Chapter 48: The Old Carpenter's Way to Rise to the Rank (Seeking Follow-up)

Before Liu He could react, this Meng Ban had already pulled Liu He's sleeve and made him kneel beside him.

Liu He didn't ask much, and knelt down obediently.

"Envoy, are you also here to wait to see the noble man in the palace?" Meng Ban lowered his voice and asked with some panic and some surprise.

"Noble? What nobles? ”

"It's our king in Changyi."

When Meng Ban said this, he looked around several times, as if he was saying something terrible.

Liu He looked at him with such a troubled appearance, and felt a little funny in his heart, but he still nodded and responded randomly.

"Yes, I'm here to see him, too."

Perhaps seeing Liu He's carelessness, Meng Ban lectured with a serious face.

"The envoy can't be careless, but he has to take the matter of entering the palace to meet the king in mind."

"This king and the county official are a family, the county official is the Son of Heaven, although the king is not the Son of Heaven, he is also a nephew and nephew."

"It is a great blessing for us ordinary people to see it once, not to mention that we can live a long life, at least it is to prolong life."

"If the king's name is remembered, it will be even more amazing, and people like me will have to be rewarded with a few gold at the very least, and you don't have to slowly boil in the position of Yicao, at least you can pick up an official position as a lieutenant."

"Lieutenant, have you heard of it, it is the envoy in the lieutenant's mansion, in this Changyi country, except for the prime minister, the lieutenant is the most spirited."

"That's magnificent, there are chariots in front of you and riders in the back, and you can line up all the way from this south gate to the north gate."

Meng Ban talked a lot of nonsense upside down, but he said that Liu He was a little confused, and he didn't know how to interject for a while, looking like a small door official who had entered the palace for the first time.

"Master Meng, have you seen Lieutenant Wang Ji?"

"King, king what?" Meng Ban, who was talking endlessly, stopped, his mouth open, and a little distracted.

"It's the envoy of Wang Ji, the lieutenant of Changyi Kingdom." Liu He said it clearly.

"I've never seen this, but I've seen a team on patrol."

Meng Ban probably felt that he had too much to say, so he wrinkled an old face and laughed dryly, and then stopped making a sound.

"Is there anything good about Lord Meng coming to this Changyi Palace today?"

Speaking of this "good thing", Meng Ban suddenly came to his senses again, and opened the conversation box again as he did just now.

"Eh, envoy, you are a distinguished guest of our family, next time you must go to the humble house to sit down, our whole family has to entertain you."

"Huh? What do you mean by that? ”

"You just asked the villain about this pattern yesterday, and early this morning, our Changyi County Gongguan He Yuanjun came to the shop, and he had to refund the miscellaneous fees of the pattern collected before to the villain, not to mention how kind the attitude was."

"He Yuanjun said, that is, he misheard the words of Ma Yanshou, an engineer in the country, not to accept miscellaneous fees, but not to accept miscellaneous fees, and he will never collect them in the future."

"Did you tell Changyi about this after you went back yesterday, so He Envoy Jun came to refund us the miscellaneous fees?"

It seems that this envoy is still a little in awe, and he can continue to stay in the position of an engineer for the time being.

These little things need to alarm Changyi, they only need Ma Yanshou to get out.

But Liu He still said: "Well, thanks to An Lexiang's insight and resoluteness. ”

"This peace and happiness is wise, but it is not easy to make you very virtuous and willing to speak for our people."

"Look at it, this time it has waived tens of thousands of dollars in miscellaneous fees, which is not a small amount."

Meng Ban said excitedly, and a few old tears flowed out of the corners of his eyes.

Tens of thousands of dollars is not a small amount, which can improve the life of Meng Ban's family a lot, and even save a lot of money.

So these few tears he shed are really not hypocritical.

"This is just a gesture, not enough to worry about, and Lord Meng should be happy."

"Yes, what the envoy said is that the villain should be happy, should be happy." Meng Ban wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his cuffs as he spoke.

After regaining his emotional composure a little, Meng Ban pulled the conversation back to the present.

"And that's just the first good thing of the day."

"Oh? Meng Banzhu also encountered a second good thing? ”

"Of course, otherwise the villain wouldn't be here."

Meng Ban's wrinkled face climbed a little bit of smugness.

"Then I would like to hear about the second good thing of Lord Meng, and by the way, how happy it is."

"When I was about to arrive at Shenshi, the villain was taking the three unpopular sons of the family to clean up the sundries in the workshop, and suddenly, a carriage stopped at the door."

"The villain originally thought that it was a farmer landlord who came to order a car or overturn a car, but he never expected that the young man who came down turned out to be ......"

When Meng Ban said this, he suddenly stopped, looked at Zhou Nei again, and then continued: "It turned out to be the confessor next to the king of Changyi!" ”

"Oh, what's so strange about the confessor, it's just a small official of a hundred stones, and my rank is two hundred stones."

"That envoy is not just an ordinary confessor, but also the chief guard of this palace!" Meng Ban was a little dissatisfied with Liu He's reaction, and said in an aggravated tone.

"If I'm not mistaken, this captain of the guard is only an officer of four hundred stones, which is far from the lieutenant you mentioned." Liu He deliberately said disapprehantly.

"Hey, you don't know."

After Meng Ban said this, he put on the appearance of an old man giving guidance to a young man.

"Whether it's this confessor or the chief of the guard, they are all close servants of this king, don't look at their low rank, but they can see this king every day."

"So what they say represents the meaning of the king, as long as they are willing to say a few good words in front of the king for someone, that person will definitely be able to soar!"

Unconsciously, Meng Ban, who was overly excited, said the words that he had just said to Liu He in a different way.

It seems that this Meng Ban has really indulged in the dream of soaring.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the county officials of Chang'an are too far away, and the king of his country is the piece of heaven above his head: a fluttering word can bring glory and wealth to people.

Where did they think that these feudal kings were not heavens at all, at most they were just a cloud, and they were also a cloud that looked beautiful, but it couldn't rain or rain.

"Lord Meng hasn't said anything about what this confessor is looking for you?"

"He said that the king fell in love with the villain's carpentry and wanted to meet the villain."

When Meng Ban said this, the smug look on his face was about to overflow from all his facial features.

Even the somewhat sparse eyebrows kept going up.

"It is indeed a good thing to be recognized by His Highness." Liu He echoed and said.

Maybe he was in a too comfortable mood, and maybe he was too proud, Meng Ban actually reached out and patted Liu He's shoulder, and said a little condescendingly: "Rest assured, the villain will say a few kind words for you later, and I will definitely let the gentleman's rank be mentioned." ”

Liu He was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Then there is Lao Meng's proprietor." ”

"You're welcome!"

Just when the two were talking happily, a person hurriedly ran in from outside the hall.