At midnight, on the street outside the treasury of the Yanzhou Chengzhou Prefecture, fifty-one servants were standing in a queue by the mule cart.

A little farther away, a yamen and a yamen officer were holding the roster and nodding.

The service in front of the yamen is the service of the yaqian, which is different from the ordinary husband's service, but it is a first-class household, and it is the same errand that destroys the family, and it is not much better than the ordinary husband's service.

Along the way, the servant only needs to be responsible for transporting the baggage, and when he arrives at the land, everything will not touch them, he will unload his things, register his name, and turn around to mine.

But the former service of the Ya has to bear all the wear and tear of the baggage, and when it arrives at Dingyao Mountain, if there is a slight loss of materials on the way, all the losses must be borne by the Ya Qian.

The so-called "misses" are all related to the management of the supervision of the treasury account.

Between Dingyao Mountain and Yanzhou, it will take three or four days to escort so many materials, and it will not be possible to get there in eight or nine days. The mountains and rivers are far away, and there are wine, silver silk and other things on the car, and there is a breakage, which is normal. The amount of responsibility for damage and the amount of compensation need to be determined by the management hook of the supervision treasury account.

He said that you should be fined fifty taels of silver, even if your carload of things is not even worth ten taels, you must honestly break the wealth and eliminate the disaster, otherwise a dozen sticks will be beaten, and the money will be saved, but your life will not be saved.

Fortunately, the former service of the Ya is usually played by first-class households, and if they scatter their wealth, they can probably save a small life.

At this moment, this time, Chen Shun, the former servant of the Ya, took the roster with a sad face and wanted to order someone.

He is the eldest son of a farmer in Yanzhou City, and his ancestors have passed down some fields, and he barely fills a first-class household with some surplus money from farming every year.

Chen's father is nearly sixty years old, so naturally it is impossible to go to the military again, so Chen Shun can only go to his own house.

Although his family is a first-class household, he has five brothers and three sisters, but he doesn't have much money to spare, so it is naturally impossible for him to go to a private school.

Chen Shun took a few flower lists, flipped through them, only knew a few big characters, and he had no ability, so he had to smile, handed the list to the yamen officer who was standing next to him to supervise, and took out a handful of copper coins from his sleeve.

The servant took his money, but he was also kind, and read the names one by one, and called the servants one by one, and when he read the last one, he called twice in a row, but still no one answered.

He frowned, about to get angry, and shouted, "Where is Gu Yanzhang?!" ”

As soon as the words fell, one person at the end of the line took two steps, arched his hand, and said loudly: "Here." ”

Chen Shun followed the prestige, his figure was tall, only wearing a thin jacket, although it was nine cold days, but he did not see the slightest shrinking, his eyes were full of energy, his shoulders were open and his back was straight, which made people feel good at a glance.

In addition, his posture of bowing is also very good-looking, and there is an indescribable temperament around him.

Chen Shun is just a farmer, and Yanzhou has always been weak, he has never seen a few scholars, so he naturally can't tell the difference, the temperament around that person is called "the breath of literature and ink", and there is another saying, called "There is poetry and calligraphy in the belly".

But he has long eyes, and he can tell the difference between good and bad, and he only thinks that no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like an ordinary servant.

When the official named next to him saw Gu Yanzhang, he was also stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect that there were such talents among the servants, he nodded, the anger on his face dissipated, showed a kind smile, waved his hand, signaling that Gu Yanzhang could go back, then turned to Chen Shun and said: "Everyone is together, let's go." ”

Chen Shun thanked him again and again, turned his head and greeted the fellow servants, and took the lead forward, with more than 50 carts of baggage following behind, winding into a long snake and running towards the city gate.

Standing at the end of the line, when everyone else was almost gone, Gu Yanzhang turned his head.

At this time, it was not more than an hour, and it was in the treasury of the remote state capital, there was not a single pedestrian on the road, and the north wind was howling, rolling up the fallen leaves and dust on the ground, and it seemed more and more deserted.

Gu Yanzhangzai carefully swept the empty road behind him, and let out a long sigh.

Ben still wanted to take care of a family relationship or two, but even so, he could only repay his grievances directly.

He turned around, strode after the mule cart in front of him, and began to calculate the distance of the journey.

And outside his line of sight, in the corner of the state treasury, Gu Pingzhong and Gu Pingli were standing inside, and their expressions were a little ugly.

After standing all morning, Gu Pingzhong was old after all, and his feet were a little stiff, he leaned against the wall next to him, gritted his teeth and said, "It's because I can't see ......it."

I thought that Gu Wu would not come this time, but he was ready to wait for the official to ask a few more questions, so he asked his younger brother Gu Pingli to come forward and accuse him of desertion, but I didn't want to, this person suddenly came!

The weather is very cold, what do you have to say, Gu Pingli doesn't want to talk to his brother here, he beckoned to the back, his own servant led the horse, and the two of them got on their horses and went home.

As soon as he entered the middle hall, a small servant stepped forward and said, "Master, the day before yesterday, the young master of the Gu family asked someone to send a letter over, saying that he would hand it over to you in a hurry." ”

Gu Pingzhong hurriedly took it, opened it twice, and after reading the contents, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, and passed the letter to Gu Pingli, saying, "What does he mean by this?" ”

It turned out that the letter was written by Gu Yanzhang, and it began with a thank you, and later said that after going home and talking to Neizi, he decided to go to serve his husband and serve the country by himself, and there was no other way to shirk Yunyun, and said that because it was decided in the middle of the night the day before, it was too late to explain in person, so he asked someone to send a letter over, and he went to the place to report first.

His explanation is reasonable, but it is strange at every turn.

Gu Pingli read the letter and couldn't help but say, "It seems that you didn't see it?" ”

Gu Pingzhong and the others were a little far apart, they didn't see the situation in front of them clearly, and naturally they couldn't see Gu Yanzhang's response and description, if they saw it, they couldn't say it, at least they wouldn't look down on him like that, and only treat him as a simple-minded martial artist.

However, no matter what the truth is, whether Gu Wu has seen through his mind or not, Gu Pingzhong doesn't pay much attention to it, he said: "Don't care what he means, Dingyao Mountain, you know it clearly?" ”

"That's it." Gu Pingli nodded, and said with some distress, "Now I go to Dingyao Mountain, it's too late to come and go, I told the second child of the Sun family, he opened a big price on behalf of his brother, and said that it is not good to do it in front of Guan Gou, and he will not agree to it." ”

Gu Pingzhong gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to him!" I'm not afraid of choking to death! Just use it for him to buy a graveyard! ”