"Don't be in a hurry." He Shen was taken aback, glanced at Qianlong quickly, frowned and said, "Say it slowly-is it our people who provoke right and wrong?" What do I tell you on a regular basis? This is the envoy of the Imperial City under the Son of Heaven, and the yamen in Beijing is denser than the woods. If you want to get along with the yamen, why do you forget about something? ”

After he finished speaking, Ge Shu had already breathed through his breath, only glanced at the three of Qianlong, and replied: "We don't know what evil fire the people of Shuntianfu have sent!" Blindly giving in, they blindly pressed, and their eyes were red as if they had eaten gunpowder. This morning, when the snow falls, let's set up a porridge shed. On the empty field to the south of the Land Temple, it is still the place where the long finger is here. It is leeward and sunny, and when the weather is clear, those who come to rub the rice can warm up while eating, and they can enter the land temple to avoid it on a snowy day. They also came to see that there was no word and left, and then they came again, saying that Shuntianfu would also set up a tent to give porridge, and they would occupy this place. Master - the rice is in the pot, it is almost cooked, and we are forced to move it immediately. I asked them where they would move? They said, 'Move the Jade Emperor Temple north!' I said, 'The Jade Emperor Temple is facing Haizi in the north, and the great north wind does not even have a tree to shelter the wind, how can there be a pot on the ice surface of Haizi?' The person who came was surnamed Hu, and he opened the meat first, and said, "What kind of ** yamen do you have, that is, the six departments and three divisions set up sheds in Beijing, and you also have to ask Shuntianfu!" I asked him, 'Do you have porridge sheds in Fayuan Temple, Dajue Temple, Sheng'an Temple, Miaoying Temple, and Dazhong Temple?' Monks can't do it, we can't do it? The people surnamed Hu called him Master Hu, and said that I was 'top him', and scooped up a shovel of snow and threw it into the pot. There were more than 200 people waiting to eat, and they were all annoyed, and a young man grabbed the man surnamed Hu and slapped him. The people of Shuntianfu started to coax people, saying that Chongwenmen was beating people on the tariff. Then he started to take people, and a fight broke out in two hits. After another big gasp, He Shen asked, "What's the situation now?" Did you hurt anyone? Ge Shu said: "There are few of them, and the hundreds of people who eat porridge are all angry with us, and they all overturned at once, but they didn't hurt anyone - now there is a stiffness, and they sent people back to the yamen, saying that they want to come to get the people who caused the rebellion, and I will run over to report to you - what do you see at this point?" ”

When Qianlong and Liu Yong listened, their hearts were already on fire: It is your duty to set up porridge to help the poor, not only do you come late, but also make things difficult for others. From where it was said that the people of Shuntianfu were causing trouble, Qianlong didn't have time to speak, and He Shen sneered and said, "I don't know what you guys are? If you ignore it, you have to be three miles stronger, and you can still take advantage of it? Your words are brilliant, and I don't think what you said and did at that time may not be as gentle as you said! Ge Shu was so anxious that his eyes widened like copper bells, and he pointed to the back with a bare face and shouted: "Heye, go and see!" Two hundred of his men went up, and they all died! It was we who stopped and persuaded us that the crowd didn't beat the dogs! He also wanted to say, and He Shen waved his hand and said, "Go, go, I know, I'll go." Tell them that whoever acts rashly, I will spend on him, and make him cry without tears! Geshu was stunned for a moment and ran sideways.

"Master, the slave can't accompany you." He Shen waited for him to go away, turned to Qianlong and smiled, "All the people under me are wild, and I have to restrain them personally." Qianlong asked, "How are you going to deal with the people of Tianfu?" He Shen said: "No matter which yamen is not the emperor's servant?" Shuntianfu has the difficulties of Shuntianfu, and there are many yamen in Beijing, and they all have trouble with them, so they can't live their lives, I want to save face myself, and I have to save face. is the same courtier, maybe the master will ask me to go to Shuntianfu in the future, he always wants to come to Chongwenmen, and he has to stay to meet him. The frightened group of people who were cold and hungry were enraged, and they caused trouble for their masters when they did something. This is the business of the subordinates, and Lao Guo may not know that the minions are not angry with them. And Shun Shun is auspicious. ”

Qianlong was originally going to see it in person, but when he heard He Shen say this, he felt more thoughtful and generous than he thought, nodded and said, "You go!" The people who called Shuntianfu found another place to make porridge - they did not do anything themselves, and they were jealous. Darn! ”

"This man is too considerate of others." Liu Yong looked at He Shen's back as he faded away, sighed and said, "I originally suspected him of selling fame and fishing, but it doesn't seem to be." It's really rare to have such a role in the ranks. He also said, "What the master said is that the people of Shuntianfu are angry, or because of their own mission, let He Shen take the lead." Qianlong looked at the sky and said with a smile: "Shuntianfu is also dispatched, so you don't need to go to Xixiawa!" Liu Yong returned to the military aircraft department, sent it to the governor of Zhili, and summoned the Shuntian Mansion Yin, it is this snow, to see how many people have been affected by the disaster, how to provide relief, and write it as an excerpt - you don't have to go back at night, the queen has something to say, and the pheasant soup she prepared will be rewarded for you! Liu Yongbian promised and thanked him, helped Wang Lian wait for Qianlong to ride the donkey, and said: "I will send the master to Shenwumen - and I want to ask them about the placement of spring cultivation and grain planting, and I will also report it." If some die of cold and starvation, the yamen will also be buried. These are not trivial matters, I heard that some places eat all the grain, and the government doesn't care! Qianlong nodded in agreement on the donkey.

