Huan Ling's injuries are very good, now that the gauze has been removed, it can be seen that the wound has healed, Xie Zheng carefully supported him, walking around in the yard, and Yuzhi walked behind Huan Ling, seemingly on standby at any time, lest he fall due to physical exhaustion.

"When I left the palace two days ago, I met Zhong Xuan, and I heard that he is now staying in the courtyard of King Wuling," Xie Zheng spoke, peeking at Huan Ling's face from time to time, as if he intended to mention Huan Rang, Huan Ling heard about Huan Rang, the original smile on his face disappeared in an instant, he took a deep breath, and only said lightly: "Don't mention him." ”

Before the words fell, I suddenly saw the porter hurrying over and reported to Xie Zheng: "Xie Niangzi, there is another person in the palace!" ”

Hearing this, Xie Zheng was really a little impatient in his heart, and muttered: "Why are you here again......

After she said that, she gave the two little maids in the Huanling courtyard a look and said, "You two come here, carefully support the county marquis." ”

The two maids came over, and they were frightened to support Huan Ling on the left and right, and Xie Zheng specially said to Huan Ling before leaving: "I'll come when I go." ”

But as soon as he saw Xie Zheng walking away with the jade branch, Huan Ling broke free from the support of the two maids on the left and right, but he didn't want to, as soon as he exerted his strength, he touched the wound in his abdomen, and then he gently covered the wound again, frowning.

The two maids were shocked, hurriedly supported him again, and called in a panic: "...... the county marquis"

Huan Ling only said: "Go back to the house, as soon as Deyin leaves, my wound is not good again." ”

Xie Zheng hurried to the front yard, and sure enough, he saw the little eunuch of the Shiqian Hall standing there waiting for her.

The little eunuch was born handsome, she was quite happy when she saw it for the first time, and she had teased him with Xiao Daocheng in the past, and since then, Xiao Daocheng summoned her back to summon her, or rewarded her, all of them sent this little eunuch.

This time I was born, and I was familiar with it twice, Xie Zheng and this little eunuch had already seen each other seventeen or eighteen times, and now they are so familiar that they can be called brothers.

The little eunuch was holding a tray in his hand, and on the tray were two small boxes made of bright yellow brocade.

"Chunchun!" Xie Zheng approached quickly, and he was still far away, calling the little eunuch like a little brother.

As soon as the little eunuch called Twilight Spring saw Xie Zheng coming, he hurriedly bowed his head and saluted: "Say hello to the county lord of Shanyin." ”

"What's polite," Xie Zheng walked up to Duchun, picked up a brocade box and opened it to look at it, and saw that there was a honey-yellow stone inside, which was also the size of a pigeon's egg, this stone was nothing special at first glance, but when the sun shone down, there was a faint light on it, and there was a light like a cat's eye, which was very beautiful.

Xie Zheng took this beautiful stone in his hand and played with it, but he forgot to open another brocade box and asked, "This stone is fresh, do you know what it is?" ”

Twilight Chun smiled: "This stone is as round as a dragon's eye, the color is like beeswax, the number is 'cat's eye', it is a tribute sent by the lion country last month, there is a pair, two days ago the county lord sent a diamond to His Majesty, His Majesty thought about returning the gift, so he remembered this opal, and asked the slave to send it to the county lord." ”

Hearing that there was a pair of opals, Xie Zheng then opened another brocade box on the tray, and sure enough, he saw that there was an identical cat's eye inside, so he took the two stones in his hand, raised them slightly, and raised his head again, shining on the golden sun, and praised: "It's really beautiful!" ”

She pinched the two opals and admired them for a long time before she remembered what was going on, so she hurriedly put her hands down and asked Duchun, "Chunchun, has Your Majesty summoned me?" ”

"No," Du Chun thought for a moment and replied, "When the slave maid came out of the Shiqian Palace, His Majesty was sending someone to summon Si Nongqing. ”

"Si Nongqing?" Xie Zheng thought about it for a while, yes, early yesterday morning, Shen Yuzhi had already led the army to set off and rushed to Jiuzhen County to support, he was in a hurry, and the whole army did not carry much grain and grass, and now Xiao Daocheng should order the Taicang Department to prepare grain and grass for backup.

But after thinking about it, she always felt that something was wrong, it stands to reason that when Xiao Daocheng wanted Shen Yuzhi to lead the troops to Jiuzhen County, he should have ordered the Taicang Department to prepare grain and grass, that is, the day before yesterday, why delay it to today, the most important thing for the march to fight is to delay......

Seeing that Xie Zheng seemed to be distracted, Du Chun tentatively called her twice: "County lord, county lord?" ”

"Huh?" Xie Zheng was obviously pulled back to his thoughts by his two calls, and then he heard Du Chun sneer: "County master, the slave maid came to deliver the reward on the order of His Majesty, and now that the reward has been delivered, the slave and maid should also go back to restore their lives." ”

"Let's go," Xie Zheng waved his hand at Duchun, and after Duchun left, Yuzhi asked, "What's wrong with the lady?" She had sensed that Xie Zheng was on her mind.

