Wu Jin did his best to search for clues in the newspapers and tabloids, forgot to sleep and eat, and peeled off the cocoon of embezzlement of military salaries and wrote it on paper.

"In August of the 21st year of Yuanzhang, the leather armor of the north and south workshops made cotton clothes and sent them to the fort 90,000 pieces, but in October, there were traders in Jeju and Kuanju who sold cotton clothes cheaply, and then transported them to Lingnan and other places to sell them cheaply, and on October 12, there was a record in the Jeju Mingxuan tabloid that when the lucky boat went out of the river, tens of thousands of cotton clothes were on the boat."

"In February of the 22nd year of Yuanzhang, the Kuanzhou Wenji tabloid once said that many soldiers froze to death, and used Cao Bin's words to satirize the state officials, 'Why should life be a prime minister, and a good official does not have too much money', and then the Wenji tabloid disappeared, and even most of the tabloids on that day were destroyed."

He writes in such detail that anyone who is literate can see what is involved.

After writing down everything he could find, he wrote at the end: "In the midst of the dynasty, the rats stole power, embezzled the military treasury, and made a mess in the village, and the gold, silver, and precious jade were accumulated in private homes, and the treasury was like a mountain, and the leaders of the troops were mostly villains, and they took military salaries like private property, so that the soldiers in the army had no warm clothes and no full stomach, and in the long run, the fortress would collapse like an anthill." ”

After writing the last word, he sat down with his pen and looked at the full article.

The ink fragrance, the words are correct, one stroke at a time, there are muscles and bones, creating a world and a world, imprisoning a piece of filth, and quietly plotting.

He looked at it again from beginning to end, found no mistakes, and waited for the ink to dry before getting up.

When you sit, you don't feel that when you get up, the bones above and below your body make a "click" sound, like rusted pig iron, and you need to use all your strength to stretch it open.

He stretched his waist, moved his hands and feet, looked down at the side of Beacon Hill, and saw that the tea was still warm, so he took a sip of it, quenched his thirst, put down the teaglass, and a long cry of hunger came from his stomach.

He folded the book he had written, held it in his arms, and once again smelled the fragrance of flowers blooming and floating in turn on the tip of his nose, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, all hidden in the fragrance.

Glancing at the fragrant duck, he opened the door, and then was stunned for a moment - it was dark.

It turned out that the tea was not still warm, but changed when it was cold, so it warmed the hand when it was touched.

The study was already gloomy, and the candle flame had been lit, and he was engrossed in it, but he did not notice that the sky was darkening, and the beams and wooden walls in the study exuded an old smell, sandwiched with the aroma of the smoker and the warmth of the charcoal basin, which became an eternal atmosphere, making people unable to detect the passage of time.

The study, Jiu Sixuan, and even the front hall where he had been.

At the moment when he opened the door, he even had a sense of seeing the light of day again.

The servant standing at the door saw him open the door, and hurriedly bowed: "Young Master Wu——"

"I'm going to the official room." Wu Jin rarely interrupted his words, took three stone steps in one step, strode to the official room, and after washing his hands, his solemn expression relaxed a lot, and the strange feeling that he was about to be swallowed by Mo Mansion disappeared, as if he had urinated out.

The servant who had just spoken saw him, bowed down again, and said, "Young Master Wu, where is the dinner for you?" ”

"Don't eat it, I'll go home."

He was in a hurry to leave, Yin Bei came from the second hall at this time, and when he saw him coming out of the study, his face was full of urgency, and he hurriedly said: "Young Master Wu has something to order, you can eat something first." ”

Wu Jin waved his hand as he walked out: "I'll go home." ”

"I'll send you." Yin Bei immediately followed, instructed his subordinates to prepare horses, and took a crane to him to keep out the cold: "I just sent it today, and there are some clothes, all of which are according to the style you wear on weekdays, you can try it tomorrow." ”

Wu Jin stretched out his hand to take it, didn't look closely, put it on his body, and really felt a lot warmer, and Yin Bei hit the horse to Shishi Street, rolled the saddle and dismounted, returned the reins to Yin Bei, and hurriedly walked inside.

