Chapter 235 The Silly Son of the Landlord (Asking for Monthly Votes)

After Luting lifted the curfew, Yuelai Inn closed even later.

Zhao Hong followed Zhang Erniu and worked from noon to midnight without touching the floor. It was not until there was no more sound of tea and water being brought to the guest room that he finally stepped into the small dark room not far from the stables... …

Lying on a hard, narrow bed that was short and dark, the air was filled with the stench of horse urine and excrement. Zhao Hong, who was so tired that his back and legs ached, covered himself with a quilt made of straw as a quilt core and cried silently. Howling.

At this moment, he also had a very similar trance to Yang Ge back then: 'Zhao Hong, Zhao Hong, how did you get yourself into this situation? ’

"Bang bang bang."

The dilapidated wooden door was slammed loudly.

Zhao Hong raised his tearful face and looked up, and saw a bit of warm firelight pouring in from the crack in the door.

He guessed who was coming, and tried to hold his voice and pretend to be normal: "Who is it?"

Zhao Miao's clear and powerful voice came from outside the door: "Open the door!"

Zhao Hong: "I've gone to bed, no matter what happens, we'll talk about it tomorrow!"

Zhao Miao was unmoved: "Open the door!"

Zhao Hong was so angry that he slapped the hard bed board and shouted angrily: "Bitch...are you here to laugh at the lonely king?"

Although he changed his words quickly, Zhao Miao still understood what he wanted to call, and his voice suddenly became angry: "Can you open it?"

Zhao Hong couldn't resist him, so he had to get up, put on his clothes and cloth shoes in a hurry, walked to the door in two steps and opened the latch.

"Squeak."

The door opened, and Zhao Miao walked straight into the hut with a cold face, holding an oil lamp in one hand and a food box in the other without looking at him.

When Zhao Hong saw this, he said angrily: "Take it away, the lonely king will not have to eat what he came for!"

Zhao Miao ignored him and put the food box on the only furniture in the hut - a shaky wooden table: "It's up to you whether you eat it or not. If it's an eyesore, it doesn't matter if you throw it away, but you have to throw it away." , Just this once, there will never be a next time!”

Zhao Hong laughed angrily and angrily said: "How dare you insult the lonely king!"

It is said that the Tian family is ruthless, and there is no flesh-and-blood affection when it comes to the change of the throne.

Zhao Hongnai is the eldest son of Emperor Xiping. He was appointed as the crown prince when he was young. He has been the overlord of Ziwei Palace since he was a child.

Although Zhao Miao was the eldest daughter of Emperor Xiping, she was born as a concubine. Although her mother-in-law's family could be considered a family of officials, it was not worth mentioning compared with the Wu family of Zhongshan Hou, where the current queen was born, and because she had the same mother and brother. The third prince, Zhao Ze, was quite popular with Emperor Xiping. She had been bullied by this prince in the palace in the past.

If she were to see the prince in Ziwei Palace, she would have to take a detour.

Fortunately, this is not Ziwei Palace.

This is Yuelai Inn!

"hehe……"

Zhao Miao squinted his eyes and sneered: "I haven't heard anyone call me that in a while. It really touched me at first glance... Do you believe it or not, just based on these two words of yours, I sued my second brother. I have to break three of your legs to vent my anger!"

Zhao Hong said angrily: "He dares!"

Zhao Miao: "How about giving it a try?"

Zhao Hong's angry look paused, and then he said in a stern and angry voice: "Could it be that you came here so late just to humiliate the lonely king?"

"one!"

Zhao Miao stretched out a slender index finger and corrected him with a serious look: "Second brother said, our Yuelai Inn only has the shopkeeper and the waiter, there are no messy people. You'd better remember his words, he is very concerned about messy people." People have never been patient.”

"Second, I came here so late because I didn't want you, the former prince, to starve to death in our inn and force the second brother to quarrel with our father... I don't even know if you are really stupid or pretending to be stupid. You didn't do that before. Do you often brag that you have many extraordinary people? Why do you dare to act like a prince to your second brother when you have already arrived at Luting? Are you sure you are not being tricked and foolishly come to Luting to die? "?"

She didn't blush at all when she said these words.

In fact, when she first arrived at the inn, she knew very little about Yang Ge. She only knew that Yang Ge dared to kill even Prince Ning, but nothing happened after the killing. His father even used her to win over Yang Ge.

A lot of what she knows about Yang Ge now is completely gained from eating melon in the inn these years.

As an excellent 猹, no melon is eaten in vain!

"How could I not know!"

