Leaving the palace and returning to the ya'men', Liu Taoran was still immersed in the 'agitation' of the first 'exchange' with Mu Zong. After all, it was the first time that I had such close contact with Wan Sui Ye, and I still said so much, which is not an honor that every official has.

After coming to my study and sitting down, Liu Taoran said: "Lord Lan, this emperor is really easy-going, I haven't been in contact with it before, and now I know that the emperor is a wise gentleman and can listen to our suggestions and opinions." ”

"Lord Liu, in fact, the emperors of all dynasties are not all faint monarchs, mainly because the courtiers below are not good, and the emperor is 'tempted' and 'confused', so the environment is very important, and the quality of the ministers is also very important. The reason why the emperor is so virtuous is mainly because when he was in the palace, Lord Gao and Lord Zhang had a good education for the emperor, if it weren't for the two of them, the current emperor might be the same as Emperor Sejong, who would have ignored the government for decades. ”

"What Lord Lan said makes sense, it's true, the faint kings of history are all 'blinded' by the 'traitor' ministers, fortunately, several adults in my cabinet are very virtuous, but the tall adults are arrogant and difficult to contact, and the 'sex' is weird, but it is still good to be in politics, if you are more flexible, it would be good."

"The emperor seems to agree with our suggestion, it seems that we will be busy again in the future, and we can start the business now, but we don't have time to take care of our families."

The task now is to come up with a way as soon as possible to do a good job in this matter without provoking the anger of the public, so that a large number of officials who understand this line of work are needed, but the current scholars still look down on us who 'deal' with silver every day, and if we want to break this article, we must have the support of the emperor.

In the following days, everything was going according to the normal procedures, the restaurant was also opened, Wang Jinhuai's branch in Xuanfu was also opened, and the Guozijian side also opened a course on money and food according to the emperor's will, and the emperor also announced that in the future, the officials of our ya' 'door' can be transferred to other departments 'door' when they reach a certain level, which makes our emerging industry increase a lot of 'temptation' and 'confusion' power, from the original cold and deserted, no one signed up, to the current hot' Fortunately, Liu Taoran has no relatives in the capital, and now he is mainly responsible for this part. Whoever comes to me, I will also push it to Liu Taoran.

There is only one regret that there has been no news from the cheap father who is far away in 'Meng' Gu, and Chen Lao Er has not come back after he left, and now I have limited manpower, and I can't send someone to find them over there.

I don't know if the horse farm over there has been built, and Zhang Yunchuan and they don't know what happened, just in such an ordinary day, the time is now the 'Spring' Festival, which is the first 'Spring' Festival I have ever had in the world.

It is almost the month of La, Boss Chen began to get busy, first to buy New Year's goods, my request is that as long as the family members in our mansion, regardless of the old and young, each person must have new clothes for the New Year, and there must be a gift suitable for their age.

Since getting married, I felt that my family was not enough, so I went to the market and bought twenty of them, half of each male and female, plus the ten palace 'women' sent by the princess, Zihan also brought four over, and now there are more than 40 people in the house, and each person's clothes are different in size and model, so it took several days of hard work to 'get' it well, and the New Year's goods are almost ready.

Zihan and I 'smoked' for a while and bought a lot of gifts, the emperor's, the princess's, Zhang Juzheng's side is a must, and Chen Jiu also has to prepare. A few of the ya's 'door' also have to be sent, and Wei Yunqing's side is even more important, but Zihan's parents don't know what to do, it's too far away from there.

One night, I told Zihan about this: "Zihan, your parents didn't have time to attend our wedding, and now it's the 'Spring' Festival, we as juniors, the first 'Spring' Festival, we can't go there, we can't give them New Year's greetings, this New Year's gift still has to be prepared, I don't know if my uncle has prepared it, how to send them back." ”

"Xianggong, we can prepare some gifts, and Uncle To's can bring them back, during the previous 'Spring' Festival. My uncle will send his family to deliver New Year's goods, and my uncle will definitely go this year, so I'll go to my uncle's side tomorrow to ask. ”

The next day, Zihan and I came to Wei Yunqing's house together, Wei Yunqing is usually in the ya'men', there is only Mrs. Wei at home, after Zihan and I explained the intention, Mrs. Wei said: "Okay, it's rare that you have this intention, you hurry up and prepare." It's the tenth day of the lunar month, and if you send someone to go, you can come back early. I've got some for you, too, and it's just right to send the gifts together. ”

Coming out of the Wei Mansion, Zihan and I went to the street to buy New Year's goods, which was a gift for our parents-in-law, of course, we had to do it ourselves. Therefore, with Boss Chen and the Three Tigers, they are just following behind to get things, and the procurement is done by me and Zihan.

