The existence that he can never deal with suddenly comes out of the world, and Master Liu himself has a sense of crisis, if he is unable to protect himself, how can he protect the property and descendants of the Liu family? But this worry could not be explained to Liu Yiyi, and after eating at noon, he made an excuse to go to Lingzhu Nunnery to ask his other friend if he knew anything.

As soon as Master Liu walked for a while, the housekeeper went to see Liu Yiyi, saying that it was the new prefect Qin Zheng who came to visit.

"The master just went out, can you still find it?" Liu Yiyi was worried, she would not deal with the ancient magistrates.

"The little one doesn't know where the master has gone, and besides, the young lady is the female official next to the queen mother, and the prefect has to be polite when he sees you." The young lady is about to enter the palace, and the descendants of the Liu family suddenly feel that their waists are stiff, and they didn't dare to go out of the gate of the Liu family when the city was full of gossip before, but now, even if the people outside don't know each other, they are willing to come over and talk about the happy events of the master's family.

The female official next to the Queen Mother? The female official is Liu Yiyi, who has a few grades, has not had time to check, but it will not be bigger than the prefect from the fourth grade, so when she saw Qin Zheng, she still gave a salute first.

Qin Zheng didn't shy away from her salute, but hurriedly stretched out his hand to help: "Miss Liu doesn't have to be polite. ”

The experience of officialdom is definitely better than her, and she will not take advantage of the gift just because she is ignorant, Liu Yiyi has a little bottom in her heart, it seems that no matter how big the court female officials in this era are, they are no more than the fourth grade.

"My father just went out, because we didn't explain where to go when we left, we don't know where to look, please forgive me for neglecting Lord Qin." Liu Yi said thoughtfully, trying to keep up with the polite words of this era.

If it's your own daughter, you treat people like this. Qin Zheng will definitely scold her for not being knowledgeable enough, but for the poor girl in front of him, he is tolerant and sympathetic enough: "Miss Liu doesn't have to mind. In fact, Qin Mou mainly wanted to meet Miss Liu, Miss Liu was able to meet the palace to serve the Queen Mother, and everyone in Mengzhou City felt honored, so if Miss Liu wanted to know anything, Qin Mou must know everything. ”

Does it make such a big sense for her to enter the palace? There are three thousand beauties in the palace, she didn't believe that she didn't have Mengzhou City before, "Thank you Lord Qin for your trouble." I really don't know anything about the capital, especially the hierarchy of female officials in the palace. ”

"The highest status in the palace is naturally the Queen Mother, and then the Empress. Under the queen is the concubine, but more than two hundred years ago, there was an emperor who favored the concubine, so that her actual power was above the queen, and even wanted to abolish the concubine. Many of the civil and military who advised the court because of blood splashed in the court. almost caused the disaster of the country, so the title of the concubine will no longer be given to the living concubines......"

“…… Now there are four concubines under the queen, according to the status of the concubine, the concubine, the concubine, the concubine, the concubine, the concubine, of which only the concubine gave birth to the second prince, and there are six concubines below the concubine. However, today's emperor attaches great importance to politics and is far away from women, and there are only two concubines and concubines in the palace. Among them, Concubine Xian gave birth to a little princess, this is the emperor's first daughter, who is only two years old and has not yet been crowned......"

Liu Yiyi originally thought that Qin Zheng was polite to her, and she was asking for advice without any hope, but what Qin Zheng said was more detailed than Yue Linfeng and Du Shaonan, and the imperial court official explained the secrets of the inner palace in this way, so he took a risk, right? Even if Qin is for the glory of Mengzhou City, the direct beneficiary is still her.

Finding this, Liu Yiyi motioned to Osmanthus to bring the sweet soup she stewed in the small kitchen, she couldn't thank the prefect with gold and silver treasures, and drinking a bowl of sweet soup to moisten her throat wouldn't be a bribe, right?

"The following are talented people and beauties, there is no limit to the number of women, generally women who have no children and are not high, these women have to be attached to the concubines of the lord, and they dare not face the female officials in the palace of the Queen Mother without the acquiescence of the above." Qin Zheng was tired after saying this in one breath, but he didn't dare to stop, he specially waited for Master Liu to come to the door as soon as he went out, in order to avoid Master Liu and Liu Yiyi talking alone for a while.

"Thank you Lord Qin for your teaching, Lord Qin can taste the sweet soup of our willow house." Taking advantage of Qin Zheng's pause to catch his breath, Liu Yiyi motioned for Osmanthus to serve sweet soup.

The duties of the osmanthus maid added to the explanation: "This is our young lady's own cooking, called orange soup Xianglian, not the guest Miss is reluctant to take it out." ”

"Really? Then Qin must have tasted it. Qin Zheng, who was in a hurry to finish speaking, immediately changed his mind when he heard that Liu Yiyi was cooking in person.

