(ps: The ranking on the monthly pass list has plummeted, can friends give a little more support?) ）

Lu Fatzi feasted Qujing's landlords and gentry in the City God's Temple and distributed A Hibiscus seeds, and his immediate boss controlled Li Shuzu, who had been in charge of Qujing's government affairs for many years, of course, had a clear grasp of it, but Li Dazhi's Mansion did not take Lu Fatzi's free distribution of A Hibiscus seeds to heart, but focused on the fact that Lu Fatzi only charged two points for fire consumption.

You must know that the fire consumption of the incorruptible Li Da Governor's Mansion only charges only three cents - speaking with a conscience, compared with other mite Qing prefects, Li Shuzu's income is really not high, but Lu Fatzi just wants to steal the limelight of Li Da Governor's Mansion, and he will only charge two points of fire consumption if he dies, what is this not a slap in the face of Li Da Governor's Mansion? Annoyed, Governor Li had to add another crime to Lu Fatzi in the impeachment of Lu Fatzi, which increased the fire consumption and embezzled bribes!

"Bang!" After rewriting the impeachment of Lu Fatzi, Governor Li threw the best wolf pen from Kanto on the ground as if venting, gritting his teeth in his heart, "The surname is Lu, let's ride a donkey and read the record book, and we'll see!" Lin Tianqing and Lao Tzu knew each other when they were in Liaodong, and they were old acquaintances of Lao Tzu's old boss, and he must go through Qujing when he took office in Kunming. ”

"Dong Weng, Dong Weng, good news." At this moment, Li Shuzu's master, Bi Huibin, suddenly rushed into Li Shuzu's study and shouted happily: "Congratulations to Dong Weng, congratulations to Dong Weng, Wang Junmen has come back and has entered the city to go home!" ”

"Haha, Wang Junmen is back, you don't need to wait for Lin Tianqing to arrive in Qujing, you can ask for your fat man's life!" Li Shuzu laughed, jumped up and ordered: "Quick, Master Bi, you go and prepare a heavy gift, the maid will serve the official to change clothes, and go to see Wang Junmen immediately." ”

"Dong Weng, I'm afraid I'll have to prepare two gifts." Bi Huibin was fine and reminded: "The commander of the Pingxi Prince's army, General Wu Guogui Wu, is also here, he is the body of himself (confidant) in front of the Prince of Pingxi, and the righteous son of the Prince of Pingxi, this time he is on behalf of the Prince of Pingxi to inspect the military affairs of the right town, don't slack off." ”

"Wu Guogui? Hmph, Wu Laogou's dog legs! Li Shuzu snorted coldly, and after careful calculation, Li Shuzu still nodded and said: "Okay, prepare two gifts, this time I want to borrow Wang Junmen's hand to clean up the fat man Lu, don't let this dog come to make extraneous branches!" ”

Bi Huibin agreed, and at that moment, Li Shuzu hurriedly changed into official clothes, brought two gifts, took Bi Huibin and a few entourages, and hurried to Wang Fuchen's mansion in Qujing City. When I arrived at the palace, I saw that the front of Wang Fuchen's mansion was really full of lights, the traffic was busy, and the sergeants and servants were constantly coming and going.

Entering the hall of Wang Fuchen's mansion, the hall was also very lively, a large group of generals Qiu Bazheng was around a big table playing dominoes, a shouting and drinking, eating and losing money, Li Shuzu knew that Wang Fuchen was addicted to gambling, and he didn't care, just quietly walked behind Wang Fuchen, who was sitting in the village, and suddenly put Wang Fuchen on his shoulder, and shouted, "Shuangtian Supreme, kill through!" ”

"Twin Heavens Supreme, all killed!" Wang Fuchen, who was gambling hard, subconsciously yelled, and opened the pai gow in front of him, but saw that the two dominoes turned out to be a pair of broken ten, Wang Fuchen couldn't help but scold, but the gambling table was cheering, and they were scrambling to pay for it, Wang Fuchen while paying, while looking back to see whose mouth is so crow, seeing that it was Li Shuzu, Wang Fuchen couldn't help but shout angrily: "Li Futai, you never play this, call a ball indiscriminately, my Shuangtian Supreme has been called by you to fly, this bet you pay!" You pay! ”

"Wang Junmen, this can't be relied on on the lower officials, before I call, you will get the cards first." Li Shuzu shook his head and asked again: "Wang Junmen, I heard that General Wu Guogui is also here, why didn't you see anyone?" ”

"He brought his family here this time, and he plans to stay here for a few days, and now he is settling his family in the back." Wang Fuchen replied casually.

