Pan'er ignored Ran Tao, who followed her all the way to explain, walked out of the new post house with a stiff face, and then got into the carriage that had been waiting for her outside the post house.

"Go back." She said to the coachman that she didn't look at Ran Tao again, and easily ripped off the tulle that shielded the car from the sun and dust.

The coachman agreed, put away the stepping stool, jumped on the wheel, and with a whip in his mouth, the tame horse snorted, and then clicked his hooves on the stone road.

Pan'er tried hard to press a pounding heart in her chest, with a red little face, and quietly observed Ran Tao who was still standing at the door of the post house through the light gauze curtain. She knew Ran Tao, she had seen him in her own house and Uncle Seventeen's house, and knew that he was the deputy envoy of the transfer in Gepingku, Yanshui, and was a colleague of Uncle Seventeen; I heard from the eldest girl that Uncle Seventeen and this Ran Tao not only have a tacit understanding in official affairs, but also have a good personal relationship, and Uncle Seventeen is still helping him go through the door before and after the New Year, and wants to bring his family to Yanshan. She also has a good impression of this person. This is not because Ran Tao is close to Uncle Seventeen's house, but because he was left by Shang Cheng to have dinner at home twice last winter, and she saw that this person was very respectful when he spoke to Shang Cheng, so she had a good impression of Ran Tao.

But she never thought that Ran Tao would be her father's old friend. Moreover, looking at the situation just now, her father and Ran Tao, as well as the famous romantic character Ouyang Zhi, their relationship does not seem to be as simple as friends......

The carriage had reached the end of the street, and after turning a corner, the inn was no longer to be seen.

She stroked her chest and let out a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, except for Ran Tao and that Ouyang Zhi, no one else should have seen her coming. She didn't want anyone to know that she had been to the inn, and she didn't want others to seize the handle and have any evil intentions against Shang Cheng because of her father's affairs. But Ran Tao clearly recognized himself, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to. Fortunately, she made a quick decision and scared Ouyang Zhi with her words. Thinking of Ouyang Zhi's frightened face and helpless appearance just now, she felt funny, who made him speak frivolously and wronged himself for no reason? and Ran Tao followed him all the way to explain in a panic, he should have been bluffed by himself.

Remembering the scene just now, she couldn't help but giggle again. This Ran Tao looks quite calm and solemn on weekdays, and he even talks and walks steadily, why can't he stand the scare so much? Do these people really think that if she says that she is going to tell Uncle Di and Uncle Lu, she will really sue them for their evil state? Let's not talk about what reason she used to complain to the two uncles of Di Lu, even if she saw them, she would talk to them, the question is, do the two uncles believe what she says? Besides, what is she going to sue? Let's just say that Ouyang stopped molesting himself?

Even though she was the only one in the car, her face was still red with shame. She took several sips in her heart before turning her mind to business.

Of course, her business is the official business that her father has to do when he comes to Yanshan this time. Among the specific things, Bao Kan had already told her last night, and even Shang Cheng gave her an idea to the Ministry of Industry, hoping that the Ministry of Industry would find a way to make the liquor in Huolun Liquor Farm become tribute wine.

Bao Kan also gave her an idea and asked her to go to Sun Zhongshan for help.

After thinking about it, she also felt that Baokan's idea made sense. Originally, it was best for Uncle Seventeen to come forward in this matter. But Uncle Seventeen now has a case in his body, and he is also detained in the Inspectorate Department, so it is obviously neither possible nor appropriate for him to come forward to deal with this matter. It is said that since Uncle Seventeen can't take care of it, Aunt Seventeen can also match Yang Heng with Huo Lun. But first of all, Uncle Seventeen's case has not been concluded, so he can't trouble Aunt Seventeen at this time; Again, last winter, Huo Lun put aside Liu Ji's warehouse and handed over most of the business of selling liquor in the Central Plains to Yongshengchang, a big merchant in Shangjing, to do it, and made Aunt Seventeen so angry that she didn't get off the kang for three days, and said at the time that she would never recognize this sixth brother again, so Aunt Seventeen would definitely not help in this matter; Even if you want to help, it will definitely be a disadvantage! So she couldn't go to Aunt Seventeen to come forward, so she could only go to Brother Zhongshan.

