Chapter 3 Zhou Qi and Wu Yi met for the first time
Wu Yi and the lean man who "bought" her all the way to the cemetery outside the city, Wu Yi cried as she walked, "Dad, my daughter is not filial, why did you leave like this!" Dad, fortunately, this big brother, you have to say two good words to the eldest brother in front of the Lord of Hades......."
The lean man pulled the cart in front, twisted his face and glanced at Wu Yi with a smile, and continued to pull the cart forward, the two strings of money dangling around his waist. Wu Yi saw that the grave circle was in front of him, and said to the thin man while holding the car, "Hey, big brother, where is my father's coffin?" ”
"Ahead, the coffin is sent to the pipe, just go directly to the burial." The lean man kept walking, burying his head in pulling the cart.
"Then I have to give my father a good burial, incense on the pillar or something!"
"Don't worry, our father will be able to bury him well, there are tombstones, and there is no problem with incense on the pillar."
Wu Yi saw that he was about to go to the grave circle, and if he didn't use his hands, the money would return to the coffin shop. Wu Yi looked around, but there was no one, "oops" and faked loading to the ground, and the thin man hurriedly parked the car and came over to check, "What's wrong?" ”
"I'm broken." Wu Yi cried, pitifully covering her ankles, "Oops, it's all swollen." ”
The man was just about to squat on the ground to check, Wu Yi saw a handful of loess and threw it over, the man suddenly couldn't open his eyes, Wu Yi pulled off the money string around the man's waist with a cat, turned behind the man and kicked him hard. The lean man fell and ate, and finally stood up, his eyes were covered by the loess, and when the man barely opened his eyes, Wu Yi had already disappeared, and then looked at the "corpse" in the car and stomped his feet and scolded, "A thousand cuts!" Took a straw and cheated me out of two strings of money! ”
Wu Yi ran all the way back to the city, and saw from a distance that the government officials were about to close the door, so he ran two steps, "Wait a while, wait a while." Wu Yi carried two strings of money and came to the master with a smile, "Master, I came to redeem my father, it was Li Laosi who was arrested because of the curfew last night." ”
The master glanced at Wu Yi with slanted eyes, and pointed with his chin, "Over there." ”
"Oh, well, thank you, sir."
Wu Yi carried the money, and the face of the account room was not raised, "Two taels of silver." ”
Wu Yi felt really lucky, "Here you go." Two strings of copper coins clattered and placed on the table.
"And there's more."
"Isn't it two-two? It's all here. ”
"Hey, you've come to the yamen! A thousand copper plates are only one tael of silver, look at you, how can five hundred copper plates be used as a tael of silver? ”
"You don't even count ......"
"Do I still need to count?" Mr. Bookkeeper stood up excitedly, pointed to his nose with his finger, and said in a Shaoxing dialect, "Don't talk about the copper plate of two taels of silver, it is the copper plate of two taels of gold, I know that it is a lot less at a glance!" ”
Wu Yi smiled awkwardly, "Can I discuss with you......
"Can't!" The bookkeeper was categorical, and sat on a chair again.
"Well, it's all my fault, if it weren't for the doctor, my dad wouldn't have been able to go out at night, woo woo...... Daddy, my daughter is not filial! ”
The bookkeeper raised his eyelids, he had seen a lot of this kind of person, and waved his hand to call two officials, one of whom threw Wu Yi out of the palace, "Hey, my money!" As he was shouting, the door of the government had been closed with a bang.
"I ......" Wu Yi wanted to slam the door, but she was afraid that she would also go in, so she gestured twice in the air and sat on the ground with one butt.
Zhou Qi and his entourage hurried all the way, stayed at the inn, and the guards who went to send the letter separately also followed the large army, and reported the strange things behind him to He Ping. Zhou Qi was not surprised when he heard it, he just drank tea slowly, Wan Ting knew that it was still very close to the capital, so she naturally obeyed her brother's arrangement in everything, and sat on the side to observe the words.
"Tomorrow we will continue on our way, you take a team of people to escort the princess to the east, I will take a team of people to continue to the south, you find someone who is about the same size as me to exchange clothes with me."
The next day, Zhou Qi counted the number of people, did not change clothes with people, and followed He Ping to escort Huanting to the east, and the chain took people all the way to the south. When encountering a fork in the road, the two pairs of people were divided into four teams and walked in four different directions, and when they encountered a fork in the road, they continued to divide into eight teams, and went around and around to gather at the place where they started that day.
When everyone gathered, Zhou Qi and He Ping were gone. According to the agreement, the chain stayed in the inn for three days, and the people who followed knew that their whereabouts were exposed, so they had to return to Beijing to resume their lives.
Prime Minister Xu Cheng was not angry when he heard this, he felt that Zhou Qi was a bit of a prince like this, the dragon needs the sea to be the dragon, and the sky is high and the sea needs some experience to transform.
Huizhou City, so the officials and gentry all know that the new champion is going to come here to serve as the prefect, and everyone is talking, not only because the grandfather of the champion has just turned eighteen years old, but also because the emperor has promoted him super-qualified: according to the rules of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the champion is basically awarded the post of Hanlin Academy's cooking, not only has no power to serve as a civil servant, but also is only an official from the sixth grade, and the prefect is not only in charge of the affairs of the government, but also has great power, but also a serious from the fourth grade, and the two-level official road is enough for many people to go for a lifetime.
"Dad, we didn't have anything to do with the government, why did you want us all to meet us this time?"
