Cao Mansion, backyard.

Cao Shuangxu woke up from the dream, opened her hazy beautiful eyes and looked at the window, through which she noticed that it was still early, and she could vaguely hear the subtle sound of people sprinkling and sweeping.

"Cherry, cherry." She whispered twice.

The little maid pushed the door in, still holding a broom in her hand: "Miss, you're awake!" I woke up a little early today. ”

As Miss's personal maid, she didn't have to do the work of sprinkling and cleaning, so naturally there were other subordinates to clean up, but Cherry is a busy person, so almost all of the Miss's room and an area in front of the door are cleaned by her, and only when she accompanies Miss out of the house, will she hand it over to other subordinates.

Cao Shuangxu got out of bed, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and scolded: "You mean I often sleep lazy?" ”

Cherry grinned, "It's not very often, it's every day when I sleep in." ”

"Okay, you dead girl, don't be afraid that I'll let you tear your mouth." That being said, Cao Shuangxu's soft and pretty face was not half annoyed, but with a lazy chuckle.

She went straight to the table with the bronze mirror and sat down, Cherry was very discerning to clean her hands with the water in the basin first, and the hands that had just been cleaned could not touch the master, and then she came behind Cao Shuangxu, holding a comb in one hand and picking up a strand of hair in the other, combing the young lady's hair.

Cao Shuangxu took out an eyebrow pencil from the drawer and painted her thrush against the bronze mirror.

"What time is it?" Cao Shuangxu asked casually.

Cherry: "It's almost a moment, miss. ”

"Daddy should almost be at the Yamen." Cao Shuangxu said.

Cherry said: "Not yet, the master will take that disciple to the street division first, and then go to the prefect's yamen." ”

The eyebrow pencil in Cao Shuangxu's hand paused, frowned, and said, "I hope that person doesn't cause any trouble." ”

Cherry pecked his head and said, "I'm also worried, when I broke the legs of those two subordinates in front of the mansion gate yesterday, I felt that the disciple was restless." ”

Hearing what she said, Cao Shuangxu's eyebrows frowned slightly, but she seemed more worried.

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Street Division Yamen, doorway.

With a bamboo pole in hand and a black donkey in his foot, Wang Ling came to the door of the street leisurely, turned over from the donkey's back and landed, and the little black donkey finally got his wish and ate the carrot.

"Good morning, everyone, I will be colleagues in the future, hello, I am glad to be ......" He shook hands with the city attendants gathered at the door one by one and greeted him.

Everyone was stunned, they didn't understand what he was doing, and their stunned eyes gathered on Wang Ling.

He was just halfway through his rounding and greetings, when he was suddenly interrupted by a city attendant: "Who are you?" ”

Wang Ling smiled and knocked off the other party's hand holding his forearm: "Eh~!" Look at me, I haven't had time to introduce myself, my name is Wang Ling, we will be colleagues in the future, please take care of me, please take care of me! ”

"The King's Order?" Everyone looked at each other, indicating that they didn't know such a person.

At this time, Cao Yong opened the curtain and looked over.

When the people in the city saw that it was the prefect, they saluted one after another: "Lord Cao! ”

Cao Yong bowed his head slightly and asked, "Where is Tang Xiaoqi?" ”

Everyone subconsciously looked in the same direction.

Wang Ling and Cao Yong's eyes also moved, and they saw the two groups of people who seemed to be facing each other, and the girl was particularly eye-catching in the crowd.

Wang Ling squinted his eyes and strode over, shouting as he walked: "Ouch, Xiaoyu, you are here, I said why I didn't touch you after touching it, ah no!" It's that I didn't see you when I said hello one by one, what are you doing here? Yo, Brother Zuo is also there! ”

Cao Yong saw that Tang Xiaoyu seemed to have a conflict with people, but he was not in a hurry to ask, but walked out of the sedan chair and chose to stand in place and watch.

