When Zheng Haoran came out of the Yin Hotel, he knew that he was completely finished this time.

Listen to the gong and listen to the sound, listen to the words. Sun Tianlai's words only have one meaning, and the position of clerk in the office that he has worked hard to get from the camp is lost. What do you want to do from now on? Go back to the county to study? I have no financial resources, and I have to support my wife and children, what do I need to study? Besides, if you study, you will definitely be able to get into the Jinshi? Not necessarily! He is in his twenties, standing in his thirties in the blink of an eye, no longer a high-spirited teenager, past the age where he thinks that Jinshi is prepared for himself and can be reached by stretching out his hand.

Do a little business to feed the family? He is a scholar, how can he go to the street to show his face, isn't that to be embarrassed?

In fact, it's a good result to not be able to do errands, but I'm afraid that adults will settle old accounts.

There are six rooms in the yamen, and there are clear water yamen and real power departments. The bureaucracy is in charge of the promotion and dismissal of officials, and of course it is a rich and oily department. Although the power belongs to the wardens, they can also share some soup for those who write documents. Just think about which of those officials doesn't want you to write his resume beautifully and beautifully, the so-called official words, whether the matter is good or bad, it all depends on what you say. And he is the most knowledgeable and the best writer in the entire office, so the officials will secretly stuff him with some silver.

This is an understandable thing, after all, these officials and the court don't pay money, can't they starve to death? Only by accepting some bribes can you support your family. Up and down the court, as long as they are officials, who doesn't know these things? But everyone just turned a blind eye. After all, you let people work and don't give people money, there is no such reason in the world, you really have to be strict, let people bring their own dry food to the yamen on errands, who would do such a fool's job? If you don't go on an errand, who will do the things in the yamen?

Everyone understands this. But in the final analysis, it is still corruption and bribery.

Since Zheng Haoran became a clerk, the money he has collected is really enough to peel the skin and fill the grass according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty. The county magistrate really took the law to ask for the guilt, and this fate was confessed.

Zheng Haoran is not afraid of death, what he is afraid of is what if his wife and children die? He didn't hate Li Feibai either, but he complained a little, and he didn't know why Li Feibai went crazy and talked nonsense in front of the county magistrate.

Can the prefectural magistrate provoke indiscriminately? It is said that the county order kills people, and the prefect who destroys the door. You didn't offend the county magistrate, the magistrate saw that you were not pleasing to the eye, and he could kill you for a reason, not to mention that you offended him.

Complaining is complaining, Zheng Haoran still racked his brains to think about how to save Li Feibai. After he came to the yamen, he sat in the official's room for a while, planning to go around to see if anyone could speak in front of the county magistrate, so as to plead for Li Feibai.

Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. The big guy seemed to know what was going on in the Yin Hotel, and when he saw him coming, he avoided it from afar. I really couldn't avoid it, so I pretended to be busy and didn't notice his arrival at all.

Zheng Haoran sneered from time to time, and said secretly: "It's really the world that is hot and cold, and human feelings are as thin as paper." Usually eat and drink, you are all righteous and cloudy, and now you are all exposed. Hide when you see me, do I have a plague, and I don't pee to see myself, just because you can intercede for me in front of the county magistrate? I'm going to ask you for something? Today I can see your face clearly, don't let me survive this catastrophe, the mountains and rivers meet, don't think I will do things for you in the future. ”

Will you be able to survive this catastrophe? Zheng Haoran had no confidence at all. He walked around the yamen twice, and all the people in charge were in the Yin Hotel, and he couldn't find any of them. But even if he finds it, what's the use, Sun Tianlai, who is most familiar with him, has thrown him away as a ball of stinky shit, will other people who are already unfamiliar with him help him?

He waited until noon in a daze, and went out of the yamen and returned home. His wife had prepared a table of good dishes and was waiting for him to eat. He sat down with a black face but didn't eat, his wife saw that his expression was wrong, and seeing that Li Feibai didn't come back to eat, she realized that something might have happened, so she kept asking.

Zheng Haoran couldn't stand it, so he told the matter. A woman's family has experienced this kind of thing, and immediately felt that the sky had fallen, and she cried. When the child saw his mother crying, he wept along.

