The letter was brought by Pan Ertuo, and there was also an official document sent by Xu Ying to the shop. It's not so much an official document as a debt collection letter!

Seeing off Dean Gu and the other gentry, Han Xiufeng walked to the door of the West Wing and asked with a smile: "Yu'er, have you calculated it, how much silver do I owe to the state government?" ”

Ren Yu'er has read a lot of books, and her writing is beautiful, and her articles are even better than her father Ren Yaen. During this time, all the correspondence was written with her help, and she had never written such letters before, but after flipping through a few rulers, she wrote the letters in a dignified manner.

In short, what a talented woman.

However, writing an article and settling accounts are two different things, not only are the accounts not good or even planning to make a plan, seeing that Master Han asked, he hurriedly got up and said, "It's counting, it's good right away." ”

Han Xiufeng said with a smile: "If you don't calculate it, you don't have to count it, anyway, I won't give him a tael of silver." ”

Ren Yu'er was relieved, and couldn't help but smile: "Yes, why give it, from your arrival to your resignation, you haven't seen one or two officials and incorruptible silver." He's embarrassed to ask you for silver, doesn't this make you post it upside down! ”

As he was talking, the big head walked in, smirked and asked, "Fourth brother, what's upside down?" ”

"Old ghost Xu asks me for silver."

"What kind of money does he care you want?"

"I want the money that the state government will help me advance." Han Xiufeng looked back and smiled.

The big head asked: "Fourth brother, did the state government advance money for you?" ”

"Pad it, Zhang Guangcheng helped pad. He didn't want to bother me about these little things, so he just helped me cushion it, why did he still keep accounts. It's good now, the account book is in the hands of Old Ghost Xu, and Old Ghost Xu will rely on the account book to ask me for silver. However, Zhang Guangcheng can't be blamed for this matter, it should be the accounts kept by those scribes in the household, and Zhang Guangcheng probably doesn't know. ”

The more the big head listened, the more confused he became, and asked again: "Fourth brother, what did you buy, and let Second Young Master Zhang help you advance money?" ”

"Didn't buy anything." Han Xiufeng said with a wry smile.

"I didn't buy anything, and I want him to help you advance some silver?" Although the big brain shell is not easy to use, but when it comes to things, it always likes to understand.

Han Xiufeng is not accustomed to it, but has long been tired of it, and he doesn't know how to send him away, Ren Yu'er couldn't help but smile and said: "It's all about filial piety to the officials, the former Futai went to Taizhou to inspect, and the state government spent more than 5,000 taels to welcome the Futai, and Master Zhang apportioned the expenses to the officials in Taizhou, and the fourth brother was still inspecting at that time, so he had to pay 500 taels." ”

The big head is also a rich man now, and even his tone has become bigger, and he actually grinned: "I thought it was a big deal, isn't it just five hundred taels." ”

"Five hundred taels is just one of them." Ren Yu'er sneered.

"And?"

"That's a lot." Ren Yu'er turned around and took the debt collection letter from Old Ghost Xu, looked at the account on the letter, and said: "Although the minister Qi Shan has not been to Taizhou, the minister of the Qin Mission, Qi Shan, has not been to Taizhou, but the Qin Mission's line is to be repaired, and the furniture is to be purchased, and this cost is apportioned to the states and counties. ”

"How many taels?"

"This is not much, just two hundred taels. But it was not only the minister Qi Shan who came to Yangzhou, but also Lord Lei, the squire of the Criminal Department, and Lord Shengbao, a cabinet scholar. Lord Lei is stationed in the Fairy Temple, and he doesn't even have a proper yamen, so he has to pay money to help renovate the house and buy furniture. It was the same when Katsubo-sama was there, and the two strokes added up to six hundred taels. ”

"So much!" The big head was taken aback.

"Also, the new mansion in the fairy temple has to be repaired, and furniture has to be added. The Yunsi Yamen moved to Taizhou, and the state government also gave money to help repair the Fujian Hall, and at that time, the fourth brother had not yet been a deputy of Shangyun, so he also had to pay silver. Ren Yu'er put down the debt collection letter of the old ghost Xu, and continued: "The Yangzhou Customs Supervision Office was moved to Taizhou, and the state government got money to help repair the government office, and the new Xuezheng passed through Taizhou, and the state government spent two thousand eight taels, which is the same as the expenses. ”

"Fourth brother, this sum of money, bits and pieces, has to have thousands of taels of silver!" The big head asked in surprise.

