Chai Baochen took out the letter of recommendation, took out a piece of broken silver from the cloth bag on his waist, handed it to Menzi, arched his hand, and said, "You have to give this letter to Master Chen." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info said that he wanted to meet later. "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Menzi's face smiled like a chrysanthemum, he put the silver money in his arms, and ran quickly into the yaya with a letter of recommendation.

After a while, the county commander Chen Fugui Chen came out of the mansion, and saw Chai Baochen dressed as a freshman, and his air was magnificent, he was very satisfied, and hurriedly said: "It turns out that the relatives have arrived, okay, it is worthy of Lord Wei's fast son-in-law, hurry, please inside." As he spoke, Lord Chen walked in front and led Chai Baochen into the study in the backyard of the county government to speak.

After entering the study, the guests and hosts sat down, and Lord Chen shouted: "Uncle Zhang, serve tea to the guests." After a while, Uncle Zhang came up with a tea tray. They were placed separately on the coffee table next to the master and Chai Baochen. "Virtuous nephew, this is the best Longjing, please!" "Thank you, Master Chen!" Chai Baochen bowed slightly, held up the teacup with his right hand, sniffed it first, and then showed a very enjoyable expression, and then his lips touched the tea slightly, it was indeed good tea! As soon as the tongue was touched by the tea, a bitter and slightly sweet mist penetrated into the nose through the teeth and cheeks, and then spread to the entire heart. Immediately, the fatigue of all the internal organs was gone. Chai Baochen praised "Good tea!" ”

"Virtuous nephew, I read the letter that Wei Su's original husband suddenly fell off his horse and died on the way to greet his relatives, what happened to him?" Chen Fugui asked casually while sipping tea. Chai Baochen observed his words, although Lord Chen's expression looked careless, but his two eyes kept looking at his side, expecting the answer.

Because this Lord Chen is a distant relative of Wei Zhen, and he is busy with the official affairs of a county, and he can only take a day off every ten days, he did not appear in person when Wei Su got married, but only ordered his subordinates to go and salute, and he did not know what happened when Wei Su got married. Moreover, on the day of the wedding, the guests were always immersed in joy, and Wei Zhen had never publicized the matter of Jinyiwei, so only a few people knew about the affairs of Chai Baochen and his party.

Chai Baochen paused and replied: "My lord, my wife Wei Su was originally going to marry the son of Lord Xu, the prefect of Xi'an Prefecture, but there was a little accident on the day of the marriage, and the Xu Gongzi died on the way to marry, after all, Wei Su did not enter the Xu family, he is not a member of the Xu family, and he cannot be a widow for Xu Gongzi for a lifetime, so Lord Wei married Wei Su to me." And the prefect Lord Xu's family is a big official, so in this way, Lord Wei asked me to take Wei Su to live outside for a few years, avoiding their Xu family, so as not to make trouble for the Xu family. ”

"It turns out that the process is so tortuous, as the saying goes, if you don't help anyone, I will naturally arrange your life. Lord Wei said, you have a reputation for showing talent, but you can be a scribe, this is no problem, you will officially take office tomorrow, and the monthly money is two taels of silver, how about it? ”

"Thank you so much, Lord Chen!"

"Don't be formal, Wei Su calls me Uncle Chen, in the future, in private, you can call me Uncle Chen, I like the younger generation to be close to me."

"Yes, my nephew remembers."

"Well, good. You just arrived today, Kurama Lawton, go back and make arrangements first. ”

"Yes, the little nephew is retiring."

Out of the yamen, the man said to Chai Baochen, "Official, go slowly." ”

Chai Baochen walked out two steps, turned around again, and said to Menzi: "I will come back tomorrow, but I am not here to meet anyone, I will work in the yamen in the future." ”

As soon as Menzi heard this, his eyes rolled, and he was a person in the yamen for a while, and he must have something to do with the county commander, this person can't be offended, not to mention that he will fight this every day in the future, and hurriedly took out the broken silver that Chai Baochen gave him just now from his waist, and respectfully handed it to Chai Baochen, with a smile on his face but a reluctant smile, and said: "Official, this money will be returned to you." ”

"Hey~ How can it, give it to you, you just take it. Excuse me, where are there any houses for rent in the vicinity? ”

"Yes, but I don't know. You go and ask Zhang's mother, she is the proprietress of the alley in front of you and turn left 'Tofu Shih', and whoever has a house to rent out will tell her on weekdays. ”

