When they came to the council hall, some people distributed the money, and the officials who accompanied them rejoiced.

Gonggong Li weighed the silver bag, snorted coldly, and put it on the desk.

Before he came, he had already discussed with Governor Chen, and this time, he must get a few cans of tea back. As soon as Governor Chen saw Gonggong Li like this, he knew what he meant, but he was such a dignified four-grade official, and he directly asked Xincun for tea, and if he had * shares, he secretly pulled Chen Siyi aside and explained what he thought.

Chen Siyi said: "Father, Brother Yu takes this tea very seriously, I don't know if it makes sense." ”

"Yi'er, you can try it." Governor Chen pleaded.

Seeing his father like this, Chen Siyi had no choice but to find Yu Xiang and tell his father what he meant.

Yu Xiang's eyes were on fire, his heart was dripping blood, this dead eunuch had paid attention to the tea again. But one is his father-in-law, and the other is a celebrity around the emperor, these two people, both public and private, can't afford to be guilty.

Yu Xiang gritted his teeth, and found Miss Xu San in private, and begged with a beaten expression: "Sell me a few cans of tea at cost price." ”

"How many cans?" She asked domineeringly.

Yu Xiang stretched out four fingers, and with his other hand, pressed down one, leaving three fingers.

Miss Xu San broke the finger he pressed down and said, "To your father-in-law, you don't have to pick the door like this." It doesn't hurt to send an extra can. ”

Send you a sister, you give the money! Yu Xiang scolded in his heart. Only then did he realize that he had human contacts, red tape, no matter what, he couldn't hide from it, he had to spend money everywhere, and it was far from enough to rely on these salaries alone, and he couldn't help sighing, how difficult it is to be a clean official in such an officialdom!

Miss Xu San used a special tea handbag in Xincun to give Chen Zhifu and Li Gonggong a bag each, each bag containing two cans of tea.

Gonggong Li glanced at it and said, "This is what the new village Maojian is called in the capital?" ”

Yu Xiang hurriedly said: "Exactly! ”

"Do you give thanks to the grace of the long live with this tea?" Gonggong Li put his hands behind his back, full of arrogance, and refused to give up.

Miss Xu San pulled Yu Xiang's sleeve, and Yu Xiang followed her out.

Miss Xu San said: "Father-in-law Li wants to be a sandalwood box!" ”

Yu Xiang was anxious: "Let me go bankrupt, how can I afford it?"

Seeing that Yu Xiang was really angry, Miss Xu San was a person who was messing around outside, worried that Yu Xiang would really poke out the basket, so she hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, look at your official, I'll give you a box, don't bully me in the future, you have to repay me well, okay?" ”

Yu Xiang saw Miss Xu San say this, so he reluctantly agreed, owing Miss Xu San a debt, but in the future, he will be mentally tortured and **, and he feels scared when he thinks about it. I originally wanted to give it away and didn't send it, but after thinking about it, for the sake of the overall situation, it was still not good to mess with the dead eunuchs around the emperor.

The exquisitely packaged sandalwood box has been placed on the table, and Grandpa Li's eyes are straight, and he clapped his hands and said, "This is very good, our family will go back to find the Long Live Decree." ”

Yu Xiang saw that the tea that he had given to Gonggong Li before was placed under the table, so he wanted to secretly twist it back. As soon as his hand touched the handbag, he didn't expect Gonggong Li to snatch it from Yu Xiang's hand and said, "This palace misses you sincerely, I accepted this bag of tea!" ”

Yu Xiang was unhappy in his heart, his face was extremely generous, and his heart was extremely painful. Watching the team of the official mansion, full of harvest, happily went home.

Miss Xu San looked at her face twitching with a smile, secretly strangled her fingers, and said contemptuously: "Don't count it, more than a thousand taels of silver is estimated to be enough for you to pay back twenty years." ”

Yu Xiangtie's face was blue, and he said to Shengying: "Director Sheng, from now on, in addition to today's long live, anyone who comes to the new village will pay for their own expenses." This article was written into the New Village Code. ”

Shengying asked: "Lord Qianhu, you should still be provincial, the envoy of the imperial court, you should also treat it like this?" ”

"That's it!" After Yu Xiang finished speaking, he no longer reasoned with Shengying, and returned to Yihetang alone in a huff.

Miss Xu San saw that the more Yu Xiang slammed the door, the happier he was. cash, she has found the way to hold Yu Xiang's life, and she is very proud.

Back in Fucheng, Gonggong Li looked at the sandalwood box again and again, and didn't let others touch it. He wants to take it back and give it to Banzai for a favor.

Seeing that he looked like it had been a long time, Governor Chen didn't dare to disturb him, until Gonggong Li returned to his seat to taste tea, and then said flatteringly: "Master Li, let me put it up, I installed it once last time, I have experience, I guarantee that you are satisfied." ”

Gonggong Li said: "You have to be careful, if you bump it, you will have your head." ”

Governor Chen said: "Don't worry, even if you lend me a hundred guts, I won't dare." ”

So he ordered someone to carefully wrap the sandalwood box tightly, and after repeated inspections, he felt that it was foolproof, and Gonggong Li was relieved.

Before leaving, Governor Chen said with a flattering smile: "Xiaguan has prepared some souvenirs for Lord Li, please take a look!" ”

Gonggong Li took the gift list, glanced at it and said, "It seems that there are still any shortcomings?" ”

"It's the negligence of the lower officials, please make it clear to my father-in-law!" Governor Chen hurriedly replied.

"Is there still a lack of mention of the new village hair?" Father-in-law Li threw the gift list on the table.

Chen Zhifu Khan came down all of a sudden, and the worst thing was that in order to curry favor with Zhao Jiacheng, he gave this tea to Zhao Jiacheng privately. There was no way, he had to discuss with Zhao Jiacheng.

