Nanyang wanted to go to the Ying County Bofu to apologize to Shang Cheng in person, but he made a hasty decision in a moment. After a night's wait, and the next morning, she began to seriously consider whether the move was appropriate.

Reason told her that she couldn't go to see her husband. At least not yet.

Yes, she is the princess of Nanyang, her status is noble, and she can usually meet whoever she wants. But this honorable knighthood means nothing in front of the gentleman. Mr. is a great hermit, accompanied by fishing woods in the wild, fishing fish and woodcutters are happy, in the dynasty crown mink parallel, the article and the flag complement each other, the time does not reduce its color, the environment is difficult to change its mind, quiet and quiet from the ups and downs of the vulgar; In front of such a person, the princess's knighthood is not worth boasting about, and maybe it will make him despise and disgust. In addition, because of all kinds of absurd behaviors in the past few years, her reputation is very unbearable. If anyone knew that she was going to see her husband, it was almost a matter of course, what kind of eyes would they use to look at him, and what words would they use to slander him? She can ignore her face, but she can't help but think about her husband, and she can't let those people slander him at will. So, she can't go and see her husband just yet!

She told Chen Pu that she didn't want to go back to the city again.

Chen Pu was very dissatisfied with her sister's change of order. She originally wanted to go back to Shang Cheng and ask her sister to help him ask for a good idea, after all, there were some things that she couldn't say herself, so she could only let others help her. But Nanyang didn't go back to the city, and she didn't have the courage to go alone. She muttered for a long time, seeing that Nanyang refused to change her mind, so she had no choice but to go to the Gyeonggi camp with her troubles. However, before leaving, she discussed with Nanyang, and when she had dealt with a few things on the side of the camp, she would come to Nanyang again, and then the two of them went all the way back to the capital to Zhengdan.

Shang Cheng didn't know that Chen Pu went to Nanyang after leaving his uncle's mansion. He didn't know that Nanyang, who had only seen two sides, would have such a high opinion of him, so much so that he regarded him as a character like Tao Yuanming. For the past four or five months, he hadn't even thought much of the princess, and only remembered such a person when he occasionally saw the tame Arabian horse. Sometimes, he would also admire Nanyang's generosity. If he had the chance, he would have given her a generous gift to return the favor.

On the third day of officially moving into the county mansion, Shang Cheng went to visit Zuo Xiang Tang Xing.

He didn't spend much time in the soup house. Gave a few gifts, comforted each other with Tang Lao Xiangguo, "to rest and recuperate", and then said a few words of idle words that did not fall to the ground, and he said goodbye and went home.

This is the only home he has been to since returning to Beijing.

For several days after that, the Ying County Bofu did not receive any guests. Duan Si repeatedly emphasized that "Uncle Ying County is recuperating", so no matter who it is, whether it is a civil official or a military general, whether it is an old acquaintance of Yanshan or an admiring visit, they are all persuaded to return by grace. There were more than ten people who were blocked in three or five days, and gradually there were rumors that the threshold of the county was high.

Seeing this, Zhang Pu, who had been a little worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that this blind businessman would make trouble again. Now that Shang Yanshan has moved into the county mansion, it shows that he is willing to reconcile with the Nanjin faction; I first saw myself in the Prime Minister's Mansion and then went to visit Tang Xing, which shows that he respects himself more as the right minister. This is actually telling himself that he will no longer stir up disputes over the matter of the southern or northern expeditions.

In order to make sure that there was no deviation in his understanding, Zhang Pu also specially asked Shang Cheng to inform him and let him attend a recent meeting in the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss Xiao Jian's new strategy for the southern expedition. Shang Cheng begged the public to allow him not to attend the meeting, citing the recurrence of headaches.

This time, Zhang Pu was completely relieved. Shang Cheng threw himself into the peach, and of course he and the Nanjin faction wanted to repay him. The Ministry of War soon followed, so that Shang Cheng hung up the false title of a soldier squire, and received a false position of right counselor to join the army in the Plains General's Mansion, although there was no real power, but in addition to the messy subsidies and subsidies of Lu grain, charcoal, chew money, and money, there were hundreds of thousands of salaries every month, which could be regarded as a compensation for Shang Cheng.

