"Your Excellency. ”

As the words fell, a young servant in front of the Hu Mansion ran a few steps and stopped in front of the two.

"Master Xu still wants to see Master Hu?" After stopping, the servant asked.

"What's not to do?" Fang Yu asked rhetorically.

"My lord doesn't know, Mrs. is about to give birth, Master Hu informed the guard outside the door yesterday, and I haven't seen any outsiders recently. When asked, the servant was careful to inform.

"Lord Xu is a local governor, so he can't go in?" This time, without waiting for Fang Yu to open his mouth in the county order, Sima asked first.

"This..."

The servant listened to the difficulty behind him, and stood there not knowing how to respond. After hesitating for a moment, he spoke again, and asked the two of them to wait outside the door while he went in to let him know.

"Dao Chief, Liangzhong was originally a messenger from the county, and he was sent to Hufuzhong a few days ago. This person has a loyal temperament, and the matter of Fang Cai should not be that he deliberately makes things difficult. After the servant left, Fang Yu took the initiative to explain.

Sima Wenzhi understood and nodded.

The ghost house is easy to enter, and the little ghost is difficult. Just opened his mouth to ask, Sima asked that he really suspected that the two of them were deliberately making things difficult.

However, from Fang Yu's words, he heard the meaning of the words.

Most of the county officials have grades, which are recorded in the local and imperial courts, and they are a decent livelihood. The servant named Liangzhong just gave up his status as a messenger to make a living in Hu's mansion, and most of them had to do it on his own.

As for the reason, Sima asked him and guessed one or two.

Compared with the thin and hungry officials in the county, the servants in front of the Hu Mansion looked full. The county was in a famine, but Hu Fu was not affected, and he came here to make a living for a meal.

After two incense sticks, Liangzhong walked out of the mansion after a middle-aged servant and stopped in front of the two again. Fang Yu recognized the person in the county order, and it was Hu Yi, an official of the Hu Mansion.

"Huber, there is a lot of trouble. After the person came to stand still, he took the initiative to greet him, and he was not rude.

When he walked out from the house, Liangzhong had already told Hu Yi about the things outside the door. After Fang Yu greeted the county order, he responded with the same words.

However, compared with Liangzhong, the words of the housekeeper of the Hu Mansion are much tougher. There is no need to find someone else in this matter, and there is no need to maneuver.

After hearing the county order, Fang Yu looked at Sima and asked. He never thought that this would be the case, and there was a lot of embarrassment on his face for a while.

"Huber, this should not have been forced. But there is a letter here in the trail, which is laborious and handed over to Master Hu. Whatever he decides in the future, we will both obey it. Seeing this, Sima took out a book from his sleeve and handed it over.

The letter was written in a hurry when he came here, and the ink was wrapped in his sleeve before it had dried. At this moment, there were ink stains leaking out, indicating that there was indeed something in the letter.

The housekeeper of the Hu Mansion looked suspicious, but still took the letter. Then he softened his tone and told the two to continue waiting.

This time, in less than a stick of incense, the housekeeper of the Hu Mansion hurriedly returned, and as soon as he walked out of the mansion gate, he ordered the guards at the door to welcome the two of them.

Looking outside the courtyard, I don't know the depth of the courtyard. When I entered, I noticed that the precincts were very large. Sima Wenzhi followed the housekeeper of the Hu Mansion all the way over, carefully noting down the places he passed.

Like the Jiankang County Shoufu, Hu Fuzhong was in the front yard, and after a few twists and turns, Hu Yi took the two of them to the front yard hall.

When he arrived, the door of the hall was wide open, and a man in his forties was sitting on the throne waiting.

The man is Hu Jushi, and when Liangzhong first reported it, he sent his housekeeper out to refuse. When he saw the letter, he ordered the steward to keep the man.

"Please sit down and watch the tea. Seeing the arrival of the two, Hu Jushi got up to welcome the two in, and at the same time opened his mouth to order his subordinates to serve.

Prior to this, Fang Yu had come to Hufu many times in the county order, and although the friendship was shallow, he was familiar with each other. Sima asked for the first time, and before taking a seat, Xu County ordered to introduce the two to each other.

As soon as I sat down, someone brought tea and pastries. The two of them had just eaten the morning food, and they were not hungry in their stomachs. However, Sima Wenzhi still picked up a piece of tea cake and played with it in his hand.

In the thatched hut, after reaching an alliance with the ghost lord of the underworld, they also set the details of their actions. One of the steps is what to do after entering the Hu Mansion.

At that time, he was still apprehensive in his heart, worried that the plan would be useless. During the morning meal, after the old county official told him of the hidden situation, his anxiety was completely eliminated and he became determined.

Tactics are based on inducements.

Hu Jushi is willing to give alms, which shows that his nature is not bad and he can socialize. But soon after that, he stopped giving alms, not only because he had no hope of succession, but also because he cherished his money.

Therefore, the lure is just right for the symptoms. The words spoken in the epistle are basically inducements.

So, there's no need to be pretending to be polite.

When Hu Xu and the others were drinking tea by themselves, the tea cake in Sima Wenzhi's hand changed, gradually turning from dark green to golden.

Hu Jushi inadvertently raised his head during the tea tasting, and after seeing the change in the tea cake, he opened his lips in shock and couldn't speak. Then, in his astonished eyes, the golden tea cake changed back to its original color.

This method is in Chengdu County, and Sima Wenzhi has used it several times for Lingshuang. However, after the gold and silver were conjured at that time, they did not immediately transform into their original state.

"Dao, Daoist, is the content of the letter true?" After the tea cake recovered, Hu Jushi opened his mouth to ask, because of his surprise and excitement, his tone became a little strange.

"It's more, it's all there. Sima asked in the affirmative.

"Dig three feet down in the middle of the lake in the backyard, and there will be a harvest. Without pause, he began to dial.

"The Taoist chief will go later, and I will go back later. After Hu Jushi heard this, a fine light appeared in his eyes. After getting up and leaving, there were only dozens of breaths, and then hurried back.

When the two exchanged words, Fang Yu's county order was like falling into a fog, and he didn't know why. Seeing that Hu Jushi was in a hurry and returned, he turned his head to look at Sima and asked with doubts on his face.

Sima Wenzhi shook his head and motioned for him to wait for the next step.

This time I waited a little longer, and after half an hour, the sound of footsteps sounded hurriedly outside the door. Hu Jushi got up and left again, and returned again after dozens of breaths.

"Have you ever confirmed the quality?" Seeing him returning, Sima asked without waiting for him to speak, and asked first.

"Better than official money. Hu Jushi responded happily.

"Hu has lived here for many years, and I personally supervised the construction of the backyard pond. We never found out how the Taoist knew about it?" After responding, he asked again.

"In the five elements, the gold is raw water. A few days ago, I walked outside your mansion and saw gold in the water vapor rising from the backyard of your mansion. Sima asked in response.

"Please take a seat. ”

As soon as the words fell, Hu Jushi got up and ordered his subordinates to remove the wooden chairs in the house and replace them with soft chairs. At the same time, I will instruct you to remove the tea and replace it with good tea.

After the change, the three people in the room tasted tea speechlessly as before. Fang Yu was not stupid, and he had already guessed what Sima Wenzhi had done.

And he guessed that this was just the beginning.

"Dao Chief. ”

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Hu Jushi to calm down and speak again.