The brown sugar eggs were fragrant and sweet, and the fragrance wafted to make Pan and Qi swallow their saliva, but the little girl Liu Er only cooked a bowl for the master, and she could only sit on the side with Brother Zhang and watch. Zhang's house is surrounded by four walls, and there is a statue of Zhang Buddha hanging on the wall in the middle of the hall, and the old offering table below, a few bamboo chairs, and a few hens are "clucking", and they are not timid, and they are swaggering and pacing in the house.

The Zhang family lives in the west of Baqing Town, and the man who plays the pipa, Zhang Tiande, is the head of the family, and he fled here from Qizhou with his wife and daughter five years ago, and rented forty acres of land. Three years ago, Zhang Tiande used the money he had saved to hire someone to build three wooden houses, which was regarded as a home in Huazhou.

Who knew that the people of the Western Regions invaded, and Liu Erniang died of illness in the process of fleeing, and when the army drove away the Western Regions army, Zhang Tiande took Liu Er back home, and the grain at home was robbed, and even this year's grain was rented. Seeing that Liu Er was fifteen years old, Zhang Tiande planned to buy a dowry for his daughter. Zhang Tiande can play the pipa, and Liu Er can sing music, so taking advantage of the slack, the father and daughter went to the restaurant in the town to earn some money. Most of the villagers in the town know the difficulties of the father and daughter, and the restaurant and tea shop will let them in, and occasionally there will be teasing and teasing, but this is the first time something like this has happened.

Liu Er stood beside Pan Heyi, shyly and timidly watched Pan Heyi finish eating the brown sugar eggs, and stepped forward to collect the bowl with a red face. Pan Heyi stood up and bowed his hand, and said, "Thank you, girl." ”

"The little girl should thank her son for his righteous help." Liu Er took the bowl and bent down to bless it. Zhang Tiande coughed, and Liu Er took the bowl and turned to leave.

On the way here, Pan Heyi had already learned the general situation of the Zhang family from Miss Liu'er's mouth, the Zhang family rented forty acres of land, as long as they paid thirty percent of the rent to the landlord, there must be something wrong with this field. Pan Heyi made up his mind to start with the Zhang family, of course, he would not leave because of Zhang Tiande's face.

Pan Heyi had already made up his mind, and when he saw Miss Liu'er's dress flashing outside the house, he smiled and said to Zhang Tiande: "Don't hide it from Brother Zhang, Lin is here to look for relatives in Baqing Town, and Brother Zhang is a local, I don't know if I have heard of Lin Ziyi's name." ”

Zhang Tiande thought for a moment and said, "Zhang has been in Baqing Town for less than five years, and he is not very familiar with the people in the town. Lin Ziyi, I haven't heard of it. Outside the door, Liu Er frowned and was also thinking about Lin Ziyi's name.

Pan and Yiluo waited for a moment and said, "In this case, there is a lot of trouble. Heqi, let's go to the town to find a place to live first, and look for it slowly. ”

Without waiting for Pan Heqi to stand up, Liu Er poked his head out of the house and said, "Dad, our family has a place to live, so let Lin Gongzi live in our house, so as to save the money of the inn." ”

"It's too much trouble for you." Pan Heyi refused to retreat: "Let's stay at the inn." ”

Liu Er stood in front of the door and said urgently: "My family has three houses, one for me and my father, and one is empty, just for my son to live." Dad, what do you say? ”

The female university is not staying, Zhang Tiande sighed in his heart, what else can I say, I can't push people out of the door in person, not to mention that this scholar helped his father and daughter just now. Zhang Tiande said with a bitter face: "If the son doesn't think my house is dirty, just stay and find your family with peace of mind." ”

Pan He couldn't ask for it, and said with a smile: "Xiao Ke is also from a poor family, and his family is as poor as Brother Zhang when he was a child, but I think Brother Zhang's home is quieter than the inn, and he just visits his family during the day and reads at night." ”

When Liu Er heard that Lin Gongzi was willing to stay, she bent her eyebrows, showed a sweet smile at Pan Heyi, and jumped like a deer to the West Chamber to clean up the bed.

