Late at night, the old man Zhu Yuanfeng was anxiously pacing back and forth at the gate with his hands behind his back, constantly complaining about Zhu Long and a few people, and actually letting the master go out alone, Zhu Long was very helpless, in fact, they had no choice, the master did not allow them to follow, and they could only come back.

"Stupid! If he doesn't let you follow, you can't follow quietly, and now we don't know where the others are, how dangerous it is! ”

Zhu Long and the others also knew that they were at a loss, and the four of them lowered their heads and didn't dare to say anything, Zhu Yuanfeng turned around and complained to his daughter, "What did you tell him yesterday?" He was in a low mood for the past two days. ”

Zhu Jie's lips moved, but she couldn't explain that she couldn't tell her father about Fanning and Empress Dowager Gao.

Zhu Long whispered for Zhu Jie, "Master, the master is in a bad mood, it should be related to the meeting with the Queen Mother." ”

'The Empress Dowager! ’

Zhu Yuanfeng also felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, and he provoked the Empress Dowager Cao, and he had no choice.

At this time, a family member rushed over and said excitedly, "Master, I have found my uncle!" ”

Zhu Yuanfeng perked up and asked excitedly, "Where is he?" ”

"He's in Pan Lou, drunk, and also"

"What else?"

"He also summoned ten female prostitutes to accompany him for wine, and gave more than 1,000 taels of silver alone."

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed in his heart, Fan Ning would never be like this, it was estimated that something was wrong, and he asked again, "Did the people take it back?" ”

"I've already picked it up, I'm very drunk, and in addition, we met a knife and pen deacon of the tabloids in Pan Lou."

Zhu Yuanfeng's face sank, these all-pervasive bastards, he immediately turned back to Zhu Jie and said, "You go to warn the newspaper immediately, if they dare to publish Fanning's matter in the "Tabloids", their Qian family's children cheating in the imperial examination will also appear in the "Hong Kong Economic Journal." ”

Zhu Jie nodded, got into the carriage, and took a few of his subordinates to the newspaper office.

After a short time, the carriage carrying Fanning came back, and Zhu Long and several people ran up, worked together, and carried the drunk Fanning out of the carriage on a stretcher.

Zhu Yuanfeng shook his head, turned back to the concubine and said, "Arrange for a few maids to take a bath for him and serve him well." ”

The little concubine Gu immediately stepped forward and commanded the family Ding to carry Fan Ning into the inner house, Zhu Yuanfeng sighed, this kid is estimated to have planted a big heel fight in the officialdom.

At this time, two maids hurriedly stepped forward, supported his back, and waited for him to drink, after drinking a glass of water, Fan Ning felt a lot more comfortable, he waved his hand, signaling that he could get up.

He sat up, thinking of the ridiculous thing he had done last night, he smiled bitterly in his heart, and asked again, "When did I come back?" ”

"At the time of the two watches, the master sent someone to find my uncle and bring him back."

Fanning nodded, he came nonsense, but he made his family worry, it shouldn't be!

He got up and went to the back of the screen, washed his hands again, and a maid pursed his lips and smiled, "Auntie said, if my uncle wakes up, you can look at the gift on the table, she gave it to you." ”

Fan Ning noticed that there was a cardboard box on the table, he stepped forward to open the box, and was stunned for a moment, it turned out to be a delicate human skin mask, he was a little confused, he was not a gentleman on the beam, what do you want this thing to do? Are you afraid that people will recognize you and take this to drink?

Fanning saw that there was another note underneath, and he looked at the note, which read 'officialdom essentials'.

Fan Ning suddenly smiled dumbly, and at the same time was a little moved, Zhu Jie knew that she had lost her temper for Gao Talk's things in the past two days, and hoped that she could cover it up well.

In fact, after venting last night, his mentality has returned to normal, everything has its two sides, Empress Dowager Cao wants to control himself, why not use Empress Dowager Cao at the same time.

To a certain extent, it is still time for Zhu Jie to give herself this human skin mask.

Fanning put away his mask and smiled at the two maids, "I worked hard for you last night, go and rest!" ”

The two maids gave a blessing gift, and then retreated.

Fan Ning deeply expanded his chest, he needed to formally report to the Empress Dowager Cao and the Son of Heaven today, and talk about overseas affairs.

At this time, a maid hurriedly came and said, "Uncle, someone is coming to the palace, let my uncle go to receive the order!" ”

Fanning immediately changed into his official uniform and walked quickly towards the outer house.

The incense case in front of the Guike Hall has been placed, Zhu Yuanfeng is chatting with a middle-aged eunuch, the eunuch is called Luo Wen, who has followed the Empress Dowager Cao for at least 20 years, and is the confidant eunuch of the Empress Dowager Cao, and it was he who led Fan Ning to see the Empress Dowager Cao yesterday.

