It's winter again, and the inside and outside of the red palace wall of Daqin is fine with silver makeup.

Before dawn, fine snow foam fell under the blue sky, three rows of extremely broken footprints extended all the way from the Qintian Temple to the Zhenwu Palace, the great eunuch Li Zhongyi's head and shoulders were slightly white, his body was bent, and his back was also slightly snowy, stepping on the fine snow, turning the palace wall, crossing the long Lishui River Bridge, feeling a little cold, he tucked his hands into his sleeves, looked down at the bluestone road under his feet, and thought about what to say when he saw Lin Xiang later.

"See my father-in-law", the leader of the forbidden army passing by next to him bowed his head, Li Zhongyi tilted his head slightly, signaling them not to worry about themselves, passing through the Beiyue Zhenwu Hall, going straight to the Beisheng Gate, with his back to the corner tower behind him, and walking into Nanfu Lane with broken steps.

"The Holy Lord has asked you to go over to discuss the matter of the scholars from the two places in the south of the Yangtze River to advise the Nanguo Gong."

The bald pouts and said: "The scholars of the two places in the south of the Yangtze River are admonishing the Duke of Nanguo, can Lin Xiang have a good way?"

"Eh—it should be said that Jiangnan Shizi is quite dissatisfied with the government, and I don't know if Lin Xiang can have a way to appease and share his worries for His Majesty?

When he came to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he bent down slightly and turned around to look at the two little eunuchs who accompanied him.

Leaving the two people outside the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he walked into the Prime Minister's Mansion with small steps.

Standing in the front hall waiting for Lin Changqing to come out, he sat on the chair on the side for a long time, picked up the tea handed by the maid, lowered his head and blew the tea leaves, dialed the lid of the bowl, dialed the tea leaves floating on the tea water inside, took a sip slightly, and covered the tea bowl again, knocked his fingers on the yellow rosewood chair, and waited quietly.

Lin Changqing changed his clothes early in the morning, at this time he was holding a piece of music and drinking thin rice porridge while reading, from time to time put down the porridge bowl and turned a page, frowned slightly, put down the chapter, breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the hollow beam carving, his eyes shifted to the ground covered with red carpet, and then looked at the drawer inlaid with copper handles under his desk, opened the drawer and put the letter in, and locked it with a click.

"Lin Xiang, Gonggong Li is here."

Lin Changqing said in a low voice: "Got it", got up and put on his boots, thought about it, picked up the seal again, just walked to the door, turned around and put it down, and said in a low voice: "It's not appropriate."

Walking along the corridor to the front hall, Li Zhongyi, who was dressed in red, had been waiting for a long time, saw Lin Changqing, got up and said, "Lin Xiang."

Lin Changqing arched his hand and said: "My father-in-law came to the house so early, was it summoned by His Majesty?"

Li Zhongyi looked at Lin Changqing's face, his eyebrows lowered slightly, and then he looked at Lin Changqing and said: "Jiangnan scholars are quite dissatisfied with the government, I don't know if Lin Xiang can have a way to appease and share his worries for His Majesty?

Lin Changqing said: "How dare you, Your Majesty summoned Mo to say that it was snowing, and he had to go with a knife."

Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "Then our family will lead the way" and walked ahead.

Lin Changqing followed Li Zhongyi behind him, his heart restless.

A few days ago, he had heard about Jiangnan Shizi's participation in Nanguo Gong, and His Majesty summoned him probably for this matter.

Outside the palace gate, Li Zhongyi said in a low voice: "Let's go in and have a look, Lin Xiang will wait."

Step up the stairs with broken steps.

Lin Changqing looked up at the sky, and the east was slightly white.

In the small town of Lin'an Mansion, which is close to Luodu 100 miles away, there is also fine snow Feifei, the salt transport governor Cao Wan Dayou squinted his eyes and took a puff of the old smoking gun, looked up at the already bright sky, frowned, looked at the gate of the Yanyun Mansion that had not yet been opened, rolled up the cigarette gun, got up and looked at the little boy who was crouching beside him and curled up in a ball.

