webnovelfull Chapter 150 Searching for someone
Chapter 150 Searching for someone
Only after Ye Youlan entered did she realize what the Seventh Prince meant. There were no customers in the shop at all. The shopkeeper was lying on the counter, and a clerk was sitting on a stool by the wall with his eyes closed.
Hearing the noise, they both opened their eyes. Seeing the visitor's extraordinary demeanor, they quickly came over with a smile and greeted him, "Sir, what would you like to eat?"
Ye Youlan looked around but didn't see any menu, so she picked a cleaner table with better lighting and sat down. Dingxiang and Li Zhi sat next to her.
"Isn't this a mutton restaurant? Bring me three bowls of mutton soup. Use more mutton, more cilantro, and less chili oil. Also, two servings of lamb trotters. And cook a bowl of plain noodles for this guest."
The shopkeeper and the clerk looked at each other. The Seventh Prince smiled but said nothing. Ye Youlan raised her eyes to look at the shopkeeper and the clerk: "Aren't you going to prepare?"
"Madam, can you finish all the food you ordered?"
"Yes, I love mutton soup the most."
The guy went to the kitchen at the back to ask for preparation, and soon the aroma of mutton soup wafted over.
Ye Youlan picked up her chopsticks and looked at the Seventh Prince: "Why don't you sit at the table by the door? There's more air circulation there, and the mutton smell will be lighter."
The waiter brought over a bowl of mutton soup and placed it in front of Ye Youlan first.
Ye Youlan placed a bowl that was bigger than her face, pointed at it and said to the waiter, "Hey, this is a basin. We want a bowl, a bowl this big."
Ye Youlan gestured with her fingers.
The guy glanced at her and said, "We always use bowls this big, so I asked if you can finish it."
As they were talking, a waiter brought two bowls of mutton soup to Dingxiang and Li Zhi's table.
Then two bowls of lamb trotters were brought in, one on each table.
The Seventh Prince picked up his plain noodles with chopsticks and said to Ye Youlan with a smile, "I really need to eat over there. Madam, please enjoy your meal slowly."
The Seventh Prince took his clear water noodles to the side. Ye Youlan looked at the two large basins in front of her and fell into deep thought. She thought this might be the difference between the northern and southern cultures!
Ye Youlan invited Dingxiang and Li Zhi to eat as much as they could.
As they left the mutton restaurant, Ye Youlan didn't want to talk. She was so full. If it were in modern times, she would definitely pack up some food to take home, but not here. Although she had no shortage of money, she still couldn't bear to waste food.
"Come on, I'll take you somewhere else to walk around, just as a walk to digest the food."
“There’s nothing fun here.”
"Yes, across this alley, there's a large courtyard with a fun activity called sheep fighting. You can place a bet."
Ye Youlan became energetic when she heard it, but she soon became dispirited.
The plot about Prince Qi gambling on fishing is in the book, but the sheep fighting is not mentioned at all.
"Then I'll bet ten taels of silver!"
After entering a dilapidated courtyard, Ye Youlan discovered that there was a different world inside. There were small vendors and shops, and it felt like a farmers' market.
The place for the sheep fighting was packed with people, and the noise was deafening. A few people finally squeezed in. They saw two sheep in the fence being pulled apart, and someone was shouting to those who wanted to place a bet to do so quickly.
Ye Youlan looked at the two sheep, a black goat and a white goat. At this time, many people were shouting that the black goat would win.
Ye Youlan asked Li Zhi to bet one hundred taels on the white goat.
"Madam, the black goat looks more agile, while the white goat is a bit fat. Would you like to reconsider?"
The Seventh Prince looked over at the betting area. It seemed everyone was betting on the Black Goat to win. "Madam, would you like to reconsider this?"
"No, how about you bet on the black goat, Your Majesty?"
"Then the money we both make goes out of our left hand and into our right hand, doesn't it?"
Ye Youlan looked at the betting area and said, "No, more people win by betting on the black goat, so the odds are lower. Not many people win by betting on the white goat, so the odds are higher."
The Seventh Prince asked Li Zhi to bet on the white goat, because he wanted to see how his wife's luck was.
Li Zhi went.
When most people have placed their bets, the game continues.
The two goats fought with blood-red eyes, the scene was very intense, and the onlookers were even more excited, cheering and cheering one after another. In the end, the white goat made a comeback and pierced the black goat's belly with its horns. Blood gushed out like a column, and the black goat fell to the ground and could not get up. The white goat won.
The Seventh Prince looked at Ye Youlan in surprise. Ye Youlan smiled and said, "It's just intuition." At this moment, she believed that the heroine was lucky enough to have a golden finger.
When she came out, Ding Xiang was very excited and expressed her feelings: "Madam, you are really amazing. How did you predict that the white goat would win? When Brother Li went to place the bet, I wanted to bet on the black goat to win."
Li Zhi remained silent. The Seventh Prince glanced at him and said, "You're not going to bet on the Black Goat, are you?"
Li Zhi said in frustration, "When I placed a bet for my wife, I saw many people betting on the black goat, so I couldn't help but bet two taels of silver, but ended up losing. If I had known this would happen, I would have bet on the white goat with my wife. With odds of 8 to 1, I would have won more than ten taels."
Ye Youlan laughed heartily, but when she thought about how her happiness was built on the suffering of others, she put away her smile: "I am a bit lucky. If you have similar bets in the future, just follow me."
The Seventh Prince muttered, "I didn't expect the odds to be eight to one. How about we go and gamble again, Madam?"
Ye Youlan shook her head: "Don't be too greedy, God will take away my good luck."
Having easily earned a few hundred taels of silver, Ye Youlan was in a good mood. Passing by a grocery store, she was shopping so much that Dingxiang and Li Zhi couldn't carry the goods, so the Seventh Prince had to help.
"What did you buy these for, Madam?"
"Find a place to ship the goods, pack them up and send them back to the palace, and have Xiaomei distribute them to everyone."
Fortunately, there was a cargo transport shop not far away, and they said the caravan would arrive in about ten days.
After they left, Ding Xiang asked curiously, "Madam, didn't you just say you were sending it to the palace? Why did you send it to Qingfeng Teahouse?"
"Sending it to the palace will easily attract attention. Sending it to Qingfeng Teahouse is our own shop, so Xiaomei will pick it up herself."
When I returned to the posthouse, I saw a yamen runner waiting there, saying that he had found information about a family.
So fast? It seems the magistrate's people are quite efficient.
Dingxiang went down and Ye Youlan was about to leave, but the Seventh Prince asked her to stay and listen so that he wouldn't have to repeat it again.
The bailiff cleared his throat and said, "Zhao Yong was 27 years old when he died. His wife remarried in a neighboring county three months after his death. He has an elderly mother and a grandson who depend on each other for survival. Last year, a tornado blew up, and the sky was filled with yellow sand. The elderly mother was swept away by the wind and her whereabouts are unknown. The little grandson was adopted by a family in the same village. Because their household registration was changed, the prince's talents were unable to find him."
"Can this prince see the child?"
"The child is ten years old this year, his name is Zhao Lin, and he is currently being housed in the county magistrate's residence. Your Highness can see him anytime he wants."
The Seventh Prince asked the yamen runner to take Li Zhi to pick up the child.
Ye Youlan pulled the Seventh Prince back to his room. She wondered, "Prince, out of the 3,000 people who died in the Liangcheng ambush, only 300 survived. Why did you insist on looking for the five people from Linzhou? Was it because it was strange that there was no news of their relatives, which aroused your suspicion? Or maybe they knew something back then?"