"I almost forgot to ask why my brother came." Zhou Zhixian put aside the written official document and beckoned Han Xiufeng to sit down and speak.

The person in front of him treats people well, and even has a bit of the style of a polite corporal, as if everything that is happening outside has nothing to do with him, and he really thinks he is a good official.

Han Xiufeng realized that he had met an opponent, and said with a little respect and embarrassment: "Master Zhou, I took the liberty to board the ship, in fact, there is a matter of asking for something. Can...... But when the words came to his mouth, he was a little ashamed to speak. ”

"Brother, it is fate that you and I can meet here, just say something, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"Then I'm not afraid of Master Zhou's jokes." Han Xiufeng subconsciously looked at the official on his body, and said with a bitter face: "Although I have studied for a few years, I have not been able to get a fame." In order to fight for the elders in the family, he could only smash the pot and sell iron and donated a nine-grade candidate for inspection. ”

To Han Xiufeng's surprise, Zhou Zhixian actually stroked his chin and sighed: "What's so embarrassing about this, according to the foolish brother, you are an understanding person." It is said that it is difficult to go to the blue sky in Shu, but in fact, why not the way to the imperial examination? Since it doesn't work, why bother to drill that bull's horn. Besides, what can you do if you take a meritorious name, the foolish brother Daoguang's eighteenth year, although he failed to be a Jinshi and Lahanlin, he can be regarded as a meritorious person, but he has not fallen into such a field! ”

"Why did Master Zhou say this." Han Xiufeng asked knowingly.

"Brother, although you and I met in the water, we hit it off at first sight, and the foolish brother is not afraid of your jokes. The foolish brother tried three times, but he failed repeatedly. If it weren't for the pity of the same year, I would not have been able to make up the trap for taking me in their yamen, and I wouldn't even be able to get together with the entanglement of going to Beijing to catch the exam! It's just that I didn't get into the Jinshi, and I finally caught up with the big pick, and I was put in Yunnan to take care of a vacancy, but there was a deficit in this shortage, and my ass was entrusted with this errand without sitting hot, brother, you said I wasn't unlucky? ”

"Unlucky, unlucky?" Han Xiufeng looked dazed.

"It seems that the elder brother doesn't know what the difference between the liberation of Yunnan copper is, let's put it this black gauze hat on the foolish brother's head for a few days, and when the Yunnan copper arrives in the capital, it is the day when the foolish brother is dismissed and investigated."

"This ...... Why is this ......?"

"If you don't believe it, you can inquire, all in all, the official is not so easy to do, and it is not a bad thing if you don't get famous."

Han Xiufeng pretended to be a stunned young man who didn't understand anything on the surface, but in his heart he was secretly thinking that the Yunnan County master in front of him who was about to be dismissed and investigated was no wonder so ghostly, it turned out that he had been a master for nearly ten years, and there was nothing he didn't know about the bends in the officialdom, and the official document just now was not a problem, and he didn't even care if he would be dismissed and investigated, as long as he could take this opportunity to get enough money!

It is easy to deal with smart people, Han Xiufeng no longer went around in circles, and said bluntly: "Master Zhou, I took the liberty to come here to take a hitchhike and save a few taels of entanglement in Beijing." In the next family, he is poor, so he can only ask for shame. If it can be fulfilled, along the way, the three masters and servants will obey the dispatch of Master Zhou, and there will be no complaints before and after the saddle. ”

Zhou Zhixian thought that Han Xiufeng was here to intercede on the blocked boats, but he didn't expect that Han Xiufeng wanted to take his downwind boat, so he refused without thinking about it: "Brother, you have your difficulties, and foolish brothers also have foolish brothers' difficulties." As an official of the imperial court, the foolish brother hated the dirty things outside, but the freight of these hundreds of thousands of catties of Yunnan copper had already been deducted by the feudal department, and he didn't let those rammed goods outside to make some money, who would pay for the freight? ”

"I don't see anything down there, I don't know anything."

"Brother, it's not a matter of whether you have seen it or not, or whether you know it, but that the foolish brother mud bodhisattva crossing the river is difficult to protect himself, and he is really powerless to help you, not to mention that you are still a master and servant."

"Master Zhou, the three of my master and servant are just taking a boat, and you don't need to take care of the meal."

"Brother, don't embarrass the foolish brother anymore. If you are allowed to take a boat, God knows what even more inconsistencious demands those rammers outside will make, and what angry things will be done. Iniquity, evil, what kind of sin did I create in my last life to be put on this drudgery......"

Zhou Zhixian hid his face and wiped his tears as he spoke, as if he was really sorry for what was happening outside.

Han Xiufeng secretly scolded the old fox, and then changed his words: "Master Zhou, I can't hide it, I have been helping in the county yahu house for the past few years, and the relationship with the third class of officials is quite close. And our Ba County waterway is not easy to walk, there are a total of 23 dangerous shoals, if the wind and waves are high and the boat capsizes, it may be able to help a little. ”

Zhou Zhixian secretly laughed that there are dangerous beaches, there are dangerous beaches to capsize, not to overturn a few boats, how to explain the reason for the shortage of copper catties to the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry!

He simply stopped pretending, turned around and pointed to the official document that had just been written: "Brother, you don't have to bother." The foolish brother immediately sent someone to move to the main hall of Wenba County, if the wind and waves were high and the boat capsized, the main hall of Guixian County would naturally send someone to the river to fish. ”

Han Xiufeng didn't want to do anything wrong, so he stared at him and said sincerely: "Master Zhou, letting my master and servant take a ride on the wind is just a matter of words for you, but it is a great kindness to me......"

"Brother, there is no need to say much, this matter has no need to be discussed." Zhou Zhixian didn't want to grind his mouth any longer, so he picked up the tea and said coldly: "Since the elder brother has been idle in the Yamen Gang, he should know the heavy responsibility on the shoulders of the foolish brother, in order to ensure that hundreds of thousands of catties of Yunnan copper are safely transported to the capital, no idle people can get on the ship!" ”

Han Xiufeng thought that this turning of face was faster than turning the book, and just now he was talking and laughing with brothers, and now he was full of high-sounding words.

"Master Zhou is angry, he is in the next Meng Lang, so he will retire."

"Don't send it!"

Han Xiufeng got out of the cabin, thought about it and then turned around and smiled: "Master Zhou, there is usually nothing in the city gate in front of you, if you have a useful place to be in the next place, just send someone to shout." ”

"Let's go, let's go, sir, if I have anything, I'll go to the main hall of your county!"

"Okay, it's okay to find our county parents." Han Xiufeng smiled, jumped on the cargo ship without looking back, and returned the same way.

The more Zhou Zhixian thought about it, the more angry he became, and scolded: "Liu San, if someone asks to see him, ask what is going on first, don't pass on a message to someone when he sees a few copper plates!" ”

"Master, didn't I see that he was also an official?" Chang Sui stood at the hatch and explained with a bitter face.

"Your dog is blind, don't you see that he is just a ninth grade, and he is still a poor ghost on the alternate."

"But I think he should have some money."

"Don't talk about it, go to the shore and see if your second master has come back."

"Oh, here we go!"

Chang Sui suddenly realized that there was still something important to do, and was about to go ashore, Zhou Zhixian probed from the cabin and said: "Wait, this official document is going to be sent to the Yamen of Ba County, take it with you by the way, remember to ask them for a receipt." ”

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