Murong Yuxue knelt on the ground with a grunt: "Master, please, you just need to raise your noble hand and let the little woman do things in the yamen instead of my father, so that my family will not starve to death, and I will repay your old kindness as a cow and a horse in the next life!" "Say it and kowtow again and again.

Meng Tianchu shook the folding fan and deliberately muttered for a long time, and then said: "This master pities you for a piece of filial piety, but I can't bear to drive you out, but I can leave you in the yamen for a day or two, and as time goes by, I'm afraid that sooner or later the stuffing will leak, and then I won't say what others will say, can you still stay in the yamen at that time?" ”

Murong Yuxue didn't know this, hearing this, her knees weakened, she sat down on the ground, hung her head, and sobbed softly.

Meng Tianchu couldn't see the girl crying the most, and he originally wanted to make a detour to say his purpose again, but now this situation does not allow him to soak mushrooms anymore, coughed twice, shook the folding fan lightly and said: "Alas~! Who told me to be soft-hearted, so let's do it, Miss Murong, for the sake of your filial piety, I won't remove you from the Yamen scribe's book, and let you continue to replace your father on an errand! ”

Murong Yuxue was overjoyed, raised her teary eyes, and looked at Meng Tianchu gratefully: "Thank you......!" Thank you, Master Meng, ......! Xue will be a cow and a horse in the next life, and repay your great kindness! ”

Meng Tianchu folded the fan: "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet." Although I will not fire you and let you continue to replace your father as an errand in the torture room, but after all, you are a female class, and it is too inappropriate to show your face, so you should not be a scribe in the Yamen torture room in the future. ”

Murong Yuxue was a little stunned: "That...... So what am I going to do? ”

"When my little mi! Ahem...... be my personal secretary! ”

"Private ...... ...... a private secretary? Murong Zhenxue's beautiful Danfeng eyes were still tee-eyed, looking at Meng Tianchu, unable to understand the meaning of the word.

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "The private secretary is the scribe of this master and me, and his daily work is to help me copy and write, draft a document or something." What do you think? ”

Murong Yuxue breathed a sigh of relief, it is also a common thing for the master or the official to send a scribe to help handle some of his own affairs, so it is not surprising, anyway, as long as she is still allowed to be a scribe, it makes no difference whether she is a person or a yamen.

Meng Tianchu said again: "You help me do things, in addition to your original work and food silver, I will give you an additional work and food silver, five hundred wen per month, what do you think?" ”

Murong Xue was overjoyed and surprised, and waved his hand again and again: "No, no, the master is as kind to the master as a mountain, and the master is sending, and the master will do his best to do things for the master, how can he ask for extra food and silver." ”

Meng Tianchu sighed secretly in his heart: This woman's family is so poor, she can still repay her kindness and not be greedy for money, it is really commendable, folded the fan, and said: "This is my extra reward for you, you don't have to shirk, in the future, it is more important than anything else to do the errand I ordered." ”

When Murong Yuxue heard what his master said, he didn't dare to excuse himself anymore, and kowtowed to thank him. Out of thin air, there were more than 500 clerks and workers every month, and I was so happy in my heart that I couldn't help but cry.

Meng Tianchu walked to the door, called Wen Ming, the priest of the torture room, in, and told him about it, Wen Ming also breathed a sigh of relief, he was very worried that Meng Tianchu would take the opportunity to give him small shoes to wear, then he couldn't eat and walk, the stone in his heart had been hanging, and he had only put it down until now, and secretly stuffed two taels of silver to Meng Tianchu to express his gratitude, Meng Tianchu did not refuse, he was now short of silver.

Subsequently, Meng Tianchu returned to the inner ya, put the thirty taels of silver that Qin Yiyun gave him last time into his arms, returned to the yamen torture room, and said to Murong Zhenxue: "You go with me." He first walked out of the door with a folding fan, looked out of the yamen, and Murong Yuxue followed him to the yamen.

As soon as they arrived at the door, seven or eight men and women rushed up and surrounded Murong Yuxue, shouting "pay back the money quickly"! There was even an old woman who reached out to Murong Yuxue's arms to take out her money bag. Murong Yuxue protected his chest with one hand, took out the money bag with the other, held it in his hand, and begged bitterly: "Uncles, I ...... I don't have much money, so I can only pay you back some of it first...... I have to leave some money for my grandmother and my mother...... Please......"

The men and women couldn't help but say, pulling Murong Yuxue's clothes and starting to fight for the money bag in her hand. Under the crowd of several people, they almost pushed Murong Yuxue to the dao.

Meng Tianchu shouted: "Stop!" ”

Those few people were startled by this shout, they all froze, and turned to look at Meng Tianchu together.

Meng Tianchu asked, "What money does she owe you?" ”

Although those people didn't know Meng Tianchu yet, they also knew that there was a famous criminal master who was very good at solving cases in the yamen, and he was very young, and these people often came to the yamen to find Murong Zhenxue to ask for debts, so most of the people in the yamen also knew each other, seeing that Meng Tianchu was born and dressed like a master, they all guessed that they were all eight or nine, and estimated that it was likely to be the master who had just come to the criminal name, and was the master of the county master, so he couldn't afford to provoke him, so he hurriedly let go of Murong Zhenxue, bowed down and smiled: "Yes!" She owes us money. ”

Meng Tianchu frowned: "How much do I owe you guys?" Did you bring an IOU? ”

"Owe me three taels!"

"My six taels!"

"I'm four or five dollars and seven cents!"

……

Several people reported their debts and took out IOUs from their bosoms.

Meng Tianchu said: "Give me the IOU!" I'll pay it back for her! ”

"Really? You're such a nice guy! The old woman reacted the fastest, and preemptively handed the IOU to Meng Tianchu. The others were a little hesitant, after all, they hadn't confirmed Meng Tianchu's identity yet, and they didn't dare to hand over the IOU to others easily.

Murong Yuxue hurriedly said: "No, no, master, this is not good......

As soon as those few people heard this, the young man in front of them was really the criminal master, and there was no doubt, it seemed that this young criminal master was very righteous, or he fell in love with this beautiful Murong Zhenxue, and wanted to curry favor with her, no matter what his motive was, as long as he could get the debt back. Several hurriedly handed over the IOU.

Meng Tianchu took the IOU and calculated, the debt was converted into silver for a total of 17 taels and 3 coins and 6 cents. He took out two ingots of silver from his bosom and asked the old woman, "Who are you from Murong Zhenxue?" ”

"The old body is a distant aunt of Zhixue."

"Well, these two ingots of silver, ten taels each, a total of twenty taels, will be handed over to you to be responsible, and you will exchange them for your debts, and return the rest to me."

The old woman hurriedly took the two ingots of silver from Meng Tianchu's hand, she was overjoyed, her wrinkled face was full of smiles, and she bowed again and again: "Yes, thank you, master, you can rest assured, there is a lot of money left for you, and the old body will guarantee the ticket!" ”