Man Yanbing

When Liu Chiyan returned home, Father Liu was waiting for him there.He still couldn't treat this stranger as his father, so he paused, didn't call out, and only nodded his head as a greeting.

Liu's father had long been used to Liu Chiyan's indifferent attitude, and he was already very flattered to get Liu Chiyan's nod.

Father Liu rubbed his hands, and asked cautiously, "Cheng Zhou said that you want him to study, is it true?"

How clever Liu Chiyan was, one could tell at a glance that Liu's father took this as a signal that father and son had settled down.He sat down and said to Father Liu, "You can arrange his affairs."

Liu Chiyan is not himself, so he can't empathize with "myself" in the past, but he won't be too close to Liu's father.

Firstly, he didn't think Liu's father was his father, and secondly, he shouldn't forgive anyone for the original Mr. Liu.

Facing Liu Chiyan's indifferent eyes, Father Liu nanned twice, not knowing what to say.

He and his wife were in love, but when his wife was pregnant, he couldn't control himself having sex with others outside.It was really just a spring breeze, and he didn't expect that the other party would be pregnant with a child, and gave birth secretly.

When he knew, the child was born, and he couldn't strangle the innocent child to death, so he could only name the child "Chengzhou".

This name is taken from the "Two Sons Riding a Boat" in the Book of Songs. It is about two brothers who love each other deeply. Not only do they not abandon each other when they are in danger, but they also rush to die first.

Liu's father hopes that the two children will support each other in the future, but the idea is very good, but the reality always backfires.After his wife died of illness, he brought him back by boat, but his son completely denied him, and the way he looked at him was like looking at an enemy, which shocked him.

It's not that he didn't know about his son's torture of Cheng Zhou, but he felt ashamed of his wife and son, so he turned a blind eye and let his son bully Cheng Zhou as a slave.

Liu Chiyan didn't talk to Liu's father again, but told Gao Tai: "Go and call the steward of the mansion, and ask him to bring the account book for me to see; and the shopkeepers of each shop should also go and inform them, and ask them to bring the account book. It’s time to go to the account.”

Father Liu immediately asked after hearing this, "But what did the people below do that should not be done?"

Liu Chiyan said: "No." He raised his hand and tapped on the edge of the table, "It's just not to my liking, I have to rectify it. What? Can't I check their accounts?"

Father Liu hurriedly said, "No, you can check it however you want."

The steward quickly came over with the ledger, Liu Chiyan glanced at the other party, told him to sit down first, and calmly flipped through the thick stacks of ledgers.

The steward has worked in the mansion for 20 years. It can be said that he watched Liu Chiyan grow up, and he knows how much Liu Chiyan has.

He was very disdainful in his heart, but on his face he said respectfully that he didn't dare to sit down, and even leaned over to ask Liu Chiyan what he wanted to know, and he could explain it item by item.

Liu Chiyan was scanning the account book at a glance, and was a little displeased to hear someone making noise, so he raised his eyes and glanced at the steward indifferently.

Liu Chiyan was successful at a young age, and his official career went smoothly.Back then, when the power of the regent king was in full swing, he dared to chase the regent and persuade him to return the power to the emperor, so it was no problem to deter a steward.

With just one glance, the steward seemed to be strangled by something, not daring to make another sound.

Seeing Liu Chiyan flipping down the ledger almost without a pause, the steward breathed a sigh of relief.It should be an illusion, how could he be frightened by a half-sized kid?

He has handled these accounts for so many years, Father Liu, who is a father, can't see any problems at all, let alone Liu Chiyan, a brat?

The steward was too early to reassure, Liu Chiyan not only wrote good articles, but also had top-notch auditing skills.

When he was in the Hanlin Academy, he was seconded to help the household department. He checked all the accounts in the world, not to mention it was only a matter of the fifth-rank small government?

He could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the accounts.

And the problem is huge.

Liu Chiyan roughly finished flipping through a few ledgers, and the shopkeepers of various shops also came with their ledgers.

He didn't immediately dismiss the matter, but told the shopkeepers to sit down and continue to look through the account books at the same speed as before.

The atmosphere was a little stagnant.

The shopkeepers secretly communicated with each other with their eyes, inexplicably feeling that Liu Chiyan's rustling sound of flipping through the ledger made them tremble with fear.

It only took Liu Chiyan two sticks of incense to go through all the accounts.He got up and looked around, and asked kindly, "Do you have any children in your family?"

The steward and the shopkeepers looked at each other in blank dismay.

The steward tentatively said: "Of course there are. The young family has three sons and three daughters, and the grandson and grandson are not young anymore."

Liu Chiyan smiled slightly, and recited the law to them leisurely: "It's good to have children and grandchildren. According to the "Great Yong Law", more than a thousand pieces of property have been embezzled from the master's house, and I have been in hard labor for three years. The imperial examination; if the number exceeds [-], you will be exiled for thousands of miles, and your relatives within three generations will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination for life; if you exceed [-], you will be beheaded for public display, and your relatives within three generations will not be enslaved, and you will be slaves and handmaids for the rest of your life." His eyes flicked over the crowd. Circle, "I'll give you three days to think about it and see which one you like. If you haven't considered it clearly by then, I'll go directly to the government to make a decision for you."

The faces of the steward and all the shopkeepers changed.

Before they could argue for themselves, Liu Chiyan had already beckoned the steward to come forward, casually pointing out several obvious or hidden problems in the ledger.

