Zhu Hui settled the He family mother and daughter, and when he came back to look for Tang Jing, he saw him lying in Yue'er's arms, so he hurriedly asked, "Uncle, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Master Hai, Master Hai still refuses to let us go......" Tang Jing said, took Yue'er away, lay on Zhu Hui's ear, and whispered in a low voice.

Zhu Hui looked at Tang Jing in surprise, and thought to himself, these days, you have done a lot of things!

"Gotta do what I say, understand?" Tang Jing stared at Zhu Hui until he nodded, and then allowed him to open the door, at this time, Master Wu walked in with the messengers.

"Tang Daguan, come with me, Master Hai wants to know, why did you buy this mansion? However, don't worry, Master Hai is the fairest, as long as you can tell the origin of the silver, with the background of your Tang family, I believe that Master Hai will not embarrass you. ”

The frightened Tang Jing asked, "Master Wu, are we going to leave here?" ”

Master Wu nodded, and Tang Jing had no choice but to follow them honestly.

Hearing that the government was coming to arrest people, He hurriedly ran out, ran into Zhu Hui, and asked, "Where is your uncle?" ”

"Uncle was taken away by Master Wu, please don't worry, auntie, I'll go to Master Ti Xueguan for help, he can guarantee my uncle. Uncle said: Let you go to Yue'er, gather the maids and women in the house to teach a lesson, the old family of the Tang Mansion in the past should come back from their hometown in a few days, and now everything in the house is arranged by Yue'er. ”

He said with a sad face: "In such a big courtyard, the whole family only has 1,000 taels of silver left, more than 20 servants, and the old family members have also returned. ”

"Auntie, don't worry, uncle is not a fool, everything in the family, he has already made arrangements." Zhu Hui comforted.

He was originally wary of this half-grown child, but through careful observation these days, he felt that this polite young man was very sensible, neither greedy for money nor lying, and he was not surprised when he encountered anything, and seemed to be a person who could be trusted.

"Auntie, what else do you have to order?" Zhu Hui asked.

He Shi blushed suddenly, lowered his head whimsily, and whispered: "Childe, my aunt sees that you are shrewd and capable, kind-hearted, and really likes you, you see, Qiongqiong is also about to grow up, a few days ago, I didn't agree to the threshold of the door-to-door proposal; Although you have drifted overseas since childhood, it is rare that you can still be so knowledgeable; Now, I finally came back, and I have to have a home in the future. Childe, don't be surprised, when your uncle comes back, I want to discuss and discuss with him, and marry Qiongqiong to you in the future. ”

The young man didn't expect that He would say such a thing, and immediately lowered his head with a red face, and replied in a low voice: "I treat Qiongqiong as my own sister, I don't dare to think about it, my uncle is my benefactor, no matter what difficulties I face, I have my own responsibility, please rest assured." ”

Mrs. He praised: "What a sensible and good boy......"

Zhu Hui saw that He Shi wanted to speak and stopped, so he knew that she must have something to ask for, and said, "What do you need me to do, please ask my aunt to just give orders." ”

"Xu Kun and the former Dali Temple, the right to the imperial history Pang Shangpeng friends, a few years ago, Pang Shangpeng offended a lot of people in Hangzhou, was the first emperor Jiajing Ye cut for the people, he is now running a money village in Nanjing, I don't know where Xu Kun got so much silver, all of them were deposited in the money village to eat interest, a few days ago, Xu Ge old Zhishi returned to his hometown, he only recovered the million taels from the money village, said that he was going to go back to his hometown Songjiang Mansion to buy land, and it happened that you and the uncle came back."

"Auntie, do you mean that Xu Kun should still have a lot of money, all of which is in Pang Shangpeng's bank?" Zhu Hui asked in surprise.

"I never asked about these things before, but now we can't live our days, when you finish your business, accompany me to the money village, how much can we get back." However, don't let anyone else know about it, including your uncle, you know? ”

"Auntie, I see."

"In a few days, the old family members of the Tang Mansion should come back, there are many people, you must keep it secret from your aunt!"

Zhu Hui followed Tang Jing's instructions and went to find Wu Xuezheng, the Jiangnan school official, for help, and at this moment, Wu Xuezheng was counting the maid money sent by Wu Xiang at home.

After ordering, he found that there were only 60,000 taels, and Wu Xuezheng scolded angrily: "I said that I had a commission of 100,000 taels, this unproductive little bastard was actually 40,000 taels of silver short of me!" ”

The old family of the Wu Mansion asked, "Master, are you going to send it to Xingji Money Village?" ”

"Send it, now Hai Qingtian is in charge of Yingtianfu, this silver is also a scourge at home, there are still five thousand taels in the study, send them all." Wu Xuezheng replied depressedly.

As soon as the old family left, the porter came to report that it was a visit from the Tang Mansion.

Wu Xuezheng knew what Zhu Hui was here for, and immediately instructed his family to help him find a patched old official uniform and prepare a tattered sedan chair.

