Yangzhou is rich, and the official yamen is naturally much more comfortable than the poor and remote places, but I didn't expect the sudden visit of the Marquis of Zhongyi, who was so frightened that the chief official was tripped over the threshold when he greeted him, and knelt on his knees, and the whole person lay at Ling Xiao's feet impartially, looking like kneeling and bowing, but begging for red envelopes during the New Year.

Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows condescendingly, and crossed the threshold with his hands in his hands.

No one knows what this Buddha is for, and no one dares to ask.

Ling Xiao gave what he wanted, he didn't dare to slack off if he didn't mention it, and even the tea was bought the most expensive and rebrewed.

From noon to afternoon, the entire yamen put down everything and only revolved around Ling Xiao.

Until Ling Xiao left, the chief officer didn't let go of his breath, and quickly took the arrest document and asked, "My lord, are you really arrested?" “

The chief officer looked at the name of the person on the official document, and his temples suddenly hurt: "Catch it, make it clear to Yun Yushi, it is the Marquis of Zhongyi who personally interrogated." “

When the gate of Yunfu was knocked open, the cowhide lantern of the hanging flower gate had just been lit.

Yun Xiu woke up in the dim ancestral hall, woke up, got tired from lying on the futon, dragged a Taishi chair, and continued to sleep on the chair.

When the door lock is opened. When she opened her eyes in a daze, she saw Yun Zimo lying on another chair and snoring.

The visitor didn't say much, asked the name to confirm that it was correct, took Yun Xiu out, went out of the house from the nearest north gate, stuffed it into the carriage, and then returned to the yamen, the whole process took less than half an hour.

Yun Xiu completely woke up, not because of where he was, but because he said "Master Hou", and the two met again.

"You go down first, I have something to ask alone." Ling Xiao took the chief officer and the official and sat opposite Yun Xiu. looked at her with a half-smile without smiling, "Why don't you put medicine on your knee first, so as not to say that I am unkind." “

"No, you don't." Yun Xiu refused, looked around and asked vigilantly, "Where is this?" “

"Yamen," Ling Xiao pulled out a case file from the bamboo tube, spread it on the table, and said as he looked at it, "I rescued you from the ancestral hall without even saying thank you." “

"Can the yamen be compared with your own ancestral hall?" Yun Xiu thought that Hou Yi was stupid, "Hou Ye is really worthy of a trip to Yangzhou." “

"You think I've eaten too much salt and I'm in a panic." Ling Xiao understood her sarcasm and said. "It's not Chun Tao crying and begging me, who kneels to death to do my."

Yun Xiu didn't overdo it, sneered, he was too lazy to fight and didn't have the strength to fight, he was hungry for a day, kneeling for a day, and his kneecap would regain consciousness, as if he was rolling back and forth over the nail board, and the stinging pain was densely covered, and he gasped in pain.

She saw that Ling Xiao was concentrating on reading the case file, so she lay on the desk to rest.

When Ling Xiao found out that something was wrong, she stepped forward to call her, but one of her arms slipped weakly, and she fell to her side and shook it lightly.

Yun Xiu didn't know if she fainted or fell asleep, in fact, when Ling Xiao hugged her, she knew that it had become the only memory after waking up.

There was an oil lamp lit in the room, proving that it was still night, Ling Xiao's figure went from blurry to clear, Yun Xiu struggled to prop up half of his body, and called out to Hou Ye in vain.

"Awake?"

Ling Xiao turned his head to look at her, and asked someone to bring steaming chicken noodle soup, milky white noodles with yellow and clear noodle soup, a few emerald green cabbage hearts as decorations, and a scorched yellow soft-hearted egg in the middle, which made me have a great appetite when I looked at it.

Yun Xiu swallowed his saliva silently, and when he wanted to get up, he found that both knees were covered with medicine.

Ling Xiao had never served anyone, and he didn't want the servants to get too close to Yun Xiu, so he could only personally move a low table and put it on the bed, and then come over.

At that moment, Yun Xiu suddenly felt that Zhongyi Hou was not so annoying.

"What do you see, eat." Ling Xiao was uncomfortable with her, and pretended to be casual and diverted the topic, "The doctor has come to see, the skin trauma is almost enough to apply medicine for two days, the main body is weak, I think it is too, too thin, there is no meat in the arms, and the bones are diaphragm." “

The mustard that was originally put down was beaten away by the last two sentences.

Yun Xiu lowered her head to eat noodles without saying a word, and did not say thank you until she chewed and ate slowly, put down her chopsticks, and said thank you.

