In the second hall of the Ya Er Hall of Qingping County, Li Weiwei, the county magistrate, was handling official business, and at this time, a government official came in to report that the Anlu Mansion had sent an urgent official document. After Li Wei took it, he roughly glanced at it and knew that it was a sea fishing document, and he didn't care much. Since he was appointed as a county magistrate in the fifteenth year of Jianping, he has changed from a high-spirited scholar at the beginning to a mature and stable official now, and he knows the Tao in the officialdom very well. This sea fishing document was obviously issued by the prefect in order to shirk the responsibility of solving the difficult case, and the above-mentioned Jiangyang thieves were fabricated nine times out of ten, and there is no need to take it seriously. So, he picked up the celadon teacup and blew on the tea leaves, sipped it in small sips, and felt comfortable before he ordered: "Take it outside and stick it up." Then, I continued to look at the official document. It wasn't until about the afternoon that Li Wei was relieved and had just returned to the inner house to prepare for dinner, when Master Shen came over to report: "My lord, Tian Huaying, the eldest young master of the Tian family, is asking to see him outside." Li Weiwei frowned slightly after hearing this, collusion between officials and businessmen is a big taboo, and he has always been reluctant to provoke. After thinking about it, Tian Huaying has always been informed and interesting, and if she is fine, she will not take the initiative to see her, "Let him come in later." With that, he went into the inner room and changed into his regular clothes.

Tian Huaying walked into the room under the guidance of Master Shen, and saw Li Wei sitting on a chair drinking tea, and bowed down. "Meet Master Li! The villain took the liberty of bothering and asked the adults to forgive their sins. ”

Li Weiwei didn't get up either, took a sip of tea, raised his eyelids and said, "What are you looking for this official?" ”

Tian Huaying could see that Li Wei didn't want to take care of herself, and scolded secretly in her heart: "This old immortal, when he takes the money, he is very fast, and he immediately shrinks back when he sees something." He still said: "My lord, the villain came here today mainly to greet you, and by the way, I have something to report to you." ”

Seeing this, Li Weiwei pretended to say: "Master Shen, the official still left an official document in the second hall, you go and deal with it, and then urge the household to deal with it as soon as possible." ”

After seeing Master Shen walking away, Tian Huaying said in a low voice: "My lord, I want to take down Deng Ji Silk Village, and I ask you to help." Before he finished speaking, he took out 20,000 taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it over.

"Oh? I don't understand the business world, I'm afraid I can't help you. Li Wei glanced at it, twisted his beard and said slowly.

Tian Huaying saw that the county order Li was the only one who didn't see the rabbit and didn't scatter the eagle, and hurriedly said: "My lord, the Deng family's property is no less than 500,000 taels. After the deed is completed, the villain will give seventy percent. Moreover, I have learned that the Deng family was burglarized a few days ago, and the deed of Deng Kee Silk Village has been stolen. If there happens to be a fire in the place where the voucher is stored in the prefectural government house......"

Li Weiwei didn't make a sound, and said after a while: "Well, it's dry and dry this day, and it's really easy to catch fire." After speaking, he stopped talking and served tea to the guests.

"Then it's troublesome! The villain will retire. Tian Huaying hunched over and withdrew from the door, and only when she came out of the county office did she whisper viciously: "I don't know who killed the deer." ”

After Tian Huaying left, Master Shen walked in from another room. Li Wei asked, "Master Shen, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"Proprietor, with all due respect. Tian Huaying is a hawkish and ambitious person, not a good match. The proprietor must be careful not to be harmed by him. Master Shen said cautiously.

"Well, I think so too, you can't listen to him in everything. You go and arrange it......" Li Wei commanded Master Shen in a low voice. After hearing this, Master Shen nodded again and again to show that he understood, and then went to the apartment on the east side of the lobby to arrange. In the second half of the next night, a fire broke out in the county office's household because the junior official fell asleep on duty and knocked down the candlestick, and nearly half of the household registration and contract archives were burned to ashes.

After Xu Anping destroyed the rudder of the Blood Hand Alliance in Anlu Mansion, he returned to Deng Mansion in Qingping County. He was in a low mood, and his face was a little uncertain, so that the family who wanted to come over and get close didn't dare to approach. The next day, Deng Xiaoke asked Huan'er to come and call him. When Xu Anping saw Deng Xiaoke, he saw that she was wearing a light purple bichime on her upper body and a light blue moonlight skirt on her lower body, and she was happily teasing Xiao Hei. Between running and jumping, his hair fluttered, his skirt flew, accompanied by cheerful laughter, which made Xu Anping's depressed mood feel a lot more comfortable.

