Chapter 784: Scholar of the East Pavilion (I)

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Chessboard Hutong, the back garden of Shenfu.

The first snow of the year came a little earlier than usual, starting in the evening and rustling until dark. It wasn't until I woke up the next morning that I heard that it was silent outside, and the snow must have stopped.

Shen Mo opened her eyes, Ruohan beside her was still sleeping, only to see that her face was red and tender, her eyebrows were curved like distant mountains, her eyelashes were slender and slightly moving, and her smooth and flat forehead made her face look extremely elegant. And the fair and small nose and ruddy cherry-like lips, against the backdrop of some unkempt hair, add a bit of charm to her beautiful face, and she looks very cute.

No matter how Shen Mo looked, he couldn't tell that she was already a mother of three and a half children...... She's still pregnant with one in her belly. There are no family planning tools in this era, and he has been in the capital all the time, so Ruohan didn't come to the body last month, so he asked the female doctor in the palace to come to check the pulse, congratulations to the master, Mrs. Hexi, there is it again.

Shen Mo remembered that Rou Niang also had some signs, so he asked the female doctor to show her too, and the result was also there. Originally, he was very happy, but when he thought about it, he couldn't be happy again, what kind of excitement is this kind of thing, who will serve the master with a big belly...... But thinking that the few girls around Ruohan were really cute and lovely, he was itching in his heart, and he said that he would coax his wife well in a few days to see if he could discuss it.

"What do you think?" But Ruohan didn't know when he woke up.

"Well, what about admiring Sleeping Beauty," Shen Mo smacked his lips, "It's a pity that I can't eat it." ”

"Virtue ......" Ruohan smiled and pinched him, and whispered: "Are you worried about Xiu Tao and Li Kite?" "It was her carefully selected personal maid, with a slender figure, a beautiful appearance, a simple mind, and a loyal person, which was the perfect weapon for the eldest woman to use in the town.

"Ahem......" Seeing that his careful thoughts were exposed, Shen Mo's face was a little unbearable, and he said with a straight face: "Who do you think your master is?" As he spoke, he pulled the hanging cord from the head of the bed and sat up.

The two maids who slept outside had already gotten up, and had been listening to the movement inside in a daze, but they didn't know what they had heard, and their little faces all became red. was stupid, the bell rang, but they were startled, quickly pushed the door in from the outside, saw that the master was going to get up, and the lady was going to lie in bed, Li Yuan quickly took off the master's clothes from the warm cage, and waited for him to put it on, Xiu Tao brought a Chenghua Doucai grape pattern tea cup, carefully brewed a cup of tea, sent it to Ruohan's hand, and whispered to Andao: "Madame, please use tea." ”

When you get up in the morning, you can sip a cup of Lanxue tea with purple pineapple, which can calm your nerves, and Ruohan has this habit every time she is pregnant. She took the teacup, a pair of slender eyes with bright waves, looked at Xiu Tao's slightly red face, sighed in her heart, and absentmindedly opened the lid of the tea cup, leaned into her mouth and gently blew the hot air, took a sip in her mouth, rinsed her mouth in the spit pot that Xiu Tao held, and came out for a while before slowly taking a second sip.

Miss Qianjin drank two sips of tea, and Shen Mo was already dressed neatly, and when she heard the door of the east wing room open, she remembered the footsteps and couldn't help laughing: "The two stinky boys got up early, you lie down for a while, and I'll go see them." ”

Ruohan nodded, handed the teacup to Xiu Tao, and then pulled the brocade quilt up, and said with some concern: "I don't think this Mr. Li is a thing......

"How?" Shen Mo took the tea and rinsed his mouth, and asked, "Are the two boys naughty again?" ”

"That's not ......," Ruohan said, "I haven't worried much about it in the past few months." ”

"That's not the end of it." Shen Mo picked up the winter hat and said with a smile: "This shows that it is right to look for Mr. Li." ”

'Affection, what you ask of your son, is that you don't be naughty? Ruohan couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "If you want to say that they have a lot of respect for Mr. Li, they have really become 'master and apprentice like father and son'." But this Mr. Li is too individual, so let them sit in the school for half a day, and the remaining half a day, either take them to the street and tell them about the world; or take them to the side courtyard to practice martial arts; He even went to the barracks, taught them to ride horses and shoot arrows, and took the children into the wild...... No, I went to the front yard as soon as it was dawn and followed Mr. Li to kick his legs......"

