Qian Shilang's house. "Eight" "Eight" "Reading" book, .∞.o◎

Qian Shilang was very angry, he didn't eat at noon, and he was directly absent from work in the afternoon and waited to ask what was going on in Zhuangzi, Hongxing County, Ming.

Zhuangzi in Hongxing County is close to Kyoto, with abundant water and grass, and there are various granges and horse farms nearby. Whether it is the old men or the children in the family, they like to make an appointment with their friends to go for a race. It stands to reason that every time you entertain the master Zhuangzi, you can get some small rewards, and you can often appear in front of the master when you are idle on errands in the Zhuangzi. This is definitely a good errand in the eyes of the next person.

What's more, the Qian family will definitely live up to their surname, the richest businessman in Dashang, and the absolute rich! The monthly amount of money in their mansion is more than that in other mansions, and Qian Shilang really can't understand why those dog minions would do such a betrayal of the master.

Mrs. Qian soon got the news from her subordinates, and ran over worriedly, sitting down uneasily and not daring to say more. Without him, the person who manages Zhuangzi is the man who has been with her for more than 20 years. If it is true, as the following people say, she, the lady in charge, will not be pleased.

The big and small stewards of the grange were quickly caught in the mansion, and they all didn't dare to raise their heads on their knees with two trembling forces!

"Who is the steward of the Grange?" Qian Zhaode asked sharply.

"It's little Wang Fu." Wang Fu knelt down and crawled forward a few times, hurriedly replied.

"You're in charge of the renovation of the Grange?"

"It's the minion." Wang Fu still didn't know where he had gone wrong, and he made his master so angry.

"Where did you get the wood to renovate your house?"

Wang Fu was stunned, the wood was naturally bought. But he didn't notice that the youngest son behind him was directly frightened when he heard this.

Wang Fu replied truthfully: "Back to the master, the wood needed was all bought by Xiao'er from the carpenter's shop in the city. ”

"Then let him tell me what the hell is going on. This time, I was blocked by the county order of Hongxing County, and the evidence was conclusive that my subordinates went to steal wood! Does this official lack those taels of silver? Knowing that the house was built for the old lady to live in, he dared to use longevity! You dogs! What an angry old man! ”

Wang Fu looked at his youngest son in disbelief, his straight back softened directly, and the rest of the people glared at Wang Baozhu fiercely.

Wang Baozhu, who was paralyzed, was quickly taken out, crying and swearing for mercy: "Master, it's not Shoucai!" The small swear is definitely not longevity, it is bought from the carpenter's shop, if the lord does not believe it, go to the shop to ask, if the longevity is small, it will not be good to die, and the sky will hit five thunders! What a small wrong! The master is really not a longevity! ”

Wang Baozhu swore to the sky that he was not a longevity material, Qian Zhaode didn't believe it, and directly faced the people guarding outside: "Give me a hard beating!" ”

Kong Wu's powerful subordinates were already waiting outside the door with long sticks, and when they heard the master's words, they immediately came in, and the two small servants dragged Wang Baozhu, who shouted for mercy, down, and soon wailed outside.

However, after a few clicks, Wang Baozhu couldn't hold on, and begged for mercy again and again: "I said! I say! ”

Now Wang Baozhu's blood-drenched appearance naturally can't stain the master's eyes, and the housekeeper stood and listened to Wang Baozhu's intermittent retelling.

In the end, it's all about the money.

After a hundred years of floods, the prices of various things skyrocketed.

After all, after soaking in the water for so long, all kinds of guys in the particular people have to be replaced, and the common people have to replace the corroded roofs. This naturally requires a large amount of timber, and the woods in the northland are limited except for the western hills, which are mostly fields and horse farms. In addition, many elderly people have survived the cold in the rain, and they need a lot of longevity materials. Piled up all at once, the timber near Kyoto has risen to one or two silver each.

At this unheard of high price, many villages with trees are afraid to sell it.

They had to keep enough matches for the winter, and the wood for each family to marry could not be moved, especially for the longevity of the elderly, not to mention that they had to hand over a batch of timber to the yamen every few years. Even if the price of wood is high, they want to cry, but no one dares to sell wood.

Wang Baozhu begged from his father for an errand to buy wood, but when he ran to the carpenter's shop, he saw that there were no bargains, and the old goods were ridiculously expensive. With such a high price, what else does he make from it? How else do you buy a golden hairpin for Widow Mei?

Wang Baozhu later heard from the bastard buddies who drank together that he went to the village to steal trees at night, and as long as he was careful, no one would find out. So he recruited a dozen good brothers to steal trees from distant villages, and then went to the carpenter's shop to exchange the dried finished wood and transport it home. He did not have a capital to buy and sell, and kept the money that his father gave him to buy timber.

The housekeeper said it carefully, Qian Zhaode was still very angry, although it was not Shoucai, it was also a stolen thing! The point is that someone caught stealing something and came to the door!