…… Here and Shen rushed back to the porridge shed of the Land Temple, and the two sides were still standing. Two acres of land in front of the porridge shed, a large empty field is full of snow cement slurry. There are also discarded rags and rags all over the ground, half of the dog sticks, rotten bowls and broken cans, and you can see that there has been a lively fight here. The chief master surnamed Hu stood on the west side of the porridge shed with more than a dozen servants, with sticks, ropes, shackles, handcuffs, and flail instruments readily available, all of them were all blue faces, staring at the porridge shed, and standing next to the porridge shed were the tax collectors on the Chongwenmen tariff, all of them were soaked, their clothes were a little dirty and full of mud, and they were all staring at the "Master Hu" group of people with hideous faces, and they seemed to be waiting for their superiors to "call the shots". There were men, women, and children who came to eat, only one tax collector took care of them, lined up for porridge, and a few young people with sheep slaughtering knives pinned to their waists, guarding the door of the porridge shed, looking sideways at the people of Shuntianfu. The three times are all not good-looking, and it seems that as long as Shuntianfu makes a move, he will immediately fight. When He Shen arrived, he was already in a hot sweat, and several young men came up and scolded: "Are you from Shuntianfu?" Don't go over! Dare to dismantle this stove fire, and immediately call you three knives and six holes! The tax collectors shouted, "That's us and my lord," and the people made way for him. Seeing that nothing had happened, He Shen breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Liu Quan, what about Liu Quan?" He didn't come? ”

"Liu Quan is in Zuojiazhuang, and the corpse collected is transported there." Ge Shu said, "The first money for burning the corpse in the Huaren field is the first money, and the second money for burning a person, Mr. Liu was originally in the porridge field outside Xizhimen, and called him there!" It's really strange these days, and it costs money to send it to freeze and burn! ”

He Shen ignored his complaints, turned to the group of officials in Shuntian Mansion and said, "I am He Shen, the second-class shrimp, the commander of the Luan Yiwei, and the governor of the Chongwenmen Customs, which of you is the leader?" Please take a step to speak. ”

No one answered there, only Mr. Hu pursed his lips disdainfully.

"Listen to me." He Shen's face was frosty, and he straightened his waist and said loudly, "Chongwenmen tariff uses the balance of cents to set up a porridge field, and it was approved in advance. My emperor is like the benevolence of heaven, the rules handed down by the ancestors and ancestors, whenever there is a famine, all the officials will work together to help, this is a good deed, not a place where Chongwenmen tariffs disturb you. Now there is a heavy snowfall in Beijing, and all the palaces also have handouts for winter clothes and food. Don't say it's me, even if it's a wealthy family in Beijing, there is no reason to ban it. He pointed to the people waiting in line for food and said, "These are all the emperor's good people, either because of natural disasters, or because of the poverty of their families, they have no choice but to live in Beijing." Look at how they behave! On this snowy day, we have tea and food in Beijing, and our wives and children are hot on the kang, and they are waiting for a bowl of rice to eat in the snow, aren't they pitiful? Even if I don't set up this porridge shed in Chongwenmen, they beg for food at your door in this weather, and they don't give alms to listen to you, but they won't mix snow into his porridge bowl, right? ”

These words immediately resolved people's gloomy and violent grievances, and the officials of Shuntian Mansion couldn't help but look at each other. There was a buzz of discussion on the field: "Look at people and adults, I really didn't expect such a ...... who is sympathetic to the poor and poor" "Who said that there are no good people who are officials?" It's good to practice in the yamen! "Damn, the people of Shuntianfu really grew up eating and don't understand people!" …… Someone shouted, "And the lord of Wandai!" ”

"I don't dare to be a princess." He Shen was unusually calm, his eyes flashing faintly, "Just do my best to deal with it everywhere - I just came from Wan Sui Ye to see you Guo Taizun." I'm sorry for you to send a message and ask him to come and speak! ”

This time, the group of people in Shuntianfu suddenly became confused, and several people hurriedly discussed a few words one after another, and one of the officials seemed to go. The man surnamed Hu hesitated for a moment, like a beast afraid of stepping on the machine spring, hesitated and paced, stiffly snorted, and said: "Mark Hu Ke'an to say hello to Lord He-Fang is rude, please bear with me!" The words of the adults are all reasonable, but there are three things to say, everything is different, and the top and bottom of your yamen don't treat us as human beings——"

"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this." He Shen had no quarrel at all, and said with a smile, "What is the proportion of the people below?" Do you have to worry about it? If you don't fight, you don't know each other, you Guo Taizun are also my friends! Ge Shu - over there to make a pestle under the shed, tell the brothers to go in to avoid the snow, and tell them to make a pot of tea under the stove - go, all dissipate the anger, a yamen in Beijing city, look up and see each other, one is to be reasonable, the other is to be kind, right? Seeing that there was a lot of heat on the side of the porridge shed, he knew that the pot was boiling, so he went over and greeted: "Call for rice!" It's cold today, just these three or hundreds of people, enough to manage and be full, not enough to get rice! ”

The crowd immediately burst into cheers. Nageshu was quite methodical, and in a hurry, he also gathered a dozen beggars, and he played lotus flowers in the dining room, and shouted in unison:

My emperor is sympathetic and poor,

Grass and trees everywhere Shi Chunlin.