"That's better." Li Shuzu was secretly happy in his heart, and said in his heart that without Wu Sangui's henchmen beside him, it would be more convenient to speak. At that moment, Li Shuzu pulled Wang Fuchen's sleeve and said: "Wang Junmen, borrow a few steps to speak, brother, I have something to say to you." ”

"It's okay, Wang Jing, you make a few Zhuang for me and change your luck." Wang Fuchen, who was in good luck, agreed, threw the dice to the deputy general Wang Jing, and entered the back hall side by side with Li Shuzu. Without waiting for Li Shuzu to speak, Wang Fuchen took the initiative to say: "Su Yuan, I heard that your brother-in-law was arrested just now, what's the matter?" The new magistrate Lu Yifeng doesn't give you face so much? ”

"Fuchen, I'm just looking for your help in this matter." Li Shuzu cried and mourned, and roughly said about Ren Xinglai's arrest, and said through gritted teeth: "Brother Fuchen, brother, I can see it, this Lu Yifeng came to Qujing this time, and it is clear that the carriage and horse want to work against my brother and me, if we don't clean up this kid, our brother will not be comfortable in Qujing!" Brother Fuchen, in my opinion, simply use the old method of dealing with the predecessor Luo Ping Zhizhou to make this fat man Lu die unexpectedly, so as to save us a bad heart. ”

"Brother Su Yuan, it's not that I won't help you with this." Wang Fuchen said helplessly: "The key is that this Lu Yifeng is registered with the prince, this time I went to Kunming to report on work, and the prince mentioned his affairs to me alone, asking me to get along with this Lu Yifeng, don't have conflicts, and when necessary, I have to pull him." There is also the second prince, who even told me separately that Lu Yifeng is a talent promoted by him, and he wants me to give him some face and be kind to this Lu Yifeng. You say, am I embarrassed to do anything to him? ”

"What's the origin of this kid? Why do the prince and the second prince attach so much importance to him? Li Shuzu gasped, and finally put away a little contempt for Fat Lu.

"I don't know the specifics, but there is news that this year, the imperial court has increased the military salary of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces by 400,000 taels, and this kid has the credit." Wang Fuchen replied casually, and said with a smile: "Also, this kid doesn't know what shit luck he had, he actually kidnapped Xiao Gege of Pingnan Wangfu as his wife, and the prince and Shang Kexi didn't deal with it all his life, and even his jaw dislocated when he heard this, of course, he was even more reluctant to die of this living treasure." ”

"What? That kid's wife is Xiao Gege of Pingnan Wangfu? Li Shuzu was startled again, and said in shock: "That day outside the Qujing County Ya, I saw his wife, a very beautiful little beauty, that Lu fat man is ugly like that, can he still turn into such a beautiful little Gege?" ”

"Eighty percent is blind, no matter how beautiful it is, can Wu Guogui's baby daughter Eight-sided Guanyin be beautiful?" Wang Fuchen snorted disdainfully, and said: "In this way, I will send someone to call that Lu Yifeng, ask him to give me a face, let your brother-in-law go, and ask him to be respectful to you, otherwise I won't be able to spare him." If he refuses to give this face, we will discuss it slowly. ”

Li Shuzu was a little unconvinced, but considering that Lu Fatzi is now a big celebrity in front of Wu Sangui, forcing Wang Fuchen to kill him, Wang Fuchen will definitely not do it, it is better to rescue his brother-in-law for the time being, and then there will be a chance to clean up this Lu Fatzi in the future. Thinking of this, Li Shuzu reluctantly nodded and said, "Then Cheng, please leave it to Brother Fuchen." ”

Seeing that Li Shuzu had no opinion, Wang Fuchen immediately called an entourage and asked him to use his name to stab him to Qujing County to invite Lu Fatzi, and said: "Brother Li, I'm addicted, and I have to play a few pai gow, do you want to go?" If you're not interested, then you can wait in the back hall for a while, and when that fat man Lu comes, I'll bring him in to see you. ”

Li Shuzu regarded himself as high, and naturally did not want to go to a group of old Qiu Ba to drink five and six, expressing his willingness to stay in the back hall to drink tea and wait, Wang Fuchen was just polite a few words, and he couldn't wait to run back to the front hall to continue gambling, and at this moment the gamblers at the gambling table in the front hall have more than doubled than just now, Wang Jing, who replaced Wang Fuchen as a banker, was full of red light, and his face was also full of cash, obviously he had excellent luck and had won a lot. Wang Fuchen didn't say a word, went up and put the silver in front of Wang Jing, and shouted excitedly: "Brother Wang Jing, borrow your good luck, partner up to be a villager, and kill ten handfuls!" ”

"Well said." Wang Jing, who was on the rise, greeted: "Quick, the bet is fast, buy it and leave." ”

"I'll bet a hundred taels." A white fat man took the lead in betting one hundred taels of silver on the Heavenly Gate position. Wang Jing said with a smile: "This brother, you have such bad luck, you have lost more than two hundred taels, and you dare to play so big?" ”

"If you don't focus on it, how can you get the money?" The white fat man asked unconvinced with an authentic Yunnan accent.