"Practicing three dogs in summer and practicing three nines in winter, not bad." Shen Mo said happily.

Seeing that he was so unconcerned, Ruohan was anxious, raised his voice and said: "My son is going to study and become an official, learn to ride horses and fight all day long, and waste his studies" said angrily: "If you don't persuade Mr. Li again, I will ask Gao Ming" I don't blame her for being angry, she is a dignified champion and a scholarly family, but she is looking for a martial artist to be a teacher for her children, what kind of road is this?

"You dare" Shen Mo frowned, and said in a low voice: "My silent son, don't read too much, learning skills is the most important"

"You ......" Ruohan was bitter for a while, and wanted to cry: "What is the benefit of raising but not teaching?" He said angrily: "If the child in the belly is a girl, if it is still a child, it will be strangled to death when it is born." ”

"Alas...... The woman sees. Shen Mo shook his head and sighed: "You will know my intentions in the future, and you will definitely not pit the child." After speaking, he gritted his teeth at her and smiled: "Good, don't be naughty, it's the mother of four children." After saying that, the lady, who didn't care about crying and laughing, flashed out of the room.

In order to keep the interior warm, the outside of the house is not outdoors, but a glass-covered warm corridor, in which all kinds of flowers and trees are placed. When I walked to the end of the corridor, I pushed open the door and lifted the thick curtain, only to suddenly feel the cold and biting of the winter morning.

But the air is really fresh, Shen Mo took a deep breath, and then looked at the scene in the courtyard. The snow had stopped, and it was frozen into ice again, and I saw a tree in the courtyard swaying with snow and silver leaves. A gust of wind blew, and the snow fell from the leaves of the trees, falling on the white ground, and immediately became invisible.

However, the white snow was not perfect, and a black footprint stretched from his feet to the Moon Gate Cave. Shen Mo couldn't help but shake his head, and said in his heart, these two boys are really ruining the fun.

Despite this, he followed their footsteps and walked to the small garden behind the study hall in the front yard. After listening to a piece of bamboo covered with snow, there was the shouting of two children, and the sound of the wind brought by fists and feet. He stood on his feet, and through the gap between the bamboos, he saw that Li Chengliang was taking Aji and Shifen to fight a set of boxing. The sound of punches and feet was naturally made by Li Chengliang, and the two children could only use their mouths to cheer themselves for the time being, but they were meticulous in every move, and the snow droplets splashed between the fists and feet, which was quite a bit vigorous.

After watching quietly for a while, Shen Mo decided not to disturb them, so he quietly withdrew from the school and went straight to the study in the front yard. Wang Yin, the only one who had no family, was eating breakfast outside, and when he saw Shen Mo coming in, he beckoned him to eat with him.

Of course, Shen Mo was not polite, sat down to serve himself a bowl of soy milk, picked up a fritter and took a bite, and said, "Today is the day of the hair, right?" ”

Wang Yin was drinking a bowl of porridge in a small sip, glancing at the yellow calendar on the wall and said, "Twenty-seven today." ”

"That's ......" nodded silently, looked in the direction of Guangyingku in the south of the city, and said quietly: "It's already noisy there." ”

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Guangying Treasury is one of the treasury of the household department for storing money and grain, and it is extremely well guarded. There are three warehouse doors, each one is two zhang high and three zhang wide, and it means to store the property of two capitals and thirteen provinces...... Of course, it's just good wishes. Each warehouse door is two, the upper and lower are equipped with groove wheels, when the warehouse is opened, it is pushed to both sides, and when the warehouse is closed, it is pushed to the middle, which is used when the warehouse silver grain and various goods enter and exit the warehouse; There is a small door open on each warehouse door for the household department personnel to check the entry and exit of the warehouse. All people entering and leaving are subject to body searches, even household officials.