The faces of the people in the city were a little ugly, they all knew that Tang Xiaoyu and Lord Cao had a deep relationship, when Tang Xiaoyu was able to enter the street division, thanks to the prefect's lobbying, Tang Xiaoyu was admitted exceptionally, although many people were dissatisfied with this, they didn't dare to say it in person, and only dared to make Tang Xiaoyu stumble in private and wear small shoes.

I wanted to make a whole soup of small fish this morning, but I didn't expect Cao Yong to appear here, if she was really sued, it would be indispensable to punish the commander.

Everyone looked vaguely at the corner, and a slightly blessed young man with a scar-faced face stood against the wall with a knife, staring at Wang Ling's back with cold eyes, without saying a word.

Big house and small flag officer, Li Tower.

The general flag does not need to be on duty, it can be at the end of the day, and the small flag officials in each room are on duty at the usual time, and today it is Li Ting's turn, and this incident is also the leader of him

At this time, Wang Ling came to the middle of the two groups and smiled at Tang Xiaoyu: "I will hand myself over to you today." ”

Tang Xiaoyu didn't expect this guy to suddenly appear, he was not a member of the Street Division, so he didn't need to participate in the point, just pick a time when he was in the ya.

"Why are you here?" Tang Xiaoyu asked.

"When you asked, didn't I want to make a good impression on the leader! Forehead... Who are these two? Wang Ling looked at Zhang Zhanyi, Tian Ming and the others and asked, he could see that these two people were the heads.

As a result, Tang Xiaoyu turned his head disdainfully, snorted, and did not answer.

Wang Ling was a little embarrassed and stunned, and then looked at Zuo Yucheng on the side.

The moment he saw Cao Yong's official sedan chair, Zuo Yucheng knew that this conflict was over, and he knew that with Tang Xiaoyu's temperament, he must have been angry at this time, and he didn't want to mention the two, probably because he didn't want to dirty his mouth.

The experienced one smiled and introduced Wang Ling, acting as Tang Xiaoyu's mouthpiece, and hurriedly introduced: "Oh, these two are the little flag officials in the fourth room and the sixth room respectively. ”

When Wang Ling heard this, he instantly became flattering, stretched out a hand and said: "It turned out to be the leader, disrespectful and disrespectful, and he was giving the king's order." ”

Zhang Zhanyi and Tian Ming glanced at each other, and they were a little confused about Wang Ling's origin, but they could be sure that this person had a good relationship with Tang Xiaoyu, and they followed Cao Yong over, so they couldn't help but be vigilant.

Wang Ling saw that they didn't shake hands with him, so he immediately raised his hand slightly, reminding them that his hand was still raised, so why don't you shake it, otherwise how embarrassing will I be?

The two hesitated for a moment, and looked vaguely at the scar-faced man in the distance.

After Li Zhen nodded imperceptibly, Zhang Zhanyi's eyes froze, and he waved out his palm, and hit Wang Ling's hand with a "snap".

"Where did you come from, bastard!"

The people in the second room were just about to get angry, but they saw Wang Ling's hand draw an arc in the air and hold Zhang Zhanyi's hand together, this strange scene surprised everyone present.

"I didn't expect you to have this etiquette here, first high-five and then shake hands! I understand, I understand. Wang Ling said with a hippie smile.

Zhang Zhanyi raised his eyebrows, secretly exerted force in his hands, and a sneer rose at the corner of his mouth.

However, as soon as he was about to be triumphant, he felt a greater force exert on his palm, pinching his hand bones rattling, and he wanted to withdraw his hand, but was clamped by the king's order and could not extricate himself.

He looked at Wang Ling with a shocked expression, and all he responded to was a sunny smile.

"Scuffle stuff!" was restrained by a hairy boy, which made Zhang Zhanyi feel very faceless, and he was immediately angry, and the five fingers of his other hand clenched into a fist, and the fist with a sandbag slammed into Wang Ling's head.

Wang Ling's other hand was still hanging on his chest, and the only hand was holding it with the other party, and he couldn't resist the enemy for a while, and Zhang Zhanyi was bullying him.

"You dare!"

"Shameless!"