She believed that as long as she opened her mouth, Brother Zhongshan would definitely agree; Not only will he agree, but he will definitely do things properly, and it will never be possible for her father to suffer. Of course, Brother Zhongshan will not let the sixth uncle of the Huo family suffer, and the only one who will suffer is the Ministry of Industry. But the Ministry of Industry belongs to the imperial court, and the loss has nothing to do with her; She just needs her father's errand to be done.

She suddenly thought of a question: her father is also an official of the Ministry of Industry, and he is the person sent by the Ministry of Industry to Yanshan to handle this matter, if the court and the Ministry of Industry suffer a loss, will those people be angry with her father?

The answer is yes. Even if she didn't have much knowledge, she knew that at that time, the Ministry of Industry and the imperial court would investigate the responsibility, and it would be impossible to let her father go. Even if it's okay, someone is picking on her father, not to mention that he has done something wrong with such an important errand this time?

Ahhh Recognizing the seriousness of the problem, she suddenly became scrambling. What can I do? What to do? She was so anxious that she picked her fingers in the car, her heart fluttered in panic, and her little face was red. But in a hurry, how could she come up with a way to make her father's errand complete and satisfy the Ministry of Works? Thinking about it left and right, she even hated her father: Why do you want to work in Shangjing? If you are an official in Yanshan, how good it would be, with the protection of the monk's eldest brother, not to mention an errand that breaks liquor, even bigger things can be easily handled!

She froze. Oh, she's so busy here that she's forgotten about such an important thing. Why can't she let her father come to Yanshan to be an official? As far as she knew, Uncle Zhang Shao's Wei Mansion was in charge of a large workshop, and Uncle Lu Ji's Pastoral Mansion was also in charge of two or three similar workshops, and her father could go there to be a master; Besides, she still remembered that when her father first joined the office, he was an eight-rank official in the inspection department of Xijing Ruzhou Mansion, and now he can find a position with Uncle Di Xu......

After figuring this out, she suddenly became happy again. That's right, just let my father come to Yanshan to be an official, so that she can often meet with him and her grandmother and younger brother!

She even thought about something more long-term. She had been living in his house for so long, and she had never been able to help him, and she always felt guilty in her heart. She also knew that his foundation in Yanshan was thin and his qualifications were shallow, and many things did not go well. Whenever she saw him frowning alone in the study and sighing in circles, she always hoped that she could help him and share the burden for him. But she has the heart, but she doesn't have the strength. How could she help him? She is a little woman who has no knowledge, and she doesn't know anything outside the door except that she can read and keep an account book and help the chores of the house. But her dad was different. Her father is a Jinshi and the first born, no matter what, his vision will not be lower than Ran Tao and them, maybe he will soon be like Uncle Seventeen, and become his good helper in official affairs, helping him to do a good job in Yanshan, so that he can take off the word "fake position" earlier and be a real commander! In this way, he can't turn a blind eye to himself anymore, can he?

She immediately taught the coachman how to get the horse running. She was going to go home and tell him about it at once. She felt that he must be able to understand her painstaking efforts. It's not just for her father, it's more for him!

But when she urged the coachman all the way to get home, and hurried to the small courtyard where he worked in the front yard to find him something, he was not there. She even looked at the big house where he was staying behind the small courtyard, but she still didn't see anyone. Not only was he not there, but Su Zha and Duan Si, who were on duty in shifts, were also nowhere to be seen.

She found a small school. The junior colonel told her that Suza was on night duty last night, and after Chen Shi and Duan Si handed over their errands, they went home.

"Then, what about Fourth Brother Duan?" She asked.

"Captain Duan has accompanied the commander to run errands."

She couldn't help but stomp her foot. What a rush! Isn't it Xiu Mu today, what else is he going to do?

The little colonel smiled and said, "What is the Inspector going out to do, we don't dare to ask casually." He lowered his voice and said, "Today, General Wang Yi, the Duke of Yiguo, is going back to Beijing, and the commander is going to see him off." ”

She immediately asked, "Then he didn't say it, when will he come back?" ”

Colonel shook his head.