Pan Heyi intended to live in Zhang's house for ten days and half a month, find out the shortcomings of Tuntian, and wait for the Qingtian inspection team to arrive at Huiye Mansion and then rush to rendezvous. But the Zhang family is poor enough, and they can't live for two days just by relying on Miss Liu'er's affection, so Pan Heyi took out five taels of silver from his bag and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, we live in your house, and I don't know how long it will take, the cost of food and accommodation is not a small amount, and the eldest brother's family is not rich, so this bit of silver is even the cost of room and board for the two of us." ”

Five taels of silver, I can live in the town inn for a month. Zhang Tiande blushed, waved his hand again and again: "Lin Gongzi, you are slapping me in the face, how can you ask for your money if you live in my house for a few days, if you are like this, please go to the guest house, my temple here is small, and I can't accommodate you as a bodhisattva." ”

When Liu Er heard the argument, she also rushed over, and when she learned that Pan Heyi was going to give money, she said with red eyes: "Lin Gongzi, although our family is poor, we are not greedy for money, you quickly put away the silver, or go to the guest house as my father said." ”

Pan Heyi's heart warmed, the father and daughter were so poor that they wanted to sing on the street, but they were unmoved in the face of five taels of silver, and they were uneasy to take advantage of such a simple person. A trace of guilt flashed and was immediately snuffed out by Pan Heyi, it can be seen that Miss Liu'er has a good impression of him, and his mother is planning to take a concubine for herself, and when the time comes, she will take her to Beijing, Zhang Tiande will go with him if he wants to, and be a steward at home, Zhang Tiande's father and daughter can't ask for it.

In Zhang's house, Pan Heyi went out to inquire about the news during the day, chatted with Zhang Tiande's father and daughter at night, and inquired about the news of Tuntian intentionally or unintentionally. Every day when he came back, Pan Heyi would bring some wine and food along the way, but Zhang Tiande excused himself twice and said no more. In the hot season, it is inevitable to let go of his mind, Zhang Tiande told Pan Heyi everything he knew about Tuntian.

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When Feng Dingzhong led people into the west gate of Huiye City, it was close to the end of Shen, and it was not long before the yamen was dispersed. Looking at the few big cars behind him, Feng Dingzhong ordered: "Go directly to Jiangfu." Jiang Anyi still lives in his own house, and the residence of Jingluo Mansion is temporarily empty there.

Jiang Anyi has the grace of knowing him, although Feng Dingzhong can't call Jiang Anyi the lord because of his identity, but in fact, he has regarded this adult who is twenty years younger than himself as the lord. He Feng is going to come to Jiangfu every few months, and the people in the mansion are very familiar with this Tun Shuai, and they are smiling and driving the carriage and horses into the compound, Feng Dingzhong asked the steward Wang (Wang Xiaohu, Wang Bo's second son) who came to greet him: "Old Wang, are you at home?" ”

Wang Xiaohu is not the countryman he was back then, he followed Jiang Anyi to the north and south, his eyes were wide open, and he had already experienced and handled things thoroughly. He knew that Feng Dingzhong was his master's confidant, and he didn't shy away from it, and said with a smile: "The master hasn't come back yet, Madame is at home, Feng Shuai is going to meet?" ”

Feng Dingzhong was a little frightened by Mrs. Jiang Xinfei, Long Wei's murderous reputation can make the child stop crying, although this supervisor will not do anything to him, Feng Dingzhong still thought that it would be better not to see him, and hurriedly said: "Forget it, I won't go to see Mrs., wait for the adults to come back in the house, and report to the adults." ”

Jiang Anyi was relatively leisurely, the countries of the Western Regions settled down, and in June, a branch temple of the Pahuo Sect was quietly completed in the Huiye Mansion, and the matter of the court's inventory of acres of land was pushed to the government office. Zhou Tingshi's trip to the mountains and rivers was interrupted, and he hurried back to the government to deal with the important matter of cleaning up the fields and acres in the court.

Hearing the sound of the scattered drums, Jiang Anyi got up and went home, the orderly life of Jingluo Mansion made him a little bored, Jiang Anyi wondered if the wedding of Lord Luo was coming, whether he would go to Bingzhou in person to congratulate, but the relationship between Quanxingqing and himself was not good, and he was afraid of how embarrassing it would be to meet.