"You just know." Han Xiufeng sat down and said.

"Can you not go out, you don't have any friendship with those adults." Big Head sat down and asked.

"You have to give it if you don't have a relationship, since you have to abide by the rules of officialdom as an official, if you don't even come out with these bad rules, this official can't do it." Han Xiufeng took a sip of tea from the cup, and then changed his words: "But old ghost Xu, don't expect to get silver from me, it was Zhang Guangcheng who helped me pad, there is a debtor and a debtor, if he wants to find it, he will find Zhang Guangcheng, what is it to find me." ”

"Yes, let him go to Second Young Master Zhang, our silver didn't fall from the sky, why give it to him." Big Head thinks so.

"Fourth brother, what if Master Xu comes after him to ask for it?" Ren Yu'er couldn't help but ask.

"Let's just say that I have returned it to Zhang Guangcheng," Han Xiufeng thought about it and smiled: "Isn't there a letter from Zhang Guangcheng in the room, if you don't feel at ease, go and see Zhang Guangcheng's handwriting, see if you can write a receipt according to his handwriting, if Xu Ying really finds it, you can give him the receipt, hahaha." ”

"Okay, I'll go find the letter from Second Young Master Zhang."

……

Xu Ying was crazy and looking for money everywhere, but this debt was not a thing for Han Xiufeng, and he was about to call the big head to go fishing together, but Xiao Wuzi of "Rishengchang" actually came, and he came with luggage.

Han Xiufeng felt very strange, pointed to the luggage on his shoulder and asked, "Shopkeeper Wu, are you planning to go far away?" ”

"What kind of shopkeeper, fourth master, don't make fun of the little one, the small one is ......" When the words came to his mouth, Xiao Wuzi didn't know how to explain.

Rishengchang's rules are more and stricter than the rules of the imperial court, Han Xiufeng actually saw the flaws earlier, but he just saw through them but didn't say that they were broken, and while beckoning him to put down his luggage and sit down to drink tea, he asked with a smile: "Which of the two bookkeepers who came with you last time is the real shopkeeper?" ”

"Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang is the real shopkeeper." Xiao Wuzi put down his luggage and said with an embarrassed face: "Master Han, the little one didn't want to deceive you, and he knew that he couldn't deceive you at all, but Shopkeeper Yang was worried that you wouldn't help, so he had to let the little one pretend to be the shopkeeper." ”

"A liar is a liar, but then again, who is the shopkeeper of the Taizhou branch, this is your ticket number, I just want to ask if the things we said before are still counted."

"Count, fourth master, you put a hundred hearts, the good things you said before are certain, and they won't count because they are small and don't be the shopkeeper."

"That's good." Han Xiufeng nodded with satisfaction, and asked with a smile: "You even carried your luggage, where are you going?" ”

Xiao Wuzi hurriedly said: "Fourth master, aren't you going to Shanghai to get a gun, Shopkeeper Yang knows that the matter of letting the little one pretend to be the shopkeeper make you unhappy, so let the little one accompany you to Shanghai." Wait for you to finish the gun, and then let the little one take a boat from Shanghai to Tianjin Wei, and return to Beijing from Tianjin Wei. ”

"So even if I don't go to Shanghai to get a gun, you won't stay in Taizhou for a long time?"

"Yes, the chief shopkeeper originally planned to let the younger one return to Beijing after two."

"You've been to Shanghai?" Han Xiufeng asked curiously.

"I haven't been there, but there are people in Shanghai who are small, and the shopkeeper of the Shanghai branch is a small cousin, and several of the guys in the branch are all small fellow villagers." Speaking of this, Xiao Wuzi suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out a letter from his luggage: "Fourth master, before I came, I went to the Fujian Hall to find Brother Changsheng, and this is the letter that Brother Changsheng asked me to bring to you." ”

"Didn't you just get a letter in the morning, how can you have a letter again?" Han Xiufeng took the letter and muttered.

"The morning letter should have been brought to you by someone he entrusted the day before yesterday, and it was yesterday."

"Also, with tea, I'll read the letter first."

I don't know if I don't see it, when I saw that Han Xiufeng was happy, I couldn't help but turn around and said: "Yu'er, don't look for Zhang Guangcheng's letter yet, go home and help me call your father, just say that there is news about filling the vacancy." ”

"That's news?" Ren Yu'er was taken aback.