The square in front of the treasury was full of mules and horses, and there were many porters carrying baskets and burdens. There was also a long queue outside the door, the eighteen yamen officials wearing soap shirts, the patrol police of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and the registered officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, all kinds of mixed together, laughter, scolding, shouting, shouting and coaxing were intertwined, until people were dizzy.

Today is the day when the officials in Beijing receive their salaries, and in addition to these officials who are not in the stream, the Beijing officials of various yamen are also among them...... Of course, adults will not show this eye, naturally there are subordinates to receive it for them, so most of the people who get up early in the morning to receive the money are officials below the fifth grade. However, they would not get together with those rough people, but lined up in six rows at the very nearest door, frowning one by one, closing their mouths, and looking back with disdain from time to time, obviously very dissatisfied with these rough people who were also receiving money today. In the past, they were all collected in separate periods, but Zhang Juzheng, who is now in charge of the household department, believes that the front will drag on too long, and it will not be completed until the end of the month, which will delay the affairs of the ministry. At this time, the household department has abundant manpower, so it is completely possible to send more manpower, and all departments will distribute it at the same time, so that you can save two days and do what you should do.

Xu Yangzheng reminded Zhang Juzheng, saying that this will not be a decent official and attract criticism? Zhang Juzheng thinks that it is worth saving two days a month and enduring some rumors. Besides, even if there is criticism, he can only talk about it in private, and he can't put it on the table, so he still insists on doing it.

At the end of the day, the sky was bright, the snow had stopped, and the three small doors of the Guangying Warehouse were opened, and the treasurers carried the heavy desks and placed them next to the small doors from the inside, so as to prevent anyone from rushing into the warehouse.

A large pile of money and grain had been stacked neatly and piled up behind the desk, and the officials of the household department were also standing behind the desk, ready to distribute the money according to the department.

The officials, who were about to freeze, finally began to pace and move their numb limbs, ready to hurry in to get their money and leave this cold and noisy place.

A household official who looked like Lang Zhong came out and shouted, nothing more than to obey the order, not to violate the king's law, etc., and then explained the location of each yamen, and began to let people in. The officials walked to the area where the yamen was located, reported their positions and names, and the ambassador quickly found the corresponding bags of money and grain. After all, the officials were protégés of Confucius and Mencius, and they were embarrassed to investigate the baht, so most of them didn't open it to check, and after signing it, they went straight inside, and then went out of Guangying Library through the other side door.

However, the innermost warehouse gate is dedicated to issuing money and rice to the officials of the four yamen, namely the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Hanlin Academy, the Guozijian, and the Six Branch Corridors. These four yamen are all clear-streamed, and they are the ones who usually impeach officials and correct the evils of the times. Compared with the rest of the powerful yamen, they are the poorest, but they are the most difficult to provoke, and their provocative skills are also invincible. Put them in the innermost part to avoid too much entanglement and affect other yamen to receive them. Of course, this is unspeakable.

At first, the distribution here was also normal, until a few unrecognizable young officials appeared in front of the big case......

A head of the household department who was in charge of signing in asked without raising his head: "May I ask which yamen serves and respects the name?" ”

A cold voice said: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate supervises the Imperial Shi Zhan Yangpi"

The name was a household name, and the head of the household looked up at him, and saw that it was a young, thin face with an iron blue on it. Thinking that he was frozen, the principal didn't care, so he said casually: "Disrespectful, please wait." ”

At this time, the scribe next to him had already found the one with 'Duchayuan' written on the cover from the several rosters in front of him, and turned it upside down from the back cover, and found the three words 'Zhan Yangpi' at once, and sang: "Lord Zhan is seven products, give one stone of rice, two taels of silver, and thirty pieces of money." ”

The principal turned the list upside down, put it in front of Zhan Yangbi, handed him the brush and said, "Please sign it." ”

The man quickly took the pen, and under the space with his name written, Long Feifeng Wu wrote the three words 'Zhan Yangbi'. At the same time, a small bag of money and grain for a seven-rank official rested on the table.