I was born with a lot of suffering,

The eight characters are uneven, and the creation is blunt.

or because of the drought in their hometown,

or because of illness and illness, old age and poverty.

This is a prosperous and good people,

It's a pity to be uprooted.

It's really pitiful, it moves the dragon's heart,

Hungry soup porridge and cold house clothes.

Like Guanyin nectar water,

Enshi is unobstructed......

The singing of the lotus flower is sandwiched with the sound of sipping porridge, the screaming of children, the scolding of mothers, the colorful snow people come and go with big bowls, and the shed drills in and out, and the landscape is also quite peculiar. He Shen consciously stopped cooking, made a stool and sat under the tent, the boots were soaked, changed to a pair of dry ones, looked at the snow with all his hands, and thought back to the unpredictable and strange things of the day today, thinking that he had been favored by the emperor and was about to be used, he was so excited that he was a little short of breath, and then he thought that a few people in the military aircraft department treated him normally and were not cold or hot, how could he be harmonious? I am afraid that young and high positions will attract jealousy, but I don't know where there are people in the shadows who make stumbling blocks and traps to get along with themselves, what should I do? …… In his thoughts, he saw a four-person sedan chair staggering over in the distance, and only five or six people followed, and it was expected that Shuntianfu Yin was coming. There are few people with him, so he is not looking for trouble, so he is busy collecting his mind and shouting: "Geshu - Guo Taizun is here, ask people to go to the Jade Emperor Temple to order a few dishes regardless of which small restaurant - no five dollars of silver - you welcome me for me!" He stood up with a smile on his face.

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When it was dark, He Shen returned home. The joy of this day was unprecedented, and despite the exhaustion, the hem of the trouser and robe, the thin layer of ice, and the shaking of the walk, I still did not want to go into the yard, and I still felt that I had to do something, and exhausted all my energy. About the effect of those cups of jade pot spring, I was drunk and half-gluttonous looking at the ice and snow in the glass world, and I wanted to make a fuss, and the snow in the sky was much smaller at that time. Liu Quan commanded his family to go to the back stable to clear the snow and come back, and when he saw him standing in the doorway in a daze, he hurriedly said: "The master has returned to the house - hurry up and inform the wife - master, why do you stand alone in the wind and are not afraid of catching a cold!" Several family members smiled and ran up, patting the snow and blowing the mud for a while, clustering and Shen until the second gate, only to see the courtyard swept clean, the second wife and the second aunt, the housekeeper aunt Wu has taken a group of old women and girls to wait in the patio, seeing him come in, the eldest second aunt squatted a thousand blessings, and said: "The rice in the room has been delivered, ready-made winter solstice dumplings, four rough hair extremely yellow rice porridge, and the swinging fish sent by Zhuangzi in the south, and the special candy made for you in the field." Let's have a few glasses of newly opened wine in our own cellar, and eat a few glasses to dispel the cold......"

"Where's the wife?" He Shen listened with a smile, and said as he walked up to the room, "Has the imperial doctor seen it?" Are you still asleep? As he spoke, he heard a woman in the room say, "The master is back...... Help me up and sit ......" He Shen walked in quickly, turned around and said: "The second wife and Sister Wu entered the house, carried the dining table to this room to eat, and left a girl to wait, there are many people, and those who come out and go in will bring a cold wind to prevent the wife from catching a cold again......" said and came to the side of the kang, rubbing his hands together and smiling: "It's cold outside." I'm frozen into popsicles, it's so warm in the house......" put his hand on the charcoal stove and roasted it, while looking at his wife's complexion, and said: "Don't come down, set the table on the kang, and you will be crooked." Take a bite if you like; If you can't eat, you won't eat it, so it's better to be casual. ”

He Shen's wife, Feng, is the granddaughter of the university scholar Yinglian, she has just been confined to the full moon, and she suffered from the wind during the confinement, and she has a headache, so she looks very lazy. This is a young woman who has just turned twenty years old, dressed in a sauce-colored cut velvet gown, very elegantly inlaid with money lily piping, with a fluffy magpie bun on her head, and a crow hanging on her shoulders, such a dark dress, with a somewhat pale face, a pair of delicate and small hands like teeth and jade carvings, half supported on the kang, very much like an antique lady's picture. Seeing her husband staring at herself blankly, she looked down at her body embarrassedly, and smiled with a frown: "I heard everything in the courtyard." The person you are busy with big things outside is still such a mother-in-law, like Jia Baoyu. He Shen smiled and wanted to say, "You really look like Xue Baochai's temper and Sister Lin's posture." Seeing that Wu and the eldest second aunt commanded the two old women to bring them into the meal, they coughed and asked, "Where is my brother?" Are you still sleeping? ”

