Minister

148 [Jiankang Nine Years]

At noon, Sister Yang asked Wei Chi curiously: "Master Wei, you have a smell of ginger these days. Where can you catch novels?"

"Medicine, soak your hands." Wei Chi sighed.

"Why do you want to soak your hands?" Feng Shixun also came over: "Is there a rash in spring?"

Wei Chi felt a little disgusted in his heart, but he had no reason to vent it out, so he could only smile and say, "That's not true, it's just cold hands. Use folk remedies to treat cold symptoms."

"Oh, I seem to have heard of this kind of folk remedy in my hometown before, but I don't know if it's really useful. Brother, do you have cold hands?"

"A little bit..." Facing Feng Shixun's sudden hand shaking, Wei Chi was extremely embarrassed.

"It's quite cold!" Feng Shixun handed Wei Chi's hand to Sister Yang: "You are alone in the capital, and there is no one to take care of you. There are some things that our colleagues should not say...but..."

Sister Yang took the words: "It's time for you to find a wife."

Wei Chi forced himself to hold back while laughing so as not to crush Sister Yang's hand.

"Don't tell me, I really have a suitable candidate," Feng Shixun seemed to have been prepared for a long time: "There is a girl in my cousin's family. This year happens to be [-] years old. She is proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting. Her father is an official in the south of the Yangtze River. Just this one daughter, she is so precious, his father asked me to find him a good family."

"This..." Wei Chi made up a lie in his heart: "It's really hard to say, many things are still delayed, so it's better to decide early."

Sister Yang thought wisely: "If Master Wei is still thinking about Miss Lin, then I have to let me say a few words. No matter how good the girl is, she is also engaged. The whole capital is watching. It’s the celebrity, how do you fight for it? If it doesn’t fit, it’s not reasonable.”

Wei Chi almost choked: "It's not Miss Lin! I met her because of the Geng family, but that's all. I really didn't think about it from the beginning to the end."

"Could it be the daughter of the Wang family?!" Sister Yang recalled how much Wang Yunyi admired Wei Chi, and couldn't help exclaiming: "In that case, Mr. Feng can't blame Mrs. Wei. Your family's Xiaojia Biyu is really incomparable."

The matter of that distant cousin was also true. Feng Shixun had promised and thought that it was a sure thing. How did he know that he forgot to count Wang Yunyi?His family only gave birth to some daughters, and he was counted out!

"No! No!" Wei Chi wanted to stab him a few times: "Master Yang! You are guessing wildly! I...how am I worthy of the Wang family?"

Thinking about Wang Yunyi's tiger butt, Wei Chi shuddered: "Let's eat quickly and have a good rest."

Sister Yang calmed down, but Feng Shixun got excited: "Don't say it, this sentence really touched my heart. These big families, royal relatives and relatives, which family's daughter is easy to serve? Why don't you find a daughter?" A gentle and considerate little girl, not boasting, just say my wife, even if she wants to exchange the princess of the dynasty with me, I will not exchange, haha."

Wei Chi looked at Feng Shixun: "Your wife's father used to supervise the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau. Isn't this Xiaojiabiyu?"

Feng Shixun was taken aback: "... Isn't it compared with the Wang family?"

Wei Chi realized that he had lost his composure, and quickly smiled: "Master Feng is too self-effacing, I think I remembered it wrong, ha ha."

"It's better to be Master Feng's cousin!" Sister Yang, who had been thinking seriously, suddenly said seriously: "Since the fate is here, Master Wei should not refuse, why not let Master Feng and his wife worry about it? It's not right now You are my boss, at my age, I think I should advise you, what a man wants is to start a family and start a business. If your family is not successful, what kind of business can you establish? This capital can be so friendly with you that you can help you There are not many matchmakers, and you are not too young, so you should think about it."

It would be contemptuous to evade, so Wei Chi had no choice but to agree first.When I got to a place where no one was around, I couldn't help but feel a lot of distress: My lord, if you were still here, how could I allow these moths to help me with these things?Come on, come on, is there anything absurd in this world?Rao, it's someone else, Mr. Feng, who still wants to replace the current princess to fill in the house!The weaving bureau of your Chen family has also been reduced to a small workshop!I'll just see if the Tanhua from the previous session can give me her girl... I'm afraid I won't be able to wear shoes if I'm barefoot?Have a meal!

