Tiance

Neither Bai Jincheng nor Zhan Zhao thought that the young Yulang who saved the old man knew Bai Yutang, but Zhan Zhao had heard of the name Ding Zhaohui.

"Couldn't this be Ding Erxia who is also known as 'Shuangxia' with his elder brother?" Zhan Zhao cupped his hands to Ding Zhaohui in surprise, "I have admired him for a long time."

Ding Zhaohui waved his hands with a smile: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, my humble name is all because of my friends in the world."

Fifth Master snorted, "You know it."

"Hey, Yutang, can you stop arguing with me every time we meet? How old are you?" Ding Zhaohui was a little annoyed, "How can we say that we have known each other since we were young, childhood sweethearts!"

"Who is your childhood sweetheart?" Bai Yutang looked disgusted, "Can you use words! You learned all your knowledge from storytellers, right? Hurry up and see how the old man is doing."

Bai Jincheng had already moved to the side of the boat while they were talking, and seeing the old man was soaking wet and spitting out water, he quickly stretched out his hand: "Old man, let me help you down."

The old man coughed a few times, sighed and said: "What's the matter, I'm already a dead man, so there are so many things to do to save me."

"Why bother to say this, old man, ants are still stealing their lives, why don't you tell me if you have any grievances," Ding Zhaohui said with a smile, "If you really can't live, why don't I send you into the water again."

Although his words were unreliable, the old man felt relieved and told his own story with a sigh.It turned out that he was forced to seek death by his son-in-law.The old man, surnamed Zhou, opened a teahouse. A few years ago, he took in a man surnamed Zheng who had lost his family but never met his relatives as a waiter. Later, he betrothed his only daughter to him as his son-in-law.Unexpectedly, the daughter died last year, and the son-in-law married another woman. Later, he gradually became less filial to the old man. A few days ago, he even encouraged the old man to change the name of the teahouse into Zheng's teahouse, and then drove the old man out of the house.The old man refused to accept it and went to sue him, but instead he made an appointment at the county government office, saying that the teahouse was sold to him by the old man, and now he wanted to blackmail him, and beat the old man twenty times to expel him from the country.The old man threw himself into the lake when he couldn't think about it for a while.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows after hearing this: "He hurt you so much, don't you want to vent your anger?"

Zhan Zhao also said: "Old man, why don't you open another Zhou's tea house and compete with him for business, wouldn't it be better to drive him to death?"

The old man sighed: "I'm naked now, how can I have that money?"

Ding Zhaohui just laughed, "It doesn't matter, old man, look at this young man in white, does he have the word 'rich' written all over his body? Why don't you just borrow some money from him."

Fifth Master glared at him and asked the old man, "How much does it cost to open a teahouse?"

The old man replied: "It will cost more than 300 taels of silver even if you are frugal. The high officials don't need to pay attention to me."

As soon as Bai Yutang lowered his head, he took out a bank note from his pocket at his waist, and handed it over without any fuss: "Old man, take it, you don't need to pay it back."

Bai Jincheng glanced at it - 500 taels!

The poor forced Captain Bai to envy and hate...

The old man shied away in a panic: "How dare you accept money from officials for no reason? Don't dare."

Bai Yutang said lightly: "It's okay, I will get it back from your son-in-law."

After speaking, he stuffed the banknote into Ding Zhaohui's hand, and said, "Ding Er, you take care of the rest. Fifth Lord is impatient with these chores, so let's go first."

Ding Zhaohui muttered: "It's like this every time. I leave all the troublesome things to me. I'm not your servant. Why are you going? It's been a long time since you've been to our house. Come over for dinner tomorrow!" I've taken care of this, and I'll wait for you at the pier tomorrow."

Fifth Master snorted noncommittally, and called the other two to leave.

The three of them walked a long way, and Ding Zhaohui shouted belatedly: "Hey, you haven't introduced your friend to me yet!"

Fifth Master immediately quickened his pace and said, "Hurry up, you won't be able to walk away if you get stuck to this brown candy."

Zhan Zhao couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect Erxia Ding to be so lively...uh, cute."

Bai Yutang showed an expression as if he had eaten a fly: "He?! Cute?!"

The two of them were talking here, but Bai Jincheng was thinking about other issues - just now the old man said that his son-in-law spent money on the county government, and the county magistrate beat him regardless of right and wrong. Doesn't that mean that the county magistrate is a Faint official?Then maybe the county magistrate really dared to swallow up the stolen goods of that water village!

So he said to the two of them: "If you two want to fight, go on your own, and I will go to the county government to deal with something."

Bai Yutang probably guessed what he was going to do, so he dragged the bewildered Zhan Zhao to find a place to fight.

Although Zhao Zhen had given him the gold medal for the imperial guard, Bai Jincheng had no real official position after all. Those local officials thought he was an imperial envoy, but in fact he was just like Bai Yutang said, "a fox pretending to be a tiger".So he didn't plan to have more dealings with those officials, but since the officials here might swallow up his spoils, he couldn't ignore it.

Fortunately, he inquired around the county government office, and found that the person surnamed Zheng paid for it was only the master of the county government office, and the county magistrate himself had a good reputation.So he used the gold medal again and asked the county magistrate to deal with the master and it was over.

When he finished these things and went to meet Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao at Wuliuju, he found that Zhan Zhao had already started referring to Bai Yutang as "Yutang", and Bai Yutang even called him "Cat". !

"How many things happened when I didn't know?" Bai Xiaowei scratched his heart and liver curiously, "Xiao Zhan, you are not angry when he called you 'cat'?"

