Tian Mansion, Tian Yang is drinking a banquet at home, and Li Zhenli is waiting on the side. It has been almost a month since she entered the mansion, except for the first few days when she was trembling and walking on thin ice, this time has been very peaceful, especially today, Tian Yang entered the palace early in the morning and came back with a spring breeze at noon. From his face, she could see that he must have been promoted again, so she showed a little joy professionally, and asked softly, "Isn't the master promoted again?" ”

Tian Yang hugged her slender waist, and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, the old man entered the palace today to face the saint, presented the Huaiyang War Thirteen Strategies, the emperor Longyan Dayue, praised me as 'the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, the pillar of the imperial court', promoted me to the military department of Shangshu, the right capital of the imperial history, reward me with a hundred taels of silver, a hundred horses of silk, what an honor!" ”

The official system of the Ming Dynasty is vertically managed, and his original position was the right waiter of the military department and the left deputy capital of the Inspectorate and Huaiyang, of which the military department waiter and the left deputy capital of the Inspectorate are all titles, and only the governor of Huaiyang is the real position. Because the governor is an administrative official, he is dispatched by the Ministry of Officials, and only has administrative power, but not the power to lead troops, and only with the title of the Ministry of War has the power to lead troops; The imperial history belongs to the inspectorate system, and with the title of imperial history, it has the power to supervise hundreds of officials, and then it also has the right to appoint and dismiss personnel.

His position was originally grasped by the military and government, but there was also Shi Kefa, the Huaiyang Supervisor of the Dongge University and the Secretary of the Military Department, who was pressed, and he was always difficult to do things, and now he has been promoted to two titles with a letter, although the actual position is still the governor of Huaiyang, but the status is already similar to Shi Kefa, of course, these are all operated by Ma Shiying behind the scenes, the purpose is to compete with him, and then replace his position.

Hearing that her master was promoted, Li Zhenli also followed the joy, when she first entered the Tian Mansion, although she was quite favored, she was still often worried that things would be exposed, so she was always afraid to walk on thin ice, for fear that one day he would find a flaw. However, as time went by, Tian Yang not only did not become suspicious, but loved her more and more. Because his family members are all in his hometown in Guizhou, and the newly accepted concubines are placed in Yangzhou, but the backyard of Nanjing is in a vacuum, Tian Yang saw that she was good at housekeeping, so he simply handed over all the affairs of the inner house to her, and she actually became the hostess of Nanjing Tianfu.

As the saying goes, a woman's life is like duckweed, where she floats, although Li Zhenli is chivalrous and righteous, she is actually just an ordinary woman, and she didn't bother to resist when she took root in Tianfu, but began to treat this place as her home and advance and retreat together with the Tian family. Her only thought now is to let her go back to Meixianglou when Tian Yang returns to Yangzhou in a few days, she wants to see Li Xiangjun again and tell her the whereabouts of Hou Fangyu.

"The master is promoted, and the slave family congratulates the master!" After a few words of flattery from the bottom of her heart, Li Zhenli asked the kitchen to arrange a banquet, and when the wine and food came up, Tian Yangzhi was proud, waved his hand, and said, "I can be rewarded by the emperor today, and my subordinates also have merit, if they don't do things well, how can I have today?" ”

Li Zhenli hurriedly said yes, "It is said in the drama that 'one hero and three gangs', and their contributions are indispensable to the master's ability to reach the frontier, so you should have fun with them!" ”

Tian Yang laughed, and waved his big dry hand again, "You are very right, they are my right-hand man, and they should be happy with me." You are my lucky star, stay and feast together, come on, spread Zhou Da and his party into the inner mansion to drink! ”

Let herself drink with the family in the house, Li Zhenli's self-esteem was greatly humiliated, she wanted to refuse but had no courage, and she had no courage to go crazy, so she had to sulk in her heart.

After a while, Zhou Da and others rushed in, and saw her busy coming forward to salute her, calling "Aunt Li". Li Zhenli felt humiliated just now, but at this time she was happy, and said that the master must have been so happy that he didn't care about my feelings.

