Tongzhou Prefecture backyard, main hall

Lai Da, the chief housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, was standing in front of the eldest master with a respectful face at this time.

"Big master, the old lady sent the little one over, hoping that the big master would get the matter of dredging the canal as soon as possible, so that the second master could get out of the prison of the criminal department as soon as possible!"

As early as three days ago, he had already arrived at the Tongzhou Prefecture Office, but at that time, the eldest lord was urging his officials to sort out the account books, and he didn't have time to talk to Lai Da, and he didn't even give him the opportunity to meet.

At first, Lai Da was quite unhappy, how to say that he also represented the old lady, and he was also the number one person in Rongguo Mansion, how could he be in such a good mood when he was so slow by the old man?

But the old man is gone, and he is helpless, he can't force his way into the backyard of the state government, right?

In desperation, he had to find an inn to stay in temporarily, but it turned out that he heard a lot of amazing information, all about the eldest master.

Compared with the big man who behaves in the house, the big man in Tongzhou is simply synonymous with domineering and arrogant, and he walks around with a Daguan knife all day long, which is much more deterrent than the ruffians who specialize in teasing the little daughter-in-law on the street.

This is nothing, the key master is really not weak in martial arts, and his official reputation in Tongzhou is actually quite good, at least Lai Da has heard the rumors of the big lord, and few people have said bad things about him.

It's really surprising, I didn't expect the old man to have such skills!

Of course, he also witnessed the trouble of the Cao Gang Tongzhou Helm Gang, which frightened Lai Da at that time, and almost turned around and slipped back to the capital without being shocked.

The Cao Gang is definitely a behemoth, not to mention that he is a big housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, that is, compared with the Cao Gang, the entire Rongguo Mansion is absolutely inferior in any matter how compared to Rongguo Mansion.

The eldest lord is simply crazy, he actually offended the people of the Cao Gang, and there will be no good fruit to eat in the future.

Unexpectedly, the eldest master was really strong, and he directly took all the troublesome Cao Gang, and several of them were well-known in the rivers and lakes, but they were overturned by the eldest lord one by one.

After hearing and seeing it, I realized that the majesty of the lord was not a joke.

Lai Da is a clever person, otherwise he would not have become the great housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, and he has been sitting steadily for more than ten years, so he naturally knows what it means to be stronger than people.

The eldest lord is much stronger outside than in the mansion, but he changed his attitude in time, and he didn't dare to reveal the set in the mansion in front of the eldest lord, and he couldn't be honest.

No, the eldest lord finally has time and time to see him, Lai Da didn't dare to slack off at all, he lowered his eyebrows and behaved quite respectfully, how could he have half the arrogance of the grand butler of the Rong Mansion?

"Go back and tell the old lady, just say that I am dealing with the second child's affairs, and I have already interceded for the second child before, and it is estimated that the second child will be released in a few days!"

I had already guessed what I was thinking today, and the eldest man was full of confidence when he said this, although he was surprised by the respectfulness of Lai Da's attitude, but he didn't care much about it.

Lai Da's heart was shocked, and his demeanor was more respectful and cautious.

Just kidding, as the big housekeeper of the Rong Mansion, he walked around a lot for the affairs of the second master of the government, but he ate a lot of blank eyes in the yamen of the Criminal Department, and at the same time felt the decline of the Rong Mansion personally.

He personally went out of the horse, not to mention fishing out the second master of the government, and he didn't even know how to send the silver, the embarrassment and helplessness at that time are still vivid, I didn't expect that the eldest master was in Tongzhou, and he could easily solve the trouble of the second master of the government, if it was really in the future, there would be no need to worry,

"Lord, the old lady also instructed the little one, she misses Miss Yingchun very much, and hopes that the little one will take Miss Yingchun back, you see ......"

After talking about the second master of Zheng, Lai Da suddenly changed his words and said cautiously.

"Yingchun is still young and can't stand the bumps, when will I have a holiday, I will take the Yingchun girl back to visit the old lady!"

The eldest man waved his hand, his face was unhappy, and he directly rejected Jia Mu's thoughts.

What are you kidding, he finally took advantage of Jia's mother's inattention, and directly brought Yingchun and Jia Song's two sisters and brothers to Tongzhou together, how could he hand over people to the big housekeeper because Jia's mother missed him?

What the old lady wants to do, the old man is clear in his heart.

If you want to grasp the eldest lord, you always think of such an idea, if Jia's mother really loves Yingchun, it's just a pity, but it's just a face-to-face, Jia's mother doesn't look down on Yingchun's concubine at all, do you really think that the eldest master can't see it?

It sounds good to miss her granddaughter, do you think Yingchun is a serious granddaughter?

This is what annoys Jia's mother the most, and it's okay to play tricks if you want to, it's a bit too much to always talk about a young and ignorant little girl.

Listening to Lai Dachuan's words, I just miss 'Yingchun', and I didn't mention Jia Chung in half a word, why is this?