There were also more than a dozen carriages that came along with the official documents of the Ministry of War. When the leading Cao Guan saw the housekeeper of Ying Bo's Mansion, he split his head with a sentence: "Shang Ying Bo's family? ”

The housekeeper of Ying Bo's Mansion, who has just been in office for less than three days, has worked in a founding uncle's mansion before, so he can be regarded as a little knowledgeable, but this is the first time he has encountered such a scene. Looking at the carts full of all kinds of food, cloth, silk, cotton and linen, and other things, and then looking at Cao Guan's green robe and ten nails official belt, I felt that my eyes were a little overburned, and I nodded and couldn't talk about it.

"Ying Bo is a three-grade Shangzhu country, and he should receive three hundred and sixty taels per month; This year's winter material is 45 horses, 35 horses, and 10 catties of cotton; One hundred and twenty stones of corn this month; This month's kitchen stove supplement, there are 20 stones of rice and 40 stones of wheat; This month's salary is 1,500 bunches, 2,500 catties of first-class charcoal, and 700 catties of first-class charcoal; Eight buckets of salt this month; Thirty horses cut grain for 200 stone this month, and soybean feed 20 stone; Eighty-four people counted and paid 20,000 millet 100 stone cloth 50 ......" After crackling and reading, Cao Guan slapped the main book and the second book into the butler's hand, took out a forked brush in his sleeve, filled it into his mouth and moistened the pen with spittle, and stuffed the pen into the hand of the dumbfounded housekeeper, and said with an inky black mouth, "Sign!" ”

The housekeeper Xili was confused, so he wrote his name in the place pointed by Cao Guan, and put his own seal.

Cao Guan took the book, also filled in his name with the official seal, pinned the book to the back of his waist, and reached out to grab the housekeeper who wanted to count the storage: "It's not over yet, why are you in a hurry?" Just now it was the Yulu of the Shangzhu Kingdom, and there is also a volume here that is the Yulu of the squire of the military department. One by one, from the fourth rank of the military department, the squire should receive two hundred and sixty taels per month...... "It was a crackling recitation, and at the end the two booklets were still slapped in the butler's hand.

This time, the housekeeper didn't need him to urge and point, he directly took the brush and was about to put it down, when he suddenly remembered something: "No!" Everything was still delivered, and I didn't count it, so I couldn't sign it! ”

Cao Guan immediately smiled: "Brother just came to the mansion to do things, right?" ”

"How do you know?"

"Don't ask me how I know. I also know that you must not have been in the palace of any pillar country or upper pillar country in front of you. ”

"You, how do you know?"

"I also know that you haven't done it in a real noble family like Xianbo County. Yes and no? ”

“…… How do you know? The butler asked, wide-eyed. That's all he can say. He has lived with this military officer Cao Lu, how can others know so many things about him?

Cao Guan smiled, and was not busy explaining: "Brother is afraid that he doesn't know the origin and ability of your county uncle, right?" ”

The butler nodded vigorously with his mouth open. Because his mother-in-law had a serious illness, he resigned from the former founding uncle's mansion at the beginning of the year to take care of him. But in recent years, where will anyone not run to quit their jobs with a bonus bonus that they have earned for a year? Therefore, there is no shortage of manpower in any household, not to mention that what he is looking for is a good errand such as a housekeeper's account. One is that the messenger is missing, and the other is worried about repaying the debts owed to his mother-in-law for treatment before the end of the year, and he is so anxious that his hair falls out. Fortunately, God knows that he has been helping people keep accounts for 20 years, and he has never been greedy for the owner, even if it is a piece of paper or a drop of oil, and he opened his eyes when he needed money the most. The man of a dental shop told him that a big family wanted to hire a housekeeper and a bookkeeper, and the dental shop recommended him to apply; However, there is a condition, in the past, if the proprietor and the helper signed a contract with the helper, the tooth bank only asked the helper for 50% of the month's salary as a commission, but this time the commission was the full salary of the month. He gritted his teeth and admitted the doubling commission. He soon saw two young proprietors in Yaxing, Gao Qiang and Li Fengyi, who signed the contract on the spot and lived in the county mansion on the same day. To be honest, he still can't believe that there are such beautiful errands in the world: a three-year contract, fifty taels a year, in addition to corn, wheat beans, tea, salt, oil, meat, and other moon offerings, and spring and autumn offerings of cloth and silk; After careful calculation, he worked in the county uncle's mansion for one year, and he worked in the founding uncle's mansion for three years. Thinking about it now, he felt that he didn't owe him a lot of money at all. Where is this still helping, it's just an official!

