The weather in Yunnan does not vary much throughout the year, but in early winter, it gets dark early.

At the right time, in one of the most conspicuous courtyards in the Mu manor, the two were drinking in the main hall, and the light of the candles distorted the figures in the hall.

At this time, in addition to serving an old Zhuang Ding, there are only two small singers from Nanning County, if it is on weekdays as Yu Guan Zhuang's identity, no one dares to sit on his head, a few years ago, Zhuang Shang and neighboring farmers fought for water and made a human life, Nanning Zhi County personally came forward, as a result, Yu Guan Zhuang only brought Mu Wangfu out of the understatement to resolve this lawsuit, so he is also the number one person here, because he is the lackey of the Yunnan General Military Officer, not far away from the sergeant in the three-way fort, if he needs to use it, he can also call it.

But now the person opposite him has been flattering for nearly a month, the middle-aged man with a sharp mouth and a horse face with a circle of beard on his face looks extremely incompatible, and a sauce-colored silk robe makes people look at how they think Mu Monkey and the crown is talking about this person, this middle-aged man is Li Shiyi, who almost beat Liu Rust to death.

Li Shiyi's current official identity is only 1,000 households under Guangnan Wei, but he is actually one of Mu Changzuo's confidants, specializing in dealing with various local envoys sent by the old Guogong.

He can have today's status is naturally inseparable from his brother, Li Shiyi's second brother Li Shixiao in the Yunnan army in the past, Wanli 19 years of the army moved to the town to conquer Burma, before the meritorious Mu Changzuo privately ordered to withdraw from the army, local officials took the opportunity of the loss of land to impeach the Mu minions to scare the people of property, set aside the killing of people and forcibly occupy the land, etc., and finally the court inquired about the matter with the brocade guard, and only took his brother as the first evil to kill him, and Mu Changzuo himself just took off the clothes, and wore the python robe and jade belt back in less than half a year.

It would be nonsense to say that his brother was wronged, after all, the fields that the Mu family took the opportunity to occupy were still not returned, but the benefits were all owned by the Qianguo family. But because of the death of this henchman of the Mu family, the Li family is more trusted by Mu Changzuo, and several of Li Shixiao's brothers are now more comfortable.

The two gradually drank a few more glasses, their faces were slightly drunk, and Yu Guan Zhuang pretended to be mysterious and flattered: "The new name of Fucheng Chunxiang Building is Wan Niang, I heard that she was still a young lady from the official eunuch family earlier, and the villain has arranged to invite you to try it with thousands of households tomorrow." ”

When Li Shiyi heard this, a trace of essence flashed in his eyes, but he immediately pressed down and said, "I drive piles every day, and I am annoyed by the fighting, but it is still important to get down to business, and when I return to the town after this busy battle, I can't find a beautiful little lady there." ”

Yu Guanzhuang thought that he had a plan, and said flatteringly: "Thousands of households have eaten ashes here for a month, and the villain is really sorry not to go, only by serving wholeheartedly can I avoid feeling uneasy." ”

In fact, he has always been weak and a little annoyed.

This Li Qianhu said that he came to Qujing on behalf of Mu Wangfu to inspect Xuntian, but he had other important things to do, so he had been delayed on Qujing's side.

But soon after he arrived, he arrested several outsiders, two of whom seemed to be the military households of Guiyang Wei, and they were all locked up in the cellar and beaten half to death, and other people were also imprisoned in Zhuangzi waiting to be redeemed by marriage.

He also asked through the wine, and he caught so many people at once, but he was just angry in Dongchuan Mansion, originally looking for a place to surrender, but he didn't want to find a wrongdoer.

In the end, they bumped into each other on both sides of Qujing, he thought it was just an ordinary fight to seek revenge, so Li Shiyi asked someone he didn't think about and let Zhuang Ding go, but unexpectedly, he even detained someone with goods, and injured someone to make him stand up for something.

In his opinion, this Li Qianhu is really careless, and his temper is extremely hard and arrogant, first he deducted a charge for smuggling military funds to this group, and the Mu clan of the military fort in the province can be controlled, and if he finds a mistake, he will deal with it directly, but he prefers to go to the county to be a Weifu. Although the officials of Nanning County were perfunctory to him, they did not buy it, but in this way, the matter also let the government know, and it was inevitable that he would leave some heads, although he was not afraid of the county government, but there were always some hidden dangers or wanted him to end the matter as soon as possible.