Regardless of whether this thank you is out of tutoring etiquette or genuinely moving, Ling Xiao is comfortable to listen to: "If you want to feel uncomfortable, push the short table aside, and then sleep." “

"It's okay, wake up." Yun Xiu had a bowl of noodles in his stomach, he was born in a hot sweat, and he was in a lot of spirits, he looked around the room and asked, "Master Hou, are we in the inn?" “

"No," Ling Xiao raised his gaze, "This is the guest room for the yamen to receive foreign officials, borrow it for a few days, and then send you back when the case is clear." “

"Master Hou, the little girl is innocent." Yun Xiu couldn't think of anything to do with the case, "Is it a mistake?" “

Ling Xiao threw the finished file on the low table: "How many heads in the yamen dare to offend your Yun family?" If you don't have any evidence, the Cloud Cave won't let you out easily. “

Yun Xiu should have thought of this a long time ago: "My father knows that the Hou Ye came to me? “

"You look at the case first." Ling Xiao felt that if he continued to talk about it, that bit of heroic thinking was going to go, and coughed lightly, "Tomorrow, when the chief officer asks what to say and what not to say, you know in your heart." “

"Master Hou, are you saving the little girl, or are you pushing me into another fire pit?" Yun Xiu thought of Bo Gongtang, "Do you want me to become the biggest laughing stock in Yangzhou City?" “

"A laughing stock?" Ling Xiao asked rhetorically, "You don't become a laughing stock, do you want me to be a laughing stock?" “

As he spoke, he put down Erlang's leg and faced Yun Xiu: "Not to mention the of selling girls, I wonder, who sent the lost medicine bottle?" There are more big families in Beijing than in Yangzhou, who doesn't have any dirty things, your family is not small, take me as a gun, and live for a long time? “

Ling Xiao's words, Yun Xiu was speechless.

She has the answer in her heart, but in the face of the outside world, even if the house is full of camps and chickens and dogs are restless, she has to whitewash the peace, and she can only look at glory and brilliance.

"Master Hou, did my grandmother send someone to find me?" Yun Xiu didn't know what method Zhongyi Hou used to suppress his father, but the old lady was different.

"Didn't come," Ling Xiao said, "Eighty percent didn't know you were in the Yamen." “

Yun Xiu pleaded: "Can you allow me to go back and explain to my grandmother in person, the matter has come to this point, and I am also responsible, I shouldn't let Chun Tao trouble Master Hou." “

Ling Xiao didn't speak. But as you can see from the expression, it can't be good.

She had just recovered her spirits, her brain was empty, and she couldn't think of a better way, the only thing fortunately was that no matter whether Zhongyi Hou took a fancy to her appearance or had other ideas, he didn't spill his anger on her head alone.

??

Outside, the rooster crowed for the third time, the sky was white, and the lights in Ding Meisheng's house were on all night.

Cloud Cave sat down in a chair, listened to the cry coming from the back room, and shouted, "Look what you have taught! It's not honest to be sick! The tiger plucked the feathers on his mouth, and wanted to pull the entire Yun family to accompany the funeral! “

Ding Meisheng covered her beaten face, crawled to his feet, and begged: "Shu'er is just a child's heart, just competing for favor, if the old lady looks at her a few more times on weekdays, she won't be thinking about the side, why should the old man be so angry." “

"What do you mean, but mother?" Yun Zhidong laughed angrily, kicked her down, and made up a few kicks in anger, "The old lady doesn't favor you!" “

Ding Meisheng was beaten and rolled on the ground, wailing constantly, and the mother-in-law didn't dare to dissuade her when she heard it outside, for fear that a fire would accidentally burn on her head.

"You're all deaf, it's good to take your life!" Fang's mother came over to pass the word, and when she heard the sound of smashing in the house, she couldn't help frowning, and asked the two mothers-in-law to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Ding Meisheng rushed out, hugging Fang's mother's leg and shouting for help.

Yun Zhidong came out angrily, and when he saw that it was Fang's mother, he suppressed it in one breath and called his mother-in-law: "Lock Aunt Ding in the ancestral hall, twenty family laws, think about it!" “

"Mother Fang! Fang's mother save me! Please Mother save me! Ding Meisheng's shrill screams echoed in the verandah, and people's scalps tingled when they heard it.

