“Yes, yes, yes, my apprentice remembers.”
Song Wangyue smiled and held his arm, “Master don’t be angry, let’s go and eat.”
Doctor Yao wanted to haughtily shake off her hand and say no, but his feet were already honestly stepping out. He tried to keep a straight face and followed Song Wangyue to Gu Yi’s courtyard, pretending to be reluctant. Seeing Gu Yi, he hummed and brushed his face away to ignore him.
“What, you don’t want the silver ticket anymore?”
Doctor Yao turned his head and looked at him with fierce anger.
Gu Yi took out the silver ticket and put it on the table and pushed it over to him. Dr. Yao had the backbone to reach out and take it and tuck it in his sleeve, sitting down with a huff.
“An old friend of my father’s is not feeling well, he’s going to the county to visit in a while, let you follow him.”
After eating a full meal and drinking a cup of tea, Master Gu’s boy came over to call for someone, and Doctor Yao went back to get his medicine chest and got into Master Gu’s carriage.
Inside the carriage, there was a small table with a chessboard on it and two boxes of black and white chess pieces placed next to it.
Doctor Yao put down the medicine box.
Master Gu looked at the chess board in front of him, “Doctor Yao, how many years has it been since we both played chess together?”
Doctor Yao narrowed his eyes, a scene from many years ago came to mind, back then King Qin was out leading the army, there was nothing to entertain in the house, the old man in front of him was so free that he would come to his courtyard from time to time to find him to play chess.
Master Gu brought the chess box containing white chess pieces over and fondled it, “This chess board and the chess pieces were still rewarded to me by the king back then, I have never been able to use them, today, let’s play a good game with it, maybe we won’t have such an opportunity in the future.”
“Say what, old thing ……”
Yao Daifu did not have the respect he had for him in front of people, he laughed and scolded, and sat down on the opposite side, “I’ve got someone to calculate it, you and I are both long-lived people, we are far from death, don’t be here to hurt the wind and grieve. Come, come, play chess, I haven’t forgotten the days when I killed you.”
Master Gu’s attention was drawn to his words, “Say again, who killed who and who didn’t stay?”
“You! You forget that you didn’t beat me once back then.”
“I think you’re confused, aren’t you? We played three games, two of which I beat you, and the remaining one I drew with you because you were about to cry.”
“You’re a braggart! How can you beat me with such a stinky chess player?”
“Come, come, come, I’ll give you a taste of what it was like to lose all over again.”
……
After Dr. Yao left, Song Wan Yue also went back to the courtyard to change her clothes, and Daya walked in and took out the clothes she had changed into to wash.
Song Wan Yue laughed and shook her head, she had only put on these clothes this morning, “Sister Daya, you’ve ruined my clothes even if I haven’t worn them.”
After we had been together for a long time, Daya didn’t have the same hesitation she had when she first started to serve her, she smiled and lifted the clothes to her nose, “It’s true that you only wore them this morning, but don’t forget that the food you cooked in them smelled of oil and smoke, so if you don’t wash them, you can’t have them.”
Song Wan Yue slapped her forehead, “I forgot about that, it really should be washed, thanks to Sister Daya.”
“Don’t say that again, I have nothing to do all day, I only wash clothes and clean the house, I have to thank you for letting me do such an easy job.”
Here we go again.
Song Wangyue spun her body around and pushed her out, “Hurry up and go wash it, so I can wear it when I go back in the evening.”
Daya pursed her lips and smiled.
Just as she took the clothes out, Xiao Si entered the courtyard, “Sister Daya, where is Miss Song?”
“She is in the house.”
Xiao Si stood still, “Miss Song, the man from the restaurant is here to see you.”
Song Wan Yue came out of the house and the fellow saluted, “Miss Song, Grand Master Sun and Master Sun went to the tavern to ask the innkeeper to help them find a place to stay, but the inns in the county are all full now, the innkeeper wants them to stay in the mansion he just bought for Third Master Song, so he asked me to come and ask Miss Song if it’s okay?”
“Bought a mansion for my third uncle?”
“Yes, the innkeeper said he just bought it yesterday and hasn’t had time to tell you about it yet.”
“Tell Master Wei to let them go and live there.”
The mate answered yes and retreated with Xiao Si.
Song Wangyue thought about it and went to find Gu Yi, telling him what the mate had just said, “I reckon Master Sun won’t give up working with us, so if you want to stop it, you’ll have to think of another way.”
Gu Yi pondered.
“If he insists on doing it, then leave it to him, the Sun family is a more suitable candidate both in terms of money and people, as for the future ……”
He paused and looked towards Song Wangyue.
Song Wan Yue turned around and walked out, “Just think about it, there is no need to consider me, with the Ding Guo Gong House and my maternal great grandfather around, even if something does happen to big brother in the future, no one will dare to touch my family’s.”
……
The mate went all the way back to the tavern and gave Song Wan Yue’s words to the boss Wei, who went upstairs, where several of Grand Master Sun’s people had long since had their fill and had been drinking tea waiting for his news.
“If you don’t mind, you can come with me and take a look, and stay if you like. If you don’t mind, you can come with me to have a look and stay there if you like, but you’ll have to buy all the things inside yourselves.”
Master Sun rose gratefully, “We are content to have a place to stay, everything else is fine, please thank Mr. Wei.”
“Then you can follow me there.”
Several people descended the stairs and went over with Master Wei.
The mansion was in a hutong, not very big. There was a front and back yard, with three northern rooms in the front yard, and east and west wings, plus a kitchen house. The back yard was spacious enough for carriages and horses to be kept there, and there was a well.
Grand Master Sun was very pleased and thanked him again and again.
The owner, Wei, gave him the key, “If you have a look at what you need to buy, write a list and ask your servant to take it to me at the restaurant, I will take him to buy it, the restaurant is still busy now, I will go back first.”
Master Sun thanked him again and personally escorted him to the door, watching him walk towards the entrance of the hutong before he turned around and came back.
All that needed to be purchased was bedding and tea sets for them all.
He and Master Sun sat down in the hall and called the boy in to order, “Count how many people there are in total, one set of bedding for each of them, the best for me, my second brother and Chengru, and three sets of good tea sets and two sets of inferior ones, remember, not too inferior, and when we leave, we will leave these things to the host family as a charge for our stay.”
The boy answered and then retreated out.
Master Sun looked at the sky, “Second brother, it’s still early, why don’t we go to Miss Song’s house now and settle the business you want to do, lest if we delay too long, Miss Song will have other ideas in her mind.”
Master Sun also had the same intention and immediately got up, “Brother is right, let’s go there now, the sooner we can talk it over, the sooner I can feel at ease.”