Zhao Hong stiffened his neck and said: "Zhenren Qin and Daxia Jia in my house are both well-known martial arts masters. They told me personally that although Yang Erlang has a famous name, they may not lose if they join forces. He Yang Erlang has one and a half moves!”

Zhao Miao:? ? ?

"What do you believe in what they say?

She asked with a puzzled look on her face: "You have read so many books, but you don't even know the allusions in "Zou Ji satirizes the King of Qi for accepting advice"? If the second brother is really a human being, he can be as good as him, if he is a dog, How dare our father have the nerve to push us over? "

"Be big and bold. When a son talks about his father, he is treasonous. When a minister slanders the king, he deserves to be punished..."

Zhao Hong habitually scolded Yang Erlang for a few words, then his voice gradually became quieter, and finally he said with force: "All the staff in my palace said that my father valued Yang Erlang so much because he was related to the Ming Cult, the White Lotus Cult, etc. To make friends with villains in the Jianghu, this is a clever strategy of paying homage to the virtuous corporal and buying horse bones with a lot of money. What do you, an unlearned woman and child, know?"

Zhao Miao looked at the idiot in front of her with some doubts about life. She couldn't believe that she had been bullied by this idiot for more than ten years and dared not say a word...

"Where's your brain?"

She asked in disbelief: "Let me ask you, where is your brain? You have no idea what kind of temper our father is? Is he the one who can afford to pay homage to virtuous corporals and buy horse bones for thousands of dollars? Also? Where is Prince Ning? You don’t know that Prince Ning died at the hands of your second brother, right? He even killed Prince Ning. How can our father tolerate him if he is not really capable?”

Perhaps her eyes were too bright. Zhao Hong suddenly didn't dare to look directly into her eyes at this moment. He lowered his eyelids and replied naa na, "I and several of my mentors all said that King Ning died after his father. "The person who killed King Ning was not Yang Erlang, but his father."

Zhao Miao rubbed his forehead speechlessly, and after a while he said seriously: "Listen to me, if you can still go back to the East Palace, take away all those teachers, staff, and other strange people in your house who cheated and drank. Foreigners, all of them are driven out to beg for food... Now I finally know why my second brother asked Mr. Shen to tell my father to appoint a new crown prince. With your brain, if you are asked to become an official, I'm afraid the little eunuch below will tell you. An egg is worth ten taels of silver, you believe it!”

Zhao Hong was angry and said loudly: "Who are you looking down on? An egg costs two to five hundred yuan, how could I not know?"

Zhao Miao was completely frozen on the spot.

When Zhao Hong saw her frozen look, his heart suddenly trembled, and he stumbled and asked, "Isn't this right?"

Zhao Miao replied quietly: "The freshest eggs in Dongshi sell for fifty cents..."

"Fifty cents?"

When Zhao Hong heard this number, his heart suddenly returned to his stomach, and he said matter-of-factly: "The eggs that can fit into our mouths are naturally the eggs of rare birds and animals. It is normal for them to be slightly more expensive. Including the fire consumption, the price is two to five hundred yuan..."

The more he spoke, the quieter his voice became.

But it was Zhao Miao who was looking at him with the eyes of a rare animal, and faintly spat out the words that he had not yet had time to say: "One pound!"

"Fifty cents per pound?"

Zhao Hong was stunned and asked cautiously: "Approximately how many eggs are there in a pound?"

Zhao Miao lowered his eyelids and said softly in a tone that did not hurt his self-esteem: "Look at the size of the eggs. Six or seven large eggs weigh one pound, and eleven or twelve small eggs weigh one pound."

Zhao Hong settled the account in silence, and his anger level exploded at a speed visible to the naked eye: "You servant who was cut into pieces by a thousand swords dared to tease the lonely king like this. When the lonely king returns to the palace, you will be cut into pieces." Thousands of corpses, broken bones and ashes..."

Even he knew that this was teasing him.

Zhao Miao turned her face away and did not look at him again. She silently opened the food box and took out the snacks and meals one by one under the dim light and placed them on the table... The food was secretly left by her during dinner. Yes, the snacks are the snacks she keeps at the bottom of the box.

"Don't think about how to deal with those slaves when you return to the palace."

She weakly whispered: "It's better to grow your head in the inn first. As you are, even if our father passes the throne to you, you won't be able to sit still."

Zhao Hong also turned his face away, not daring to look at her, and had no words to refute her statement.

