There was no word for a night, and the next day was the pier of Songlin County. The three of them came to the dock early, and Qingyu said to Zhou Jin and Shopkeeper Liu, who came to see them off: "Good brother, I don't know when we will meet again at this moment, we will see you again in the future." Zhou Jin said: "Good brother, be more careful when you go, if you don't come back, brother, I'm still waiting for you here, but I would like you to return home." The two cherished each other.

Qingyu turned his head to Shopkeeper Liu and said, "Uncle Liu, you always have to take care of your body and live a hundred years old, and wait for me to come back." At this time, the shopkeeper Liu was already in tears and said self-deprecatingly: "I'm old, I don't cry if I don't use it." As he spoke, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his shirt and said, "Young Master, if you don't stay, I can take care of you." Qingyu said: "Uncle Liu, don't say anything about persuading me." I've made up my mind. Shopkeeper Liu had no choice but to say: "Okay, the young master is ambitious, the old man should not be a stumbling block for you, the young master hopes that you will have a smooth trip." ”

The three of them were talking, and the boatman over there was already shouting loudly: "Hey, there are no guest officers who want to leave, the time has come." Hearing the urging, Qingyu couldn't help but hug the two of them anymore and said, "Two, take care!" With that, he jumped on board and into the cabin.

Zhou Jin and Shopkeeper Liu stood on the dock for a long time, watching the passenger ship leave the dock, Qingyu hid in the cabin and looked at the two people standing at the pier through the window, and said in his heart: "Two, take care, I don't know when I will see you again!" ”

The people in the cabin talked together in twos and threes, only Qingyu sat by the window with his bags and looked at the scenery outside, not because Qingyu was withdrawn but his parents died soon after he really couldn't raise the interest in chatting with people.

The Master of Ceremonies, in a secluded room. Wang Zhenzuo drank the steaming Longjing on the chair, and Ma Shun said flatteringly: "'Deputy Leader' This is the 'Ming Qian Tea' that the villain specially left for you when he was on an errand abroad, how do you see the taste?" Wang Zhen took another sip and said playfully: "Tea is good tea, but it's a pity that this water is not very good." Ma Shun said: "It's the villain's negligence, and the villain's crime deserves death." ”

Wang Zhen put down the teacup and said, "Okay, it's not so serious, at least this is a piece of your filial piety that is much stronger than my unangry godson." Ma Shun said: "As long as the 'deputy leader' can use it, the villain must be driven by you before and after the saddle." He took out a treasure box from his arms and sent it to Wang Zhen and said: "This is a gift from the local government to the villain when the case was handled in Zhejiang. ”

Wang Zhenxing took the box and put it on the table to open the lid, revealing a huge bead with a faint light on the surface.

After a while, Wang Zhencai still put away the "Night Pearl", and said to Ma Shun who was standing in front of him: "You have made a lot of oil and water on this trip!" Wang Zhen said with a smile.

Ma Shun said: "Drag the 'deputy leader' your blessing, this errand is quite smooth." After speaking, he took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve and sent it to Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen took the silver ticket and flipped it over with his hand as if he didn't care, about nearly 50,000 taels.

Wang Zhen said: "Your blatant bribery is inferior to the "Da Ming Law", but it will be cut in half. Ma Shun was terrified when he heard this, knelt on the ground and shouted: "'The deputy leader will spare his life, and the villain will not dare next time.'" "I intend to give Ma Shun a dismissal.

Wang Zhen got up and helped Ma Shun up and said: "When Jinyiwei is employing people, our family will not pursue it, and our family will collect these criminal evidence first to see the effect." Ma Shun said: "Thank you for the grace of the 'Deputy Leader' not to kill." Wang Zhen said at this time: "For your sake, our family has a beautiful difference for you, I don't know if you want to?" ”

Ma Shun was overjoyed and said: "The villain is willing to serve his father-in-law as a dog and horse." Wang Zhen said: "The position of Jinyiwei commanding the right servant has been vacant, you go to take office, but you don't patronize being an official and playing official prestige, our family still wants you to keep an eye on Xiao Qianjun at all times, and you have to report to our family whenever something happens, understand?" ”

Ma Shun said: "The little one understands. Then he said suspiciously: "Father-in-law, in the past, the commander was appointed by the emperor, and the little one who took office was afraid that he would make Commander Xiao unhappy and cause trouble to your father-in-law." ”

Wang Zhen said with a displeased face: "You don't believe in our family, although our family is not as favored by the emperor as Jin Ying, but a matter can still make the emperor agree, since you are allowed to do it, you will definitely be asked to do what you are worried about, if you don't want to have many people waiting to do this position." ”

Ma Shun saw that Wang Zhen was displeased, laughed at himself, and said: "Small, I don't know the general situation, so that my father-in-law is displeased." Saying that, Wang Zhen said impatiently: "Okay, don't act here, hurry up and take office." Saying that, waving his hand outward, Ma Shun said with a red face: "The little one retires, don't disturb the father-in-law." ”

At the door of the celebrant supervisor, a brocade-clothed guard hid beside him and looked inside from time to time, muttering in his mouth: "Brother Ma has been in for so long, why hasn't he come out?" When he was grumbling, he saw Ma obediently come out of it.

