Just after the summer solstice, it is the weather at the beginning of June, and it has already shown the fangs of the scorching heat, although Gen Yue is luxuriant, but it can't stop the heat falling from the sky, long and difficult, making people uncomfortable.

If there is a cooler place on the mountain, there is, but no one wants to go in.

In the second-class courtyard of the Lizi Courtyard, there is a courtyard, and everyone who goes in, there is no one who does not feel cool, and those who are a little timid can stay cold with their hands and feet.

Many miscellaneous servants and little eunuchs would rather take a detour than pass in front of this courtyard on weekdays, because they were panicked and afraid of bad luck.

Today, there was a chubby young man in brocade, shaking a folding fan, swaying into this courtyard.

As soon as the front foot comes in, the back script will retract as soon as it can.

But after thinking about it, he was afraid of losing face in front of others, so he calmed down, and shouted to the owner who was sitting under the eaves of the main house and was busy working on bamboo strips: "Chen Shiyi, you are here to open the white shop to Chongli Division!" ”

The young man looked up, and immediately smiled, and trotted all the way: "Your Highness! How did you get here? ”

"Saying that, this king can't come yet? You kid, it's been almost a month, and I don't know how to go to the house to order something, there is no way, who made the Lord Yun Cavalry Captain have a big shelf, and this king has to come to the door in person. ”

Chen Shiyi rubbed his hands directly at the ridicule of King Wei, and said embarrassedly: "I took a leave of absence because of the aftermath of Yue Ning'an, and I have to make up for it, but this is not the turn of Xiu Mu." Your Highness, Your Highness? ”

I saw King Wei staring at the young man's back, his face was full of horror, he grabbed the young man's shirt with his hand, and said in a dumb voice: "Chen Shiyi, you are haunted!" ”

"What?"

Chen Shiyi turned around and looked behind him, there was nothing.

"That paper man, it just ...... It's moving! Look, it's moving again! ”

King Wei dodged, quickly shrank behind the courtyard door, held on to the door frame, looked at the posture, and was ready to run away at any time.

Now Chen Shiyi also saw that the paper figure was moving, and there was an extra golden tail.

"Twelve, don't make a fuss! Come here! ”

With the boy's call, a beautiful golden monkey jumped out from behind the paper figure and threw himself into Chen Shiyi's arms.

"It turned out to be a monkey, and it scared me to death. It's so beautiful, come, come, let me touch it. Where did you get that? ”

"Follow me out of Yushan and stay with me for a year." Suddenly

"You just called it...... Twelve? ”

"Well, Twelve is my brother. I promised it that in the future, if I have a bite to eat, there will be a bite to eat, and our brothers will eat fragrant and spicy food together, which is a hook. ”

The monkey listened with a small head and a straight point.

"Yo, you can still understand the words, interesting! This brotherly love is very touching. It's just Chen Shiyi, where do you put this king, I treat you as a brother, according to what you say, isn't this king also the brother of this monkey twelve? Count it up further, you call it a great disrespect, you know, you are going to be beheaded. ”

After speaking, he poked Chen Shiyi with a fan, and grinned at him and made a neck wiping motion.

Xue Zhao followed behind, wishing that he didn't have long ears: Just what you said, that's really disrespectful.

Chen Shiyi was dumbfounded, is this a problem? He really didn't think about it so much.

"I'm playing with you, I'm serious. Xue Zhao! ”

"Your Highness."

"Give these paper people, paper horses, and utensils to this king. None of them had eyeballs, they were ghostly, and they could see that the king was panicked. ”

Seeing that the paper figures were all turned around, King Wei finally felt that the cold atmosphere was much less, so he walked towards the main hall.

"Chen Shiyi, where are you going, this yard is almost full."

"Isn't it the Midyear Festival that is coming......

"Oh, yes. This king remembers the seventh day of July. ”

After speaking, he looked around the courtyard again and said, "The place is a little cramped, are you still used to being here?" If it's not worth it on weekdays, just stay with me. ”

"Get used to it! I really didn't expect that this day would be able to live like this. Grandpa Yu said that there is nothing to do at the moment, just need to be on time and wait for the call. Eat on time and on time every day, and be full! The rest of the time, do whatever you want to do, and don't delay your practice. ”

"You're really not asking for much......"

