However, this matter is not urgent, he has just come to She County, and he knows too few people, so he needs to look for it slowly.

After dealing with it for more than an hour, the drums sounded outside, and a servant came in to announce: "My lord, it's time for you, you can rest." ”

Lu Yuan stood up and stretched, the bones in his whole body "snapped" chaotically, he got off work at five o'clock, comfortable!

As soon as he came out of the study, he saw Hou Kaishan eating Hu cakes and walking quickly into the second hall.

"Brother Hou didn't eat enough at noon?" Lu Yuan asked with a smile.

Hou Kaishan made two bites of three and stuffed the cake into his mouth, and said embarrassedly: "I don't know why, I obviously ate a lot at noon, but I didn't get busy for a while, and my stomach screamed again." ”

He didn't talk for a while, but he actually inspected the four city gates, two water gates, and more than a dozen warehouses.

"My lord, I found that the bows and arrows in the county warehouse have been stored for too long and cannot be used." Hou Kaishan reported.

"Can't you fix it?" Lu Yuan asked, he was a pure layman in this regard.

"The string breaks as soon as it is pulled, and the bow body is also rotten, which is difficult to repair, and these are light bows, if you want to deal with those bandits and gangsters and masters of the rivers and lakes, you need to use a strong bow and a heavy crossbow to be useful."

"We'll talk about that later."

He has already checked, the public funds in the treasury of the Yamen Mansion are pitiful, needless to say, they must have been embezzled by Li Xiancheng and others, but he has too many things to do at the moment, and he can't take care of this matter for the time being.

Hou Kaishan replied, and said, "My lord, will I move here tonight?" ”

"You can come whenever you want!"

"Then I'll go back and clean up now." Hou Kaishan looked impatient.

After all the officials left, Lu Yuan closed the door of the second hall, returned to the main room of the back house, and walked around the house, but found that Lu Yutong could not be found, and he suddenly became anxious.

"Rain Hitomi! Rain Hitomi! He shouted in the courtyard.

The Shan brothers, who were decocting medicine in the East Cross Courtyard, heard the shouts and ran over, and Shan Hu asked from afar, "Lu Xianggong, what's wrong?" ”

"The rain pupil is gone, do you know where she is?" Lu Yuan asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Shan Hu shook his head violently.

Shan Long was afraid that Lu Yuan would blame himself for not taking good care of him, so he hurriedly explained: "I went to the back house more than an hour ago to take a look, and Lu Xiaomei was cleaning the corridor at that time, so it stands to reason that she won't suddenly disappear!" ”

Lu Yuan's heart was so confused that he really couldn't think of where Lu Yutong went, so he said to the two: "Please ask the two brothers to help me find the outer courtyard, and I will look for it in the inner courtyard." ”

Shan Long and Shan Hu agreed and went to the outer courtyard to find it.

When he found the ear room on the right side of the main house, Lu Yuan suddenly found a black hole on the floor, and when he looked closely, there was a downward staircase in the hole, which was a secret passage.

"Rain Hitomi! Rain Hitomi! Are you in there? He shouted into the secret passage.

Immediately, a little girl's crisp voice came from inside the cave: "Brother, I'm inside, I'll come out immediately." ”

Seeing that she was really inside, Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the ground.

As soon as Lu Yutong walked out of the secret passage, Lu Yuan hugged her and scolded: "Why are you running around, but you freak me out!" ”

"I'm sorry." The little girl whispered her mistake.

After checking Lu Yutong's body and seeing that she was not injured, Lu Yuan asked, "How do you know that there is a secret passage here?" ”

Lu Yutong struggled to get off Lu Yuan, she had been abused by Lu Yuan for many years, and subconsciously she still didn't want to get too close to him.

"I accidentally knocked over the barrel while cleaning here, and I found the water flowing into the floor, and I thought it was weird, and then I found out."

What a smart girl, Lu Yuan thought to himself.

"Are you just running away?"

"That's right."

This little girl is also bold, even if Lu Yuan himself discovers this secret passage, he doesn't dare to go down alone, he asked again: "Then did you find anything down there?" ”

"From here you can get to a place with a lot of trees." The little girl answered honestly.

A lot of trees? Lu Yuan's heart moved, and said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look together!" ”

Lu Yutong touched his belly and said, "I'm hungry." ”

"Alright, let's go eat first!"