Since the weaving bureau changed its master, Xu Wei, who had been ordered by the imperial court, once again rectified inside, and finally showed some color.Relying on Jiangnan, Li Pan has really gained a firm footing.Seeing his rapid rise, the older generation of idlers couldn't help but compare him with Wei Chi.Both of them are considered young and promising, Wei Chi is a candidate, and Li Pan's ranking in the examination is not bad.Wei Chi has made military achievements, but he is young, comparable to Master Li.The only bad thing is that Lord Wei's backstage King Yan was wronged, and Lord Li leaned against the emperor, the big tree was obviously much stronger.But think about it the other way around, King Yan is so caring to Master Wei, let’s not talk about whether there is any love, at least he is definitely a person on the same boat, the emperor?Master Li looked at Hong, maybe he hadn't touched the ship's side yet.

There are also good people guessing that King Yan has fallen, and Wei Chi is still alive and kicking in the capital. It is not clear who this person is behind... Tsk tsk tsk, from the eyes of a discerning eye, it is really evenly matched.

But Wei Chi obviously lost in the fight for women.Regardless of whether Wei Chi was willing or not, or even knew about it, Lin Yuzan's ambiguity towards Wei Chi had caused some storms.It's just that these unpredictable ambiguities came to an abrupt end after Wei Chi transferred away from the sacrificial wine, and everyone said they forgot...

But there is still one person who has not forgotten, and that is Li Pan himself.

If Li Pan hadn't stopped by chance in the small pavilion in the palace, he wouldn't have known who the famous Lin Yuzan was, and he wouldn't have gone to find out how Lin Yuzan met Wei Chi before, and how he met Wei Chi after the completion of the Wei's house. Going to play, how did Wei Chi write down: the poem of making pomegranate flowers with cinnabar; so he will not understand how Wei Jijiu, who is proud of the spring breeze, played with Lin Yuzan, zither and flute at the emperor's spring banquet, amazed the audience...

Knowing that the young couple of the Lin family had left Beijing, Li Pan thought that Geng Yunmei would no longer be able to matchmaking, and finally felt relieved that he was late, but Wei Chi was still choked in his throat with a dull pain.When he was qualified to enter and leave the palace, he had already been transferred from the important position, and he could no longer go in and out of the palace frequently.However, it was just a chance encounter, seeing him walking out of the academy where the prince studied with a book box, lazily moving his neck, Li Pan's heart couldn't be calm—as the rumors say, he is indeed very delicate and delicate Be a bit like a woman.What made Li Pan even more restless was the contented expression on his face, as if he was walking in his own backyard.It's not like your own submissiveness at all!Li Pan suddenly believed that he was completely personable and capable of attracting any woman.Could it be that the match made in heaven that I have been secretly proud of just came from... this man's unintentional charity?

Li Pan had never heard Lin Yuzan talk about Wei Chi, but it was an inexplicable belief—in her heart, there must be him, maybe only a little, but it was enough to make her scratch her heart and hate her to the bone.

How could Wei Chi, who was thrown on the bench, think that Da Hongren would take time to think about himself?Now her mind is full of Master Feng, and Master Feng's cousin, as well as her own heart-scratching and hatred.

The dark waves in the court of the empire seemed to have finally calmed down, only the scheming of some children were still ready to move.

Since Chen Xing ascended the throne, he finally managed to see the situation he wanted to see: the foreign countries stopped, Wang Yunyi got out, King Yan fell, officials shut up, and Jiangnan made money.Chen Yan smiled complacently. After all, he became the winner of all battles. He is still very young, and he will definitely be able to go higher and farther than the late emperor.

The current wife of the little man in the south of the Yangtze River, Mr. Kong, is worrying about his eldest son's marriage, and her daughter Lian Yatou is helping her to sew some things for the house.Lian girl just turned 15 years old, because she was too thin, she couldn't enter the silk factory to wash silk to make money, her mother twisted her waist when she was working the year before last, and the person in charge fired her. and his eldest son.Girl Lian knew that her mother was worrying about her poverty, but she was still young and could only earn some pocket money, so comforting words were always the most ineffective, so she ignored her mother's sighs and packed up her needlework, ready to Go to the kitchen to make lunch for brother and father.