Yun Zhidong was not angry, and asked bluntly: "But what does my mother know?" “

Fang's mother said respectfully: "The old lady woke up and sent someone to the ancestral hall to find someone." Didn't find it. “

Cloud Cave sighed resignedly: "I'll go and explain to my mother now." “

"What else do you have to explain!" The old lady smashed the porridge on the table on the ground and scolded, "Is there a father like you in the world?" You yourself touched your conscience and said, are you jealous or stammering according to Zhongyihou?! “

Yun Zhidong didn't dare to move, and his face was sad: "Mother, son is also a last resort. “

"As a last resort? You've got a lot of things to do in your life. The old lady counted, "When the second girl married the Dingguo Mansion, you said that Yangzhou Yandao is fat, how many people are staring, for a salt patrol history, I am reluctant to give up, and then said to leave the eight girls by my side to support the elderly, I am not confused, you will take your daughter to offer treasure, and there is half a sense of shame for scholars?" “

"No, Mother is serious." The caves of the clouds are all big, "Tiger poison does not eat children, how can your children not feel distressed." “

"Do you feel sorry for her? Don't think I don't know why you punished her," the old lady's face was not colored, "she shouldn't have confronted you, but was she wrong?" A trivial matter, you just listen to an aunt's instigation, why don't you come and ask me?! “

The cloud cave is Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror, not a person inside and out: "My son has already punished Ding Meisheng." “

"She deserved to be killed!" The old lady blushed with anger, "In short, no matter what method you use to bring people back today, how can she, an innocent girl, go to the pickled dirty land of the Yamen." Do you want to spread my old face! “

"Mother, Mother, you are angry." Yun Zhidong gave Fang's mother a look and took away all the subordinates, "My son is really a last resort. “

The old lady snorted heavily.

"Mother, the eighth girl has been wronged, but if she doesn't go, she will completely offend Zhongyi Hou." Yun Zhidong knelt down to prove his innocence, "Ding Meisheng confessed last night, and the girl who secretly ran away to spread the word was also tied up and thrown into the firewood room to wait for you to leave, but you know the body of the seventh girl, the doctor said that she can live more than twenty to count her longevity, and I can't hand her over." “

The old lady didn't follow: "On weekdays, you are in the house to call the wind and rain, I should not be able to see it, only the eighth girl, I want to see her today, I want it today, you can't do it, I will die in the house tomorrow, don't talk about you, the second girl has to come back, no one should think about it!" “

The second girl inherited the old lady's pungency, who made her unhappy, she could poke a hole in the sky.

The cave of clouds got up, wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead, and sighed twice, there was an illusion that a woman in the house was going to force him to death.

In fact, last night the Yamen came to pick up people, and the entourage of Zhongyi Hou also came, and told him that the area around Yanmen Pass was not peaceful after the beginning of spring, and the Privy Council urgently needed to allocate a batch of grain and grass to the past, and the salt roads were prepared in advance.

To put it bluntly, there is a war at the border gates, the treasury needs money, and the salt tax on each salt road is the big one, and the designated tax money cannot be taken out, and the official transportation is also over.

He has been in office for three years in the history of the salt patrol, and he has just tasted the sweetness, and he does not seek to rise step by step, but to seek wealth and undefeated.

No matter whether Zhongyi Hou leaked the news in the open, put pressure in the dark, or approached the eight girls in a different way, Yun Zhidong couldn't joke about his future, nor could he tell anyone about the important affairs of the military plane, including the old lady.

***

No one can change what the old lady decides.

Yun Zhidong didn't come forward, so he asked Yun Zimo and Yun Yan to go to the yamen to deliver lunch.

"I thought they scared me to death by putting you in a cell." Yun Zimo saw that the guest room was well furnished, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Otherwise, our meal will really become a prison meal." “

"Bah, third brother, don't talk nonsense." Yun Yan cleaned up the low table, and laid out the meals in the food box one by one, "It's all the taste that the eighth sister likes to eat." “

Yun Zimo walked around the house, "Eighth sister, why didn't you see Master Hou, he didn't eat lunch?" “

"Third brother, Hou Ye has a place for Hou Ye to go, you are in charge of the family," Yun Yan settled her family affairs, and spoke a little more hard, "Besides, the eighth sister is a girl's family, is it like talking to eat at the same table with other men for no reason." “

"The sixth sister is right." Yun Zimo laughed twice and slowly walked out of the door, "I have also been to the yamen, go around." “

Yun Yan was afraid of getting into trouble, so she chased out and admonished, "Third brother, don't go far." “

Then I looked back and saw Yun Xiu laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Yun Yan sat aside and checked her knees, "You don't know, there is chaos in the house today, my father was scolded by my grandmother, and I saw my father take a detour." “

Yun Xiu ate deliciously: "So this meal was sent by your father to you?" “

"Yes, I also said that I would take you back in the afternoon," Yun Yan hesitated, leaned in and whispered, "Now it is rumored that Marquis Zhongyi is interested in you, you and him?" “