"In the nurse's house!" The eldest second aunt took the words, picked up the kang tablecloth dishes, and helped Feng Shi to lean firmly on the big welcome pillow. While laughing, he said, "There is a blind fortune teller here today." Fu Jin, the son of the twenty-fourth master's family, also came over, and listened to him in one place, saying that his brother was born rich and noble, made a career at the age of eighteen, and palm prints at the age of nineteen. If there is a disaster after the age of seventy-five, you should be careful when crossing the river and riding a horse—when you are seventy-five, you should also be careful when you eat. We laughed and laughed. By then, we old goblins won't know where they are! When He Shen heard that Mrs. Twenty-Four Fujin Shizi had also come, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "What is the matter with her?" Have you done the matter of asking the twenty-fourth master to name your brother? ”

Feng was originally sick and lazy, but the family gathered together to talk and laugh, and suddenly his spirit improved. said: "It's famous, it's called Fengshen Yinde, and every word is good!" We laughed, my brother stared at the black bean on the side, look at this, look at that, and the one who pouted his arms and legs also laughed, and he peed when he laughed and laughed - what a love thing! I gave him a three-tael head and rewarded the gentleman. If you don't count him as a spirit, it's hard to make everyone happy. "Although Wu is not a relative of Heshen, she is not a servant of the family. When He Shen went to Liangzhou to investigate the case, he fell ill and broke the temple in Sandian Town, Wu was still a beggar at the time, thanks to her and her daughter Lian Qing's full rescue, and He Shen picked up a life. He Shen is a person who knows kindness, and these two women are his "nobles", so he brought them with him when he returned to Beijing, which is regarded as a kind of kindness, and they are called "Aunt Wu" up and down. At this moment, he ate around the table like his family, and asked He Shen with a smile: "Master, the twenty-four fortunes brought a lot of noodles and rewarded two thousand taels of silver. said that it was to add joy to my brother, but it was also heavy, and we all wondered in our hearts! ”

"Is this-" He Shen drank a bowl of piping hot fish soup, which was already warm all over his body, holding steamed buns in his left hand and holding vegetables in his right hand, and said with a smile, "There is no such thing as pies falling from the sky, you can ask the eldest second aunt when you go back." Wu looked at the eldest second aunt, and the eldest second aunt said with a smile: "This kind of thing is easy to say directly? I only told the master, she said that the master's method is really spiritual, and when she asked again, she laughed, and pulled me behind my back and said a lot of things-by the way, today's second master brought Yu Suiqing's family-that is, the younger brother of the husband's son named Gao Yuncong-, and brought a bag of things, saying that the case was lost to the master and the criminal department, and he got justice." They said that they came from Shandong, and it was something brought by Cathay Futai. I said that I was waiting for you to come back, but I left if I couldn't wait. He Shen chewed a ball of mutton and listened to her speak, and only said after a while: "They went to Baoding, and they will come back in five or seven days." If I'm not at home, I'll keep them. These things are not easy to collect. Then he asked, "Who else has been here?" ”

The eldest second aunt gave Feng a small bowl of four-brown rice porridge, and said with a smile: "Mrs., this rice is newly cooked, you have a bad appetite, just this plate of Korean salted cabbage, which is easy to restrain - there is also a man named Haining, who turned out to be an observer of Guizhou's grain road, and said that he was transferred to Fengtian Governor and passed by in Beijing." I didn't bring anything, saying that I was a friend of the master. Those who came in the morning said they would come back - if they didn't come sooner or later, they might not come. She said, and He Shen said, "Hmm", said, "Haining is a friend, Xian'an Palace was a classmate when he was in school, since he came to Beijing, he must see me-" He stopped suddenly, as if he remembered something important, stared at the lamp and candle without saying a word.

He often looks like this, and the family members don't feel strange, so Feng Shi smiled and asked: "What did you think about again, like such a fool?" The first time I saw you like this, I thought you had some symptoms! He Shen lowered his head and said, "It's nothing." I remembered that the first amount of money in and out of the tariff was in and out of the account, and I will discuss it with Sister Wu after dinner later. Haining can't come, I'll rest early, he's coming, don't wait for me, the second wife won't wait for me, I'm talking late at night, I still have a few letters to write, and I'll sleep in the front office tonight - tell them to make the room a little warmer......"

The crowd was speechless. After the meal was over, the girls came to clean up the table, and Shen was satisfied with a full burp, and said with a smile: "Good news for you, the emperor has seen me twice today, and if there are many gifts, it seems that the wealth is so rich that it can't be stopped, and it must be promoted." At this time, there can be no mistakes inside and out. Everyone gathers firewood in harmony, and this is the prosperity of the people - everyone who comes is careful to serve, do not accept gifts easily, at this time the ghosts and gods are tricky, and it is easy to go wrong. There are some things that don't make it easy to steal chickens. You all respect the Buddha, and those who should be respectful should be thoughtful and mellow. People are trying to help, there is nothing bad - Sister Wu, go to your room! He turned around and told Feng: "Rest well, walk a few steps in the house after the meal to eliminate food, and the decoction medicine should be eaten according to the amount...... Then he came out and came to the Wu family's room in the east courtyard.

