Tong Jia anecdote

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On the second day, after Ji Lan woke up, Fu Chaqin waited on her to get up, change clothes and wash up, and said cautiously, "Ma'am, Master Jiu took Sister Hong and Master Hua to the south before dawn."

"Well, I know." Ji Lan frowned annoyedly, and said, "Let her go, she has a knot in her heart. One day, when she is caught in a dilemma between a group of corrupt officials and ordinary people, she will naturally understand gone."

And here, on the merchant ship heading south.

Because it was not yet dawn when he came out, Tong Jiu was in a very bad mood, and fell asleep with his head covered when he got on the boat.When I woke up from sleep, the sky was already bright, and the boat had already passed Tianjin, but my heart was empty.

"Eat something?" Hong Xiao asked when she saw that she had been sitting on the bedside in a daze since she woke up.

"Shave your head!" Tong Jiu pulled some messy braids from behind, which Ji Lan personally braided for her yesterday.Throwing off the quilt all at once, she got out of bed, sat down in front of the desk, and said decisively.

"What?" Hong Xiao couldn't react for a while because of the quick movements of the person in front of her.

"Shave your head." Tong Jiufu said again in a deep voice, then let go of his braids and shook his head.

"Oh, good." Hong Xiao poured out the mouthwash for her, and replied, "Then I'll prepare the bronze mirror and razor." After speaking, she went out.

Soon, Hong Xiao came in with a basin of warm water, twisted a hot towel on her sleeve and covered her forehead, looked at Tong Jiu's stern look with her eyes closed in the bronze mirror, and took the razor thoughtfully.

Listening to the "rustling" sound of shaving on the scalp, Tong Jiu said softly, "Sister Hong, I still remember the first time we shaved our heads, we were also on the boat in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was this solar term. This situation is like yesterday."

"Why don't you remember?" Hong Xiao washed the stubble-stained razor in the sink, and said, "I asked you that day, why don't we find a place to hide our names?"

Tong Jiu slowly opened her eyes, looked at herself in the mirror, pointed at herself, and turned her head to ask Hong Xiao, "Is this person, the same Tong Jia Naduo who swore to take revenge?"

"Brother Jiu, anyway, I think that you shouldn't always stand in the dark and watch the world like Miss Biao." Hong Xiao sighed and said, "No one is smooth sailing, there are many things in this world Yeah, it's more important than revenge."

"Even you think so?" Tong Jiu nodded emotionally, but touched the razor in Hong Xiao's hand, and the sharp blade saw blood the moment it touched his forehead.

Hongxiao was startled, and hurriedly used the towel in her hand to press the wound that was small but had already begun to ooze blood.

"Sister Hong, do you think I am... a corrupt official?" Tong Jiu endured the pain and sat upright, and said with some difficulty, "Are you the same as the corrupt officials we see on weekdays? , deserve death?"

"Brother Jiu, why did you force yourself to be like this?" Hong Xiao took off the towel, saw that the wound had stopped bleeding and the blue veins bursting out on her head at this time, said, "Based on your knowledge, I'm afraid You already have the answer in your heart. Are there any officials in this world who are not corrupt? They often walk by the river, no matter how much they get involved. Madam is an upright person, so she doesn’t need to hide from you, holding the two of you joke forever."

"I'm going to meet Mr. Han." Tong Jiu said unwillingly, "If I am really that kind of person, I will live my life in peace and never mention revenge."

"Actually, if you think about it now, the third master Han really became a monk because Han Luqi died young and saw through the world?" Hong Xiao continued to shave Tong Jiu's head, saying, "As long as he is here, the court is not so happy to let him go. The Han family turned around."

After speaking, wipe the stubble off her head with a towel, and said, "It is a great blessing in life to go to Yangzhou in March in Yangchun. Don't cry every time you come. You are so tired of being with Madam. For a few days, come out for a walk by yourself this time, and stop thinking about those bad things."

Tong Jiu touched his cold forehead, and said with a shake of spirit, "Yes, the top priority now is to rest well, recharge your batteries, and go to Jiangnan Weaving to have more energy to walk. After all, it is Namu Gege's great joy, We must do our best both in public and in private.”

