"Jingle Bell ......"

The black carriage drove smoothly towards the center of the city.

Zhang Chu knelt in the carriage, the thick sandalwood slowly rose from the exquisite small copper furnace of the beast's head, Zhang Chu was immersed in the faint smoke, closed his eyes and pondered.

Cao Song Tiannan, the new county soldier, had already led the Beibei Battalion Xiang Army to northern Xinjiang at dawn.

Zhang Chu could only go to meet the county lieutenant Nie Ben in person.

He didn't want to see Nie Ben.

Because Nie Ben is an official, he is a thief.

is also because Nie Ben is a sixth grade, and he is an eighth grade.

How can there be a mouse who is willing to meet a cat......

But again he had to go.

Other officials of the Allisky Mansion may be handed over to Yang Changan to come forward to entertain.

But at the level of county lieutenant, Yang Changan is not qualified.

Yang Changan is not the leader of the Quadruple Gang.

He Zhang Chucai.

"Jingle bells. ”

The carriage stopped steadily, and Da Xiong's low voice sounded in the window: "Master Chu, it's here." ”

Zhang Chu took a deep breath, got up and walked out of the carriage.

I saw that the carriage stopped at the entrance of a long street, next to it is a stretch of blue brick courtyard wall, there is a vermilion gate covered with copper dozens of zhang in front, and on the cast-iron gilt door plaque hanging on the door, there are two big characters of "Nie Mansion" in relief.

Today, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the county government is resting, and if you want to see Nie Ben, you can only come to his official residence.

"Master Chu, my subordinates will go with you......"

The big bear came to Zhang Chu's side and whispered with a slight melancholy in his eyes.

Zhang Chu shook his head and said, "No need, just wait for me here......"

After speaking, he straightened the robe on his body and walked slowly towards the gate of Nie's Mansion alone.

The gate of Nie's Mansion was wide open, and there were two rows of halberd guards standing outside the door.

Seeing that Zhang Chu was approaching and coming alone, with no carriage behind him and no official uniform fish bag on his body, the halberd guard immediately took a halberd and shouted solemnly: "Stop!"

Zhang Chu walked to the bottom of the steps, bowed his hand and said: "Zhang Chu in the west of Caomin City, I have something important to meet Master Nie, please pass it on my behalf." ”

As soon as the halberd guards who had just shouted loudly heard the words "Zhang Chu in the west of the city", their bodies couldn't help but stiffen.

People begging for food in Jintian Mansion, there may be ordinary people who don't know the name of Lord Shoudi, but absolutely no one doesn't know the name of Zhang Chu of the Silian Gang!

Just as the halberd guard was about to say a few polite words to Zhang Chu and expose Fang Cai's rude behavior, a burly young man wearing a bearskin coat and a white jade robe walked out of the gate with a folding fan.

The burly young man saw Zhang Chu coming down the steps, and asked in surprise, "Second Zhang, why are you here?"

As soon as Zhang Chu raised his eyes, he saw that it was Nie Yutang, and couldn't help but smile and arch his hand: "Cousin Yu, congratulations to Zhengdan." ”

Since the previous Wushi Golden Knife incident, Zhang Chu rarely walked around with Nie Yutang, and only saw him a few times at the gatherings organized by Wu Qianyuan.

Nie Yutang also walked out with a smile on his hands: "He Zhengdan, He Zhengdan...... Is there something wrong with coming here?"

Zhang Chu smiled: "There is something wrong, I want to meet Ling Zun." ”

"That's still pestle, let's go, let's go, my father has finished meeting the county officials who came to congratulate Zhengdan, and is writing New Year's notes in the study. ”

Nie Yutang walked down the steps and took Zhang Chu's arm and walked towards Nie's mansion.

Zhang Chu asked suspiciously, "Isn't Cousin Yu going out?"

"Hey, what can I do, don't you know?"

Nie Yutang waved his hand indifferently, and shouted at the halberd guards guarding both sides of the gate: "Put the bright spots in the future, Gang Master Zhang is a friend of this son!"

