18 Chapter XVIII

Everyone looked at the back of Chu Ji leaving, and everyone's faces were extraordinarily exciting. Seeing the old god sitting on the ground, Qian and Ma, hurriedly came up.

"Lord Qian, how is this good? This, this is not a good thing, do you want the whole family to go to the street to beg for a living? Zhao Heng, who was the first to be attacked by Chu Ji, was full of sorrow, and even his well-maintained goatee was frizzy by him.

After speaking, he touched Liu Wei next to him again and said, "Tell me about you, what are you doing when you mention Yulu?" ”

Liu Wei didn't expect that Chu Ji would be able to give them a trick to oppose the guest. What's more, "the most important thing that this official lacks is silver", if you have too much silver to use, you can also give me some points.

But now in the face of Zhao Heng's accusation, he could only sigh and shake his head.

Huang Jun was the most calm among them. Today, it is obvious that it is the newly appointed state pastor, the fighting method between Lord Qian and Lord Ma, and the fight between the immortals, what do these mortals do?

That's not something that their group of people with a monthly salary of 60 Hu should worry about, no, now they don't have any money.

Anyway, they are dealing with it at both ends now, and when the two sides are over and the winners and losers are divided, isn't it necessary to have a few of their adjutants to support the faΓ§ade and share some miscellaneous things in this huge Cangzhou City?

Thinking of this, he also made an anxious and sad appearance, the palm of his left hand, constantly patting the back of his right hand, shaking his head, and sighing.

Ma Yuankai saw them like this, and remembered Chu Ji's sharp and domineering appearance just now, and suddenly his heart was angry, and he slapped his palm on the table beside him.

There was a "snap" sound, and all three of them stopped moving.

Zhao Heng's goatee was dragged off by himself without paying attention. It hurt so much that he was about to scream out, but looking at Ma Yuankai's face, he swallowed it alive. looked at Qian Youcai cautiously, shrunk his neck again, and quietly observed Ma Yuankai's face.

Liu Wei has no idea, and on weekdays, Qian Youcai asks him to do whatever he wants. So at this moment, seeing that Ma Yuankai was angry, he had no choice but to stand there, motionless and wait for Ma Yuankai to finish his anger, and then listen to Qian Youcai's instructions.

Huang Jun stood aside. Keep your head down and don't speak.

For a while, the meeting hall was quiet, and only Ma Yuankai's panting voice could be heard.

Ma Yuankai was indeed very angry with Chu Ji, according to his temperament, since Chu Ji was so uncooperative, thinking of playing prestige on his territory, it would be straightforward, and he used the old method to kill Chu Ji, and he didn't have to bear the charge, where are there so many twists and turns.

Qian Youcai, who had never spoken, finally spoke at this time: "Okay, let's go back separately." What can you make a fuss? With that, he flicked his sleeves and prepared to leave.

Ma Yuankai also got up, he was going to discuss with Qian Youcai, and directly did Chu Ji's thing.

"Lord Qian..." Zhao Heng suddenly spoke weakly, his voice as small as a mosquito. Seeing Qian Youcai turn to look at him, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, as if he had made a great determination, and said, "Then what should we do?" ”

When Qian Youcai heard this, he snorted, turned his head and strode away.

Zhao Heng, who didn't get a quasi-letter, sat down on the chair all of a sudden. This month, if he didn't have a good fortune, what would he give to the lady at home, who played with knives and guns all day long?

"Tell me, what did you and Lord Qian mention about it? Didn't you poke a knife in his heart? Liu Wei stood aside and persuaded him. He also knows Zhao Heng's situation, his life is hard.

"Okay, okay, let's go our separate ways." Huang Jun stepped forward and patted Zhao Heng on the shoulder, and then took the lead in leaving the chamber.

*

"Lord Huang, it's not good!"

Huang Jun sat at his desk in his office, holding a cup of tea, and was sipping it unhurriedly. This is the new tea produced in Yizhou this year, and he hesitated for a few months before he was willing to buy one or two.

Hearing Zhao Heng's words, he choked so much that he had to spit out a sip of tea. Fortunately, he held back, forcibly endured the itch in his throat, and Huang Jun swallowed the tea. It's really good tea, good tea, this is the first brew, it's so mellow in the mouth, sweet and sweet.

"Eh, Lord Huang, it's not good!" Zhao Heng trotted in all the way, and when he saw that Huang Jun still had the heart to drink tea, he hurriedly walked to his table and was about to grab his teacup.

"Slow, slow, slow!" Huang Jun held the tea cup with one hand, while avoiding Zhao Heng's outstretched claws, and said, "I'm fine!" ”

"What's good!" Zhao Heng patted his thigh with one hand, pointed to the door with the other, and said, "Lord Chu, he, he ......"