"Childe be careful!"

Everyone spoke out one after another, but what they heard was Zhang Zhanyi's terrible scream.

"Ahhhhh!!!h

At the moment when Wang Ling punched, he turned his hand and clasped the opponent's wrist, and the direction of the inside of the opponent's forearm was pressed violently, and Zhang Zhanyi's right hand was broken and deformed, and a bone at the wrist was about to break out of the skin, which was very terrifying.

"Am I smiling too much?" Wang Ling smiled viciously, Fang Cai's harmless appearance of humans and animals disappeared, and a fierce aura appeared in his eyes.

"Look at your face of meat, fat head, big ears and pits, flies fall on your face, the master shakes hands with you is worthy of you, why don't you know how to accept it when you see it? Do you have to me off? ”

Just now he saw that the two groups of people were confronting, it is estimated that if it weren't for the appearance of him and Cao Yong, there would be a fight here, Tang Xiaoyu is definitely not the one who stirs up trouble, then this group is looking for trouble, who should be helped Wang Ling is still clear.

"Bold!"

Hmm, Tian Ming and others drew their swords to aim at the king's order.

They thought that this kid who suddenly appeared was an embroidered pillow, but they didn't expect it to be such a ruthless character, Tian Ming vaguely looked at Zhang Zhanyi's almost scrapped right hand, and he was afraid that he would not be better if he didn't raise it for a year and a half.

Zhang Zhanyi is a small flag officer, and his force is naturally not weak, and this young man can make him suffer such a big loss, it is no longer an ordinary person.

Boom.

The sound of drawing the sword resounded again, and the city guard in the second room also drew his sword.

At this time, Dawu had also come to Wang Ling's side, with a posture of wanting to fight with the other party, and just now he saw that Gongzi was in danger, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly ran over.

Seeing this, the servants in the distance stopped looking at the excitement, and Li Zhen gave his cronies a look.

The cronie shouted, "Go and help!" ”

He didn't say anything to help, help persuade or help fight, anyway, the people serving the city are all human spirits, how can they not understand what it means? They rushed over in a swarm, forming an encirclement around Wang Ling, and by the way, Tang Xiaoyu and other people in the second room were also surrounded in it.

"What do you want to do?! Stop it! Cao Yong secretly said that it was not good, and immediately scolded him, he originally brought Wang Ling to adapt to the environment, but he didn't expect this kid to cause such a big incident as soon as he came, and he was very anxious.

Li Shu came to Cao Yong at this time, pretended to salute, and then said: "Lord Cao, this person has injured the little flag officer of my street division, I need to bring him back to the yamen, and please don't stop him." ”

The prefect can govern a state, but he manages to meddle in the affairs of the sub-district department, and the two yamen are in a cooperative relationship with each other, rather than superiors and subordinates.

Cao Yong sent Tang Xiaoyu to the Street Division, but he only sold a few or two favors to Du Mingtang, which does not mean that Du Mingtang is his subordinate, and the favors in the officialdom are just contacts, Wang Ling did hurt people, this is an indisputable fact, even if he is the prefect of a state, he can't stop the people who serve the city.

But what should be said, he still has to say.

"This young man is not small, Li Zhen, this official advises you, don't destroy your future." Cao Yong's tone was obviously threatening.

Li Zhen's eyes flashed, but he still pretended to be businesslike and said: "The street is a person, regardless of background. ”

Cao Yong frowned and snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and galloped towards the direction of the crowd, but he hadn't walked a few steps before he saw a person silently appear outside the gate of the Street Division, and shouted in a deep voice: "Stop." ”

Everyone looked sideways and looked in the direction of the Yamen gate, where stood a middle-aged man, with distinct facial features, as handsome as a carving, wearing a black uniform similar to that of a city servant, with a long knife at his waist, wearing an official hat, and standing on the steps with his hands in his hands.

This middle-aged man who suddenly appeared was staring at Wang Ling and the people who served the city with a serious expression.

