Leng Yi said: "Why don't you go to bed and sit here and doze off?" Didn't I tell you not to wait for me to go to bed first? ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang said: "The officials are busy, how can the concubine sleep alone?" There was nothing to do, so I waited. ”

Leng Yi shook his head helplessly, and then washed his wide clothes under the service of the grass ears. Leng Yi asked Caosui, "How is the business of the shop?" ”

Cao Sui has been in charge of Leng Yi's several shops, and while taking off Leng Yi's official boots, he replied: "The business of the shops is very good, I heard that it is better than before the flood." By the way, the grain ordered by the master has come one after another, and the slaves and maids have been arranged to enter the warehouse, and the accounts have been recorded clearly. ”

Leng Yi nodded and said, "Very good, when the old lady and they come, with a helper, you won't have to work so hard, otherwise running at both ends will be enough for you to be busy." ”

Cao Sui smiled: "It's okay, this hard work is nothing. ”

Leng Yi asked Zhuo Qiaoniang: "By the way, our old lady, as well as my brother-in-law and his wife, should almost arrive?" ”

"It should be, it's about the same distance."

"Have you cleaned up all the rooms?"

"It's cleaned up, it's just that our house is a little small, and it may be a little crowded to live in."

Leng Yi said: "In the past, in order to transfer iron money and conceal it, I bought a small house outside, if my brother-in-law and his wife are willing, they can live there, anyway, it is not far from our house, and it will be there after a few streets." It's only two cups of tea to walk. If they live outside, they can go directly to the shop to take care of it, so that others don't know that we are the owner. I wonder if they want to? If they wished, the house would be given to them. It's not worth a few bucks either. ”

"They must be willing!" Zhuo Qiaoniang said happily: "My brother and sister-in-law have long wanted to have their own house, I remember hearing them sigh like this when I was a child, when will I have my own house." Now that the officials have given them a house, they will be glad to hear it. ”

Leng Yi said: "It's good to be happy, when our business is on the right track in the future, and then bring your brother to help, don't you feel the most sorry for your brother?" ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang was even more happy: "The concubine thanked the officials for her younger brother!" ”

"My family, what is there to be thankful for?"

The next day, Leng Yi was handling official business in the yamen, and when he came back at noon, as soon as he arrived at the door, the porter greeted him, and said with a smile on his face: "Master! The old lady has arrived! ”

When Leng Yi heard this, he immediately became nervous, this old lady is also the grandfather of the county magistrate who he imposted, and he has now preliminarily passed the pass of his wife Zhuo Qiaoniang, and now, he has to pass the pass of his grandfather again, I don't know how much this old lady knows about his grandson, if he understands it very deeply, he is afraid that he will be exposed at that time!

Leng Yi's face showed a look of joy, and he scolded: "When did you arrive?" Why didn't you report me earlier? ”

The porter hurriedly said: "It's been a while, grandma said that she was going to report to the eldest master, but the old lady didn't let me, saying not to affect your official business." ”

Leng Yi hurriedly walked in and came to the main room, only to see a thin old man with silver hair, sitting on a chair, holding a tea cup in his hand, tasting it slowly, while talking to Zhuo Qiaoniang who was sitting down. On the chair opposite Zhuo Qiaoniang, there was also a young man sitting in a coarse cloth shirt, and a pair of straw sandals under his feet. He was twisting his head and looking around. It's very curious.

Hearing the footsteps, the three of them looked back and saw that it was Leng Yi, Zhuo Qiaoniang hurriedly greeted him with a smile and said, "Official, Dad, they have arrived." ”

They? Didn't the old lady come alone? Leng Yi immediately woke up again, how could it be possible to let the old man come alone, there must be someone to accompany him. That's the young man? Who could it be?

Leng Yi was thinking in his head, but he didn't stop at his feet, and he didn't even hesitate or doubt at all. He walked up quickly, smiled at the young man, and then came to the old man, glanced at it, and sure enough, it looked like himself. He clenched his fists and arched his hands: "Grandson knocks on the old lady!" "When you take off your robe, you will fall to your knees.

"I can't help it!" The old lady hurriedly got up and hugged Leng Yi, "Grandson! You are now an official of the imperial court, except for kneeling for the emperor, no one else can kneel, including your grandfather and me! ”

Leng Yi smiled and said, "Grandpa has a smooth journey?" ”

Without waiting for the old lady to speak, the man behind him had already said: "It's good, brother, if it weren't for the fact that my brother and sister-in-law brought a hundred taels of silver with the letter, we wouldn't have been able to leave!" Today's flood in the family area, the crops were destroyed, and grandpa and dad were still thinking about coming to your brother, but it happened that your letter arrived. Grandpa only took five taels of silver for us to wrap around, and the rest was left for my father and his family, saying that it would be enough for next year. ”

As soon as Leng Yi heard this, he immediately knew that this young man was the younger brother of the magistrate he was pretending to be. It's just that the name doesn't know what it's called.

The old lady smiled and said, "Yes! Or is your eldest brother promising! became the magistrate of the county, and now he has been promoted to a general judge, which has brought glory to the face of our Leng family! By the way, when we came, patriarch, even your grandfather specially took a genealogy and brought it to me for you to see. This is the time of this year's Chinese New Year, and the patriarch presided over the revision of the family tree. It's because you became a jinshi and became a magistrate, which added luster to the faces of the whole clan. So it's going to be revised! ”

Leng Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, with this thing, at least he wouldn't be blind. Busy and humble.

