Zhao Junhui was also happy, and said, "It's right to think so, it's better to have more than one thing, okay, serve tea in the front hall, and invite the county master"

Zhao Mansion Menzi led Lu Fei and Li Shun through the front patio of the house, and went straight to the front hall, just at this time Zhao Junma and Hu Steward were also coming from the back hall to the front hall, the two of them smiled from afar, each with a trick. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lu Fei arched his hand and said, "Jun Ma Ye, your house is really magnificent, it seems that the rumors in the city that the rich side of the County Horse Mansion is not groundless."

Zhao Junma also arched his hand, "Where is it, thanks to the blessing of the emperor today, it is just to gather some floating wealth through the blessing of the ancestors, how can you compare to the adult, you are young and promising, the royal high school is glorious, come, Lord Lu, please sit down, even if Zhao has a lot of money, it is always under the rule of your Lord Lu."

The two politely sat down with each other, and of course Li Shun and Steward Hu could only stand aside.

The ancients respected the left, where there are guests, no matter how noble the identity of the host family is, the guests must be invited into the left side of the house on the table, and the side of the host can only be accompanied on the right side to show respect.

There is a Zhao family serving tea.

Zhao Junma gestured, "Lord Lu, please drink tea, I don't know if the county master has any urgent matters that he has to come to the door in person?" ”

Lu Fei is not the one who tastes tea, he has been on the road for several hours in a row, he is still really thirsty, he took the tea and saw the three of them, wiped his mouth, spit out a piece of tea casually, and smiled, "Well, good tea, come again"

Ding of the Zhao Mansion, who served tea, frowned, this is the county master, the whole thing is a hillbilly, he can't even taste tea, it's too unruly, but he still gave Lu Fei a treat.

Lu Fei was pregnant again, this time he was happy, his tongue was full of relish, and he said, "It's not a big deal, it's just that early this morning, the county got the news that Wang Zhongren was killed in Wuliyi, I don't know if you heard about it?" ”

Lu Fei had to test Zhao Junma's meaning first, if he already knew about this and used it to make a big fuss, then Lu Fei would not have to open his mouth to accept the matter of Zhao Mansion's fishing rent in Dada Lake, just get up and go back to the government to prepare to take over.

Zhao Junma was also guessing Lu Fei's thoughts, and he spoke very carefully, and wrote lightly, "I've heard about it, and I can't believe it, how can this kind of thing happen, but since the adults also said so, then it must be true?" ”

Lu Fei said, "Of course the matter is true, although this matter is under the rule of this county, but there is nothing to hide, I should be responsible as the head of a county when something happens, but I have just taken office, and many things have not yet touched the doorway, and I am afraid that it will not be handled properly, so I came to ask the county master, how to deal with this kind of thing, is there a precedent?"

Zhao Jun Ma laughed, "Why should the adults be humble, the wisdom and ability of the adults have been appreciated yesterday, where can I be used to advise, besides, I Zhao is just a businessman, although I have the vanity of a county horse, but I never ask about local political affairs, this is afraid to disappoint the adults"

Steward Hu lost no time in interjecting at this time, "Although Wang Zhongren is innocent of death, but he is not dead under the criminal law, this is inevitably a loss of the prestige of the court, dare to ask the county master, how do you plan to deal with this matter?"

Lu Fei glanced at Steward Hu, and didn't take this kind of thing to heart at all, but the little ghost is difficult, don't let this old boy play with it carelessly.

"Helpless!" Lu Fei spread his hands and pretended to be bitter.

Li Shun also spoke, "I heard that Steward Hu is the right-hand man of the county master, and he must have a high opinion, why not give my master some guidance and think of a countermeasure"

Zhao Junma did not object to Steward Hu's plan for Lu Fei, so he did not stop it.

Steward Hu saw that the young master had no intention of objecting, so he said, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, I can't talk about pointing, but I can talk about the thoughts of bystanders."

Lu Fei sighed, "Steward Hu, please speak"

Steward Hu slowly walked out from behind Zhao Jun's horse, stroked his beard and said, "I heard that this evildoer is a bandit on a mountain, in my humble opinion, this matter can be big or small, it should be played immediately, and since ancient times, this mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there are not a few people who disobey the king and gather in the mountains and forests, if you can present it in the play, you will exterminate this gang of bandits in the shortest possible time, maybe the emperor will read your lordship You have made a contribution to suppressing bandits, and it is not known that you will be on the rise after that."

