Chapter 22: Changing Faces

Fengle County, among the Dong Mansion, as the largest medicinal material merchant in Fengle County, Dong Guihua is discussing with his shopkeeper Tang Zhongshun about the share of medicinal materials entering the customs this year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Master Dong, what can we do about this? Last year, our share was 20% lower, and this year's application documents submitted to the county government have not been approved for a long time, I'm afraid ...... This year's share will be even lower, we have to think of a way. ”

Tang Zhongshun, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, sighed and said.

"There's no way around it. This matter is in the hands of Lord Li Ting, the county prince, and it seems that it is ...... I'm going to find an opportunity to visit the Li Mansion. ”

Dong Guihua is also at a loss, most of the medicinal materials of the major pharmaceutical merchants in the Tianren Continent are imported from outside the customs, and the medicinal material merchants must apply to the local county government for the corresponding import share, and only with the documents stamped with the county decree seal can they be qualified to go to the border to buy medicinal materials.

As the largest medicinal herb shop in Fengle County, Dongjia has always had the largest share of imported medicinal materials, but I don't know why it has been less than two percent since last year, and this year's application documents have been handed over for half a month, and they have not yet been approved.

Dong Guihua was thinking about whether to buy some gifts to visit Li Ting, the county magistrate, and find out the wind by the way.

"Master, Master, Lord Li of the county is visiting......"

Just when Dong Guihua was hesitating in his heart whether to visit the county Cheng Li Ting's mansion, the family at the door hurriedly ran over and shouted.

"Lord Xiancheng is here, ...... Come with me to the door to greet you!"

Dong Guihua, who reacted, hurriedly got up from the Taishi chair, and hurriedly greeted Tang Zhongshun, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, at the door.

"Master Li, the arrival of our family is really making our Dong family ......shine! Go to the main hall and take a seat!"

Dong Guihua, who had thought about going to the Li Mansion before, greeted him with a smiling face and hurriedly invited Li Tingdao, the county magistrate.

"Hehe! Master Dong is polite, this time the official came to send you the application documents approved by the county government.

After I applied to the Xu County Order, I gave you the Dong family medicinal herb shop, and I added 30% of the share this year, congratulations to Master Dong!"

Li Ting, the county magistrate, sat on the Taishi chair with a smile and handed the application document with the county order seal on his sleeve to Dong Guihua.

"What? Master Li actually came to deliver the application paperwork in person, and he also added 30% of our share......? This...... I really don't know how to thank Master Lee.

Master Li is really the parent official of the people of our Fengle County!"

Dong Guihua took the document from Li Ting, the county magistrate, in surprise, and when he saw that he had really added a thirty percent share of medicinal materials, his mouth almost smiled crookedly, and he hurriedly thanked Li Ting.

"It's not difficult for Master Dong to thank me!" Li Ting, the county magistrate, took a sip of tea with a smile, and then immediately went straight to the road.

"This time, I mainly came to deliver documents to Master Dong, and then stopped by...... There is a small thing that I want to trouble Master Dong. ”

"What's the matter, Lord Li, just command!"

Dong Guihua was happy in his heart, but he felt a little strange, what was it that could make Li Tingdu, a county magistrate with a high level of humanity, come to the door to ask for him in person?

"Then I'll just say it bluntly, this official came this time to ......"

Li Tingzheng, the county magistrate, was about to speak, but suddenly from the gate of the Dong Mansion, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old Confucian student, dressed in a Xiucai shirt, rushed to the main hall of the Dong Mansion with a face full of ecstasy, holding a volume of poems that had just been written, and excitedly spread it out and said to Dong Guihua:

"Lord Yue, my son-in-law finally lived up to his trust! ”

"What? The poem of the county! Okay! The virtuous son-in-law is worthy of being an eighteen-year-old talent, and his talent is like a brocade!"

When Dong Guihua heard that it was the first poem from the county, he immediately smiled and clapped his hands in praise.

"Ahem......" Li Ting, the county Cheng who was interrupted, frowned, coughed, and asked Dong Guihua, "Master Dong, who is this person?"

"Master Li......" Dong Guihua ignored Li Ting, the county seat, as soon as he was happy, and hurriedly pulled Xiucai Liu Shimin to introduce the two of them, "Shimin! This is Lord Li from Fengle County." Master Li, this is Liu Shimin, the eighteen-year-old talent of my future virtuous son-in-law Liu Fu. ”

As he spoke, Dong Guihua pointed to the volume of poems brought by Xiucai Liu Shimin with great interest and said, "A few days ago, I asked Shimin to help me write a poem, so that it could be hung in the medicinal herb shop to attract wealth and drive away evil spirits." Unexpectedly, my virtuous son-in-law is so talented, and in just a few days, he wrote a poem out of the county. ”

"Liu Shimin has seen Master Li, and the students have heard that Master Li is good at poetry, and they want to ask Master Li to give students some advice on this poem. ”

As an eighteen-year-old talent, Liu Shimin naturally has proud capital. Even in the face of Li Ting, the county magistrate with a humanistic position, he still has a frivolous attitude.

On the surface, he asked Li Ting to point out the poems, but in fact, he pretended to show off. After all, even if you raise a humanistic degree, you may not be able to write a county poem.

"Master Dong, how did I hear that the daughter of your mansion has a marriage contract with Su Lin of Su Mansion?"