Jinyiwei, who had been waiting outside for a long time, saw Ma Shun coming out and hurriedly greeted him and said, "Brother Ma, you came out and let me wait." When he saw his whole red face, he asked suspiciously: "Brother Ma, what's wrong with you, could it be that someone beat you inside?" Ma Shun touched his hot face and said: "You know a fart, this is a pot of exotic wine that the prince left me to eat, but although the taste of this wine is beautiful, it is a little strong, and I am not used to drinking it at first glance." Jin Yiwei, who was following him, said: "Brother Ma, since you have a good wine, why don't you leave a sip for the younger brother, so that the younger brother can see and understand." ”

Ma Shun stopped and patted the head of the Jinyi guard next to him and said, "I said that you are not lacking in eyes, can you take the things of the celebrant out casually?" Hearing this, Jin Yiwei, who was following Ma Shun here, had a depressed face, and seeing this, Ma Shun then said: "How can I get your benefits from Gaosheng today, follow me to ensure that you eat fragrant and spicy food, go, and today I will take you to 'Haofeng Building' to drink the five-year-old 'daughter red'." Hearing this, the brocade guard said with a radiant face: "I knew that Brother Ma would not forget me." After saying that, he followed behind in a hurry.

"Hey, this Jin Ying is also tired enough to choke our family for a few months after leaving!" Not long after Ma Shun left, Wang Zhen complained that Xuanzong relied on Jin Ying very much, and Wang Zhen was second.

Now that Jin Ying is running errands outside, Wang Zhen has to be on duty every day, which is very hard. Wang Zhen seemed to be about to complain once: "Only Jin Ying dared to resist and disobey, and the emperor clearly told him to come back immediately, but he was better to spend time outside and enjoy the joy of Qi people under the pretext that things were not done well." Thinking of Jin Ying's happy scene at the moment, Wang Zhen's eyes showed a look of envy.

"Godfather, the emperor is about to wake up in a quarter of an hour." It was Wan Gui who had just come in from the door who spoke, and Wang Zhen said, "Got it." After saying that, he stood up in his underwear.

Wan Gui hurriedly picked up the mang robe from the "court dress rack" and put it on Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen put on the court clothes and hurried to the "Qianqing Palace", and Wan Gui followed closely behind.

Wang Zhen in the Qianqing Palace stood quietly by the "dragon couch", didn't dare to make a sound at all, glanced at the copper kettle, and whispered in Xuanzong's ear: "Your Majesty, it's time to get up." Xuanzong slept too deeply to hear, Wang Zhen gently shook Xuanzong and shouted again: "Your Majesty, it's time to get up." Xuanzong opened his eyes when he heard the shout, Wang Zhen helped Xuanzong up, quickly put the dragon robe on his body, and went to pour a basin of warm water to wipe Xuanzong's face.

Xuanzong wiped his face and had a lot of energy, standing on the side of the "dragon couch" and simply playing a few styles of Tai Chi, Wang Zhen patted the fart with ginseng tea and said: "The emperor should be strong and make the slave embarrassed." Xuanzong finished playing Tai Chi and said on the "dragon couch": "No, I can't do it when I get older, and my body and bones can't follow, and I will be out of breath when I move casually." "Take the ginseng tea and drink most of it in one gulp.

"You go and move the folds on the desk here, and I'll be here to watch the folds today." Xuanzong pointed to a pile of folds on the desk and said to Wang Zhen. According to Xuanzong, Wang Zhen moved a bunch of folds from the desk to the edge of the "dragon couch".

Xuanzong picked up a book and read it, and the political envoy of Shandong said: "The Yellow River stops in Shandong, and the people of this province suffer greatly, spending two hundred thousand silver in two years, and now it is worth three years and a big solid can not take out two silver taels, and I hope that the imperial court will sympathize with the people to allocate 400,000 taels of maintenance and reinforcement costs, and the people will be grateful to the emperor." Minister's head. Xuanzong then picked up a few more notebooks, all of which were related to the Yellow River, and asked the imperial court for money.

Xuanzong said to himself after reading the recital: "It's all some uneasy things, don't look at it and make me worry about it." I opened my mouth and closed my mouth to ask for silver taels, but I became the 'wet nurse' of these big people. I don't live as freely as the local tyrants in these places. Wang Zhen said: "Presumably, these local officials have no other way, if not, they will not reach out to the emperor to ask for silver taels, the emperor is kind and sympathetic to the people, and they also dare not raise taxes privately, increasing the burden of the people." Besides, these places are not as many gentry as there are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they can be donated. The only way to ask the court for help is this. "Wang Zhennai is the content of the eunuch's recital, which is known.

Xuanzong said: "You will be able to exonerate these ministers. Wang Zhen said: "The slave maid has no intention of excusing them, but just seeking truth from facts and hoping that the emperor will learn from it." ”

Xuanzong said: "Wang Zhen, it seems that your views on the government are still very good, and you can compare with my internal ministers. ”

Since ancient times, whenever the emperor calls the name of the minister, it means that a catastrophe has come, Wang Zhen is as cunning as a fox, how can he not know that when he heard his name announced, he suddenly sweated profusely, knelt on the ground and said: "The slave and maid deserve death, and should not discuss the government in vain, and I hope that the emperor will forgive the slave and the maid for the sake of the slave and maid for the sake of the slave and maid all these years, and the slave and the maid will definitely learn from the pain and think about it again, if not, they will be dragged out of the noon gate and beaten to death." After speaking, he knelt on the ground, and his body trembled like a sifting of chaff.