Lu Fei was very surprised, this Steward Hu's statement was almost as true as Master Li said, this old boy has such a good heart? It's impossible, it's going to have to be broken.

Lu Fei said with a smile, "Steward Hu is reasonable, then dare to ask how to suppress it, there are only about 100 officials in my county, this is not helpful."

Steward Hu also smiled, "Forgive me, of course the officials are not helpful, when it comes to killing the enemy, you have to go into the mountains to suppress bandits."

Master Li also said this, everyone understands the thing, as far as the more than 100 officials in the county government are concerned, it is a good trick to scare the common people, although the bandits are also a rabble, but the county officials are not even a rabble at all, and they are sent to death if they go.

Lu Fei stretched out his thumb as soon as he asked, "I'll be a seven-pin county, a sesame official, which round will the commander get me, isn't this this morning still discussing with the master, is it to mobilize the people in the city, have the money to contribute, and make a strong contribution, and work together to encircle and suppress."

Zhao Junma heard this, "Even if this is the case, then Zhao cannot be left behind, in order to ensure the peace of this Susong, Zhao Fu is willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to recruit righteous people with the county master."

When Lu Fei heard that he had won another 10,000 taels of silver, he was overjoyed, and clapped his hands again and again, "It's very good, the county horse is really generous."

Steward Hu said, "Although the county master's move is good, it may be protracted, not to mention that thousands of troops are easy to obtain, and it is difficult to find a general, although the number of these bandits is small, but they are all outlaws, fierce and abnormal, and they are guarded by danger, I am afraid that it will be difficult for this newly trained rebel army to make contributions for a while, so what will the court think?"

This is not false, if it is really when this bandit drags on for a few years, then it is really suspected of raising a coward's self-respect, so Lu Fei sincerely asked, this is also his difficulty, "Steward Hu said this, there must be some idea, don't prevent it from saying it together"

Steward Hu smiled, turned around and bowed his hand to the young master, "Young master, over the years, the Zhao Mansion has been doing business with General Zhang of the Anqing Mansion, and most of the garrison grain and grass and sergeant clothes in his army are operated by the Zhao Mansion, young master, you see that the county master personally came forward to ask for help, why didn't the young master help him?"

Zhao Junma heard what Steward Hu meant, this is to let Zhao Fu come forward and help Lord Lu ask General Zhang to send troops to suppress bandits, which is feasible.

Zhao Jun Ma said, "Oh, yes, yes, it seems that there is such a general who has entrusted these military chores to the Zhao Mansion to handle, for the sake of the adults, but also for the peace of the whole city, this county horse can give it a try, but I only have business dealings with this general, whether he is willing to give me this face, then I don't know"

Lu Fei heard it, and finally understood, it turned out that this old thing was not bad here, Master Li said in the morning that General Zhang's army must not let him come, and if he comes, he must not make a fuss in Susong County, and I should be a stable official.

Without waiting for Lu Fei to open his mouth to refuse, Li Shun preemptively said, "How dare you work in the government and the army for small matters in the county, let alone have a county master, let me think twice about this matter."

It was inconvenient for Lu Fei to refuse Jun Ma Ye, so he just lowered his head and drank tea.

However, Zhao Junma did not think so, and helped the county to quell the bandits, which was a good thing, and more importantly, as soon as General Zhang's army was pulled out, the supply of military materials and other things in his army was not all supplied by Zhao Fu.

Zhao Junma saw that Lu Fei was silent, and knew that he did not advocate the use of General Zhang.

Steward Hu still wanted to insist, but Zhao Junma stopped him with a look in his eyes, and said with a smile, "Yes, this is the errand of the county master, not to mention, I am a county horse, how can I have this ability to mobilize the battalion soldiers, come, adult, drink tea, drink tea"

Having said this, Lu Fei has roughly understood that Wang Zhongren's death has no impact on the Zhao Mansion, and Zhao Junma does not plan to use this matter as an article against himself, but this Hu Steward is making a bad mind, so he should be able to take down the fishing rent of the Zhao Mansion in the future, so as to deepen Zhao Junma's favorability towards himself.

