In Jincheng on the "two northern borders", a new thing happened recently: the famous prefect Gu Da Master finally revealed his true face under the pressure of the Northern Yan army: after he dismissed the three classes of officials and internal and external subordinates, he began to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble non-stop. And those luxury consumables worth thousands of dollars on the black market are enjoyed as if they don't need silver.

At this time, at the beginning of noon, under the guidance of Shen Gui, Master Gu held a bamboo pick in his mouth, and walked to the backyard of Anhedang - that is, in the Jincheng black market:

"I said boss, there are some small black spots on your tobacco leaves, which look like the tired goods after being damp and moldy first, and then after being dried twice. With such goods, dare to hand it in front of my family? Take it away, don't stain my eyes! ”

Shen Gui, who was in a small hat in Tsing Yi, looked like a fox and a fake tiger at this time, shaking the black mole sticky on his lips, and kept commenting on the goods in his mouth. And behind him, Master Gu Hui, who was swaggering and walking in all directions, just squinted his eyes and took the things that Shen Gui had bought, and enjoyed them slowly.

After a few turns, what fresh pulp shop candied dried fruits, all kinds of refreshments filled a table in the teahouse on the east side, and Gu Daren, who was waiting for the "tea to stretch his waist" in front of the table, picked up a piece of dried meat at random, just took a bite, and threw it out of the door:

"Phew! What a thing this is, it smells of oil. Sir, I've been eating too much fish and meat lately, and my mouth is dry and on fire, and my mouth is full of bubbles! Go, buy some South China Sea bird's nest and send it to Mrs., and drink some bird's nest porridge at night to clear the fire! ”

Except for the white-haired old man who had done business with Shen Gui before and the shopkeeper Zhou, all the people in the teahouse who ate by their mouths looked at this prefect who became rich overnight and was a little at a loss.

Master Gu Hui, if you talk about your academic background, it can really be said to be a famous and shocking North Road. It can also be said that if you look at it based on his background alone, there is no one who can match him in the entire Youbei Three Roads. Even if the deputy courtyard of the Sanbei Academy is Ni Xing, Ni An is here, even if he sees Master Gu, he has to call him a master according to his seniority! That's it, whether people should take care of it or not, it depends on his mood at the time.

However, as the old saying goes, poor scholars are poor scholars, although Master Gu's status in the "Youbei Academic Circle" is extremely respectful, he has always been extremely shy in his pocket.

There is an old saying in Beiyan, which is about the Qing Governor's Mansion in three years, and 100,000 snowflakes of silver. Although being an official in Beiyan is extremely risky, the benefits are also considerable! In addition to the basic monthly salary, there are also incorruptible silver and Fulu rice, and these legitimate incomes alone, the prefect has 100,000 taels of silver in his pocket for three years. Although the expenses of the servants of the third class of officials and the daily worship of the garrison of the territory were all included in the 100,000 silver. But the amount of silver that falls into his pocket every year is no longer as rich as the officials in the northern part of the country can imagine.

On the other hand, our Lord Gu has a lot of silver, two hundred taels a year! Moreover, the "grassroots workers" in the yamen should also be responsible for recruiting and supporting themselves. It can be seen that this Lord Gu's usual life must be extremely poor, and even his beloved lake pen is bald, and he is reluctant to buy a second one.

But now I don't know what's going on, in the current war-torn years when prices are soaring, Lord Gu seems to have let himself go. Since he dismissed three classes of officials and let them return to their hometowns to avoid trouble, he and Mrs. Huang of the Inner Mansion have become frequent visitors to the black market.

And their consumption level has also been upgraded from frugality to food and clothing, to a wanton squandering and drunken money. In the past, Master Gu could only salivate at those pen, ink, paper, inkstone and ancient remnants, but now he has also begun to buy them in sets; And Mrs. Huang's head is now also filled with precious stones and golden hairpins that the Nankang fleet has brought back from foreign countries; And the daily diet is even more varied, and the couple had to tattoo fifty taels of silver for a banquet; And the leftovers that can't be eaten are arranged for the next person to send them directly to the broken temple outside the city, and directly send the person who asks for food called Hanako! After all, today's Lord Gu will not eat leftovers anymore!

Such strange things spread from the black market, and the poor people who stayed in Jincheng and had no way out also scolded after hearing about it:

"Our old man Gu, don't look at him usually looks like a serious person, he is really full of benevolence and morality, a belly of male thieves and prostitutes! You think, this Northern Yan army will immediately come to the city, this Gu Da Lao saw that he was about to become an official, so he directly became poor and luxurious, and spent all the money he had been greedy for so many years! That's all the hard-earned money of our Jincheng people! ”

Such an argument has been unanimously recognized in the hearts of those uncles and aunts who have decades of experience. There were even many old people sitting at the yamen shouting and scolding day and night, shouting for the old man Gu who knocked on the bones and sucked the marrow to give an explanation to the people of Jincheng. And Master Gu saw that his house was blocked, so he simply took Mrs. Huang to live in a green building.

Yes, there is an unwritten rule on the Huayu Continent: no matter how much the war between the two sides wins, it will not affect the fireworks alley. Therefore, although all industries in Jincheng are in ruins, the Qinlou Chu Pavilion is still singing every night. Of course, it is precisely because of this that Yan Chongwu was misunderstood by the brothers in the Flying Bear Army that he had come to Jincheng to relax and have fun.

