Chapter 221: The Cao Family Returns the Silver
In the capital, almost the fourth master went out of the city on the front foot, and several masters on the back foot got the news. Please go to w~w~w.. C~o~m to see the latest chapters******
The eighth master has just returned from the ninth master. This year is the draft year, Concubine Yi plans to pick a grid for the eighth master, and first call the ninth master to come over to find out. But the king of Zhijun also said that he asked Concubine Hui to help take a look.
In one breath, the two palace concubines stared at it, and the eighth master was a little overwhelmed.
Concubine Hui is his adoptive mother, and the king of Zhijun is hot. Over the years, he didn't dare to call the king of Zhijun too hot, because he was afraid of attracting the emperor's eyes. But to put it mildly, he still believes in Concubine Hui's sincerity towards him.
Concubine Yi just came over and wanted a piece of the pie. After Lao Shi's mother left, the emperor did not find a foster mother for Lao Shi, but threw him directly into the elder brother's office. Because Lao Shi is friendly with Lao Jiu, Concubine Yi always takes care of one or two occasionally.
Now there is a concubine of the Guo Luoluo clan in Lao Shi's mansion, and Lao Shi's children are currently born to her.
Regardless of whether there are concubine Yi's hands and feet here, the eighth master is not willing to ask someone to meddle in his backyard. Now the reason is also ready-made, one is Concubine Hui, the other is Concubine Yi, and it is not good for him to respond to either one. There is no such thing as the best of both worlds, so it is simply pushed away.
In the house, Bafujin was listening to Mama talk about the two concubines who had just entered the house. The eighth master has been childless, and her pressure is increasing. This year, taking advantage of the draft year, she wanted to ask two to enter the house, but who knew that Concubine Yi and Concubine Hui bumped together, and the eighth master said that he didn't want any of them, and chose two sensible ones from the people at the bottom of the door.
When I heard that he had returned, I hurriedly called for someone to fetch hot water for washing. The eighth master just entered the house, and she greeted him: "Master, have you used it outside?" At home, I ask someone to prepare a meal, and everything is ready-made. ”
"I've used it, ask Lao Jiu to pour him a few glasses of wine, I have a headache at this time, let's send some hangover soup." As he spoke, the eighth master turned around and went to the back room to change his clothes.
After washing, Bafujin watched him drink porridge and said, "Is the fourth master really gone?" He's just going to pick and choose? ”
The eighth master put down the bowl and sighed: "He won't be able to leave if he leaves two days late, and now there are dozens of people blocking the door in front of his house." ”
"And how long can he hide like this?" After Ba Fujin heard that the fourth master had slipped away with Fujin, he couldn't believe it. She also said that she would talk to her fourth sister-in-law in two days.
"I can't hide for a few days." The eighth master said: "The fourth brother is not a fool, he is hiding now, and it is definitely not him who is at fault." ”
The most admired thing for the eighth master was that when he thought that the fourth brother would carry it hard, he hid. When he thought that the fourth brother would be silent forever, he jumped out. The timing was perfect both times.
It's not okay to disobey people.
On the Zhuangzi, the fourth master called the children to the front first as soon as he got out of the car. Hearing that Da Gege and Er Gege were in charge of the housekeeping of Zhuangzi, he smiled and said, "The girl is older, good." Amma is here today, what have you prepared to entertain Amma? ”
The second grid gestured to the big grid.
The fourth master looked at Da Gege, and she said: "I didn't know in advance that Ama and Eniang were here today, and I didn't have time to prepare many things, this is our fault, and I hope Ama doesn't mind." The things on the Zhuangzi are not as complete as those in the house, but fortunately, they are all fresh, and I look at today's spinach, as well as spring bamboo shoots and leeks. ”
The fourth master nodded while listening, and saw that Da Gege was really restrained, and it was not difficult for her, and said: "These are very good, there are ways to eat in the house, and it is comfortable to eat on Zhuangzi." ”
He turned to Ergege and said, "What did you have for Amma?" ”
Ergege had the intention to let Da Gege take the lead, and said, "I don't like the Ama I eat...... In the past two days, I have loved to eat fried pork liver. ”
The fourth master saw her letting Da Gege just now, he was happy and liked it in his heart, and said with a smile: "How do you know that Ama doesn't like to eat?" Eat this today. ”
After saying that everyone was stunned, Li Weixin said goodbye and joked, when were you willing to eat a pig and go into the water?
