you afraid it won't spoil your stomach?”
Su wennuan said with a smile, ”Lord Zang is so busy these days that he probably doesn't think about it for a moment.” as he said, he squatted down and took one in his hand. He saw that the big river clam was slightly oval and was bigger than her palm, because he said, ”it looks much bigger than ordinary River clams.”
After hearing this, Duan Tingxuan immediately had a flash of inspiration in his mind. He grabbed the big clam, put his hands on it, and listened to the ”puff” sound, and the hard shell of the clam broke.
Seeing his tight appearance, Su wennuan hurriedly put the lantern close to his hand. He saw that the young Marquis pulled away the clam shell to reveal the fat clam meat inside. Then he touched it with his hand, touched a place and cut open the clam meat. He saw a pearl the size of the middle finger belly inside. It was white, round and lustrous. It was actually a superior pearl.
”Good guy, I said, how could anyone smuggle clams? It's not profitable, but it was the Dongzhu clam on the other side of the Wusuli River. This... It's too bold, and there must be ghosts. Otherwise, how could they steal so many clams?”
”Dongzhu?” Su wennuan swallowed his saliva. He thought, isn't that something that I only have in the Qing Dynasty? Is that what the Great Indian Dynasty called it? So he squatted down, picked up a big clam and asked Duan Tingxuan to crush it for her, then looked in the clam meat for a long time and said: ”Strange. Why don't I have pearls in this clam? Do you want to see people's dishes? Because you are the son of the world, you flatter tightly; because I am the wife, you ignore it?”
”How can you say that?” the little Marquis shook his head and said, ”you think this thing is radish, one pit at a time? I heard Lord Guo say that this place is a bitter and cold place. The life of Pearl pickers is very hard. It's good luck to pick a pearl from more than a dozen mussels, not to mention these East pearls are graded.” After that, he handed the Pearl to Su wennuan and said with a smile, ”the quality of this east pearl is good. Keep it. Since we are allowed to catch up with each other this time, we have to get some of them out. Go back and make a dowry for Honglian and Xiangyun. Their faces will be more glorious. It's worth your fight with their master and servant.”
How can a woman not love pearls? Su wennuan took it over, played with it, and then worried, ”it's just... Do we intercept these smuggled things? Do people know if they will sue you before the emperor?”
The little Marquis didn't like to hear this. He sneered and said, ”at least I'm also a close Minister of the son of heaven. A few East beads can sue me? Warm, you underestimate my husband.”
”Hey, hey! There are several ways for Qian to benefit but lose. Don't be arrogant by being spoiled.” Su wennuan said positively, but he heard Duan Tingxuan laugh, then hugged her and walked into the house, saying: ”Don't worry, because the conditions outside the pass are difficult, all the time, the officers and soldiers here intercept smuggled goods by themselves, give some filial respect to the Shangguan, and the rest will be carried to their own pockets. Otherwise, why do you think people can come here to stay at ease?”
”I see.”