There are few lights in Shishi Street, the houses on both sides of the street are silent, and the occasional scolding and crying are very low, as if they are afraid that people will see the joke - Wu Jin only needs to hear it, and he knows that it is a new person, and he is still decent, scolding and crying are behind the people.

He turned sideways to avoid the debris, walked quickly to the front of the house, the door was open with a crack, and a little dim light came out of it, he hurriedly pushed the door in, and said softly: "A-Niang." ”

Mother Wu was wrapping a headscarf on her head, going to Mofu to find him, and when she saw him come back, she was relieved: "I'm back." ”

She turned her head and shouted into the room, "Daddy, he's back." ”

"Okay," Father Wu didn't sleep, "the boss comes in and sits." ”

There was another long roar in Wu Jin's abdomen, and Wu's mother raised her feet and walked to the kitchen: "Go and bake the fire, I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you and leave the soup for you." ”

Wu Jin stepped into the big house, took off the crane, and put it on the bedrail, only to find that this soap-colored crane looked ordinary, but I didn't know what kind of leather it was, and the tentacles were soft and warm, so he turned the crane over and covered the lining, so as not to make my father and mother uneasy.

He saw that Wu Yi was sleeping on a small bed with a bed board, and he couldn't sleep anymore, so he stepped forward and stuffed his hand into the quilt.

Turning around and taking the fire spoon from Father Wu's hand, he turned off the charcoal fire and added a piece of charcoal to it: "Dad, do you want to relieve yourself?" ”

Father Wu shook his head: "I can go by myself, it's cold on the road now." ”

"Cold, I'll weigh a scale of charcoal tomorrow and come back, is it still warm in the cake shop?"

"Don't buy it, everything is expensive this year, it's very warm in the cake shop, don't look at how much you earn now, what about the expenses in the future, you are also at the age of marriage."

Father Wu looked at the sleeping Wu Yi and said in a low voice: "I discussed with your mother, all the money you earned will be saved for you, and after the spring next year, I will buy you a house so that you can talk about family affairs." ”

"Don't worry about family affairs," Wu Jin said with a smile, "Cheng Ting didn't book it either." ”

Mother Wu came in with a hot bowl and put it in front of Wu Jin: "Why don't you worry, you will be twenty after the New Year, plant the plane tree, attract the golden phoenix, and build the house next year." ”

Wu Jin took the chopsticks: "The house can be purchased." ”

Wu Yi smelled the fragrance, turned over, got up and looked at Wu Jin: "Brother, you're back." ”

He yawned, sucked his saliva, stretched his neck to see what was in the bowl, Wu's mother slapped him on the head, and pressed him into the quilt again: "Your brother eats a bowl of noodles, you are still hungry, haven't eaten enough at night?" It's all out of my belly, you just have a mouth, and you don't have a brain at all! ”

Wu Yi had no choice but to retract into the quilt, smelling the aroma of fried eggs, and the aroma of mutton soup, secretly swallowing saliva, and after a while, he suddenly said: "A-Niang, what kind of house do you buy?" Do we have the money to buy a house? ”

"Nope!" As soon as Mother Wu heard him speak, her heart immediately beat a drum, and she opened her mouth and said, "You honestly repay your debts, your brother has finally earned some silver, and he has to marry a wife, and in the future, a large family will have to support, and you dare to cause trouble for your brother again——"

She gritted her teeth and said a cruel word: "I'll just divide you." ”

Wu Yi stretched out his hand to cover the quilt on his head, and said angrily: "I'm just asking, guard me like a thief, and divide it!" Anyway, I'm going to pay off my debts until I'm old! ”

Mother Wu tore open the quilt and pulled her ears to teach him: "When the time comes, you will have no way to beg for food!" ”

"If there is no road, there is no road, starve to death!"

(End of chapter)