And Zhao Junma is indeed as Lu Fei thought, Wang Zhongren will die if he dies, it's not a big deal, there is no need to turn against the county master for a person who is already dead, now it is a serious matter to let Zhang Shen come to level the bandits, but he is just secretly making some decisions in his heart, if he lets outsiders know that he can privately mobilize a battalion of troops from Ning Wangfu, it will not only be a disaster of death.

The hall was silent for a while, and Zhao Junma spoke again, "Lord Lu, the weather is unusually hot today, and you have come from all over the world from the county government, presumably not only for the killing of Wang Zhongren."

Lu Fei put down the teacup and smiled, "Something, something, I was busy with this official business yesterday, and I was dizzy and busy this morning, and Master Li reminded me about what the county horse entrusted me yesterday, so I hurriedly rushed over, and I hope that the county horse will not be blamed."

Zhao Junma thought about it, and remembered that he planned to let the county government come forward to collect the fishing rent yesterday, so he smiled and said, "It's a small thing, but if I say it casually, I can't imagine that the labor adult will run and lie down in person."

Lu Fei said, "The matter of the county horse is a big deal, it is my honor to be able to serve the county horse, and the county horse mansion is the glory of my Susong County, how dare I not do my best, not to mention that in the past, these things were all done by the county, and the matter of the county horse master cannot be abandoned because of the change of the principal, doesn't that seem to me as a person who is not interesting enough, ah, haha"

This fishing rent has always been a headache for Zhao Junma, it's urgent, the people are really hard to clean up, and it will damage the reputation of Junma Mansion and Ning Wangfu, so everything can only be done by the government, Wang Zhongren can't count on it now, since Xinzhi County should undertake this matter, this is really a big help to Zhao Junma.

Zhao Junma hurriedly stood up and arched his hand, "If this is the case, Zhao will thank you very much, but the emperor is not a hungry soldier, and he can't let the adults be busy in vain, so he will take out one percent of the fishing rent as the county's remuneration, and in addition, there is a group of fishermen on the other side of the lake who are entangled together in the past few days, refusing to pay the fishing rent for the first half of this year, and I hope that the adults will deal with it as soon as possible to calm down the people's anger."

Lu Fei thought about it in his heart, listening to Master Li say that the Zhao Mansion got more than 80,000 taels of silver a year from the fishing rent of Dada Lake, wouldn't Wang Zhongren be able to get 8,000 taels a year in the past, no wonder he worked so hard.

"It's easy to say, help the county master do things, and it will hurt my feelings when I talk about silver" Lu Fei also stood up and arched his hand, "Then this matter is decided, I will go here, and I will definitely live up to the trust of the county master."

Zhao Junma was very happy, it seemed that the good feeling of being familiar at first sight yesterday had risen again, and said with a smile, "There is no need to be so eager, come, drink tea, Steward Hu, let the kitchen prepare high-quality wine and food, stay here as a guest today, go quickly, it's not too late to have lunch."

Lu Fei didn't shirk it, and after drinking tea for a long time, his stomach was really a little hungry.

Steward Hu went to the back kitchen, and the two continued to chat, each secretly thinking about it.

Not far from the shore of the big lake, there is a forest, the terrain is higher, standing at the edge of the forest, looking towards the lake, the lake is the same color, the blue waves are scaly, a few gray water birds sweep the lake from time to time, grab a small fish from the water, take off and go, the lake surface stirs up layers of ripples.

The houses on the other side of the river are hidden in the green shade, and the smoke curls in the green shade.

Two pretty figures are moving in this wood, walking in front of them in a green shirt, green silk scarf to hide their faces, only revealing a pair of alert eyes that are vigilant at any time to watch every move around them, with a three-foot long sword on her back, and a food box in her hand, she is the green shirt man Ling Dan, and behind her is her sister Ling Ning, but Ling Ning is masked with a blue silk scarf.

The two came to the two tombs in the forest that were next to each other without tombstones, stopped, Ling Dan looked around, and took off his towel without seeing any danger, and the two knelt down.