As he was talking, a head poked in at the gate of the courtyard, his body was still resting outside the door, and he shouted inside with his throat: "Is Lord Chen here, Grandpa Yu asked you to go over immediately." ”

"Got it, let's go." Chen Shiyi responded, and said slightly apologetically to King Wei: "Your Highness, look, I'll go for a while?" ”

"I'll go with you, and by the way, I'll help you take a leave of absence from Lao Yu. Take you to see the garden, meet a few friends by the way, walk, walk. ”

A few people followed the little eunuch who passed the word, came to a back garden, passed through the moon cave gate, entered the garden, and saw a chic two-story fine house located among the mountains and rivers, grass and trees, revealing a rich quiet and elegant everywhere.

A pair of couplets at the door: Xiaolou listens to the spring rain overnight, and the lonely tong writes the autumn spring three feet.

There is a plaque hanging under the eaves: half a spring and autumn.

There were two red-robed officials sitting in the hall, the first was a woman, a young acquaintance, and she was the head of the department; Sitting at the bottom was Father-in-law Yu, and the two were looking out of the house together.

Chen Shiyi was about to hurry a few steps to sign up for entry under the corridor, but unexpectedly heard the woman in the hall say:

"Stop!"

The boy was stunned and stopped.

"Still want to run?!"

The boy was stunned again, I didn't want to run.

"Believe it or not, I'm beating you!"

The boy was stunned, is this going to be beaten?

On second thought, no, it shouldn't have been told to me. Turning his head to look, sure enough, King Wei was sneaking towards the door of the Moon Cave, and was stopped by the woman in the hall.

As for Xue Zhao Xue Cai, as early as the moment the woman spoke, she had already bowed her head and bowed, and she couldn't count on it.

I saw King Wei moving his heavy steps, grinding and chirping into the hall, and shouted to the woman with his face on his face: "Auntie, where are you ......?"

"Why, I mean, I can't be here?"

"How can it! You're the head of the Chongli Division, so of course you have to be here. ”

"A good court official, a third-grade official, from your mouth is almost like a bandit in the rivers and lakes and green forests! I ask you, what did you just run?! ”

"I didn't run, I suddenly remembered that there was something in the house, and I had to hurry to do it! Isn't it, Xue Zhao? ”

Xue Zhaomu didn't squint, as if he hadn't heard King Wei's question, but from the corners of his twitching eyes, he was afraid that his heart was very uncalm.

"You don't involve Xue Zhao, a dignified master of the Great Perfection of the Purple Mansion Realm, who helps you wipe your ass and carry the black pot all day long, and you are not too embarrassed. Come here! ”

King Wei was shocked: "No! ”

"What, afraid I'll eat you?!"

"You might as well eat me." King Wei muttered quietly.

"What are you muttering, you think you can hide if you don't come?"

As soon as everyone saw a flower, Lord Si Zheng had already arrived in front of King Wei, and his green and jade hands directly pinched King Wei's fat face, like kneading dough.

"I'll let you run! I'll let you hide ......"

"Oops, oops...... Somebody's there, somebody's watching......"

Xue Zhao Xue Cai looked up at the sky.

Grandpa Yu bowed his head and counted the ants.

Chen Shiyi was dumbfounded, and hurriedly followed the example of Grandpa Yu, lowered his head, and couldn't wait to see the green bricks on the ground.

"Chongli Division is the territory of the old lady, who watches, who dares to watch? Chunxian? Or your family's fortune? ”

King Wei was in a hurry, broke free all of a sudden, and shouted: "There is also Chen Shiyi!" ”

"Him?"

Master Si Zheng glanced at the young man and sneered: "Don't say that he is just a casual official, even if he has achieved the four-vein palm print, he is also a subordinate official of my Chongli Division!" The bookkeeper of the previous hall inspection has not finished settling with him, and there are a lot of new accounts. ”

The young man was very surprised when he heard this: "What? Haven't you already been fined, ten years! Why don't you hear that the meaning is not over yet? Why is it back again, I didn't do anything......"

The young man lowered his head and calculated, he got 6,000 taels from selling mountain goods, spent dozens of taels on the way back to Beijing, gave 2,000 taels to 'do his best', and asked people to give 2,000 taels to Yue Ning'an's hometown, 200 taels to eat from the small stove of Tieqin and Tongjian Building, and 50 taels to the eunuch who passed the decree, and there was not much left. I still have to rent a house, and the house in Chang'an City is as expensive as gold. Fortunately, the yamen was in charge of eating and drinking, otherwise, he would have to become the first official to be starved to death since the founding of this dynasty.

Even if I rented a house in the city in the future, I still had to finish dinner in the yamen before going back. Yes, that's it!