Yun Xiu cleverly avoided: "It's not up to me to make the decision about male marriage and female hiring, everything is up to my grandmother." “

Another topic: "Grandmother lost her temper, is it okay?" “

"Grandmother is fine, but Aunt Ding." Yun Yan felt relieved when she thought about it, "She was beaten by her father, and she was fined twenty family laws, and when she brought it back, she snorted in pain, and the seventh sister didn't listen to the persuasion and had to go to see her, but she didn't catch her breath and fainted directly in the house." “

Yun Xiu: "Grandmother should be hearted again." “

Yun Yan sighed: "No, I looked for two doctors from the Ye family to come to see her, administered needles, and bloodletting, and worked until noon, just in time for my father to come back to see her. “

Yun Xiu asked, "Does grandmother know?" “

Yun Yan shook her head: "When can you hide the big and small things in the house from your grandmother, the seventh sister is not right this time, but she is very pitiful, don't worry about her when you go back, if you don't like it, the Ye family doctor is not optimistic about her." “

Yun Xiu couldn't refute this, Yun Shu didn't live long in her previous life, and it was precisely because she knew that she didn't break it in front of Zhongyi Hou, and even silently endured his anger.

"You can go back in the afternoon." Yun Yan didn't want to talk about too heavy topics, "Do you want to say hello to Master Hou, grandmother won't see you again today, I'm afraid I will alarm the second sister." “

"I'm not missing arms or legs, what's the matter," Yun Xiu couldn't cry or laugh, "I'll talk to Zhongyi Hou later, you put away the dishes and chopsticks, and wait for me in the carriage with the third brother." “

??

When Ling Xiao came to see her again, it was almost the end of noon.

Yun Xiu could stand on the ground with his legs: "Master Hou, can you let me go back today to change my clothes and come back tomorrow?" “

Ling Xiao squinted and looked at it for a moment, "No." “

"Grandmother is in a hurry." Yun Xiu said honestly, "I also said that if I don't go back today, I will write to the second sister to come back, and I estimate that the second brother-in-law will also come back." Hou Ye is not in a hurry to return to Beijing, and it is not bad to have a small gathering with his brother-in-law in Yangzhou. “

Ling Xiao immediately changed his words: "After reading the case file, I will let you go back." “

"Okay." Yun Xiu agreed with a smile, and sure enough, the second sister was scared.

To say that the case is related to her, one is Daming Temple, and the other is??

"Master Hou, is the chief officer mistaken?" Yun Xiu felt strange, "How can that child with eye disease be an eyewitness, not to mention that he is still young." “

"I've asked about this, and I'm not mistaken." Ling Xiao said, "You don't have to look too carefully, tomorrow the chief official will interrogate you as you tell the truth, just go through the motions." “

"Master Hou, that's not right." Yun Xiu reacted, "That kid didn't only see me, you also saw it." Why don't I have to ask you? “

Ling Xiao sighed: "Because a monk saw us together, and then you left with the child yourself, the problem is here." “

We were together, and then you went away with the child yourself - how awkward it sounded.

Yun Xiu glanced at him speechlessly, simply pretended not to understand, and hurried to read the rest of the case file.

"The prisoner was caught?" After reading it, she asked.

Ling Xiao: "The yamen said that a few suspects were arrested, but the kid couldn't recognize it, the case became an unsolved case, and the person was locked up in the dungeon, and it is estimated that he would have to be locked up for a while." “

Yun Xiu was even more confused: "Since you have already made a conclusion, what are you looking for me to do?" “

"Girl, this is a murder. It is right for the yamen to be cautious. Ling Xiao tapped his index finger on the table and said in disgust, "Come on, you go back quickly and ask less layman's words." “

"Master Hou, you should tell the eighth girl about this trick to save Zhao," the entourage sent away the Yunfu carriage, returned to Ling Xiao's side and said, "Is the case of Daming Temple still investigated?" The Privy Council sent a second letter in an urgent 800 miles, asking the Hou Ye to handle the tax and silver affairs in Yangzhou. “

Ling Xiao stretched out his hand: "Letter? “

The attendant hurriedly took it out of his arms and handed it over with both hands.

It's not that complicated, Yandao is responsible for paying the money, and Ling Xiao supervises the inventory on behalf of the Privy Council.

Yun Xiu probably didn't expect her to enter the mansion with her front foot. After a cup of tea, Zhongyi Hou came to visit again, this time it was indeed a business matter, and he brought back the spring peach by the way.

