Luo Fu,

戌時,

The sky is dark,

rainy and rainy,

An extremely rustic carriage stopped in front of the door.

"Grandpa Cao, please!"

As soon as the carriage stopped, the little eunuch on the side got off the carriage quickly, ran outside the carriage and waited, and when Cao Zhengchun came out, he held the umbrella very diligently.

The man with a lower status was even more simply, simply bending down and lying under the carriage so that the man could step on his back, and the soles of his boots would not be wet by the rain.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, even in the palace is no exception, the eunuchs living in the palace are even better at observing words and feelings, Your Majesty's attitude towards the person in front of you has long been seen by many eunuchs, so you can't help but stutter.

"Alas......"

"They are all hard-working people, why are they so restrained?"

Cao Zhengchun actually helped the kneeling young eunuch himself, and then leaned over to pat the water stain on his knee and sighed.

"Wait here."

"Our family will come after passing on His Majesty's message." Cao Zhengchun avoided the umbrella and said to the little eunuch and Yan Yuese, and then he was not hypocritical, and walked to the mansion alone in the rain.

"Crunch ......"

The heavy wooden door was pushed open,

"Grandpa Cao, you're here."

Luo Congee looked at Cao Zhengchun in front of him and said with a smile, if you really want to say that since he entered the palace, he has never been in contact privately, and the few times they met was also the time to pass the decree, so why he came here today is naturally self-evident.

"Lord Luo, Your Majesty's dictation, let you enter the palace for a trip, listen to Your Majesty's words, yesterday's events, I'm afraid I already have a mustard in my heart." Cao Zhengchun said.

"Mustard?"

Luo Congee smiled, this is just the turmoil in the White Horse Temple, I don't know how he will react when the matter of Qinghe County reaches the palace.

"As early as after the incident on Yongle Street, Li Gong already had the idea of restraining Jinyiwei, but he never found the opportunity, and now it seems that he has opened his heart to His Majesty and said the specific charter."

"It's just that Your Majesty is still hesitating in his heart."

Cao Zhengchun recalled Zhu Ming's expression and analyzed, otherwise he would not have asked such a thing inexplicably.

"Well, let's go and see."

Luo Congee was not half surprised by Cao Zhengchun's words, Zhu Ming was able to ask him to call himself into the palace, which means that he still hasn't thought about how to deal with himself, but it's almost over.

"Uncle Zhou, you come first."

Luo Congee said before leaving.

"Spend a million taels of silver out of the treasury of the house, and remember, do not keep accounts, nor cash money, but all with silver bills." Luo Congee thought for a moment and said.

"Father-in-law Cao, you don't have to postpone it, this silver is used to make a point in the palace, the so-called money can make the ghost grind, and those people in the palace are even more so, after all, there is no other thought, and you have to grasp this yellow and white thing......

"If there is no silver in the future,"

"Just come to Luo's Mansion to withdraw it."

Luo Congee said in a deep voice.

"Lord Luo, will it be too much?"

Cao Gonggong was surprised when he heard this.

"The hesitation in Your Majesty's heart, it will probably be gone tomorrow, take advantage of this stall, Gonggong Cao, you still have to hurry up and move your position up, and when you have someone in your hand, you have to spend a lot of money."

Luo Congee looked at Cao Zhengchun and said, if nothing else, the shadow that had been buried for more than a year finally came into play.

"Lord Luo, our family ......"

Cao Zhengchun wanted to speak and stopped.

"This official is waiting for you outside the palace gate."

Luo Congee didn't stay, went out alone, turned over and left, in order to avoid suspicion, he didn't choose to enter the palace with his peers, the more critical the moment, the more he didn't want this dark chess to have too much entanglement, and he was too close.

"Father-in-law, please."

As soon as Luo Congee left, Zhou Bo, the housekeeper of Luo's Mansion, personally walked in front of Cao Zhengchun with a wooden box, and after opening it, there was a thick pile of silver tickets, in addition to some scattered gold leaves.

"I'm tired, Steward Zhou."

Cao Zhengchun arched his hand and said, Luo Congee gave it, and there was no need to postpone it, and after thanking him, he put the stacked silver tickets of different numbers into his arms, and put away the scattered gold leaves in the big sleeves.

"Father-in-law Cao, you're polite."

Uncle Zhou is also a caring person, although he doesn't know the specific relationship between Luo Congee and him, he also knows that this person is very important to his family, and he naturally spares no effort to do things.

