The old Beijinger said that "the kang is hot and the house is warm." This is true.

The north wind whistles outside the house, and the weather is cold and the ground is frozen, but when the kang is dry, the whole house is warm and spring is like. If the cat doesn't go out on the kang, it will be much more comfortable than spending the winter in Jinling.

Zhao Shixi came into the inner room and felt that he had come back to life. But with the fierce god Gao Wu behind him, he still did not dare to slack off. He stood up straight and said respectfully to Zhao Hao: "Grandpa spared Sun Thief, Sun Thief really knows that he is wrong..."

"Sun Thief, don't play tricks with me. Who do you mean grandpa?" Seeing that he wanted to play tricks secretly, Zhao Hao sneered: "Call uncle!"

"Yes, uncle." Zhao Shixi shrank his neck. Unexpectedly, Zhao Hao said so casually in Beijing. His face turned pale and he knew that he had shot himself in the foot again.

"It seems you still don't know what's wrong." Zhao Hao asked coldly, "Then continue to accept the transformation."

As he said that, he ordered Gao Wu and said, "I will let this kid eat, live and train with you all the time, just treat him as an ordinary guard, and don't have to do special things!"

"Ah..." Zhao Shixi immediately had a dizzy moment. If Gao Wu hadn't held his collar in time, the kid would have kneeled to the ground.

"Also, from now until the beginning of the year, you are forbidden to leave the West Courtyard, you are forbidden to contact those friends, you are forbidden to drink and gambling, and you are forbidden to do everything that is forbidden."

Zhao Hao was unmoved at all, picked up the piece of paper written by Wang Wuyang and handed it to Gao Wudao: "Take it and strictly enforce it!"

"Yes!" Gao Wu responded in a muffled voice and took over the rules and regulations that Zhao Hao had drawn up for Zhao Shixi.

Then, he turned around and went out with Zhao Shixi, but met Zhao Shouzheng at the door.

"Oh, I'm frozen to death..." Zhao Shouzheng rubbed his hands and stamped his feet and stood in the entrance hall. Fang Wen helped him remove his fur hat and sable fur, and take off his heavy felt boots.

"Hey, why are you here again?" Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help but sank his face when he saw Zhao Shixi.

"Call someone." Zhao Hao's voice came from the inside through the thick curtains.

"Grandpa." Zhao Shixi immediately lowered his head and said, "It's all my grandson who is wrong, my grandson apologized to you."

There is no Erhuayin this time.

"This is almost the same." Zhao Shouzheng said with a look of a glare when he heard this: "Kid, remember, you can't lose if you have any desserts."

As he said that, he took out a ticket from his sleeve bag and said, "This is the meeting gift prepared by my uncle. If you pretend to be a grandson early, it would be yours."

Zhao Shixi took the ticket with both hands and looked at the amount above. It was a full thousand taels of silver. He couldn't help but open his mouth wide and regretted it.

He originally wanted to ask for a hundred and eighty taels...

Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world, and now there is no place to spend money.

~~

Gao Wu took Zhao Shixi out, Zhao Shouzheng entered the inner room, smiled at his son who was standing up to greet him, "Why, my son has cleaned up this bad boy?"

"There is no way, my brother is begging each other, but I won't agree." Zhao Hao smiled bitterly and curled his lips. He was so lazy and it would have been very hard to write books to teach his disciples every day. If it weren't for the purpose of making the brother embark on the journey without worries, he wouldn't have been indifferent to this nostalgic business.

However, although he promised to help discipline his eldest nephew, Zhao Hao didn't want to put any effort into this bad boy, so he kicked him directly to Gao Wu for rectification.

"Then you have to clean up his body." Zhao Shouzheng washed his hands and face, took off his shoes and went onto the kang, leaned against the quilt, slowly stretched and said, "I'm so tired..."

Eryang and Zhao Shizhen took away the pen and ink books on the table and asked the servants to start serving the dishes.

Zhao Jin had already come over there to tell Zhao Hao that he had a social engagement tonight and asked them to have dinner by themselves.

Of course, the chef of Guanglu Temple who was on duty at the mansion would handle everything, and they still didn't have to worry about it.

In a moment, the kang table was filled with large plates of roasted sea cucumbers with green onions, stewed lamb, braised prawns, 9-turn large intestines, and grilled lamb kebabs... Even the cold dishes were mixed with Jiaodong.

"Today's chef must be a Shandong cuisine chef." Zhao Shouzheng smiled and picked up a chopstick of green onions and roasted sea cucumbers, saying: "This Shandong cuisine is salty, fresh and mellow. It is very different from the Jinling cuisine we often eat, Huaiyang cuisine."

Zhao Hao and his apprentices also started moving around the table, chatting while eating, "What's my father busy today? Is he so tired?"

"Oh, don't mention it, the guild hall was thieves." Zhao Shouzheng took a sip of the old roast, and he frowned and said, "Our Yingtian guild hall was visited for two consecutive nights. Half of the same year as me in Beijing were actually affected."

"Is that true?" Wang Wuyang and Hua Shuyang looked at Zhao Shouzheng in surprise. The former hurriedly said: "When I was visiting my fellow villager Wang Shishou's house today, I heard that the Suzhou Guild Hall and Changzhou Guild Hall were also stolen."

"Is the security in the capital so bad?" Zhao Hao was also surprised. He was also somewhat glad that he agreed to live in his elder brother's house. The Chunsong Hutong was full of official residences and guards, so the thieves dared not visit him.

"I heard that it was because Altan entered the country in the previous episode, so there were too many refugees who fled to Beijing." Hua Shuyang replied: "The Chinese New Year will be celebrated next month, so there will naturally be more people taking risks."

"Yes." Zhao Shouzheng nodded and said, "The officials from Shuntian Mansion also said the same."

"Oh, Shuntian Mansion?" Zhao Hao asked curiously: "Such a theft case shouldn't be managed by Wanping or Daxing County?"

The capital is similar to Nanjing, and there are two counties with affiliation. According to the statement, the case should be under the jurisdiction of the county. Only after the county has completed it or cannot be handled, it will be reported to the prefecture. It is rare to hear that the prefecture will directly take care of such trivial matters.

"I heard that it was because of the stolen property of more than a dozen students. Shuntian Mansion took over the case to express his importance." Zhao Shouzheng smiled happily at Zhao Hao, "It's good to manage Shuntian Mansion. I never expected that the Chief of the Mansion was your brother Wu's uncle. He promised to help pay attention to the case and invited you to his house as a guest."

"Oh?" Zhao Hao was a little surprised. He knew that Wu Kangyuan would try to introduce him to his uncle, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. He thought he would have to wait until New Year's greetings before meeting him.

Feeling that things were not simple, he nodded and said that he knew.

~~

Before going to bed, the two apprentices and Zhao Shizhen went out, and Zhao Shouzheng reported the account to Zhao Hao:

"From Shuntian Mansion, I saw that they were all penniless, so I gave each of them 200 taels of silver, and then went to Dashilaner to hire an escort shop to protect their residence in the guild. Now the ten thousand taels of silver you gave me will cost me nearly four thousand taels a day."

As he said that, he couldn't help but smile and said, "It seems that a father is here, and he may be able to exceed the task."

"This is a good start." Zhao Hao nodded and said deeply: "After today, my father's reputation for timely rain should spread among the students, and there will be more and more opportunities to spend money in the future."

It was cold outside, and Zhao Hao wished he could stay on the kang every day and not go out. The burden of spending money fell on Zhao Shouzheng.

"I'm not bragging for my father. When it comes to spending money, I'm an expert..." Zhao Shouzheng said confidently.
Chapter completed!