"Jiuye, Master Tong Yanggu has sent an escort to deliver a post, saying that he has arrived first, and he has prepared tables and noodles at the post station in Dezhou, and wants to entertain you." The post came in.

After taking it, Hongxiao looked at it, handed it to Tong Jiu, and said, "Isn't he the chief soldier in Baotou Mansion? When will he enter the customs?"

"In the future, we will buy a dowry for Gege and buy arms for the prince. According to the rules, there will always be someone from the military sect to follow us. Firstly, it will be routine supervision, and secondly, it will be easier than us to deal with the military sects everywhere. I After thinking about it, if they send someone who is difficult to get along with, it is better for us to recommend someone who knows the roots." Tong Jiu read the post and said, "Of course it was money, and Yanggu prepared a few tables for him. Not too much."

"It doesn't take long before noon for this journey to reach Dezhou. Let them serve you some breakfast first, and I'll get you clothes for meeting guests." Hong Xiao went out to give orders after finishing speaking.

Originally, going out to do business meant keeping everything simple, and it took only [-] days to go from the canal to Yuhang, so I didn't bring a lot of burdens for daily life like going north and leaving customs.

Tong Jiu sat on the bow of the boat and used the bowl of noodles hastily. Hong Xiao took the gown she was about to change and said angrily, "Why didn't you look at it, and ate it outside? Carefully choked the wind, and after a while the stomach pain."

"It's stuffy inside." Tong Jiu said indifferently, and put down the bowls and chopsticks that had eaten all the noodles.

He heard something "slapping his throat" in the corner of the bow, and after hearing the sound, he searched and found that it was a big cage. The outside was covered with a black curtain, so he couldn't see what was inside.

"This... what object?" Tong Jiu got up and walked over to squat down and look at it with his head sideways.

"Hey, it's not that Lin Wuye, who said he was afraid that you would be depressed as a businessman, so he sent you an eagle to play with." Seeing what Tong Jiu said, Hong Xiao was about to pull the curtain with her hands, and hurriedly hid away and said, "Hey, what's the matter?" If you can’t make it through, don’t let it out and peck at its eyes again.”

"If you want to talk about this Lin Wu, you really know how to play." Tong Jiu gently pulled down the black curtain covering the outside of the cage, looked at the eagle inside that stretched its teeth and claws towards her, its wings were more than one meter long, and nodded in surprise "This product looks really good!"

"It looks so bluffing." Looking at the hawk that crashed into the cage, Hong Xiao shivered back and said, "Let's not keep it anymore."

Tong Jiu stood up, looked at it carefully and said, "Then when we get back to Dezhou, let someone lift the ancient boat aboard, he should take care of it." After speaking, he put on the curtain again.

When the boat docked at Dezhou Port, Yang Gu and others had been waiting by the pier for a long time.

"Zhulu——" Seeing Tong Jiu getting off the boat cautiously, Yang Gu yelled and raised his hands regardless of the water by the river, and quickly stepped forward to help Tong Jiu warmly, and looked him up and down. .

Seeing that Tong Jiu was acting as usual, he smiled defensively, "This time, I was ordered to go to Beijing to report on my work, and I should have arrived long ago. But because the road was blocked by wind and snow, I was only a month late."

"There was too much rain and snow last year." After the two stood still on the shore, Tong Jiu politely bowed to him and greeted him, "Brother Yi, don't come here without any problems."

"I can eat and sleep, but it's you." Yang Gu's army's rough habits, pulled Tong Jiu and walked towards the horse, shouting loudly, "A few days ago, I heard that you were seriously ill outside the pass. Unable to act due to illness, it makes me very regretful!"

As he spoke, he got on his horse, watched Tong Jiu get on another horse, and said with a big laugh, "After I entered Beijing non-stop, I heard that you not only recovered from your illness, but also paid homage to the doctor of the household department. You boy, you are really a man of Qi." Blessing."

Tong Jiu rode on the tall horse, and he became refreshed. He waved his hands and said, "What kind of blessing is the blessing of being equal to the people? It's just the blessing of being reimbursed to the court."