Open the lid of the small soup bowl, the faint sweet fragrance spreads, that is the unique fragrance of fruits, in this warm and cold season in February, fruits are still very precious, so precious that Qin Zheng from the four grades of officials only eat in season, and the greenhouse can only occasionally be bought for children to satisfy their hunger.

The red, yellow, green, and white colors in the small soup bowl are alternately pleasing to the eye, Qin Zheng picked up the spoon and took out a closer look, the white is the lotus seed with the core removed, the yellow is the tangerine cut into half petals, and the rare thing is that the thin skin on the orange petal has been removed, but the orange flesh has not been damaged at all.

The red one is divided into half seedless cherries, the green one is the diced green plum, Qin Zheng took a sip of the fruity aroma with the smell of rock sugar, calculating that such a small soup bowl would probably cost him a day's money, Liu Yiyi can take it out casually to entertain guests, Master Liu does spoil his daughter as much as the legend.

It's just that there are mountains of gold and silver in the family, and it is not as good as both parents, Qin Zheng sighed in his heart, he is sorry for the Liu family, sorry for this child.

Liu Yiyi's expression was natural, she didn't know Qin Zheng's past, nor did she understand the prices of this time and space, she knew that there was no large-scale greenhouse planting here, and fruits and vegetables out of season were not cheap, but seeing that the big kitchen of Liu Mansion was never lacking in these, and none of the chefs paid attention to it with an inch or two, she thought that at most it was not cheap because the price of vegetables rose on a snowy day.

The Liu family is really rich, Liu Yiyi doesn't really know.

"As long as the concubines of the harem are respectful, after all, you are on an errand in the queen mother's palace, the so-called don't look at the monk's face but also look at the Buddha's face, no one should take the initiative to trouble you, as long as you don't take the initiative to stand in line to participate in their competition for favor." Qin Zheng only tasted two mouthfuls of orange soup, and Xianglian hurriedly said again.

Liu Yiyi nodded and said that she remembered that Qin Zheng asked her to hide from the concubine and not participate in the competition for favor, but she didn't treat her as a "gift" from Mengzhou City to the emperor, which is really good.

"Miss Liu is a female official in the palace, and of course the rank of a female official needs to be understood. The highest female official in the court is the lady in charge, who is the third grade. Qin Zheng's first sentence broke Liu Yiyi's speculation just now, "No matter how big the court lady in this era is, it can't be from the four grades".

The lady in charge is a veteran for many years, and she will never seal this official as soon as she enters the palace. Liu Yiyi thought about her behavior of saluting as soon as she saw Qin Zheng before, she should still not make a mistake, and she would not let people say that she had embarrassed the Queen Mother before she entered the palace.

Then there are six department heads, namely Shanggong, Shangyi, Shangfu, and Shangshi. Shang Liao, Shang Gong, is four products. Next is the six-part tube. Positive five products. Then there is the waiter, from the five grades. Choosing a waiter, is six products. Serve in the inner constant, from the six products. Attendant. Positive seven products. Good Messenger. From the seven pins. Gong Envoy, is eight products. Long envoy, from the eighth grade. Lieutenant envoy, is the ninth product. Less envoys, from the ninth grade. Finally, there is Cai Nu, that is, a palace maid without grade......"

Qin Zheng simply picked it up and said that for more than an hour, the bowl of orange soup Xianglian also let him drink it with his throat, and he saw that the time was about the same. Finally, he took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve.

Qin Zheng said, and Liu Yiyi listened carefully. Although she couldn't completely write it down for a while, she was really familiar with the collection of women in the Shang Palace, and it was similar to other fiction novels she had read.

"Be careful everywhere after entering the palace, the people in the palace are snobbish, it is inconvenient to open the road without money, this money is a little bit of our mind in Mengzhou......" Qin Zheng took out a stack of silver tickets and put them on the coffee table.

Didn't you let her enter the palace to compete for favor? Liu Yiyi is indeed not smart, but she finally understands that a small female official is not worthy of such a stuttering from a fourth-grade official, look at how the stack of silver tickets has to be thousands of taels, where does she dare to ask for it?

"Lord Qin, if you have something embarrassing, why don't you tell the two Lord Qincha, the important father-in-law Yan in the Empress Dowager's palace is also in Mengzhou now, and the little girl usually rarely even goes out of the house, so she really doesn't understand anything, and she can't help Lord Qin." Liu Yi pondered and speculated.

She thought it was a bribe? Qin Zheng smiled bitterly: "In terms of age and generation, you can call me uncle, you don't need to think about it too much, child, you are about to travel far, this is just a little bit of the elder's heart." ”

Can so much money be considered a "little"? How could Liu Yiyi not think about it: "Do Lord Qin have an old relationship with our Liu family?" Listening to his tone, there is something in this regard, but why didn't Master Liu mention it?

"I ......" Liu Yiyi's face and eyebrows are more like Master Liu when she was young, and her small mouth is slightly open when she is questioning, which looks like "her", and Qin Zheng will not lie in front of "her".

