Shen Qingqiu couldn't help but smile when he saw the nervous expression of the person in front of him, "Why should I be angry?"
Gu Yanwei saw her smile, and the tension in his heart gradually subsided. What was she angry about... Shen Qingqiu said, "Are you afraid that I will think you are scheming?" Gu Yanwei looked at her, and Shen Qingqiu said, "I just felt that you were not like your usual self just now." He was smiling just now, but it seemed as if he was just wearing a mask that was always smiling.
Gu Yanwei smiled again, his face clear, "I just don't want you to waste time. The people in the Ministry of Rites are trying to please you. If you really want to get the real account books from them, it will be as difficult as ascending to heaven. Instead of spending time to check, you might as well use a simpler method."
Shen Qingqiu smiled, but didn't say anything else.
"It's still early today. Do you want to go look for Master Lin and Lord Lin?" Gu Yanwei asked.
Of course, the emperor couldn't just let the two children take charge of such things. He let Master Lin investigate the corruption case. Everyone knew that Master Lin was upright, so there was no backdoor for him to use. Lin Xuanfeng was a newly promoted minister. Wherever these two people went, even if someone lied to the Ninth Prince about his young age, they would not dare to underestimate the Lin family behind him.
"What do you think?" Shen Qingqiu looked at him: "Once you use this counter-espionage plan, I'm afraid the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites will be fighting each other. Why would we need to investigate anything?" Now his son was waiting for the two to fight, and then he would see the result after the fight.
"Then what are we going to do?" Gu Yanwei looked around with an excited look on his face, and he didn't look like he wanted to go back to the palace.
"I want to eat mutton hotpot..." Shen Qingqiu said, "There is an old man in the west of the city who makes mutton soup. The taste is simply amazing. If you add a few sips of wine, even gods can't compare to it." She made that expression while talking, and Gu Yanwei couldn't help but want to go just by looking at her look.
"Your Highness..." Wang Xi hesitated, "The things outside the palace are dirty..."
Shen Qingqiu said coldly: "I am from outside the palace, am I not clean either?" She had disliked this eunuch for a long time, and she didn't know that he was always secretly rolling his eyes at her.
Although she was unhappy, she couldn't just scold him when he rolled his eyes at her.
Gu Yanwei didn't even have to think about it, and immediately apologized to Shen Qingqiu, "Stand there and don't move." Wang Xi could only stand there, and he looked at Shen Qingqiu again, "Qiu'er, I'll go eat mutton hotpot with you."
Shen Qingqiu was wearing men's clothes today, swinging his belt vigorously. Thinking that he had helped him a lot by entering the palace, and that he was doing this to gain face for him in front of the emperor, and that he was doing this for free, he said, "You treat us."
There was no reason for Gu Yanwei not to accept the invitation. "Okay, I'll treat you."
The two of them were chatting and laughing when they arrived at the place where they were eating mutton hotpot. Shen Qingqiu mentioned that the various things in Lin Taifu's class were not very important, but when it came to the food on a street in the capital, she knew them all. She loved to eat, and Gu Yanwei saw it, so he would occasionally bring up topics to listen to her.
For a while, the two of them had a very pleasant conversation.
"Two young masters, be careful of the heat!" Shen Qingqiu was wearing men's clothes, and the waiter didn't even look carefully and directly called him young master.
Shen Qingqiu didn't care. He couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks as soon as the mutton was cooked. The mutton slices were so thin that when they were dipped into the sauce made by the store, they were so delicious. Shen Qingqiu ate more than a dozen mouthfuls in a row before heaving a sigh of relief, "This is how a human being should live."
You should just eat as much meat as you want outside and not worry about any rules. Life in the palace is really not a life for human beings.
Gu Yanwei put another piece of meat in her bowl with a smile, and said, "The ingredients in this restaurant are really unique in taste. I'm afraid even the imperial chefs in the palace can't compare to them. The only pity is that the quality of the mutton is not very good. In order to remove the smell of mutton, the restaurant added too much ginger."
Shen Qingqiu also nodded, "I never thought your tongue was so delicate?"
But think about it again, no matter how sickly he is, he is a sickly person living in the palace. He has been served with delicacies from land and sea since he was a child. How can he not be picky about food?
"Earlier, Mongolia offered some black goats as tribute. The Mongolians are better at raising these animals than us Central Plains people. Their lambs are sliced into pieces, and just add a little salt and scallions to the clear soup to make it taste good." Gu Yanwei said, "This winter's tribute season is coming soon. When the time comes, you can come to my palace and we can ask the store for some soup to cook the black goats."
Shen Qingqiu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded. At the end, he picked up the wine beside him, "I always saw you as a weak and fragile person, but I didn't expect you to be good at eating. I'll wait for you to treat me then?" Gu Yanwei picked up the wine, and the two of them clinked their glasses. She was dressed in men's clothes today, and she was not afraid of behaving out of line, so she drank it in big gulps.
The wine flowed down her lips to her neck, and she wiped it off with her hand.
She said she was drinking a lot, but after taking a sip, her eyes were a little blurry. The wine from this old man's house was always strong and the strongest. She looked at Gu Yanwei again, "Why don't you drink?" Gu Yanwei was a little hesitant, but when he saw her looking at him, he raised his wine and prepared to pour it in like her.
