The next day, Yu Wen rushed to Hangzhou without waiting for the yamen servant to come to the house to inquire about the case.
Chen Shi and Yu Tang sent him to the pier.
The pawnshop is actually shopkeeper Xiao Tong instead of shopkeeper Tong.
Yu Wen couldn't help asking: "Where did Shopkeeper Tong go?"
Shopkeeper Xiao Tong smiled and said, "Pei's family still has a pawn shop in Hangzhou City. At the beginning of every month, my father would go there to check the accounts. During this time, there are many things in Lin'an City, and my father is busy with things here. I haven’t been to Hangzhou City for a few months, so I just want to take a look at it while I’m not busy these few days.”
The elders of the Pei family and the old master passed away one after another. No wonder shopkeeper Tong didn't go out.
Yu Tang was thinking in his heart, but Yu Wen was very pleasantly surprised, and said: "Pei's family still has a pawnshop in Hangzhou City? Where is the pawnshop? I'm going to Hangzhou City, so I'll go and have dinner with him then." Then he said: " If we had known that he was going to Hangzhou City, we would have walked together as companions."
Shopkeeper Xiaotong had someone pour tea over for the Yu family to drink tea, and said with concern: "Master Yu, what are you doing in Hangzhou City? The face of the door, the high profile, can be seen from a long distance. My father will stay there for two or three days. There are several bookstores and antique shops next to the pawn shop. Master Yu has passed by, and he can still talk to me Let's go for a walk with dad."
Yu Wen was frowning.
He wanted to go shopping, but Lu Xin couldn't wait!
He said: "I can only wait for the next appointment with your father."
While the two were talking, the boat to Hangzhou came over.
Yu Tang and his mother sent Yu Wen aboard.
Before the ship left the pier, a magnificent three-sail ship stopped beside the passenger ship.
Everyone watched and pointed.
Yu Tang saw a tall and straight man in green clothes rushing over with a group of people, ordering his followers to ride on the plank of the boat.
Someone commented nearby: "See if you see it, that's Pei Man, the chief executive of the Pei family."
"Really, really!" Someone said, "Stand away, let me see."
Yu Tang was quite surprised, and tiptoed to look a few more times.
The man named Pei Man was twenty-seven or eight years old, with a thin face, firm eyes, and serious expression, and he looked very difficult to speak.
Yu Tang pouted.
Servant Xiao Lord.
At first glance, it is the person that Master Pei San likes to use.
as same as him!
She cursed a few words in her heart, and saw a man in white brocade clothes get off the big boat. In his thirties, with a mustache, he held a black lacquered Jinchuan fan in his hand, arrogantly. As soon as he got off the boat, he said to Pei Man with a straight face: "Where is Xia Guang? Why didn't he come to pick me up? I came from the capital, so far away, and I made a special trip to see him! It's fine if he doesn't go to Hangzhou to meet me. I will go to Tiaoxi He didn’t even come to pick me up at the pier. Is this the way of hospitality?”
Pei Man's posture was very low, he stepped forward to salute that person respectfully, called him "Zhou Zhuangyuan", and said: "Our third master is entangled in family affairs. Otherwise, depending on your friendship with our third master , how could our third master not come to pick you up?"
Zhou Zhuangyuan snorted coldly, and complained: "I told him not to care about these messy things. There is nothing to stay in the countryside. He just doesn't listen. Now it's all right, the weather is so good, and he has to deal with general affairs, Just thinking about it makes my heart ache for him."
Pei Man smiled compensatingly, noncommittal.
Zhou Zhuangyuan probably didn't intend to ask Pei Man to answer, so he waved his hand and said, "Let's go! Where is the sedan chair? Xia Guang knows my temper. What kind of fragrance does the utensils in the sedan chair smell like?"
Pei Man hurriedly said: "This third master has personally confessed that what is smoked is the pear blossom white made by our third master himself."
Zhou Zhuangyuan glanced at Pei Man when he heard the words, and sneered, "No wonder Xia Guang chose you to be his errand, just your ability to open your eyes and tell nonsense without making people annoying, you are also worthy of this errand—your three Master, I never use incense, let alone make incense myself."
Pei Man could indeed speak, and said with a smile: "Everyone says that you and our third master are good friends, and only you know our third master so well."
It's just that when he smiled, he was still a bit cold, not very kind.
But his words obviously made Zhou Zhuangyuan very useful, Zhou Zhuangyuan didn't pick any more, he opened his fan and shook it twice, and said: "Lead the way ahead."
Pei Man hurriedly made a gesture of "please go ahead", and accompanied Zhou Zhuangyuan to the sedan chair parked beside the pier.
The servants filed down from the boat carrying the boxes.
Yu Tang just took a look at it, and there were no less than ten of those cages, all of which were painted with high-quality tung oil, so bright that they could reflect people's shadows, the four corners were wrapped with brass with auspicious cloud patterns, and there were seven or eight more. A woman in plain clothes and a veiled hat stood on the side of the boat, seemingly waiting to disembark. I don't know if it's Zhou Zhuangyuan's maid or his wife.
The person next to him watched as the pot exploded again.
"This is Master Pei San's friend, right?"
"He's from the capital, and he's still a top scholar. Mr. Pei San has a lot of face."
"Looking at these scenes, this number one scholar must also come from a wealthy family."
But Yu Tang was thinking, it turned out that the third master of the Pei family had the word "Xia Guang".