There's no way, it seems that this can't be done in a hurry. But she immediately comforted herself and said that good things were not busy, and she couldn't eat hot porridge in a hurry, anyway, he was just going to send off a friend, and he would definitely be back today, and it would not be too late for her to talk to him at that time......

She thanked the school on duty, and returned to her small courtyard in the backyard with two completely different moods of disappointment and expectation.

Her courtyard and Yue'er's courtyard are two next door, and there is only a half-person-high courtyard wall in the middle. The two girls were good, in order to save trouble, they simply dug a hole in the courtyard wall and built a corner door, so that they could get together and chat whenever they wanted, and they didn't even have to go out of the courtyard gate, and they could meet and talk immediately.

Several of her maids already knew that she was back, and had been waiting for her at the corner gate separating the front and back yards. As soon as she appeared, they swarmed her like stars holding the moon, and welcomed her back, as if she had just arrived home from a long journey.

The eldest girl hadn't gone home yet, she was lying on the kang table and napping, and the maids helped her change her clothes and wash her face and comb her hair again, and chattered and laughed, and woke up. Because there were many people in the room, she didn't speak, but just asked her with her eyes: How is the matter?

Pan'er spent all the maids, and then took the eldest girl's hand, and carefully told her how she went to see her father today, and finally said to the eldest girl happily and gratefully: "Fortunately, you persuaded me, otherwise I would definitely regret not knowing how much time." ”

The eldest girl is also very happy for her.

Pan'er told the eldest girl what she thought of on the way. She felt that the eldest girl would definitely agree with her idea. Of course, she didn't say that she was doing it more for his sake.

But contrary to her expectations, after the eldest girl heard what she said, she fell silent for a while.

Pan'er looked at the big girl nervously and asked, "What, do you think what I think is wrong?" She felt a little uneasy. Although the eldest girl is only a few days older than her, she looks much more mature than her, thinks more carefully than her, and does things much more steadily than her. She has always regarded the eldest girl as her own sister, and she has to ask her for help in many things.

"Don't go and talk to your eldest brother about this." The big girl said. Seeing that Pan'er didn't understand, she said again, "Don't interfere with official affairs." She took Pan'er's hand and asked her to sit down, thought for a while, and said, "Do you remember, my sixth uncle also looked for the monk last year and wanted to ask the official for something?" ”

Pan'er nodded. She had heard about the Huo family's six uncles asking for officials.

"At that time, my father came forward to say good things for Uncle Six." The eldest girl said, "I still remember that night, the monk brother lost his temper at my father, and left without taking two sips of tea. As he left, he slammed the door so hard that the dust on the lintel beams fell off. She looked at Pan'er and admonished her, "So you can't talk about it either." Not only can't you talk to him, but you can't ask anyone else to help him with this, otherwise the news will reach his ears sooner or later. You don't know his temperament, he really knows that you do this......" She didn't say anything, just stared at Pan'er with serious eyes, you know what the consequences of doing this will be, right?

Of course, Pan'er knows what the consequences are. She was immediately deflated. On the way home, she even thought about whether her father would live in the city or outside the city after he came to Yanshan, who knew that this would be the end in the end. And she won't ask for much of an official for her father, she's just a workshop owner, which can't be said?

The big girl shook her head. Of course, you can't say that. But she understands the truth, but she can't say it clearly, so she can't persuade Pan'er. She only knew that this was definitely not a matter of being a big official......

Pan'er also understands the truth. But she was still a little unacceptable. And when she thought that her father's life in the capital might encounter more tribulations, she was so sad that she couldn't do it. She lowered her head and wiped away her tears, choked up and asked the eldest girl, "Then what should my father do?" I can't watch my father suffer and watch him be trampled, can I? "She's got to do something for her father!

"Give him more money." The big girl said helplessly. That's all she can think of for the time being.

Pan'er nodded while crying. That's all there is to it. But she didn't have much money; The eldest girl helps her mother manage a home, but she saves a little private house, but not too much. The eldest girl said, "I have more than 200 pieces here, and some gold and silver jewelry, you can take them first." Let's think of a way to see if we can make up more. ”

"Hmm." ……