win the hairpin

Chapter 197
Li Ran is curious about the tooth marks on Zhang Xutang's neck
He sat and looked at it first, but after looking at it, he couldn't see the clues, so he looked closer, and finally he wanted to lie on Zhang Xutang's body to look at it, but Zhang Xutang stopped him with a look.

With his hands behind his back, he came to a conclusion: "Second brother, you must be infatuated with some woman, but you can't say it, or the Yue family won't spare you. I heard that your two families are moving more and more frequently, so your majesty also let go. The marriage is about to be settled, if something goes wrong with you at this time, the reputation of the prodigal son will be lost."

After that, he nodded, confirmed his thoughts, and continued: "Second brother, don't worry, I will definitely not gossip around, this little lady also bit you in Tanzhou, and now she bit you again One bite, I guess it should be the person who came to Kyoto with you."

Zhang Xutang looked at him: "Who are you talking about?"

He thought, as long as he said the word Song Huiyue from Li Ran's mouth, he would keep Li Ran's mouth shut.

"Hey," Li Ran patted his chest, "It's Yan Youwei, the daughter of Yan Shi's family, right!"

When they went to Tanzhou, Yan Youwei was also in Tanzhou. When the end of the year was approaching, Yan Youwei also came back with Mrs. Yan, and often played with Yue Huaiyu, and Yan Youwei had a bad temper, so she was right no matter what she thought.

Only such a hot-tempered little lady dared to speak to Zhang Xutang.

Zhang Xutang immediately rolled his eyes: "I almost fell in love with you."

Li Ran is still immersed in his own imagination: "It must be that Yan Youwei refused to accept the second brother and got dirty with the second brother, which attracted the attention of the second brother. As the saying goes, the road to the enemy is narrow, and the second brother and Yan Youwei confronted each other again and again. Yan Youwei bit her, and the second elder brother saw that she had never seen such a young lady before, so she came and went, and became enemies of Huanxi."

After thinking about it, he frowned: "Second brother, what should I do, Mrs. Yan will never let her daughter be a concubine."

Zhang Xutang sighed for a long time, and said to Li Ran: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, I'll go burn incense first, and you go exchange two boxes of copper coins for me, and when I come back, we'll be a money-spreading boy."

As soon as Li Ran heard that he was having fun, he immediately put the matter of Zhang Xutang and Yan Youwei behind him, and slapped his thigh: "Put it on me, second brother, come quickly."

Zhang Xutang nodded weakly, looked at Li Ran's chubby body with his stomach outstretched, his hands crossed, and looked away, thinking, "It's ugly."

After picking and choosing breakfast, he put on his crane cloak and fox fur sleeves, and was just about to go to Daxiangguo Temple to burn incense when Zhang Xuling walked over cautiously.

"Second child."

Zhang Xutang stood still and nodded at him, indicating that he heard it.

Zhang Xuling didn't dare to challenge his disrespect to his elder brother, and lowered his head and said, "Last year Liu Qiuyu said that after Zhou Ke was arrested, the accounts of the Qianbo case were messy and unreasonable. After the Lantern Festival opens, His Majesty will look at this year's The budget depends on whether the funds of the various ministries have been settled last year. I said I wanted to find a capable person to go there. Zhu Guangli, the governor of the prefecture, has a master Qian Gu who has accumulated thousands of dollars, so Liu Qiuyu wrote a letter to Yan Shi, asking him to invite this person, do you think we should investigate?"

Zhang Xutang said: "The pig who can only deliver bamboo shoots has many capable people around him. Are you worried that Master Qian Gu is from King Jin?"

"No, I heard that pigs..." Zhang Xuling coughed twice, "The wife of Zhifu Zhu is Pei Yuzhang's concubine sister, and she is also inextricably related to King Jin."

Zhang Xutang thought for a while, and told him: "Go and check, check the pig's reaction, and his wife's attitude towards it, don't miss every word and deed of the two of you, write it on paper for me, As for this master, it doesn't matter if it is true or not, Liu Qiuyu has to get over the difficulty in front of him."

When Zhou Ke saw the tabloids exposing him all over the street, he returned to the Yamen like a madman, and burned all the accounts he had sorted out. Liu Qiuyu, the deputy envoy of Duzhi, almost died suddenly on the spot when he heard the news. , although the people below tried their best to remedy it, but it was still a mess.

If this master Qian Gu can overcome this difficulty, it will be considered a credit.

Zhang Xuling responded, and asked again: "It's just that if Master Qian Gu belongs to King Jin, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to let him enter the third division and disclose some accounts."

Zhang Xutang wrote lightly: "Just kill it."

Then he stopped talking nonsense with Zhang Xuling and went out to burn incense.

Zhang Xuling stood where he was, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything in the end, and went to work dejectedly.

Zhu Guangli had an unsatisfactory year in Tanzhou. He lost Ni Peng, one of his soul masters, which made him very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Tanzhou was in good weather, and he didn't even lose a cow. God blessed him.

As for Zhou Ke's matter, he had heard about it in Tanzhou, and he and his wife had been feeling for a long time at that time, but he didn't expect Zhou Ke's fire to burn himself from thousands of miles away.

When he learned that his other soul master, Yuan Shaopei, would also leave him, he was dumbfounded on the spot.

And Yuan Shaopei is not going to the capital by himself, but Yan Shi's mentor Liu Qiuyu wants to use him.

If Yuan Shaopei did a good job in Duzhi, Liu Qiuyu would recommend him to the court as an official.

It was a bolt from the blue.

"No, I won't agree!" Zhu Guangli's angry hands and brain trembled together, "Yuan Shaopei is my master, you take it away if you say so, have you ever asked me—asked him what he meant!"

The pain and fear of losing Yuan Shaopei soon made him forget that Yan Shi standing in front of him was a rank higher than him.

Yan Shi sympathizes with Zhu Guangli in his heart, because he knows that Zhu Guangli has been in Tanzhou for many years, and his mind has deteriorated so much that he can handle it without Ni Peng. Once Yuan Shaopei is gone, his position as the magistrate may not be stable.

He didn't care about Zhu Guangli's little impoliteness, instead he said: "You should ask him what he thinks, but I think since he is promoted, he must be willing to be able to enter the court as an official, compared to being an aide, it is natural." It's much stronger."

Of course Zhu Guangli knew this truth, sat down slumped, and still murmured: "No, I can't let him go, he is my master."

Yan Shi comforted him a few more words, seeing that he was still in dismay, he lost his patience, saw off the guest directly, and drove him home.

When Zhu Guangli returned home, he was quite short and said to Mrs. Zhu with an ugly face, "If Shaopei leaves."

Mrs. Zhu sneered, ignored him, and even made chicken soup for him seeing that he was in a bad mood.

However, when it was time to go to bed, Zhu Guangli was still moaning and sighing. Mrs. Zhu couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped him loudly: "You have never finished, you can't live without these two masters, right? Then these two masters didn't come At that time, you were still an official! Zhu Guangli! You are also a person who has studied hard for ten years in the cold window, and you are also a dragon and phoenix among the people, why are you so self-pitying!"

(End of this chapter)