Is it "the heart is in love, but it's not true"? Or "in the year of Wan Si, there is no help"
Or "beside the green sill of the mountain, the glow of the sun is shining on the top of the green pine"
However, the third master of the Pei family is indeed like a pine like a bamboo, like a light like a pearl, and has an outstanding appearance.
And that Zhou Zhuangyuan.
She had never heard of it in her previous life. I don't know which subject it is. However, that proud and arrogant appearance is exactly the same as that of Master Pei San, and the two are worthy of being friends.
As Yu Tang thought about it, the passenger ship carrying Yu Wen left the pier.
She and her mother waved to her father, until the boat had sailed away, she helped her mother go to the pawn shop, greeted Xiaotong shopkeeper, and walked home.
Over there, Zhou Zhuangyuan and Pei Man had disappeared, leaving behind a man dressed as a manager to instruct the servants to pack the boxes and cages.
The tall boxes and cages were piled up with two carriages, which were not finished yet.
Yu Tang couldn't help being speechless.
He just came out as a guest, but he brought so many things, which shows how particular this person is.
She couldn't help but be a little curious about the identity of Zhou Zhuangyuan.
Back home, A Shao had carried a little yellow dog back as Yu Wen ordered.
With a small body, soft hair, and big black eyes, it will warm your heart just by looking at it.
Yu Tang couldn't help squatting down to pet the puppy, and the puppy barked softly under her palm.
Her heart was about to melt, and she asked A Shao, "Where did you catch it? Did you get a name?"
A Shao laughed and said, "I caught it from a tenant in our hometown, and it's called Sanhuang."
Yu Tang said "Huh", "Why is it called Sanhuang?"
A Shao laughed and said, "It is said that four children were born in one breath, and this is the third one, so I casually called it Sanhuang."
Yu Tang smiled and said, "But it's the only one in our family, let's call it Xiao Huang."
Everyone said "good".
Mrs. Chen mixed rice with bone broth for it to eat.
Xiao Huang was wheezing after eating.
Mrs. Chen looked interesting, so she also came over to pet it on the head.
Yu Tang thought that she still had the meat jerky Ma Xiuniang gave her in the house, so she ran back to get it, but heard movement at the back door.
Everyone in the family is in the front courtyard. Could it be that a thief has entered
Yu Tang thought about it, took a wooden stick to insert the door and shouted loudly, "Who's there?"
Not only did the back door not quiet down, but there was a "clang" sound, and someone threw a stone into the backyard.
This is not a thief, but someone is dissatisfied with their family.
Yu Tang was very angry.
Their family has always been kind to others, there has never been any quarrel between neighbors, and last time the thief only took some food and left, maybe it was some prank.
She ran over and opened the back door in three steps at a time, and saw a boy in a beautiful blue fine cloth quickly running away from the back door of their house.
Because it was morning, and there was no one in the back alley, Yu Tang could see clearly, she couldn't help but be taken aback, and murmured blankly: "Wei Xiaochuan!"
Yes, that boy is Wei Xiaochuan whom she met on a blind date last time.
What was he doing at the back door of their house? Throwing stones at the back door of their house knowing that they were discovered? As if dissatisfied with something.
She remembered the last time he took a twig and slapped the weeds around him.
It was also an angry, very dissatisfied expression.
Where did their family provoke him
Thinking of Wei Xiaoshan, she quietly recruited A Shao to inquire: "The youngest son of the Wei family is called Wei Xiaochuan, what has he been doing recently?"
A Shao once followed Yu Wen to Wei's house, and said, "Should I go to the county school? I heard from people in the Wei family that he listened to his older brothers when they were enlightened. He could read at the age of three and five I can memorize the entire "Book of Filial Piety" at the age of 10, and although I am young, I entered the county school early, and I guess I will end up next year."
Yu Tang was very surprised, and even more worried that something happened to the child. It stands to reason that such a precocious child shouldn't be so angry.
A Shao responded and left, and came to tell her after a while that Wei Xiaochuan was studying in the county school in a regular manner!
Yu Tang thought for a while, asked Shuangtao to take a few boxes of snacks, and took Ah Shao to the county school.
Because he was looking for someone from the teacher of the county school, although Wei Xiaochuan was unwilling, he left the school with a sullen face and asked Yu Tang coldly: "Why do you want me? Our two families have nothing to do with each other anymore!"
Yu Tang felt that there was something wrong with it.
She said: "Don't tell me that you were not the one who threw stones at our house this morning. A man who dares to act boldly, speaks up when he has something to say, talks about things when he has something to say, and shrinks his head and tail, what kind of a man is he?"
After all, he was still a child, and Wei Xiaochuan's eyes turned red when he heard it, and he said loudly: "You think I dare not look for you. It was my fourth brother who stopped me from looking for you. You vixen, you are a disaster. My second brother My brother is very good at water. I went fishing in the river just to marry you, but I drowned in the river. And my third brother, I heard that you are beautiful, your family chose my second brother to marry, and even married my second brother There was a fight. Now that my second brother is gone, the third brother regrets to death, and feels that he can't hold his head high among brothers. If it weren't for you, how could my second and third brothers be like this!"
Yu Tang was stunned.
"Don't come to me! If you come to me again, I will tell others all the good things you have done!" Wei Xiaochuan yelled at her and ran away.
Yu Tang felt chills all over his body and couldn't even stand up.
In the previous life, Lin also called her a vixen, but she just sneered in her heart. Now, Wei Xiaochuan scolded her, but she thought of Wei Xiaoshan's eyes that looked at her blooming with joy and amazement, shining like morning stars.
Her tears couldn't help falling down.