"You eat inside and out! How many times do I have to say it before you can remember who your lord is? I'll say it one last time! This is your home, the lord of the family is me, Zhulu Hou Li Mu, Mrs. Bai's surname is Bai, Mrs. Bai Qiaoqiao of Luxian County - no, Qiaoqiao is not what you can call, Qiaoqiao is my name, her big name is Bailu, you are not allowed to call this name, you can only call her Mrs. ! There is only one lady in the Zhulu Hou Mansion! According to what you just meant, Madame asked the porter to say that I was sick and had no money to see a doctor? Ha, it's ridiculous, I, Li Mu, will be short of money?! ”

Pearl knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly knelt down and cried: "Master Hou, Pearl knows that it is wrong, you can beat me and scold me, just ask Master Hou to be gracious and lend us some money, so that we can give it to the old ...... Give, give Miss,"

It's not okay to call Wei Zheng 'master', and it's not okay to call Wei Yingluo 'miss', Pearl couldn't change her mouth for a while, she was so anxious that she pinched herself, and held it for a while before continuing: "Let's see Yingluo's father." ”

"She," Li Mu pointed at Wei Yingluo and corrected: "Her name is 'Xiao Ying' now, remember!" ”

"Small, small...... The slave remembered. Pearl whimpered.

Wei Yingluo also knelt down and said, "Master Hou, Pearl also offended you for the sake of the slave and maid, if Master Hou wants to be punished, please punish me, don't blame Pearl." ”

Li Mu sat down with a snort, shook the rocking chair for a while, and didn't let the two of them get up, and asked, "Is Wei Zheng sick?" ”

"Hmm." Wei Yingluo replied in a low voice, although she was a little dissatisfied with Li Mu calling her father 'that guy', but thinking of what Wei Zheng had done, Wei Yingluo didn't dare to say anything.

"Going to die?"

Wei Yingluo is Wei Zheng's daughter in the end, hearing Li Mu say that her father is 'going to die', her heart is still very difficult to accept, although she didn't dare to say anything, she didn't answer, bowed her head and cried silently.

Li Mu pointed to the pearl and asked, "You answer, is he going to die?" ”

"No, old ...... Xiaoying's father was infected with the wind cold. ”

"Hah! This is retribution! Li Mu said with relief, Wei Yingluo and Pearl were very sad when they heard this, but they also understood that Li Mu was Wei Zheng's opponent, and it was very normal to gloat.

Li Mu took the second daughter's look in his eyes and said, "Wei Zheng is my opponent, you two know it, right?" ”

The two daughters were silent.

Li Mu didn't care either, and continued: "Does it have anything to do with me if he dies of illness?" He also begged me to give him money to see a doctor, and he wanted to be beautiful! ”

Pearl raised her head and couldn't help but want to say something, but Wei Yingluo grabbed her sleeve and didn't let her speak. But it hurts more in her heart than a pinprick in her heart, Li Mu's impression in her heart is that she has just transformed into an idol-like person, seeing her idol shattered, for a Lori who is in a fantasy, it is definitely one of the heaviest blows.

How could my Hou Ye be such a person?

Wei Yingluo's heart was extremely uncomfortable.

She thought that Li Muhui would be a beautiful son, and she would lend a helping hand regardless of her past suspicions...... Why is the reality so cruel? Why is that?

Just when the girl's despair reached the extreme, Li Mu suddenly changed her words and said, "It's just ......."

"But?"

In just two words, Wei Yingluo felt the dawn of hope, she raised her head with teary eyes, and saw Li Mu's face under the light from the window, as if dyed with a halo.

“…… After all, the two of you are the maids in my house, although they are junior and inferior maids, but they also have a moon. As for me, one thing is one thing. Although I can't help Wei Zheng die, I can't stop the people in my house from fulfilling their filial piety. Now you have not come to the house for a full term, and you are not qualified to receive the monthly salary. Thinking of your filial piety, when Mrs. Hui and Zhien come back, go to Zhien to advance the month. Just say that I promised, and Zhi'en will not embarrass you. As for what you do with the money you advance, it has nothing to do with me, and you don't need to tell me. ”

"Really?" Wei Yingluo couldn't believe her ears, and infinite happiness suddenly surged in her heart, Hou Ye really didn't disappoint me!

"Really!" Li Mu said angrily: "Get up, quickly disappear from front of me, don't disturb me to eat." lest I think that you received my money to see Wei Zheng, and I will regret it if I am not happy. I'll tell you, maybe! ”

"Thank you, Master Hou!" /"You adults are abundant! ”

Hearing Li Mu's words, Wei Yingluo and Pearl quickly got up from the ground and ran out happily.

Although I don't know how many junior and inferior maids are, no matter how much, they should be able to solve the urgent need.

