Li Xiaoqi returned to Liushu Hutong, Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun were waiting at the mouth of the alley with their necks stretched, and when they saw the car coming, they hurriedly followed all the way back to the door of the house, and saw Li Xiaoqi get out of the car, and hurriedly stepped forward to report: "Fifth master, more than a dozen people have been sent from the yamen, saying that they are going to hand them over to the fifth master." ”

"What about people? Where? Li Xiaoqi hurriedly turned his head and asked, Zhang Gouzi pointed to the inverted seat next to the door: "It's all locked inside, the people in the yamen said that there was something, and they refused to wait for the fifth master to come back, so they left!" Zhao Liushun and I had to lock everyone in the house first. Zhang Gouzi explained, Li Xiaoqi paused, thought about it, continued to walk inside, and raised his hand to call Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun as soon as he walked: "You two come in with me first." ”

The two followed Li Xiaoqi all the way through the second gate, and just walked not far along the hand-copying verandah, Lu Feng suddenly came out of nowhere, jumped over the railing of the verandah, rushed to Li Xiaoqi and asked, "Where have you been?" Don't say a word, I've been looking for you for a long time! ”

"Where have you been? I didn't come back last night, and I didn't see you this morning when they left, where did you go? Li Xiaoqi bypassed Lu Feng and asked as he walked, Lu Feng smiled, vaguely, as if he was a little weak-hearted and said: "I didn't go anywhere, just play, where to go." ”

"Went to Kaiping Mansion to play all night? Hey, I forgot to ask you, where did you get your money? This Kaiping Mansion's top brand is not cheap, where did you get the money for wine? Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at Lu Feng and asked curiously, Lu Feng rubbed his nose and regretted it, he couldn't ask where he was going next time!

"Where did you get your money? What about debts? Or will your little uncle account for you? How much silver does this Kaiping Mansion head card cost for one night? Li Xiaoqi stared at him with a smile and asked, Lu Feng cleared his throat and tried to look natural and said plainly: "There is not much silver, didn't I tell you last time, the Heavenly Master's Mansion has a house in Kaiping Mansion, and if there is a house, there is an account, and I will go there to pay the silver." ”

"In that case, hurry up and return the thousand taels of gold to me! I'm short of money now, and I'm running out of silver. Li Xiaoqi hurriedly smiled and urged, Lu Feng spread his hands: "It's not that I won't give it to you, it's that I can't afford to pay it back, I can only pay a maximum of one hundred taels of silver at a time, and no more than ten times a month, how many months do you have to pay for your one thousand taels of gold?" Besides, if I pay 1,000 taels every month, the steward will have to tell the eldest brother, and the eldest brother will enter Kaiping Mansion in the month, let's stop and annoy him, if I stop for half a year and a few months and don't let me use the silver, it will be miserable! ”

Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at Lu Feng and asked, "Then how much did you spend yesterday?" A hundred taels? This Kaiping Mansion's top card, one hundred taels is willing to play with you all night? It's too cheap, right? That first card has taken a fancy to you, willing to post it? ”

"Where is a hundred taels enough? I consulted with the steward, and I paid for a month at a time. ”

"One thousand taels!" Li Xiaoqi stopped his steps violently, turned his head and shouted, Lu Feng unconsciously twisted his head and diverted the topic: "Let's not talk about this, where have you been?" I found a wine that you specify to like••••••"

"One thousand taels of silver, and there is not a cent left?" Li Xiaoqi felt sorry for the 1,000 taels of silver, this is a lot of money? This loser!

"There's still a bit of scattered silver, anyway, it's almost next month, just these two days, it's over." Lu Feng twisted his shriveled purse, I don't know if he was comforting Li Xiaoqi or comforting himself, Li Xiaoqi exhaled heavily, his eyes rolled slightly, and he said obliquely to Lu Feng as he walked: "I wanted to talk to you about this a few days ago, I have been busy for the past two days, and I didn't take care of it, you live in my house, naturally there is nothing that can't be done, it's just the same, there is no reason to eat and live for nothing anywhere, you say?" If you live in my house, you have to give all the money you should give for the house, food, tea, water, lamp oil, flowers and trees, washing clothes and sweeping the floor, or else, I see, you should move back to Lu Mansion to live, and you don't have to spend money, and it is more comfortable than our home! ”

Lu Feng blinked and looked at Li Xiaoyi, looked back at Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun, who were following closely behind the two and stretched out their ears to listen to the two of them, waved at the two, pulled Li Xiaoqi's sleeve and walked a few steps forward, and asked in a low voice, "Are you angry?" It's just a little bit of a thing, you see••••••"

"You look like I'm angry?" Li Xiaoqi interrupted Lu Feng's words, she was not angry, she was distressed about the silver, Lu Feng stared at Li Xiaoqi suspiciously, Li Xiaoqi patted Lu Feng's hand away, and then said on the topic just now: "Look at you, I say east, you say west, you want to live in my house, not much, two hundred taels of silver a month, otherwise, you will move back to the Heavenly Master's Mansion to live." ”

Lu Feng rubbed his nose in confusion, but simply: "Two hundred taels is two hundred taels!" I still live here, what is there to live in the Heavenly Master's Mansion?! Xiaoyi, let me tell you, I found the kind of turbid rice wine mentioned in the ancient book, you must like it, the taste is the same as honey water, just the amount of wine you have, you can also drink seventy or eighty cups, no wonder the ancients drank wine at every turn, and drank one jar at a time, and couldn't get drunk after drinking ten jars! Lu Feng's eyebrows fluttered.