When the people in the city saw this man, they immediately reined in and said in unison: "I have seen the commander." ”

Wang Ling raised his eyebrows, looked at Du Mingtang with a scrutinizing gaze, and his first impression of him turned out to be: This old boy is quite good-looking.

Immediately, he slapped himself in his heart with a big mouth, damn! Lao Tzu is straight!

Cao Yong was relieved to see Du Mingtang stop him, but he still sneered: "Lord Du, you have a good way to govern, I didn't expect that now this street division doesn't even take me, the chief official of Qingzhou City, in his eyes." ”

Du Mingtang glanced at Cao Yong without being salty, and replied with the same words as Li Zhen: "The street is a person, regardless of background. ”

"Humph!" Cao Yong snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves behind him, and didn't look at him.

The style of the Street Division has always been like this, and besides, it is indeed Wang Ling's fault that is the first, and he really has no right to interfere, at most he uses his relationship to protect Wang Ling.

Du Mingtang didn't look at Cao Yong, but walked to the crowd with his hands down, Cao Yong was stunned at first when he saw this, and then followed.

The two walked to the middle of the servants, Cao Yong came to Wang Ling's side, first glared at him angrily, and then sighed, which was blaming him for his recklessness, and felt that the matter was a little difficult to handle.

And Du Mingtan looked at the young man, and said in a flat tone: "Let him go, if the Street Division wants to arrest you, a small flag officer can't stop it." ”

Wang Ling let go of Zhang Zhanyi's pig hand, a frivolous smile appeared, and he teased: "Then if I capture you, will I be able to block it?" ”

Du Mingtang was silent for a moment, and then said, "You can give it a try." ”

Wang Ling frowned, although this person did not give him a strong sense of oppression like the man in black last night, but his intuition told him that he couldn't take this person in front of him no matter what.

"How are you doing?" Wang Ling said coldly.

Du Mingtang glanced at Zhang Zhanyi, and the pig-faced man immediately said aggrievedly: "Please make the decision for me!" ”

Li Lu and Tian Ming glanced at each other, and took the lead and said: "This person is committing murder on the street, please make the decision for us!" ”

"Please make the decision for us!"

Except for the two parties, all the servants of the city said in unison.

Tang Xiaoyu straightened up and explained anxiously: "It was Zhang Zhanyi, Tian Ming and others who took the lead, Wang Ling is by no means a lawless person, please make Zun Mingjian." ”

The city attendants in the second room behind her also jumped out one by one to explain.

"It's clear that they came over first to insult Xiaoyu, this brother originally wanted to come over to say hello, Zhang Xiaoqi not only beat him, but also made a secret trick, it was his own skills that were not as good as others, so he was seriously injured, please make Zun Mingjian."

"Envoy Mingjian!"

Du Mingtang frowned, and everyone thought that he was not sure of his mind.

At this time, Li Zhen gritted his teeth when he saw this, jumped out and said viciously: "Even so, it is a serious crime to commit an official with the people, even if he has 10,000 reasons, he must not let it go today!" Otherwise, how can the Street Division stand up in Qingzhou? In addition, this person and Tang Xiaoyu, the official of the second room, everyone saw it just now, the two of them are extremely familiar, and their subordinates suspect that this person is very likely to be instigated by Tang Xiaoyu. ”

Cao Yong frowned when he heard this, and looked at Du Mingtang a little nervously, but the other party was unaware of his gaze, and was still thinking about something.

"You!" Tang Xiaoyu was angry and anxious, but he didn't know how to refute it.

The reason why this is so is because Li Zhen except for the sentence that suspected that she instructed the king's order, everything else is the truth, as he said, it is a felony to rebel against officials, and the light sentence is thirty rods, and the worst is to be cut in half.

And Wang Ling has just reached the level of beheading, and he is crippled.

Tang Xiaoyu's eyes suddenly turned red when she thought of this, although she wasn't sure if Wang Ling was for herself, if he hadn't come over to greet her, she wouldn't have offended Zhang Zhanyi and provoked such a crime.