"What's wrong with him?"

"He had the door of the storeroom unloaded!"

"What?" Huang Jun hurriedly stood up, and the tea cup in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap".

In response to him was the door of the storeroom outside, the sound of crashing to the ground, and the dust drifting into the windows in the wind.

"Ahem, ahem! My tea! Huang Jun didn't care about coughing, and hurriedly went to cover his teacup. This tea is his month's worth of tea, but it can't be dusted.

Look again, what about the tea cup?

Zhao Heng cautiously stretched out a finger and pointed to the ground.

"Iniquity!"

Just when Huang Jun was squatting on the ground distressedly, looking at the puddle of water and the tea leaves scattered among the fragments of the tea cup, hesitating whether to pick up the tea leaves and reuse them, Liu Wei was there, five strong men with knives poured in, and a young man.

β€œοΌŸοΌβ€ Liu Wei looked at the six people in front of him in confusion and horror.

He didn't fish like Huang Jun, he was helping Qian and Ma to make fake accounts. Over the years, the two of them have filled their pockets a lot, and Cangzhou's annual tax revenue is not much, but most of it has gone into their pockets.

Originally, he recorded Cangzhou's annual money, grain, taxes and various expenditures in 1510. Anyway, those two people are the same in Cangzhou, where does anyone dare to come to check? He was lazy and didn't bother to do anything in vain.

But now, the first thing Chu Ji did when he came was to ask him for the account book. How good is that? The difference between the accounts and the treasury is so big, Chu Ji is not a fool!

Therefore, he had no choice but to violate his professional ethics and rack his brains here to make up fake account books.

In the final analysis, Liu Wei still didn't believe that Chu Ji could beat Qian Youcai and Mada.

It wasn't someone else who came, it was Ji An, with five guards behind him.

"On the orders of Lord Chu, assist Lord Liu in sorting out the money and grain account books." Don't look at Ji An's cuteness, but he has been staying with Chu Ji for a long time, and when he becomes serious, it is a bit deterrent.

"This ...... This ...... "Where could Liu Wei have thought that Chu Ji was still looking for someone to watch him sort out the account books?" If only there was only one white-faced young man, and five guards were allocated?

What do you mean? There's someone under your hands, isn't it? Well, it's that amazing. Liu Weisheng returned to his seat without love.

Ji Anke didn't pay attention to Liu Wei's expression, he came with a mission. The young master said that if he does it well, he will be given a salary increase next month!

Ji An picked up an account book casually and flipped through it. Hmph, the ink is so new, it looks like it was just written. He'd have to take a good look.

Liu Wei trembled and watched the person in front of him flip through the ledger, and his heart kept beating up and down with the person's movements.

Don't be a professional.

Time was pressing, and he did a rough job of this fake account. He was also thinking, Chu Ji didn't have the kung fu to take a closer look.

"Smack!" The ledger was thrown in front of him, which scared him into a clever way.

"Are you looking at me?" Ji An shook off the account book, pointed to the upper line and said, "What kind of table is used in this yamen, which can be worth a thousand taels?" ”

Liu Wei blinked, his brain was running wildly, desperately searching for the most expensive wood in his memory.

"This little adult, the desk case in the office in the yamen is from Hainan Huanghuali. This is also to reflect the noble status of our yamen in the entire Cangzhou. It should be spent. After saying this, he quietly went to observe the man's face, and saw that although he frowned, he did not speak, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Now, it should be fooling the past.

At this time, Ji An suddenly said in an incredulous and slightly sympathetic voice: "I'm afraid you bought a fake, right?" The young master's Huanghuali chair costs 10,000 taels of gold. I heard the young master say that fake wood can't be bought, it's poisonous! ”

When Liu Wei heard this, he almost turned his back in anger. Is it so great to be rich?

"Yes, yes, it's all the fault of the people below, and they actually bought fakes." It's so angry, but keep smiling.

"Huh!" Who knew that Ji An suddenly became troubled, and a guard came from behind, and he split a corner of the table with a knife.

"Lord Liu, this is clearly beech, don't you recognize it?"

Where has Liu Wei seen this battle, the three-foot-long knife is clearly held in front of his eyes. That knife splits wood like a gourd, so if it shines on his head, will he still see the sun tomorrow?

"It's the fault of the lower officials, it's the fault of the lower officials. The lower officials recognized that it was beech. ”

"Alright, then don't bother." Ji An stretched out his hand, "Hand over the account book." ”

*

The yamen was so busy that when it was in full swing, Chu Ji had already gone to the horse farm with Qin Zong.