"After dealing with the people, Qian Liang pulled the timber to the Yamen of Hongxing County, and then gave some compensation to the villagers, and by the way, told the people in the Yamen to keep their mouths shut."

Qian Zhaode heard that it was not Shoucai who felt better, and after instructing how to deal with this matter, Shi Shiran went to eat.

Wang Baozhu was directly beaten to death with a few sticks, and his family was directly sold from afar.

The housekeeper Qian Liang ignored the Wang family's pleas for mercy and went straight to the account room to get the silver.

Qian Liang went straight to the county government of Hongxing County with silver and gifts.

At this time, Liu Yao, the county magistrate, was eating a small snack sent by his daughter-in-law, Gao Xiancheng was still selling dog meat with a sheep's head, and he was looking at Xiao Huang and books brightly, and a group of officials were either sleeping with saliva in the next room, or they were discussing in groups where to make money tomorrow.

When Qian Liang came in, a group of people were already touching dogs, quite with the majesty of the public family.

"Thank you for yesterday's events, my lord specially asked me to send some small gifts to express my gratitude. The timber will be delivered tonight, and I hope you can help cover it up. ”

Qian Liang leaned over and thanked him, except for Liu Yao, the others were busy and didn't dare to say yes, they didn't dare, but their eyes were staring at the little guy behind Qian Liang who was holding a lot of boxes.

I heard that the Qian family is rich enough to rival the country!

What a hush money!

Looking forward to it!

The little guy stepped forward and presented the gift boxes to everyone one by one and retreated. After Qian Liang received repeated assurances from everyone that he would not say anything, he left the gifts for others and the money to appease the stolen village, and left.

As soon as the person left, several officials directly opened the box in their hands.

Two ingots of silver shining big ingots in pairs of you and me stand in the box, this beautiful picture makes people love it! Couldn't have been more lovely!

Cheng Xiong's head catcher is obviously one more spindle than other unhappy heads.

"Gao Xiancheng?" The officials squinted at Gao Xiancheng and opened their faces! You open it!

Gao Xiancheng shook his way and said quite sympathetically: "I'm tired of you tonight, Gao Mou is going to the school to pick up his son and go home for dinner, so he will take the first step." ”

After speaking, Gao Xiancheng picked up the book basket on the table, put the book and gift box in, picked up the basket and left slowly.

Old man Gao! Are you showing off your smash or showing off that someone cooked for you!

Everyone was afraid of being touched by the high county of Benwu, and they didn't dare to come forward to look at it, and they all turned their heads to look at the young county magistrate who was not afraid of falling and not afraid of falling. Let us also see the benefits of the official university!

As a result, I turned my head and saw that the prefectural magistrate had slipped away without knowing when!

The prefectural magistrate not only didn't let them eat snacks, but also left them who needed to work overtime and ran away!

The fiery heart was stuffed with ice, and the frozen version of the heart was stuffed.

That night, the subordinates in Qian Shilang's mansion sent more than 200 pieces of wood that had been stolen, and the next day, Gao Zhutou brought the wood to the stolen villages everywhere. In the thousand words of thanks of the villagers, he happily returned to the yamen.

As for the silver compensated by Qian Shilang?

I'm sorry, but who paid for the supper last night?

The county government has solved the wood theft case so wholeheartedly for the people, and its prestige among the people has risen gradually, and you don't see that all kinds of petty theft in the county have decreased a lot.

Gao Zhutou and his little brothers are a little happy, without petty theft, their benefits are less than half!

Autumn is gradually rising, and the sun father-in-law has begun to lazy for a long time before appearing.

The yamen was on duty an hour later than usual, and the county magistrate began to be lazy and couldn't get out of bed.

Seeing that the time was almost the same, Liu Yao carefully got out of bed, dressed and freshened up, and just finished eating, he heard his son crying.

Liu Yao walked out of the dining room towards the wing, and when he entered the room, he saw his son being coaxed by Aunt Xiaorou. The face is red from crying, which is comparable to the blush frozen by children outside.

Last night, Liu Yao wanted to do something wrong, and waited for Xiaoxing to fall asleep and drove him out. Xiaoxing woke up and didn't see the familiar father and mother, so she naturally couldn't help crying.

"I'll take him over, and Aunt Xiaorou will rest then!"

The mighty and powerful Aunt Xiaorou packed a large bag of things for Little Star, and watched them enter the upper room before closing the door.

Du Xiaoxi was still asleep, and Liu Yao threw his son, who was screaming to find his mother, into the warm quilt, and placed a sheepskin mattress under him to prevent him from scribbling the map. Little Star had already scratched off her mother's clothes and started eating.

Liu Yao watched for a while, saw that the hour was not early, bent down and kissed him alone, and then got up and went to the yamen.

As soon as Liu Yao left, Du Xiaoxi was woken up by the hairy head in his arms, and opened his eyes in a daze to look at the happy son who was eating, Du Xiaoxi scolded Xiaoxing's unscrupulous father in his heart, and hurriedly put on a brocade jacket and sat up.

