Eight years ago, Yan Song, who was then the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, received Jiajing's order to recruit girls into the palace and handed over the matter to his son Yan Shifan to operate.

Jiajing recruited girls between the ages of eleven and fifteen to be virgins.

I don't know which Taoist priest told him that he used the virgin sunflower water to refine the pill as a "red lead pill" to prolong life and strengthen the body.

This fucking statement actually made Jiajing, who was dedicated to cultivation, tempted, and he asked for a beautiful girl.

The reason is very simple, the red lead pill itself is a bit disgusting, if those girls grow crooked melons and cracked dates, it is estimated that Jiajing's psychological shadow will be greater.

Jiajing recruited girls into the palace for the purpose of cultivating the Tao, but when this matter came into the hands of Yan Shifan, it became an extremely profitable business.

Yan Shifan gave the work to local officials at all levels who were attached to the Yan family.

Let people make a list of rich people in each state capital, and then make a list of beautiful girls between the ages of 11 and 15 in their families, and those with names on both lists will become fat pigs to be slaughtered.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and rich people naturally have their own news channels, and they know that their daughters do not have the opportunity to be female officials and concubines when they enter the palace, but to be medicine scum.

So they took out a large sum of money and visited the officials in charge of the matter, which probably means "there is no grass at the end of the world, and the adults will look elsewhere."

After receiving the money, naturally you can't take away other people's daughters, and you must be honest in business. So when the rich people have paid the money, those young girls will naturally leave the poor people's homes.

Qiaoqiao's family is not very poor, Qiaoqiao's father is still a scholar, but he can't afford to pay so much money. But his family didn't need to panic.

Because Qiaoqiao's sister was only ten years old at the time, she did not meet the conditions for shortlisting. When the population was checked that day, Qiaoqiao's family was led by Xiao Wannian.

As the deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, this kind of errand would not have required him to go out of Beijing. However, Jiajing attached great importance to the recruitment of young girls, and deliberately gave Yan Song the right to temporarily recruit Jinyi guards to prevent local trouble, and also to prevent local officials from favoritism and secretly hiding beautiful girls.

This is not Jiajing, in all dynasties, as long as the emperor recruits a beautiful woman, it is almost a good opportunity for the magistrate to take concubines, and as for the means, there are countless ones.

At that time, the Yan Party was in full swing, and it was acting according to Jiajing's orders, and the command made Lu Bing not dare to slack off, and almost all the manpower was sent out to assist, and Xiao Wannian was assigned here.

The family was overjoyed when he told the family in the book that their eldest daughter was less than eleven years old and was not on the callup.

They saluted Xiao Wannian and the officials, poured tea for them, and gave each of them ten copper coins.

Qiaoqiao, who is only two years old, is hugged by her sister, giggling happily, very cute.

Xiao Wannian has a nine-year-old son, his wife has passed away again, and even the sparrows in the family are male, so he likes Qiaoqiao very much, and he hugged and teased for a while.

But because the daughters of rich families spent money to redeem themselves, the number of people was not enough, so the magistrate relaxed the conditions.

As long as it's beautiful, big and small, anyway, the household registration information is in the county this year, and there is no network.

Sister Qiaoqiao is very beautiful, this is known by looking at Qiaoniang, her daughter inherited her appearance. But Qiaoqiao's family will definitely not do it, her father went to court to complain, saying that his daughter is not old enough.

As a result, the magistrate pointed to the tampered household registration book, saying that he was making trouble for the people and did not comply with the decree.

In order to make an example of each other, and in order to block Qiaoqiao's mouth, the magistrate let people serve with a big stick, and also learned the posture of the eunuchs in the palace, put the two toes together, and looked like an angry old lady.

This is a popular code, like the finger pointing down in the Colosseum in ancient Rome, to make the officials directly beat people to death.

When Xiao Wannian, who was maintaining law and order at the recruitment site, arrived at the county office, Qiaoqiao's father had already been beaten to death, and the county magistrate was convicted of resisting the order.

The resistance is to connect the whole family, and if the man dies, the woman will be sold into slavery or enter the church.