Isn't it that Jia's mother already raises that baby pimple Jia Baoyu, her eyes are full of the so-called 'great creation' child, and she is not even happy to give Jia Chung half a sentence of verbal care.

In that case, don't toss the two concubines, okay?

Lai Da put on a look of Jinghou's orders, and he didn't have the idea of arguing at all.

If it were before, how could I use the old lady to suppress the arrogance of the old man, but now forget it, this is a dispute between the masters, and it is better for him, the big housekeeper, not to participate indiscriminately.

Surprised again by Lai Da's good attitude, although the eldest man was surprised but didn't care much, asked Lai Da when he would return to Beijing, heard that he was going to stay in Tongzhou for a few days, too lazy to ask what the intention was, and instructed the henchmen around him to arrange a place for Lai Da to live, and then turned around and went back to the state to get busy with business.

The eldest lord stabbed a big man in the officialdom this time, and a fire burned extremely vigorously in the court, even if he was in Tongzhou, he quickly heard that there was a big movement in the court.

Nowadays, he is a character who does not rub sand in his eyes, and if he encounters such a thing, if he doesn't check it, he probably won't even be able to sleep well.

The eldest lord has no heart and no lungs to continue to be his Tongzhou boss, and he played a bad trick of igniting a fire but not ending it, and he has cheated I don't know how many officials and so-called local powerful factions.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue tossing, but after the news reaches today, with the official position of the eldest master at this time, he is not qualified to participate in it, which is the most important reason.

That's fine!

Tongzhou, which was the beginning of the storm, was eerily calm these days, and nothing else happened except for the unruly Cao Gang Tongzhou rudder gang who were caught.

The eldest lord was not frightened, although he noticed the turbulent undercurrent below, he didn't care much, and after greeting the officials of the state government, he personally supervised the canal dredging project to continue to start.

Without the Cao Gang Tongzhou rudder guy making a fuss, the most important thing on the side of the Tongzhou Canal is the young and strong people, in the case of no problems with tools and logistical support, the project of dredging the canal is progressing very quickly.

On this day, the eldest man sat leisurely on the top floor of a three-story restaurant by the canal, and remotely directed the canal dredging project in the distance through the wide open window.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps at the staircase, and Lai Da ran over sweating profusely, panting and reminding loudly: "Master, there is news from Beijing that the second master has come out and returned home!" ”

"Oh, yes!"

The eldest lord was noncommittal about this, smiled and waved his hand and said: "This matter was expected by the master, so there is no need to be so excited!" ”

Lai Da's expression was stunned, and he slandered the old man in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, so he only nodded his head again and again, looking like a big man's wise and martial doglegs.

"If it's okay, go down!"

waved his hand, the eldest lord really doesn't have a good impression of Lai Da, of course, there is not much bad feeling, this guy is just a normal mouse, even if there is no Lai Da, there will be Li Dawang, as long as Jia Mu does not want to give up the right to speak in the house one day, such a thing is always inevitable.

If there is a big housekeeper in the house, it is really not necessarily as easy to use as Lai Da, and it is actually very simple to deal with the Lai family, there is no need to open your mouth and close your mouth to copy the house, such a thing is indispensable to all powerful mansions, just depending on whether the family is tough or not, Rongguo Mansion is not the worst mansion in Beijing.

Bang!

Just when Lai Da was bored in his heart and was about to say goodbye, suddenly a dull loud noise came from the water surface of the canal not far away.

The old man stood tall and naturally saw far away, and looked in the direction where the loud noise came, but saw that on the spacious canal waterway, two large cargo ships collided together, swirled on the canal waterway and turned around, and the impact part sank down sharply, just stopping on the canal waterway.

At this moment, the boat behind was blocked and could not move forward, which suddenly caused a licking sound.

The sailors of the two ships that collided with each other did not pay any attention to the ships next to them, but scolded each other with the smell of gunpowder, and the posture that they could dry up at any moment.

This is, the ship was hit, and then the canal waterway was blocked!

"Sir, look?"

The henchman who followed him asked in a low voice, "Do we want to go over and have a look?" ”

"No, the staff of the Canal Yamen will go over and deal with it!"

The eldest lord didn't have the idea of leaving, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the warships of the canal yamen to rush over, and the shouts of the soldiers on the warships could be heard from afar.

It's just that for some reason, or the identity of the gold owner behind the two large cargo ships is extraordinary, the sailors on the two cargo ships are not birds, and the soldiers of the canal yamen still open their voices and shout loudly, with a posture of not reluctantly continuing to scold.

"Let's go down and have a look!"

Seeing that the people and horses of the canal yamen did not work, since the eldest lord had met it as the governor of Tongzhou, he naturally had to go over and take a look, otherwise if there was anything in the future, someone might throw the burden on the eldest lord.

He was not afraid of carrying such a small pot, but he was very curious in his heart, what kind of boat is so good, don't you know that it will be a lot of trouble to block the canal waterway?