"How many jars did you buy and come back?" Li Xiaoqi asked with a smile,

"Just two jars, if no one orders this wine, the winery usually does not brew, these two jars are ordered to prepare for confinement, who knows that this wine has been brewed for two days, the child has not been born, and then put it sour, so it was resold to me, I have booked, let the winery send two jars every five days, go, let's enjoy the chrysanthemum and drink wine!" The weather is just right today! ”

"I still have some things, let's do it at night, enjoy the flowers and drink with candles, and enjoy the fun!"

"Okay, I'll go back to sleep first, and I'll wake up and look for you." Lu Feng readily agreed, sent Li Xiaoqi to the gate of the half-acre garden, and saw that she took Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun into the yard, so she shook the fan and went back to Baicao Garden to sleep leisurely.

Li Xiaoqi instructed Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun to wait outside the weeping flower gate, and he entered the main house, wisteria and begonia greeted him out, waiting for Li Xiaoqi to wash and change clothes, and without waiting for Li Xiaoqi to order, Wisteria came over with a brocade bag to report: "Fifth master, yesterday's excerpt asked Nanning, Nanning said, because those prisoners were taken straight from Liang Guo to Kaiping Mansion, and the master said that he would deal with it when he saw someone, and he came to this point, this volume is the resume of nineteen captive officers, and Nanning said that he was brought by the master. ”

Li Xiaoqi nodded, first took the resume and flipped through it roughly, lowered his eyes and thought about it, beckoned Wisteria to come over and ordered: "You copy out the family, relatives, and teachers on this resume, the characters are larger, one piece of paper per person, and I will use it in a while." Wisteria agreed, took the resume, did not go out of the house, took the pen and ink, and took the small few next to it, and copied it in a short time, Li Xiaoqi took more than a dozen pieces of bamboo shadow paper and flipped it over, nodded with satisfaction, jumped off the house, held the paper out of the hanging flower door, called Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun, and handed more than a dozen pieces of bamboo shadow paper to Zhang Gouzi: "Look at it, you can recognize all the words, right?" ”

"Look at what the fifth master said! Although we haven't read the book yet, I have almost recognized all the words on it, and Mr. Fan has praised me a lot! Zhang Gouzi muttered while flipping through the bamboo shadow paper, and as soon as he turned to the third page, his face turned into a bitter ball: "Fifth master, tell me, is this name recognizable, or is it embarrassing?" How to clean these strange words! This? ”

"Unexpected, huh? The braille you recognize, it's far worse! Okay, don't worry about those weird words, you don't have to know them all, you can recognize more than half of them, listen to me. Li Xiaoyi's voice became cautious, Zhang Gouzi hurriedly collected the bamboo shadow paper, and Zhao Liushun listened attentively to Li Xiaoqi's instructions.

"The nineteen people in the gatehouse, from today onwards, will be handed over to the two of you, and those people are all senior officials of Liangdi." Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun looked at each other, and Li Xiaoqi continued: "But you don't have to worry about this, anyway, now they are nothing, you two, the first thing, first go to the street no more than two quarters of an hour away from our house to find a house to rent a large courtyard outside, don't rent the whole yard, just want this courtyard and that courtyard, so that they can be separated, one room per person, a total of nineteen rooms, these nineteen houses, all pay only one month's rent,"

Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun blinked when they heard this, and Li Xiaoqi continued with a smile: "After finding a good house, the second thing, the dog showed them the paper and told them, first, in the future, they will be free in this Kaiping Mansion City, and they must not go out of the city gate for half a step, whoever dares to step out of the city gate for half a step, the name listed on the piece of paper under his name will be beheaded!" Li Xiaoqi smiled and made a head-killing gesture, Zhang Gouzi made a clever move, Zhao Liushun swallowed his saliva, Li Xiaoqi straightened his thoughts, and then said: "You two must learn to observe the face, after saying this, carefully look at everyone's expressions, if you are angry and frightened, this is the third thing, tell them that in the future, they will have to support themselves, in this Kaiping Mansion, each show their powers, and think of supporting themselves, the third thing, set the rules, every day at the beginning of the morning, Youzheng, must report to our gatehouse." , you two, take turns to see people draw, once before you arrive, you have to look for it, and the second time you commit it, take him to the door of our yard to stand as a gatekeeper for a day. ”

Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun smiled and kept nodding, this work is not difficult and interesting, Li Xiaoqi thought about it and added: "Tell them again, if you don't have the ability to support yourself, come over and say it, and the fifth master will accept him into the house as a slave, don't worry about food and clothing, and have monthly money." It's not early today, you two •••••• forget it, I won't explain much, you follow me, you have to learn to use your brains to do things, from now on, the nineteen people will be handed over to you, people should be optimistic, the house should be found as soon as possible, you two discuss it, if you need to use manpower, go over to discuss with Mrs. Fan. ”

Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liu agreed smoothly, Zhang Gouzi carefully put the bamboo shadow paper into his arms, and quit to go to this important matter.