Just a few days before the camp ushered in the Qincha, many of the chief officials of the government offices in the abdomen and various provinces were removed and detained in a resolute manner.

A few days ago.

Yidu City, after Linqu was defeated again, the large and small magistrates in the city's various official offices and offices obviously met with a lot less greetings and enthusiasm, and the pace of the various official offices in and out was also deliberately lightened, so as not to disturb the contemplation and mood of the boss.

On this day, in the tall and solemn courtyard of the Intelligence Division, a stout and burly man in a black shirt hurriedly turned out from the inside, and the two sergeants on duty at the door saw him, first carefully looked at his face, and then hurriedly greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Pan came out quickly this time, you are always red-faced, presumably it is the pride of this errand, but it is very bright in the adults! If you can afford it for a long time, let the little one follow you in the future, and you can lead the horse to beat your back and climb the high branches! ”

"What's so proud? It's just a snack for the imperial court! The man waved his hand with a big grin: "The two brothers are high here, where are they comparable to such rough people as I am running around?" However, when I go in and out in the future, I need to ask the two brothers to take care of it. ”

"Master Pan, this is a small one! Where can it be deserved? A younger disciple hurriedly flattered, "Who in this city now doesn't know that Pan Ye has gone deep into the tiger's den, entered Longtan alone, and captured the thief chief!" ”

This Pan Ye, Pan Guiye. On that day, the quarry and Huangpi were taken off, and he was later called into the intelligence department of the Yuan Army of Yidu Road, but in fact, he was only a peripheral personnel. Except for getting a salary, he is not named in the establishment. Because he was born as a domestic slave, even the doormen of the government office looked down on him. But this attack on Linqu Pan Gui can be regarded as a great achievement, and the other generals of the Yuan army who returned were either punished or reprimanded, but Pan Gui officially organized the Intelligence Department and promoted hundreds of households. At present, Pan Gui has become a member of Yanqilou's right-hand man. Yan Qilou's performance this time is outstanding, and he is one of the few Han army generals who have also made meritorious contributions to the first document, and the intelligence department attaches great importance to Yan Qilou, and even with Pan Gui's status, the tide is rising.

"This matter is all due to the boss's effective planning and command, and we are just at the right time. In fact, when it comes to qualifications and merits, what if Pan and your brothers? If the two brothers can go into battle in person, they will naturally be a hundred times stronger than Pan! Come on, Pan happened to have an ingot of broken silver here, and offered it to the two of them to add wine to eat. Pan Gui took out a silver ingot from his arms. Hands were offered and stuffed into the older man's curfew.

The man laughed so hard that his eyebrows almost squeezed his lower eyelids, and his two thin eyebrows shook like silkworms.

"Brother's hard money, how can my brother get it here!" Gently pushed it off, and saw Pan Guiqiang stuffing it into his hands, and this person no longer shirked.

"It's rare that the big guy is happy, today's duty, brother and we will go to Wanhualou to eat and drink! Let's not get drunk and go home! ”

Pan Guizuo said goodbye: "I still need to go to the palace tonight to run an errand for the little prince, I'm afraid it's too late, another day the brothers will be the east, please drink the two of you!" ”

"Since it is a royal matter, how dare you delay? Brother, please go and talk about it later! The two men parted ways, and sent out the gate for more than a dozen steps before they were happy.

Seeing Pan Gui's figure go away, the young Menzi couldn't help but sigh: "This guy is really good!" The guy who was not even as good as a watchdog at the beginning is now not only registered with the adult, but also has a relationship with the palace! We have to be accompanied by a smiling face! ”

The elder said, "Silence, be careful that he hears!" This feng shui takes turns, who knows which one will be next year! This guy is black-faced and ruthless, not good with goods, and be careful to accompany him. This ingot of silver is just right for the two of us to drink tonight. ”

Not to mention the chatter behind the backs of these two people, Pan Gui took a big step and went straight to the Lin family's mansion first.

The Lin family's mansion has a wide door, a nine-step white marble paves the steps of the main entrance, and there is a male stone lion with a height of nearly one zhang on both sides, male on the left and female on the right. The female lion has a delicate lion cub at her feet, and the male lion has a large stone hydrangea at her feet.

The big red pine plaque on the mansion is black lacquer and red letters, there are two gilded characters of "Lin Mansion", gold hook iron painting, Yixing flies horizontally, the end is the pen walking dragon snake, strong and powerful. Literate people say that this is the pen and ink of the Songxue Dao people.

In the past, Pan Gui entered the Lin Mansion by turning to the side gate at the corner of the main courtyard, but now that he has changed his identity, he can enter from the main entrance of the street in a dignified manner. However, as a former house slave, when he returned to the mansion of the original owner's family, Pan Gui still deliberately bowed down, bowed his head, and stepped in carefully on tiptoe under the guidance of Menzi.