In addition, he is in charge of some private affairs, the government can't manage Mu Wangfu, Mu Wangfu can't say how carefully they are in charge of these states and prefectures, and he can also have some 'action' as usual after the autumn harvest every year, but it's a pity that now this enemy has been waiting for a long time, which is really difficult.

Now that he has released a lot of rice and wheat in the warehouse, he has just harvested a lot of wheat in the warehouse, but fortunately, Li Shiyi is only allowed to enjoy the small song he sent to him, and he is wary of the errand of Mu Wangfu, and the rest of his mind is only on the few Guizhou military households who prevent him from contributing.

Otherwise, if he found that the granary was mostly empty, although he would not denounce it, it was certain that his knowledge of this person had been severely falsely reported for many days.

"At least you have to wait until the end of the year, and your title as the new Fujun is all for nothing?"

A few months ago, the new governor of Yunnan, Shen Juju, arrived in Yunnan, and this position also had a title that his predecessor did not have - and Jianchang, Bijie, Chuandong and other places praised military affairs and supervised Sichuan Gui's military salary.

The war in Liaodong is scorching, this Shen Futai was specially sent to Yunnan naturally to stabilize the situation in the southwest, Xiong Jingluo is now mobilizing southwest troops to Liaodong, and the soil houses in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are a little ready to move, plus Sichuan and Yunnan also have to prepare for Liaoyu, Yunnan and Myanmar harass from time to time, how to look at Futai this time is not up is a good match.

Things are as expected, Shen Juju's new official took office and walked around Guizhou, first went to meet with Zhang Heming, and said that he would tidy up the fields in Dongchuan and Guizhou and other places within a few days of arriving in Yunnan Mansion, but the Zhangtian Gongren of Yunnan Buzheng Department went to Chongming Prefecture first, and went to Xundian Mansion last month.

Coming all the way from Chongming Prefecture to the northeast, it will indeed be Qujing's turn soon.

He is just waiting for the news here, if the people of the political department really dare to come and fight, the county government will naturally be perfunctory if they don't dare to come out, speaking of which, what the Mu family values is probably the ruthlessness of these customers.

While laughing and drinking with Xiao Sing, both of them became intoxicated, and gradually lost consciousness.

Li Shiyi only felt that he was in a fog, and suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly, but what he saw was a lingering scene of urinating since childhood.

The one wearing the flail in front of him was the second brother Li Shixiao, surrounded by several dukes wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their waists, and the eldest brother still looked cynical, "Little four, you remember to Lao Tzu, your brother will probably not be able to come back when he goes to Beijing this time, and when you grow up, you will go to Mufu to find an errand, and the old prince promised to change some thoughts for our family." ”

At that time, Li Shiyi always felt that the second brother was just joking with himself, but he had never seen the second brother since then, and he still couldn't fully believe it until the news came from Beijing that Li Shixiao was sentenced to be beheaded and the rest were assigned to the army.

Later, he really got the care of the Mu family, first attacked the hundred households in Weizhong, and when he was a little older, he found a few credits and rose to a thousand households, and then concentrated on running errands for the Mu Wangfu.

It is also since the second brother's incident that Li Shiyi's temperament has changed greatly, and he has become more and more violent on weekdays. He only felt that in this way, he could live more peacefully in his heart, and he could feel a little more balanced, and he could live one day at a time, and he didn't care whether what he did was good or bad.

After all, like what Mu Fu did, it is enough for an official to die a few times, but people are fine, just because their ancestors have made contributions to the emperor.

He thought that this Mu family was the heaven of Yunnan, he couldn't do errands for the imperial court but he could still work hard for the Mu family, and he had indeed gained a lot of benefits over the years, and the concubines had married two rooms, and they were flattered everywhere they went, and they were much more proud than ordinary petty officials.

After the second brother's incident, Mu Changzuo, the old prince, said that he was sick and let the prince Mu Rui take the town, and then he was quiet for more than ten years, until the 37th year of Wanli Wuding Mansion Tusi Ake rebelled, and Mu Rui escaped with the seal and was imprisoned by the imperial court. In those days, the Qianguo family kept a lot of low profile, but then Mu Changzuo took care of the town's affairs, so that Li Shiyi and others once again saw clearly what the status of the Mu family was in Yunnan.

