Zhu Haizheng was walking to the second hall with the little eunuch Shuangxi, and when he walked to the door, he heard Qian Yiai saying that the cat was lost.

Zhu Hai smiled: "Oh? I didn't expect Qian Daxian to find a cat for people now, you are so idle! ”

Qian Yiai heard someone talking outside the door, and when she saw that it was Zhu Hai coming, she hurriedly walked out of the door to greet her.

"Your Highness, why do you have time to come to me?" After Qian Yiai finished speaking, he waved his hand to let the official out.

Seeing that there was no one in the house, Zhu Hai sighed and said, "Hey! There's nothing going on in this palace, I'm bored at home, come out and talk to Zigao! ”

Qian Yiai knew that the prince was so that the emperor would not let him worry about political affairs, but Qian Yiai had nothing to do.

"Your Highness, this is also for His Majesty the Emperor's sake, after all, now that the war is raging, His Highness's time to deal with government affairs is still short, Your Majesty is also not at ease, just wait a few years!"

Zhu Hai also knew that Qian Yiai was comforting himself, but Zhu Hai had nothing to do, so he could only live one day at a time.

"Let's not talk about this matter, just now this palace came in and heard why are you looking for cats? What the hell is going on? ”

Qian Yiai sighed: "Your Highness, I used to read books at home, thinking that the county order was a county parent, and the servants under him were very beautiful, how did I know that I knew that the county order was really a hard errand!" ”

After Qian Yiai finished speaking, he told the details of Zheng Langzhong from the Ministry of Finance who asked him to send someone to find the cat, and Zhu Hai laughed after listening to it.

"Haha, I didn't expect that the Qian genius who talked about the past and the present back then has now become a Xu official! Haven't you always looked down on those officials who tend to be inflammatory? Why is this the case this time? ”

"Hey! Your Royal Highness, you don't know, that Lord Zheng is the Ministry of Finance Jiangsu Qing official Shi Langzhong, holding my financial subsidy from Shangyuan County, how dare I disrespect him? If you don't satisfy him, you will be in big trouble if you delay the payment for three or five months! ”

Zhu Hai saw Qian Yiai's cautious look, and laughed: "You Qian Yiai also has today!" I'm quite familiar with the Ministry of Finance, and Chen Shangshu has a good relationship with me, so do you need me to talk about it for you? ”

The Ministry of Finance was originally Ma Mingyuan's territory, and now Shangshu Chen Zilong is even more of a hardcore princeling, so Zhu Hai still has some energy in the Ministry of Finance.

How do you know that Qian Yiai hurriedly shook his hand: "By all means, the lower officials don't want to offend their colleagues in the officialdom, it is good for His Royal Highness to speak for me, but I can't ask them to do anything else in the future, so let's be exempted!" ”

As the saying goes, the king of Hades is good at seeing that little ghosts are difficult, and your prince naturally doesn't dare to say anything if he uses power to detain people, but he has a grudge against Qian Yiai, and this kind of thing is better to use the rules of officialdom.

Zhu Hai is not a person who knows nothing, he also knows that it is not easy to be a magistrate, but there is nothing he can do, Qian Yiai is only from the sixth-grade official position now, and Zhu Hai can't speak if he wants to.

"Then the palace doesn't care, as for the official position, the palace can't do it, you are the county order of your father's emperor, and the palace can't speak on the side of the organization department, so you can only rely on yourself!"

Qian Yiai sighed and nodded, he has been serving as the magistrate of Shangyuan County for a year, and the Ming Dynasty rules for magistrates to take the exam every three years, as long as he does his errands seriously and runs the development zone well, he will be rated as excellent in three years, and then he is begging his father to say something for himself, and it is better to be transferred to other provinces as a governor or something else, which is better than being in this capital when this evil is full of Guo County Order.

Zhu Hai looked at Qian Yiai, he didn't wear an official uniform today, but put on a snow-white silk gown, a snow-white scarf on his head, and a folding fan in his hand, and he was about to go out when he saw it.

"You guy is not sitting in the county government today, and you are dressed so coquettishly, is it good to go to Nancheng?"

Qian Yiai hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, don't talk nonsense, the wife of the lower official is very powerful, if this reaches the ears of the lady, you don't have to go into the house to sleep tonight!" ”

Zhu Hai listened to Qian Yiai's funny, and knew that their husband and wife had a very good relationship, and they had not taken a concubine for many years of marriage according to Qian Yiai's appearance, which is proof of this.

"So what are you going out for? It just so happens that there is nothing to do in this palace today, so I'll go out for a walk with you! ”

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is going out for a banquet today. His Royal Highness also knew that the financial allocation was insufficient, and he needed half of the county's supporting facilities, so he had no choice but to ask the local squire, and today it was Shen Dahu who invited the official to eat and drink! ”

Zhu Hai's eyes lit up when he heard this, he had nothing to do in the East Palace, and it was really painful to be idle, so he only came out today to talk to Qian Yiai, and now Qian Yiai is going to the banquet, and Zhu Hai also has the idea of going together.

"You're going to a feast? How about Hongu and you? ”

Qian Yiai was very embarrassed to hear Zhu Hai say this, not that he didn't want to bring the prince, but that there were many people going out to the banquet, and it would be bad if someone recognized the prince.

"Your Highness, there are many people going to the banquet, so don't go!"

"This is easy to do, give your fan to the palace, and when the time comes, it will be done to cover your face with a small fan!"