Xiao Wannian is not a simple and kind person, it is impossible for such a person to be a deputy of Jinyi Wei. Although here is the reason why he saved Lu Bing on the battlefield back then, his mind and skills are not bad.

He also knew that Yan Shifan was presiding over the recruitment of girls this time, so he was watching from the sidelines from the beginning, just as a mascot to shock the scene.

He said to the magistrate: "I know this family, the girl is just ten years old, and please raise your noble hand." As a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, he was so polite to a magistrate, he thought that this matter was not difficult. Although he can't save Qiaoqiao's father, he can still keep this family.

Ke Zhixian smiled and told him: "My lord, if it's someone else's family, that's it." This girl was named by someone, rest assured, she won't enter the palace, if her life is good, she can still be the concubine of the old man in the future! ”

Xiao Wannian was stunned, his first reaction was Yan Song, although Yan Song was not the first assistant at that time, he had already entered the cabinet.

However, he immediately vetoed it, Yan Song did a lot of evil, but he was not lustful, and it was his son who was lustful. At that time, people said that Yan Shifan would enter the cabinet sooner or later, and they all secretly called Xiaoge Lao.

Xiao Wannian was silent, with his ability, it was no problem to suppress this magistrate, but if it was really Yan Shifan who fell in love with this girl, he would not be able to protect it at all.

Just when he hesitated, he rushed to the front of the hall to collect his father's body, and Sister Qiaoqiao, who had already seen a glimmer of hope, finally despaired, she took advantage of the unpreparedness of the officials, rushed over and crashed to death next to her father.

Xiao Wannian's hard heart that has been cultivated for many years has broken the defense.

Xiao Wannian grabbed the tampered book, arrested the magistrate on the spot, brought it back to the capital, and threw it into the imperial prison.

Catch first and report later, this is the prerogative of Jinyiwei. He has the evidence in his hand and firmly believes that he can preside over justice. Even if he can't move Yan Shifan, he can still deal with this magistrate! Even if it is self-deception and justice, he has to give an account to himself!

However, three days later, the magistrate was released, and Lu Bing told him not to do anything more.

Although Nazhi County is insignificant, Yan Shifan is worried that after leaking the news, it will cause an uproar among the people in the court, which will be unfavorable to Jiajing and the Yan Party. What's more, it is the girl that Yan Shifan directly asked the magistrate for and the person who helped him with his errands, if he doesn't protect it, Yan Dang will lose his prestige!

Since the county is not guilty, then the Qiaoqiao family is guilty, which is a black and white thing. Qiao Niang held Qiao Qiao and was sold by the court as a criminal slave.

On the platform of the prison of sin slaves, a group of people lined up with iron shackles on their feet, and were surrounded by a group of people to judge their heads and feet.

Qiaoqiao shrank in Qiao Niang's arms, so scared that she didn't dare to cry.

Ordinary one sin slave, up to ten taels. Because Qiao Niang is beautiful, many officials and gentry are willing to pay a lot of money to buy it. In the end, the price reached one hundred and eighty taels of silver!

Just when everyone was scrambling to buy, Xiao Wannian raised his hand: "I'll give one hundred and ninety taels." ”

There was a voice of disgruntle among the auctioneers, but after seeing Xiao Wannian's Jinyi Wei Qianhu suit, most of them gave up.

Qiao Niang recognized Xiao Wannian, a hint of blush appeared on her pale face, and a glimmer of hope appeared in her desperate eyes.

The people of the Sin Slave House laughed and shouted, "Is there anyone else bidding?" ”

A powerful member of the clan raised his hand: "I'll give two hundred taels!" ”

He tilted his head and looked at Xiao Wannian, no matter how fierce Jinyiwei was, he didn't dare to embarrass the clan without the emperor's order. If the clan is not an official, as long as there is no rebellion, no one can move.

Xiao Wannian has no money, this is already all his savings.

After he bought the small courtyard, his wife fell ill and spent a lot of silver, but in the end he was not cured, and he only had so much left.