Xie Zheng lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the two opals in his hand, and said meaningfully: "Your Majesty sent someone to send a reward, I should go to the palace to thank you." ”

She didn't want to enter the palace to thank her, but she wanted to find out about Lu Huilin's collection of grain and grass.

Yuzhi understood, and immediately responded: "The slave understands, and the slave will go to prepare the ox cart." ”

In the imperial city at that time, Xiao Daocheng was sitting in the Shiqian Palace, while Si Nongqing Lu Huilin was standing at the bottom with his head slightly bowed, and his face was visible to the naked eye.

Xiao Daocheng sat on top and asked meticulously: "Huilin, I ordered you to prepare grain and grass to support Shen Yuzhi, how are you prepared?" ”

"Uh...... This ......" Lu Huilin couldn't answer, Xiao Daocheng didn't have so much patience with him, so he reprimanded impatiently: "I asked you about grain and grass, what do you mean by this branch!" ”

Lu Huilin knelt down with a "poof", and said in a slurred manner: "Go back to ...... Back to Your Majesty, Taicang is empty, and the grain and grass are ...... I'm afraid that the food and grass will not be enough to back up ......"

Xiao Daocheng was shocked, and involuntarily took the case, and confirmed again and again: "What did you say!" ”

Lu Huilin was slapped on the table by him, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and explained: "Yesterday, Weichen received His Majesty's will, and immediately went to the Taicang Bureau, and ordered the three supervisors to count the three warehouses respectively, and then report the results of the inventory to Weichen, but who expected that the grain in the three warehouses would not add up enough to support the hussar general......"

"You didn't check again?" With such a result, Xiao Daocheng obviously didn't believe it or dared to believe it.

Lu Huilin pretended to be aggrieved and said quite embarrassedly: "Last night, the three supervisors reported the results to Wechen, and Wechen didn't believe it, so he took them to the Taicang Bureau, and counted them twice overnight, indeed...... ...... true"

"Bastard thing!" Xiao Daocheng raised his finger to land Huilin, and scolded: "As the secretary of the Taicang Bureau, how much surplus grain is in the granary, I don't ask you to remember it clearly, but you should always have a number in your heart, and now you only know the inventory when you need it urgently, so what do you do as a nongqing on weekdays!" ”

"Your Majesty forgives you, this matter is the negligence of the minister, the minister...... Wechen damn it...... Weichen should be damned......" Lu Huilin said, and did not forget to kowtow again and again to show a correct attitude of admitting his mistakes, but Xiao Daocheng replied coldly: "You really deserve to die!" ”

Lu Huilin heard these words clearly, it was true, Xiao Daocheng said this, didn't he want him to die? Lu Huilin was sincerely frightened, lying on the ground, and hurriedly raised his head to look at Xiao Daocheng secretly.

Xiao Daocheng is just talking after all, how to really execute him, it is really ridiculous to say, the father Lu Huilin who is kneeling in the hall was also Xiao Daocheng's fast son-in-law, if you talk about seniority, this family is really unusual, but in terms of age, Lu Huilin is indeed more than 20 years younger than Xiao Daocheng.

He sat down helplessly, and only said: "I give you three days, you must gather food and grass, otherwise, you will get to know each other and ask me for my resignation." ”

Xiao Daocheng remembered that Lu Huilin had a short love affair with Xiao Yifu, and he also knew that Xiao Yifu was sorry for Lu Huilin, and now he could be regarded as giving him enough face, otherwise, he would not ask him to ask for his own resignation, but to dismiss him.

Lu Huilin knew that he would not be able to gather all the food and grass within three days, although he felt helpless in his heart, he finally escaped Xiao Daocheng's fall, so he quickly kowtowed and thanked him, and then retreated.

At this time, Xie Zheng happened to come to the Shiqian Palace, she walked outside the Shiqian Palace, and happened to meet Lu Huilin head-on, seeing Lu Huilin sweating profusely, and running away in disgrace, Xie Zheng sneered in his heart, but also quite suspicious.

Twilight Chun rushed back to the Shiqian Hall in front of Xie Zheng for a while, and now he was standing guard at the door of the hall, when he saw Xie Zheng coming over, he lowered his voice and asked in surprise: "Why is the county lord here?" ”

"I'm here to thank you," Xie Zheng walked up to him, glanced left and right, and then pointed to Lu Huilin's back as he walked away, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Twilight Chun cautiously glanced around, and then whispered to Xie Zheng what happened, Xie Zheng thought about it for a while, and then showed a calm and slightly meaningful smile, she only said to Twilight: "Go and spread the word inside, and say that I came to thank you." ”

"Yes," Twilight Chun entered the hall, came out in the blink of an eye, and gestured to Xie Zheng, Xie Zheng understood, so he raised his feet and stepped over the rather high threshold of the main hall, and walked in without restraint.