Ling Ning's eyes were red, his heart was sour, and he cried softly, "Father, mother, my daughter has come to see you."

Ling Dan looked around again, and there was only the rustling sound of grass and trees around him.

Ling Dan suppressed his voice and said, "Little sister, be quiet" As she spoke, she took out a plate of sacrifices from the food box, stacked them neatly in front of the grave, pulled her sister, and kowtowed three times in a row.

Ling Dan is now a well-known bandit, and he has long become a key criminal in the surrounding counties, it is really dangerous to show his face outside, many times he has committed crimes at the foot of the mountain, Ling Dan's stunning appearance can be remembered at a glance, and her appearance has spread all over the surrounding counties, plus she killed Wang Zhongren last night, so she has to be more careful when she goes out this time.

Ling Dan has a strong personality, but her eyes are also bright, she said softly, "Dad, mother, my daughter has avenged your second elder and hated blood, Wang Zhongren, who forced your second elder to cast into the lake for six taels of silver, he died, it was his daughter who killed him with her own hands, father, mother, under Jiuquan, you can be blind."

Speaking of this, Ling Ning lay on her sister's shoulder and sobbed softly.

Ling Dan took the little sister's hand and continued, "There is one more thing, my daughter is not filial, she was forced to be helpless, in order to find a way to live, she had to go up the mountain and fall into the grass, if she is already guilty, I hope that my father and mother will forgive, but Ling Dan assured my father and mother that my little sister has not participated in these things, in the future, I will find a good in-law for her and live a safe and stable life, my daughter promises, please rest assured."

Ling Ning raised her head and asked her sister, tears in her eyes, "Sister, I don't look for my mother-in-law, my sister and I will depend on each other for a lifetime."

Ling Dan smiled bitterly, "Little sister, if it weren't for the fact that my father and mother left early, children would have become a pair at your age, and now that my parents are here, the eldest sister is like a mother, I have the final say on your affairs, don't worry, I will definitely choose you a Ruyi Langjun you like" Ling Dan pinched the little sister's crying little nose.

Ling Ning only knew how to cry, "Sister, if you don't marry me, you won't marry, what should you do if I marry someone?" ”

Ling Dan sighed and said, "Sister is already a guilty person, and she can only be an outlaw in the future, she has not thought about these for a long time, you are doing well that is the only hope for sister in this world, listen to sister, as soon as I find a reliable man, my sister will send you down the mountain, and I will never see each other again in this life."

"Sister" Ling Ning reversed her well-behaved and obedient appearance in the past, and pulled up the hem of her sister's clothes.

Hush! Ling Dan seemed to hear some unsafe signal, and made a silent gesture, the two of them listened carefully, only to hear a commotion in the village not far from the forest, as if someone was shouting, "Come on, come on, come on", and then they heard the sound of gongs, and the surrounding villages were suddenly noisy, and there was a sound of chaos.

The two sisters looked at each other and secretly screamed in their hearts: Could it be that someone has found out!

The two of them immediately covered their face towels and burrowed into the waist-high field of crops, and disappeared in an instant.

The food in Junma Mansion is really extraordinary, not only is it full of color, flavor and flavor, but even the table full of silver tableware really surprised Lu Fei, it is really not a loss of the top Anqing Mansion is a wealthy family.

After leaving the Zhao Mansion, in addition to the magnificence of the Zhao Mansion that allowed Lu Fei to leave the idea of being happy, there was also one person in the Mansion that aroused his great interest, this person was the mistress of the Zhao Mansion, the daughter of King Ning, and the emperor's own Yunxiao County Lord, Li Yan.

During the banquet, Zhao Junma invited the lord of Yunxiao to have a banquet, and immediately hooked Lu Fei to seven souls and lost six and a half souls, this Yunxiao is a typical Bai Fumei, noble temperament, decent conversation, generous in gestures, sometimes shy and ashamed, it seems that there is some indescribable sadness hidden under that pretty face, all this in Lu Fei's eyes is so touching.

Lu Fei thought that among the women he had seen in the Tang Dynasty, Yun Niang was already the best among the beauties, but he didn't expect that this Zhao Mansion would still have a top of the best, it was really a mountain and a mountain high, and the beauty was even more colorful.