Zhou Da gave Li Zhenli a salute and glanced at Tian Yang again, and when he saw that there was nothing on his face, he put down his worried heart. These days, they have heard the rumors and know that they were deceived by Li Zhenli that night, but the big mistake has been made, and it is too late to change it back. Moreover, Tian Yang's temper is not very good, and he is very mean and unkind to the people below, they don't have the courage to admit their mistakes in person, so they have to make mistakes. Therefore, they knew that Li Xiangjun in front of them was an impostor, but no one stood up to open the lid, and deliberately gave her a big salute respectfully, just to gag her mouth.

Tian Yang naturally didn't know what they were doing, and when they finished saluting, he beckoned them to take their seats, and a group of people ate and drank in the hall, by the way, they said some flattering words, Tian Yang was relieved, and looked at Zhou Dadao, "Hahaha...... Jun'en, the old man can have Xiangjun as his companion, you have made great contributions, come, and have another drink. ”

Zhou Da didn't dare to look at Tian Yang's eyes, so he had to take a drink calmly, "The eldest lord is lucky, and he has his own lucky stars, how dare the villain take credit?" ”

Tian Yang was in a good mood today, his eyes became bad, he didn't notice the abnormality of Zhou Da and the others at all, but frequently persuaded him to drink, and said very heroically, "You also have merit, drink a few more glasses." ”

The others hurriedly bowed their heads and said yes, a group of people drank a few more glasses, and Mao Eighteen, who was guarding the door outside, came in to report, "Tell the master, there is a Yuan Daochang at the door, claiming to be a Taoist priest of the Maoshan faction, and now he is cultivating in Chaotian Palace, and you are old friends, I heard that you have been promoted to an official lord, and I am here to congratulate you!" ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, scholars liked to make friends with characters of three religions and nine streams to show their elegance, and some even listed biographies for some little-known people, such as Hou Fangyu in history wrote "The Biography of Li Ji" for Li Xiangjun, wrote the epitaph "Epitaph of Guo Lao Servant" for the servant Guo Shang at home, Fu Shan, a famous scholar, wrote "The Biography of the Second Son of Fen" for his friend Xue Zongzhou and Wang Xian, and Zhang Pu wrote "The Tombstone of Five People" for the five low-level people. These ordinary people have never stood out in their lives, and only have a little brilliance in some aspects, which can be passed on to future generations under the pen of celebrities.

Tian Yang has switched back and forth between the temple and the rivers and lakes many times, and has met many such people, but today he has no impression of this Yuan Daochang, but when he thinks that he is a Taoist priest of Chaotian Palace, he knows his intention. The predecessor of Chaotian Palace was the Yongshou Palace of the Yuan Dynasty, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it was expanded by Emperor Taizu to become a place for members of the royal family to pray for blessings and disasters, and later became a place for the children of bureaucrats to learn the etiquette of meeting the Son of Heaven before the raid. Therefore, the Taoist priest who cultivated there was not only well-informed, but also more or less related to the royal family, but he was rewarded in the morning, and this Yuan Benying came to play the autumn breeze in the afternoon, and the appearance was too ugly.

Although he was dissatisfied in his heart, as the saying goes, the king of Hades is good at seeing little ghosts, and he has to seek greater development, so he naturally didn't dare to snub these people too much, so he had to let Mao Shibai bring him in.

Not long after, Yuan Benying, who was handsome and full of fairy bones, walked in, and when he saw Tian Yang, he saluted in a proper manner, "Poor Yuan Benying, meet Da Sima." Da Sima is now in power, but do you remember what Taoye Ferry Poor Road said to you three years ago? ”

Tian Yang wanted to say that the old man didn't know you at all, but he was really embarrassed to say it, so he simply smiled, and asked people to get a few silver tickets and send him away with a few perfunctory words.

