Piaoxiang Teahouse, Liu Changfeng kept raising his body, his eyes looked at the entrance of the stairs, the tea was washed three times, and he didn't see Steward Zhou coming, which made him very anxious.

"Steward Zhou, as the chief housekeeper of Jiading Bofu, has to manage the affairs of the entire house, the father-in-law's family has a big business, there are hundreds of maids and servants in the house alone, and there are countless industries inside and outside Beijing, so naturally the daily affairs are very complicated. Lord Liu was calm and waited for a while. Ma Pole grinned and soothed.

Liu Changfeng nodded, smiled reluctantly, and finally settled down and talked with the hemp pole.

After a long while, Ma Zhu's eyes lit up, and he said in a low voice: "Steward Zhou is here!" With that, he quickly stood up.

Liu Changfeng also hurriedly stood up, turned his head to look, and saw a short, handsomely dressed man walking up the stairs to the second floor.

Wearing a quadrangular hat, wearing a dark green brocade robe, a wide belt with gold trim on the fat belly, a jade pendant hanging all over the waist, and the turquoise wrench on the thumb highlights the essence of the nouveau riche.

The person who came was naturally Wu Liang, who was pretending to be the housekeeper of Jiading Bofu! The real Steward Zhou, who is dressed in a completely imitative manner, even his figure is very similar to Steward Zhou.

In the face of Liu Changfeng's salute, Wu Liang casually arched his hand and sat down.

"Our time is precious, let's get straight to the point!" Wu Liang sat down and didn't say hello, and said straightforwardly.

"You also told me about your situation, it is not a big problem to find an official position, and it is not impossible to even be promoted to a county magistrate." Wu Liang's words made Liu Changfeng ecstatic, he originally just had the idea of transferring at the same level, and then become a county magistrate in other places, but he didn't expect that there would be a chance to be a county commander!

"If Steward Zhou can help Xia Guan achieve his wish, you are my reborn parents!" Liu Changfeng said gratefully.

"Don't don't, we can't afford it, we're just an errand runner." Wu Liang waved his hand and continued: "Besides, we didn't help you for nothing, we asked for silver!" ”

"Advice from the housekeeper?" Liu Changfeng calmed down.

"You also know that the same county is different, but there are also good and bad, the county of Nanzhili is different from Guangdong, and the county of Henan and Shaanxi is different, the difficulty of operation is different, and the price is naturally different." Wu Liang's words were very professional, and it seemed that there was no shortage of such things, and Liu Changfeng was relieved when he listened.

"To put it simply, if you want to go to Henan and Shaanxi to be a county minister, you only need 1,000 taels of silver. If you are willing to go out to 2,000, I can give you the idea to operate to Yunnan and Guizhou. If you go out to 3,000 taels, you can go to Huguang, Jiangxi. If you can get 4,000 taels, you can go to Jiangnan, the richest place. If you add another 5,000 taels of silver, the place where you go remains the same, and you can also promote your official position to the county order. ”

One by one, the data came out of Wu Liang's mouth, and it was calm like Xiao Er quoting the price of the dish when he was eating in a restaurant.

Liu Zhengfeng lowered his head and contemplated, his heart full of struggle and hesitation. At this time, he no longer doubted the energy of Steward Zhou on the other side, but he was just hesitating and struggling with so many choices.

It is naturally not possible to go to Henan and Shaanxi to be officials, which have long been the world of thieves. Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places are too far away from home, Jiangnan is the best, but the price is too high. It's hard to choose! As for the promotion of the official to the county magistrate, he no longer has any illusions, because he can't come up with so much money at all. For more than 20 years, he has accumulated a large amount of family property, but in addition to the houses and fields that cannot be realized in the thief area, the silver taels he can use in his hand are only more than 3,000 taels, which is not enough to operate in Jiangnan!

"Let's go to Hunan, it just so happens that Liuyang is missing a county. Hunan is not too far away, and it is the land of fish and rice, and it only takes a year to be an official there to get back the money you spent. As if seeing through Liu Changfeng's thoughts, Wu Liang said casually.

"Okay, let's go to Hunan!" After thinking for a moment, Liu Zhengfeng made up his mind. Although Hunan is not as rich as the Jiangnan area, it is also the land of fish and rice, and with his money-making methods, it will not take a year to get back the three thousand taels of silver.

"According to the rules, pay half of the deposit first, and then pay the other half after the completion of the matter." Wu Liang said indifferently.

"This ......" Liu Zhengfeng hesitated again.

"It doesn't cost money to help you run this matter, do you still want Lao Tzu to advance money for you?" Seeing this, Wu Liang said angrily, got up and left.

"Don't," Ma Liang hurriedly stopped in front of Wu Liang, and slapped Qianzuo with a smiling face, "Steward Zhou, don't be angry, he is a foreigner who has never seen the world and doesn't understand the rules of our Jingshi, don't be angry with him." ”

Wu Liang panicked as soon as Liu Zhengfeng got up, and hurriedly stepped forward to make amends. Wu Liang sat down again.

"Steward Zhou, I won't tell you anything, I didn't bring so much money with me, do you think I will send someone to the house later?" Liu Zhengfeng asked tentatively.