Chen Shiyi...... Chen Shiyi? ”

Lord Si Zheng returned to his seat and called the young man twice, but he saw that he was in a trance, not knowing what he was thinking, and the corners of his mouth showed a smile of unknown meaning.

The woman frowned, for this young man, although it is a little ugly, but on the whole, she likes it, she is simple-minded, it is rare to know right from wrong, and she does not care about personal honor and disgrace; If you want to talk about the shortcomings, the woman involuntarily glanced at the account book at hand, that is, she could eat some, well, too much...... But that's all a subsection. It's just that this inexplicable fugue is what's wrong, but it's quite similar to someone, and I'm afraid it was brought out by that stinky boy......

Thinking of this, the woman glanced at King Wei fiercely.

King Wei immediately became upset, what should I do? I didn't even move! I, the dignified King of Wei, went to the entrance of the imperial court, let alone tea, I didn't even have a seat, where could I reason? This unlucky one, why did I run into her today! I knew that this king should have counted a hexagram before he went out!

"Smack!" Si Zheng slapped the coffee table, woke up the young man who was making a careful calculation, and said solemnly: "I heard that you plan to take leave in two months?" ”

"Yes."

"Not really."

Chen Shiyi was stunned, and couldn't help but muster up the courage and ask carefully, "Why?" ”

"Not allowed is not allowed, what are so many reasons."

"Then I can always resign, right?"

"Presumptuous! Conferring titles on officials is an important ceremony of the imperial court, so if you don't want to do it, you won't do it! ”

Looking at the silent and sad young man, the woman said gently:

"Why did you take a leave, this official knows it in his heart. Is that a good town?! The local dragons and snakes are mixed, not to mention the intertwined forces of all parties, and there are more surrounding enemy countries stirring up wind and rain in it. Not letting you go, it's for your own good. What's more, even if this official pretends to be deaf and dumb, ignores the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and lets you assassinate a court official, do you think Cui Lian's cultivation is really so unbearable? ”

Hearing Si Zheng mention Cui Lian, Chen Shiyi couldn't help but hold his breath and wait for the following.

"Although Cui Lian said that he was a newly promoted Purple Mansion, his foundation was unstable, and it was said that he also used drugs to assist in quenching his body and took a shortcut, but after all, Purple Mansion is Purple Mansion, and there are several reasons why he was defeated by you. First, Cui Lian underestimated your strength, the lion fought the rabbit and tried his best, not to mention the life and death fight, but as a result, he was discouraged by your life-for-life play, blindly avoiding and surviving, and he really deserved to be beaten; Second, and most importantly, Cui Lian was poisoned beforehand, and his whole body cultivation can only be used at most......

"What?! Cui Lian was poisoned? When the boy heard about it for the first time, he was astonished.

"Yue Ning'an went to Huanhualou in advance and drugged Cui Lian and others' dishes, but he never thought that Cui Lian found out early and the poisoning was not deep, so Yue Ning'an was in a hurry and took the lead."

"Why didn't Cui Lian mention this?"

"What can he say? A dignified Purple Mansion Realm Nanchang Thousand Households, defeated at the hands of a fledgling Desire Snatching Realm boy, isn't it enough to lose face. If he had used this reason to ask you for mercy that day, what face would he have in the world in the future? Where is the dignity of Takefu? Besides, even if he says it, you won't take him? ”

"Of course. But ......"

Seeing that Chen Shiyi was not giving up, Si Zheng sighed secretly, turned his head and ordered: "Xue Cai, use the strength of the Purple Mansion Realm to sword Chen Shiyi, you don't have to keep your hands!" ”

"Yes!"

Xue Cai moved in response, slowly pulled out his waist knife, and smiled at the young man: "Lord Chen, be careful." ”

Chen Shiyi didn't dare to slack off, and immediately put the knife in his hand and concentrated on it.

When King Wei saw the martial arts on stage, he happily took a few steps back, staring intently at the two people who walked to the middle of the flower hall.

Immediately, I only felt a flower in front of me, the sound of blades hitting each other exploded, and the whole hall was full of energy, and a figure flew out of the hall, and hit the rockery with a "boom", and rolled down into the pond with the collapsed stones.

Father-in-law Yu lowered his eyes distressedly: The Taihu Lake Stone of the miscellaneous family......