"It's old." The person who answered was not Qin Zheng but Master Liu, he had been back for a while, but he didn't come forward because he heard Qin Zheng say that he was helpful to Liu Yiyi, but this silver ticket, the Liu family would rather ask for food than accept it!

"Daddy!?" Liu Yiyi was surprised and delighted, and finally had a backbone.

"Old Master Liu......" Qin Zheng was surprised and uneasy, he should have put down the silver ticket and left earlier.

"Lord Qin, Lord Qin Zheng and Lord Qin Shoudao." Master Liu said Qin Zheng's original name in one word, saving people from saying that the Liu family would not be hospitable.

Qin Zheng's face turned white and red, red and white, he was surprised and embarrassed: "Master Liu, how do you ......" Obviously, Master Liu had never seen him back then, but he secretly observed what kind of person the eldest young master of the Liu family in the famous dream state was.

"I won't look it up." Master Liu's attitude was still cold.

Liu Yiyi didn't dare to interject when he looked at half a sentence, Master Liu has always seen officials who don't smile or speak, it's as soft as dough, how can he be domineering? And Qin Zheng's appearance was even more wrong, the tallest official in the dignified place faced a businessman, and suddenly became a little shorter, and his momentum was so weak that others felt weak for him.

"Please take back the silver ticket, there are still many people in Mengzhou City who are not well fed and clothed, and this is what Mengzhou needs to take care of." Master Liu, this is going to chase away guests.

"No, no, these are just a little bit of Qin's mind." Qin Zheng hurriedly explained that he didn't want Master Liu to misunderstand him for his fake public benefit.

"Then we can't even ask for it, I heard that Lord Qin is now married and has children, both old and young, and he still has to support his family, even if he has been an official for almost twenty years, how much savings do he have?" Master Liu still doesn't have a good face.

I don't know if he is too weak-hearted, Qin Zheng always felt that Master Liu gritted his teeth when he said the words "marry a wife and have children", but he couldn't explain this matter, he could only tell that the way of the silver ticket was legitimate: "Master Liu, Miss Liu, please rest assured, this money is clean, Qin has been in the official career for almost 20 years, although he doesn't dare to say that he will benefit the people, but he will never go to loot the people's fat and people's cream!" ”

"I don't know if you are good or bad as an official, but I believe in the imperial court, but you take out these savings and let your wife and children live? It's time for your son to take a wife, what about the dowry? It's time for your daughter to get married, what about the dowry? Whether a girl can stand in her in-law's house, the dowry is very important, have you considered the rest of her life? Master Liu looked at Qin Zheng with a very disdainful gaze.

Qin Zheng couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and said hesitantly: "The ...... that Neiko prepared for the children"

"Humph!" Old Master Liu interrupted him with a sneer, "Mrs. Zun knows that Lord Qin sent the family wealth to the Liu family?" And Lord Qin is ready to rely on his wife for the rest of his life? Speaking of Mrs. Zun, it is really pitiful, who is not good to marry into the Qin family, her children are even more pitiful, and whoever is reincarnated is not good to become the Qin family. ”

This is too much, Qin Zheng really doesn't like to listen to it: "Qin Mou asked himself that he had never been short of food and clothing. "How to say that the Qin family is like a fire pit.

If you don't have a short diet for your wife and children, even if you have preferential treatment? Although Liu Yiyi didn't know the cause and effect, just based on this sentence, she looked at Qin Zheng's gaze with contempt.

When Qin Zheng was talking to Master Liu, he had been paying attention to Liu Yiyi, and Master Liu had already recognized him, but seeing that Liu Yiyi heard the name "Qin Shoudao" without any different colors, he was still relieved in his heart, to be honest, if Master Liu wanted to beat or scold him, he could only admit it, and he was most afraid that this child would cry and ask him for his mother.

It seems that Master Liu didn't tell this kid what happened back then, so today Master Liu won't say anything to him no matter how much he sees him, Qin Zheng has the bottom in his heart, but he saw that Liu Yiyi suddenly despised him.

Why? Because he said, "I have never been short of food and clothing for my wife and children." "Isn't that good? Is it better for his wife to be respected by her husband, and for his children to enjoy the love of their parents, than to be alone and to guard their motherless children?

"I thought that you should have grown in the past seventeen years, but you still acted impulsively and selfishly like when you were young, do you think that your wife and children are members of the Qin family, so the debts you bear are naturally theirs? If you dare to leave the silver ticket today, I will send it to Mrs. Zun in a moment. ”

After Master Liu said this, he turned around and didn't look at Qin Zheng, after seeing it, he was afraid that he would not be able to help but beat people.

Speaking of this, Qin Zheng couldn't stay any longer, and the silver ticket was not easy to stay, so he could only whisper: "Qin also knows some friends in the capital, if Miss Liu is ......"

"No need, my daughter's master is Mrs. Shuiyue, and she knows countless noble ladies, many of whom can speak in front of the Queen Mother." Master Liu refused.

"That'...... Qin said goodbye...... "Qin Zheng had no choice but to leave." (To be continued.) )