Zhan Yangbi put down his pen, picked up the money and grain bag, opened it and saw that there were three taels of silver, a stack of treasure money, and a stack of food stamps for the capital's 'Fengdengxing'...... With this ticket, you can go to this famous grain shop in the capital and redeem the corresponding amount of grain. This is also the trick that Zhang Juzheng made, it is said that it can save time and effort and can be flexibly withdrawn, but the imperial court Lu rice, but also go to the merchant's store to withdraw, which makes him feel a little unhappy.

But the greater unhappiness was not this, but something else, he reached in, took out the three taels of silver, put it on the table, and said with a dark face: "Give it a change." ”

The principal was stunned and said, "What's there to change here?" As he spoke, he picked up the snowflake silver ingot, looked at it, and said, "What do you want to change it to?" He handed it back to Zhan Yangbi.

Who knew that Zhan Yangbi didn't answer at all, a few words popped out from between his teeth, and said coldly: "I think this money is dirty"

Only then did the principal understand that the other party was here to make trouble, and his face was a little angry: "It's such a blockage, don't pull it down." ”

"I am an official of the imperial court, and I only take the money of the imperial court," Zhan Yangbi slapped the table and said to the principal: "Don't give it to profiteers."

Immediately a pot exploded behind him, and countless heads rushed over, and countless pairs of searching eyes stared at the main person and said, "Where did all this silver come from?" ”

"What profiteers gave it, how come I don't know?" The master shouted, "All this silver is now being brought out of the treasury, what does it have to do with the merchants?"

"You just make it up" Obviously, Zhan Yangbi is not alone, and another official on the side said loudly: "The silver in the warehouse has been removed by the Ministry of War, could it be that you will conjure up the silver?" ”

"Isn't there only one Guangying warehouse in the household department, can't it be shipped from other warehouses?" The main thing didn't know why, so he could only say to himself: "There is no silver to make trouble, and there is silver to make trouble, and you still don't let us live?" ”

"This matter must be made clear" His voice was quickly drowned in the excited roars of everyone: "You can't let the copper smell pollute Shilin" "Yes, let Zhang Juzheng and Xu Yangzheng come out to confront each other, we will receive it if we understand it, and if we don't understand it, no one will receive it"

"The ministry is in a cabinet meeting, and I can't see you right now." Seeing that he couldn't resist, the main man hurriedly asked his own Lang Zhong to suppress the formation, and that Lang Zhong had already held back the fire in his belly, came out and released this cannon, and stabbed the hornet's nest when he landed.

"If we don't make it clear, we won't receive it," the officials shouted together, and not only this gate, but also the two outer gates heard the movement, and they all stopped receiving it.

"I have a brother-in-law in Rishenglong, and when I was drinking last night, he complained to me that Rishenglong was almost overwhelmed, and he had to help the household department, I really don't know what their boss thinks." At this time, a doctor from the Guozijian suddenly said loudly: "I accused him of talking nonsense, but he patted his chest and told me that just the day before yesterday, he escorted a large number of cash to the people of the household department, and he mysteriously turned his hand several times for fear of letting people know."

This kind of unproven news ignited the emotions of all the officials in the three gates, they refused to receive the silver taels, and those who had already received them insisted on returning them, of course, the household department did not do it, and for a time the angry scolding, shouting, and shouting filled the front of Guangying Warehouse, and the scene was a mess.

Let the patrol officers and soap officials on the other side see the joke, and say strangely: "What money can't be spent, and it's not sold for **, if you really don't want to take it, just give it to us, make sure it's not dirty." A burst of strange laughter caused the officials to hold back their faces, and they scolded loudly: "You and other coarse people, do you know what kind of festival is a small matter of starvation, and a big thing is a big thing of losing a festival?" ”

There was a strange laugh again...... Anyway, if there are more yamen, no one will recognize who it is, and if you don't take advantage of this time to make fun of the lower officials, I'm afraid there will be no more such a good opportunity.

The ridicule made the officials angry, and they didn't know who was the first, turned the money and grain bags in their hands into a meteor hammer and threw them in the faces of the household officials, and the others followed suit, while drinking and scolding, they threw out the money and grain bags, and smashed the heads of the household people...... I don't want to think about it, what will the whole family snack next month -

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This is from last night, fell asleep on the couch last night...... Does not affect today......