Zihan bought things that were not available in Shandong, roe deer from Kanto, still alive, bought two, and deer 'meat', wild boar 'meat', and so on are all local products from Kanto. The things I choose are all valuable, what inkstone, rice paper, Hui ink, poplin. All kinds of things from the West, after a long time, actually 'spent' more than 2,000 taels of silver, which hurt Zihan so much that Boss Chen couldn't take it, and finally hired two carriages to pull them home.

For the cottage side, I am going to go over before the 'Spring' Festival, one is to see the old man Wang and them, and the other is to see Zhang Guifei and Zhao Quan's family, although Zhao Quan is a traitor, since they have entrusted their family to me, I can't ignore it.

The New Year is very simple, that is, the preparations before the New Year are troublesome, fortunately, the first floor is not busy with Lao Liu now, call him back to help purchase gifts for the cottage, I am ready to take Liu Lianjiang and Lao Liu father and son over, unfamiliar family, or don't go.

At this time, the cheap father who was far away in 'Meng' Gu had a much better life, and after Zhang Yunchuan and Chen Lao Er came back with a large amount of food, their status in the tribe rose significantly, and the people who originally monitored him were also withdrawn.

Chen Lao Er is also here to accompany his cheap father, and the three brothers of Yan Junshan also accompany them to go hunting, the small life is not bad now, the 'Meng' ancients also have a 'spring' festival, so they also prepare New Year's goods, they are all their tribe, Chen Lao Er brought a lot of food from the Guannei, and a lot of cloth, so they don't need to make big preparations.

That day, the cheap dad suddenly wanted to go to the royal court to see, because he had been here for so long, he was always staying, and he was really suffocated, through the news from Chen Laier, he knew that the housekeeper was now on Bansheng's side, but he didn't have a chance to meet, and the purpose of the cheap dad to come to 'Meng' Gu was not to hide, but to find Lan Yong, and now Lan Yong has confirmed that he was killed by Zhao Quan. The cheap dad couldn't stay like this, so he asked to go out for a walk to see if the royal court of the 'Meng' ancients could have a chance to contact their masters.

He Yan Junshan They are also young people, and they also want to go out for a walk, after asking Lao He Yan, the five of them set foot on the road to the royal court, from the tribe of He Yan Junshan to the royal court, there are more than a thousand miles of road, and they have to walk for four days to get there.

The five of them walked and played until the third day, when they were still more than 300 miles away from the royal court, and in the evening, the five of them found a leeward place to prepare for camping, and after eating the dried beef 'meat' they had brought with them, and a few dry flour cakes, the five of them entered the dream by guarding a bonfire.

The current 'Mongolian' ancient grassland is quite peaceful, there are not many horse bandits, many herdsmen camp like this, and all five of them also follow their customs, so they don't even have a vigil and go to sleep.

In the middle of the night, the cheap dad was frozen and woke up, they are different from Yan Junshan, they are used to the 'dew' camp, the cheap dad has always been an official, there has suffered from this, ten winters and months, no matter how much they wear, it will be cold.

After filling the campfire with a few pieces of firewood, Daddy Cheap didn't go to bed and sat there to make a fire. At this time, I heard the sound of horses' hooves, and walked this way, and there were still people walking in the middle of the night, listening to the sound of horses' hooves, and the number of people was still as many as hundreds. Cheap dad didn't know what was going on, so he woke them up just in case.

He and Yan Junshan 'rubbed' and 'rubbed' his eyes, and said: "Shopkeeper Lan, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night, it's not dawn yet, I'll sleep again." Then he was going to fall crooked on the grass again.

"Listen to a few of you, if anyone is coming?"

Listening to what the cheap dad said, a few people sat up, listened to it, it was true, and said to Yan Junshan: "Lan shopkeeper, don't make a fuss, it's normal to meet people in a hurry at night, they will also come over to join in the fun when they see our bonfire, this is the custom of our 'Meng' ancients, and we will know when they come." ”

Now they couldn't sleep, so the five of them waited by the campfire to see who was on the way in the middle of the night.

After a while, the group of people finally came here, and when they arrived here, Tuan Tuan surrounded the five of them in the middle, these people were also dressed as 'Meng' ancients, and they all carried knives and 'guns' in their hands, and it seemed that they were not good.

He Yan Junshan was scared and didn't speak, looked at the righteous brother next to him and asked in the ancient 'Meng' dialect: "Big brother, what now?" ”

The boss also knew that his brother was usually very shy, and he didn't pay attention to such a thing, so he didn't answer him, but stood up and asked those people in the ancient 'Meng' dialect: "Everyone, we are all our own people, we are from the Heyan tribe, this is the young master of our tribe leader, may I ask which tribe you belong to." ”

An old voice in the middle of the group said in Chinese, "That is your young master, stand up and take a look at me." ”

As soon as they heard this voice, Cheap Dad and Chen Lao Er were stunned, how did they meet him here, it wouldn't be such a coincidence. The 'Mongolian' ancient grassland is so big, why did you meet this person, it seems that today is more than lucky.