The man already knew that this person had changed his court, entered the local official army intelligence department, and had the identity of an official family, which was completely different from the original subordinate, so he welcomed in with a smile.

Pan Gui entered the courtyard, then straightened his waist, put his hands behind his back, shyly raised his belly, and slowly followed the door through the courtyard without squinting, all the way to the side courtyard.

Lin Mansion covers a vast area, although it is not as good as Yiwang Mansion, it covers an area that is also in the forefront of Yidu City. In the meantime, the courtyard is deep, with rockeries and shadow walls. The middle is naturally the residence of Mrs. Lin, and the left and right side courtyards are the residences of several children and nephews or the closest family members of the clan.

Under the guidance of his subordinates, Pan Gui paced into the right side courtyard, which was the family garden of the Lin family, and the one on the left was the Lin family. Mrs. Lin naturally lives in the main house. Although he has many children, only these two sons have grown up, and most of the housework in the Lin Mansion is managed by San Lang's wife.

Lin Jiasanlang's body is weak, so Master Lin has long married him and is happy, hoping that his health will improve. This young son is familiar with poetry and books, if it weren't for his cowardly personality, eighty percent of the Lin family's inheritance would have been passed on to him.

The second child has a tough body, but unfortunately he is a gentleman, and he is idle all day long, and he is nostalgic for the Qinglou or the horse and the eagle dog, or hooks up and even occupies other people's wives and daughters. Although Master Lin doesn't attach much importance to these, the second son is so unprofessional, he is really not a person who can be entrusted with the family business. After repeated teachings, Master Lin also died a little. If it is said seriously, this evil animal even rolled his eyes and sneered at each other: The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and the crow should not say that the briquettes are black! Angry, Master Lin trembled. His own business was somewhat unright, and it was his own hard work to take over, and he didn't expect the retribution to come so quickly!

This son is not worried, and the young son's personality does not like to operate, because he is greedy for the third daughter-in-law, he has a relationship, and this is it

Pan Gui entered the courtyard, and the miscellaneous servants in his own courtyard greeted him. Seeing Pan Gui, the man laughed and said, "Listening to the birds in the tree in the morning, it turned out to be the scene of Lord Pan!" ”

Pan Gui laughed and scolded quietly: "It's all a family, why are there any adults?" No matter what I have to do outside, I am also a person in our house! I don't know if my aunt is okay? ”

"Brother Pan is here on a coincidence, Madame has already eaten, and she is reviewing the new gift list in the hall, but she seems to be a little disliked." This person gave Pan Gui eye medicine in advance.

"My aunt has always been the pillar of the house, but she is heartbroken inside and out. Now that the end of the year is approaching, I don't know what the harvest of the grange will be? Is this year's New Year's goods not as good as in previous years? ”

"Not really! In previous years, there was already a long queue to deliver New Year's goods to the house at this time, which time was not one hundred and eighty cars! But this year, it is said that the year is not good, and the homeless people and thieves from all over the country are making trouble, no, until today, the stewards and goods of the dozen or so granges below are only halfway there! ”

The aunt that Pan Gui called is the main room of Lin Sangongzi, and her maiden name is Fang, this Pan Gui doesn't know how to check in the genealogy of the clan, but he turned around and recognized his aunt, so he had the opportunity to become a steward of the quarry from a street gangster. In the future, every festival and birthday, Pan Gui will come to greet and pay respects.

This aunt was originally from a large family in Jiaozhou, Langya County, and her ancestors followed Yuan Shizu, and the counselor marched to Dali and Sichuan. The branches and leaves of the mother's family are vigorous, one of the bloodlines lives in the capital, there are relatives for one of the Shangshu of the Beijing Division, and there are several people in the Langzhong and Wailang of the clan, and there are more and more children and nephews who serve as the governors of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households. Although these official titles and positions are not high, they are mostly in charge of the treasurer, money and grain, and acres of land, and they are considered to have a lot of oil and water among the hundred officials of the Great Yuan. As for the family, it is thin.

When they arrived outside the hall, there were already a few stewards in green shirts, wrapped in fur fox fur coats, standing outside the porch with their hands down.

Pan Gui first asked the maid outside to inquire about her aunt's current mood, and the maid pursed her lips and whispered about the situation. Pan Gui didn't dare to invite her into the interior to tell her immediately, so he first stood under the eaves and waited.

A few waiting stewards raised their eyes and saw Pan Gui in civilian clothes, all of them ignored, this slave relied on the consent of the housekeeper in the house, and made a lot of trouble in the quarry, I heard that in the past few years, there have been a lot of deaths and coolies, a few days ago it was rumored that the Linqu thief can become bigger, this guy has helped a lot.

