Chapter 139 One swamp, one step at a time
Chapter 139, one swamp, one step at a time
Those guys live in the first yard of the private house behind the Raven Green Ink Pavilion. At the same time, the kitchen and dining room are also in the first yard. A corridor is connected to the back door of the front shop, which is very convenient to get in and out. After Zeng Yanliang came, he was arranged in the second yard. This yard is smaller than the first yard, but it is much quieter. After Zeng Yanliang lived in, he found that Meng Zhuangqing lived next to his room. Leng Xuanrong is a female conservative and is arranged separately in the inner courtyard. The whole inner courtyard is very spacious, and there are 18 rooms on three sides. It seems that because no one has taken care of it all year round, the courtyard is all covered with bluestone, and there are no weeds.
On the first night of living in, Leng Xuanrong silently cleaned the yard alone, regardless of the fatigue of the road.
Looking back on her previous life, Leng Xuanrong has silently cursed those who can live in a big house in her heart. Because the bigger the house, the more rules there are, and the bigger the house, the more places need to be cleaned. Leng Xuanrong remembered that the last time she cleaned the house was freezing, she shed tears to draw water, and then cleaned it little by little with the cold and piercing water. Who would have thought that she would live in such a yard one day.
Thinking of this, an idea came to Leng Xuanrong's mind.
Du Yilin ordered himself to take care of this Raven Green Ink Pavilion, so what kind of identity should he be here? Is it the shopkeeper? Or something else? At dinner, Meng Zhuangqing said that there would be an opening ceremony in three days, which seemed to be very grand. Leng Xuanrong really couldn't figure out what kind of status she should appear in front of the crowd at that time.
Her doubts were solved the next day.
Meng Zhuangqing's expression seemed to be trying to maintain basic etiquette. He said coldly to Leng Xuanrong, "The prince told Leng to take care of this store, and you are naturally the shopkeeper. The letter sent by the prince is clear that he gave this store to Mr. Dou, so the owner is Mr. Dou..."
"Imperial Palace?" Leng Xuanrong asked Meng Zhuangqing in surprise, "What is the Imperial Palace?"
Meng Zhuangqing finally frowned and explained to Leng Xuanrong impatiently, "The Dou family in the imperial city has several generations of imperial masters, so the people in the imperial city call the Dou family the imperial palace..."
Leng Xuanrong couldn't help sighing. No wonder she heard Mr. Dou's name more than once in those deep house courtyards in her previous life. It turned out that Mr. Dou was so noble. No wonder that he opened a small study in Yan County would attract so many children of officials to go thousands of miles to worship their teachers...
"Mr. Dou is really awesome..." Thinking of this, Leng Xuanrong couldn't help showing admiration and muttered a sigh.
Meng Zhuangqing seemed to be a little surprised when he heard Leng Xuanrong's words. He hesitated for a moment, thought for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Does Miss Leng know Mr. Dou?"
Leng Xuanrong's thoughts were interrupted and nodded without thinking, "In the past, Mr. Dou helped him and often went to the dyeing dust study to ask for mercy. If it hadn't been for Mr. Dou, my father and I couldn't say where we would be today..."
Unexpectedly, Leng Xuanrong's words fell into Meng Zhuangqing's ears. He actually stood there with his mouth open for a long time. Meng Zhuangqing felt that his mind couldn't turn around. He really couldn't figure out who the inconspicuous little girl in front of him was. Listening to her words, her relationship with Mr. Dou seemed extraordinary!
Meng Zhuangqing also heard about the matter in Ganyan County. He heard that Leng Xuanrong was the daughter of Leng Chengqi, a fugitive officer. Although the prince did not explicitly mean to let Leng Xuanrong come here to take care of the shop, Meng Zhuangqing was so smart. He immediately remembered that the prince meant to let them take Leng Xuanrong and Zeng Yanliang. Monitor it. At the same time, he also thought that maybe the prince still had something to do with Leng Chengqi, so he let their father and daughter be divided into two places so that they could act in the future.
Originally in Meng Zhuangqing's heart, Leng Xuanrong should actually be a criminal under his surveillance!
But now after listening to Leng Xuanrong's words, Meng Zhuangqing suddenly felt a little at a loss! Did you make your own inference wrong? If Leng Xuanrong is related to the prince and knows Mr. Dou, then... maybe the prince really asked her to take care of the store? Or maybe Mr. Dou entrusted her to take care of his own store?
To...what the hell is going on?
Leng Xuanrong looked at the change of expression on Meng Zhuangqing's face and suddenly realized that she seemed to have forgotten an important thing from here. It's ridiculous to think of my previous doubts.
Shouldn't your identity be decided by yourself?
Thinking of this, Leng Xuanrong covered his face and smiled twice, then calmed down, came to Meng Zhuangqing's ear, who was still at a loss, and asked softly, "Meng, what's wrong with you?"
Meng Zhuangqing was shocked, came back to look at Leng Xuanrong, and was shocked to find that the little girl's face seemed to have changed...