When the subordinates went to get the silver tickets, Yuan Benying glanced at everyone's faces, and quickly targeted Li Zhenli, "Could this be Mrs. Li of Meixianglou?" Haha, I haven't seen you for half a year, I can't imagine that you have married into Tianfu, Poor Dao had predicted that Tian Gong would be a late bloomer in his early years, and now he is finally bitter, and the future is immeasurable. ”

Yuan Benying turned into Yuan Dazui at this moment, crackling and flattering words, he didn't think there was anything, and the other people present were stunned, especially Tian Yang's teeth were clenched, a pair of cloudy old eyes were bigger than a bull's eye, looking at Yuan Benying and asking incredulously, "You said she is Mrs. Li?" ”

Li Zhenli was the first to feel that something was wrong, she quietly glanced at Tian Yang, and saw that his face was pale, his eyes were about to breathe fire, and his hands were trembling, and Zhou Da and the others were also in mourning, and they couldn't stop worrying.

Yuan Benying pretended to have an expression of ignorance, and replied with great certainty, "Ah, yes, who in the entire old courtyard doesn't know that she is Mrs. Li!" Don't you know? ”

Tian Yang's face turned black and white, white and black, looked at Zhou Da and the others a few times, and finally shot his sharp gaze at Li Zhenli, and then raised his hand and slapped her on her white jade face, "Slut, you dare to lie to me?" ”

Although he is a civil official who was born as a jinshi, he has been leading soldiers outside all the year round, and his skills are very good. Li Zhenli was slapped to the ground, the previous humiliation was gone, and her dream of taking root in Tianfu was also shattered, and her body began to tremble when she thought of the seriousness of the matter, "Old ...... Master...... No...... It's not ......"

She is usually a very talkative person, but at the moment she stammered, and she couldn't say a complete sentence, "Master...... I...... I...... Slave ...... Didn't want to lie to you! ”

Tian Yang snorted, kicked her again, and cast his sharp gaze on Zhou Da and the others, and said coldly, "Zhou Da, the old man treats you well, why do you want to deceive me?" ”

Zhou Da had already thought of countermeasures, and when he saw that the old man had finally asked himself for his guilt, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed while explaining, "Master Mingjian, the villain was also deceived by her!" The villain had never been to Nanzhong before, and he had never seen Li Xiangjun, and when he arrived at Meixianglou that night, it was too dark to see clearly, this woman said that she was Li Xiangjun, and the villain was blinded by her for a while! ”

After Zhou Da finished speaking, others also coaxed, and even the most sloppy Mao 18 also echoed, "Master, we are really blinded!" ”

Tian Yang looked left and right, and finally found that Yuan Benying was still sitting in front of him, so he forced himself to calm down, "Daoist Yuan, this ......"

Yuan Benying smiled awkwardly, "Uh...... This...... It doesn't matter if Poor Dao comes to the gate of your mansion this time, since you have something to deal with, then Poor Dao will leave first. ”

Tian Yangchang breathed a sigh of relief, and when Chang Sui had already taken the silver and came back, he took it and said with a smile, "Our mansion has some trivial matters to deal with today, and I have neglected the Dao Chief, and I ask the Dao Chief for forgiveness." When I deal with this matter, the lower officials will definitely go to Chaotian Palace in person to make amends! ”

Yuan Benying laughed, took the silver ticket and left.

As soon as he left, Tian Yang couldn't pretend to be able to do so, so he first kicked Li Zhenli a few times, and then scolded Zhou Da and others fiercely. Zhou Da and his gang had long been prepared to be scolded, no matter how vicious he scolded, he didn't dare to refute, he just repented vigorously, until he finally couldn't scold, then gritted his teeth and said, "Master Rongyu, today's shame, the villain will not dare to forget it for the rest of his life, the villain will go to Meixianglou to arrest the real Li Xiangjun to give you anger!" ”

Tian Yang glanced at Li Zhenli, who was lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, snorted, and rushed to Zhou Da and the others, "Go ahead, if you mess things up again this time, you don't have to stay in the mansion, just go to the camp to earn military merits." ”

In this era, the profession that is very enviable is not only a lot of money, but also very safe, while the battalion soldiers not only earn less but will be pulled to the front line as cannon fodder at any time. Hearing that they were going to be a battalion soldier, Zhou Da and the others suddenly became nervous, quickly got up and saluted and walked outside, this time they would not allow themselves to make mistakes.