Chapter 36: The Shameless Man and the Virtuous Ruler (I)

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The next morning, the fog shrouded the city of Weiyang, there were obviously more pedestrians on the streets, cars came and went, carrying burdens and carrying boxes, the stone road was trampled on loudly, and the ordinary people began a busy day of livelihood, which was a morning full of vitality.

Don't drive Huang Fuqu's mansion is a different scene, Huang Fuqu was furious, a slap turned Cao Zhu in place, he was like a vulture that had been hungry for a few days, staring viciously at this useless subordinate in front of him, and the anger in his eyes almost swallowed him.

"What about people! Where have the others gone? ”

Master Cao covered his face, lowered his head, and said with trembling lips: "Yesterday afternoon, he said that he had succeeded, and asked me to meet in Baihualou and hand over the letter to me...... But I waited for him an hour and did not come, so I hurried to his house...... found that the room was messy, and his clothes, money and belongings were gone..... He—He probably ran away. ”

"Run! Took my five thousand taels of silver and ran away? ”

Huangfu Qu's eyes were red, and there were still people who dared to swallow his five thousand taels of silver and run away, this.... This is simply eating the heart of a bear and a leopard's gall.

"Did you go find it? Where can he go? ”

Huangfu Qu's roar almost toppled the roof, and Master Cao was frightened like a guinea pig about to be experimented, trembling all over, "I... I went to find it. ”

"Then what did you find, what about the others!"

"I'm going to the docks..... I heard that there was a way to go last night.... The ship of Qizhou. ”

"You fucking idiot, fuck off!"

Huangfuqu hated him so much that he kicked him over, and if Master Cao was released, he ran away with a roll, Huangfuqu sat on the chair with his ass, his chest was churning with anger, and he was extremely depressed in his heart, and he lost five thousand taels of silver in vain! I had already gotten the letter yesterday, but that damn bastard didn't give it to him in time, and something happened......

He gradually calmed down, and began to realize that things were not so simple, since he had already succeeded, then he would not run, and he promised him another three thousand taels of silver after the matter was completed, unless it was ..... Su Hanzhen made a move.

Thinking about it, there is only this possibility, Huangfuqu suspected that the five thousand taels of silver were already in Su Hanzhen's hands, he stared at the door gloomily for a long time, gritted his teeth, no! He had to get the five thousand taels back anyway.

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Today, Huangfu Weiming got an unexpected surprise, the disgusting Yang Xueyi actually resigned and left, as if a latrine beside him suddenly disappeared, which made him feel refreshed.

Wei Ming sat down briskly, there are not many things today, and the official sent a few household registration documents from Huating County, and he needs to copy one for archiving.

As soon as he lifted the pen, a servant smiled at the door: "Wei Ming, the lord told you to go!" ”

"Okay, I'll go."

Huangfu Weiming put down his pen, followed the servant, and walked into the office room in front of him, only to see Su Hanzhen pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back.

"Weiming, you're here."

Su Hanzhen saw him, and hurriedly smiled and waved his hand, "Come in and sit!" ”

Huangfu Weiming has been working in the county government for several days, and today is the first time to see Su Hanzhen, Su Hanzhen's attitude is very enthusiastic, moving a chair for him, and pouring tea for him with his own hands, which makes Weiming feel a little flattered.

"I was too busy with business for the first two days, and I didn't have time to think about your affairs."

Su Hanzhen sat down opposite him and asked him with a smile: "How is it, let's adapt here!" ”

Wei Ming replied respectfully: "Returning to the envoy, the student is very adaptable. ”

Su Hanzhen nodded, "Yang Xueyi has resigned, I can't find a suitable staff member for a while, and you will have to work hard in the future." ”

"The student is willing to serve the envoy."

Su Hanzhen pondered, and said slowly: "Donghai County has always been the financial and tax center of the imperial court, and the imperial court even has the saying of 'ten taxes, three points from the East China Sea', which shows that the finance and taxation of Donghai County are important, and Hu Cao is the core of the six Cao Division of Donghai County, Hu Cao has been empty for more than two months, and all the adults in the county agree that they must choose the meritocracy, and I also agree with this way, I see that everyone has recommended the virtuous, I am thinking, I should also consider it, I don't know the ....... of the virtuous nephew."

Wei Ming was overjoyed, Su Tingshi's meaning was obvious, that is, to recommend him as the head of Hu Cao, which was something that he and the entire family dreamed of, and he came out after a long time, at this time he no longer postponed, and bowed to the end, "The student is willing to listen to the arrangement of the envoy!" ”

"Good! Since you have this desire, then I recommend you as a candidate. ”

Su Hanzhen patted Weiming's shoulder with great emotion, "You have a capable good brother, if you have any difficulties, please consult him more." ”

Wei Ming was stunned, and couldn't help but think secretly in his heart: "Could it be that today's incident is related to Wujin?" ”

.......