"Weichen greets Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty," Xie Zhengzheng saluted, Xiao Daocheng hurriedly stretched out his hand, raised his palm upward, and said with a smile: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Daocheng saw Xie Zheng, the sad expression on his face instantly turned into nothing, but his smile now was squeezed out by force, and the matter of grain and grass was indeed not a trivial matter.

After Xie Zheng straightened up, Xiao Daocheng asked with a smile: "Listen to Duchun, are you here to thank you?" ”

"With Your Majesty's reward, Wei Chen naturally wants to come to thank you," Xie Zheng's face was full of natural smiles, which contrasted sharply with the stiff smile on Xiao Daocheng's face.

"That's not a reward, it's a return gift from me, and the gift is still exchanged," Xiao Daocheng said, smiling and smiling a little sad, Xie Zheng saw it in his eyes, and finally found an opportunity to meddle in the matter of grain and grass, she pretended to be light, and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty...... What seems to be bothering? ”

"This is all for you to see," Xiao Daocheng looked at Xie Zheng, his mood was a little complicated, this Xie Zheng, he was really good at observing words and feelings.

With a gentle smile in his eyes, Xie Zheng walked up without any scruples, stood behind Xiao Daocheng, slapped his back, and said with a teasing smile: "Didn't Your Majesty say that Deyin is a roundworm in your stomach?" ”

"Alas!" Xiao Daocheng was very worried, sighed, and said: "Shen Youzhi led the army to Jiuzhen County, and he urgently needed grain and grass to support him, but now the Taicang Department said that the surplus grain in the granary is insufficient...... Xiao Xie, you have always been shrewd, think of a way to get together the grain and grass within three days. ”

Xie Zhengshi was only outside the hall, and after listening to Du Chun's explanation, he had already come up with a way, but now he had to pretend in front of Xiao Daocheng again, she thought about it: "Weichen really has a clumsy plan, but I don't know it...... It doesn't work......"

"Tell me about it," Xiao Daocheng turned his head to look at Xie Zheng.

"Taicang is empty, and it is naturally too late to collect taxes, but it is feasible to collect donations from the scholars."

"Fundraising?" Xiao Daocheng looked dazed, and then only listened to Xie Zhengyan: "The scholars have always had a lot of tuntian, and there must be a lot of grain in the house, and there are dozens of families in the scholars who have settled in Jiankang, such as 'Wang Xie', 'Shen Zhou', 'Gu Lu Zhu Zhang', and 'Cui Lu Li Zheng Wang', and then Hongnong Yang's, Zhongshan Liu's, Yingchuan two surnames, these scholars' grain is worth three or four Taicang, Your Majesty might as well start with them." ”

Xie Zheng's idea is naturally excellent, Xiao Daocheng agreed in his heart, but he smiled bitterly again, and said: "These scholars are fighting hard, and asking them to donate food is probably more difficult than ascending to the sky!" ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Weichen has a way to ask them to donate food 'willingly', but this has to ask the lady in the palace to help."

"Oh?" Xiao Daocheng became more and more interested when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What do you say?" ”

Xie Zheng glanced at the inner prison Gong E in the hall quite vigilantly, Xiao Daocheng understood, and immediately glanced sideways at Qu Ping, and Qu Ping then ordered: "You all retreat." ”

After the inner supervisor Gong E walked out of the palace, Xie Zheng was still not very relieved, so he lowered his voice slightly, so he could tell Xiao Daocheng and said: "Your Majesty must order the ladies in the palace to set up a banquet, invite the women and nobles of the Jiankang clan to come here for the banquet, and then gather the lords of the scholar clan in Taicang ......"

When she said this, she didn't say anything anymore, but she raised her hand to cover her mouth and continued to talk with Xiao Daocheng.

After hearing this, Xiao Daocheng thought about it in his heart, "This ...... The weight of the scholars, if you turn your face for this, I'm afraid the gains outweigh the losses......"

"Your Majesty, Taicang is empty at the moment, if you want to gather all the grain and grass as quickly as possible, there is only this way. Besides, the scholars have a lot of food, and His Majesty asked them to donate a small amount, which is just a drop in the ocean for them, and compared with the grace they received from His Majesty in the past, it is even more insignificant. ”

Xiao Daocheng thought about it carefully, and Fang felt that what Xie Zheng said was not unreasonable, but he threatened the scholars to donate food, which really offended people, he frowned, and then asked: "That...... In your opinion, who should I send to entertain those nobles? ”

"What does Your Majesty think about the matter of the Taicang Agency?" Xie Zheng asked rhetorically, Xiao Daocheng didn't ask again, but he also knew in his heart, the matter of the Taicang Department was naturally the most suitable for Lu Huilin, as for the banquet, it would inevitably fall on Xie Guifei or Luo Shuyi!

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