But since he ordered this dish, there was a stir-fried pork liver on the table at noon. Eunuch Liu tried his best to fry the pork liver until it was tender and crispy. Li Wei's chopsticks frequently went to the pork liver, and the fourth master looked sideways for a long time, personally coerced her with a piece, and said with a smile: "I'll just say how Erhe is evil and eats pork liver." ”
He doesn't eat pigs in the water, and the people in the dining room naturally don't dare to cook for the master. Ergege has never eaten since he was a child, how could he suddenly want to eat. Sure enough, it was a plain belt.
Li Wei also soaked rice in the vegetable soup of fried pork liver, and praised: "It's very delicious!" ”
The fourth master tasted a piece, chewed it slowly, and nodded: "It tastes really good." ”
Li Wei just laughed, and didn't dare to say that the pig's large intestine was also delicious, and she still wanted to eat fat intestines. But I won't say it to challenge the three views of the fourth master.
After the fourth master arrived at Zhuangzi, he saw that everything was in order, and he really got at ease. The external affairs of Zhuangzi were handed over to the two brothers, Honghui and Hongyu, and the internal affairs were led by Da Gege and Er Gege.
He is tending to his two acres of land every day, and he didn't grow watermelons last year, but this year he vows to grow two acres of big watermelons. Because Li Wei said when chatting with him, the drier the day, the sweeter the fruit. It doesn't matter if it's grapes, watermelons, or apples.
He wanted to go down to the ground and drag Li Wei with him. She didn't want to go, so she used Fujin as a shield, but who knew that it was useless this time.
"Fujin has something to do, if you don't look for her, you will look for you. You don't need to do anything when you get there, just sit in the shed and accompany you. Good no good? "He's actually coquettish!
It's shameful to sell cute!
Li Wei was looked at by him like that, and somehow agreed. I had to sit in the shed every day with a big teapot, and when I felt cold, I came out and pulled a hoe in the ground decently.
After a winter, there was no rain or snow, and the ground was frozen hard, but after raking it open, it turned into fine silt, and it swept into the eyes without paying attention.
Li Wei stood on the ground with a hoe and squinted her eyes, and she didn't dare to rub it with her hands, so she shouted: "Jade bottle? ”
The fourth master straightened his waist and wiped his sweat: "Lost your eyes again?" You don't want to raise the earth so high. ”
He pulled her face towards the light, opened her eyelids and blew in, "How's it going?" Okay, okay? ”
Li Wei blinked vigorously, hoping that tears would flush out the dirty, and the fourth master helped her to walk to the shed: "My eyes are as red as rabbits." Don't do it, just sit here. ”
"It's cold to sit." She's going to be spoiled too, okay?
The next day, thick cotton curtains were hung everywhere in the shed, so that since she was moved, she wanted to say that you would just let me go back.
Gradually, in order to pass the time, Li Wei moved some things to the ground to play. It is said that you plough the field and come to me to weave, which shows that weaving has always been a good partner with ploughing the field. But weaving was too troublesome, so she brought the spring clothes she was going to make for him to sew them, and it was also up to the scene.
He was tired from working for a while, and came to the shed to drink water, "Just tell the girls to do this kind of thing." ”
"You plough the field and come to me to weave cloth, and both husband and wife will return home." She said, "You're all plowing the fields, and it's not fitting for me not to do some needlework." ”
"A belly full of crooked reasoning." He squatted down with a smile and a cup in his hand: "Come, take two sips." ”
She drank half a glass of water from his hand and asked curiously, "Master, you won't stay in Zhuangzi for a long time, will you?" You really don't care about the affairs of Kyori? ”
It doesn't matter if he says it, the house will send news every day, and as soon as he comes, he will go into the study with someone, and sometimes the light in the study can be on all night.
It can be seen that he is not busy, but he is commanding remotely on Zhuangzi.
