Qianlong settled down Yun, seemed to have a heart disease, and slept sweetly in Li Wei's study at night. He has the habit of getting up early, and the next day the rooster crows twice and gets up, and plays the cloth library in front of the study for a while, and feels full of energy, and turns back into the study to look for books on the shelves, and sees that they are all things like "Three Character Classics", "Zhu Zizhi's Maxims", "Thousand Family Poems", and "Thousand Character Texts", which are angry and funny. Just looking at it, Li Wei had already come in, and asked Qian'er to say goodbye: "The master got up early." The slave doesn't have a good book here, so he missed the master's morning class. ”

"None of the books are bad books, they're too shallow." Qianlong smiled and said, "Fu Heng and Liu Tongxun are up?" How do we move? Can you stand up to your bones? Li Wei said with a smile: "The slave's illness is afraid of autumn and winter, and it is not in the way at this time." Saying that, Fu Heng and Liu Tongxun had already come over and asked for peace, but they both stepped aside. Li Wei continued: "Since it is a micro-service, such a group of people are walking down the aisle without knowing anything, and they are still dressed as merchants who go to Xinyang Mansion to sell tea. You are naturally the owner, Fu Heng is the housekeeper, and Tongxun and the slave are the long-term followers. A few men led the horses and carried some Beijing goods, all of which were served by the guards. The front and back of the head shall be sharpened and broken, and they shall be dressed as beggars. A single code could come to escort us, and ten miles behind us, I sent sixty lieutenants from the good fishing camp to follow them from afar. The safety of the holy car will not be missed. On the way, the tea and dinner were not good, and the slave woman Cui'er, who was recognized by the master, asked her to follow, to be a messenger, and to bring tea and water better than a man. ”

"Okay, it's time for the family!" Qianlong was very happy, "That's it." Get ready! What about the line? Li Wei beckoned to the door, and the two family members came in with a large stack of clothes, and everyone smiled and changed. As soon as she cleaned up, Li Wei's wife Cui'er had already come in, kowtowed to Qianlong a few times, got up and gave Fu Heng and Liu Tongxun two blessings steadily. She is a good order, and Liu Tongxun hurriedly bowed down and returned the salute. Cui'er said with a smile: "I haven't seen my master for seven or eight years, and I went into the palace last time to ask Lafayette to say goodbye, and when I came out, I saw that my master was entering the Heart Cultivation Palace, and I took a look at it from afar." When we left Beijing, the master was so high. Now, yes...... Gee...... Look at the master's body, this appearance, this wealth - the more I look at it, the more I love it - why did the old master say that he would go? "Women are born to cry, and tears come when they say they come. Li Wei scolded on the side: "Okay, okay." When you see your master, you will talk endlessly, what are you crying on a good starting day? ”

Qianlong smiled: "I like to be so straightforward. The Li family, let's talk on the way if we have something to say - let's go. "Wait a minute—why hasn't Blind Wu arrived yet?"

"It's here!" Someone outside the door suddenly replied, and a middle-aged black man stepped in, with a Hanyang scarf on his head, and the neckline of his dark robe was slightly open, revealing a row of black buttons on his cardigans and a pair of fast boots under his feet. It looks very heroic, but he is blind in his left eye and a little defeated. Wu Blind arched the door to Li Wei and said, "I arrived at the third watch last night, and I stayed on the lower beam of this study corridor." As he spoke, he took a step forward, knelt down in front of Qianlong and saluted, but said in his mouth: "Long live the little knock master!" "Li Weifu's guards were dense like a forest last night, and this person was able to sneak in, and he slept outside the emperor's house for two hours without being aware of it, Liu Tongxun was horrified in his heart.

Li Wei was surprised when he saw Qianlong's face, and hurriedly said: "This is the snitch I ambushed in Jiangnan, and I have been my fast catcher." It's not a Chin case, I never make him. Back then, when I captured Gan Fengchi and broke into Gan Jiachong alone, I took one with me. Gan Fengchi is a famous thief in the south of the Yangtze River, as famous as Shandong Douerdun, Pig Iron Buddha, etc., Qianlong looked at Wu Blind and asked: "Which master of martial arts is your master?" The blind man Wu kowtowed again and again and said, "It is the head of the Qingfeng Dao in the Zixiao Temple of Zhongnan Mountain." The master died early, and the younger one was cultivated by the ancestor Guyue Daochang. Don't dare to bully the king, when he was a child, he avenged his father and killed people, and later he came out to break into the world and killed people. Later, he was captured by Lord Li in Nanjing, because the little one never picked flowers, and the people who were killed were all guilty, so he was exonerated and worked with Lord Li. ”