"Yes, yes, if you don't focus on it, how can you get it back?" The big winner Wang Jing laughed, and hurriedly beckoned people to bet, and everyone also saw that the white fat man was outrageously lucky, and he didn't dare to die with him, mostly in the left and right positions, Wang Jing took the opportunity to throw out the dice and distribute Pai Gow. The white fat man didn't open the pai gow after taking it, but slowly groped with his fat palm, and Wang Jing's hand was not very good, a deck of cards that were not big or small killed the left family and lost the right family, so he was also a little nervous about the Tianmen position, and couldn't wait to ask: "Fat man, what card?" ”

"Fuck it, it's crappy again!" The white fat man screamed miserably, and threw the unopened dominoes into the pile of dominoes. Wang Jing and Wang Fuchen both laughed, and couldn't wait to receive the one hundred taels of silver in their hands and divide them. The white fat man took out a few silver tickets from his body, threw them on the table, and shouted: "If this gives me three hundred taels, I won't believe it, and it will be a lame ten!" ”

Three hundred taels of silver is not a small amount, it is already higher than Wang Jing and Wang Fuchen's annual salary, and it is equivalent to the annual income of twenty ordinary soldiers, which is definitely the largest bet on this gambling table so far. At the moment, Wang Jing and Wang Fuchen were both eyes shining, and they couldn't wait to beckon everyone to bet, and threw the dice and dealt cards, and after the fat man got the shot, he still groped with a nervous expression, until Wang Jing, who had excellent luck, showed a pair of miscellaneous nine, and the fat man screamed like a pig and showed a miscellaneous eight, and held three hundred taels of silver in front of Wang Fuchen and Wang Jing with both hands.

So a few down, the fat man except for a handful of won ten taels, the rest of the gambling is either angry and throws cards, or the cards shown are smaller than Wang Jing's cards, and he lost more than a thousand taels of silver in one breath, and sighed continuously. Wang Fuchen and Wang Jing couldn't close their mouths with a smile, they had a good impression of this fat sheep, and after winning the fat man's two hundred taels of silver, Wang Jing also asked with a smile: "This brother, is your face tight?" What's your name, is it a guerrilla or a guerrilla, are you interested in coming to my account? I'll give you a step up. ”

"Get out!" Wang Fuchen yelled and pushed Wang Jing away, and said with a smile: "This brother, is it under the account of the general?" Come to my middle army, and I'll give you a two-level promotion. ”

"Back to the military, a lowly position is not a military attaché, it is a civilian position." The fat man put two hundred taels of silver in the Tianmen position to place a bet, and said with a sad face: "The lowly name is Lu Yifeng, and he is the newly appointed Qujing Zhixian County. ”

"You are Lu Yifeng? I sent someone to look for you just now, why did you come here first? Wang Fuchen was taken aback. Over there, Wang Jing greeted with bright eyes: "It turned out to be Lord Lu, I am Wang Jing, the deputy general of Yunnan, in the future, we will run errands for the prince in a city, and we will gather more when we have time." ”

"Of course." Lu Fatzi nodded innocently, and greeted again: "Wang Junmen, the casino has no size, betting is a big deal, I brought two thousand taels of silver today, and I have the capital to pull the capital, and I have repeatedly given you a gift." ”

"Yes, that's a good brother." Wang Jingmei smiled, and hurriedly threw out the dice, over there Wang Fuchen was also a person who was addicted to gambling, so he quickly left other things behind and shifted his attention to the gambling table.