Li Mu looked at the backs of the two of them happily, smiled, got up and came to the workbench, served dinner and made some soup and ate it.

In fact, in this matter, he is just doing a favor. Wei Zheng contracted the wind cold, Li Shimin could not let him die, and he would definitely send an imperial doctor to treat him. Even if Li Shimin doesn't care, or Wei Zheng doesn't accept it. Li Mu didn't want Wei Zheng to die. Although he and Wei Zheng both fought back and forth, he was recognized as a sworn enemy of the government and the opposition. But in fact, he personally didn't have any special hatred for Wei Zheng, and in some things, he admired this old guy's temper.

Importantly, he needs Wei Zheng.

Li Shimin's words woke him up, the emperor's first thing is balance. Wei Zheng is now one of his balance points, so Wei Zheng is indispensable.

However, what made Li Mu quite puzzled was why Wei Zheng was so miserable. A dignified national prince, he doesn't live as well as ordinary people, and he can't afford to drink the cold and small chaihu soup?

Is it that hard to make money?

Tsk, if you don't work hard, you really can't get rich.

Li Mu secretly thought, Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng, you should really learn from your daughter. You see that she is now working as a maid in my house, and the monthly salary is more than enough to treat you. If you are short of money, can you come to my house to make an account or something? Reading your resume is good, and the monthly salary can give you more than 30% to ensure that you don't have to worry about food and clothing, wahaha......

Happy, happy, unlucky, that's how happy.

……

Wei Zheng was wrapped in a quilt and was 'swinging'.

There was no money to drink medicine, so Pei Shi used the 'soil method' to boil some hot water and 'scrape' for him. However, this kind of physical therapy has limited effect and cannot be effective immediately, so Wei Zheng is still very uncomfortable now.

His discomfort was not only physical, but also mental.

Wei Zheng didn't expect that there would be eight traitors in the Yushitai under his rule!

They are all from Shandong, they are all Shandong scholars, why did they defect? Is it because of Li Mu's threat?

Isn't it just a spill of manure? I can't die, what are you afraid of? If a confidant dies, he is not afraid of death, but he is still afraid of throwing dung?

He couldn't understand what those people were thinking!

Especially one of them is called Wang Jingze's imperial history! The day before Li Mu poured dung, he also called on everyone to unite and fight Li Mu to the end. But when he turned around, he began to sing praises for Li Mu, preach the benefits of the new policy, criticize the Shandong scholars, and even scolded him, the imperial historian, to the point of incompleteness.

Wei Zheng's heart is dripping blood!

Wang Jingze, Wang Jingze! You have this ability, such a good argument, why don't you use it when dealing with Li Mu! Why do you turn the finger and point the finger at your own people?

There is a traitor in the ranks, and it is already a blow. What's even more infuriating is that Li Shimin actually thought that Wang Jingze understood the righteousness, preached the merits of the new policy, and promoted him to be the middle of the imperial history! From a six-rank supervising imperial history, he was promoted to the imperial history Zhongcheng under the fourth grade, and was promoted four levels in a row, and topped the position of Zhao Yi, who was exiled to Lingnan for impeaching Li Mu, and became the youngest imperial historian Zhongcheng since the founding of the Tang Dynasty!

How can he dare to steal this position?

Is it because of flattery?

Faint!

How could Wei Zheng get used to this kind of stinky problem, and above the court discussion, in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he had a big quarrel with Li Shimin. But this time, he didn't win. Because of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, as if united, they attacked him one after another.

A good tiger can't stand up to a pack of wolves, not to mention that there are already traitors inside?

Not only did the eight traitors led by Wang Jingze stand up and speak against him, but the other imperial histories were also silent. They had just been splashed with feces, and the smell on their bodies had not yet dissipated, so who would dare to come out and speak? They all pretended to be deaf and dumb, but they could not hear.

Wei Zheng's refutation is incomplete, some people say that Wei Zheng wants to make a speech in the Yushitai, otherwise why can't he tolerate different voices?

Some people also say, Wei Zheng, you are too domineering, now that His Majesty appoints officials, do you also have to get your Wei Zheng's consent?

How ugly, how to say, how to choke, how to say, squeezed Wei Zheng so much that he wanted to explode on the spot! In the end, he really couldn't argue, so he had to reluctantly accept the fact that Wang Jingze was promoted to the middle of the imperial history and became the actual second-in-command of the imperial history platform.

When he returned home, Wei Zheng fell ill. Pei Shi was helpless, and thought of Wei Yingluo in Li Mu's mansion. How did she know Wei Yingluo's current situation, and she always thought that Li Mu had fallen in love with Wei Yingluo, so she would keep her. That's why I sent the porter over to see if Wei Yingluo could help a little. If she knew that her daughter was just a maid now, with Pei's character, she would definitely not be able to do such a thing.

