Relief

"My task is to bring the fourth junior brother here. I have to leave as soon as the task is completed. When I go back to Qiongshan, my husband said that autumn will be troublesome. I have to go back and help prepare," Kong Shaoshu said, "I haven't thought about it for a long time. Seeing the younger brother, there is nothing to give, you have had a hard time traveling, so buy him a new clothes."

Kong Shaoshu himself was still wearing a commoner jacket, he had been away from the school for a long time, and he had long stopped paying money from the manor's account. The boss ordered some money, and all the inexplicable displeasure in his heart disappeared.

He was clearly a loving old father.

"Let's go back after dinner, brother treats you." Kong Shaoshu said to Xie Zhixu.He could see that the little junior brother had something to do with him, so he tried his best to warmly invite him.

This is a two-in-one teahouse and tavern. There are a lot of people drinking tea and listening to books on the first floor, and they go to the second floor to eat, but they often sit down on the first floor because they often have inconvenient legs and feet.

One has two arms and one has bad legs. From the moment he enters the door, he looks around either covertly or blatantly.Feng Zhichang's face was frosty and indifferent, but Kong Shaoshu didn't care, or he didn't notice these strange eyes at all, he focused on the two juniors, urging them to order their favorite dishes, and listening to Xie Zhixu What I have seen and heard all the way from Suzhou to Jiangling, I also talk about my own affairs.

"I have been traveling in recent years, and I have met many people. Some of them know the name of the husband, and they say that the husband has been recycling waste these years. In fact, this is exactly the case. People like me don't even want to support their families in vain. If it wasn't for Mr., I would have starved to death by the side of the road long ago. So is Xiao Chang, and so is Fourth Junior Brother. We are all despised people. Without Qiongshan, there would be no shelter, let alone the acquaintances we have now."

Xie Zhixu drank the tea, but his mood was infected by Kong Shaoshu, and he didn't know the taste in his mouth at all.

"What's wrong with the elder brother's hand..." he asked.

Kong Shaoshu had long since let go, saying: "I used to farm for the landlord's family, but I was cut off."

"Oh... I heard that a heroine forced the landlord to sign a tax-free contract with the tenant?"

"That's right," Kong Shaoshu said, "If the heroine leaves, the contract will be torn up, and my hand will be cut off after I can't finish my anger."

A chill rushed into his heart, Xie Zhixu absolutely did not expect such a result.

"That heroine..."

Half a hundred years have passed, and Kong Shaoshu had to recall for a while before he vaguely remembered: "It seems to be married. I heard from my brothers in my hometown."

"It is said that?"

"Yes, after the heroine left, the landlord intensified his efforts to search for money. A few friends who I knew when I was young couldn't stand it anymore. They were forced to go to Liangshan and become bandits, and they only robbed tolls. Once they arrested the bride's team and opened After looking at the hijab, I found out that it was the benefactor. Originally, it was the principle of repaying revenge without kindness, but the benefactor begged my brothers not to let her and his party go. It must be an unsatisfactory marriage."

Xie Zhixu understood when he heard this, and took a look at Feng Zhichang, seeing that his behavior was as usual, and his mood didn't seem to fluctuate.

At that time, the marriage between Qiu Jiangyue and Liang Zhen was about to come to an end. Once Mrs. Qiu's training was broken, all her martial arts skills were lost, and she was pushed into a sedan chair without even the strength to escape.

"Did your brother let her go?" Xie Zhixu asked, but he already knew the answer in his heart.

"All of them were released, and those who were caught were sent back to where they were caught," Kong Shao said. "The servants who sent their relatives all had family crests on their clothes, and they are not a power that a few greenwood brutes can provoke."

— not worth it.

Feng Zhichang put down his teacup, feeling bored with this boring topic, and said straight to his heart:

——A person who has no merit should have no salary to accept.

As the name suggests, Qiu Jiangyue is just a crescent moon in the river, thinking that it illuminates the lives of others, but it is actually a phantom in the water, the light is weak, and the water is cold.Nothing can be changed.

No, she changed Kong Shaoshu's life.

Halfway through the meal, Wu Li, who had been inquiring about the news in the teahouse, finally saw them and walked over through the rows of tables, chairs and benches, holding a little girl in his hand.

"Oh, there's roast chicken!" The girl's eyes lit up when she saw the food.

Who is this?Xie Zhixu asked with his eyes, but was intercepted by the girl, and introduced himself: "My name is Moyou, you give me something to eat, and I will give you information."

Pretty clever.

"What's the name of anointing oil?" Kong Shaoshu was curious.

"It means to put oil on the soles of the feet, so that you can escape quickly." The girl who applied oil said.

"A profession that specializes in inquiring about other people's gossip requires some necessary skills for escape," Wu Li sighed, "Come on, sit down."

Holding the oily chicken leg in his hand, the thief's eyes slid around the three people present, and sat down next to Feng Zhichang.

"Little brother, you look so handsome," she leaned closer, "What's your name?"

There is still shiny chicken oil on the oiling mouth, and I know that it is often visible to the naked eye that it is about to fry.Xie Zhixu hurriedly pulled the wheelchair to his side, away from the grease, but the girl also sat down: "Hey, I will answer a question for you, and you will answer a question for me too, how about it, this deal is worth it! If not Seeing that you look pleasing to the eye, someone else would not be so lucky."

"Don't, don't, don't, don't." Xie Zhixu hurriedly got up and sat between Feng Zhichang and the oiled girl, separating them.

"Who are you, I didn't talk to you." Moyou said unhappily.

Wu Li said: "Miss Zhang, if you dare to provoke my second child, our fifth child will fight you desperately."

That girl's surname is Zhang?Zhang mo, oil?

