Chapter 22: Poppy Zhang Liang
The next day, the sky was cloudy, and Su Yu did not dare to meditate for fear of waking up the sleeping girl next to him.
With a low groan, Yin Ran slowly opened her eyes and realized that she was leaning on Su Yu's shoulder. Her face turned red and she quickly moved her head over.
"No, I'm sorry."
"fine."
Su Yu shook his head, stood up and moved his limbs, waiting for Yin Ran to arrange his hair.
At this moment, the latter took out a mirror and a comb from somewhere and carefully combed his messy hair.
Yin Ran's hair is full of luster, not oily and shiny, but a natural luster. The tips of her hair have some natural curls, which makes her even more radiant.
Su Yu was mesmerized for a moment, and his body had forgotten to move.
"I'm fine."
Yin Ran opened her mouth, but she didn't hear an answer for a long time. She couldn't help looking up curiously, but she happened to see Su Yu's dreamy eyes.
She smiled sweetly, raised the decibel level, and asked:
"Is it that pretty?"
"Ahem, okay, it looks good." Su Yu heard it clearly this time, hurriedly turned around, coughed twice in embarrassment, and replied foolishly.
No, no, it can't be done. Recently, why, why do I keep stammering?
Yin Ran covered her mouth and smiled softly, her laughter was light and particularly pleasant.
Su Yu was fascinated again, but quickly shook his head to stay awake.
No more stammering!
"Let's go back, it's time for Xiao Taohong and the others to worry."
Su Yukai turned around, looked far into the distance, his eyes were calm, he suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and spoke softly.
Yin Ran smiled, stretched out his slender hand, and held Su Yu's generous and warm hand. The latter's figure was obviously excited.
Then he held the former's hand and walked through the air towards the direction of the diners' residence.
For a moment, under Xiao Taohong's burning eyes, Su Yu chuckled awkwardly.
"We're going to buy breakfast."
"This is an inn, do you need to go out and buy breakfast, Imperial Master?!" Xiao Taohong gritted her teeth. If she couldn't beat him, she would have beaten Su Yu into a pig's head.
"Xiao Taohong, please don't be rude. The Imperial Master has gone to discuss important matters with me."
Yin Ran shouted to stop. Thinking about it carefully, we should just discuss important matters.
"snort!"
Xiao Taohong snorted coldly, turned around and gave Su Yu a hard look, then followed Xiao Lizi to the first floor, obviously going to arrange breakfast.
However, as she walked, she was thinking in her mind that it was becoming more and more obvious that the Imperial Master was plotting against my princess, and, most importantly, the princess seemed to have taken the bait.
No, I have to find an opportunity to tell the princess the "Sixteen-character Mantra of How to Judge a Good Man" that my mother taught me. The princess has also reached the age of talking about marriage, and she cannot be blinded by a man's rhetoric.
After tea time, the waiter brought the food and wine upstairs and spread out the food in an orderly manner, including six dishes and one soup, four meat and three vegetables, a pot of small wine and a pot of "Beauty Tips".
Su Yu licked his lips, looked at Xiao Lizi who was tasting wine alone, and then turned to glance at Yin Ran.
Okay, let’s enjoy the extravagant meal.
"Chef boss, business has been good recently."
While Su Yu and others were enjoying their meal, a rough voice sounded from among the diners downstairs.
"Hey, it's Mr. Zhang. Please sit down, Mr. Zhang. What do you want to eat today?"
Hearing the voice, Su Yu was curious about the face of the shopkeeper who made him so fond of him. He looked sideways downstairs.
I saw a tall and thick man pulling up a stool and sitting down naked. In front of him was a middle-aged man with a big belly.
The man was born with a fat head, big ears, and a full beard, but his face was not ferocious. Instead, he had a kind face and kind eyes. This appearance reminded Su Yu of the Western Heaven Tathagata from the previous world. This man was obviously the shopkeeper of the diner.
"Sir, I didn't come here to eat anything. I just heard from Xiao Liu that you just had a few distinguished guests here, and I think they're earning a lot of money, so I came here to ask for some money to spend. I wonder if the shopkeeper is willing?"
As the man spoke, he glanced upstairs, but happened to catch Su Yu's eyes, which were slightly narrowed with sharp eyes.
He yelled, but couldn't be looked at, so he quickly turned his head back, muttering to himself, his eyes were so sharp, it would be better to wait until Xiaoliu and others arrived to discuss it.