"Meng, I don't know if there is a fast horse biography here? On that day, Mr. Dou was very haggard, and I don't know if his journey with the prince was going well... Just now, when Mr. Meng mentioned it, I thought that I should write a letter to them and let them know about the matter here, so that they won't worry about it..."
After saying that, Leng Xuanrong silently calculated the days and muttered, "Even if they travel day and night, I'm afraid they can't get to the imperial city..."
Meng Zhuangqing calmed down and turned to find a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table and whispered to Leng Xuanrong, "If Miss Leng wants to send a letter to the prince, she can spread it today. There is a special person here in charge of this matter.
Leng Xuanrong sat at the table, looked up at Meng Zhuangqing, and whispered with a sneer, "I guess so."
Since Du Yilin intends to monitor He Lijing and spent a lot of effort on making such a crow green ink pavilion here, how can there be no way to send letters and briefs? Leng Xuanrong wrote with a brush and thought to himself that in this way, he could know how much Du Yilin attached to this place through the length of the round-trip time.
After a while, Leng Xuanrong wrote two letters. A steady and formal word is for Du Yilin. There are only a few simple words in my heart, which shows that Leng Chengqi has taken office. Leng Xuanrong and Zeng Yanliang arrived at the Raven Green Ink Pavilion. When they were grateful, they decided to run this place well in the future and would definitely live up to the prince's high expectations. Another letter was written to Mr. Dou. Leng Xuanrong did not hesitate and said frankly that she was worried after leaving Mr. Dou. She was afraid that Mr. Dou would be troubled by all kinds of things before, so she told Mr. Dou to take care of his health and look forward to enjoying the peach blossoms together when we meet again...
After the two letters were written, Leng Xuanrong did not fold the seal paint and handed them directly to Meng Zhuangqing, asking him to send the two letters on behalf of the messenger.
Although Meng Zhuangqing pretended not to care, he still read the two letters carefully several times after Leng Xuanrong left. After reading it, Meng Zhuangqing thought to himself that fortunately, he had learned that they had a good relationship with the prince and Mr. Dou within the day they first came here. Otherwise, according to his previous way of action, I was afraid that they would die in the end...
Let Meng Zhuangqing send two letters, and Leng Xuanrong was also much more at ease. When she came to the front store, she found that Zeng Yanliang and those guys were already happily known as brothers.
Zeng Yanliang was originally bold and friendly. In the past, when he was a governmentman, he had a good relationship with people of three education and nine streams, and the guys here were originally too uncomfortable by Meng Zhuangqing, so they had great expectations for both the new Zeng Yanliang and Leng Xuanrong.
Lao Jiu saw that Leng Xuanrong came and immediately came to ask, "Just now I heard Yan Liang's brother say that the prince personally asked Leng girl to take care of this Raven Green Ink Pavilion?" Is it true?"
Leng Xuanrong nodded and deliberately raised his voice and said, "For the importance of the prince, let me take care of this Raven Green Ink Pavilion with Brother Yan Liang. This Raven Green Ink Pavilion is a private property given by the prince to Mr. Dou of the imperial master's mansion. When I was in Yan County, I was taken care of by Mr. Dou a lot, so I will definitely run this store well in the future to repay the kindness of the prince and Mr. Dou.
The guys present heard these words clearly. Everyone looked at each other and had a good idea in their hearts. It seems that this cold girl is not only taken care of by the prince, but also has something to do with Mr. Dou of the imperial palace. These guys are from the imperial city, and no one dares to underestimate the people involved in the imperial palace. Although they are still not sure how true or false what Leng Xuanrong and Zeng Yanliang said, they all know that neither Meng Zhuangqing nor the two newcomers in front of them can afford to provoke.
At this time, Zeng Yanliang walked to Leng Xuanrong and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Dou of the Emperor's Mansion?"
Leng Xuanrong pulled Zeng Yanliang aside and briefly explained it to him. After listening to the explanation, Zeng Yanliang was also shocked.
"No wonder the prince is so close to Mr. Dou..." Zeng Yanliang sighed and said to Leng Xuanrong in a low voice, "Xuanrong, no one here is a good stubble. But don't look at what they call me brothers on the surface. In my opinion, these people have their own small calculations in their hearts.
In less than a day, Zeng Yanliang saw the difference between these people and those king drivers.
Wang's personal guards are open and aboveboard in both words and actions. And these people are completely different. They seemed to be rough and simple. In fact, Zeng Yanliang found that they were intentionally or unintentionally trapming themselves, as if they wanted to find out the details of him and Leng Xuanrong.
At first, Zeng Yanliang was just a little disgusted, but he didn't care. But one person is like this, two people are like this, and these guys in the store are all like this, which really makes Zeng Yanliang a little uncomfortable.
After listening to what he said, Leng Xuanrong also suddenly increased her vigilance.
Unexpectedly, the enemies in Wuming County, not only He Lijing, but also the people around him, could not be taken lightly.