"This lord is extraordinary, Lord Qin is also from the imperial examination, it took more than ten years to reach the prefect's position, and he has been in the prefect's position for more than six years, which is quite fast. However, the newcomer Lord Zhou, who had just won the top prize in the examination, came to be the prefect, and they all said that Lord Qin could be promoted in order to make room for Lord Zhou, so Lord Tongzhi naturally attached great importance to it and asked all the people with a face to greet him. ”
"Dad, we don't understand the things in the officialdom, even if we don't go, it's nothing! We do our duty to do business, and we don't want to get too close to the government. ”
"Yesterday, the government detained six batches of our goods, and without saying any reason, I found someone to inquire only to find out that Lord Tongzhi was afraid that we would not go, so he made this decision, not only us, but also every family."
"How can this be! Daddy......"
"Okay, I'll just go for a trip, but greet it, eat and come back, the goods are important. By the way, you go to the warehouse and ask them to send the goods again, although it may be a day late, it is better than waiting for the government to release it, your Uncle Zhang's side, should not turn his face with us because he is a day late, you go and explain it to your Uncle Zhang in person. ”
"Good"
The father and son who spoke were Qian Wanquan, the biggest rich man in Huizhou City, and his son Qian Ning...... Although it is not close to the government, the court worship of tea falls on the Qian family every year. Even local officials have more or less given the Qian family some face. Today's Tongzhi Lord Yu Nian originally thought that the position of the prefect was his, and suddenly parachuted in to think that the champion master had become his top boss, and he was a little lost in his heart, but after all, the sea was up and down, and Yu Nian quickly cheered up to show off in front of the new boss, and this welcoming ceremony was naturally grand and lively, so he didn't care about the face of his subordinates and gentry.
The officials in Huizhou were busy welcoming the new prefect, but the lord in the hall looked at Wu Yi and Li Laosi crying and laughing.
"Lord Qingtian, the little girl was born with a dead mother, and it was not easy to live so long with her father, who knew that she suddenly fell ill, and her father took the risk to ask for a doctor, my lord, if you want to catch me, please!" The two knelt in the hall and hugged their heads and cried, "Dad, my daughter is not filial!" Mother, open your eyes and look at us, my lord, have pity on our father and daughter! ”
The county magistrate was shocked, and the hall instantly fell silent, "Li Laosi, curfew is the law of the country, although you are pitiful, but if this official indulges you today, how will you manage the people in the future?" Since your daughter paid you a fine of one or two silver, she should have beaten you with ten boards, but now she will beat you with five boards. The county magistrate was just about to shoot the shocking wood, Wu Yi shouted, "Wait a while!" ”
"Wu Yi, the official has already given a light sentence, what else do you want?"
"Sir, a tael of silver is worth five boards? Then can you give me back my one or two pieces of silver, my father can afford to hold ten boards. ”
"Hey, Wu Yi, you...... Is there such a cheating father as you? ”
"Dad, you bear with me, it's over soon! A tael of silver! ”
"Presumptuous! How can you be allowed to bargain in the courts? The county magistrate slapped the startled wood, and the officials on both sides chopped up the water and fire sticks, and said in unison, "Mighty!" ”
Li Laosi was beaten five boards, limping and being supported by Wu Yi, "Okay, I can see that this money is your father at the critical moment!" ”
"Aren't I here to save you, it's good to come and hand over a tael of silver!"
"Hey, let's go back to that casino again, we must win it back this time!"
"Still going? Get caught in again and hit ten more boards? Wu Yi slapped Li Laosi's ass with one hand, "It doesn't hurt you!" ”
"Oh, you're really! How can I have a daughter like you! ”
The father and daughter were walking forward, a thin man blocked the way, it turned out that the man finally found someone to write a letter to sue, and happened to meet Wu Yi, "Okay, you and your Lao Tzu are here, and the money is deceived to Lao Tzu's head!" Let's go, follow me to the officer. The thin man came up and was about to grab Wu Yi's arm, and the three of them pulled and pulled and scuffled together.
Wu Yi saw two horses coming over with his peripheral vision, shook off the lean man's hand, and held the horse's leg without letting go, "Childe, childe, save the little girl!" ”
He Ping saw a woman rushing out, pulled Zhou Qi and didn't let go, almost pulled out the knife, sat on the horse and shouted, "What are you doing!" Don't stop it all! ”
This sonorous sound calmed down the three of them, Wu Yi pounced and knelt in front of the horse, "Master, this person wants to forcibly occupy the little girl, my father is sick, so he got ill intentions and said that he wanted to buy the little girl, my father didn't agree, he beat us!" Help, sir! ”
Zhou Qi was originally sitting on the back of the horse, but seeing that the woman was so frightened, she was already crying, one of the two men had yellow muscles and thin muscles, and her body and face were not clean, and she seemed to have been knocked to the ground, and the other man was swarthy, and he was still holding the man's collar hard, with a reasonable expression.
Zhou Qi turned over and dismounted, helped Wu Yi up, and said "let go" to the thin man, Zhou Qitian was noble, not angry and arrogant, the thin man really let go of his hand, his eyes flickered, "She, she took my silver." ”
Zhou Qi turned his head and glanced at Wu Yi, "How much does she owe you?" ”
"Two strings of copper coins!"
Zhou Qiyi asked He Ping to give it to him, Wu Yi saw that this person actually gave two taels of silver, and he was anxious, and he was afraid that it would be difficult for the thin man to say anything else about himself, so he had to hold back. The lean man got the money, so he naturally left happily, Li Laosi pretended to be sick, coughed twice, and collapsed to the ground at once.