"Zhulu, this time I can go to Beijing as an errand, I will never forget your great kindness." Yang Gu patted Tong Jiu on the back, bowed his hands to Tong Jiu gratefully, and said in high spirits, "In the future, we will pay you one penny and one penny." Wu, you must do something good."

"No, no, no." Tong Jiu walked with him trustingly, and said sincerely, "I was in Baotou Mansion, without your help, how could I have today? Yi Xian, you and my brother don't talk about this."

After Yang Gu heard this, his heart was even more moved, and he nodded repeatedly on his face without saying anything else.

When the two arrived at the post house in Dezhou Prefecture, Tong Jiu looked at the somewhat bleak courtyard, stopped Yang Gu who was about to lead the horse in, and said, "My wife has a Yangzhengtang sub-stall and a mansion here, why don't we go there Go to lodge, after all, it’s more casual at home.”

"It's so good." Yang Gu hurriedly sent the boy in to pack his bags, and followed Tong Jiu to Dezhou Yangzhengtang to divide the stalls.

When we arrived at the gate of Yangzhengtang, I asked the boy to go to the shopkeeper to send a message, but the shopkeeper didn't come, and the shopkeeper still didn't come.

Tired and waiting for a long time, Tong Jiu was obviously a little bit upset, so she got up and said, "I'm afraid there is something on the front cabinet that will trip up the shopkeeper. I'll go and have a look." After speaking, let Hong Xiao and Jing Fu take the Seeing Yang Gu advanced to resettle in the rear house, he went to the front cabinet by himself.

After entering the front of the Yangzheng Hall, the guys on the cabinet were all gathered around the door and in front of the hall, smelling the pungent smell of burning hay, Tong Jiu stood on tiptoe and looked inside.

I saw a young man in a gray robe arguing with another middle-aged man.

"You burnt our fifty medicines and you want to leave?" The middle-aged man snorted coldly, "Boy, you don't even look at who opened this medicine shop, you want to play tricks, you went to the wrong door!"

The young man in the gray robe was obviously not afraid of him, and said disdainfully, "Don't play with me and bully customers in the store, let me ask you, is this stove standing here, is it true that all the medicinal materials bought in your Yangzhengtang, as long as they are fake?" You can burn it once? Is this the original intention of setting up this furnace!"

Seeing that the middle-aged man stopped talking, the young man in the gray robe said again, "Don't think I don't understand, young master, what kind of medicine shop are you running with dang ginseng as ginseng? If you kill someone, can you afford it!"

Tong Jiu frowned when he heard the authentic Beijing film that the younger generation talked about, feeling that there must be something strange about this matter.

"Full of nonsense, how can our century-old account allow you to spout nonsense here?" The middle-aged man ordered the waiter who was watching from left to right, "Hurry up and throw him out."

"Wait!" Tong Jiu just wanted to stop everyone, but someone in the hall said something lightly.

Could this voice be...?

Tong Jiu raised her eyebrows after hearing this, fearing that she had heard it wrong, she looked inside in surprise.The man in tea crystal sunglasses sitting in the hall drinking tea, who is it but Fuchami in disguise?

I saw Fuchami untied the paper rope tied to the medicine on the coffee table, and walked up to the crowd with the medicine in his hands. He squeezed out one of the ginseng slices with his bare hands, showed them to everyone, and said, "I'll ask you, what kind of ginseng is this?" ?”

"My lord, please stop making noises." The middle-aged man said anxiously to Fuchami with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"The shopkeeper." Fuchami threw the medicine in his hand into the stove, patted the medicine crumbs on his hands, and smiled lightly at the middle-aged man, "Shopkeeper Zhou, you are the shopkeeper. The boss is here. You wait to hear back."

It turned out that Ji Lan and Fu Chaqin had already arrived at the back house of Yangzhengtang when there was a commotion in the front.

Hearing that Ji Lan was coming, Tong Jiu's heart sank all the way, and she couldn't help but caress her heart because of the subtle and instant changes in her heart.

In fact, as soon as she came out of Beijing with pride, she hesitated in her heart, otherwise she wouldn't have asked Hongxiao those words when she shaved her head.

She wanted to shave her head and remind herself that she was the one who bore blood and deep hatred, but she couldn't think of her for a moment.