It doesn't matter if Lord Gu and Mrs. Huang's "passing the hall" (taking the female relatives to visit the Qinglou together) don't matter, the uncles and aunts of Jincheng exploded at once! Is there still a royal law? Is this still the "moral benchmark and model Gu Hui Gu Ziyu in Youbei"? In his current style, he is even worse than a brute!

So, under the guidance of some "enthusiastic people", Lord Gu's reputation of getting rich overnight and spending money like a plague spread all over Youbei Third Road, and now even Guo Xiao, the Pingbei Marquis of Beiyan, who is in charge of the East Customs, has already heard of it a little.

This Pingbei Marquis was surrounded by doubts at this time, and he couldn't figure it out. It's all because of the recent strange things on the three roads in Youbei, which disturbs me and I can't be idle. To this day, he has been suffering from insomnia for three whole days.

The day before yesterday, Yan Chongwu sent someone to send him a handwritten letter. He said in the letter that the concubine of his own house in Fengjing City had an affair with a house slave, and the two eloped away with a large amount of gold and silver. According to his investigation, he found that the two cheap slaves have now fled to the vicinity of the East Customs, and he will send close guards to look for the two near the East Customs, and hopes that the Marquis of Pingbei can agree; If there is any rudeness, please also ask Pingbei Hou to forgive me.

The letter was not stamped with the handsome seal of the Flying Bear Army, but only the words Yan Chongwu, which was obviously a private letter sent in his personal capacity. If it is as he said, it doesn't matter if he sends someone to find his concubine. It's just that the situation between the two sides is tense at present, and I don't know how true or false what he said, so it's hard to answer for a while.

After thinking about it for a long time, Pingbei Hou finally made a decision: he agreed to Yan Chongwu's request to send troops to search the vicinity of the East Customs Customs, but the number of people was strictly limited to the establishment of a small team, that is, eleven people; The scope of the search is also divided by the own side. If there is a mistake in the number of searchers in the northern part of the country, or if the searcher leaves the safe range, then he will order the person who came to search to be shot in front of the Eastern Customs.

After receiving Yan Chongwu's letter of thanks, Guo Xiao immediately gathered his cronies:

The concubine of the big black bear on the opposite side ran away, and Ben Hou had already promised him to search in front of the East Customs on his own. Ladies and gentlemen, there have been a lot of strange things happening lately, so let's discuss this matter, shall we? ”

"Lord Hou, the student has never heard of Yan Chongwu marrying, and he doesn't even have a lady in the main house, so how can he have a concubine?"

Pingbei Hou waved his hand at the scribe who spoke:

"Well, there's nothing strange about that. After all, he Yan Chongwu is a member of the Youbei royal family, and it is impossible for him to decide the choice of his wife. What's more, judging from his prestige on Youbei Third Road, and his weight in the heart of the puppet emperor Yan Hunt, it is not a strange thing that the selection of the main wife has been delayed until now. Now that he is over thirty years old, it is reasonable to take a concubine first and then take a wife. ”

This thought for the scribe, and he also nodded and said:

"It's not surprising if you take it out. However, the previous student An refused to deliberately get close to the person who came to search for the other party, and under contact, he inquired about a secret in the other party's mouth: the so-called concubine Yan Chongwu was looking for, named Li Niang. And according to our eyeliner lurking in Jincheng, this Liniang is not Yan Chongwu's concubine at all, but the concubine of Gu Hui, the prefect of Jincheng, who was bought back by Nankang! ”

Pingbeihou raised his eyebrows when he heard the news, and the right hand on the handsome case began to tap on the table non-stop:

"If that's the case, why did Yan Chongwu lie that he was his own concubine? You can tell the truth to Ben Hou! And if it is said that he is Gu Hui's concubine, maybe Benhou will look at the face of the Gu family and make greater concessions! Why did he Yan Chongwu resist the dirty water for Gu Hui, and even humiliate his reputation? Well...... That's interesting......"

The scribe did not answer Pingbeihou's self-talk, but continued to report the news sent back by the Jincheng spies:

"Master Hou, where is this? Did you know? Gu Hui and Gu Ziyu have been impoverished peerless Qing officials for many years, but in the period after Liniang disappeared, this Qing official Gu Daren got a large sum of silver taels from somewhere, and squandered them all day long. Now he spends not more than ten thousand taels a day. Don't say that he is corrupt and perverts the law, even if he is greedy for all the public money in Jincheng, it is not enough for him to squander it so much! ”

When Pingbeihou heard the news, he shook his head and touched his beard, and he got into the tip of the horns:

"yes, yes...... This sudden richness can't be greedy...... Then there must be a way for all this money...... What is the relationship between Gu Hao's sudden wealth and Yan Chongwu's lies? ”

At the same time, the name Liniang has spread to every corner of Youbei Third Road under the help of people with ulterior motives. The only person who "knows" Liniang's identity has been shocked half to death by this rumor. Yes, that is the prince Yan Day, who has not seen the "Yellow Bird" for a few days.

Shen Gui was born and grew up in the rivers and lakes, and the sources are extremely complicated. However, compared to listening to the news, the three sects and nine streams of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods gathered around him were of course better at creating rumors.

And Shen Gui wants to take advantage of the general trend he has created to completely solve Beiyanzhi at the bottom of the kettle