Jiang Anyi followed Zhang Keji to the last cave, there was an iron fence locked in front of the cave, and through the fence, you could see that there were tools stacked inside, such as carts, flat baskets, and the like. Zhang Keji untied a bunch of keys from his waist, opened the copper lock, and opened the iron fence.

The cave was only half the size of a grain cellar, and it was full of debris and became more and more crowded. Jiang Anyi looked around in surprise, not knowing what Zhang Keji had brought him here for. The cave was not well lit and poorly ventilated, standing inside was dark and stuffy, Zhang Keji took Jiang Anyi carefully through the debris and came to the end of the cave. Jiang Anyi's eyes were sharp, and he found that there was a crack wide in the cave, and the crack mouth was also locked by an iron fence.

Zhang Keji picked up the torch placed next to him, lit it with a flint, let Jiang Anyi hold the torch, opened the lock on the iron fence by himself, and turned around and said, "Lord, be careful with your step, the road is not easy to walk." Jiang Anyi followed Zhang Keji and walked with difficulty in the narrow crack for more than ten zhang, and the front suddenly became wide, and there was a bright light not far in front of him.

"My lord, when I asked people to dig the cave, I found a natural crack here, so I stopped working, and I felt this place along the crack alone." Zhang Keji said, took Jiang Anyi out of the hole, a big tree at the entrance of the cave was covered, turned over, and suddenly opened up, and the green valley appeared in front of him.

The valley has more than 10 acres in circumference, surrounded by mountains, and the mountains are steep, forming a natural barrier. Looking up from the valley, the trees are luxuriant, Jiang Anyi has been in this area, has never found the valley here, and has never heard the people in the town mention that it should be shaded by trees.

Jiang Anyi was shocked by the scenery in front of him, Zhang Keji was obviously accustomed to it, and walked through knee-high grass to lead Jiang Anyi to a water's edge. It is a small river about a foot wide, hidden by the grass on the bank, and flows quietly in the grass.

"The source of this small river is a waterfall, Zhang once went down the river and found that the river water has been leading to Meishan Valley, and the bend water from Meishan Ravine can flow into the Dianshui River."

Meishangou, Jiang Anyi has the impression that when he was a child, his father took himself there to visit friends, which is the jurisdiction of Qutai County, and everyone has always thought that Qutai County and Xinqi County are blocked by the mountains, only the official road is connected, but I didn't expect that this place is actually connected with Qutai County.

Zhang Keji saw Jiang Anyi's blank face, obviously not realizing the importance of this place. After thinking about it, Zhang Keji was relieved, although Jiang Anyi was young and poor, he had a smooth journey after the middle lift, and there was no sense of crisis, and the construction of the cottage was just to lay a century-old foundation for the descendants of the Jiang family, and he was born in a family, and he was used to seeing the open and secret battles in the family, and fell into the hands of the enemy in Huazhou. Alas, how can I explain my cunning rabbit psychology to the lord.

Back at the cottage, Jiang Anyi saw his cousin Huang Dongquan walking anxiously around Zhang Keji's courtyard. Dongquan and An Yong are of the same age, and they have the best friendship, last time they were reprimanded by Jiang Anyi because of their longitudinal horse on the street with Jiang Anyong, so they were a little timid when they saw Jiang Anyi, and called out respectfully: "Cousin, Mr. Zhang." ”

I haven't seen him for two years, and Huang Dongquan has also grown into an adult, the same height as Jiang Anyi, wearing a round-necked spring shirt, a bit like a child of a family. Jiang Anyi greeted with a smile: "Dongquan, do you have something to do with me?" ”

"Cousin, the county order is here, and you are in a hurry to find you? My aunt told you to go back quickly. Hurry up, it's been more than a quarter of an hour, and I'm afraid that the county master will be unhappy for a long time. As soon as he opened his mouth, Huang Dongquan showed timidity, revealing his frizzy nature.