What a weird name...

Wu Li said: "Her name is Zhang Xiaomo. The daughter of the owner of Guochao's largest restaurant chain, she has been in the second circle since she was a child. Her specialty is eavesdropping on the corners of various teahouse rooms. I asked her to ask about the funeral of Yuxian Restaurant."

Zhang Xiaomo must always sit next to Fengzhi.Her information comes from a wide range of sources and is extremely real-time, and some information is even priceless. Feng Zhichang had no choice but to sacrifice her appearance and endure her clean and silky sleeves being grabbed and twisted by an oily hand.

"Hou Daizhao jumped out of a crack in the rock." Zhang Xiaomo said this.

Wu Li gave Xie Zhixu a wink, meaning that what I said was correct, there was no such person in the previous 22 years, and Hou Daizhao was indeed a fake identity.

"However, if you want to say whether Hou Daizhao will be the same Hou Chengtang, I don't think so," Zhang Xiaoma said, "Hou Daizhao is Wang Gan's subordinate, and Hou Chengtang is Wang Gan's enemy."

The imperial examination was the primary way to select officials in the imperial court. Six subjects were opened every other year, and nearly [-] scholars were selected to form the central and local administrative talent candidate system.Among them, the ranks of Jinshi are divided into high and low, which will determine the upper limit of officials in the future.

In such a cultural atmosphere where everything is low-class and only high-level scholars are educated, officials from North Korea, Central China, non-jinshi orthodox backgrounds are quite excluded and despised.

Wang Gan is one of them.

Twenty-seven years ago, Wang Gan was still working as a small secretary in Dingzhou Zhizhou Prefecture. He missed the exams twice.Later, I got advice from someone, and sent some cute gadgets to Zhizhou. I finally got a recommendation, and I took the separate system exam that year, and then I entered Kaifeng for the first time.

A person like him, considered a half-way monk, and without a great Confucian teacher to support him, had a hard time getting along in the officialdom at first, and he was an idea that no one wanted to be splashed on.

Hou Chengtang was just the opposite of him. His young number one scholar had studied in Kaifeng since he was a child. The academy had produced such famous ministers as Fan Zaizhi, and he also learned from Qian Jianyi, a famous Confucian who was full of peaches and plums.Others have been neglected for ten years, but a proud son like Hou Chengtang, from studying to taking exams to becoming an official, has been carefully cultivated and grown with the money and effort of the country.

From the first day when Hou Chengtang stepped into the Golden Palace of the Son of Heaven with great vigor and vigor, and accompanied by the dragon chair, the aging Wang Gan was dazzled by this new wind, and the years of resentment and discontent almost gushed out.

The emperor liked a talented young man like Hou Chengtang, and sent him to Jiangling to take up the post according to the regulations.But Hou Chengtang crossed the river by boat, and before he could see the starting point of his proud life, he led the boat and was wiped out in the eastward rushing river.

At the beginning, everyone rumored that it was Wang Gan's trick.

Later it was not passed on.Because the broken mouths captured by the four villains, wolves, tigers, and leopards, were filled with the prison of Guanglu Temple.

"If Lord Hou is really Hou Chengtang, why would he be willing to work for Wang Gan without a name or title?" Zhang Xiaomo said, "If I were him, I would wish to kill Wang Gan and tear him into pieces. Think about it, Hou Chengtang But he has to be a magistrate, and Lord Hou, at a certain age, donated a white horse castle, and only then did he get a nominal appeasement envoy. On his head, there is an official Xuan Fusi who overwhelms people at the top level, tearing down his platform every day. Once this person is used to sitting in a high position, he can bear to be subordinated to others!"

Several people were speechless for a while.

After Zhang Xiaomo finished eating the roast chicken, he wiped his oily hands on his sleeves and said, "As for Jiangling Yuxian Tower, there was indeed a commotion a few days ago, but after the commotion, it will continue to open for business as usual. I heard that on the same day It is true that a group of people were arrested and left, but I don’t know whether it was Lord Hou’s men or Zhou Jackal who did it. If Lord Hou and Zhou Jackal both listen to Wang Gan’s orders, then whoever did it is not all Wang Gan made."

"Then what about Xu Er... Xu Hui?" Xie Zhixu couldn't help asking.

"Xu Hui is gone." Zhang Xiaomo replied with a casual tone like clouds floating in the sky.

"Gone?!"

"That's right," Zhang Xiaomo looked at Xie Zhixu inexplicably, "Is it hard to understand? Hou Daizhao has a father-in-law who knows the state, and he can cover the sky with one hand in Jiangling. Are you still waiting to be caught? ——Hey little brother, don’t hide, I wiped my hands clean, and I won’t get on you!”

Zhang Xiaomo's sleeves were filled with a strong smell of roasted chicken oil, like two cosmic bags covering Feng Zhichang, Feng Zhichang's face changed drastically, subconsciously grabbed Xie Zhixu's sleeve and pulled him, blocking him as a shield in front of myself.

vomit--

Xie Zhixu was quickly vomited by the subtle smell coming towards him, and Feng Zhichang was behind him, and he couldn't escape.He pulled Zhang Xiaomo's sleeves away, and said sincerely: "Miss Zhang, don't you find it hard to wash your clothes with your sleeves to wipe your hands?"

Zhang Xiaomo thought about it seriously: "Wash clothes? Why should I wash clothes? Aren't clothes thrown away after being worn?"

Xie Zhixu, who was wearing the last piece of good clothes left, said, "..."

Buying new clothes is like cutting meat. Kong Shaoshu: "..."

Wu Li expressed deep sympathy for the two ignorant colleagues: "I've said it all, she is the daughter of the owner of the largest restaurant chain in Guochao."