"Let's drink some porridge."

Pei Shi came over with gruel, put it next to the bed, and said to Wei Zheng, who was facing away from her.

In the past few days, Wei Zheng has been splinting at home and outside. was attacked from all sides in the court, and at home, it was also necessary to look at Pei's face. When he was in a bad mood, he couldn't vent his dissatisfaction with his wife, so he had to be a stuffy gourd, you talk to me, I just ignore you.

"Don't you eat it?"

Wei Zheng was still silent.

"Don't you really want to eat it?"

Wei Zheng actually wanted to eat, but thinking that if he ate it, maybe his wife wouldn't have to eat, he shook his head and said, "I don't eat it!" ”

"Alas," Pei Shi sighed and said, "Just now, His Majesty sent the imperial doctor to let me send him away." I know your temper, but you can't do this, you really don't want to live? ”

"Live! What a life to live! ”

Wei Zhenghuo suddenly got up and shouted: "The Son of Heaven is unknown, he only wants to listen to slander, and he is extremely deaf!" There are also those people, as the imperial history, who do not have a bit of uprightness, and they actually defected to the battle, I am not ashamed! ”

After the roar was over, Wei Zheng coughed again.

Pei Shi patted him on the back and said, "You can't think about the bad things on others in everything, how do you know that Your Majesty and Zhuluhou must be wrong, and you must be right?" ”

Wei Zheng stared at Pei Shi with beads in his eyes and said, "Even you ......."

"Alas, if I don't tell you, you're a dead eye!"

Pei Shi shook his head, took the porridge bowl, put it in Wei Zheng's hand, and said, "I don't care if you like to drink it or not." I'll finish weaving that cloth, and I'll sell it tomorrow, and I'll buy you medicine." ”

When Pei Shi got up, Wei Zheng saw Pei Shi's hand, her five fingers were wrapped in rags, and blood stains could be faintly seen, obviously cut by thread when weaving.

"Madame!" Wei Zheng couldn't help but speak.

Pei Shi looked back at him and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"I can't help you."

"You just need to know."

Pei Shi smiled and went out.

Wei Zheng is a stubborn person, a tendon. His wife is also a stubborn person. In this life, she has followed Wei Zheng and suffered a lot, but she has never regretted it.

The sun was in the west, and the porter who had been out for a long time finally returned. Pei was weaving cloth when the porter rushed in and handed her a purse.

"Miss." The porter is the dumbest of people, and he has a hard time speaking, but fortunately he can express the meaning clearly.

Pei Shi opened the purse, was taken aback, and said, "Why are there so many?" ”

The porter shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

There were ten taels of silver in the purse.

The salary paid by the Zhulu Hou Mansion to his subordinates can be said to be the highest in the Tang Dynasty. Li Mu previously stipulated that the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry should have 300 yuan a day for technicians and 150 yuan a day for laborers, which is already a very high salary. However, the subordinates of the Zhulu Hou Mansion are higher, and the subordinates of the Zhulu Hou Mansion are ten taels of silver a month, and they are thirty-three more than the technicians every day. The people eat and live in the house, and the money can't be spent at all, even if the maid loves beauty and buys some rouge gouache, it won't cost ten taels of silver.

Li Mu gave them so much money for three reasons. First, because he is not bad for money, a wine shop earns tens of thousands of yuan a month, and there are only 20 people in the house, which is nothing. The second is that he feels that there is a vast sea of people, and these twenty people can come to Zhuluhou Mansion, which can be regarded as fate, living under the same roof, it is nothing to give more, and he is happy. And then he thinks about the future of these people, he doesn't want these people to stay in Zhuluhou Mansion for the rest of their lives, like Xiaozhu Xiaolan, they are all cardamom girls, sooner or later they have to find a mother-in-law's house, save some private money by themselves, and have confidence when they get to their mother-in-law's house. Those who go out to chase the Luhou Mansion must have this face.

But the ten taels of silver in this purse are not Wei Yingluo's own money, but her and Pearl. Li Zhien gave half less, on the grounds that the two of them were junior and inferior maids, and the monthly salary was less than that of Xiaozhu.

Even so, Wei Yingluo and Pearl were very happy, with this money, not only was it enough to treat the disease, but the family's expenses did not have to worry. Ten taels of silver, the cost of chasing the Luhou Mansion for one day is not enough, but for the Wei Mansion, three months is no problem.

When Pei saw the money, his heart was also relieved.

The daughter can come up with so much money casually, presumably she should be doing well in the Zhuluhou Mansion. For mothers, the greatest comfort is that their daughters can be happy.