Zhang Keji was going to talk to Jiang Anyi about the benefits of the secret land, but this was obviously not the time, so he had to remind: "Lord, Wang County's order is nothing more than to eat and take cards, you remember that if you are small, you will accept it, and if you are big, you will not let it, otherwise it will not take long to retreat." ”

Jiang Anyi nodded and went back to the front house with Huang Dongquan. I saw the official sedan chair of the county order parked in front of the house, a few pieces of honor cards leaning against the wall of the courtyard of the house, and more than a dozen officials sitting in the shade to drink water. As soon as I stepped into the courtyard, I saw the head of the soap class in the county coming over in a hurry, and arched his hand and said, "Master Jiang, you are finally back, the adults are angry, please hurry up." ”

Speeding up his pace, Jiang Anyi rushed to the main hall, and as soon as he arrived at the eaves, he heard someone in the hall saying in a weird way: "...... Your Excellency has a lot of opportunities, and I came to your house in person. This Jiang Anyi is good, let the adults wait for him, in vain he is also a person who has read books, how can he not even understand some rules, I really don't know how he got the top prize. ”

This is a bully, Jiang Anyi was furious, strode into the lobby, and saw Wang Haiqing sitting in the guest seat at a glance, with a smile on his face, listening to a scribe beside him make a big statement. When the scribe saw Jiang Anyi coming in with an angry face, he shrank his neck in fright and swallowed back the words below.

Jiang Anyi sneered: "Jiang, the champion, is the Son of Heaven, this adult said that Jiang has a false name, does he mean that the Son of Heaven has no eyes, did he make a mistake about Jiang?" ”

This big hat was pressed down, no one could stand it, the scribe's face suddenly turned white, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and Jiang Anyi's demotion to a commoner was not something that he could afford to offend as a small scribe. The scribe looked at Wang Xianling with a distress look, these words were said by Lord Wang at his behest to say, and the Lord could save me at a critical time.

Wang Haiqing coughed lightly and reprimanded lightly: "Wang Lu, don't talk nonsense, give me a retreat." ”

Wang Lugong should be, turned over Jiang Anyi, and hurriedly walked out of the lobby. Jiang Anyi bowed and said, "The grass people have seen adults. ”

Wang Haiqing said with a straight face: "No courtesy, Jiang Anyi, you let the official wait." Since he is here, the official has something to say directly, saving time and delay. Jiang Anyi, you once served as a member of the Ministry of Rites, and when you knew that the saint was chasing after the Qing Dynasty, you were very close. The Jiang family has bought a lot of fields, land, and mountains in recent years, I wonder if anyone has put the fields in your name? ”

Jiang Anyi said with a smile: "There are records of buying and selling fields, and the county government has records of whether there is any false field, please check it clearly, and if you find out, you are willing to be punished." ”

Seeing that Jiang Anyi couldn't be frightened, Wang Haiqing said again: "As far as this official knows, the former Chen County Commander has a close relationship with you, whether the sale of land is downgraded or oversold, and there is the county's intention to reclassify the land, the Jiang family is a big family, and we need to do our best to cooperate with this county." In addition, the Jiang family's wine and perfume are all large taxpayers, and in order to prevent leakage, the official should send someone to check the accounts in detail, and also ask the Jiang family to cooperate. ”

Jiang Anyi frowned secretly, this Wang County Order is clearly looking for trouble, and it is not up to him to reclassify the grade, although it doesn't cost much, but between the measurements, the seedlings and flowers in the field will inevitably be trampled and ruined. There was no way, Jiang Anyi smiled: "Adults have worked hard from afar, eat a light meal first, and talk while talking." Uncle Wang, let people prepare a banquet to entertain the county magistrate and the brothers from the county. ”

A smile appeared on Wang Haiqing's face, it seemed that Jiang Anyi was still on the road and knew what to do. The banquet was placed, the red envelope was secretly handed over, Wang County ordered two hundred taels of silver tickets, the small officials brought were all twenty taels, the head of the squad was twenty taels, and the servants were five taels each, and nearly four hundred taels of silver were spent in one circle.