Wei Ming left, Su Hanzhen looked at his back, and couldn't help but think of Wu Jin, these two brothers are all top talents, he has read the articles written by Wei Ming, quite a kind of eloquent and strategic trend, and the sentence is subtle, but it does not lose its edge, it is a style with needles in cotton, he appreciates it very much, and his younger brother Wu Jin, although he is only seventeen years old, but he is old and spicy, not leaking, completely inconsistent with his age, if these two brothers can be used for themselves, they must be their right-hand men.

Wei Ming estimates that there is no problem, he is still more keen on fame and fame, but Wu Jin can't see through it, everything he does has a mysterious feeling, I don't know what he is thinking?

Just when Su Hanzhen was full of thoughts, a string of sour dry laughter sounded beside him, "Haha! Congratulations to Master Su for getting good again. ”

As soon as Su Hanzhen turned around, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and a wave of anger ignited in his heart, and the person standing in front of him turned out to be Don't Drive Huangfu Qu, he actually had the face to see him.

Su Hanzhen was overjoyed and angry, and he asked lightly: "It turned out to be a don't drive adults, is there something wrong?" ”

"Actually, it's nothing....."

Huangfu Qu's smile was very embarrassing, and a pair of goldfish eyes wanted to squeeze out a trace of sincerity, but what was squeezed out was a kind of hypocrisy.

"I think there seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding between us, and I'd like to talk to Lord Thorn."

Su Hanzhen couldn't help but sneer secretly, if he got the letter, then it wouldn't be as simple as a misunderstanding between them.

Although she despises this person to the extreme, before she tears her face publicly, Su Hanzhen will still maintain the etiquette in officialdom.

"Don't drive, please sit in the house!"

Huangfu Qu saw that Su Hanzhen did not turn his face with himself, and he had a glimmer of hope in his heart, he walked into the assassin room with a smile behind his back, and did not wait for Su Hanzhen to be polite, so he sat down on the guest chair, Su Hanzhen restrained the disgust and anger in his heart, and ordered the official to pour him a cup of tea, and he also sat down.

"What's the matter?"

Huangfuqu cautiously glanced at Su Hanzhen's face, and saw that his expression was flat, and he secretly wondered in his heart: "Didn't Yang Xueyi steal his letter?" I don't want to pay back the money to myself, so I ran away, it's very possible, if so, then I asked for money, and there is nothing bad about opening my mouth, it's just five thousand taels of silver! How can it be so wasted. ’

Thinking of this, he cheekily said to Su Hanzhen: "That's the case, Master Su has a staff member named Yang Xueyi!" He borrowed 5,000 taels of silver from me, and I heard that he ran away overnight last night, so I wanted to ask Master Su, how should the loan of 5,000 taels of silver be calculated? ”

Su Hanzhen's eyes widened suddenly, he has been an official for more than ten years, he has seen any kind of villain, and he has never seen such a shameless person, and he actually wants to take the five thousand taels of silver back, he secretly shook his head in his heart, how did this person become an official? is still a county magistrate, and the scoundrels on the street are more noble than him.

"Don't drive your lord, I've never heard of this, since Yang Xueyi borrowed the adult's money and didn't pay it back, then don't drive your lord might as well go to the county to sue him, you can be wanted and arrested, as for the loss of don't drive, I deeply sympathize."

After speaking, Su Hanzhen picked up the teacup, "Send off!" ”

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Early in the morning, Wu Jin came to the Jin Mansion pawnshop, according to today's plan, the fifth uncle is going around to send invitations, inviting some peers and famous people to participate in the opening ceremony of the pawnshop tomorrow, the time is very tight, so Wu Jin plans to make a contribution to send a few invitations for the fifth uncle.

Today is the third day of the fifth month, is the folk tree god festival of Weiyang County, every year on this day, there are countless people flock to the god tree outside the east city to bow, pray for the tree god to bless their firewood prosperity, and the Eight Immortals Bridge is the only way to go to the east gate, so today's Eight Immortals Bridge is also crowded and lively, people who go outside the city with a pious heart, people who come back from outside the city are holding a small branch, because 'wealth' and 'firewood' have the same sound, asking for the tree god is actually asking for wealth.

