Meng Chao, the grandson of the Meng family, who gradually came into contact with family affairs, heard about Meng Yuan's affairs in the household department, and he did not blame Meng Yuan, but instead brought his family servants to find Wu Yin.

Wu Yiyin originally had no money to buy a house in the capital, and this standard three-entry courtyard was given to him by Emperor Zhao Ce.

There are few people in the family, only him, a scholar, a mother-in-law who specializes in cleaning, and two maidservants.

There is also an old man with a white beard living in the gatehouse, who is a fellow villager of Wu Yin, and now works as a porter in Wu Jiaquan. However, the old gentleman had studied in the early years, and had opened a private school, and later accompanied his son to Beijing to take the exam, but his son died of a sudden cold. So the old man didn't go back, just looking for some work in Luoyang City. When he had nowhere to run, he happened to hear that a fellow villager from the Wujia family had become a household attendant, so he came to try his luck, and as a result, Wu Yiyin valued the feelings of his fellow villagers very much, so he accepted him.

With only six people living in such a large compound, it is inevitably a little empty. Wu Qiujian's parents are long gone, and he also sent someone to contact the eldest brother and sister-in-law in the family and ask them if they want to live in the capital, but now he seems to be aware of the darkness of officialdom, and some don't want the eldest brother and sister-in-law to live here.

But the messenger had already been sent out, and it was almost impossible to recover it, so he gave up, and after supper, he was reading.

On the branches of the moon, I heard a knock on the door, and at the same time there were a few barking dogs,

The old man pushed a crack in the door, and saw a group of people standing outside, the first one was slender and gorgeously dressed, and at first glance he was the son of a high-ranking family, and the old man hurriedly asked: "Who is Your Excellency, why did you visit at night?" ”

Meng Chao said: "I am Meng Chao, the eldest grandson of Prime Minister Meng's family, and I brought some light gifts to visit Lord Wu today, hoping to spread the word, we are waiting for him here." ”

As soon as he heard that it was the eldest grandson of the prime minister's family, the old man hurriedly opened the door and greeted him: "Please rest in the gatehouse first, and the old man will come when he goes." ”

Hearing that the Meng family and grandson were visiting with some sword-wielding guards, Wu Yin's heart was turbulent, and his face froze, but he strode towards the door, but he wanted to see how arrogant the Meng family and grandson were.

But to his surprise, Meng Chao seemed to be very well-behaved, he really stood outside the door, waiting for Wu Yin, and did not make the slightest act of transgression.

This scene left a pretty good impression on Wu Yin.

Inviting the eldest grandson in, Meng Chao signaled to the servants not to follow up, but just put the gift box behind the door, stepped through the door by himself, turned the shadow wall, and followed Wu Yin towards the deep house.

Arrange to sit down and serve tea.

Meng Chao just symbolically picked up the teacup and said: "Today, Meng Yuan acted recklessly and offended Shangguan, and on behalf of the Meng family, I came to apologize." ”

"Don't dare." Wu Yin said: "This is all a dispute over official business, and it can't be said that anyone is sorry for whom, so why bother the Meng family and grandson to come forward in person." ”

"Not really." Meng Chao said with a smile: "Please be considerate, although our Meng family seems to outsiders to be tall and leafy, but in fact, it is just a façade." Everyone is right, but the great cause cannot be talked about. To feed so many people, it is inevitable that there will be a shortage of funds to make ends meet, especially now that the two countries are at war, my Meng family is still the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the expenses of each case are tens of thousands of dollars a day. This time I came to see the adult, Xiao Ke didn't bring any decent gifts, just a small gift, the gift list is here, and please don't take a look. ”

After settling the gift list, Wu Qiu Jian flipped through his heart and said in his heart: "This is still called a mere gift?" ”

Wu Qiu Jian returned the gift list to Meng Chao and said, "The gift is too thick, it has exceeded the law, and it cannot be accepted." ”

"No, no, no, it's not overstepping." Meng Chao said: "To be honest, this money is not for adults, but for households." It's just that I handed it over to the adults to help send it to the account office, is there anything wrong with that? ”

"The entry and exit procedures of the account room of the household department are very strict, and the eldest grandson sent such a generous gift to my house and publicized it, which inevitably made people suspicious, saying that I was not thrifty, corrupt and bribed."

"Don't worry about it, of course I know it in my heart. Since adults can't trust Meng, then Meng is a little more interesting and takes the gift away. However, this thousand taels of silver tickets, please be sure to do it, this is the housewarming money that Lord Wu settled in Luoyang, this favor, you won't accept it, right? Besides, next month, grandpa is going to have a birthday, Xiao Ke invites adults here, and he must appreciate his face when the time comes. ”

Hearing this, Wu Qiu Jian felt more and more difficult.

As the so-called official does not give gifts, even if he knows that Meng Chao is trying to win him over, he is not good at scolding.

So he took the silver ticket, and then sent Meng Chao away, he was still thinking that Meng Danqing would have a birthday a month later, and then return the thousand taels of silver.

After Meng Chao left, the old slave said to Wuqiu Jian: "Lord Wu, are you planning to join the Meng Clan?" ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? ”

"Didn't you take the money?"

"Oh, I plan to return it next month, when Meng Xiang celebrates his birthday. When the time comes, we will not owe each other. ”

"You think this way in your heart, but others don't think so. Back and forth, in the eyes of outsiders, you have taken refuge in Meng Xiang. The old man sighed: "The old man is talkative, please think about it carefully." ”

Wu Qiu Jian thought about it, and suddenly smiled: "Since that's the case, then you can send the money over tomorrow." ”

"Okay, okay."

That night, Feng Qiuyu, the right attendant of the household department, prepared a set of documents and sent them to the Prison Division, Meng Yuan saw the documents, smiled, and gave them to Meng Chao.

The Danqing Temple in the north of the Meng family was repaired as scheduled, and when Qiu Jian heard about it, he just shook his head and said no more.

But when he went home at night, he saw the body of the old slave being placed horizontally at the door, and there was a brick pressed on his body.

At this moment, the young Wu Yiyin suddenly felt his insignificance, in the eyes of the gate valve forces, he, the head of the household and the hero who had once sent Sang La, was not worth mentioning at all.

Killing your family today is just a warning, and you still have to collect the money you sent to yourself, and you don't even have a door to send it back. The purpose of this is to tell you that our Meng family is fearless and doesn't care about killing someone, let alone money.

called the scholar to take care of the funeral for his hometown Ding, and Wu Yin wanted to go to the emperor with the money.

But halfway through, he heard footsteps behind him, and turned his head to see that it was three men in black armed with narrow knives. Although they were dressed in black, they didn't hide their identities at all, and even deliberately shook the Meng Gate Valve waist card hanging on their waists.

Suddenly, Wu Yiyin felt a numb feeling in his spine.

He continued to walk in the direction of the palace, his steps a little stubborn.

But at this time, he found that there were more and more footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head again, the number of people in black who followed him had increased to six.

At this time, he was discouraged, he paused for a while, took out the silver ticket in his sleeve, and suddenly a force appeared in his heart, wanting to tear them apart, but when he put on a tearing pose, the six men in black took the knife at the same time.

The sound of the knife being drawn and the cold and shining narrow knife made Wu Yiyin shudder.