This is the old Beijing city of the ever-changing set of rings set of courtyards, the middle of the Feng family is the main hall is the courtyard, and then enter, three into the courtyard to the east and west wings of the courtyard is also the same small courtyard, but the house is one level lower, the west chamber is the main courtyard, the east chamber, the upper room is a bright and two dark is the Wu family residence, the east room is the main house and the west room is for her to gather her family to arrange housework, because there is no north and south court, this courtyard is extraordinarily sheltered, a few pomegranate trees on the berries have not been picked, hanging on the tree with snow hanging heavy and drooping, The soft branches hung almost to the ground, and it was not clear in the hazy night. He Shen was a step after talking to Feng, Wu had already lit the lamp when he entered the house, and her daughter Lianqing was also in the east house, she was only eleven or twelve years old, she was already very sensible, she helped her mother fold clothes on the kang, and when she saw He Shen coming in, she was busy squatting on the kang and said, "Uncle and master are auspicious!" I'll make you tea! As she spoke, a girl had already come over with a large pot of boiling water from the east wing, and He Shen smiled: "'Uncle Master' is called interestingly, and the names of a mile and a mile away are called." I'm going to enter the military plane, and it's time to call 'Uncle Master Zhongtang' again, what a mouthful! Come, you are still young, I will come by myself, when you grow up, I am also old, say 'Come to the tea!' "Just pour it for me, that's fun-" Even the girl smiled, and He Shen patted Xiao Lianqing on the shoulder and said, "Mei Xiang, take Lianqing over the East Chamber, I'll talk to Sister Wu." ”

"Heye, just now you said that the military aircraft is true?" Wu sat on the opposite side of the kang table with the soles of his shoes, and asked busily in his hands, "Isn't that also the same as Gui Zhongtang, the official and prime minister, and the eight sedan chairs in and out?" To put it bluntly, I have also seen a little bit of the world now, how many people are mixed with Jinshi and lifting people, and they are like crabs in the township, you are so young, can the large group of bearded old men below you obey you? He Shen sat cross-legged on Kangnan, sipping tea: "It's a bit of a shadow, I only do it when I hear the holy decree." The Military Aircraft Department is like a housekeeper in the family, the 'prime minister' is the welcome of foreign officials - because of the power, I can see the emperor every day - it would be good for me to be a squire in this status, and Ah Gui and they can't compare - you said that the old Gao family brought things from Cathay, what is it? I'll see. Wu smiled: "Well, just behind you, that bag is." I didn't look at it either. ”

He Shen turned around, and saw a package on the kang under the window, and he felt very heavy when he picked it up...... When I opened it under the lamp, there were three small boxes in the shape of bookcases, with seals on them:

To Mr. Sai-sama

There is no header and no signing. He carefully opened the seal, the first box was opened and gasped in surprise, it turned out to be a bronze sword, obliquely wide from the narrow front and back grid round stem with hoop style, the whole body is pitch black and shiny, the frost blade is shining under the lamp, the authentic "ancient black", carefully hold it up and see, there are four words on the seal text "Li Sizhen with", and the side is engraved back to the word less than the head of the diamond-shaped pattern. He looked at the old antique, and at a glance, his pupils flashed: this is an authentic Warring States ancient sword, and it must be a relic of Li Si, and this sword is worth more than 100,000 taels of silver! Seeing him in a daze, Wu smiled and said, "What is this?" Whoever has quenched black in the blacksmith's furnace will also give it as a gift! He Shen felt that his heart was pounding, and he opened the second box, but it was a side of the inkstone, which was not very good in itself, but the edge of the inkstone was embedded with a thick piece of whole gold, and the gold used was five or six catties, yellow and shiny, shining with dazzling light...... Even the Wu family stopped working and was stunned. He Shen felt that his fingers were cold, and he trembled slightly and opened the third box seal, and the red silk inside was wrapped into a happy word, and it was fluttering lightly when he picked it up, and when he unfolded it, it was a few silver tickets, all of which were leading silver tickets that were redeemed at the sight of 10,000 taels, and they were new. There is also a piece of paper, but it is an official deed, and the title reads:

Tongzhou Dongguantun Manor, a total of 124 tenants, yards, cowsheds, stables, pigsties, sheepfolds should be listed on the left. The land covers a total of 3,200 acres, with the Huiji River embankment in the north, the double gate of the canal in the south, the south side of the Jieguan Pavilion in the east, and the Daliupo embankment in the west. Zhuangtou Hao Fagui led the wealth and money of the master, the needlework, the workshop and the twelve gardeners, the master and the lord, and the master and the lord of the master, and the lord and the lord of the ......