The hope in Qiao Niang's eyes disappeared. Both sides of the sin slave were unwilling to offend, so they deliberately waited for three more breaths.

The sect was anxious, waved his hand dissatisfied, and asked his servants to lead people.

"He gave two hundred and ten taels."

Xiao Wannian turned his head in amazement, Lu Bing stood behind him, his expression was flat, not angry and arrogant, and one hand was on Xiao Wannian's shoulder.

This gesture, as long as you are not blind, you know what it means: I support him today, who is not convinced?

No one is unconvinced, Jinyiwei is Jinyiwei, Lu Bing is Lu Bing, and it is not just as simple as the commander of Jinyiwei.

Xiao Wannian took the two home, Lu Bing sighed, but he didn't expect this sigh to be early.

The magistrate hated Xiao Wannian to the core, and when he heard that Xiao Wannian bought Qiaoniang's mother and daughter, he immediately got black materials, claiming that Qiaoqiao's family had the crime of insulting Wansui in the court, and they should not be sold, and they should be prostitutes.

In a word, you made me lose face, and I made you disgusting. The woman you want to hold in your arms, I'll get you into the Workshop Division to hug everyone.

It's a pity that the county magistrate didn't do this secret enough, and was known by the post keeper of the local post station. And the other identity of this Yicheng is Jinyiwei, who was once Xiao Wannian's subordinate.

That night, Nazhi County died, and the black materials were burned, and no one saw who did it.

But one will guess, especially Yan Shifan, who has an extremely intelligent head that probably surpasses all his contemporaries.

So Yan Shifan asked Lu Bing for tea and asked a question: "What would you do if your dog bit my dog to death?" ”

Lu Bing replied: "I have a lot of dogs, but there is only one that saved my life." ”

Yan Shifan questioned: "A dog is a dog, and it is supposed to save people's lives, is there any difference between dogs that live people's lives?" Do people still have to be grateful to dogs? ”

Lu Bing said lightly: "A dog that has saved people will be loyal to this person, this kind of dog is very rare." If you don't believe me, you can ask hooray. ”

Yan Shifan stopped talking, and Lu Bing would rather treat himself as a dog in order to save Xiao Wannian. Everyone knows that in the eighteenth year of Jiajing, the palace caught fire, and it was Lu Bingfen who carried out Jiajing without hesitation.

He compared himself to the dog who saved Jiajing's life, firstly to explain Xiao Wannian's incident, and secondly, to demonstrate against Yan Shifan. Let him recognize his identity and status.

Seeing that Yan Shifan stopped talking, Lu Bing smiled instead, and said sincerely: "If your dog also saved your life, I will kill my dog to apologize to you." ”

Yan Shifan smiled: "That's not true, it's just an ordinary dog, but it's my dog after all." ”

Lu Bing replied: "It's okay to drive out of the house and become a wild dog?" Even if I owe my brother a favor for this matter. ”

Lu Bing's favor was very valuable, so Yan Shifan accepted it. At the same time, the two set up a rule of "if you don't move, I won't help".

The next day, Xiao Wannian resigned and became a commoner, and Xiao Feng also changed from a second-generation official to a second-generation citizen. After Xiao Wannian's death, Xiao Feng became a soft rice master.

As a result, today, this soft rice master has become Cangjie's apprentice, Jiajing's junior brother, and Wen Xuanzhen.

Yan Shifan looked at his father and said lightly: "This is the grudge between our two families. ”

Yan Song thought for a while: "Although Xiao Wannian lost his official position, you didn't do it directly, and this grudge is not insoluble." Now that Xiao Feng is rising, and with Lu Bing's backing, can he turn the war into a jade silk? ”

Yan Shifan closed the folding fan and sighed: "After Xiao Wannian lost his position, he couldn't find anything to do, and Lu Bing couldn't help him. He died of poverty, and his father knew why he couldn't find anything to do. I didn't do anything, but he was forced to death by me, and this matter may not be able to hide from Xiao Feng. ”

Yan Song was silent for a while, and sneered: "Then trample him to death, a stinky kid who still wants to ascend to the sky in one step?" ”