When he returned to the courtyard, he happened to meet Brother Shan Long and Shan Hu, Shan Long saw Lu Yutong, put his mind at ease, and asked, "Lu Xianggong, the medicine has been boiled, do you want to go and see it?" ”

Lu Yuan's prescription was given by Wang Qian, but he didn't know anything about medicine, thought about it, and asked, "Have you stayed up for four hours?" ”

"I started staying up in the morning, absolutely."

"Then there is no problem, for the first three days, you will take the medicine according to the prescription, give him a medicine every day, come with me." As he spoke, he led the two into the study room.

He copied the second prescription according to the letter given by the king, handed it to the two men, and said, "In three days, you will make an ointment according to this prescription, and apply it to your wrists and ankles every hour, and you will be all right in four days." ”

"It's troublesome." Shan Hu grinned.

Shan Long took the prescription and glanced at it, and arched his hand: "Thank you Lu Xianggong!" ”

After that, the two took their leave.

Lu Yuan suddenly remembered that Hou Kaishan's father and son were going to move over, so he asked the little girl to go to hot cakes, and he went to the second hall to wait.

After standing at the door of the second hall for a while, a servant suddenly walked in quickly and said, "My lord, the father and son of the Xu family ask to see each other." ”

"Invite them over." Lu Yuan had a good impression of Old Man Xu.

The soap class is a shift system, so there are always people in the county office at 12 hours.

After a while, the father and son of the Xu family followed the officials to the second hall, Xu Baichuan was about to bow down when he saw Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan hurriedly helped him up and said, "Xu Yuan doesn't need to be polite." ”

Xu Baichuan had heart disease before, but after the Xu family came back to life, his complexion suddenly improved a lot, and he looked younger.

"My lord, the grass people and their family are all thanks to the adults to save them, and there is nothing to repay, so the grass people have booked a private room in Tianfu Building, and I want to invite the adults to have a meal and express their gratitude."

This kind of meal is not delicious, and the mouth of the eater is short, and there may be something to help with.

"This is my business, Xu Yuan doesn't have to be polite, and I don't have to eat." Lu Yuan refused.

Xu Baichuan also guessed that he might be rejected, but he always wanted to try his luck, and seeing that Lu Yuan was unwilling, he had to say: "Since the adults have something to do, the grass people will retire." ”

Out of the county office, Xu Yun said dissatisfiedly: "Daddy, I just told you not to come, if you don't listen, Lord Lu is different from other officials." ”

"You won't suffer a loss if you give it a try, now that the four major chambers of commerce are closed, we want to take revenge on the Chen family, now is the best opportunity, as long as we can find a way to get tea and cloth, we can take the opportunity to seize their market, which requires the support of Lord Lu, and your second uncle's affairs also need his help." Xu Baichuan showed a bit of an old fox's appearance.

"Now that we've failed, what should we do next?"

"Let's go find Wang Yu first, if you want to deal with Chen Guang, it's not enough for our family alone."

Xu Yun nodded indifferently, he had no interest in doing business, he only loved to dance and write and recite poetry.

At this moment, a person suddenly ran in the distance, it was the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion, Xu Baichuan was very sophisticated, knowing that the housekeeper Ma came to find him in person, there must be something important, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Steward Ma, what's wrong?"

"Master, the king sent someone to invite you to ...... He was in the garden outside the city, and said that they would discuss the matter of dealing with the Chen family. Steward Ma said as he gasped.

"I was about to go to him, but the old man and I thought about it, let's go, you go with us!" Xu Baichuan said with a smile.

……

After waiting for a while in the second hall, Lu Yuan finally saw the figure of the Hou family father and son carrying large bags and small bags.

Leading the two into the West Cross Courtyard, Lu Yuan asked, "How about you live in this small courtyard?" ”

Hou Yue was very happy, and was about to say yes, but he heard his father say: "My lord, this place is too far away from your seat, which is not conducive to protection." ”

Lu Yuan thought about it, not for his own safety, but also for Lu Yutong, so he said, "Okay, you come with me." ”

Entering the courtyard, there are three side rooms on the left and right, and there are eight upside-down rooms opposite his main room, Lu Yuan said: "You can choose which room you want to live in." ”