"It's coming." The fourth master splashed the residual water in the cup, "The emperor has arrived at the Cao family, and when the Cao family's arrears are delivered, we can return to Beijing." ”
Li Wei didn't want to go back, Zhuangzi was so comfortable, and without waiting for her to say, he said: "If you want to continue to stay in Zhuangzi, it's up to you." "She likes to go out and walk around when she is idle in Zhuangzi, and she is not too tired to walk for an hour. I don't even bother to go to the garden in the house.
The fourth master looked at the endless Zhuangzi and sighed: "In the future, the master will make a big garden, and we will live in it together." I don't even have a place to walk in the house. ”
His words were on her heart, but she still said two good words in the house: "Our house is actually quite haode, even if we live for ten years, there is nothing new......"
She looked at him and smiled, and suddenly she had a feeling of enlightenment.
Li Wei was a little excited.
However, in the evening, the fourth master mentioned that she was asked to stay in Zhuangzi with the children, and she still said that she wanted to go back.
"I can't bear it." She said.
The fourth master smiled, gave her a piece of pork liver, and said softly: "If you want to eat this when you go back, ask them to make it for you." ”
He also had the heart to comfort her, so she was also very satisfied.
After about half a month, the fourth master asked them to pack their luggage and prepare to go home.
"The Cao family sent the arrears back?" She asked curiously. In the wild history, it is said that the Cao family owes as many as several million taels of silver, millions of taels of silver, what kind of concept is that? She couldn't imagine it anyway.
"Well, the government sent a message." The fourth master's face was not happy.
She folded his and hers' underwear (she likes to fold underwear by herself, and the girl is ashamed to fold it), put it in the suitcase, came back and sat down beside him, and asked him softly, "Why is the master unhappy?" Isn't there much of the Cao family? ”
He held her hand, his face darkened, and his tone was very calm, that is, he said it was terrifying.
"What is there to be upset about? It's just a left-handed change for a right-handed one. He said.
I don't understand it, but it feels profound. Moreover, no matter how she listened to it, she felt that the meaning of the fourth master's words was ...... The Cao family is ghostly. Then the Cao family was dead. If you don't report it today, it's not the right time.
The next day, they got in the car and went home. The rest of the bulky luggage was then packed up by the subordinates and returned to Beijing.
Li Wei only brought a jade bottle and a jade cup, Zhao Quan kept it on Zhuangzi, and the eunuch only brought a person named Cheng Xian. Jade Bottle couldn't help laughing from the moment she got into the car, and she was also laughed at by her, and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”
The jade bottle couldn't stop laughing, and said, "Master, didn't you see Zhao Quanbao's appearance?" Tell him to choose someone to come back with us, and he will be in a quandary there for a long time. ”
Li Wei understood. The minions are like this, and Zhao Quanbao is afraid that if he is not careful, he will ask someone to climb up and pass him. This person named Cheng Xian has been waiting in the East Courtyard for a long time, and he is the same person as Qian Tong, but she has only one impression of this Cheng Xian.
He seems to be a bit of a two.
She lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, and the fourth master took Honghui and Hongyu to return home first. She looked at the official road who had long been unable to see the shadow, "I don't know if they have arrived home?" ”
Cheng Xian sat on the wheel, keeping his head hooked and staring at the window. He had already discovered that Master Li liked to look out from that side, and when he saw this, he immediately jumped out of the car, and while running with the car, he gasped and asked, "Master, why don't you catch up with the slave and take a look?" ”
Li Wei was stunned by his question, and said puzzledly: "...... How do you look at it? Do you catch up and see if they get home and come back? ”
Cheng Xian nodded vigorously, looking like as long as she spoke, he would go right now.
“…… No, just go back to the car and sit down. "Li Wei is really afraid that he will come to the real thing. Isn't that her tossing people?
But when she said this, Cheng Xian was very disappointed, and ran with the car for a while, asking her to urge her two sentences before she got to the front and got into the wheel.
She lowered the curtain of the car, and the jade bottle and jade cup in the car had already covered her mouth and were about to die of laughter.
"Don't laugh." She said solemnly, "This is a solid person. "But let him not hear any jokes, and dare not command him to take charge.
Otherwise, you'll have fun watching it.