Zhan Zhao smiled: "Forget it, if Yutang calls me by my name in a serious manner, he will be even more embarrassed."

Fifth Master snorted viciously: "What nonsense!"

Bai Jincheng suddenly realized, smiled and met Zhan Zhao's knowing eyes, and asked, "Which of you two won the fight?"

Zhan Zhao spread his hands: "It's a tie. Since noon until now, I've been hungry and haven't decided the winner, so I have to come back for dinner. Yutang hurry up and order, we're counting on you!"

Bai Yutang called the waiter from the shop to order.

Bai Jincheng feels that the relationship between the two has become much better after seeing each other for an afternoon, and he can't help but feel that Zhan Zhao is really likable...

While the three of them were having dinner, Zhan Zhao said to Bai Jincheng, "Hanzhang, when are you going back to Kaifeng?"

"You can't tell, how about you? Didn't you go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors? Why did you come to Hangzhou again?" Bai Jincheng hadn't decided when to go back to Kaifeng. He thought it would be nice to be outside, so he changed the topic.

While dealing with a crab, Zhan Zhao replied: "Master Bao gave me two months' vacation. I think I still have time, so I will come to Hangzhou for a stroll. I have been here once before, and I have always liked it. And I stayed at home. The old housekeeper at home kept urging me to quickly find a girl to marry, which really annoyed me. I lied to him that a friend in Hangzhou used to want to marry a girl to me, and he let me go when I came to see her."

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, quietly and skillfully and gracefully disassembled a crab claw with eight pieces of crab, and put the crab meat into his bowl.

Xiaowei Bai was dumbfounded - he had known Bai Yutang for so long, and the fifth master hadn't picked up food for him once!How come when you meet Zhan Zhao, you even help demolish the crab? !What happened this afternoon!

Zhan Zhao smiled brightly at Bai Yutang, "Thank you, Yutang, here's another one." He pointed to the other crab claw without hesitation.

Seeing Bai Jincheng's surprised gaze, Fifth Lord snorted uncomfortably: "Put away your stupid look! Fifth Lord just couldn't bear to watch him because his movements are too stupid!" Then he removed the other crab claw .

Zhan Zhao changed the subject again: "Hanzhang, I think you should go back to Kaifeng quickly, the officials are always talking about you."

"Why is he talking about me?" Bai Jincheng was a little curious, "I have written so many letters with him, and I don't feel that he misses me so much."

Bai Yutang gave him a strange look.

Zhan Zhao chuckled: "Officials often come to Kaifeng Mansion to see your imperial bamboo grass, and then they start to say 'Why hasn't Hanzhang come back'."

Bai Jincheng was inexplicably touched, he had many friends, so he didn't care too much about the previous separation, but thinking about it now, during the days when he was not in Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Zhen had no one to chat with as he wanted, so he must have been quite lonely.So what should Zhao Zhen do when he is in a bad mood before he meets him?

However, Zhao Zhen didn't say anything in the letter to him, probably because he didn't want to disturb his interest in playing, so he felt a little guilty when he thought about it, "Then I'll go back and see him in a while."

Zhan Zhao nodded: "I originally planned to go to Songjiang Mansion to visit Yutang after swimming in Hangzhou and then go back, but I didn't expect to meet here, so let's go back together! Yutang, let's go to Kaifeng for fun ?”

Bai Yutang snorted: "Naturally, we haven't decided the winner yet."

The three of them had dinner, so they simply opened a guest room in Wuliuju and stayed, because Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao had to go to the house of the man surnamed Zheng to give a sigh of relief to Mr. Zhou—how could the fifth master's money be so expensive? Easy to get?It is true that he gave money to open a teahouse for Zhou Lao, but he is not the kind of person who is willing to spend money to help others redeem their sins, so he must get it back from that person surnamed Zheng.

Of course Bai Jincheng didn't go with them, his lightness skills are not suitable for sneaking in late at night...

When he saw those two people the next day, they had already settled the matter and were discussing going to the pier to find Ding Zhaohui. Zhan Zhao also wanted to meet Ding Zhaohui's twin brother Ding Zhaolan, and Bai Yutang also wanted to visit Old Man Ding Man, the old lady has always been very kind to him.

"Let's go with Hanzhang?" Zhan Zhao warmly greeted him, "The Ding family's heroes are quite famous in the world, so it's always good to make friends."

Bai Jincheng thought that he had nothing to do anyway, so he followed.

When he arrived at the pier, Ding Zhaohui was no longer dressed as a fisherman, but changed into a very luxurious outfit. Yushu Linfeng looked handsome and unrestrained, anyway, just like Bai Yutang, he was a local tyrant.

Seeing that Bai Yutang brought the two friends from yesterday, Erye Ding happily approached him: "Yesterday, I wanted to get to know you two, Yutang is such an annoying person, anyone who is willing to be friends with him must be a good person! "

Fifth Master snorted and introduced him: "Zhan Zhao, Bai Jincheng."

"Nanxia Zhanzhao?!" Ding Zhaohui's eyes lit up immediately, and he looked at Bai Jincheng, who was dressed in red and leading a black horse, "Could this be the legendary 'Sharp Spear'?"

Both Bai Jincheng and Zhan Zhao were humbled.

"That's great!" Ding Zhaohui laughed, "Now I don't have to worry about my little sister not being able to get married. It's just two young talents."

He said the last sentence in a low voice, but Zhan Zhao and Bai Jincheng still heard it, and they both had a sense of foreboding in their hearts.