This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

Since it is to ask for the naming fee, it is necessary to check whether there are relevant laws.

The next day, Zhao Zhen came to Kaifeng mansion, not looking for Bao Zheng of course, he had to keep a low profile about going out of the palace to Jinmingchi.After all, Bao Zheng had already proposed to shorten the holiday time for court officials, because there were so many official duties that could not be finished, how could they just go on holiday again.

"Mr. Gongsun, I am asking for advice on this matter in private."

Zhao Zhen was looking for Gongsun Ce. At first, Gongsun Ce knew Zhao Liu, a poor scholar, so he didn't shy away from Gongsun Ce. He went out of the palace in micro-dress yesterday. "In this case, can Ah Yan get some ticket fees?"

"This matter probably won't be supported by Da Song Law. If we want to look at it from the perspective of profit sharing, Shui Shangfei didn't name Ah Yan in detail, nor did he retell Ah Yan's story about the shark."

Gongsun Ce didn't give Zhao Zhen much expectation, and bluntly said that it is not uncommon to weave celebrities into dramas in Goulan Wasi, and it is mostly ridicule, as if it is not bad to just weave the words into the story to make a canon.

Seeing that Zhao Zhen was not hiding his disappointment, Gongsun Ce added, "Officials, you might as well think about it in a positive way, maybe half of those who go to see the water puppet come from other places and have never heard of Ah Yan's storytelling. I will ask what is the joke in this, and in a disguised way, I will promote Ah Yan again and go to listen to the book."

Since the teacher is unknown, there is no legal basis, and it is all voluntary by the puppet troupe flying on the water, so most likely there will be no show.

What Zhao Zhen was disappointed was not the loss of several hundred taels of silver, but the loss of a chance to collect money from others in a legitimate manner.

Even so, he still booked the second half of "Bai Yilang's Fishing Marriage" a few days later, and wanted to see if the mermaid puppet would also come alive like two human puppets.

It's just that there are still a handful of people who are not reconciled to the debt collection projects that he finally caught.

At the same time, the person whose name was actually borrowed was already reluctant to leave, let alone taking advantage of the situation to add storytelling to make money, that is, he hadn't returned to the city for a few days.

Yan Buzhou spent five or six days playing in the garden of Jinming Pool, and hated the long way back to the city, so he simply rented a room in the country foot shop near the west gate of Jinming Pool.

During the spring outing season, even foot shops with poor decoration are full of customers early in the morning.Yan Buzhou managed to get the room by brushing his face, because the boss is a fan of her books, so he deliberately vacated a suite for his relatives.

Not to mention five days, even fifty days would not be able to visit all of Jinming Pond.

In fact, there are not many buildings in Jinming Pool, mainly the viewing tower and acting pavilion on the south bank, and the interesting things are the entertainment items brought by vendors from all over the place.

Off poker / lottery, no doubt the most popular.

Gambling was banned in the Song Dynasty, except for some specific festivals or specific amusement parks. Small amount of gambling is allowed in Jinmingchi Garden.

The stall owners put out some good items, but the items cannot be purchased directly.Tourists exchange money for chips to participate in Guanpu, and if they win, they can win things away.

Of course, it is not allowed to gamble directly at the opening. This kind of Guanpu stall owner will definitely make money, and eight out of ten tourists cannot buy big with small things.

Yan Buzhou was just revisiting the game city of later generations, and selected a few interesting booths. He didn't take the value of the prize as the criterion, but whether it was interesting and special.I didn’t feel annoyed that I was still empty-handed after visiting a few stalls, so I went on to the stall that said it was selling ancient pictures.

Otherwise, people's luck will not be memorized to the end. This time, she cast three, three, and four points limited by the stall owner.

"Oh, I hit it. Guest officer, please choose whatever you want. You can choose any one from this pile of ancient paintings."

The stall owner pointed to the paintings that were randomly piled together.They are ancient paintings, but these are not paper paintings, there are sheepskin, silk cloth, bamboo slips, etc. At first glance, they are almost low-grade antiques.

Even if Bu Zhou is not good at appreciating treasures, he knows that the stall owner is selling paintings to take advantage of the popularity of antique collections, just like the so-called antiques on the street in later generations with cloth for others to pick up.

However, she didn't come here to pick up leaks, but a piece of half-mutilated sheepskin, and vaguely felt that the painting style on it was similar to the painting style of the mural in the treasure room of the ancient tomb that was accidentally dropped by the dust cloud.

"I'm going to make it like this." Yan Buzhou took out the sheepskin, and was about to take a closer look, when there was a quarrel at the Guanpu stall next door.

It was a Guanpu stall with a few hostas.