"Just like the second brother said during the day, from now on, watch more, learn more, do less, talk less, and take a good look at how ordinary people live... I used to think that no matter how hard people's lives are, they will just be like that. Staying in Luting After many years, I realized that the suffering people are really suffering. Everyone, old and young, works from dawn to dusk, working day and night, and they don't even have enough to eat. "

"This is what scholars call a prosperous and prosperous age. I don't even dare to think about how the people survived the bad years in the past!"

"You must know these things and understand them so that you can be a wise king in the future, instead of just believing what others say."

"Also, you must not think about fighting with the second brother. You can't beat him for sure. Even if you are lucky enough to win him, you will definitely not survive... I heard people say that the second brother kills When Prince Ning visited Prince Ning, he cut Prince Ning into four pieces with one knife. After repelling the guards of Prince Ning's palace, he then cut off Prince Ning's head and hung it on the city gate. Prince Ning took many soldiers and horses there. Even though they were trying to rob him, they didn’t even get back Prince Ning’s head. He hung it on the city gate for a whole day and night.”

"Although you are bad, you are not bad enough to be cut into four pieces and your head hung on the city gate."

"Second brother has finally settled down, and I don't want him to have to leave his hometown again because of you."

"As long as you don't cause trouble for our inn from now on, if you want to eat or use anything, just tell me and I will try to get it for you..."

"I hope you like our home."

After saying that, she picked up the food box and turned to leave.

"L...Sister!"

Zhao Hong called out to her.

Zhao Miao was in a daze... This was the first time someone called her that.

She came back to her senses, turned to look at Zhao Hong, who was kicking ashes in the room with his head down, and raised the corner of his mouth, but she forced it down again.

She asked nonchalantly: "What's going on?"

Zhao Hong whispered: "Can...can you change a room for me? Where can anyone live in a place like this!"

Zhao Miao subconsciously looked around, and when he came to his senses, he shook his head like a rattle: "You can't change, you can't change. This is the accommodation pointed out to you by my second brother. If I change it for you, he will get angry!"

Zhao Hong: "Then where do you live?"

Zhao Miao pursed her lips and tried not to smile: "I live in Room 2, Tianzi."

When Zhao Hong heard this, he immediately wanted to explode: "This is not fair. Why can you live in Room 2 of Tianzi, but I can only live in the stable?"

Zhao Miao couldn't hold it back and finally laughed out loud: "I'm not like you. When I came here, I didn't pretend to be Princess Lin'an with my second brother. Moreover, the old shopkeeper of the inn was my godfather. It was he who let me live in Tianzi. In room two, the second brother doesn’t dare to talk back to his old man!”

Zhao Hong couldn't believe his ears: "You still recognized your godfather here?"

Zhao Miao spread his hands and replied with a smile: "Our father also knew about this. He also praised me for my recognition. When I returned to the inn at the beginning of the year, he even specially asked me to bring some good things from the palace to my godfather. …”

Zhao Hong looked at her blankly, his views completely refreshed by her few words: "Are you serious?"

Zhao Miao: "How dare I lie to you about this kind of thing?"

Zhao Hong was speechless.

"Okay, just treat it as a private visit incognito, to experience the life of an ordinary person. When the second brother likes you, you will probably be able to move out of this room. Well... you have to keep confronting him. , you have to live here all the time, you can’t get out if anyone comes... It will be the same if our dad comes! "

Zhao Miao smiled and patted his shoulder and said, looking as triumphant as a squid stealing a melon: "And this is the room where my second brother used to live in the inn. He has lived here for nearly a year. He can live there, why can’t you?”

Zhao Hong: "How could a lawless person like him ever live in such a miserable place?"

Zhao Miao: "Actually, he is usually very friendly and smiles with everyone. With so many people in this county, I have never seen him blushing or saying a harsh word to anyone. Well...he He is only rude to those who are arrogant. The more arrogant he is, the more rude he will be."

Zhao Hong: "Is there anyone more cruel than him?"

Zhao Miao: "Isn't that you?"

Zhao Hong:......

It wasn't until this moment that he finally realized what stupid things he had done during the day, and he even had a faint feeling of fear that made his vest cold... If he really made that guy anxious during the day, he would have knifed him. How unfair would it be to cut it into four pieces?

"Let's go. Remember to get up early tomorrow to scrub the tables and benches and sweep the front hall!"

Zhao Miao waved his hand, carrying the food box and strolling out while humming a tune. He didn't even need to hold a lamp, he could walk from the stable back to the backyard just by relying on his memory.

There are many embroidered guards from Shangyousuo living in the backyard, as well as Xiao Baoqi and gangsters who also live in the inn. It can be said that it is the safest place in the whole road pavilion except Chaimen Street.