Hearing Feng Dingzhong's visit, Jiang Anyi smiled, walked quickly to the main hall, and saw that Feng Dingzhong was already standing under the eaves to greet him. Zhang Keji often imperceptibly encouraged in his ears, and Jiang Anyi had already subconsciously regarded Feng Dingzhong's 50,000 troops as his own forbidden body.

After a brief hustle, Jiang Anyi asked about this year's harvest in Tuntian, and did not shirk the gifts brought by Feng Dingzhong, which was a manifestation of treating Feng Dingzhong as his own person. Wang Xiaohu arranged a banquet, Jiang Anyi invited Mr. Zhang to come, and the three chatted while eating.

Feng Dingzhong knew that Mr. Zhang was Jiang Anyi's adviser, so he didn't need to avoid taboos, so he told Jiang Anyi about cleaning up the official field during the banquet, and told Jiang Anyi that there were about 10,000 acres of hidden land in the hands of the army, and how should the court clear the field?

Jiang Anyi put down his wine glass, his face became gloomy, and said, "Feng Dingzhong, are your days difficult?" Is there a shortage of silver? ”

Feng Dingzhong saw that Jiang Anyi was angry, and the sweat on his face came out, although he was a fourth-grade Mingwei general, not a few steps worse than Jiang Anyi, but Jiang Anyi was his benefactor, and he could have Jiang Anyi's cultivation today. In addition to vigorously promoting him, Jiang Anyi allocated 50,000 taels of silver to the Tun army every year as a fee when he was the assassin of the history, and this time he came to Huazhou to serve as a strategic envoy, and secretly gave him 200,000 taels of military expenses, so that he could buy materials, strengthen training, and calm people's hearts. Feng Dingzhong had witnessed Jiang Anyi's bravery, and knew that if he had a different heart, with Jiang Anyi's prestige in Huazhou, he would be able to easily take him out, to put it mildly, the 50,000 Tun army, including Feng Dingzhong, the net worth and life of the whole family were in the hands of this adult.

Zhang Keji said with a smile: "Lord, General Feng is also in the way, this kind of thing cannot be prohibited, as long as the court inspector does not find out, it will be fine." ”

Feng Dingzhong smiled at Zhang Keji gratefully, Jiang Anyi's face softened a little, and said: "You are short of money to open your mouth to me, I can allocate it to you openly, why covet that little money, which makes people criticize." After I go back, let people report the hidden fields to the government, and make up the silver that should be supplemented, and I will ask Liu Yixing to allocate another 200,000 taels to you through the account of the Jinglue Mansion, is it enough? ”

"Thank you, sir, that's enough. After I go back, I will immediately ask each town to check the acres of land, and I will definitely not cause trouble for the adults. Feng Dingzhong said.

Zhang Keji's statement Jiang Anyi was refuted, and he was not angry, and said: "People's hearts are insufficient, and there are always people who are not afraid of death for the sake of silver." After General Feng went back, in addition to subsidizing the silver, he also had to catch a few typical examples, kill chickens to show monkeys, and establish authority before ordering and prohibiting them. ”

Jiang Anyi didn't pay attention to Tuntian, and asked Feng Dingzhong: "The drill of the Tun army can't be left behind, you are on the border, maybe you will have to fight one day." Now most of the tun army has moved their families here, and they can't be careless for the sake of their wives and children. ”

Feng Dingzhong said: "My lord, please rest assured, Feng will never dare to be careless about the practice." It's not Feng's boasting, at least 20,000 of the 50,000 troops are no worse than the soldiers and horses of the Anxi battalion. ”

Jiang Anyi said: "You have to be willing to spend money, buy more war horses and weapons from the Western Regions, Jinglufu just bought a batch of good weapons and armor from the Western Regions, you can pick some when you leave." ”

Soldiers like war horses and weapons, Feng Dingzhong was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Thank you, sir." ”

"After training your skills, there are sons and daughters in the family who are willing to be soldiers, you might as well let them join the regimental training and practice with you. Maybe one day I'll take you around the Western Regions. Jiang Anyi smiled and raised his glass to invite.

Feng Dingzhong knew that Jiang Anyi had the ambition to pacify the Western Regions, and if he could follow him to pacify the Western Regions in this life, it would be a happy thing in life, so he immediately smiled and said: "My lord, you must remember to take me with you when the time comes, even if the old Feng can't move his swords and guns, you can feed the horses with the army and cheer twice for the adults." ”