Liu Chiyan smiled and said: "For the sake of your hard work for so many years, I didn't directly report to the officials, nor did I ask my aunt to come forward. You have this ability to make money, how many times should you double the money you took away after so many years?" It’s gone.” He looked like a gentle breeze, and told his supervisors his request, “I don’t want you to spit out all the money, as long as you don’t pay for the removed part. Also, your low price Those properties that were sold were also bought back at the original amount.”

If it was just the Liu family who wanted to investigate, the steward and all the shopkeepers would pack up and run away, but Liu Chiyan seemed to have mentioned Mrs. Changyang Hou unintentionally!

That was Liu Chiyan's biological aunt.

It is said that the other party felt sorry for his younger sister's low marriage, and was reluctant to let her suffer, so he deliberately moved a few shops from his private property to give Liu's mother a dowry.If they go to the Marquis of Changyang, they probably won't be able to escape at all!

Marquis Changyang is a military general with a real job, how can he tolerate someone bullying his wife's relatives?

At that time, they will really lose their minds!

At this time, someone finally noticed that there was a tall young man in guard armor beside Liu Chiyan.

This is clearly the helper sent by the Marquis of Changyang to Liu Chiyan!

Didn't the eldest son have a falling out with Changyang Hou Shizi?

When did the two start moving again?

Everyone felt that Liu Chiyan seemed to be a different person, no longer his usual gloomy, aloof and indifferent appearance.

When they thought of spitting out the meat they had already eaten, they felt as if they were being cut by a knife. They wished they could press Liu Chengzhou in front of Liu Chiyan and let Liu Chiyan continue to grind this younger brother. Don't look away. Turn on them!

Liu Chiyan didn't talk nonsense with them, sent them away, called the servants over, and picked a few who looked smarter to serve them.

There was a fifteen-year-old servant who was exceptionally alert, and he took the tea leaves that Liu Chiyan had bought to make tea.He was pleasant-looking, and his hands and feet were nimble. When he served the tea, Liu Chiyan asked, "What's your name?"

"Second baby." The servant replied honestly.

This is the most commonly used naming method among the people. Many people are illiterate all their lives, and they call their children according to their ranking, and they don't know how to name them properly.

Liu Chiyan said: "I'll give you another name, you will use this name in the mansion from now on, and it's up to you whether you use it or not after you return home." He pondered for a moment, saw the young servant's eyes were black and bright, and said, "Let's open the sun." .”

Kai Yang repeated the name twice, and the more he read it, the more he liked it. Immediately, he knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Chiyan overjoyed: "Thank you, sir, for giving me the name!" After thanking him, he didn't wait for Liu Chiyan to speak, and then Immediately got up and stopped kneeling, it was obvious that he had mastered kowtowing.

Seeing him so happy, Liu Chiyan smiled, and simply introduced to him what Kaiyang meant.

Kaiyang is one of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, and its special feature is that there is an auxiliary star around it that presents a double star appearance.Because double stars are so rare, they are often used in the military to test soldiers' eyesight.

As for the usefulness of the Big Dipper, of course everyone knows it, so he won't say much.

Knowing that his name had such a reason, Kai Yang happily circled around Liu Chiyan, like a pug with bones.

All he had to do was shake his long tail wildly at Liu Chiyan.

Liu Chiyan was in a good mood when he had someone who could take advantage of him.

He thought about going to the Imperial College to report to the Imperial College tomorrow, and went back to the study to find a few books to read, and was going to see what the imperial examinations here were about.

If he needs to learn from scratch, he may not be able to keep up with Qiu Wei this year!

Luckily, the script didn't go too far. Liu Chiyan read a few books, most of which were familiar to him, and even the popular versions were similar.

It is always controversial which pages he can recite, and Hanlin scholars once fought over them.

Liu Chiyan was reading the book carefully when he heard Kai Yang report that someone had come to Prince You's Mansion.

"Let him in."

Liu Chiyan frowned and put down the book in his hand, and calmly instructed Kaiyang.

It was the guard of Prince You's Mansion who came, he had obviously seen blood before, and just standing there was imposing.

After seeing Liu Chiyan, the other party greeted him with neither humble nor overbearing, and presented him with a letter from King You.

And a stack of books.

It looked like a heavy pile.

Liu Chiyan took the letter, and his eyes suddenly fixed on the words "Liu Lang kisses me" on it.

The handwriting is so strong that it seems to penetrate the back of the paper.

He has a good memory, and he will never forget many things once he has seen them, and the handwriting is the same.

He had seen the word before.

But that person is dead.

Will there be two irrelevant people in the world who can write exactly the same characters?

Or is it that the person who wrote this book wrote about King You in comparison with that person?

Liu Chiyan glanced at the guard who was still standing not far away, opened the letter and read it.

In the letter, King You encouraged him to prepare for the exam, and he cared for his sweetheart inside and out.

Finally, King You also said that he would send a batch of rare copies collected by King You's Mansion with the letter.

If he likes it, I will send it to him next time I find it.

It is obvious that You Wang really loves his savior very much, if he knows that he has been cheated, he might not let it go.

Let's explain clearly to him after passing the exam.

Liu Chiyan made up his mind, raised his eyes and said to the guard: "These solitary copies are too precious, you should take them back."

The guard responded respectfully: "My lord ordered the young one to keep the copy. If Mr. Liu doesn't intend to reply to the letter, the young one will return."

Liu Chiyan remained silent, and didn't say anything, but asked the guard to thank You Wang for help.