Lu Fei was a feast for his eyes during the banquet, so that Li Shun, who was standing behind him, couldn't even look at it, and poked him in the back with his hand that he couldn't remember how many times, but Lu Fei didn't know it.

And this Zhao Junma didn't seem to notice Lu Fei's greedy and evil eyes at all, and he also asked the Yunxiao County Lord to accompany the guests to drink a few more glasses, and said a bunch of things for Lu Fei to help him do while drinking, of course, in this mood, no matter what Zhao Junma asked, Lu Fei did not refuse to come, and agreed one by one, but he didn't hear anything about this matter clearly, and the left ear entered the right ear and immediately came out.

After being full of wine and food, Lu Fei was so attached that he left the Zhao Mansion and went to Xuling Town, the village and town that resisted fishing rent the most in Dadai Lake, accompanied by Steward Hu.

Steward Hu took the first step to play the front station, preparing for the imminent arrival of the county master, the county master going to the countryside is a great event, in the eyes of the local local security, it is almost equivalent to the official of the ministry summoning a seven-grade county as flattered.

The weather in the afternoon was very hot, and Lu Fei simply lifted the curtains around the sedan chair, which was much cooler.

As soon as he sat in the sedan chair, Lu Fei felt a burst of soreness in his lower back, so he opened the hem of his shirt and turned his head sideways to see that there was a finger-sized bruise on his lower back, Lu Fei couldn't think of when he got it, so he asked Li Shun on the side.

Lu Fei lifted his clothes, pointed to the red and swollen place and asked, "Master, who did this?" I don't remember a fight with someone today."

Li Shunzhi rolled his eyes and said stupidly, "Ouch, it's all poked like this, don't you feel it, master?" ”

"What, do you know who did it? Talent, even the county master's back dares to poke "Lu Fei is very dissatisfied with this practice of pointing behind his back."

Li Shun couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "Master, I did it, I'm reminding you, you, it's really not a crime, your actions today are really a bit out of line, Sage Yun, ignoring incivility, how can you just keep staring at the county lord like that, how inappropriate is this?"

Lu Fei rubbed the sore spot, and said nonchalantly, "Look at it, it's not tax, what's wrong, besides, even if you want to remind me, you don't need to stab me in the back with a stick."

Li Shun looked aggrieved, and raised his red and swollen fingers in front of Lu Fei, "This is also a stick?" Master, people's words are terrifying, and one day the people of the Zhao Mansion will poke you in the back in the back, then it will be really a big disaster."

Lu Fei looked at it, hurriedly put on a smiling face, smiled, and said inconsistently, "It's really difficult to be a master, you are too careful, master, I will just take a look at it, I don't have any other ideas"

Where did Li Shun believe that the lord's eyeballs might not have been picked up from the Yunxiao County Lord until now, he took a deep breath and said, "I hope the lord can really think so"

Zhaofu is still more than 20 miles away from Xuling Town, there is no official road to go, and the road is either a field road or a pine forest mountain road full of thorns.

The origin of the name of the place of Susong, that is, it is taken from this radius of 100 miles, the pine forest is a piece, lush and green, almost all over the county.

During the Tang Dynasty, China's population was not as dense as it is now, the total number was less than one-tenth of the current population, and most of the people at that time lived under siege, even if they were not in the city, they were not far from the city, from this city to another city, sometimes walking for several days in a row was a deserted and uninhabited no man's land, but this phenomenon is not absolute.

Susong is an exception, although there are some uninhabited places, but very few, you can see a village within a few miles, one is affected by the geographical environment of the county, there are many mountains, many pine forests, many rivers, and the endless plains by the Yangtze River, that the fields used for cultivation are less, so people gradually move away from the city, scattering and reclaiming wasteland; Second, the geographical environment of Susong brings the wind and rain, the land of fish and rice, almost what to plant and live, the population is also rapidly expanding, the county seat of 100,000 people in the Tang Dynasty in addition to a few counties under the jurisdiction of the capital is not a few, Susong County is one of the largest counties, the people in the county live in peace everywhere, or lean on the mountain, or face the water, full of eyes, smoke rises everywhere, chickens and dogs smell each other.