The old lady saw that Yun Xiu was intact, and the Chun Tao protector had merit, and the merits and demerits were offset by each other, plus everyone pleaded for mercy, so she gave her another chance.

Chun Tao kowtowed again and again, grateful.

"Girl, in fact, Master Hou is a good person." After going back, Chun Tao's impression of Zhongyi Hou changed, "I just don't understand the minds of girls." “

Yun Xiu glanced at her: "You eat his rice for a few days, and the wind direction changes?" “

Chun Tao giggled, leaned closer and said: "My good girl, when did the slave maid deceive you, this time it wasn't for the Hou Ye to help, the slave maid really wants to sleep on the street, and she will never see the girl again." “

"Alright, alright." Yun Xiu understood in his heart, "You will go to the warehouse with me to choose two pieces of soft cowhide." “

Although the soft cowhide is light and thin, it is a leather goods in the end, Yun Xiu took it back to the house and found that the general needle and thread are not easy to pierce, she saw that it was still early outside, and decided to take Chun Tao to the tailor shop.

Chun Tao saw through it and didn't say it, Xizizi wrapped the soft skin, and called the carriage waiting at the weeping flower gate.

Ling Xiao came out of Yunfu and happened to see the rear of the car.

The entourage led the horse over and looked at it: "Master Hou, the girl with the car seems to be a spring peach." “

Ling Xiao sighed, stepped on the horse, and pointed in a random direction: "You go back first, I'll go around casually." “

Attendant: "??"

clearly wants to follow the eight girls, but it is in the way of face.

Ling Xiao really wanted to follow, she didn't have any dirty thoughts, she just wanted to see what she was doing when she went out in the afternoon.

Yun Xiu got out of the carriage and walked into a tailor shop, and he also dismounted and followed.

Xiao Er was very enthusiastic to introduce the new silk to Yun Xiu, talking and laughing, and Ling Xiao's forehead was bruised.

"I'll let you go home. It's not for you to hang out. He walked behind her and stared at Xiao Er with cold eyebrows, looking like a robber.

Xiao Er looked at Yun Xiu and then at Ling Xiao, and retreated to the side with great eyesight.

"Master Hou, the girl is not picking up material for herself." Chun Tao hurriedly explained, "We want to make a bracer, it's not big, ask the tailor." “

As she spoke, she opened the soft leather and spread it out on the counter.

Ling Xiao touched it: "The skin is a good skin." “

Yun Xiu asked him, "Does Master Hou like it?" “

"Okay."

"Just these two skins." Yun Xiu called the tailor and pointed at Ling Xiao, "Make double bracers for this master, you only make the leather part." I sew the cloth myself. “

"You're going to do it for me?" Ling Xiao was stunned.

Yun Xiu carefully noted down the size: "Well, do you want it?" “

Ling Xiao smiled and posed: "You can accept it." “

Chun Tao covered her mouth and smiled, and quietly retreated outside the store.

Ling Xiao was speechless: "Is it so fragrant on your head, or is it fragrant with pomelo flowers?" “

"Don't get so close." Yun Xiu pushed the other party's arm with his elbow, "This is not Daming Temple, the streets are full of eyes." “

"You give bracers, do you care what others think?" Ling Xiao was unmoved, "Only family members in the army can send personal ones, do you understand?" “

"How can Master Hou be compared with ordinary people." Yun Xiu pushed him again, "I'm afraid that the girls who will send small personal pieces to Master Hou in the capital are lined up." “

"Yes, there are, just one or two, not in a row." Ling Xiao was ashamed, "But in Yangzhou, you're the only one." “

"The little girl has honor." Yun Xiu smiled, touched a needle out of nowhere, and pricked him silently.

"Sneak up on me?" Ling Xiao rubbed the punctured place back and forth, stretched out his hand to grab Yun Xiu, and was pierced again.

"Shhhh

"You!" When he came back to his senses and looked up, the Yunfu carriage at the door was gone.

??

Chun Tao looked at her nose and nose in the carriage and found out: "Girl, is it that the Hou Ye gave the candy, and the mood is so good." “

Yun Xiu nodded and admitted: "The mood is good, but it's not sugar." “

Chun Tao guessed: "Did Master Hou tell a joke?" “

"No, neither." Yun Xiu smiled and said, "I thought he wasn't afraid of pain, so he was pricked twice." “

Chun Tao was so frightened that she sweated out: "Girl, you still have to meet with Hou Ye tomorrow, what if he scolds Huai again?" “

"Prick it again," Yun Xiu looked at her calmly, "Hide the needle in the bracer, sooner or later he will have to leave, what are you afraid of." “

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