The stall owner wearing a straw hat shouted loudly, "Don't play if you don't have money, and I don't have any ore in my house to give you credit. Guan Pu fights with luck. Why do you say I play games? The hardest thing to win is the red one. , if anyone can win casually, I can afford to pay for a few mutton jade hairpins."

Yuan Qing heard the straw hat stall owner yelling loudly, and his expression was a little uneasy.

Fortunately, the club was about to close, and everyone else in the water flying puppet class went to the city to have fun, so no one would recognize who he was.

"Why am I talking nonsense." Yuan Qing didn't like jade wares, he worked under a stingy class leader like Wu Yong, and how much money he could make was enough for him to collect jade wares.

For four days in a row, Yuan Qing kept coming to the straw hat stall owner's Guanpu stall. He was interested in the good quality of the jade hairpin, and wanted to sell it to make some extra money. Unexpectedly, he had already paid 20 taels of silver for it. "For four days, I've been coming to your stall, and you haven't gambled any of these five jade hairpins. Do you wonder if you're going to pay a thousand dollars?"

After listening to a few words, Yan Buzhou found that she was not interested in the topic of gambling because she couldn't afford to lose money, but she was looking at the sheepskin and wanted to leave.

After the Tulu four-horned sheep incident last year, Bu Zhou asked Gongsun Ce to re-enter the ancient tomb, but unfortunately did not get any more clues.The paint of the murals is not too special, and after careful consideration, the only stone door that is still closed has not been opened.

Gongsun Ce made a little analysis of the painter's unique painting style on the mural, and it is somewhat close to the sheepskin painting in front of him, which is also an unexpected joy of his visit to Jinmingchi.

A surprise, it should be even more unexpected.

The owner of the straw hat stall was choked by Yuan Qing, and stopped talking when he looked at it casually.

"The gentleman in the gray clothes in front of you can do me a favor. You won't be charged any money, you can come back and get rid of the red at will. You don't need to hit six out of ten. As long as you hit once, this jade hairpin will be given to you."

Yan Buzhou pointed at herself, and got the affirmative nod from the straw hat stall owner, which made her embarrassed.It's not that she didn't dare to respond, let's not say that the jade hairpin she gave was a short hairpin for men and she only used a hair tie, and she said that she didn't know how to gamble like removing red. "The boss should find someone else, I won't get rid of red."

"You don't need to know the rules. People who are proficient in this way are saying that I am out of the way."

The straw hat stall owner obviously got into a fight with Yuan Qing, just let Yan Buzhou throw the dice.

Then roll the dice a few times.

Yan Buzhou didn't care about Yuan Qing's ugly face, it was already ugly and he almost didn't write the words "absolutely impossible to have shit luck" on his face.

Following the stall owner's words, Yan Buzhou threw it five times before preparing to leave.She didn't think she could win the lottery, but the crowd gasped when she heard it.

"bingo!"

"This luck is the good luck of the newcomers in the legend."

"I just said that the stall owner didn't pay a thousand dollars, it's just that the point comparison design is a bit tricky, who would have thought that someone would win."

"This is also the condition for self-surrender. If you can hit six shots in a row, you are a master."

The straw hat stall owner was also a little stupid, so he still clenched his teeth and wrapped the hairpin in silk cloth and handed it out. "Here, the promised prize. Let those who can't afford to lose know that I'm definitely not bad at my debt."

Could it be that she had the good luck of the koi carp today?

"Thank you. Then I wish the boss a prosperous business."

Yan Buzhou didn't refuse, her luck in coming to Da Song has always been weird, and she will win by luck, but before leaving, she glanced at the direction where Yuan Qing left angrily.

There was a very faint trace of yin on that person's body, and I don't know where it got it from, maybe it was left when he went to the grave during the Qingming Festival.I hope he can spend more time in the sun to get rid of bad luck, otherwise he will lose the same in a few rounds.

At dusk, the sun sinks deeper and deeper.

Compared with the bustling market on the east bank, which is still reluctant to leave even when it is close to closing the garden, the west bank is much deserted. This area is originally a fishing place, and there are basically no people at the moment, and they all go home.

In the open space, Zhan Zhao stood out by the bank of willows.

Yan Bu Zhou Yaoyao waved his hand to Zhan Zhao, but immediately made a booing gesture to him, which was to see the hairy dumpling by the lake staring down at the lake water.

The Kaifeng government sent people to inspect Jin Mingchi in shifts, and today it was Zhan Zhao's turn to be on duty, so he brought Nian Fei out to check for any abnormal aura.

One day without incident, get off work smoothly.Nian Fei was fascinated by the fat fish in the lake. Before, it saw a group of people fishing on the shore, so it seemed to take a closer look.

Yan Buzhou quietly walked behind Nian Fei, this little fat monster watched the fish so intently that it didn't even vibrate its ears, making one couldn't help but want to tease it.

