"The slave is here to ask for the mother's grace!" Chen Mo was blunt, and slandered in his heart: You let me speak?

"Kaien?" Empress Dowager Li smiled faintly: "Even if the mourning family is willing to let Qi'er follow you, but she can't see you, the mourning family can't tie it up and send it to you, right?" After a pause: "I'll tell you the truth, before you came, Qi'er was there, and as soon as she heard Hua Fugui say that you came, she hid out...... The mourning family just wants to help you, and they can't help you! ”

"Hiding again?" Chen Mo suddenly turned like an eggplant, and muttered to himself: "Dodge, dodge, you know how to hide, even if it is a test, after so many days, don't you understand our thoughts?" ”

Chen Mo whispered that Empress Dowager Li really listened to it, her lips opened lightly, she wanted to speak again, sighed for a long time, and said: "Your thoughts about Siqi, everyone in the palace knows that Siqi treats you, and it is absolutely sincere, but it's a pity that she has too many worries and can't think about it for a while......" I don't know why, but I didn't tell Chen Mo about Siqi's real worries.

Instead, he said: "Don't talk about this, you came just in time, and the mourning family just has a few words to tell you." ”

Empress Dowager Li's words still relieved Chen Mo a lot, put away his thoughts, and said respectfully: "Niangniang has something to say, but please tell me, the slave ......"

Empress Dowager Li waved her hand to stop Chen Mo from talking back, and said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, just to tell you, this time you go back to Zhaoling, it's okay anyway, it's best to make the hot air balloon more perfect, the day before yesterday, the mourning family sat once, flickering, weird and scary" said and smiled: "Listen to the emperor, there is no way to control the direction ......of the hot air balloon's flight at present." The mourners pondered, wouldn't it be terrible to fly like a headless fly, and the value of use was much less, and it could only be reduced to a plaything that attracted attention. Pretending to be a ghost, you can't get into the hall of elegance, so this matter is a task assigned to you by the mourning family, and if you miss something, you just need to open your mouth. ”

After saying that, he took his eyes off Chen Mo's face and looked at the blue sky in the distance: "You are a smart person, and the other mourning families have nothing to advise, they are just doing errands with their hearts, don't live up to the trust of the emperor and the mourning family." ”

"Yes!" Chen Mo bowed deeply: "Don't worry, the slave must be attentive...... The slave is going, and I don't know when the next time I will return to Beijing, the mother must take care of the phoenix body......"

"Alright, don't be verbose!" Empress Dowager Li smiled, but she felt that Chen Mo's concern was indeed from the bottom of her heart, and patted him on the shoulder: "Go, there is no need to resign again, next time I go back to Beijing, the mourning family is looking forward to you falling from the sky!" ”

Because of the credit of the hot air balloon, the old Zhao and Lao Liu of Hongmen Village each got a reward of one hundred taels of silver, and they were originally going to wait for the eighth night of the first month, Zhu Yijun returned to Hongmen Village after successfully flying into the sky, but because of Chen Mo's affairs, he was delayed for a few more days, until Sun Xiu gave the head, Chen Mo was acquitted, and then he resigned and left the capital first.

At that time, Chen Mo's intention to go to Zhaoling as a palm print had not yet been made, and the two of them were holding the intention of going home to Guangzong and Yaozu, and then coming to Beijing to return home with Chen Mo on an errand - as a carpenter as the ambassador of the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, they didn't know that the entire Hongmen Village had been a village for nearly a hundred years, and the two of them were definitely the first.

The ambassador of the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, who is in charge of other similar professional bureaus (such as the Ordnance Bureau) does not belong to. There is one ambassador, nine products, and one deputy envoy, from nine products. The ambassador duties of the two are naturally part-time, and they belong to the kind of status that only receive salaries and do not need to go to the ministry to do errands, and only need to be responsible for the hot air balloon.

However, it is already a rare honor for families who have been farming for generations. This made those villagers who originally thought that the two were not doing their jobs envious and jealous (note), visiting the door to see the rare, bringing things and giving gifts, seven aunts and eight aunts, people came and went all day long, and the threshold was almost broken.