This is another gift of a manor, not counting the fragments, just the 3,000 acres of land in Tongzhou, the total silver is worth 500,000 taels of silver! …… He Shen looked at the dense list of manor belongings behind him, he was already dizzy, and the handwriting in front of him was also spent, and he was wandering on the paper like a tadpole...... He put down the fold in a distraction, his mind was blank, as if he wanted to collect his mind and think about things clearly, but suddenly he was in a mess. Seeing him like this, Wu asked with a smile, "Why are you stunned?" Is there anything else that bothers you? ”

"Hmm-oh......" He Shen woke up and pointed to the three boxes, "Do you know how much this gift is worth?" 800,000 taels of silver! ”

Wu was wearing the sole of his shoe with an awl in his hand, and he missed the middle finger of his left hand. The spirit trembled, and when he saw that he was bleeding, he hurriedly put it on his lips and sucked it, and then lost his hand and said in shock: "God! The governor of the country is so rich and generous?! What did you do for him, thank you so much? He Shen rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers, and at this moment his heart became clear - he had been rolling in the officialdom and the market, and only then did he know the hands of the "princes" such as the governor and governor. It's a magnanimity that officials at the provincial and departmental levels can't dream of! But even if he is willing to make such a terrifying number, there must be something terrifying to mediate for himself - saying "thanks", but in fact, the few cases he said for Guotai's family in the Criminal Department are not worth thanking at all, so there is something important to ask for himself. But what big things can I do for Cathay now? I feel uncertain...... After a long time, he sighed and said, "Cathay's nose is smarter than a dog's, and his ears are longer than a rabbit's...... He knew that I was moving around in front of the Long Live Lord, and he was going to let go in advance......" He also figured it out, so he refused to show his childish spirit in front of the Wu family, and his tone had become indifferent: "It's not a big deal." Put things here first, they must have to talk to me in detail, of course they can do it, or they will return it to him. Wu said: "I will obey you." What a big thing can be taken and put down—this matter rests on a person with a smaller weight, and the bones will be weakened! After a pause, he asked: "When you took over the Chongwenmen tariff, you cleaned up the accounts in front of you, and the legacy was also seventy or eighty thousand taels. It was originally unusable, but after a few years, our family added people to import, and the stall was also bigger, and the money was eaten every month, and more than 5,000 had been embezzled, and the money was also dead money, so it was better to release it to collect some interest, and the family could also get some supplements. ”

"Those few things were still a heart disease at the beginning. Tens of thousands of taels of silver have no owner, and there is no account to check! He Shen smiled, "Now it seems to be about the same thing as these boxes in front of you." Because it was too late to do it, they were defeated in both of them, and they didn't dare to say it! This is God's care for me and Shen - you don't want to lend money, it will have a bad reputation when it spreads. Use the name of Lianqing or your name to set up a pawnshop, and the income of the frequent flow of water will be rich, and the family will be rich. He said and packed up the package. Looking at Wu across the table, I saw that she was wearing a honey-colored placket lake silk jacket, combed with a beautiful black hair and a Suzhou peg slightly on the right side, revealing a white neck, in the past few comfortable days, the original yellowish face has become pink and ruddy, nearly forty people, there is not even crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, the small hands hold the work, slightly revealing the snow-white wrist arms. Smiling, the light shadow on his left cheek loomed, and the wine vortex was pink...... He Shen's hand trembled, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy.

Wu didn't notice that the expression of this "Uncle He" had changed, and while pulling out the needle, he said with a smile: "It's good to dare to love in my name, aren't you afraid that I will have a black heart to ignore you?" As soon as he raised his head and saw He Shen's description, his heart trembled, and he felt that his ears were feverish, and he said, "Your tea is cold, I'll refill it for you." He Shen didn't say anything, turned around and opened the curtains to look out through the glass, and he could see the velvet snow falling, and the snow in the courtyard was slightly white, so quiet that there was no sound at all. Turning around, Cha Wu brought tea over, smiled and put it on the table, and before she left, his hands held her slender hand tightly, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Sister Wu......" Wu Shi first trembled like an electric shock, and wanted to withdraw his hand, but He Shen held it too tightly and couldn't break free, her face was crimson, and she turned her face and said nothing.

"Sister Wu," He Shen stood up, slowly pulled her shoulder, hugged Wu in his arms, put one hand around his waist, and stroked her hair with the other, and asked softly, "Is this good?" Wu snuggled on his broad shoulders, as if he was drunk, and felt that his whole body was weak, and shook his head lightly: "It's not good to be like this...... Let people know what's going on......" said, I couldn't help but hug He Shen, feeling that the words around his waist were pushed to his lower abdomen, and he was even more paralyzed like a ball of mud, and he was about to slip down, opened his eyes and looked at He Shen, and closed his eyes and turned his face. He Shen hugged her to the edge of the kang and leaned on the big pillow, only to see that this mother-in-law's starry eyes were full of shyness, a touch of crisp breasts was slightly exposed, and the breasts on her chest rose slightly during the shortness of breath, which was even more beautiful, and kissed her lips with her mouth, and then pressed her whole body up, put her hands and feet together, and put her tongue into her mouth and kissed wildly...... Wu was just teased by him at first, and his love sinus was open and he couldn't care about shame anymore, and he also stretched his tongue out of He Shen's mouth and sucked and sucked and pumped and stirred, and he was so happy that he wanted to shout out. He Shen didn't say anything anymore, he tore off his belt with one hand, pulled Wu's hand and pinched it stiffly, untied Wu's trouser belt with one hand, reached into his middle coat, smacked his tongue and spoke: "Sister, yours is also wet...... Wu's long-widowed daughter, who was lustful by his lewd play, while unbuttoning the button of his jacket with his own hand, gently pulling He Shen's hand to stroke himself**, while trembling: "...... Good...... Enjoy...... Good and master, press hard...... The ...... that can't be crushed" He Shen turned around and blew out the light, pushed away the kang table, tore off Wu's belly pocket, and rolled on the kang with Wu's meat...... One head was sent longitudinally, and the other panted and said: "I have long wanted to repay your kindness...... Every day, I waited for a few years...... "Wu didn't answer, only clamped Heshen like gum candy, and chewed the taste arbitrarily.