"He doesn't drive openly, he just protects him secretly. He was called just in case. Li Wei said with a smile, "People in Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and Jiangnan still buy his account." Qianlong asked: "Do you still commit crimes after you are corrected?" Wu Blind said with a smile: "I have an appointment with Master Li first, and the first thing is to do good and not evil, and not to commit crimes." ”

Qianlong nodded and said, "You are a famous catcher in Shandong, and you are also a clerk." If you are blessed to see me, it is fate. I will reward you as a third-class guard of the Qianqing Gate, and walk with a knife in front of the emperor. The blind man Wu was still in a daze, and Li Wei shouted beside him: "Why don't you hurry up and thank you?" ”

"Shane!" The blind man hurriedly bowed down to salute.

Qianlong and his entourage left Beijing on the same day. After passing Handan Road and entering Zhangde Mansion, it is considered to have entered Henan. It was the beginning of May, and the weather was getting hotter. The crops on the side of the road are sparsely grown. From a distance, it is also "wheat waves undulating", when you look closely, it makes people shake their heads, the wheat stalks are so thin that they are like incense, most of the wheat ears look like the size of a medium-sized brush head, and some small ears in the field are larger than flies. Qianlong waded from the road to the ground, divided into large, medium and small spikes and rubbed them in the palm of his hand, with an average of only fifteen or sixteen grains per ear, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh secretly. Just stop and go, stay in Taikang City, it is already over the Dragon Boat Festival in May.

Taikang is a famous city in eastern Henan, with complete water and dry wharves, and it is a thoroughfare for Shandong, Henan and Anhui. Dismounted in the north of Taikang City that night, the guards at the front station came: "...... The inn is not rented, only the old house of the Yao family is more generous, and it is already inhabited. We rented the main house, and the guests in the courtyard, the boss refused to give up. ”

"The boss did the right thing." Qianlong said, "Why do we want to drive people away? As he spoke, he ordered, "Just live in Yao's old store." ”

They are big customers, they have a lot of money, and they have a lot of money. The shopkeeper took a dozen young men to pull livestock, carry luggage, make fires and make meals, and waited for them to have dinner, and boiled a large bucket of hot water, and sent it to each room one by one, and it was already dark. Qianlong rested in the east room for a while, and there was no book to read, so he casually half lay on the quilt and called the three courtiers in the upper room. Li Wei and the three of them rushed in one by one, and Qianlong smiled and signaled to sit down, saying, "This way, it's quite peaceful." Knowing this, I would have taken Fu Heng out alone. ”

"The owner," Liu Tongxun bowed slightly, "Be careful and don't overdo it, it's better to have nothing to do." Qianlong rested his head on his hands, looked at the ceiling for a long time, and asked: "How are you looking at the people of Henan along the way?" ”

Li Wei said: "I can see two things: one is 'poor', and the other is that the law and order is good. Fu Heng said: "If you are poor, the law and order will not be good, and what you say is contradictory." I see that the villages along this road are sparsely populated, and some of them are closed. I heard that a nest of people went out to escape the famine. What should not be done under hunger and cold? Liu Tongxun said with a smile: "The master's patrol this time is a 'micro-service'." There are clear roads in front and guards in the back, which is still very eye-catching. And that quick catcher has such a great reputation in the green forest. If he doesn't show up, is he going to inform all the 'heroes' that he is not allowed to commit crimes at this time? Li Wei couldn't help laughing: "Maybe yes." But I'm in charge of my master's safety. The master came out to inspect the feelings of the officials and the people, and he was not to arrest thieves and thieves. Come out safely and return safely, this is my aim. ”

"It's good to have this purpose, but this time, we won't be able to see the real situation of law and order." Qianlong sighed softly and said, "It seems that the poverty here is really chilling. Wang Shijun was the governor, and Henan reported a bumper harvest every year. Now it is Sun Guoxi, so naturally he will also report a 'bumper harvest'. Otherwise, the Ministry of Officials will give him a record of 'mediocre political performance'. I thought it would be difficult to change from leniency to sharpness, and it would always be easier to change from drastic to wide anyway. Not really. With that, he put down his shoes and walked out of the door. The guy who was in charge of carrying water in front of the store had already seen it, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Guest officer, what do you want?" Qianlong looked at the dense stars in the sky, smiled indifferently and said: "It's too hot in the house, come out and breathe." Just now I heard someone crying in the eastern courtyard, like a woman's cry - for what? ”