Eating big households is the strength of the officials, the officials in the courtyard shouting five and six punching, drinking happily, Jiang Anyi brothers in the house accompanied Wang County Order, several scribes and Wu Bantou accompanied. Wang Haiqing took a sip of wine and praised: "I have long heard that the wine produced by the Jiang family is good, and it is exported to the Northern Desert. ”

Hearing the string song and knowing the elegant meaning, Jiang Anyi smiled and said: "If the adults like it, I will send two cars to the mansion later, and the adults will taste it slowly." ”

Wu Bantou said with a smile: "Master Jiang, can you just look at the master, it's not easy for the little ones to come here, why don't you also enjoy some wine for everyone." ”

"Well, two altars for each brother." Jiang Anyi secretly hated in his heart, he originally had no good impression of the servants, and Wu Bantou's words made him extremely disgusted with the servants. Jiang Anyong beside him had a displeased face, and Wang Lu sneered: "Second Master Jiang, you look a little unhappy." ”

pulled Jiang Anyong under the table, Jiang Anyong picked up the bowl, poured it in one go, and then planted it on the table and didn't move. Jiang Anyi said with a smile: "My brother is not a good drinker, and if he drinks too much, don't blame the scribe Wang." Wang Lu really didn't dare to throw his face at Jiang Anyi, although Jiang Anyi was a commoner, he was also a commoner from a top background, and he couldn't afford to provoke him.

"My lord, the Jiang family's business has always been a partnership of three families, and this account is in the hands of the Yu family. Jiang Anyi said with a smile.

Wang Haiqing's purpose here is to make some money, and he doesn't really want to check the accounts, not to mention that Yu Zhijie is still a household secretary, how dare he go to Yu Mansion to ask for accounts. However, Jiang Anyi was demoted to a commoner, and the Jiang family became a huge fat meat, Wang Haiqing thought to himself, eating meat in small bites is the taste, and the term of office is still long, so he is not in a hurry.

Huang Kailin raised his glass and saluted everyone, put down his cup and said with a smile: "The Jiang family's land is bought and sold through the government, and Wu Ye and Hong Ye all know it. The court wants to clear the fields and the Jiang family naturally has to cooperate, but can they wait until after the autumn harvest, so that they will not miss the season. ”

Jiang Anyi took over and said: "The perfume of the Jiang family is sold to the capital, and it has to be taken care of by the nobles in Beijing. ”

Wang Haiqing was taken aback, yes, if the Jiang family's perfume production is less, the mother will definitely blame herself when she asks about it, she can't eat it and walks away. Wang Haiqing hurriedly said: "Perfume is a big thing, and it's not too late to talk about it when the flowering period passes." ”

When it comes to perfume, everyone here is red-eyed, although the perfume is produced in Pingshan Town, but there is no perfume circulation on the market in Pingshan Town, except for the Jiang family, the Yu family, and the Guo family flow out a little perfume for their own use, all of them were shipped to the capital, and I heard that the price of perfume in the capital is more than gold, and a hundred taels of silver can not buy a bottle of perfume.

Perfume is a thing that women are crazy about when they use it, and even Wang Haiqing has only heard of it, but has never used it. When Jiang Anyi was in power, everyone had no choice, and now Jiang Anyi was demoted to a commoner, this time, Wang Xian Ling didn't have to say, and the others also made up their minds to scrape out a few bottles of perfume from the Jiang family.

Hong Zhiping is the head of the official's room that Wang Haiqing brought up after his arrival, and he is naturally the confidant of Wang Xianling, and it can be said that he is the roundworm in Wang Xianling's abdomen, and he knows best what the adults think. Hong Zhiping picked up the wine and said: "Master Jiang, they all say that this perfume is a rare thing, can you give me a bottle or two to let me open my eyes." Besides, the fragrance of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, Lord Wang is the lord of a county, give him one or two hundred bottles of old man, let his old man suffer, and make a name for you, wouldn't this business get bigger and bigger. Lord Wang, do you say? ”

The deception was too much, Jiang Anyi slammed the wine glass and sneered: "What a big breath, one or two hundred bottles, have you asked the nobles in the palace if you can agree?" ”

Wang Haiqing's face sank, Jiang Anyi was so bold, he actually dared to show his face, the queen mother would also take care of the trivial matter of one or two hundred bottles of perfume, Jiang Anyi pulled the tiger skin to make a big banner, but it can be known that the official is still the clansman of the mother. Standing up, Wang Haiqing said with a calm face: "Go back to the ya." ”

Jiang Anyi was so angry that he didn't bother to get up, and said coldly: "It's easy for adults to go, don't send it." ”

The scribes were stunned, this Jiang Anyi doesn't play cards according to the routine, what can I do?

At this moment, Huang Dongquan ran in panting, and said to Jiang Anyi: "Cousin, someone from outside said that the holy decree has arrived, and you will accept it." ”