Chapter 59: The Dust Settles
August 12, 21st year of the Great Wei Shengde.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is less than three days away from the day of reunion.
As the most important festival every year besides New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is highly valued by every household in the Great Wei Dynasty.
The major shops in Kyoto, which seized the business opportunities, have already been filled with all kinds of products to celebrate the festival, waiting for the people in Kyoto to come and buy them.
The noisy streets, a wide range of goods, people who congratulate each other on the festival in advance, and the rich festive atmosphere makes each other feel happy.
The tea guests in a teahouse in Kyoto are also very happy, but the reason why these tea guests are happy is different from the pedestrians on the street. Their pleasure comes from gossip.
"Hey, Liu Zhanjun's younger brother was sentenced to be exiled to the army after digging an iron mine in Heihe Town. This crime is too light! Could it be that there is something behind the scenes, right?" Sun Dabao asked everyone after drinking a cup of tea.
"Hey, Dabao, you don't know this! After hearing that Liu Xuting's private iron mine was exposed, the Liu family had been running around for a lot of connections, otherwise Liu Xuting would have been sentenced to beheading and made public." Sun Dabao's childhood friend seemed very proud because he had some rumor.
Erya's relatives couldn't stand the virtues of Sun Dabao's childhood friend and spoke, "Fuck, if the Liu family could find a relationship to change the verdict for Liu Xuting, would they still look like they were in Kyoto?" After saying that, he pretended to be in a mysterious face.
When Sun Dabao saw that it was Erya's relative's pretender again, he felt unhappy, "Oh, Erya's relative, why? Did you find out what inside information from your Erya today?"
Erya's relatives saw Sun Dabao laughing at him, and suddenly became angry, "Hmph, Sun Dabao, don't think I don't know what you mean. Erya is naturally not sure about Liu Xuting's affairs when working in Jubao Pavilion, but who told you that I only have one source of information?"
After Erya's relatives said that, she looked at Sun Dabao with a contempt. Seeing this, Sun Dabao slapped the table and saw that the two of them were about to start.
At this time, a person walked in outside the door with heavy steps, and the old floor of the teahouse was creaking.
The two people who were nervous in the teahouse didn't even scan the corners of their eyes. They walked straight to the table next to Sun Dabao's little boy, pulled open the long bench, and sat down in awe. Then they shouted, "Boss, give me a pot of good jasmine tea!"
Erya's relatives and Sun Dabao, who were originally going to start fighting, and everyone who was about to get up to persuade them to fight were attracted by the people who came and forgot what they were going to do.
One of them usually likes to smooth things over, and the peacemaker first reacted, and looked at the person who came with a smile and said, "Ergou, I haven't seen you some days, why are you free to have tea today?"
The person who came was Li Ergou from the butcher's house at the East Streetkou. He used to be called Bai Fat Ergou, but now he is called Lucky Ergou.
If you want to talk about why you changed your name, you have to start with the assassination of the seventh prince of the Great Wei Dynasty.
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In short, after being reported as an assassin, the white and fat Ergou, who was arrested by the official, was caught by the official in charge, and on a street that was about to be taken to the front of the official institution, Li Ergou, who was almost crazy, was not sure if he was really crazy. He took advantage of the escort officer not paying attention to him and pushed away the official officer who was escorting him and ran away.
Li Ergou, who was running away, took heavy steps and dragged his fat body, was about to be caught by the official who had come to react and chased him. At this time, something that would happen in all the romantic books happened!
The white and fat Ergou, who tried his best to escape, hit a moving carriage on the street, and a great nobleman happened to be sitting in the carriage.
Baipang Ergou didn't know if he had the halo of the top protagonist, but the one he was slamming into was even more noble among the nobles.
Not long after he came to Beijing, one of the four unsolved mysteries in the Kyoto Bagua Circle, Luo Changfeng, the king of Yanbei.
What's even more bizarre is that it was because the prince was in a good mood that day or Li Ergou was too lucky. The final result was that the prince not only did not blame Li Ergou for the collision, but also made the white fat man, who was said to be an assassin, go home without any trouble.
From then on, Li Ergou became the legendary place in the Kyoto gossip circle.
In order to express his respect, people even changed the "white fat Ergou" that they originally called in private to the current "lucky Ergou".
Lucky is immortal, legend is immortal.
Lucky Ergou just sat down and heard a man say hello to him. Ergou is now a person who has seen the world and is no longer surprised by this situation. He just said "um" to the person with a smile on his face and ignored him.
The peacemaker treated by Lucky Ergou as air had a more and more frigid smile on his face, thinking that Li Ergou was getting colder and colder.
However, Li Ergou is now a mascot in the Kyoto gossip circle, so he dare not offend him.
So he continued to make no comments and said to Lucky Ergou: "Egou, everyone was talking about Liu Xuting just now. Ergou, do you have any ideas?"
When Lucky Ergou heard this, he turned around from the bench, shook the fat meat on his face and said, "Liu Xuting? I'm gossiping what a man is doing for no reason!"
Everyone present was shocked when they heard Lucky Ergou's words. What does Ergou mean? Does he want to rebel from the gossip circle?
In everyone's shock, Lucky Ergou pointed his fleshy finger at someone and said, "When I first came in, didn't I hear him say that he had a source of information? Do you ask him about it?"
Everyone followed Lucky Ergou's fingers and looked at Erya's relatives.
When Erya saw everyone looking over, she was stunned for a moment. After reacting, she felt proud in her heart. After taking a provocative look at Sun Dabao, she said to everyone: "Ergou is right. I do know some unknown things about Liu Xuting."
After saying that, I didn't know if I wanted to arouse everyone's appetite, but I kept silent. I picked up the tea on the table and started drinking it.
Everyone was very disgusted with Erya's relative's behavior, but they could not stop the blazing gossip in their hearts. They looked at Erya's relatives with curious eyes.
After a while, one person couldn't stand it anymore. He grabbed his body twice and said to Erya's relatives with a look of mercy, "Erya, if you know any inside information, just tell us! It's so uncomfortable to scratch your heart."
Seeing that it had already attracted everyone's appetite, Erya's relative put down the teacup in his hand and said slowly: "Actually, I heard some news. I heard that there were many big figures behind the Liu Xuting case. The officials who investigated the case did not dare to offend these people, so they randomly investigated and closed the case. Otherwise, have you ever seen such a big case, and the verdict was issued in less than a month?"
Everyone seemed to realize it when they heard this. They didn’t expect that Liu Xuting’s case was so complicated!
One person asked Erya's relatives in a low voice, "What big shots are involved?"
When Erya's relative heard that this person was desperate, he looked around carefully and said to the man in a low voice: "Since he is a big man, that's what you can inquire about. Are you thinking that you have long life?"
The man also felt that he had said the wrong thing and touched his nose awkwardly.
Chapter completed!