"Hurry up and shout."

"Oh."

……

Han Xiufeng didn't expect Ren Yaen to fill the vacancy so smoothly, and Ren Yaen didn't expect it to be so fast, and when he heard his daughter's words, he was overjoyed, and threw down a group of schoolchildren and ran to the small courtyard.

Seeing that he was coming, but Ren Yu'er didn't come back, Han Xiufeng realized that Ren Yu'er couldn't walk fast with her feet wrapped up, and she should be left behind, so she simply asked Datou to help him make a cup of tea first, and waited for Ren Yu'er and Yu Sangu to arrive before talking about business.

"Dean Ren, you know the rules for filling vacancies as a scholar, you can be an official in this province, but you can't be an official in this province, so you can't be a student official in Taizhou, Taixing, Gaoyou, and other states and counties."

"The student knows that compared to Master Han, you are thousands of miles away from home, and it is already very good for a student to be an official in this province."

"It's good to know." Han Xiufeng smiled slightly, and continued: "Now there are two vacant Confucian teachings, one is close, and it is Dongtai. One is far away, Jiading County under the rule of Songjiang Prefecture. Compared with Dongtai, Jiading is obviously better, after all, Jiading is close to Suzhou and Shanghai County, not only richer than Dongtai, but also more prosperous than Dongtai. Dean Ren, you discuss with the third aunt whether to go to Dongtai or Jiading. ”

Without waiting for Ren Yaen to speak, Yu Sangu said with a smile: "Of course it's Dongtai, although I haven't been to Dongtai, but I have heard Dean Gu say that it is not far from our Hai'an, and after Anfeng Field is Dongtai, you can leave in the morning and arrive at night!" ”

Ren Yaen was anxious: "What do you know about a woman!" ”

"Isn't it good to be close to home?" Yu Sangu asked puzzled.

"What's the use of being close to home," Ren Yaen was embarrassed to say in front of everyone that he could earn more money by going to Jiading to be a school official, so he could only explain: "I am going to be a school official, so I naturally want to go to a place where the literary style is prosperous!" Dongtai is not as good as Taizhou, there can be a few readers, but there are few readers, even if it is a county school instructor, what is the point. ”

Thinking that the day when Master Guo transported the silver raised from Huaizhong to Hai'an, it was the time when Master Han went to Shanghai to run a gun, and Master Han would not come back after leaving, Ren Yu'er said with a ghostly spirit: "Third aunt, it's better to go to Jiading, isn't Master Han going to Shanghai on an errand, we can go with Master Han at that time." Jiading doesn't seem to be far from Shanghai, and my dad didn't understand anything when he was an official for the first time, and if something happened after he arrived, he could ask Master Han to take care of him. ”

"Yes, Master Han is also going to Shanghai, we can go with Master Han!" Ren Yaen thought so.

Yu Sangu subconsciously asked, "Master, do you mean to take me too?" ”

"What are you talking about, I can take you with me when I go to office."

"Are you taking me there?"

"It's real, it's hard to make it a fake!"

"Since you take me, it's the same everywhere, I'll listen to you."

Seeing Yu Sangu's happy smile, Han Xiufeng suddenly envied Ren Yaen, after all, although he was not a big official, he could at least bring his wife and children, and when he saw the letter at hand, he hurriedly said: "Dean Ren, Jiading is not far from Shanghai, but I'm afraid we can't go together." ”

"Master Han, aren't you going to Shanghai on an errand?" Ren Yaen asked puzzled.

"I must go to Shanghai, but you have to go to Jiangyin first, and go to meet Xuetai first. Otherwise, we will divide into two ways, and when the matter of the academy is agreed with Dean Gu and other Hai'an gentry, you will go to Jiangyin to meet the school platform, and then go to Jiading after meeting the school platform and getting the official document of taking office. I'll take my third aunt and Yu'er to Shanghai in a few days, and then I'll pick them up in Shanghai after you arrive. ”

"But I heard that Shanghai County is big, where will I find you when the time comes?"

"Go to our Rishengchang, we have a semicolon in Shanghai." Xiao Wuzi, who had never dared to intervene, smiled proudly.

"It's okay to go to the Shanghai branch of Rishengchang, Dean Ren, what do you think of this arrangement?" Han Xiufeng asked with a smile.

"Okay, it's best to arrange it this way, Master Han, the student will retire first, and go to Dean Gu first."

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