…… For a while, the joy of fish and water was extreme, and the two of them were rubbed together, and they still couldn't hold each other. He Shen kissed her and asked:

"Sister Wu, how is it?"

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"In Santang Town, you take a bath, I'm ...... Peeked at ......"

"Know ......"

"At that time, there was only one floor of the wall...... You don't know how anxious I am......"

"Then why not? You're ......."

"Will you go over to me?"

“…… I do not know...... Maybe a slap in the ear hit you out......"

"Really that ruthless?"

“…… I don't know...... I think you're still a hairy kid...... Face and life matter...... I'm a woman, and I have to swallow all kinds of suffering......"

"Dear, why are you willing tonight?"

"I ...... Still don't know...... Warm up and lust...... I've gone bad too...... You're bad too...... It's broken in one place...... You're so bad...... took advantage of me, and said that it was a ...... to repay the favor."

With that, the two got up and lit the light. Wu Shi combed his hair in his clothes, and his face was red and he didn't dare to look at He Shen. He Shen didn't care about smiling, and his coat was half-naked and lay on her shoulder and whispered, "Don't be embarrassed, Sister Wu." Everybody's like that. Is there a paper crotch in the iron threshold, why take it so seriously? Every other ten days and a half months, I will report a 'grace', so you must not be lonely......" Wu Shi lowered his head and listened, suddenly smiled, turned around to straighten his clothes for him, saw that the words pouted and wanted to straighten up, lightly flicked his fingers, helped tie the sweat towel and laughed quietly: "Have you taken the medicine?" Such an immortal! - Since you treat me like this, I can only be loyal to you and the protector of the family - we can be more serious before and after, and we are too old to have a pity below, and everyone in the family is a thief, don't call it anything. My grandmother was kind to me, but I was afraid that they would not be useful if they knew. "Afraid of what?" He Shen smiled and pinched her cheek, stilted Erlang's legs and sat firmly on the chair, "Don't forget that this is Heshen Mansion, Lao Tzu lifted his pants and didn't admit it!" Hold her buttocks, turn over and admire her mouth, and give her a letter of resignation to see who suffers? I'm outside and Chen Xi cherish Wei Baobao, Feng's and the eldest second aunt all know that they only dare to give me tonics, who dares to say anything? But what you said is also that such a harmonious family and nothing is peaceful. As he was talking, he heard footsteps outside, and he cooed in the snow to the eaves of the upper room, and He Shen looked at his watch, and Wu raised his voice and asked, "Is it Liu Quan's brother and sister?" What's going on sooner or later? Then a woman replied in a voice:

"Is the master talking about Aunt Wu here? Outside, my man came in and said that an adult named Haining had come to worship. ”

"Got it!" Wu Shi rushed to the window and said, "Master, I'll go over." He Shen stopped and said, "You bring him here." Aunt Wu saw you in the west room, it was warm in this room. We'll stop at the West House when we're late—and you'll just let the people in the chamber know you, and you don't have to wait for me!" Hearing the promise of the Liu family, He Shen turned around and smiled: "Tonight is really a beautiful fate, we should be the two ......of us" The mouth leaned into Wu's ear and whispered: "Your one is tighter than the eldest second aunt's, it is not a big deal, I will teach you a few sets tonight-" said and touched again. Wu opened his hand and laughed quietly: "You have a lot of crooks in your belly!" Mrs. Second Mrs., what else is there outside to cherish the baby's love, Lannie and Meixiang in the upper room are not enough for you to get angry? Why are you hungry for a wolf...... I'll wash you in a basin of water, your hands are dirty, let's see what the guests smell! He shouted again: "Cai family, Xiaohui!" The lord wants to meet guests in the Westinghouse, hold the lamp, and add charcoal to the bottom of the kang! ”

For a while, I heard someone answer in the east room. He Shen rolled up his sleeves in front of the basin, stretched his hand to his nose, and said, "What a fragrant smell, it's musk!" Someone in the courtyard laughed and said, "I not only brought you musk, but also borneol!" He and Wu were both stunned and couldn't help laughing. He Shen coughed and lifted the curtain out of the main room, and saw a middle-aged man at the door, with a white face and a short beard, wearing a blue satin horse coat and a leather robe with a slit and hanging an oil coat on the wall, He Shen smiled and said: "Brother Runru, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I am still in good spirits!" ”