Dong Guihua was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then then he laughed a few times in embarrassment, and said:

"Master Li doesn't know, it's not me Dong Guihua who deliberately wants to repent of the marriage. It is really Su Lin of Nasu Mansion who is too angry, and he only opened his mind at the age of fifteen, and he is called Su Mutou by the people in the county. Back then, I also had an agreement with Su Xiucai that if Su Lin did not become a talent, this marriage could be abandoned. ”

In order to avoid this topic, Dong Guihua quickly changed the conversation and said with a smile, "Didn't Master Li just say that there is something that needs Dong's help? ”

"This favor, I'm afraid Master Dong can't help now. ”

Li Ting, the county magistrate, sneered, and then said, "This time the official came to hear that Su Lin is the future son-in-law of the Dong Mansion, so he specially came to ask Master Dong to help ask Su Lin for a word." But now it seems that Master Dong is speechless. ”

"Lord Li wants the word Su Mutou?" Hearing the words of the county Cheng Li Ting, Dong Guihua was stunned for a moment and said strangely.

"That Su Mutou doesn't even have a Tongsheng literary position, what is there to ask for in his words. Master Li, if you really want words, why don't you ...... Let the people of the world write a picture for you ......"

Dong Guihua said, giving Liu Shimin a look, and Liu Shimin stepped forward with a proud face, "Lord Li, although I, Liu Shimin, am still only a talented scholar, but I have been practicing hard for a few years, and I can still handle it.

Normally, I don't send words casually, and you know, if you send too many Confucian words, they will be worthless. But today, since it's my father-in-law, it's okay for me to give Master Li a picture......

Being able to give someone a picture is also a face-saving thing, but this Liu Shimin thinks very highly of himself, because Li Ting ignored him just now, so he deliberately put up a score and said in a twisted and round.

However, before he could finish his sentence, Li Ting, the county magistrate, was furious and said: "Presumptuous! What kind of thing do you think you are?

Li Ting said as he grabbed the application documents on the table that Dong Guihua hadn't had time to put away, put them in his sleeves, and said, "Master Dong, this issue of the share of imported medicinal materials, it seems that I have to go back and discuss it with the county magistrate again, you can send someone to send another application document tomorrow!"

After speaking, Li Ting left the Dong Mansion directly without looking back, Dong Guihua hurriedly caught up with him behind him, but he couldn't catch up with Li Ting, the county leader, so he had to sigh and return to the main hall, looking at Xiucai Liu Shimin and saying:

"Hey, offended Lord Li of the county, this ...... What a good thing that is!"

"Lord Yue, this Li Ting is just a county man with a humanistic position, what is there to be arrogant about. When his son-in-law wins the lift, he will be admitted to the Jinshi again, and then come to give him some color!"

Xiucai Liu Shimin's face was gloomy, but he was secretly jealous in his heart.

"No! no...... Why did Lord Cheng Li of this county come to visit me? and even deliberately accommodating a thirty percent share, just for the sake of Su Mutou's words?"

Dong Guihua, who has always been shrewd, felt more and more strange the more he thought about it, Li Ting didn't even want Liu Shimin's words, why did he ask for Su Lin's words?

Just when Dong Guihua couldn't figure it out, a family member of the Dong Mansion hurriedly ran over and said:

"Sir! sir...... Great news! Su Gongzi won the first case in the county test this time! Moreover, he also wrote a poem about Mingzhou! Even the county magistrate and the temple supervisor called him an immortal genius, and they asked him for words at the gate of the county office!"

"What? Oops! You...... Why didn't you come earlier! Bad thing! Bad thing!"

Dong Guihua instantly understood, and hurriedly asked, "Then where is my virtuous son-in-law, Su Lin, now?"

When the little one came, he saw that Su Gongzi seemed to be stopped at the entrance of East Street. Jia Ding replied.

"Then don't take me over quickly, I want to personally congratulate the head of the virtuous son-in-law high school!" Dong Guihua's face changed faster than turning a book, just now he was a mouthful of Su Mutou, but now he is full of virtuous son-in-law Su Lin.

And the talented Liu Shimin shouted unwillingly: "Lord Yue, we have obviously decided on this marriage, and Zijin and I ......."

"Liu Xiucai, your eighteen-year-old Xiucai is indeed a rare talent in my Fengle County. But my virtuous son-in-law, Su Lin, is the head of the county test, and he is a genius who can write the poems of Mingzhou!"

Dong Guihua picked up the poem on the table that had not yet had time to read the poem out of the county and stuffed it back to Liu Xiucai and said, "Just your poem out of the county, let's take it back! Don't come to my Dong Mansion in the future." This marriage, let's go!"

After speaking, Dong Guihua hurriedly asked Jiading to take him to the entrance of Dongjiekou to find Su Lin. But the talented Liu Shimin was so angry that he tore up the poem written by himself on the spot, and secretly hated:

"What a Su Mutou! You and I hate to take my wife! You wait for me!"

Dong Guihua hurriedly walked towards Dongjiekou under the leadership of Jia Ding, but at this time, Dongjiekou was very lively, Su Liu's sap pointed at Su Lin is mouth and scolded, how ugly to hear.

The more and more pedestrians surrounded, the more Su Liu spoke, the more energetic he became, and he cried and took out the separation contract signed with Su Lin that day and shouted:

"You conscienceless Su Lin! trick me into signing this family contract, and then you want to completely ignore us orphans and widows!

In vain, our Wu country is based on filial piety, and this kind of unfilial son can even pass the examination of the first child in the case! The villagers will evaluate and evaluate it! Is there still justice......