The cold wind is howling, the fine snow is flying, and the Forbidden City, wrapped in a layer of silver, is extraordinarily vicissitudes. Two sedan chairs came out of the left door of the Forbidden City's noon gate, and stopped in the door hole.

"Master Li, ...... Cao"

The fifty or sixty-year-old man, who had just taken over the Simen Guard Military Academy, had a vague familiar face, and then looked at the roster, and the official office said "Manage Suzhou Weaving, Dali Temple and Inspect the Imperial History of the Two Huai Salt Classes", immediately nodded and greeted respectfully. However, another young man in his early twenties felt that he was angry, and he couldn't help frowning when he saw that the roster was marked as "managing Jiangning weaving, the head of the Internal Affairs Office". Jiangning weaving, isn't it the same age as this Suzhou weaving Master Li? And how did the rank become such a petty official as the principal?

"Cao Liansheng?"

The Guardian Academy read the young man's name, and the young man was about to nod his head when the old man spoke.

"Cao Yan, now it's Cao Yan."

The young man smiled gratefully at the old man, the old man smiled and nodded, and the two exchanged looks, but they were not concerned about the trivial matter in front of them.

Suzhou weaving Li Xu, with Cao Yin's only son Cao Liansheng to the capital to face the king, thank the emperor for giving Cao Yin medicine in July last year, and after Cao Yin's death, the emperor specially allowed Cao Liansheng to succeed his father Jiangning weaving Hong En.

With Li Xu's support, Cao Yan was able to take over his father's Jiangning Weaving so smoothly, but behind this righteous name, it was Li Xu's care for his children and nephews, and Cao Xu was naturally grateful. 【1】

"In the past, it was said that the three weavings were the masters of guarding the south of the Yangtze River, and they had passed the ......"

Looking at the sedan shadow of Cao Yan in the distance, Li Xu stroked his beard and sighed.

"Yo, Master Li, it's hard to see!"

Someone greeted him behind him, but Li Xu turned his head, but he was an acquaintance.

"Silly brother, I haven't seen you for a long time, is it a matter of preparing for the longevity ceremony with the emperor?"

Li Xu also greeted warmly, and the person who came was the Minister of Internal Affairs, whose name was ...... Idiot. 【2】

"Yo, Master Li, that's all the work of the head of the agency, Master Ma, where do we dare to touch it? This time, I took advantage of the trivial things in Guangdong to get close to my master, and listening to my master's words, it was enough to be comfortable this year. ”

The fool smiled and returned the salute.

Seeing that this fool deliberately said something, Li Xu didn't rush to get on the sedan chair, so he opened a big umbrella by his subordinates, covered the wind and snow, and talked to him.

"Guangdong...... There are always strange things going on in that place, last year Yang Chun was in turmoil, and then there was the Fuxian case, and the future of Saltai was folded there, what was the excitement this time? ”

Li Xu was really a little curious.

"Hey, this is a good thing, our internal affairs office has another character! Jiang Zan, a member of the staff, was borrowed by Taiping Guan to temporarily dispose of the customs affairs of Xunhuan, but he didn't want him to make up for a year's arrears in half a month. Let's have fast legs, so let's talk to the master long live the master first. ”

The fool's tongue rolled up and down, and he looked at Li Xu's expression as he spoke.

Li Xu is really in a trance, Hun Xun, Yingdena? But in the old land, more than 20 years ago, he once served as the prefect of Shaozhou, and gave his master Yingde tea and Yingshi, and there was a vague impression. It was a poor place, even up the river, and the goods were not prosperous, and the Hun Pass was in debt over the years, and he had heard his master, the emperor, talk about whether he wanted to hand it over to the governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou.

Thinking of the previous Yang Chun Rebellion, isn't it in Yingde? Xun Xun has also been robbed, no matter how powerful this Jiang Zan is, he can't make up for a year's arrears in half a month. Is Jiang Zan powerful, or is there something strange about that place?

"Master Li, do you think there is something inside?"

The fool took a look at Li Xu's expression and asked in a stunned manner.

"Huh...... I have also heard of Jiang Zan, although people are young, they are capable, but they are harsh and not favored by Bole. Now that the horse manager has come back and is looking for this thousand-mile horse, he should congratulate him. ”

Li Xu smiled, and the fool also smiled.

Back at his mansion in Beijing, Li Xu summoned his master to check his general ledger, and turned to the accounts recorded in the past few days, Li Xu's brows gradually deepened.

"Even the copper catties purchased and the copper catties handed in are not indebted, this Jiang Zan is really a god!?" 【3】

Seeing that the owner was thinking about the latest entry, the master quickly interjected.

"I heard from the people who ran the copper shop in the proprietor's house, Jiang Zan seems to have set up a customs meeting in Xunhuan, entangled all the merchants who passed the customs, and relied on them to smooth out the debts, as for what benefits were given to the customs meeting, it is not clear."

Li Xu's brows gradually stretched, and Guan Hui ......, "Isn't that Chunhui Hall in Hunan still my part?" Send someone to contact their owner to find out what's going on. ”

After instructing the master, Li Xu's mind changed again, although he took over Cao Yin's previous salt affairs in the name of helping the Cao family make up for the arrears, and he could have a large amount of income, but he and the Cao family still had a large amount of debts, so he had to explain to the household department, so as not to damage the face of his master, the emperor. Since a small person like Jiang Zan can make huge profits on the banknote, he, a Suzhou weaver who has to shake three times as soon as he stomps his feet in Jiangnan, has to try to stretch out his hand.

