Today's Fengyue Building, came a special guest, she was ragged, claiming to be here to sell herself, my mother was afraid that she was sent to the family, so she quickly called someone to drive out, only to see that the woman was not frightened by the sticks of those bodyguards, she looked at her mother and said: "I came to you, just to be your top card, you accept me, there will be a time when you are happy in the future." Her mother called her into the house. Let her wash her face with water, and see that her appearance is still beautiful and her figure is good-looking. Then he asked, "Tell me, son, what is your name, and why are you so here?" When the woman heard this, she was immediately aggrieved, wiped her tears and said: "My mother, listen to me, I was originally from Hujiazhuang, and later it was said that the matchmaker married to Wangjiazhuang, this year's disaster, there is not a single grain in my field, I really have no choice, my name is Hu Xue'er, it was the old man Wang who beat me out of the village." I'm a woman's family, and I don't have the ability, so I have to make this decision. Fengyuelou's mother thanked her for her honesty, and asked the turtle slave to quickly clean up a house, and asked her to list up for customers tonight. Because Hu Xue'er was young and in good shape, she soon became popular all over Yaoshan City, and literati who had never slept with her were embarrassed to go out to drink.

The Imperial Palace, the Palace of Diligence.

"I want to repair a plum garden, for the winter to enjoy the plums, the prince and princess to study, what do you think Aiqing?" The emperor said with his eyes slightly closed, his eyes rolled, he didn't want to face this group of ministers at all now, he didn't have to think about it, he knew that they were going to jump out and oppose it. "Your Majesty, the treasury is empty, and there is no money to build a plum garden." "I know that I have my own private treasury." "Isn't the private treasury the people's fat and the people's ointment? Now that the lives of the people have not improved, Your Majesty is thinking about pleasure, which is really not the work of Ming Jun! "My money? The inheritance of more than ten emperors! It's already hard work to get to me here, the private treasury, my private treasury is dedicated to the harem expenses, you are good, its idea dares to fight, how many heads do you have enough to cut off? ”

"The minister thinks that the private treasury should not exist in the first place, and as a monarch, he should not have his own selfish desires to attract the world to follow suit, which is chaos." The emperor was forced to retreat, and when he was left to blow his beard and stare at him, a voice sounded, "The minister thinks that the private treasury is the treasury of the Son of Heaven, and the courtiers have no right to ask, the harem is the home of the Son of Heaven, so the family should have money for construction, this is the family affair of the Son of Heaven, why bother to stop it?" As soon as Liu Huizu spoke, the ministers who were vassal of him nodded their heads one after another. Mu Shuai said: "The Son of Heaven is the father of the people of the world, so in the family of the Son of Heaven, there is no family matter, and everything is official business." ”

The emperor nodded and opened his eyes: "What do you Aiqing think?" The ministers knelt down one after another, some were in favor of repairing, some were not in favor of repairing, of course the majority did not approve, the emperor saw that the result was not what he wanted, so he stood up: "That is the case, then you must be tired of discussing things here for a day, so let's talk about it here today, I am tired, you can retreat." In the following days, the emperor did not go to the court, and many major court affairs were not approved, and the ministers had no choice but to agree to his plan to build a plum garden.

Baoding Mansion, outside the governor's yamen

Ren Qiu straightened his official uniform and was about to enter the yamen, only to see the gatekeeper of the yamen stop him: "What are you doing, a petty official of several grades, when you enter the yamen, you dare not report it!" Ren Qiu was about to get angry, and he endured it when he remembered Xu Yuan's instructions not to conflict with others. With a smiling face, he stuffed a thousand taels of silver tickets to the gatekeeper, "In Xiayaoshan County, please excuse me, give a report." The gatekeeper took his silver ticket and glanced him up and down: "I'm tired of you waiting here, the villain will come when he goes, what are you doing, this is the county master, hurry up and make tea!" "Someone came over immediately with a mat and a pot of tea, Ren Qiu thought that it was really unsightly for him to sit and drink tea at the door of the yamen, so he refused to go back to the car and wait." What's going on, how did you come back? Mancao asked while snorting melon seeds in the carriage, and after Ren Qiu told her about it, she threw the melon seeds away, "It's really too much face for them, even you, the court official, dare to turn them away, no, I want to go out and talk about them." ”

He held his beloved wife down and said, "What's the matter with you, didn't you say that you want me to come to these things, wait here." Hurriedly got out of the carriage, for fear that she would rush out, and from then on he would lose his face in the officialdom. When he came out, the little guy was already waiting: "Master Ren, please come in." "When he entered the governor's yamen, the governor was already sitting and waiting for him." Yiqiu, I heard that you have been recruiting troops recently? Ren Qiu smiled. My lord, I didn't recruit much, only 200 people, who usually patrol and sweep the floor, and don't dare to recruit too much, which will cause a burden to the court. ”

The governor smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Your movements are not small, I don't know, I thought you recruited 20,000 people!" As soon as he said this, Ren Qiu instantly felt a cold sweat coming out of his back: "You said small, it's just that bandits have been rampant in Yaoshan City recently, and his subordinates have only recruited a few people in case of emergency." The governor drew tea, blew it, looked at him again, and said: "I know that you are a military general, you have no culture, and you only know how to use force in case of trouble, but now the court is under great pressure, and redundant officials and redundant personnel are being eliminated everywhere, but you are recruiting people here, how can you let me talk to the above." ”

Saying that, his hands were not idle, the two hands were spread, saying that he really couldn't help it, Ren Qiu saw this and stepped forward to hold his right hand, the governor didn't have time to react, he found that there was a silver ticket in the palm of his hand, he nodded, and said very embarrassed: "Okay, you and I are officials in the same dynasty, we should help each other, don't worry, I will help you press down this matter, no one will know, since you have arrived in Baoding, then have a good time here, don't rush back, I still have important things to discuss with you." After speaking, he left with a smile on his face, Ren Qiu saw this, shrugged his shoulders, it is really full of officialdom and confused people, such a person can be the governor, is there no one in the world?

went out, found a post station to live in, Mancao was clamoring to go to Yesanpo to play, Ren Qiu was writing to Zhaoqian about what happened today, seeing that she had been arguing and annoyed, she threw an inkstone and fell to the ground: "What are you arguing about, don't you see that I'm writing a letter?" Seeing that he dared to throw something, Mancao's eyes were about to attack, and someone came from outside: "Master Ren, our lord invited you to come over for a gathering, and I heard that Mrs. is also here, so please bring it." ”