The Golden Age Chapter 42: Battle in the market

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Before it was noon, Qiuniang had already cooked the food.

A bowl of water tofu, a bowl of pork head meat, nothing else.

There is a small table in the hall. It is a place to eat on weekdays. The table is very short, and the two pony stools are shorter. After the food is on the table, Qiuniang immediately closed the door and the courtyard door was gone. She ate in the main hall. People in the alleys can see as long as they turn their heads.

Although Qiuniang didn't let down the wind in front of the fat woman, it was absolutely unacceptable for Qiuniang to let the neighbors in the past see herself eating with a strange young man.

As soon as the door was closed, the hall was quite dim.

With the door closed during the day and staying with a man, Qiuniang also seemed to feel a little embarrassed. She was too embarrassed to raise her head when she was eating, she just held her rice bowl and sipped her meal, but she was obviously worried, a few grains of rice. Chewed in the mouth for a long time.

Qin Xiao looked in his eyes, his heart was funny.

Although Qiuniang lives with her younger brother and seems to be unmarried, Qin Xiao is not sure that Qiuniang was not married before. After all, she is almost 30 and married at the age of thirteen or four in the lobby. There are many people who have never been married at this age, which is really unreasonable.

Looking at Qiuniang's performance, Jing didn't really seem to get along with men.

It stands to reason that Qiuniang is a lot older than herself, so she shouldn't be so restrained.

He picked up the chopsticks, took a piece of pork head, stretched it over and placed it in Qiuniang's bowl, Qiuniang raised her head, a little surprised, Qin Xiao said softly: "You have not eaten vegetables, is there something on your mind? "

"No... nothing." Qiuniang smiled reluctantly.

She only feels that the atmosphere at the moment is really embarrassing. If Gu Baiyi is at home, there will be nothing to do, but she is a woman's house and gets along with Qin Xiao alone. The key is that Qin Xiao, who only met yesterday, is not very familiar. , And now sitting at the same table for dinner with this young man, it always seems ridiculous.

She was in a conflicted mood.

I hope that Qin Xiao will leave as soon as he finishes his meal, lest neighbors in the neighborhood make irresponsible remarks, but I think that Qin Xiao's injury is still not healed, and it is hard to drive him away when he first arrives in Kyoto.

Qin Xiao only thinks that Qiuniang is really honest.

I asked her to buy groceries, mentioned pork head meat, and specially gave a few taels of silver. It was more than enough to buy a table of good wine and good food, but this beautiful lady really just bought a pound of pig head meat back. Nashui tofu is the cheapest dish, and it is also the most common dish on the Gu's dinner table.

Although she values ​​money very seriously and doesn't spend money randomly, she doesn't take advantage of others. All the money left over from grocery shopping is returned to Qin Xiao.

"Sister Qiu Niang is a person from Kyoto?" The two did not speak when they were eating. The atmosphere was how embarrassing and embarrassing, Qin Xiao asked without words.

Qiu Niang shook her head and said softly: "I am from Tanzhou, but I came to Kyoto when I was very young. At that time, I was only four or five years old, and my father was a tea merchant...!"

"Tea merchant?" Qin Xiao said hurriedly: "Sister Qiu must know tea well?"

"I don't understand." Qiuniang shook her head and said, "Father died of illness only half a year after coming to Kyoto. Only my mother and my siblings were left. Later...!" At this point, she didn't continue. Going down, his expression was a little sad.

Qin Xiao thought that Gu's sister and brother had lost their father when they were young, and couldn't help saying: "Then Qiu Niang... has been living with Brother Gu?"

Qiu Niang is also clever, she smiled softly and said: "You

I wanted to ask if I was married? I'm poor and ugly, but no one looks at me. "

"Sister Qiu Niang is not right." Qin Xiao immediately said: "Silver is something outside of the body. Today, you are shy in your pocket, and tomorrow you may be full of gold and jade. This is not a problem. If you have a beautiful face, if you are ugly, this Kyoto But there are no beautiful women."

He just wanted to compliment Qiuniang, but when he said that, he felt a little wrong. He was alone with a woman and praised her for her beautiful appearance, but it seemed a bit frivolous.

Qiu Niang was startled, she smiled and said: "The beauty of Kyoto is like a cloud. If they know that you compare a ugly like me to them, they can't spare you."

Qin Xiao could see clearly at this time. When Qiuniang smiled, there were small dimples on both sides of her mouth, and the small red mole on her lower lip was even more charming.

Although she is no longer young, she is like a ripe fruit, with a mature charm that a young girl cannot match.

Qiu Niang saw a trace of admiration from Qin Xiao’s eyes, knowing that it was a man’s reaction to women’s interest, and she was a little unhappy in her heart. She thought to herself that this guy was young, but she thought about herself, leaving aside The topic asked: "By the way, what happened last night? Why...why did anyone want to kill you?"

"I don't know who it is." Qin Xiao said: "I rode through an alley, and someone shot an arrow in the dark. I couldn't dodge and was shot in the shoulder. Then...then rode over. ."

He didn't deliberately deceive Qiuniang.

When Qin Xiao was attacked last night, not only did Qin Xiao kill the giant man, but also the giant man broke his stomach. If Qiu Niang knew about this, he would have scared this beautiful lady to death.

If Mei Jiao Niang sees herself in the future, she will think of the scene of a horror, and even think of herself as a murderer, naturally afraid of herself, and it will be difficult to get along with her.

The most important thing is that Qin Xiao really doesn't want to involve Qiuniang too much, the more he knows, the less good it is for Qiuniang.

