Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 121 A Shrewd Woman in the House
The office of the Observatory was located in the inner city, but it was not located in the Qianbu Corridor like other departments. Instead, it was located in the inner city north of the imperial palace.

Covering an area of ​​1,200 acres, it is almost unimaginable in the inner city of Kyoto where every inch of land is valuable, which shows how deep the emperor's grace was.

In addition to the magnificent government office, there is also a residential area behind it.

These houses are small courtyards with independent entrances and exits, and are allocated to the officials of the Astronomical Observatory. Many of the officials of the Astronomical Observatory live in this area with their families.

This place can be said to be the safest place in the entire Kyoto city. Even if the door is open in the middle of the night, there will never be any thieves coming here.

After all, what stupid thief would be so desperate as to sneak into the lair of the Astronomical Observatory?
Behind the headquarters of the Astronomical Observatory, there was an inconspicuous courtyard.

The courtyard is not big. There is only an old locust tree, a well and a chicken coop, and nothing else.

Zhao Guanxiang was standing in the chicken coop at this moment, shirtless, with his arms outstretched, cautiously approaching a big rooster.

Outside the fence, General Gao was watching with excitement, while the younger General Zhang was pretending to be calm, only occasionally revealing a hint of worry in his eyes.

Zhao Guanxiang pounced on the rooster like a hungry tiger, grabbed the rooster's neck, and while the rooster was flapping its wings in panic, he pressed the base of its wings and lifted it up. He turned his head and said excitedly to the two people outside the fence: "Build a fire! Build a fire!"

……

Soon, smoke rose from the yard.

Zhao Guanxiang and the other two were gathered around an earthen stove, on which sat a clay pot, bubbling with food and giving off an enticing aroma.

Gao Pujiang was adding firewood to the earthen stove and said with a smile, "Xiao Zhang, aren't you afraid that your wife will come back and beat you up?"

Zhang Pujiang frowned and turned his head away: "My wife has always been virtuous and kind. How could she have done such an impolite thing? You are just spreading rumors. I asked you to come to my house today so that you can clear my name in the future."

Zhao Guanxiang sprinkled some chopped green onions into the casserole, and laughed when he heard it, and joked: "Then you had black eyes half a month ago..."

"It fell."

"Can you fall so hard that your eye sockets are bruised?"

"Correct!"

"Then the scratches on your face..."

"It was scratched by a wild cat."

Zhang Pujiang stiffened his neck and tried to defend himself one by one, speaking in a very serious manner.

The main one is a tough talker.

Seeing that Zhao Guanxiang wanted to say more, he said angrily, "I am the head of the family, and I can't be the master of a chicken? Don't ask, just eat it quickly."

As he spoke, he opened the lid of the casserole, poured a bowl of chicken soup, and took away a chicken leg.

Gao Pujiang immediately became anxious: "Hey, I took a fancy to that chicken leg first."

"There's still ..."

"No, that's the left leg, and this is your right leg. The meat on the right leg is fatter."

"Where does this twisted logic come from?"

Zhao Guanxiang couldn't help but smile knowingly when he saw the two servants arguing over the chicken legs.

He actually knew that today's game was specially arranged by his two older brothers to help him relieve his depression.

The stingy Zhang Pujiang risked being beaten by his wife and took out all the chickens in his house to share. Zhao Guanxiang saw this kindness and kept it in his heart.

Zhao Guanxiang held the bowl of chicken soup in his hand, looked at the oily smell floating on the soup in the bowl, and suddenly said: "How about I find a way to transfer you to other lieutenants in the prison."

When he spoke out of the blue, the two servants Gao and Zhang stopped fighting and looked at each other.

Gao Pujiang pretended to be unhappy and said, "Why? Are you dissatisfied with your elder brother for not being able to help you?"

"I have had this idea for a long time..."

As soon as General Zhang Pu opened his mouth, he was immediately glared at by General Gao Pu.

But he said the second half of the sentence slowly: "But let's take down the Gao family first."

Zhao Guanxiang was about to speak, but General Gao said impatiently, "Alright, alright, we agreed not to talk about business today. As a punishment, you won't have any chicken legs today. You can have chicken wings instead, and the two chicken legs will be shared between me and Old Gao."

Zhao Guanxiang was so angry that he laughed: "Why? I am the boss of you two!" "I told you not to talk about business. Besides, how can a boss have a lower position than his subordinates?"

Just as the three of them were arguing, the gate of the courtyard was suddenly pushed open and a woman walked into the courtyard from outside.

She was a woman in her early twenties, young and pretty.

Her hair was tied up with a few jade hairpins, and a few strands of hair hung down. But the corners of her eyes were slightly raised, and she looked at everyone as if everyone owed her a few pieces of silver.

When the woman entered the house, she was stunned to see three grown men gathered around an earthen stove in the yard.

When the three saw her, they were also dumbfounded.

For a moment, everyone stared at each other and the atmosphere seemed to be frozen.

Until Zhang Pujiang hurriedly stood up and said to the woman, "Madam, didn't you go back to your parents' home to visit your relatives today?"

Zhao Guanxiang also stood up and smiled awkwardly: "Sister-in-law of the Zhang family."

The woman didn't answer, but just glanced at the half-eaten casserole chicken on the earthen stove, then looked at the chickens in the chicken coop in the corner of the courtyard wall, silently counting the number in her heart.

She said nothing and the room remained silent.

When the three of them saw her come in, they each breathed a sigh of relief and sat down again.

Zhang Pujiang said with a bit more toughness: "I've already said it before, I'm the boss of this family, what am I afraid of? Can't I make decisions over a chicken?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, instead of receiving praise from his two colleagues, they looked horrified and stared at him.

Zhang Pujiang didn't understand what was going on. He looked behind him and his eyes widened.

The woman who had just entered the room came out again with a butcher knife in her hand.

The woman had a cold face, raised the knife and stared at the three people, saying quietly:

"Where's my chicken?"

Zhao Guanxiang immediately said: "I'll give you the money!"

He respectfully handed over thirty coins and said, "Sister-in-law Zhang, I regard Commander Zhang as my closest relative, you can't..."

The woman glanced at him coldly, which immediately made Zhao Guanxiang look embarrassed and his voice became softer: "This shouldn't be..."

"Ok?"

"Anyway, be gentle."

The woman then took the copper coin, nodded, and said, "Okay."

Then, he pinched Zhang Pujiang's ear and lifted him up.

"Come into the house with me."

"It hurts, it hurts... Madam, be gentle."

Under the gaze of Zhao Guanxiang and Gao Pujiang, the door slammed shut.

Then, there was a roar from the Hedong Lion:
"Zhang Juzheng!!!"

Zhao Guanxiang and Gao Pujiang in the yard couldn't help but shrink their necks and looked at each other.

Zhao Guanxiang sighed, "What do you think marriage brings to men?"

General Gao Pu said unhappily, "Not all of them are like this. Xiao Zhang's wife was a bandit in the north in her early years. How could she be an ordinary woman? She is very good at wielding a pair of scimitars. To be honest, I feel that I am no match for her."

"That's true."

“Is this chicken still edible?”

"Eat, why not? I paid for it!"

In the room, there were loud bangs and it was quite tragic.

But obviously, it did not affect the appetite of the two people in the yard.

(End of this chapter)