People in the south of the Yangtze River eat rice, and poor people mix some wild vegetables with the rice.The rice porridge was just bubbling, and girl Lian hadn't had time to put the vegetables, when she suddenly heard what seemed to be a scream from her mother outside, she quickly put down the spoon and ran out.

"Girl Lian, go and see your father and brother, the shed has collapsed!"

The shed collapsed?Lian Yatou's family is from Huguang, and has no silk weaving skills. They came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang just to sell some coolies.In recent years, large silk factories have continuously added work sheds, and the whole family does some mud and water work to make money. Those who repair the shed are most afraid of hearing that the shed has collapsed. Lian girl only feels that she is cold from the soles of her feet. Apex.

Lian girl's mother was lying in the yard with her teeth closed, beside her half-starched clothes.The aunt next door shook her mother's head and shouted at her: "Go and see your father, hurry up!"

Girl Lian shuddered, and hurried to the place where the shed was built.The small shed where she lived was only a few hundred steps away from the big one, and girl Lian ran out while crying.Seeing that she was about to arrive, a group of burly men came out and blocked Lian girl's way.

"The little one is a fucking ass!" The big guy in the head kicked him mercilessly.

How could girl Lian withstand such a kick?He was kicked to the corner with a muffled sound.This kick really made the child stare at him, and he couldn't even get up.

"Give me all the big guys, don't let me put any of them in!"

This group of villains rolled up their sleeves and showed their whips.

"Hit! Hit me hard! These bastards!"

Girl Lian couldn't lift herself up, but she heard cries approaching from far behind her, all of these cries were the screams of women or children like her, and all the cries were from relatives. name.

With the sound of punching and kicking, these screams became more and more horrific. Lian girl tried her best to lift her face from the dust, the blood was so sticky and bitter.Through the legs and feet of these villains, Lian girl looked at the ruins of the collapsed work shed in the distance.Where is my father?Where is my brother?If you can go now... Maybe there is still a way to survive!

This nightmare lasted for more than an hour, and the wives and children of more than 100 men buried in the work shed were finally dispersed.The group of big men kept their word, and none of them approached the work shed.When Girl Lian woke up from the coma, it was raining heavily in spring, and clothes, shoes and socks were scattered on the ground.

"It's getting dark, they won't let you in, go back quickly." An old man dressed as a weaver sneaked up to help her up: "These people are in collusion with officials and bandits, and you can't afford to mess with them, child, poor child, hurry up!" Let's go back."

The old man didn't dare to stay any longer, he just helped Lian girl up in a hurry, stood leaning against the corner of the wall, and turned into a side alley by himself.

Lian girl leaned against the corner, unable to walk or speak in pain, she could only look at the gloomy sky, and she couldn't help but shed tears again.After standing for a while, he slowly moved back step by step.

When she was slowly walking back to her own small courtyard, the aunt next door ran out to support her: "Girl Lian...your mother..."

Lian girl raised her head, only to see that the half-washed clothes in the basin were still sparsely filled with water, but the house was empty.

"Lily girl! Lian girl!" The aunt next door saw that her eyes were dazed, and quickly pinched her among the people: "You have to live well, don't you see that your aunt and I are still alive alone? You have to live! If you are dead, the boss won’t even give you half the money, wouldn’t your family have no one to collect the corpse? Cry! Cry quickly! Don’t hold back! Cry!”

Girl Lian was in pain from being pinched, and then she burst into tears.The desolate rain chilled the pain, and everything in the world became lifeless.

"Where is the spring rain?" The owner of Hongji Silk Workshop opened the window and asked his second brother with a smile, "Do you think this year will be another bumper year?"

"Isn't it? Thanks to the emperor's blessing." The second owner didn't have time to joke with his elder brother, but seriously calculated: "If we harvest [-]% more silk this year, we still need fifty looms. A shed. This is still a small number, if the shed has not been built when the silk arrives, it will be hard to say."