"Year and a half, you're drooling again!"

"Woof--" Nian Fei was startled by the sudden cry in her ears, and her forelimbs went limp. If it wasn't for the rope around her neck, she might have slipped into the water and performed a little fat demon dog crawl.

At that moment, Nian Fei was held by Zhan Zhao, and she scrambled around on the spot before regaining her footing.It turned to look at Yan Buzhou sadly, knowing that this man was avenging the last time, it was scared and dared not be angry or speak out.

He looked at Zhan Zhao, who had a calm face again, as its caretaker in the world, why didn't he make a sound to remind him, thinking that it would be enough to hold the rope to prevent it from falling?What about the scars on its heart?

Embarrassed for rape.

Nian Fei recited the four words silently with great backbone, and turned her body sideways to only leave a silhouette for the two humans.

"Since we met, let's have dinner. There are many restaurants outside the west gate to set up temporary restaurants here. We don't need to make an appointment to queue up when we go to Sanyang Kaitai."

Yan Buzhou deliberately said a few more words about the deliciousness of mutton, and saw Nian Fei's tail wagging as expected.Since she solved the Sijiao sheep murder case, she has also gained the benefits of Sanyang Kaitai. She does not ask for exemption but only for enough. It is already an honor in Bianjing, where the supply of mutton is limited.

"By the way, this is for you." Yan Buzhou handed the jade hairpin he just won to Zhan Zhao, "It seems that I haven't formally thanked Brother Zhan for his help in the past."

Zhan Zhao looked at the small cloth bag that was packaged carelessly, and saw the hosta tail that was loosely wrapped in it.He originally wanted to say that the wine that he gave in a bad manner two days ago was rare enough to be a thank you gift, but in front of such a short jade hairpin, it was not worth mentioning. "I……"

"Don't you and me. Although this thing is expensive, it comes for nothing. It doesn't cost money at all."

Yan Bu got past Guan Pu in a few sentences on Wednesday, "I don't need it, I just borrowed flowers to present Buddha. If you really don't want it, you can give it to Mr. Gongsun later."

Zhan Zhao swallowed back what he hadn't said, since he didn't think about hairpins as tokens at all, so why should he say more.Then he took the short hairpin immediately, "Ah Yan's kindness, how could I push it away. Let me express my thanks, and I will invite you for tonight's mutton."

That's right, take it easy.

Yan Buzhou felt that exchanging a free hosta for a meal of tens of taels of mutton was a good deal.She also deliberately asked, "Yueban, do you want to eat together? If you want, give me a bark. Otherwise, it's okay to send you to the inn where I live first, and eat some rice to lose weight?"

Nian Fei endured it again and again, but couldn't hold back the sound of 'Wow'.For the sake of mutton, Nian Beast's self-esteem and persistence can be discussed tomorrow.

During the dinner, the two chatted about the recent situation.The pond has been open for nine days. Although there are minor conflicts in the garden, nothing major happens.

Nian Fei patrols the garden every three days, and so far no sneaky things have happened.However, just a few days after the Qingming Festival, it is inevitable that some people will be contaminated with some Yin Qi after going to the grave.

"Whether that kind of Yin Qi is malicious or not, you can still tell in half a month."

Yan Buzhou looked at Nian Fei who was concentrating on eating meat in the corner of the private room, and for a moment suspected that Zhan Zhao had made him a vegetarian for more than a month.

Seeing this, Zhan Zhao refused to blame the gluttonous Nian Fei, "Master Bao is in charge of Yue Ban's recipes. You can also see the small pendant on its neck. The front is engraved with Yue Ban, and the back is engraved with Kaifeng Mansion, This was also made by Mr. Bao, who else would withhold half a month's food in the government office."

It turned out that Nian Fei really won the favor of the big leader.

Just as Yan Buzhou was about to joke a few words, the familiar noise sounded from the lobby on the first floor.

"Obviously I came first, I just went to the toilet and stayed for a while. I greeted Xiao Er before, why did you skip my number and call the one behind?!"

Yuan Qing felt that he was a little bit memorized, that he had bad luck with gambling, and had to wait in line repeatedly if he wanted to get a good meal.

The shopkeeper had no choice but to apologize again and again, "I'm really sorry, Xiao Liu just got off work, and it's all because he didn't explain the guest officer's instructions when he took over the shift. How do you think this is? The guests at this table have already started eating, please wait a little longer, today You will get [-]% off this meal."

Yuan Qing hummed and glanced around the lobby. Basically, the food here has just been eaten, so wait for a quarter of an hour less.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from a group of ten or so people sitting around the wall, "Brother, if you don't mind, let's join the table here. Our table is originally a table sharing, and each pays for his own."

Yuan Qing rubbed his hungry stomach, anyway, he agreed without waiting any longer.

