The inkwell was not long in coming.

He was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, wearing a uniform dark blue cloth robe and black pants for the servants of the palace, black cloth shoes on his feet, and a white scarf tied around his waist.

He asked Gao Zhen for peace first, and Gao Zhen sent the girls down, even Yanyu was no exception. Before leaving, Yanyu said helplessly: "The prince only ate a little bit of lunch, how can he hold it up in the future?" Anyway, after eating first, I will speak, what is so urgent, and I can't delay my efforts for a while? ”

Gao Zhen waved at her: "When the matter is over in a while, I will go to eat." "That's it.

There were only two people left in the room, and Mochi knew that Gao Zhen must have something important to tell him, so he hurriedly restrained his hands and waited for orders.

Gao Zhen asked him: "Among the officials who fell due to the rebellion case in the first half of the year, there is a man named Zhao Jue, who used to be the son of the Zhao County Mansion, do you know?" After Zhao Jue's death, his family was able to be redeemed by grace, and now he lives in the outer city, where is it, have you heard? ”

Mo Chi said cautiously: "The palace has always had a relationship with the Jiannan Hou Mansion, so the little one has heard about his family's affairs, and knows that Zhao Jue's widowed mother lives in the outer city with a few grandchildren, and it is about to be in the alley area of Zhang Shan's house. Most of the families of those who were fortunate enough to be exempted from punishment lived on that side, and there were four or five families in total. ”

Gao Zhen nodded: "You go over there to inquire and see what Zhao Jue's family has done recently." Especially the old lady of his family, who has a lot of contact with people, and how do they usually spend their lives. I inquired. Come back and forth to me in the evening. ”

Mo Chi was puzzled, but he guessed that the prince probably paid so much attention to Zhao Jue's family because he was looking at the Jiannanhou Mansion, and hurriedly agreed. Gao Zhen gave him a meal with him, and gave him some silver to make, and he was suddenly a little flattered and secretly determined. We must do this errand that the prince has instructed us to do well. After eating, he didn't even have time to taste how delicious the dishes of the prince were delicious, so he hurriedly changed his clothes and left the palace.

At this time. The Zhang family also sent someone to ask the doctor to treat Zhao Ze's injuries.

The Zhang family went to Beijing this time and brought a lot of subordinates, but Wang Shuangfu, the new housekeeper in the old mansion who had not been in office for a few years, did not follow. He has been on an errand in the old mansion for a long time, and he can still handle it in Fengxian's place. Entered the capital. For those shrewd and old stewards in the families of dignitaries and nobles, they are a little inadequate, but I am afraid that they will not even know the number of gifts to be sent to them, and they are afraid that they will make jokes. Zhang didn't take him with him, and continued to let him sit in the old mansion. Originally, Wang Siping, the chief manager of the Hou Mansion, could continue to be the chief manager, but he was old and lazy, and the Zhang family did not force it. He took his eldest son Wang Fulai with him.

Wang Fu followed his father since he was a child, and he has been in and out of major families in Beijing. Dealing with those big and small stewards, although they can't compare to his father, they should also be able to do it. was originally going to take over his Lao Tzu's class, but then the old county prince died, Niu became the new housewife, and her cronies wanted to take the throne, squeezing his Lao Tzu's position, and his future was naturally bleak. Zhang's once used him to take charge of the rental house in Nanhui, and after a few years, he was also a lot more sophisticated, and he took him on this trip to Beijing, and the affairs of Nanhui were handed over to his younger brother Wang Lu.

This time, the Zhang family wanted to ask the doctor to treat Zhao Ze's injury, and the person sent was Wang Fulai.

Wang Fulai naturally has no good impression of the Niu family, but he knows that the Zhang family takes great care of Zhao Ze, and he doesn't do too much, but he just invited a doctor with good medical skills, and when he arrived at the house where Zhao Ze and they rented, he didn't knock on the door, and directly called an old servant to lead the way, and then drove straight in, found Zhao Ze, and asked the doctor to show him the injury. From beginning to end, he didn't say hello to Niu.

The two men suddenly entered the courtyard, even if they were led by their own old servants, the girls would shout and scream, as if the daughter in the door of the mansion was peeked at by the villager, covering her face and screaming and running around. Niu and Zhao Xiang in the house were talking, but they were startled when they heard the movement outside. Niu raised his voice and asked, "What's going on outside?!" Then a girl fell through the door and cried out, "Old lady, the old man somehow brought in some men with raw faces and went to the house of Brother Ze." ”

Niu's face sank: "Is this worth it?" "She doesn't have a good impression of those old servants, and they only regard Zhao Ze as the master, but they leave her aside, which is really unreasonable. You know, she is the housewife!

She was about to call her eldest granddaughter over to ask what was going on, but Zhao Xiang was a little shirking. That's a foreigner with a raw face, and it's too late for her to be a boudoir girl, and it's too unruly to take the initiative to send it. Niu Shi glanced at her impatiently, and helped the girl over.

Zhao Man, who was immersed in needlework on the small pestle in the corner of the house, looked up at Zhao Xiang, and mocked: "Big sister is too particular, our family now has only one yard, and there is no distinction between the inner and outer houses, do you still think that you are the daughter of the former daughter?" Seeing that a foreign man is not in accordance with the rules, is it possible that the grandmother goes to see the foreign man, which is also unruly? When you went to someone's house to ask for money, why didn't you see that you had so much attention? ”

Zhao Xiang glared at her fiercely: "You don't care about my business, hurry up and make the clothes in your hand, I will wear it out on June 6!" Then he went to the window and leaned over the window frame to see what was going on in his brother's house.

