In the blink of an eye, it was late at night, and by this time the torrential rain had stopped, and only some scattered ticking sounds could be heard, which should be the sound of water falling from the eaves and falling into puddles.

By this time, many people had fallen asleep, and only two servants were left in the temple who were keeping vigil by the campfire.

And the two servants, in order to cheer up the spirits of the big night, began to chat.

"If you want me to say, that scholar doesn't look like a human being, when a group of us went up, this person spent a few tricks to make us dare not go again."

"But no, Wang Feng was picked up by the scholar's punch, and fainted directly, he didn't know that this scholar was so thin, how could he have so much strength."

The two of them also looked secretly in Li Si's direction, and when they saw that Li Si was still sleeping, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time lowered their voices to speak.

"It's scary to say, I laughed at him when we got past him." A middle-aged servant said in a somewhat embarrassed tone.

The other servant, who was much more relaxed, said in a mocking tone: "Fortunately, this man does not care about the villain, otherwise our convoy will be unlucky, and my poor old mother will have one less son to send her to death." ”

It's just that although this person has a mocking tone, there is still a feeling of the aftermath in his tone.

The middle-aged servant sneered and said, "Who doesn't know that your mother has given birth to four or five children, and she is not the same with you or not, if she really cares about you, she will not sell you to the Zhou Mansion." ”

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, the young servant was a little unhappy, and snorted: "As far as my family looks like, if my mother doesn't sell me to the Zhou family again, my family won't be able to support it." ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh a little, his family was really unable to support it at the beginning, so his mother sold him to Zhou's mansion as soon as she gritted her teeth, and then used the money from the sale to support his four younger brothers and sisters.

In fact, he didn't have any hatred for his parents, after all, at that time, if they didn't sell him, their family didn't know how many people would survive.

But it was because his mother gritted his teeth and sold him that they both survived, and in this regard, he admired his mother very much, and every time he gave a monthly payment, he would bring a little money to the family to subsidize the family's expenses.

When the middle-aged servant saw him say this, he didn't know how to answer, and he also knew the situation in this person's house, so he changed the topic.

"Do you know why our master is in such a hurry to go to Zetianfu this time? I'm still confused. ”

Hearing him ask, the young servant smiled, then looked around left and right, lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "You don't know this, do you?" This time, the lord is to return to his ancestral land to worship his ancestors. ”

"Ancestral land?" The middle-aged servant showed a look of surprise on his face, and then said, "Hasn't our master always started in Mengting County?" Why is the ancestral land in Zetianfu? ”

When the young servant saw his surprised look, a smile immediately appeared on his face, obviously extremely satisfied with the middle-aged servant's performance.

He had a smug look on his face, and said mysteriously: "It's not surprising that you don't know, many people in this mansion don't know." ”

"That is, I have been in the house for a long time, otherwise I don't know. This is what I heard when I overheard the conversation between the masters, and it is very important to say that our grandfathers have a great background. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it. The middle-aged servant looked expectant, obviously very curious about this matter.

"Actually, our grandfather's generation made his fortune in Zetianfu, and our grandfather's grandfather is a great figure, he was a jinshi in the thirty-first year of Yonglong, and he became the prefect of Beiqing Mansion in the second year of Tongsheng."

As soon as he heard the young servant's words, the middle-aged servant whispered, "How is this possible? ”

The middle-aged servant's call startled the young servant, and he shouted in a low voice: "What's your name, can you afford to wake up the master?" ”

As he spoke, the young servant looked over to the outsider, and was relieved to see that he was still sleeping soundly.

The middle-aged servant also showed an embarrassed look on his face, scratched his head and said, "Wasn't I frightened by this?" And what you said is too fake, even if we are not very powerful in Mengting County, how can his grandfather be the prefect? ”

Seeing that the middle-aged servant doubted his words, the young servant's face showed an angry look, but after thinking about it, he said, "This matter is relatively secret, and I can't talk nonsense everywhere." ”

When the middle-aged servant heard this, the curiosity on his face suddenly became even stronger, and his eyes rolled, and he said in a playful tone: "Could this be what you made up nonsense, and you are still using this to lie to me." ”

This made the young servant a little annoyed before, and when he heard the middle-aged servant's playful tone, he became even more angry, so he said angrily: "You have also been in the Zhou Mansion for a few years, don't you know that I am a person?" Am I a man of pomp? ”

Hearing the young servant's words, the middle-aged servant was overjoyed, knowing that this person had already taken the bait, and secretly sighed in his heart that this person was really young.

But the middle-aged servant's face remained unchanged, and he still said in a playful tone: "You also know that I have only been in the Zhou Mansion for a few years, how can I know that you are not a pompous person in such a short time, after all, what you just said is too fantastical." ”

Hearing the middle-aged servant's words, the young servant's face became a little ugly, and then he hesitated a little, and finally snorted as if he had made some decision: "Don't look down on people, I really have to talk to you today." ”

"But you'd better not spread these things and don't say that I said them, otherwise you won't know when you die."

When the middle-aged servant heard this, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, but he was still a little curious in his heart, as if the kitten was scratching his heart, and if he didn't figure it out, he would probably die of discomfort.

"In fact, the grandfather's generation at the beginning was indeed wide. But he did something that caused a sensation at the time and put him in a catastrophe from which he never recovered. ”

When the young servant saw that the middle-aged servant was still listening, he spoke helplessly.

"To say that the old lady at that time was already considered complete, his governance ability was also very strong, and Beiqing Mansion was getting better and better under his rule, but this old lady had a problem, that is, greed!"

"In fact, it doesn't matter if you are greedy, who is not greedy in this officialdom? Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, this is not a casual talk. But the old lady's greed is really a big problem. ”