This hand, Lu Fat lost again, angry, Lu Fat put the remaining four hundred taels all on a handful, and after the dominoes were issued, Wang Jing, who was a banker, got a very small deck of cards, almost lost, Lu Fat laughed while touching the cards, "Okay, I won this ......." Laughing at this, Fat Lu couldn't laugh anymore, and muttered in despair: "No, it's lame again?" ”

"Crappy ten!" Wang Jing and Wang Fuchen laughed wildly together, and hurriedly took away the last four hundred taels in front of Lu Fatzi. Lu Fatzi scolded his luck and was about to throw the cards that were not uncovered into the card pile, but he never thought that a hand suddenly stretched out next to him, snatching the cards in Lu Fatman's hand, Lu Fatzi was startled and quickly turned his head to look, but saw that the person who appeared in front of him was a middle-aged man in his forties, and his appearance was very majestic, Lu Fatzi hurriedly asked: "This general, dare to ask the name of the honorable person." ”

"Wu Guogui, the commander of the escort army in front of the prince, Xuzhangjing." The middle-aged man replied with a smile. After touching Lu Fatzi's cards again, and found that it was a pair of Shuangtian Supreme that could not be bigger, Wu Guogui threw the cards into the pile of dominoes and scrambled them, and then smiled: "Sure enough, it is lame, Lord Lu, you are really good at carrying this luck, don't gamble, keep some silver to raise your little Gege." ”

"General Wu's lesson is that he has lost his humble position, and he doesn't dare to gamble." Fat Lu smiled, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief - if Wu Guogui showed the Double Heavens Supreme, Lu Fatzi's wishful thinking of deliberately leaving a good impression on Wang Fuchen and others would be in vain.

"I heard that on your first day in office, you arrested the prefect's brother-in-law, is there such a thing?" Wu Guogui refused to let go of Fat Lu, and seeing Fat Lu nodding and admitting, Wu Guogui smiled again and said: "You are really not a small county magistrate, you don't even give face to your boss, you don't want to be a magistrate?" ”

"General Wu, it's not that he deliberately offended his boss with his humble position, but he didn't dare to violate the king's law." Lu Fatzi said eloquently: "That Ren Xinglai forged the documents, forcibly occupied the land of the people, the evidence is conclusive, he was not arrested in his humble position, he was responsible for the grace of the prince, and he was sorry for the people of Li in Qujing, and I was sorry for the generals and brothers in the army who were present." So there was no way, so I had to arrest him. ”

"Master Lu, if you don't arrest Ren Xinglai, why are you sorry for us?" Wang Jing, the deputy general who had a very good impression of Lu Fatzi, asked curiously while counting the silver.

"General Wang, do you know how much the salt you eat is?" Lu Fatzi asked rhetorically, and said: "As far as my brother knows, the salt used in Qujing's army was bought from Ren Xinglai's salt number, and the price is four times that of other salt numbers, so I won't talk about him, what's even more annoying is that Ren Xinglai is still mixing white ash with the salt you eat, brother, if I don't clean him up, General Wang and your brothers haven't eaten white ash for so many years?" Also, instead of letting Ren Xinglai earn money with ash salt and rice mixed with chaff, wouldn't it be a good thing to save it, add a pair of shoes and some pocket money to the brothers in the team, and make some good food along the way? ”

"That's right, that's right." Wang Jingben was extremely uneasy with Li Shuzu, and when he heard Lu Fatzi say this, he was the first to echo: "Brother Lu, you'd better kill that Ren Xinglai in prison and give the brothers a good breath of evil." ”

"yes, kill that bastard." The other generals present all echoed it, and they were all very dissatisfied with Ren Xinglai's control of the army's supply of salt and rice. Wang Fuchen had a fever on his face, and he was embarrassed to ask Fat Lu to let him go. Wu Guogui smiled and said, "In this way, are you determined to severely punish that Ren Xing?" ”

"Back to General Wu, the lower officials don't dare to make presumptuous claims." Lu Fatzi replied respectfully, and then turned to Wang Fuchen and said more respectfully: "Wang Junmen, I have heard about the humble position for a long time, Li Shuzu Li Futai is your confidant and friend, so although the humble position has already mastered enough evidence to kill Ren Xinglai's head and rob his family, he still doesn't dare to make his own claims, so I have come to ask you for instructions to see if you think that the humble position should truthfully report the evidence of Ren Xinglai's crime, and ask the court to deal with it strictly?" Or acquit him and let him continue to supply salt and rice to the brethren in the army? ”

"This ......." Wang Fuchen was a little dumbfounded, and said in his heart that your kid asked me in front of so many generals, if I say that he is acquitted, will I bring troops in the future?

"Wang Junmen, what are you polite to deal with this kind of scum?" Wang Jing shouted dissatisfiedly, "Do you want to leave him behind and continue to eat salt mixed with white ash for the brothers?" Rice mixed with bran? The other generals nodded one after another, and they did not approve of Ren Xinglai's acquittal.

