What happened in front of the county yamen, Huo Roufeng soon knew.

"Did Lang Qing take the villagers there? And what about the monks of Wanhua Temple? It's also related to Zhan, no, it has something to do with Yang Gongzi? Huo Roufeng asked.

Zhang Shengping shook his head: "I really didn't expect that this matter would involve Wanhua Temple, Wanhua Temple has never been involved in such mundane things in the past, and the old man ...... back then."

When he said this, he suddenly realized that he should not mention it again, so he stopped talking.

Huo Roufeng frowned: "My father knows someone from Wanhua Temple?" ”

Zhang Shengping said: "When the master was alive, he sent silver to Wanhua Temple every year, and I sent it one year. ”

"You said that our family gives money to Wanhua Temple every year, hey, why don't I know, when I came, my sister didn't say it." The Huo family is a big pilgrim of Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, this is not a secret, Hangzhou people know, but Wanhua Temple is far away in Jiangsu, and it is just a matter of occasionally giving a sum of incense money, why do you have to let people make a special trip every year?

Zhang Shengping said: "I don't know about this, it was sent by Gu Tou'er next to the master before, and then Gu Tou'er returned to his hometown to care for the elderly, and the master asked me to come, but only that time." ”

When he said this, there was a hint of sadness in his tone.

Gu Tou'er is the guard next to Master Huo, he suffered from eye disease a few years ago, although there is no major problem, but he can no longer be a guard, Master Huo gave him 200 acres of fertile land and asked him to return to his hometown for the elderly.

Huo Roufeng remembered that the year after Gu Tou'er left, his father passed away.

In other words, Zhang Shengping went to Wanhua Temple before his father's death, and then it was not that he changed, but that his father was gone.

"How much silver did my father ask you to send to Wanhua Temple?" Huo Roufeng asked.

Zhang Shengping: "I remember very clearly, two hundred taels of silver tickets, a full fifty, a total of ten thousand taels. ”

Ten thousand taels? Huo Roufeng's eyebrows moved, although 10,000 taels of silver is a drop in the bucket for the Huo family, but it will be registered in the accounts, after my sister takes over the business, even if she didn't know that there was this expense before, the accounts and stewards will tell her, and the account books will be recorded clearly.

According to her sister's temperament, she will definitely continue to let people do the matter of donating money to the temple according to the precedent of her father's time.

But my sister didn't, and Huo Roufeng hadn't heard anyone mention it.

Don't you even know the account room?

"When my father asked you to come to Wanhua Temple, where did you get the silver? Who else is with you? Huo Roufeng asked.

Although three or four years have passed since this incident, Zhang Shengping remembers it very clearly, and he said: "Master Huo asked Chu Qing to come with me, and when Gu Tou'er came before, Chu Qing also followed. The silver was not to be received, it was handed over to Chu Qing and me by Master Huo himself. ”

Chu Qing was originally the long-term entourage of Master Huo, and later the caravan of the Huo family wanted to cooperate with the horse gang in Yunnan, so Master Huo sent Chu Qing to Yunnan to investigate. Soon after Chu Qing left, Master Huo went to Shaanxi and died in a foreign land.

Over the years, Chu Qing has been in Yunnan, and the last time Huo Roufeng saw Chu Qing was when he came back for the funeral.

"You mean, this 10,000 taels of silver was given to you by my father himself?" Huo Roufeng asked.

Zhang Shengping nodded: "Yes, I remember it very clearly, I was still a little moved at the time, Master Huo was worried that it was the first time for me to do such an errand, and he was afraid that it would be difficult for me to do it, so he personally took the silver and handed it to me." ”

From Zhang Shengping's point of view, he would think so.

But Huo Roufeng didn't think so.

The silver was not in the account, and the people in the account did not know that the silver that Zhang Shengping got was not taken out of the account by Master Huo, but was originally Master Huo's private silver.

No wonder my sister didn't know that the incense money that her father gave to Wanhua Temple turned out to be her own selfishness.

's father is in charge of the entire second room of the Huo family, and he is in charge of Yongfeng, he is known as the God of Wealth in the south of the Yangtze River.

He could take as much silver as he wanted from his account, and he could give it to whomever he wanted.

But why did he use his own selfishness and do it quietly?

Huo Roufeng was confused, and she began to become interested in Wanhua Temple.

"Since the monk said, tomorrow please ask the county lord to go to Wanhua Temple, then you go and prepare, tomorrow you will go to Wanhua Temple to offer incense."

Zhang Shengping said: "Ninth Master, the monk said that those who were invited to go were all sent posts, and if you go in such a hurry, I'm afraid you can only put incense in the temple." ”

In other words, the matter about Plum Ridge will not be let them see.

Huo Roufeng waved his hand: "I don't care, you go and find a way, even if you can't get the post, let the person with the post take it with you." ”

Well, Zhang Shengping understood the intention of the ninth master.

The so-called "I don't care, you go and find a way" is of course spending money.

Mrs. Huo often said that as long as it can be settled with silver, it is not a big deal.

Zhang Shengping looked for Lin Wensheng, and Lin Wensheng accompanied him to find Cui Da's shopkeeper, and in the evening, when Zhang Shengping rushed back from the city, he had already done this matter properly.

Whether it is a literati or a scholar, or a official eunuch, there will always be a shortage of silver, and these people are famous, and they have to put on a look of not lacking money outside, therefore, there is a way to make money, and they have nothing to do with it, most people are sitting on the empty mountain, even if they collect some money, they have to be sneaky.

Cui Da shopkeeper has been in Wuxi for decades and knows the situation of each family well, so in less than half a day, Zhang Shengping got the invitation in Zhang Juren's hand at a price of five hundred taels of silver.

Zhang Juren wants to prepare for next year's examination, and he has no time for trivial matters, so he asks a little friend who has always admired his poetry to come on his behalf.

As for how much this little friend admired his poems, Zhang Juren didn't bother to think about it, the five hundred taels were not silver tickets, but white silver.

With these 500 taels, it will be enough to spend money on going to Beijing for the exam next year.

Huo Roufeng became more and more satisfied with Zhang Shengping's ability to do things, only five hundred taels, too cheap, too cost-effective.

Before dawn the next day, she was called up by Cai Qin, and was served by the maids in a daze, washing her face, combing her hair, and changing her clothes, and was fed half a bowl of vegetarian wontons, so she got into the carriage and followed everyone on the road.

After walking more than ten miles, she woke up and took a nap, only to find that the pillow she was sleeping on was Cai Qin's shoulder.

"Cai Qin, why did you come with you?" She asked.

Cai Qin snorted: "The slave maid heard Zhang Shengping say that Yang Gongzi may also go, and the slave maid is going to stare at him, he is not at ease." ”

"Hiccup", Huo Roufeng hiccuped and gave a thumbs up to Cai Qin, "Cai Qin, this makes you see, you are really a master." ”