The horse farm is very large, just behind the state chaplain. The horses ridden by his subordinates, as well as Qin Zong's snow, were all raised there and taken care of by special people.

Qin Zong first installed a saddle and stirrups on the snow, and the snow was very cooperative, and there was no arrogance of a treasure horse in front of Qin Zong.

After the installation, Qin Zong turned over and got on the horse. Treading snow seemed to have spirituality, and after Qin Zong sat down, he raised his head excitedly and let out a high-pitched hiss without waiting for him to raise his whip. Then he raised his horse's hooves and sprang out like lightning.

"Drive-"

The horse's hooves were crisp, and Qin Zong galloped along the outer periphery of the racecourse, a circle of roads sandwiched by the shade of trees.

The gale is gone, and the summer light is on the back. Youthful spirit, unparalleled romance.

In a trance, Chu Ji saw the proud young marshal of the Qin family army again, the brightest young man in Qinye City.

After Qin Zong rode a few laps, he returned to Chu Ji and dismounted neatly.

"Good."

The simple two words made Chu Ji smile. This saddle and stirrups. Let Qin Zong have such a high evaluation, then the effect it plays is definitely beyond Chu Ji's imagination.

After trying the saddle stirrups, Chu Ji was ready to learn to ride a horse.

It's not that he didn't have the idea of learning to ride a horse before, but at that time his body was so poor that he almost took a step and gasped twice, so he gave up learning to ride a horse.

But now, after three years of Jiang Mu's conditioning, it is indeed much better, and he has started to learn to ride a horse again. He wants to lead his soldiers to fight the world, and he doesn't want to go to the battlefield to fight, but at least he must learn to ride a horse, and don't drop the chain at a critical time.

The groom at the horse farm pulls out a maroon horse. This is just a very ordinary horse, which was specially ordered by Chu Ji in the morning to go to the horse market to buy it.

Chu Ji is still very self-aware, he is a beginner, and his body is poor, so he naturally wants to pick a horse with a gentle temperament. It's just that the horses in his horse farm are all bought back from Dongman, and they are all unruly horses.

Chu Ji walked to the side of the jujube red horse and prepared to put a saddle and stirrup on it.

"This yellow horse is better for you." At this time, Qin Zong led a horse out. It was a yellow horse with blond hair. There are white spots in the yellow, especially on the forehead, with a tuft of white hair shaped like a full moon.

Chu Ji fixed his eyes and saw that this was not the horse he had prepared for Qin Zong before? Qin Zongtong only rode for a morning, and after arriving in the forest at noon, he brought back the snow.

"This horse is of moderate size, quick movements, full of energy, and more importantly gentle temperament, which is more suitable for you than that jujube red horse."

After Qin Zong finished speaking, he found that Chu Ji was staring at him. When his eyes met, he saw that the amorous and charming peach blossom eyes were full of starlight.

"Thank you for being so thoughtful for me."

The young man in front of him rarely changed into a long robe, wearing a crimson green narrow sleeve that was easy to ride a horse, with a short coat and long boots, which made him appear to have a thin waist and long legs, and a long body.

At this moment, his eyes were full of sincere joy.

Qin Zong looked away, and was silent again.

Chu Ji originally saw that Qin Zong had said so many words in a row, and he was still thinking about him between the lines, but somehow, there was an inexplicable relief that "my family has a child who has just grown up". Now seeing that he is silent and does not speak, he is really a little lost in his heart.

This is probably the same as the old father watching his son grow up, but his son is also traveling farther and farther.

But fortunately, he had long been accustomed to Qin Zong's awkward temperament, so he was only lost for a while, and then he cheered up again.

He walked up to the side of the yellow horse and tried to touch the horse's head first.

This horse is really as Qin Zong said, and his temperament is very docile. Chu Ji just stroked it with his hands, and it didn't show any intention of resisting.

"Then how about I call you Yuding?" (1οΌ‰

When the horse heard Chu Ji's words, he raised his horse's head slightly, sneezed towards Chu Ji's palm, and looked very happy and liked.

"Do you like it very much? Great, you will be my jade top in the future. Chu Ji also felt the joy of the horse, and he gently rested his head on the full moon on the forehead of the jade top.

Qin Zong stood aside, watching the interaction between Chu Ji and Ma'er, he also laughed unconsciously.

He grew up on horseback, and horses were his closest companions. Seeing Chu Ji like this, he was not immune to infection.

He stepped forward, put the reins in Chu Ji's hand, and said, "Hold the reins with one hand and the saddle with the other, you are now standing on the left side of the jade top, so step on the stirrup with your left foot and get on the horse." ”

Pursing his lips, Qin Zong added: "I'll watch." ”

Chu Ji nodded at him, and then tried to get on the horse according to his words.