At this time, there was a plate of ten ingots of gold beside him, at least a hundred taels, which made the eunuch squint with a smile, and he had heard that the Zhu family was very rich for a long time, and it really deserved its reputation.

He didn't know the relationship between Empress Dowager Cao and Fan Ning, he only felt that Empress Dowager Cao valued Fan Ning very much, so that he had the heart to have a relationship with Zhu Yuanfeng, and pass on some news related to Fan Ning in the future, so that he could get more benefits.

"Don't worry, old man, if there is any news in the harem, our family will definitely send someone to announce it in time."

Zhu Yuanfeng has dealt with eunuchs several times, and knows the virtues of these eunuchs very well, if it is a guard or an official who comes to give an order or an edict, the benefits given to them must be given last, and the other party wants to save face, and he will only accept and leave if he pretends to be helpless.

But the eunuchs are different, they are all gone, what face do you want, money is the most important thing, you must give it in advance, give it in person, they will measure your value by money.

For example, now, after taking out a hundred taels of gold for the running fee, this Eunuch Luo will think of building a news channel, money is not important to Zhu Yuanfeng, valuable news is important, and it is the opposite for Eunuch Luo.

"Thank you Grandpa Luo!"

At this time, Fan Ning walked in quickly, and Rowan got up and smiled, "Fan Yuanjun, we meet again." ”

"It's hard work, Father-in-law Luo went out of the palace and ran away."

"Where? It is the Queen Mother who attaches great importance to the envoy, and it is an honor for our family to run away for the Queen Mother. ”

This is true, and no one else has the opportunity to give such an edict.

Luo Wen took out the decree and said in a loud voice: "The will of the Queen Mother, and the overseas economic strategy will make Fan Ning accept the decree!" ”

Fanning knelt down in front of the incense case, "Minister, Fanning listens to the order!" ”

Luo Wen unfolded his will and read aloud, "Fan Ning, the overseas economic envoy, has made great achievements in serving the country, bravely pioneering, and has made great achievements in opening up the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and needs to be rewarded heavily, in order to show encouragement, the palace specially awarded Fan Ning as the Duke of Wu, rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold, a manor, and admired!" ”

Fan Ning sneered in his heart, he threatened himself yesterday, and today he began to win over, the typical slap and then stuff a date, both soft and hard, but Fan Ning also guessed another layer of the Empress Dowager Cao's intentions, if she can really control herself, she will definitely lift herself up and become a knife for herself to deal with the Zhizheng Hall, or just insert herself as an important chess piece into the Zhizheng Hall.

Fan Ning kowtowed and thanked him, "Weichen thanks the Empress Dowager for her kindness, and will do his best to serve the Empress Dowager!" ”

Luo Wen smiled and handed the will to Fan Ning, young people generally only have such a high title if they are influenced by their ancestors, and they are knighted for meritorious service, and Fan Yuanjun is the first person.

Zhu Yuanfeng next to him was also a little dizzy, what's going on, isn't Empress Dowager Cao going to suppress Fan Ning? Why did he suddenly become a prince of the country, this is a high lord from the first grade! Only the prime minister or the commander of the three armies has the opportunity to seal the country.

Zhu Jie knew that it was of little significance to Fan Ning whether he was knighted or not promoted, there were too many high-ranking people in the Song Dynasty, hundreds of direct royal families, almost all of them were at the beginning of the king's year, and the imperial uncles of the Son of Heaven were crowned twenty-one kings at once, and the partial royal family and relatives were either national princes or county dukes, and Fan Ning was crowned a national duke, which was really nothing.

Luo Wen accepted the gold and left, Zhu Yuanfeng was puzzled, but he didn't want to ask too much, so he had to say to Fan Ning, "You have to hurry into the palace to thank you, come back early, and don't drink anymore." ”

Fanning nodded, "I worried the third grandfather last night!" ”

He smiled at Zhu Jie again, "Thank you, Auntie, for the gift, it's timely!" ”

Zhu Jie smiled slightly, "It looks like you have recovered, hurry up and enter the palace!" ”

Fan Ning went back to the room to prepare, Zhu Yuanfeng asked his daughter in confusion, "What's going on?" ”

Zhu Jie smiled and said, "A-Ning turned out to be the faction of the Empress Dowager Gao, and the Empress Dowager Gao died, and his backstage was gone, it seems that he had a good conversation with the Empress Dowager Cao yesterday, and the Empress Dowager Cao intends to continue to reuse him." ”

Zhu Yuanfeng made up on his own, "So he feels that he has betrayed the Empress Dowager Gao, and his heart is painful, and he only drank so much wine last night." ”

"Father is right!"