He arched his hand towards Cao Guan, and said with a smiling face: "I still need to ask more adults for advice." ”

This is a very common and ordinary sentence, but Cao Guan paused for a moment, stared up and down several times, and asked him rhetorically: "Brother is only working as a housekeeper in the mansion?" ”

The butler nodded. He wondered what he meant. What does it mean to be a steward? What else could it be if it's not a housekeeper? The housekeeper in the county uncle's mansion is not a housekeeper, so he may not really become an official of the imperial court?

"My brother is joking with me! Hehe, my brother must be joking. Cao Guan smiled and looked him up and down several times, took a step closer and asked softly, "Brother didn't lead the official of Ying Bo's fiefdom?" The housekeeper shook his head, smiled and asked again, "Then you are the vice-yip?" Yi Zhonglang? Emissary? Seeing that the housekeeper was shaking his head, he took a step back, looked at the housekeeper and shook his head and said, "I really don't see it, just you, this ...... With your size, it will actually be a Yi system. One by one, disrespectful, disrespectful! As he spoke, he gave his hand.

The housekeeper didn't know what he was talking about, what kind of official system he had, he hadn't heard of it, and it was not easy to ask questions, so he could only smile and return the courtesy.

Cao Guan couldn't figure out the details of the housekeeper, so it was not good to ask him about his actual position in the county uncle's mansion carefully, so he turned back to the topic just now and said: "Your county uncle is a character who even our Shangshu lord has to take a detour when he sees it. If the officials don't believe it, you can go to the inventory and check, as long as there is the slightest shortcoming, take me to the county to fill the service! After saying that, he asked the butler to sign and seal the book, and said, "Hurry up and call someone to help you move the storehouse, and find more people to move the warehouse." This is the first trip, and there are still two or three more to go. Cang Cao of the Plains General's Mansion must have sent Ying Bo's Yulu over, and it was also dozens of carts of things. Two days ago, I heard from the Ministry of Rites that today, "He raised his arm and shook his fist on his forehead, bluffing the housekeeper to hurry up and follow suit." "One by one, he has been very kind to his uncle, and he has given many things one after another. They don't want to send it here today. ”

The housekeeper saw that he was turning around around him and didn't leave, and finally understood what he was doing, so he asked with a smile: "Look at me!" I talked about it for a long time, but I haven't asked the adult's name......"

That's what Cao Guan was waiting for, and when he arrived, he smiled happily, and then bowed to the butler and said, "Don't dare to ask as an envoy." The small surname is Jiao, a single name and a Huang character, his ancestral home is Chang'an, and he was born as a Jinshi in the ninth year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty. In the 10th year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, he was elected to the Hanlin Academy, and in the 14th year of the transfer of the military department, he is now working in the military department Cangcao, and he is the right supervisor of Cangcao. ”

The housekeeper didn't know why Jiao Caoguan called himself "Master Jiao" again and again, and he didn't want to show his timidity, so he said: "It turned out to be Lord Jiao'......"

Jiao Huang hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be." Just make the adults call me 'Benze'. ”

Jiao Huang was humble, but the housekeeper didn't dare to trust him, so he still called him an adult, so he said: "Lord Jiao, after that, my county uncle's monthly salary will be sent by our government to the military department to collect it, or is it ......?"

"What did the envoy say! This trivial matter, where dare the general worry about it? Of course, we sent someone to send it. Then he whispered, "Your Excellency, if you have any trivial things to do in the future, ask someone to come to the military headquarters to find me." I don't dare to mention it far away, in this capital, wherever the six departments can see and stretch out their hands, they can help you do it. ”

The butler smiled and nodded yes. At the same time, I wondered in my heart, what kind of origin did he have as the owner now? The wages for working in the Ying Bo Mansion are sufficient, but the rules are also large, and the most important one is: all matters involving the general are not allowed to be inquired about, let alone spread to the public; Anyone who violates the law will be investigated and sent directly to the Pingyuan General's Mansion to be punished according to the bandits, and that place is a military yamen, and you can directly cut off your head without going through the court!

However, he could not inquire about the owner's affairs, but he could inquire about something else. For example, he now wants to know, what kind of official position is Lord Jiao's mouthful "Master System"?