"Thank you for riding a horse." Qiuniang had a lingering heart, she was beautiful and frowned, and whispered: "After you entered Beijing, you offended Tsing Yi Tang. That group of people is not a good thing. They oppress the people, do evil, and rely on someone behind them to support you. , Lawlessness. You hit their people, they are not your opponent on the face, so they secretly attacked."

Qin Xiao nodded and said: "Sister Qiu Niang is very true, I also held up the Tsing Yi Tang people secretly making a ghost."

"Hey, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't offend them." Qiuniang regretted: "I shouldn't stop the boat next to you that day."

"Don't say that." Qin Xiao smiled and said, "I heard people say that ten years of cultivation will be able to cross the same boat, and a hundred years of cultivation will be able to sleep together...Well, I can get on the boat of Miss Qiu It has been cultivated for ten years in the previous life. Without the practice of the previous life, there is no fate in this life."

Qiu Niang said "Oh" without comment.

"But Tsing Yi Tang deceives people so much. People in Kyoto dare to behave like this. If you go elsewhere, you will not do less murder and arson." Qin Xiao thought that if Tsing Yi Tang sent someone to assassinate last night, he and Qing Yi Tang He would not give up, and asked softly: "By the way, Sister Qiu, Brother Gu said before that there is a backer behind Tsing Yi Tang, but I didn't make it clear. Do you know who the backer behind this group of people is?" /

Qiu Niang shook her head and said: "I don't know. I only heard people say that behind them are high-ranking officials and high-ranking officials. Tsing Yi Tang is relying on the backing behind to dare to behave in Kyoto. People in the government see Qing Yi Tang. As long as they don’t kill their lives, they will turn around and leave without interfering."

Qin Xiaoxiang

At the Luoshui River that day, the officials clearly saw Tsing Yi Tang bullying the people, but did not pay attention to it. It can be seen that Tsing Yi Tang can survive in Kyoto because the backing behind makes them solid foundation.

"Those people in Tsing Yi Tang used to be gangsters on the streets of Kyoto, extorting them for a living in Kyoto." Qiuniang sighed softly, "But at that time, if these rascals deceive people too much, they will report to the government. I came forward and caught them in jail for a while. Anyway, I didn’t dare to be too rampant at that time. Later, I didn’t know when I came out and gathered all the rogues in Kyoto together. These people seemed to be more regular than before. , They won’t get into trouble easily, but if they offend them, they will be more fierce than before. For shops in Kyoto, big and small, as well as waterways and many other places, they have to collect money, saying that if you pay them, you can do business safely. , Otherwise these people make trouble all day long, and guests will not dare to come."

Qin Xiao frowned, and Qiuniang continued: "The government has to collect taxes, and these people have to collect money. Doing business in Kyoto is like paying two taxes. Fortunately, Kyoto has a large population and business is booming. In places where business is cold, these shops have long been closed."

"Those businessmen don't join hands to complain to the government?"

"In the beginning, many merchants really filed a lawsuit against Tsing Yi Tang." Qiu Niang said: "But the leading merchants disappeared somehow, and the government ignored them. Everyone felt that those merchants had been killed by Tsing Yi. Tang secretly killed him, so he never dared to file a complaint again."

Qin Xiao sneered and said: "At the feet of the emperor, it is so rampant. This is not just the fault of Tsing Yi Tang, but those in the temple are more at fault." I wondered how the person behind Tsing Yi Tang fell to the ground. Identity, no one dared to provoke Tsing Yi Tang.

"There is more than Tsing Yi Tang in Kyoto." Qiuniang whispered: "There is also a Taiping Hui, just like Tsing Yi Tang, they are not good people. The two groups fight each other in Kyoto to seize the territory. In order to collect money from places controlled by oneself, there are three rivers in Kyoto, Luoshui, Gushui and Raoshui. The Gushui channel belongs to Tsing Yitang, and Raoshui goes to Taiping Hui. The remaining Luoshui, which was formerly the site of Tsing Yitang, later appeared in Taiping. Yes, I took half of it from Tsing Yi Tang."

Qin Xiao was startled and found it more interesting.

This Kyoto is not only a court battle, but also a gang battle in the city.

He knows very well that the dispute between the market gangs is nothing but an extension of the court party disputes. Behind the Tsing Yi Tang and the Taiping Hui, there are the shadows of court officials.

"I was punting in Raoshui before, and they asked me for silver, so I ran to Gushui." Qiu Niang said angrily: "When I got to Gushui, they also asked me for silver. I went to Luoshui again. Anyway, they Chasing after me for money, I went around hiding from them. When the Taipinghui was out of control, Tsing Yitang couldn't control it. The Taiping would look for me, so I ran to Tsing Yitang to hide and seek with them." A smug smile appeared.

Qin Xiao knows that Qiuniang's living environment is really bad.

It is not easy for a woman to support her family in a boat. It is really hard to avoid those rogues to collect money. She asks: "How long have you been in a boat?"

"It didn't take long, less than two years." Qiuniang said: "I was in...!" Halfway through, she smiled faintly, but didn't go on with the following words. Qin Xiao saw her not Said, it was inconvenient to ask, picked up the chopsticks, and put a piece of pork head in Qiuniang bowl.

Qiu Niang said hurriedly: "Don't don't, eat it yourself, I...I don't like meat."

At this moment, a man's voice suddenly heard from the courtyard: "Dare to ask Qin Xiao, Master Qin can be here?"