Qi Mao smiled and said, "Master Ma, hurry up." ”

Ma Lian stood up, with an excited face, and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know who proposed this law, and the minister wants to come to the door to thank you!" ”

"You don't have to come to the door, he's here!"

Qi Mao smiled and pointed at Jin Ge.

Only then did Ma Lian find that Jin Ge was standing next to the imperial case.

"Young and promising! What a young man! ”

Ma Lian strode over, patted Jin Ge on the shoulder, and was about to speak again.

Qian Gang, the head of the household department on the side, said to Ma Lian: "Can Master Ma show the paper to the old man?" ”

Ma Lian glared at Qian Gang and said, "You can see it, but bring the silver!" ”

Qian Gang looked at Ma Lian with a scoundrel appearance, and said with a wry smile: "Master Ma, our household department really doesn't ......."

"Then there's no need to talk about it!"

Ma Lian bowed to Qi Mao again: "Your Majesty, if you follow the drawings, the minister estimates that it will cost at least 70,000 taels of silver." ”

Of course, Qi Mao knew what Ma Lian meant, and immediately spoke: "Lord Qian! ”

"The minister is here!" Qian Gangdao.

"It's okay for the household to take out another 20,000 taels of silver, right?"

"This ...... Your Majesty, there is really no silver left in the household. Qian Gang said with a bitter face.

Seeing Qian Gang's expression, Qi Mao was a little helpless, and thought about it in his heart, and said, "Then allocate 20,000 taels of silver to the military department from the internal treasury!" ”

Ma Lianbai said: "Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Qian Gang breathed a long sigh of relief.

Qi Mao said: "Are you still in trouble?" ”

After Qian and Ma worshiped Qi Mao again, they withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Qi Mao was stunned to look at the two Shangshu who had begun to pinch up again after exiting the Heart Cultivation Palace, shook his head a little tiredly, and sighed.

"Just now you said that I am very short of silver, and I still don't like it, but now it seems that I am really funny."

Jin Ge hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the reason why the grass people said that just now is just to exonerate themselves!" ”

Qi Mao was slightly stunned.

Jin Ge took out three IOUs from his arms, handed them to Qi Mao, and said, "Your Majesty is indeed very short of silver, but Your Majesty's courtiers are not short of silver!" ”

Jin Ge said as he squeezed his eyes at Qi Mao.

Qi Mao finally understood, and then laughed.

"Haha......"

After a while.

Qi Maocai finally stopped laughing.

Jin Ge said: "Tomorrow, the grass people will go to ask for silver, and with these 300,000 taels of silver, it should be able to solve Your Majesty's urgent need." ”

Qi Mao's heart was moved, and he looked at Jin Ge and said secretly in his heart: "A gentleman actually helped me solve the problem of silver, but those high-ranking officials who keep worrying about me every day!" ”

Emperor Jing Qi Mao pondered for a moment, waved his hand and said, "No, if you go like this, they won't give it to you." ”

Qi Mao said and untied a purple token from his waist, and said, "You take this token of mine to ask for it, and they don't dare not give it." ”

Jin Ge took the purple token, leaned over and bowed, "Thank you for your grace." ”

Qi Mao said: "If you ask for the silver back, you don't have to give it all to me, just give me 20,000 taels of silver." ”

Jin Ge felt that Qi Mao in front of him was really pitiful, and thought that when Meng Lang went out to "lose", the protector gave 30,000 taels of silver.

And now it is only 20,000 taels of silver, and as a generation of emperors, he has to come out of the inner money.

So, Jin Ge said sincerely: "Your Majesty, the grass people are not short of silver. ”

Qi Mao was even more moved when he saw Jin Ge like this.

"Your Majesty, if you don't have anything else, the grass people will go back."

"Go back!"

After another bow, Jin Ge turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait!"

Jin Ge stopped.

Qi Mao stood up and took down a saber from the wall and said, "This saber was left to me by my father, and I will give it to you today." ”

Jin Ge was ecstatic in his heart, took the sword, and hurriedly knelt down and thanked him: "Thank you, Lord Longen." ”

Qi Mao smiled and said, "Don't thank you so early, from tomorrow, you will go to Chang'an County to catch your head!" ”

"Uh......"