Holding his son Du Xiaoxi weakly, he complained in a low voice, "How many times have I told your father not to let you lie down and breastfeed, and I can't remember?" And you, when you see food, you forget what your mother said. ”

It is easy to cause otitis media when the baby is lying down and feeding, Du Xiaoxi also heard the teacher say in his previous life that he has not seen it with his own eyes, but this does not affect Du Xiaoxi's rather believe that she has the mentality of not believing it, after all, she remembers that the mouth and ears are connected, and it can be prevented, of course, it must be prevented.

Du Xiaoxi squinted her eyes and burped her son half-asleep, and as soon as she closed her eyes, Xiaoxing cried, and Du Xiaoxi's chest was also sucked painfully.

"Are you trying to bite your mother to death?" Du Xiaoxi took advantage of the light to see that the skin was not broken, and breathed a sigh of relief.

glanced at the little star that fell from the golden bean, and hurriedly hugged and coaxed.

"It's not to blame my mother, your father was too thirsty to get out of bed and drink your rations last night, if you want to complain, blame your father!"

Xiaoxing was very coaxing, and after being hugged by Du Xiaoxi for a few moments, he giggled, and urged Du Xiaoxi to come a few more times.

After playing twice, Du Xiaoxi took advantage of the situation to put his son into the quilt, covered it with the quilt, and got into it himself.

"Sleep well."

Seeing Du Xiaoxi close his eyes, Xiaoxing drilled into Du Xiaoxi's arms aggrievedly, and was slapped twice by Du Xiaoxi and hummed and didn't move.

The two soon fell into a deep sleep.

……

September in the north is almost the same as the winter in Shanshui County, Liu Yao entered the yamen, took off his cloak and took out a handkerchief to wipe off the hoarfrost formed by the air on his forehead, and stood next to the charcoal basin and roasted for a while before relieving himself.

It's cold, and the complainants are late.

So the officials in the yamen also followed all kinds of lateness, and Liu Yao persuaded them a few times to see that they didn't listen or force, but he came over on time every day.

It's late autumn, and it's the winter that is common for snowstorms, and Liu Yao has more work these days.

The flowers and trees that can survive the winter in the East Garden should be kept warm to ensure that they can still bloom in spring next year; Unplug and clean up all that can't survive the winter.

To deal with the affairs of Dongyuan, we must also urge the people to prepare firewood and grass for the winter, and be sure to ensure that they and the sheep and horses at home can survive this winter.

Countless people freeze to death in the north every year, and the poor people don't have a set of cotton clothes, and the clothes and quilts are stuffed with reed flowers. The firewood was not enough, and the reed poles of the bud valley were against it. Now every family is cutting hay to prepare food for their sheep and horses for the winter.

At the same time, the horse farm of the powerful family is dry, and there has been no rain and snow in the recent period, which is the time when fires are frequent.

Thinking about how many cattle and sheep did not survive the winter every year because there was not enough forage, and the people lost a lot, Liu Yao thought about letting these people with horse farms so that the people could go to grass.

Liu Yao is not the only one who has this kind of thought, most of them have nothing to do with themselves and don't have to upset the big people for the sake of ordinary people, and some of them are on the fold, but in the end they didn't succeed for various reasons.

Liu Yao planned to give it a try.

There are hundreds of horse farms in Hongxing County, and Liu Yao didn't plan to come to the door one by one to persuade them, so he directly picked out some weighty heads.

The head was Qian Shilang's mansion, and Liu Yao said that Qian Shilang agreed without thinking about it.

Then Liu Yao picked a few more families with old people in the family, the old ladies all believe in Buddhism, this kind of thing that saves people's lives and makes a seventh-level floating slaughter and can get a good reputation Few people will refuse. Sure enough, these old ladies saw the handsome and polite Liu Yao and responded directly without saying a word. It's just that in the end, I couldn't help but pull Liu Yao and ask them a few words, so that they could talk to Master Xile about Buddhism or something.

Today, Liu Yao was still in the palace, and after a circle, he rushed to Kyoto in a carriage.

After waiting to persuade two more households, Liu Yao went back to Liufu to meet his family and waited for the afternoon to persuade the remaining two households.

"Hey! When will the good grandson take the good man to see the old woman? The old lady couldn't help but sigh when she saw that Liu Yao was alone again.

It was cold in winter, Hongxing County was not as good as Kyoto after all, and the old lady was taken to the house by her eldest son. Now I even miss the little star who can only see a few times a month.

"When Mu rests, I must bring Xiaoxing over to see grandma."

When Liu Yao said this, the old lady immediately smiled, and greeted Mama Zhao again and again: "Hurry up and let the kitchen cook some ginger soup, don't freeze when the good grandson runs back and forth on such a cold day." ”

(To be continued.) )