"Vice Admiral Wang, don't care if you say something that you don't like." Lu Fatzi said to Wang Jing very seriously: "As we all know, Wang Junmen is a righteous person, who is righteous to the brothers in the army, and even more righteous to his friends!" Li Zhifu is Wang Junmen's confidant and friend, if Wang Junmen ignores his good friend's brother-in-law for a little trivial matter mixed with ash and chaff, how can he explain to Li Futai? Therefore, as long as Wang Junmen said a word, the lower officials would never embarrass Wang Junmen, and immediately gave Ren Xinglai bail for trial, and then slowly turned big things into small things. ”

Lu Fatzi said it better than anyone else, but in fact, he blocked Wang Fuchen into a dead end - for the sake of friends, Wang Fuchen asked Lu Fatzi to let Ren Xinglai go, but how did Wang Fuchen explain to the generals under his command who had lived and died together for many years? How will you convince the public in the future? Therefore, Wang Fuchen was inevitably even more embarrassed, and he didn't know how to answer.

"This fat man Lu is really cunning." Wu Guogui smiled secretly in his heart, and said with a smile on his lips: "Wang Junmen, I think Lu Zhixian is reasonable, your friendship with Li Futai is important, Wang Ye, I will take care of you, let this Ren Xinglai go." ”

Wang Jing and the other generals stopped talking, and they all snorted coldly in their hearts, waiting for Wang Fuchen's reaction. Wang Fuchen had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Lord Lu, what you said is not right, as the magistrate of Qujing, since you found that Ren Xinglai was rampant and bullied the market, you should be severely punished, how can you think of perfunctory prevarication and help the prisoner turn a big thing into a small thing, and a small thing?" ”

"But, Wang Junmen, how can you explain to Li Futai?" Lu Fatzi was also full of embarrassment, "If for this trivial matter, you and Li Futai will turn against each other, then you will die of your humble position." ”

"His brother-in-law violated the king's law, and you want to blame me for not saving his brother-in-law?" Wang Fuchen snorted: "Besides, Lu Zhixian is a civil official, I, Wang Fuchen, am a military general, and I have no right to interfere with your case, why should he blame me?" ”

"In this case, Wang Junmen insisted on killing his relatives ...... righteousness." Fat Lu made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "Then the lowly position has no choice but to be respectful than obey the fate, please rest assured that the lowly position will definitely let Ren Xinglai get the punishment he deserves!" ”

Forcing Wang Fuchen to make concessions, Lu Fatzi, who knew that Wang Fuchen would be an important assistant to Wu Sangui in the future against the Qing Dynasty, did not offend Wang Fuchen too much, and hurriedly added, "One more thing, Wang Junmen, I don't know if you have any relatives in your family who are doing business or leisure?" After the lower officials confiscated Ren Xinglai's firm in accordance with the law, in order not to affect the salt and grain used in the army, the lowly government would ask the governor Yamen to agree to transfer his business name as soon as possible, and hand over the silver sold to the state treasury. ”

"Damn, although this dead fat man is a bit two hundred and five, he is quite sensible, so don't forget to give it to me first if it is good." Wang Fuchen was greatly satisfied, and said vaguely: "Now that Ren Xinglai has not been convicted, let's talk about this matter slowly." ”

After this turmoil, it was getting late, and the banquet at Wang Fuchen's house was also ready, Wang Fuchen invited Lu Fatzi and Wu Guogui and others to the banquet, and Lu Fatzi and others thanked him. also took this opportunity, Lu Fatzi thanked Wu Guogui in a low voice: "Thank you, General Wu, without your help, it would not be easy to pass today's hurdle." Originally, he was not afraid that Wang Junmen would force him to release him, but he was worried that he would hurt his anger and miss the prince's major event. ”

"Don't thank me, go and thank the prince and your teacher, I am acting on orders." Wu Guogui smiled and said: "This time, the prince sent me to Qujing, in addition to inspecting the military affairs of Qujing for the prince as usual, there is also an envoy, that is, to help you in front of Wang Fuchen - you had a conflict with Li Shuzu on the first day of your tenure, but the prince and your teacher already knew about it the next day. The prince also asked me to tell you that Li Shuzu, a bastard, the prince has long looked at him unpleasantly, if you can knock him down and overturn, the prince will be very happy. ”

"Obey the order, please rest assured that the general and the prince are at ease." Lu Fatzi respectfully agreed--if he didn't kill Li Shuizu, a hardcore man, under his nose, Lu Fatzi would not dare to let go of many big things, even if Wu Sangui didn't have this order, Lu Fatzi would use all means to make Li Shuzu unable to turn over.

(To be continued)