The little boy was wearing a large, thick, heavy, dirty cotton jacket, almost like a quilt, which wrapped him tightly, and only a face red from the heat leaked, and his eyes were both curious and a little frightened.

"Little rabbit cub, let's go and wait under the door, and as soon as the door of the government opens, we will go and ask for your father's pension money, and go back to marry your daughter-in-law."

The little boy took away his stabbed hands and stood up on the ground, his eyes darkened, and he almost fainted.

Wan Dayou let out a breath of white air, held the back of his neck and said, "Let's go, you can go in when the guests of Yanyun Mansion are about to come out."

When he said this, he was also worried in his heart, it has not been a day or two since the two of them came here, for half a month, the body of the little boy and his father has been parked in the courtyard and has already stinked, and he cannot be buried for a long time, once he is buried, the official master here will try his best to teach them to come up with evidence to prove that this little boy is the son of the dead Cao Yun Qian San, and then it will be troublesome.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the door of the Yanyun Mansion to open, and a few residents came out of the door, glanced at the two and left in a hurry.

Wan Dayou took the little boy into the crack in the door and walked straight towards the place where the yamen of the salt transportation office was located.

In order to add some extra money, the Yanyun Mansion here vacated the house that was originally for Caoyun on the river and turned it into a small inn, which was only responsible for providing beds and not for others, which was a few points cheaper than ordinary inns.

Wan Dayou came to the door of the house with the word "governor" written on it, and raised his legs to enter.

Through a very low wooden fence, he said to the extremely lazy official inside: "Official, we have come to receive the pension money of Cao Yun Qian San, a total of twenty taels of silver."

Twenty taels of silver is not a small amount in Daqin, and it can make ordinary people do nothing, and there are more than two years of Ansheng.

When the officer heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said lazily: "Have you completed all the formalities?"

Wan Dayou squatted in front of the wooden fence, took out a stack of paper from his arms, handed it over through the wooden fence and said: "The pavilion and the township have all been stamped, and it has been done."

There are two pieces of paper to prove the identity of the little boy next to him, proving that he is indeed Qian San's son, two pieces of paper are death certificates issued by the Salt Transportation Office, proving that Qian San did die in the river of Yanyun, and two pieces of paper are proving that Qian San was on an errand in the Yanyun Mansion here before his death, and the last two pieces of paper are the pension certificates issued by the government.

The officer looked at it carefully, frowned slightly, and whispered for a while: "This still needs a chapter."

Wan Dayou was stunned, what else do you need? I have already done everything according to the process, and after thinking for a while, a layer of fine sweat oozed from my head and said: "I don't know what chapter is missing, where should I do it?"

The messenger looked at Wan Dayou and said, "Who are you?"

Wan Dayou said: "It's Qian Sanyou, he died, so I brought his son to receive the pension, and there was no one in his family."

The messenger nodded, and sighed for a while: "Oh, you have a white slip on when to receive a bereavement pension in one chapter, it should be issued by someone from Yanyun Mansion, and we don't dare to give you a bereavement pension without this white slip, don't you see ......?"

Wan Dayou hurriedly said: "I didn't say I wanted this white strip when I came here before, and now where can I find someone to write this white strip at this time."

The officer looked at the pile of paper in his hand, and said for a while: "It stands to reason that you can take it without need, but you have to charge some handling fees, if you agree, I will write you a temporary one, and you sign it to prove that you have taken the money away."

Wan Dayou was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "That's okay, I don't know how much it costs", said and took out a money bag from his waist and took out a few copper plates.

The servant forced a smile and said, "Five taels of silver, if you can't take it out now, you can deduct it from the pension money."

"Five taels of silver?".

Wan Dayou was taken aback, and said hurriedly: "This money is not much, and a white slip will deduct five taels?"

The messenger frowned slightly and said impatiently: "Okay, okay, don't be so loud, if you don't do it, you will go to get the white strip first, but then again, even if you get the white strip, the Yanyun Mansion will also eat a kickback of five taels, if you have a white strip, you will receive fifteen taels, if you don't have a white strip, you will receive ten taels, you will take it away, if you don't get it, go out, don't delay my errand."