But before she could drink it, a pair of hands pressed on hers, "I'm not the kind of person who would fool around. Your body and such a strong wine, you don't want to die but I want to cure you..." Then she snatched the wine from his hand and drank it, and then scooped two bowls of mutton soup from the pot into his bowl, "You drink this."
Gu Yanwei could only smile helplessly.
It wasn't cold at the moment, so after eating the soup, he inevitably felt hot. Fortunately, the doors around the store were open, and the store was next to the water, so the breeze was cool. Perhaps seeing that the two had almost finished eating, a girl in plain clothes with a pretty face came with a wooden board and summoned up the courage to say, "Young gentlemen, do you want to listen to a storyteller?"
Shen Qingqiu opened his blurry eyes slightly, and the girl was stunned for a moment. Looking at her fair face and slightly red lips like cherries, she must be a girl with such beauty...
"What did you say?" Shen Qingqiu asked.
"There are old books, such as Chenxiang splitting the mountain to save his mother, The Fairy Couple, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai..."
Shen Qingqiu paused, "Don't listen to these, they are all outdated, what about the new ones?"
The girl saw that there was a play, so she promoted it even more vigorously, "The latest play is "Golden Words of Advice", which tells the story of Lord Gu and his wife Liu. It's a new play, and you can listen to it today for only half a penny -"
Gu Yanwei heard someone making up a play about Marquis Gu and Liu, and was afraid that some dirty ears would make her unhappy. She was about to raise her head and tell her to leave, but Shen Qingqiu had already thrown out half a silver dollar, "Go ahead, if you say something good, I will reward you today."
Although she could see that the young man in front of her was a serious girl, it was the master who gave the money. The girl took the silver and said sweetly, "Hello, master," and then stood aside. The story began as soon as the bamboo clappers were hit.
Gu Yanwei was afraid that these people would make up a story that was not good, but the girl in front of him was fine. In the story, Gu Yong was a hero as usual, and Liu was the daughter of Duke Xiao who was in trouble. She was entrusted to the wrong person in the first half of her life, and in the second half of her life, she met Marquis Gu and was saved by a hero. In short, Gu Yong's story was full of ups and downs. In the end, the two of them overcame difficulties and were together, and it ended when Liu became pregnant.
I guess how the subsequent story will be written will depend on how the baby in Liu's belly turns out.
Shen Qingqiu thought the book was okay, so he threw a gold leaf to the girl. The storyteller thanked her profusely and trotted away. Not long after, he heard her shouting, "Grandpa, you see, I told you I'm a good storyteller!" It turned out that she was the shop owner's granddaughter. No wonder the shop owner didn't come out to stop her when he saw her soliciting business.
Shen Qingqiu was just thinking when suddenly there were two sounds of porcelain cracking.
Her eyes suddenly cleared up, and then the girl shouted, "Grandpa!" in a particularly heartbreaking voice.
Shen Qingqiu stood up from the chair and just as he was about to look, he turned his head and saw a woman dressed in exotic clothes whipping the girl by the pigtail. The girl's grandfather, perhaps in order to protect her, dropped the mutton pot in his hand to the ground, and his hand was burned red. Not only that, the woman's whip also kept falling on the grandfather and grandson.
"What a crappy story! It makes me sick!" the woman shouted angrily, and the whip was about to fall again.
In the past, she would have just ignored this trivial matter, but today she had just finished listening to the girl's storytelling, and especially liked the mutton soup of this shop. If she was asked to beat the shop and could not open in the future, who could she complain to?
The exotic-dressed woman was about to continue swinging her whip, but was stopped by a pair of hands. The man held her whip tightly and she couldn't pull it even a little. The woman then raised her head and her eyes fell on Shen Qingqiu's face. At first she was amazed, but after a moment she was disgusted. "Ah San! I don't like her eyes. Dig her eyes out for me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a warrior beside her rushed straight towards Shen Qingqiu's eyes.
"Be careful!" Gu Yanwei said hurriedly.
Shen Qingqiu was not the kind of person who would just sit there and wait for a loss. He held the whip that the woman had in one hand and directly picked up a chopstick in the other hand. When the man named Ah San got close to him, he mercilessly stuck the chopstick into his eyes. After a wail, Shen Qingqiu let go. The woman had used a lot of strength but didn't expect Shen Qingqiu to let go. She couldn't hold back her strength and sat down on the ground.
The person who kept wailing beside her was Ah San, whose eye had been blinded by Shen Qingqiu's chopstick.
"How dare you, bitch, smash my servant's eyes? I want you to pay with your life!"
This woman was really vicious. It was clearly she who first asked the servant to poke out Shen Qingqiu's eyes, and now she was suffering the consequences but could still blame others. Not long after, a man in court robes walked out from behind the woman, "Come on, catch this thief!" Shen Qingqiu was about to raise her foot when Gu Yanwei walked over from behind Shen Qingqiu and gently placed his hand on her shoulder, "Where are you taking us?"
The fat official said, "You are trying to murder our guests. This is a serious crime. I will take you to the Dali Temple for questioning!"
But when the woman saw Gu Yanwei's face, she was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Hey, what's your name?"
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