After settling down, Li Xu turned up another account, which was the weaving account for the preparation of the longevity ceremony for his master, the emperor, looking at the dense numbers, Li Xu had a headache again. The arrangement of the longevity ceremony is to chop his old meat, from Xizhimen to Changchun Garden, the color shed will be built for twenty miles, and the color silk consumed alone will be ...... Thousands of miles away in Yingde, Guangdong, Li Xi didn't know that his other home was having a headache on the one hand, and he might give himself a headache on the other, and he was also having a headache now.

"What's the twist? You are a master, I am a student, and my daughter's family doesn't care, why are you still so thin-faced as a big man? ”

At the foot of Cockscomb Mountain, at the shooting range of the Siwei training camp, Yan Sanniang raised a pair of straight willow eyebrows, and scolded Li Xian, who was pinching a small teaching stick and was very restrained in his claws.

At this time, she was holding a musket and aiming at the target, but the usual surname of the previous martial arts training was too heavy, and a pair of long legs stood in a half-horse step, and her arms were full of strength, as if the next action was not to pull the trigger, but to fly thirty steps away, poking at the target with the muzzle of the gun.

She already knew that this posture was wrong, and she had lost all of her shots in a row, and if she was an ordinary person who didn't know anything, her results would be much better than her.

So she asked Li Xi to correct her posture, but Li Xi took a teaching stick and pointed at her shoulder and arm, so that she didn't understand the essentials at all.

Hearing her scolding, Li Xian sighed helplessly, so he had to throw away the teaching stick, reach out and press the girl's shoulder, and hold up her hand holding the gun, and the whole person suddenly became close to her.

"The butt of the gun should be firmly against the shoulder socket, breathe lightly, and it is better to hold your breath when you want to pull the trigger."

"Don't charge up your whole arm, just use a slight force on your wrist to hold the gun steady."

"Bow your waist slightly, don't deliberately add force."

"Don't close your eyes too hard, just close your left eye, and your right eye looks for a line between the door, the front sight, and the target, uh...... Don't tilt your head too much, and don't lean your face against the butt of the gun......"

After a few key points, Li Shi's hand touched the back of the girl's hand, shoulders, waist and head all the way, and was entering the role of an instructor, to pat away her face on the butt of the gun, the white and tender skin was eye-catching, and suddenly brought a ripple in his heart, and then Li Shi finally woke up to the fragrance that made his body and mind feel like being immersed in late spring and early summer, which was the girl's body fragrance.

He was stunned, although the girl's pupils were still aiming at the door, but her cheeks slowly and clearly spread a flush, and her long eyelashes blinked slightly, which made Li Xian's heart suddenly collide, and the beautiful girl ......, "What's next!" ”

The girl's strange voice sounded, rough, as if she was angry with someone.

"Uh...... Well...... Pull the trigger, remember not to resist the backward and upward force, just rely on the waist to resolve it naturally. ”

Li Xi took a step back, and said in his heart that this was what he was afraid of before, this girl really felt that she had been insulted, and she couldn't bear it with a casual paw.

This retreat, the fragrance with body temperature disappeared, and his heart seemed to have lost something, a little empty, Li Xian sighed secretly.

Disheveled...... The gun rang out, and thirty paces away, a cloud of sawdust exploded on a stake a few paces away from the target.

"Look at what you teach! I don't want you to teach me in the future, I'll figure it out myself! ”

Yan Sanniang said angrily, but she hid herself, not daring to let Li Xian see her already red face.

"Okay, you can also teach yourself to practice later, and ask Pan Jinling to help you with other things."

Li Xi explained to her.

"You...... Going to war again? ”

Hearing that Li Xian seemed to be in Zhuangzi again, Yan Sanniang asked sullenly.

"Sort of, although you don't have to make a big deal about it."

Li Shi was going to clean up the Beijiang Boat Gang, of course he wouldn't fight, so he walked away as he spoke, and turned back after a few steps.

"Don't take Guan Xuan out to play crazy again, I can't say that you are a guest, but Guan Xuan and I want to beat her ass."

This is saying that Yan Sanniang and Guan Xuan were mixed together, and even came to Cockscomb Mountain together, which made Li Xian angry.

"Humph! I know how to rectify people's little girls! ”

Yan Sanniang waved her pink fist at Li Xian's back, thinking that this guy must have some unusual habits, and he likes to bully a little girl like Guan Xuan. No, Dekong must talk to Guan Xuan, but he can't be allowed to do whatever he wants, a different silver thief, that is also a silver thief...... In the next half month, the guards were supervised by Yan Sanniang to practice her newly created spear stabbing technique, and they were all rectified to the point of complaining. Her stabbing skills are simple, rushing the gun, shaking the gun, putting the gun up and down left and right, and breaking the gun, just a few moves, but each move has to start from the most basic force training, which makes the guards suddenly return to the hard days of the initial physical training.

This is not ruthless, the actual combat that must be there every day is even more hell, Fang Tangheng, who has the best results, can only block her with one shot, and the others are almost all defeated in one move, and then there are countless bruises on their bodies. Although they were dressed in sand clothes and used wooden bayonets, these sturdy guys were a little unbearable.

It can be seen that Yan Sanniang took advantage of the gap to practice marksmanship alone at the shooting range, and the guards were in awe and awe, and they didn't dare to complain. The girl's family is to stabilize the gun, and she can hang a stone on the barrel of the gun, and one stop is an hour, thinking about her martial arts, she should have practiced so hard and diligently.

"Wait for that guy to come back and surprise him!"

Yan Sanniang gritted her teeth and read, her fingers clasped, and the sound of gunshots rang out, and the ten rings ......

(To be continued)