"This ...... What kind of rule is this, the pension money of the imperial court, why do you say that you can deduct it?", Wan Dayou was so anxious that the sweat on his head came down.

"This is the rule of Yanyun Mansion, love or not"

A figure beside him pushed Wan Dayou away and said, "Official, settle the bill."

The officer glanced at the sign handed over by the man and said, "Ding Yuan, Ding Yuan, two people, one person is five hundred yuan, and two people are one thousand yuan."

Ding Yuan smiled: "Are you mistaken, one person should be five taels, and two people are ten taels."

The officer was stunned for a moment, and thought that he had heard it wrong, and immediately understood what this person was here for, and said with a smile: "If you want to be in the limelight, okay, ten taels is ten taels, and no one is missing, otherwise you will be taught to crawl out."

Ding Yuan said: "I didn't fall asleep last night, according to the rules, one person compensated us fifteen taels, two people compensated us thirty taels, threw away ten taels of store money, and bothered the official to give me the twenty taels."

The officer was taken aback, as if he had been stepped on by a cat's tail, and jumped up and said, "I heard me right, the hotel still wants to ask me for money?

Ding Yuan smiled: "That's naturally my rule."

He grabbed the officer, took out a knife, cut off one of the officer's ears, and said, "Now you have soiled my hand, fifteen taels on one hand, a total of thirty-five taels of silver."

The officer howled and shouted, and when the officials heard the voice, they threw down the pai gow in their hands and hurried out and said, "What's wrong?"

Ding Yuan said: "It's not a big deal, I owe me a total of thirty-five taels of silver, and your people have delayed giving it to me, and now it has dragged me for so long, and I have to get forty taels."

Wan Dayou's face was frightened, and he took the little boy from the cabinet and took the pile of papers from the cabinet, and hurriedly escaped from the house.

Ding Yuan felt puzzled, took out a knife and cut off the other ear of the errand officer and said: "Both hands are dirty, fifty-five taels, I'm still in a hurry to do something, which of you gave this money?"

The officials were first furious, and then frightened, hurriedly entered the room, took out a bag of silver left over from the gambling money, and said: "Uncle, a total of seventy taels, one cent is a lot, and the more is considered filial piety to you."

Ding Yuan took the bag and stabbed the official to death with a knife and said: "I accidentally missed it, I am going to help you bury him, and give you thirty taels of funeral money."

The group of officials hurriedly searched out thirty taels from the body and handed them to Ding Yuan, not daring to approach the corpse on the ground, and said, "Three...... Thirty taels ......".

"Oh yes, there is also the pension money of the person just now, why don't you give it to me together, I'll help you give it to him, it's a free help, no money."

The group of officials only begged this plague god to go out quickly, and a few people got together and made up twenty taels and handed them to Ding Yuan.

Ding Yuan took the money and said in a low voice: "I'm in a hurry, a few of you will do me a favor, help me bury him, and make a friend, this is the reward for you", as he spoke, he took out three copper coins from his money bag and threw them on the case, and walked out of the room with his son Ding Yuan.

Xiao Ding Yuan let out a sigh and said in a low voice: "Dad, why did you kill him?"

Ding Yuan said: "Don't kill him at this time, he will kill others in the future, when he meets this kind of person, he can kill one by one, and don't go to the bottom of who instructed him, if he kills too much, the master behind him can't hide, so he will naturally come out."

"Oh"

The father and son walked out of the Yanyun Mansion compound, saw the two people who had just walked out of the Yanyun Mansion from a distance, and said, "Sir, wait a minute."

walked over quickly, took out twenty taels and handed them to Na Wan Dayou, and said, "I'll help you get your money."

Wan Dayou was stunned, and there was an extra bag in his hand.

Ding Yuan pulled Xiao Ding Yuan and left the Yanyun Mansion quickly.

Xiao Ding Yuan said: "Dad, we are not short of money, why don't we give it to him?"

"Shengmi Endou Mi Qiu, what should be his is his, buy more of these for your gourd sister to buy sugar gourds to eat."

"Oh"