The guy was in his early twenties. Under the starlight, he looks clear and smart. Hearing Qianlong's question, he sighed and said, "It's a mother and daughter, a person from Hemiao in the north town of the Yellow River." This year, the mother and daughter were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, so they sold the green seedlings of the owner's house. Seeing that the wheat was about to be harvested, she went to Jiangnan to run a single gang and fled here to avoid debts. Just now the landlord found them and forced them to go back. I just stopped. Let them have something to say, this black rumbling ghost is crying wolf, disturbing you! Qianlong was speechless when he heard this, turned his feet and went out of the second door. The three courtiers heard it clearly in the upper room, exchanged glances with each other, and Liu Tongxun said, "It's okay, I'll take a look, you take care of the guards." "That's it.

The buildings in the east courtyard of the old Yao family are very low, one small room after another, and there are more than 20 rooms in turn. Sesame oil lamps were lit in every room, flickering like ghostly fires. There were a few rooms where the guests were gambling, shouting and shouting; Others drank alone in their rooms, all with the door open. There were also a few fat men who sat naked under the acacia tree in the middle of the courtyard, snorting their teeth. Qianlong was stunned for a while, and then he saw two people squatting under the eaves in the northeast corner, and the shadow was a woman, so he paced slowly, leaned down and asked, "Fang is you crying?" ”

“……”

The two women squirmed, but said nothing. Qianlong looked at the eldest one, who was about forty years old, and the younger one had a big braid, but he looked like he was seventeen or eighteen years old. But he couldn't see his face clearly, so he asked again: "How much do you owe people?" ”

"Fifteen taels." The mother raised her head and glanced at Qianlong, sighed, and did not squeak again. Qianlong wanted to ask again, and a person in the room said loudly: "Listen to her fart!" With the voice, a thin old man in his fifties came out, pointed to the older woman and said: "In the tenth year of Yongzheng, she borrowed me seven taels of silver, plus three profits, isn't it?" Sell the seedlings in my field for another fifteen taels, you should have repaid me thirty-eight taels and six cents with interest! He seemed to dial the beads of an abacus, and said crisply and loudly, "Niece and daughter-in-law, I am also a big family, people eat livestock and chew it, you dare to sell the green seedlings without permission, and leave!" Three or four long-term workers are looking for you all over the world! You're still out of the gate! Why did you become a shrew as soon as you were defeated! ”

The girl who was squatting next to her suddenly raised her head: "Seventeenth master, there is heaven above, and there is earth below!" How much silver did you take when my grandfather's house was raided? You were still a tenant of my family, and you didn't start it with this money? Qianlong's heart sank when he heard this: it turned out that this mother and daughter were descendants of an official eunuch family, and they were ruined by raiding their homes. As soon as she asked, "What kind of official did your grandfather do—" the woman said, "Don't ask, ask me to worry about my heart, and say insulting no one!" Then he said to the thin old man: "The child's house is not blocked, Uncle Seventeen, don't care...... To tell you the truth, your nephew took the silver and went to Beijing to try...... Wait for him to come back......"

"When he comes back, he will still be a poor filial piety!" The seventeenth uncle sneered, "Don't think that the ancestral graveyard of the Wang family has flowed into your Zhenzhong family, now that we have donated the Dao platform, we have made up for the shortage, and it is not much worse than you back then!" As far as Wang Zhenzhong is concerned, the sharp-beaked monkey gills will not be able to make a career in his life! Got four exams, right? It's a sub-list, and I also call you Uncle Seventeen to take a look? He really hit, the seventeenth master crawled backwards and walked, show you! ”

The thing is clear. Qianlong listened to these knife-like mean words, and really wanted to slap him and slap this bad old man to death! touched his sleeves, but didn't bring any money, Qianlong stomped his feet and turned around and left.