Zheng Haoran was even more irritable, and went into the house to lie down on the bed to rest. I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and when I saw that it was time to be on an errand in the afternoon, sleepiness came up. I thought about closing my eyes and squinting for a while, but I didn't think about it and fell asleep. When I opened my eyes, it was half an hour before the errand.

He hurriedly got up, washed his face with water, and kept complaining in his heart about why he was late at this juncture. I thought to myself, maybe the main thing is still in the Yin Hotel, and no one will know about my lateness. At this time, I heard someone outside asking, "Is my brother Haoran at home?" ”

His wife replied, "Yes!" ”

Zheng Haoran couldn't hear who was speaking, who else was besides Sun Tianlai. His brain "buzzed": "What is Sun Tian doing here at my house?" Could it be that Li Feibai caused a bigger disaster, and he led the officials to get me. Just thinking about it, Sun Tianlai had already paced into the house, shouting as he walked: "Brother Haoran? Haoran Brothers? ”

Zheng Haoran had no choice but to bite the nail on the head and greet him: "Lord Sun! ”

Sun Tianlai said strangely: "They are all their own brothers, what are you doing so politely?" Just call me Brother Sun! ”

Zheng Haoran didn't know what medicine Sun Tianlai was selling in the gourd for a while, thinking that he didn't go on an errand in the afternoon and was blocked at home by Sun Tianlai, he quickly explained: "Sun Da...... Brother Sun, I overslept for a while, and I didn't go to the yamen on an errand......"

Sun Tianlai smiled and said: "You, you, are the first to go to the officer's room every day, and the last to go, do your best, never slack off, think I don't know?" There is a situation where you haven't been on an errand for a day or two, what is it? What's more, in order to calm the adult's injuries in the past few days, I must have not slept well for several nights, so I invited the Feibai brothers to treat the adult, shouldn't I sleep now? ”

Zheng Haoran was confused when he heard it, and after thinking about it carefully, he didn't find that Sun Tianlai was talking back, so he couldn't figure out what this meant.

Sun Tianlai said again: "Speaking of which, my brother has to say two words to you." Why did you act in that scene in front of the county magistrate, my brother believed it. My brother scolds you for your own good, that's protecting you, you understand! ”

Zheng Haoran could not believe that Sun Tianlai's words were protecting you, but at this time, he could only be perfunctory and said, "I understand." ”

Sun Tianlai said: "It's good to understand!" After a pause, he said: "This time, you have also made a great contribution, and I will make it clear to the adults when I go back, and promote you to be a scribe." In the past few days, I have not been in the office's room, and there are many things that I have not had time to deal with, so I will go back to the yamen. You have a good rest at home, and it's not too late to do it tomorrow morning. ”

The scribe is also regarded as the steward of each room, and he is in charge of several clerks under his hands. Zheng Haoran originally planned to wait until next year to save enough money, and then go to run the relationship and get a scribe to do it. Unexpectedly, now that the money has not been used, the position of scrivener has come. He couldn't believe it was true for a while, thinking if it could be Sun Tianlai who was playing tricks on him, right? But Sun Tianlai's expression is not like it.

After sending Sun Tianlai away, Zheng Haoran returned to the house, unable to figure out how he had become a meritorious service and promoted again, even though he had caused trouble. He slowly sorted things out, and his eyes lit up suddenly, could it be that Li Feibai cured Qian Zijun's injury. Is it possible? The injuries that the imperial doctors can't heal, can Li Feibai heal? Although he and Li Feibai haven't seen each other for several years, they also know that Li Feibai will never be able to treat injuries, and he can't even read a few big characters, let alone cure injuries that even the imperial doctor can't cure. However, only when Li Feibai healed Qian Zijun's injury, everything was explained smoothly.

Zheng Haoran plans to go to the Yin Hotel to confirm it, otherwise his heart will be empty and empty, and there is really no bottom. He walked out of the house quickly, trotted all the way to the Yin Hotel, and asked the errand man at the Yin Hotel if there were any adults inside. Knowing that the adults were discussing in the house, he did not dare to go inside. It was not something he could afford to rush into the adults, so he had to wander back and forth outside the gate of the Yin Hotel, wanting to wait for the adults to finish their discussions and go back to the yamen to sit in the hall, and then go in to Li Feibai to ask him clearly.