Si Zheng stood up, looked at Chen Shiyi, who was getting up from the pond in embarrassment, and sneered: "How? This is the real combat power of the first level of the Purple Mansion Realm, although it is not comparable to Cui Lian's paper-paste Purple Mansion Realm, but the Purple Mansion is the Purple Mansion, if he is not poisoned first, at least he has nearly sixty percent of the strength, and it is a coincidence that you can win that day. ”

After speaking, the young man who was left with half of his body drenched was depressed alone, turned around and sat down, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and added:

"There is news that when Cui Lian left Beijing, he felt defeated and called for help, and he wanted to reshape the Purple Mansion, with your current cultivation, even if the official let you out, when you get to the border, I am afraid that I don't know how you died."

"That's it?!" Chen Shiyi's eyes were red.

"If you really want to go, you can, this official will fulfill you! However, there are three conditions, all of which are indispensable. When it is done, the officer will give you a vacation; If you can't finish it, let me stay in the yamen honestly, and don't even think about going anywhere! ”

"It's a deal!"

As soon as the young man's voice fell, he saw everyone looking at him strangely, and immediately reacted, smiled, retracted his hand very embarrassedly, and wiped it on his body.

Si Zheng snorted ridiculously and continued: "This first one, you need to break the Mirror Purple Mansion!" ”

"Good!"

"Article 2, re-enter the hall and pass through the arrow path, the hive, the sea of runes, and the ...... of the illusion"

As soon as the words fell, it was safe to think about it, and he continued: "And, I can take the three tricks of this official!" ”

When Gonggong Yu heard this, he was a little surprised, why did this Master Si Zheng temporarily increase the size?

"Good!"

"This third ......"

Si Zheng pointed to a stack of books in his hand and said to him, "Take it and take a look!" ”

Chen Shiyi picked up the book without knowing it, and flipped it up, this is the account book for purchasing in the yamen, what does it mean to show me?

The young man put down the account book and bowed his head and replied, "My subordinates have finished reading it." ”

"See what?"

"No ......"

"Do you know how much the usage in the yamen has increased in the past month or so since you entered the yamen?"

"My subordinates don't know."

Chen Shiyi was even more confused, how do I know this, besides, what does this have to do with me, if you want to ask, you have to ask the steward.

"This official told you that the use of grain, oil, rice and noodles in Genyue Yamen has increased by 30%, vegetables, fruits, and meat have increased by 40%, and the number of domestic servants in the back kitchen has increased by 6 in the canteen! It's all eaten by you alone! You yourself say that the official wants to re-settle accounts with you. ”

The boy was dumbfounded.

"Hey, hey, hey......"

King Wei held his stomach heartlessly, smiling crookedly.

Chen Shiyi rolled his eyes when he saw it, and King Wei didn't care, he wasn't a serious person in the first place, but what did Xue Zhao Xue Cai mean when he was trembling there?

The young man blushed, hesitated for a long time, and squeezed out a sentence: "Didn't you say that the yamen was full......

"Yes, it is the proper meaning to manage rice in the yamen, but you eat too much, one person can afford the consumption of more than 20 people, and the money for your three melons and two dates is not enough to cover your meal! Not to mention the damage to the knife formation. Now the Inner Court Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau and the Household Branch Division have taken this as a joke. This official has lost a lot! You said it yourself, do you want to raise you as an idler? ”

Chen Shiyi couldn't speak, and his aggrieved tears were almost coming down.

"So, this third ......"

Si Zheng glanced at the young man, picked up the fragrant tea by himself, and tasted it.

"Ahem, Chen Shiyi."

Father-in-law Yu took over the conversation and said with a smile: "What Lord Si Zheng means is that you must have corresponding merits so as not to attract gossip; If there is something in the future, it is good to have merit. So, the third rule is that you have to really accumulate merit to a thousand households, or even higher. From now on, you have been transferred to the Spring Pulse and have been on duty in the prison first, ready to be sent at any time. ”

"Yes!"

The young man was a little depressed, this third article is not as good as the first two, this dispatch is not something he wants, it depends on the meaning of the official. Perhaps, I have to go to the Tongqin Iron Sword Tower often.

was secretly thinking, but listened to Grandpa Yu continue:

"If not, can't you die in the future with a guilty body? Although the current dynasty has canceled the eight-discussion redemption system of the previous dynasty, the imperial court is still willing to open up the net for those who have made great contributions. You don't want to earn your mother's life anymore? ”

“……”

Looking at the figure of Chen Shiyi leaving with King Wei, Si Zheng couldn't help but squirt: "Idiot, if someone else is a little good, he plans to remember it for a lifetime." ”

Father-in-law Yu sighed a little: "It's better than that, the blood of his youth has not been worth the years of hard work after all, and he has been poured into a pot of water, and it is no longer ...... past."

"A dead horse is a live horse doctor, it's up to Chen Shiyi......"