Zhao Man has been working hard to make new clothes for her in the past few days, and her fingers hurt when she did it, and when she heard her words, she was even more angry, but she didn't dare to attack. Still, she was curious about what was going on outside the house. Lao Zhangtou is one of Zhao Ze's dogs, and he is loyal to him. Lao Zhangtou can lead people to Zhao Zewu, presumably not for no reason, what is the matter? She also pricked up her ears to listen to the movement in the courtyard.

In Zhao Ze's room, the doctor had already examined his injury, and said to Wang Fulai: "The injury is not very serious, and it does not hurt the muscles and bones, but the little brother was seriously injured in the past, and he has not healed so far. Otherwise, if you continue to work like this, I am afraid that Yu Shouyuan will be in the way. Then he sat down on the table next to him and took out his own pen and paper to open the square.

Zhao Ze listened to the doctor's words, and his heart was already half gray.

In fact, why didn't he know that he was not in good health? But a large family, the old, the young, the weak, all have to wait for someone to feed, he is the eldest grandson, and it is naturally his duty to pay this responsibility. But he was still young, and he had no skills except for reading, and he wanted to copy for others, but people thought he was not good enough; If he wants to make a bookkeeper for others, he won't plan to make a profit; went to make a run for others, but he couldn't pull down his face to say pleasing words, and he was even more worried that he would be ridiculed when he met someone he knew; Finally found a messenger to move books, the boss still thought he was young and weak, and now he was injured and didn't go, but he was afraid that he would lose it.

He was able to survive because of his great-grandmother's great kindness, and it was impossible for him to listen to his grandmother and ask for money from the second room. But if he didn't go, his grandmother would scold him, and his sister would complain that he had no brotherhood, and even the old servants who were loyal to him persuaded him to borrow some silver from the second room for turnover, and it would be the same in the future. He only felt that no one in the world could understand his thoughts, and now that his body had collapsed, it was better to die early than to involve others.

When Zhao Ze was discouraged, Niu Shi arrived. She recognized Wang Fulai, and when she looked at the situation in the house, she knew that the second room had sent someone to invite a doctor to come to see Zhao Ze. As she expected, the old woman in the second room couldn't let go of Zhao Ze. Niu's heart was proud and happy, but in front of Wang Fulai, he still had to put on a shelf: "What are you doing?" This is my house, didn't you old lady say that you won't care about us anymore? ”

Wang Fulai didn't bother to pay attention to her.

After the doctor finished prescribing the prescription, he looked up at her strangely, and gave the prescription to Wang Fulai. The latter looked at it carefully, nodded, took out a few taels of silver, and handed it to the old Zhang Tou who was standing beside him: "Uncle Zhang, go grab the medicine, grab the medicine, hurry back and feed your brother the medicine." In two days, I'll bring the doctor to see Brother Ze'er. Lao Zhangtou hurriedly took the prescription and the broken silver, and his hands were shaking.

The doctor picked up the medicine box and said, "Let's make some meat for my little brother to eat, you don't need to take tonics, the food supplement is very good, as light as possible." ”

Wang Fulai agreed, politely sent the doctor out, and took another five taels of silver to Lao Zhangtou: "Buy more good meat and vegetables for your brother, don't be stingy in these little things." ”

Niu Shi stared at the silver with red eyes, and sneered: "The subordinates of the little second room are becoming more and more ignorant now, Zhao Ze is my grandson, he is injured, naturally I take care of him, if his great-grandmother feels sorry for him, and wants to give him a few taels of money to buy some good things to eat, why don't you tell my grandmother, but give it to a servant?" ”

Wang Fulai still ignored her, comforted Zhao Ze twice, let him recuperate from his injuries, and didn't have to worry about the mission, so he said that he would go back to his house to restore his life, and turned around and left.

Niu was ignored by the son of the former housekeeper from beginning to end, and he was trembling with anger. She glared at Zhao Ze for a long time, and said coldly: "You are such a big shelf, forget it if there is no one in the eyes of the dog sent by your great-grandmother, I am your grandmother, I have been standing here for a long time, and you don't even give me a greeting?!" ”

Lao Zhangtou couldn't see it: "Old lady, my brother has a wound on his back, and he doesn't even dare to move, so you can pity him!" ”

"Why should I pity him?!" Niu was furious, "He has his own rich great-grandmother's pity, he asked for a doctor for the silver, and asked him to buy delicious food, but where did he put me?!" She glared at Lao Zhangtou fiercely and said, "How can that mother-in-law know that my brother is injured?" Did you sue sù Xiao Erfang?! She looked at the money in his hand: "Give me the money!" ”

Lao Zhangtou held the money tightly in his hand and bowed his head silently. Niu's family was on fire and wanted to call a few other old servants to tie him up, Zhao Xiang hurriedly came over and said, "Grandmother, forget it, it's just a few taels of silver." "Someone paid for her brother's medical bills, and she saved money.

Niu said: "It's not a matter of a few taels of silver!" It's the rule! The rules of the Zhao family have never allowed slaves to commit crimes. Come, tie up this disrespectful old slave for me! ”

Zhao Ze leaned on the bed and looked up at her suddenly, his eyes full of despair. (To be continued......)

PS: Sorry for the late update