When Chai Baochen heard this, he understood that the proprietress of "Tofu Shih" was a part-time intermediary company, so she walked over to the "Tofu Shih" store. It's not far away, turning two alleys, and far away, I heard Zhang's mother shouting loudly there, "Sell tofu, sell tofu, Zhang's mother's tofu is big and round, eat bowl after bowl, bowl after bowl, Zhang mother's tofu ~ fragrant and sweet!" When Chai Baochen heard this, he felt that he was selling rice balls instead of tofu. Alas, whatever, I'm not buying tofu, no matter how fragrant it is, it's none of my business. So, he walked forward quickly and arched his hand, "Mom Zhang, hello." The contemptible people are looking for you. ”

Zhang's mother is about thirty-five or sixteen years old, others sell tofu and do rough work are wearing linen clothes, but this Zhang's mother is dressed in lake blue satin, looking very coquettish, the so-called half-old are talking about this kind of person, it seems that she was very beautiful when she was young, and she did not lose the signboard of "Tofu Shih Tzu", but now she has been cut out of crow's feet by the years of this sha pig knife again and again. She stared at Chai Baochen up and down, and then said angrily: "Childe, what are you looking for a concubine?" He also deliberately dragged the word "childe" for a long time.

"Ahem" Chai Baochen felt that there were many gray lines above his head, for fear of causing misunderstanding, so he stopped being polite and went straight to the point, "I want to rent a house, it is best to bring a yard, there are a total of four people in the family, I live alone, and I don't share a house with others." ”

As soon as Zhang's mother heard that business was coming, she no longer joked with Chai Baochen, and ordered the store: "Xiao Pengpeng, show my sister the store, I will come when I go." After that, he pulled Chai Baochen's sleeve and said, "Childe, please, let's talk while walking, this house is really there, and I haven't asked Childe about his surname, what do you do for a living?" Chai Baochen replied: "The contemptible person's surname is Chai, his name is Baochen, and he is now the scribe of the county government." ”

"Oh, Childe, then you are a VIP, I will find you a decent mansion, not far to the east."

A tea time, Zhang's mother took Chai Baochen to the door of a house, this house is really magnificent, the vermilion lacquer gate, there are two big lions at the door, there is a large open space in front of the door, a few plane trees shade the scorching sun, the wall is long enough, Zhang's mother took out the key, opened the door lock, pushed the door open, and invited Chai Baochen in. Walk into this house and see, it is a two-entry courtyard, the front yard is not big, there are three rooms, a walkway in the middle leads directly to the inner courtyard, to the inner courtyard, the space is suddenly wide. Chai Baochen saw that there was a garden on the east and west sides of the yard, planted with peonies, lilies and other famous flowers. Facing the aisle are four south-facing houses, carved beams on the pillars, and there are bird beak shapes on the eaves, and the so-called high pecks of the eaves are also. When I opened the room, the room was fully furnished, but there was a lack of some daily necessities such as bedding and tea cups. Come to think of it, it is inconvenient for the owner of the house to move these heavy objects when he moves.

After Chai Baochen looked at the house, he thought to himself, this house is very suitable for me, my wife Wei Su and I live in the inner courtyard, the front three rooms, one is used as a kitchen, and the other two master and Wan'er are one by one. And the backyard is very large, and you can avoid people's eyes and ears when practicing martial arts on weekdays. In addition, there are so many flowers for Mrs. and Wan'er to take care of, which can relieve the loneliness of idleness. He looked at Zhang's mother and asked, "Zhang's mother, I don't know what the rent price here is?" ”

"It's good to say, it's easy to say, you have also seen this mansion, this is the old residence of Lord Xu Weihan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, because Lord Xu entered Beijing as an official, he asked me to help take care of it, and he had to clean it every day, so that I could rent it out, and he didn't want a penny for the room. In this way, you are a nobleman, I will charge you a tael of silver every month for rent, and you help take care of this courtyard, I don't know what the son wants? ”

Chai Baochen thought, this rent is equivalent to half of his monthly income, it is really not cheap, but it is not expensive, and it is worth it even if people offer two taels of silver per month. Besides, there is no shortage of money at the moment, and it is not necessarily possible to have such a good environment if it is cheaper elsewhere. So he happily agreed, took out six taels of silver from his waist pocket, and said: "This is half a year's house money, you take it first, our family will live in it and see, if it is suitable, renew the contract in half a year, I don't know if Zhang's mother agrees?" ”

Zhang's mother originally did to take care of the house for others, and now she can earn twelve taels of silver a year, of course she is happy. Besides, Chai Baochen has an extraordinary bearing, and he is on an errand in the yamen, so he will definitely not default on the house payment. took the silver in Chai Baochen's hand, his face was happy, and he said with a smile: "Chai Gongzi, it's okay to eat tofu at my place, come and eat tofu, patronize more, let's be born and cooked twice." ”