Wu Jin walked on the Eight Immortals Bridge and hesitated, the flow of people on the Eight Immortals Bridge today is two or three times that of usual, crowded, almost crowded, people are next to each other, but there is only this bridge in this area, it is said that it is for what feng shui pattern, the local people are very superstitious.

The Baxian Bridge is a wooden bridge, which has a history of two hundred years, very old, so many people crowded on it, the bridge began to sway, creak, as if it was about to collapse at any time, many people were frightened and shouted, "Don't go up again, the bridge is going to collapse!" ”

More people complained, "This bridge is dilapidated like this, why doesn't the county repair it?" ”

"I heard that the businessmen have already submitted their applications to the county, and it should be repaired soon."

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Wu Jin walked on the very edge, leaning against the railing and slowly moving forward, he also complained in his heart, this bridge is indeed too dilapidated, at this moment, only listen to the outside of the city 'bang!' With a bang, a firework rose into the air and exploded at the edge of the sacred tree, which was the time for the god of the tree to appear, and suddenly countless people on both sides of the river knelt down in the direction of the god of the tree, praying for the blessing of the god of the tree.

There was also chaos on the bridge, it was already crowded, and many people wanted to kowtow, so the accident happened at this time, just listen to the 'click!' With a bang, a long guardrail was broken, and a young woman who was close to the guardrail fell into the river with a scream.

"Someone fell overboard!"

Everyone shouted on the bridge, and suddenly there was chaos, the Zitong River is six zhang wide, although it is only a small river, but the water is very deep, and the underwater undercurrent is turbulent, at this time it is the twilight of spring, the river is still cold, the woman in the river obviously does not swim, she struggles desperately in the water, shouting 'help!' It was about to sink, and in the morning there was fog on the river, and soon the woman who fell into the water was shrouded in fog and disappeared, and her parents were so frightened that they knelt on the bridge and wept.

At this moment, I saw a black shadow jump into the river, it was Wu Jin, he was in the north of the bridge, a little distance from the place where the woman fell into the water, but he saw that the girl was in a critical situation, and he didn't have time to think about it, took off his shoes and coat, jumped on the guardrail and walked a few steps and jumped into the river.

"Someone went to the rescue!"

Everyone's eyes looked at the river, but they were blocked by the fog, they couldn't see anything, more people ran to find bamboo poles and ropes, at this time the woman had been washed out of the river more than ten zhang away, and the water surface was no longer visible, Wujin's water surname was excellent, he dived very deep, and swam all the way, and the speed was extremely fast.

The river water is clear, the light is hazy underwater, he soon found the woman struggling in the water, he has swam to the bottom of the young girl, only to see her skirt floating on the water like an umbrella, people are desperately struggling and tossing in the water, up and down, although a little indecent, but Wu Jin is eager to save people, he hugged the woman's thigh from below, and struggled to lift her up, the woman was so afraid and panicked, she suddenly felt that someone was saving her, she instinctively hugged Wu Jin's neck tightly, 'Wow! The water was churning, and Wu Jin lifted the woman out of the water.

"It's out!"

Someone suddenly saw them and immediately shouted, and there was a round of applause on the bridge on the shore, and several men waiting on the shore stretched out their pennies and called out loudly: "Here, swim here!" ”

The girl's skirt was wide, covering Wu Jin's head, and he finally pulled the skirt away from his head, only then did he take a few long breaths, and then struggled to hold the woman on his back, pulled her skirt with his backhand, and shouted to her: "You hold my neck tight!" ”

The woman who fell into the water was gradually sober, she obediently hugged Wu Jin's neck, lay on his back weakly, and kept whispering in his ear: "Thank you Engong!" Thank you for saving the slave family! ”

Wu Jin struggled to swim to the shore, and soon he grabbed the penny, and with the help of the penny's drag, he climbed onto the shore with the young woman on his back, and the banks of the Zitong River suddenly burst into thunder.

The girl's parents rushed forward and hugged their daughter, "My son! You're all right! ”

The young woman also cried: "If it weren't for Engong's rescue, his daughter would have died in Huangquan, where would Engong be?" Daughter must thank him! ”

Only then did her parents react, looking around, Wu Jin was gone, and someone shouted: "Your father-in-law is gone!" ”

Engong had already left, so they had to kowtow desperately in the direction where Wujin left, chanting the Bodhisattva in their hearts a thousand times to bless their benefactor.

Three days later, the county ordered Zhang Rong to inspect the Baxian Bridge in person, but the result was frustrating, Zhang Rong only ordered someone to replace the broken guardrail, he thought that the Baxian Bridge could be used for another five years, and the county government was short of funds, so it was not listed as a repair project during his tenure.

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