"The third brother is watching! Are you still worried?"

"He shouldn't drink again..." The second owner's temper was obviously not very good.

"Master!" The tent's sudden arrival broke the original atmosphere.

"What's wrong?" Master Hong frowned, "Why are you so reckless?"

"This..." The tent didn't expect the second master to be there, and he didn't know what to say: "...Well, the shed has collapsed."

The abacus in the second master's hand suddenly stopped ringing: "What did you say?!"

"Big brother! Second brother!" The third master of the Hong family came on his back: "Hey! What's the matter?"

The accountant swallowed, greeted the third master, and escaped.

The youngest of the Hong family understood what was going on: "The beam is broken, the shed has collapsed, what a big deal...pull this face."

"You!" The second child lost his mind: "Two days ago, when the shed next door collapsed, I told you that you can't go up there if there are too many people. You're doing well!"

"You said you need to hurry up, but it won't work if there are too many people, are you going to suffocate me?" The third child took a cup of tea from the table and drank it.

"You're so fast now! More than 100 manpower and half a shed have been built in. I'll wait for you to hand over the work at the end of the month!"

"Don't blame the third brother, he has tried his best!" Dadong's family came over to smooth things over: "There are too many mud legs from the beach, so hurry up and find someone and find some more people. Don't get angry between us brothers. You Is everything done over there this time?"

"Don't worry about my work," the youngest swallowed a big mouthful of tea: "None of them can get close. Just take those dead ones out tomorrow morning and bury them. It's a total of 100 yuan per person. Give me some wine money and spend it all." It’s less than [-] taels, so don’t be angry, second brother, can I take it easy this time? I’ll pay the money, so don’t run on me anymore.”

The second child no longer paid any attention to him, and went to make his own calculations.

The eldest brother pulled the third child out: "Be careful in the future, your second brother is right."

"Look at you cowards..." The third child smiled indifferently: "Tomorrow I will send someone to disperse the money and drive out all the people in the shack. I will definitely give the second brother a promise at the end of this month!"

The rain was pattering, and there seemed to be muffled thunder in the sky, which seemed to really herald a good year.

Chen Xing's confidence was unprecedentedly inflated, and the opposition of officials could no longer affect his decision-making. Fortunately, everything was still under Li Pan's control, and Jiangnan was governed in an orderly manner.

In May, the sky became higher, the wind became weaker, and the sun gradually became proud.Wei Chi has already learned the basic accounting, he can be regarded as a junior accountant.The small yellow flowers on the courtyard wall have withered, replaced by dense branches and leaves.Swallows and other birds shuttled back and forth between the courtyard wall and the eaves. Wei Tent was waiting for someone while counting the birds.

The door knocker on the opposite side finally rang, and when the man came out, he shook the little abacus in his hand: "Have you finished your homework?"

Wei Chi sometimes thinks, he has never been so active in wanting to complete his homework and hand it over to the teacher, right?

"Here!" Wei Chi raised the ledger in his hand like a good student.

"When I saw you, I remembered how my sister took me when I was young, but she was only one year older than me." Qi Yuan straightened her clothes and sat down: "I was very clingy back then."

"I'm also clingy now?" Wei Chi deliberately sat a little further away from Qi Yuan, and assumed the posture of an official.

Qi Yuan ignored him, but just carefully read the account he made yesterday.Wei Chi's neck was uncomfortable, and he slowly moved back.

"Look, you're wrong here..." When Qi Yuan pointed to the ledger and turned her head, Wei Chi's forehead was leaning on her shoulder.

Qi Yuan felt that she should jump up instinctively, but she didn't.Wei Chi's shallow breath sprayed on her skirt, quietly like a cat, making him want to pinch his chin to tease him.But Qi Yuan didn't after all, she just put down the account book and leaned against the door panel to make him sleep more comfortably.

Wei Chi slept very comfortably in his dream, so relaxed that he forgot all the troublesome things, and concentrated on enjoying this leisure.

Breeze flipped the account book, making a puffing sound. Wei Chi didn't know about the things it touched, and neither did Qi Yuan. At this moment, no one knew...