Zhu Hui was invited into the living room, greeted the senior scholar, and said, "Master Wu, my uncle was summoned by Master Hai, and asked me to come to see you before leaving. ”

Wu Xuezheng looked at Zhu Hui, fifteen or sixteen years old, with long black hair curled up, thick eyebrows and big eyes, although his figure was not burly, but he was also strong, and asked, "What kind of relative of the Tang family are you?" ”

"Back to my lord, in Xia Zhu Hui, I have been floating overseas since I was a child, but fortunately I was rescued by Uncle Tang Jing and returned to Nanjing with him."

"Hehe, the old man knows, when the Lord Hai summons you one day, don't say that he has seen me."

After sending Zhu Hui away, Wu Xuezheng sat in a small sedan chair carried by two people and went to the Yamen of Yingtian Governor to find Hai Rui, and happened to meet him coming out of the yamen.

Lifting the curtain, Wu Xuezheng shouted: "Get off the sedan chair!" ”

The two sedan chair drivers stopped, Wu Xuezheng panicked to get off the sedan chair, and accidentally kicked a hole in the bottom of the sedan chair, and one leg was stuck in it.

Wu Xuezheng dragged one leg, lowered his head, and shouted: "Xiaguan to meet Lord Hai!" ”

Finding that he couldn't pull out one of his legs in the sedan chair, his red official uniform had lost color, and there were several patches on the front and back, which looked very funny, Hai Rui couldn't help but smile and asked, "Senior Officer Wu Ti, where are you going?" ”

"The lower officials have come to meet the governor."

"Hehe, Master Ti Xueguan, you are really a model of incorruptibility! The sedan chair is broken like this, and I am not willing to replace it. Hai Rui praised.

Wu Xuezheng held the posture of the golden rooster and replied humbly: "Zi said: 'Luxury is not grand, and thrift is solid. Rather than not grandson, Ninggu. 'The gentleman is poor, and the lower official, as the official of the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, should be poor and happy, please don't laugh at Lord Hai. ”

Hai Rui nodded as if he had met a confidant: "Lord Wu is really a model for the world's scholars, sit down, sit in a sedan chair quickly, and follow me to the house for a talk." ”

Wu Xuezheng sat in the sedan chair, then pulled his legs out from the bottom of the sedan chair, and replied: "Lord Hai, you're welcome." ”

When he arrived at the official residence of the governor of Yingtian, Wu Xuezheng found that this once brilliant mansion was now replaced by a pile of tatters with all the supplies and utensils, and what surprised him even more was that Hai Rui actually cooked the fire himself, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to come over to help.

Hai Rui said with a smile: "Mrs. Wang has just passed away, and the official has not yet renewed, since I am inviting the senior official to come to the house for dinner, I can't work for someone to do it, today I will try my craft." ”

Wu Xuezheng couldn't help much, so he had to come over to help light the fire, cook a pot of cabbage tofu, and paste a circle of mixed noodles on the edge of the big wood pot.

After the meal was done, the old family set up the table of eight immortals in the living room, served a pot of hot cabbage stewed tofu, plus three plates of cold vegetables, poured one or two shochu in each of the two small bowls, and put a basket of sticky cakes.

When the two of them sat down, Hai Rui picked up the wine bowl and said, "Don't laugh at me for being shabby, please." ”

At this moment, Wu Xuezheng saw the situation of the Hai family, as well as Hai Rui's skillful cooking skills, and saw his poverty, his heart was very shocked, he raised his hands and raised his eyebrows, and replied: "Lord Hai, please!" ”

The two toasted each other, stewed tofu with pickles and cabbage, ate two sticky cakes, and Wu Xuezheng drank a bowl of tofu soup and began to cut to the chase.

"Lord Hai, Xia Guan has a nephew, I don't know what happened, and he was summoned to the governor's yamen today?"

Seeing that Wu Xuezheng was eating with relish, Hai Rui couldn't help but secretly appreciate, and when he heard him ask about Tang Jing, he immediately straightened his face and said in his heart: Your nephew in this life is really rich!

Finding that Hai Rui didn't answer for a long time, Wu Xuezheng continued to ask: "Lord Hai, have you ever heard of King Xiangwu Dongou?" ”

Hai Rui nodded and asked, "Could it be that Xiangwu Dongou Wang Tang and the old prince have anything to do with Tang Jing?" ”

"Master Hai Mingjian, hehe, the lower official is also the Zhongli family of Haozhou, and he is a world friend of the Tang family." Wu Xuezheng replied.

Hai Rui couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said, "Really? At that time, His Majesty the Emperor Hongwu set the capital of Jinling, and the great feudal generals were princes, only Xinguo Gongtang and Taishi Ling Liu Ji and Liu Bowen gave up the high-ranking officials and Houlu, and took the initiative to resign and return to their hometowns, with the consequences of Hu Weiyong, Lan Yu and other civil and military ministers who were proud of their achievements, competing for favor and power, and even fish and flesh people, which led to the anger of the grandfather, and the famous generals who could protect the family, only Xinguo Gong Tang He, was posthumously named the king of Dongou by Taizu, and was called Xiangwu. ”