The experiences flowed before my eyes, and soon became blurry again, until a chill penetrated my heart.

This time, Li Shiyi quickly came to his senses, but he was surrounded by a circle of figures in front of him, and he couldn't find any second brother's shadow.

He twisted his neck and looked around, and found that Yu Guanzhuang and Xiao Song, who had been drinking together, were still lying on the ground and did not wake up, and then saw that his body had been tied up strongly, and he secretly said that it was not good, but his heart sank.

"Li Qianhu, right?" A teenager's voice rang out.

"Your Excellency?" The power of the anesthetic medicine didn't seem to have completely disappeared, and Li Shiyi seemed to react in a trance, but he seemed to react and felt that he shouldn't be so hesitant, so he said sharply, "Good thief, do you know what kind of place this is?" ”

"Mu Clan's Xunzhuang? Don't tell us we're in the wrong place. ”

"I know that it is the Mu family's business, but I dare to be presumptuous." Li Shiyi had already heard that the other party's words were wrong, and he was still trying to calm down.

"This name is really useful in your Yunnan, but it's a pity that we are from Guizhou."

Li Shiyi was speechless when he heard this, and he mentioned how he couldn't guess the number of people from Guizhou, but he didn't expect the other party to come to the door so hard instead of being soft. If he can get out, he will naturally not let go of these people, but now that he is a sword warrior, ninety percent of his qi has been taken away.

"You belong to the royal family of Guiyang?"

After he asked, he regretted it, and saw a young man show his face from the shadow of the candle, "I am Wang Xingping, the head of the Wang family." ”

Li Shiyi glanced at Wang Xingping first, only to feel that the young man was a little too young, but suddenly he seemed to remember something and muttered to himself, and suddenly exclaimed: "Wang-Xing-Ping——, are you the Wang Xiaoqianhu of Guiyangwei?" ”

Even if Liu Ru said the name of the Rong Institute, Li Shiyi probably can't remember, but there is a Wang Xiaoqianhu in Guiyang Wei, who is a former celebrity of Fujun Zhang Xianggong, and he has also heard of it in Yunnan, plus some of the previous deeds, many of which have become legends in the southwest through word of mouth.

He only asked them from Xue Liu and the others before, but he didn't figure out the details of the Wang family, and now he suddenly remembered that he regretted it, how could he provoke such an enemy, you need to know that this one has never suffered a loss in the storyteller's book.

"Do you recognize me? That's easy, your life is only up to Sixth Brother Xue and them to decide. Wang Xingping glanced coldly at the middle-aged man who had stopped breathing, in fact, he didn't intend to keep this person alive, but this matter had to be handed over to Xue Liu, and those people who were detained also had to be bloody.

…………

Without using the antidote, the other people in the hall and a few night guards outside didn't wake up until an hour later, and they all found Li Qianhu who had disappeared for no reason while looking at each other.

Yu Guanzhuang was alert and first thought of an accident in the dungeon, and when he went to see it, there was still the shadow of the prisoner, along with the vehicle containing copper. In this night, he didn't know the direction of the two escapes, and he didn't dare to rashly send someone to chase him, but when he was hesitating, he heard another Zhuang Ding running over, shouting as he ran, "Supervise, burn the warehouse......"

Yu Guan Zhuang was annoyed, who didn't know that today was the first half of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, after sunset, even if the countryside people did not light incense wax paper money in the roadside fields to sacrifice the ancestors, the folk called the burning library.

"What's the panic, talk well."

Maybe the family who reported the news would be wrong, but he said that it was a taboo to burn words, so he quickly changed his words, "Supervise, it's the grain depot that has run out of water"

Yu Guanzhuang reacted at this time, and when he hurriedly went out to look, a row of warehouses on the edge of the field in the distance had already burned into a piece, and he really compared the paper money burned elsewhere.

[Note 1: For the sake of controversy, it should be noted that the term piling was widely used in the Yunnan dialect of the Ming Dynasty to refer to the piston movement in the southwest, and even the Vietnamese also had this usage, as mentioned in her own poems by Hồ Xuân Hương, a Vietnamese poetess of the Lê Dynasty and known as the 'Queen of Poetry'.] Try to record one of its "jackfruits": The sister's body is like jackfruit, with fat and thick belts. If a gentleman loves it, he will 'drive piles', and don't touch the slurry stains with his hands. 】

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