Li Wei said in her heart, Zhao Quanbao was able to pick out Cheng Xian, and it took a lot of effort.
In Beijing, as soon as the fourth master, Honghui and Hongyu returned to the mansion, Su Peisheng hurriedly came in and said, "Master, there is a guest outside." ”
In front of the little brother in the house, Su Peisheng didn't call anyone's name.
The fourth master asked Honghui and Hongyu to go back and pack up their things first, "I just came back today, so I will give you half a day off." Let's read again tomorrow, go back and rest for a while, and warm up the previous books when you are free. ”
Honghui and Hongyu both retreated.
The fourth master asked Su Peisheng again: "Who is here?" ”
Su Peisheng approached and whispered, "It's Yang Guowei." ”
Yang Guowei is the companion of the Thirteenth Master, and the Cao family sent Yin back to Beijing by the Thirteenth Leader. At this time, the silver had not yet arrived in Beijing, and Yang Guowei arrived first.
The fourth master's heart sank, and he said, "Call him in." ”
Yang Guowei knelt down and kowtowed when he came in, and the fourth master retreated left and right, and said, "What is the matter with your master ordering you to come?" ”
Yang Guowei sweated on his forehead, and he didn't dare to get up, so he walked to the fourth master on his knees, and said in a low voice: "The thirteenth master sent a message to the slave and asked the slave to come to find the fourth master......"
Things have definitely changed, and it's not good. When the matter came, the fourth master calmed down and said in a deep voice: "You just say it." ”
Yang Guowei kowtowed again, and then dared to speak: "...... The Cao family returned 800,000 taels of silver. ”
The amount of silver had already been written in the letter handed to the imperial court, and the fourth master had already known it.
He looked at Yang Guowei puzzled and motioned for him to continue.
Yang Guowei's voice was almost inaudible: "...... Only more than 20% of those sent back to Beijing by the Thirteenth Master. ”
The fourth master stood up as soon as he snorted, so frightened that Yang Guowei took a few steps back, and kowtowed desperately: "Ask the fourth master to calm his anger!" Ask the fourth master to calm his anger!! ”
Su Peisheng, who was guarding the door outside the study, heard the movement inside, and shushed and drove away all the little eunuchs around. He himself subconsciously shrank back.
Shaoqing, I heard the fourth master in the house say: "Okay, you go out, stay in the house for the time being." I'll talk to Thirteen when I go back. ”
Yang Guowei was already sweaty and heavily clothed when he came out, and Su Peisheng asked two eunuchs to guard him and sent him all the way to the side courtyard. In the study, the fourth master called him: "Go and invite Mr. Dai." ”
Dietor was soon there. Listening to the fourth master's explanation, he shook his head and said: "The emperor went to Jiangnan to plunder the battle for the Cao family." The so-called arrears are just official silver drawn from the official treasury in Jiangnan. The emperor is really as kind to the Cao family as the sea. ”
The fourth master was not interested in the Cao family's borrowing of the emperor as a backer, and he was not interested in demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall, so he wanted to know who was so bold and dared to intercept the silver privately.
Dai Duo hit the nail on the head and said: "The master is just a fan of the authorities, who dares to wear away the silver returned by the Cao family under the emperor's nose, who else can there be?" ”
He held up two fingers to the sky.
The fourth master has nothing to say. Dai Duo smiled, "This master is really getting bolder. He recognized that the Cao family could only swallow this dumb man. If the Cao family dared to say that he still paid 800,000 taels, this master should turn over the chapter of their family's official treasury to return the silver. ”
"Even the emperor has to pretend to be confused."
But the fourth master couldn't laugh. The Cao family's excerpts were handed directly to the emperor, who approved them and sent them to the capital. That's 800,000 taels.
Thirteen brought back only 200,000 taels, and the rest of the silver could only fall to Thirteen.
Thirteen sent the silver back to Beijing, and the money fell on him.
In the end, he was the only one.
If you don't pit him, it's thirteen. Thirteen is called Yang Guowei because of this. It was the business of the two brothers. The rest, whether it is the emperor, the Cao family or the prince, they can't touch it.
The fourth master closed his eyes and really began to feel that this errand was hot.