Qian Yiai saw that Zhu Hai insisted on going, so he couldn't say: "Okay, if you don't go, I can't call you Your Highness, can you be the cousin of the official for the time being?" ”

It doesn't matter, according to the generation, the love is actually Zhu Hai's uncle, and it's already good to be a cousin.

Zhu Hai and Qian Yiai were already handsome, and the foil of temperament clothes made the young woman scream. The two of them went out of the door and got into the sedan chair, and ran to the restaurant where the squire surnamed Shen was better.

This time the place where the squire surnamed Shen entertained was not in the southern city, in the past, the Qinhuai River was a good place for these merry scholars to wander, but today's Nanjing has changed, and now high-ranking officials and dignitaries like to go to Xuanwu Lake outside the northern city for dinner and drinking.

Xuanwu Lake was originally a royal garden of the Ming Dynasty, and the island in the lake also contains the entire Ming Dynasty's land imperial book. However, after Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing, he built his own courtyard in the section of Xuanwu Lake near the imperial city, which was used to place those unsightly little wives. At the same time, Zhu Hongsan also built more than a dozen small courtyards around the royal courtyards, which were used to reward those who were close to the emperor. Although Ma Mingyuan was dismissed, he did not return to his hometown in Wuchang, but lived in the small courtyard rewarded by the emperor.

From ancient times to the present day, China's society has lived around power, and in the past, the imperial palace was so strict that ordinary people did not dare to approach. Now the emperor can often come to live in Xuanwu Lake, and immediately the land price on the edge of Xuanwu Lake skyrocketed. This place also became a meeting place for emerging dignitaries.

Today, the address arranged by the squire surnamed Shen is outside Jilong Mountain in Beicheng, close to Xuanwu Lake, and the royal courtyard can be vaguely seen across the lake, which is the most beautiful place.

This kind of private place is most afraid of meeting acquaintances, but the merchants have already thought it through, this restaurant is composed of seven or eight independent two-story buildings, each building is blocked by trees, and the guests' small sedan chairs can be carried directly to the front of the small building, to avoid the embarrassment of meeting acquaintances to say hello.

When they arrived at the door of the building, Zhu Hai and Qian Yiai got off the sedan chair, Zhu Hai looked around, the small building in front of him was being built on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, and the vast Xuanwu Lake could be seen not far away. It is the season of spring flowers, and the breeze on the lake blows the weeping willow trees on the shore, and the willow branches sway with the breeze, which is really fresh and elegant.

Zhu Hai looked at it and praised: "It's really a good place to go!" Zigao, this Shen Yuanwai seems to have a request for you! ”

"There, there, it's just talking!" Qian Yiai hurriedly distinguished.

Zhu Hai smiled faintly and didn't say anything. Not to mention that the design of this restaurant is so elegant, even this location is worth a lot of silver. Zhu Hai's house is in the royal courtyard on the other side of the lake, and he naturally knows the current land price around Xuanwu Lake, this kind of land next to the lake, there is no 10,000 taels that can't be done at all, it seems that the squire surnamed Shen today has really made a lot of money.

As soon as Zhu Hai and the others got off the sedan chair, a person dressed as an outsider came out of the small building, and after coming out, he arched his hand at Qian Yiai and said: "The master is here, please come in, please come in!" ”

At this time, Shen Yuanwai saw a tall young man standing next to Qian Yiai, who was 1.75 meters tall, with a long face like a crown of jade, a slender body, and a water-blue silk gown, how handsome and handsome he was.

Zhu Hai's appearance and height are inherited from his mother Ma Xiaofang, so Zhu Hai is only twenty years old now, and he is already a head taller than others, and it is estimated that it is no problem to grow to 1.8 meters.

Qian Yiai saw Shen Yuanwai's questioning gaze, and hurriedly said: "Shen Yuanwai, this is the cousin of this official, and he happened to come to visit today, so he came with this official!" ”

Shen Yuanwai knew the identity of Qian Yiai, his father was Qian Qianyi, and his cousin was naturally Qian Ge's nephew.

Shen Yuanwai hurriedly arched his hand and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Qian, please come in!" ”

Seeing that Shen Yuanwai misunderstood his identity, Zhu Hai hurriedly said: "Shen Yuanwai, my surname is Ma, and he is not the nephew of the Qian family!" ”

Shen Yuanwai was even more surprised when he heard Zhu Hai claim to be surnamed Ma. Now the most powerful family in Nanjing City, in addition to the royal family, is the Ma family, who doesn't know that the Ma family has two cabinet chiefs. At the same time, Shen Yuanwai also knew that Qian's beloved sister was the imperial concubine, so this cousin must be from the Ma family.

"It turns out that the son's surname is Ma, is it and Ma Shoufu."

"It's my own uncle!" In order to hide his identity, Zhu Hai* had no choice but to turn his uncle into an uncle.

This is a big fish, Shen Yuanwai arranged for Qian Yiai to eat today because he asked him, but he didn't expect to come to a person who is even tougher than Qian Yiai's backstage, this is a no-brainer!

Shen Yuanwai hurriedly bowed to the ground and said, "It turned out to be Ma Gongzi, please!" Please! After speaking, he led the way in front and introduced Zhu Haiqian's bereaved love into the house.

The people who are serving in the house are all yellow flower girls who are under the age of eighteen, and their eyes light up when they see these two handsome young guys entering the house.

Zhu Hai smiled when he saw it: "Zigao, have you seen it, these beauties won't be able to walk when they see you, you have to be careful for a while!" ”

"There, what they're looking at is your cousin, after all, cousin, you're much more chic than my younger brother!"