The old lady opened the package, solemnly took out a thin book, and handed it to Leng Yi: "Oh, take a look!" ”

Leng Yi took it and quickly flipped to the back, there was a page with his own name, and the names of the family were written on it, including his wife Zhuo Qiaoniang's. Leng Yi's own name is written in gold powder, and the paragraph next to it also writes about his promotion and being an official, but the official position is also written as the magistrate of Yinling County, Bazhou. When it was revised, I didn't know that I had been promoted.

Leng Yi found his grandfather's name, called Leng Changbei, and found his younger brother, who was only one of his own brothers, named Leng Fu.

Leng Yi thought that it was best for him to memorize this genealogy as soon as possible, so he said, "Grandson will stay and take a look first." All right? ”

"This genealogy is for you, and I will write a letter to the patriarch when I go back, telling him that your official position has changed, and this genealogy must be changed! Hey! ”

The old lady Leng Changbei smiled happily, he couldn't make as many modifications as possible.

Leng Changbei asked Leng Yi to sit down, looked him up and down, and said, "Very good, I heard your daughter-in-law talk about these things about you before, and said that you led the people of Bazhou to fight the flood, and did not let a single person drown in the flood!" The emperor and Empress Kaibao were very happy, and not only rewarded her with a box of jewels, but also rewarded you with a gold belt, right? ”

Leng Yi smiled and said, "Yes! This is all divine grace. ”

"That's what you can do! There are so many officials in the country, how many gold belts can be rewarded by the emperor? Hey, the belt! I heard that it was worn by the emperor when he was fighting on the battlefield, and he personally untied it and gave it to you, what a glory is that? This is much more glorious than if you were lifted and judged! This matter must be written to the patriarch immediately, so that the whole clan will be stained. ”

When Leng Changbei said that he was happy, not only his eyebrows fluttered, but he smiled.

Leng Fu also said excitedly: "Brother, show us the gold belt that the emperor rewarded you, open your eyes!" ”

Leng Yi said: "Then what is there to see." ”

"You are in the midst of blessings and do not know blessings! We haven't seen it, it's naturally rare! I asked my sister-in-law to take it just now, and she said that you have to agree. Brother, you can come and see us! ”

"Okay!" Leng Yi said to Zhuo Qiaoniang: "Then you can go there and show grandpa and them." ”

"Yes!" Zhuo Qiaoniang stepped into the bedroom, and after a while, she took out a brocade box and put it in front of Leng Changbei. The horn clicked open, and said, "Grandpa, look, this is the golden belt that the emperor rewarded the officials!" There was an unconcealed joy in that voice.

Leng Changbei trembled his hands, slowly picked up the gold belt, and looked at it over and over. Leng Fu stood next to him and kept saying, "Grandpa, show me!" Stretching out his hand to get the gold belt in Leng Changbei's hand.

Leng Changbei reached out to hit his hand angrily, but this gold belt was very heavy, and he couldn't hold it with one hand, so he actually took it off!

Seeing that the gold belt was about to fall to the ground, Leng Yi's eyes were quick, and before the gold belt was about to fall to the ground, he grabbed the gold belt in his hand.

Leng Changbei and Leng Fu were both frightened into a cold sweat, Leng Changbei sprinkled all his anger on Leng Fu, pointed at it and shouted angrily: "You brute! It's you shouting here, if you drop the gold belt on the ground and it's broken even a little bit, it's a disrespectful capital crime! How many heads do you have? ”

Leng Fu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a bang, pinched his ears, and begged with a sad face: "Grandpa, I was wrong, I don't dare anymore!" ”

Leng Yi said: "It's not that serious, it's okay, Leng Fu, you get up!" ”

Leng Fu sighed, stood up, and looked at Leng Yi a little strangely.

Leng Yi couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, the expression on his face remained unchanged, and he smiled: "What's wrong?" Look at me like that. ”

"Brother, why do you call me by name? You've always called me my second child. ”

Troublesome, Leng Yi complained bitterly in his heart, his face was still silent, and said, "Isn't it okay to call your name?" ”

Leng Changbei next to him said: "That's right! I used to be at home, it was in the countryside, and I could call it whatever I wanted. Now, your brother is already an official of the imperial court, and there is also the emperor's royal gold belt, can his identity be the same as before? Can you call it casually? Naturally, it is necessary to call the tuba dignified. ”

Leng Fu was suddenly relieved and said, "Yes, yes, I'm confused." ”

Leng Yi's heart was relieved, there was an old lady to help him speak, and sure enough, things were much easier, it seemed that his original plan was successful, and he had to do a better job of patting this old lady's sycophants in the future.

Leng Yi asked Zhuo Qiaoniang, "Is the old lady's bedroom ready?" ”

"It's been prepared for a long time, it's just that the old lady doesn't want to live there."

Leng Changbei said: "Yes! You have a filial piety, I know this, it's just that grandpa can't do this, now, Leng Yi is an official of the imperial court, and he has a gold belt from the emperor by his side, if I occupy the master bedroom and let him put the gold belt in the wing, it will be a great disrespect to the emperor. So, you still live in the master bedroom, and the second child and I just live in the wing. That's it! ”

Leng Yi persuaded a few words, but Leng Changbei just disagreed, so he had to let him go.

(To be continued)