Deng Xiaoke saw Xu Anping arrive, and walked over briskly, his face was full of excitement, and he said in a twitter: "Deng Jiu, let me tell you!" Daddy and Auntie have already pushed away the Tian family's proposal, and you don't have to follow the Tian family's eldest young master in the future. Your little body, if you really find out that you have been beaten, you can't bear it. And ah! You don't know, one night a few days ago, there were thieves in our backyard, and they almost hurt Daddy, and they scared me to death. I was desperately shouting 'help' and scared the thief away. Do you think I'm awesome? You went home at the time, if you were there, you would definitely be able to beat the thieves away......" Deng Xiaoke was talking energetically, and found that Deng Jiu did not react, and his face was gloomy, and he couldn't help asking: "Deng Jiu, what's wrong with you?" Feeling unwell? ”

Xu Anping saw that Deng Xiaoke was actually sad and his mood was much better, but when he thought that Yi Lian'er must still be very sad now, he wanted to go home to accompany her. Then, he thought that one of the masterminds behind the scenes, the eldest young master of the Tian family, was still at ease, and he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart. Therefore, Xu Anping wanted to leave the Deng family as soon as possible, no matter what the result of his assassination of the eldest young master of the Tian family would be in the future, it would not affect Deng Xiaoke. So, he clenched his fists hard and said in a flat tone: "Miss, since your affairs have been settled, I plan to go home and not work in Deng Mansion." ”

Deng Xiaoke was stunned when he heard this, obviously he didn't expect this to be the case, and hurriedly asked, "Deng Jiu, why do you want to go home?" Is it because the monthly money is too low? I'll ask Steward Cai to add more for you. ”

Xu Anping shook his head, lowering his head and not daring to look at Deng Xiaoke's panicked eyes, he was afraid that he would not be able to say anything to refuse. "Miss, it's not because of the monthly money. Since I was 10 years old, I was raised by my neighbors. Some time ago, my father, who had been taking care of me, passed away, and I had to go back to pick up the burden of the family, so I couldn't stay in the Deng family anymore. Please be considerate! ”

Deng Xiaoke's heart was also messy after hearing this, she didn't want Xu Anping to leave but couldn't find a reason to stop her. After a while, she cleaned up her mood and said with a faint expression: "I will ask Steward Cai to give you some more monthly money, you can take care of yourself." After speaking, she hurriedly entered the boudoir, she felt a little sad and reluctant, but she didn't want Deng Jiu to see her like that.

Xu Anping heard the reluctance in Deng Xiaoke's tone and the indifference in his pretend, and stood for a while before returning to the room. He didn't want to leave, so he took the opportunity to hand over the matter with the family and settle the salary with Steward Cai, and deliberately rubbed it for two more days. I really couldn't find a reason to stay, so Xu Anping carried his baggage and prepared to leave through the side door this morning. Before he could go out, he felt a panic in the yard, stopped a family member and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Oh, it's Brother Jiu! You don't know yet? The county magistrate asked the official to summon the master, saying that the master was involved in a lawsuit. The lady had already fainted from crying, and she didn't know what was going on. Jia Ding said hurriedly, making Xu Anping feel that things might be troublesome. So, he hurriedly put the burden back to the residence and walked directly to the backyard, and when he met Huan'er on the way, he asked her to tell the eldest lady that he had something to look for her. Huan'er is also strange, I heard a few days ago that Deng Jiu was leaving, why is he still here today, but he still went in and reported.

Deng Xiaoke had red eyes, hurriedly walked over, and saw Deng Jiu's face first happy, and then said in a stiff tone: "Aren't you leaving?" Why are you still here? ”

Xu Anping replied: "I heard that something happened in the house, so I wanted to stay first to see if I could help, even if it was just running errands for the eldest lady." ”

Deng Xiaoke's expression was cold, and he said indispensably: "Okay, then you can stay for a while, I will let Huan'er call you if I have something." If you have difficulties at home, just tell Steward Cai, and I will explain to him. With that, he turned around and hurried back to the backyard.