"The old prince of Xinguo is amazing! How many people in the world can be so low-key? By the twenty-second year of Hongwu, the founding fathers were almost gone, and the Japanese invaders disturbed the southeast coast, and Taizu summoned him from his hometown in Haozhou to Jinling, and asked: 'Lian Po is old, can he still eat?' The old prince understood what Taizu meant, and immediately set off from Jinling, patrolled the coast to Chaozhou, and built more than 60 cities to resist the Japanese invaders, and then returned to Beijing to resume his life. In this way, Taizu Enzhun Tang family lived in Beijing for generations, and in the first year of Yongle, Chengzu Yongle, changed Beiping Mansion to Shuntian Mansion, and edicted Beiping as the capital; In the nineteenth year of Yongle, the Beijing division was changed to Nanjing, called Yingtianfu, the Tang family was unwilling to go north, and the hereditary throne was dismissed, but they were still allowed to make a living here. Lord Hai, this is Tang Jing's family background. ”

Hai Rui understood it, but he was still a little skeptical, and asked: "Lord Wu, this is the past one hundred and sixty years ago, you said that Tang Jing is the descendant of King Dongou of Xiangwu, what is the proof?" ”

"Hai Daren, in Haozhou Zhongli Tang family ancestral hall, there is a record in the genealogy, from the Jiajing Dynasty forward, before Tang Jing's father, the successive governors of Yingtian came to Nanjing, all went to the Tang family to visit, but unfortunately to Tang Jing's father's generation, but learned Fan Li, did Tao Zhugong's livelihood, which led to the tragedy of Tang Jing going out to do business and being plundered, please don't be surprised, if you want to say that the Tang family's family background, hehe, it is not uncommon to be able to buy half of Jinling City. The Tang family has been very low-key in recent decades, and now in Nanjing City, there are only a few people who know this prominent family, as a world friend, I am willing to guarantee Tang Jing! Wu Xuezheng explained.

"The Qing official of the Wu family made Hai admire! Since Tang Jing is a wealthy family, and there is a scholar who guarantees him, I will release him later, but I will continue to monitor his two mansions. ”

"Thank you for your grace!"

After Zhu Hui said goodbye to Wu Xuezheng, he returned to Tang Jing's new home, and at this time, He had finished speaking to the maid servant.

Yue'er saw that Zhu Hui was back, and hurriedly took him into the Erdao Courtyard, came to a side room, pointed to the two girls and said: "Zhu Gongzi, this is called Wanxi, her name is Qingyang, according to Tang Cheng, the old family of Haozhou, their names are taken from Shuimu Qinghua, the meaning of Wanxi Qingyang, these two young ladies are different from the girls in the house, they are invited by the master from Zhongli in Haozhou, and they will listen to your command in the future." ”

There are lesbian cars, Yan Ru Shunhua, Jiang Ao Xiang, Pei Yu Qiong Yao......

These two beautiful girls are both dressed in tight purple clothes, with high buns, and embroidered spring knives like brocade guards.

Wanxi's age and height are similar to Zhu Hui's, with a full moon-like face, white and red, thick eyebrows, big eyes, cherry mouth, white teeth and red lips......

Qingyang is slightly taller than Zhu Hui with a pointed head, and his age may be younger than him, with a fair duck egg face, red phoenix eyes, slender eyebrows, and two dimples in a smile......

Yue'er looked at the stupid Zhu Hui and said, "According to the master's orders, take the two of them there." ”

Finding that Zhu Hui was still hesitating, Yue'er ordered: "Childe, do as the master instructs, go quickly, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

Wanxi and Qingyang followed Zhu Hui back to the old mansion, and the three of them climbed over the wall into the courtyard, hiding in the moon gate in the back garden, only to see Liu Qianhu and others still counting the silver.

"Two girls, is there a problem with dealing with these three brocade guards?" Zhu Hui asked.

Looking at the three tired and sweaty guys, Qing Yang replied, "Hmph! It's okay to bully the common people, but to deal with them, I'm enough for one person! ”

So, Wanxi and Qingyang looked at each other, and in the blink of an eye, the two rushed behind Jinyiwei and slashed with a knife.

Liu Qianhu found that someone was attacking, and hurriedly danced the embroidered spring knife to meet the battle, and asked loudly, "Who are you?" ”

The two didn't answer, and immediately fought with Liu Qianhu and others, in less than three rounds, Wanxi beheaded Liu Qianhu under the knife, and the remaining two knelt down and begged for mercy, Qingyang didn't talk nonsense, and stabbed them to the ground with a knife in his hand.

These two cold beauties with strong martial arts completely stunned Zhu Hui......

Finding that Zhu Hui was still shocked, Wanxi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Son, why don't you go to the mansion and wait, the old housekeeper Tang Cheng will come later." ”

"Y-Do you want to go?" Zhu Hui asked.

Qing Yang and Zhu Hui looked at each other, and suddenly turned crimson, and replied softly: "Uncle has instructed us to go back quickly because we are worried that my aunt and Sister Yue'er will quarrel." With that, she followed Wanxi out of the wall again.

Finding out the house deed and title deed from Liu Qianhu's body, Zhu Hui opened it and saw that the signatory on it was Haozhou Zhongli Tanghe, who was purchased in the thirtieth year of Hongwu......