"Yes, Second Son. ”

The halberd guards hurriedly nodded yes.

Zhang Chu had a smile on his face.

Nie Yutang's face kung fu is indeed more meticulous than Wu Qianyuan.

......

Nie Mansion doesn't seem to be going much.

But after Zhang Chu walked in, he found that he was inside!

As far as the eye can see, the green shade covers the pavilion, the blue pond shines on the water pavilion, and the strange stones stand in it, which is very the taste of the Soviet-style garden.

At least, there are several football fields the size.

Compared with Nie's house, his house is at most a small farm yard......

Nie Yutang led Zhang Chu, laughed and talked through the pavilions and corridors, and finally walked to a vermilion attic.

As soon as Zhang Chu looked up, he saw that on the door plaque with black characters on a white background above, there were three big characters written "Jing Si Lou", the penmanship was clumsy, vigorous and wild, at first glance, there was a sense of domineering that a lion stood on the reckless grassland and led the neck to roar.

"Second brother, you wait for a while, and wait for me to go in and report on your behalf. ”

As soon as Nie Yutang walked outside this attic, he lost his chic and uninhibited posture when he was outside, and he carefully lowered his voice when he spoke.

"I'm tired of Cousin Yu. ”

"Hey, that's very polite. ”

Nie Yutang waved his hand, finally took off the flamboyant bear skin on his body, put away the folding fan, straightened out the white jade shirt, and stepped forward to knock lightly: "Father, the child has something to see." ”

"Enter!"

A simple and sonorous voice came from upstairs, like a heavy drum.

Nie Yutang pushed open the door and bowed down and walked in.

Zhang Chu waited outside the door for about a cup of tea, and Nie Yutang finally came out and made a gesture of invitation to him.

Zhang Chu arched his hand to him gratefully, bowed down and walked in.

The layout in the attic is very elegant, the seats, benches, carpet ornaments, seem ordinary, but as long as you study carefully, all of them are boutiques that are difficult to buy even if you have money.

Zhang Chu had no intention of observing this, and went straight to the second floor.

went up to the second floor, and Zhang Chu finally saw the true face of this long-known county lieutenant.

He looked to be in his early forties, his complexion was slightly dark, his skeleton was very large, he had a casserole on one hand, and he was dressed in black without any patterns, neat and almost old-fashioned, with no cumbersome sleeves and hems, and no ornaments on his body to symbolize his position of power.

He sat behind a wide black case, holding a pen and writing something carefully, Zhang Chu came upstairs, and he didn't even look at Zhang Chu.

But a heavy power like Mount Tai pressed Zhang Chu's breath to stagnation.

"Sit. ”

Nie Ben spit out a word lightly.

Zhang Chu: "Thank you for the seat." ”

He respectfully saluted Nie Ben, and walked lightly to the chair on the side of the bookcase and sat down, but his butt was just next to the chair, and he didn't dare to sit down at all.

He held his breath and waited quietly.

In the attic, all that remains is the rustling sound of a brush scratching across the paper.

I don't know how long it took, Nie Ben finally stopped writing, separated the brush into the pen mountain, raised his eyes to look directly at Zhang Chu, and asked lightly: "You came to see this official, what is the matter?"

Zhang Chu hurriedly got up, walked quickly to the bookcase, bowed and saluted: "When the grass people heard that the northern Xinjiang was in an emergency, they were worried and uneasy. ”

"Although Yu is a white ding, he also knows that he has the duty to defend the land and the responsibility of the husband, but Yu is not in the army, and he does not dare to go north to cause chaos to the warriors of Northern Xinjiang, thinking about it, only family assets can add a meal and a piece of clothing to the warriors of Northern Xinjiang, and the grass people are willing to go bankrupt and offer 100,000 taels of silver to the adults, so as to help me leave the heavenly army and the thief in the country!"

When Nie Ben heard this, his cold and hard face, like a sculpture, finally showed a moved expression.

People can deceive people.

Words can deceive.

But the money is not good.