"this……"
The shopkeeper buried his head in thought for a moment, then returned to the counter, took out an ingot of five taels of silver, and was about to give it to the big man.
At this time, the waiter came to add drinks. Su Yu grabbed him and asked in a low voice.
"Who is this big man?"
The waiter bought some drinks, lowered his head slightly, and placed the tray on the ground. His eyes twitched, and he glanced downstairs. He found that the big man wasn't paying attention, and then he spoke.
"This big man's name is Zhang Liang. He is the third eldest son in the family, so he is called Mr. Zhang."
"Oh, but it's a big business?"
Su Yu became interested. This person who is usually called a master has quite a lot of influence in his family.
"Bah." Not wanting to hear Su Yu's question, the waiter took a sip.
"What a wealthy man, he's just a rogue. He was originally a foreigner, and he went to Fengtian to find relatives, but he learned that his relatives and his family had moved away."
"With no financial means, he could only live on the streets. It was out of kindness of our shopkeeper that he felt pity for him and left him to work as an errand boy in the store."
"This guy acted honestly at first. The shopkeeper was so happy that he married his daughter to him a few years later. He also gave him a lot of dowry. From then on, Zhang Liang and the shopkeeper's daughter moved out of the Diner's Residence."
"But not long after moving out, Zhang Liang's temperament suddenly changed. Not only did he often domestically abuse the shopkeeper's daughter, he would also often bully and threaten the shopkeeper into giving him money for gambling."
"Later, the shopkeeper's daughter couldn't stand it anymore and ran away to her parents' home many times, and was persuaded to go back many times. The last time, the shopkeeper's daughter came back with bruises all over her body. My wife couldn't stand it anymore and begged the shopkeeper to find a solution."
"Later, the shopkeeper gave Zhang a hundred taels of silver and asked him to write a letter of divorce and divorce the shopkeeper's daughter."
"Fortunately, there was a family in East Street who was a down-and-out scholar. Everyone called him Tan Xiucai. He didn't care about the impurity of the shopkeeper's daughter, so he married him and returned home a few years later."
"The shopkeeper's daughter has just landed in a good place. Alas, in this world, good people like this are not rewarded. The shopkeeper is dedicated to doing good, but he never encounters many good things."
The waiter sighed and continued:
"No, after Zhang Liang spent all the one hundred taels of silver, he pestered the shopkeeper for nothing, insisting that the shopkeeper had lost his wife. He came to the shopkeeper every now and then to ask for compensation."
"At first, the shopkeeper didn't care. He just gave him some copper coins and sent them away. But later, Zhang Liang got entangled with a group of rogues out of nowhere. His title of Third Master Zhang also started from this time.
"
"They specifically come to the shopkeeper to ask for money, but it's not enough to give them too little. There are so many of them, and the shopkeeper can't chase them away, so he has to give in."
"As time went by, a routine was formed. When he came to collect money, the shopkeeper would give him money, and each payment would be at least five taels of silver."
Bang!
There was a soft sound on the table, but it was not Su Yu. Instead, it was Yin Ran, who was sitting opposite him with an angry face and furrowed brows. She clenched her right hand into a fist and gently hammered the table.
"How could this man be such a scoundrel?"
The noise upstairs naturally alarmed Zhang Liang downstairs. When he looked up, he found Su Yu grinning at him and giving him a fist.
Zhang Liang knew it well and did not dare to get angry, so he had no choice but to punch him in return.
"Who says it's not the case!" the waiter agreed, frowning.
"Does the government not care about this matter?" Yin Ran was angry. If corruption and perversion of the law by officials could still occur in Fengtian under the feet of his father, then the Wei court would really have to be punished.
"The governor of Fengtian Prefecture is a rare honest official. The shopkeeper informed the governor of this matter. The governor was angry and the celebrities investigated thoroughly."
"But Sanyi didn't kill anyone, and he didn't set fire. The government could only throw him into the dungeon and lock him up for a few days or dozens of days. But as soon as he came out, this barbarian started to do evil again. There was nothing the government could do against him.
"
The waiter shook his head repeatedly and sighed.
"Master, please don't give it to him. He has raised the ambition of this scoundrel. I want to see how well this scoundrel can hold me up today!"
At this moment, a female voice came downstairs. Su Yu turned his head and saw the person coming:
Chapter completed!