A dispute quickly ended.

Zhan Zhao leaned against the window of the box on the second floor and looked down, his eyes paused for a while on the person who proposed sharing the table.

Yan Buzhou was a little surprised to see Yuan Qing again, thinking that Yuan Qing's luck was good enough, when Zhan Zhao's expression changed slightly. "What? Is that person wrong?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head slowly and didn't pay attention to the downstairs again, "That's Xiao Jin, a gambler known by the people in the Jianghu. Wherever there is a big gamble, he will go wherever there is a big gamble. Almost every gamble is sure to win. It seems that Bianjing has a lot of troubles. The bet that is known to outsiders is about to start."

"Did you break the law?" Yan Buzhou only asked these three words. If you break the law, you have to deal with it. If you don't break the law, you can't rush to cut off people's wealth.

"The imperial court has never supported gambling. But there are exceptions from time to time. The kind of big gambling games are often well prepared, and there is no such thing as breaking the law."

Zhan Zhao just sighed, this kind of gamble may make people rich overnight, and it may also make people lose their lives overnight.He didn't want to talk about such bad things too much, so he changed the subject and asked, "A Yan, you've been out for a while, when do you plan to return to Beijing?"

"Of course I want to live until the eighth day of April, so I can play all over Jinming Pool." Yan Buzhou laughed after finishing speaking, "Why, do you expect me to go back? Or is Kaifeng Mansion going to hire me as a helper again?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head resolutely, could he feel that life would be a bit boring if Yan Buzhou was not in the capital?This must be a joke.

"It's shopkeeper Xing who wants you to go back. He just said that the big boss lingers on the spring outing, and the second manager is obsessed with planting vulgar things, and he is very worried that the flower shop will close sooner or later."

"Don't panic, you don't have to be suspicious of someone who is suspicious."

Yan Buzhou wasn't worried at all, and was committed to pulling Zhan Zhao out of the capital, "The day after tomorrow is a holiday, so you don't have to take turns, do you? Why don't you come to Jinming Pool to see the water puppets, the troupe called Shui Shang Fei is really interesting. "

It's rare to have a rest, shouldn't it be a late sleep and get up early to get out of town?

Zhan Zhao thought about it but nodded, "A few days ago, Mr. Gongsun gave the ticket, saying that it was a gift from a friend. Except Master Bao who stayed in the mansion to watch Yue Ban, Wang Chao and Ma Han, they would all play in Jinmingchi."

If you don't listen to it on Monday, you will know who the so-called friend is.The tickets in her hand were also given by Zhao Zhen, and I don't know how many tickets Zhao Zhen bought in total.

I bought a few tickets and they all became invalid.

On the tenth day of March, the Water Flying Troupe announced the cancellation of the water puppet performance. The reason was simple and rude: Yuan Qing, the troupe’s prop master, took away the troupe’s property—two dolls worth 5000 taels, and this person escaped without a trace. .

After discovering this in the morning, Wu Yong, the class leader, went from being furious to sighing.

Among the audience who learned that the people in Kaifeng Mansion were also waiting for the performance, he seemed to have seen a savior, and almost burst into tears and said to Gongsun Ce, please get back the puppet.

"5000 taels, it's not worth the price to sell Yuan Qing. I trusted him, so I entrusted the puppet to him for safekeeping. Fortunately, he ran away with the money when he owed the gambling debt."

Gongsun Ce didn't immediately believe that Yuan Qing escaped with the puppets, and the ticket income of the water flying troupe in the dock was not short of a penny.

"Boss Wu, this matter must be investigated carefully. If it is convenient, let us investigate the dock first. And you will explain in detail about the gambling debt and why the puppet stopped at 5000 taels."

Seeing this situation, Yan Buzhou could only shake her head silently, and she said that after coming to the Song Dynasty, the luck was weird, and it was not easy to take a good look at the water puppet.It was the strong men who were pulled to investigate the scene together. First, they went to the room where Yuan Qing lived, and there were many unfinished puppets piled up in it.

Right now, I really want to ask, Yuan Qing said he lived with so many puppets with broken arms and missing legs, wouldn't he wake up in the middle of the night in a panic?

Look, there is a half wooden arm next to the half-open window.

Yan Buzhou walked into the window sill to have a look, this room is facing the lake, and directly below the window is the Jinming Pond.She picked up the half of the puppet's arm and her eyes were condensed slightly. There was a trace of yin on it, which was exactly the yin that was on Yuan Qing's body at the Guanpu stall at that time.

However, this long and wide wooden arm does not match that of the acting boy and the white-clothed scholar doll. Seeing that there are many knife carvings and damage marks on it, it is likely to be Yuan Qing's training doll.

The question is where does the yin come from?

Where is the body of the puppet that this arm belongs to?