"The master is angry," Liu Tongxun followed Qianlong back to the upper room, and persuaded: "There are many such things in the world, to be fair, it is this woman who loses." Li Wei and Fu Heng saw that Qianlong's face was gloomy, and they didn't dare to come out, so they stood aside with their hands down. Qianlong turned his face to Li Wei and said, "You go over and send five hundred taels of silver tickets to this mother and daughter!" ”

Li Wei agreed and turned around and left, but Fu Heng stopped and said to Qianlong: "Master, let's give her so much silver, how much gossip do we have to recruit?" Turning back, the servant took care of the magistrate, and it was over. Li Wei sighed and said, "This is all Tian Wenjing's sin here." In this way, I will go back to Beijing and write a letter to the county magistrate here, asking him to bring some silver to help Wang Zhenzhong's family. Qianlong was speechless, so he ordered them to retreat. He was tired.

Qianlong took out a copy of "Langhuan Trivia", tilted it on the bed and looked at it casually, and gradually fell asleep. Suddenly, there was a sound of iron striking outside the shop. Qianlong shouted loudly: "Guards, guards!" Hurry! ”…… As he spoke, he sat up.

The three courtiers waiting outside heard Qianlong's shouting and rushed in, Li Wei asked: "Your Majesty, what are you ......?" "It's nothing, the nightmare is ......" Qianlong smiled to himself, "What are you doing outside?" It's like a blacksmith, such a noisy person! Liu Tongxun said: "The slave went and took a look." Qianlong waved his hand and said, "We are leaving, settle the bill, and ask them to prepare the horse luggage." ”

Liu Tongxun promised to come out, and when he went to the storefront, he saw that the three floors inside and the three floors outside the door of the store were full of people watching the excitement, and the boss and a few guys were surrounding a monk at the counter, as if they were begging for mercy. When Liu Tongxun looked at the monk, he was a head taller than ordinary people, his face was as black as bronze, his forehead, cheekbones, and nose were taller and convex than ordinary people, his tight muscles were stretched, and he struck the iron fish with a hammer with a child's arm thick with his eyes closed, and the noise was deafening. Liu Tongxun saw that the hammer weighed dozens of pounds, and his heart was already shocked. Looking at the iron fish again, I was even more surprised, it was the size of No. 4 Quercus, and it was more than 300 catties! Liu Tongxun saw that the boss was just bowing to the monk and didn't know what to ask for, so he stepped forward and pulled a guy aside, and asked loudly, "What's going on?" ”

"Fateful!"

The man stared at the monk with an angry face, gritted his teeth and replied: "A mouth costs thirty taels of silver, and if you can ask if you can do less, it will rise to fifty!" this bald donkey, bullying people viciously! ”

The percussion stopped suddenly. The monk glanced at the man with a terrible gaze, and asked, "Amitabha!" What did you say, little? ”

"We're just like that, and we're only eighty or ninety taels a year, and they're all given to you, and we'll drink the northwest wind?" The young man stared at the tall monk fiercely: "I am the one who scolds you, your mother's bald donkey, you bully people!" How can there be a fate like you, pig iron Buddha, do you understand? At this time, Qianlong had come out of the backyard, and several guards saw this situation, and they all pretended to be tenants in the courtyard to watch the excitement, squeezing Qianlong in the middle. Li Wei heard that this was the famous pig iron Buddha on the rivers and lakes, and knew that he had met a strong enemy today, but he didn't know if he was coming to Qianlong or this shop, and he suddenly panicked, and fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

The shopkeeper's face turned pale, and he just said bitterly: "Master...... I really can't take that much. After all, the master raised his noble hand, and we passed. "It's hard to give up good money, and it's hard to give up." The monk said hesitantly, "The old monk knows your family background, and if you refuse to give up, you just refuse to overtake yourself." I don't do anything, I just knock this iron fish here! At this time, there was a commotion outside, and someone shouted: "Beat this black bald donkey!" The monk ignored him. The two guys around the boss were angry, stepped forward to move the iron fish on the counter, and dragged it hard, the iron fish moved, and the pig iron Buddha pressed it with his hand, and the iron teeth under the iron fish's stomach had been embedded in the wood.

"Shopkeeper Yao, don't say nice things to him!" The guy standing next to Liu Tongxun was furious, stepped forward and pushed the shopkeeper over, and said: "He's not looking at you, he's looking for my business - Pig Iron Buddha, the younger generation Xiao Yu'er is offended today!" Then he picked up the feather duster on the cabinet and waved it lightly, and the huge and friendless iron fish fell to the ground like dust, and several bricks were smashed with a "bang"!