Zhao Jiacheng was by his side just now, and when he heard Gonggong Li ask him for tea, the people around the emperor, he couldn't afford to bear the crime, and he was embarrassed to see the prefect, so he had to take out this tea, this tea, if it is taken to the capital, whether it is given away or sold for money, it is all a good thing that is expensive, and Zhao Jiacheng's heart is dripping blood.

When he got the tea, Governor Chen had a heroic smile on his face and said, "This tea, I prepared it for Gonggong Li, come, you can collect it!" ”

Gonggong Li took the tea and said, "It's rare that you have a piece of filial piety, and this palace accepts it." The silver taels will be left to Lord Zhao, he has worked hard all the way, which can be regarded as compensation. You can keep other souvenirs, and the palace will not accept anything. ”

Governor Chen had to wrap up the hundred taels of silver collected from his entourage, handed it to Zhao Jiacheng and said, "Lord Zhao, this mansion is poor, don't be too little, please forgive me!" ”

After coming a few times, Zhao Jiacheng roughly knew a little about the family background of Governor Chen, and he also took out a dozen taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to Governor Chen together: "Lord Prefect, the lower officials use this silver to buy cans of tea from you, do you think it's okay?" ”

Last time, I left two cans of tea, and after returning to the capital, my intestines were repentant, and I wanted to buy one back this time, because one of the cans had been opened, and everyone had drunk it several times in the past few days.

Governor Chen had no choice but to take out the unopened pot of tea and hand it to Zhao Jiacheng!

Zhao Jiacheng and Gonggong Li were both overjoyed, and with excitement, they rushed to the capital non-stop.

Back at the palace, Gonggong Li gave Emperor Chongzhen a large wooden box, and Emperor Chongzhen was very strange and asked, "What is it here?" Is it impossible to bribe the widow? ”

Wang Chengen has seen it, this is exactly the same wooden box as last time.

Gonggong Li said: "This place is pretended to be the tip of the new village. ”

The emperor said happily: "How long will I drink these tea leaves?" ”

"There is a box of tea inside, because of the long distance, the villain is worried about hurting the tea, so he ordered someone to pack it like this." This dead eunuch said that the tea packaged by Governor Chen was his own idea.

Chongzhen said: "It's rare Lord Li's good intentions, come here, open the box, and take out the tea." ”

A few eunuchs came, carefully opened the wooden box, took out the yellow sandalwood box, Chongzhen saw it, very happy, and said: "I recently heard that this yellow sandalwood box is very expensive in the capital? It's still hard to ask for 10,000 gold, isn't it? ”

Gonggong Li hurriedly replied: "The villain has also heard that the so-called ten thousand gold is easy to get, and a box is hard to find!" ”

Chongzhen smiled and said: "The widow almost went bankrupt in order to make up the 200,000 taels of silver, and now this box of tea can be worth 10,000 gold, it seems that the widow can't afford to drink this new village Maojian, take a sip, feel distressed." ”

Father-in-law Li hurriedly said: "Long live, I still have two simple tea here, although the quality is not as good as the sandalwood box, but it is absolutely superb, if you don't dislike it, you can taste it!" ”

"Oh, so I am very happy." A smile appeared on Chongzhen's face.

Gonggong Li took out two simple Xincun hairy tips, Chongzhen ordered someone to soak it, although it felt that the taste was not much different from the yellow sandalwood box, but Chongzhen still felt that the yellow sandalwood box tea was better.

Chongzhen was in a good mood, so he ordered the eunuch to give Gonggong Li and Wang Chengen a seat and enjoy tea.

While drinking tea, Gonggong Li truthfully told what he had seen and heard in Xincun, especially the vegetarian banquet in Xincun, which was described as worthless.

Emperor Chongzhen laughed and said: "Yu Qianhu, slamming the door like this, I have my demeanor, I like it!" ”

Gonggong Li also told how to get the Maojian of Xincun, how Yu Xiang secretly withdrew the tea leaves sent out, and joked again, which made Chongzhen laugh more than once, and after laughing for a long time, Chongzhen asked: "Which mention of tea, let me see!" ”

How do you know which bag it is, but Gonggong Li still pretended to identify it carefully, took a look, as if he had made a great discovery, and said happily: "Long live, it's this mention, there is a mark on the bag that is mentioned!" ”

Chongzhen saw it and ordered someone to put away the tea, and it was not allowed to be opened without his will.

In Chongzhen's heart, Yu Xiang is a great hero who stands up to the sky, treating money and property as dung, but the real him, like an ordinary person, is stingy. This made Chongzhen very happy to see the other side of Yu Xiang.

Wang Chengen saw that Gonggong Li made the emperor happy like this, and he was very unhappy, this opportunity to go to Xincun was given to Gonggong Li by Wang Chengen, but he didn't want to, but he let Gonggong Li pick up a bargain, he knew that he should go in person, he secretly made up his mind that the next time he had the opportunity, he would definitely go in person.

The news of Longyan Dayue quickly spread throughout the inner circle of the capital ya, and Xue Shao pointed at the group of minions under him and scolded, "Usually the master raises you, but at a critical time, is it so difficult to find a box of tea?" If you can't find the new village Maojian again, look at the old. The Son will not smoke you to death! After speaking, he was still angry, and kicked a few times at the slave who was kneeling on the ground nearby.

The minion, screaming, turned over a few times, and vomited blood from his mouth.

Those princes and ministers are only jealous, these people are rich lords, many of them are even richer than the emperor, but money can't buy Xincun Maojian. This time, many princes and ministers directly sent their henchmen and butlers to Henan. They want to get the new village Maojian at all costs.