Tang Xiaoyu's eyes were red, first he glanced at Wang Ling's back guiltily, and then looked angrily at the two initiators opposite.

Zhang Zhanyi and Tian Ming couldn't help but be proud when they saw Tang Xiaoyu's angry appearance, and looked at Tang Xiaoyu with a sneer, as if to say, you're finished.

And Li Zhen looked at Du Mingtang vaguely.

After Du Mingtang finished speaking, he seemed to have figured out what he was thinking about, and his brows stretched.

Seeing that his words had an effect, Li Zhen had already begun to think in his heart about which set of torture instruments to use to greet this arrogant boy, so that he could tell the fact that Tang Xiaoyu was behind the scenes.

In fact, he has probably guessed Wang Ling's identity, that is, the rumored newcomer who is ready to compete with Tang Xiaoyu for the general flag of the second room, and now that he has the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, he must return to the big room to tell the general banner, he will be very happy, and maybe he will also raise himself to the commander to become the general flag of the second room.

There are no grievances between the big house and the second room, and the origin of everything is because of Tang Xiaoyu, and Zhang Jifeng, the general flag of the big house, hates Tang Xiaoyu to the core.

Cao Yong's face sank like water, he looked at Du Mingtang, and was really afraid that he would drag Wang Ling to the entrance of the vegetable market and behead him, so he said in a threatening tone: "Du Mingtang, do you really want to kill him?" ”

Du Mingtang glanced at him, snorted disdainfully, and then turned his head to look at Wang Ling, he didn't speak, just looked at this young man.

When Wang Ling heard Cao Yong say this, he was instantly stunned, beheaded him? Kill whom? It can't be me......

Zuo Yucheng quietly came to Wang Ling's side and whispered: "You are too impulsive, how dare you do it with an official?" This is a felony, it's okay to say that you beat it lightly, that is, you will be beaten with a board, and you will be cut in half if you hurt someone and become disabled, and the Street Division is an independent yamen that assists the local government in maintaining order, but it is not under the jurisdiction of any local official, at most it will assist in the deployment, don't you make Xiaoyu and Lord Cao embarrassed? ”

What? If you hit such a small official, you are going to cut it? No, I thought that after beating someone, Cao Yong would be able to settle it with three or two sentences, it's not easy to work with him? ! So what am I doing with this fork! Why didn't anyone tell me this earlier!

Wang Ling was stupid, he really didn't have a moment of anger just now, but felt that since Cao Yong was the boss of the entire Qingzhou, he wanted to get rid of such a small official, wasn't it a matter of the big guy's words? How did he know that the Street Division was such a special existence, he heard the introduction of Lao Sun Tou before, and thought it was a city management brigade!

He just came to this world and followed the old grandson as a homeless person, after three months of hard life, he was just assigned a job yesterday, he was still a national civil servant, an iron rice bowl, he thought that the bitterness was sweet, and he has reached the peak of his life.

Why don't you run, I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, so I can't die here······ He instantly became nervous, looking back and forth, left and right, trying to find a gap so that it would be easier for him to break through.

While he was thinking wildly, Du Mingtang suddenly spoke: "Zhang Zhanyige went to the post of Xiaoqi official, demoted to a second-class servant of the city, fined for half a year, and transferred to Xicheng to assist in combing the river from now on for a period of one month. ”

Du Mingtang's voice fell, whether it was Cao Yong, Wang Ling, Tang Xiaoyu and other second-room servants, they were all stunned, Li Zhen and the others were even more incredulous, I really don't know why this is the envoy?

The crowd was silent.

Which one is this? The reversal came too suddenly······ Wang Ling looked at Du Mingtang suspiciously, but he couldn't see anything abnormal from this middle-aged man's face, this person had no expression from beginning to end, his words just now had a big impact on which party was present, but he didn't seem to think so, it seemed to be saying an insignificant trivial matter.

Well? Did he just smile at me······ For a moment, he seemed to see the man in front of him smile at him, and just when he wanted to confirm it, he found that the other party was still the same poker face with a serious expression.