Later, the two families combined, each with ten taels of silver, and simply set up a day's running water seat, which slowly dissipated everyone's enthusiasm.

On this day, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lao Zhao and his family discussed, in previous years, they had eaten a meal without a meal, and they had never been as wealthy as this year, and spent more than 20 yuan to buy pork, and bought more Lantern Festival, and also played two jars of good wine, ready to invite the old Liu family to come over and have fun.

Before going out, Lao Zhao's family stopped Lao Zhao: "The master, anyway, I want to be lively, why don't you call her Wang sister-in-law and the Caiyu girl by the way, in those days when you were not there, the two of them came over to help take care of ......"

"Hey," Lao Zhao said yes, wearing a new green quail supplement (Note 2), and was about to go out, but patted his head again: "Look at our brains, I'm happy and confused." You too, two women, how can we go to the house to invite, in case someone sees it, there is no gossip, or you go, anyway, the meat has been put into the pot, stuffed with chopping wood, go and go back quickly, you can't delay. ”

"The slave family is really happy and confused." Lao Zhao's family smiled, waved his hand to signal Lao Zhao to go out, and added more chopping wood to the stove with his cat's waist, lifted the lid of the pot, and filled it with half a scoop of cold water, and then hung up the door lock and went out.

Sister-in-law Wang's house is much closer to her house than Lao Liu's house, and she moves her little feet, and when she doesn't travel much, she arrives in an instant.

When it came to the gate, the old Zhao family was just about to open his mouth to shout, faintly heard the voice of a man in the yard, and couldn't help but swallow back the words that came to his mouth, frowned, and had more eyes, glanced around, and saw that the sun was setting, and there were no miscellaneous people around, so he hurriedly approached the root of the wall and put his ear on it.

"You really don't think about it anymore? That's a thousand taels of white flower pattern silver, as long as you hand over the girl, the silver will be in hand immediately, when the time comes, the big head will give it to you, and we will ask the little one......"

It was the voice of Wang Zhengye, the late husband and brother of Wang's sister-in-law, listening to the meaning of his words, it was not what the old Zhao family guessed, but it seemed to be about the Caiyu girl, which made her more attentive and listened more carefully.

"Don't think we don't know what you're up to, tell you, there's no door. Don't think that you have a lieutenant to be your backer, and I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, Grandpa Chen has a very good relationship with us, and he treats us as his own sister......"

"Phew, isn't it just a castration with an egg cut?" Wang Zhengye interrupted Wang's sister-in-law disdainfully, and said with a strange smile: "Do you know what the person looking for Caiyu girl does?" I'm afraid I'll scare you to death if I say it......"

"No matter who is looking for her, as long as Miss Caiyu doesn't agree, no one will want to take her away from us!"

Sister-in-law Wang's voice was categorical, and she raised her voice as she spoke: "And you, hurry up, the province has tarnished our reputation." ”

"What if we don't go?" Wang Zhengye smiled, but was interrupted by Wang's sister-in-law: "If you don't get out, we'll call someone, come ......"

"Okay, good, count you ruthless," the old Zhao family outside the wall could even hear Wang Zhengye's hateful stomping of his feet: "We are still thinking about the early death of our brother, and we want to pull you, so toast and don't eat and drink?" I'll give you another night to ponder, and if you don't agree, we'll get the reward ourselves!" ”

Note: The household registration system of the Ming Dynasty, "all military, civilian, medical, craftsman, yin and yang households, each is allowed to copy the original newspaper as the determination, and it is not allowed to act in vain." It means that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, soldiers are soldiers for generations, and farmers are farmers for generations. What did the ancestors do, in addition to reading to change their fate, otherwise, they would still follow the ancestral business. Among all household registrations, the status of the people is higher than that of artisan households, and Lao Zhao and Liu Zu are farmers, but they want to learn carpenter's skills, which is naturally "not a proper business".

Note 2: The Ming Dynasty stipulated that officials at all levels made their own official uniforms according to their rank and according to the prescribed style, unlike the Song Dynasty, which was uniformly made by the government and given at regular intervals (Zhu Yuanzhang's generation of heroes is not fake, but he is from a humble background and acts with a small family spirit)