A few people have not been waiting in the local area for a long time, and they don't know that Pan Gui is already a hundred households in the Han army, and they have no intention of taking care of it. The words of the housewife in the hall were faintly coming now, and several people listened with fear, secretly wondering how to answer correctly when they asked.

"Ten big deer, ten roe deer, six wild boars, twenty wild sheep, twenty green sheep, twenty family style sheep, one hundred catties of live miscellaneous fish, one hundred live chickens, ducks, and geese, thirty catties of sea cucumbers, fifty cow tongues, four pairs of bear paws, eight fox skins and wolf skins, two pockets of hazel, pine, peach, and apricot, four hundred catties of silver frost charcoal, one thousand catties of charcoal, and two carts of dried vegetables. 850 quintals of wheat and rice. The village also dedicates six pairs of live golden chickens, six pairs of wild geese, one pair of white swans, and two pairs of mandarin ducks. ”

In the hall, a maid was slowly reading the prayers and accounts, and her crisp voice was faintly transmitted outside the hall.

"How is this year's harvest so thin, it is not as good as the first two Zhuangzi!" A female voice said displeased.

"Mrs., there was a hail in the middle of summer this year, and the rice and wheat in the small village were not lightly affected, but fortunately, the wild things in the mountains and forests were not harmed by hail, and after the beginning of autumn, they began to hunt tigers into the mountains, and then they caught some wild things."

"But this wild thing is also three or four percent less than in previous years!"

"Madame has a good memory! This year, there are many hungry people, and there are many people who go into the mountains to poach without permission, although the village sent a strong man to patrol day and night, and then reported to the government, but it detained dozens of people who did not open their eyes, but our family has a vast mountain forest, it is really unbearable, and in the end it was frightened away by these small people. The small official messenger clearly tied up a dozen people who refused to listen to persuasion on the road, and showed them to the public for six or seven days, and also hoped that four or five were stuffed in the prison, so that these gangsters were somewhat restrained. ”

"It's just a matter of showing the public, I heard that you have tied people up for a long time, and two of them died on the road, and the bitter lord reported to the government and shouted grievances, the lord is busy with official business here, how can you manage this? It's not that I relied on the news from my family to lose money to those sufferers! My Lin family has always passed down the book and benefited the neighbors, wouldn't this kind of thing smear the face of the Lin Mansion? ”

"Madame's lesson is that they are all small and confused, and they are not doing their jobs effectively, which has caused trouble to Master Lin and Mrs. Lin, if it weren't for the fact that there is a lady in charge of the courtyard, how could the Lin Mansion have today's harmony and happiness?"

The steward of the announcement inside seemed to pause, and then said: "The guys below are counting on the approach of this year, and they are usually grateful for Madame's teachings and care. ”

"You've got a heart!" Madame's voice was steady, "That's the case, Lian'er, and take it." ”

Pan Gui and the others quietly listened to the narration inside, and had been waiting outside. Finally, a young maid came out and said with a smile: "Madame still has some things to tell the owner of the Liu Village, I'm afraid the time will not be short, knowing that the brother of the Pan family is waiting outside, I am afraid that I will delay the official affairs of the brother of the Pan family. If the elder brother of the Pan family has something, please leave a message for the little maid for the time being, and it is good to return to Mrs. ”

Several stewards couldn't help but be surprised when they saw that the little maid specially received Pan Gui, looked at each other, thanked them, and went back to the guest room to rest.

Pan Gui said with a smile: "I don't dare to drive this sister, I'm a rough person, where do I dare to disturb my aunt if there is any big thing, but I just came to say hello." There are a few fresh ornaments here, which were rewarded by the official family a few days ago, and I thought about the hard work of several sisters who served their aunts every day, and specially bought them in Ruibao Building, and asked my sister to smile! ”

The maid pushed it a few times and didn't accept it, and Pan Guiqiang stuffed it into her hand: "It's just a few things, as long as my sister is happy, it's my merit!" ”

Then he took out a piece of paper in his arms and handed it to the maid: "Now the world is not quiet, and the harvest of the grange is not as good as in previous years. No, I specially asked around about any profitable business, wrote some goods on this paper, and bothered my sister to hand it to me when my aunt was free. ”

The maid smiled lightly and accepted: "Brother Pan has a heart, unlike those principals in the village, every time they come, they just report worries and do not report good news, which only annoys Mrs. ”

Pan Gui then said goodbye.

The maid was able to come out to speak, presumably the maid Lian'er saw Pan Gui under the eaves of the outdoor porch, and specially passed the message to the aunt.