Eighty of the silver tickets in this pile are worth 10,000 taels, and the remaining 20,000 taels are all 100, 500, 1,000, and 5,000.

"Then our family will leave first."

Outside the gate of Luofu,

"Lord Luo's rewards, take them all."

Cao Zhengchun put a few gold leaves into the sleeves of the few little eunuchs who accompanied him without a trace, and even the person who knelt on the ground before did not fall.

"Thank you father-in-law, thank you, ...... adults"

Everyone looked at the golden leaf and was stunned for a long time,

His face was a little frightened,

According to the unwritten rule, whether good or bad, as long as the people in the palace come out to deliver the decree or the oral message, they must give some reward, which is not surprising.

If you don't take a penny,

When the emperor found out, he was suspicious.

But it's usually the big eunuch who leads to take it,

How can it be possible to share the profits?

In the final analysis, the eunuchs in the palace are not having a good time, and the nobles are not so easy to reward, on the contrary, if they don't do a little thing well, they will lose their heads, and the money at the end of the month is not a few taels of silver, and few people can survive until they go out of the palace to pass the decree, or collect filial piety money.

After the vast majority of eunuchs were driven out of the palace in old age, most of them were violent corpses on the streets, and when they came, they didn't say that they could redeem their children and grandchildren, even the coffin board might not be able to buy a pair.

Therefore, the vast majority of eunuchs in the palace regard wealth as their lives, and like that Pixiu, they only enter and do not leave.

Everyone looked down at the gold leaves in their cuffs, and recalled the scene before they entered the mansion, and their noses were inexplicably a little sour.

The more lowly the person,

On the contrary,

The more you cherish that hard-won respect,

……

Outside the noon gate,

Luo porridge waited quietly in the rain,

Outside the Imperial Study,

"Your Majesty, Commander Luo has arrived ......"

Cao Zhengchun said outside the door.

"Let him wait."

Zhu Ming was tasting the bowl of white porridge at this time, and he didn't raise his head.

"And waiting,"

"Look at the attitude of my pro-army commander."

After Cao Zhengchun left,

Zhu Ming whispered to himself,

Before I knew it, the bowl of white porridge had bottomed out.

After another cup of tea,

"Does he look half impatient?"

Zhu Ming looked at Cao Zhengchun, who had just returned, and asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty,

"Commander Luo is kneeling outside the noon gate now."

"I didn't look impatient with his expression."

"Oh?"

"Kneeling?"

"Then let him continue to kneel."

Smell,

Zhu Ming's complexion was much better.

At the noon gate,

"Doesn't it look like you're still dead?"

Luo Congee knelt outside the noon gate and thought to himself, but he still had to do what he should do, his image in his heart was sharp minions, not a lack of eyes.

After more than half an hour, there was still no movement in the imperial study.

Luo Congee still knelt outside the noon gate without saying a word, looking at the long white marble steps, there was no ripple in his heart, if it was just a matter of the White Horse Temple's yang and yin.

Thinking about it, he only needs to kneel and say that the morning dawns, the anger in his heart is gone, and it will probably pass, but the things that should come are always unavoidable, and he never thought that he could get through the tricks.

When the time comes,

When the first light rises between heaven and earth,

"Crunch ......"

The door of the study was pushed open,

Zhu Ming walked to the top of the white marble corridor, looked at Luo Congee who had been kneeling all night, looked at the clothes that were soaked in heavy rain, and the locks of hair stuck to his forehead, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The attitude that you want,

He has now giving.

"Well, let him in."

"I have something to explain to him."

Zhu Ming waved his hand.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

"There is an urgent report from Qinghe County back to ......"

At this time,

There was an urgent cry outside the palace gate,

The muddy water under the horse's hooves splashed in front of Luo Congee,

"Your Majesty, please look!"

The man took a note from the bamboo tube on the pigeon's leg and handed it to Zhu Ming.

"What is this?"

Zhu Ming lifted the note, looked at the short words on it, and the whole person was directly stunned, his face was pale, his chest couldn't stop rising and falling, and finally tore the note to shreds.

"Bang ......"

Zhu Ming slammed his fist on the railing,

Even if it's bloody, I don't know it,

"How dare you?"

Zhu Mingqing burst into flames, looked at the figure kneeling outside the noon gate, and shouted.

After a long time,

Finally calmed down,

"That's it,"

"That's it,"

"Let him go back......"

"And do it yourself......"

Zhu Ming waved his sleeves and said expressionlessly.

"Bang ......"

The door of the imperial study slammed shut,

Wood chips are faintly falling.