Jin Ge froze for a moment.

Qi Mao patted Jin Ge on the shoulder and said, "My wish is to be a head catcher, you can count you as a head catcher on my behalf!" As long as you do well, I won't treat you badly! ”

Jin Ge thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, do you still want to make tofu?" ”

"Do! Of course you have to do it, not only do it, but I ask you to do it well! Qi Mao said with a smile.

Jin Ge was speechless for a while, so he had to thank him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Let's go back!"

Jin Ge withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Palace, touched the waist card and sword, and said secretly in his heart: "300,000 taels of silver for a waist card and sword, it's worth it." ”

Jin Ge walked out of the palace and saw Meng Xiang waiting for him.

Jin Ge did not go back to the Protector's Mansion, but took Meng Xiang to find a stonemason and spent five coins of silver to make a stone mill the size of a basin.

Jin Ge gave the stonemason two taels of silver and asked the stonemason to make a stone mill with a diameter of about 1.5 meters.

The two returned to the Protectorate Mansion.

Jin Ge found two bowls of soybeans and soaked them in a basin.

The next day was not yet dawn.

Jin Ge began to grind the beans.

Soon the slurry flowed out.

There was a smell of beany wafting through the air.

Smell familiar smells.

Jin Ge's spirit was lifted.

At this time, Meng Fei'er and Yahuan Xiaozhu happened to pass by his door.

Seeing that Jin Ge was opening the door and grinding beans inside, he walked in.

Meng Fei'er asked, "Jinge, what are you doing here?" ”

Jin Ge glanced up at Meng Fei'er and said, "Make tofu." ”

Meng Fei'er and Xiao Zhu glanced at each other, looking a little confused.

Xiao Zhu asked crisply, "What is tofu?" ”

Jin Ge was struggling to grind bean juice, glanced at her indifferently, and said, "You'll know in a while." ”

Jin Ge knew that there was no tofu in the world now, and he didn't explain too much.

Meng Fei'er and Xiao Zhu's faces were full of surprise.

They never thought that after the soybeans were soaked in water and ground out in water, they would be white pulp with a fishy smell.

Xiao Zhu swallowed his saliva, pointed to the white pulp and asked, "Can you drink this?" ”

Jin Ge said: "No! ”

Xiao Zhu pursed his mouth, snorted, and turned away.

Jin Ge smiled but said nothing.

A quarter of an hour later.

Jin Ge put the ground soybean milk into the copper basin and went straight to the kitchen.

When I got to the kitchen, I started steaming.

Meng Fei'er looked at Jin Ge's serious appearance, and she didn't know what she thought, and her pretty face suddenly turned red.

As the heat is heated, a strange fragrance wafts in.

Xiao Zhu's face was surprised, and he was no longer angry, he inhaled hard, and said, "It's so fragrant......"

Jin Ge saw that the soy milk had been cooked.

Take three bowls and put a small spoonful of blackened cane sugar in each bowl.

I poured the soy milk into it again, and I tasted it first, and my face was full of aftertaste.

After a moment, Jin Ge returned to normal, nodded with satisfaction, pointed to the other two bowls of soy milk and said, "You can taste it too." ”

Xiao Zhu picked up the bowl first, took a small sip, slurped, showed a look of surprise, and exclaimed, "Miss, this tofu is so delicious!" ”

Meng Fei'er tasted it elegantly, aftertasted it for a moment, and was overjoyed, and exclaimed.

"The taste of this tofu is very unique, mellow and sweet, refreshing."

Jin Ge had already drunk all the soy milk in his bowl and said with a smile: "It tastes good!" ”

"However, this is not tofu that we are drinking!"

"This isn't tofu? What is that? ”

Meng Fei'er and Xiao Zhu said in unison.

"Guess what!" Jin Ge said with a smug face.

Meng Fei'er pinched Jin Ge.

Jin Ge was in pain, and hurriedly said: "It's soy milk......"