"Do you want to make this known?" Wu Liang scolded, "Give the silver to the hemp rod, and he will naturally transfer it to me, I really don't know what to do!" As he spoke, he stood up, ignored the hardships of the two, and walked away.

"Lord Liu, you are not doing this authentically, since you are here to discuss business, how can you not bring silver, do you know how busy Steward Zhou is? Now he is probably a little angry. ”

"What then?" Liu Zhengfeng asked with a bitter face, he still doubted Wu Liang's true identity in the end, but he was afraid that he would really offend Wu Liang and not be able to get an errand as he wished.

"What else can I do? Hurry up and get the money! You think that the position of the county official is waiting for you alone, but there are many people who want to be officials in the world, and there is a long queue outside the gate of the official department every day. If it weren't for me and Steward Zhou's acquaintance, how could such a good thing be your turn! Ma Pole also got angry.

"Brother Ma, don't be angry, it's my brother's mistake." Afraid that the hemp pole would also leave, Liu Zhengfeng accompanied him in a low voice, "I'll send someone back to the inn to get the silver, brother, I won't forget your benefits." ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Zhengfeng stepped aside, called his servant, and whispered a few words, and the servant walked out of the teahouse.

Looking at the back of the servant, Ma Pole sneered.

After Liu Zhengfeng's servant left the teahouse, he did not rush back to the inn where Liu Zhengfeng lived, but pulled a pedestrian on the side of the road to ask what he was, and then chased after him quickly on Qipan Street.

After a while, a small sedan chair appeared in front of him, so the servant slowed down and slowly followed behind the sedan chair.

After walking for more than half a mile, the sedan chair stopped in front of a big mansion, and the servant looked at it and saw the black plaque above the grand and magnificent mansion door, with four big gold characters written "Jiading Bofu"!

Then I saw the butler get down from the sedan chair and walk towards the door. At this moment, the door of the mansion opened, and a noble man in brocade clothes came out of it, and Steward Zhou hurriedly greeted the boy when he saw it, nodding and greeting. I don't know what the two said, but I saw that the noble son got on a luxurious sedan chair that had already stopped outside the mansion gate, and Steward Zhou also got back into the sedan chair and followed behind.

"Who are those two?" The servant inquired about a candy seller on the street.

"You don't know them!" The peddler showed a look of contempt, "That son is the youngest son of the father-in-law of the country, and he is also the brother-in-law of our Emperor Chongzhen." As for that Humpty Dumpty, he is the big butler of the Zhou Mansion! ”

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"Dressed like a dog, even I almost believed that you are the son of the Guozhang Mansion!" The two sedan chairs walked along the chessboard street for a while and then turned into an alley, seeing that the servant did not follow, Wu Liang stopped the sedan chair and scolded Chen Yue who was still sitting in the sedan chair.

scolded him, Chen Yue just laughed, just like the fool Chen Yue before.

"Don't laugh, come down! It's time to return the rented sedan chair. Wu Liang ripped Chen Yue off, took out some loose silver from his arms, handed it to the sedan chair man at the head, and sent away the hired sedan chair.

"Quick, take off your clothes too, be careful if you get dirty, you will have to pay for it!" The clothes on the two of them were rented in the pawnshop, and the rent alone cost one or two silver, and they had to pay an extra day's rent if they returned it one day later.

Wu Liang opened the package he was carrying and handed him Chen Yue's torn clothes to change into.

The brocade clothes and jade belts have become tattered clothes again, and the dashing and handsome son has returned to the identity of a fool.

"Let's go, return the clothes first, and then I'll take you to eat steamed buns!" After changing his clothes, Wu Liang took Chen Yue along the alley towards Xuanwumen Street.

Walking in the secluded alley, looking at the blooming moon flowers in the corner, Chen Yue couldn't help but recall a glimpse of the surprise in Jiadingbo's mansion.

......

Chen Yue waited in a teahouse not far from Guozhang's Mansion as instructed by Ma Zhuo, until a candy seller came to report the news. So Chen Yue left the teahouse and walked to the Guozhang Mansion, asking to see Guozhang Zhou Kui.

If it weren't for the dog-like appearance of the person Chen Yue was wearing, and he claimed to be a scholar, the gatekeeper of the Guozhang Mansion would have been able to blast him out. Weighing the heavy silver in his hand, the porter reluctantly agreed to report to Chen Yue, so Chen Yue sat in the ear room by the gate and waited with peace of mind, waiting for the secret signal from the candy seller.

However, after waiting in the ear room for a while, I saw the middle door of the Guozhang Mansion open, and a blue sedan chair entered the Guozhang Mansion from the outside under the escort of more than a dozen men in brocade clothes. Flying fish suits, embroidered spring knives, at a glance is the famous brocade guard. Who has so much energy and has more than a dozen brocade guards? It even made the Guozhang Mansion open the door to greet each other! Chen Yue looked out curiously in the ear room, and it happened that a gust of wind blew, and the curtain of the sedan chair lifted a corner, and Chen Yue saw a familiar pretty face.

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"Why is it so similar? It's like carved out of a mold. In Aunt Zhang's bun shop, Chen Yue ignored Wu Liang's mocking words, didn't see Zhang Xiu'er's contemptuous eyes, and just sat absent-mindedly.