Chapter 203 The Wine Thief
Tang Gong's tribe members were scattered outside Taixing City. There was only one Tangjiazhuang that had a former residence when Tang Gong was young. People often cleaned and paid tribute to him, but it was limited to this.
Wei Ming came to take three fragrances. When he saw the portrait of Tang Gong, the trident in his hand had resisted many vicious Japanese pirates. However, such a Qing Japanese general only had his childhood home and thatched earthen courtyard. Occasionally, someone came to pay tribute and did not dare to make noise.
The charge of communicating with the Japanese almost wiped out the glory of his life.
Wei Ming had worshipped Mr. Tang and asked about the crime of Tang Gong communicating with Japanese decrees. Everyone in Tangjiazhuang had the same attitude, "It's false!" If Wei Ming mentioned in a vain whether it was true, the Tang Gong clan members said, "Are you here to pay homage to Mr. Tang or to ask for the crime? If you are not sincere, don't come! The three fragrances are wasted, and the spirit of Tang Gong in heaven is uneasy!"
Wei Ming was not easy to mention it, so he had to try to find Wu Li.
But he was not clear about Wu Li, and he had never even met in this life. After asking for a long time, he could not find Wu Li's whereabouts.
Wu Li must have a special channel for knowing about Mr. Tang. He heard the statements of some people who knew the inside story. The tribesmen of Tangjiazhuang were all from Mr. Tang’s former tribesmen, and they only did some farm work or small business near Taixing. If you know the inside story, you will naturally follow Mr. Tang’s old subordinates who are following Mr. Tang.
However, Duke Tang's old subordinate was a military household and was under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou garrison. Wei Ming was not easy to contact with in garrisons at all levels. Instead of finding these people, it would be better to find Wu Li. The news came quickly.
But where can Wu Li go?
According to what Duan Wanquan had found out for him before, Wu Li went to Taixing County to find a job with the post Wu Tao. Wu Tao had many silk and satin shops. Wei Ming found out several silk and satin shops in Taixing but found nothing. He was planning to search for them for another two days, but if he couldn't do it, he would make another plan.
On this day, Wei Ming came down from the inn to find food and heard someone on the street discussing the invitation to drink. The invitation to drink is a grand event in Yangzhou Prefecture. Although the visiting Yizhen is not in Taixing, there are no ones who come and go or gourmet.
Wei Ming thought that Cui Zhi and his party were heading for the invitation ceremony. He couldn't help but turn around and entered the restaurant next to him. He had just chosen a table along the window to sit down and was about to listen to the invitation ceremony. When he heard the backyard of the restaurant became in chaos.
"Wine thief! Catch the wine thief!"
As the shouts came, everyone looked at the backyard of the restaurant, and saw a person suddenly jumping out of the foyer of the backyard. The man ran very fast and was about to rush to the gate.
"Catch him!"
Someone chased and shouted, "The stop was close to the gate, and suddenly closed the door.
The thief was unwilling to accept it and did not surrender. He saw that the window behind Wei Ming was wide open. He twisted his body and rushed towards Wei Ming. He shouted "Get out of the way", jumped to the bench next to Wei Ming, and he was about to jump out of the window.
However, at this moment, I saw the bench under his feet slipping. The thief standing on the bench was unstable. He wanted to take advantage of the momentum and jumped, but he had not yet picked it up. He nipped on the window with a bang.
At this moment, the runner-up had already come over and twisted him, "Where will you run?"
The thief looked not as weak as the one who was wearing sloppy clothes, his face was covered with stubble, and he was stinky. He was not in a hurry to get caught, but said to Wei Ming: "You are so fast that you can't beat me up!"
He said it right, but Wei Ming was very serious and kicked the bench under his feet with a fast eye.
But Wei Ming kicked him with an unfair way, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the Qingzhou smell floated out along with bad breath.
Wei Ming watched him, and the waiter and the chasing chef who was chasing him came over. The chef was holding a wine pot in his hand and put it on the table with a bang. The wine pot was put down, but there was no sound of wine swaying in the inside.
The guy pointed to the sloppy thief and scolded: "A thief with a bad mouth! I said that I had poured wine into the wine pot just now, why was the bottle empty before I could deliver it? I thought I was missing it! It turned out that it was you, the wine thief, who stole the wine!"
The guy grabbed the thief's collar and said, "Get the money!"
The thief laughed, "Catch the evildoer and catch the double, take the thief and get dirty, how do you prove that I stole something?! The wine bottle is in your hands, but not in my hands. Who knows if you stole the drink?"
He was playing a scoundrel here, and the guy was so angry that he stared at him. He didn't know how to respond to his words for a moment. Who would have thought that if he had drunk too much, it would be impossible for him to react. The thief was not careful and hiccupped his wine.
"I said it's not you! It's dirty in your stomach!" The guy grabbed him and said, "Give up the money!"
The thief laughed, "I'll give you money if you want money, I'll spit it out for you if you want wine!"
His sloppy appearance, let alone vomiting, even if he had a sip of wine, it would be useless. The young man was so angry that he ran away and said directly: "If you don't have money, we don't want to drink, so we can take you to the official!"
Now, the thieves were panicked, "Oh, ah, two big brothers, I have something to say!"
Wei Ming looked from the side. If he didn't know who it was, he would have gone to Taixing in vain.
When he saw the thief running and pulling the thief to see the official, he stepped forward and patted the thief's hand, "How much is this thief's money for drinking, it's up to me."
As he said, everyone looked at him. The thief looked at Wei Ming, "A fellow villager in Qingzhou?"
Wei Ming chuckled, and saw that he was carrying the thief's collar and took out the silver. After seeing the real money and silver with the guy, he would not think that Wei Ming was a thief accomplice, so he immediately let the thief go.
The thief was thundering and laughed. He slapped his yellow teeth in front of Wei Ming's eyes. Wei Ming didn't dislike it and pushed the salted beans he ordered to the center of the table. "You are a scholar after all, how can you be so kind of wine? Are you not afraid of refusing your fame when you make trouble in the government?"
"You, how do you know I am a scholar?"
Wei Ming smiled, and didn't look at him, so he picked up a bean and put it in his mouth, "I not only know that you are a scholar, but also know that your surname is Wu, and your single name is the character "pe."
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After Wu Li was driven to come by Wu Tao, he originally came to Taixing to find a tea shop according to the post given by Wu Tao. He thought Wu Tao would ask the tea shop owner to give him some business, or to trump a batch of tea leaves back to Qingzhou. Who knew that the tea shop owner heard that he was a scholar, so he asked him to take charge of the accounts. The scholar was not alone, but the tea shop owner was no different from his friends.
And isn’t he a member of the Wu clan introduced by Mrs. Wu?
Just this treatment?
Is Mrs. Wu too weak in appearance, or did she deliberately "take care of" him?
He did the dark sun for three months and stopped doing it. He went south but was not here to do the accounting. If he made money in the accounting, why would he go south?
Wu Li left the tea shop, but the tea shop did not try to keep him. So he found a bookstore to copy and had the opportunity to see the text printed by the bookstore, and the salary was also quite large.
Chapter completed!