Because of Liu Xi's sudden intervention, the letter from the Ministry of War still did not leave Fang Xiaoru's vote after all, but it was only sent to the celebrant after Xie Jin's approval.

And what Fang Xiaoru did was just nodded and said respectfully: "Father-in-law Liu don't worry, please inform Father-in-law Xu, I hope that I won't get in the way." ”

After two simple sentences, Fang Xiaoru knew that his heart was also glued with ink spots.

Knowledge and action are indispensable, and the world is so difficult.

As soon as the hour arrived, when the palace was locked, Fang Xiaoru also walked out of the Donghua Gate, the housekeeper was already waiting by the gray cloth sedan chair, the two sedan chair men squatted on the ground and chatted, seeing Fang Xiaoru come out, he hurriedly stood in front of and behind the sedan chair, ready to start.

"Lord Fang!"

Hearing the shouting of the despicable villain behind him, Fang Xiaoru took a deep breath without a trace, and turned his head with his usual elegant smile: "Master Xie, what else do you have to order?"

"I didn't dare to take the order, but the gentry had a word to persuade him. ”

"Please, I want to hear you. ”

"Xunzi has a cloud in the persuasion of learning: Pengsheng hemp is not self-righteous, and the white sand is in Nirvana, and it is black. The court is now in such a situation, whether Lord Fang likes it or dislikes it, he needs to remember one thing. Xie Jin stared straight at Fang Xiaoru, and said word by word: "The basil that can't be straightened, the white sand that can't be dyed black, there is no need to exist!"

"Thank you for your teachings, and I hope to be taught. ”

Out of the palace at the end of the hour, Fang Xiaoru returned to the house in less than half an hour, still as always, chatting with his old wife for a few words, and having a simple meal in the dining hall, he walked into his own study in the backyard, which was not too big.

The moment the door closed, Fang Xiaoru's face suddenly became gloomy, he breathed heavily, his fists were clenched, his chest rose and fell violently, and his forehead was even more bruised.

"It's too much to deceive people!" Fang Xiaoru let out a low sigh, reached out and grabbed the inkstone on the bookcase and was about to smash it down, but he remembered something again, and carefully put it back in place.

"Squeak. ”

The door behind him opened, Fang Xiaoru turned back angrily, and when he saw that it was his old wife, he put his mind at ease and said with a wry smile: "What are you doing here?"

"Husband and wife for many years are one. Even if the master doesn't say anything, the concubine can see that the master is in a bad mood, but what happened to her when she was on duty in the palace? Although the concubine has not read many books, she has a pair of ears, and listening to the master say a few words, the master's mood can be better. As Mrs. Fang spoke, she came to the candlestick to hold the lamp, and added: "Don't worry, the concubine has asked the housekeeper to arrange for people to stay away, and there will be no people from Dongchang near the left side of the study." ”

"My wife knows me. Fang Xiaoru sighed and sat down on the Taishi chair in the middle of the study, and the candlelight in the study also lit up, but there was always a remnant of shadows.

"The teacher once said that being reasonable is all contained in the "Book of Rites", which is wonderful, and there is nothing more than the sentence of the mediocrity: erudition, interrogation, prudence, discernment, and practice.

A year ago, when I came to this Nanjing city and stepped into the officialdom, I thought that I was ready for learning and speculation, and it was time to practice. But today, I suddenly understood the meaning of Meng Sheng's sentence that a book of faith is better than no book.

The eunuchs in the court and the central government are powerful, traitors are rampant, and the emperor is young, and he is even more deceived by the eunuchs in the palace. Although I can distinguish between right and wrong, I can't practice it, if it is like it, if it is helpless!"

Seeing that Fang Xiaoru was sad and angry, Mrs. Fang hurriedly stepped forward to caress his back and comforted: "Master, if it doesn't work, if it doesn't work... Let's just endure it, but don't get angry.

The world is not yours, it is the emperor, and it is also the people of this world. When the sky falls, there is naturally a tall top, and you are the pillar of our family, sir. If you get angry, our family is over. ”

Fang Xiaoru listened to the old wife's babbling words of comfort, and the gloomy color on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by surprise.

"Old, master, what's wrong, but what did the concubine say wrong?" Seeing her husband's expression, Mrs. Fang was slightly frightened, and asked sneeringly.

"Bear with me? That's not what you said. Fang Xiaoru's brows furrowed even tighter, his fingers pointed on the table, and said in a deep voice: "In the past, when I complained to you, you would always say that you couldn't resign and go home, but why did you persuade your husband to be patient today?

"This... This... ”

"Why, my filial piety can't afford this family!" Fang Xiaoru saw that his old wife hesitated, and slapped the table heavily.

Mrs. Fang was originally a peasant girl, a duty wife of three from four virtues, where had she seen her husband with such a demeanor, and she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground with a "plop": "Master, the concubine doesn't dare to deceive the master, yes... It was a letter from Ninghai's hometown. ”

"Letter from hometown?" Fang Xiaoru was stunned: "What's wrong?"

"Xian'er, he... Virtuous he... ”

"What kind of trouble did that rebel cause?

"Xian'er, he... Mrs. Fang gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and said: "Xian'er, he fell in love with an Oiran in a brothel in a green house for some reason a month ago, and he lingered all day long, and spent a lot of money... ”

"Wait!" Fang Xiaoru raised his hand to interrupt Mrs. Fang's words, and said suspiciously: "What did you say? It cost a lot of money? The old man also wrote a lot of money: just left him so thirteen acres of thin fields and a house, it is enough to collect some rent to study and live, and the matter of the prostitution, even if he has the audacity to sell all those belongings, it is only one or two hundred taels of silver, where is there any good sum of silver? Where is the silver?"

"It is said that it is a donkey that is borrowed in the name of the lord to roll on the profit... ”

"Rebel, Rebel, Rebel!"

Fang Xiaoru was angry, grabbed the porcelain pot on the table and smashed it down.

There was a "bang", and debris was scattered.

"Rest your anger, stop your anger. ”

Say. Fang Xiaoru took a deep breath and asked in a condensed voice, "How much silver does he owe?"

"Three... Three... Mrs. Fang raised three hands to indicate that Fang Xiaoru was here.

"Three thousand taels?!" Fang Xiaoru's eyes widened, and then he shook his head: "Three thousand taels, that's it, the house in the capital has been sold, and the two calligraphy and paintings handed down by the ancestors can also be made up." This rebel, let the housekeeper send someone to quickly bring the rebel to the old man to the Beijing Division, to see the old man... ”

"It's thirty thousand taels... ”

"Three... Thirty thousand?!" Fang Xiaoru's body shook a few times, and he almost fainted. Mrs. Fang hurriedly got up to help, and said in a loud voice: "Don't worry, don't worry, master, someone has paid for our family, and someone has paid for this money!"

"Who?"

"Yes ... It is the five elements of the thousand households section of the Yamen of Hangzhou East Factory. . . ”