"To Lord-sama!" When Haining saw him come out, he smiled and took a step forward, and said, "It's not what it used to be, I have to say hello to you!" He Shen pulled him up and said with a smile: "Don't talk about it!" Forget about the punishment in the sect, you kneel on a bench and I kneel on the other - we are friends in trouble, what stinky rules do you discuss with me! Haining said with a smile while going to the West House with Shen: "It's so late, I really don't want to disturb you and your wife's good dreams." But I'll go to the Ministry of Rites tomorrow morning, and I'll go to the Ministry of Officials to see you again. I have to rush to work in the afternoon, and if I don't see it today, there will be no time......" He Shen said: "I am now riding a tiger and it is difficult to ride, I am so busy that I don't know the time of day." I'm still writing excerpts, I'm so tired and dizzy, you just come to talk, I'll change my spirit, and then continue to write - don't miss something. Let's show the sea a cup of tea! Wu in that room heard that he was going to laugh, and hurriedly controlled his mouth.

He Shen and Haining sat down in the room, and when they looked closely, they saw that Haining's face was a little pale, and while sipping tea, he smiled and said, "Are you tired of traveling?" Why can't you look down? I received the last letter, but I didn't reply because I knew that you were going to adjust the vacancy and that I was going to come to Beijing to introduce me. Although the grain road in Guizhou is a shortage of fertilizer, it is too far away from home, and the family goes, you come back, and it takes time to use the road back and forth. Fengtianfu is light, but it is lacking, there are many noble old ministers, the emperor also goes to worship the ancestral tombs from time to time, it is very easy to be promoted, the grain road observation is the special mission of the military department, commonly known as the 'grain mouse', nesting in the head does not touch the world and does not touch the ground, when do you expect the officials to think of you? It took me a lot of effort to get you out, and the meaning of the letter still seems unsatisfactory? If you have any thoughts, tell me about it. ”

"I'm not embarrassed about the shortage." Haining smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's not true to say that Guizhou's grain storage road is a shortage of fat. is not greedy, just the old and new grain warehouses, transportation and depreciation, there are also 50,000 or 60,000 yuan of input every year. I'm in my early forties, and I've earned enough money, and if I can't be promoted for a few more years, I'll die there, so I'm still happy to go to Mukden. I was angry with Sun Shiyi, and I said that after I left, the lack of grain storage was given to my brother-in-law. He took care of this matter from the governor Yamen up and down, and also spent tens of thousands, the first day he said that he would sign the sign on the second day, and the next day he rushed to the Yamen of the Domain, and it was Li Chunying who hung out! ”

He Shen nodded when he heard this, and said, "This is an ordinary thing in officialdom, and it is not unusual. ”

"My brother-in-law naturally didn't follow, so he turned around and went to Futai Yamen to ask." Haining continued, "Several booksellers are also inexplicable, and they also helped to inquire, it turned out that Li Chunying ransomed the number one ** Taochun Niang in Guiyang Sanchun Building to Sun Shiyi as the fifth aunt's wife, and even offered the head silver, spending 100,000 yuan!" Ask again, Li Chunying is the distant uncle and younger brother of Li Shuyao, the governor of Guangzhou! ”

At this point, He Shen was already like a mirror, patted him on the shoulder and said: "If you want to say that, I already understand that you don't have as much money as anyone else, and your roots are not as hard as others." You turned out to be the coat of the Minister, and the Appearance was bad, and there was no one in the court to be a backer, so you were bullied. Bear with me, Sun Shiyi and Li Shiyao are friends who are still fat in a pair of pants. He also wanted to fill the vacancy of the governor of Guangzhou. Li Chunying doesn't spend anything, and she has to give him what she lacks! Haining said: "I'm not a fuel-efficient lamp, so I took my brother-in-law to the governor's detention room to see him." Seeing him talk and laugh on weekdays, he suddenly got into an official relationship with me, saying that the grain road is the top priority of military supplies, and the lack of military merit cannot be filled. said that he would send my brother-in-law to the grain transportation road in western Qianxi, and he would be guaranteed for two years, and it would not be difficult to adjust to a better shortage. I got annoyed and said, 'My lord is moving to Guangzhou, and in two years we will go to Guangzhou to give you Goshha?' He served tea and I served tea, and they parted unhappily. He paused for a moment and then said, "I arrived in Beijing yesterday, first to the Ministry of Officials, and then to the Ministry of War to inquire. I knew that there was no Li Chunying's name at all in the two departments of the soldiers - I couldn't find out, I didn't have his role! I came to look for you first, and I went to Prince Yi's mansion again and told the fifth master. The prince said to me, 'You're a wreck!' Sun Shiyi, I knew at a glance that it was not a good thing, and the red-capped official who saw people wearing hats and licking his buttocks ran all over the palaces in Beijing last time, and he avoided me when he saw me at Qianqingmen. Such a bastard, you fix him for me! Write an excerpt, and I will present it to the emperor directly! - And eldest brother, although I was scolded by the prince, my heart was really happy, and I cried in front of the prince! As he spoke, he took a deep breath.